Despite being protected by one of the world's earliest conservation decrees, the Governor's proclamation "against the spoyle and havocke of the Cohowes," the birds were thought to have become extinct by the 1620s.
The by-election was held due to the appointment as Governor of Bermuda of the incumbent Conservative MP, Archibald Douglas Cochrane.
He then became High Commissioner to Barbados in 1982 before being appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda in 1983.
Horseshoe Bay was proclaimed a port in 1851, and the settlement above the bay was named Port Elliot in 1852 after Charles Elliot, the Governor of Bermuda who was a friend of the then Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Young.
The Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda.
His son, the second Viscount, notably served as High Commissioner to Fiji and as Governor of Bermuda.
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In 1927, the Bermudians obtained a local headquarters called the "Lady Asser Guide Hut", which was sponsored by Lady Asser, the wife of the Governor of Bermuda.
Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere (1907–1989), British politician; Governor of Bermuda, 1964–1972
The President of the Governor's Council, and occasional acting Governor of Bermuda, was Bruere's son-in-law, Henry Tucker, who was Thomas T. Tucker's older brother.