page_title: Lewis Haslam
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Lewis Haslam / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Lewis Haslam - MP for Monmouth
context_page_description: Lewis Haslam, was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Wales, representing Monmouth Boroughs from 1906 to 1918 and then Newport from 1918 until his death in 1922.
context_section_description: At the 1892 general election he contested the Westhoughton Division of Lancashire, in opposition to Lord Stanley  reducing the Conservative majority by 500 votes. He does not appear to have been a candidate in 1895 but in 1900 he stood in Stamford in Lincolnshire, again without success.
  He was eventually returned to the House of Commons at the 1906 Liberal landslide at Monmouth. 
  He was a supporter of the coalition government of David Lloyd George and at the 1918 was a recipient of the government coupon, gaining the support of the local Conservative and Liberal Associations.
  Along with fellow Coalition Liberal Edgar Rees Jones of the Merthyr constituency, Haslam played a minor role in the discussions behind the Government of Ireland Bill. Haslam in particular was strongly opposed to giving the Irish Parliament control of its own taxes.
  The 1922 Newport by-election held after his death marked the end of the Lloyd George Coalition Government.
caption: Lewis Haslam in 1911, (Portrait by Sir Benjamin Stone)
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