Author: ELECTION CARD
Title: Your Vote and Interest are solicited for W. Keswick, the Conservative & Unionist Candidate. Epsom Division. [with] Election Card. [with] First Class to Westminster ticket.
Description: Sutton: Printed and published by William Pile, 1906. 3 items. Card, 105 x 145 mm. printed in colour. Card for Ashtead Polling District in the name of Rev. Francis Granville Lewis Lucas, 105 x 75 mm. Spoof First Class train ticket to Westminster, card, 30 x 55 mm. rear of card printed but print partially obscured by adhesive removal. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. William Keswick [1834 - 1912] was the patriarch of the Keswick shipping family based in Hong Kong> he was also a director of the Hudson Bay Company. He held the Epson parliamentary seat from 1899 until 1912 when he resigned using the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He died the following day.

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