Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Stooks Smith 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790 and Stooks Smith 1790–1832.
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Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Sedgwick 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790 and Stooks Smith 1790–1832. From 1832 the principal source was Craig, with additional or different information from Stooks Smith included. Candidates classified by Craig as Liberal before 1859, are labeled as Whig or Radical (following Stooks Smith) or Liberal if their exact allegiance is uncertain. Similarly candidates classified by Craig as Conservative but by Stooks Smith as Tory are listed below as Tory.
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Where Stooks Smith gives additional information after 1832 this is indicated in a note.
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Sources: The results for elections before 1790 were taken from the History of Parliament Trust publications on the House of Commons. The results from 1790 until the 1832 general election are based on Stooks Smith and from 1832 onwards on Craig. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information to the other sources this is indicated in a note.
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Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote. Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Stooks Smith 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790 and Stooks Smith 1790–1832. From 1832 the principal source was Craig, with additional or different information from Stooks Smith included.
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Stooks Smith, pages 345-346 He was re-elected in 1837, and held the seat until his resignation later in 1837 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.
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The only parliamentary borough included in the East division, between 1832-1885, (whose non-resident 40-shilling freeholders could vote in the county constituency) was Carlisle. (Source: Stooks Smith).
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History of Parliament 1790–1820, vol II p 380-1 A garbled version of the 1803 byelection was included by Henry Stooks Smith in The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, as the supposed story of a byelection in 1816, at which Sir Mark Wood, 2nd Baronet was returned. Stooks Smith wrote: The History of Parliament notes that this story "has not been confirmed". Gatton's representation was abolished by the Reform Act in 1832.
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Walter Heath Williams Harvest Time Walter Heath Williams (birthdate unknown, exhibited 1841 to 1876) was a Victorian landscape artist known for his paintings of fields of haystacks and corn stooks.
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Darren Dunn holds down mornings on My 93-1 and is also the station's Program Director. Cyndee Campbell holds down middays, Rodney Baker is in afternoons, and Matt Stooks does evenings.
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It means that the sources consulted did not specify a party allegiance. The sources used were Stooks Smith as well as Namier and Brooke (see the References section for further details).
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Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote. Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Sedgwick 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790, Stooks Smith 1790–1832 and from Craig thereafter. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information or differs from the other sources this is indicated in a note after the result.
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It was only towards the end of the century that party labels began to acquire some meaning again, although this process was by no means complete for several more generations. Sources: The results for elections before 1790 were taken from the History of Parliament Trust publications on the House of Commons. The results from 1790 until 1832 are based on Stooks Smith. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information to the other sources this is indicated in a note.
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There were no parliamentary boroughs enclaved in the area of the South division, between 1832 and 1885, so no non-resident 40 shilling freeholders voted in the county constituency. (Source: Stooks Smith).
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The church is built from hewn stones and strengthened with stooks. The typical Romanesque semicircular apse is vaulted by concha. The apse is continued by aisle. The Romanesque windows survived the fire.
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Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote. Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Namier and Brooke 1754-1790, Stooks Smith 1790-1832 and Craig from the 1832 United Kingdom general election. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information or differs from the other sources this is indicated in a note after the result.
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Stooks Smith, page 51 He did not contest the seat at the 1796 general election He had married in 1768 Catherine, the daughter of Thomas Wood, of Beadnell, Northumberland; they had one surviving child, another Humphrey.
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The next settler to try his hand at the Vaughan township part of Richmond Hill was John C. Stooks, who arrived there with his wife in June 1797. Arriving in York, the Stooks travelled north along Yonge Street and settled on lot 47 of Vaughan township, on the west side of Yonge Street one lot north of Major Mackenzie Drive. The Stooks too found the life a difficult one, they cleared little land and built only a modest house before abandoning the area and moving on. The first settlers to come to Richmond Hill and remain there for more than a few years were Hugh and Ann Shaw who arrived in 1798 and occupied lot 46 on the northeast corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. Other lots along Yonge Street quickly became occupied, with Thomas Kinnear in lot 48, William Jarvis in lot 49 and William McLennan in lot 50 east of Yonge Street.
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Sidney Richard Percy Corn Stooks in a Mountain River Landscape Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 1874 Sidney Richard Percy (22 March 1822 – 13 April 1886) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters.
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The Downstairs Club, Bournemouth was opened by Jerry Stooks, a local musician, on 3 May 1961.Bournemouth Evening Echo 3 May 1961 It occupied a cellar under a greengrocer's shop at 9 Holdenhurst Road, Lansdowne, Bournemouth. From the outset Stooks ran it as a full-time venue, featuring a variety of live bands each night of the week, including Sundays, with weekend all-night sessions extending to 6.00 am. although the club was not licensed to serve alcohol. The initial booking policy was slanted towards jazz but within a few weeks the emphasis switched to rock’n’roll and the first rock groups began appearing at the club, though jazz combos also continued to be play there over the following years.
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The use of the term 'Non Partisan' in the list does not necessarily mean that the MP was not associated with a particular party or faction in Parliament. Stooks Smith only gives Nottinghamshire candidates party labels for the contested 1722 election and not again until well into the 19th century.
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Walker confirms the date of election was 24 October 1812. Stooks Smith indicates that there were three days of polling, during which time 950 electors came to the hustings and voted. Longer contests were possible. The polling in the Berkshire election of 1812 went on for 15 days (with 1,992 electors voting).
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Stooks Smith, page 338 He resigned that seat later the same year. Curtis was also Alderman of the city, becoming Sheriff of London in 1788 and Lord Mayor in 1795–96. He was known for the lavish banquets he gave at his estate, Cullands Grove. He was created a Baronet of Cullonds Grove in 1802.
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Stooks Smith gives an account of this contested election. It was the second by-election of 1831. As his book is out of copyright, the whole passage is set out below. The franchise was expanded in 1832 because of the Great Reform Act, when the £10 householders were added to the electorate and the registration of voters was introduced.
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He was elected as an (MP) for the borough of St Germans in Cornwall at a by- election in March 1768,Stooks Smith, page 493 and held the seat until the 1774 general election. At the 1784 general election he was returned as an MP for Thetford.Stooks Smith, page 228 He held that seat until the 1790 general election.
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Stooks Smith, p. 7. He was re-elected in 1812, defeating his Tory opponent by a margin of 112 votes to 11, and held the seat until the 1818 general election. In 1815, financial difficulties forced him to sell the contents of Radley Hall. As a consequence, he moved with his family to Italy, converting to Roman Catholicism in 1850.
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These details are given in the Elections section below and provide a list of major towns in the area. Electors had to declare their votes (verbally and in public), as this was before the introduction of the secret ballot. (Source: Stooks Smith). Charles Seymour, in Electoral Reform in England and Wales, commented about the debate in 1832 about the non resident freeholder vote.
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He was elected at the 1747 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeenshire, and held the seat until the 1754 general election. He was elected as MP for Elgin Burghs at a by-election in January 1755,Stooks Smith, page 642 and held that seat until his death in 1771. He was created KB on 13 December 1765.
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Fighting spread as far as Pitreavie on the far side of Inverkeithing and was said to have been particularly bloody: reputedly the Pinkerton Burn ran red with blood for days and the heaps of the dead resembled stooks in a harvest field. Lambert was victorious and claimed his men had killed 2000 and taken 1,400 prisoners, although these may be exaggerations.Reid, Stuart (2004). Dunbar 1650: Cromwell's Most Famous Victory.
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Each division returned two members to Parliament. The parliamentary borough included in the area of the county divisions (whose non-resident 40 shilling freeholders voted in the county constituency) were for the East division; Carlisle and for the West division; Cockermouth and Whitehaven. (Source: Stooks Smith). The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
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From classes 3 to 8 the boys live in dormitories under the care and supervision of Matrons, boys of the same age group are together. The Remove Building commemorates Ronald and Zoe Hakim (Staff 1969–86; HM: 1987–94). Each dormitory has about 34 boys. Class III and IV lives in Linlithgow, Class V lives in Iron's Dormitory, Class VI lives in Sinker Dormitory, VII lives Stooks and Class VIII lives in Lewis Dormitory.
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Walter Heath Williams specialized in painting farm scenes with rows of haystacks, or stalks of corn tied into stooks, all brightly lit by the midday sun. He tended to use a palette dominated by yellows and soft browns, and he often used stippling to give the effect of flowers in fields, and leaves on trees. He also painted some river and coastal landscapes of Devon and Cornwall.see Walter Williams at Sphinx Fine Art.
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The purpose of a stook [or 'stooking'] is to dry the unthreshed grain while protecting it from vermin until it is brought into long-term storage. The unthreshed grain also cures while in a stook. In England, sheaves were commonly stacked in stooks of twelve and may therefore refer to twelve sheaves. Stook may also have a general meaning of 'bundle' or 'heap' and applicable to items other than sheaves or bales.
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During the harvest one year there was a violent storm. The next morning all the stooks of oats were found all together at the far end of the parish, piled one on top of another. The people had great difficulty trying to sort out what belonged to each of them. During the early 19th century the Irish Tithe Composition Act permitted Protestant clergy to determine fixed payments in order to provide support for them and their families.
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Pen & Sword. 2006. p.176. The Cornfield, held by the Tate Gallery, was the first painting Nash completed that did not depict the theme of war. The picture with its ordered view of the landscape and geometric treatment of the corn stooks prefigures his brother Paul's Equivalents for the Megaliths. Nash said that he and Paul used to paint for their own pleasure only after six o'clock, when their work as war artists was over for the day.
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At that time all the electors qualified by paying scot and lot, a local property tax. Stooks Smith provides two notes on what happened, following a result in which Thomas Rumbold received 87 votes and John Purling had 37 votes (a third candidate, William James, received 4 votes). > The Returning Officer on the ground that nearly all the 87 were bribed > declared Mr. Purling elected, but Mr. Rumbold was seated on petition. On the > 14th Feb.
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He was returned for Yarmouth at the 1774 general election, and in 1777 he took the additional surname Jervoise. He held the Yarmouth seat until he resigned in 1779 to stand at a by-election in Hampshire. He won the seat, and was re-elected in 1784,Stooks Smith, page 12 but was defeated at the 1790 general election. He was returned to the Commons the following year at a by- election for Yarmouth, and held the seat until his death in 1808.
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A lifelong Tory, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London at the 1790 general election. He held the seat continuously for 28 years until his defeat at the 1818 general election. He was returned to the Commons in February 1819 at a by- election for Bletchingley,Stooks Smith, page 545 and at the 1820 general election he was returned again for the City of London. He did not contest London again at the 1826 election, when he was returned for Hastings.
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He was elected at the 1830 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Gatton in Surrey, then at the 1831 general election as an MP for Great Grimsby,Stooks Smith, page 202 but did not contest the seat at the 1832 general election. He did not stand again until he unsuccessfully contested the 1841 general election in East Sussex. On the death of the 6th Baronet on 28 March 1852 he became the 7th Baronet Shelley of Michelgrove, inheriting Maresfield Park in Sussex.
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Stooks Smith, page 382 He was one of the three people nominated in November 1829 to be the High Sheriff of Kent for 1830–31, but the King picked Edward Rice instead. He was nevertheless appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1831–32, when he lived at Weeting Hall.The Angerstein Dynasty: Owners of Weeting Hall 1808 - 1901 Retrieved 2016-11-05. He was re-elected to Parliament at the 1835 general election as an MP for Greenwich, having previously contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1832.
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Sir Robert William Newman, 1st Baronet (18 August 1776 – 24 January 1848) was a British Whig politician. He was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Bletchingley at a by-election in December 1812. He held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Exeter,Stooks Smith, page 70 and held the seat until the 1826 general election, which he did not contest. He was created a baronet of Stokeley and of Mamhead in the County of Devon in 1836.
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The couple had no children, but Joliffe fathered two illegitimate sons. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Petersfield for most of the period between 1796 and 1834.In 1832 a petition was lodged against the result in Petersfield, and the election of John Shaw-Lefevre was declared void. After scrutiny of the ballots, Hylton Jolliffe was declared elected in 1833. F.W.S. Craig's British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 and Henry Stooks Smith's The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 record the member seated after the petition as William Jolliffe.
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Party affiliations are derived from Stook Smith and Craig (see reference section below). Tory is used prior to the 1835 general election and Conservative from that time. Liberal candidates (as listed by Craig) before the formal creation of the party, shortly after the 1859 general election, are listed as Whig or Radical if the information is available in the work by Stooks Smith. MPs, who were known by the same name, are distinguished in the table below and the election results by a number in brackets after the name.
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Straw sculpture of the endangered numbat Wara art sculptures of endangered Australian animals, designed by Professor Miyajima, have also been created in York, Western Australia as part of the annual York Festival. There are seven statues in York. They were constructed by Australian fibre artists and Japanese wara artists brought to Australia as part of Japanese/ Australian art exchanges, assisted by many volunteers. As there is no rice straw in Western Australia, the York sculptures are made from wheat straw sourced from a York farm that still harvests in stooks.
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The traditional parties, which had arisen in the late seventeenth century, became increasingly irrelevant to politics in the eighteenth century (particularly after 1760), although for some contests in some constituencies party labels were still used. It was only towards the end of the century that party labels began to acquire some meaning again, although this process was by no means complete for several more generations. Sources: The results for elections 1660-1790 were taken from the History of Parliament Trust publications. The results are based on Stooks Smith from 1790 until the 1832 general election and Craig from 1832.
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These sheaves are usually then 'shocked' into A-shaped conical stooks, resembling small tipis, to allow the grain to dry for several days before being picked up and threshed. Withington's original binder used wire to tie the bundles. There were problems with using wireSterling D. Evans, Bound in Twine: The history and ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M; University Press, 2007), p. 4. and it was not long before William Deering invented a binder that successfully used twine and a knotter (invented in 1858 by John Appleby).
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For example, in the era when traditional hay-making was common, raked-up piles of hay were also called stooks, shocks, or ricks. Today baling has largely replaced the stook method of drying hay, or hay is chopped and ensilaged either in silos or on the ground inside polymer wrappers to make haylage. In North America, a stook may also refer to a field stack of six, ten or fifteen small (), rectangular bales of hay or straw. These bales may be stacked and deposited by a "stooking machine" or "stooker" that is dragged, sled-like, behind the baler.
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At the 1802 general election, Hurst was elected to the House of Commons for two constituencies: Shaftesbury and Steyning.Stooks Smith, page 556 The result of the election in Shaftesbury was disputed, but once the dispute had been settled in his favour he chose to represent Shaftesbury, and did not sit for Steyning in the remainder of the Parliament. At the 1806 general election he was returned again for Steyning, and held that seat until the 1812 general election, when he was elected as MP for Horsham,Stooks Smith, page 340 a seat which he held until 1829, when he resigned his seat by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.
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The mown strip left behind is the swathe. For hay crops, this is the same basic sequence as is also done in other ways, such as hand scything, cradling, and swathing, mowing with a mower and then raking with a hay rake, or mowing and conditioning with a mower-conditioner (the latter two sometimes also with additional tedding). With grain crops, as combines replaced threshing machines, the swather introduced a new step in the harvesting process to provide for the drying time that binding formerly afforded. Binding allowed subsequent temporary storage of the cut plants before threshing (either in stooks or in a barn), during which time they dried out.
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At the 1741 general election he was returned to the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Stockbridge in Hampshire, and held the seat until the next election, in 1747. At the 1747 election he was returned as an MP for Milborne Port, but it was a double return and Churchill was not one of those seated.Stooks Smith, page 535 At the 1754 general election he was elected as an MP for Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire, and held that seat until the next election, in 1761.Stooks Smith, page 20 He married Lady Maria Walpole, daughter of Robert Walpole.
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Skene (1887): pp. 44–47 Ferguson was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banffshire at a by- election in 1789,Stooks Smith (1844): p. 622 holding that seat until 1790. He was elected at the 1790 general election as MP for Aberdeenshire, and held that seat until his death 30 years later.Foster (1882): p. 133 The Member became a close associate and political friend of the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. After Pitt's death in 1806, Ferguson did not so easily retain his seat in Parliament. In the elections of 1806, he retained the seat by just two votes, and his opponent General Alexander Hay demanded he be investigated for bribery and corruption.
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He was elected at the 1812 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Lincoln, and held the seat until the 1818 general election, when he was returned for Great Grimsby. He held that seat until the 1820 general election, when was returned for Tavistock,Stooks Smith, page 76 but he resigned his seat two months later, in May 1820, by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. Fazakerley returned to the Commons after a six-year absence when he was returned at the 1826 general election as MP for Lincoln. He did not contest the seat at the 1830 election, but was returned at a by-election in 1830 as MP for the City of Peterborough.
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He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldeburgh in Suffolk at a by-election in May 1829, and held the seat until the 1830 general election, when he was returned for Orford, also in Suffolk. He was re-elected in 1831, and held the seat until the 1832 general election,Stooks Smith, page 544 when the borough was disenfranchised under the Reform Act. In April 1832 he changed his name by Royal Licence to Spencer Horsey de Horsey, after his mother's maiden name. He returned to Parliament after a five-year absence when he was elected at the 1837 general election as MP for the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire.
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At the 1790 general election he was elected unopposed as the MP for Forfarshire, but resigned that seat in early 1796 to contest a by-election in the Perth Burghs, where he was returned unopposed in March 1796.Stooks Smith, page 675 He was re-elected at the general election later in 1796, and held the seat until his death in Cheltenham on 4 October 1805, aged 59, after a long and severe illness. His son David Scott (1782–1851), who inherited Dunninald, had hoped to succeed his father as MP for Perth Burghs. However, by the time the younger Scott left his father's deathbed, Sir David Wedderburn had already secured so much support that even the backing of Lord Melville was unable to prevent defeat.
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She was the first missionary to teach Sunday school and take regular Christian services. The group of women, the Companions of the Peace, were funded by the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf (which still promotes links between churches in Canada and the United Kingdom.) Although intending to work for one year, she stayed as missionary for more than 21 years in Peace River Country, British Columbia. She was nicknamed 'God's Galloping Girl' for her marathon rides in all weathers and over rough terrain, to visit remote farm families and promote their welfare. "...we had another mile across stubble fields and between hundreds of ghostly stooks. Once I charged straight upon a barbed wire fence, and was nearly impaled..."God’s Galloping Girl: 154.
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Corn Stooks by Bray Church (1872) Heywood Hardy was born on 25 November 1842 at Chichester in Sussex, the youngest of ten children of the artist James Hardy senior (1801 – 1879) and his wife Elizabeth. Before he became an artist his father was Principal Trumpet in the Private Band of Music of King George IV. Other artists in the family included Heywood's elder brothers, James junior and David, his sister Ada and his cousins, Frederick Daniel Hardy and George Hardy. Heywood's ancestors were from Horsforth in Yorkshire; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook, was his second cousin. When he was 17 years old Heywood Hardy left the family home in Bath after an argument with his quick-tempered father and removed to Keynsham near Bristol.
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In June 1800, Poyntz was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans and held the seat until the 1807 general election. He was next elected as MP for Callington at a by-election in April 1810, and held the seat until the 1818 general election.Stooks Smith, page 481 In February 1823 he was elected at a by- election as MP for Chichester, and held the seat until the 1830 general election.Stooks Smith, pages 335-336 In March 1831 Poyntz was elected at a by- election as MP for Ashburton, where he was re-elected in May 1831 and held the seat until the 1835 general election,Stooks Smith, page 64 when he was elected MP for Midhurst.
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Until the 1832 United Kingdom general election the major town of Leeds was represented in Parliament solely as a part of the county constituency of Yorkshire. The only exceptions had been that the town was represented as a single member borough in the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments from 1654 to 1658. Before 1832 no new English Parliamentary borough had been enfranchised since the 1670s, but Leeds came close to being represented from 1826. Stooks Smith, in The Parliaments of England, explained what happened. > Immediately after the Parliament elected in 1818 had assembled in 1819, a > petition was presented to the House of Commons, complaining in the usual > terms, that gross bribery and corruption had been practised in the return of > the two Members for the Borough of Grampound, in Cornwall.
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The Parliaments of England () is a compendium of election results for all House of Commons constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1715 to 1847, compiled by Henry Stooks Smith. The compendium was first published in three volumes by Simpkin, Marshall and Company, London, 1844 to 1850. A second edition, edited by F. W. S. Craig, was published in one volume by Political Reference Publications, 18 Lincoln Green, Chichester, Sussex, in 1973. As compiled by Smith, The Parliaments of England appears to be the first reference work of its kind and, according to Craig, in his introduction to the second edition, "a random check of the book reveals relatively few errors and omissions considering the difficulty in collecting results during a period when no official records, other than the actual Writs, were preserved".
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The Scottish soldier John Nicholl described "a drakie nycht full of wind and weit" (a dark night full of wind and wet) and many Scottish soldiers attempted to shelter in the corn stooks. Their officers scattered across the countryside in search of sounder shelter, their cavalry went foraging and unsaddled most of their horses and Major General James Holborne ordered that the musketeers should extinguish their slow match except for two men per company. By around 4:00 am the English troops had reached positions approximately where Cromwell intended them to be; none of them had made the mistake in the dark of going too far and alerting the Scots to their manoeuvres. John Lambert's brigade of three cavalry regiments was positioned abreast of the road; Robert Lilburne's brigade of a further three cavalry regiments was positioned behind it.
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Woodbury, Jason P. Top 15 Local Releases of 2011, The Phoenix New Times, Dec. 16, 2011 retrieved 2012-30-08 Although his recordings made quite a splash in the scene, The Through & Through Gospel Review did not perform live until the "Balls Benefit Show," a concert organized for Marquard's benefit, to help him with his medical bills after a bout with testicular cancer.Sandoval, Anthony. Gospel Claws Frontman Fought Cancer and the Indie Community Chips in to Help Out, The Phoenix New Times, July 12, 2012 retrieved 2012-07-09Woodbury, Jason P. Through & Through Gospel Review, Crescent Ballroom, 7/14/12, Up On the Sun Blog, The Phoenix New Times, July 15, 2012 retrieved 2012-07-09 To help him, his live band consisted of various other members of Gospel Claws, J.D. Stooks, Bob Hoag, Rob Withem of Fine China, and many others.
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Much of the Hotel Chelsea's history has been colored by the musicians who have resided there. Some of the most prominent names include Chet Baker, Grateful Dead, Nico, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Bob Dylan, Chick Corea, Alexander Frey, Dee Dee Ramone, Alice Cooper, Édith Piaf, Johnny Thunders, Mink DeVille, Alejandro Escovedo, Marianne Faithfull, Cher, John Cale, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Bette Midler, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, J.D. Stooks, Jacques Labouchere, Sid Vicious, Richard Barone, Lance Loud and Rufus Wainwright. Madonna lived at the Chelsea in the early 1980s, returning in 1992 to shoot photographs for her book, Sex, in room 822. Leonard Cohen, who lived in room 424, and Janis Joplin, in room 411, had an affair there in 1968, and Cohen later wrote two songs about it, "Chelsea Hotel" and "Chelsea Hotel #2".
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Peel pointed out that it would be far simpler for the > freeholders in the represented boroughs to vote in the borough where their > property was situate instead of being forced to travel to the county polling > place; moreover if the borough freeholders were allowed to vote in the > counties he felt that the boroughs would have an unfair influence in county > elections and the rural element would be submerged by the urban. ... Althorp > ... pointed out that until 1832 freeholders in the unrepresented towns > always had voted in the counties, so the Tories could hardly complain that > the ministers were introducing new principles to favour urban interests ... > . Stooks Smith confirms the number of electors in the polling districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire constituency named after Parliamentary boroughs, at a by-election in 1835 (see below), which suggests up to two-thirds out of a total electorate of 18,063 might have qualified because of freeholds located in boroughs. However it is not known if all these urban area voters were qualified as non-resident freeholders in the boroughs.
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Peel pointed out that it would be far simpler for the > freeholders in the represented boroughs to vote in the borough where their > property was situate instead of being forced to travel to the county polling > place; moreover if the borough freeholders were allowed to vote in the > counties he felt that the boroughs would have an unfair influence in county > elections and the rural element would be submerged by the urban. ... Althorp > ... pointed out that until 1832 freeholders in the unrepresented towns > always had voted in the counties, so the Tories could hardly complain that > the ministers were introducing new principles to favour urban interests ... > . Stooks Smith records the number of electors in the Leeds polling district of the West Riding of Yorkshire constituency, at a by-election in 1835, as 2,250 (out of a total electorate of 18,063). Although it is not known if all these Leeds area voters were qualified as non-resident freeholders in the borough, the numbers given for this and other polling districts named after Parliamentary boroughs suggest that up to two-thirds of the county voters in the West Riding might have qualified on that basis.
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According to the reports on which the Reform Act was based, Wallingford had about 300 men qualified to vote in 1831 (though no more than 230 had ever voted in the previous thirty years). Yet despite the widening of the right to vote, which preserved the ancient right voters of the borough while adding new electors on an occupation franchise, there were only 453 names on the 1832 electoral register for the extended borough. (Stooks Smith records that 166 of these claimed their vote as scot and lot payers, while 287 qualified as £10 occupiers; but many of the latter group presumably paid scot and lot within the old boundaries and could have voted before the Reform Act.) In 1868 the franchise was further extended and there were 942 registered electors, but the constituency was much too small to survive the Third Reform Act, and was abolished with effect from the general election of 1885. The constituency was mostly included in the new Berkshire North or Abingdon county constituency, but Benson and the other parts of the extended borough on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames were placed in the Oxfordshire South or Henley division of that county.
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