The 1899 Bow and Bromley by-election was held on 27 October 1899 following the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP,

Lionel Holland Lionel Raleigh Holland (22 March 1865 – 25 May 1936) was a British politician, the youngest son of Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley in 1895. He resigned in 1899 ...

due to ill health. Holland vacated his Parliamentary seat by being appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 16 October 1899. The seat was retained by the Conservative candidate

Walter Guthrie Walter Murray Guthrie, DL (3 June 1869 – 24 April 1911) was a merchant banker and British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1899 to 1906. Biography Walter Murray Guthrie was the third son of James Alexander ...

. Contemporary sources state that the by-election was fought on the issue of the Second Boer War which had broken out earlier that month, with Guthrie supporting the Government and Spender opposing the war.

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