Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the first past the post system of election until the 1884 Reform Bill reduced this to one.

For the 1997 general election, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Tiverton to form the Tiverton & Honiton constituency.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1660-1868

Members of Parliament for Honiton
Year First member Second member
1660 Sir John Yonge Samuel Serle
1661 Sir Courtenay Pole Peter Prideaux
1679 Sir Walter Yonge Sir Thomas Putt
1685 Edmond Walrond
1689 Richard Courtenay
1690 Sir William Drake Sir Walter Yonge
1711 James Sheppard
1715 Sir William Courtenay Sir William Yonge
1716 Sir William Pole
1727 James Sheppard
1731 Sir William Pole
1734 William Courtenay
1741 Henry Reginald Courtenay
1747 John Heath (later John Duke)
1754 Henry Reginald Courtenay Sir George Yonge
1761 John Duke
1763 Sir George Yonge
1768 Brass Crosby
1774 Laurence Cox
1780 Alexander Macleod
1781 Jacob Wilkinson
1784 Sir George Collier
1790 George Templer
1796 George Chambers George Shum
1802 Sir John Honywood
1805 Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw
1806 (April) Richard Bateman-Robson
1806 (October) Thomas Cochrane
1807 Sir Charles Hamilton
1812 Richard Howard-Vyse George Abercrombie Robinson
1818 Peregrine Francis Cust Samuel Crawley
1826 Josiah John Guest Henry Baines Lott
1830 Sir George Warrender
1831 Henry Baines Lott
1832 Viscount Villiers James Ruddell-Todd
1835 Hugh Duncan Baillie Arthur Chichester
1837 James Stewart
1841 Forster McGeachy
1847 Joseph Locke Sir James Hogg
1857 Archibald Stuart-Wortley
1859 Alexander Baillie-Cochrane
1860 George Moffatt
1865 Frederick Goldsmid
1866 Julian Goldsmid
1868 Constituency abolished, but re-established in 1885

[edit] 1885-1997

Members of Parliament for Honiton
Year Member Party
1885 constituency re-established as single-member seat
1885 Sir John Kennaway Conservative
1910 Sir Arthur Morrison-Bell Conservative
1931 Sir Cedric Drewe Conservative
1955 Robert Mathew Conservative
1967 Sir Peter Emery Conservative
1997 constituency abolished: see Tiverton and Honiton