Saltash (UK Parliament constituency)

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Saltash Borough constituency
Created:	1552
Abolished:	1832
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Saltash, sometimes called Essa, 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 1552 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1552-1660 2.2 1660-1832 3 References

[edit] History

The borough consisted of the town of Saltash, a market town facing Plymouth and Devonport across the Tamar estuary, and the inhabitants by 1831 were mainly fishermen or Devonport dockworkers. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start.

Saltash was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote rested with the tenants of certain specified properties. For a long period in the 18th century, there was a contest for control of the borough between the government and the Buller family of Morval, depending partly on legal uncertainties over the precise number and identity of the burgage properties to which votes were attached. In the 1760s it was considered an entirely secure Admiralty borough, where the naval influence could sway all the voters, but by 1831 the Bullers owned all the tenancies and considered themselves the patrons.

In 1831, the borough had a population of 1,637, and 245 houses.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1552-1660

• 1628-1629: Francis Cottington

Long Parliament

• 1640-1642: Edward Hyde (Royalist) - disabled to sit, August 1642
• 1640-1646: George Parry (Royalist) - died, December 1646
• 1645(?)-1648: John Thynne - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648
• 1647(?)-1648: Henry Wills - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648

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

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

• 1659-1660: ?

[edit] 1660-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1660		Francis Buller			Anthony Buller
1661					John Buller
February 1679		Bernard Granville			Nicholas Courtney
September 1679		William Jennens			Sir John Davie
1681		Bernard Granville
1685		Sir Cyril Wyche			Edmund Waller
1689		Bernard Granville			John Waddon
1690		Sir John Carew			Richard Carew
1691					Narcissus Luttrell
1692		Michael Hill
1695		Francis Buller			Walter Moyle
March 1698		Francis Pengelly
August 1698		John Specott			John Morice
1699		James Buller
January 1701					Alexander Pendarves
March 1701					Thomas Carew
1702		Benjamin Buller
1703		John Rolle
1705		James Buller			Joseph Moyle
May 1708					Alexander Pendarves
December 1708		Sir Cholmeley Dering
1710		Jonathan Elford
1711					Sir William Carew
1713					William Shippen
1715		Shilston Calmady			John Francis Buller
1722		Thomas Swanton			Edward Hughes
1723		Philip Lloyd
1727		Lord Glenorchy
1734					Thomas Corbett
1741		John Clevland
1743		Stamp Brooksbank
July 1747		Edward Boscawen
December 1747		Stamp Brooksbank
1751					George Brydges Rodney
1754		Viscount Duncannon			George Clinton
1756		Charles Townshend
1761		John Clevland			George Adams
1763		Hon. Augustus John Hervey
1768		Martin Bladen Hawke			Thomas Bradshaw
1772					John Williams
1772					Thomas Bradshaw
1774		Grey Cooper
1775					Sir Charles Whitworth
1778					Henry Strachey
1780					Charles Jenkinson
1784		Charles Ambler
1786					The Earl of Mornington
1787					John Lemon
1790		Edward Bearcroft			Viscount Garlies
1795					William Stewart
May 1796					The Lord Macdonald
December 1796		Charles Smith
1802		Matthew Russell			Robert Deverell
1806					Arthur Champernowne
February 1807		Hon. Richard Neville			William Henry Fremantle
May 1807		Matthew Russell			John Pedley
1809					Michael George Prendergast
1818					James Blair
March 1820					Michael George Prendergast
June 1820					John Fleming
1822		William Russell
June 1826		Andrew Spottiswoode			Henry Monteith
December 1826					Colin Macaulay
1830		Earl of Darlington			John Gregson
February 1831					Philip Cecil Crampton
May 1831		Frederick Villiers			Bethell Walrond
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes

[edit] References

• 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)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page