Definition of Potwalloper. Meaning of Potwalloper. Synonyms of Potwalloper

- A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) or householder borough was a voter in a parliamentary borough in which the franchise was extended to...
- Prison in 2016. However, the practice continues at Limerick Prison. A "potwalloper" was a trusty prisoner who made sure the buckets were emptied and cleaned...
- County Antrim 1570 Freeholders Two seats Antrim Borough Antrim 1666 Potwalloper Disfranchised Ardee Borough Louth 1378 Corporation Disfranchised Ardfert...
- Commons, with most voters being the owners of property, although in some potwalloper boroughs every male householder could vote. When ****embled along with...
- Baltimore was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801. This constituency was a parliamentary borough based...
- reform (a movement which later brought about the Reform Acts) for the potwalloper borough of Honiton in Devon. This was exactly the kind of borough that...
- which male householders were electors (these were usually known as "potwalloper boroughs", as the usual definition of a householder was a person able...
- landowners) could vote, while in boroughs the franchise varied from potwallopers, giving many residents votes, to rotten boroughs with hardly any voters...
- continued as the East Devon constituency. Honiton was regarded as a potwalloper borough by the time of Thomas Cochrane. It was notorious for the bribes...
- first past the post for single-member by-elections. The borough had a Potwalloper electorate. O'Hart 2007, p. 500. Return of Members of Parliament (1878)...