Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 fifth and last Parliament of Charles I began at Westminster 3 November 1640 and continued sitting until 20 April 1653, when it was dissolved. By 1645, a considerable proportion of the house had been removed, being expelled for various reasons, disabled for supporting the King, killed in the Civil War or lost through natural causes.
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.
The largest clearspan medieval roof in England, Westminster Hall's roof measures 20.7 by 73.2 metres (68 by 240 ft). [3] Oak timbers for the roof came from royal woods in Hampshire and from parks in Hertfordshire and from that of William Crozier of Stoke d'Abernon , who supplied over 600 oaks in Surrey , among other sources; they were assembled ...
Living. Name Lifespan Age Notability Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle: 1909–2013: 103: British countess [1] Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester: 1901–2004: 102:
Italian political leader, president of Sicily [4] Pierre Aliker: 1907–2013: 106: French Martinican politician, physician and independence activist [5] Vicente Almeida d'Eça: 1918–2018: 100: Portuguese colonial administrator, Colonial Governor of Cape Verde (1974) [6] Giuseppe Amadei: 1919–2020: 101: Italian politician [7] K. R. Gouri ...
The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; killed in a car bombing outside the Palace of Westminster. 14 November 1981 Robert Bradford [5] Ulster Unionist: Belfast South: Members of the Provisional IRA: Shot at a constituents' surgery in Finaghy, Belfast. 12 October 1984 Sir Anthony Berry [6] Conservative: Enfield Southgate