BRITISH BY=ELECTION.
WEST. HULL. A LIBERAL SEAT RETAINED WITH REDUCED MAJORITY. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Doc. 1, 4.8 p.m.) London, November 30. The by-election l'or West Hull resulted:— Guy Wilson (Liberal) 5023 Bartlcy (Unionist) £382 Holmes (Labour) 4512 Liberal majority 241 This by-election is rendered necessary by the accession to the Peerage of Major Chas. IT. Wilson, who succeeds his father, the late Lord Nimburn holme, formerly C. 11. Wilson, shipowner of Hull. Wilson, father and son, have held tho West Hull seat in the Liberal interests since 1883. The new member most iikelv belongs to tho same family, and is probably Major Guy Wilson, born in 1877, who was mentioned in despatches during tho South African War; he married in 1901 the third daughter of tho seventh Duko of Koxburghe. Tho new Lord Nunburnholme's Liberal majority in 190G; 2247, lias now been reduced to a Liberal majority of 211, but in 190G (here was a simplo duel between Liberal and Conservative, and to-day there is the triangular contest which, since the greater activity of the Labour party developed, seems to be becoming tho customary thing.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 7
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