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The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Treaty of Union by Acts of Union passed by the Parliament of England (established 1215) and the Parliament of Scotland (c. 1235), both Acts of Union stating, "That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament to be styled The Parliament of Great Britain."
Parliament Presiding officer Constituency Notes First English Parliament, 11 June 1258: Peter de Montfort: First identified presiding officer of the English House of Commons, styled prolocutor
In 1986, the British television production company Granada Television created a near-full size replica of the post-1950 House of Commons debating chamber at its studios in Manchester for use in its adaptation of the Jeffrey Archer novel First Among Equals. The set was highly convincing, and was retained after the production—since then, it has ...
The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the Acts of Union 1707.At the beginning of 1801, Great Britain was combined with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a single House of Commons serving the whole kingdom.
In absolute terms two 17th-century members of the English Parliament had 35-year intervals outside the House of Commons: Edward Mainwaring, 35 years and 269 days from serving as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the parliament that closed on 12 August 1625, to returning for the same seat at start of the Cavalier Parliament on 8 May 1661, [22]
Thomas Goldsmith (born 28 November 1974) is a British parliamentary official. Since 2023, he has served as Clerk of the House of Commons , the principal constitutional adviser to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom .
As Parliament evolved, however, the speaker's position grew to involve more duties to the House than to the Crown; this was definitely true by the time of the English Civil War. This change is sometimes said to be reflected by an incident in 1642, when King Charles I entered the House in order to search for and arrest five members for high treason.
Arriving in the autumn term of 1977, [33] he began going by his middle name Boris, [34] and developed "the eccentric English persona" for which he became famous. [35] He denounced Catholicism and joined the Church of England. [36] School reports complained about his idleness, complacency, and lateness, [37] but he was popular at Eton. [35]