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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 11, 2020 19:52:09 GMT
[9] St. George's
Liberal candidate Arthur Neal would later become MP for Sheffield Hillsborough.
Polling Districts Electorate Voted Turnout
Mount Zion 1,167 750 64.3%
Red Hill 1,182 737 62.4%
Jericho 1,350 856 63.4%
Weston 1,488 1,089 73.2%
5,187 3,432 66.2%
Ballots Bennett Gratton Jackson Neal Waterhouse
Bennett & Gratton 29 29 29
Bennett & Jackson 2008 2008 2008
Bennett & Neal 13 13 13
Bennett & Waterhouse 14 14 14
Gratton & Jackson 17 17 17
Gratton & Neal 10 10 10
Gratton & Waterhouse 7 7 7
Jackson & Neal 20 20 20
Jackson & Waterhouse 23 23 23
Neal & Waterhouse 1185 1185 1185
Bennett 23 23
Gratton 2 2
Jackson 34 34
Neal 15 15
Waterhouse 18 18
3418 2087 65 2102 1243 1247
There were 13 spoilt ballots. Wow, that's the sort of detail Election Offices should be required to publish.  |
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 11, 2020 20:44:59 GMT
[9] St. George's
Liberal candidate Arthur Neal would later become MP for Sheffield Hillsborough.
Polling Districts Electorate Voted Turnout
Mount Zion 1,167 750 64.3%
Red Hill 1,182 737 62.4%
Jericho 1,350 856 63.4%
Weston 1,488 1,089 73.2%
5,187 3,432 66.2%
Ballots Bennett Gratton Jackson Neal Waterhouse
Bennett & Gratton 29 29 29
Bennett & Jackson 2008 2008 2008
Bennett & Neal 13 13 13
Bennett & Waterhouse 14 14 14
Gratton & Jackson 17 17 17
Gratton & Neal 10 10 10
Gratton & Waterhouse 7 7 7
Jackson & Neal 20 20 20
Jackson & Waterhouse 23 23 23
Neal & Waterhouse 1185 1185 1185
Bennett 23 23
Gratton 2 2
Jackson 34 34
Neal 15 15
Waterhouse 18 18
3418 2087 65 2102 1243 1247
There were 13 spoilt ballots. Wow, that's the sort of detail Election Offices should be required to publish. The newspapers had even more information than that. From the Sheffield Evening Telegraph on Thursday 1 November 1894, polling day. “At 4 o’clock something like 1,900 electors out of 5,187 on the register had recorded their votes. At Mount Zion 43 votes were polled in the first hour of voting. The heaviest polling was between twelve and one o’clock, when 93 electors recorded their votes. At three o’clock the number polled was 393. At Weston Street, 131 voted in the first hour…” Sheffield Libraries are offering free home access to the British Newspaper Archive. |
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Post by AdminSTB on May 14, 2020 17:42:18 GMT
Bridlington UDC 1894 (results declared on Tuesday, 18th December)
15 seats up for election, 23 candidates:
Elected:
F Creaser (gentleman) 770
GGO Sutcliffe (solicitor) 667
J Sawdon (butcher) 625
J Rennard (builder) 572
HJ Jackson (chemist) 564
J Strickland (gentleman) 541
J Earnshaw (artitect) 537
R Allen (draper) 515
GH Bradford (dentist) 497
L Mainprize (builder) 487
W Dobson (gentleman) 486
E Mainprize (grocer) 484
W Weldon (boot and shoe dealer) 444
JV Mainprize (chemist) 417
J Sharpe (gentleman) 414
Unsuccessful:
H Taylor (auctioneer) 398
J Johnson (builder) 396
GW Hawkins (gentleman) 323
JT Grantham (eating house keeper) 267
J Bennett (hotel keeper) 261
FW Lendis (umbrella maker and fancy dealer) 235
WF Collins (upholsterer) 229
A Wiles (joiner) 147
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 14, 2020 20:03:09 GMT
What is a fancy dealer I wonder? If I ever stand for a parish council, I'm definitely going to describe myself as a 'gentleman'
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Post by gwynthegriff on May 14, 2020 20:31:49 GMT
What is a fancy dealer I wonder? If I ever stand for a parish council, I'm definitely going to describe myself as a 'gentleman' Dealer in fancy goods I assume ? |
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Post by AdminSTB on May 14, 2020 20:40:53 GMT
The term "gentleman" is often seen on 19th century marriage and death certificates. It tended to indicate someone who was retired or lived on independent means - perhaps an annuitant such as a retired army officer or a successful businessman.
But it could literally mean anything. Of course it could also have been someone with ideas above their station!
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 21:06:30 GMT
The term "gentleman" is often seen on 19th century marriage and death certificates. It tended to indicate someone who was retired or lived on independent means - perhaps an annuitant such as a retired army officer or a successful businessman. But it could literally mean anything. Of course it could also have been someone with ideas above their station! Just means that you didn't have to work. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 14, 2020 21:11:20 GMT
The term "gentleman" is often seen on 19th century marriage and death certificates. It tended to indicate someone who was retired or lived on independent means - perhaps an annuitant such as a retired army officer or a successful businessman. But it could literally mean anything. Of course it could also have been someone with ideas above their station! It would be the latter in my case |
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Post by Adam in Stroud on May 14, 2020 22:03:37 GMT
The term "gentleman" is often seen on 19th century marriage and death certificates. It tended to indicate someone who was retired or lived on independent means - perhaps an annuitant such as a retired army officer or a successful businessman. But it could literally mean anything. Of course it could also have been someone with ideas above their station! It would be the latter in my case Quite right too. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp" |
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 14, 2020 23:18:51 GMT
What is a fancy dealer I wonder? If I ever stand for a parish council, I'm definitely going to describe myself as a 'gentleman' I've been toying with doing something similar in the next Census. |
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Post by carlton43 on May 15, 2020 10:51:26 GMT
What is a fancy dealer I wonder? If I ever stand for a parish council, I'm definitely going to describe myself as a 'gentleman' What the Americans call 'Notions', that is worthless ephemeral trash of low cost and of no practical use. |
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Post by carlton43 on May 15, 2020 11:02:44 GMT
The term "gentleman" is often seen on 19th century marriage and death certificates. It tended to indicate someone who was retired or lived on independent means - perhaps an annuitant such as a retired army officer or a successful businessman. But it could literally mean anything. Of course it could also have been someone with ideas above their station! It meant a person of independent income and not reliant upon any occupation to survive, and the inference being a person of good education who used correct English and dressed in quality clothing. He would have lean clothes, polished boots, and always wear gloves and a smart hat. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 11:17:35 GMT
The term "gentleman" is often seen on 19th century marriage and death certificates. It tended to indicate someone who was retired or lived on independent means - perhaps an annuitant such as a retired army officer or a successful businessman. But it could literally mean anything. Of course it could also have been someone with ideas above their station! It meant a person of independent income and not reliant upon any occupation to survive, and the inference being a person of good education who used correct English and dressed in quality clothing.
He would have lean clothes, polished boots, and always wear gloves and a smart hat.That is a rather modern, bourgeois idea of a gentleman. Old-fashioned rural gentry, exemplified by literary characters such as Squire Western and Sir Tunbelly Clumsy didn't meet those criteria at all. In earlier times, dinner guests of the fastidious Richard II had to be warned in advance not to fart, scratch flea bites, or pick their noses at the King's table. Just over a century later, in 1517, a gentleman told Richard Pace – “By God's Body I would rather that my son should hang than study literature. It behoves the sons of gentlemen to blow horn calls correctly, to hunt skilfully, to train a hawk well and carry it elegantly. But the study of literature should be left to clodhoppers.”
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Post by carlton43 on May 15, 2020 11:33:55 GMT
It meant a person of independent income and not reliant upon any occupation to survive, and the inference being a person of good education who used correct English and dressed in quality clothing.
He would have lean clothes, polished boots, and always wear gloves and a smart hat.That is a rather modern bourgeois idea of a gentleman - country gentleman like Squire Western and Sir Tunbelly Clumsy didn't at all meet those criteria. In earlier times, dinner guests of the fastidious Richard II were warned in advance not to fart, scratch flea bites, or pick their noses at the King's table. In this context it is surely an entirely bourgeois concept and was at that time of use. |
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Post by AdminSTB on May 15, 2020 19:45:57 GMT
Wooldale ward on Holmfirth UDC, 1894. The Leeds Mercury stated the three elected candidates were all "opponents of sewage reform", whatever that was.
Elected:
George Hebblethwaite 155
Thomas Brook 127
Joseph Booth 123
Not elected:
James William Mellor 67
James Moorhouse 63
Alexander McClellan 46
John Holmes 44
James Henry Redfearn 14
The other wards on Holmfirth UDC:
The three ILP candidates, unspecified by the Leeds Mercury, were unsuccessful. No mention of parties or occupations, unfortunately.
AUSTINLEY
Elected:
Thomas Sykes 69
George Wibberley 58
Firth Hobson 51
Not elected:
Frank Greenwood 39
CARTWORTH
Elected:
John Barber 104
Edwin Overend 85
George Roebuck 83
Not elected:
Sam Taylor 30
Robert Turner 15
William Walter Battye 10
HOLMFIRTH NORTH CENTRAL
Elected:
John Eli Wimpenny 82
Samuel Collins 80
John Moorhouse 55
Not elected:
Joseph Tyas 48
Thomas Sykes 19
HOLMFIRTH SOUTH CENTRAL
Elected:
Abel Beaumont 51
William Brown 50
Franklin Shaw Whittell 39
Not elected:
Alexander Shaw 38
Noah Wagstaffe 30
UPPERTHONG
Elected:
Henry Roberts 62
Robert Haigh 56
Henry Hollingworth 54
Not elected:
Eli Exley Quarmby 48
Edward Tinker 43
Joshua Woodhead 38
Henry Parson 25
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 23, 2020 17:26:01 GMT
I bring the Forum the joyous news that in the nineteenth century The corporation of Windsor had electoral districts called the In ward and the Out ward.
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Post by ColinJ on Jun 23, 2020 18:13:29 GMT
I bring the Forum the joyous news that in the nineteenth century The corporation of Windsor had electoral districts called the In ward and the Out ward. No 'Shake It All About' ward?  |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 23, 2020 18:18:37 GMT
I bring the Forum the joyous news that in the nineteenth century The corporation of Windsor had electoral districts called the In ward and the Out ward. No 'Shake It All About' ward? The Hokey Cokey has been traced back to a folk dance - oldest current reference is a Scottish one (about 1826)
Fal de ral la, fal de ral la:
Hinkumbooby, round about;
Right hands in, and left hands out,
Hinkumbooby, round about;
Fal de ral la, fal de ral la.
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 29, 2020 10:24:41 GMT
Board of Guardians election North Redditch ward December 1894
Mr W Neason 21
Miss Playfair 8
There were thirty voters on the register for a turnout figure of 96.67%
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Post by ColinJ on Jun 29, 2020 16:13:35 GMT
As I have stirred up interest in another thread, here we have......
Kingsbury ward, Wembley UDC, December 1894.
141 electors, 105 voted, T'out 74.5%
Thomas S. Anderson 70 elected (gentleman)
Dr. Arthur C. White 57 elected
James Pocock 52 elected
Thomas Goddard 45 (wine and spirit merchant)
Benjamin J. Wyand 28
Charles J. Mitchell 26
Anderson, White and Pocock were the candidates of White's party.
So far I have not found the result for Kingsbury's first election in its own right as a UDC; polling was on 12 April 1900, delayed from the usual day for district elections by the late arrival of paperwork confirming the formation of the new UDC.
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