[2] In September 1918, Lord Alexander Thynne, the Conservative MP for Bath, was killed in action in World War I.
However the parties in the Liberal-Conservative Coalition Government agreed an electoral pact, and no Liberal candidate stood in Bath in 1918.
[5] He was re-elected in a three-way contest in 1922, but at the 1923 general election he faced only one opponent, the Liberal barrister Frank Raffety.
[5] Following his election in 1924 Foxcroft served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Assistant Postmaster General, a position he held until his death.
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