1905-06 Sir Edgar Vincent, MP
Birth Date
19th August 1857
Birthplace
Slinfold, West Sussex.
Biographical Text
Sir Edgar Vincent, MP for Exeter at the time, took charge of Exeter City's annual general meeting in May 1905 in advance of the still-amateur club's first season in the Plymouth and District League. Losing his parliamentary seat in 1906, he later became the 1st Viscount D'Abernon and Britain's ambassador to Germany during the days of the Weimar Republic.
A man with a military, diplomatic service and banking background, he was elected as Conservative MP for Exeter at the age of forty-two in a by-election in 1899. Invited by the relatively recently-renamed Exeter City FC to chair the club's Annual General Meeting at the Red Lion on 9 May 1905, he was most likely carrying out his duties in something of a 'figurehead' capacity. If anything, his involvement would have been more of committee member of an informal organisation as opposed to a director of a limited company.
Either way, given his defeat in the General Election held in January and February 1906, it is highly doubtful that he would have remained on the scene much longer to play any further role in the growth of the club.
With his parliamnetary career over, the old Etonian was elevated to the peerage and served as ambassador to Germany between 1920 and 1925. Along with many other appointments, his involvement in sport continued through the Lawn Tennis Association and the Race Course Betting Control Board.
He died in the county of Sussex, where he was born, at the age of eighty-four in 1941.
A man with a military, diplomatic service and banking background, he was elected as Conservative MP for Exeter at the age of forty-two in a by-election in 1899. Invited by the relatively recently-renamed Exeter City FC to chair the club's Annual General Meeting at the Red Lion on 9 May 1905, he was most likely carrying out his duties in something of a 'figurehead' capacity. If anything, his involvement would have been more of committee member of an informal organisation as opposed to a director of a limited company.
Either way, given his defeat in the General Election held in January and February 1906, it is highly doubtful that he would have remained on the scene much longer to play any further role in the growth of the club.
With his parliamnetary career over, the old Etonian was elevated to the peerage and served as ambassador to Germany between 1920 and 1925. Along with many other appointments, his involvement in sport continued through the Lawn Tennis Association and the Race Course Betting Control Board.
He died in the county of Sussex, where he was born, at the age of eighty-four in 1941.
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