Preston by-election, 1881

The Preston by-election of 1881 took place on 20 May 1881 after the death of the incumbent MP Edward Hermon.

The Conservative candidate William Farrer Ecroyd campaigned on a fair trade platform and won the seat.[1]

Notes

  1. A. C. Howe, ‘Ecroyd, William Farrer (1827–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 16 Jan 2014.

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