Eye

Borough

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
Available from Boydell and Brewer

Background Information

Right of Election:

in inhabitants paying scot and lot

Number of voters:

about 170 in 1747

Elections

DateCandidateVotes
1 Feb. 1715EDWARD HOPKINS 
 THOMAS SMITH 
28 June 1716HOPKINS re-elected after appointment to office 
24 Mar. 1722SPENCER COMPTON 
 EDWARD HOPKINS 
3 Nov. 1722JAMES CORNWALLIS vice Compton, chose to sit for Sussex 
3 Nov. 1722 HOPKINS re-elected after appointment to office 
18 Aug. 1727STEPHEN CORNWALLIS 
 JOHN CORNWALLIS 
26 Apr. 1734STEPHEN CORNWALLIS 
 JOHN CORNWALLIS 
5 May 1741 STEPHEN CORNWALLIS 
 JOHN CORNWALLIS 
9 Dec. 1743EDWARD CORNWALLIS vice Stephen Cornwallis, deceased 
26 Jan. 1747EDWARD CORNWALLIS re-elected after appointment to office 
29 June 1747ROGER TOWNSHEND95
 EDWARD CORNWALLIS95
 John Cornwallis74
15 Feb. 1748NICHOLAS HARDINGE vice Townshend, appointed to office 
5 May 1749COURTHORPE CLAYTON vice Cornwallis, appointed to office 

Main Article

Eye was the pocket borough of the Cornwallises, whose estate of Brome was two miles away and who obtained a crown grant of the manor in 1698.1 The only contest occurred in 1747 when John Cornwallis stood unsuccessfully against his brother’s interest.

Author: Romney R. Sedgwick

Notes

  • 1. W. A. Copinger, Suff. Manors, iii. 259.