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■i'i", -• ,yTAUWORTfI. ",■■:; i A TARIFF REFPRM CONSTITUENCY. UNIONISTS RETAIN SEAT. ; ~ (pi TEi,pGEApn—PEES3 association— cppYnjonT,)' ' Lohdonj January 17: > -Mr, JV A;'Nwdigite-Kfewdegatp (Unionist. .■ • and- Tariff Befornier) has beeii elected un.oppoped for. Tapnvorth division pf ■Warwjqk-:;■-,' shire r ;ia place of the Jate. Sir P. A,' Munfe :S (Bnionist-awiPrpteptiopls^.-'v,:.^'..-! V: : . -v THE NEW MEMBER/ ;,^ : ;; The Liberals evidently■ did not consider It ;..; worth while to contest.Taniivwtli division of : ■ Warwickshire.-: In tlje' first place, that seat: ■: has; been held ever sines ISSS. by the late;>•■•, Unionist member, Sir P. A. Hunt?, whps* ■■.<■■■: boast has been that he was a Protectionist ••• twenty jears before Mr. Chamberlain sjwihe -■ light. In the second place, the majority of v;' feirP..*, Munt7 r in v I9OG-wheii tariff reform was : ;; '- not nearly/ 60-popular as it appears to be now v" : —was 2719. . . '. '' • .■'...;;,-■'"'' Mr-Francis Alexander, ;Newdignte-}«ewlegiite,: j.■''(?, who fills the vacancy;" was. born .in J862,-was-. '■"'••: educated at Eton, apd served in the Coldstream '''■"£ Guards.from. 18S3 to 1885. Durip ? .Hie,nest two'-:* years he, travelled in Iridic" arid:the cploniesiv-<; Jn 1893ihe:,entered-the House'of Commons-as ■>'■>: Unionist, member for, the Nuneaton- division ■ ' 'i. of Warmckshire,' aiid: retaii)ed that seat till : '"- :1906, ■ when a Labour eandldato,- 5f r. ■ Wm. John- • son (secretary of the Warwickshire Miners' > Association) displaced him:by 3.626 votes.. The': ; : \' 'Tamworth vajajisy 'gives Mr. Newdigate-New-de- ■" -i gate,a chance of. once mors: representing War. : : wickshire; dirision without having to fire a shot, ■ ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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