East Grinstead (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Grinstead
Borough constituency
Created: 1307, 1885
Abolished: 1832, 1983
Type: House of Commons

East Grinstead was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. In its first spell of existence it returned two members of Parliament, but when it was revived in 1885, it returned only one member.

Upon its abolition in 1983, its territory was most divided between Mid Sussex and Wealden.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year First member Second member
1660 Marmaduke Gresham George Courthope
1661 Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst
1675 Edward Sackville
1678 Thomas Pelham
February 12, 1679 Edward Sackville
April 7, 1679 Henry Powle
April 19, 1679 Sir Thomas Littleton, Bt
August 19, 1679 Goodwin Wharton William Jephson
1681 Sir Cyril Wyche Henry Powle
1685 Simon Smith Thomas Jones
1689 Sir Thomas Dyke Thomas Sackville
1693 Simon Smith
February 1695 Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery
November 1695 John Conyers
1698 Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery
January 1701 Matthew Prior
November 1701 Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery
1702 John Toke
1708 Richard Lumley, Viscount Lumley Henry Campion
1710 John Conyers Leonard Gale
1713 Spencer Compton
1715 Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
March 1722 Sir Spencer Compton
November 1722 Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
1725 Edward Conyers
1727 Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston
1734 Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex Edward Conyers
1741 Sir Whistler Webster
1742 John Butler
1747 Sydney Smythe
1751 Joseph Yorke
March 1761 Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex Lord George Sackville
December 1761 Sir Thomas Hales
1762 John Irwin
1765 Sir Charles Farnaby
1767 Lord George Sackville
1782 Henry Arthur Herbert
1783 George Medley
1786 James Cuninghame
1788 Robert Cuninghame
1789 Richard Ford
1790 Nathaniel Dance William Hamilton Nisbet
1796 James Strange
1802 Sir Henry Strachey Nathaniel Giles
1807 Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt. Charles Rose Ellis
January 1812 Richard Wellesley
March 1812 George Gunning
June 1812 Nicholas Vansittart
October 1812 George Gunning James Stephen
1815 Sir George Johnstone Hope
May 1818 Charles Gordon, Baron Strathavon
June 1818 Lord Charles Jenkinson
1829 William Pitt Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale
1830 Frederick Richard West


[edit] Elections

[edit] References


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