A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great...
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Rotten Borough (ISBN 0947795839) was a book published in 1937 by the British writer Oliver Anderson, using the pseudonym Julian Pine. Withdrawn soon after...
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Reform Act 1832 (section Boroughs)
but still elected two MPs; they were often known as rotten boroughs. Of the 70 English boroughs that Tudor monarchs enfranchised, 31 were later disenfranchised...
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Vansittart, whom he returned for the notoriously rotten borough of Old Sarum, Wiltshire. He had bought this borough and estate in 1802, for c.£43,000, with a...
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The Cornish rotten and pocket boroughs were one of the most striking anomalies of the Unreformed House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
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Portarlington, County Laois (category Former boroughs in the Republic of Ireland)
Ascendancy were responsible for turning Portarlington into a perfectly rotten borough. The reason was to preserve the planters' positions politically and...
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John Lydon (redirect from Johnny rotten.)
(/ˈlaɪdən/; born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer, songwriter, author, and television personality. He was the...
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Borough of Haringey, 2007 "London Borough of Haringey website, Facts & Figures". Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. "The rotten borough of...
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Robert Peel (category MPs for rotten boroughs)
Peel entered politics in 1809 at the age of 21, as MP for the Irish rotten borough of Cashel, County Tipperary. With a scant 24 electors on the rolls,...
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local politics covered in equal depth under the "Rotten Boroughs" column (named after the rotten boroughs of the pre-Reform Act of 1832 House of Commons)...
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