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MP New Romney is in Member Parliament. See Romney, Kent.
In 1601 Thomas Lake (age 33) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1614 Arthur Ingram (age 49) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1640 Norton Knatchbull 1st Baronet (age 61) was elected MP New Romney.
In April 1640 Thomas Godfrey (age 54) was elected MP New Romney in the Short Parliament.
In 1660 John Knatchbull 2nd Baronet (age 24) was elected MP New Romney.
After 17th March 1664 Charles Berkeley 1st Earl Falmouth (age 34) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1665 Henry Brouncker 3rd Viscount Brounckner (age 38) was elected MP New Romney which seat he held until 21st April 1668 when he was expelled from the House of Commons when charges were brought against him, for allowing the Dutch fleet to escape during the Battle of Lowestoft, and for ordering the sails of the English fleet to be slackened in the name of the Duke of York (age 31). This was essentially an act of treason. Such a military decision, taken without the Duke's authority, was an incident seemingly without parallel, especially as his apparent motive was simply that he was fatigued with the stress and noise of the battle.
In 1668 Charles Sedley 5th Baronet (age 28) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1690 Charles Sedley 5th Baronet (age 50) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1696 Charles Sedley 5th Baronet (age 56) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1710 Robert Furnese 2nd Baronet (age 22) was elected MP New Romney during the 1710 General Election.
In 1761 Edward Dering 6th Baronet (age 28) was elected MP New Romney; he held the seat until 1770 when he resigned to take up the position of the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
In 1774 Edward Dering 6th Baronet (age 41) was elected MP New Romney; he held the seat until 1787 when he resigned to take up the position of the Stewardship of the Manor of East Hendred.
In 1785 John Henniker-Major 2nd Baron Henniker (age 32) was elected MP New Romney which seat he held until 1790.
In 1807 George Ashburnham (age 21) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1818 Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor (age 55) was elected MP New Romney.
On 8th February 1819 Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor (age 56) died. His son Richard (age 21) succeeded MP New Romney.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1830 William Howard (age 48) was elected MP New Romney.
In 1831 Roger Gresley 8th Baronet (age 31) was elected Romney Marsh which seat he held until 1832.