The Lichfield House Compact was an 1835 agreement between the former Whig government, the Irish Repeal Party and the Radicals to act as one body against the Conservative Party. It allowed O'Connell to

The 1835 United Kingdom general election was called when Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. Polling took place between 6 January and 6 February 1835, and the results saw Robert Peel's Conse