| Description | From the start Lord George's chances of success seemed none too rosy to Thomas Beer the chief Agent. For one thing, Lord Anglesey was determined not to spend a penny more than £500 on the election; for another there were difficulties in securing dependable lawyers, so many of the latter having been financially bitten in the 1832 election (3755, 3759). At best it would be a "neck to neck race" but Paget would have to put in some hard work and canvass seach individual vote (3767), so the sooner he came down to Caernarvon the better, for Assheton Smith had, according to Lloyd Robert the Plas Newydd attorney on the spot, been saying that Paget had come forward at the instigation of the radical element in the boroughs and without the countenance of the Marquess, his father (3775). The precasts on June 14th varied from "a fair and reasonable prospect of success" to "a great degree of uncertainty as to the result" (3780-3781). And indeed, the majority (29) which Bulkeley Hughes finally obtained at the Poll on July 3 was deemed narrow enough by the Plas Newydd party to justify a petition, which appears however, to have been completely bungled through the incompetence of a London attorney (3796-3798). the next four years (up to June 1845) were embarrassing ones for Thomas Beer and the other Plas Newydd agents; a host of creditors sprang up all pressing for satisfaction. Llots Robert the party's principal attorney was himself £580 odd out of pocket, the total election bill rising to over £1057 - double the amount which Lord Anglesey had authorised to be spent (3802-3834) |
| AdminHistory | In this election Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget, third and youngest son of the first Marquess, was defeated by William Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch, the victor in the 1837 contect, by a majority of 416 to 387. It was the last time that the Pagets risked their parliamentary fortunes in the boroughs. |