Summary information
Study title
Members of the House of Commons : Great Britain, 1841-1847
Creator
Aydelotte, W. O., University of Iowa, Department of History
Study number / PID
219 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-219-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
To study the social and economic composition of Parliament (1841 - 1847) and the political behaviour of the men who sat in it.
Main Topics:
Variables
Details of constituency (location, number of seats, number of registered voters) place of residence, whether father or other relative was a member of Parliament for any constituency, respondent's and father's occupations (affiliation if barrister, banking connection, business interest). Social class, whether title held, date of earliest family title, further education, entry into Parliament (date, age, whether present during 1841 election and/or 1847 dissolution), local offices held. Number of divisions in which respondent participated, the fit of each divisional decision (if it did fit) in each of the 24 scales used in the project. Issues included: political reform, income tax, corn laws, landed interest, working class distress, Ireland, religion, factory legislation, public health, Canada wheat, Poor Law, etc.
Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Great Britain, Ireland
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Groups
Cross-national
National
Elites
Members of Parliament
Universe
Individuals who sat in the British House of Commons between the General Elections of 1841 and 1847
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Compilation of published data plus materials from private papers, etc.
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1975
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Fogel, R., Bogue, A. and Aydelotte, W. (1972) Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press.ISBN ISBN-10: 0691100454
- Aydelotte, W. (1954) 'A statistical analysis of the Parliament of 1841: some problems of method', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 141-155
- Aydelotte, W. (1971) Quantification in History, Reading, Massachusetts, USA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
- Aydelotte, W. (1970) Bismarck and British Colonial Policy: The Problem of South West Africa, 1883-1885, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, USA: University of Philadelphia Press.
- Aydelotte, W. (1966) 'Parties and issues in early Victorian England', Journal of British Studies, 95-114
- Aydelotte, W. (1972) 'The disintegration of the Conservative Party in the 1840's: a study of political attitudes' in A. Bogue and R. Fogel (eds.), , Princetown, New Jersey, USA, 319-346.
- Aydelotte, W. (1963) 'Voting patterns in the British House of Commons in the 1840's', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 134-163
- Kitson Clark, G. and Aydelotte, W. (1962) 'The business interests of the gentry in the Parliament of 1841 - 1847' , London: Routledge, 290-305.
- Aydelotte, W. (1954) 'The House of Commons in the 1840's', History (new series), 249-262
- Aydelotte, W. (1967) 'The country gentleman and the repeal of the corn laws', English Historical Review, 47-60