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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 13

WHERE PITT WAS ELECTED. A tablet has been affixed to a Saafrsen stone on the site of the tree beneath the branches of Avhich members of Parliament for the borough of Old Sarum were in former times elected. It was lately unveiled by Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Generally referred to as the Old Parliament Tree, the elm which once stood on the spot holds a prominent place in history. Sarum, in ruins for centuries, remained a “pocket borough” until the passing o£ the Reform Bill in 1832, and the greatest of those it returned to office Avas William Pitt, Avho eventually became Earl of Chatham, in