Entries for the tag ‘Conservative Party (1834-)’
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- 21 February 1835: The Spectator summarises the respective preoccupations of Leeds’s Tory and Whig establishments – partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
- 30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act
- 26 September 1835: The (Whig) Leeds Mercury reports the attempt of its proprietor and editor, Edward Baines Jnr, to qualify for the electoral register on the basis of shares in accommodation for the dead
- 25 July 1837: Sir Walter James, 2nd Baronet (21) is elected MP for Kingston upon Hull, to the joy of a young Tory author
- 23 August 1837: Robert Gibson, fishmonger of Queen Street, Hull, is beggared by his Liberal landlord for favouring the Conservatives in the general election, says the (Tory) Hull Packet
- 4 December 1843: The Tory MP for Knaresborough recounts the death in poverty of an old woman at Harden Beck, Bingley
- 31 July 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a ca. 1725 kg free-trade plum pudding
- 20 August 1852: Leeds unveils a statue modelled by someone believed to resemble Robert Peel (RIP)
- 11 March 1879: Calling for magistrates to lose their jurisdiction over pub licences, the teetotaller Wilfrid Lawson suggests that Tory Radical William St James Wheelhouse serves the Yorkshire Brewers’ Association
- 30 June 1880: Tom Palliser, a Kilvington drunk, denies to a York court that a half crown received from Col. Dawnay, Conservative candidate for Thirsk, was an electoral bribe
- 19 December 1881: Sir William Payne-Gallwey (73), ex-MP for Thirsk, is bested by a turnip while out shooting
- 24 September 1892: Vanity Fair profiles Lord Hawke, amateur captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and soon to be the most successful county captain ever
- 12 March 1900: The South African speaker Samuel Cronwright meets Marion Rowntree among other anti-Boer War activists waiting to run the gauntlet of a riotous Tory mob at Scarborough
- 6 July 1915: The Tory MP for York joins in the persecution of the professor of German at Leeds University, A.W. Schüddekopf, who is sacked and dies of a stroke
- 23 August 1933: John Betjeman witnesses the opening of the Leeds Civic Hall
- 18 February 1934: Leeds Labour triggers the first rent strike against a council by announcing higher rents for well-off tenants and possible free housing for ex-slum-dwellers
- 15 October 1951: On the eve of the general election, a Times leader summarises the latest Rowntree report, which details startling reductions in absolute poverty in York under the welfare state
- 21 November 1958: Norman Harding and fellow Trotskyite Labour Party members from East Leeds ambush their MP, Denis Healey, during a rigged live TV debate with his Tory neighbour, Keith Joseph
- 18 January 1966: By promising a bridge over the Humber, Barbara Castle (Lab.) swings the Hull North by-election, convincing Harold Wilson that he can win a general election
- 6 November 1973: Baron Rhodes of Saddleworth (WR/GM) recounts to the Lords a chat with a gamekeeper about the failure of the Tory PM Ted Heath to control the money supply
- 7 January 1974: During his trial the Pontefract architect John Poulson doubts whether entertaining (West Riding) public servants constituted corruption
- 24 June 1981: Leeds City Council declares its opposition to nuclear weapons and resolves to inform the world thereof
- 19 June 1984: On the day after the Battle of Orgreave, the Labour MP for Doncaster North contrasts police behaviour towards striking miners under the (Conservative) Heath and Thatcher governments
- 15 April 1985: Hervey Rhodes tells his fellow-lords how, on the abolition of the Ridings in 1974, Saddleworth was lost to Greater Manchester
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