Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency)

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Marlborough
Borough constituency
Created: 1295
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two (1295-1868); one (1868-1885)

Marlborough was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 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] 1295-1640

  • 1572-1584: Nicholas St John
  • 1604-1611: Lawrence Hyde
  • 1604-1611: Richard Diggs
  • 1621-1622: Sir Walter Devereux
  • 1621-1622: Richard Diggs
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[edit] 1640-1868

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 John Francklyn Parliamentarian Sir Francis Seymour Royalist
1641 Philip Smith Parliamentarian
1645 Charles Fleetwood
1653 Marlborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Charles Fleetwood Marlborough had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Jeremy Sankey
January 1659 Thomas Grove James Hayes
May 1659 Charles Fleetwood Philip Smith
April 1660 Henry Hungerford Jeffrey Daniel
1661 Lord John Seymour
1673 Sir John Elwes
February 1679 Thomas Bennet Edward Goddard
August 1679 Lord Bruce
1685 Sir John Ernle Sir George Willoughby
January 1695 Thomas Bennet
November 1695 William Daniell
1698 The Earl of Ranelagh William Grinfield
January 1701 John Jeffreys
November 1701 Robert Yard
July 1702 Robert Bruce
November 1702 Edward Jeffreys
May 1705 Edward Ashe John Jeffreys
November 1705 Earl of Hertford [1]
May 1708 Robert Bruce
December 1708 Sir Edward Ernle
1710 Lord Bruce
1712 Richard Jones
1713 Gabriel Roberts
1715 Sir William Humphreys Joshua Ward [2]
1717 Gabriel Roberts
March 1722 Earl of Hertford [3]
October 1722 Thomas Gibson
1727 Edward Lisle [4]
1734 Francis Seymour
1737 John Crawley
1741 Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet
1747 John Talbot
1752 Sir John Hynde Cotton, 4th Baronet
1754 Hon. John Ward
1761 Lord Brudenell Colonel the Hon. Robert Brudenell
1762 (Sir) James Long [5] Tory
1768 Hon. James Brudenell
1780 The Earl of Courtown Tory William Woodley
1784 Sir Philip Hales
1790 Major-General the Hon. Thomas Bruce
1793 Earl of Dalkeith
1796 Lord Bruce Hon. James Bruce
1797 Robert Brudenell
1802 James Henry Leigh
1806 Earl of Dalkeith
1807 Viscount Stopford Tory
1810 Hon. Edward Stopford
1814 William Hill
1818 John Wodehouse Lord Brudenell Tory
1826 Earl Bruce Liberal
13 March 1829 Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt Tory
23 March 1829 William John Bankes Tory
1832 Lord Ernest Brudenell-Bruce Conservative Henry Bingham Baring Conservative
1857 Whig Whig
1859 Liberal Liberal
1868 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1868-1885

Year Member Party
1868 Lord Ernest Brudenell-Bruce Liberal
1878 Lord Charles Brudenell-Bruce Liberal
1885 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Hertford was re-elected in 1708, but had also been elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
  2. ^ On petition, Ward was declared not to have been duly elected
  3. ^ Hertford was also elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
  4. ^ Lisle was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for Hampshire; however, the result there was disputed. He continued to sit for Marlborough until the Hampshire petition was withdrawn in 1737, then chose to sit for Hampshire for the rest of the Parliament
  5. ^ Succeeded as baronet and adopted the surname Tylney-Long in 1767

[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]
  • 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 Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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