The 1869 Dumfriesshire by-election was fought on 31 March 1869. The by-election was fought due to the disqualification of the incumbent MP of the Liberal...
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The 1869 Wigtown Burghs by-election was held on 4 January 1869. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, George Young, becoming Solicitor...
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The 1869 Caithness by-election was fought on 26 August 1869. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party...
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The 1869 Hawick Burghs by-election was held on 4 January 1869. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, George Otto Trevelyan, becoming...
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The 1869 Renfrewshire by-election was fought on 25 January 1869. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP Archibald Alexander...
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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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Dumfriesshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and in the House of Commons...
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The 1869 Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities by-election was fought on 22 November 1869. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent...
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Dumfriesshire, elected at the 1865 general election. He lost to Liberal Sydney Waterlow at the 1868 general election, but regained his seat at a by-election...
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The 1873 Renfrewshire by-election was held on 10 September 1873. The byelection was held due to the elevation to a peerage of the incumbent MP of the...
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The 1873 Wigtownshire by-election was fought on 21 February 1873. The byelection was fought due to the Succession to a peerage of the incumbent MP of...
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The 1873 Dundee by-election was fought on 5 August 1873. The byelection was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, George...
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of Dumfriesshire. Kirkcudbright was merged into Galloway. Reid is appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, requiring a by-election. General Election 1914–15:...
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The Edinburgh South by-elections were two parliamentary by-elections held for the House of Commons constituency of Edinburgh South in the Scottish capital...
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The 1872 Wick Burghs by-election occurred on 28 February 1872. The byelection was contested due to the Resignation of the incumbent MP of the Liberal...
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The 1873 Berwickshire by-election was fought on 27 June 1873. The by-election was fought due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent MP of the...
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Dublin City (No. 2). Hon. David Robert Plunket v. Jonathan Pim. 1868: Dumfriesshire. George Gustavus Walker v. Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow. 1868: Durham...
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Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom (section First general election victors by religious affiliation)
general election, the 2024 general election, at age 71. David Hacking was the oldest hereditary peer elected to the House of Lords in a by-election, aged...
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Kincardineshire by-election was held on 10 December 1872. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, James Dyce Nicol. It was won by the...
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The 1868 Kirkcudbrightshire by-election was an uncontested election held on 30 January 1868. The by-election was brought about due to the death of the...
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The 1870 Roxburghshire by-election was fought on 2 March 1870. The by-election was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Sir William...
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Thomas Carlyle (section By Carlyle)
19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled...
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Alexander Cuninghame of Corsehill, a Scottish baron and landowner in Dumfriesshire and a great-great-great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Glencairn. The fourth...
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The 1878 Perth by-election was fought on 29 January 1878. The byelection was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent Liberal MP, Arthur...
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The 1872 Aberdeen by-election was fought on 29 June 1872. The election occurred as a result of the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, William Henry Sykes...
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The 1879 Haddington Burghs by-election was fought on 25 February 1879. The byelection was fought due to the succession to a peerage of the incumbent Liberal...
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List of burghs in Scotland (section Dumfriesshire)
(police burgh 1871), Govanhill (police burgh 1876), Hillhead (police burgh 1869), Pollokshields (police burgh 1876), Pollokshields East (police burgh 1880)...
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The 1878 Haddington Burghs by-election was fought on 3 August 1878. The byelection was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Sir...
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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 1878 Leith Burghs by-election was fought on 29 January 1878. The byelection was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Donald...
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