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Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. An 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.
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.
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.
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.
William Ernest Brymer was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two stages between 1874 and 1906.
Robert Williams was an English banker and politician. He purchased the Bridehead estate near Dorchester, Dorset, around 1797. It comprised the manor of Littlebredy, Bridehead being a name fabricated by Williams, and in later years became the main family residence.
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 Trenchard of Warmwell, near Dorchester was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.
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 of Dorchester, Dorset was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1695.
John Parkins (1571–1640) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.
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.
William Morton Pitt, FRS was a British Member of Parliament.
William Ash, of Dorchester, Dorset, was an English politician.
William Holman, of Dorchester and Berwick, Dorset, was an English politician.
William Adyn, of Dorchester and Bingham's Manor, West Stafford, Dorset, was an English politician and draper.
John Churchill (1657–1709) of Colliton House and Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, was an English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons briefly from 1708 to 1709.
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- ↑ "CHUSE, William, of Dorchester, Dorset. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
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