Aldeburgh (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Aldeburgh Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1571 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Aldeburgh was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessor bodies.
The town was enfranchised in 1571 as a borough constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, 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 burgesses. The constituency was abolished in 1832 as a rotten borough.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency comprised the parliamentary borough of Aldeburgh, in the county of Suffolk in Eastern England.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1571-1640
- 1604-1611: Sir William Woodhouse
- 1604-1611: Thomas Rivett
- 1614: Sir William Woodhouse
- 1614: Sir Henry Glemham
- 1621-1622: Sir Henry Glemham
- 1621-1622: Charles Glemham
- 1624: John Bence
- 1625-1626: Sir Thomas Glemham
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
[edit] 1640-1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| November 1640 | William Rainsborough | Parliamentarian | Alexander Bence | Parliamentarian | ||
| 1642 | Squire Bence | |||||
| November 1648 | Squire Bence died, November 1648 - seat vacant | |||||
| December 1648 | Alexander Bence excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Aldeburgh was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
| January 1659 | Laurence Oxburgh | John Bence | ||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Sir Robert Brooke | Thomas Bacon | ||||
| 1661 | Sir John Holland | |||||
| 1669 | John Bence | |||||
| February 1679 | Sir Richard Haddock | Henry Johnson | ||||
| August 1679 | John Bence | John Corrance | ||||
| 1685 | Sir Henry Bedingfield | |||||
| 1689 | Sir Henry Johnson | William Johnson | ||||
| 1718 | Samuel Lowe | |||||
| 1719 | Walter Plumer | |||||
| 1727 | William Windham | |||||
| 1730 | Sir John Williams | |||||
| 1732 | Captain George Purvis | |||||
| 1734 | William Conolly | |||||
| March 1741 | Francis Gashry | |||||
| May 1741 | Richard Plumer | |||||
| 1747 | William Windham | Zachary Philip Fonnereau | ||||
| 1761 | Philip Fonnereau | |||||
| 1768 | Nicholas Linwood | |||||
| 1773 | Thomas Fonnereau | |||||
| 1774 | Richard Combe | |||||
| 1779 | Martyn Fonnereau | |||||
| 1780 | Philip Champion Crespigny | |||||
| 1784 | Samuel Salt | |||||
| 1790 | Lord Grey of Groby | Thomas Grenville | ||||
| 1796 | Sir John Aubrey | Whig | Michael Angelo Taylor | Whig | ||
| 1800 | George Johnstone | |||||
| 1802 | John McMahon | Tory | ||||
| 1812 | Sandford Graham | |||||
| 1812 | The Lord Dufferin & Claneboye | Tory | Andrew Strahan | Tory | ||
| 1818 | Samuel Walker | Tory | Joshua Walker | Tory | ||
| 1820 | James Blair | Tory | ||||
| 1826 | John Wilson Croker | Tory | ||||
| 1827 | Wyndham Lewis | Tory | ||||
| February 1829 | Marquess of Douro | Tory | ||||
| May 1829 | Spencer Horsey Kilderbee | Tory | ||||
| 1830 | John Wilson Croker | Tory | ||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | |||||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [2]
- Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
