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Coningsby Sibthorp

Coningsby Sibthorp DCL (c. 1706 – 20 July 1779) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for the borough seat of Lincoln on variously between 1741 and 1768. Sibthorp was a member of the Sibthorp family of Canwick Hall in Lincolnshire which produced several Tory Members of Parliament between the early 18th-century and mid 19th-century, in addition to several botanists. Like the vast majority of Tory Members of Parliament during the Whig supremacy Sibthorp never held ministerial office, maintaining his political independence and Tory principles throughout his political career. On one occasion, however, Sibthorp did serve as the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.

Coningsby Sibthorp
Portrait of Sibthorp by an anonymous artist.
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire
In office
1733–1734
Preceded byWilliam D'Autrey
Succeeded byJohn Buissere
Member of Parliament
for Lincoln
In office
1734–1741
Preceded bySir John Tyrwhitt
Succeeded bySir John Tyrwhitt
In office
1747–1754
Preceded bySir John Tyrwhitt
Succeeded byJohn Chaplin
In office
1761–1768
Preceded byJohn Chaplin
Succeeded byConstantine Phipps
Personal details
Bornc. 1706
Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire
Died20 July 1779(1779-07-20) (aged 72–73)
Canwick, Lincolnshire
NationalityBritish
Political partyTory
RelationsHumphry Sibthorp (brother)
Children1 (illegitimate)
ParentJohn Sibthorpe
EducationWestminster School
Alma materHart Hall, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
OccupationPolitician
Military service
AllegianceGreat Britain
Branch/serviceRoyal South Lincolnshire Militia
Years of serviceuntil 1779
RankColonel

Background and education edit

Sibthorp was the second son of John Sibthorpe and his wife Mary, daughter and coheiress of Humphrey Browne of Lincoln. John was the first surviving son of Gervase Sibthorp, who was the first member of the family to settle in Lincolnshire after uprooting himself from Laneham, Nottinghamshire where the family had been centred since the early 16th-century.[1] The Sibthorp family were originally yeoman farmers who were noted for their 'rigid Protestantism'.[2] They were nouveau riche, having married into wealth that enabled them to become firstly bourgeois merchants and then gentry.[3] Sibthorp's parents would have four sons and a daughter. Among his younger brothers was the botanist and Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford, Humphry Sibthorp from whom subsequent generations of Sibthorp parliamentarians are descended. Sibthorp was likely named for his maternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth Coningsby who was herself a granddaughter of Sir Ralph Coningsby, an MP for Hertfordshire who served as a JP and a juryman for the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh that condemned him for complicity in the Main Plot.[4]

Sibthorp was educated at the Westminster School in 1718 before matriculating and studying at Hart Hall, Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford between 1724 and 1728.[5] Sibthorp would receive an MA from Magdalen College on 31 July 1731.[6] Sibthorp's father briefly enjoyed a political career, first appearing as a co-presenter at court of a High Tory address from Lincolnshire. After failing to be elected in 1710 he was successful as a Tory candidate in 1713. The elder Sibthorp made little impact in the Commons and did not put his name forward for re-election in 1715, though this may have been due to the pro-Whig political climate. He would die in April 1718, leaving his wife Mary as the head of the family.[7] Sibthorp's mother exhibited financial acumen and shrewdness through which she was able to purchase an estate for the family.[8] By 1730 she had purchased land in northern Lincolnshire culminating in the purchase of Canwick Hall and the surrounding 300 acres of land from a Catholic family, situated a mile to the south of the town of Lincoln.[9] Sibthorp himself would inherit considerable property from his wealthy unmarried uncle in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, in addition to a house in North Mymms called Skimpans.[10]

Electoral politics edit

The borough constituency of Lincoln after The Restoration was influenced by the local Monson and Meres gentry families. Daniel Defoe dismissed it as "an ancient, ragged, decay'd and still decaying city" that was probably not worthy of being called a city.[11] The interest of the Sibthorps increased after the bid by Sibthorp's father and the family would represent the borough for a quarter of the eighteenth-century, and for all bar twelve years from 1800 to 1861.[12] The Monsons of Burton, who held one seat continuously from 1722 to 1768 were supportive of the Whigs.[13] From the 1730s the constituency was seemingly influence by venal practices, though elections in the borough were competitive. The interest of the various local gentlemen were often challenged a local third-party composed of local freemen. London outvoters constituted a considerable part of the electorate and were always anxious for a contest.[14]

As noted by Lewis Namier, much more than tradition and influence were required to carry the seat.[15] The Whig interest enjoyed an edge in local politics until 1727 when Tory Charles Hall, a kinsman of Sibthorp, successfully contested a seat.[16] Sibthorp would first hold public office as the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for the year from 1733. At the 1734 general election Hall stood down for Sibthorp who invested considerable amounts of money to win the seat. Correspondence of the Banks family opined that "it must be money that gives [Sibthorp] the election".[17] Sibthorp was victorious as one of the two candidates elected for the borough with Charles Monson, defeating the nephew of a South Sea Company director handily.

Sibthorp's interest in the seat at this stage was not as strong as it later would be. At the subsequent general election Sibthorp was defeated by the interest of the Tyrwhitt family who had aligned with the Whigs, a gain against national trends. At that election Sibthorp was defeated by over 100 votes by Tyrwhitt. Sibthorp's standing in the seat was improved when the head of the Saunderson interest in the seat of the Earl of Scarbrough who was a supporter of the Opposition Whig-Tory Leicester House opposition of Frederick, Prince of Wales and gave support to Sibthorp.[18] Sibthorp's victory in Lincoln was certainly assisted by the support of Opposition Whigs such as Scarbrough and Sir Francis Dashwood.[19] Sibthorp opted to not seek re-election in 1754, presumably either due to the sheer cost of election or the threat of a contest. The sheer cost and competitive nature of elections in Lincoln was alluded to by Lord Monson in a letter to the Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle in May 1758:

"It is not in my power any longer to support or even maintain the interest I so dearly bought at the last general election in Lincoln (by the desire of Mr. Pelham, more than my own inclination) if your Grace will not think of me ; and that the spending £7,000 and upwards exclusive of my house being like a fair for two years should not have intitled (sic) me to some small favour before this, I own I think hard."[20]

Sibthorp contested his final general election in 1761. Lord Granby was informed that "at Lincoln town, all affairs are compromised. Mr. Chaplin declines, and Lord Scarbrough brings in Mr. Sibthorp in his stead".[21] Some opposition was mounted at the last moment by an eccentric local country gentleman, Thomas Scrope, who stood as a candidate of 'the free and independent voters' but was defeated by Sibthorp and a member of the Monson family which resulted in a riot. Scrope would lodge a petition against Sibthorp's seating as a Member of Parliament on account of allegations of electoral bribery. Supporters of Monson and Sibthorp were paid as follows: "Freemen residing in the City Three Guineas, Out'ners Four Guineas and Londoners Five Guineas".[22] Scrope's petition was withdrawn without being heard. Ironically, upon Sibthorp's final retirement in 1768, Scrope would succeed in topping the poll using the same tactics he had decried Sibthorp of having used.[23] With Sibthorp's retirement a member of the Sibthorp family would not hold the seat of Lincoln until the election of his nephew Humphrey Sibthorp in 1800.[24]

Electoral record edit

General Election 1734: Lincoln[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig John Monson 509 42.9 -1.0
Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 461 38.9 +9.5
Nonpartisan Thomas Chaplin 216 18.2 N/A
Turnout 593 N/A N/A
Whig win
Tory win
General Election 1741: Lincoln[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig John Monson 560 42.6 -0.3
Whig John de la Fountain Tyrwhitt 444 33.8 N/A
Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 311 23.7 -15.2
Turnout 658 N/A N/A
Whig win
Whig gain from Tory Swing {{{swing}}}
General Election 1747: Lincoln[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Charles Monson 493 38.9 -3.7
Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 418 33.0 +9.3
Nonpartisan Robert Cracraft 357 28.2 N/A
Turnout 634 N/A N/A
Whig win
Tory gain from Whig Swing {{{swing}}}
General Election 1761: Lincoln[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig George Monson 733 46.1 +8.5
Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 486 30.5 N/A
Nonpartisan Thomas Scrope 373 23.4 +2.4
Turnout 796 N/A N/A
Whig win
Tory gain from Whig Swing {{{swing}}}

Political career edit

Sibthorp was throughout his political career a resolute Tory as was his father and subsequent politicians from the family. During his first term in office between 1734 and 1741 Sibthorp was a uniform voter against the Whig administration of Robert Walpole except on a vote to remove Walpole from office in February 1741, reflecting the unease of some Tories to remove Walpole on Whig philosophic grounds.[29] Sibthorp is not recorded as having made a single speech in the House of Commons during his many years of service, though he does appear to have had a healthy attendance rate. After the 1761 election both the Tory and Whig parties lost their cohesion, with the over one-hundred Tory MPs gravitating either to various Whig factions or stubbornly maintaining their political principles as independents country gentlemen. Sibthorp would fall into the latter grouping, though he seems to have generally favoured conservative Whig administrations. Sibthorp was not recorded on Henry Fox's list of MPs favourable to the peace preliminaries to conclude the Seven Years' War, though within a year he was classified as a government supporter.[30]

During the administration of Lord Rockingham, Sibthorp is recorded as having agitated Rockingham to appoint his brother Humphrey as physician to the Charterhouse, though with Sibthorp adding a caveat that "as I never asked the least favour for myself or friend during the many years I've been in Parliament".[31] Sibthorp later received an assurance several days later, as noted by the Earl of Sandwich to the Duke of Bedford: "your Grace's concurrence will probably secure his election; and as Mr. Sibthorp requests this as a person who though a Member of Parliament never asked a favour before, I should think it will be conferring a favour on him at a very cheap rate".[32] During the remainder of his final term in office Sibthorp voted against the repeal of the Stamp Act and opposed the government's proposed land ta in February 1767.

Due to his lack of public pronouncements, it is difficult to ascertain Sibthorp's exact political inclinations, though there are some clues from his political record. Sibthorp was invariably classified as a Tory by various political observers. In 1761 he did not receive the parliamentary whip of the Duke of Newcastle and was classified as a Tory, while in 1767 Rockingham was perhaps the closest to describing Sibthorp's political leanings when he classified the Lincoln MP as 'Tory, perhaps not ministerial'.[33] Sibthorp's family would maintain its Tory political label longer than most, with the History of Parliament reckoning Sibthorp's nephew Humphrey was the only MP of the late eighteenth-century to avow the label of Tory.[34] Sibthorp's Toryism can also be ascertained by his awarding of a DCL by Oxford University, noted for its 'true blue' Toryism, on 8 July 1756.[35] Sibthorp's family were later noted for their 'rigid Protestantism', conservatism, and Tory sympathies - this appears to have been a theme throughout all family members who served as MPs during the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries. Sibthorp, like many other Tories served in the militia, with Sibthorp holding office as a colonel in the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia until at least prior to his death.[36]

Personal life edit

Sibthorp was a lifelong bachelor and died 20 July 1779, leaving his estates to his nephew Humphrey.[37] Sibthorp appears to have had a natural son whose property, failing male issue, eventually reverted back to the Sibthorp family in the 19th-century.[38] Sibthorp is known to have been an active Freemason within the Saracens Head Lodge having been a member since at least 1732 and acting as a Senior Warden on at least one occasion.[39]


Sibthorp family tree
John Sibthorpe
(1669–1718)
Coningsby Sibthorp
(1706–1779)
Humphry Sibthorp
(1713–1797)
Humphrey Sibthorp
(1744–1815)
John Sibthorp
(1758–1796)
Charles Sibthorp
(1783–1855)
Gervaise Waldo-Sibthorp
(1815–1861)

References edit

  1. ^ "SIBTHORPE, John (1669-1718), of St. Mark's, Lincoln". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ^ Christopher Sykes, Two Studies in Virtue (London, Knopf Press, 1953), p. 20.
  3. ^ Michael John Trott, A simple, rare, truly elect soul - the troubled life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp, 1792-1879 (Bristol University, MA Thesis, 2003), pp. 2-3.
  4. ^ "CONINGSBY, Sir Ralph (c.1555-1616), of North Mimms, Herts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ "SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1706-79), of Canwick Hall, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  6. ^ Anon., A Catalogue of All Graduats in Divinity, Law, and Physick; and of All Masters of Arts and Doctors of Musick, who Have Regularly Proceeded Or Been Created in the University of Oxford, Between October 10, 1659. and October 10, 1770 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1772), p. 321.
  7. ^ SIBTHORPE, John.
  8. ^ Arthur R. Maddison, An Account of the Sibthorp Family (Lincoln, 1896), p. 27.
  9. ^ "Canwick Village Overview". Canwick Village. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  10. ^ Trott, Simple, p. 3.
  11. ^ "Lincolnshire". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  12. ^ Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd ed, London, Macmillan, 1957), p. 107.
  13. ^ "Lincoln (1715-1754)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Lincoln (1754-1790)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  15. ^ Namier, Structure, p. 107.
  16. ^ Lincoln (1715-1754)
  17. ^ Lincoln (1715-1754)
  18. ^ SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1715-1754)
  19. ^ Linda Colley, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714–60 (Cambridge, CUP, 1982), p. 254.
  20. ^ Namier, Structure, p. 107.
  21. ^ Lincoln (1754-1790)
  22. ^ William Dixon, History of Freemasonry in Lincolnshire: Being a record of all extinct and existing lodges and chapters, &; a century of the working of Provincial Grand lodge and The Witham Lodge; together with biographical notices of Provincial grand Masters and other eminent masons of the county (Lincoln, J. Williamson, 1894), p. 15.
  23. ^ Lincoln (1754-1790)
  24. ^ "SIBTHORP (afterwards WALDO SIBTHORP), Humphrey (1744-1815), of Canwick Hall, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  25. ^ Lincoln (1715-1754)
  26. ^ Lincoln (1715-1754)
  27. ^ Lincoln (1715-1754)
  28. ^ Lincoln (1754-1790)
  29. ^ SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1715-1754)
  30. ^ "SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1706-79), of Canwick, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  31. ^ SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1754-1790)
  32. ^ SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1754-1790)
  33. ^ SIBTHORP, Coningsby (1754-1790)
  34. ^ Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The House of Commons: I, Introductory Survey, Constituencies vol 1 (New York, OUP, 1964), p. 187.
  35. ^ Anon., A Catalogue of All Graduats in Divinity, Law, and Physick; and of All Masters of Arts and Doctors of Musick, who Have Regularly Proceeded Or Been Created in the University of Oxford, Between October 10, 1659. and October 10, 1770 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1772), p. 321.
  36. ^ Anon., The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (London, 1778), p. 598.
  37. ^ "SIBTHORP, Humphrey (1744-1815), of Canwick, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  38. ^ John Rouse Bloxam, A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in Music, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, and Other Members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, from the Foundation of the College to the Present Time, vol 3 (Oxford, James Parker and Co., 1879), pp. 318-9.
  39. ^ Dixon, Freemasonry, pp. 3-15.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lincoln
1734–1741
With: Charles Monson
Succeeded by
Charles Monson
John Tyrwhitt
Preceded by
Charles Monson
John Tyrwhitt
Member of Parliament for Lincoln
1747–1754
With: Charles Monson
Succeeded by
George Monson
John Chaplin
Preceded by
George Monson
John Chaplin
Member of Parliament for Lincoln
1761–1768
With: George Monson
Succeeded by
Thomas Scrope
Constantine Phipps

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Coningsby Sibthorp DCL c 1706 20 July 1779 was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for the borough seat of Lincoln on variously between 1741 and 1768 Sibthorp was a member of the Sibthorp family of Canwick Hall in Lincolnshire which produced several Tory Members of Parliament between the early 18th century and mid 19th century in addition to several botanists Like the vast majority of Tory Members of Parliament during the Whig supremacy Sibthorp never held ministerial office maintaining his political independence and Tory principles throughout his political career On one occasion however Sibthorp did serve as the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire Coningsby SibthorpDCLPortrait of Sibthorp by an anonymous artist High Sheriff of LincolnshireIn office 1733 1734Preceded byWilliam D AutreySucceeded byJohn BuissereMember of Parliamentfor LincolnIn office 1734 1741Preceded bySir John TyrwhittSucceeded bySir John TyrwhittIn office 1747 1754Preceded bySir John TyrwhittSucceeded byJohn ChaplinIn office 1761 1768Preceded byJohn ChaplinSucceeded byConstantine PhippsPersonal detailsBornc 1706 Castle Bytham LincolnshireDied20 July 1779 1779 07 20 aged 72 73 Canwick LincolnshireNationalityBritishPolitical partyToryRelationsHumphry Sibthorp brother Children1 illegitimate ParentJohn SibthorpeEducationWestminster SchoolAlma materHart Hall OxfordMagdalen College OxfordOccupationPoliticianMilitary serviceAllegianceGreat BritainBranch serviceRoyal South Lincolnshire MilitiaYears of serviceuntil 1779RankColonel Contents 1 Background and education 2 Electoral politics 2 1 Electoral record 3 Political career 4 Personal life 5 ReferencesBackground and education editSibthorp was the second son of John Sibthorpe and his wife Mary daughter and coheiress of Humphrey Browne of Lincoln John was the first surviving son of Gervase Sibthorp who was the first member of the family to settle in Lincolnshire after uprooting himself from Laneham Nottinghamshire where the family had been centred since the early 16th century 1 The Sibthorp family were originally yeoman farmers who were noted for their rigid Protestantism 2 They were nouveau riche having married into wealth that enabled them to become firstly bourgeois merchants and then gentry 3 Sibthorp s parents would have four sons and a daughter Among his younger brothers was the botanist and Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford Humphry Sibthorp from whom subsequent generations of Sibthorp parliamentarians are descended Sibthorp was likely named for his maternal great grandmother Elizabeth Coningsby who was herself a granddaughter of Sir Ralph Coningsby an MP for Hertfordshire who served as a JP and a juryman for the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh that condemned him for complicity in the Main Plot 4 Sibthorp was educated at the Westminster School in 1718 before matriculating and studying at Hart Hall Oxford and Magdalen College Oxford between 1724 and 1728 5 Sibthorp would receive an MA from Magdalen College on 31 July 1731 6 Sibthorp s father briefly enjoyed a political career first appearing as a co presenter at court of a High Tory address from Lincolnshire After failing to be elected in 1710 he was successful as a Tory candidate in 1713 The elder Sibthorp made little impact in the Commons and did not put his name forward for re election in 1715 though this may have been due to the pro Whig political climate He would die in April 1718 leaving his wife Mary as the head of the family 7 Sibthorp s mother exhibited financial acumen and shrewdness through which she was able to purchase an estate for the family 8 By 1730 she had purchased land in northern Lincolnshire culminating in the purchase of Canwick Hall and the surrounding 300 acres of land from a Catholic family situated a mile to the south of the town of Lincoln 9 Sibthorp himself would inherit considerable property from his wealthy unmarried uncle in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in addition to a house in North Mymms called Skimpans 10 Electoral politics editThe borough constituency of Lincoln after The Restoration was influenced by the local Monson and Meres gentry families Daniel Defoe dismissed it as an ancient ragged decay d and still decaying city that was probably not worthy of being called a city 11 The interest of the Sibthorps increased after the bid by Sibthorp s father and the family would represent the borough for a quarter of the eighteenth century and for all bar twelve years from 1800 to 1861 12 The Monsons of Burton who held one seat continuously from 1722 to 1768 were supportive of the Whigs 13 From the 1730s the constituency was seemingly influence by venal practices though elections in the borough were competitive The interest of the various local gentlemen were often challenged a local third party composed of local freemen London outvoters constituted a considerable part of the electorate and were always anxious for a contest 14 As noted by Lewis Namier much more than tradition and influence were required to carry the seat 15 The Whig interest enjoyed an edge in local politics until 1727 when Tory Charles Hall a kinsman of Sibthorp successfully contested a seat 16 Sibthorp would first hold public office as the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for the year from 1733 At the 1734 general election Hall stood down for Sibthorp who invested considerable amounts of money to win the seat Correspondence of the Banks family opined that it must be money that gives Sibthorp the election 17 Sibthorp was victorious as one of the two candidates elected for the borough with Charles Monson defeating the nephew of a South Sea Company director handily Sibthorp s interest in the seat at this stage was not as strong as it later would be At the subsequent general election Sibthorp was defeated by the interest of the Tyrwhitt family who had aligned with the Whigs a gain against national trends At that election Sibthorp was defeated by over 100 votes by Tyrwhitt Sibthorp s standing in the seat was improved when the head of the Saunderson interest in the seat of the Earl of Scarbrough who was a supporter of the Opposition Whig Tory Leicester House opposition of Frederick Prince of Wales and gave support to Sibthorp 18 Sibthorp s victory in Lincoln was certainly assisted by the support of Opposition Whigs such as Scarbrough and Sir Francis Dashwood 19 Sibthorp opted to not seek re election in 1754 presumably either due to the sheer cost of election or the threat of a contest The sheer cost and competitive nature of elections in Lincoln was alluded to by Lord Monson in a letter to the Prime Minister the Duke of Newcastle in May 1758 It is not in my power any longer to support or even maintain the interest I so dearly bought at the last general election in Lincoln by the desire of Mr Pelham more than my own inclination if your Grace will not think of me and that the spending 7 000 and upwards exclusive of my house being like a fair for two years should not have intitled sic me to some small favour before this I own I think hard 20 Sibthorp contested his final general election in 1761 Lord Granby was informed that at Lincoln town all affairs are compromised Mr Chaplin declines and Lord Scarbrough brings in Mr Sibthorp in his stead 21 Some opposition was mounted at the last moment by an eccentric local country gentleman Thomas Scrope who stood as a candidate of the free and independent voters but was defeated by Sibthorp and a member of the Monson family which resulted in a riot Scrope would lodge a petition against Sibthorp s seating as a Member of Parliament on account of allegations of electoral bribery Supporters of Monson and Sibthorp were paid as follows Freemen residing in the City Three Guineas Out ners Four Guineas and Londoners Five Guineas 22 Scrope s petition was withdrawn without being heard Ironically upon Sibthorp s final retirement in 1768 Scrope would succeed in topping the poll using the same tactics he had decried Sibthorp of having used 23 With Sibthorp s retirement a member of the Sibthorp family would not hold the seat of Lincoln until the election of his nephew Humphrey Sibthorp in 1800 24 Electoral record edit General Election 1734 Lincoln 25 Party Candidate Votes Whig John Monson 509 42 9 1 0Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 461 38 9 9 5Nonpartisan Thomas Chaplin 216 18 2 N ATurnout 593 N A N AWhig winTory winGeneral Election 1741 Lincoln 26 Party Candidate Votes Whig John Monson 560 42 6 0 3Whig John de la Fountain Tyrwhitt 444 33 8 N ATory Coningsby Sibthorp 311 23 7 15 2Turnout 658 N A N AWhig winWhig gain from Tory Swing swing General Election 1747 Lincoln 27 Party Candidate Votes Whig Charles Monson 493 38 9 3 7Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 418 33 0 9 3Nonpartisan Robert Cracraft 357 28 2 N ATurnout 634 N A N AWhig winTory gain from Whig Swing swing General Election 1761 Lincoln 28 Party Candidate Votes Whig George Monson 733 46 1 8 5Tory Coningsby Sibthorp 486 30 5 N ANonpartisan Thomas Scrope 373 23 4 2 4Turnout 796 N A N AWhig winTory gain from Whig Swing swing Political career editSibthorp was throughout his political career a resolute Tory as was his father and subsequent politicians from the family During his first term in office between 1734 and 1741 Sibthorp was a uniform voter against the Whig administration of Robert Walpole except on a vote to remove Walpole from office in February 1741 reflecting the unease of some Tories to remove Walpole on Whig philosophic grounds 29 Sibthorp is not recorded as having made a single speech in the House of Commons during his many years of service though he does appear to have had a healthy attendance rate After the 1761 election both the Tory and Whig parties lost their cohesion with the over one hundred Tory MPs gravitating either to various Whig factions or stubbornly maintaining their political principles as independents country gentlemen Sibthorp would fall into the latter grouping though he seems to have generally favoured conservative Whig administrations Sibthorp was not recorded on Henry Fox s list of MPs favourable to the peace preliminaries to conclude the Seven Years War though within a year he was classified as a government supporter 30 During the administration of Lord Rockingham Sibthorp is recorded as having agitated Rockingham to appoint his brother Humphrey as physician to the Charterhouse though with Sibthorp adding a caveat that as I never asked the least favour for myself or friend during the many years I ve been in Parliament 31 Sibthorp later received an assurance several days later as noted by the Earl of Sandwich to the Duke of Bedford your Grace s concurrence will probably secure his election and as Mr Sibthorp requests this as a person who though a Member of Parliament never asked a favour before I should think it will be conferring a favour on him at a very cheap rate 32 During the remainder of his final term in office Sibthorp voted against the repeal of the Stamp Act and opposed the government s proposed land ta in February 1767 Due to his lack of public pronouncements it is difficult to ascertain Sibthorp s exact political inclinations though there are some clues from his political record Sibthorp was invariably classified as a Tory by various political observers In 1761 he did not receive the parliamentary whip of the Duke of Newcastle and was classified as a Tory while in 1767 Rockingham was perhaps the closest to describing Sibthorp s political leanings when he classified the Lincoln MP as Tory perhaps not ministerial 33 Sibthorp s family would maintain its Tory political label longer than most with the History of Parliament reckoning Sibthorp s nephew Humphrey was the only MP of the late eighteenth century to avow the label of Tory 34 Sibthorp s Toryism can also be ascertained by his awarding of a DCL by Oxford University noted for its true blue Toryism on 8 July 1756 35 Sibthorp s family were later noted for their rigid Protestantism conservatism and Tory sympathies this appears to have been a theme throughout all family members who served as MPs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Sibthorp like many other Tories served in the militia with Sibthorp holding office as a colonel in the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia until at least prior to his death 36 Personal life editSibthorp was a lifelong bachelor and died 20 July 1779 leaving his estates to his nephew Humphrey 37 Sibthorp appears to have had a natural son whose property failing male issue eventually reverted back to the Sibthorp family in the 19th century 38 Sibthorp is known to have been an active Freemason within the Saracens Head Lodge having been a member since at least 1732 and acting as a Senior Warden on at least one occasion 39 Sibthorp family treeJohn Sibthorpe 1669 1718 Coningsby Sibthorp 1706 1779 Humphry Sibthorp 1713 1797 Humphrey Sibthorp 1744 1815 John Sibthorp 1758 1796 Charles Sibthorp 1783 1855 Gervaise Waldo Sibthorp 1815 1861 References edit SIBTHORPE John 1669 1718 of St Mark s Lincoln History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 Christopher Sykes Two Studies in Virtue London Knopf Press 1953 p 20 Michael John Trott A simple rare truly elect soul the troubled life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp 1792 1879 Bristol University MA Thesis 2003 pp 2 3 CONINGSBY Sir Ralph c 1555 1616 of North Mimms Herts History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1706 79 of Canwick Hall Lincs History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 Anon A Catalogue of All Graduats in Divinity Law and Physick and of All Masters of Arts and Doctors of Musick who Have Regularly Proceeded Or Been Created in the University of Oxford Between October 10 1659 and October 10 1770 Oxford Clarendon Press 1772 p 321 SIBTHORPE John Arthur R Maddison An Account of the Sibthorp Family Lincoln 1896 p 27 Canwick Village Overview Canwick Village Retrieved 10 May 2022 Trott Simple p 3 Lincolnshire Oxford Reference Retrieved 10 May 2022 Lewis Namier The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III 2nd ed London Macmillan 1957 p 107 Lincoln 1715 1754 History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 Lincoln 1754 1790 History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 Namier Structure p 107 Lincoln 1715 1754 Lincoln 1715 1754 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1715 1754 Linda Colley In Defiance of Oligarchy The Tory Party 1714 60 Cambridge CUP 1982 p 254 Namier Structure p 107 Lincoln 1754 1790 William Dixon History of Freemasonry in Lincolnshire Being a record of all extinct and existing lodges and chapters amp a century of the working of Provincial Grand lodge and The Witham Lodge together with biographical notices of Provincial grand Masters and other eminent masons of the county Lincoln J Williamson 1894 p 15 Lincoln 1754 1790 SIBTHORP afterwards WALDO SIBTHORP Humphrey 1744 1815 of Canwick Hall Lincs History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 Lincoln 1715 1754 Lincoln 1715 1754 Lincoln 1715 1754 Lincoln 1754 1790 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1715 1754 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1706 79 of Canwick Lincs History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1754 1790 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1754 1790 SIBTHORP Coningsby 1754 1790 Lewis Namier amp John Brooke The House of Commons I Introductory Survey Constituencies vol 1 New York OUP 1964 p 187 Anon A Catalogue of All Graduats in Divinity Law and Physick and of All Masters of Arts and Doctors of Musick who Have Regularly Proceeded Or Been Created in the University of Oxford Between October 10 1659 and October 10 1770 Oxford Clarendon Press 1772 p 321 Anon The London Magazine Or Gentleman s Monthly Intelligencer London 1778 p 598 SIBTHORP Humphrey 1744 1815 of Canwick Lincs History of Parliament Online Retrieved 10 May 2022 John Rouse Bloxam A Register of the Presidents Fellows Demies Instructors in Grammar and in Music Chaplains Clerks Choristers and Other Members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford from the Foundation of the College to the Present Time vol 3 Oxford James Parker and Co 1879 pp 318 9 Dixon Freemasonry pp 3 15 Parliament of Great BritainPreceded byCharles HallJohn Tyrwhitt Member of Parliament for Lincoln1734 1741 With Charles Monson Succeeded byCharles MonsonJohn TyrwhittPreceded byCharles MonsonJohn Tyrwhitt Member of Parliament for Lincoln1747 1754 With Charles Monson Succeeded byGeorge MonsonJohn ChaplinPreceded byGeorge MonsonJohn Chaplin Member of Parliament for Lincoln1761 1768 With George Monson Succeeded byThomas ScropeConstantine Phipps Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Coningsby Sibthorp amp oldid 1185478488, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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