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259  <td height=40 class=xl7012495 width=766 style='height:30.0pt;width:575pt'>Leigh's
260  Biography</td>
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266  <td height=100 class=xl6612495 width=766 style='height:75.0pt;width:575pt'>Leigh
267  Rayment<font class="font512495"> </font><font class="font012495">lives in
268  Sydney, Australia, where he practices as a Chartered Secretary. Since he was
269  a teenager (many years ago), he has been interested in British political
270  history, especially the memberships of both the House of Lords and the House
271  of Commons. For over forty years, he has collected books relating to these
272  subjects and now has a large personal library devoted to British political
273  history. This has resulted in an extremely large database covering these
274  areas, which is now made available to interested readers.</font></td>
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280  <td height=140 class=xl6712495 width=766 style='height:105.0pt;width:575pt'>This
281  is a work in progress and is therefore not yet complete, nor, indeed,will it
282  ever be capable of being completed, since<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 
283  </span>experience suggests that the various pages are often required to be
284  updated on a daily basis, as new information comes to hand - e.g. the death
285  of a peer, the appointment of a new Privy Counsellor,or information which
286  corrects previous errors that I have made etc. As a result, all pages are
287  subject to constant correction, amendment and updating. It is therefore my
288  aim to have these pages as up-to-date and correct as far as is possible. The
289  pages will be expanded as time permits, but in the meantime, records of all
290  members of the House of Commons since 1660 are included as part of this site.
291  These records will be extended back to 1265 in due course.</td>
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297  <td height=120 class=xl6712495 width=766 style='height:90.0pt;width:575pt'>Many
298  of the names which appear in these pages were extraordinary characters whose
299  life stories deserve to be more widely known. This may be because they were
300  criminals (ranging from white-collar crimes to murder) or eccentrics (ranging
301  from mildly eccentric right through to total insanity) or because of some
302  interesting feature of their lives which is not as widely known as it
303  deserves to be. Notes which expand on the lives of various people included in
304  these pages are being progressively added at the foot of the relevant pages.
305  I would welcome any suggestions or contributions which may increase the value
306  of these pages to readers.</td>
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