The 1761 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parlia
Thomas Pelham Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyne
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, t
1761 British general election
…March – 5 May 1761 All 558 seats in the House of Commons 280 seats needed for a majority First party Second party Tory Leader Duke of Newcastle — Party Whig Tory Leader's seat House of Lords — Seats won 446 112 Seat change 78 6 Composition of the House of Commons after the election Prime Minister before…
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, painted more than once during his chancellorship in 1672 by John Greenhill
Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the landing at Brixham, Torbay, 5 November 1688
A c. 1705 portrait of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers by Godfrey Kneller
In A Block for the Wigs (1783), caricaturist James Gillray caricatured Charles James Fox's return to power in a coalition with Frederick North, Lord North (George III is the blockhead in the centre).