Convened by Charles I, this got its strange name because, through an act of Parliament (passed by, erm, itself) it could not be dissolved unless the members agreed and they didn't, not until after the end of the interregnum in 1660, although it was greatly weakened in 1648 by Cromwell's New Model Army.
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Samuel Pepys
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Â Born Salisbury Court, where his father ran a tailoring business. The house backed onto St Brides church. Highly regarded administrator of the navy. Served C...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
16 memorials
Sidney Herbert
Son of the 11th Earl of Pembroke, grandson of Count Simon Woronzow. Â Sidney's elder brother, Robert, was a bad 'un: absconded to live in Paris and failed to provide a legitimate heir so, although R...
1 memorial
John Edward Sly
Chairman of the Smithfield Central Market Sub Committee in 1888.
1 memorial
West Berlin
A political exclave within the German Democratic Republic. Although politically affiliated with West Germany it was administered by American, British and French occupying forces. It was completely ...
1 memorial
Councillor, Mrs A. S. Lowden
A member of Hackney's Housing and Town Planning Committee in 1937 and of Hackney's Maternity and Child Welfare Committee in 1938 and of Hackney's Public Health Committee in 1940.
1 memorial
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