Jabez Balfour as Liberal candidate in Croydon at the general election but lost to the Conservatives. He also stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Walworth in 1886. In 1880 he was appointed chairman of the Northampton Street Tramways. Together with City financiers Leopold Salomons and Sir John Pender, Balfour founded the investment underwriting firm the "Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited" in December 1887. In 1892, he was at the centre of a scandal over the failure of a series of companies which he set up and controlled, starting with the London and General Bank and culminating in the Liberator Building
David Ward (British politician) David Ward (British politician) David Ward (born 24 June 1953) is a former British Liberal Democrat politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford East at the 2010 general election. He lost his seat in 2015 when he was defeated by the Labour Party candidate Imran Hussain by 7,000 votes. Before his election to parliament, he was a councillor in Bradford for 26 years, and returned to local politics in 2016. In July 2013, he was suspended from the Liberal Democrats Parliamentary party until September 2013, after questioning the continuing existence of the state of Israel