Wiltshire

Background Information

Number of voters: about 2260 in 1713

Constituency business
Date Candidate Votes
25 Jan. 1715 SIR RICHARD HOWE
ROBERT HYDE
10 Apr. 1722 SIR RICHARD HOWE
ROBERT HYDE
6 Nov. 1722 RICHARD GODDARD vice Hyde deceased
22 Aug. 1727 SIR JAMES LONG
JOHN IVORY TALBOT
12 Apr. 1729 JOHN HOWE vice Long, deceased
7 May 1734 JOHN IVORY TALBOT
JOHN HOWE
12 May 1741 SIR ROBERT LONG
EDWARD POPHAM
30 June 1747 SIR ROBERT LONG
EDWARD POPHAM
Main Article

<p>The Wiltshire Members were drawn from six Tory families, all long settled in the county and with landed estates there. Only in 1715 was there any opposition and then it was not pressed to a poll.</p>

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