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
(1803–1852)
Repository
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.