Background
He was the son of John Logan of Newport, Monmouthshire and educated at King"s School, Gloucester.
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John Logan
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Career
JW Logan was a successful railway contractor with the civil engineering firm of Logan and Hemingway. He moved to Leicestershire in 1876 to supervise a railway contract and lived near Market Harborough at East Langton Grange, where he gave the village a cricket ground and a hall. His health was poor following a hunting accident and he resigned as Member of Parliament on two occasions.
He returned at the second general election of 1910, only to resign again six years later.
His political career was devoted to improving the lot of agricultural labourers, and it was in their interests that he had agreed to stand for parliament on the second occasion, but the strain proved too great, forcing him to retire permanently from public life. During his election campaigns, he was often denied the use of public halls and held his meetings under canvas in what he called the "free speech tent".
He has the distinction to have been appointed as both Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was appointed to the former post in 1904 and to the latter in 1916.
The Stewards of the Manor of Northstead and of the Chiltern Hundreds are notional "offices of profit under the crown" which are used a procedural device to enable MPs to resign.
J.W. Logan was a prominent sportsman and one of the founding fathers of the British racing pigeon fancy, writing Logan’s Pigeon Racer’s Handbook. He was President of Leicestershire County Cricket Club. On his death at the age of 80 in 1925, he was buried at East Langton, where he had lived for fifty years.
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Membership
24th United Kingdom Parliament. 25th United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament.
27th United Kingdom Parliament.
30th United Kingdom Parliament.
