John Morgan Cobbett

John Morgan Cobbett
MP
Member of Parliament
for Oldham
In office
5 June 1872 – 13 February 1877
Serving with Frederick Spinks (1874–1877)
J. T. Hibbert (1872–1874)
Preceded by John Platt
J. T. Hibbert
Succeeded by J. T. Hibbert
Frederick Spinks
In office
7 July 1852 – 11 July 1865
Serving with J. T. Hibbert (1862–1865)
William Johnson Fox (1857–1862)
James Platt (1857–1857)
William Johnson Fox (1852–1857)
John Duncuft (1852–1852)
Preceded by William Johnson Fox
John Duncuft
Succeeded by John Platt
J. T. Hibbert
Personal details
Born 1800
Died (aged 76)
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Other political
affiliations		 Liberal Party (UK) (until 1868)

John Morgan Cobbett (1800 – 13 February 1877)[1] was a Conservative Party and Liberal Party politician. Cobbett's political affiliations are complicated.[2] He had stood unsuccessfully at Oldham on an all-Radical 'plague on both your houses' slate with John Fielden in 1847. He was elected in 1852 as the Radical half of an explicit Radical-Tory alliance.[3] At the 1857 election he was opposed by two Liberals and denied that he had sold out to Palmerston, asserting that the Liberal Chief Whip had no confidence in him.[4] In 1865 he stood unsuccessfully in conjunction with a Conservative,[5] opposed by two Liberals. Nonetheless, from 1852 to 1865 outside Oldham he was generally taken to be a Liberal.[6] He contested Oldham as a Conservative in 1868 (unsuccessfully) and was elected as a Conservative at a by-election in 1872 - and was thereby the last MP in the UK to be elected by public (rather than secret) ballot.[1] From 1872 to his death in 1877 he sat as a Conservative (but one calling for annual Parliaments and manhood suffrage)[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"
  2. ↑ "Death of Mr J M Cobbett MP for Oldham". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 15 February 1877.
  3. ↑ "The Elections". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 10 July 1852.
  4. ↑ "The General Election". Morning Post. 30 March 1857.
  5. ↑ "Oldham Election". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 24 June 1865.
  6. ↑ For example his vote against the 1859 motion of no confidence which ended the second premiership of Lord Derby and led to the return of Palmerston as prime minister led to him being listed by (even Manchester) newspapers as one of the "English Liberals who voted with the government" - "The Ministerial Crisis". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 18 June 1859. p. 10.
  7. ↑ "Death of Mr Cobbett MP". Pall Mall Gazette. 14 February 1877.
  8. ↑ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)|format= requires |url= (help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Platt
J. T. Hibbert		 Member of Parliament for Oldham
1872–1877
With: Frederick Spinks (1874–1877)
J. T. Hibbert (1872–1874)		 Succeeded by
J. T. Hibbert
Frederick Spinks
Preceded by
William Johnson Fox
John Duncuft		 Member of Parliament for Oldham
1852–1865
With: J. T. Hibbert (1862–1865)
William Johnson Fox (1857–1862)
James Platt (1857–1857)
William Johnson Fox (1852–1857)
John Duncuft (1852–1852)		 Succeeded by
John Platt
J. T. Hibbert


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