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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.
South Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Richard Drax, a Conservative. The constituency was created as a consequence of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, although the area covered has changed since then.
Baron Dorchester was a title that was created twice in British history, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain on 21 August 1786 when the soldier and administrator Sir Guy Carleton was made Lord Dorchester, Baron of Dorchester, in the County of Oxford. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He was the son of the Hon. Christopher Carleton, eldest son of the first Baron. Lord Dorchester died unmarried at an early age and was succeeded by his first cousin, the third Baron. He was the son of the Hon. George Carleton, younger son of the first Baron. He had no sons and was succeeded by his first cousin, the fourth Baron. He was the son of Reverend the Hon. Richard Carleton, younger son of the first Baron. Lord Dorchester was a Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. He was childless and the title became extinct on his death on 13 November 1897.
Dorchester was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 to 1868, when its representation was reduced one member.
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.
Dorchester may refer to:
The Battle of Weymouth and the associated Crabchurch Conspiracy occurred in 1645, during the First English Civil War, when several royalist plotters within the twin towns of Weymouth and Melcombe on the Dorset coast conspired to deliver the ports back into the control of King Charles I.
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.
John Pitt of Encombe House, Dorset was a British MP for 35 years from which there remains one reported speech to Parliament.
Awnsham Churchill (1658–1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1710.
John Blount, of Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician, sadler and cloth merchant.
John Jordan was an English politician.
John Gryffyn, of Dorchester and Middleton, Dorset, was an English politician.
Richard Wright, MP of Sherborne, Dorset, was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dorchester in 1597 and for Queenborough.
The following have been elected mayors of Dorchester, Dorset, England:
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John Gould, of Dorchester, Dorset and Seaborough, Somerset, was an English attorney and politician who sat in the English House of Commons in 1391.
References
- ↑ "BERELL, Richard, of 'Tatton', Dorset". History of Parliament Online.
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