Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)

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Minehead
Borough constituency
Created: 1563
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

Minehead was a parliamentary borough in Somerset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Contents

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1563-1640

  • 1604-1611: Ambrose Pervill
  • 1604-1611: Sir M Berkeley
  • 1621-1622: Maurice Berkeley
  • 1621-1622: Robert Hopton
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 Alexander Popham Francis Wyndham
November 1640 Sir Francis Popham Parliamentarian Alexander Luttrell [1] Parliamentarian
1642 Thomas Hanham Royalist
January 1644 Hanham disabled from sitting - seat vacant
August 1644 Popham died - seat vacant
1645 Edward Popham Walter Strickland
December 1648 Popham not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653 Minehead was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Colonel Alexander Popham Richard Hutchinson
May 1659 Walter Strickland One seat vacant
1660 Francis Luttrell Charles Pym
1661 Sir Hugh Wyndham
1666 Sir John Malet
1673 Thomas Wyndham
February 1679 Francis Luttrell
September 1679 Thomas Palmer
1685 Nathaniel Palmer
September 1690 John Sanford
October 1690 Alexander Luttrell
1698 Sir Jacob Banks
1708 Sir John Trevelyan
1715 [2] Sir William Wyndham
April 1717 [3] Samuel Edwin Thomas Gage
May 1717 Sir John Trevelyan James Milner
1721 Sir Richard Lane [4]
January 1722 Robert Mansel
March 1722 Thomas Hales
1723 Francis Whitworth
1727 Alexander Luttrell
1737 Sir William Codrington
1739 Thomas Carew
1742 John Periam
1747 Percy Wyndham-O'Brien Charles Whitworth
1754 Daniel Boone
1761 Henry Shiffner The Earl of Thomond
1768 Henry Fownes-Luttrell Sir Charles Whitworth
October 1774 John Fownes Luttrell Tory
December 1774 Thomas Pownall
1780 Francis Fownes-Luttrell
1783 Henry Beaufoy [5]
1784 Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps
1786 Robert Wood
1790 Viscount Parker Tory
1795 Thomas Fownes Luttrell Tory
1796 John Langston Tory
1802 John Patteson Tory
1806 The Lord Rancliffe Whig Sir John Lethbridge Tory
January 1807 John Fownes Luttrell Tory
May 1807 John Denison Tory
1812 John Fownes Luttrell, junior Tory
1816 Henry Fownes Luttrell Tory
1822 John Douglas Tory
1826 James Blair Tory
1830 William Edward Tomline Tory
1831 Viscount Villiers Tory
1832 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Died June 1642
  2. ^ The election of 1715 was declared void on petition, and Wyndham and Trevelyan declared not duly elected. A by-election was held
  3. ^ The by-election of 1717 was declared void on petition (in a dispute over the franchise), and Edwin and Gage declared not duly elected. Trevelyan and Milner were declared elected in their place
  4. ^ Lane was declared not to have been duly elected
  5. ^ Beaufoy was re-elected in 1784, but had also been elected for Great Yarmouth, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Minehead

[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]
  • 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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