The Paisley by-election, 1891 was a 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....

 held on 1 June 1891 for the British House of Commons constituency of Paisley

Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)

Paisley was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1983, when it was divided into Paisley North and Paisley South...

 in Scotland

Scotland

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. It was caused by the death of the constituency's sitting Liberal Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 William Boyle Barbour who had held the seat since the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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Result

The seat was held for the Liberals by William Dunn

William Dunn, 1st Baronet, of Lakenheath

Sir William Dunn, 1st Baronet, of Lakenheath, MP, JP, FRGS , was a London banker, merchant and philanthropist, Liberal Member of Parliament for Paisley , and from before 1896 until the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 consul general for the Orange Free State in the United...

, a Paisley born, self-made, merchant banker.