| Description | W.O. Stanley of Penrhos, the member since 1857, although by all accounts intensly unpopular with the electorate (see 189 and 190) was again returned with a majority of 290 over his opponent Morgan Llord Q.C., eldest son of Morris Lloyd of Cefngellgwm, Merionethshire and a barrister of some standing on the North Wales circuit. Although strongly pressed to stand, Lord Clarence Paget, having suffered such a rebuff in the county this same year, decided that his wisest course would be to bide a more opportune moment (190,191). Lloyd conducted his canvass with energy - the more so upon hearing of the anti-Stanley movement at Holyhead (196), but it was quite obvious that his chances of winning were of the thinnest. The electors, writes Fanning evans, did not care whom they voted fod since no Paget was standing. Evans himself plumped for Stanley, despite that gentelman's unforgivable conduct in the county election when he "quietly helped the Methodists to put in their idol Richard Davies". Although defeated on this occassion, Morgan Lloyd lived to fight and win the seat in the election of 1874, and retained it until 1885 when the borough constituency became merged in the county. |