Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1881

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In 1881, Dudley Marjoribanks, MP, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedmouth. Hubert Jerningham defeated Henry Trotter by a then record margin, despite attacks on Jerningham for supporting the right of atheist Charles Bradlaugh, who had won in Northampton at the 1880 general election, to sit in Parliament. [1]

Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, also known as the Laird of Guisachan and Glenaffric,, was a Scottish businessman and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1853 until 1880, when he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Tweedmouth.

Baron Tweedmouth

Baron Tweedmouth, of Edington in the County of Berwick, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1881 for the businessman and Liberal politician Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Guisachan in Beaulieu in the County of Inverness, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1866. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was also a Liberal politician and notably served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1905 and 1908. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the third Baron, in 1935.

Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham, was British Liberal Party politician and Governor of Mauritius 1892-1897, then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1897 and 1900.

Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1881
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Liberal Hubert Jerningham 1046 66.41
Conservative Henry John Trotter 529 33.58
Majority 517
Turnout
Registered electors
Liberal hold Swing


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References

  1. Wickham, Michael (Winter 2004–2005). "Religion and Politics" (PDF). Journal of Liberal History. 45: 29. Retrieved 9 October 2015.