1. Appendices
  2. 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 separat

  3. 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.

  4. III. The Members

    AGE AND PARLIAMENTARY EXPERIENCE

  5. II. The Elections

    THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1754

     

  6. I. The Constituencies

  7. 1754-1790 Survey
  8. Method

    The basic elements of these volumes are the biographical studies in volumes II and III and the accounts of the constituencies in the second part of this volume.

  9. Introduction to Survey

    When this period opens George II had been on the throne for nearly 27 years; and Henry Pelham, first lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons, had held these offices for nearly 11 ye

  10. 1754-1790 Parliaments