Thetford

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 the corporation

Number of voters:

31

Elections

DateCandidate
29 Jan. 1715DUDLEY NORTH
 JOHN WARD
26 Mar. 1722SIR EDMUND BACON
 ROBERT JACOMB
24 Aug. 1727SIR EDMUND BACON
 ROBERT JACOMB
1 Feb. 1733CHARLES FITZROY vice Jacomb, deceased
4 May 1734SIR EDMUND BACON
 CHARLES FITZROY
10 Feb. 1739LORD AUGUSTUS FITZROY vice Bacon, deceased
7 May 1741LORD AUGUSTUS FITZROY
 CHARLES FITZROY
29 Dec. 1741LORD HENRY BEAUCLERK vice Lord Augustus Fitzroy, deceased
8 Dec. 1743FITZROY re-elected after appointment to office
2 July 1747LORD HENRY BEAUCLERK
 CHARLES FITZROY

Main Article

The representation of Thetford was controlled by the owner of the adjoining estate of Euston. In 1715 Euston belonged to the dowager Duchess of Grafton, whose second husband, Sir Thomas Hanmer, nominated two Tories at that election. From 1722 both Members were Whigs, nominated by her son, the 2nd Duke of Grafton, to whom the estate passed on her death in 1723.

Author: Romney R. Sedgwick

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