Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General Editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Townscape and university: topographical change
- 2 The university: its constitution, personnel, and tasks
- 3 Colleges: buildings, masters, and fellows
- 4 Colleges: tutors, bursars, and money
- 5 Mathematics, law, and medicine
- 6 Science and other studies
- 7 Religion in the university: its rituals and significance
- 8 The Orthodox and Latitudinarian traditions, 1700–1800
- 9 Cambridge religion 1780–1840: Evangelicalism
- 10 Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years
- 11 The university as a political institution, 1750–1815
- 12 The background to university reform, 1830–1850
- 13 Cambridge and reform, 1815–1870
- 14 The Graham Commission and its aftermath
- 15 The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths
- 16 The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett
- 17 The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson
- 18 Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating, and ball games
- 19 Leisure for town and gown: music, debating, and drama
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - The university as a political institution, 1750–1815
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General Editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Townscape and university: topographical change
- 2 The university: its constitution, personnel, and tasks
- 3 Colleges: buildings, masters, and fellows
- 4 Colleges: tutors, bursars, and money
- 5 Mathematics, law, and medicine
- 6 Science and other studies
- 7 Religion in the university: its rituals and significance
- 8 The Orthodox and Latitudinarian traditions, 1700–1800
- 9 Cambridge religion 1780–1840: Evangelicalism
- 10 Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years
- 11 The university as a political institution, 1750–1815
- 12 The background to university reform, 1830–1850
- 13 Cambridge and reform, 1815–1870
- 14 The Graham Commission and its aftermath
- 15 The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths
- 16 The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett
- 17 The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson
- 18 Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating, and ball games
- 19 Leisure for town and gown: music, debating, and drama
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE UNIVERSITY IN PARLIAMENT: THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AS CHANCELLOR
THE UNIVERSITY AS A PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY
The important contest for this University, which has so long been looked forward to with intense anxiety throughout the country, commenced on Tuesday last, the Candidates being Sir John Copley, Attorney-General, Lord Palmerston, Mr Bankes, and Mr Goulburn. During the whole of Monday, the members of the Senate kept pouring into the town, and by night the streets of the town, the halls of the colleges, and their groves were completely thronged with the sons of science, many of whom had not visited the scenes of Alma Materfor several years. The business was commenced at the usual hour, but with this difference, that the votes after being tendered and accepted by the Vice Chancellor, were all entered in a poll book.
Cambridge and Oxford were the only places where elections were held for three parliamentary constituencies at once: the county, the borough, and the university, each seat of learning being given the right to return two MPs by James VI and I in 1603. Unlike other members, the university representatives did not have to own landed or personal property; the only essential qualifications were membership of their university itself and a place on their college's boards, which they had to be careful to retain; uniquely, they represented their constituency in a very strict sense.
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- A History of the University of Cambridge , pp. 386 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997