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MP Downton is in Member Parliament.
In 1529 Nicholas Hare (age 45) was elected MP Downton.
In 1554 James Bassett (age 28) was elected MP Downton.
In 1572 Edward St Lo (age 53) was elected MP Downton.
In 1722 John Verney (age 22) was elected MP Downton.
In May 1741 John Verney (age 41) was elected MP Downton.
In 1774 Philip Hales 5th Baronet (age 39) was elected MP Downton. His brother-in-law Anthony Duncombe 1st Baron Feversham was influential in the result. He was successful only after petitioning against the original result; he took his seat in February 1775.
In December 1779 Bartholomew Bouverie (age 26) was elected MP Downton, but was unseated on petition already in February of the following year.
In 1790 Bartholomew Bouverie (age 36) was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1796.
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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 1801 William Pleydell-Bouverie 3rd Earl Radnor (age 21) was elected MP Downton.
In 1803 Charles Marsham 2nd Earl Romney (age 25) was elected MP Downton.
In 1806 Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (age 25) was elected MP Downton.
In 1806 Bartholomew Bouverie (age 52) was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1812.
In April 1813 Thomas Brooke-Pechell 2nd Baronet (age 60) was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1818.
In 1819 Bartholomew Bouverie (age 65) was elected MP Downton which seat he held until Jun 1826.
In February 1819 Thomas Brooke-Pechell 2nd Baronet (age 66) was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1826.
In 1826 Bartholomew Bouverie (age 72) was elected MP Downton which seat he held until 1830.
In 1832 Philip Pleydell-Bouverie (age 43) was elected MP Downton.