UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 10 October 1871, Dunecht, Aberdeenshire

Died: 8 March 1940

Lord Balniel - 1880

10th Earl of Balcarres - 31 January 1913

27th Earl of Crawford - 31 January 1913

4th Baron Wigan - 31 January 1913

Knighted - 1921

Member of Privy Council - 12 July 1916

son of Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham

husband of Constance Lilian Pelly

Eton College

Magdalen College, Oxford (- 1894)

Junior Lord of the Treasury	15 October 1903	22 December 1905
President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries	11 July 1916	15 December 1916
Lord Privy Seal	15 December 1916	10 January 1919
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	10 January 1919	1 April 1921
First Commissioner of Works	1 April 1921	19 October 1922
Minister for Transport	12 April 1922	19 October 1922

7 June 1895	Chorley	Conservative Party	Unopposed
13 July 1895	Chorley	Conservative Party	Unopposed
2 October 1900	Chorley	Conservative Party	Unopposed
15 October 1903 Resignation of Lord Balcarres on appointment as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
4 November 1903	Chorley	Conservative Party	6,226	56.48
19 January 1906	Chorley	Conservative Party	6,803	55.68
19 January 1910	Chorley	Conservative Party	7,735	58.34
7 December 1910	Chorley	Conservative Party	7,423	60.30
31 January 1913 Succession of Lord Balcarres to the Peerage - 27th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.