- potwalloper
- pot·wal·lop·er
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Potwalloper — A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage. (Several potwalloper… … Wikipedia
potwalloper — /pot wol euh peuhr, pot wol /, n. Eng. Hist. (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots. Also, pot walloper.… … Universalium
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Baltimore (Parliament of Ireland constituency) — Parliament of Ireland former constituency infobox Name = Baltimore Type = Borough Year = 1614 Post Union = DisfranchisedBaltimore (also known as Baltimore Borough) was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 … Wikipedia
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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald — The Right Honourable The Earl of Dundonald Engraving of Lord Dundonald, based on a painting by James Ramsay (1866) … Wikipedia
Unreformed House of Commons — The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. Until the Act of Union of 1707 joining the Kingdoms of Scotland and England (to form the United Kingdom of… … Wikipedia
Honiton (UK Parliament constituency) — Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It… … Wikipedia
Antrim Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency) — Parliament of Ireland former constituency infobox Name = Antrim Borough Type = Borough Year = 1666 Post Union = AbolishedAntrim Borough was a two member borough constituency used to elect members of the Parliament of Ireland.Boundaries and… … Wikipedia
