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Corfe Castle
Borough
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Background Information
Right of Election:
in inhabitant householders paying scot and lot
Number of voters:
about 50
Population:
(1801): 1,344
Elections
| Date | Candidate |
|---|---|
| 22 June 1790 | JOHN BOND |
| HENRY BANKES | |
| 27 May 1796 | HENRY BANKES |
| JOHN BOND | |
| 25 Feb. 1801 | NATHANIEL BOND vice Bond, vacated his seat |
| 23 Mar. 1801 | BOND re-elected after appointment to office |
| 5 July 1802 | HENRY BANKES |
| NATHANIEL BOND | |
| 15 Mar. 1806 | BOND re-elected after appointment to office |
| 3 Nov. 1806 | HENRY BANKES |
| NATHANIEL BOND | |
| 8 May 1807 | HENRY BANKES |
| PETER WILLIAM BAKER | |
| 7 Oct. 1812 | HENRY BANKES |
| PETER WILLIAM BAKER | |
| 13 Feb. 1816 | GEORGE BANKES vice Baker, deceased |
| 18 June 1818 | HENRY BANKES |
| GEORGE BANKES |
Main Article
The agreement whereby the Bond and Bankes families returned a Member each during this period was disturbed only by the accidents of family history. Thus on Nathaniel Bond’s retirement in 1807, as there was no member of the family desirous of his seat, it went to a neighbouring country gentleman, Peter William Baker. On the latter’s death in 1815, as there was still no Bond available, the Bankes family were given custody of the seat for one of themselves until John Bond junior came of age in 1823. This accommodation was facilitated by the good relations and absence of marked political disagreement between the two families.
Oldfield, Rep. Hist. iii. 409; Sidmouth mss, Bond to Sidmouth, 24 Sept. 1805; Colchester, iii. 52.
