1903 Ludlow by-election

Vacancy

Electoral history

Candidates

• The local Conservative Association selected 45 year-old Rowland Hunt as their candidate to defend the seat. Hunt was the son of Rowland Hunt, of Boreatton Hall, Baschurch, Shropshire and his wife Florence Marianne, daughter of Richard B. Humfrey, of Kibworth Hall, Leicestershire, and Stoke Albany House, Northamptonshire. The Hunts were one of the principal families of north Shropshire. His uncle George Ward Hunt was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Disraeli. Hunt was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He served with the Lovat Scouts during the Second Boer War, and later became a Major in the City of London Yeomanry. In 1889, Hunt married Georgina Veronica Davidson, daughter of Colonel Duncan Davidson of Tulloch Castle in Dingwall. They had two sons and one daughter.
• The local Liberal Association selected 40 year-old Frederic Horne as their candidate to gain the seat. He had not stood for parliament before. After leaving Adams Grammar School, in Newport, Shropshire he studied farming in Shropshire. He farmed at Shifnal

  Campaign

Result

Aftermath