The 1801 Stamford by-election was held on 16 February 1801, after the seat was vacated when incumbent Whig MP John Proby was raised to the Peerage as Baron Carysfort. [1] [2] The by-election was won by the Tory candidate Albemarle Bertie, who stood unopposed. [3]
Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a British engineer, entrepreneur and politician.
Earl of Lindsey is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1626 for the 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1635 to 1636 and also established his claim in right of his mother to the hereditary office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Lord Lindsey fought on the Royalist side in the Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642. He was succeeded by his son, the second earl. He also fought at Edgehill and surrendered to the Parliamentarians in order to attend his mortally wounded father. Lord Lindsey later fought at the First Battle of Newbury, Second Battle of Newbury, and at Naseby. His son from his second marriage, James, was created Earl of Abingdon in 1682. He was succeeded by his son from his first marriage to Martha Cockayne, the third Earl. He represented Boston in the House of Commons and served as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist, and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher, Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague, Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke, he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter, Frances, was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley,, styled Viscount Malpas between 1764 and 1770 and known as The Earl of Cholmondeley between 1770 and 1815, was a British peer and politician.
Lieutenant-General Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey was a British Army officer, politician and peer.
George Granville Harcourt was a British Whig and then Conservative Party politician.
Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster PC, styled Lord Brownlow Bertie until 1779, was a British peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1779 when he succeeded to a peerage.
By-elections to the House of Lords occur when vacancies arise among seats assigned to hereditary peers due to death, resignation, or disqualification. Candidates for these by-elections are limited to holders of hereditary peerages, and their electorates are made up of sitting Lords; in most cases the electorate are those sitting hereditary peers of the same party affiliation as the departed peer.
Events from the year 1744 in Wales.
George Sandars was a British Conservative politician. He was the son of Samuel and Jane Sandars.
Sir Ralph Howard, 1st Baronet was an Irish Whig politician and militia officer.
The 1890 Stamford by-election was held on 7 March 1890, when the incumbent Conservative MP John Lawrance resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Queen's Bench division of the High Court of Justice. The by-election was won by the Conservative Party candidate Henry Cust.
The March 1858 Stamford by-election was held on 3 March 1858, when the incumbent Conservative MP Frederic Thesiger resigned, following his appointment as Lord Chancellor and elevation to the peerage as the 1st Baron Chelmsford. The by-election was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Inglis who stood unopposed.
The 1890 Stamford by-election was held on 7 March 1890, when the incumbent Tory MP Albemarle Bertie became ineligible after acceding to the Earldom of Lindsey. The by-election was won by the Tory candidate Charles Chaplin.
The 1808 Stamford by-election was held on 30 January 1808, following the death of the incumbent Tory MP John Leland. The by-election was won by the Tory candidate Evan Foulkes, who stood unopposed.