The 1872

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh ...

by-election was fought on 5 June 1872. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, John Platt. It was won by the Conservative candidate

John Morgan Cobbett John Morgan Cobbett (13 November 1800 – 13 February 1877) was a Conservative Party and Liberal Party politician. Trained as a barrister, he was the second son of the English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and Member of Parliament William ...

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