Great Marlow (UK Parliament constituency)

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Great Marlow
Borough constituency
Created: 1624
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two (1311-1868); one (1868-1885)

Great Marlow, sometimes simply called Marlow, was a parliamentary borough in Buckinghamshire. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons between 1301 and 1307, and again from 1624 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

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[edit] History

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1624-1640

  • 1624-1625: Thomas Cotton
  • 1626: Sir William Hicks
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 John Borlase Royalist Sir William Hicks
November 1640 [1] Gabriel Hippesley
1640 Bulstrode Whitelocke Parliamentarian Peregrine Hoby Parliamentarian
December 1648 Hoby excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Great Marlow was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 William Borlase Peregrine Hoby
May 1659 Bulstrode Whitelocke One seat vacant
April 1660 William Borlase Peregrine Hoby
1666 Charles Cheyne
1679 John Borlase Sir Humphrey Winch
1681 Thomas Hoby
1685 Sir John Borlase Sir Humphrey Winch
January 1689 The Viscount Falkland
February 1689 John Hoby
December 1689 Sir William Whitelock
1690 James Chase
1695 Sir James Etheridge
1710 George Bruere
1715 The Lord Shelburne
1722 Edmund Waller Sir John Guise
1727 John Clavering
1731 George Robinson [2]
1732 Sir Thomas Hoby
1741 Samuel Tufnell
1744 William Ockenden
1747 Merrick Burrell
1754 Charles Churchill Daniel Moore
1761 William Clayton William Mathew Burt
1768 William Dickinson
1774 (Sir) John Borlase Warren [3]
1783 William Clayton
1784 Captain Sir Thomas Rich
1790 Thomas Williams William Lee-Antonie
1796 Owen Williams
1802 Pascoe Grenfell
1826 Thomas Peers Williams Tory
1832 Conservative (Sir) William Clayton [4] Whig
1842 Renn Hampden Conservative
1847 Brownlow William Knox Conservative
1868 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1868-1885

Year Member Party
1868 Thomas Owen Wethered Conservative
1880 Owen Lewis Cope Williams Conservative
1885 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ The election of Borlase and Hippesley to the Long Parliament were declared void
  2. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons
  3. ^ Created a baronet, 1775
  4. ^ Succeeded as baronet, January 1834. Clayton was initially declared re-elected by 1 vote in 1841, but on petition and after scrutiny his election was declared void and his opponent, Hampden, was declared elected instead

[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]
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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