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See also:FARNBOROUGH, See also:- THOMAS
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- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
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THOMAS See also:ERSKINE MAY, See also:BARON (1815-1886) , See also:English Constitutional historian, was See also:born in See also:London on the 8th of See also:February 1815 and educated at See also:Bedford See also:grammar school. In 1831 he was nominated by See also:Manners See also:Sutton, See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons, to the See also:post of assistant librarian, so that his See also:long connexion with See also:parliament began in his youth.
IIe studied for the See also:bar, and was called at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1838. In 1844 he published the first edition of his See also:Treatise on the See also:Law, See also:Privilege, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament. This See also:work, which has passed through many See also:editions, is not only an invaluable mine of See also:information for the See also:historical student, but it is known as the See also:text-See also:book of the law by which parliament governs its proceedings. In 1846 Erskine May was appointed examiner of petitions for private bills, and the following See also:year taxing-See also:master of the House of Commons. IIe published his Remarks to Facilitate Public Business in Parliament in 1849; a work On the Consolidation of See also:Election See also:Laws in 185o; and his Rules, Orders and Forms of the House of Commons was printed by 'command of the House in 18J4. In 1856 he was appointed clerk assistant at the table of the House of Commons. He received the companionship of the See also:Bath in 186o for his See also:parliamentary services, and became a See also:knight See also:commander in '866. His important work, The Constitutional See also:History of See also:England since the See also:Accession of See also:George III. (176o–186o)., was published in 1861–1863, and it received frequent additions in subsequent editions. In 1871 See also:Sir Erskine May was appointed clerk of the House of Commons. His See also:Democracy in See also:Europe: a History appeared in 1877, but it failed to take the same See also:rank in See also:critical esteem as his Constitutional History. He retired from the post of clerk to the House of Commons in See also:April 1886, having for fifteen years discharged the onerous duties of the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office with as much know-ledge and See also:energy as unfailing tact and See also:courtesy. Shortly after his retirement from office he was raised to the See also:peerage under the See also:title of Baron Farnborough of Farnborough, in the See also:county of See also:Southampton, but he only survived to enjoy the dignity for a few days. He died in London on the 17th of May 1886, and as he See also:left no issue the title became See also:extinct.
End of Article: FARNBOROUGH, THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, BARON (1815-1886)
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