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James Hartley (British Politician)
James Hartley (1811 – 24 May 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected at the 1865 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunderland Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ..., and held the seat until he stood down at the 1868 general election. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartley, James 1811 births 1886 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 United Kingdom General Election
The 1865 United Kingdom general election saw the Liberals, led by Lord Palmerston, increase their large majority over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives to 80. The Whig Party changed its name to the Liberal Party between the previous election and this one. Palmerston died in October the same year and was succeeded by Lord John Russell as Prime Minister. Despite the Liberal majority, the party was divided by the issue of further parliamentary reform, and Russell resigned after being defeated in a vote in the House of Commons in 1866, leading to minority Conservative governments under Derby and then Benjamin Disraeli. This was the last United Kingdom general election until 2019 where a party increased its majority after having been returned to office at the previous election with a reduced majority. Corruption The 1865 general election was regarded by contemporaries as being a generally dull contest nationally, which exaggerated the degree of corruption within individual consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set out that ordinary general elections are held on the first Thursday in May, every five years. The Act was repealed in 2022. With approval from Parliament, both the 2017 and 2019 general elections were held earlier than the schedule set by the Act. If a vacancy arises at another time, due to death or resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Under the Representation of the People Act 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunderland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sunderland was a borough constituency of the House of Commons, created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election. It was split into the single-member seats of Sunderland North and Sunderland South for the 1950 general election. Boundaries 1832-1918 Under the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, the contents of the borough were defined as the Parish of Sunderland and the several townships of Bishop Wearmouth, Bishop Wearmouth Panns, Monk Wearmouth, Monk Wearmouth Shore, and Southwick. ''See map on Vision of Britain website.'' ''Minor change in 1868 to include a small part of the Municipal Borough not in the Parliamentary Borough.'' 1918-1950 * The County Borough of Sunderland * The Urban District of Southwick-on-Wear. ''Minor changes to align boundaries with those of local authorities.'' Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1830s Barringt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 United Kingdom General Election
The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom. It was the first election held in the United Kingdom in which more than a million votes were cast; nearly triple the number of votes were cast compared to the previous election of 1865. The result saw the Liberals, led by William Gladstone, again increase their majority over Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives ( see 1865 election) to more than 100 seats. This was the last general election at which all the seats were taken by only the two leading parties, although the parties at the time were loose coalitions and party affiliation was not listed on registration papers. Results Voting summary Seats summary Regional results Great Britain =England= =Scotland= =Wales= Ireland Universities See also * List of MPs elected in the 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fenwick (MP For Sunderland)
Henry Fenwick (1820 – 16 April 1868) was a British Liberal Party politician. He first stood for election to the House of Commons in December 1852, when he was unsuccessful at a by-election for the City of Durham. He was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for Sunderland Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ... at a by-election in January 1855,Craig, page 296 and held the seat until February 1866, when he was appointed as Civil Lord of the Admiralty and was defeated in the resulting by-election. References External links * 1820 births 1868 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 Lords of the Admiralty {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Candlish
John Candlish (baptism, bapt. 28 April 1816 – 17 March 1874) was a British glass bottle manufacturer and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Early life Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of farmer John Candlish and Mary, née Robson. After Mary died in 1820, Candlish senior moved the family to Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland where the latter found work at Ayres Quay bottleworks, managed by his brother, Robert. Candlish was educated at local Dissenter schools and then at an academy in North Shields before returning to Sunderland, aged eleven, to work in the bottleworks. Aged fourteen, his uncle secured him an apprenticeship as a draper and he began to study the French language and joined a debating society. Early career In 1836, Candlish became a partner in a drapery business, and later that year purchased the newspaper, ''Sunderland Beacon'', but it failed within six months. Other short-lived ventures followed into coal exporting and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Schaw Lindsay
William Schaw Lindsay (19December 181528August 1877) was a British merchant and shipowner who was the Classical liberalism, Liberal Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and North Shields (UK Parliament constituency), Tynemouth and North Shields from 1854 to 1859 and for Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency), Sunderland from 1859 until his resignation on grounds of ill-health in 1864. Life Career He was born in Ayr in south-west Scotland on 19December 1815 at the manse of his uncle, the Reverend William Schaw. He lost both his parents by the time he was ten and was brought up by his uncle, a Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900), free kirk minister. Reverend William wished him to follow the same calling but he instead left home in 1831 and worked his passage to Liverpool by trimming coals on board a collier (ship), collier. He was subsequently engaged as a cabin-boy aboard the West Indiaman ''Isabella''. In 1834, he became second mate, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Temperley Gourley
Sir Edward Temperley Gourley (8 June 1826 – 15 April 1902) was a coal fitter, shipowner and politician born in Sunderland, England. He was knighted for his political work. Early life Edward Temperley Gourley - known as E.T. Gourley - was the eldest son of shipowner John Young Gourley and his wife, Mary Temperley. Born on the banks of the River Wear on 8 June 1826, he left school at 13 and served his apprenticeship as a coalfitter with ''John Halcro''.Sunderland Daily Echo: April 1902, 21 January 1881, 1 July 1895 The Halcro office was one of the largest commercial businesses then in Sunderland and, under the supervision of John Halcro, Gourley acquired the rudiments of business and successful commerce. His job took him to the Netherlands and Germany, where he studied foreign trade, and, after finishing his apprenticeship, he was rewarded with a percentage of the firm's profits.The Durham Thirteen: Published April 1874 Business life At the age of 22, Gourley went into bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Sunderland
Below is a list of mayors of Sunderland in the United Kingdom (borough from 1836, metropolitan borough from 1974 to 1992 and City of Sunderland from 1992 to present) Mayors of Sunderland * 1836-37 Andrew White ( Whig) * 1837-38 Richard Spoor * 1838-39 Joseph Simpson * 1839-40 Joseph Brown * 1840-41 Richard White * 1841-42 Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet * 1842-43 Andrew White * 1843-44 Robert Burdon Cay * 1844-45 James Allison * 1845-47 Robert Brown * 1847 Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet * 1847-48 John Scott * 1848-49 Joseph Simpson * 1849-50 William Ord * 1850-51 William Mordey * 1851-53 James Hartley * 1853-54 Samuel Alcock * 1854-56 Anthony John Moore * 1856-58 George Smith Ranson * 1858-59 John Candlish ( Liberal Party) * 1859-61 Samuel Alcock * 1861-62 John Candlish * 1862-63 James Hartley * 1863-64 James Allison * 1864-66 Edward Temperley Gourley * 1866-67 John James Kayll * 1867-68 Edward Temperley Gourley * 1868-69 John Crossley * 1869-70 William Thompson * 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1811 Births
Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Bridge: A heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries. * January 22 – The Casas Revolt begins in San Antonio, Spanish Texas. * February 5 – British Regency: George, Prince of Wales becomes prince regent, because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom. * February 19 – Peninsular War – Battle of the Gebora: An outnumbered French force under Édouard Mortier routs and nearly destroys the Spanish, near Badajoz, Spain. * March 1 – Citadel Massacre in Cairo: Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali kills the last Mamluk leaders. * March 5 – Peninsular War – Battle of Barrosa: A French attack fails, on a larger Anglo-Portuguese-Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
