pocket borough

For two centuries following the restoration the city was a pocket borough of this family.

This made it a pocket borough and easy for the local landowner to dominate.

Abel the second eventually entered Parliament for a pocket borough in 1774.

Pocket boroughs were finally abolished by the Reform Act of 1867.

Although it was not quite an entirely safe pocket borough, the Duke could generally be confident of seeing his chosen candidates returned.

Most of the burgage boroughs became pocket boroughs in this way.

The constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough, whose elections were controlled by its landowners.

Also a member of Commons from the pocket borough of Wendover.

Second, the Bill reduced the Lords' power by eliminating many of their pocket boroughs and creating new ones where they had no influence.

By a pocket borough into Parliament.

After his earlier disobedience he could not expect to be handed a pocket borough so, instead, he had to buy his own.

A member who represented a pocket borough was expected to vote as his patron ordered, lest he lose his seat at the next election.

Between 1800 and 1831 when pocket boroughs were abolished 12 members of the Smith family sat for the Midhurst parliamentary seat alone.

He entered Parliament in 1806 as member for Morpeth, a pocket borough where his father controlled one of the two seats.

Meanwhile, Fox sat for the pocket borough of Tain Burghs.

I believe he may: the more so as his cousin Norton has given him the seat for Milport, a pocket borough in the west.'

It was represented by two Members of Parliament, and was considered a classic example of a pocket borough.

Pocket boroughs were boroughs that could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned most of the land in the borough.

It was a pocket borough of the Proby family, who took the title Baron Carysfort.

The rest were pocket boroughs, in which a "patron" owned enough of the tenements which carried a vote that he was able to choose both members.

These constituencies were known as nomination boroughs or pocket boroughs, because they were said to be in the pockets of their patrons.

Most of the pocket boroughs abolished by the Reform Act belonged to the Tory Party.

Ralph entered Parliament in 1814 as member for Westbury, a pocket borough controlled by his uncle, for which he initially sat until 1819.

The representative of a pocket borough was often the same person who owned the land, and for this reason they were also referred to as proprietarial boroughs.