Right of election
in the resident freemen
Background Information
Number of voters: about 400
Number of seats
2
Constituency business
County
| Date | Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Apr. 1754 | WILLIAM RICHARD CHETWYND | |
| HON. WILLIAM RICHARD CHETWYND | ||
| 2 Apr. 1761 | WILLIAM RICHARD CHETWYND | |
| HON. WILLIAM RICHARD CHETWYND | ||
| 4 Mar. 1765 | JOHN CREWE vice Hon. William Richard Chetwynd, deceased | 177 |
| William Chetwynd | 144 |
|
| 18 Mar. 1768 | RICHARD WHITWORTH | 237 |
| WILLIAM RICHARD CHETWYND, 3rd Visct. Chetwynd | 222 |
|
| Hugo Meynell | 206 |
|
| 12 Apr. 1770 | WILLIAM NEVIL HART vice Chetwynd, deceased | |
| 8 Oct. 1774 | HUGO MEYNELL | |
| RICHARD WHITWORTH | ||
| 12 Sept. 1780 | EDWARD MONCKTON | 258 |
| RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN | 248 |
|
| Richard Whitworth | 168 |
|
| Andrew Drummond | 46 |
|
| 31 Mar. 1784 | EDWARD MONCKTON | |
| RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN |
Main Article
Stafford was an expensive and difficult constituency, with an electorate composed mostly of tradesmen.1See the analysis of the poll book of 1765 in J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parlty. Hist. ii. 278-9. About 1754 it was under the patronage of the Chetwynds of Ingestre Hall, but by 1774 they had lost all their interest. ‘No Cornish borough is more venal’, wrote Josiah Wedgwood, the potter, in 1780;2Ibid. 301. and Robinson in 1783 described the borough as ‘very open’.
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