The parliamentary career of Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp, 1826-1855
Subtitle: ultra-Tory opposition to reform in nineteenth-century Britain
By: edited by Stephen Roberts and Mark Acton ; with a foreword by Andrew Walker
Contributors: Roberts, Stephen, 1950-; Acton, Mark
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773413597
Work titles: Selections
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Introduction; title: A biographical sketch of Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp; title: A Tory diehard; title: pt. 2. Local politics; title: Electioneering in Lincoln; title: The election of 1826; title: The election of 1832; title: The election of 1835; title: The election of 1841; title: The election of 1847; title: The election of 1852; title: pt. 3. Parliamentary speeches; title: The defence of Protestantism; title: Catholic emancipation; title: Maynooth; title: Papal aggression; title: Electoral reform; title: The Reform Bill of 1832; title: Electoral corruption; title: The repeal of the corn laws and the public finances; title: The corn laws; title: The public finances; title: The railways; title: The Great Exhibition of 1851; title: A Sibthorp miscellany; title: Appendix A: "Subjects for painters (after Peter Pindar)" / by Charles Dickens; title: Appendix B: The parliamentary career of Gervaise Sibthorp, 1855-61; title: Appendix C: Six significant ultra-Tories; title: Appendix D: An ultra-Tory periodical.