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 ...
Battle Accounts in the Sutherland Collection
Many of the battle accounts featured in the Sutherland Papers are written from the Royalist perspective, supporting the King. They include accounts of the Battle of Edgehill, the opening battle of the ...
Civil War Celebrities in the Sutherland Collection
The Sutherland Collection contains many letters and accounts which refer to important figures from the English Civil War.
Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661)
Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) was a Staffordshire ...
Duchess Millicent and Winston Churchill
Duchess Millicent's papers include correspondence with Winston Churchill written during the early twentieth century, and also typed memoirs written during the First World War. A
Amongst these papers ...
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 ...
Events at the Poll: The General Election at Lichfield, 1761
Was the Poll Fair?
The image above shows an extract taken from a volume of notes produced by a man named Mr. Goodwin concerning the Lichfield Election of 1761. Mr. Goodwin's notes include comments ...
Granville, Earl Gower and National Politics: William Pitt the Younger and the post of Lord Privy Seal
Owing to Gower’s long and diverse political career, the Sutherland Papers includes many letters from various men in high political office, including letters from Prime ministers Henry Addington and William ...
Lichfield Elections 1748, 1753 and 1754: Lawyers Costs
During the eighteenth century the Gower-Anson interest made extensive purchases of property in Lichfield in order to secure the voting rights which were attached to certain properties. Tenants who were ...
Lilleshall Elections, 1832
The document above is a printed list of men from the Parish of Kinnerlsey who were eligible to vote in the Parliamentary Elections in 1832.
The document tells us that William and Thomas Hooper were ...
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 ...
Mr. Goodwin’s Notes on the General Election & Scrutiny in Lichfield, 1761
The Sutherland Papers include a small volume entitled ‘Mr. Goodwin’s Notes’ which were made by Mr. Goodwin concerning the General Election and Scrutiny at Lichfield in 1761.
Goodwin’s book provides ...
Newcastle Broadsheets about Bribery and Corruption
The Sutherland Collection contains a wide range documents relating to the role of bribery and corruption in the electoral system of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of these documents ...
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 ...
Problems with Voters & Property
Amongst the papers relating to Lichfield elections in the 1740s and 1750s are a number of documents providing details about the people who voted in the Lichfield elections.
One document concerns the ...
Prohibition on Illegal Butter
Amongst the papers relating to England’s food supply in time of war are pamphlets refering to a Parliamentary Bill ‘to amend the law with regard to the sale of adulterated butter’.
The Bill appears ...
Public House Bills
Many of the bills in the Election Accounts relate to payments owed to Public Houses. The bills tell us about the importance of local pubs in the Lichfield elections and the services provided by these ...
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 ...