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St. Germans
Double Member Borough
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
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Background Information
Right of Election:
in ‘householders who have lived a year in the borough’1
Number of voters:
about 20
Elections
| Date | Candidate |
|---|---|
| 22 Apr. 1754 | Edward Eliot |
| Anthony Champion | |
| 30 Jan. 1760 | Eliot re-elected after appointment to office |
| 2 Apr. 1761 | Edward Eliot |
| Philip Stanhope | |
| 11 June 1765 | William Hussey vice Stanhope, vacated his seat |
| 23 Mar. 1768 | Edward Eliot |
| Samuel Salt | |
| 14 Dec. 1768 | George Jennings vice Salt, chose to sit for Liskeard |
| Benjamin Langlois vice Eliot, chose to sit for Liskeard | |
| 5 Dec. 1772 | Langlois re-elected after appointment to office |
| 12 Oct. 1774 | Edward Eliot |
| Banjamin Langlois | |
| 23 Nov. 1775 | John Pownall vice Eliot, vacated his seat |
| 31 May 1776 | John Peachey vice Pownall, appointed to office |
| 3 June 1778 | Langlois re-elected after appointment to office |
| 11 Sept. 1780 | Edward James Eliot |
| Dudley Long | |
| 22 July 1782 | Eliot re-elected after appointment to office |
| 3 Jan. 1784 | Eliot re-elected after appointment to office |
| 5 Apr. 1784 | John James Hamilton |
| Abel Smith | |
| 3 Sept. 1788 | Samuel Smith vice Abel Smith, deceased |
| 1 Feb. 1790 | Sir Charles Hamilton vice John James Hamilton, called to the Upper House |
Main Article
All electoral surveys during this period assign the borough to Edward Eliot, in the briefest terms, without any qualification. Thus Newcastle, March 1754: ‘Mr. Eliot’s interest’; Thomas Jones, Lord Edgcumbe’s agent, June 1760: ‘Mr. Eliot’; Rockingham, summer 1765: ‘Edward Eliot, Esq., absolutely’; John Robinson, December 1783: ‘Under Mr. Eliot’s arrangement’.2
