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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
Election results
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
Trevelyan was appointed
Civil Lord of the Admiralty .
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
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
Shaw
Shaw was appointed
Solicitor-General for Scotland , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1900s
Shaw
Conan Doyle
Mackinder
Elections in the 1910s
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
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
^ Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
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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 .
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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
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b Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
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b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ The Times, 6 March 1909
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b Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1916
Current constituencies (2024)