Sir James Hill, 1st Baronet (March 1849 – 17 January 1936) was a British Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician.

He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Bradford Central

Bradford Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Bradford Central was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 at a by-election in 1916, following the death of the Liberal MP Sir George Scott Robertson

George Scott Robertson

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. He was made a baronet

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 in January 1917, of Bradford, but at the 1918 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1918

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 the "coalition coupon

Coalition Coupon

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" went to his Conservative Party

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 opponent Henry Butler Ratcliffe, who won the seat. After his defeat, Hill did not stand for Parliament

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again.