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Cheshire Mid (UK Parliament Constituency)
Mid Cheshire is a former United Kingdom parliamentary constituency. History Under the Reform Act 1867, the Parliamentary County of Cheshire was divided into three 2-member constituencies. This was achieved by the creation of Mid Cheshire which comprised the Hundred of Bucklow from North Cheshire and the Hundred of Northwich from South Cheshire. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the three 2-member seats were abolished and re-divided into eight single-member constituencies: Altrincham, Crewe, Eddisbury, Hyde, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Northwich and Wirral. Boundaries 1868–1885: The Hundreds of Bucklow and Northwich. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1860s Elections in the 1870s Legh resigned, causing a by-election. Leigh's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1880s Egerton's elevation to the peerage, becoming Lord Egerton, caused a by-election. See also *List of former Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Cheshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
North Cheshire is a former United Kingdom parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the division of Cheshire in 1832. In 1868 it was abolished with South Cheshire to form East Cheshire, Mid Cheshire, West Cheshire and Stalybridge. History North Cheshire, or the Northern Division of Cheshire, was created as a two-member constituency under the Representation of the People Act 1832 (Great Reform Act) as one of 2 divisions, along with South Cheshire, of the Parliamentary County of Cheshire. It comprised the Hundreds of Macclesfield and Bucklow. Under the Reform Act 1867, Cheshire was further divided with the creation of Mid Cheshire, to which the Bucklow Hundred was transferred. North Cheshire, now comprising the Hundred of Macclesfield was renamed East Cheshire by the Boundaries Act 1868. Members of Parliament Elections * Caused by Egerton's resignation by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (17 January 1832 – 16 March 1909) was an English Conservative Party politician from the Egerton family. He sat in the House of Commons from 1858 to 1883 when he inherited his peerage and was elevated to the House of Lords. Life Egerton was the son of the 1st Baron Egerton and his wife Lady Charlotte Loftus eldest daughter of the Marquis of Ely. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and a captain in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1858 Egerton was elected Member of Parliament for North Cheshire and held the seat until it was reorganised in 1868. He was then elected MP for Mid Cheshire and held the seat until 1883, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Egerton. He was the second Chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal from 1887 to 1894. In 1897, he was created Earl Egerton. Egerton was appointed Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum (Lord Lieutenant) of Cheshire i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 United Kingdom General Election
The 1880 United Kingdom general election was a general election in the United Kingdom held from 31 March to 27 April 1880. Its intense rhetoric was led by the Midlothian campaign of the Liberals, particularly the fierce oratory of Liberal leader William Gladstone. He vehemently attacked the foreign policy of the government of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, as utterly immoral. Liberals secured one of their largest-ever majorities, leaving the Conservatives a distant second. As a result of the campaign, the Liberal Commons leader, Lord Hartington (heir apparent to the Duke of Devonshire) and that in the Lords, Lord Granville, stood back in favour of Gladstone, who thus became Prime Minister a second time. It was the last general election in which any party other than the Conservatives won a majority of the votes (rather than a plurality). Results summary Voting summary Seats summary Issues The Conservative government was doomed by the poor condition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1874 United Kingdom General Election
The 1874 United Kingdom general election saw the incumbent Liberals, led by William Gladstone, lose decisively, even though it won a majority of the votes cast. Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives won the majority of seats in the House of Commons, largely because they won a number of uncontested seats. It was the first Conservative victory in a general election since 1841. Gladstone's decision to call an election surprised his colleagues, for they were aware of large sectors of discontent in their coalition. For example, the nonconformists were upset with education policies; many working-class people disliked the new trade union laws and the restrictions on drinking. The Conservatives were making gains in the middle-class, Gladstone wanted to abolish the income tax, but failed to carry his own cabinet. The result was a disaster for the Liberals, who went from 387 MPs to only 242. Conservatives jumped from 271 to 350. For the first time, the Irish nationalists were elected. Glad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Latham
George William Latham (4 May 1827 – 4 October 1886) was an English landowner and barrister and a Liberal politician. Latham was born in London, the son of John Latham (1787–1853) of Bradwall Hall, Sandbach, and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Dampier, daughter of Sir Henry Dampier, a judge of the King's Bench. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA 1849, MA. 1852) and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1852. He was a J.P. for Cheshire and the Borough of Crewe. Three times Latham stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for the division of Mid Cheshire: in 1863, in 1880 and in 1883.''Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser'', 6 October 1886. Retrieved 23 April 2019. He was elected Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ... for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley
John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (26 April 1835 – 22 November 1895) was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates. Biography He was eldest son of George Fleming Leicester (afterwards Warren), Lord de Tabley (1811–1887), by his wife (married: 1832) Catherina Barbara (1814–1869), second daughter of Jerome, Count de Salis-Soglio. The young Warren, as he then was, was educated at Eton from 1847 to 1851, in the Rev. Edward Coleridge's house, and then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1856 with second class honours in classics, law, and modern history. In the autumn of 1858 he went to Turkey as unpaid attaché to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. In 1860 he was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn. He was commissioned as a part-time Lieutenant into the Cheshire Yeomanry and unsuccessfully contested Mid-Cheshire in 1868 as a Liberal. After his mother died and his father's re-marriage in 1871 Warren removed to Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 United Kingdom General Election
The 1885 United Kingdom general election was held from 24 November to 18 December 1885. This was the first general election after an Representation of the People Act 1884, extension of the franchise and Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, redistribution of seats. For the first time a majority of adult males could vote and most constituencies by law returned a single member to Parliament, fulfilling one of the ideals of Chartism to provide direct single-member, single-electorate accountability. It saw the Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone, win the most seats, but not an overall majority. As the Irish Nationalists held the balance of power between them and the Conservatives who sat with an increasing number of allied Unionist MPs (referring to the Acts of Union 1800, Union of Great Britain and Ireland), this exacerbated divisions within the Liberals over Irish Home Rule and led to a Liberal split and another 1886 United Kingdom general election, general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton
Alan de Tatton Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton (19 March 1845 – 9 September 1920), known as the Honourable Alan Egerton from 1859 to 1907, was a British Conservative politician from the Egerton family. Egerton was a younger son of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton, and his wife Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus. Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton, was his elder brother. He was elected to the House of Commons for Cheshire Mid in 1883, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Knutsford from 1885 to 1906. In 1907 he succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Egerton.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', 100th Edn, 1953. The Hon Alan de Tatton Egerton MP was commissioned as a captain in the Paddington Rifles (later 5th Volunteer Battalion, Rifle Brigade) in 1877, and was later major and honorary lieutenant-colonel in the Cheshire imperial Yeomanry. He was the first president of the Institute of Refrigeration, formed in 1899 as the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Mid Cheshire By-election
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Piers Egerton-Warburton
Piers Egerton-Warburton (22 May 1839 – 24 March 1914) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885. Egerton-Warburton was the eldest son of Rowland Eyles Egerton and his wife, Mary Brooke, daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet. His father assumed the additional surname Warburton on inheriting estates of his grand uncle Sir Peter Warburton. Egerton-Warburton was educated at Eton College followed by Christ Church, Oxford ( BA, 1861). He was a captain in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry and a Magistrate for Cheshire. In 1876 Egerton-Warburton was elected Member of Parliament for Mid Cheshire. He held the seat until 1885. Personal life Egerton-Warburton married Hon. Antoinette Elizabeth Saumarez, daughter of John St Vincent Saumarez, 3rd Baron de Saumarez in 1880. They had two sons and four daughters: *Dorothy Egerton-Warburton (27 July 1882 – 5 November 1954), died unmarried *Eveline Egerton-Warburton ( – 23 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 Mid Cheshire By-election
The 1876 Mid Cheshire by-election was fought on 18 July 1876. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Egerton Leigh. It was won by the Conservative candidate Piers Egerton-Warburton Piers Egerton-Warburton (22 May 1839 – 24 March 1914) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885. Egerton-Warburton was the eldest son of Rowland Eyles Egerton and his wife, Mary Brooke, daugh .... References 1876 elections in the United Kingdom 1876 in England 19th century in Cheshire By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Cheshire constituencies Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom (need citation) July 1876 events {{England-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egerton Leigh
Egerton Leigh (7 March 1815 – 1 July 1876) was a British landowner, soldier, Conservative politician and author. Personal life Leigh was the only son of Egerton Leigh and Wilhelmina Sarah, daughter of George Stratton, and succeeded his father as head of the ancient Cheshire family of Leigh of West Hall, High Legh; the Leigh Baronets of South Carolina were a cadet branch of this family, while his first name was derived from his descent from John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater. An earlier junior branch of the medieval Leigh family became Barons Leigh and Earls of Chichester. He was lord of the manors of High Legh and Twemlow, patron of the benefice of High Legh and of the 1st mediety of Lymm. He was educated at Eton College. Leigh married Lydia Rachel, daughter of John Smith Wright, JP in 1842. They had several children, the eldest of whom was Egerton Leigh (who married first Lady Elizabeth Gore White; who died 1880) and great-grandfather of the Conservative politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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