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- Papers and correspondence of John Phillips of Hastings, solicitor, as deputy sheriff for the Sussex County elections, 5 March 1857 and 7 April 1857
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Date (When the record was created)
- Feb - Jun 1857
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<p>For the papers of John George Dodson, later Lord Monk Bretton, relating to this and other elections, see MOB 41-118.</p>
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- East Sussex Record Office
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- AMS 5617
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- English
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Documents deposited by Messrs Phillips and Cheesman, Hastings (via Hastings Museum), 1 March 1968 (ACC 878). For other parts of this accession see AMS 5513, 5521-5524, 5621, XH 45 and XSP 225.
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In 1857, two parliamentary elections were fought for the county seat of the Eastern Division of Sussex within a month. The first, caused by the resignation of Charles Hay Frewen, was a contest between John George Dodson (1825-1897) and Henry North Holroyd, Lord Pevensey (1832-1909), which Pevensey, the Tory candidate, won by 2302 votes to 2234, a majority of 68.
Almost as the by-election was taking place, Parliament was dissolved following the government's defeat on a division on the war in China and a general election called. The candidates for the two seats in the Eastern Division were the sitting Tory members, Augustus Eliott Fuller of Brightling Park (1777-1857) and Lord Pevensey, who were opposed by Lord Edward Cavendish (1838-1891) and Dodson in the Liberal interest. Polling took place on Tuesday 7 April and Dodson (2524) and Pevensey (2447) elected, defeating Cavendish (2286) and Fuller (2216).
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Papers and correspondence of John Phillips of Hastings, solicitor, as deputy sheriff for the Sussex County elections, 5 March 1857 and 7 April 1857