Chiltern Hundreds
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Chiltern Hundreds in the UK, a Crown manor, whose administration is a nominal office for which an MP applies as a way of resigning from the House of Commons.
The holding of an office of profit under the Crown became a disqualification in 1707, and in 1740 the Stewardship of a royal manor was used in order to create a disqualification. In January 1750–51 John Pitt, MP for Wrexham, took the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, which has come to be the ordinary form.
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Arts: When the going gets toff Edward Fox is in his element in this thoroughly enjoyable revival of The Chiltern Hundreds.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/19/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...reprehensibly enjoyable revival of The Chiltern Hundreds, Fox is almost unrecognisable...in his grave. Certainly, The Chiltern Hundreds is one of those early...which a politician applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in order to diversify...
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First Night: The vowel strangler of old London town strikes again The Chiltern Hundreds, Vaudeville Theatre, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/18/1999; ; 651 words
; ...reprehensibly enjoyable revival of The Chiltern Hundreds he's virtually unrecognisable...turning in his grave. Certainly The Chiltern Hundreds is one of those early...which a politician applies for the Chiltern Hundreds in order to set up a Jane...
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The Information on `The Chiltern Hundreds'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/24/1999; 427 words
; ...for the play to have acquired some period interest?" Benedict Nightingale, The Times. Where You Can See It The Chiltern Hundreds is at the Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2 (0171- 836 9987) to 12 Feb
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Fox on target in otherwise potshot production FIRST NIGHT The Chiltern Hundreds Vaudeville Theatre O
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...drawing room comedy which is a partly political broadside on behalf of charming, blue-blooded eccentrics. The Chiltern Hundreds so reeks of theatrical mothballs you might guess it was written 50 years ago by a dilettante aristocrat with more...
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Art plunders life in rather too many episodes Collected Stories Haymarket, London The Glass Menagerie Theatre Royal, York The Chiltern Hundreds Vaudeville, London Hymns Lyric, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Cockle's ebullient Jim with measured sensitivity. The curtain rises on Ray Cooney's jolly production of The Chiltern Hundreds to the strains of Land of Hope and Glory, and there's a round of applause at the sight of Edward Fox sitting in...
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Three Hundreds of Chiltern.
M2 Presswire; 6/22/2004; 304 words
; ...PRESSWIRE-22 June 2004-UK Government: Three Hundreds of Chiltern(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...Gordon Davis to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern. ((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Chiltern Railways passengers up by 66pc.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 9/8/2003; 654 words
; ...cent increase in passengers. Chiltern Railways ran its largest ever...during the nine-day period, Chiltern offered the only direct and...times increased dramatically as hundreds of commuters were forced to...from Birmingham New Street. Chiltern said that by modifying its...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Hundreds of homes still in the dark.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 10/29/2002; 481 words
; ...households were still without power. All Chiltern services, which call at Leamington and...delayed, some by up to two hours. Today, Chiltern services were running up to 25 minutes...Virgin also announced some cancellations. Hundreds of homes in Haseley, Hatton and Little...
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FOUR HUNDRED YEARS TO REDUCE M40 NOISE: MP CLAIMS.
Newspaper article from: Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England); 7/17/2006; 640 words
; (MONDAY JULY 17) IT will take four hundred years for the Highways Agency to put...Westminster last week. Members of the M40 Chiltern Environmental Group met Paul Goodman...that the motorway runs right through the Chiltern Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
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Hundreds join in: Steam special celebrates station's 150th anniversary.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 10/7/2002; 382 words
; ...to the station yesterday to celebrate its 150th birthday . Hundreds packed the platform to watch the 09.55am anniversary Stratford...consisting of Bullring Birmingham, Central Trains, Centro, Chiltern Railways, Railtrack, Travel Midland Metro and Vintage Trains...
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Chiltern Hundreds
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chiltern Hundreds the obsolete (since the 19th cent...central England. The stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is an obsolete office with only...Parliament may not resign, "applying for the Chiltern Hundreds" or for the similarly obsolete...
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Chiltern hundreds
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Chiltern hundreds Members of Parliament cannot resign directly and must therefore, if they wish to retire, apply for an office of profit under the crown, which disqualifies them. By convention this is the stewardship of the Chiltern hundreds.
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Home, William Douglas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...first achieved success with a political comedy The Chiltern Hundreds (1947), which starred A. E. Matthews , following...The Manor of Northstead (1954), a sequel to The Chiltern Hundreds which again starred Matthews, and the highly popular...
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Howard, Anne Marie 1960(?)–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...In the Space of God, Kathryn's Promise, Living to Be a Hundred, and One Thousand Dollars (also known as O. Henry's One...York City; as Ellen, The Gun, Electric Theatre; as Lady Chiltern, An Ideal Husband, Santa Paula Theatre; as Rebecca Dolan...
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Vaudeville Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...which ran for two years. In 1947 William Douglas Home enjoyed two good runs with Now Barabbas … and The Chiltern Hundreds , the latter with A. E. Matthews . The 1950s were dominated by the record-breaking musical by Dorothy Reynolds...
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