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  • ...ions|[[1784 British General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|< 1784]] |1790|[[1796 British General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|1796 >]]}}</div The '''1790 British General Election''' saw [[John Balfour]] elected to represent Orkne
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  • ...rkney and Shetland, first from 1771 until 1789, then again from 1781 until 1790. ...y [[Robert Baikie]]. His second period in office was from [[1781]] until [[1790]] when he was replaced by [[John Balfour]]
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  • ...n 1782, becoming a midshipman in 1783, and being promoted to Lieutenant in 1790. While serving under Captain Theophilus Jones on HMS Defiance in 1796, he w ...Thomas Dundas had won the Orkney and Shetland seat in 1784. However at the 1790 election, the Balfours and Honymans combined to oust Col Thomas, electing J
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  • ...e, and from 1789 for five years was advocate for poor litigants.[4] During 1790 he was working on the electoral roll in Orkney, in the Whig interest. In 17
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  • Balfour was elected Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland on 28 July 1790. He used his new political connections to put pressure on the British Gover ...nt for<br>[[Orkney and Shetland (Constituency)|Orkney and Shetland]]'''<br>1790-1796|Succeeded by<br>'''[[Robert Honyman (i)|Robert Honyman]]'''}}{{MPs|Pre
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  • '''James Yorston''' (b. 6 March [[1790]], [[Lerwick]], d. 10 February [[1849]], Lerwick) was a purser, agent for t [[Category:1790 Births]]
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  • '''James Pottinger''' (b. before [[1790]], d. 18 June [[1836]], Edinburgh) was a purser for the Royal Navy and a [[
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  • |style="background: #ffffff;"| || [[1790]]||align=left|[[John Balfour]]||align=right|6 November [[1750]]||align=righ
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  • *Creighton Grierson. Born August 26th [[1790]]. Lieutenant General, Royal Engineers, British Army. Died at Liverpool Eng *Alexander Grierson. Born after [[1790]]. Officer in the Royal Navy. Died in Liverpool, England.
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  • ...oGBElections|[[1790 British General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|< 1790]] |1796|[[1801 UK General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|1801* >]]}}<
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  • ...ions|[[1784 British General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|< 1784]] |1790|[[1796 British General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|1796 >]]}}</div The '''1790 British General Election''' saw [[John Balfour]] elected to represent Orkne
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  • ...< 1780]] |1784|[[1790 British General Election, Orkney and Shetland Result|1790 >]]}}</div>
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  • Historically the population of Foula has averaged around 150, in [[1790]] there were 143 residents, by [[1881]] they numbered 267, 33 of whom were
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