there were eight constituencies in the Parliament of England and its successors related to the Cinque Ports. The cinque port constituencies were slightly...
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Westminster constituencies, the seat reverted to its current name, to be first contested at the 2024 general election. Dover was considered a Cinque Ports constituency...
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corruption. Sandwich like most of the other Cinque Ports, was first enfranchised in the 14th century. As a Cinque Port it was technically of different status...
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However, Seaford itself was not one of the seven Cinque Ports, and was summoned to send members to the Parliament of 1298 while they – including the much more...
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Hythe was a constituency centred on the town of Hythe in Kent. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until 1832, when its representation...
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2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Hastings". Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser. 15 July 1837. p. 8. Retrieved 13 May 2018 – via British...
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Grinstead, Horsham, Lewes, Midhurst, New Shoreham and Steyning; and four Cinque Ports: Hastings, Rye, Seaford and Winchelsea. Each of these areas also elected...
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parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the Parliament of England before 1707, Parliament of...
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in the constituency are the seaside resort of Hastings and smaller nearby tourist town of Rye. The constituency also includes the Cinque Port of Winchelsea...
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1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act. Winchelsea was a Cinque Port, rather than a parliamentary borough, but the difference was purely a...
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1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act. New Romney was a Cinque Port, which made it technically of different status from a parliamentary borough...
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themselves. Seat vacated on Pitt being appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Seat vacated on Euston being appointed to an office Seat vacated on Pitt...
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Thanet was a constituency in Kent. The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies made moderate boundary changes to the constituency, which was...
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Edward Poynings (redirect from Poynings' Parliament)
return to England, Poynings was occupied in the administration of the Cinque ports, of which he was appointed warden in succession to his brother-in-law...
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War, requiring a by-election. Smith was appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, requiring a by-election. Smith's death caused a by-election. General...
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Temple was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, requiring a by-election. Lord Palmerston's death in October 1865 caused...
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Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.[page needed] "Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser". 3 July 1841. p. 8. Retrieved 25 November 2018 –...
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Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4) "Coronations and Barons of the Cinque Ports". Archived from the original on...
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Knight of the shire (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707))
constituency (or citizen if the borough had city status) and baron for a Cinque Ports constituency. Knights of the shire had more prestige than burgesses, and sitting...
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Hythe, Kent (category Cinque ports)
indicates what was from 1358 a meeting place of the confederation of the Cinque ports, several miles west of Hythe, known then as "the Shepway crossroads"...
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Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3. "Scotland". Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser. 15 July 1837. p. 3. Retrieved 7 May 2020 – via British...
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the last parliament of Charles II, held at Oxford in 1681, and again in the Convention parliament, 1689. As one of the barons of the Cinque ports he also...
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Vol.2: Constituencies, part I: England, Bedfordshire–Somerset Vol.3: Constituencies, part II: England, Staffordshire–Yorkshire and Cinque Ports, Wales...
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
First Coalition with France in 1793, Jenkinson became colonel of the Cinque Ports Light Dragoons, a fencible cavalry regiment, in 1794. There was a rare...
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Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet (category Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies)
lived at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey and was a J.P. for Surrey and the Cinque Ports, Kent. In 1874, Ingram was elected as MP for Boston and held the seat...
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French Laurence (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
of the diocese of Oxford and a judge of the court of admiralty of the Cinque ports. He died suddenly on 26 February 1809, while on a visit to one of his...
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Rye, East Sussex (category Cinque ports)
the Tillingham and the Brede. An important member of the mediaeval Cinque Ports confederation, it was at the head of an embayment of the English Channel...
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Parliament for Winchelsea on 4 October 1666 and held the seat until 1681. In 1668 he was deputy mayor of Winchelsea and speaker of the Cinque Ports at...
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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
viceregal tenure, Willingdon was installed as the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and was elevated in the peerage as the Marquess of Willingdon. After...
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Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
Granville, now an established Liberal leader, was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. He received an honorary degree from Cambridge University in 1864. He...
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