The 1886

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by-election was held on 1 March 1886 after the incumbent

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resigned to seek re-election to pre-empt disqualification. He was returned unopposed. At the 1885 general election Morgan was elected as a

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(MP) for

. His right to sit was questioned in 1886, as his family company

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held government contracts, from which he had disassociated himself before his nomination. Morgan took the

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to resign from Parliament until the question was settled, and was returned unopposed at the ensuing by-election in March 1886. He held the seat at the general election in July 1886, and sat for Battersea until 1892.

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