The by-election was held due to the incumbent Conservative MP, John Dalrymple, succeeded as the 12th Earl of Stair.
It was won by his uncle, the Conservative candidate Hew Hamilton Dalrymple,[1] who was unopposed.
At the time of the election, John Dalrymple was a prisoner of war in Germany, having been captured by the Germans during the Great Retreat in 1914.
He remained a prisoner until 1917 when he was repatriated for medical reasons, due to degradation in his eyesight.
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