Item 3A - 'A New Song: So you doubt who to choose of our candidates three...?'

Identity area

Reference code

BABN/29/3A

Title

'A New Song: So you doubt who to choose of our candidates three...?'

Date(s)

  • [Jul 1847?] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 doc: printed cutting.

Context area

Name of creator

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Presumably relating to James Parker's candidacy for the Borough of Leicester parliamentary constituency in July 1847

Notes area

Note

'On 30 July 1847 Parker failed to win a seat in parliament as a Conservative candidate for Leicester. Although his opponents, Walmsley and Gardner, were later impeached for bribery, he did not again contest the seat': Sinéad Agnew, ODNB.