“9th.
“. . . It is made perfectly manifest by their first
vote that the Reformed Parliament is not a Radical one, when Joe Hume and the Rt. Honble. Tennyson and all the O’Connells and all the Repealers, with Cobbett to boot, could only muster 40 against
400!”
Joseph Hume (1777-1855)
After service in India he became a radical MP for Weymouth (1812), Aberdeen (1818-30,
1842-55), Middlesex (1830-37), and Kilkenny (1837-41); he was an associate of John Cam
Hobhouse and a member of the London Greek Committee. Maria Edgeworth: “Don't like him
much; attacks all things and persons, never listens, has no judgment.”
Charles Tennyson-D'Eyncourt (1784-1861)
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he was a radical MP for Great Grimsby
(1818-26), Bletchingley (1826-31), Stamford (1831-32), and Lambeth (1832-52). He was the
uncle of the poet.
