Litchfield Election Petition.- Minutes of Evidence on the Trial of the Lichfield Election Petition, 8 manuscript vol., Russell Cooke's ownership signature, original wrappers, margins rubbed and toned, December 1895; and small qty of local vellum deeds and documents, v.s., v.d. (qty)

⁂ A complete, unbroken record of the evidence as taken down longhand and copied.

Henry Charles Fulford won the Lichfield election by just 44 votes. However, this election was voided following the lodging of a petition on 19th December 1895. About nine months before the election, after Fulford's selection as candidate, a public meeting was held at which he spoke. The meeting ended with a resolution to secure the return of Fulford to Parliament. Although Fulford had yet to be formally adopted by the local Liberal association, this meeting was deemed to have commenced his election campaign. Fulford's return of election expenses had not taken this meeting into consideration. Fulford did not contest the ensuing by-election by the Liberal Part comfortably won. He did not stand for Parliament again.