1895 Kensington South by-election

The 1895 Kensington South by-election was held on 28 November 1895. The by-election was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP and journalist, Sir Algernon Borthwick, ^[1] who had been elected unopposed earlier in the year in the 1895 United Kingdom general election. It was won by the 24 year old Conservative candidate Henry Percy, styled with the courtesy title Lord Warkworth as the eldest son of the then Earl Percy (in turn the eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland). ^[2]

By-election, 28 November 1895

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Percy, Lord Warkworth	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Conservative hold

References

1. Reginald Lucas (1912). "Borthwick, Algernon"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. In 1887 he was created a baronet on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, and in 1895 he retired from the House of Commons on being raised to the peerage as Baron Glenesk.
2. David George Hogarth (1912). "Percy, Henry Algernon George"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Percy, Henry Algernon George ... was eldest son of Henry George Percy, Earl Percy, who became seventh duke of Northumberland in succession to his father in 1899. ... In 1895 he contested Berwick-on-Tweed as a conservative without success against Sir Edward Grey, but later in the year was chosen at a bye-election for South Kensington, which he represented continuously till his death.