Tag Archives: Christmas

Victorian MPs born at Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2014 by jowen1832

Having drafted more than 1,000 biographies of MPs for the History of Parliament’s 1832-68 volume since our project began, we are now able to begin examining particular groups of parliamentarians in more thematic ways. In recent blogs, for example, we … Continue reading →

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Christmas is a time for giving: Victorian MPs and the festive season

Posted on December 23, 2013 by jowen1832

In Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, first published in 1843, Scrooge’s nephew describes Christmas as ‘a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’. For many Victorian Members of Parliament, ‘kind’ and ‘charitable’ giving at Christmas was an important part of their role … Continue reading →

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MP of the month: William Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2012 by sball1832

With the festive season approaching, there could be no more fitting ‘MP of the month’ than William Christmas (c. 1799-1867), Conservative MP for the city of Waterford, 1832-5 and 1841-2, whose biography is one of the latest to be added … Continue reading →

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Christmas at Newgate: Edward Glover MP and the abolition of the property qualification

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Kathryn Rix

Less than nine months after he had been elected as MP for Beverley at the 1857 general election, Edward Auchmuty Glover found himself spending Christmas Day in Newgate prison, having been arrested two days earlier. This energetic Irish barrister had … Continue reading →

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