1905 Whitby by-election
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The Whitby by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 1 June 1905. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past
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Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe, was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage.
1905 Whitby by-election
…constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. Ernest Beckett had been Conservative MP for the seat of Whitby since the 1885 general election. He succeeded to the title of Baron Grimthorpe on the death of his uncle…
Ernest Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe
"Whitby". Beckett as caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, January 1904