1866 East Suffolk by-election

UK parliamentary by-election April 2022 The 1866 East Suffolk by-election was a double by-election held in the United Kingdom on 25 July 1866. The election was a Conservative seat with two Conservative MPs. The incumbent Conservative MP John Henniker-Major became Baron Hartismere a new creation which, as it sat in the House of Lords, meant that he could no longer sit in the House of Commons. Although he had for some time had the inherited title of Baron Henniker, this was an Irish Peerage and so meant that he could sit in the House of Commons. The other incumbent Conservative MP, Fitzroy Kelly, had become Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a senior judge and so had to resign his seat. There were only two candidates, both Conservatives, and so they were elected unopposed.East Suffolk Election Carlisle Journal 27 July 1866 31 July 2016 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000363/18660727/012/0003 British Newspaper Archive limited The candidates were John Henniker-Major's son John Henniker-Major and Edward Kerrison, who had resigned his seat in the nearby seat of Eye, thereby causing the 1866 Eye by-election which was also uncontested. Edward Kerrison was too ill to make an acceptance speech. References Category:Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in English constituencies Category:1866 elections in the United Kingdom Category:1866 in England East Category:July 1866 in the United Kingdom