A Shocking Case of Subterfuge and Corruption
Controversy surrounding the Staffordshire County Election of 1820 was not confined to antagonism between the opposing parties. A letter from Joseph Burgess, an agent of George Granville Leveson-Gower ...
Election Accounts
The Sutherland Papers include a large series of Annual Estate Accounts for the Leveson-Gower family’s estates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Annual Accounts for the Trentham and Newcastle ...
Election News
During the 1820 County Election, Lord Gower’s election agents corresponded daily about events in their election campaign. Their letters provide detailed and atmospheric accounts of how election campaigns ...
Shock and Controversy: Gower Quits!
The letters sent to Lord Gower - George Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1833), Marquis of Stafford, - by people declining to support him at the Staffordshire Election suggest that the countywide popularity ...