Yes you got it... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64266765 A qurky story about a footballer who plays in a mask.....
In which year did the first person of African descent vote in a General Election in the UK, and who was it ?
it was indeed Frenchie and, as you say, before your time (just ). Remarkable personality - born on a ship in the Atlantic and coming to England as an orphan aged two - later becoming a writer, composer and abolitionist - and also a shop owner in Mayfair. as a property owner he had a right to vote which he exercised in 1774 and again in 1780. Ironically voting 6 years before the Gordon riots which preceded the granting of votes to catholic property owners. As far as is known he was the first Black Briton to exercise this right.
On a similar theme, where would you find before the reform act of 1832, a borough that had 3 houses, 7 voters, and 2 MPs?
There were several of these so called ''Rotten Boroughs'' around at that time with only property owners and the payers of certain taxes being allowed to vote. Old Sarum in Salisbury was used by the Pitt family as a private pocket borough to maintain unrepresentative influence before 1832 so I would guess at that.
That was the one cologne. Old Sarum had Salisbury Cathedral, but it was moved stone by stone to the current site.
Cheers Frenchie - now for something completely different. On top of this league table is the United Kingdom, followed by Ireland, in third place is Nigeria followed in fourth by the USA and in fifth by Cameroon. What league table is this ?
Sorry I need to revise that list it is: 1. The United Kingdom 2. Nigeria 3. Ireland 4. The USA 5. Cameroon
The fact that a revision was needed is an affront to the honour of Ireland Not sure that this is a very positive development.
