Parliament, party and people 1832-67

Question 1

When did Earl Grey resign?

Answer 1

1834

Question 2

When was the Tamworth Manifest published?

Answer 2

1834

Question 3

What was the result of the 1835 general election?

Answer 3

-Conservatives did well-gained 80 seats-Peel left leading minority gov.

Question 4

When was the Lichfield House Compact?

Answer 4

February 1835

Question 5

How many seats did the Conservatives win in the 1837 general election? Where did this leave Melbourne and Whigs?

Answer 5

-313-reliant on Irish MPs for a majority

Question 6

How had the number of seats increased? (don’t know the date but probs pre-1832 to post-1832)

Answer 6

80 to 144

Question 7

Whigs strength lay where?

Answer 7

In the boroughs and newly enfranchise Midlands and North (also boroughs)

Question 8

When did Melbourne offer his resignation?

Answer 8

-1839

Question 9

After Melbourne offered his resignation what did Peel do?

Answer 9

-offered to become PM-so asked the Queen to remove some ladies of her bedchamber who had Whig leanings-she refused-so he refused to form a government

Question 10

When was the next general election (the most recent being 1837)?

Answer 10

1841

Question 11

When and where was the Anti-Corn Law League founded?

Answer 11

Manchester 1838

Question 12

What was Peel and the Conservatives majority in the 1841 election?

Answer 12

80 seat majority