Queenborough (UK Parliament constituency)

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Queenborough Borough constituency
Created:	1572
Abolished:	1832
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Queenborough was a rotten borough situated on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. From 1572 until it was abolished by the great reform act of 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament. The franchise was vested in the freemen of the town, of whom there were more than 300, making it one of the larger boroughs to be abolished.

A small town in Kent, England, which grew as a port near the Thames Estuary. Formerly a municipal borough in the Faversham parliamentary division of Kent, is two miles south of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, nearby the westward entrance to the Swale, where it joins the River Medway. It is now in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey parliamentary constituency and governed by Swale Borough Council and Queenborough Town Council. Queenborough Harbour offers moorings between the Thames and Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any tide and there are boat builders and chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson, is reputed to have learnt much of his seafaring skills in these waters, and also shared a house near the small harbour with his mistress, the Lady Hamilton.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 1.1 1572-1660 1.2 1660-1832 2 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1572-1660

• 1625: Sir Edward Hales
• 1640-1648: Sir Edward Hales
• 1640: John Wolstenholme
• 1645: Sir Michael Livesey
• 1659: Thomas Bayles

[edit] 1660-1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1660		Sir William Wheler			James Herbert (the elder)
1661		Sir Edward Hales
1677					James Herbert (the younger)
January 1681					William Glanville
February 1681		Gerard Gore
1685		Sir John Godwin			Caleb Banks
1689		Robert Crawford			James Herbert (the younger)
1690					Sir John Banks
1695					Caleb Banks
1696					Thomas King
1705		Sir John Jennings
1708					Henry Withers
1710		Thomas King			James Herbert (the third)
1713					Charles Fotherby
1715					Philip Jennings
1722		James Littleton			John Cope
1723		Viscount Forbes
1727		Sprig Manesty			John Crowley
1728					Sir George Saunders
1729		Richard Evans
1735					Lord Archibald Hamilton
1741					Thomas Newnham
1754		Sir Charles Frederick			Sir Piercy Brett
1774					Sir Walter Rawlinson
1784		John Clater Aldridge			George Bowyer
1790		Gibbs Crawfurd			Richard Hopkins
1793		Augustus Rogers	Tory
1794		John Sargent	Tory
1796					Evan Nepean	Tory
1802		John Prinsep	Whig		George Peter Moore	Whig
March 1806					Sir Samuel Romilly	Whig
October 1806		William Frankland	Whig
1807		Joseph Hunt[1]	Tory		Hon. John Charles Villiers	Tory
1810		Richard Wellesley	Tory
January 1812		Rear Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom	Tory
October 1812					John Osborn	Tory
1818					Hon. Edmund Phipps	Tory
1820		Hon. John Charles Villiers	Tory		George Peter Holford	Tory
1824		Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck	Whig
1826		The Lord Downes of Aghanville	Tory		John Capel	Tory
August 1830[2]		William Holmes	Tory		Sir Philip Charles Henderson Durham	Tory
December 1830		John Capel	Tory		Thomas Gladstone	Tory
1831					Lt General Sir John Colquhoun Grant	Tory
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes

1. ^ Hunt was expelled from the Commons on 23 May 1810
2. ^ At the election of 1830 Holmes and Durham were initially declared to have defeated Capel and Gladstone and took their seats, but on petition the result was reversed. Holmes had also been elected for Haslemere, and sat for that constituency for the rest of the Parliament.

[edit] References

• Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.