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New Woodstock
Double Member Borough
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Constituency Detail
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Background Information
Right of Election:
in the freemen
Number of voters:
about 200
Elections
| Date | Candidate |
|---|---|
| 13 Apr. 1754 | John Bateman, Visct. Bateman |
| Anthony Keck | |
| 27 Dec. 1755 | Bateman re-elected after appointment to office |
| 8 Dec. 1756 | Bateman re-elected after appointment to office |
| 7 July 1757 | Bateman re-elected after appointment to office |
| 27 Mar. 1761 | John Bateman, Visct. Bateman |
| Anthony Keck | |
| 8 June 1767 | William Gordon vice Keck, deceased |
| 18 Mar. 1768 | Lord Robert Spencer |
| William Gordon | |
| 30 Apr. 1770 | Spencer re-elected after appointment to office |
| 30 Jan. 1771 | John Skynner vice Spencer, vacated his seat |
| 10 Apr. 1772 | Skynner re-elected after appointment to office |
| 6 Oct. 1774 | John Skynner |
| William Eden | |
| 11 Mar. 1776 | Eden re-elected after appointment to office |
| 1 Dec. 1777 | George Parker, Visct. Parker, vice Skynner, appointed to office |
| 6 Sept. 1780 | George Parker, Visct. Parker |
| William Eden | |
| 9 Apr. 1783 | Eden re-elected after appointment to office |
| 1 Apr. 1784 | Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood |
| Francis Burton | |
| 9 July 1788 | Burton re-elected after appointment to office |
Main Article
New Woodstock, ‘adjoining to the wall of Blenheim Park’,1 was a complete pocket borough of the Duke of Marlborough.
Author: J. A. Cannon
Notes
- 1. Oldfield, Boroughs (1792), ii. 390.
