Monmouth Boroughs
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Monmouth Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency consisting of several towns in Monmouthshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliaments of England, Great Brita
Carbutt
Albert Spicer
Lewis Haslam
1895 Monmouth Boroughs candidates
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP was a mining engineer and self-made businessman from Gateshead in North East England. A colliery labourer who went on to own several coal mines, he later bought a wi
Monmouth Boroughs
…Reginald Blewitt Whig 1852 Crawshay Bailey Conservative 1868 Sir John Ramsden Liberal 1874 Thomas Cordes Conservative 1880 Edward Carbutt Liberal 1886 Sir George Elliot Conservative 1892 Albert Spicer Liberal 1900 Dr Frederick Rutherfoord Harris Conservative 1901 Joseph Lawrence Conservative 1906 Lewis Haslam Liberal…
"Geordie": Elliot as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1879