Right of election
in inhabitants paying scot and lot
Background Information
Number of voters: about 200
Number of seats
2
Constituency business
County
| Date | Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Apr. 1754 | NICHOLAS HARDINGE | |
| COURTHORPE CLAYTON | ||
| 10 Dec. 1757 | CLAYTON re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 25 Apr. 1758 | HENRY TOWNSHEND vice Hardinge, deceased | |
| 25 Jan. 1760 | CHARLES CORNWALLIS, Visct. Brome, vice Townshend, vacated his seat | |
| 30 Mar. 1761 | CHARLES CORNWALLIS, Visct. Brome | |
| HENRY CORNWALLIS | ||
| 4 Dec. 1761 | HENRY TOWNSHEND vice Cornwallis, deceased | |
| 1 Dec. 1762 | JOSHUA ALLEN, Visct. Allen, vice Brome, called to the Upper House | |
| RICHARD BURTON | ||
| 18 Mar. 1768 | JOSHUA ALLEN, Visct. Allen | |
| WILLIAM CORNWALLIS | ||
| 14 Apr. 1770 | RICHARD PHILLIPSON (FORMERLY BURTON) vice Allen, vacated his seat | |
| 22 Mar. 1774 | FRANCIS GODOLPHIN OSBORNE, Mq. of Carmarthen, vice Cornwallis, vacated his seat | |
| 10 Oct. 1774 | JOHN ST. JOHN | |
| RICHARD PHILLIPSON | ||
| 29 Nov. 1775 | ST. JOHN re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 8 Sept. 1780 | RICHARD PHILLIPSON | |
| ARNOLDUS JONES SKELTON | ||
| 3 Apr. 1782 | WILLIAM CORNWALLIS vice Skelton, vacated his seat | |
| 2 Apr. 1784 | RICHARD PHILLIPSON | |
| PETER BATHURST |
Main Article
Eye was a pocket borough of the Cornwallis family, seated at Brome Hall, two miles away. Yet it required careful nursing, and Lord Cornwallis, when in residence, had to keep open house at Brome Hall. He wrote to a friend on 19 Sept. 1784: ‘I am now in the middle of the hurry and bustle of my month at Brome, which is not the pleasantest in the year.’ Though there were no contests during this period, Cornwallis’s control of the borough was by no means secure.1Cornwallis Corresp. i. 181; ii. 104.
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Notes
- 1. Cornwallis Corresp. i. 181; ii. 104.