GENERAL ELECTION JANUARY 1910

As the Hereford1938 blog pays not the slightest attention to other events, perhaps it is a drop in our well-known standards even to refer to some electoral material, but here is the "Hereford Times" Illustrated Supplement for the General Election of January 1910, a contest between - as Party leaders - H.H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister, and A.J. Balfour, the Conservative Leader of the Opposition:

The candidates in the (then) three Herefordshire Constituencies - Hereford City,
Hereford North and Hereford South.

In the Hereford City contest, Mr E. Lewin-Thomas KC (Liberal) challenged Mr J.S. Arkwright, the sitting Unionist MP. In Hereford North (or the "Leominster Division"), Sir James Rankin, Bart. (Unionist), took on the sitting Liberal MP, Mr E. Lamb, while Hereford South (or the "Ross Division") was contested between the sitting Unionist MP, Captain P.A. Clive, and Mr Harry Webb (Liberal). Interesting that all the "Conservatives" then ran as "Unionists", and that there was no Labour challenge. The results were reflected in a subsequent locally printed piece of "doggerel":

The January 1910 election was obviously within the living memory of many of those engaged in the Very British Civil War of 1938 - for the General Election closest to the VBCW in time (i.e. the 1935 General Election), see HERE.

Add Edit:

(1). There were two General Elections in 1910 - in January, and then again in December. For the issues and results of the January election, see HERE; for the same information in relation to the December election, see HERE. In Herefordshire, the second General Election elected the same MPs as the first.