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Conservative Whip
The Chief Whip of the Conservative Party oversees the whipping system in the party, which is responsible for ensuring that Conservative MPs or members of the House of Lords attend and vote in parliament in the desired way of the party leadership. Chief Whips, of which two are appointed in the party, a member of the House of Commons and a member of the House of Lords, also help to organise their party's contribution to parliamentary business. The party leadership may allow members to have a free vote based on their own conscience rather than party policy, which means the chief whip is not required to influence the way members vote. This is a list of people who have served as Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, previously the Tory Party, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. House of Commons House of Lords In popular culture Francis Urquhart is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, created by Michael Dobbs, formerly Chief of Staff for British Conservative Prime Minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whip (politics)
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline (that members of the party vote according to the party platform rather than their constituents, conscience vote, individual conscience or donors) in a legislature. Whips are the party's "enforcers". They work to ensure that their fellow political party legislators attend voting sessions and vote according to their party's official policy. Members who vote against party policy may "lose the whip", being expelled from the party. The term is said to be taken from the "wikt:whipper-in, whipper-in" during a hunt, who tries to prevent hounds from wandering away from a hunting pack. The term may more reasonably have been taken from the practice of "keeping discipline" in slaves by cracking a leather whip over their heads. Additionally, the term "whip" may mean the voting instructions issued to legislators, or the status of a certain legislator in their party's parliamentary grouping. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midlothian (UK Parliament Constituency) (1708–1918)
Midlothian (; ) is registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east- central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinburgh council area, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders. The modern council area was formed in 1975 when the Midlothian (historic), historic county of Midlothian, also known as Edinburghshire, was altered substantially as part of local government reforms; its southern part formed a new Midlothian Districts of Scotland, District within the Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996, Region of Lothian, whilst areas on the peripheries were assigned to other districts and the city of Edinburgh, which had always been autonomous to an extent, was formally separated as the Edinburgh (district), City of Edinburgh District. In 1996 Midlothian became a unitary authority area, using the same name and territory as in 1975. History Midlothian County Council was abolished in 1975 under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Noel (politician)
Gerard James Noel PC, DL, JP (28 August 1823 – 19 May 1911), styled The Honourable Gerard Noel from birth, was a British Conservative politician. Early life Noel was the eldest son of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and, his third wife, Arabella, daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet. From his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Grey (a second daughter of Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet), he had an elder half-brother Charles, who married Lady Ida Harriet Augusta (a daughter of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV) who succeeded their father as the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. From his parents marriage, he had three siblings, Henry Lewis Noel (who married their cousin Emily Elizabeth Noel), Lady Mary Arabella Louisa Noel (the wife of Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet), and Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel (the wife of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk). From his father's fourth marriage in 1833 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Dublin (UK Parliament Constituency)
County Dublin was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created under the Acts of Union 1800, replacing the constituency of County Dublin (Parliament of Ireland constituency), County Dublin in the Irish House of Commons. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, before the 1885 United Kingdom general election in Ireland, 1885 general election, it was replaced with two new county divisions, South Dublin (UK Parliament constituency), South Dublin and North Dublin (UK Parliament constituency), North Dublin. Boundaries This constituency comprised the whole of County Dublin, except for the area of the borough constituency of Dublin City (UK Parliament constituency), Dublin City. The borough comprised the whole of the county of the city of Dublin and the portion of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edward Taylor
Thomas Edward Taylor (17 March 1811 – 3 February 1883), was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1868 and between 1874 and 1880 under Benjamin Disraeli. Background and education Taylor was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Taylor, fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (whose eldest son was created Marquess of Headfort in 1800). His mother was Marianne St Leger, daughter of the Honourable Richard St Leger. One of his two brothers, General Sir Richard Taylor (1819–1904) enjoyed a distinguished career in the British Army. He was educated at Eton. Military career Taylor was commissioned into the 6th Dragoon Guards as a Cornet (by purchase) on 10 February 1829. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 16 April 1831 and Captain on 2 November 1838 (both by purchase), but retired from the army on 1 May 1846. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the disembodied Royal Meath Militia on 12 December 1846 and continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Petersfield was an England, English United Kingdom constituencies, Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire. It existed for several hundred years until its abolition for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. Until 1832, it returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Thereafter, its representation was reduced to one member until its abolition in 1983. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Alton, Droxford, and Petersfield, and part of the Sessional Division of Winchester. 1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Alton and Petersfield, and the Rural Districts of Alresford, Alton, Catherington, Droxford, and Petersfield. 1950–1955: The Urban Districts of Alton and Petersfield, the Rural Districts of Alton, Droxford, and Petersfield, and in the Rural District of Winchester the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton
William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton (7 December 1800 – 1 June 1876), known as Sir William Jolliffe, Bt, between 1821 and 1866, was a British soldier and Conservative politician. He was a member of the Earl of Derby's first two administrations as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1852 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between 1858 and 1859. Background Jolliffe was the son of Reverend William John Jolliffe, the son of William Jolliffe and his wife Eleanor Hylton, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hylton, 5th Baronet (who had assumed the surname of Hylton in lieu of his patronymic Musgrave; see Musgrave Baronets) and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Hylton, de jure 18th Baron Hylton. Jolliffe first served in the Army and achieved the rank of captain in the 15th Dragoons. He notably took part in the events at St Peter's Field in Manchester in 1819 (the "Peterloo Massacre"). In 1821, at the age of twenty, Jolliffe was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peeblesshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Peeblesshire was a Scottish county constituency of Great Britain and after 1801 the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Palace of Westminster, Westminster) from 1708 until 1868. It elected one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system. Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Peeblesshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency), Peeblesshire. Boundaries The name relates the constituency to the Peeblesshire, county of Peebles. Article XII of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 (Act settling the Manner of electing the Representatives of Scotland), provided that one representative should be chosen for every shire and steuartry (except for some shires which were to take turns). History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forbes Mackenzie
William Forbes Mackenzie (18 April 1807 – 24 September 1862) was a Scottish Conservative politician and temperance reformer. He is best known for the Forbes MacKenzie Act, legislation passed in 1853 to regulate public houses in Scotland. Life Born in Exmouth, Devon, he was the third son of Colin MacKenzie, writer to the signet in Edinburgh and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo. He studied for the law, and was called to the bar in 1827. In 1830, he married Helen Anne Montgomery, daughter of Sir James Montgomery, and they had two children. In 1831, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Peeblesshire. At the 1837 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Peeblesshire. He was re-elected as member for the constituency in 1841 and 1847. He was one of Sir Robert Peel's junior Lords of the Treasury from 26 April 1845 until the end of the latter's second premiership. He was an advocate of Catholic an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harwich (UK Parliament Constituency)
Harwich was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its abolition for the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election. History The Parliamentary Borough of Harwich had sent two members to the Parliament of England since it was founded in 1604 until 1707, then to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one, and in 1885 the parliamentary borough was abolished and replaced with a division of the County of Essex (later a county constituency) under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. For a long period of time it was known as a "Treasury borough" due to the control the Treasury had over its elections. The constituency was abolished for the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beresford (politician)
William Beresford (17 April 1797 – 6 October 1883) was a British Conservative politician. Background He was the only son of Marcus Beresford and his wife Frances Arabella, daughter of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown. Beresford was educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1819 and a Master of Arts five years later. He joined the British Army and served in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and then in the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers, finally as a major. Career Beresford contested County Waterford unsuccessfully in 1837. He was elected for Harwich in the next general election in 1841, which he represented until 1847. Beresford and Charles Newdegate were the Conservative whips in the House of Commons after the party split over the Corn Laws. His relations with Benjamin Disraeli were strained, with Beresford often taking his cue from Lord Stanley in the Lords instead of the nominal leader in the commons. As Chief Whip he managed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavan (UK Parliament Constituency)
County Cavan was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Boundaries This constituency comprised the whole of County Cavan. Members of Parliament From 1801 to 1885 County Cavan was one constituency with two Members of Parliament, who both represented the whole of the county. Election results Elections in the 1800s Elections in the 1810s Elections in the 1820s John Maxwell-Barry, 5th Baron Farnham, John Maxwell-Barry succeeded as 5th Baron Farnham, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1830s Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, Henry Maxwell succeeded to the peerage, becoming 7th Baron Farnham and causing a by-election. Elections in the 1840s Somerset Maxwell, 8th Baron Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
