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Abbreviations
This section of the Survey provides a list of the abbreviations used in the volumes for this period, in addition to standard and self-explanatory abbreviations, Please note that there are separate lists for the preliminary paragraphs (the family and education and career elements) and for the notes.
In the preliminary paragraphs:
IV. The House of Commons
More than the aggregate of its individual Members is the House of Commons itself, an institution with a corporate life and personality of its own. The men whose life-stories are related in these volumes are not so many individuals who happen to have flourished at about the same time: their lives are inter-linked, and the highest common factor in their careers is their membership of the House of Commons.
III. The Members
AGE AND PARLIAMENTARY EXPERIENCE
II. The Elections
THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1754
I. The Constituencies
Between 1754 and I790 the House of Commons consisted of 558 Members, elected by 314 constituencies. The 245 English constituencies (40 counties, 203 boroughs, 2 universities) returned 489 Members; the 24 Welsh constituencies and 45 Scottish constituencies returned one Member each.The constituencies are listed in Appendix I.