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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 ...
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.
The flag included the number "16", Tennessee having been admitted as the 16th state of the Union, and the words "The Volunteer State", the state's official nickname. The current flag was designed by Colonel Le Roy Reeves, [ 4 ] a Johnson City attorney who was then serving in the Tennessee National Guard . [ 5 ]
The applicable county or well-recognised part of a county in 1832 (in the case of the Ridings of Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, which was part of Hampshire) is given. Some places were moved to other administrative counties in the 1973-74 local-government changes—e.g., Christchurch moved from Hampshire to Dorset.
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 ...
Cornwall's representation was nothing out of the ordinary before the Tudor period.Of the six boroughs continuously represented in the House of Commons of England since medieval times, five (Bodmin, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard and Truro) could be considered the county's chief towns and survived the Reform Act, while the sixth (Lostwithiel) was probably once substantial enough even though it ...