The 1830 United Kingdom general election was held on 29 July 1830 to 1 September 1830 in the wake of the death of King George IV, producing the first parliament of the reign of his successor, King Wil
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by John Jackson cropped
Henry Walton Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne NPG 178 National Portrait Gallery
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet
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The Ultra-Tories were an Anglican faction of British and Irish politics that appeared in the 1820s in opposition to Catholic emancipation. The faction was, in the twenty-first century, called the "ext
Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution by William Heath, 1829. Wellington and Peel are shown murdering the 1688 British Constitution in the style of notorious killers Burke and Hare.
William Heath's caricature of the duel between the Ultra-Tory Earl of Winchilsea and Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington at Battersea Fields on 21 March 1829.