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1935 Tamworth by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ16889577 ↗
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The 1935 Tamworth by-election was held on 10 May 1935. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Arthur Ramsay-Steel-Maitland. It was won by the Conservative candidate John Mellor.

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Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tamworth, by-election and Parliamentary providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16889577. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “1935 Tamworth by-election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.