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Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1868, when the borough was abolished.
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- ↑ "ELSDEN, George (b.c.1530), of Lyme Regis, Dorset. - History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org.
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