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Warwick
Double 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 such persons only as pay to church and poor’1
Number of voters:
about 500
Elections
Date | Candidate | Votes |
---|---|---|
15 Apr. 1754 | Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough | |
Henry Archer | ||
29 Dec. 1755 | Hillsborough re-elected after appointment to office | |
9 Dec. 1756 | John Spencer vice Hillsborough, called to the Upper House | |
27 Mar. 1761 | Hamilton Boyle, Visct. Dungarvan | |
Henry Archer | ||
13 Dec. 1762 | Paul Methuen vice Dungarvan, called to the Upper House | |
16 Mar. 1768 | George Greville, Lord Greville | |
Henry Archer | ||
20 May 1768 | Paul Methuen vice Archer, deceased | |
20 Apr. 1770 | Greville re-elected after appointment to office | |
21 Jan. 1774 | Charles Francis Greville vice Lord Greville, called to the Upper House | |
7 Oct. 1774 | Charles Francis Greville | |
Robert Fulke Greville | ||
12 Sept. 1780 | Robert Ladbroke | 212 |
Charles Francis Greville | 203 | |
Robert Fulke Greville | 187 | |
15 Apr. 1783 | Greville re-elected after appointment to office | |
6 Apr. 1784 | Robert Ladbroke | 242 |
Charles Francis Greville | 235 | |
William Holbech | 200 |
Main Article
Warwick was virtually a scot and lot borough. Oldfield wrote about it in 1792:2 ‘There have been frequent struggles here between the Earl of Warwick ... and the popular party.’ In 1754 its patrons were Lord Brooke (later Earl of Warwick) and Lord Archer. In 1774 both seats went to members of Warwick’s family; which led in 1780 to a revolt of the independent party and the loss of one seat to Robert Ladbroke, a London banker with an estate in Warwickshire. In 1784 Charles Francis Greville, having quarre lled with his brother Lord Warwick, stood on his own interest; and he and Ladbroke were successful against Warwick’s candidate.