Cambridge University (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cambridge University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.
Read more about Cambridge University (UK Parliament Constituency): Boundaries, Electorate and Election Systems, History, Members of Parliament, Elections Before 1715, Election By Block Vote 1715-1918, Election By Single Transferable Vote 1918-1950
Famous quotes containing the words cambridge, university and/or parliament:
“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?—not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
—Slogan by Czech university students in Prague, November 1989. quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 26, 1989)
“At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the harbor, with their balls piled pyramid-wise between them,—there are said to be in all about one hundred and eighty guns mounted at Quebec,—all which were faithfully kept dusted by officials, in accordance with the motto, “In time of peace prepare for war”; but I saw no preparations for peace: she was plainly an uninvited guest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)