19-622: John Lovelace may refer to: John Lovelace (died 1558) , MP for Reading (UK Parliament constituency) John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace (1616–1670) John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace (c. 1640–1693) John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace (d. May 6, 1709), Governor of the Province of New Jersey John Lovelace, 5th Baron Lovelace (d. May 1709), Baron Lovelace Jonathan Bell Lovelace of Capital Group Companies John Lovelace, Jr. of Capital Group Companies [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
38-461: A judge of the Court of Common Pleas , causing a by-election. Keating was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales , requiring a by-election. Keating was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales , requiring a by-election. Keating resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas , causing a by-election. Pigott resigned after being appointed Lieutenant Governor of
57-712: A single Reading constituency in 1955, but again split apart in 1974; despite its name, the 1955 constituency did not contain the whole of the County Borough of Reading, with one ward being included in both of the Newbury and Wokingham seats. After 1885, the constituency was marginal, regularly changing hands between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party up to 1918, then between the Conservatives and Labour . Today
76-474: Is appointed Solicitor General of England and Wales , requiring a by-election. Issacs is appointed Lord Chief Justice of England and is elevated to the peerage as Lord Reading, requiring a by-election. A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the summer of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. General Election 1939–40 : Another General Election
95-670: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Reading (UK Parliament constituency) Reading was a parliamentary borough , and later a borough constituency in England , represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950 and 1955 to 1974. Until 1885,
114-583: The Wokingham and Newbury constituencies respectively. From the 1964 general election , a revision to the County Borough wards resulted in minor changes. The constituency now comprised: The constituency was abolished once again for the 1974 general election. The Christchurch, Redlands and Whitley wards were included in the re-established constituency of Reading South, with remaining wards being included in Reading North. Talfourd resigned after being appointed
133-573: The Isle of Man , causing a by-election. Pigott resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Court of the Exchequer , causing a by-election. Shaw-Lefevre was appointed a Civil Lord of the Admiralty , requiring a by-election. Goldsmid's death caused a by-election. Lefevre was appointed First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings , requiring a by-election. Murdoch's death caused a by-election. Isaacs
152-545: The area formerly covered by the Reading constituency is within the constituencies of Reading East and Reading West , which will be replaced by the constituencies of Reading Central , Reading West and Mid Berkshire , and Earley and Woodley at the 2024 general election . Minor expansion - see map on Vision of Britain website. Boundaries extended to the south and west (gained from the Newbury and Wokingham Divisions), and to
171-565: The constituency comprised the town of Reading in the county of Berkshire ; after 1885, it was centred on the town but the exact boundaries differed. From 1295, as a parliamentary borough, Reading elected two members of parliament (MPs). Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 , this representation was reduced to a single MP. Reading was one of the boroughs summoned to send members to the Model Parliament . The boundaries (encompassing
190-416: The first post-Reform election, that of 1832 . The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 , coming into effect at the 1885 general election , reduced the representation of the parliamentary borough to a single MP. The single-member Reading constituency continued to exist until it was split in 1950 into the separate constituencies of Reading North and Reading South . These two constituencies were merged back into
209-690: The north of the River Thames with the annexation of the Urban District of Caversham (part of the Henley Division of Oxfordshire) by Reading County Borough. For the 1950 general election , Reading was abolished as a single-member Parliamentary borough and split between the two new borough constituencies of Reading North and Reading South . For the 1955 general election, Reading was re-established, replacing Reading North and Reading South and comprising: The East and Tilehurst wards were included in
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247-471: The town was generally considered in practice to control elections to a large extent. In the second half of the 18th century, Reading was notoriously one of the most corrupt constituencies in England, bribery being both routine and expensive: Namier quotes the accounts kept for Prime Minister Newcastle of the 1754 election, which note that John Dodd , the government's candidate there, had already received £1000 and
266-410: The whole of one parish and parts of two others) were effectively unchanged from 1295 to 1918. In 1831, the population of the borough was 15,935, and contained 3,307 houses. The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitants paying scot and lot , a relatively wide franchise for the period, and almost 2,000 votes were cast at the general election of 1826 . Despite this high electorate, the corporation of
285-548: Was an inspector of wet nurses in Berkshire for the Hospital. Dodd lived at Swallowfield Park , near Reading. He married firstly Jane, the daughter of Henry Le Coq St. Leger of Shinfield, Berkshire, with whom he had 3 sons and a daughter and secondly Juliana, the daughter of Philip Jennings of Duddleston Hall, Shropshire, with whom he had a further son and 3 daughters. He died at Swallowfield on 9 February 1782. This article about
304-468: Was born on 24 September 1717. He succeeded his father in 1721. He was educated at Eton College from 1728 to 1732 and matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1735. Dodd was a close friend of Horace Walpole , and was returned as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading in 1741 , and from 1755 to 1782. He became a Governor of the Foundling Hospital in 1739, and his second wife Juliana
323-511: Was not mentioned by name and no price was specified; the newspaper's printers were charged by the Commons with a breach of privilege , but the sale of seats remained legal if frowned-upon until 1809. The Great Reform Act left Reading's representation and boundaries unchanged, and the reformed franchise far from increasing its electorate seems to have reduced it: it was estimated that there were 1,250 voters in 1831, but only 1,001 were registered for
342-456: Was promised £500 or £600 more to help him win the seat. (Dodd lost by one vote, but had the result overturned on petition by a partisan vote in the House of Commons, and Newcastle's accounts show a continuing trickle of funds to him to nurse the constituency over the next few years.) A few years later, the nomination to one of Reading's seats was advertised for sale in a London newspaper, though Reading
361-492: Was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; John Dodd (Reading MP) John Dodd (24 September 1717 – 9 February 1782) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1741 and 1782. Dodd was the only son of Randolph (or Randall) Dodd of Chester and
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