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The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. c. 45), enacted by the Whig government of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey , introducing major changes to the electoral system of England ...
The following Acts of Parliament are known as Reform Acts: Reform Act 1832 (often called the "Great Reform Act" or "First Reform Act"), [14] which applied to England and Wales and gave representation to previously underrepresented urban areas and extended the qualifications for voting. Scottish Reform Act 1832, a similar reform applying to ...
Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which until 1832 elected two Members of Parliament. Painting by John Constable, 1829. A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a ...
The following 56 parliamentary boroughs, in England, were completely disenfranchised by the Act. [1] They had all returned two members except for Higham Ferrers, which was a single member constituency. The disenfranchised boroughs lost all independent legislative representation; instead the inhabitants could vote only as part of the county ...
Similar legislation is passed for Scotland (the Scottish Reform Act) [7] and Ireland (An Act to Amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, the Irish Reform Act). [8] 4 July – University of Durham is founded by Act of Parliament at the instigation of the authorities of the city's cathedral.
Reform Act 1832: 1832: Scottish Reform Act 1832: 1832: Irish Reform Act 1832: 1832: Judicial Committee Act 1833: 1833: Judicial Committee Act 1843: 1843: Judicial Committee Act 1844: 1844: Representation of the People Act 1867: 1867: Reform Act (Scotland) 1868: 1868: Reform Act (Ireland) 1868: 1868: Irish Church Act: 1869: Royal Titles Act 1876 ...
The Society of the Friends of the People was an organisation in Great Britain that was focused on advocating for parliamentary reform. It was founded by the Whig Party in 1792. The Society in England was aristocratic and exclusive, in contrast to the Friends of the People in Scotland, who increasingly drew on a wider membership. Members wanted ...
A meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during May 1832, painted by Benjamin Haydon. The Days of May was a period of significant social unrest and political tension in the United Kingdom in May 1832, after the Tories [a] blocked the Third Reform Bill in the House of Lords, which aimed to extend parliamentary representation to the middle and working classes as well as the newly ...