Mr Lowndes’ Observations: Treating, Alcohol and Expense in the Newcastle Election, 1790
At the 1790 local election in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1808), Lord Stafford’s Trentham party stood for the Parliamentary seat for Newcastle with their candidate Admiral John ...
Poll Books: Voters and the Newcastle Elections, 1790 and 1792
The Sutherland Papers include printed poll books for the elections at Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early 1790s. A document entitled ‘A Copy of the Poll taken at the Borough of Newcastle-Under-Lyme in the ...
Rejected Votes and Rejected Voters
The Sutherland Papers include a report produced by Mr. Lowndes entitled ‘Cases of Persons who Tendered their Votes for Gower & Macdonald and were Rejected’. The document details specific cases where people ...
Rejected Votes, Rejected Voters: Who couldn’t vote in late eighteenth century local elections?
When the Returning Officer scrutinised the votes cast at the poll he examined whether the people voting were actually eligible to vote in the Newcastle local elections. Voting rights were very restrictive ...
Running an Election Campaign in the 1790s: Mr. Massey’s Accounts for the Newcastle Election, 1790
Mr. Massey was an election agent working for Gower and Macdonald in the Newcastle election campaign of 1790. His detailed accounts for the election expenses tell us how an election campaign was organised ...
Voters' Lives: Who Voted in the Newcastle Elections?
The Sutherland Papers contain a wide range of documents relating to the Newcastle local elections of the early 1790s, from printed poll books to reports on the treating of the electorate. However, these ...