Simon de Montfort, having seized power from King Henry III, called a Parliament with a wider representation catchment than the usual knights and barons; he summoned representatives of cities and boroughs. This was merely to widen his support but it was also the beginnings of what later became the House of Commons.
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Simon de Montfort's Parliament of 1265
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Westminster Hall - Simon de Montfort
Queen Elizabeth II here replied to addresses presented by both Houses of Parl...
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Councillor T. F. H. French
Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Aldermen and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
1 memorial
Alfred Wright
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Library.
1 memorial
Sir Alfred James Newton
Lord Mayor of the City of London 1899-1900 and in that role instrumental in the creation of The City of London Imperial Volunteers who fought in the South African War. Alderman on the Bridge House...
3 memorials
Mrs Edith Mary Parnell Parnell
Edith Mary Wooster was born on 15 January 1862 in Bath, Somerset, the fourth of the six children of William Wooster (1831-1891) and Eliza Wooster née Lewis (1831-1913). On 8 May 1862 she was baptis...
1 memorial
W. Chambers-Leete
Town Clerk of the Royal Borough of Kensington, 1904 - 1916, at least. Kensington in the Great War by G. I. S. Inglis tells us that the Chambers Leetes lost their only son Captain W. J. H. Leete of...
1 memorial
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