The seat had become vacant when the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament, the Marquess of Lorne had succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Argyll on the death of his father, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll on 24 April 1900.
Peel had been the London County Council member for Woolwich since a by-election on 24 February 1900.
Jones was the secretary to Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, and an executive member of the United Kingdom Alliance, a temperance movement.
The Liberal Unionist Party held the seat with a greatly increased majority.
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