lancashire constituencies

Seven of the nine railway bills affecting Lancashire attempted that Parliament were timed out by the dissolution and only the Wigan-Liverpool and Warrington-Newton schemes received royal assent.90 Richard Hyde Gregg asked Wilson Patten to explain his vote and headed a delegation of four sent to London to persuade him to declare unequivocally for the bill and, should he refuse, to interview alternative candidates.91 Lord John Russell*, their first choice when Wilson Patten declined ‘to pledge’, was requisitioned at the Spread Eagle Inn, Hanging Ditch, 23 Apr., but chose to contest Devon.

Both sides criticized the methods by which the other’s petitions were procured.60 Amid signs of economic downturn, Manchester chamber of commerce petitioned the Commons and lobbied for concessions on the duty on receipts, 11 Feb., and against restricting grain imports, 24 Apr.
A damaging trial of strength over a suitable voting qualification ensued, involving the Pittite borough reeve Charles Cross and the leading Unitarian manufacturers and lawyers (Hugh Hornby Birley†, William Cririe, Robert Hyde Gregg†, Richard Potter† and his brother Thomas Potter†, Gilbert Winter, George William Wood†), who dominated the Manchester Representation Committee. Crompton declined to stand but quizzed the candidates closely on the East India question and the corn laws, leaving Ottiwell Wood to test them on reform. Blackburne was too old, but Nowell was unknown and had neglected to declare his principles’. Attempts by anti-reformers to have Salford included in the Manchester constituency were successfully resisted, 2 Aug. 1831, 28 Feb. 1832.

A Manchester mass meeting petitioned for the enfranchisement of populous towns, 28 May, and petitions and representations requesting Penryn’s seats continued to be made, 1827-8. The claim of Ashton-under-Lyne (population 26,267 in 1821 and 33,597 in 1831) to separate representation was pressed in memorials and by John Wood when an additional Member was proposed for Stoke-on-Trent, 4 Aug., and conceded, 7 Sept. 1831.102 Stanley’s anti-government vote on Stoke caused unease, but his hostile vote and representations against the county division, 11 Aug., which he had warned ministers he would oppose, was widely approved.103 However, Heywood’s legitimate absence from the division on the reform bill’s third reading, 19 Sept. 1831, created a furore.104 The Commons had received petitions criticizing it and demanding the ballot from Chorley, 14 July, and the Manchester Political Union, 8 Aug., but the unions generally and public meetings in the towns rallied for it and the Lords received at least 18 petitions from unrepresented Lancashire towns urging its speedy passage, 30 Sept.-10 Oct.; Ulverston petitioned commending the bill, 19 Oct.105 The moderates, led by Thomas Potter and Shuttleworth, had failed to carry their resolutions at the Camp Field meeting convened to protest at the bill’s rejection by the Lords in October 1831 and, by mass attendance, the working class Huntites, who made martyrs of their imprisoned spokesmen Broadhurst, Curran and John Pym, dominated subsequent meetings.106 The revised reform bill, announced in December 1831, confirmed the enfranchisement of Ashton-under-Lyne, and made Blackburn, Bolton and Oldham two Member constituencies.

Location of Lancashire within England.

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