The 1881 Preston by-election took place on 20 May 1881 after the death of the incumbent Conservative MP Edward Hermon. The Conservative candidate William Farrer Ecroyd campaigned on a fair trade platform and won the seat.
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Further reading
- B. H. Brown, The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881âÂÂ1895 (1943).
- S. Zebel, âÂÂFair Trade: An English Reaction to the Breakdown of the Cobden Treaty SystemâÂÂ, Journal of Modern History, 12 (1940), pp. 161âÂÂ185.