- A
rotten or
pocket borough, also
known as a
nomination borough or
proprietorial borough, was a
parliamentary borough or
constituency in England, Great...
-
Rotten Borough (ISBN 0947795839) was a book
published in 1937 by the
British writer Oliver Anderson,
using the
pseudonym Julian Pine.
Withdrawn soon after...
- 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...
- 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...
-
Ascendancy were
responsible for
turning Portarlington into a
perfectly rotten borough. The
reason was to
preserve the planters'
positions politically and...
- 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...
- 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,...
- LY-dən; born 31
January 1956), also
known by his
former stage name
Johnny Rotten, is a British-born singer, songwriter, author, and
television personality...
- who was a
local councillor and
grocer in the 1937
satire of Grantham,
Rotten Borough. John Campbell, the
biographer of his
daughter Margaret Thatcher, believes...
- A
borough is an
administrative division in
various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term
borough designates a self-governing
walled town...
