Derbyshire

Background Information

Number of voters: about 4000

Constituency business
Date Candidate Votes
17 Feb. 1715 JOHN CURZON
GODFREY CLARKE
5 Apr. 1722 SIR JOHN CURZON
GODFREY CLARKE
28 Aug. 1727 SIR NATHANIEL CURZON
GODFREY CLARKE
16 May 1734 LORD CHARLES CAVENDISH
2,081
SIR NATHANIEL CURZON
2,043
Henry Harpur
1,796
19 May 1741 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Mq. of Hartington
SIR NATHANIEL CURZON
6 July 1747 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Mq. of Hartington
SIR NATHANIEL CURZON
27 June 1751 LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH vice Hartington, called to the Upper House
Main Article

<p>The leading Derbyshire families were the Curzons, Tories, and the Cavendishes, Whigs. At each of the first three general elections two Tories, one of them a Curzon, were returned unopposed, but in 1734 the Cavendishes gained one seat, after which they shared the representation with the Curzons without opposition.</p>

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