GeoCoding plugin error - TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'

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I am running QGIS 2.18.14 on Ubuntu 17.10, I get the following error when trying to run the plugin:

An error has occurred while executing Python code:

TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sxj/.qgis2/python/plugins/GeoCoding/GeoCoding.py", line 214, in geocode
geocoder = self.get_geocoder_instance()
File "/home/sxj/.qgis2/python/plugins/GeoCoding/GeoCoding.py", line 303, in get_geocoder_instance
return geocoder(proxies=proxyConnection)
TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'