Walter Clough

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Walter Owen Clough (15 September 1846 – 17 April 1922){{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231457/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm|archive-date=10 August 2009|title=House of Commons constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)|work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page|url-status=usurped|accessdate=28 April 2009}} was a British Liberal Party politician.

Clough was born in Huddersfield, YorkshireGeneral Register Office index of births registered in October November, December, 1846 - Name: Clough, Walter Owen District: Huddersfield Volume: 22 Page: 335. on 15 September 1846.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

He was elected at the 1892 general election as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. Portsmouth's two MPs (one Liberal Unionist and one Conservative) had not stood for re-election, and Clough was one of the two Liberals elected to replace them.{{cite book

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He was re-elected in 1895, but did not serve a full term, and resigned his seat on 23 April 1900 by the technical device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional "office of profit under The Crown".{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/apr/26/new-writ|title=House of Commons debates|date=26 April 1900|volume=82# c19|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|accessdate=2009-04-28}} The by-election for his seat was held on 3 May 1900, and won by the Liberal candidate Thomas Bramsdon.

In the 1901 Census of London Clough is listed as a 54-year-old Chartered Accountant & Auditor, Magistrate and D L of the City of London living at Manor House, Upper Richmond Road, Barnes, Surrey with his wife Hannah and two sons.1901 Census RG13/680 Folio 15, Page 21, Schedule 53: Richmond - Manor House, Upper Richmond Road, Barnes (Names and Surname: Clough, Walter O, Relation to Head of Family: Head, Condition of Marriage: M, Age last Birthday: 54, Profession or Occupation: Chartered Accountant & Auditor Magistrate D L of City of London, Where Born: Huddersfield, Yorkshire)

Clough died in the Kingston Registration districtGeneral Register Office index of deaths registered in April, May and June, 1922 - Name: Clough, Walter O Age: 75 District: Kingston, Volume: 2A Page: 560. on 17 April 1922 aged 75.