List of United Kingdom by-elections (1885–1900)

This is a list of parliamentary by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

s in the United Kingdom held between 1885 and 1900, with the names of the previous incumbent and the victor in the by-election and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

at the election, the result is highlighted: light blue for a Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

(including Liberal Unionist

Liberal Unionist Party

The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain, the party formed a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule...

and Irish Unionist

Irish Unionist Party

The Irish Unionist Alliance was a Unionist party founded in Ireland in 1891 to oppose plans for Gladstonian and Parnellite Home Rule for Ireland. The party was led for much of its life by Colonel Edward James Saunderson and later by the William St John Brodrick, Earl of Midleton...

) gain, orange for a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

(including Liberal-Labour

Liberal-Labour (UK)

The Liberal–Labour movement refers to the practice of local Liberal associations accepting and supporting candidates who were financially maintained by trade unions...

and Liberal/Crofter) gain, light green for an Irish Parliamentary Party

Irish Parliamentary Party

The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...

(including the Irish National Federation

Irish National Federation

The Irish National Federation was a nationalist political party in Ireland. It was founded in March 1891 by former members of the Irish National League who had left the Irish Parliamentary Party in protest when Charles Stewart Parnell refused to resign the party leadership as a result of his...

Anti-Parnellite Nationalist group from March 1891, but not the Irish National League Parnellite Nationalist faction when the IPP was split between December 1890 and 1900) gain and grey for any other gain.

Resignations

See Resignation from the British House of Commons

Resignation from the British House of Commons

Members of Parliament sitting in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign. To circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used...

for more details.

Where the cause of by-election is given as "resignation" or "seeks re-election", this indicates that the incumbent was appointed on his own request to an "office of profit under the Crown", either the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Steward of the Manor of Northstead. These appointments are made as a constitutional device for leaving the House of Commons, whose Members are not permitted to resign.

26th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1895
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1895 general election, held over several days from 13th July to 7th August 1895....

(1895–1900)

Wilton by-election, 1900

The Wilton by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Wilton in Wiltshire on 17 July 1900. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Viscount Folkestone had succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Radnor...

|17 July 1900¹
|Viscount Folkestone

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor CIE, CBE was a British Conservative Party politician.-Early life:Pleydell-Bouverie was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin, and was styled Viscount Folkestone from 1889 to 1900...

|James Archibald Morrison

James Archibald Morrison

Major James Archibald Morrison DSO was a British Conservative Party politician.Morrison was the son of Alfred Morrison, of Fonthill Houseand the grandson of James Morrison ....

William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel

William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel GCSI, GBE, PC, TD was a British politician.-Background and education:...

J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone

John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924...

Edward Carson, Baron Carson

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC, PC , Kt, QC , often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson, was a barrister, judge and politician from Ireland...

|Edward Henry Carson

Edward Carson, Baron Carson

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC, PC , Kt, QC , often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson, was a barrister, judge and politician from Ireland...

|Solicitor General

Solicitor General for England and Wales

Her Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, often known as the Solicitor General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law...

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|Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities
|3 May 1900¹
|Sir William Overend Priestley

William Overend Priestley

Sir William Overend Priestley was a physician and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1896 to 1900....

|Sir John Batty Tuke

John Batty Tuke

Sir John Batty Tuke was one of the most influential psychiatrists in Scotland in the late nineteenth century. Tuke’s career in Edinburgh from 1863 to 1910 spanned a period of significant social and political changes in asylum governance and care in Scotland...

|Death
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|Portsmouth

Portsmouth by-election, 1900

The Portsmouth by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held on 3 May 1900 for one of the two seats in the British House of Commons constituency of Portsmouth in Hampshire....

James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant

James Farquharson Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant CBE , known as Sir James Remnant, 1st Baronet, from 1917 to 1928, was a British Conservative politician....

Evelyn Hubbard

The Honourable Evelyn Hubbard was a British businessman and Conservative politician.He was the fifth son of John Gellibrand Hubbard , a director and governor of the Bank of England, and member of parliament for the City of London.He was educated at Radley School and Christchurch, Oxford, before...

|Sir Robert Mowbray

Sir Robert Mowbray, 2nd Baronet

Sir Robert Gray Cornish Mowbray, 2nd Baronet, DL , was a British Conservative politician.Mowbray was the son of Sir John Mowbray, 1st Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Grey . He was returned to Parliament for Prestwich at the 1886 general election, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1895...

John O'Dowd (MP)

John O'Dowd was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Sligo, March-September 1900, and for South Sligo, 1900-18....

Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt was an Irish republican and nationalist agrarian agitator, a social campaigner, labour leader, journalist, Home Rule constitutional politician and Member of Parliament , who founded the Irish National Land League.- Early years :Michael Davitt was born in Straide, County Mayo,...

|John O'Donnell

John O'Donnell (politician)

John O’Donnell was an Irish journalist, Nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1900 to 1910....

Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers

Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers , known as Viscount Newark from 1860 to 1900, was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician.- Career :...

|Sir Charles Welby, Bt

Sir Charles Welby, 5th Baronet

Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, 5th Baronet CB was a British civil servant who became a Conservative Party politician...

Edward George Clarke

Sir Edward George Clarke QC QC was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892...

|Ivor Churchill Guest

|Resignation
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|Rossendale

Rossendale by-election, 1900

The Rossendale by-election, 1900 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rossendale in Lancashire on 13 February 1900.-Vacancy:...

|13 February 1900
|John Henry Maden

John Henry Maden

Sir John Henry Maden was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Rossendale in 1892, resigning in 1900 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead...

|Sir William Mather

William Mather

Sir William Mather was a British industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1904....

Dunbar Plunket Barton

Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton, 1st Baronet PC was an Irish politician, author and judge.Barton was descended from Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe; and from the co-founder of the celebrated wine merchants Barton and Guestier. His mother was the third daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket...

|John Brownlee Lonsdale

John Lonsdale, 1st Baron Armaghdale

John Brownlee Lonsdale, 1st Baron Armaghdale , known as Sir John Lonsdale, Bt, between 1911 and 1918, was a British businessman and Conservative politician.- Early life :...

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....

|Sir Michael Foster

Michael Foster (physiologist)

Sir Michael Foster was an English physiologist.He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and educated at University College School, London....

Lord Charles Beresford

Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO , styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament....

|George Denison Faber

|Resignation
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|Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire

Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire by-election, 1899

The Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire on 20 December 1899. The seat had become vacant when the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament John Balfour resigned...

|20 December 1899
|John Balfour

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

|Eugene Wason

Eugene Wason

Eugene Wason was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1885 and 1918.-Family:...

Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton

Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton was a British peer and Conservative politician.Hylton was the eldest son of Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton, and Lady Agnes Mary Byng. Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey was his maternal great-grandfather...

Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote

Henry Stafford Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote GCMG, GCIE, CB, PC , known as Sir Henry Northcote, Bt, between 1887 and 1900, was a Conservative politician and colonial administrator...

|Sir Edgar Vincent

Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon

Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.-Early life:...

Lionel Holland

Lionel Raleigh Holland was a British politician, the youngest son of Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley in 1895. He resigned in 1899 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.- External links :...

|Walter Guthrie

Walter Guthrie

Walter Guthrie was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1899 to 1906.-Biography:...

Oldham by-election, 1899

The Oldham by-election of 1899 occurred in the summer of that year, and involved a by-election to fill both seats in the two-member Oldham Parliamentary borough. The block voting method allowed each elector to vote for two candidates...

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|rowspan=2|6 July 1899
|Robert Ascroft

Robert Ascroft

Robert Ascroft , JP. MP, was a prominent Lancashire solicitor and an English politician. He was one of the two Members of Parliament for Oldham between 1895 and his death, as a member of the Conservative Party.- External links :...

|Alfred Emmott

Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott

Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott GCMG, GBE, PC was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Background and education:...

|Death
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|James Francis Oswald

James Francis Oswald

James Francis Oswald was a British politician. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham in 1895, resigning in 1899 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.- External links :...

|Walter Runciman

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford PC was a prominent Liberal, later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom from the 1900s until the 1930s.-Background:...

|Resignation
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|Osgoldcross

Osgoldcross by-election, 1899

The Osgoldcross by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 5 July 1899.-Vacancy:...

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|5 July 1899
|Sir John Austin

Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet

Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet was a Liberal Party politician in England.At the 1886 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire, defeating the sitting MP Sir John Ramsden, Bt...

|Sir John Austin

Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet

Robert Wallace (Edinburgh MP)

Robert Wallace was a Scottish writer who had a remarkably varied career as a classics teacher, minister, university professor, newspaper editor, barrister and finally a member of parliament. He was born on 24 June 1831 at Kincaple near St. Andrews, Fife, and was the second son of Jasper Wallace,...

|George McCrae

Sir George McCrae

Colonel Sir George McCrae DSO MP was a Scottish textile merchant Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...

Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

Arthur Dewar, later Lord Dewar, was a Scottish politician and judge, who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South as well as Solicitor General for Scotland and later a Senator of the College of Justice....

Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, 1st Baronet

Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland, 1st Baronet , was a British politician.Naylor-Leyland was returned to Parliament for Colchester as a Conservative in 1892, a seat he held until 1895 when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The latter year he was created a Baronet, of Hyde Park House, Albert...

|George Augustus Pilkington

George Augustus Pilkington

Sir George Augustus Pilkington was an English doctor and Liberal politician.Pilkington was born at Upwell, Cambridgeshire, as George Augustus Coombe, the son of R. G. Coombe a surgeon. He was educated privately and trained for medicine at Guy's Hospital, London. He became MRCS Eng and LSA in 1870...

William Reynell Anson

Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet PC was a British jurist and Liberal Unionist politician.-Background and education:...

|Death
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|Merionethshire

Merionethshire by-election, 1899

The Merionethshire by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Merionethshire on 2 May 1899.-Vacancy:The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Liberal MP, Thomas Edward Ellis on 5 April 1899...

|2 May 1899¹
|Thomas Edward Ellis

T. E. Ellis

Thomas Edward Ellis , usually known as T. E. Ellis, was a Welsh politician who was the leader of Cymru Fydd, a movement aimed at gaining home rule for Wales.-Life:...

|Owen Morgan Edwards

Owen Morgan Edwards

Owen Morgan Edwards was a Welsh historian, educationalist and writer. He is often known as O. M. Edwards....

William Ambrose

William Ambrose KC was an English judge and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1899....

|Irwin Cox

Irwin Cox

Edward Bainbridge Cox, JP, DL, who used the pen-name I.E.B.C. was a British Barrister, magazine proprietor and politician...

Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy

Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy was a British politician and Master of the Rolls from 1907 until 1918.-Early life:...

|William Brampton Gurdon

William Brampton Gurdon

Sir William Brampton Gurdon KCMG, CB, JP was a British civil servant who became a Liberal Party politician.- Early life :...

|Resignation
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|Elland

Elland by-election, 1899

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons in the constituency of Elland on 8 March 1899. The seat became vacant following the retirement on grounds of ill-health of the sitting Member of Parliament, Thomas Wayman...

|8 March 1899
|Thomas Wayman

Thomas Wayman

Thomas Wayman was an English politician.He was educated in private schools in Halifax. He carried on business as a wool-stapler until 1892. He was Mayor of Halifax from 1872 to 1874 and served as a Justice of the Peace in the borough. He was Liberal MP for nearby Elland from 1885 until he retired...

James Bevan Edwards

Lieutenant General Sir James Bevan Edwards KCB KCMG was a senior British Army officer and politician.-Military career:Edwards was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1852...

|Sir Edward Sassoon

Edward Sassoon

Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet was a British businessman and politician.-Biography:A member of the Sassoon family, he was born in Bombay, India, the eldest surviving son of Sir Albert Sassoon and Hannah Moise of Bombay, India.Edward Sassoon graduated from the University of London...

Hugh McCalmont

Major-General Sir Hugh McCalmont KCB CVO was a British politician. He was elected as an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Antrim in 1895, resigning in 1899 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.-Career:...

William Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham

William Henry Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.He was the second son of William Holland, a cotton spinner of Higher Broughton, near Manchester. In 1872 he became a partner in the family business Messrs William Holland and Sons...

John Goundry Holburn

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|Charles Mackinnon Douglas

Charles Mackinnon Douglas

Charles Mackinnon Douglas was Liberal MP for North West Lanarkshire .He won at a by-election in 1899, was re-elected in 1900, but lost in 1906....

Edmund Francis Vesey Knox

Edmund Francis Vesey Knox was an Irish nationalist politician. Initially a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he sided with the Anti-Parnellite majority when the party split in 1891....

|Arthur John Moore

Arthur John Moore

Count Arthur John Moore was a wealthy Irish Catholic and nationalist politician.-Background and education:Born in Liverpool, Moore was the son of Charles Moore who had served as Member of Parliament for the Tipperary constituency from 1865 to 1869...

William Kenrick (MP)

William Kenrick was an English iron founder and hardware manufacturer. He was a Liberal politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1899....

William Keswick (politician)

William Keswick was a British Conservative politician and businessman, founder of the Keswick family, an influential shipping family in Hong Kong associated with Jardine Matheson Holdings....

Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton

Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL , was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as Paymaster-General during the First World War.-Background and education:...

|Richard Pilkington

Richard Pilkington (1841–1908)

Richard Pilkington was a British Conservative politician and member of the Pilkington glass-manufacturing family....

Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS , a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.-Biography:...

David MacIver

David MacIver was an English steam ship owner and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1874 and 1907....

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia CB, KCVO, JP was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician...

|Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia CB, KCVO, JP was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician...

|Comptroller of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

The Comptroller of the Household is an ancient position in the English royal household, currently the second-ranking member of the Lord Steward's department, and often a cabinet member. He was an ex officio member of the Board of Green Cloth, until that body was abolished in the reform of the local...

Sir Arthur Forwood, 1st Baronet

Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, 1st Baronet PC MP was an English merchant, shipowner, and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1885 until his death, and in 1895 he was created a baronet....

Thomas Waring

Col. Thomas Waring JP was an Irish barrister and Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at Westminster....

|John Blakiston-Houston

John Blakiston-Houston

John Blakiston-Houston DL JP was an Irish Member of parliament.Blakiston-Houston was the son of Richard Bayly Blakiston-Houston , of Orangefield, Co. Down, and his wife Mary Isabella Houston. He was a grandson of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2nd Baronet. He married Marian Gertrude Streatfield, of...

Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, 1st Baronet

Thomas Owen

Thomas Owen was a Welsh Anglican priest and translator of works on agriculture.-Life:Owen was born in Anglesey, Wales in 1749. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 20 March 1767. He obtained a B.A. degree in 1770. He then transferred to The Queen's College, Oxford, obtaining his...

George Doughty

Sir George Doughty was a British ship-owner and politician from Grimsby in Lincolnshire. He sat in the House of Commons for most of the period from 1895 to 1914.Doughty was the son William Doughty from Grimsby...

|Sir George Doughty

George Doughty

Charles Townshend Murdoch

Charles Townshend Murdoch was a banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1898....

|George William Palmer

George William Palmer (England)

George William Palmer was a member of the Palmer family, proprietors of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit manufacturers of Reading in England....

Arthur Hill (politician)

Major Arthur Hill was a British soldier and Unionist politician.A member of the Hill family headed by the Marquess of Downshire, he was the only child of Lord Arthur Hill by his first wife Annie Nisida Denham Cookes, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Denham Cookes...

James Dampier Palmer

Colonel James Dampier Palmer MP , was an English businessman, British Army officer, and a Progressive-Conservative politician.-Early years:...

|John Ryder

John Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby

John Herbert Dudley Ryder, 5th Earl of Harrowby , briefly known as Viscount Sandon from March to December 1900, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament....

Arthur Elliot (politician)

The Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound , known as Arthur Elliot, was a British journalist and Liberal Unionist politician.-Background and education:...

Abel Smith (1829-1898)

Abel Smith JP was an English landowner of the Smith banking family and Conservative politician.Smith was the son of Abel Smith and his wife Frances Anne Calvert...

|Evelyn Cecil

Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley

Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, GBE, PC was a British, Conservative Party politician.Born in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square in the heart of London's Mayfair, Cecil was the eldest son of Lord Eustace Cecil and was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford...

|Death
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|South Norfolk

South Norfolk by-election, 1898

The South Norfolk by-election, 1898 was a by-election held on 12 May 1898 for the British House of Commons constituency of South Norfolk.The election was triggered by the resignation on grounds of ill-health of the sitting Liberal Unionist Party former Liberal Member of Parliament , Francis...

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|12 May 1898
|Francis Taylor

Francis Taylor (MP)

Francis Taylor was an English brewer and Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician.Taylor was the third son of Alfred Lombe Taylor of Diss, Norfolk. The Taylor family had property in Diss and had an interest in "Taylor and Dowson's" the brewers in the town...

|Arthur Wellesley Soames

Arthur Wellesley Soames

Arthur Wellesley Soames was a British Liberal politician and architect.-Family and education:Soames was born in Brighton, the son of William Aldwin Soames. He was educated at Brighton College, the public school which his father had founded in 1845, and in 1871 he went up to Trinity College,...

|Resignation
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||Newark
|11 May 1898¹
|Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton

Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton

Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton was an English politician and Australian federationist.Finch-Hatton was born in Eastwell Park, Kent, England, the fourth son of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and his wife Fanny Margaretta, daughter of Edward Royd Rice of Dane Court, Kent...

|Viscount Newark

Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers

Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers , known as Viscount Newark from 1860 to 1900, was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician.- Career :...

Hamar Alfred Bass

Hamar Alfred Bass was a British brewer, race horse breeder and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1898....

|Sir Alexander Henderson

Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon

Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, CH , known as Sír Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, from 1902 to 1916, was a British financier and Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament.- Biography :...

Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet

Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet was a British barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898....

Frederick Hunt

Frederick Hunt was an English cricketer who played county cricket for Kent between 1897 and 1898, and for Worcestershire between 1900 and 1922. He also played for Worcestershire between 1895 and 1896, before that county's elevation to the County Championship.He made his first-class debut for Kent...

|Fiennes Cornwallis

Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis CBE, TD, JP, DL,, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...

William Charles Steadman

William Charles Steadman, usually known as W. C. Steadman , was a prominent trade unionist and politician....

Alfred Hopkinson

Sir Alfred Hopkinson was an English lawyer, academic and politician who served as a Member of Parliament for two three-year periods, separated by nearly thirty years....

|Lord Edmond FitzMaurice

Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice

Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice PC , styled Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1883 to 1885 and again from 1905 to 1908, when he entered the cabinet as Chancellor of the...

George Dixon (MP)

George Dixon was English Liberal politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1867 and 1898. He was a major proponent of education for all children.-Life:...

William Rees Morgan Davies

William Rees Morgan Davies was a British politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, from July 1892–1898....

|John Wynford Philipps

John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids

John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids PC was a British peer and former Liberal Member of Parliament for Mid Lanarkshire 1888–1894 and Pembrokeshire 1898–1908. He was educated at Felsted School....

Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar

Horace Brand Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar GCB, GCVO, PC , was a British financier, courtier and Conservative politician.-Background:...

|Sir Samuel Edward Scott

Sir Samuel Scott, 6th Baronet

Sir Samuel Edward Scott, 6th Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician best known for a scandal involving his wife.- Political career :...

Joseph Richardson (UK politician)

Joseph Richardson was a Liberal Party politician in England.He was elected as Member of Parliament for South East Durham at the 1892 general election. He was defeated at the 1895 general election by the Liberal Unionist Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, who he had ousted in 1892...

Charles Pelham Villiers

Charles Pelham Villiers was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament .-Background and education:...

William Kenny (Irish politician)

William Kenny PC QC , was an Irish judge and Liberal Unionist politician.He was born in Dublin, the only son of Edward Kenny, solicitor, of Kilrush, County Clare, and his wife, Catherine . Before he was called to the bar in 1868, he had graduated with a B.A...

|James Henry Mussen Campbell

James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy

James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy PC was an Irish lawyer, politician in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State...

Dunbar Plunket Barton

|Dunbar Plunket Barton

Dunbar Plunket Barton

Frank Lockwood

Sir Frank Lockwood was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1897....

|Lord Charles Beresford

Lord Charles Beresford

Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO , styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament....

Charles Harrison (British politician)

Charles Harrison was a British Liberal Party politician.Harrison was born in Muswell Hill, Middlesex, and was the third son of Frederick Harrison, a stockbroker, and his wife, Jane Brice. He was educated at King's College School and King's College London...

John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey

John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer, and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge, working in commercial law....

Thomas Fielden (politician)

Thomas Fielden was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the 1886 general election as Member of Parliament for the Middleton division of Lancashire, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1885. He was narrowly defeated in 1892 , but was re-elected to the House of...

|James Duckworth

James Duckworth

----Sir James Duckworth was a self-made English businessman from Rochdale in Lancashire who rose from poverty to found a large chain a grocery shops known popularly as "Jimmy Duck's" and entered politics as a Liberal...

|Death
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|Barnsley

Barnsley by-election, 1897

The Barnsley by-election, 1897, was a by-election held on 28 October 1897 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It was notable for its role in the development of the Independent Labour Party.-Background:...

|28 October 1897
|Earl Compton

|Joseph Walton

Sir Joseph Walton, 1st Baronet

Sir Joseph Walton, 1st Baronet DL, JP was an English coalowner and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...

George Osborne Morgan

Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet PC, QC, was a Welsh lawyer and Liberal politician.Born at Gothenburg, Sweden, he was educated at Friars School, Bangor, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford, and was a scholar of Worcester College, Oxford from 1847.He became a barrister of Lincoln's...

Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897...

|Frederick Maddison

Frederick Maddison

Frederick Maddison was a British trade unionist and politician.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Maddison studied in Kingston upon Hull before becoming a compositor. He joined the Typographical Association and soon rose in prominence, becoming President of the Trades Union Congress in 1886...

Luke Hayden

Luke Patrick Hayden was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented South Leitrim from 1885 to 1892 and South Roscommon from 1892 until his death in 1897.He was the...

|John Patrick Hayden

John Patrick Hayden

John Patrick Hayden was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented South Co. Roscommon from 1897 to 1918. He was also editor and proprietor of the Westmeath Examiner,...

William Graham Nicholson

William Graham Nicholson PC, JP was a British Liberal Unionist and later Conservative Party politician.The eldest son of William Nicholson JP DL, of Basing Park, Hampshire, he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.He was Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel commanding...

William Rawson Shaw

William Rawson Shaw was an English Liberal politician who represented Halifax.Shaw was the son of Thomas Shaw and his wife Elizabeth Rawson. His father was chairman of the family firm of John Shaw & Sons who owned the Brookroyd Mills, and was MP for Halifax...

|Alfred Billson

Alfred Billson

Alfred Billson was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Leicester, Billson was elected as Member of Parliament for three different constituencies: from 1892 to 1895 for Barnstaple in Devon, from 1897 to 1900 for Halifax in West Yorkshire, and from 1906 until his death in 1907...

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM, PC was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary of State for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery...

|Sir Charles Cameron

Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet was a Scottish doctor, newspaper editor and an advanced Liberal politician....

Edmund Widdrington Byrne

Sir Edmund Widdrington Byrne was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.Byrne was born in Islington, London, and was the son of Edmund Byrne, solicitor, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Cowell. He was educated at King's College, London and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1867...

|Sam Woods

Sam Woods

Sam Woods was a British trade unionist and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the 1890s.Born at Peasley Cross in St Helens, Woods began working in coal mining at the age of seven...

James Martin White

James Martin White was a wealthy Scottish businessman and Liberal Party politician...

|John Sinclair

John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, GCSI, GCIE was a Scottish Liberal Party politician, soldier, peer, administrator and Privy Councillor who served as the Secretary of Scotland from 1905 to 1912 and the Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919.Baron Pentland was born John Sinclair to Sir John...

Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen

Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen was an English Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1897 to 1906.-Life:...

Henry Fell Pease

Henry Fell Pease was a coal and ironstone mine-owner from North East England and Liberal politician who represented Cleveland....

Henry Byron Reed

Henry Byron Reed was an English Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bradford East for two terms in the 1880s and 1890s....

Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath

Thomas Henry Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath KG, CB, PC, JP , styled Viscount Weymouth until 1896, was a British landowner and Conservative politician. He held ministerial office as Under-Secretary of State for India in 1905 and Master of the Horse between 1922 and 1924...

|John Barlow

Sir John Barlow, 1st Baronet

Sir John Emmott Barlow, 1st Baronet was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.Barlow was the son of Thomas Barlow and his wife Mary Ann . He was a senior partner in the family firms of Thomas Barlow & Brothers, of Manchester and London, and Barlow and Company, of Calcutta, Shanghai,...

John Pender

Sir John Pender , British Submarine communications cable pioneer, was born in the Vale of Leven, Scotland, and after attending school in Glasgow became a successful merchant in textile fabrics in that city and in Manchester; where he had a warehouse in Peter street near The Great Northern Warehouse...

|Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick

Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick

Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland who served as the Member of Parliament for Wick Burghs from 1896 to 1900....

Charles John Pearson

Sir Charles John Pearson was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was called to the English and Scottish bars in 1870. He was knighted in 1887. He was Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute from 1888 and Perthshire from 1889. He was Conservative Member of Parliament...

|Sir William Overend Priestley

William Overend Priestley

Sir William Overend Priestley was a physician and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1896 to 1900....

William Alexander Hunter

William Alexander Hunter was a Scottish jurist and Liberal politician.Hunter was born in Aberdeen, the son of James Hunter, a granite merchant, of Aberdeen. He was educated at Aberdeen grammar school and university. He entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the English bar in 1867, but then...

|Duncan Vernon Pirie

Duncan Vernon Pirie

Duncan Vernon Pirie OBE FRSGS JP DL was a Scottish Liberal politician.The eldest son of Gordon Pirie, of Château de Varennes, France, and Valentine, daughter of Comte J. Rousseau de Labrosse, he was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond and at Clifton College...

J. E. Kenny

Joseph Edward Kenny was an Irish physician, Coroner of the City of Dublin, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament...

|James Laurence Carew

James Laurence Carew

James Laurence Carew was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom...

Michael Davitt

|James Roche

James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy

James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy was an Irish peer and a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons. He was the great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.-Biography:...

|Chose to sit for South Mayo

South Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)

South Mayo was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1922....

Richard McGhee

Richard McGhee was an Irish Protestant Nationalist home rule politician. A Land League and trade union activist, he was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for more than 20 years.-Family and education:McGhee was born in Lurgan, County...

John Shiress Will

John Shiress Will QC, born John Will was a British legal writer and politician. He was born in Dundee, the son of John Will, a merchant, and his wife Mary Chambers. He was educated at Brechin Grammar School and afterwards at the University of Edinburgh and at King's College London, although he...

|John Morley

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883...

Tankerville Chamberlayne

Tankerville Chamberlayne was a landowner in Hampshire and a Member of Parliament, serving the Southampton constituency three times, as an Independent and Conservative. Following the 1895 General Election false allegations were made concerning his conduct and this resulted in his being unseated on...

|Sir Francis Henry Evans

Sir Francis Evans, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Henry Evans, 1st Baronet, KCMG was a British civil engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...

Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe

Richard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe GCVO, TD, JP , styled Viscount Curzon between 1876 and 1900, was a British courtier and Conservative politician...

|Viscount Curzon

Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe

Richard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe GCVO, TD, JP , styled Viscount Curzon between 1876 and 1900, was a British courtier and Conservative politician...

|Treasurer of the Household

Treasurer of the Household

The position of Treasurer of the Household is theoretically held by a household official of the British monarch, under control of the Lord Steward's Department, but is, in fact, a political office held by one of the government's Deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons...

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|Brixton
|30 January 1896
|Marquess of Carmarthen

George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds

George Godolphin Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds JP , styled Earl of Danby from birth until 1872 and subsequently Marquess of Carmarthen until 1895, was a British peer and Conservative politician.-Background:...

|Evelyn Hubbard

Evelyn Hubbard

James Horner Haslett

James Horner Haslett was an Irish Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1886....

David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

|William Edward Hartpole Lecky

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

William Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM was an Irish historian.-Early life:Born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, a landowner....

William Ambrose

William Ambrose KC was an English judge and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1899....

|William Ambrose

William Ambrose

William Ambrose KC was an English judge and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1899....

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS , known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk

Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk JP , known as Sir Algernon Borthwick, Bt, between 1887 and 1895, was a British journalist and Conservative politician...

|Lord Lovaine

Henry Percy, Earl Percy

Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy , styled Lord Warkworth until 1899, was a British Conservative politician...

Alfred Webb

He was first elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 24 February 1890, when he won a by-election for the West Waterford constituency. He was again returned for West Waterford in the 1892 general election, this time as an anti-Parnellite MP....

John Daly (Fenian)

John Daly , was an Irish revolutionary, and a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Uncle to Kathleen Clarke, wife of Tom Clarke, executed for his part in the 1916 Rising who was a leading member of the IRB, and her brother John Daly , was an [[Ireland|Irish]] revolutionary, and a...

Denis Kilbride

Denis Kilbride was an Irish nationalist politician, who as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented South Kerry , and North Galway and South Kildare as an Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.He was educated at Clongowes...

|Thomas Joseph Farrell

Thomas Joseph Farrell

Thomas Joseph Farrell was an Irish nationalist politician. He was the Anti-Parnellite Member of Parliament for South Kerry from 1895 to 1880, representing the county in the United Kingdom House of Commons....

|Chose to sit for North Galway

North Galway (UK Parliament constituency)

North Galway was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Galway County constituency...

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|Dublin St Stephen's Green
|2 September 1895
|William Kenny

William Kenny (Irish politician)

|William Kenny

William Kenny (Irish politician)

Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay

Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay GCMG, PC, QC,MD was a British lawyer, doctor and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...

|Robert Finlay

Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay

Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay GCMG, PC, QC,MD was a British lawyer, doctor and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...

|Solicitor General

Solicitor General for England and Wales

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|West Cavan
|2 August 1895¹
|Edmund Francis Vesey Knox

Edmund Francis Vesey Knox

Edmund Francis Vesey Knox was an Irish nationalist politician. Initially a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he sided with the Anti-Parnellite majority when the party split in 1891....

|James Patrick Farrell

James Patrick Farrell

J. P. Farrell was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament from 1895 to 1918, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

|Chose to sit for Londonderry City

Londonderry City (UK Parliament constituency)

Londonderry City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system .-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:...

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¹ An uncontested by-election.

² Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted.

³ Gain not retained at the 1900 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1900

-Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...

⁴ Gain retained at the 1900 UK general election.

⁵ Gain in 1898 retained at the Southport by-election, 1899 but not retained at the 1900 UK general election.

⁶ One gain (Runciman) not retained and one gain (Emmott) retained at the 1900 UK general election, in the two member Oldham constituency.

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25th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1892
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1892 general election, held over several days from 4th July to 26th July 1892....

(1892–1895)

Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...

|Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...

|Secretary of State for India

Secretary of State for India

The Secretary of State for India, or India Secretary, was the British Cabinet minister responsible for the government of India and the political head of the India Office...

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|Sleaford
|6 July 1895¹
|Henry Chaplin

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin PC was a British landowner, racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 until 1916 when he was raised to the peerage....

|Henry Chaplin

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

|President of the Local Government Board

President of the Local Government Board

The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet position, in the United Kingdom, established in 1871. The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and took over supervisory functions from the Board of Trade and the Home Office, including the...

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|Blackpool
|6 July 1895¹
|Sir Matthew Ridley

Matthew Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley PC, DL , known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt from 1877 to 1900, was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

|Sir Matthew Ridley

Matthew Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley PC, DL , known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt from 1877 to 1900, was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

|Arthur James Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

|First Lord of the Treasury

First Lord of the Treasury

The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, and is now always also the Prime Minister...

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...

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|Birmingham West
|1 July 1895¹
|Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended Oxford or Cambridge University....

|Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain

|Secretary of State for the Colonies

Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies....

William O'Brien

William O'Brien was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

|J. F. X. O'Brien

J. F. X. O'Brien

James Francis Xavier O'Brien was an Irish nationalist Fenian revolutionary. He was later elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a Member of Parliament in the Irish Parliamentary Party.O'Brien was born in Dungarvan, Co...

Donald MacGregor (1839-1911)

Donald MacGregor was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. From 1892 to 1895 he was a Member of Parliament for the Inverness-shire constituency.- External links :...

|James Evan Bruce Baillie

James Evan Bruce Baillie

James Evan Bruce Baillie was Unionist MP for Inverness-shire .He was elected at a by-election in 1895, was re-elected in the general election later that year, but stood down in 1900.- External links :...

David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford

David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres KT, PC, DL, FRS, FSA , styled Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913, was a British Conservative politician and art connoisseur....

William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne

William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG, GCMG, PC , styled Viscount Wolmer between 1882 and 1895, was a British politician and colonial administrator.-Background and education:...

|Lewis McIver

Lewis McIver

Sir Lewis McIver, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1909....

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery GCVO, PC , styled The Honourable Sidney Herbert between 1861 and 1895, was a British politician and peer.-Background and education:...

Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel

Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel PC , was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1895...

|Alfred Lyttelton

Alfred Lyttelton

Alfred Lyttelton QC was a British politician and sportsman who excelled at both football and cricket. During his time at university he participated in Varsity Matches in five sports: cricket , football , athletics , rackets and real tennis , displaying an ability that made him...

Henry Richard Farquharson

Henry Richard Farquharson was an English landowner and Conservative politician.Farquharson was born at Brighton and became the owner of a large estate at Eastbury House, Tarrant Gunville . He was a fanatical breeder of Newfoundland dogs and had a pack of one hundred and twenty five...

|Robert Williams

Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Bridehead

Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Dorset at a by-election in May 1895, and held the seat until he stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1922 general election.He was made a Baronet, in...

William Saunders (politician)

William Saunders was a British newspaper publisher and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895....

|Sir James Bailey

James Bailey (UK politician)

Sir James Bailey JP, DL, MP, was a British Conservative Party politician who served from 1895 to 1906 as Member of Parliament for Walworth in South London...

John Sweetman

John Sweetman was an Irish nationalist politician who served as an anti-Parnellite Member of Parliament in the 1890s, but later radicalised...

Robert Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth

Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth was a British Member of Parliament.Cranworth was the eldest son of Brampton Gurdon of Letton Hall in Norfolk and of Grundisbugh Hall in Suffolk. He was elected to the House of Commons for South Norfolk as a Liberal in 1880, a seat he held until 1885,...

George Tomkyns Chesney

Sir George Tomkyns Chesney, KCB, CSI, CIE , British Army general, brother of Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney.-Biography:...

|Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia

Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia CB, KCVO, JP was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician...

Joseph Dodge Weston

Sir Joseph Dodge Weston was an English merchant and shipping magnate and Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1895....

|Sir William Henry Wills

William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke

William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke , known as Sir William Wills, Bt, between 1893 and 1906, was a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal politician.-Background:...

Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, 1st Baronet

|Weetman Dickinson Pearson

Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray

Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray GCVO, PC , known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt, between 1894 and 1910 and as The Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician...

Lord Randolph Churchill

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill MP was a British statesman. He was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and his wife Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane , daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry...

|George Fardell

George Fardell

Sir Thomas George Fardell was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Paddington South from 1895 to 1910. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford....

Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Baronet

Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, 3rd Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1895. He was a pioneer of the Red Cross....

|Charles Wigram Long

Charles Wigram Long

Charles Wigram Long was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for 1895 to 1910.Long was the son of Charles Long, who was Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and his wife Anna Maria, the daughter of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet.He entered the Royal...

Samuel Danks Waddy

Samuel Danks Waddy was an English politician.He was born in Gateshead, the son of Samuel Dousland Waddy, a Methodist minister. The family soon moved to Sheffield and his father was instrumental in the founding of Wesley College in 1838...

|John Maunsell Richardson

John Maunsell Richardson

John Maunsell Richardson JP DL , was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Member of Parliament and a steeplechase jockey who won two Grand Nationals as a rider in the 1870s.John Richardson was educated at Harrow and Magdalene College, Cambridge.-Grand Nationals:Richardson won the 1873...

|Resignation (Recorder of Sheffield)
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Forfarshire

Forfarshire by-election, 1894

The Forfarshire by-election, 1894 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Forfarshire, Scotland on 17 November 1894...

³
|17 November 1894
|Sir John Rigby

John Rigby (politician)

Sir John Rigby PC , was a British judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1894.-Background and education:...

|Charles Maule Ramsay

Charles Maule Ramsay

Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Charles Maule Ramsay was a British army officer and briefly a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament ....

Frank Lockwood

Sir Frank Lockwood was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1897....

|Frank Lockwood

Frank Lockwood

Sir Frank Lockwood was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1897....

|Solicitor General for England and Wales

Solicitor General for England and Wales

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|-
|Sutherland
|26 October 1894¹
|Angus Sutherland

Angus Sutherland

Angus Sutherland CB was a Scottish Liberal politician.The son of William Sutherland, of Helmsdale, Sutherland, he was educated at the parish school, Edinburgh Training College, and Glasgow University....

|John MacLeod

John MacLeod (Sutherland politician)

John MacLeod was MP for Sutherland. His political allegiance Liberal/Crofter Party .He was returned unopposed at a by-election in 1894, defeated a Liberal Unionist in 1895, but lost it fairly narrowly to the Liberal Unionist in 1900.- References :...

Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle

Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle CB, GCVO, TD, VD, JP , known as Viscount Bury from 1891 to 1894, was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician.-Biography:...

Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet

Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet DL was a British merchant and Liberal Party politician.-Early life:Whitehead was born at Bramhall, near Sedbergh in Yorkshire. He was educated at the grammar school in Appleby-in-Westmorland, and was apprenticed as a draper in Kendal. He made his way to Bradford...

|Henry Broadhurst

Henry Broadhurst

Henry Broadhurst was a leading early British trade unionist and a Lib-Lab politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1885 and 1906....

|rowspan=2|Resignation
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|James Allanson Picton

James Allanson Picton

James Allanson Picton was a British independent minister, author and Liberal politician.Picton was born at Liverpool, the eldest son of Sir James Allanson Picton and his wife Sarah Pooley. His father was an architect and supporter of the Liverpool Free Library...

Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1891 to 1892 under Lord Salisbury.-Background:...

|Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot

Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent

Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG, PC , known as Lord Edmund Talbot between 1876 and 1921, was a British Conservative politician and the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-Background:...

|Resignation
|-
|Sheffield Attercliffe

Sheffield Attercliffe by-election, 1894

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Attercliffe on 5 July 1894. It was the first parliamentary election contested by the Independent Labour Party.-Background:...

|5 July 1894
|Bernard John Seymour Coleridge

|J. Batty Langley

J. Batty Langley

J. Batty Langley was a British Liberal Party politician.Born in Uppingham, Langley became a wealthy timber merchant in Sheffield, and one of the city's most prominent non-conformists. He was elected to Sheffield Town Council, serving many years and becoming an alderman.In 1892, Langley became...

Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn

Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn GCMG, PC, QC was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord Chancellor between 1905 and 1912.-Background and education:...

|Robert Reid

Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn

Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn GCMG, PC, QC was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord Chancellor between 1905 and 1912.-Background and education:...

|Solicitor General for England and Wales

Solicitor General for England and Wales

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|-
|Hackney South
|7 May 1894
|Sir Charles Russell

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.-Early life:...

|John Fletcher Moulton

John Fletcher Moulton

John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton, GBE KCB QC PC FRAS FRS was an English mathematician, barrister and judge.-Early life:...

John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids

|James Caldwell

James Caldwell (MP)

James Caldwell was a Scottish politician. He served as an MP for two constituencies.He was first elected for Glasgow St Rollox in 1886 as a Liberal Unionist...

Arthur Brand

Arthur George Brand was a British Liberal politician.Brand was the third son of Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden, second son of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre. His mother was Eliza, daughter of General Robert Ellice, while Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, was his elder brother...

|Arthur Brand

Arthur Brand

|Treasurer of the Household

Treasurer of the Household

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth KT, PC was a British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords...

|Harold Tennant

Harold Tennant

Harold John "Jack" Tennant PC was a Scottish Liberal politician. He served as Secretary for Scotland under his brother-in-law H. H...

Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel

Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel was a British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal politician. He sat Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894 and was recognised as the leader of the Welsh MP's...

|Arthur Humphreys-Owen

Arthur Humphreys-Owen

Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen was a Welsh barrister, landowner and Liberal politician.Humphreys-Owen was born at Garthmyl, Montgomeryshire, the son of Erskine Humphreys, a barrister. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge...

Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle

Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle PC KC LLD , known as Lord Shaw from 1909 to 1929, was a Scottish Liberal politician and judge....

|Thomas Shaw

Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle

Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle PC KC LLD , known as Lord Shaw from 1909 to 1929, was a Scottish Liberal politician and judge....

|Solicitor General for Scotland

Solicitor General for Scotland

Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate, whose duty is to advise the Crown and the Scottish Government on Scots Law...

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|Leith Burghs
|26 March 1894
|Ronald Munro-Ferguson

Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar

Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar KT GCMG PC , was a Scottish politician and colonial governor. He served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia , and is considered as probably the most politically influential holder of this post...

|Ronald Munro-Ferguson

Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone GCB, GCMG, GBE, PC, JP was a British Liberal statesman. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914.-Background and education:Gladstone was...

|Herbert Gladstone

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

|First Commissioner of Works

First Commissioner of Works

The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings was a position within the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It took over some of the functions of the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests in 1851 when the portfolio of Crown holdings was divided into the public...

²
|-
|Horncastle
|11 Januuary 1894
|Edward Stanhope

Edward Stanhope

Edward Stanhope was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:Born in London, Stanhope was the second son of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, by his wife Emily Harriet, daughter of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet...

|Lord Willoughby de Eresby

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster

Sir Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 7th Baronet, 2nd Earl of Ancaster, 3rd Baron Aveland, 26th Baron Willoughby de Eresby , known as Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1892 to 1910, was a British Conservative politician....

Joseph Leese

Sir Joseph Francis Leese, 1st Baronet QC was a British lawyer and politician who served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Accrington from 1892 to 1910. He was created a baronet on 15 July 1908....

|Joseph Francis Leese

Joseph Leese

William Thackeray Marriott

Sir William Thackeray Marriott PC QC , was a British barrister and Liberal and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1893....

|Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth

Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth

Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician.The eldest son of Thomas Frederick Charles Vernon Wentworth of Wentworth Castle near Barnsley, Yorkshire and Dall House, Rannoch, Perthshire and his wife Lady Harriet Augusta Canning de Burgh, daughter of...

John Barry (Irish politician)

John Barry was an Irish politician. He was elected as an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Wexford in 1885, resigning in 1893 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.- External links :...

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough

William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, was an athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons firstly for the Liberal Party and then for the Conservatives between 1880 and 1905 when he was raised to the peerage...

|Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke

Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke

Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke was an English farmer and cider producer and a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892 and from 1893 to 1900.-Biography:...

William Bowen Rowlands

William Bowen Rowlands , was a British politician and Member of Parliament.He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 22 March 1854 at the age of 18...

|William Bowen Rowlands

William Bowen Rowlands

William Bowen Rowlands , was a British politician and Member of Parliament.He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 22 March 1854 at the age of 18...

Michael Davitt

Sir Harold Reckitt, 2nd Baronet

Sir Harold James Reckitt was a British politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Pontefract from February to June, 1883. He was MP for Brigg from 1895 to 1907.- External links :...

|Sir Thomas Willans Nussey

Thomas Willans Nussey

Sir Thomas Willans Nussey, 1st Baronet was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Pontefract from 1893 to 1910.-Family and education:...

Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea

Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea was a Welsh industrialist and politician.-Biography:Born at Singleton Abbey, Swansea, Henry was the eldest son of industrialist and MP John Henry Vivian and his wife Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones, of Reigate. His uncle was Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, first...

|William Williams

William Williams (Swansea MP)

William Williams was a Welsh businessman and Liberal party politician.Williams started work as a boy on the cold rolling lines of the Upper Forest Tinplate Works, Morriston, Swansea. His leg was crushed in the mills, requiring amputation. He returned to work after the accident as a clerk in the...

Peter McLagan

Peter McLagan was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1893.At the 1865 general election he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire, and was re-elected at the next six general elections...

|Thomas Hope

Thomas Hope (politician)

Capt Thomas Hope was the Tory MP for Linlithgowshire, winning it in the 1893 by-election and resigning it in 1895. In Freemasonry, he was also Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Linlithgowshire from 1894 to 1904.- External links :...

Robert Duff (politician)

Sir Robert William Duff, GCMG, PC was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1861 to 1893 and was Governor of New South Wales from 1893 to 1895.-Early life:...

Henri Josse

Henri Josse was a British politician. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in 1892, resigning in 1893 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.-References:...

|Edward Heneage

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage PC, JP, DL was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician. He was briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone between February and April 1886, when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal...

James Francis Hogan

James Francis Hogan MP was an Irish history professor at University College Cork, author and Member of Parliament for Mid Tipperary between 1893–1900.-Biography:...

Walter James, 2nd Baron Northbourne

Walter Henry James, 2nd Baron Northbourne , was a British peer and Liberal politician.James was the son of Walter James, 1st Baron Northbourne.He attended Oxford University, and won a blue at tennis in 1868...

|William Allan

William Allan (UK politician)

Sir William Allan, DL was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Gateshead from 1893 until his death in 1903....

Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham

Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham GCMG, CH, TD, JP, DL, was a British newspaper proprietor and a Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1916 when he inherited his peerage.-Biography:Levy-Lawson was born at St...

Louis John Jennings

Louis John Jennings was an English journalist and Conservative politician.Jennings was born in Walworth, London, the son of John Jennings and his wife Sarah Michel. He joined The Times newspaper and between 1863 and 1868 was their special correspondent in India and the USA...

|George Whiteley

George Whiteley, 1st Baron Marchamley

George Whiteley, 1st Baron Marchamley PC was a British Liberal politician. He served as Chief Whip between 1905 and 1908 in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H...

Michael Davitt

|James Gibney

James Gibney

James Gibney was an Irish Nationalist politician. An anti-Parnellite, he was Member of Parliament for North Meath from 1893 to 1900....

Patrick Fulham

Patrick Fulham was an Irish nationalist politician who served briefly in the 1890s as Member of Parliament for South Meath.taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.- Political career :...

|Jeremiah Jordan

Jeremiah Jordan

Jeremiah Jordan J.P. was an Irish nationalist politician from County Fermanagh. He was a Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1892, and from 1893 to 1910, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.- Early life :Jordan was born in Tattinbar, eldest son...

Miles MacInnes

Miles MacInnes was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician.MacInnes was the son of General John Maclnnes and his wife Ann Sophia Reynolds...

Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald

Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald was a Conservative Party politician in England.At the 1885 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Pontefract in Yorkshire...

|Harold James Reckitt

Sir Harold Reckitt, 2nd Baronet

Sir Harold James Reckitt was a British politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Pontefract from February to June, 1883. He was MP for Brigg from 1895 to 1907.- External links :...

Frank James (MP)

Frank James was a British businessman, freemason and Conservative politician.He was the fifth son of John James of Walsall, Staffordshire...

|Sir Arthur Divett Hayter

Arthur Hayter, 1st Baron Haversham

Arthur Divett Hayter, 1st Baron Haversham PC , known as Sir Arthur Hayter, Bt, from 1878 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician...

Thomas Shaw

Thomas Shaw may refer to:* Thomas Shaw , born about 1692 in Kendal, Westmoreland.* Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle , Scottish politician and judge...

|William Rawson Shaw

William Rawson Shaw

William O'Brien

|Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt

|Chose to sit for Cork City

Cork City (UK Parliament constituency)

Cork City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1880 to 1922 it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, CB, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1868 to 1903, was a British statesman.-Background and education:...

William Summers

William Summers was a British politician and barrister. He was born in Stalybridge, the second son of John summers, the local ironmaster, and his wife Mary.-Education:...

Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long

Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long PC, FRS, JP , was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Colonies and...

Peter Esslemont

Peter Esslemont was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.Esslemont was born in Balnakettle, Udney, Aberdeenshire the son of Peter Esslemont, a farmer, and his wife Ann Connon. He was educated at Public School, Belhelvie...

|Thomas Buchanan

Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)

Thomas Ryburn Buchanan PC was a Scottish Liberal politician and bibliophile.-Background and education:Buchanan was born in Glasgow and educated at Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford...

Arthur Brend Winterbotham

Arthur Brend Winterbotham was an English cloth manufacturer and Liberal politician.Winterbotham was the son of Lindsey Winterbotham and Sarah Ann Page. His father was a banker of Stroud, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Amersham School...

Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea

Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea was a British Liberal politician and patron of art.-Background and education:...

|Samuel Howard Whitbread

Samuel Howard Whitbread

Samuel Howard Whitbread was a British Member of Parliament and a member of the Whitbread brewing family.He was the son of Samuel Whitbread. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire and represented the constituencies of Huntingdon and Luton .- External links :...

|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Leeds South

Leeds South by-election, 1892

The Leeds South by-election, 1892 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Leeds South in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 22 September 1892.-Vacancy:...

|22 September 1892
|Sir Lyon Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB, PC, FRS was a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

|John Lawson Walton

John Lawson Walton

Sir John Lawson Walton KC was a British barrister and Liberal politician.-Family and education:John Lawson Walton was the son of the Reverend John Walton MA, a Wesleyan missionary in Ceylon who later preached at Grahamstown in South Africa and who became President of the Wesleyan Conference for...

Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere

Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere PC was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895...

|Herbert Gardner

Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere

Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere PC was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895...

|President of the Board of Agriculture

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named President of the Board of Agriculture and was created in 1889...

²
|-
|Dundee
|9 September 1892¹
|Edmund Robertson

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee PC, QC, LLD, DL , was a Scottish barrister, academic and Liberal politician.-Background and education:Robertson was the son of Edmund Robertson, of Kinnaird, Inchture, Perthshire...

|Edmund Robertson

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee

T. E. Ellis

Thomas Edward Ellis , usually known as T. E. Ellis, was a Welsh politician who was the leader of Cymru Fydd, a movement aimed at gaining home rule for Wales.-Life:...

|Thomas Edward Ellis

T. E. Ellis

Thomas Edward Ellis , usually known as T. E. Ellis, was a Welsh politician who was the leader of Cymru Fydd, a movement aimed at gaining home rule for Wales.-Life:...

H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916...

|Herbert Henry Asquith

H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916...

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

|John Blair Balfour

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

|Lord Advocate

Lord Advocate

Her Majesty's Advocate , known as the Lord Advocate , is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament...

²
|-
|Stirling Burghs
|25 August 1892¹
|Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery...

|Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

|Secretary of State for War

Secretary of State for War

The position of Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, was a British cabinet-level position, first held by Henry Dundas . In 1801 the post became that of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The position was re-instated in 1854...

²
|-
|Elgin Burghs
|25 August 1892¹
|Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....

|Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....

|Solicitor General for Scotland

Solicitor General for Scotland

Chief Secretary for Ireland

The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British administration in Ireland. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant, from the late 18th century until the end of British rule he was effectively the government minister with responsibility for governing Ireland; usually...

Secretary of State for Education and Skills

The Secretary of State for Education is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government. The position was re-established on 12 May 2010, held by Michael Gove....

²
|-
|Forfarshire
|24 August 1892¹
|John Rigby

John Rigby (politician)

Sir John Rigby PC , was a British judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1894.-Background and education:...

|John Rigby

John Rigby (politician)

Sir John Rigby PC , was a British judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1894.-Background and education:...

|Solicitor General for England and Wales

Solicitor General for England and Wales

²
|-
|Midlothian
(or Edinburghshire)
|24 August 1892¹
|William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

|William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

|Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...

, First Lord of the Treasury

First Lord of the Treasury

The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, and is now always also the Prime Minister...

, Lord Privy Seal

Lord Privy Seal

The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state...

²
|-
|Glasgow Bridgeton
|24 August 1892¹
|Sir George Trevelyan

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet

|Sir George Trevelyan

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer KG, GCVO, PC, VRD , styled The Honourable Charles Spencer until 1905 and known as The Viscount Althorp between 1905 and 1910, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. An MP from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1900 to 1905, he served as Vice-Chamberlain of...

|Charles Spencer

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

|Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household is usually a junior government whip in the British House of Commons and is an officer of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. He or she is the Deputy to the Lord Chamberlain of the Household. The Vice-Chamberlain's main role is to compile...

²
|-
|Nottingham East
|24 August 1892¹
|Arnold Morley

Arnold Morley

Arnold Morley PC was a British barrister and Liberal politician.-Background:Morley was a younger son of Samuel Morley and Rebekah Maria, daughter of Samuel Hope of Liverpool...

|Arnold Morley

Arnold Morley

Arnold Morley PC was a British barrister and Liberal politician.-Background:Morley was a younger son of Samuel Morley and Rebekah Maria, daughter of Samuel Hope of Liverpool...

William Vernon Harcourt (politician)

Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of...

|Sir William Vernon Harcourt

William Vernon Harcourt (politician)

|Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chancellor of the Exchequer

²
|-
|Aberdeen South
|23 August 1892¹
|James Bryce

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FBA was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

|James Bryce

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FBA was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

|Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom that includes as part of its duties, the administration of the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster...

²
|-
|St Austell
|23 August 1892¹
|William Alexander McArthur

William Alexander McArthur

William Alexander McArthur , was a British Liberal politician.McArthur was born in Australia, the son of Alexander McArthur and his wife Maria Boden. His father was a businessman and politician in Australia and England, becoming MP for Leicester...

|William Alexander McArthur

William Alexander McArthur

Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton

Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton PC , was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage...

|Henry Fowler

Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton

Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton PC , was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage...

|President of the Local Government Board

President of the Local Government Board

²
|-
|Stoke-upon-Trent
|23 August 1892¹
|George Leveson-Gower

George Leveson-Gower

Sir George Granville Leveson-Gower KCB , was a British civil servant and Liberal politician. He held political office as Comptroller of the Household between 1892 and 1895 and later served as a Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1908 to 1924...

|George Leveson-Gower

George Leveson-Gower

|Comptroller of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

²
|-
|Sheffield Brightside
|23 August 1892¹
|Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897...

|Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897...

Lord Francis Hervey

Lord Francis Hervey JP was a British barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1874 and 1892.-Background:...

|Viscount Chelsea

Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea

Henry Arthur Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, DL was a British Conservative politician.Lord Chelsea was the second son of the 5th Earl Cadogan and his first wife, Beatrix, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Craven. On 30 April 1892, he married Hon...

|Resignation (Civil Service Commissioner

First Civil Service Commissioner

The First Civil Service Commissioner heads the Office of Civil Service Commissioners, which ensures that the Civil Service in the United Kingdom is effective and impartial and that appointments are made on merit, and hears appeals under the Civil Service Code....

)
|-
|Bradford Central
|23 August 1892¹
|George Shaw-Lefevre

George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley

George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board.-Background and...

|George Shaw-Lefevre

George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley

|First Commissioner of Works

First Commissioner of Works

²
|-
|Southwark West
|23 August 1892¹
|Richard Knight Causton

Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark

Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark PC, DL was an English stationer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1910...

|Richard Knight Causton

Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark

Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark PC, DL was an English stationer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1910...

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.-Early life:...

|Sir Charles Russell

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.-Early life:...

|Attorney General for England and Wales

Attorney General for England and Wales

Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known simply as the Attorney General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown. Along with the subordinate Solicitor General for England and Wales, the Attorney General serves as the chief legal adviser of the Crown and its government in...

²
|-
|Holborn
|12 August 1892¹
|Gainsford Bruce

Gainsford Bruce

Sir Gainsford Bruce was a British politician and judge.-Biography:Bruce was born in 1835 in Newcastle upon Tyne the son of the Reverend Dr. Collingwood Bruce a proprietor of a private school and his wife Charlotte ....

|Sir Charles Hall

|Resignation (High Court

High Court of Justice

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Judge)
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¹ An uncontested by-election.

² Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted.

³ Gain not retained at the 1895 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1895

The United Kingdom general election of 1895 was held from 13 July - 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery...

⁴ Gain retained at the 1895 UK general election.

⁵ Cirencester

Cirencester (UK Parliament constituency)

Cirencester was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire. From 1571 until 1885, it was a parliamentary borough, which returned two Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1868, and one member between 1868 and 1885...

was won by the Liberal Party at the 1892 general election, by the Conservative Party at the Cirencester by-election, 1892, by the Liberal Party at the Cirencester by-election, 1893, and by the Conservative Party at the 1895 general election.

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24th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1886
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1886 general election, held over several days from 1 July to 27 July 1886.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included H. H...

(1886–1892)

Lewis Pelly

Sir Lewis Pelly, KCSI, , was Conservative Member of Parliament for Hackney North from 1885 to 1892 and an East India Company officer.-Early years:...

|William Robert Bousfield

William Robert Bousfield

William Robert Bousfield was a British lawyer, Conservative politician and scientist.He was the son of Edward Tenney Bousfield, an engineer, from Bedford. He attended Bedford Modern School before serving an apprenticeship as an engineer. In 1872 he was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, winning...

|Death
|-
|Chelmsford

Chelmsford by-election, 1892

The Chelmsford by-election, 1892 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Chelmsford in Essex on 30 April 1892...

|30 April 1892¹
|William James Beadel

|Thomas Usborne

Thomas Usborne

Thomas Usborne , MP, was an English Conservative Party politician. He was born in Limerick and studied successively at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained an MA degree....

George Campbell (1824-1892)

Sir George Campbell was educated at Hamilton Academy and was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy Burghs from 1875 to 1892....

John Redmond

John Edward Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918...

Gustav Wilhelm Wolff

Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a British shipbuilder and politician. Born in Hamburg, he moved to Liverpool in 1849 to live with his uncle, Gustav Christian Schwabe...

Henry Wardle

Henry Wardle was a British brewer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.Wardle was born at Twyford, Berkshire, the son of Francis Wardle and his wife Elizabeth Billinge. In 1853 at the age of 21 he went into partnership with Thomas Fosbrooke Salt in the Burton...

|Harrington Evans Broad

Harrington Evans Broad

Harrington Evans Broad was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895.Broad was born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He was a Chartered Accountant of Warlingham, Surrey. In 1892, on the death of the incumbent Henry Wardle, Broad was elected as Member of Parliament...

Frederick Alers Hankey

Frederick Alers Hankey was an English banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. He also played first class cricket for Marylebone Cricket Club in 1852 and 1853....

Edward Whitley (politician)

Edward Whitley was an English solicitor and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892....

|John Archibald Willox

John Archibald Willox

Sir John Archibald Willox was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Liverpool Everton from 1892 to 1905. He was knighted in 1897.He was born in Edinburgh.- External links :...

|Death
|- bgcolor=#FFCC66
|Rossendale

Rossendale by-election, 1892

The Rossendale by-election, 1892 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rossendale in Lancashire on 23 January 1892...

⁴
|23 January 1892
|Marquess of Hartington

Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire

Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire KG, GCVO, PC, PC , styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, was a British statesman...

|John Henry Maden

John Henry Maden

Sir John Henry Maden was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Rossendale in 1892, resigning in 1900 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead...

Richard Power (Irish politician)

Richard Power was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Home Rule League and the Irish Parliamentary Party represented Waterford City from February 6, 1874 until his death at the early age of 40, in...

|John Edward Redmond

John Redmond

Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet

Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet was a British politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1874 to 1885 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP from 1886 until his death....

|Dunbar Plunket Barton

Dunbar Plunket Barton

Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1891 to 1892 under Lord Salisbury.-Background:...

|Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1891 to 1892 under Lord Salisbury.-Background:...

|Treasurer of the Household

Treasurer of the Household

Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington

Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington, KCVO was a British peer, the son of Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington of Crichel. He succeeded to the Barony on 17 February 1904.-Family:...

William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton

William Lawies Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

|William Lawies Jackson

William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton

William Lawies Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

|Chief Secretary for Ireland

Chief Secretary for Ireland

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|South Molton⁴
|13 November 1891
|Viscount Lymington

Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth

Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth JP, DL , styled Viscount Lymington until 1891, was a British Liberal politician...

|George Lambert

George Lambert, 1st Viscount Lambert

George Lambert, 1st Viscount Lambert, PC was a long-serving British Member of Parliament .Lambert was first elected as Liberal MP for South Molton at a by-election in 1891. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1905-1915. He lost his seat at the 1924 to the Conservative Cedric Drewe, but regained...

Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party...

|Martin Flavin

Martin Flavin (politician)

Martin Flavin was an Irish nationalist politician, butter merchant and prominent businessman from Cork. He was a Member of Parliament from 1891 to 1892 ....

John Pope Hennessy

Sir John Pope Hennessy, KCMG , was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator who served as the eighth Governor of Hong Kong.-Early life:...

Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Chairman of Ways and Means between 1874 and 1880 and served as Postmaster General between 1886 and 1891.-Background and education:...

|Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, OM, FBA was a British classical scholar and politician.He was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father was a well-known barrister, and his grandfather a judge...

James Robertson, Baron Robertson

James Patrick Bannerman Robertson, Baron Robertson , was a Scottish judge and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1891 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Robertson....

|Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin

Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin GCVO, PC, QC was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1903 and 1905, as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session between 1905 and 1913 and as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary between 1913 and...

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet GCSI, PC was a British soldier, Conservative politician and colonial administrator.-Background and education:...

|Sir James Fergusson

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet GCSI, PC was a British soldier, Conservative politician and colonial administrator.-Background and education:...

|Postmaster General²
|-
|Lewisham

Lewisham by-election, 1891

The Lewisham by-election, 1891 was a by-election held on 26 August 1891 for the British House of Commons constituency of Lewisham.The by-election was triggered by the elevation to the peerage of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament , Viscount Lewisham on the death of his...

|26 August 1891
|Viscount Lewisham

William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth

William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth GCVO, KCB, PC, VD, TD, JP , styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician...

Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1891-Biography:Forster was born at Worcester, the only son of Charles Smith Forster of Lysways...

|Edward Thomas Holden

Edward Thomas Holden

Sir Edward Thomas Holden was a British businessman and LIberal Party politician, who was briefly member of parliament for Walsall....

Charles William Selwyn

Captain Charles William Selwyn was a British army officer and Conservative politician.He was the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn, Lord Justice of Appeal, and his wife Hester née Ravenshaw. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, before being commissioned in the...

|Arthur Brand

Arthur Brand

James Patrick Mahon

Charles James Patrick Mahon, known as the O'Gorman Mahon or James Patrick Mahon was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary.-Personal life:...

|John Hammond

John Hammond (politician)

John Hammond was a Member of Parliament representing Carlow County, from 1891 to 1907.- External links :...

Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP was an MP and Lord Mayor of London....

Lord Edward Cavendish

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Cavendish was a 19th century British politician.Born in Marylebone, Cavendish was the third son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, by his wife, Lady Blanche Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire...

|Victor Christian William Cavendish

Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire

Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire , known as Victor Cavendish until 1908, was a British politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 11th since Canadian Confederation....

|Death
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|Paisley

Paisley by-election, 1891

The Paisley by-election, 1891 was a parliamentary by-election held on 1 June 1891 for the British House of Commons constituency of Paisley in Scotland...

|1 June 1891
|William Boyle Barbour

William Boyle Barbour

William Boyle Barbour was Scottish merchant and Liberal politician.-Career:Born in Paisley, the son of William Barbour a former Baillie of Paisley. He was educated privately and then entered the family business assisting his father before going to Liverpool to work for the merchants, Bell and Co. ...

|William Dunn

William Dunn

William Dunn may refer to:* William Dunn , mechanic and agriculturist,*William Dunn , American Civil War sailor who received the Medal of Honor...

Sir Edmund Verney, 3rd Baronet

Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet FRGS, DL, JP was a British naval officer, author and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1891.-Background and education:...

Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. The post dates from at least the 12th century but may be older. The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was originally in charge of the Cinque Ports, a group of five port towns on the southeast coast of England...

John William Logan

John William Logan, known as "Paddy" Logan, , was a civil engineering contractor and Liberal Member of Parliament for Harborough in Leicestershire....

William Ernest Brymer

William Ernest Brymer was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two stages between 1874 and 1906....

Edward Greene (MP)

Edward Greene was an English brewer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1865 and 1891....

|Sydney Stern

Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth

Sydney James Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth JP was a British banker, Liberal Member of Parliament and philanthropist.-Background and education:...

George Cavendish-Bentinck

George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck PC, JP , was a British barrister and Conservative politician. An MP from 1859 to 1891, he served under Benjamin Disraeli as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1874 to 1875 and as Judge Advocate General from 1875 to 1880.-Background and...

Francis William Maclean

Sir Francis William Maclean, KCIE was an English barrister and Liberal Party politicianwho sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1891....

|George Herbert Morrell

George Herbert Morrell

George Herbert Morrell MA, MP, JP, DL was an English politician and lawyer.George Herbert Morrell was the son of the Rev. G. K. Morrell, fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took honours in natural science as well as a B.C.L. in...

Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham

Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham MA BA FGS FSA was a British banker, businessman and Conservative Party politician.Aldenham the son of George Henry Gibbs,...

George Kynoch (businessman)

George Kynoch was the founder of IMI plc, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering businesses.-Career:...

Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh was a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.-Early life:...

Thomas Richardson (MP)

Thomas Richardson was an English manufacturer of marine engines and Liberal Party politician.Richardson was born in Castle Eden, County Durham, the son of Thomas Richardson, a shipbuilder and owner of an engineering works in Hartlepool. Richardson began as an apprentice in his father's iron...

|Christopher Furness

Christopher Furness

Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness was a British businessman and Liberal politician.-Biography:...

John Pope Hennessy

Sir John Pope Hennessy, KCMG , was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator who served as the eighth Governor of Hong Kong.-Early life:...

|Death
|-
|Bassetlaw

Bassetlaw by-election, 1890

The Bassetlaw by-election, 1890 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire on 15 December October 1890.-Vacancy:...

|15 December 1890
|William Beckett-Denison

William Beckett-Denison

William Beckett-Denison was an English banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1876 and 1890. He died when he fell under a train....

|Frederick George Milner

Sir Frederick Milner, 7th Baronet

Sir Frederick George Milner, 7th Baronet was born in November 1849 and educated at Eton and Oxford University.He became the MP for York from 1883 until losing at the 1885 General Election , and then the MP for Bassetlaw from 1890 to 1906...

Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling

Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling was a Scottish politician and judge.He was Member of Parliament for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1888 to 1890 and served as Solicitor General for Scotland during the same period...

|Sir Charles John Pearson

Charles John Pearson

|Resignation (Senator of the College of Justice

College of Justice

The College of Justice is a term used to describe the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and its associated bodies.The constituent bodies of the supreme courts of Scotland are the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary, and the Accountant of Court's Office...

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|- bgcolor=#FFCC66
|Eccles

Eccles by-election, 1890

The Eccles by-election, 1890 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Eccles in Lancashire on 22 October 1890.-Vacancy:...

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|22 October 1890
|Alfred John Francis Egerton

Alfred John Francis Egerton

The Honourable Alfred John Francis Egerton , was a British Conservative politician.He was the youngest son of the Second Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Mary Campbell...

|Henry John Roby

Henry John Roby

Henry John Roby , was an English classical scholar and writer on Roman law, and a Liberal Member of Parliament.-Early life and Cambridge:...

David Pugh (British politician)

David Pugh was a Welsh landowner and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1890....

|Abel Thomas

Abel Thomas

Abel Thomas was a Welsh Liberal politician and lawyer.-Family:Thomas was the son of a Baptist Minister, the Reverend T E Thomas JP of Trehale in Pembrokeshire. In 1875 he married Bessie Polak...

William Crawford (Durham politician)

William Crawford was an English miner, trade unionist and a Liberal politician.Crawford was born at Cullercoats Northumberland and worked in Hartley Coal Mines from the age of 10. In 1862 actively opposed the attempt of the Northumberland mine owners to impose the system of yearly hiring...

|John Wilson

John Wilson (1837-1915)

John Wilson was an English coal miner, trade unionist, and a Member of Parliament for more than 25 years.- Early life :...

William Sproston Caine

William Sproston Caine was a British politician and Temperance advocate.Caine was born at Seacombe, Cheshire, and was the eldest surviving son of Nathaniel Caine, a metal merchant from Cheshire, and was educated at private schools in Egremont, Merseyside and Birkenhead before entering his father's...

|James Duncan

James Duncan (politician)

James Archibald Duncan was a British lawyer a Liberal politicianwho briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness.Duncan was born in Valparaiso, the son of the shipper David Duncan and his wife Catherine Williamson....

James Rochfort Maguire

James Rochfort Maguire , British imperialist and Irish Nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented North Donegal and as a Parnellite Member for West Clare...

Patrick O'Hea

Patrick O'Hea was an Irish nationalist politician and a Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1890.At the 1885 general election he was elected unopposed as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the newly-created West Donegal constituency...

Henry Harrison (MP)

Captain Henry Harrison was an Irish politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented Mid Tipperary from 1890 to 1892...

John Roche (politician)

John Roche was an Irish politician.Born in Woodford, Co Galway, he was the son of William Roche, a miller and farmer....

Handel Cossham

Handel Cossham was a British colliery owner, lay preacher and Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1890.- Early life:...

|Joseph Dodge Weston

Joseph Dodge Weston

Sir Joseph Dodge Weston was an English merchant and shipping magnate and Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1895....

|Death
|- bgcolor=#FFCC66
|Caernarvon Boroughs

Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1890

The Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1890 was a parliamentary by-election held on 10 April 1890 for the British House of Commons constituency of Caernarvon Boroughs.-Previous MP:...

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|10 April 1890
|Edward Swetenham

|David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...

Robert Richardson-Gardner

Robert Richardson-Gardner was a British barrister, militia officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1890...

Joseph Biggar

Joseph Gillis Biggar , commonly known as Joe Biggar or J. G. Biggar, was an Irish nationalist politician from Belfast...

|Edmund Francis Vesey Knox

Edmund Francis Vesey Knox

Edmund Francis Vesey Knox was an Irish nationalist politician. Initially a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he sided with the Anti-Parnellite majority when the party split in 1891....

John Sinclair (MP)

John Sinclair was a British politician. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs in 1888, resigning in 1890 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.-References:...

William Leatham Bright

William Leatham Bright was an English Liberal politician.Bright was the son of John Bright, M.P., of One Ash, Rochdale and his wife Margaret Elizabeth Leatham. He was educated at Grove House School, Tottenham, and at the University of London...

|George Leveson-Gower

George Leveson-Gower

John Compton Lawrance

Sir John Compton Lawrance DL was an English judge and Conservative Party politician.-Biography:Lawrance was the son of Thomas Munton Lawrance of Dunsby Hall, Lincolnshire and his wife Louisa Compton. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1859, and became a Q.C. in 1877. He became Recorder...

|Henry John Cockayne Cust

Henry Cust

Henry John "Harry" Cockayne-Cust was an English politician and editor who served as a Member of Parliament for the Unionist Party.-Biography:...

|Resignation (High Court

High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...

Judge)
|- bgcolor=#FFCC66
|St Pancras North⁴
|4 March 1890
|Charles Cochrane-Baillie

Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington

Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, GCMG, GCIE was a British politician and colonial administrator who was Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay from 1903 to 1907....

|Thomas Henry Bolton

Thomas Henry Bolton

Thomas Henry Bolton was an English solicitor and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895.Bolton was born at Clerkenwell, the son of Thomas Bolton...

Alfred Webb

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot FRS was a landowner, industrialist and Liberal politician. He developed his estate at Margam near Swansea as an extensive ironworks, served by railways and a port, which was re-named Port Talbot.-Early life:Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot was born at Penrice, Swansea,...

|Samuel Thomas Evans

Samuel Thomas Evans

Sir Samuel Thomas Evans GCB PC QC , was a Welsh barrister, judge and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

Alexander Craig Sellar

Alexander Craig Sellar was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician.Sellar was the son of Patrick Sellar of Westfield, Morayshire and his wife Ann Craig of Barmakelty, Moray. He was educated at Rugby School, and at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a favoured student of Benjamin Jowett...

|James Parker Smith

James Parker Smith

James Parker Smith was Liberal Unionist MP for Glasgow Partick . He was first elected in 1890, but lost the seat in 1906....

William Tindal Robertson

Sir William Tindal Robertson , was an English physician. He represented Brighton in Parliament from 29 Nov 1886 - 25 Oct 1889....

Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington

Colonel Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington VD was a British Peer.He was Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire from 1874 to 1880, and from 1886 to 1889....

|Edmund Hope Verney

Sir Edmund Verney, 3rd Baronet

John Wentworth-FitzWilliam

William John Wentworth-FitzWilliam , was a British Liberal politician.Wentworth-FitzWilliam was the fifth son of William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, and his wife Lady Frances Harriet, daughter of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton...

|Alpheus Cleophas Morton

Alpheus Cleophas Morton

Sir Alpheus Cleophas Morton was a British architect and surveyor, and a Liberal Party politician. He was active in local government in London from the 1880s until his death, and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1889 and 1918.- Career :Morton was the son of Francis Morton, and was...

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

|Henry Chaplin

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth

Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth was an English barrister and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 to 1889.-Early life:...

|John Leng

John Leng

Sir John Leng was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland.Leng was born in Hull, the brother of W. C. Leng. In the 1850s, he purchased the Dundee Advertiser....

Sir William Ewart, 1st Baronet

Sir William Ewart, 1st Baronet was an Irish linen manufacturer and Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1889....

|Edward James Harland

Edward Harland

Sir Edward James Harland, 1st Baronet was a British shipbuilder and politician. Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy. In 1846, aged 15, he took an apprenticeship at the engineering works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne...

Lord Charles Beresford

Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO , styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament....

Walter Rice Howell Powell

Walter Rice Howell Powell was a Welsh landowner and Liberal politician.Powell was the son of Walter Rice Howell Powell and his wife Mary Powell. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. On the death of his father in 1834 he inherited Maesgwynne estate of in the parish of Llanboidy,...

Alexander George Dickson

Alexander George Dickson was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons representing Dover....

|George Wyndham

George Wyndham

George Wyndham PC was a British Conservative politician, man of letters, noted for his elegance, and one of The Souls.-Background and education:...

Robert Preston Bruce

Robert Preston Bruce was a British Liberal Party politician.Bruce was the second son of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and his wife Lady Mary Louisa...

|Augustine Birrell

Augustine Birrell

Augustine Birrell PC, KC was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, resigning in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.-Early life:...

John Hooper (politician)

John Hooper was an Irish nationalist journalist, politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented South-East Cork from 1885 to 1889....

Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne

Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 2nd Baron Brabourne DL JP was a British peer and Liberal Party politician.-Background and education:...

John Bright

John Bright , Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy...

|John Albert Bright

John Albert Bright

John Albert Bright was an English Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament in England. He was the son of the Liberal reformer John Bright....

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC , styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician...

|Henry Ferryman Bowles

|Succession to a peerage
|-
|Gorton

Gorton by-election, 1889

The Gorton by-election, 1889 was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 March 1889 for the British House of Commons in the Gorton Division of Lancashire.- Vacancy :...

|22 March 1889
|Richard Peacock

Richard Peacock

Richard Peacock was an English engineer, one of the founders of locomotive manufacturer Beyer-Peacock.-Early life and education:...

|William Mather

William Mather

Sir William Mather was a British industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1904....

Robert Gent-Davis

Robert Gent-Davis was an English businessman and Conservative politician.Davis was born at Pimlico, the son of Robert Davis and his wife née Gent. He was educated privately and became a distillers chemist. He became head of the firm of Sparks, White, & Co Distillers' Chemists of Smithfield...

|Mark Hanbury Beaufoy

Mark Hanbury Beaufoy

Mark Hanbury Beaufoy JP was an English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament. He wrote A Father's Advice, a famous piece of verse about gun safety.-Background and early life:...

Courtney Stanhope Kenny

Courtney Stanhope Kenny was a British jurist, academic and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1888.-Early life and career:...

John Slagg

John Slagg was a British businessman and Liberal politician.He was the eldest son of John Slagg, a justice of the peace at Manchester, and his wife Jane née Crighton. John Slagg senior was a commission agent and merchant in the city...

Robert Stewart Menzies

Robert Stewart Menzies was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1889.Menzies was the son of Graham Menzies , an Edinburgh distiller of Hallyburton, Cupar Angus, and his wife Beatrice , daughter of William Dudgeon, merchant of Leith, Edinburgh...

|Sir John Kinloch

Sir John George Smyth Kinloch, 2nd Baronet

Sir John George Smyth Kinloch, 2nd Baronet was a British politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for East Perthshire in 1889, resigning in 1903 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead....

|Death
|- bgcolor=#FFCC66
|Govan

Govan by-election, 1889

The Govan by-election, 1889 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 January 1889 for the British House of Commons, constituency of Govan in Lanarkshire, Scotland....

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|18 January 1889
|Sir William Pearce

Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet

Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet was a British shipbuilder, under whose management the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde became the leading shipbuilding company in the world...

|John Wilson

John Wilson (Govan MP)

John Wilson was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Govan at a by-election in 1889, and held the seat until the 1900 general election.- External links :...

Joseph Dodds

Joseph Dodds was a British politician. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Stockton-on-Tees in 1868, resigning in 1888 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.- External links :...

|Sir Horace Davey

Horace Davey, Baron Davey

Horace Davey, Baron Davey QC was an English judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1892.-Background and education:...

Henry John Trotter

Henry John Trotter was an English barrister, railway director and Conservative politician.Trotter was the son of the Lieutenant--Colonel William Trotter, of Bishop Auckland and his wife Henrietta Skene. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1864...

|Lord Brooke

Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick

Francis Richard Charles Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick , styled Lord Brooke until 1893, was a British Conservative politician....

Alexander Henry Ross

Alexander Henry Ross was a British barrister and Conservative politician.Ross was born in Marylebone, the son of Charles Ross and Lady Mary Cornwallis daughter of Sir Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis and Lady Louisa Gordon....

|Fiennes Cornwallis

Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis CBE, TD, JP, DL,, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...

Francis Duncan

Francis Duncan C.B. was a Royal Artillery officer, lawyer, historian and a Conservative politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1888....

|Gainsford Bruce

Gainsford Bruce

Mark Oldroyd

Sir Mark Oldroyd was a British woollen manufacturer and Liberal Party politician from West Yorkshire.He was born the youngest of three sons and two daughters of Mark Oldroyd and his wife Rachel. He was educated initially at a small school in Dewsbury, followed by a spell at Batley Grammar School...

John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh

Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald KCB, PC was a Scottish politician and later a judge.He was called to the Scottish bar in 1859. On 30 July 1875 he was appointed by Queen Victoria to be Sheriff of the Shires of Ross, Cromarty, and Sutherland. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1876...

|Moir Tod Stormonth Darling

Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling

|Resignation (Lord Justice Clerk

Lord Justice Clerk

The Lord Justice Clerk is the second most senior judge in Scotland, after the Lord President of the Court of Session.The holder has the title in both the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary and is in charge of the Second Division of Judges in the Court of Session...

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|Merthyr Tydfil⁶
|26 October 1888
|Henry Richard

Henry Richard

Rev. Henry Richard MP , "the Apostle of Peace", was a Congregational minister and Welsh Member of Parliament, 1868-88. The son of the Rev...

|William Pritchard Morgan

William Pritchard Morgan

William Pritchard Morgan was a Welsh solicitor, mine owner, and company promoter. He acquired the gold mine at Gwynfynydd in 1887, earning the name "Welsh gold king". He was also actively publicised as an investor in Sichuan, China....

Edward Joseph Kennedy

Edward Joseph Kennedy was an Irish politician. He was elected as an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Sligo in 1887, resigning in 1888 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.-References:...

|Edmund Leamy

Edmund Leamy

Edmund Leamy was an Irish journalist, barrister, author of fairy tales, nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland where as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party and leading supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell he represented various...

James Gubbins Fitzgerald

James Gubbins Fitzgerald was a medical practitioner and an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he represented South Longford from 1888 to 1892...

Edward Robert King-Harman

Edward Robert King-Harman was an Irish landlord and Irish Nationalist and later Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1877 to 1888.-Early life:...

|James Lowther

James Lowther (1840-1904)

James Lowther PC, PC , DL, JP was a British Conservative politician and sportsman.-Background and education:...

|Death
|- bgcolor=#FFCC66
|Ayr Burghs

Ayr Burghs by-election, 1888

The Ayr Burghs by-election, 1888 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Ayr Burghs on 15 June 1888...

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|15 June 1888
|Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell

Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell

Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell was a British army officer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1888....

|John Sinclair

John Sinclair (MP)

John Sinclair was a British politician. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs in 1888, resigning in 1890 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.-References:...

John Edmund Commerell

Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Edmund Commerell VC GCB was an English Royal Navy officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...

|Francis Henry Evans

Sir Francis Evans, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Henry Evans, 1st Baronet, KCMG was a British civil engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...

Edmund Dwyer Gray (Irish politician)

Edmund Dwyer Gray was an Irish newspaper proprietor, politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

|Thomas Alexander Dickson

Thomas Alexander Dickson

Thomas Alexander Dickson PC was an Irish Liberal Party politician. He represented a series of Irish constituencies as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....

|Death
|-
|Mid Lanarkshire

Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888

The Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888 was a parliamentary by-election held on 27 April 1888 for the British House of Commons constituency of Mid Lanarkshire.- Previous MP :...

|27 April 1888
|Stephen Mason

Stephen Mason (MP)

Stephen Mason was a Scottish Liberal politician.-Family and business:Moon was born at Kennoway in the Kingdom of Fife. He was educated locally in a private school. He married Martha Marshall of Machan in Lanarkshire....

|John Wynford Philipps

John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids

Frank Ash Yeo

Frank Ash Yeo was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.Yeo was born at Bideford, Devon, the son of Thomas Yeo and his wife Elizabeth Woollacott. He was educated at Bideford School, and in Germany and France. He moved to Swansea where he was a colliery owner and director of the Swansea...

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland

|-...

|Marquess of Granby

Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland

Henry John Brinsley Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland KG TD , known as Henry Manners until 1888 and styled Marquess of Granby between 1888 and 1906, was a British peer and Conservative politician.-Background:...

Charles Herbert James

Charles Herbert James was a British politician. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil in 1880, resigning in 1888 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.-References:...

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG, GCVO , styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 1860 and 1903, was a British politician and peer....

|Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1891 to 1892 under Lord Salisbury.-Background:...

William John Evelyn

Commonly known as William John Evelyn , a descendant of the diarist and polymath John Evelyn, eldest son of George Evelyn and Mary Jane Massy Dawson...

|Charles John Darling

Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

Charles Darling was an English lawyer, politician and later a High Court judge. After being educated privately, he was called to the English Bar in 1874. He was appointed a QC in 1885, and was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Deptford from 1888 until 1897, when he was appointed a Judge...

Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford

Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford GCMG, PC , known as Sir Henry Holland, Bt, from 1873 to 1888 and as The Lord Knutsford from 1888 to 1895, was a British Conservative politician, best known for serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1887 to 1892.-Background and...

Walter Shirley Shirley

Walter Shirley Shirley was an English barrister and law writer and a Liberal politician.Shirley was born Walter Shirley Smith at Doncaster, the son of William Edwood Smith twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk, and his wife Jane Winteringham Shirley. The family adopted the name Shirley in...

|William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam

Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam

The Hon. William Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam , was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist politician.-Background:...

Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)

Thomas Ryburn Buchanan PC was a Scottish Liberal politician and bibliophile.-Background and education:Buchanan was born in Glasgow and educated at Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford...

|Thomas Ryburn Buchanan

Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)

Thomas Ryburn Buchanan PC was a Scottish Liberal politician and bibliophile.-Background and education:Buchanan was born in Glasgow and educated at Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford...

Arthur Cohen

Arthur Cohen KC was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.After three years' study at the gymnasium in Frankfort-on-the-Main, he entered as a student at University College London. Thence he proceeded to Cambridge University at a time when it was almost impossible for a Jew to gain...

|Richard Knight Causton

Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark

Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark PC, DL was an English stationer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1910...

Charles Carmichael Lacaita

Charles Carmichael Lacaita was a British botanist and Liberal politician.Lacaita was the only son of Sir James Philip Lacaita and his wife Maria Clavering Gibson-Carmichael daughter of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and was called to the bar at Lincoln's...

|Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth

Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth

Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth was an English barrister and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 to 1889.-Early life:...

John George Gibson

John George Gibson PC, QC , was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Gibson was the youngest son of William Gibson of Merrion Square, Dublin, and Rockforest, County Tipperary. Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, was his elder brother...

Dodgson Hamilton Madden

Dodgson Hamilton Madden was an Irish Unionist Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party. He was the only son of the Reverend Hugh Hamilton Madden of Templemore, County Tipperary...

|Dodgson Hamilton Madden

Dodgson Hamilton Madden

Arthur Loftus Tottenham

Arthur Loftus Tottenham was a landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1887.-Biography:...

|Richard Moss

|Death
|-
|Dulwich

Dulwich by-election, 1887

The Dulwich by-election, 1887 was a by-election held on 30 November 1887 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dulwich in South London....

|1 December 1887
|John Morgan Howard

John Morgan Howard

John Morgan Howard was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.He was called to the bar in 1858, became a QC in 1874, and in 1875 was appointed Recorder of Guildford...

|John Blundell Maple

John Blundell Maple

Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet was an English business magnate. He was educated at King's College London...

Alexander Beresford Hope

Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC , known as Alexander Hope until 1854 Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as...

|Sir George Gabriel Stokes

George Gabriel Stokes

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS , was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics , optics, and mathematical physics...

John O'Connor (Lord Mayor of Dublin)

John O'Connor was an Irish nationalist politician who was elected in 1885 as Lord Mayor of Dublin and also as a Member of Parliament for South Kerry....

|Denis Kilbride

Denis Kilbride

William Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey

William Henry Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsey , was a British Conservative politician.De Ramsey was the eldest son of Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ramsey, and Hon. Mary Julia Milles. Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn, was his younger brother...

|Ailwyn Fellowes

Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn

Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn KCVO, KBE, PC , was a British businessman, farmer and Conservative politician...

James Patrick Mahon

Charles James Patrick Mahon, known as the O'Gorman Mahon or James Patrick Mahon was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary.-Personal life:...

Edward Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool

Edward Richard Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool , was a British journalist and Liberal politician.Russell was a newspaper man who also involved himself in politics. Born in London, he was largely self-made, rising to become Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post, a position he held for almost...

|Sir George Otto Trevelyan

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet

Thomas Blake (MP)

Thomas Blake was an English Liberal politicianBlake was the youngest son of William Blake, of Ross on Wye. He was chairman of the Ross School Board, to which he was elected four times.Blake stood for parliament unsuccessfully in Herefordshire at the 1868...

John Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington

John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington PC was a City of London financier and a Conservative Party politician...

James McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne

James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne, KCB was a British politician, Member of Parliament, and local government leader.-Early life:...

|Henry Charles Stephens

Henry Charles Stephens

Henry Charles "Inky" Stephens was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1887 to 1900 as the Member of Parliament for the Hornsey division of Middlesex....

Ernest Baggallay

Ernest Baggallay was an English barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1887. He resigned to become a stipendary magistrate....

|Marquess of Carmarthen

George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds

George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing

George Limbrey Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing PC, FRS, DL , known as George Sclater-Booth before 1887, was a British Conservative politician...

|Arthur Frederick Jeffreys

Arthur Frederick Jeffreys

Arthur Frederick Jeffreys PC , of Burkham House in Hampshire, was a British Conservative politician.Jeffreys was the son of Arthur Jeffreys, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, who had emigrated to Australia in 1839...

Hugh Holmes

Hugh Holmes QC was an Irish Conservative Party then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Background and education:...

|Dodgson Hamilton Madden

Dodgson Hamilton Madden

John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan

John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan , known as Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet, from 1872 to 1887, was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 until 1887 when he was raised to the peerage.-Early life:St Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward St...

Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore

Henry William Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore was a British businessman and Conservative politician.The son of Henry Eaton, he was head of William Eaton & Sons, China-silk brokers. He was also Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1865 to 1880, and from 1885 to 1887...

John Aird (engineer)

Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet was a notable English civil engineering contractor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the Great Grandfather of Ollie Parkes...

Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea

Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea and 7th Earl of Nottingham , styled the Hon. Murray Finch-Hatton until 1887, was a British Conservative politician and agriculturalist....

|Halley Stewart

Halley Stewart

Sir Halley Stewart was an English businessman, journalist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who sat as an Member of Parliament from 1887 to 1895 and again from 1906 to 1910.-Family and education:...

William Copeland Borlase

William Copeland Borlase FSA was an antiquarian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1887 when he was ruined by bankruptcy and scandal....

|William Alexander McArthur

William Alexander McArthur

Edmund Leamy

|William O'Brien

William O'Brien

Samuel Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip

Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip , was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1873 and 1887 when he inherited the peerage....

|Alfred Percy Allsopp

Alfred Percy Allsopp

Alfred Percy Allsopp was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.Allsopp was the sixth and youngest son of Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip and Elizabeth Tongue...

Balthazar Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston

Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston PC FRCP was a British doctor and politician.-Early life and education:...

Peter Rylands

Peter Rylands was an English wire-manufacturer in Lancashire and a Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1868 and 1887....

|John Slagg

John Slagg

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, Bart., GCB, GCMG was an Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, Conservative-Unionist politician and one of seven Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.-Early life and rowing:...

|Sir Charles Edward Lewis

Sir Charles Lewis, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Edward Lewis, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1872 and 1892....

|Resignation (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in order to exercise its judicial functions, which included acting as the highest court of appeal for most domestic matters...

)
|-
|St George's Hanover Square
|9 February 1887
|Lord Algernon Percy

Lord Algernon Percy

Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy was a British career soldier and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1882 to 1887....

Edward Joseph Kennedy

|Chose to sit for Belfast West

Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)

Belfast West is a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.-Boundaries:The seat was restored in 1922 when as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut...

|-
|North Longford
|5 February 1887¹
|Justin McCarthy

Justin McCarthy

Justin McCarthy was an Irish nationalist and Liberal historian, novelist and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1879 to 1900, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland- Early life :He was born in Cork, and was educated at a school there...

|Timothy Michael Healy

Timothy Michael Healy

Timothy Michael Healy, KC , also known as Tim Healy, was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controversial Irish Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

|Chose to sit for Londonderry City

Londonderry City (UK Parliament constituency)

Secretary of State for Education and Skills

The Secretary of State for Education is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government. The position was re-established on 12 May 2010, held by Michael Gove....

²
|-
|South Donegal
|2 February 1887
|Bernard Kelly

Bernard Kelly

Bernard Kelly was an Irish nationalist politician and first Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the constituency of South Donegal in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland when elected in the 1885 general election and re-elected in the general election of 1886.Kelly...

Ralph Neville (MP)

Ralph Neville, K.C. was an English barrister, politician and judge of the Chancery Court.-Life:Neville was the son of Mr. Henry Neville, a surgeon, of Esher. He was born on September 13, 1848, and was educated at Tonbridge School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1871....

James Bigwood

James Bigwood was an English manufacturer and Conservative politician.Bigwood was born at Bristol. He was educated at Cotham, Bristol and at St John's College, Cambridge . He became a partner in the firm of Champion & Co. mustard and vinegar manufacturers located in Finsbury...

David Smith (English politician)

David Smith was an English businessman and Conservative politician.Smith was the son of Alexander Smith of Manor House, Camberwell and his wife née Richardson. Born in London, Smith was educated in Scotland. He entered business as a colonial merchant.Smith married Elise Spencer of Dublin...

|Dr William Tindal Robertson

William Tindal Robertson

Sir William Tindal Robertson , was an English physician. He represented Brighton in Parliament from 29 Nov 1886 - 25 Oct 1889....

Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara

Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara GCIE, PC was a British Conservative politician and colonial administrator...

William Ewart Gladstone

|Ronald Munro-Ferguson

Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar

|Chose to sit for Midlothian (or Edinburghshire)

Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency)

Midlothian in Scotland, is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system....

|-
|Burton
|20 August 1886
|Sir Michael Bass

Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton

Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton KCVO , known as Sir Michael Bass, 1st Baronet, from 1882 to 1886, was a British brewer, Liberal politician and philanthropist...

|Sydney Evershed

Sydney Evershed (brewer)

Sydney Evershed , was an English brewer and Liberal Party politician who represented Burton.Evershed's family came from Albury in Surrey. By 1860 he had moved to Burton-on-Trent, and became a Burton brewer...

Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby

Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, PC , known as Frederick Stanley until 1886 and as Lord Stanley of Preston between 1886 and 1893, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and the sixth Governor General...

|Sir Matthew Ridley

Matthew Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley PC, DL , known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt from 1877 to 1900, was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter

Brownlow Henry George Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter PC, DL , styled Lord Burghley between 1867 and 1895, was a British peer and Conservative politician...

|Lord Burghley

Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter

Brownlow Henry George Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter PC, DL , styled Lord Burghley between 1867 and 1895, was a British peer and Conservative politician...

|Parliamentary Groom in Waiting

Groom in Waiting

The office of Groom in Waiting was a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, which in earlier times was usually held by more than one person at a time – in the late Middle Ages there might be dozens of persons with the rank...

²
|-
|Newton
|16 August 1886
|Richard Assheton Cross

R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross

Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, GCB, GCSI, PC, FRS , known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British statesman and Conservative politician...

|Thomas Wodehouse Legh

Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton

Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL , was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as Paymaster-General during the First World War.-Background and education:...

|Secretary of State for India

Secretary of State for India

The Secretary of State for India, or India Secretary, was the British Cabinet minister responsible for the government of India and the political head of the India Office...

²
and elevation to the peerage
|-
|Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities
|13 August 1886¹
|John Hay Athole Macdonald

John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh

|John Hay Athole Macdonald

John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh

|Lord Advocate

Lord Advocate

²
|-
|Cambridge University
|13 August 1886¹
|Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes

|Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland

|-...

|Lord John Manners

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland

|-...

|Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

First Commissioner of Works

²
|-
|Hugh Holmes

Hugh Holmes

Hugh Holmes QC was an Irish Conservative Party then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Background and education:...

|Hugh Holmes

Hugh Holmes

Hugh Holmes QC was an Irish Conservative Party then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Background and education:...

Lord Arthur William Hill

Colonel Lord Arthur William Hill PC, DL, JP , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Conservative politician. He served three times as Comptroller of the Household between 1885 and 1898 in the Conservative administrations headed by Lord Salisbury.-Background:Hill was a younger son of Arthur Hill, 4th...

|Lord Arthur William Hill

Lord Arthur William Hill

|Comptroller of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

²
|-
|Wigtownshire
|12 August 1886¹
|Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell

Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet

The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Monreith, KT, PC, FRS, FRGS was a Scottish novelist, essayist, horticulturalist and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906....

|Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell

Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet

James Robertson, Baron Robertson

|James Robertson

James Robertson, Baron Robertson

|Solicitor General for Scotland

Solicitor General for Scotland

²
|-
|Enfield
|12 August 1886¹
|Viscount Folkestone

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC , styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician...

|Viscount Folkestone

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC , styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician...

|Treasurer of the Household

Treasurer of the Household

²
|-
|Ealing
|12 August 1886¹
|Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...

|Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Hamilton

Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...

Edward Stanhope

|Edward Stanhope

Edward Stanhope

|Secretary of State for the Colonies

Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies....

²
|-
|Isle of Wight
|12 August 1886¹
|Sir Richard Webster

Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone

Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, GCMG, QC was a British barrister, politician and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices.-Background and education:...

|Sir Richard Webster

Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone

Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, GCMG, QC was a British barrister, politician and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices.-Background and education:...

|Attorney General for England and Wales

Attorney General for England and Wales

²
|-
|Tiverton
|12 August 1886¹
|William Walrond

William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran

William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran PC , known as Sir William Walrond, Bt, between 1889 and 1905, was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1906 when he was raised to the peerage...

|William Walrond

William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran

President of the Local Government Board

²
|-
|Sheffield Ecclesall
|11 August 1886¹
|Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (politician)

Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was an American born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1902.-Early life:...

|Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (politician)

Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was an American born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1902.-Early life:...

Edward George Clarke

|Edward George Clarke

Edward George Clarke

|Solicitor General for England and Wales

Solicitor General for England and Wales

²
|-
|Manchester East
|11 August 1886¹
|Arthur James Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

|Arthur James Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...

John George Gibson

|John George Gibson

John George Gibson

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery GCVO, PC , styled The Honourable Sidney Herbert between 1861 and 1895, was a British politician and peer.-Background and education:...

|Sidney Herbert

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery GCVO, PC , styled The Honourable Sidney Herbert between 1861 and 1895, was a British politician and peer.-Background and education:...

Chief Secretary for Ireland

²
|-
|Brighton
|11 August 1886¹
|William Thackeray Marriott

William Thackeray Marriott

Sir William Thackeray Marriott PC QC , was a British barrister and Liberal and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1893....

|William Thackeray Marriott

William Thackeray Marriott

Sir William Thackeray Marriott PC QC , was a British barrister and Liberal and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1893....

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff PC, QC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for his role in the 1885 Sir Charles Dilke divorce trial and for his tenure as Home Secretary from 1886 to 1892.-Background and education:The member of an old Herefordshire family,...

|Henry Matthews

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff

Secretary of State for War

²
|-
|Paddington South
|11 August 1886¹
|Lord Randolph Churchill

Lord Randolph Churchill

|Lord Randolph Churchill

Lord Randolph Churchill

|Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chancellor of the Exchequer

²
|-
|Marylebone East
|11 August 1886¹
|Lord Charles Beresford

Lord Charles Beresford

Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO , styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament....

|Lord Charles Beresford

Lord Charles Beresford

Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO , styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British Admiral and Member of Parliament....

|Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty

Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were the members of the Board of Admiralty, which exercised command over the Royal Navy.Officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland &c. The Lords...

²
|-
|Lewisham
|11 August 1886¹
|Viscount Lewisham

William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth

William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth GCVO, KCB, PC, VD, TD, JP , styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician...

|Viscount Lewisham

William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth

William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth GCVO, KCB, PC, VD, TD, JP , styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician...

|Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

²
|-
|Hampstead
|11 August 1886¹
|Sir Henry Holland

Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford

|Sir Henry Holland

Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford

|Vice President of the Committee
of Council on Education

Secretary of State for Education and Skills

The Secretary of State for Education is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government. The position was re-established on 12 May 2010, held by Michael Gove....

²
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¹ An uncontested by-election.

² Seat vacated on appointment to the office noted.

³ Gain not retained at the 1892 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1892

The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won many more seats than in the 1886 general election...

⁴ Gain retained at the 1892 UK general election.

⁵ Ayr Burghs

Ayr Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Ayr Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950...

was won by the Liberal Unionist Party at the 1886 general election, by the Liberal Party at the Ayr Burghs by-election, 1888

Ayr Burghs by-election, 1888

The Ayr Burghs by-election, 1888 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Ayr Burghs on 15 June 1888...

, by the Conservative Party at the Ayr Burghs by-election, 1890, and by the Liberal Party at the 1892 general election.

⁶ Seat retained by the candidate, at the 1892 general election, using a different party label.

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23rd Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1885 general election, held over several days from 24th November 1885 to 18th December 1885....

(1885–1886)

William Edward Forster

William Edward Forster PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.-Early life:...

|George Shaw-Lefevre

George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Henry Wyndham West

Henry Wyndham West was an English barrister and Liberal politician.West was the son of Martin John West and his wife Lady Maria Walpole daughter of the 2nd Earl of Orford. His father was Recorder of Lynn, and Commissioner of Bankrupts for the Leeds District. He was educated at Eton and Christ...

|Charles Dalrymple

Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet , was a Scottish Conservative politician.Born Charles Fergusson, he was the second son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, and grandson of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet, and his wife Jean, daughter of David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Sir James...

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|Jesse Collings

Jesse Collings

Jesse Collings was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.-Background:...

|Lord Elcho

Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss

Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and 7th Earl of March , styled Lord Elcho from 1883 to 1914, was a Scottish Conservative politician....

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|Norwich
|7 April 1886
|Harry Bullard

Harry Bullard

Sir Harry Bullard was an English brewer and Conservative politician.Bullard was born at Norwich, the son of Richard Bullard, who had founded the brewery company of Bullard & Watts in 1837. When Richard Bullard died in 1864, his three sons, Harry, Charley and Fred ran the brewery, erecting the new...

|Samuel Hoare

Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet , was an English Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1886 to 1906....

David Duncan (UK politician)

David Duncan was a British merchant and shipper and a Liberal politician who briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness....

|William Sproston Caine

William Sproston Caine

President of the Local Government Board

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|Altrincham
|26 March 1886
|John Baguley Brooks

John Baguley Brooks

John Baguley Brooks was an English lawyer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886....

Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge

Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge PC , styled Lord Richard Grosvenor between 1845 and 1886, was a British politician and businessman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1872 and 1874 and as Parliamentary...

|Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith (1836-1906)

Samuel Smith was a British politician. He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1882 to 1885 and from 1886 to 1906....

Octavius Vaughan Morgan

Octavius Vaughan Morgan was a Welsh-born Liberal Party politician who sat in the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1885 to 1892....

|Octavius Vaughan Morgan

Octavius Vaughan Morgan

Octavius Vaughan Morgan was a Welsh-born Liberal Party politician who sat in the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1885 to 1892....

Edward James Reed

Sir Edward James Reed , KCB, FRS, was a British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate. He was the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy from 1863 until 1870...

|Sir Edward James Reed

Edward James Reed

Sir Edward James Reed , KCB, FRS, was a British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate. He was the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy from 1863 until 1870...

Frederick Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan

Frederick Edward Gould Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan KP, PC, DL, JP styled Viscount Kilcoursie until 1887, was an Irish soldier and Liberal politician...

|Viscount Kilcoursie

Frederick Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan

Frederick Edward Gould Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan KP, PC, DL, JP styled Viscount Kilcoursie until 1887, was an Irish soldier and Liberal politician...

|Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

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|Grantham
|23 February 1886
|John William Mellor

John William Mellor

John William Mellor PC DL QC was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician.Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of Rt Hon...

|John William Mellor

John William Mellor

John William Mellor PC DL QC was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician.Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of Rt Hon...

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

|John Balfour

John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

|Lord Advocate

Lord Advocate

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|Berwickshire
|13 February 1886
|Edward Marjoribanks

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth

|Edward Marjoribanks

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth

|Comptroller of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

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|Banffshire
|13 February 1886
|Robert William Duff

Robert Duff (politician)

Sir Robert William Duff, GCMG, PC was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1861 to 1893 and was Governor of New South Wales from 1893 to 1895.-Early life:...

|Robert William Duff

Robert Duff (politician)

Sir Robert William Duff, GCMG, PC was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1861 to 1893 and was Governor of New South Wales from 1893 to 1895.-Early life:...

Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea

Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea was a British Liberal politician and patron of art.-Background and education:...

|Cyril Flower

Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea

Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea was a British Liberal politician and patron of art.-Background and education:...

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage

|Edward Heneage

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage

|Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

|-
|Queen's County Ossory
|12 February 1886
|Arthur O'Connor

Arthur O'Connor (MP)

Arthur O'Connor , was an Irish politician and Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1880 to 1900.He was elected to the House of Commons as MP...

|Stephen O'Mara

Stephen O'Mara (senator)

Stephen O'Mara was an Irish nationalist politician and businessman from Limerick.-Personal life:O'Mara's father James owned a bacon factory in the city, and Stephen entered the family business. His brother Joseph O'Mara became an opera singer. Stephen marred Ellen Pigott in 1867. They had 12...

|Chose to sit for East Donegal

East Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)

East Donegal was a UK Parliament constituency in County Donegal, Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.Prior to the British General Election of 1885, the area was part of the Donegal constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.-Members of Parliament:Note:-* a...

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|Elgin Burghs
|12 February 1886
|Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....

|Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher

Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....

|Solicitor General for Scotland

Solicitor General for Scotland

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|North West Staffordshire
|12 February 1886
|George Leveson-Gower

George Leveson-Gower

|George Leveson-Gower

George Leveson-Gower

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

|Charles Robert Spencer

Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer

|Parliamentary Groom in Waiting

Groom in Waiting

Chief Secretary for Ireland

|-
|Leeds South
|12 February 1886
|Sir Lyon Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB, PC, FRS was a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

|Sir Lyon Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB, PC, FRS was a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

|Vice President of the Committee
of Council on Education

Secretary of State for Education and Skills

The Secretary of State for Education is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government. The position was re-established on 12 May 2010, held by Michael Gove....

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|Galway Borough
|11 February 1886
|Thomas Power O'Connor

|William Henry O'SheaThe biographical article on William Henry O'Shea suggests he was not a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. However, Walker classifies O'Shea as a Nationalist candidate which, for someone standing at an election in 1886, implies membership of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

|Chose to sit for Liverpool Scotland

Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Scotland was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

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|Hackney South
|11 February 1886
|Charles Russell

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.-Early life:...

|Charles Russell

Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.-Early life:...

|Attorney General for England and Wales

Attorney General for England and Wales

William Ewart Gladstone

|William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

|Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

, First Lord of the Treasury

First Lord of the Treasury

The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, and is now always also the Prime Minister...

, Lord Privy Seal

Lord Privy Seal

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|North Monaghan
|10 February 1886
|Timothy Michael Healy

Timothy Michael Healy

|Patrick O'Brien

Pat O'Brien (Irish politician)

Patrick O'Brien , generally known as Pat, was Irish Nationalist MP in the House Of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented North Monaghan and Kilkenny City . He was Chief Whip of the Irish Party from 1907 until his...

|Chose to sit for South Londonderry

South Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)

South Londonderry was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons from 1885 until it was abolished in 1922.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:...

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|Stirling Burghs
|10 February 1886
|Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

|Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

|Secretary of State for War

Secretary of State for War

|-
|Birmingham West
|9 February 1886
|Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain

|Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain

|President of the Local Government Board

President of the Local Government Board

|-
|Derby
|9 February 1886
|Sir William Vernon Harcourt

William Vernon Harcourt (politician)

|Sir William Vernon Harcourt

William Vernon Harcourt (politician)

|Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897...

|Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella

Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897...

|President of the Board of Trade
|-
|Mid Armagh

Mid Armagh by-election, 1886

The Mid Armagh by-election, 1886 was a parliamentary by-election held on 1 February 1886 for the British House of Commons constituency of Mid Armagh in Ireland. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament John McKane had died on 11 January 1886. McKane had held the seat...

|1 February 1886
|John McKane

John McKane

John McKane was a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Irish constituency of Mid Armagh from the 1885 general election, when the constituency had been created, until his death early the following year.- External links :...

|Sir James Porter Corry

Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet

Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet was a British politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1874 to 1885 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP from 1886 until his death....

Edmund Dwyer Gray (Irish politician)

Edmund Dwyer Gray was an Irish newspaper proprietor, politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

|John Aloysius Blake

|Chose to sit for Dublin St Stephen's Green

Dublin St Stephen's Green (UK Parliament constituency)

St Stephen's Green, a division of Dublin, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons 1885–1922....

William Grantham

William Grantham was a British politician.-Biography:He was educated at King's College School, and was called to the bar in 1863....

|Sidney Herbert

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke

Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, 11th Earl of Montgomery GCVO, PC , styled The Honourable Sidney Herbert between 1861 and 1895, was a British politician and peer.-Background and education:...

|Resignation (High Court

High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...

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26th ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1895This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1895 general election, held over several days from 13th July to 7th August 1895.... (1895–1900)

25th ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1892This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1892 general election, held over several days from 4th July to 26th July 1892.... (1892–1895)

23rd ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1885 general election, held over several days from 24th November 1885 to 18th December 1885.... (1885–1886)

26th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1895
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1895 general election, held over several days from 13th July to 7th August 1895....

(1895–1900)

25th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1892
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1892 general election, held over several days from 4th July to 26th July 1892....

(1892–1895)

23rd Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1885 general election, held over several days from 24th November 1885 to 18th December 1885....

(1885–1886)