Wilton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wiltshire, Southern or Wilton Division
County constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: one
Wilton
Borough constituency
Created: 1295
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two (1295-1832); one (1832-1885)

Wilton was the name of a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1295 to 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832, and by one member from 1832 to 1885. The name was then transferred to a county constituency electing one MP from 1885 until 1918.

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[edit] History

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Wilton borough

[edit] 1295-1640

  • 1542: William Herbert
  • 1604-1611: Sir Thomas Edmonds
  • 1604-1611: Thomas Morgan
  • 1621-1622: Thomas Morgan
  • 1621: Sir Thomas Tracy
  • 1622: Sir Henry Neville
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 Sir Henry Vane (the elder) Parliamentarian Sir Benjamin Rudyerd Parliamentarian
November 1640
December 1648 Rudyerd excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Wilton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Richard Grobham Howe Hon. John Herbert
May 1659 Wilton was not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Richard Grobham Howe Francis Swanton
April 1661 John Nicholas [1] Thomas Mompesson
June 1661 John Berkenhead
February 1679 Hon. Thomas Herbert Thomas Penruddock
August 1679 Sir John Nicholas
1685 Oliver Nicholas
1689 Thomas Penruddock Thomas Wyndham
1690 Sir Richard Grobham Howe
1695 John Hawles John Gauntlett
1698 Sir Henry Ashurst
January 1701 Thomas Phipps
November 1701 Sir Henry Ashurst
July 1702 Sir John Hawles George Boddington
November 1702 John Gauntlett
1705 William Nicholas
1708 Sir Lambert Blackwell Charles Mompesson
1710 John London [2]
1711 Peter Bathurst
1713 John London Thomas Pitt [3]
1722 Hon. Robert Sawyer Herbert
1727 Thomas Martin
1734 Colonel the Hon. William Herbert
1757 Hon. Nicholas Herbert
1768 Henry Herbert
1775 Captain Charles Herbert
1780 Lord Herbert William Gerard Hamilton
1785 Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Goldsworthy
1788 Lord Herbert
1790 The Viscount FitzWilliam
1794 Major General Philip Goldsworthy
1801 John Spencer
1804 Ralph Sheldon
1806 Captain the Hon. Charles Herbert
1816 Viscount FitzHarris
1821 John Hungerford Penruddocke Tory
1823 Edward Baker
1830 Henry Bulwer
1831 James Dawkins
1832 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1885

Year Member Party
1832 John Hungerford Penruddocke Conservative
1837 Edward Baker Conservative
1841 Viscount FitzHarris Conservative
1841 Viscount Somerton Conservative
1852 Charles Henry Wyndham A'Court Whig
1855 (Sir) Edmund Antrobus [4] Whig
1859 Liberal
1877 Hon. Sidney Herbert Conservative
1885 Borough abolished - name transferred to county division

[edit] Wiltshire, Southern or Wilton Division

[edit] 1885-1918

Year Member Party
1885 Sir Thomas Fraser Grove Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1893 Viscount Folkestone Conservative
1900 James Archibald Morrison Conservative
1906 Levi Lapper Morse Liberal
1910 Sir Charles Bathurst Conservative
November 1918 Hugh Morrison Conservative
1918 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Nicholas was also elected for West Looe and Ripon. He chose to represent Ripon, and did not sit for Wilton in this parliament
  2. ^ On petition, London was found not to have been duly elected
  3. ^ Created The Lord Londonderry 1719 and The Viscount Londonderry 1726, both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland
  4. ^ Succeeded to a baronetcy, May 1870

[edit] Election results

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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]
  • The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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