BY-ELECTION.
UNIONIST RETURNED UNOPPOSED. : BY TELEGRAHI—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. April 17, 0:15 a.m.) London, April,l6. Earl Kerry (Unionist); has . beon elfiotcd for West Derbyshire, unopposed. ■ West Derbyshire has been a Unionist seat i for twenty years at least... During that time! it has been in the possession • of. the Cavendish family, and th<j present vacancy is caufced- , by Mr. .V. Cavendish succeeding his uncle,', the late Duke of Devonshire. . Mr. Cavendish ." jWas ■ Financial Secmiary' to. the Treasury in the-last Government.'' Earli Kerry,-'the.Jlew . member, 'is eldest'/son'., of l the Mtii'qtiess of . ■'• LansHowne, who leads for'-His tJnioluste? in the Hoilso of Lords; so West'DerbysHiie'haß replaced one Peer's heir .with another. The Liberals did not contest the seat, although Mr. Cavendish's majority at the last elections Was only 559.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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