Right of election
in householders resident for one year
Background Information
Number of voters: about 50 in 17151Cox, Magna Britannia (1738 ed.), i. 347.
Constituency business
County
| Date | Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jan. 1715 | JOHN KNIGHT | |
| WALLER BACON | ||
| 3 May 1715 | PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, Lord Stanhope, vice Bacon, chose to sit for Norwich | |
| 10 Jan. 1719 | KNIGHT re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 10 Apr. 1722 | CHARLES HAMILTON, Lord Binning | |
| PHILIP CAVENDISH | ||
| 23 Aug. 1727 | SIR GILBERT HEATHCOTE | |
| SIDNEY GODOLPHIN | ||
| 29 Jan. 1733 | RICHARD ELIOT vice Godolphin, deceased | |
| 1 Mar. 1733 | DUDLEY RYDER vice Heathcote, deceased | |
| 28 Jan. 1734 | RYDER re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 3 May 1734 | CHARLES CALVERT, Baron Baltimore | |
| CHARLES MONTAGU | ||
| 13 May 1741 | JOHN HYNDE COTTON | |
| JAMES NEWSHAM | ||
| 2 July 1747 | RICHARD ELIOT | |
| THOMAS POTTER | ||
| 12 Dec. 1748 | EDWARD ELIOT vice Richard Eliot, deceased | |
| 28 June 1751 | ELIOT re-elected after appointment to office |
Main Article
St. Germans was the pocket borough of the Eliots of Port Eliot, who as lords of the manor appointed the returning officer, placing the seats not occupied by themselves first at the disposal of the Administration and from 1734 at that of the Prince of Wales. Thomas Pitt wrote in 1740: ‘the borough is at the disposal of Mr. Eliot, without opposition’,2Chatham mss. and the 2nd Lord Egmont, c.1749-50: ‘in Mr. Eliot’.
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