St Mawes (UK Parliament constituency)

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St Mawes
Borough constituency
Created: 1562
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

St Mawes 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 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

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[edit] History

The borough consisted of the manor of St Mawes, a decayed fishing port and market town in the west of Cornwall. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a rotten borough from the start.

The right to vote rested with the portreeve and "resident burgesses or free tenants", making it essentially a scot and lot borough (there were 87 voters in 1831), but the control of the "patron" was entirely secure. In practice the patron always worked in close collusion with the Crown, and the members returned were generally court nominees throughout the borough's existence. In the 1760s the Boscawen family (the Viscounts Falmouth) were considered to have the main influence over the choice of one member and Robert Nugent over the other; by the time of the Great Reform Act, the patronage had passed to the Marquess of Buckingham.

In 1831, the borough had a population of 459, and 95 houses.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1562-1660

Long Parliament

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

Third Protectorate Parliament

  • 1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

  • 1659-1660: ?
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[edit] 1660-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
1660 Arthur Spry Sir William Tredenham
1663 Sir Richard Vyvyan
1665 Joseph Tredenham
February 1679 Sidney Godolphin Henry Seymour
September 1679 Sir Joseph Tredenham
1685 Sir Peter Prideaux
1689 Sir Joseph Tredenham
March 1690 Henry Seymour Portman
April 1690 John Tredenham
1695 Seymour Tredenham
1696 Henry Seymour Portman
1698 Sir Joseph Tredenham
1705 Francis Godfrey
1707 John Tredenham
1710 Sir Richard Onslow
1711 John Anstis
1713 Edward Rolt Francis Scobell
1715 William Lowndes John Chetwynd
1722 Sidney Godolphin Samuel Travers
1726 Samuel Molyneux
1727 Henry Vane John Knight
1728 William East
1734 Richard Plumer
1741 Robert Nugent James Douglas
1747 The Lord Sundon
1753 Sir Thomas Clavering
April 1754 Henry Seymour Conway
December 1754 James Newsham
1761 Edmund Nugent Richard Hussey
1768 George Boscawen
1770 Michael Byrne
1772 James Edward Colleton
1774 The Earl Nugent Hugh Boscawen
1784 Sir William Young
1790 John Graves Simcoe
1792 Thomas Calvert
1795 William Drummond
May 1796 George Nugent
October 1796 Jeremiah Crutchley
1802 William Windham
1806 Sir John Newport Scrope Bernard
January 1807 William Shipley
July 1807 Viscount Ebrington
1808 Earl Gower
1809 Scrope Bernard-Morland
1812 William Shipley
1813 Francis Horner
1817 Joseph Phillimore
1826 Sir Codrington Carrington
1830 George Grenville Wandisford Pigott
1831 Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden
1832 Constituency abolished

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[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 E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  • J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page


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