Right of election
in ‘householders who have lived a year in the borough’1Oldfield, Boroughs (1792), i. 182.
Background Information
Number of voters: about 20
Number of seats
2
Constituency business
County
| Date | Candidate | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr. 1754 | EDWARD ELIOT | |
| ANTHONY CHAMPION | ||
| 30 Jan. 1760 | ELIOT re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 2 Apr. 1761 | EDWARD ELIOT | |
| PHILIP STANHOPE | ||
| 11 June 1765 | WILLIAM HUSSEY vice Stanhope, vacated his seat | |
| 23 Mar. 1768 | EDWARD ELIOT | |
| SAMUEL SALT | ||
| 14 Dec. 1768 | GEORGE JENNINGS vice Salt, chose to sit for Liskeard | |
| BENJAMIN LANGLOIS | ||
| 5 Dec. 1772 | LANGLOIS re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 12 Oct. 1774 | EDWARD ELIOT | |
| BANJAMIN LANGLOIS | ||
| 23 Nov. 1775 | JOHN POWNALL vice Eliot, vacated his seat | |
| 31 May 1776 | JOHN PEACHEY vice Pownall, appointed to office | |
| 3 June 1778 | LANGLOIS re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 11 Sept. 1780 | EDWARD JAMES ELIOT | |
| DUDLEY LONG | ||
| 22 July 1782 | ELIOT re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 3 Jan. 1784 | ELIOT re-elected after appointment to office | |
| 5 Apr. 1784 | JOHN JAMES HAMILTON | |
| ABEL SMITH | ||
| 3 Sept. 1788 | SAMUEL SMITH vice Abel Smith, deceased | |
| 1 Feb. 1790 | SIR CHARLES HAMILTON vice John James Hamilton, called to the Upper House |
Main Article
All electoral surveys during this period assign the borough to Edward Eliot, in the briefest terms, without any qualification. Thus Newcastle, March 1754: ‘Mr. Eliot’s interest’; Thomas Jones, Lord Edgcumbe’s agent, June 1760: ‘Mr. Eliot’; Rockingham, summer 1765: ‘Edward Eliot, Esq., absolutely’; John Robinson, December 1783: ‘Under Mr. Eliot’s arrangement’.2Add. 32995, ff. 75-82; 32907, ff. 461-2; Fitzwilliam mss, Northants RO; Laprade, 84.
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