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
Henry Fenwick (Liberal politician) Henry Fenwick (Liberal politician) Colonel Henry Thomas Fenwick, CMG, MVO, DSO (20 December 1863 – 30 August 1939) was a British army officer and Liberal Party politician. Fenwick was the son of Henry Fenwick and Jane Lutwidge Cookson, and entered the army in 1885. He changed to a political career when he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton-le-Spring at the 1892 general election, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1895 general election. In 1899 he was again in active service, as 2nd in Command of the Royal Horse Guards. He served with