The 1868 Clitheroe by-election was held on 13 July 1868, following the death of the incumbent Liberal MP, Richard Fort. [1] It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Ralph Assheton, who stood unopposed. [2]
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross,, known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary from 1874 to 1880, and from 1885 to 1886.
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Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe,, was an English aristocrat and politician.
Ralph Assheton (1830–1907) was an English politician.
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Ralph Assheton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1649. He was a general in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
Nathaniel George Clayton (1833-1895) was a British Conservative politician who served as MP for Hexham in 1892.
A by-election was held in Elginshire and Nairnshire in 1889. The election was won by John Seymour Keay.
The 1861 Aberdeenshire by-election was fought on 13 February 1861. The previous Liberal MP, George Hamilton-Gordon, had succeeded his father to become 5th Earl of Aberdeen, and had thus become ineligible to sit in the House of Commons. The ensuing by-election was won by the Conservative candidate, William Leslie.
The 1868 Stamford by-election was held on 24 June 1868, when the incumbent Conservative MP Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre became ineligible, having acceded to the Earldom of Shrewsbury, upon the death of his father. The by-election was won by the Conservative Party candidate William Unwin Heygate, who stood unopposed.