Monday, 14 April 2014
477 Alexander Mitchell
Constituency : Berwick-upon-Tweed 1865-8
Moving onto England the position remained as you were with the Liberals sustaining a net loss of one seat. As you would expect this masked some regional variation. In the north east they did well with a net gain of 3 seats : two by-election holds, two new gains and the loss of one of the Sunderland seats where William Lindsay went down.
One of the gains was Alexander's victory at Berwick.
Alexander was a captain in the Grenadier Guards.
In 1867 Alexander spoke in favour of the effective abolition of two member constituencies to reduce corruption and cited Cobden as having been in favour of it.
Alexander was a friend of the novelist Wilkie Collins.
He died in 1873 aged 42.
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