Edward Johnson-Ferguson

Sir Jabez Edward Johnson-Ferguson, 1st Baronet (27 November 1849 – 10 December 1929) was an English businessman and Liberal politician. He became a baronet on 18 July 1906.[1]

Johnson-Ferguson was born Jabez Edward Johnson at Salford, Lancashire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[2] He was a merchant of Lancashire[3] living at Kenyon Hall, Culcheth near Warrington (Currently owned and used as Leigh Golf Club) and chairman of his company, which had several names including Messrs. Jabez Johnson & Co and Jabez Johnson, Hodgkinson and Pearson, Ltd. He was also a director of Williams, Deacon & Manchester and Salford Bank Ltd. In 1881 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Ferguson.

Johnson-Ferguson was elected as Member of Parliament for Loughborough in 1885. He was a radical Liberal. He lost the seat in 1886, but regained it in 1892, holding it until 1900.[4] At the general election of 1900, he contested the Burton Division of Staffordshire, but was unsuccessful.[5] In 1891 he became a director of Bolckow Vaughan Co. Ltd, a mining company, and became its chairman and managing director in 1906 until his death.[6] He was also a director of the Balcares Iron Ore Mines Ltd, and the Luchana Mining Company which had a Spanish focus.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "No. 27932". The London Gazette. 17 July 1906. p. 4885.
  2. ^ "Johnson-Ferguson, Jabez Edward (JHN868JE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ James R. Moore The transformation of urban liberalism
  4. ^ Hansard list of MPs
  5. ^ The Times, 11 December 1929, p.19.
  6. ^ Pitts, Marianne (2007). "How are the mighty fallen: Bolckow Vaughan Co. Ltd. 1864–1929" (PDF). Cardiff University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013.
  7. ^ The Financial Times, 9 July 1910, p.4. (Article titled "Chairmen of Public Companies: LXVIII - Sir Edward Johnson-Ferguson.")
  8. ^ "Luchana Mining Co". Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 9 March 2026.
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