Warwick (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Warwick Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1295 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Warwick was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Warwick within the larger Warwickshire constituency of England. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new single-member constituency of Warwick and Leamington.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1295-1640
- 1571-1586: John Fisher
- 1572-1589: Thomas Dudley
- 1586-1587: Job Throckmorton
- 1604-1614: John Townshend
- 1604-1611: William Spicer
- 1614-1622: Sir Greville Verney
- 1621-1622: John Cooke
- 1625-1628: Francis Leigh [1]
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[edit] 1640-1885
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | |||
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| November 1640 | William Purefoy | Parliamentarian | Sir Thomas Lucy [2] | ||||
| December 1640 | Godfrey Bosvile | Parliamentarian | |||||
| 1653 | Warwick was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | ||||||
| 1654 | Richard Lucy | Warwick had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| 1656 | Clement Throckmorton | ||||||
| January 1659 | Fulke Lucy | Thomas Archer | |||||
| May 1659 | William Purefoy | One seat vacant | |||||
| August 1659 | Both seats vacant after Purefoy's death | ||||||
| April 1660 | Sir Clement Throckmorton | John Rous | |||||
| 1661 | Henry Puckering | ||||||
| 1664 | Fulke Greville | Sir Francis Compton | |||||
| 1677 | The 3rd Lord Digby | ||||||
| 1678 | Sir John Bowyer | ||||||
| February 1679 | Sir John Clopton | Sir Henry Puckering | |||||
| August 1679 | Thomas Lucy | Richard Booth | |||||
| 1681 | Hon. Thomas Coventry [3] | ||||||
| 1685 | The 4th Lord Digby | ||||||
| 1689 | William Colemore | ||||||
| 1690 | The 5th Lord Digby | ||||||
| 1695 | Francis Greville | ||||||
| 1698 | Robert Greville | Sir Thomas Wagstaffe | |||||
| 1699 | Algernon Greville | ||||||
| January 1701 | Francis Greville | ||||||
| November 1701 | Algernon Greville | ||||||
| 1705 | Dodington Greville | ||||||
| 1710 | Charles Leigh | ||||||
| 1713 | William Colemore | ||||||
| 1722 | Sir William Keyt | ||||||
| 1727 | William Bromley | ||||||
| 1735[4] | Thomas Archer | Henry Archer | |||||
| 1741 | Wills Hill [5] | ||||||
| 1756 | John Spencer | ||||||
| 1761 | Viscount Dungarvan | ||||||
| 1762 | Paul Methuen | ||||||
| March 1768 | Lord Greville | ||||||
| May 1768 | Paul Methuen | ||||||
| January 1774 | Hon. Charles Greville | ||||||
| October 1774 | Hon. Robert Fulke Greville | Tory | |||||
| 1780 | Robert Ladbroke | ||||||
| 1790 | The Lord Arden | Major Henry Gage | |||||
| 1792 | Hon. George Villiers | ||||||
| 1796 | Samuel Robert Gaussen | ||||||
| 1802 | Charles Mills | Lord Brooke | Tory | ||||
| 1816 | Hon. Sir Charles Greville | Tory | |||||
| 1826 | John Tomes | ||||||
| 1831 | Edward Bolton King | Whig | |||||
| 1832 | Hon. Sir Charles Greville [6] | Conservative | |||||
| 1836 | Hon. Charles Canning | Conservative | |||||
| March 1837 | William Collins | Whig | |||||
| July 1837 | Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas | Conservative | |||||
| 1852 | George William John Repton | Conservative | Edward Greaves | Conservative | |||
| 1865 | Arthur Wellesley Peel | Liberal | |||||
| 1868 | Edward Greaves | Conservative | |||||
| 1874 | George William John Repton | Conservative | |||||
| 1885 | Constituency abolished: see Warwick and Leamington | ||||||
Notes
- ^ Elevated to The Peerage as Baron Dunsmore, 1628
- ^ Died December 1640
- ^ Succeeded to a peerage as 5th Baron Coventry, July 1687, but the vacancy as MP for Warwick was not immediately filled
- ^ On petition, Keyt and Bromley were declared not to have been duly re-elected in 1734
- ^ Created Earl of Hillsborough (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1751
- ^ Greville's election was declared void on petition, and the constituency's writ was suspended
[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)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
