Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Devon
County constituency
Created: 1290
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

Devon is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a 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 Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of North Devon and South Devon in 1832.

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The constituency consisted of the historic county of Devon, excluding the city of Exeter which had the status of a county in its itself after 1537. (Although Devon contained a number of other parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Devon was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Exeter.)

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1290-1640

Constituency created (1290)

  • 1571: Peter Edgcumbe
  • 1584-1587: Walter Raleigh
  • 1601: Edward Seymour
  • 1604-1611: Edward Seymour
  • 1604-1611: Sir John Acland
  • 1621-1622: Sir Edward Seymour, Bt
  • 1621-1622: John Drake
  • 1626: John Pole
  • 1628-1629: Sir Francis Drake, Bt
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 Edward Seymour Royalist  ?
November 1640 Thomas Wise [1]
1641 Sir Samuel Rolle [2] Parliamentarian
January 1643 Seymour disabled to sit - seat vacant
1646 Sir Nicholas Martyn
1648 William Morice [3]
December 1648 Morice and Martyn excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant.
1653 Seven nominated members in the Barebones Parliament: George Monck, John Carew, Thomas Saunders,
Christopher Martyn, James Erisey, Francis Rous, Richard Sweet
Devon's representation was increased to 11 MPs in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1654 Thomas Saunders, Robert Rolle, Arthur Upton, Thomas Reynell, William Morice, John Hale,
William Bastard, William Fry, Sir John Northcote, Bt, Henry Hatsell, John Quick
1656 Thomas Saunders, Robert Rolle, Arthur Upton, Thomas Reynell, William Morice, John Hale,
Sir John Northcote, Bt, Captain Henry Hatsell, Sir John Yonge, Edmund Fowell, John Doddridge
January 1659 Sir John Northcote, Bt Robert Rolle
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 George Monck Sir John Northcote, Bt
July 1660 Sir Edward Seymour, Bt
1661 Sir Hugh Pollard, Bt Sir John Rolle
1667 Earl of Torrington
1671 Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt
February 1679 Edward Seymour Tory Sir William Courtenay, Bt
September 1679 Samuel Rolle
1685 Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bt Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt
1689 Francis Courtenay Samuel Rolle
September 1699 Thomas Drewe
January 1701 Sir William Courtenay, Bt
December 1701 Sir John Pole, Bt
1702 Robert Rolle
1710 Sir William Pole John Rolle
1712 Sir William Courtenay, Bt
1713 Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt
1727 John Rolle
1730 Henry Rolle
1736 John Bampfylde
1741 Sir William Courtenay, Bt Theophilus Fortescue
1746 Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, Bt
1747 Sir Richard Bampfylde, Bt
1762 John Parker
1776 John Rolle Walter
1780 John Rolle
1784 John Pollexfen Bastard Tory
1796 Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt
1812 Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, Bt Tory
1816 Edmund Pollexfen Bastard
1818 Viscount Ebrington Whig
1820 Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, Bt Tory
1830 Viscount Ebrington Whig
1831 Lord John Russell Whig
  • Constituency abolished (1832)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Died March 1641
  2. ^ Died December 1647
  3. ^ (Morice may not have taken his seat before being excluded in Pride's Purge
  • 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]
  • J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] Elections

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[edit] See also

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