UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 24 May 1835, Preston, Lancashire

Died: 4 April 1916

Knighted - 1 August 1885

Member of Privy Council - 8 February 1890

husband of Mary Elizabeth Moore

son of Edward Chaddock Gorst

St John's College, Cambridge (- 1857)

Inner Temple (1865 -)

Lawyer

Solicitor General	2 July 1885	1886
Under Secretary of State for India	1886	1891
Deputy Chairman of Committees	1888	1891
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	1891
Vice President of the Council of Education	2 July 1895	1902

12 July 1865	Hastings	Conservative Party	591	42.18
24 April 1866	Cambridge	Conservative Party	774	50.62
18 November 1868	Cambridge	Conservative Party	1,389	42.33
16 February 1875	Chatham	Conservative Party	2,173	52.60
31 March 1880	Chatham	Conservative Party	2,499	51.03
2 July 1885 Resignation of John Gorst on appointment as Solicitor-General.
11 July 1885	Chatham	Conservative Party	Unopposed
24 November 1885	Chatham	Conservative Party	3,396	56.54
2 July 1886	Chatham	Conservative Party	3,187	56.82
4 July 1892	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
13 July 1895	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
1 October 1900	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
18 January 1906	Cambridge University	Free Trade	1,653	43.05
17 January 1910	Preston	Liberal Party	6,281	34.10