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The oldest debut at a general election to the UK Parliament was possibly by Bernard Kelly (born 1808) who was elected MP for South Donegal in 1885 in the year of his 77th birthday. He died in office on 1 January 1887 aged 78.
Rolls containing Acts of Parliament in the Parliamentary Archives at Victoria Tower, Palace of Westminster The Parliamentary Archives of the United Kingdom preserves and makes available to the public the records of the House of Lords and House of Commons back to 1497, as well as some 200 other collections of parliamentary interest.
The aptly named Short Parliament of England was the shortest parliament to sit in any of the United Kingdom’s constituent countries. It sat for just three weeks from 13 April until 5 May 1640. The shortest Parliament of the United Kingdom was the 3rd Parliament elected at the 1806 election. It sat for 138 days from 15 December 1806 until 27 ...
Slovenian political commissar and partisan People's Hero of Yugoslavia [92] Du Runsheng: 1913–2015: 102: Chinese military officer, revolutionary leader, politician and economist [93] Sir Patrick Duffy: 1920– 104: British politician, Member of Parliament [94] Eleanor Lansing Dulles: 1895–1996: 101: American diplomat [95] Roland Dumas: 1922 ...
This is a list of parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III, when the Curia Regis developed into a body known as Parliament, until the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. For later parliaments, see the List of parliaments of Great Britain. For the history of the English Parliament, see Parliament of England.
Ethel May Caterham (née Collins; born 21 August 1909) is a British supercentenarian who is the second-oldest living person in the world and the last surviving subject of Edward VII. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She is additionally the oldest living European since the death of Maria Branyas Morera on 19 August 2024, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the second-oldest British ...
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised the English monarch .
This is a list of sitting members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who died by assassination or other culpable homicide. Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a merchant who blamed the government for his debt. From 1882 to 1990, six MPs ...