Background
ASTBURY, John Meir. King’s Counsel was born in 1860 in Manitoba- 62 Chester. Son of the late Frederick J. Astbury, Justice of the Peace, Hilton Park, Prestwich, Lancashire.
ASTBURY, John Meir. King’s Counsel was born in 1860 in Manitoba- 62 Chester. Son of the late Frederick J. Astbury, Justice of the Peace, Hilton Park, Prestwich, Lancashire.
Studied at Trinity College Oxford, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Civil Law.
Called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1884. Bencher, 1903; Queen's Counsel 1895. Member of Parliament (Liberal) Southport Division.
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Lancashire, 1906-1910.
Liberal.
Clubs: Reform, Ranelagh.