Author: DURHAM COUNTY - 'RADICAL JACK'
Title: Durham County Election. A few short questions to Mister Richard Wharton...[by] a Freeholder.
Description: Durham? March 6th 1820. Broadsheet, 380 x 240 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. In favour of John George Lambton [1792 - 1840], known as Radical Jack, later the 1st. Lord Durham, who was elected to the Durham County constituency in 1812, a seat he held until his elevation to the peerage in 1828. He was Lord Privy Seal [1830 - 33] during which time he promoted and helped to draft The Reform Bill of 1832.

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