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Clifford Blackburn Edgar (1857 – 20 March 1931) was a Coalition Conservative MP for Richmond in Surrey. Educated at the University of Manchester (BSc) and the University of London (MusB), Edgar was involved with West African development for half a century, being a director of the Bank of British West Africa. He won the seat in 1918, but lost it to an Independent Unionist in 1922. He was a member of Surrey County Council[1] and also Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Richmond (Surrey). A photographic portrait of him, by Walter Stoneman, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.