Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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Sudbury Borough constituency
Created:	1559
Abolished:	1844
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Sudbury County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Sudbury was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. A parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1559 until it was disenfranchised for corruption in 1844. The Sudbury election of 1835, which Charles Dickens reported for the Morning Chronicle, is thought by many experts to be the inspiration for the famous Eatanswill election in his novel Pickwick Papers.

A county constituency of the same name was established by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, electing one MP by the first past the post voting system. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1559-1640 2.2 1640-1844 2.3 1885-1950 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1559-1640

• 1604-1611: Sir T Beckingham
• 1604-1611: Thomas Eden, junior
• 1614: Robert Crane
• 1614: Henry Binge
• 1621-1622: Edward Osburne
• 1621-1622: Brampton Gurdon
• 1624-1625: Robert Crane
• 1628-1629: Sir Robert Crane

[edit] 1640-1844

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
April 1640		Sir Robert Crane	Parliamentarian		?
November 1640					(Sir) Simonds d'Ewes [1]	Parliamentarian
February 1643	Crane died - seat left vacant
1645		Brampton Gurdon
December 1648				D'Ewes ceased sitting after Pride's Purge
1653	Sudbury was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		John Fothergill		Sudbury had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
January 1659					Samuel Hassel
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		John Gurdon			Joseph Brand
1661		Thomas Waldegrave			Isaac Appleton
1662					Sir Robert Cordell
1677		Sir Gervase Elwes
February 1679		Gervase Elwes
September 1679					Sir Gervase Elwes
1685		Sir John Cordell			Sir George Wenyeve
1689		Sir John Poley			Philip Gurdon
February 1690		John Robinson
October 1690					Sir Thomas Barnardiston
1698		Samuel Kekewich
1699					John Gurdon
1700		Sir Gervase Elwes
January 1701					Sir John Cordell
December 1701					Joseph Haskin Stiles
1703					George Dashwood
1705					Philip Skippon
1706		Sir Hervey Elwes
1710		John Mead			Lieutenant-General Robert Echlin
1713		Sir Hervey Elwes
1715					Thomas Western
1722		John Knight			Colonel William Windham
1727					Carteret Leathes
January 1734		Richard Jackson
April 1734		Richard Price			Edward Stephenson
1741		Thomas Fonnereau			Carteret Leathes
1747					Richard Rigby
1754					Thomas Walpole
1761					John Henniker
1768		(Sir) Patrick Blake [2]			(Sir) Walden Hanmer [3]
1774 [4]		Thomas Fonnereau			Philip Champion Crespigny
1775		Sir Patrick Blake			Sir Walden Hanmer
1780					Philip Champion Crespigny [5]
1781					Sir James Marriott
1784		William Smith			John Langston
1790		John Coxe Hippisley			Thomas Champion Crespigny
1796		William Smith			Sir James Marriott
1802		Sir John Coxe Hippisley			John Pytches
1807					Emanuel Felix Agar
1812					Charles Wyatt
1818		William Heygate			John Broadhurst
1820					Charles Augustus Tulk
1826		John Wilks			Bethel Walrond
1828		John Norman Macleod
1830		Sir John Benn Walsh	Tory
1831					Digby Cayley Wrangham
1832			Conservative		Michael Angelo Taylor	Whig
1834					Sir Edward Barnes [6]	Conservative
1835		John Bagshaw	Whig		Benjamin Smith	Whig
July 1837		Sir James John Hamilton	Conservative		Sir Edward Barnes	Conservative
December 1837		Joseph Bailey	Conservative
1838					Sir John Benn Walsh	Conservative
1840					George Tomline	Conservative
1841 [7]		Frederick Meynell Villiers	Whig		David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre	Whig
29 July 1844	Constituency disfranchised for corruption and incorporated into Western Suffolk

[edit] 1885-1950

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir William Quilter, Bt.	Liberal Unionist
	1906	William Charles Heaton-Armstrong	Liberal
	1910	Sir Cuthbert Quilter	Conservative
	1918	Stephen Goodwin Howard	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Herbert Mercer	Conservative
	1923	John Frederick Loverseed	Liberal
	1924	Henry Walter Burton	Conservative
	1945	Roland Hamilton	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Notes

1. ^ Created a baronet, July 1641
2. ^ Created a baronet, September 1772
3. ^ Created a baronet, May 1774
4. ^ On petition, the result of the election of 1774 was overturned: Fonnereau and Crespigny were declared not to have been duly elected and their opponents, Blake and Hanmer, were seated in their place
5. ^ On petition, Crespigny was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Marriott was seated in his place
6. ^ Elected on the casting vote of the returning officer after a tie in votes. His opponent petitioned against the decision, denying that the returning officer was entitled to a casting vote, but Parliament was dissolved before the issue had been settled.
7. ^ The 1841 election was declared void on petition and a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate, which eventually led to the disfranchisement of the constituency

[edit] Elections

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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)
• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
• H G Nicholas, To The Hustings: Election scenes from English fiction (London, Cassell & Co., 1956)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page