Aldborough was a parliamentary borough located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, abolished in the Great Reform Act 1832.
This made it a pocket borough and easy for the local landowner to dominate.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] It was a "scot and lot" borough, meaning that any man paying the poor rate was eligible to vote.
In April 1754 Newcastle, who had just become Prime Minister, selected his junior colleague and future Prime Minister, William Pitt (Pitt the Elder), to sit as its MP.
Pitt represented Aldborough for two-and-a-half years, but having fallen out with Newcastle and been dismissed from his ministry, he was forced to find a new constituency when he next needed to be re-elected to the Commons in 1756.