 Many of Plymouth's MPs, naval or otherwise, justified the borough's confidence in them by bringing patronage to the town.Namier and Brooke quote a letter from the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich, to the Plymouth MP Viscount Barrington, rebuking him for the extent of the continual requests he was making on their behalf; but many of these requests, it is clear, were nevertheless being met.The Great Reform Act left the borough of Plymouth unaltered, but its nature was affected radically.