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• Most famously, Old Sarum served as a pocket borough of the Pitt family.
• In the meantime, Fox sat for the Scottish pocket borough of district ).
• Fownes served as Member of Parliament for the Luttrell family's pocket borough of Minehead.
• This made it a pocket borough and easy for the local landowner to dominate.
• Thereafter the Drakes enjoyed unchallenged possession of their pocket borough.
• This gave him control of the Rashleigh family's pocket borough of House of Commons.
• The Aske estate included the pocket borough of Thomas Dundas.
• For two centuries following the restoration the city was a pocket borough of this family.
• It was a pocket borough of the Bishop of Clogher, disestablished by the Acts of Union 1800.
• It was represented by two Members of Parliament, and was considered a classic example of a pocket borough.
• Richard Stevens ( d . 1776 ) was MP for the Rolle pocket borough of Tapeley near Bideford.
• Before the Dukes of Bedford, but their influence usually fell well short of making Bedford a pocket borough.
• In March 1893 Byrnes was appointed Cairns ( Sir Charles Lilley's'pocket borough ) from April 1893 to April 1896.
• Namier quotes from the papers of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, but added that no other pocket borough would be any cheaper.
• This had long been resented by reformers as it made the constituency a pocket borough of the Marquess of Donegall.
• Later that month Fitzwilliam offered financial assistance to Burke, who sat for one of his pocket boroughs, Malton in Yorkshire.
• Palmerston entered Parliament as Tory MP for the pocket borough of Newport on the Isle of Wight in June 1807.
• Cockermouth was considered a pocket borough, with the vast majority of the voters being under the influence of the Lowther family.