PETERSFIELD, JULY 7.
The election for this borough took place this day, in the Town Hall, at 11 o’clock. The Mayor, R. Roberts, Esq., presided. The usual preliminaries having been gone through,
J. H. Waddington, Esq., of Langrish House, in a neat and eulogistic speech, proposed Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in the ensuing parliament.
The nomination was seconded by T. Cooke, Esq., and, no other person being proposed,
The Mayor, after a short delay, proceeded to declare the hon. baronet duly elected; who thereupon addressed the electors at some length, the topics of his speech being finance, Papal aggression, and national education. His remarks on each of these subjects elicited repeated bursts of applause from the audience.
Sun (London) - Thursday 08 July 1852
PETERSFIELD
The election for this borough took place on Wednesday at the Town-hall. Sir William Jolliffe, Bart, the old Member, also patron of the borough, was proposed, after the usual preliminaries, by J. H. Waddington, Esq., of Langrish, in a very brief speech. Mr. Cook, of Froxfield, having seconded the nomination, and no other candidate being proposed, the Hon. Baronet was declared duly elected.
Hampshire Independent - Saturday 10 July 1852
PETERSFIELD.
The Election for this Borough took place on Wednesday, and a more quiet or tame affair never before occurred, and up to the present time many voters, also inhabitants of the Borough, are ignorant of an Election having taken place. It would have been scarcely perceptible, had it not happened to be the warket-day. Sir W. Jolliffe, Bart. was accompanied to the Town Hall by about a dozen of his friends and supporters.
J. H. WADDINGTON. Esq., of Langrish Lodge, proposed, and Mr. THOMAS COOK, of Floud Farm, Froxfield, seconded, the nomination in very brief manner.
No other candidate being proposed, the Honorable Baronet was declared duly elected, and thus ended this part of the farce for this immaculate Borough.
The coustituency at the present time amounts to 351, out of which Sir W. Jolliffe, Bart., has about somewhere 120 as his tenants; on the passing of the Reform Bill the numbers were 231, since which the numbers have been augmented, by the sitting member’s agent, in adding land to their dwellings, &c.
After the Election a dejeuner was provided at the Red Lion Hotel, to 14 of the Hon. Baronet's friends.