Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet
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Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, was a British landowner who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1780. A Rockingham Whig, he served as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1765 to 1766.
Depiction of Henbury Hall in 1707
Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)
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Wigan is a constituency in Greater Manchester, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Lisa Nandy of the Labour Party, who currently serves as the Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development.
Poster printed during the 1881 Wigan by-election campaign, announcing a public meeting calling for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.