Rotten and pocket boroughs
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A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom that had very few
Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which until 1832 elected two Members of Parliament. Old Sarum by John Constable, 1834
William Pitt the Younger in 1783, by George Romney
Plympton House
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Plympton House is the principal residence at the Plympton House Estate, in the parish of Plympton St Maurice, Devon, England. It is a Grade I listed country house, in the William and Mary tradition, n
Plympton House
Aerial view of the estate from the north in 2016
Paul Henry Ourry (1719–1783) of Plympton House, with his African servant "Jersey". Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.