Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Gloucestershire County constituency |
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Created: | 1290 |
Abolished: | 1832 |
Type: | House of Commons |
Members: | two |
The constituency of Gloucestershire was a UK Parliamentary constituency abolished under the 1832 Electoral Reform Act. After it was abolished, two new constituencies, West Gloucestershire and East Gloucestershire, were created.
Gloucestershire 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.
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The constituency consisted of the historic county of Gloucestershire, excluding the part of the city of Bristol in the geographical county. Bristol had the status of a county of itself after 1373. Although Gloucestershire contained a number of other parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Gloucestershire was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency. Owning property within such boroughs could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Bristol.
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Roman numerals are used to differentiate MPs with the same name, who are not holders of a title with different succession numbers. It is not suggested that the people involved would have used roman numerals in this way.
[edit] 1290-1640
Constituency created (1290)
[edit] 1640-1832
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1640, April | unknown | unknown | ||||
1640, November | Nathaniel Stephens | Parliamentarian | John Dutton 1 | Royalist | ||
c. 1644 | Sir John Seymour 2 | Parliamentarian | ||||
Gloucestershire's representation was increased to 3 nominated MPs in Barebones Parliament | ||||||
1653 | John Crofts; William Neast; Robert Holmes | |||||
Gloucestershire's representation was increased to 5 elected MPs in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
1654 | George Berkeley; Matthew Hale; John How; Christopher Guise; Sylvanus Wood | |||||
1656 | George Berkeley; John Howe; John Crofts; Baynham Throckmorton; William Neast | |||||
Gloucestershire's representation was decreased to 2 MPs in the Third Parliament of the Protectorate and thereafter | ||||||
1659, January | John Grobham Howe I | John Stephens | ||||
1659, May | unknown | unknown | ||||
1660, April 18 | Edward Stephens | Matthew Hale | ||||
1661, April 17 | John Grobham Howe I | Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Bt 3 | ||||
1664, December 21 | Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Bt | |||||
1679, February 26 | Sir John Guise, 2nd Bt | Sir Ralph Dutton, Bt | ||||
1685, March 18 | Marquess of Worcester | Sir Robert Atkyns | ||||
1689, January 18 | Sir John Guise, 2nd Bt | Whig | Sir Ralph Dutton, Bt | Whig | ||
1695, December 11 | Thomas Stephens I | Whig | ||||
1698, August 3 | John Grobham Howe II | Tory | Sir Richard Cocks, Bt | Whig | ||
1701, December 3 | Maynard Colchester | Whig | ||||
1702, August 6 | John Grobham Howe II | Tory | ||||
1705, May 16 | Sir John Guise, 3rd Bt | Whig | ||||
1708, May 12 | Matthew Ducie Moreton | Whig | ||||
1710, October 25 | John Symes Berkeley | Tory | ||||
1713, September 23 | Thomas Stephens II | Whig | ||||
1715, February 9 | Matthew Ducie Moreton | Whig | ||||
1720, March 30 | Henry Berkeley | |||||
1720, June 22 | Edmund Bray | |||||
1722, March 28 | Kinard de la Bere | |||||
1727, September 6 | Sir John Dutton, Bt | |||||
1734, May 8 | Thomas Chester | Benjamin Bathurst | ||||
1741, May 12 | Norborne Berkeley | |||||
1763, April 27 | Thomas Tracy | |||||
1763, November 23 | Edward Southwell | |||||
1770, August 6 | Sir William Guise, Bt | |||||
1776, May 6 | William Bromley-Chester | Tory 4 | ||||
1781, January 24 | James Dutton | |||||
1783, April 28 | Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley | Whig 5 | ||||
1784, April 12 | Thomas Master | Tory 5 | ||||
1796, June 2 | Marquess of Worcester | Tory | ||||
1803, November 14 | Lord (Robert) Edward Henry Somerset | Tory | ||||
1810, May 18 | Viscount Dursley | |||||
1811, February 7 | Sir Berkeley Guise, Bt | Whig | ||||
1831, May 10 | Hon. Henry George Francis Moreton | Whig | ||||
Constituency abolished (1832) |
Notes:-
- 1 Dutton was disabled from sitting for adhering to the King and joining the King's Oxford Parliament, c. 1644.
- 2 Seymour was excluded from Parliament by the Army, c. 1648.
- 3 Father of the Baynham Throckmorton elected in 1656 and 1664.
- 4 Stooks Smith classifies Bromley-Chester as Tory in the 1776 by-election, but gives no label in subsequent elections.
- 5 Stooks Smith classifies Berkeley as Whig in the 1776 by-election (which he lost), but gives no label in subsequent elections before the general election of 1790. Both Berkeley and Master are classified by party from 1790.
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
- The House of Commons 1690-1715, by Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D.W. Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002)
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973))
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page