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- Lord Morpeth - Member of the Whig party and supporter of parliamentary reform. Appointed chief secretary for Ireland for six years and carried through Parliament several reforms including the Irish Tithe Bill, the Irish Municipal Reform Bill and the Irish Poor Law Bill. (1802-1864)
- Titus Salt - Industrialist owner of an important textile company in Bradford, then built an industrial community called Saltaire with improved working conditions. Active in politics he did not believe that the 1832 Reform Act went far enough. In 1835 he founded the Bradford Reform Association and publicly supported the Chartists. Disturbed by the growth of the Physical Force Chartists, he helped establish the United Reform Society, an attempt to unite middle and working class reformers. (1803-1876)
- Unitarian Society - One of the early reform groups, Unitarians were closely identified with social and political reform. Considered religious radicals in London, they formed the Unitarian Society in 1791 to promote the cause of parliamentary reform.
- Samuel Smiles - Abstract: Born in 1812, the eldest of eleven children, after attending the local school he left at fourteen and joined Dr. Robert Lewins as an apprentice and then went to Edinburgh University in 1829 to study medicine and graduated in 1832. While in Edinburgh, Smiles became involved in the campaign for parliamentary reform. In 1837 he began contributing articles on parliamentary reform for theLeeds Times and decided to abandon his career as a doctor and to become a full-time worker for the cause of political change. In the 1850s Samuel Smiles completely abandoned his interest in parliamentary reform and now argued that self-help provided ...
- Jeremy Bentham - Philosopher, legal theorist and reformer, and political radical. Argued in favor of universal suffrage, annual parliaments and vote by ballot in his book, Constitutional Code. Includes excerpts. (1748-1832)
- Lord Sidmouth - Become speaker of the House of Commons in 1789 and was appointed prime minister in 1801. Supported the Tories in parliament, voted against Catholic Emancipation and the Reform Act of 1832 and helped pass the Gagging Acts. (1757-1844)
- Joseph Johnson - Strong supporter of universal suffrage and annual parliaments. One of the founders of the Patriotic Union Society whose main objective was to obtain parliamentary reform. (1791-1872)
- Josiah Wedgwood - Political reformer who supported universal male suffrage and annual parliaments. Helped to form the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. (1730-1795)
- Lord Byron - Poet and member of the House of Lords. Became a strong advocate of social reform and was one of the few men in Parliament to defend the actions of the Luddites. Opposed the Frame Breaking Bill. Includes short biography and portrait. (1788-1824)
- Oxford University Elections - District was granted two members of Parliament. Almost all elected represented the Tory party, which sought to preserve the traditional political structure and opposed parliamentary reform.
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- Tregony (UK Parliament constituency) - Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
- The Reform Bills - The Reform Bills were a series of proposals to reform voting in the British parliament. These include the Reform Acts of 1832, 1867, and 1884.
- Special working group on parliamentary reform - In 2007 the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering, set up a special working group on parliamentary reform. It was chaired by Dagmar Roth-Behrendt MEP and was to improve the efficiency and image of the European Parliament.
- Constitutional Reform Act 2005 - The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (2005 c. 4) is an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 2005.
- Reform Act 1832 - The Representation of the People Act 1832, commonly known as the Reform Act 1832, was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of the United Kingdom. According to its preamble, the act was designed to "take effectual Measures for correcting diverse Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament.