Birkenhead was a member of the committee for the 1924 Olympic Games, and more than 50 years after his death he was portrayed by actor Nigel Davenport in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
The seat had become vacant on the elevation to the peerage of the constituency's Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Frederick Edwin Smith, as the Earl of Birkenhead.
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