Right of election

in the corporation

Background Information

Number of voters: 24

Number of seats
1
Constituency business
County
Date Candidate Votes
2 Apr. 1754 RICHARD THELWALL PRICE
2 Apr. 1761 RICHARD THELWALL PRICE
25 Mar. 1768 SIR HUGH WILLIAMS
22 Oct. 1774 SIR HUGH WILLIAMS
16 Sept. 1780 SIR GEORGE WARREN
17 Apr. 1784 HUGH FORTESCUE
25 July 1785 SIR HUGH WILLIAMS vice Fortescue, called to the Upper House
Main Article

Beaumaris was a pocket borough of the Bulkeley family of Baron Hill. During the minority of the 7th Viscount (1754-73), it was controlled first by his maternal grandfather Thomas Rowlands, and after his death in 1763 by the dowager Lady Bulkeley, who married secondly Sir Hugh Williams.

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