10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POCKET BOROUGH»
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1
The Politics of Britain, 1688-1800
In December 1756 he was elected for Okehampton and for the pocket borough of
his Grenville in-laws at Buckingham, and in 1757 he transferred to Bath, which he
had been invited to represent by the corporation, which enjoyed a monopoly ...
2
The Works And Correspondence And Correspondence Of David Ricardo
... agent to Ricardo, was negotiating for the borough of Portarlington: the seat for
which Ricardo was eventually returned in 1 8 1 9. This was a typical pocket
borough in Ireland, in the patronage of the Earl of Portarlington.4 Ten years
earlier, ...
3
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Bramber was, formany years, a pocket borough ofthe worst type.George Spencer,
writing to Algernon Sidney after the Bramber election in1679, says:—"You would
have laughed tosee how pleased I seemed to be in kissing of old women; and ...
4
The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History
James de Rothschild (i878-i957L originally a member of the French branch. but
who became a naturalized Briton. bequeathed to the nation Waddesdon Manor.
near Aylesbury. rotten borough or pocket borough English parliamentary ...
5
Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of ...
He had noobjection toa seat for a pocket borough; he did object to being forced
ona constituency againstthe wishes and opinionsof the neighbourhood. Inthis his
concern may havebeenchiefly forhis public career. Totheordinary memberof ...
6
The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban ...
30—41; J. V. Beckett, 'The making ofa pocket borough: Cockermouth 1722—
1756', Journal of British Studies, 20, no. 1 (1980), pp. 140—57. 80. Triffit, 'Politics
and the urban community', especially pp. 13, 26—8, 36—7, 83—4; N. Rogers, '
The ...
7
The Chambers Dictionary
[OE elan; cf Ger essen, ON eta, L edere and Or etlein] Eatanswill ii'an-swil, n a
corrupt election or selection, from the name of the pocket borough in Charles
Dickens' novel Pickwick Papers at which an election takes place. eatche ech, (
Scon) ...
8
The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
1 Pocket- borough — See BOROUGH. Pocket- cloth — irnfa i Pocket edition—
csci ?t1t? StWtt 1V3<11 I Pocket expenses— ste «rw, Put Stfl i Pocket-glass— ftf i
Pocket-handkerchief— csrc Pocket-hole— cssc^ ^t^ i Pocket-knife — 61^ i Pocket
- ...
9
Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885
In the case of Launceston, the duke of Northumberland's pocket borough until the
1860s, progress was minimal; contests were rare, the townspeople apparently
being in no haste to throw off the shackles of patronage. Sir Henry Hardinge, the
...
Dudley in Worcestershire was another pocket borough in the fifties, ' owned ' by
Lord Ward. Sir Stafford Northcote was member in 1857, and Lord Ward wanted
him to vote for Lord Palmerston's Government. Sir Stafford refused and at the next
...
Cambridge University Press, Jennings, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POCKET BOROUGH»
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Why Waqf Tribunal in Rampur: HC to UP govt.
Incidentally, Rampur happens to be the home town and pocket borough of Azam Khan, a senior leader of the state's ruling Samajwadi Party ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Manjhi threatens to walk away from NDA
... the NDA won in Purnia-Araria-Kishanganj as well as in Katihar and Saharsa-Madhepura seats, considered the pocket borough of Pappu. «Times of India, Jul 15»
Why are the Opposition and Media Picking on Female Leaders of …
... repeated itself when Smriti Irani was locked in a head-on battle with Rahul Gandhi at Amethi, the pocket borough of the Nehru-Gandhi family. «Merinews, Jul 15»
Development eluded the Nation
The party was never sincere to bring muslims to the mainstream, keeping them as a pocket borough for votes. Had they been encouraged to ... «New Delhi Times, Jul 15»
Lord Lexden: The extraordinary Lord Shaftesbury – a Conservative …
Woodstock, a pocket borough controlled by his uncle the Duke of Marlborough, was put at his disposal in 1826. Two years later he was ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
Compassion badly needed - Mercury Mailbox
... cabinet minister and then being given your former employer's pocket borough on a plate adequately qualifies someone to become a credible ... «Leicester Mercury, Jun 15»
Guest Column: Emergency recalled: Angst, slogans and drumbeats …
... when government officials were too scared to announce the results on All India Radio ---Indira Gandhi had lost in her pocket borough of Rae ... «Exchange4Media, Jun 15»
Meet the young leaders hoping to infuse vitality into our democracy
... Khurana in his pocket borough Moti Nagar. “I took up the challenge but lost in a year when the Congress swept assembly polls,” she says. «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
The Duke of Wellington's drunken Dublin years
“Pocket borough was another word for them. You had it in your pocket . . . He was there as part of a voting bloc.” The parliament is now Bank of ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Battlefield Amethi: Why Smriti Irani, HRD Minister, is focusing on …
... unchanged: the Gandhis; after all, what better place for BJP to open a flank and opt for a quick strike than in their pocket borough of Amethi. «Economic Times, Jun 15»
