26-1043: (Redirected from Sir Charles Forbes ) Charles Forbes may refer to: People [ edit ] Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774–1849), Scottish politician Charles Forbes (Royal Navy officer) (1880–1960), British admiral Charlie Forbes (1865–1922), Australian rules footballer Charles E. Forbes (1795–1881), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Charles Fergusson Forbes (1779–1852), English army surgeon Charles John Forbes (1786–1862), British army officer and political figure in Canada East Charles Noyes Forbes (1883–1920), American botanist Charles R. Forbes (1878–1952), Scottish-American soldier, politician, and civil servant Other uses [ edit ] Sir Charles Forbes (ship) , chartered by
52-401: A Beverley seat was revived for a single-member county constituency created in 1950 , abolished in 1955 , and similarly between the 1983 and 1992 general elections inclusive after which the area was largely incorporated into one 1997-created seat Beverley and Holderness ; the remainder of the seat contributed to two other late 20th century-created seats. Beverley was first represented in
78-469: A constituency mostly suburban in character. The new constituency replaced, and strongly resembled, the Haltemprice constituency which had been introduced in 1955: its main components apart from Beverley were the prosperous suburbs to the north and west of Hull , such as Cottingham , Anlaby and Kirk Ella . The Beverley constituency was abolished in 1997 general election , Beverley itself moving to
104-484: A large portion of his fortune in their midst. In parliament and in the proprietors' court of the East India Company his advocacy of justice for India was ardent and untiring. One of his last acts was the appropriation of a very large sum of money to procure for the inhabitants of Bengal a plentiful supply of pure water in all seasons. His fame spread from one end of Hindostan to the other. When he left India he
130-558: The 1868 election, the writ for the borough was suspended and a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of elections in Beverley; when it reported that it had found proof of extensive bribery, an Act of Parliament was passed permanently depriving Beverley of the right to return Members of Parliament, abolishing the constituency and incorporating it within the East Riding constituency. The novelist Anthony Trollope
156-484: The Model Parliament of 1295, but after 1306 it did not elect members again until 1563. Thereafter it maintained two members until being disfranchised in 1870. The borough consisted of the three parishes of the town of Beverley, and by 1831 had a population of 7,432 and 1,928 houses. The right of election was vested not in the population as a whole, but in the freemen of the borough, whether resident or not; at
182-535: The New Zealand Company in 1842 See also [ edit ] Charles Forbes-Leith (1859–1930), British army officer and politician Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810–1870), French publicist and historian B. C. Forbes (Bertie Charles Forbes, 1880–1954), Scottish-American financial writer and founder of the magazine Forbes Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
208-402: The borough's history, elections in Beverley were notorious for their corruption. In 1727, one of the victorious candidates was unseated on petition, his agents were imprisoned and Parliament passed a new Bribery Act as a result. Between 1857 and 1868 six petitions were lodged against election results, of which three succeeded in voiding the election and unseating one or more of the victors. After
234-618: The constituency. The Beverley constituency which existed from 1950 to 1955 was a predominantly rural one. Under the boundary revisions introduced by the Representation of the People Act 1948 , which came into effect at the 1950 general election , the three existing county constituencies of the East Riding were abolished, and the county was divided into two new constituencies, each named after their biggest towns - Bridlington and Beverley . The new Beverley constituency comprised
260-472: The contested election of 1826 , 2,276 votes were cast. The borough was large enough to retain two members under the compromise of the Reform Act of 1832 when its boundaries were slightly extended to include some outlying fringes, increasing the population by roughly 800. The first of three progressive Acts, by the third Act in 1885 were such boroughs more equally thus fairly apportioned . For much of
286-481: The last with uncompromising hostility, and if it were carried to abandon parliament. He put forward an urgent plea for Malmesbury. The borough, after much angry discussion, was left with one member only. Forbes vainly contested Middlesex against Joseph Hume at the general election of 1832. He was most distinguished in connection with India. From his long residence in the East, he knew the people intimately, and he spent
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#1732793969288312-549: The latter year he was returned for Malmesbury , and continued to represent that town until the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 . As a member of the House of Commons he enjoyed the respect of all parties, for his love of justice, kindly feeling, and plain, straightforward honesty. Though a tory of the tories, he "never allowed his political creed to cloud his fine judgment and keen sense of right and wrong, and his manly spirit
338-488: The leading public charities of Scotland. Forbes was of a bluff but kindly nature, diffident as to his own merits, of a straightforward and manly character. On the death of his uncle in 1821, Forbes succeeded to the entailed estates of the Forbeses of Newe , and was created a baronet by patent in 1823. He married Elizabeth Cotgrave (d. 1861) in 1811. Forbes died in 1849. Their eldest son, John, had predeceased his father:
364-578: The name of a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for three periods. From medieval times until 1869 it was a parliamentary borough consisting of a limited electorate of property owners of its early designated borders within the market town of Beverley , which returned (elected) two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English and Welsh-turned-UK Parliament during that period (sometimes called burgesses ). A form of
390-716: The new Beverley and Holderness constituency. 1950–1955 : The Borough of Beverley, the Urban District of Norton, and the Rural Districts of Beverley, Derwent, Howden, Norton, and Pocklington. 1983–1997 : The East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley wards of Anlaby, Brough, Castle, Hessle East, Hessle West, Kirk Ella, Leconfield, Leven, Mill Beck and Croxby, Minster North, Minster South, Molescroft, Priory, St Mary's East, St Mary's West, Springfield, Swanland, Tickton, Willerby, and Woodmansey. Writ suspended 1869, constituency abolished 1870 Lane-Fox resigned by accepting
416-602: The office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds , causing a by-election. Lawley resigned after he was found to have been using his position as secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for insider trading, causing a by-election. Glover's election was declared void on petition, after he was found to have lied about meeting the required property qualifications, causing a by-election. Walters' election
442-411: The people of India raising a statue to any one unconnected with the civil or military service of the country. An address, signed by 1,042 of the principal native and other inhabitants of Bombay, expatiated upon his services to the commercial development of the country and the improvement in the position of the natives. In his private charities Forbes was most liberal; he was also a munificent contributor to
468-580: The power of voting for directors of the East India Company , and maintaining that if the right of voting was grounded on the possession of property, there ought to be no distinction of sex. Forbes was a strong opponent of the Reform Bill of 1831–2. During the debates in the former session he spoke of the measure as "the vile Reform Bill, that hideous monster, the most frightful that ever showed its face in that house". He promised to pursue it to
494-563: The title Charles Forbes . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Forbes&oldid=1221122669 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774–1849)
520-510: The title was inherited by their second son, Charles. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married General, Lord James Hay, second son of the seventh Marquess of Tweeddale . Attribution [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1889). " Forbes, Charles (1774-1849) ". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Beverley (UK Parliament constituency) Beverley has been
546-464: The western half of the Riding. This encompassed parts of all three of the county's previously existing constituencies ( Buckrose , Holderness and Howdenshire ). The Beverley constituency was abolished in further boundary changes implemented at the 1955 general election , being divided between the new Haltemprice and Howden seats. Beverley again became a constituency name in 1983 , this time for
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#1732793969288572-508: Was a Scottish politician, of Newe and Edinglassie , Aberdeenshire . Forbes was the son of the Rev. George Forbes of Lochell. He was a descendant of Alexander Forbes of Kinaldie and Pitsligo , and was in 1833 served heir male in general to Alexander Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes of Pitsligo , father of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo , attainted in 1745. Forbes was educated at Aberdeen University , of which, late in life (1814–1819), he
598-399: Was elected Lord Rector. Shortly after leaving the university he went out to India, and became the head of the first mercantile house there, Forbes & Co. of Bombay. His name ranked high in the commercial world for ability, foresight, and rectitude of character. On returning to England, he was elected to parliament for the borough of Beverley , and represented that place from 1812 to 1818. In
624-657: Was one of the defeated candidates in the final corrupt election for which Beverley was disfranchised. He drew on his experience directly for his description of the Percycross election in his novel Ralph the Heir , and also told the story in his Autobiography . He found that corruption was taken for granted and that the price of a vote was between 15 shillings and £1. His unsuccessful campaign cost him £400. Sir Henry Edwards and Edmund Hegan Kennard were those candidates deemed elected Members of Parliament in this final contest for
650-407: Was presented by the natives with a magnificent service of plate, and twenty-seven years after his departure from Bombay the sum of £9,000 was subscribed for the erection of a statue to his honour. The work was entrusted to Sir Francis Chantrey , and the statue now stands in the town hall of Bombay, between those of Mountstuart Elphinstone and Sir John Malcolm . It was the first instance on record of
676-542: Was readily engaged in favour of the poor, the weak, and the persecuted". He warmly supported catholic emancipation ; and when the Duke of Wellington incurred great unpopularity in 1830, Forbes pronounced in the House of Commons a warm panegyric on the duke's conduct. Forbes was one of the earliest to advocate the claims of women to the franchise. In the session of 1831 he asked upon what reasonable grounds they could be excluded from political rights, pointing out that ladies had
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