Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cornwall
County constituency
Created: 1290
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

Cornwall is a former county constituency covering the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, elected by the bloc vote system.

Under the Reform Act 1832, it was divided between the constituencies of East Cornwall and West Cornwall.

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[edit] Boundaries

Cornwall is the most south western county of England, occupying the part of the South West peninsular to the west of the River Tamar which divides the county from Devon.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1290)

[edit] 1290-1660

  • 1529: Piers Edgcumbe
  • 1563-1567: Peter Edgcumbe
  • 1572-1581: Peter Edgcumbe
  • 1586-1593: Peter Edgcumbe
  • 1597-1598: William Killigrew
  • 1601: Sir Walter Raleigh
  • 1614: Richard Carew

Long Parliament

  • 1640-1642: Sir Bevil Grenville (Royalist) - disabled to sit, September 1642
  • 1640-1643: Alexander Carew (Royalist) - expelled from the Commons, September 1643
  • 1645(?)-1648: Hugh Boscawen - not known to have sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
  • 1645(?)-1648: Nicholas Trefusis - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648

Barebones Parliament

  • 1653: Robert Bennet, Francis Langdon, Anthony Rous, John Bawden

First Protectorate Parliament (Eight members)

  • 1654-1655: Hugh Boscawen, Thomas Gewen, James Launce, Antony Nicholl, Anthony Rous, ?

Second Protectorate Parliament (Eight members)

Third Protectorate Parliament

  • 1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

  • 1659-1660: ?
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[edit] 1660-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1660 Sir John Carew, Bt Robert Robartes
September 1660 Hugh Boscawen
1661 Jonathan Trelawny Sir John Coryton, Bt
1679 Francis Robartes Sir Richard Edgcumbe
May 1685 Hon. Charles Granville Viscount Bodmin
August 1685 Francis Robartes
1689 Sir John Carew, Bt Hugh Boscawen
1690 Francis Robartes
1695 John Speccot
June 1701 Richard Edgcumbe Whig
December 1701 John Granville James Buller
1703 Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt
1703 Hugh Boscawen
1708 James Buller
1710 George Granville John Trevanion
1712 Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt
1713 Sir William Carew, Bt
1722 Sir John St Aubyn, Bt
April 1744 Sir Coventry Carew, Bt
December 1744 Sir John Molesworth, Bt
1748 James Buller
1761 Sir John St Aubyn, Bt
1765 Sir John Molesworth, Bt
1772 Humphrey Mackworth-Praed
1774 Sir William Lemon, Bt Whig
1775 Edward Eliot
1784 Sir William Molesworth, Bt
1790 Francis Gregor
1806 John Hearle Tremayne
1825 Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt Tory
1826 Edward William Wynne Pendarves Whig
1831 Sir Charles Lemon, Bt

[edit] Elections

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, “Members of the Long Parliament” (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • J E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  • Historical Parliamentary Papers at British History Online

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