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3.

i: Who was returned for Condaford in the general election?
ii: In what election were 45 green umbrellas used to influence voters?
iii: In which constituency was Mr Browborough’s election reversed due to bribery?
iv: In which West Indian constituency was the election “sweetness done and turning sour”?
v: Which crusader’s ultimate election was so prolonged that electors were threatened with starvation?
vi: Who won the election, having engineered the demise of the four favourites, and then chose self-cremation?
vii: Which MP for Aylesbury was expelled, but later headed the poll when he stood for Middlesex?
viii: Who spoke in support of the Liberal candidate in Brattleburn, a Tory stronghold?
ix: Whose supposedly forged red letter led to the government’s electoral defeat?
x: Whose election was declared by Albert Theophylus Despard-Smith?

INCOMPLETE: we need vi and viii!

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

GOOGLE-ME-DO:



vii: is the 'ugliest man in England' John Wilkes, Lord Mayor and reformer whose Wikipedia page is full of gold dust:

He was a member of the Knights of St. Francis of Wycombe, also known as the Hellfire Club or the Medmenham Monks, and was the instigator of a prank that may have hastened its dissolution... Wilkes reportedly brought a baboon dressed in a cape and horns into the rituals performed at the club, producing considerable mayhem among the inebriated initiates.

And he had a duel with the 1st Earl of Talbot:

At a range of eight yards, Talbot and Wilkes both fired their pistols but neither was hit. Somewhat reconciled, they then went to a nearby inn and shared a bottle of claret.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"St. Francis of Wycombe"!