Thetford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Thetford
Borough constituency
Created: 1529
Abolished: 1868
Type: House of Commons

Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the first past the post system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1868. Below are those MPs who held the seat from just prior to the Restoration onwards.

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[edit] Members of Parliament (Before 1660)

  • 1606-1611: William Twysden
  • 1614: Sir William Twysden
  • 1624-1625: Drue Drury
  • 1625: Sir Robert Cotton
  • 1640-1653: Sir Thomas Wodehouse
  • 1640-1648: Framlingham Gawdy
  • 1659: Robert Steward
  • 1659: William Stene
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[edit] Members of Parliament (1660-1868)

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1660 Sir Philip Wodehouse Robert Paston
March 1661 Sir Allen Apsley William Gawdy
October 1669 Sir Joseph Williamson
February 1679 William Harbord
March 1685 Henry Heveningham William de Grey
January 1689 Sir Henry Hobart William Harbord
February 1689 Sir Francis Guybon
June 1689 John Trenchard
February 1690 William Harbord
May 1690 Baptist May
November 1695 Sir Joseph Williamson Sir John Wodehouse
January 1696 James Sloane
July 1698 Sir Joseph Williamson
January 1699 Lord Paston
January 1701 Sir Joseph Williamson Edmund Soame
March 1701 Sir Thomas Hanmer
November 1701 Sir John Wodehouse
July 1702 Robert Benson Edmund Soame
May 1705 Sir Thomas Hanmer Sir John Wodehouse
May 1708 Robert Baylis Thomas de Grey
October 1710 Sir Thomas Hanmer Dudley North
December 1710 Sir Edmund Bacon
August 1713 Sir William Barker
January 1715 John Ward
March 1722 Sir Edmund Bacon Robert Jacomb
February 1733 Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore
February 1739 Lord Augustus Fitzroy
December 1741 Lord Henry Beauclerk
December 1754 Herbert Westfaling
March 1761 Henry Seymour Conway Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk
March 1768 John Drummond
September 1774 Viscount Petersham
October 1774 Hon. Charles FitzRoy Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore
September 1780 Richard Hopkins
April 1782 Earl of Euston Whig
April 1784 Sir Charles Kent George Jennings
June 1790 Robert John Buxton Joseph Randyll Burch
May 1796 John Harrison
July 1802 Thomas Creevey
November 1806 Lord William FitzRoy James Mingay
February 1807 Thomas Creevey
October 1812 Lord John FitzRoy
June 1818 Lord Charles FitzRoy Nicholas Ridley-Colborne
June 1826 William Baring
August 1830 Lord James FitzRoy Francis Baring
May 1831 Alexander Baring
December 1832 Francis Baring
August 1834 Henry FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
June 1841 Hon. William Baring
May 1842 Sir James Flower
July 1847 William FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
August 1848 Francis Baring
December 1857 Alexander Baring
April 1863 Lord Frederick FitzRoy
July 1865 Robert Harvey
December 1867 Edward Gordon
1868 Constituency abolished

[edit] FitzRoy family

Due to the town's close proximity to Euston Hall (the main residence of the FitzRoy family), the seat for Thetford has been held by various members of the family:

[edit] References

  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  • 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) [1]


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