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… Image 'Success to William's Plumpers', 1761, The British Museum, 1959,0402.1. An election mug of 1761, from Liverpool, where Sir William Meredith sought the ‘plumpers’ who would caste only one of their … Know Men (London, 1698), p. 132. Image Legend 'Success to William's Plumpers', 1761, The British Museum, 1959,0402.1. An election mug of 1761, from Liverpool, where Sir William Meredith sought the ‘plumpers’ who would caste only one of their …

… also brought him closer to Lord Lonsdale, an important figure of Toryism in the north-west of England.  In the general election of 1818, when the radical Henry Brougham contested Westmorland, the Lowthers’ political stronghold, Wordsworth began electioneering strenuously to defend the Lowthers’ influence. He canvassed in person, helped set up a pro-Lowther … to the Freeholders of Westmorland  (1818). The stakes, Wordsworth believed, were much higher than those of a local election, as he thought the political fate of the country was being played out in his county. In his opinion, Brougham …

… rather than a revolutionary lower sort) in the early seventeenth century but eventually fell in 1730, after which elections of officials reverted to an ‘open poll’. 12  As an eighteenth-century parish history explains: 6 . Julia F. … around Dublin, Anglican vestries ran two parallel strands: Protestants only attended the Easter meetings held for the election of churchwardens, while members of the Catholic majority participated in some local government business. 16 … minutes of St Helena, South Carolina, we find the usual mix of construction expenses, purchases of church ornaments and elections of officials (with quite a few refusals to serve), supplemented by a protracted lay campaign to get rid of an …

… to secure protections and patronage from influential aristocrats, vie for official positions, and even campaign for election to the academies . At Madame Geoffrin’s Monday salon for artists, ‘Les gens du monde admis dans cette société, y … ‘antechamber’ to the French Academy, where the philosophes could strategically select candidates and campaign for their election; indeed, from 1767 to 1776, eight philosophes were elected to the French Academy, all regular attendees of …

… for the Author, 1793), vol. 1, p. 83. Thelwall’s political career began when he was a poll clerk for the Westminster election of 1790, in which role he impressed John Horne Tooke, who he subsequently referred to as his ‘intellectual and …