The Annual Register, Volume 140Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1899 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... majority of the House of Commons . The earliest bye - elections , by a strange chance , occurred in two - membered constituencies - Plymouth and York - which at the general election had in both cases returned supporters of each party ...
... majority of the House of Commons . The earliest bye - elections , by a strange chance , occurred in two - membered constituencies - Plymouth and York - which at the general election had in both cases returned supporters of each party ...
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... majority as that which had seated Sir Edward Clarke . Dockyards had always been regarded as capricious seats , and as a rule the defeat of the Ministerial can- didate , no matter what his political hue , was generally traceable to ...
... majority as that which had seated Sir Edward Clarke . Dockyards had always been regarded as capricious seats , and as a rule the defeat of the Ministerial can- didate , no matter what his political hue , was generally traceable to ...
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... majority of 114 was converted into a Radical majority of 275. Mr. Richardson , a Quaker , polling 6,286 votes against 6,011 given to Mr. Lambton ; both parties had ap- parently increased in strength , but the Radicals in greater numbers ...
... majority of 114 was converted into a Radical majority of 275. Mr. Richardson , a Quaker , polling 6,286 votes against 6,011 given to Mr. Lambton ; both parties had ap- parently increased in strength , but the Radicals in greater numbers ...
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... majority seemed as power- less to act as the much - divided Opposition was to attack . The Unionists , led by a Cabinet in which conflicting influences were at work , were satisfied to leave all dangerous problems un- solved , and the ...
... majority seemed as power- less to act as the much - divided Opposition was to attack . The Unionists , led by a Cabinet in which conflicting influences were at work , were satisfied to leave all dangerous problems un- solved , and the ...
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... majority , and he hardly thought the moving of such an amendment was the best way to get a majority . But he had a still stronger objection to the demand for an 66 independent " Parliament , for it had all along been arranged , and ...
... majority , and he hardly thought the moving of such an amendment was the best way to get a majority . But he had a still stronger objection to the demand for an 66 independent " Parliament , for it had all along been arranged , and ...
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