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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.
He was the member of parliament for Colne Valley from 1963 to 1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1970 to 1992. [1] Duffy was also a Minister of the Navy in the 1970s, and president of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s. Following the death of Ronald Atkins on 30 December 2020, Duffy became Britain's oldest surviving former MP. [2]
Sir Francis Knollys (also the oldest ever sitting MP) was first elected as MP for Oxford in 1575 at the age of around 25 and was MP for Reading at the time of his death in 1648, a period spanning 73 years, [8] although there were eight periods, amounting to 27 entire years (1590–1592, 1594–1596, 1599–1600, 1602–1603, 1605–1613, 1615 ...
The site of the current palace and Houses of Parliament may have been used by Cnut during his reign from 1016 to 1035, and from c. 1045 – c. 1050 Edward the Confessor built a palace and the first Westminster Abbey. The oldest surviving part of the palace is Westminster Hall, which dates from the reign of William II (r. 1087–1100). The ...
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.
It was the longest English Parliament, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter century reign of Charles II of England. Like its predecessor, the Convention Parliament , it was overwhelmingly Royalist and is also known as the Pensioner Parliament for the many pensions it granted to adherents of the King. [ 1 ]
Slovenian political commissar and partisan People's Hero of Yugoslavia [91] Du Runsheng: 1913–2015: 102: Chinese military officer, revolutionary leader, politician and economist [92] Sir Patrick Duffy: 1920– 104: British politician, Member of Parliament [93] Eleanor Lansing Dulles: 1895–1996: 101: American diplomat [94] Roland Dumas: 1922 ...
This is a list of parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House. [1]The parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.