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Culture, England, Crown, Member Parliament, MP Banbury

MP Banbury is in Member Parliament. See Banbury, Oxfordshire [Map].

In 1571 Anthony Cope 1st Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1586 Anthony Cope 1st Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1604 William Cope 2nd Baronet (age 27) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1614 William Cope 2nd Baronet (age 37) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1621 William Cope 2nd Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1625 James Fiennes 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele (age 23) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1625 William Cope 2nd Baronet (age 48) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1722 Monoux Cope 7th Baronet (age 26) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1746 John Willes (age 25) was elected MP Banbury which seat he held until 1754.

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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 1792 Frederick North 5th Earl Guildford (age 25) was elected MP Banbury.

In 1830 Henry Villiers Stuart (age 26) was elected MP Banbury which seat he held until 1801.