East Retford (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Retford
Borough constituency
Created: 1572
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

East Retford was a parliamentary constituency in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons for the first time in 1316, and continuously from 1572 until 1885, when the constituency was abolished. Although East Retford was technically a parliamentary borough for the whole of its existence, in 1830 its franchise had been widened and its boundaries had been extended to include the whole Wapentake of Bassetlaw as a remedy for corruption among the voters, and from that point onward it resembled a county constituency in most respects.

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[edit] History

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1572-1640

  • 1584-1587: Denzel Holles
  • 1604-1611: Sir John Thornhagh
  • 1604-1611: Sir Thomas Darrel
  • 1621-1622: Sir Nathaniel Rich
  • 1621-1622: Edward Wortley
  • 1623-1626: John Holles [1]
  • 1624-1626: Sir Francis Wortley
  • 1628-1629: Sir Edward Osborne
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[edit] 1640-1885

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 Viscount Mansfield Royalist Sir Gervase Clifton Royalist
1644 Mansfield and Clifton disabled from sitting - both seats vacant
1646 Francis Thornhagh Sir William Lister
November 1648 Thornhaugh died - seat vacant
December 1648 Edward Nevill Lister excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 East Retford was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Edward Nevill Thomas Bristow
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
1660 Sir William Hickman The Earl of Kildare
1661 Clifford Clifton
1670 Sir Edward Dering
1679 Sir Edward Nevill
1685 John Millington
1689 Hon. Evelyn Pierrepont John Thornhagh
1690 Richard Taylor
1698 Sir Willoughby Hickman
January 1701 Thomas White
April 1701 Sir Willoughby Hickman
December 1701 Thomas White
1702 Sir Willoughby Hickman William Levinz
1706 Sir Hardolph Wastneys Robert Molesworth
1708 William Levinz Thomas White
1710 [2] Thomas Westby
1711 Willoughby Hickman Bryan Cooke
April 1713 Francis Lewis
August 1713 John Digby
1715 Thomas White
1722 Patrick Chaworth
1727 Sir Robert Clifton
1733 John White
1741 William Mellish
1751 John Shelley
1768 Sir Cecil Wray John Offley
1774 Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton [3]
1775 William Hanger
1778 Lord John Pelham-Clinton
1780 Wharton Amcotts
1781 Earl of Lincoln
1790 Sir John Ingilby
1794 Lt Colonel William Henry Clinton
1796 William Petrie Sir Wharton Amcotts
1802 Lt Colonel Robert Craufurd John Jaffray
1806 Major General Charles Craufurd Thomas Hughan
1807 William Ingilby
1812 George Osbaldston Charles Marsh
1818 William Evans Samuel Crompton
1826 William Battie-Wrightson Sir Robert Dundas
1830 Viscount Newark Whig Arthur Duncombe Tory
1831 Granville Harcourt Vernon Whig
1835 Arthur Duncombe Conservative
1837 Conservative
1847 The Viscount Galway Conservative
1852 Hon. William Duncombe Conservative
1857 Francis John Savile Foljambe Liberal
1876 William Beckett Denison Conservative
1880 Frederick Thorpe Mappin Liberal
1885 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Bore the courtesy title Lord Haughton from 1624
  2. ^ At the election of 1710 Westby and White were initially declared elected, but on petition (in a dispute over the franchise) they were both declared not to have been duly elected
  3. ^ Pelham-Clinton was also elected for Westminster, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for East Retford in this Parliament

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

  • Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
  • 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) [2]
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.
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