Just a few days after his divorce was made official, Newbould married Dorothy Irene Pugh by whom he already had one son, born early in 1929.
[4] Newbould originally joined the British Army as a trooper in the 1st Royal Dragoons and fought in the Second Boer War,[1][2] but his main profession was in the developing entertainment industry, the cinema.
In a straight fight between Coalition Conservative and Liberal candidates, Wrightson emerged the winner with a healthy majority of 5,668 votes.
In the by-election Newbould's main campaign points were the abolition of conscription and a crackdown on profiteering[12] the first policy was said to appeal to men and the second to women.
[13] Unfortunately for part of the contest he was confined to bed with a bad cold and his wife was engaged as principal canvasser on his behalf[14] On a turnout of 42.5% (down from the general election turnout of 49.9%), Newbould won what was seen as an important victory for the Asquithian Liberals improving his share of the vote from 32.6% at the general election to 57.3% in the by-election.
[16] However a few weeks later this particular movement towards reconciliation within the Liberal family foundered, mainly as a result of the Independent Liberals' fear that their approaches would be viewed as a willingness to become formally associated with Lloyd George and their determination to let it be known that they could not contemplate the possibility that Lloyd George might one day lead the party again.