Malmesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Malmesbury
Borough constituency
Created: 1295
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two (1295-1832); one (1832-1885)

Malmesbury was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

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[edit] History

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

  • 1604-1611: Sir Roger Dallyson
  • 1604-1611: Sir Thomas Dallyson
  • 1621-1622: Sir Henry Poole
  • 1621-1622: Sir Edward Warder
  • 1624-1625: Thomas Hatton
  • 1625-1629: Sir Henry Moody
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 Anthony Hungerford Royalist  ?
November 1640 Sir Neville Poole Parliamentarian
June 1644 Hungerford disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 Sir John Danvers
December 1648 Poole excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Malmesbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Sir Henry Lee Thomas Higgons
May 1659 Malmesbury was not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Robert Danvers Sir Francis Henry Lee
1661 Lawrence Washington
1662 Philip Howard
1668 Sir Edward Poole
1673 Thomas Estcourt
1679 Sir William Estcourt Sir James Long
1685 Sir Thomas Estcourt John Fitzherbert
1689 Thomas Tollemache Charles Godfrey
1690 Goodwin Wharton Sir James Long
1692 George Booth
1695 Craven Howard
1696 Sir Thomas Skipwith
1698 Michael Wicks Edward Pauncefort
January 1701 Samuel Shepheard
November 1701 Sir Charles Hedges
1702 Thomas Boucher
1705 Thomas Farrington Henry Mordaunt
1710 Joseph Addison Whig
1713 Sir John Rushout
1719 Fleetwood Dormer
March 1722 [1] The Viscount Hillsborough
December 1722 Giles Earle John Fermor
1723 Charles Stewart
1727 William Rawlinson Earle
1747 John Lee James Douglas
1751 Edward Digby
1754 Lord George Bentinck Brice Fisher
1759 Thomas Conolly
1761 The Earl Tylney
1768 The Earl of Donegall Hon. Thomas Howard
1774 Hon. Charles James Fox Whig William Strahan Tory
September 1780 Viscount Lewisham Viscount Fairford
November 1780 John Calvert
1784 The Viscount Melbourne Viscount Maitland
February 1790 Paul Benfield
June 1790 Benjamin Bond-Hopkins
1792 Alderman Sir James Sanderson [2]
1794 Francis Glanville
May 1796 Samuel Smith [3] Peter Isaac Thellusson
November 1796 Philip Metcalfe
1802 Claude Scott Samuel Scott
1806 Robert Ladbroke Nicholas Ridley-Colborne
1807 Sir George Bowyer Philip Gell
1810 Abel Smith
1812 William Hicks-Beach Sir Charles Saxton
1813 Peter Patten
1817 Sir William Abdy
1818 (Sir) Charles Forbes [4] Kirkman Finlay
1820 William Leake
1826 John Forbes
1832 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1885

Year Member Party
1832 Viscount Andover Whig
1841 Hon. James Howard Whig
1852 Thomas Luce Whig
1859 Viscount Andover Liberal
1868 Walter Powell Conservative
1882 Charles William Miles Conservative
1885 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ On petition, the result of the election of 1722 was overturned, Rushout and Hillsborough being declared not to have been duly elected
  2. ^ Created a baronet, December 1794
  3. ^ Smith was also elected for Leicester, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Malmesbury
  4. ^ Created a baronet, November 1823

[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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