1907 Rutlandshire by-election
The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, George Henry Finch.The by-election was won by the Conservative candidate John Gretton[1] who held the seat until 1918 when the constituency was abolished.The Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes campaigned against the government.At an open-air meeting in Uppingham, Mary Gawthorpe and Christabel Pankhurst were pelted and Gawthorpe fell unconscious; Sylvia Pankhurst wrote that the "incident and her plucky spirit, made her the heroine of the Election".This article about a by-election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England is a stub.