He sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire.

William Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire.

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

Albemarle also sat as Member of Parliament for East Norfolk and Lymington.

Lord Edward Cavendish, fourth and youngest son of the seventh Duke, sat as Member of Parliament for several constituencies.

It is interesting to note that John Stanwix sat in Parliament as Member for Carlisle during the 1740s, that his surname ' Stanwix ' is the name of a historic village ( now suburb ) to the north of Carlisle, Cumbria, and that the surname ' Armstrong ' is an old Reiver name common to the Anglo-Scottish border and the Carlisle district.

He sat in Parliament, either in the Commons or the Upper House, in every Parliament from the First Protectorate Parliament to the Convention Parliament, and following the Declaration of Breda was the Member of Parliament who moved to consider Charles II's reinstatement as monarch, sparking the English Restoration.

Previously he had sat in Parliament as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Reigate from February to September 1858 ; he was again MP for Frome, from 1865 to 1868.

He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire and Ipswich and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire from 1918 to 1937. the titles are held by the thirteenth Earl of Wemyss and ninth Earl of March, who succeeded in 2008.

Known as a great parliamentary orator, he sat as Member of Parliament for Stockbridge, a seat bought by his father, Windsor and Lancashire North.

Edward Stanley, a descendant of Peter Stanley, younger son of the second Baronet, sat as Member of Parliament for Somerset West and Bridgwater.

He also sat as a Tory Member of Parliament in England.

Clive also briefly sat as Member of Parliament for the Cornwall rotten borough of St Michael's, which then returned two Members, from 1754 to 1755.

He sat as Member of Parliament for Ludgershall, Malmesbury and Newport, Isle of Wight.

Between 1796 and 1798, Ponsonby sat as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the Irish House of Commons and represented Bandonbridge.

Cavendish was educated at Eton College before moving on to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, during which time his father sat as the Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire.

Francis's son Michael Cuffe sat as Member of Parliament for County Mayo and Longford Borough.

His son Sir Thomas Pakenham, grandfather of the first Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Augher.

He sat as Member of Parliament for Brackley and Huntingdonshire and served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and as Master of the Buckhounds.

Charles Pelham Villiers ( 3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898 ) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament ( MP ).

He sat as Member of Parliament for Lichfield and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire.

He sat as Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth but died childless in circa 1619.

He sat briefly as Conservative Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire South and for Spalding.

Edward Finch, fifth son of the first Earl of Nottingham, was a composer and sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge University.

Edward Finch, fifth son of the seventh Earl of Winchilsea and second Earl of Nottingham, sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1727 to 1768.

The June List, a eurosceptic list consisting of members from both the political right and left won three seats in the 2004 Elections to the European Parliament and sat in the EU-critical IND / DEM group in the European Parliament.

In 1831 he was elected member for St Ives in Cornwall, after which he was returned for Lincoln in 1832, and sat in Parliament for that city for nine years.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

On February 27, 1560, " the new Council of State being informed of some designs against the usurped power, issued out warrants for apprehending divers officers of the army ; and having some jealousy of others that were members of Parliament, they procured an order of their House to authorize them to seize any member who had not sat since the coming in of the Secluded Members, if there should be occasion.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

If Parliament sat in Sydney, they would have a better understanding of the problems being faced by their constituents.

From 1989 to 1994, he sat in the European Parliament as an MEP for the Italian Communist Party.

At that time, it was the longest Parliament to have sat in England.

In a remarkable departure from precedent, for two hours she sat in the Ladies ' Gallery overlooking the chamber while the Parliament Bill, a bill to remove the right of the House of Lords to veto legislation, was debated.

Cecil, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in Parliament in 1543 ; but his name does not occur in the imperfect parliamentary returns until 1547, when he was elected for the family borough of Stamford.

University constituencies originated in Scotland, where the representatives of the ancient universities of Scotland sat in the unicameral Estates of Parliament.

Bishops of the Church of Scotland traditionally sat in the Parliament of Scotland but were excluded in 1638 following the Scottish Reformation.

As a consequence, the Parliament of Scotland merged with Parliament of England, to form the Parliament of Great Britain, which sat at Westminster in London.

Despite having sat in Parliament for only four years, Chamberlain hoped for a cabinet position, and told Sir William Harcourt that he was prepared to lead a revolt and field Radical candidates in borough elections.

In the European Parliament its members sat in the Christian Democratic faction.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

Now, she just sat there looking at him, without an expression except concern for him.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

As they waited for supper they sat by the fire, glasses in hand, while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers.

The women, keeping their voices low as they worked around the house or sat in the living room, sounded like chickens shut up in a coop for the night.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

He sat for a while with his hands on his knees, watching the bend of her back as she gathered up her things -- a comb, a bottle of aspirin -- to take upstairs and pack.

After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.

`` I'll try '', I said, and sat for a moment thinking.

We sat for a while drinking in silence.

Moreland sat brooding for a full minute, during which I made each of us a new drink.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

they just sat back on their haunches and cried for more, as though they could never get enough.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

I sat waiting for Life to come along and sweep me up.

He added backs to the benches on which students sat, improved lighting and heating, de-emphasized rote learning, and provided individual slates to each student — paid for by himself.

Communities would come together for an entire day of singing in a large building where they sat in four distinct areas surrounding an open space, one member directing the group as a whole.

A sebaceous cyst on the left side of his nose caused him to be mocked by some of his contemporaries, and he sat for photographs and portraits with the right side of his face most prominent.

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.