Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Hastings Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1366 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.
It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Hastings and Rye constituency.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1366-1640
- 1563-1567: Sir William Daunsell
- 1563-1567: Richard Lyffe
- 1597-1598: Edmund Pelham
- 1604-1611: Sir Edward Hales
- 1604-1611: Sir George Carew [1]
- 1614: Sir Edward Hales
- 1621-1622: James Lasher
- 1621-1622: Samuel Moore
- 1625: Sackville Crowe
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[edit] 1640-1885
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| April 1640 | Sir John Baker | ? | ||||
| November 1640 | John Ashburnham | Royalist | (Sir) Thomas Eversfield | Royalist | ||
| February 1644 | Ashburnham and Eversfield disabled from sitting - both seats vacant | |||||
| 1645 | John Pelham | Roger Gratwick | ||||
| December 1648 | Pelham excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Hastings was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
| January 1659 | Samuel Gott | Nicholas Delves | ||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Sir Denny Ashburnham | Nicholas Delves | ||||
| 1661 | Edmund Waller | |||||
| 1679 | Sir Robert Parker | John Ashburnham | ||||
| 1681 | Thomas Mun | |||||
| 1685 | Sir Denny Ashburnham | John Ashburnham | ||||
| Jan 1689 | Thomas Mun | |||||
| Aug 1689 | John Beaumont | |||||
| 1690 | Peter Gott | |||||
| 1695 | John Pulteney | Robert Austen | ||||
| 1698 | Peter Gott | |||||
| 1701 | John Mounsher | |||||
| 1702 | Hon. William Ashburnham | |||||
| Feb 1710 | John Ashburnham | |||||
| Oct 1710 | Sir William Ashburnham | Sir Joseph Martin | ||||
| 1713 | Archibald Hutcheson | |||||
| 1715 | Henry Pelham | |||||
| 1722 | Sir William Ashburnham | |||||
| 1727 | Thomas Townshend [2] | |||||
| 1728 | Thomas Pelham | |||||
| 1741 | James Pelham | Andrew Stone | Whig | |||
| 1761 | Hon. James Brudenell | William Ashburnham | ||||
| 1768 | Samuel Martin | |||||
| 1774 | Henry Temple | Charles Jenkinson | ||||
| 1780 | John Ord | |||||
| 1784 | John Dawes | John Stanley | ||||
| 1790 | Sir Richard Pepper Arden | |||||
| 1794 | Robert Saunders Dundas | |||||
| 1796 | Sir James Sanderson | Nicholas Vansittart | ||||
| 1798 | William Sturges | |||||
| 1802 | The Lord Glenbervie | George William Gunning | ||||
| 1806 | Sir John Nicholl | Sir William Middleton | ||||
| 1807 | George Canning | Sir Abraham Hume | ||||
| 1812 | James Dawkins | |||||
| 1818 | George Peter Holford | |||||
| 1820 | William Henry John Scott | |||||
| 1826 | Sir William Curtis, Bt. | Sir Charles Wetherell | ||||
| 1826 | John Evelyn Denison | James Law Lushington | ||||
| 1827 | Joseph Planta | |||||
| 1830 | General Sir Henry Fane | |||||
| 1831 | John Ashley Warre | Whig | Frederick North | Whig | ||
| 1835 | Howard Elphinstone | Whig | ||||
| 1837 | Joseph Planta | Conservative | Robert Hollond | Whig | ||
| 1844 | Musgrave Brisco | Conservative | ||||
| 1852 | Patrick Francis Robertson | Conservative | ||||
| 1854 | Frederick North | Whig | ||||
| 1859 | Liberal | Lord Harry Vane | Liberal | |||
| 1864 | Hon. George Waldegrave-Leslie | Liberal | ||||
| 1865 | Patrick Francis Robertson | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | Thomas Brassey | Liberal | Frederick North | Liberal | ||
| 1869 | Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth | Liberal | ||||
| 1880 | Charles James Murray | Conservative | ||||
| 1883 | Henry Bret Ince | Liberal | ||||
| 1885 | Redistribution of Seats Act: representation reduced to one member | |||||
[edit] 1885-1983
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Thomas Brassey | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Wilson Noble | Conservative | |
| 1895 | William Lucas-Shadwell | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Freeman Freeman-Thomas | Liberal | |
| 1906 | Harvey du Cros | Conservative | |
| 1908 | Sir Arthur du Cros | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Laurance Lyon | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1921 | Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1937 | Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Sir Neill Cooper-Key | Conservative | |
| 1970 | Kenneth Warren | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Hastings & Rye | ||
Notes
- ^ Cobbett's Parliamentary History records the second member for Hastings in the 1604 Parliament as being James Lasher, but this seems to be an error; Lasher is mentioned only in the Commons Journal from 1621 while Carew was certainly a member in 1604, and other sources name his constituency as Hastings
- ^ Townshend was also elected for Cambridge University, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Hastings
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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)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
