The Bridport by-election of 1875 was fought on 31 March 1875. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Thomas Alexander...
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The 1875 Whitehaven by-election was fought on 16 December 1875. The by-election was fought due to the incumbent Conservative MP, George Cavendish-Bentinck...
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The 1875 Meath by-election was fought on 17 April 1875. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Home Rule MP, John Martin. It was won...
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The 1875 Horsham by-election was fought on 17 December 1875. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, William...
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general election at which Bridport had the highest turnout in the last few years before the Reform Act, a total of 260 residents voted. Bridport never reached...
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The 1875 East Kent by-election was fought on 27 January 1875. The by-election was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent Conservative...
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The Hartlepools by-election was fought on 29 July 1875. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Thomas Richardson...
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The 1875 Stroud by-election was fought on 19 February 1875. The by-election was fought due to the election of the incumbent Liberal MP, Henry Brand being...
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The 1875 Blackburn by-election was fought on 30 September 1875. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Henry Master...
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The 1875 Breconshire by-election was fought on 20 May 1875. The by-election was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent Conservative...
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The 1875 St Ives by-election was fought on 5 March 1875. The by-election was caused by the previous by-election being declared void on petition, on grounds...
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The 1875 Bedfordshire by-election was fought on 28 April 1875. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Francis Bassett...
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The 1875 Mid Surrey by-election was fought on 24 November 1875 in Surrey, England. The by-election was fought due to the resignation (Justice of the Court...
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The 1875 East Aberdeenshire by-election was fought on 22 December 1875. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, William...
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The 1875 Armagh City by-election was held on 18 October 1875. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Vance...
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1875 Kilkenny City by-election was fought on 28 April 1875. This arose due to the death of the incumbent Home Rule MP, John Gray. It was contested by...
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The 1875 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election was fought on 20 April 1875. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Robert Reid...
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The March 1875 Tipperary by-election took place on 11 March 1875. The by-election, to one of two seats in the House of Commons constituency of Tipperary...
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The February 1875 Tipperary by-election took place on 16 February 1875. The by-election, to one of two seats in the House of Commons constituency of Tipperary...
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Unlike most Westminster by-elections, ministerial by-elections were often a formality, uncontested by opposition parties. Re-election was required under the...
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The February 1875 Dublin University by-election was held on 11 February 1875. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Conservative MP, David Robert...
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The January 1875 Dublin University by-election was held on 18–22 January 1875. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative...
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The 1875 South West Lancashire by-election was fought on 6 November 1875. The by-election in South West Lancashire was fought due to the incumbent Conservative...
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The June 1875 West Suffolk by-election was fought on 16 June 1875. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Lord...
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The 1875 West Suffolk by-election was fought on 4 October 1875. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Fuller Maitland...
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Leominster by-election was a by-election held on 15–16 February 1876 for the British House of Commons constituency of Leominster in Herefordshire. The by-election...
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Thomas Alexander Mitchell (category 1875 deaths)
1841 general election, Mitchell was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bridport. He held the seat until his death 1875, aged 63. Leigh...
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Charles Whetham (category People from Bridport)
parliament when he contested his native constituency of Bridport at the 1875 general election, but failed to be elected. Whetham represented the City...
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The 1877 Tipperary by-election was fought on 15 May 1877. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Home Rule MP, William Frederick...
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Frederick Weld (category People from Bridport)
Tasmania, and Governor of the Straits Settlements. Weld was born near Bridport, Dorset, England, on 9 May 1823. His mother, Christina Maria Clifford,...
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