1904 Birmingham South by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election March 2023 March 2023 The 1904 Birmingham South by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 26 February 1904.Craig F.W.S. 1987 Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987 Chichester Parliamentary Research Services 98 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 death of the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Joseph Powell Williams on 7 February 1904. 9 February 1904 Obituary. Mr. Powell Williams, M.P. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14598508 The Sydney Morning Herald 8 Sydney 13 March 2023 Powell Williams had been Member of Parliament for the constituency since 1885. Candidates The Liberal Unionist candidate was 37-year-old Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth. He was the eldest son of the Earl of Carlisle. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the British Army, achieved the rank of Captain in the 3rd Border Regiment and served in the Second Boer War. He had contested Chester-le-Street in 1895, Hexham in 1900, and Gateshead at the by-election in January 1904.'CARLISLE', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Jan 2017 The Liberal Party candidate was James Hirst Hollowell. Hollowell was the secretary of the Northern Counties Education League.Ward Roger Spring 2014 The Strange Death of Liberal Birmingham https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/82_Ward_Strange_Death_of_Liberal_Birmingham.pdf Journal of Liberal History 82 16–25 13 March 2023 1 January 1910 Death of the Rev. J. Hirst Hollowell https://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/3379976/3379977/ Weekly Mail 1 13 March 2023 The League supported free, non-sectarian education.Treasure Ian Clements 1994 The Liberal education bills: conflict and compromise in religious issues and Liberal Party educational policies 1906-1908 http://oro.open.ac.uk/57427/15/Clements2022.pdf PhD 335–336 The Open University 13 March 2023 Hollowell was a former Congregationalist minister.https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8021748.craven-through-the-years/ Craven through the years 31 October 2002 Telegraph & Angus Bradford 13 March 2023 2 March 1904 South Birmingham election http://teesdalemercuryarchive.org/pdf/1904/March-02/March-02-1904-02.pdf Teesdale Mercury 2 Barnard Castle 13 March 2023 19 April 1904 New Member for South Birmingham https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32740855 The Kalgoorlie Western Argus 41 Kalgoorlie 14 March 2023 He lived at Castlemere, Rochdale.https://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000818648/HierarchyTree?recordID=vtls000818648 Letter from Rev. J. Hirst Hollowell, Northern Counties Education League, to John Redmond regarding the position of religious schools 28 March 1904 National Library of Ireland 13 March 2023 Result The Liberal Unionist Party held the seat. 1904 Birmingham South 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 74 978-1-349-02300-4 1908 The Liberal Year Book for 1908 https://archive.org/details/liberalyearbook01unkngoog/ London The Liberal Publication Department 218–219 1919 The Constitutional Year Book for 1919 https://archive.org/details/constitutional1919londuoft/ London National Unionist Association 291 Liberal Unionist Party Viscount Morpeth 5,299 70.4 N/A Liberal Party (UK) James Hirst Hollowell 2,223 29.6 New 3,076 40.8 N/A 7,522 62.8 N/A 11,984 Liberal Unionist Party N/A References Birmingham South by-election South,1904 Category:1904 in England Category:1900s in Birmingham, West Midlands