This article is about the historical parliament in existence from 1707 to 1800. For its present-day successor, see Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain
Royal coat of arms of Great Britain, 1714–1800
Type
Type
Bicameral
Houses
House of Lords House of Commons
History
Established
1 May 1707
Disbanded
31 December 1800
Preceded by
Parliament of England Parliament of Scotland
Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Leadership
Lord Chancellor
Lord Loughborough since 1793
Speaker of the House
Henry Addington since 1789
Structure
House of Commons political groups
Final composition of the British House of Commons: 519 Seats
Tories: 424 seats
Whigs: 95 seats
Elections
House of Lords voting system
Ennoblement by the Sovereign or inheritance of a peerage
House of Commons voting system
First-past-the-post with limited suffrage
Meeting place
Palace of Westminster, London
Footnotes
See also: Parliament of Ireland
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified the treaty of Union which created a new unified Kingdom of Great Britain and created the parliament of Great Britain located in the former home of the English parliament in the Palace of Westminster, near the City of London. This lasted nearly a century, until the Acts of Union 1800 merged the separate British and Irish Parliaments into a single Parliament of the United Kingdom with effect from 1 January 1801.
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