1881 Preston by-election
The Preston by-election of 1881 took place on 20 May 1881 after the death of the incumbent MP Edward Hermon.
The Conservative candidate William Farrer Ecroyd campaigned on a fair trade platform and won the seat.[1]
Notes
- ^ A. C. Howe, ‘Ecroyd, William Farrer (1827–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 16 Jan 2014.
Further reading
- B. H. Brown, The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881–1895 (1943).
- S. Zebel, ‘Fair Trade: An English Reaction to the Breakdown of the Cobden Treaty System’, Journal of Modern History, 12 (1940), pp. 161–185.
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