Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1918
Hawick Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It consisted of the Roxburghshire burgh of Hawick and the Selkirkshire burghs of Galashiels and Selkirk .
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Election results [ edit ] Trevelyan George Otto Trevelyan was returned without opposition at the 1868 general election and again after acceptance of office at a by-election on 14 January 1869.[2]
Elections in the 1860s [ edit ] Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty .
Elections in the 1870s [ edit ] Elections in the 1880s [ edit ] Trevelyan was appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , requiring a by-election.
Trevelyan was appointed Secretary for Scotland , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1890s [ edit ] Shaw Shaw was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1900s [ edit ] Shaw Conan Doyle Mackinder Elections in the 1910s [ edit ] Barran General Election 1914–15 :
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
References [ edit ] ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2) ^ Debrett's House of Commons, 1870 ^ a b c d e Craig, F. W. S. , ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3 . ^ "General Election" . Aberdeen Free Press . 13 April 1880. p. 5. Retrieved 29 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive . ^ "Death of Sir Walter Elliot" . Southern Reporter . 3 March 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive . ^ a b c d e f g h Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918 . London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984 . ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 ^ a b Whitaker's Almanack, 1893 ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901 ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 ^ The Times, 6 March 1909 ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1916
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