- 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Withdrawn soon after...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...
- 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...
- A
borough is an
administrative division in
various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term
borough designates a self-governing
walled town...
-
Ascendancy were
responsible for
turning Portarlington into a
perfectly rotten borough. The
reason was to
preserve the planters'
positions politically and...
- (/ˈlaɪdən/; born 31
January 1956), also
known by his
former stage name
Johnny Rotten, is a singer. He was the lead
vocalist of the punk rock band the **** Pistols...
-
disfranchised many
rotten boroughs (56
boroughs were abolished,
while another 30 were
reduced from two
members to one), gave
seats to new
boroughs and additional...
-
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)...
