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History of
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The group were largely composed of 'independent country gentlemen' who held themselves free from party allegiance. On 26 January 1784 the group came to a resolution "to support the party who should in the present distracted moment manifest a disposition to union". Given the weakness of Pitt's
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History of Parliament 1754-1790 indicates that five of the 78 were from Scottish constituencies, and a large proportion of the members were returned from English counties. The leader was
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133:Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley
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164:Hon. William Henry Bouverie
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347:Archibald Campbell Fraser
1125:Hon. John Manners-Sutton
301:George Keith Elphinstone
225:Sir George Cornewall, Bt
148:Richard Wilbraham-Bootle
29:William Pitt the Younger
18:St. Alban's Tavern group
1230:Sir John Borlase Warren
1080:Walter Spencer Stanhope
720:Hon. Charles Marsham Bt
123:Newtown (Isle of Wight)
117:Sir John Barrington, Bt
1200:Sir John Trevelyan, Bt
1020:William Charles Sloper
780:Henry Peirse (younger)
271:Thomas, Baron Dimsdale
178:Thomas Berney Bramston
1170:Robert Thistlethwayte
735:Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bt
615:Sir Robert Lawley, Bt
479:Sir Harry Hoghton, Bt
440:(Sir) Benjamin Hammet
194:The Viscount Bulkeley
25:Members of Parliament
1050:Sir Robert Smyth, Bt
855:Sir Walter Rawlinson
750:Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt
675:Hon General Luttrell
600:Richard Payne Knight
60:Members of the group
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1265:Caernarvon Boroughs
1245:John Eardley Wilmot
1005:Sir Thomas Skipwith
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50:Fox-North Coalition
524:Sir Richard Hotham
286:William Drake, Jr.
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870:Abraham Rawlinson
645:James Tylney Long
630:Sir William Lemon
539:Sir George Howard
494:Arthur Holdsworth
33:Charles James Fox
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930:Charles Boughton
815:Northamptonshire
705:Sir Horatio Mann
469:E. Hervey, esq.
425:Thomas Grosvenor
101:Francis Annesley
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509:Filmer Honywood
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378:Ambrose Goddard
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810:Thomas Powys
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1100:Lancashire
1070:Pontefract
1065:John Smyth
1055:Colchester
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915:John Rolle
765:John Parry
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605:Leominster
337:Dorchester
255:John Dawes
138:Gloucester
39:Background
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384:Wiltshire
368:Lichfield
215:West Looe
169:Salisbury
75:, MP for
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276:Hertford
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261:Tregony
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107:Reading
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