Derbyshire

County

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
Available from Boydell and Brewer

Background Information

Number of voters:

about 4,000

Elections

DateCandidateVotes
17 Feb. 1715JOHN CURZON 
 GODFREY CLARKE 
5 Apr. 1722SIR JOHN CURZON 
 GODFREY CLARKE 
28 Aug. 1727SIR NATHANIEL CURZON 
 GODFREY CLARKE 
16 May 1734LORD CHARLES CAVENDISH2081
 SIR NATHANIEL CURZON2043
 Henry Harpur1796
19 May 1741WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Mq. of Hartington 
 SIR NATHANIEL CURZON 
6 July 1747WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Mq. of Hartington 
 SIR NATHANIEL CURZON 
27 June 1751LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH vice Hartington, called to the Upper House 

Main Article

The leading Derbyshire families were the Curzons, Tories, and the Cavendishes, Whigs. At each of the first three general elections two Tories, one of them a Curzon, were returned unopposed, but in 1734 the Cavendishes gained one seat, after which they shared the representation with the Curzons without opposition.

Author: Romney R. Sedgwick

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