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Gatton was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1450 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act. Around the time of that Act it was often held up by reformers as the epitome of what was wrong with the unreformed system.
Gatton may refer to:
Places:-
Gatton, Queensland, Australia
- Shire of Gatton, former administrative region
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Gatton, Surrey, former village in England
- Gatton (UK Parliament constituency), rotten borough based in the village
- Gatton (family), Norman land-owning dynasty in Southern England
- Danny Gatton (1945–1994), American guitarist
- Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky
- Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky or "Gatton Academy"
Usage examples of "gatton".
I muttered, and, stepping aside from the expectant group, I filled and lighted my pipe, convinced that anything to be learned I should learn from Inspector Gatton, for he and I were old friends, having been mutually concerned in several interesting cases.
Inspector Gatton succeeded in wedging himself into my little two-seater and ere long we were lurching and bumping along the ill-paved East-end streets.
London address, which had been unknown to me, we had learned from his cards, and it was with the keenest anticipation of a notable discovery that I presently found myself with Gatton mounting the stairs to the chambers of the murdered baronet.
Twice I went to the window and peered down into the street, expecting to see the thick-set figure of Inspector Gatton approaching.
He will certainly have to make up his mind to speak out when Inspector Gatton examines him.
I prefer to give Inspector Gatton my own account of this visit rather than to be discovered here by him.
I turned my attention to the little image of green enamel ware which Gatton had left with me for examination.
I crossed the room to my bookcase and took down the volume of Gaston Maspero, the same which I had been reading but had returned to its shelf as Gatton had been admitted.
As I proposed later in the morning to call on Isobel, Coates drove Gatton and myself as far as the Red House and I instructed the man to wait for me.
A considerable group, too, was gathered before the garage, but as Gatton and I descended and began to walk up the drive there was a general movement in our direction.
Inspector Gatton, for the assistance of his trained mind in plumbing these depths which defied my single efforts.
As Gatton had quite recently observed, every new piece of evidence which came to light in this most bewildering affair seemed merely to plunge the issue in greater obscurity than ever.
But that Gatton had saved me from some deadly peril I was well convinced.
Every possible means had been taken to intercept him, and whilst Gatton, inspired by I know not what hopes, had hastened to the burning Bell House, I had set out in the police car in pursuit of Dr.
For that Gatton had some good reason for suggesting the meeting I did not doubt.