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A History of the County of Essex
… no later trace of it. It probably disappeared during the Reform agitation of 18512. At Woodford Green the first … and by 1842 the residence of the circuit minister. 90 The Reform movement was strong in that circuit, 91 and William …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1882. 54 An Order in Council of 1886 proposed a Scheme for reform, and a charter of April 1886 abolished the old … any mayoral nominee. 4 Although unaffected by municipal reform in 1835 the freeman body diminished rapidly after … qualification was abolished by parliamentary or municipal reform, and very few hereditary freeman were admitted, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 97 Lord Blandford, by then an advocate of parliamentary reform, 98 and his brother Lord Charles Spencer Churchill, a … elected with Lord Charles on a platform of opposition to reform. 1 They were unexpectedly challenged by a London … 6 and the duke and the sitting members never supported the Reform Bill; 7 even Lord Blandford, who had proposed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rates in the 1860s. He and his son, John, pressed for reform of the old corporation, which excluded dissenters, and …