MP Cockermouth is in Member Parliament.
In 1641 John Fenwick 1st Baronet [aged 71] was elected MP Cockermouth.
In 1659 Wilfrid Lawson [aged 23] was elected MP Cockermouth. He was re-elected in 1660.
In 1661 Wilfrid Lawson 1st Baronet [aged 51] was elected MP Cockermouth.
In 1689 Henry Fletcher 3rd Baronet [aged 27] was elected MP Cockermouth which seat he held until 1690.
In 1690 Wilfrid Lawson 2nd Baronet [aged 25] was elected MP Cockermouth which seat he held until 1695.
In 1698 George Fletcher [aged 32] was elected MP Cockermouth which seat he held until 1701.
In February 1702 Thomas Lamplugh [aged 45] was elected MP Cockermouth at a by-election.
In 1705 Thomas Lamplugh [aged 48] was elected MP Cockermouth at a by-election.
In 1717 Wilfrid Lawson 3rd Baronet [aged 20] stood for the Cockermouth constituency after Nicholas Lechmere accepted a ministerial position and accordingly resigned the seat. However, the returning officer made a double return, returning both Lord Percy Seymour [aged 20] and Sir Wilfrid Lawson. Both parties immediately petitioned against the result; Lord Percy, on the grounds that Lawson was a minor, (not having attained the age of 21), while Lawson based his petition on the grounds of bribery. Although both petitions were withdrawn, Sir Wilfrid did admit the charge and consequently, Lord Percy took the seat.
In 1722 Wilfrid Lawson 3rd Baronet [aged 25] was elected MP Cockermouth which seat he held until his death in 1737.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1754 Percy Wyndham O'Brien 1st Earl Thomond [aged 41] was elected MP Cockermouth.
In 1800 Walter Spencer-Stanhope [aged 49] was elected MP Cockermouth.
In 1818 John Beckett 2nd Baronet [aged 42] was elected MP Cockermouth which seat he held until 1821.
In 1830 Philip Pleydell-Bouverie [aged 41] was elected MP Cockermouth.
In 1886 Wilfrid Lawson 2nd Baronet [aged 56] was elected MP Cockermouth which seat he held until 1900.