Politics
- (1122) Eleanor of Aquitaine, consort of Henry II of England, was imprisoned in Nottingham Castle in 1173-89 after plotting against him.
- (1546) Sir Henry Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont was a member of Parliament for Nottingham.
- (1584) Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull of Holme Pierrepont was a member of Parliament for Nottingham, then active in the House of Lords from 1627, but neutral in the English Civil War.
- (1607) Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, of Holme Pierrepont was a prominent Royalist politician and a scholar.
- (1607/8) William Pierrepont, born at Holme Pierrepont, was a prominent Parliamentary politician under the Commonwealth.
- (1667) Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull was a prominent Whig politician and from 1707 recorder of Nottingham.
- (1737) Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers, politician, MP for Nottinghamshire, and naval officer, inherited Thoresby Hall and Holme Pierrepont Hall in 1788.
- (1740) John Cartwright, political reformer, was born in Marnham.
- (1790) Jeremiah Brandreth, revolutionary, was born in Wilford.
- (1825) Anthony John Mundella, who went into the Nottingham hosiery trade in 1837, was an MP and a minister in three Liberal governments.
- (1826) Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, politician, MP for Nottinghamshire, was born at Holme Pierrepont.
- (1854) Charles Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers, politician, was MP for the Newark Division of Nottinghamshire.
- (1855) Alice Zimmern, suffragist and pacifist, daughter of a lace merchant.
- (1881) Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, army officer and politician, was buried at Perlethorpe.
- (1893) William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, the Conservative politician and chancellor of Nottingham University, lived at Welbeck Abbey.
- (1932) Jim Lester, Conservative MP for Beeston and then Broxtowe and a junior minister, was born in Nottingham and educated at Nottingham High School.
- (1940) Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–1997) and MP for Rushcliffe; educated at Nottingham High School.
- (1967) Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011-) and MP for Morley and Outwood; grew up in Keyworth and educated at Nottingham High School.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around: especially as President.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)