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7 unusual facts about United Kingdom general election, 1900


Edmund Broughton Barnard

At the 1885 general election he was Liberal candidate in Epping; in 1886 he stood in Maldon and then in Kidderminster at the general election of 1900.

Edwin Cornwall

Having unsuccessfully contested the Fulham constituency in 1895 and 1900, in 1906 Cornwall was elected to Parliament as a Liberal for Bethnal Green North East.

Ernest Meysey-Thompson

At the 1900 general election, he contested the Buckrose division of the East Riding, where he lost by 91 votes (1.2%) to the Liberal candidate Luke White.

Frederick Coleridge Mackarness

At the 1900 general election William Arthur Mount was returned unopposed.

Frederick William Jowett

In the 1900 general election Jowett was the Independent Labour Party candidate in Bradford West.

Opposition to the Second Boer War

Although the 1900 UK general election, also known as the "Khaki election", had resulted in a victory for the Conservative government on the back of recent British victories against the Boers, public support quickly waned as it became apparent that the war would not be easy and unease developed following reports about the treatment by the British army's of the Boer civilians such as concentration camps and farm burning.

Thomas Hart-Davies

In 1900 he unsuccessfully stood as parliamentary candidate for the Rotherhithe constituency.


60 metres

The 60 metres was an Olympic event in the 1900 and 1904 Summer Games but was removed from the schedule thereafter.

Abel Smith

Abel Henry Smith (1862–1930), MP for Christchurch 1892–1900 and Hertford 1900-1910

Abraham Archibald Anderson

In 1900, Anderson commissioned the 10-story Bryant Park Studios building from the New York society architect Charles A. Rich.

Allan Blair

Allan Walker Blair (1900 – 1947) was a professor at the University of Alabama's medical school who is best known for allowing himself to be bitten by a black widow spider in order to investigate the toxicity of its venom in humans.

Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov

During this time period he also attended lectures from prominent zoologists that included Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861) and Émile Blanchard (1819–1900).

Antrim by-election, 1885

Sinclair did however return to the House of Commons at the 1886 general election as Liberal Unionist Party member for Falkirk Burghs in the central Scottish Lowlands.

Beppe Ciardi

The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan (1900), a gold medal in Munich (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904).

Charles Mallet

In March 1910 Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him Financial Secretary to the War Office, a position he held until he was defeated in the December general election of the same year.

Dora Bright

In 1892 she married Wyndham Knatchbull (1829–1900), a captain of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and a great-grandson of Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet of Mersham Hatch.

Edward Moulton

He trained many well-known track and field athletes from the 1880s through the 1910s, including the original "world's fastest human," Al Tharnish, and Olympic medalists Alvin Kraenzlein (four gold medals in 1900), Charlie Paddock (two gold medals and one silver in 1920), Morris Kirksey (one gold and one silver in 1920), George Horine (bronze medal in 1912), and Feg Murray (bronze medal in 1920).

Enos T. Hotchkiss

Enos T. Hotchkiss (March 29, 1832 - January 20, 1900) was credited as being the founder of both Lake City, Colorado and Hotchkiss, Colorado.

Erlet Shaqe

After fall of Pashalik of Yanina his relatives and family moved to Vithkuq and Lubonja,where they had land properties.In 1900 the revolution against Ottoman Empire to gain Independence for all the land of Epirus and Albania was decisive for all the people who lived in this part of Balkan during this time.

Fort Liscum

On September 6, 1900, the post was named Fort Liscum in honor of Colonel Emerson H. Liscum, who had died July 13, 1900 in Tianjin, China leading the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Regiment as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance to put down the Boxer Rebellion.

George Blewett

He studied at the University of Würzburg in 1899 and received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1900 from Harvard University.

Glasgow Garscadden by-election, 1978

At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Scotstoun.

Gwynfor Evans

In the 1970 General Election Evans lost his Carmarthen seat to Labour's Gwynoro Jones, and failed to regain it in the February 1974 General Election by only three votes.

Harold Iremonger

Harold Edward William Iremonger, eldest son of the Rev. E R Iremonger, vicar of Goodworth Clatford, Andover, was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and was gazetted to the Royal Marine Artillery in 1900.

Henry Barron

Sir Henry Barron, 2nd Baronet (1824–1900), British diplomat and Minister-Resident to Wurttemberg, of the Barron baronets

Henry Wray

Lieutenant-General Henry Wray CMG (1 January 1826 – 6 April 1900) was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson.

Hypotia oxodontalis

It was described by Hampson in 1900, and is known from Central Asia (it was described from the Kopet Dag).

Ilya Bondarenko

He was associated with Savva Mamontov-sponsored group of artists and Abramtsevo Colony; these connections helped him secure his first major project - Russian Crafts pavilions at the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, in partnership with Konstantin Korovin.

Independent Nationalist

Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906), Joseph Nolan (1900), D. D. Sheehan (1906), Laurence Ginnell (1910), William Redmond and James Cosgrave (1923), Michael O'Neill (1951), John Hume (1969), Paddy O'Hanlon (1969) and Ivan Cooper (1969).

James Britton

James H. Britton (1817–1900), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, United States

João Punaro Bley

João Punaro Bley (November 14, 1900 in Montes Claros MG – 1983) was a Brazilian military and public administrator.

John Cordeaux

He held the seat in 1959, but lost it at the 1964 election to the Labour candidate Jack Dunnett.

John Dickerson

John J. Dickerson (1900–1966), Republican politician from New Jersey

Juan Guiteras

In 1900 he became chair of the Pathology and Tropical Diseases department at the University of Havana and founded the Journal of Tropical Medicine.

Kate Lee

In 1900 however, she became ill with cancer, of which she died at Stubbings near Maidenhead in 1904.

Margaret Herbison

She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.

Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens

At the 1964 general election, Hughes-Young faced another challenge from Labour, who had selected Dr David Kerr; in his election address he pointed to the fact that Labour had opposed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 and asked how the local housing situation would cope without restrictions on immigration.

Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), French ornithologist and carcinologist.

Nathan T. Hopkins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1900.

Order of the Lion and the Sun

On 6 September 1900, the mayor of Mariánské Lázně, Dr. Nadler, was decorated with the Commander Cross of the Lion and the Order of the Sun by the Shah during an official visit.

P. bakeri

Paguristes bakeri, Holmes, 1900, a hermit crab species in the genus Paguristes

Paris Métro Line 6

The northern circulator, now Line 2, opened in 1903, while the tracks from Étoile to Trocadéro (referred to as Line 2 Sud) opened on 2 October 1900 as part of a branch of Line 1 meant to serve the World Expo of that year.

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

On May 1, 1896, Ludwig was given the rank of First lieutenant, and, on March 29, 1900, he was given leadership of the First Tiroler Jäger-Regiment in Innsbruck.

Ray Steele

Peter Sauer (1900-1949), used the ring name while wrestling in America

Roy Thomason

He was selected to follow Sir Hal Miller as candidate for the safe seat of Bromsgrove, and won the seat with a 13,702 majority in the 1992 election.

South African Archaeological Society

A Cape Archaeological Society was founded in Cape Town in August 1944 by Professor A.J.H. Goodwin (1900-1959), who headed the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town.

St David's Church, Exeter

The current building was completed in 1900 and was described by John Betjeman as "the finest example of Victorian church architecture in the south west".

Swails

Stephen Atkins Swails (1832–1900), black Union Army officer and South Carolina politician

Terman

Frederick Terman (engineer; 1900-1982), Provost of Stanford University, credited with establishing Silicon Valley

Theodore W. Richards House

The house was built in 1900 by Warren, Smith & Biscoe and was the home of Harvard University chemist and 1914 Nobel Prize winner, Theodore William Richards.

United Kingdom general election, 1950

Significant changes since the 1945 general election included the abolition of plural voting by the Representation of the People Act 1948, and a major reorganisation of constituencies by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949.

Between the 16th and 17th centuries noted Venetian families (including the Contarini and the Veniers) built a number of villas in the area, and at this same time the old center, Vo' Vecchio, was founded, seat of the comune until 1900.

Wandsworth by-election, 1913

At the 1885 general election, Sir Henry Kimber was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth.

Wendover

The astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who first postulated that the universe was made up primarily of lighter elements such as hydrogen, was born in Wendover in 1900.

Western Australian state election, 1897

As payment of members was not introduced until 1900, the Political Labour Party, formed in 1896, had found it difficult to attract candidates who could afford to enter Parliament, but three of its candidates ran for election, and Charles Oldham, a former president of the Trades and Labor Council, became the first Labour member of Parliament in Western Australia.

William Marcet

William Marcet FRS FRCP (13 May 1828 - 4 March 1900) was President of the Royal Meteorological Society


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