The 1916

Tewkesbury Tewkesbury ( ) is a medieval market town and civil parish in the north of Gloucestershire, England. The town has significant history in the Wars of the Roses and grew since the building of Tewkesbury Abbey. It stands at the confluence of the Riv ...

by-election was held on 16 May 1916. The

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was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington, in the

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. It was won by the Conservative candidate

William Frederick Hicks-Beach William Frederick Hicks Beach JP (16 July 1841 – 7 September 1923) was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1916 to 1918, having been returned, aged 74, at a by-election in succession to his nephew, Viscount Qu ...

, Quenington's uncle, then aged 74.

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