Database of Poems
The Phantom Duke
1832: Representation of the People Acts
Author: Anon
Publication: Reformers' Gazette
Publisher: Muir, Gowans, & Co.
Published: 9 June 1832
Place of publication: Glasgow, Scotland
Publication type: Newspaper/Periodical
Featured individuals:
Alexander Baring (1774-1848)
John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863)
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)
Robert Peel (1788-1850)
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
No full copy of this poem is available.
Archive/Library: Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Classmark(s): Reel Number: 3089; Pressmark: SNMU 175/98
Pages(s): 434
This poem is attributed to the Examiner, a London newspaper. It continues on from the previous issue, where the first half of the poem was published. The poem satirises the Duke of Wellington, an anti-Reform Tory, who had recently failed to form a government. This half of the poem portrays the anti-reformers as fractured devils, and extends on Wellington's egotism.