Aldborough (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Aldborough Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1558 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Aldborough is a former parliamentary borough located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, abolished in the great reform act of 1832. Aldborough returned two Members of Parliament from 1558 until 1832.
Aldborough was a "scot and lot" borough, meaning that any man paying the poor rate was eligible to vote. Nevertheless, it was a small borough (not even including the whole parish of Aldborough, since Boroughbridge, also within the boundaries, was also a borough with its own two MPs), and by the time of the Reform Act it had a population only just over 500 and an electorate of less than 100. This made it a pocket borough and easy for the local landowner to dominate.
In the 18th century, Aldborough was controlled by the Duke of Newcastle. In April 1754 Newcastle, who had just become Prime Minister, selected his junior colleague and future Prime Minister, William Pitt (Pitt the Elder), to sit as its MP. Pitt represented Aldborough for two-and-a-half years, but having fallen out with Newcastle and been dismissed from his ministry, he was forced to find a new constituency when he next needed to be re-elected to the Commons in 1756.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1558)
[edit] 1558-1660
- 1601: Sir Edward Cecil
- 1601: Richard Thaxton
- 1604-1611: Henry Savile
| Parliament | Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short Parliament (1640) | |||
| Long Parliament (1640-1653) | 1640 | Richard Aldeburgh (Royalist) disabled to sit, January 1643 |
Robert Strickland (Royalist) disabled to sit, September 1642 |
| 1645 (?) | Thomas Scott died January 1648 |
Brian Stapylton | |
| 1648 | James Chaloner | ||
| 1648 | Stapylton not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | ||
| Barebones Parliament (1653) | Aldborough not represented | ||
| First Protectorate Parliament (1654-1655) | |||
| Second Protectorate Parliament (1656-1658) | |||
| Third Protectorate Parliament (1659) | Francis Goodricke | John Lambert[1] | |
| Long Parliament (restored, 1659-1660) | ? | ? | |
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[edit] 1660-1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1660 | Sir Solomon Swale, Bt | Francis Goodricke | ||||
| 1673 | Sir John Reresby, Bt[2] | |||||
| 1678 | Ruisshe Wentworth | |||||
| February 1679 | Henry Arthington | |||||
| May 1679 | Sir Godfrey Copley, Bt[3] | |||||
| August 1679 | Sir Brian Stapylton, Bt | |||||
| 1681 | Sir John Reresby, Bt | |||||
| 1685 | Sir Michael Wentworth | Sir Roger Strickland | ||||
| 1689 | Christopher Tancred | |||||
| 1696 | Henry Fairfax[4] | |||||
| January 1698 | William Wentworth | |||||
| July 1698 | Sir George Cooke | Sir Abstrupus Danby | ||||
| 1701 | Robert Monckton | Cyril Arthington | ||||
| 1702 | William Jessop | |||||
| 1713 | John Dawnay [5] | Paul Foley | ||||
| February 1715 | James Stanhope[6] | Whig | William Jessop | |||
| April 1715 | William Monson | |||||
| 1722 | Charles Stanhope | |||||
| 1734 | Henry Pelham[7] | Whig | ||||
| 1735 | John Jewkes | Andrew Wilkinson | Whig | |||
| 1743 | Nathaniel Newnham | |||||
| 1754 | William Pitt | Whig | ||||
| 1756 | Nathaniel Cholmley | |||||
| 1765 | Viscount Villiers | |||||
| 1768 | Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk | Andrew Wilkinson | Whig | |||
| 1772 | Earl of Lincoln | Tory | ||||
| 1774 | Charles Wilkinson | Abel Smith | ||||
| 1777 | William Baker | |||||
| 1778 | Hon. William Hanger | |||||
| September 1780 | Sir Richard Sutton, Bt[8] | Charles Mellish | ||||
| November 1780 | Edward Onslow | |||||
| 1781 | Sir Samuel Brudenell Fludyer, Bt | |||||
| January 1784 | John Gally Knight | |||||
| March 1784 | Richard Pepper Arden[9] | Whig | ||||
| 1790 | Trench Chiswell | |||||
| 1796 | Charles Duncombe | |||||
| 1797 | John Blackburn | |||||
| 1802 | John Sullivan | |||||
| 1806 | Henry Fynes | Tory | Gilbert Jones | Tory | ||
| 1812 | Henry Dawkins | Tory | ||||
| 1814 | Henry Gally Knight | Tory | ||||
| 1815 | Granville Venables Vernon | Tory | ||||
| 1820 | Gibbs Antrobus | Tory | ||||
| 1826 | Clinton James Fynes Clinton | Tory | Sir Alexander Cray Grant, Bt | Tory | ||
| 1830 | Viscount Stormont | Tory | ||||
| 1831 | Michael Thomas Sadler | Tory | ||||
- Constituency abolished (1832)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lambert was also elected for Pontefract, which he chose to represent. The vacancy was unfilled when the Parliament ended
- ^ At the by-election in November 1673, the Returning Officer made a double return of Reresby and Robert Benson; the dispute was decided in Reresby's favour, and he took his seat, in April 1675.
- ^ Sir John Reresby was declared re-elected at the general election in February 1679 but unseated on petition, Copley being elected in his place.
- ^ Fairfax's election was voided by a resolution of the House of Commons (21 December 1696) for breaking the law in his spending on the election; the writ to hold a new election was not issued until December 1697
- ^ A petition was raised agaist Dawnay's election that had not been resolved by the time the Parliament was dissolved. Dawnay had also been elected for Pontefract and, not being required to choose which constituency he would represent while there was an outstanding petition against one of the elections, sat for both boroughs throughout the Parliament
- ^ Stanhope was also elected for Cockermouth, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Aldborough
- ^ Pelham was also elected for Sussex, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Aldborough
- ^ Sutton was also elected for Sandwich, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Aldborough
- ^ Sir Richard Arden from 1788
[edit] References
- Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- Michael Brock, The Great Reform Act (London: Hutchinson, 1973).
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, “Members of the Long Parliament” (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- D Englefield, J Seaton & I White, Facts About the British Prime Ministers (London: Mansell, 1995)
- J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832, England and Wales", (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Frederic A Youngs, Jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume I (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1979)
[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
