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Sir Owen Philipps is a former MP for City of Chester.

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Former MP for City of Chester

Entered the House of Commons on 12 January 1906 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 26 October 1922 — General election

Also represented Pembroke and Haverfordwest District of Boroughs

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Robert Yerburgh
• Balthazar Foster
• John Dodson
• Beilby Lawley
• Henry Raikes
• John Dodson
• Norman Grosvenor
• Henry Raikes
• Grosvenor
• William Gladstone
• Grosvenor
• Philip Humberston
• Grosvenor
• Enoch Salisbury
• William Stanley
• Grosvenor
• William Stanley
• Grosvenor
• John Jervis
• Robert Grosvenor
• John Jervis
• Robert Grosvenor
• John Jervis
• Robert Grosvenor
• John Maddock
• Foster Cunliffe-Offley
• Philip Egerton
• Grosvenor
• Thomas Grosvenor
• Grosvenor
• Thomas Grosvenor
• Grosvenor
• Thomas Grosvenor
• John Egerton
• Thomas Grosvenor
• John Egerton
• Richard Grosvenor
• Thomas Grosvenor
• Richard Grosvenor
• Thomas Grosvenor

Future MPs in this constituency

• Robert Yerburgh
• Charles Cayzer
• Basil Nield
• John Temple
• Peter Morrison
• Gyles Brandreth
• Christine Russell
• Stephen Mosley
• Chris Matheson
• Samantha Dixon

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — School Teachers (Superannuation) Bill.: Clause 1. — (Contributions by teachers.) 19 Jul 1922

  Are we not on the Report stage, and is more than one speech allowed?

• Orders of the Day — Finance Bill.: Clause 13. — (Income under revocable and certain other dispositions to be treated as income of disponor.) 20 Jun 1922

  I strongly object to any citizen trying to avoid just taxation. In my view this proposal, subject to a reasonable qualification which I will presently suggest, is not in any way retrospective. The only way in which it is retrospective is because it says that if a man has settled £500 a year on his child and therefore avoids paying Income Tax or Super-tax upon the amount in future he will...

• Anglo-Persian Oil Company [Payment of Calls]. 10 Mar 1922

  The matter before the Committee appears to me to be a very simple one. The Government of the country own a number of shares in a great monopoly. A call has been made. They can either pay it, or they can refuse it. If they pay it, they will have no further liability on the 5,000,000 shares they hold. If they do not pay it, what will happen—what might happen? The right hon. Baronet is a...

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