Background
CHANNING, Francis Allston Son of Reverend W. H. Channing.
CHANNING, Francis Allston Son of Reverend W. H. Channing.
Studied at Exeter College, Oxford. Has taken active part in promoting agricultural, educational, and labour reforms. Master of Arts.
Member of Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression, 1893-1896. Chairman of Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, 1894. Member of the Rural Education Conference under the Boards of Agriculture and Education, and of the Rural Education Subcommittee of the County Councils Association.
Sometime Fellow, Tutor, and Lecturer in Philosophy, University College Oxford.
Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn. Justice of the Peace Northamptonshire. 1st Bt; cartulary-register 1906.
Justice of the Peace. Member of Parliament (Liberal) East. Northamptonshire since 1885.
Liberal.
Clubs: Oxford and Cambridge, Reform, National Liberal.