# Lyon Blease > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lyon_Blease > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lyon_Blease.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Blease > Source revision: 1290052351 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Lyon Blease **Horse and trap bearing "Vote for Blease" signs during the 1910 general election campaign for Chorley, Lancashire** **Prof. Walter Lyon Blease** (1884 – 12 April 1963), was a British [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician, barrister and academic. ## Background He was born in [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool), the son of Walter and Mary Cecilia Blease. He was educated at Parkfield School, Liverpool; [Shrewsbury School](/source/Shrewsbury_School) and [Liverpool University](/source/Liverpool_University). He was awarded the Studentship at Bar Final Examination, 1906. He married, in 1918, Harriott Davies. They had three daughters.[1] He served with hospital units in [Serbia](/source/Serbia) 1915 and in [Russia](/source/Russia) and [Romania](/source/Romania) 1916–18. He was Assistant Editor of *The New East*, Tokyo in 1918. ## Academic career He was Lecturer in the Law and Custom of the Constitution at [Liverpool University](/source/Liverpool_University) in 1910. He was Queen Victoria Professor of Law, at Liverpool University from 1919–49. ## Political career He was Liberal candidate for the [Chorley](/source/Chorley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) Division of Lancashire at the January 1910 General Election. General Election January 1910[2] Electorate 14,347 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Lord Balcarres 7,735 58.3 Liberal Walter Lyon Blease 5,523 41.7 Majority 2,212 16.6 Turnout 13,258 92.4 Conservative hold Swing In 1936 he was appointed a governor of the [British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute).[3] In 1939 he was adopted as Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for the [East Toxteth](/source/Liverpool_East_Toxteth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) Division of Liverpool.[4] The constituency had been safe for the Conservatives during the 1930s, even without a Labour candidate to split the anti-Tory vote. By 1939 there was again no Labour candidate selected. A general election was anticipated to take place in the autumn of 1939, but, due to the outbreak of war, the election did not take place until the 1945 general election. By then, a Labour candidate had emerged; General Election 1945[5] Electorate 52,484 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn 18,145 49.3 −10.9 Labour Lt. Victor Harold Edgar Baker 12,376 33.6 n/a Liberal Prof. Walter Lyon Blease 6,286 17.1 −22.7 Majority 5,769 15.7 −4.7 Turnout 36,807 70.1 +4.9 Conservative hold Swing n/a He was Liberal candidate for the new [Garston](/source/Liverpool_Garston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) Division of Liverpool at the 1950 General Election. General Election 1950[6] Electorate 65,001 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes 31,750 57.6 N/A Labour Edgar Hewitt 17,477 31.6 N/A Liberal Prof. Walter Lyon Blease 5,966 10.8 N/A Majority 14,303 25.9 N/A Turnout 55,163 84.9 N/A Conservative win (new seat) He was Chairman of the Executive Council for Liverpool under the [National Health Service Act 1946](/source/National_Health_Service_Act_1946) from 1952–60. He was a Member of the Management Committee of the Executive Councils Association (England) from 1960 until his death. He was Chairman of the [Liverpool Philharmonic Society](/source/Liverpool_Philharmonic_Society) from 1950–51. ## See also Works by or about [Lyon Blease](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Walter_Lyon_Blease) at [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ‘BLEASE, W. Lyon’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [accessed 28 Nov 2013](http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U56350,) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F.W.S. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["New Governors for B.F.I"](https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1936_10_BFI_GB/page/n11). *[Sight and Sound](/source/Sight_and_Sound)*. **5** (19): 63. Autumn 1936. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** The Liberal Magazine, Volume 47 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** British parliamentary election results 1950-1973, Craig, F.W.S. ## External links - [Works by Lyon Blease](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37185) at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) - [Works by or about Lyon Blease](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%20Lyon%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%20L%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Blease%2C%20W%2E%20L%2E%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Walter%20Lyon%20Blease%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Walter%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22W%2E%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Walter%20Blease%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Walter%20Lyon%20Blease%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Walter%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22W%2E%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22W%2E%20Lyon%20Blease%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%20Lyon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%20L%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Blease%2C%20W%2E%20L%2E%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Blease%2C%20W%2E%20Lyon%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Walter%20Blease%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Walter%20Lyon%20Blease%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Walter%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20title%3A%22W%2E%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Walter%20Blease%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Walter%20Lyon%20Blease%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Walter%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20description%3A%22W%2E%20L%2E%20Blease%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%20Lyon%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%20L%2E%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Walter%20Blease%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Blease%2C%20Walter%22%29%20OR%20%28%221884-1963%22%20AND%20Blease%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29) at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) - [http://birkdalefocus.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/brilliant-squeeze-leaflet-from-1945.html](http://birkdalefocus.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/brilliant-squeeze-leaflet-from-1945.html) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States Czech Republic Netherlands Poland Israel Other IdRef SNAC Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lyon Blease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Blease) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Blease?action=history)). 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