The 1916 Bodmin by-election was held on 15 August 1916. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Sir Reginald Pole-Carew. [1] It was won by the Conservative candidate Charles Hanson [2] who was unopposed due to a War-time electoral pact.[ citation needed ]
Reginald Pole was an English cardinal and the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter-Reformation.
John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans, known as the Lord Eliot from 1804 to 1815, was a British politician.
The Exeter Conspiracy in 1538 was a supposed attempt to overthrow Henry VIII, who had taken control of the Church of England away from the Pope, and replace him with Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, who was a first cousin of the King.
Antony House is an early 18th-century property in the care of the National Trust. It is located between the town of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a Grade I listed building.
Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL was a British aristocrat who was a holder of the Pole baronetcy, granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628. He lived at Antony House in Cornwall, and succeeded his father, Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet, in 1993.
Drewsteignton is a village, civil parish and former manor within the administrative area of West Devon, England, also lying within the Dartmoor National Park. It is located in the valley of the River Teign, 13 miles (21 km) west of Exeter and 9 miles (14 km) south east of Okehampton. Visitor attractions in the area include the village centre itself, nearby Castle Drogo, and Fingle Bridge. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 1,616.
Major General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns, was a British Army officer and native of Hertfordshire.
Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden, styled The Honourable Thomas Agar-Robartes between 1869 and 1882 and known as The Lord Robartes from 1882 to 1899, was a British landowner and Liberal politician.
William Henry Pole-Carew was a Cornish politician.
Thomas Somers-Cocks was a British Conservative Party politician and a banker. He was a founding member of the Canterbury Association.
Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet of Antony, Cornwall, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1660 and 1692.
Reginald Pole Carew was a British politician.
Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 8th Division.
Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet was a Cornish landowner, soldier and politician. He was Chairman of Cornwall County Council from 1952 to 1963 and Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall from 1962 to 1977, briefly serving in both roles simultaneously. His name until 1926 was John Gawen Pole-Carew.
Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly, Cornwall, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 37 years from 1727 to 1764.
Mohuns Ottery or Mohun's Ottery, is a house and historic manor in the parish of Luppitt, 1 mile south-east of the village of Luppitt and 4 miles north-east of Honiton in east Devon, England. From the 14th to the 16th centuries it was a seat of the Carew family. Several manorial court rolls survive at the Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, Somerset.
Nicholas Carew, Lord of Moulsford, was a baron of medieval England who took part in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Dame Mary Carew Pole, Lady Carew Pole, DCVO is a British courtier.
The 1845 East Cornwall by-election was an uncontested election held on 20 February 1845. The by-election was brought about due to the vacation from the seat of the incumbent Conservative MP, Edward Eliot, who succeeded to the peerage as the Earl of St Germans. It was won by the Conservative candidate William Pole-Carew, who was the only declared candidate.
The Pole, later de-la-Pole, later Reeve-de-la-Pole Baronetcy, of Shute House in the County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 September 1628 for John Pole, Member of Parliament for Devon. It was created during the lifetime of his father, the historian of Devon, Sir William Pole (d.1635), Knight, MP, of Colcombe Castle and Shute in Devon. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Honiton. The third Baronet represented Lyme Regis, Bossiney, Devon, East Looe and Newport in the House of Commons. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Newport, Camelford, Devon, Bossiney and Honiton. The sixth Baronet represented West Looe in Parliament. In 1790 he assumed the surname of de-la-Pole, which his successor discontinued. The eighth Baronet assumed in 1838 the surname of Reeve-de-la-Pole but later discontinued it.