Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency)

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Kingston upon Hull, often simply referred to as Hull, was a parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire, electing two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1305 until 1885.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1640-1660 2.2 1660-1885 2.2.1 Notes 3 References

[edit] History

Kingston upon Hull was a borough constituency in the town (later city) of Hull. Until the Great Reform Act of 1832, it consisted only of the parish of St Mary's, Hull and part of Holy Trinity, Hull, entirely to the west of the River Hull. This excluded parts of the urban area which had not been originally part of the town, but some of these - the rest of Holy Trinity parish, Sculcoates, Drypool, Garrisonside and part of Sutton-on-Hull - were brought into the constituency by boundary changes in 1832. This increased the population of the borough from around 16,000 to almost 50,000.

Until the Reform Act, the right to vote in Hull was vested in the freemen of the city, which made the constituency one of the larger and more competitive ones. At the general election of 1831, 2,174 voters went to the polls.

The Hull constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election, the city being divided into three single-member constituencies, Kingston upon Hull Central, Kingston upon Hull East and Kingston upon Hull West.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1640-1660

Short Parliament

• 1640: ?
• 1640: ?

Long Parliament

• 1640-1653: Sir Henry Vane, junior (Parliamentarian)
• 1640: Sir John Lister - died, December 1640
• 1641-1650: Peregrine Pelham (Parliamentarian)- died, 1650

Hull was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament

First Protectorate Parliament (One member only)

• 1654-1655: ?

Second Protectorate Parliament (One member only)

• 1656-1658: ?

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: ?
• 1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

• 1659-1660: Sir Henry Vane, junior

One seat vacant owing to the death of Peregrine Pelham

[edit] 1660-1885

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	John Ramsden		Andrew Marvell
		1661	Anthony Gilby
		1678			William Ramsden
		February 1679	Lemuel Kingdon
		September 1679	Sir Michael Warton		William Gee
		1685	John Ramsden		Sir Willoughby Hickman
		1689			William Gee
		1690			Charles Osborne
		1695	Sir William St Quintin	Tory
		1701			William Maister	Tory
		1717			Nathaniel Rogers
		1724	George Crowle
		1727			The Viscount Micklethwaite
		1734			Henry Maister
		1741			William Carter
		1744			Harry Pulteney
		1747	Lord Robert Manners	Tory	Thomas Carter
		1754			Richard Crowle
		1757			Sir George Montgomery Metham
		1766			William Weddell
		1774			David Hartley	Rockingham Whig
		1780			William Wilberforce [1]	Tory
		1782	David Hartley	Rockingham Whig
		March 1784	Samuel Thornton	Tory
		June 1784			Walter Spencer Stanhope	Tory
		1790			Earl of Burford
		1796			Sir Charles Turner
		1802			John Staniforth	Tory
		1806	William Joseph Denison	Whig
		1807	Viscount Mahon	Whig
		1812	George William Denys [2]	Tory
		1818	John Mitchell	Tory	James Graham	Whig
		1820			Daniel Sykes	Whig
		1826	John Augustus O'Neill	Tory
		1830	George Schonswar	Tory	William Battie Wrightson	Whig
		1832	Matthew Davenport Hill	Whig	William Hutt	Whig
		January 1835	David Carruthers	Conservative
		June 1835	Thomas Perronet Thompson	Whig
		1837	Sir Walter Charles James	Conservative	William Wilberforce [3]	Conservative
		1838			William Hutt	Whig
		1841			Sir John Hanmer	Conservative
		1847	Matthew Talbot Baines	Whig	James Clay	Whig
		1852[4]	Viscount Goderich	Whig
		1854	William Digby Seymour	Whig	William Henry Watson	Whig
		February 1857			James Clay	Liberal
		March 1857	Lord Ashley	Liberal
		April 1859	Joseph Hoare [5]	Conservative
		August 1859	John Somes	Conservative
		1865	Charles Morgan Norwood	Liberal
		1873			Joseph Walker Pease	Conservative
		1874			Charles Henry Wilson	Liberal

Constituency abolished 1885

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Wilberforce was re-elected at the general election of 1784, but was also elected for Yorkshire, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Hull in this parliament
2. ^ Created a baronet as Sir George Denys in 1813
3. ^ On petition, Wilberforce's qualification as a candidate was declared defective and his election was voided. After scrutiny of the votes, Hutt (who had originally been placed third) was declared elected in his stead
4. ^ The 1852 election was declared void on petition. Hull's right to representation was suspended and a Royal Commission appointed to investigate. Once it had reported, a new election was held, which none of the four original candidates contested.
5. ^ On petition, the election of Hoare was declared void and a by-election held

[edit] References

• F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, “Members of the Long Parliament” (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: 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, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)

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