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unusual facts about United Kingdom general election, 1831



Adams Mills, Michigan

It was established in 1831 by Wales Adams at the point where the road to Chicago crossed the Prairie River.

Alexandre Colonna-Walewski

He married Lady Catherine Caroline Montagu (1808–1833), daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, and Lady Louisa Mary Anne Julia Harriet Lowry-Corry, on 1 December 1831.

Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Aloys married Karoline Gräfin von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (Köln, 14 November 1768 - Vienna, 11 June 1831) in Feldsberg on 15 November/16 November 1783.

Antrim by-election, 1885

Sinclair did however return to the House of Commons at the 1886 general election as Liberal Unionist Party member for Falkirk Burghs in the central Scottish Lowlands.

Balyan family

Krikor died in 1831 after serving the empire during the reigns of four sultans, Abdul Hamid I (1774–1787), Selim III (1789–1807), Mustafa IV (1807–1808)), and Mahmud II (1808–1839).

Begas

Reinhold Begas (1831 – 1911), German sculptor; son of Carl Begas

Bill Etherington

In the 1997 election, he took 68.2% against Conservative Andrew Selous, who ranked in second place with just 16.7% of the vote.

He was first elected in the 1992 General Election for Sunderland North, replacing fellow left-winger, Bob Clay.

Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.

Charles C. Jones Jr. was born October 28, 1831 in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a Presbyterian minister.

Charles Mallet

In March 1910 Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him Financial Secretary to the War Office, a position he held until he was defeated in the December general election of the same year.

Daniel Fowle

Daniel Gould Fowle (1831–1891), governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, 1889–1891

Edmund Broughton Barnard

At the 1885 general election he was Liberal candidate in Epping; in 1886 he stood in Maldon and then in Kidderminster at the general election of 1900.

Edmund Stonor

Born into the recusancy on 2 April 1831 at Stonor, England, the ancestral home of the Stonor family, he was the son of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Lord Camoys and Frances (née Towneley).

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont

His grandson, Lammot du Pont I (1831–1884), was the first president of the United States Gunpowder Trade Association, popularly known as the Powder Trust.

Eli Janney

Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), American inventor of the Janney coupler used in rail transport

Gamgee

John Gamgee (1831–1894), English physician and inventor; developer of the Glaciarium (the first mechanically frozen ice rink) and the perpetual motion Zeromoter

George Henry Roberts

Roberts stood in 1918 as a Coalition Labour candidate, opposed by the official Labour Party candidate.

Glasgow Garscadden by-election, 1978

At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Scotstoun.

Gwynfor Evans

In the 1970 General Election Evans lost his Carmarthen seat to Labour's Gwynoro Jones, and failed to regain it in the February 1974 General Election by only three votes.

Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood

James Walter Lascelles (1831–1901), Canon of Ripon Cathedral and Rector at Goldsborough, married Emma Clara Miles (1830–1911), daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet and had nine children.

Historical climatology

The River Thames was made more narrow and flowed faster after old London Bridge was demolished in 1831, and the river was embanked in stages during the 19th century, both of which made the river less liable to freezing.

John Cordeaux

He held the seat in 1959, but lost it at the 1964 election to the Labour candidate Jack Dunnett.

John Swinburne

Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831–1914), English legislator who served as High Sheriff of Northumberland, grandson of Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

John Woolley

John W. Woolley (1831–1928), American Latter Day Saint and one of the founders of the Mormon fundamentalism movement

Johnathan McCarty

McCarty was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1837).

Joseph Kehrein

After studying philology at the University of Giessen from 1831 to 1834, he taught at the gymnasium of Darmstadt, 1835–1837, at that of Mainz, 1837–1845, was prorector at the newly founded gymnasium of Hadamar in Nassau, 1845–1846, professor at the same place, 1846–1855, director of the Catholic teachers' seminary at Montabaur, 1855–1876, and at the same time director of the Realschule at the same place, 1855–1866.

Joseph Slade

Joseph Alfred Slade, "Jack" Slade (1831–1864), stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.

Margaret Herbison

She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.

Massacre of the Albanian Beys

In addition, the Ottomans, after having managed to deprive southern Albania from its leaders, defeated the following year, in 1831, the Pashalik of Scutari, the last remaining Albanian pashalik giving signals of separatism.

Michael Hobart Seymour

He was born on 29 September 1800, the sixth son of John Crossley Seymour, vicar of Caherelly (d. 19 May 1831), who married in January 1789 Catherine, eldest daughter and coheiress of Rev. Edward Wight, rector of Meelick in Limerick.

Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens

At the 1964 general election, Hughes-Young faced another challenge from Labour, who had selected Dr David Kerr; in his election address he pointed to the fact that Labour had opposed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 and asked how the local housing situation would cope without restrictions on immigration.

Newstead, New York

In 1831, the town's name was changed to "Newstead", reportedly on the advice of Abigail Fillmore, who was fond of the poetry of Lord Byron.

Rise of nationalism in Europe

The Polish attempts to win independence from Russia had previously proved to be unsuccessful, with Poland being the only country in Europe whose autonomy was gradually limited rather than expanded throughout the 19th century, as a punishment for the failed uprisings; in 1831 Poland lost its status as a formally independent state and was merged into Russia as a real union country and in 1867 she became nothing more than just another Russian province.

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor

Baylor was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831) from Alabama's 2nd congressional district and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress.

Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman

Narrowly defeated in the 1997 general election, he was shortly afterwards elevated as a life peer to the House of Lords and sits as Baron Freeman, of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire.

Roy Thomason

He was selected to follow Sir Hal Miller as candidate for the safe seat of Bromsgrove, and won the seat with a 13,702 majority in the 1992 election.

Royal William

SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.

Sadler report

In the 1832 election, Michael went up against John Marshall, who had more pull in Leeds.

Samuel W. Eager

Eager was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hector Craig and served from November 2, 1830, to March 3, 1831.

Sefton, Merseyside

As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election the village now forms part of the new Sefton Central constituency which is represented by the Labour MP Bill Esterson.

Sonnleithner

Ignaz von Sonnleithner (1770-1831), Austrian jurist, writer and educator.

Thomas Alexander Marshall

Marshall was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835).

Thomas Bourchier

Claud Thomas Bourchier (1831–1877), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

Thomas R. Ranson

After the war, Ranson went there and had a marble marker placed over the unmarked grave of Julia Neale Jackson (1798–1831) in Westlake Cemetery, to make sure that the site was not lost forever.

Tom Brake

Following the 2001 General Election, then party leader Charles Kennedy appointed him a spokesman on Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

Trinity College Boat Club

A Trinity rower in 1831 by the name of James Pycroft detailed how the men within the team would pay for a boat for college themselves, and would levy a rate upon all members of the college to help pay as ‘it being considered that the boat and its anticipated victories were for the honour of the college generally’.

United Kingdom general election, 1950

Significant changes since the 1945 general election included the abolition of plural voting by the Representation of the People Act 1948, and a major reorganisation of constituencies by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949.

Wandsworth by-election, 1913

At the 1885 general election, Sir Henry Kimber was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth.

Xianfeng

Xianfeng Emperor (1831 – 1861), Emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty


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