1. Members of foreign extraction

  2. The Membership of each Parliament

     

    Note that Members’ names and titles are given in the form in which they appear at the head of the biographical entries.

  3. Officials of the House of Commons

  4. Commissions appointed under Act of Parliament

     

  5. Principal office-holders


    Lord president:

    14 Feb. 1689 Marquess of Carmarthen (Sir Thomas Osborne+)

  6. Chairmen of committees of supply and ways and means (with date of first report)

     

  7. Speakers (with date of election or re-election)

     

    Sir John Trevor 20 Mar. 1690

    Paul Foley 14 Mar 1695, vice Trevor, expelled the House

  8. Chairmen of committee of privileges and elections (with date of first report)


  9. Dates of parliamentary sessions 1690-1714

     

    1690 Parliament

  10. Under-age Members.

  11. These volumes of the History contain biographies of the 1,982 Members who sat in the House of Commons between the general election of February 1690 and the dissol

  12. Surveys 1690-1715

  13. Elections

  14. CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTIONS


  15. Space and Time

  16. Family Background and Social Status

  17. Introduction

  18. Introduction

  19. Rogues, madmen, bankrupts and suicides

  20. List of manuscript sources used

     Scheme employed:

    1. London repositories (excluding borough records)

  21. Lists of Members of the House of Commons

  22. Index of defeated candidates

  23. Reports of House of Commons debates

  24. Index to parliamentary boroughs (by county and district)

    Aberavon

  25. Contested elections

  26. Political clubs

  27. Rakes, cuckolds, and sexual deviants

  28. Moral reformers and philanthropists in the Commons

  29. Men of science and letters

  30. Merchants and financiers in the Commons

     

    Members involved in overseas trade, without evident specialization:

    Sir Mathew Andrews

  31. Professional lawyers

  32. Naval officers

    The following Members held commissions in the Royal Navy during the period 1690-1715. Flag officers are marked with the symbol ‡.

     

  33. Army officers

  34. ‘Civil servants’

  35. Protestant Dissenting Members