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Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic market town, Dorchester is on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway that separates the area from Weymouth, 7 miles (11 km) to the south. The civil parish includes the small town of Poundbury and the suburb of Fordington.
Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester was a country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1762 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milton. He was particularly associated with the reshaping of Milton Abbey and the creation of the village of Milton Abbas in Dorset, south-west England.
Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset KG was an English courtier, soldier and politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622 and became Earl of Dorset in 1624. He fought a duel in his early life, and was later involved in colonisation in North America. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
The High Sheriff of Dorset is an ancient High Sheriff title which has been in existence for over one thousand years. Until 1567 the Sheriff of Somerset was also the Sheriff of Dorset.
Giles Green was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1648.
John White was an English clergyman and the rector of a parish in Dorchester, Dorset. He was instrumental in obtaining charters for the New England Company, and the Massachusetts Bay Company. He took a personal interest in the settlement of New England.
George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester, PC, PC (Ire), styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795.
Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet or Napper(19 October 1606 – 14 May 1673), of Middle Marsh and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament (MP) who supported the Royalists during the English Civil War.
Sir Walter Erle or Earle was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648. He was a vigorous opponent of King Charles I in the Parliamentary cause both before and during the English Civil War.
John Whiteway was an English wool merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660.
James Gould (1593–1676) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1676.
James Gould of Dorchester, Dorset was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1695.
Richard Bushrode, also Bushrod was an English haberdasher and merchant adventurer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624 and 1626.
Matthew Pitt was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622, and again in 1624.
Christopher Erle was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.
John Pitt of Encombe House, Dorset was a British MP for 35 years from which there remains one reported speech to Parliament.
Peter Blount, from Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician.
John Perle, of Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician.
The following have been elected mayors of Dorchester, Dorset, England:
Robert Browne, of Frampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1720 and from 1737 to 1741.
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