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unusual facts about United Kingdom general election, 1847


Glasgow Argus

At the time of the United Kingdom general election, 1847, Charles Mackay disagreed with the paper's management on the choice of local Liberal candidate, and left the position of editor.


Adriano de Paiva

Adriano de Paiva (1847–1907) was a Portuguese scientist who was one of the pioneers of telectroscope.

Alpheus Felch

He served in the 30th, 31st and 32nd Congresses, from March 4, 1847, to March 4, 1853.

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.

Archibald C. Niven

Niven was elected as a Democrat to the 29th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.

Au Départ

In 1847, a shop trading under Au Départ selling luggage and travel goods shop opened at 7 boulevard Denain in Paris, opposite the Gare du Nord, a railway station inaugurated the year before on 14 June 1846.

Bergmagazin

Johanngeorgenstadt: built 1806-1812, used as a grain store until 1847.

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.

Biotite

Biotite was named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

Charles H. Carroll

He was elected as a Whig to the 28th and 29th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847.

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.

Charles T.H. Goode House

It was a home of Charles T.H. Goode, born 1847 in Wappenbury in

Charles Wordsworth

In 1846, however, he resigned; and then accepted the wardenship of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where he remained from 1847 to 1854, having great educational success in all respects; though his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to WE Gladstone.

Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song

"Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" ("The Wild Free Wind) is a song written by Shirley Brooks for his burletta, The Wigwam, sometime before 1847. Alexander Lee composed the music. In the song, Cora, the Indian maiden, is praising the wind: "Oh!

Cyrus L. Dunham

Dunham was elected prosecuting attorney of Washington County, Indiana in 1845 and then served as a member of the Indiana State House of Representatives for one term from 1846 to 1847.

Edgar Willsher

His older brother, senior by over ten years, William Willsher, would go on to have an inauspicious career with Kent three years before Edgar's own debut when, in 1847, he appeared in one first class match, scoring a pair at number eleven and not bowling.

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.

George Henry Roberts

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

Ghirardelli Chocolate Company

In 1847, nine years later, James Lick (Ghirardelli's neighbor) moved to San Francisco with 600 pounds of Ghirardelli's chocolate.

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.

Harmon S. Conger

He was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Hermann AVA

Stone Hill's cellars were constructed in 1847, the Hermanhoff Winery was founded in 1852 and in 1855, the Adam Puchta Winery was founded by immigrants from Oberkotzau, Bavaria who had struck gold during the California Gold Rush before returning to Hermann.

High sheriff

By contrast, Lord Campbell stated, perhaps without intention of publication, in February 1847, "it began in ancient times, sir, when sovereigns did not know how to write their names." while acquiring a prick and a signature from Queen Victoria as Prince Albert asked him when the custom began.

James La Fayette Cottrell

Cottrell was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Yancey and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847.

James Walter Thompson

James Walter Thompson (October 28, 1847 – October 16, 1928) was the namesake of the JWT advertising agency and a pioneer of many advertising techniques.

John Cordeaux

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

John Eardley-Wilmot

Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1783–1847), Governor of Tasmania, MP for Warwickshire North 1832–1843

John Irwin

John N. Irwin (1847–1905), American politician, governor of Idaho Territory, 1883–1884, and Arizona Territory, 1890–1892

Joseph Kendall

Joseph G. Kendall (1788–1847), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

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.

Max Rosenthal

In 1847 he went to Paris, where he studied lithography, drawing, and painting with M. Thurwanger, with whom he came to Philadelphia in 1849, and completed his studies.

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.

Pierre Chouteau, Jr.

In 1847 Pierre and his brother Auguste established Fort Benton in present-day Chouteau County, Montana as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

Princess Helene Dolgoruki

Sometime around 1843-1847 General Fadeyev was appointed Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus (perhaps First Viceroy Count (later Prince) Mikhail Vorontsov although Blavatsky says "Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis.

Richard Bonnycastle

Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791–1847), officer of the British army active in Upper Canada

Robert Ball Hughes

After a short stay in New York, and then Philadelphia, he settled in Boston, where he produced busts of Washington Irving (1836) and Edward Livingston, and a large bronze of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch for Mount Auburn Cemetery (1847).

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 Flash

The story features Lola Montez, and Otto von Bismarck as major characters, and fictionalises elements of the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 1843, 1847 and 1848.

Sadler report

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

Saint-Gildas

The first book by the Irish writer Julia Kavanagh, Saint-Gildas, or, The Three Paths (1847) is largely set in the village in the eighteenth century.

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.

The Maid of Sker

He graduated in 1847, but the book was not completed and published until 1872, three years after Lorna Doone.

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.

Vincenza Gerosa

Vincentia Gerosa (1784–1847) was an Italian saint who, together with Bartolomea Capitanio, founded the Sisters of Charity of Lovere.

Wandsworth by-election, 1913

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

William Fisken

He was sent to the presbytery at Newcastle upon Tyne, and preached as a probationer at the adjoining village of Stamfordham, where in 1847 he was ordained into the priesthood.


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