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Montgomery Boroughs
Single Member Borough
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Background Information
Right of Election:
in the freemen
Number of voters:
about 70
Elections
Date | Candidate |
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22 Apr. 1754 | William Bodvell |
21 Nov. 1759 | Richard Clive vice Bodvell, deceased |
31 Mar. 1761 | Richard Clive |
21 Mar. 1768 | Richard Clive |
15 June 1771 | Frederick Cornewall vice Clive, deceased |
10 Oct. 1774 | Whitshed Keene |
4 July 1777 | Keene re-elected after vacating his seat |
1 Jan. 1779 | Keene re-elected after appointment to office |
13 Sept. 1780 | Whitshed Keene |
16 Apr. 1783 | Keene re-elected after appointment to office |
5 Apr. 1784 | Whitshed Keene |
Main Article
Montgomery was a pocket borough of the earls of Powis. The only challenge to their control during this period came in 1761 when Chase Price set up a candidate in retaliation for Powis’s support of Thomas Lewis at New Radnor; but there was no poll.