Talk:List of UK parliamentary election petitions

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Table

The formatting of the table of cases makes it extremely hard to read on a number of devices - the descriptions (largely superfluous) are far too long. I don't know how to fix the formatting, I suggest reducing description length and have done this for a few examples Jw2036 (talk) 14:34, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I have undone that. I think content is more important than formatting; it's generally a bad idea to delete content because of formatting problems. The table has been reformatted in the interim, so hopefully it is now more readable across more devices. What belongs in the article as opposed to the references can certainly be debated, but e.g. simply trimming every entry down to some small maximum number of words seems too crude. jnestorius^(talk) 23:12, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Possible petitioners

I have added wikilinks to some petitioners in the table. A few named petitioners seem to my not-terribly-well-informed eye as though they may correspond to people with Wikipedia articles, but I was not confident enough to add wikilinks. They are as follows:-

• 1868 Bradford Samuel Storey (Liberal politician)
• 1868 Limerick City Thomas Macknight
• 1868 Sligo Borough Joseph Foley
• 1868 Southampton Alfred Pegler
• 1868 Stalybridge Abel Buckley
• 29 Mar 1870 Bristol Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
• 1874 Barnstaple John Fleming (Devonport MP)

jnestorius^(talk) 22:58, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Mr. Baron FitzGerald

Sorry for my recent edit about the sources, I hadn't realised they had been moved to the end of the page.

I found a copy of FitzGerald in the National Library of Ireland.[1] I was randomly scrolling through 1 O'M & H and came across these judgements for Belfast (p. 214), Cashel (p. 228) and Limerick (p. 243). These are the only refs to FitzGerald in the entire list. Since the Irish Library copy only has 48 pages, it would seem that it is a copy or other duplication of the HoC papers and could probably be removed from the list of sources. MinorProphet (talk) 12:42, 22 October 2024 (UTC)