| 词条 | Thomas Oldfield |
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LifeHe was born in Derbyshire, and reputedly an attorney.[3] During the 1780s he lived in Hoxton Square, east of London.[4] Oldfield joined the Society for Constitutional Information in 1782, when he was proposed by John Jebb and seconded by Thomas Brand Hollis. He was very active with Richard Brocklesby at the time of The Case of the Dean of St Asaph in 1784, Subsequently he joined the Society of Friends of the People.[4][5] He died at Exeter on 25 July 1822.[1] Election managementOver a long period, Oldfield operated as an election agent or manager. He was secretary of the Westminster electoral committee in 1780;[6] and again secretary of the Westminster Association in 1783/4.[9] In 1785 he introduced Henry Flood at Seaford. Over numerous procedural difficulties, Flood was elected in 1786.[7] At East Retford in 1812 Oldfield offered himself as election manager to George Osbaldeston. His candidate was elected, but then refused to settle financially with Oldfield. Oldfield then turned informer on the electoral corruption that had been involved.[8] ViewsOldfield took the view that participation in deliberation and legislation was an inherent ancient right. In this he had something in common with Gilbert Stuart. This attitude was contested by the British Review in 1818, taking the line that rights had been attained by struggle.[9][10] Oldfield mixed the concepts of historic right and natural right freely.[11] WorksOldfield was a pioneer of parliamentary reform, and the author of:[1]
Both works were subsequently reprinted under the title A Complete History, Political and Personal, of the Boroughs of Great Britain, together with the Cinque Ports; To which is now first added the History of the Original Constitution of Parliaments, &c., London (no date), 3 vols. A final edition, revised and amplified, entitled The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland; being a History of the House of Commons, and of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs of the United Kingdom from the earliest Period, appeared in 1816, London, 6 vols.[1] Oldfield also compiled A Key to the House of Commons, being a History of the last General Election in 1818; and a correct State of the virtual Representation of England and Wales, London, 1820.[1] References
Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Oldfield, Thomas Hinton Burley}} 2. ^{{cite book|author=John Gamble|title=Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqL9wEiZFMEC&pg=PA457|accessdate=24 February 2013|year=2011|publisher=Field Day Publications|isbn=978-0-946755-43-1|page=457 note 1}} 3. ^{{cite ODNB|id=20683|title=Oldfield, Thomas Hinton Burley|first=Michael T.|last=Davis}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|author=Eugene C. Black|title=Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization, 1769-1793|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1Sw-IZGLJ4C&pg=PA283|accessdate=24 February 2013|year=1963|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-05000-6|pages=283–4}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=P. B. M. Blaas|title=Continuity and Anachronism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egeUK44NTE4C&pg=PA84|accessdate=24 February 2013|year=1978|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-90-247-2063-7|page=84}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Marc Baer|title=The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZZycB0tiIwC&pg=PA13|accessdate=24 February 2013|date=4 September 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-34931-5|page=13}} 7. ^historyofparliamentonline.org, Flood, Henry (1732-91), of Farmley, co. Kilkenny. 8. ^{{cite book|author=Ernest Anthony Smith|title=Whig Principles and Party Politics: Earl Fitzwilliam and the Whig Party, 1748-1833|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgYNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA327|accessdate=24 February 2013|year=1975|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-0598-5|page=327}} 9. ^{{cite book|author=Alice Chandler|title=A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uqg9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA25|accessdate=24 February 2013|year=1971|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=978-0-7100-7037-1|page=25}} 10. ^{{cite book|author1=Linda E. Connors|author2=Mary Lu MacDonald|title=National Identity in Great Britain and British North America 1815-1851: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rnp3XeA_ycC&pg=PA35|accessdate=24 February 2013|date=28 August 2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-2771-1|page=35}} 11. ^Jann, p. 131. 12. ^1 {{cite book|author=John Ashton Cannon|title=Parliamentary Reform: 1640-1832|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0M4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA122|accessdate=24 February 2013|year=1973|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-09736-9|page=122 note 3}}
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