1802 United Kingdom general election
The 1802 United Kingdom general election was the election to the House of Commons of the second Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The first Parliament had been composed of members of the former Parliaments of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
Image: Henry Addington by Beechey
Image: Reynolds Charles James Fox
Image: Older Pitt The Younger crop
First Parliament of the United Kingdom
In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members of the House of Commons of Ireland.
Henry Addington, Prime Minister during most of the 1st Parliament
Image: The House of Commons 1793 94 by Karl Anton Hickel
Image: Microcosm of London Plate 052 House of Lords edited
"Two Pair of Portraits;" – presented to all the unbiassed Electors of Great Britain, an anti-Whig caricature published in 1798 by James Gillray showing Fox as the personification of vice next to a portrait of Pitt as the embodiment of honesty, followed by portraits of their fathers, Lord Holland and Lord Chatham displayed below. The title is an allusion to a pamphlet by John Horne Tooke.
