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
William Morse (Liberal politician) from Morse by a majority of 3,441. In the 1929 general election Morse switched Somerset constituencies, this time standing for the seaside seat of Weston-Super-Mare. In a three-cornered contest in which the Labour candidate Mrs C E M Borrett lost her deposit, Morse came second to the sitting Conservative MP Lord Erskine losing by 5,679 votes. He did not stand for Parliament again. Morse died on 18 December 1952 at the age of 74 years. William Morse (Liberal politician) William Ewart Morse (23 November 1878 – 18 December 1952) was an English businessman and Liberal Party politician, briefly member of