Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)

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Arundel
Borough constituency
Created: 1332
Abolished: 1868
Type: House of Commons
Arundel
County constituency
Created: 1974
Abolished: 1997
Type: House of Commons

Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town of Arundel and was a borough constituency first enfranchised in 1332 and disenfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.

The second incarnation of the seat comprised also the area surrounding Arundel, including towns like Littlehampton. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, existing until 1997. Arundel now only elected one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1332)
Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1660 The Earl of Orrery The Viscount Falkland
May 1660 Sir John Trevor
1661 The Lord Aungier of Longford
1679 William Garway James Butler
1685 William Westbrooke
1689 William Morley
1690 James Butler
January 1694 Lord Henry Howard
February 1694 John Cooke
1695 Lord Henry Howard Edward Dummer
1698 John Cooke Christopher Knight
January 1701 Edmund Dummer
November 1701 Carew Weekes
1702 Edmund Dummer
1705 James Butler
May 1708 Sir Henry Peachey, Bt The Viscount Shannon
December 1708 Viscount Lumley
1710 The Earl of Thomond Viscount Lumley
1715 Henry Lumley Thomas Micklethwait
1718 Joseph Micklethwait
1722 Thomas Lumley
1727 Sir John Shelley, Bt The Viscount Gage
1728 John Lumley
1739 Garton Orme
1741 James Lumley
1747 Theobald Taafe
1754 Sir George Colebrooke, Bt Thomas Griffin
1761 John Bristow
1768 Lauchlin Macleane
1771 John Stewart
1774 Thomas Brand George Newnham
1780 Sir Patrick Crauford Thomas Fitzherbert
1781 Peter William Baker
April 1784 Earl of Surrey
June 1784 Richard Beckford
1790 Sir George Thomas, Bt Lord Henry Thomas Howard
1795 Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt
1796 James Greene
1797 Nisbet Balfour
1802 Viscount Andover John Atkins
1806 Sir Arthur Piggott Francis Wilder
January 1807 The Lord Lecale
May 1807 Francis Wilder
October 1812 Lord Henry Thomas Howard
December 1812 Sir Samuel Romilly Whig
1818 Lord Henry Thomas Howard Sir Arthur Piggott
1819 Robert Blake
1820 Viscount Bury
1823 Thomas Read Kemp
1826 Edward Lombe John Atkins
1830 Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart Whig
  • Reduced to a single member (1832)
Year Member Party
1832 Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart Whig
1837 Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel Whig
1851 Edward Strutt Liberal
1852 Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard Liberal
  • Constituency disenfranchised (1868)
  • Constituency revived (1974)
Year Member Party
1974 Sir Michael Marshall Conservative
  • Constituency disenfranchised (1997)

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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