Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lostwithiel
Borough constituency
Created: 1304
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons
Members: Two

Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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[edit] History

The borough consisted of the town of Lostwithiel and part of the neighbouring Lanlivery parish; it was a market town whose trade was mainly dependent on the copper mined nearby.

Unlike many of the most notorious Cornish rotten boroughs, Lostwithiel had been continuously represented since the middle ages and was originally of sufficient size to justify its status. However, by the time of the Great Reform Act it had long been a pocket borough, under the complete control of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe since 1702. The right to vote was vested in the corporation, who numbered 24 in 1816; they made no attempt to defy their patron, who regularly paid the corporation's debts and advanced them money.

In 1831, the borough had a population of 1,047, and 303 houses.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1304-1660

  • 1553: John Courtenay
  • 1597: William Cornwallis
  • 1621-1622: George Chudleigh
  • 1624-1625: John Hobart
  • 1625: Sir George Chudleigh
  • 1625: Sir Reginald Mohun

Long Parliament


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

Third Protectorate Parliament

  • 1659: John Clayton
  • 1659: Walter Moyle

Long Parliament (restored)

  • 1659-1660: ?
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[edit] 1660-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
1660 Walter Moyle John Clayton
1661 Sir Chichester Wrey John Bulteel
1668 Charles Smythe
1670 Silius Titus
1679 Sir John Carew Walter Kendall
1685 Sir Robert Southwell Sir Matthias Vincent
1689 Francis Robartes Walter Kendall
1690 Sir Bevil Granville
1695 Bernard Granville Samuel Travers
1698 George Booth
January 1701 Sir John Molesworth John Buller
April 1701 George Booth
1702 Russell Robartes
1705 Robert Molesworth
1706 James Kendall
1708 Joseph Addison
1709 Francis Robartes Russell Robartes
January 1710 Horatio Walpole
October 1710 John Hill Tory Hugh Fortescue
1713 Sir Thomas Clarges Erasmus Lewis
1715 Galfridus Walpole Thomas Liddell
1718 Edward Eliot
1720 John Newsham
1721 Marquess of Hartington[1]
1722 Lord Stanhope
1724 Sir Orlando Bridgeman[2] Henry Parsons
January 1727 Hon. Sir William Stanhope
August 1727 Darrell Trelawny
1728 Anthony Cracherode Sir Edward Knatchbull
1730 Edward Walpole
1734 Richard Edgcumbe Philip Lloyd
1735 Matthew Ducie Moreton
1736 Sir John Crosse
1741 Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton
1747 Richard Edgcumbe James Edward Colleton
1754 Thomas Clarke
1761 George Howard
1766 Viscount Beauchamp
1768 Henry Cavendish Charles Brett
1774 Viscount Fairford
1776 Thomas Potter
September 1780 Hon. John St. John[3] Hon. Thomas de Grey
December 1780 Commodore George Johnstone Independent
1781 Viscount Malden
1784 John Sinclair[4] John Thomas Ellis
1790 Viscount Valletort[5] Reginald Pole Carew
1791 George Smith
1796 Hans Sloane William Drummond
1802 William Dickinson [6]
1806 The Viscount Lismore
January 1807 Charles Cockerell
May 1807 George Peter Holford Ebenezer Maitland
1812 Reginald Pole-Carew John Ashley Warre
1816 Viscount Valletort Tory
1818 Sir Robert Wigram Tory Sir Alexander Cray Grant[7] Tory
June 1826 Viscount Valletort Tory
December 1826 Edward Cust Tory
August 1830 Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald Tory
December 1830 Viscount Valletort Tory
1832 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Hartington was re-elected in 1722 but was also elected for Grampound, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1722 Parliament
  2. ^ Bridgeman was re-elected in August 1727 but was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1727 Parliament
  3. ^ St. John was also elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel
  4. ^ Created a baronet as Sir John Sinclair, February 1786
  5. ^ Valletort was also elected for Fowey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel
  6. ^ Dickinson was re-elected in 1806 but had also been elected for Somerset, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lostwithiel
  7. ^ Grant was re-elected in June 1826 but was also elected for Aldborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1826 Parliament

[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)
  • Lewis Namier, "The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III" (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1961)
  • J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page


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