Helston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Helston Borough constituency
Created:	1298
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	1298–1832: two 1832–1885: one

Helston was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.

It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 1.1 Before 1660 1.2 1660-1832 1.3 MPs 1832-1885 2 Elections 3 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Before 1660

• 1601: William Twysden

[edit] 1660-1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
April 1660		Anthony Rous			Alexander Penhellick
July 1660		Thomas Robinson			Francis Godolphin
1661					Sir Peter Killigrew
1665		Sir William Godolphin
1668					Sidney Godolphin	Tory
Feb 1679					Sir Vyell Vyvyan
Sep 1679		Sidney Godolphin	Tory
1681					Charles Godolphin
1685		Sidney Godolphin
1689		Sir John St. Aubyn
1695		Francis Godolphin
1698		Sidney Godolphin
1701					Francis Godolphin[1]
1708					John Evelyn
Oct 1710					George Granville
Dec 1710					Robert Child
1713		Henry Campion			Charles Coxe
1714		Thomas Tonkin			Alexander Pendarves
1715		Sir Gilbert Heathcote	Whig		Sidney Godolphin
1722		Sir Robert Raymond			Walter Carey
1724		Sir Clement Wearg
1726		Exton Sayer
1727		John Evelyn			John Harris
1741		Francis Godolphin			Thomas Walker
1747					John Evelyn
1766		William Windham
1767					William Evelyn
1768		The Earl of Clanbrassil
1774		Marquess of Carmarthen			Francis Owen
1775		Francis Cockayne Cust			Philip Yorke
1780		Jocelyn Dean
March 1781		Richard Barwell
June 1781					Lord Hyde
1784		John Rogers
1786		Roger Wilbraham
1787					James Bland Burges
1790		Gilbert Elliot			Stephen Lushington [2]
1795		Charles Abbot
1796					Richard Richards
1799					Lord Francis Osborne
1802		James Harris			John Penn
1804		Davies Giddy
1805					Viscount Primrose
April 1806		Sir John Shelley
November 1806		Nicholas Vansittart [3]			John Du Ponthieu
January 1807		Thomas Brand
May 1807		Sir John St Aubyn			Richard Richards
July 1807					Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye
1812		William Horne			Hugh Hammersley
1818		Lord James Townshend			Harrington Hudson
1820					Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne
1830					Sir Samuel John Brooke-Pechell
1831					Sackville Walter Lane-Fox
1832	Representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1832-1885

Election		Member	Party
1832		Representation reduced to one member
	1832	Sackville Walter Lane-Fox	Conservative
	1835	Lord James Townshend	Conservative
	1837	George John Frederick Sackville, Viscount Cantelupe	Conservative
	1840	John Basset	Conservative
	1841	Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan	Conservative
	1857	Charles Trueman	Liberal
	1859	John Hope Rogers	Conservative
	1865	Adolphus William Young	Liberal
	1866[4]	Robert Campbell	Liberal
		Sir William Baliol Brett	Conservative
	1868	Adolphus William Young	Liberal
	1880	William Napleton Molesworth-St.Aubyn	Conservative
1885		constituency abolished

Notes

1. ^ Styled Viscount Rialton from 1706
2. ^ Sir Stephen Lushington from 1791
3. ^ Vansittart was also elected for Old Sarum, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
4. ^ At the Helston by-election, 1866, both candidates polled exactly the same number of votes. The mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote for the Liberal candidate Robert Campbell. As this vote was given after four o'clock, however, an appeal was lodged, and the House of Commons declared that the returning officer had no right to a casting vote, and that he should have returned the names of both tied candidates. On scrutiny of the votes, one vote was struck off Campbell's total, and the Conservative candidate Sir William Baliol Brett declared duly elected.

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.