The 1826 United Kingdom general election was the 7th general election after the Acts of Union 1800, held on 7 June 1826 to 12 July 1826, to elect members of the House of Commons, the lower house of Pa
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Henry Walton Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne NPG 178 National Portrait Gallery
Sir Thomas Lawrence Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool RCIN 404930 Royal Collection
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
1826 United Kingdom general election
…the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament. It saw the Tories under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool win a landslide victory over the Whigs. In Ireland, liberal Protestant candidates favouring Catholic emancipation, backed by the Catholic Association, achieved significant gains. The seventh…
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).