The 1937

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) (historic spelling ''Tunbridge'') is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Mall ...

by-election was held on 23 March 1937. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP,

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. It was won by the Conservative candidate

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had previously been the Unionist MP for the normally Labour seat of

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. The Liberal challenger was 59 year-old Borlase Matthews. He was Liberal candidate at Henley for the 1931 general election, the 1932 Henley by-election and at Ashford for the 1935 general election. He was an engineer but left engineering to take up farming. He was a Member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society. He was a Member of the Electricity Commissioners Rural Electrification Conference. He was Chairman of the

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. He was also an author of several books and papers on farming.The Times House of Commons, 1931

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1937 in England Tonbridge and Malling

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