Parliament of Great Britain

Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain
Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain
	Royal coat of arms of Great Britain, 1714–1800
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	House of Lords; House of Commons
History
Established	1 May 1707
Disbanded	31 December 1800
Preceded by	Parliament of England; Parliament of Scotland
Succeeded by	Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Leadership
Lord Chancellor	Lord Loughborough ; since 1793
Speaker of the House	Henry Addington ; since 1789
Structure
House of Commons political groups	Final composition of the British House of Commons:; 519 Seats Tories: 424 seats Whigs: 95 seats
Elections
House of Lords voting system	Ennoblement by the Sovereign or inheritance of a peerage
House of Commons voting system	First-past-the-post with limited suffrage
Meeting place
	Palace of Westminster, London
Footnotes
	See also:; Parliament of Ireland

The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified the treaty of Union which created a new unified Kingdom of Great Britain and created the parliament of Great Britain located in the former home of the English parliament in the Palace of Westminster, near the City of London. This lasted nearly a century, until the Acts of Union 1800 merged the separate British and Irish Parliaments into a single Parliament of the United Kingdom with effect from 1 January 1801.