Exeter is a constituency composed of the cathedral city and county town of Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency has had a history of representatives from 1900 of Conservative,Liberal Party,Independent and Labour representation.
Ernest Evans was a Liberal Party politician from Wales.
Sir Edmund Broughton Barnard was a British Liberal politician,landowner and sportsman.
Sir Robert Pattinson,JP,DL was a British Liberal politician and businessman. Pattinson joined his family's railway contracting firm after finishing school and was quickly appointed to senior positions. In 1900,he became chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and four years later joined Kesteven County Council,eventually becoming an alderman and serving as its chairman for 20 years between 1934 and his death in 1954. He chaired the Sleaford Liberal Association (1900–18) and was nominated as the party's representative for Sleaford shortly before World War I broke out. He contested Grantham unsuccessfully in 1918,but was returned for the seat in 1922,serving until he was defeated in the following year's general election. Several other unsuccessful attempts at a parliamentary career followed. He chaired several bodies responsible for maintaining Lincolnshire's waterways,served as a magistrate for Kesteven and Lindsey and sat as Lincolnshire's High Sheriff in 1941. Knighted in 1934,Pattinson died aged 82 in 1954 after several years of illness.
John Ebenezer Sutherland was a Scottish Liberal politician.
James Arthur Dawes was an English solicitor,businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) from 1910 to 1921.
William Ewart Morse was an English businessman and Liberal Party politician,briefly Member of Parliament for Bridgwater and later a member of Wiltshire County Council.
Henry Harvey Vivian was an English trade unionist,and Liberal Party politician and campaigner for industrial democracy and co-partnership,especially noted for his work in co-partnership housing.
Sir Leonard Benjamin Franklin OBE was an English barrister,banker and Liberal Party politician,of Jewish descent.
Sir Robert Noton Barclay was an English export shipping merchant,banker and a Liberal Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Manchester
Sir Charles Kenneth Murchison was a British Conservative Party politician.
Sir Harry Trelawney Eve was an English barrister,judge and Liberal Party politician.
Joseph Allen Baker was a Canadian-born British engineer,specialising in machinery for the confectionery and bakery industries and later in transportation systems,who was also a Liberal Party politician in London.
Sir Norman Lamont,2nd Baronet was a Scottish Liberal Party politician and a recognised authority on agriculture.
Richard Robert James Fairbairn was a British tramways and bus manager,Justice of the Peace and Liberal Party politician.
Gerald Ashburner France was a British businessman and importer and Liberal Party politician.
Sir William Middlebrook,1st Baronet was an English solicitor and Liberal Party politician.
Sir Alfred William Yeo was a British Liberal politician,self-made businessman and public servant.
Joseph Johnstone was a Scottish Liberal politician.
Philip Foale Rowsell CBE JP FCS FCII,was a pharmacist,insurance expert,British Liberal Party politician and a prominent figure in civic life in Exeter and Devon.
