1900 Brixton by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election April 2023 April 2023 The 1900 Brixton by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 20 March 1900.Craig F.W.S. 1987 Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987 Chichester Parliamentary Research Services 93 The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. The seat had become vacant following the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Evelyn Hubbard on the advice of his doctors.Election intelligence 12 March 1900 10 36087 17 March 1900 Untitled https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3374017/3374027/198/ Weekly Mail 10 15 April 2023 Hubbard vacated his Parliamentary seat by being appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 14 March 1900.27174 16 March 1900 1795 Hubbard had been Member of Parliament for the constituency since the 1896 Brixton by-election. Candidates The Conservative candidate was Sir Robert Mowbray, Bt. Mowbray had been Member of Parliament for Prestwich from 1886 to 1895. Mowbray had been a member of the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure in 1896.https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1725 Press Cuttings about Sir Robert Mowbray ArchiveSearch University of Cambridge 15 April 2023 1896 First Report of the Royal Commission on the Administration of the Expenditure of India; with Minutes of Evidence https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117729/ I London Eyre and Spottiswoode viii He also served as Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1898–99. 28 July 1916 Obituary https://www.jstor.org/stable/41346996 Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 64 3323 647 41346996 15 April 2023 The Liberal Party decided not to contest the election, citing the nearness of the upcoming general election. 14 March 1900 The Brixton vacancy https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4340603/4340607/48/ Western Mail 4 15 April 2023 17 March 1900 March 16th, 1900. Brixton Election https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/19000317/233/0007 Northern Whig 7 15 April 2023 Result The date for nominations was set for Tuesday 20 March and polling day for Friday 23 March. 17 March 1900 Election News https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3745229/3745233/62/ South Wales Daily News 4 15 April 2023 As only one candidate was nominated, there was no poll. 1900 Brixton by-electionCraig F.W.S. F. W. S. Craig 1974 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=ah2vCwAAQBAJ London and Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 29 978-1-349-02300-4 1919 The Constitutional Year Book for 1919 https://archive.org/details/constitutional1919londuoft/ London National Unionist Association 284 1908 The Liberal Year Book for 1908 https://archive.org/details/liberalyearbook01unkngoog/ London The Liberal Publication Department 282–283 Conservative Party (UK) Robert Mowbray 10,666 Conservative Party (UK) Aftermath William Kidson, the Conservative Party election agent, died on Saturday 24 March of pneumonia. He was a Freemason. 7 April 1900 A Sprig of Acacia https://masonicperiodicals.org/periodicals/fcn/issues/fcn_07041900/page/3/ The Freemason's Chronicle LI 1317 159 15 April 2023 6 March 1900 [Unknown] https://newspaperarchive.com/london-standard-mar-26-1900-p-4/ London Standard London 4 15 April 2023 References Brixton by-election Brixton,1900 Category:1900 in England Category:1900 in London Brixton, 1900 Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in English constituencies Category:March 1900 in the United Kingdom