Clitheroe by-election in 1902

The 1902 Clitheroe by-election was held on 1 August 1902 after the incumbent Liberal MP Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth was elevated to the British House of Lords. Labour Representation Committee candidate David Shackleton won unopposed.

The incumbent Liberal MP Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth were among the new peers in the 1902 Coronation Honours announced on 26 June 1902. He was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Shuttleworth the following month, and thus had to resign his seat in the House of Commons.

The barrister Augustine Birrell was mentioned as a possible candidate for the Liberal party, but withdrew early as he found the constituency too far from London to be able to give it adequate time.Philip Stanhope, a former liberal MP for Wednesbury and for Burnley was adopted as a candidate in early July, and considered running, but stated in an interview that he wanted an alliance between the liberals and labour.

The Conservatives considered several candidates, including Colonel John William Robinson Parker, of Browsholme Hall, who had just returned from the Second Boer War in South Africa.

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