Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1584 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Yarmouth was a borough 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 Members of Parliament until 1832.
The constituency was included in the new County constituency of Isle of Wight from 1832.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1584-1660
- 1604: Thomas Cheeke
- 1614: Sir Thomas Cheeke
- 1640: William Oglander
- 1640: John Bulkeley
- 1640-1653: Viscount L'Isle (Parliamentarian)
- 1640-1648: Sir John Leigh (Parliamentarian) - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648
Yarmouth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
- 1659: John Sadler
- 1659: ?
Long Parliament (restored)
- 1659-1660: Sir John Leigh
- 1659-1660: Viscount L'Isle
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[edit] 1660-1832
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| 1660 | Sir John Leigh | Richard Lucy | ||||
| 1661 | Edward Smythe | |||||
| 1678 | Thomas Lucy | |||||
| February 1679 | Sir Richard Mason | |||||
| August 1679 | Thomas Wyndham | |||||
| 1681 | Lemuel Kingdon | Sir Thomas Littleton[1] | ||||
| 1685 | Thomas Wyndham | William Hewer | ||||
| 1689 | Sir Robert Holmes | Fitton Gerard | ||||
| 1690 | Sir John Trevor[2] | Charles Duncombe | Tory | |||
| April 1695 | Henry Holmes | |||||
| November 1695 | Anthony Morgan | |||||
| 1710 | Sir Gilbert Dolben | |||||
| 1715[3] | Sir Robert Raymond | Tory | ||||
| 1717 | Colonel Anthony Morgan | Sir Theodore Janssen[4] | ||||
| 1721 | William Plumer | |||||
| 1722 | Thomas Stanwix | |||||
| 1725 | Maurice Morgan | |||||
| 1727 | Paul Burrard | |||||
| 1733 | Maurice Bocland | |||||
| 1734 | Lord Harry Powlett[5] | Whig | ||||
| 1736 | Thomas Gibson | |||||
| 1737 | Anthony Chute | |||||
| 1741 | Maurice Bocland | |||||
| 1744 | Robert Carteret | |||||
| 1747 | Thomas Holmes[6] | Whig | Henry Holmes | |||
| 1762 | Jeremiah Dyson | Tory | ||||
| 1765 | John Eames | |||||
| 1768[7] | William Strode | Jervoise Clarke | ||||
| 1769 | Thomas Dummer | Hon. George Lane Parker | ||||
| 1774 | Jervoise Clarke Jervoise | Edward Meux Worsley | ||||
| 1775 | James Worsley | |||||
| 1779 | Robert Kingsmill | |||||
| 1780 | Edward Morant | Edward Rushworth | ||||
| 1781 | Sir Thomas Rumbold | |||||
| 1784 | Philip Francis | |||||
| 1787 | Thomas Clarke Jervoise | |||||
| 1790 | Edward Rushworth | |||||
| 1791 | Sir John Fleming Leicester | Jervoise Clarke Jervoise | Whig | |||
| 1796 | Edward Rushworth | |||||
| 1797 | William Peachy | |||||
| 1802 | James Patrick Murray | |||||
| February 1803 | Charles Macdonnell | |||||
| October 1803 | Henry Swann | Tory | ||||
| February 1804 | John Delgarno | |||||
| March 1804 | Sir Home Riggs Popham | |||||
| January 1806 | David Scott | |||||
| November 1806 | Thomas William Plummer | |||||
| May 1807 | Hon. William Orde-Powlett | |||||
| August 1807 | Admiral Sir John Orde | |||||
| January 1808 | Benjamin Cooke Griffinhoofe | |||||
| April 1808 | John Delgarno | |||||
| June 1808 | Viscount Valentia | |||||
| 1810 | Thomas Myers | |||||
| 1812 | Richard Wellesley | Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery | ||||
| 1816 | John Leslie Foster | Tory | ||||
| 1817 | Alexander Maconochie | Tory | ||||
| March 1818 | John Singleton Copley | Tory | ||||
| June 1818 | John Taylor | Tory | William Mount | Tory | ||
| 1819 | Sir Peter Pole | Tory | John Wilson Croker | Tory | ||
| 1820 | Theodore Henry Broadhead | Tory | ||||
| 1821 | Theodore Henry Lavington Broadhead[8] | Tory | ||||
| 1826 | Lord Binning | Tory | Joseph Phillimore | Tory | ||
| 1827 | Thomas Wallace | Tory | ||||
| 1830 | William Yates Peel | Tory | George Lowther Thompson | Tory | ||
| 1831 | Sir Henry Pollard Willoughby | Whig | Charles Compton Cavendish | Whig | ||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | |||||
Notes
- ^ Died April 1681
- ^ Expelled from the House of Commons for accepting a bribe
- ^ At the election of 1715, Raymond and Holmes were declared to have defeated Morgan and Janssen, but on petition the result was reversed
- ^ Expelled from the House of Commons on 30 January 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
- ^ Powlett was also elected for Hampshire in a disputed election. He sat for Yarmouth until 1737 when the petition against the Hampshire result was withdrawn, then chose to represent rather than Yarmouth for the remainder of the Parliament
- ^ Created The Lord Holmes (in the peerage of Ireland) in 1760
- ^ At the election of 1768, Strode and Clarke were declared to have defeated Dummer and Parker, but on petition the result was reversed
- ^ Broadhead later adopted the surname Brinckman
[edit] Elections
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- 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)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
