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Members of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
appointed as Steward of the Manor of East Hendred, a notional '
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under the crown' which was used to
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. Appointment of an MP to the office was first made in 1763. The Manor of East Hendred was sold by the Crown in 1823, but through oversight, appointments to the post of Steward continued until 1840, after which it was discontinued for Parliamentary purposes in favour of other stewardships. The last steward died in 1851.


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Dates given are of the writ to replace the member who accepted the stewardship.


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List of Stewards of the Manor of Old Shoreham This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of Old Shoreham, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was formerly used to resign from the House of Commons. The last steward died in 1832. Reference ...
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List of Stewards of the Manor of Poynings This is a list of the Member of Parliament, Members of Parliament appointed as Resignation from the British House of Commons, Steward of the Manor of Poynings, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which is used to resign from the British ...


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East Hendred East Hendred is a village and civil parish about east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot. The village is on East Hendred Brook, which flows from the Berkshire Downs to join the River Thames at Sutton C ...