Helston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Helston
Borough constituency
Created: 1298
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: 1298–1832: two
1832–1885: one

Helston was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.

It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election.

Contents

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Before 1660

  • 1572: William Killigrew
  • 1597: William Cooke
  • 1601: William Twysden
  • 1628-1629: Sidney Godolphin

Short Parliament

Long Parliament

  • 1640-1643: Sidney Godolphin (Royalist) - killed in battle, February 1643
  • 1640-1644: Francis Godolphin (Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
  • 1645(?)-1648: John Penrose - not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
  • 1645(?)-1648: John Thomas - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648

Helston was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate

Third Protectorate Parliament

  • 1659: Thomas Juxon

Long Parliament (restored)

  • 1659-1660: ?
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[edit] 1660-1832

Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
April 1660 Anthony Rous Alexander Penhellick
July 1660 Thomas Robinson Francis Godolphin
1661 Sir Peter Killigrew
1665 Sir William Godolphin
1668 Sidney Godolphin Tory
Feb 1679 Sir Vyell Vyvyan
Sep 1679 Sidney Godolphin Tory
1681 Charles Godolphin
1685 Sidney Godolphin
1689 Sir John St. Aubyn
1695 Francis Godolphin
1698 Sidney Godolphin
1701 Francis Godolphin[1]
1708 John Evelyn
Oct 1710 George Granville
Dec 1710 Robert Child
1713 Henry Campion Charles Coxe
1714 Thomas Tonkin Alexander Pendarves
1715 Sir Gilbert Heathcote Whig Sidney Godolphin
1722 Sir Robert Raymond Walter Carey
1724 Sir Clement Wearg
1726 Exton Sayer
1727 John Evelyn John Harris
1741 Francis Godolphin Thomas Walker
1747 John Evelyn
1766 William Windham
1767 William Evelyn
1768 The Earl of Clanbrassil
1774 The Marquess of Carmarthen Francis Owen
1775 Francis Cockayne Cust Philip Yorke
1780 Jocelyn Dean
March 1781 Richard Barwell
June 1781 Lord Hyde
1784 John Rogers
1786 Roger Wilbraham
1787 James Bland Burges
1790 Gilbert Elliot Stephen Lushington [2]
1795 Charles Abbot
1796 Richard Richards
1799 Lord Francis Osborne
1802 James Harris John Penn
1804 Davies Giddy
1805 Viscount Primrose
April 1806 Sir John Shelley
November 1806 Nicholas Vansittart [3] John Du Ponthieu
January 1807 Thomas Brand
May 1807 Sir John St Aubyn Richard Richards
July 1807 The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye
1812 William Horne Hugh Hammersley
1818 Lord James Townshend Harrington Hudson
1820 The Marquess of Carmarthen
1830 Sir Samuel Brooke-Pechell
1831 Sackville Walter Lane-Fox
1832 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1832-1885

Election Member Party
1832 Representation reduced to one member
1832 Sackville Walter Lane-Fox Conservative
1835 Lord James Townshend Conservative
1837 Viscount Cantelupe Conservative
1840 John Basset Conservative
1841 Sir Richard Vyvyan Conservative
1857 Charles Trueman Liberal
1859 John Jope Rogers[4] Conservative
1865 Adolphus William Young Liberal
1866[5] Robert Campbell Liberal
Sir William Brett Conservative
1868 Adolphus William Young Liberal
1880 William Napleton Molesworth-St.Aubyn Conservative
1885 constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Styled Viscount Rialton from 1706
  2. ^ Sir Stephen Lushington from 1791
  3. ^ Vansittart was also elected for Old Sarum, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
  4. ^ Marchant, E. C. (1897). Rogers, John (1778–1856), divine, by E. C. Marchant (HTML). Dictionary of National Biography Vol. IL. Smith, Elder & Co.. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
  5. ^ At the Helston by-election, 1866, both candidates polled exactly the same number of votes. The mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote for the Liberal candidate Robert Campbell. As this vote was given after four o'clock, however, an appeal was lodged, and the House of Commons declared that the returning officer had no right to a casting vote, and that he should have returned the names of both tied candidates. On scrutiny of the votes, one vote was struck off Campbell's total, and the Conservative candidate Sir William Baliol Brett declared duly elected.

[edit] Elections

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[edit] References

  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • 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
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