[1] It is likely that Gladstone agreed to send Rothschild to the House of Lords to reinforce his Liberal sympathies or perhaps to have him replaced in the Commons by someone more supportive of party policy.
[4] Graham announced his candidature and launched his campaign at the market ordinary held at the George Hotel in Aylesbury on 27 June 1885 with a speech to assembled businessmen.
Among the reforms he said he would support were measures for making the transfer of land cheaper and easier, equalising duties on the property and the abolition or modification of the law on entail.
He was in favour of some degree of the licensing of public houses to be placed in the hands of the ratepayers, deplored the economic conditions which had afflicted rural areas and pledged to do what he could to alleviate hardships and make the cultivation of land more attractive.
He stated that every cottage occupier should be given enough garden ground to grow his food and, like other members of his family, said he was strongly supportive of measures designed to extend and secure civil and religious rights.
[10] This is confirmed by Loulou Harcourt who wrote in his Journal for 17 July 1885 that when he got a telegram from Rothschild with the result of the by-election he was pleased the majority was very much larger than expected and most satisfactory for most of the electors were agricultural labourers.