Warwick was virtually a scot and lot borough. Oldfield wrote about it in 1792:Boroughs, iii. 80. ‘There have been frequent struggles here between the Earl of Warwick ... and the popular party.’ In 1754 its patrons were Lord Brooke (later Earl of Warwick) and Lord Archer. In 1774 both seats went to members of Warwick’s family; which led in 1780 to a revolt of the independent party and the loss of one seat to Robert Ladbroke, a London banker with an estate in Warwickshire. In 1784 Charles Francis Greville, having quarre lled with his brother Lord Warwick, stood on his own interest; and he and Ladbroke were successful against Warwick’s candidate.
Right of election
‘in such persons only as pay to church and poor’CJ, 31 Jan. 1722/3.
