1. Appendices
  2. Abbreviations

    In addition to standard and self-explanatory abbreviations, the following abbreviations are used in this volume.

  3. Method

    The arrangement of these volumes follows that of the 1790-1820 section of the History of Parliament.

  4. II. Wales

    Prior to the implementation of the 1832 Reform Act, Wales returned 24 Members: one for each of its 12 county and 12 borough constituencies, seven of which had out-boroughs.

  5. III. Scotland

    The Counties

  6. IV. Ireland

    Ireland accounted for 100 of the 658 seats at Westminster during this period, the Members being returned from 66 constituencies: 32 counties, 33 boroughs (two of which, Cork and Dublin, returned tw

  7. V. General Elections, 1820-1831

    The Election of 1820

  8. VI. The Members

    Age, Family and Parliamentary Experience

  9. VII. The Procedure and Business of the House

    The Fabric of the HouseIn addition to the works cited in the footnotes, this chapter draws on C. Wilkinson, 'The Practice and Procedure of the House of Commons c.1784-1832' (Aberystwyth Univ.

  10. VIII. Politics and Parties

    The 1820 Parliament

  11. IX. The English Reform Legislation

    Between 1831 and 1832 three different sets of bills aimed at reforming the English representative system were considered by Parliament. For the first bill and the amended versions of i

  12. Section 1

    Section 1

  13. Appendix II

    Speaker of the House of Commons and Chairmen of Ways and Means

     

  14. Appendix I

    Dates of Parliaments

     

    Year

    Date of
    summons

  15. Appendix III

    Prime Ministers and Leaders of the House of Commons

     

  16. Appendix IV

    Officials of the House of Commons

     

    Clerk of the House

  17. Appendix V

    Constituencies and Contested Elections

     

    The House of Commons from 1820 until 1826 had 658 Members, elected by 380 constituencies as follows:

     

  18. Appendix VIII

    Index to parliamentary boroughs

    (by county and district)

  19. Appendix IX

    Bibliography of Manuscript Sources

     

    Scheme

    1. London repositories

    2. United Kingdom repositories outside London

  20. Surveys 1820-1832

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  21. I. England

    Between 1820 and 1826 the House of Commons had 658 Members, elected by 383 constituencies: 245 English; 24 Welsh; 48 Scottish (with three pairs of counties returning to alternate Parliaments); and 66 Irish. The disfranchisement of Grampound for corruption and the transfer of its two seats to Yorkshire, which became effective at the 1826 general election, reduced the number of English constituencies to 244

  22. 1820-1832 Parliaments