Baldwin's of St. James's
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Politics: The Halifax Borough Election, 1835, a pair of copper and white metal strikings of a silver medal presented to Edward Protheroe Junior (1798-1852), legend around and in 11 lines, HALIFAX BOROUGH ELECTION JANUARY 1835 – TO EDWARD PROTHEROE JUNR ESQR THE ADVOCATE OF LIBERAL PRINCIPLES, THE OPPONENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL ABUSES, THE FRIEND OF THE OPRESSED NEGRO, THIS MEDAL AND CHAIN ARE PRESENTED BY LADIES OF HALIFAX, rev. legend in 9 lines within oak wreath, IN TESTIMONY OF ESTEEM FOR HIS PERSONAL CONDUCT, REPROBATION OF THE SLANDERS CAST UPON HIS CHARACTER, AND SYMPATHY FOR A DEFEAT WHICH MUST ETERNIZE THE DISHONOUR OF HIS OPPONENTS, 73mm. (BHM.-; Eimer -; Grant -), copper virtually mint state, white metal pierced at top, very fine, seemingly unpublished (2)
Edward Protheroe Jr. (1798 – 1852), was an abolitionist MP and son of Edward Protheroe, senior, also an MP and friend of Wilberforce. Protheroe Junior had been the MP for Evesham from 1826-1830. At the Halifax election, his friend, the Whig [Sir] Charles Wood, later Lord Halifax, topped the polls with 336 votes. Protheroe stood as a Radical against the Tory James Stuart Wortley and lost by a single vote – 307 to 308. This outcome was highly controversial. A Tory mob attacked the Skircoat Green Band, hired by the Liberals, then the Liberal mob attacked the Tory headquarters and other properties belonging prominent Tories, including Hope Hall, home of Christopher Rawson. It earned the sobriquet the 'window breaking' election. Protheroe overturned the defeat at the next election in 1837, when the Tory Wortley took third place.
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Edward Protheroe Jr. (1798 – 1852), was an abolitionist MP and son of Edward Protheroe, senior, also an MP and friend of Wilberforce. Protheroe Junior had been the MP for Evesham from 1826-1830. At the Halifax election, his friend, the Whig [Sir] Charles Wood, later Lord Halifax, topped the polls with 336 votes. Protheroe stood as a Radical against the Tory James Stuart Wortley and lost by a single vote – 307 to 308. This outcome was highly controversial. A Tory mob attacked the Skircoat Green Band, hired by the Liberals, then the Liberal mob attacked the Tory headquarters and other properties belonging prominent Tories, including Hope Hall, home of Christopher Rawson. It earned the sobriquet the 'window breaking' election. Protheroe overturned the defeat at the next election in 1837, when the Tory Wortley took third place.
(400-600 GBP)