Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)

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Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)
Borough constituency
Created: 1584
Abolished: 1832
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

Yarmouth was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832.

The constituency was included in the new County constituency of Isle of Wight from 1832.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1584-1640

  • 1604-1611: Thomas Cheeke
  • 1604-1611: Arthur Bromfield
  • 1614: Sir Thomas Cheeke
  • 1621-1622: Arthur Bromfield
  • 1621-1622: Thomas Risley

[edit] 1640-1832

Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
April 1640 William Oglander John Bulkeley
November 1640 Viscount L'Isle Parliamentarian Sir John Leigh Parliamentarian
December 1648 Leigh excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Yarmouth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 John Sadler Richard Lucy
May 1659 Viscount L'Isle One seat vacant in the restored Rump
February 1660 Sir John Leigh
April 1660 Richard Lucy
1661 Edward Smythe
1678 Thomas Lucy
February 1679 Sir Richard Mason
August 1679 Thomas Wyndham
1681 Lemuel Kingdon Sir Thomas Littleton[1]
1685 Thomas Wyndham William Hewer
1689 Sir Robert Holmes Fitton Gerard
1690 Sir John Trevor[2] Tory Charles Duncombe Tory
April 1695 Henry Holmes
November 1695 Anthony Morgan
1710 Sir Gilbert Dolben
1715[3] Sir Robert Raymond Tory
1717 Colonel Anthony Morgan Sir Theodore Janssen[4]
1721 William Plumer
1722 Thomas Stanwix
1725 Colonel Maurice Morgan
1727 Paul Burrard
1733 Maurice Bocland
1734 Lord Harry Powlett[5] Whig
1736 Thomas Gibson
1737 Anthony Chute
1741 Colonel Maurice Bocland
1744 Robert Carteret
1747 Thomas Holmes[6] Whig Colonel Henry Holmes [7]
1762 Jeremiah Dyson Tory
1765 John Eames
1768[8] William Strode Jervoise Clarke Whig
1769 Thomas Dummer Major General the Hon. George Lane Parker
1774 Edward Meux Worsley Jervoise Clarke Jervoise Whig
1775 James Worsley
1779 Captain Robert Kingsmill
1780 Edward Morant Edward Rushworth
1781 Sir Thomas Rumbold
1784 Philip Francis
1787 Thomas Clarke Jervoise
1790 Edward Rushworth
1791 Sir John Fleming Leicester Jervoise Clarke Jervoise Whig
1796 Edward Rushworth
1797 William Peachy
1802 James Patrick Murray
February 1803 Colonel Charles Macdonnell
October 1803 Henry Swann Tory
February 1804 John Delgarno
March 1804 Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham
January 1806 David Scott
November 1806 Thomas William Plummer
May 1807 Hon. William Orde-Powlett
August 1807 Admiral Sir John Orde
January 1808 Benjamin Cooke Griffinhoofe
April 1808 John Delgarno
June 1808 Viscount Valentia
1810 Thomas Myers
1812 Richard Wellesley Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery
1816 John Leslie Foster Tory
1817 Alexander Maconochie Tory
March 1818 John Singleton Copley Tory
June 1818 John Taylor Tory William Mount Tory
1819 Sir Peter Pole Tory John Wilson Croker Tory
1820 Theodore Henry Broadhead Tory
1821 Theodore Henry Lavington Broadhead[9] Tory
1826 Lord Binning Tory Joseph Phillimore Tory
1827 Thomas Wallace Tory
1830 William Yates Peel Tory George Lowther Thompson Tory
1831 Sir Henry Willoughby Whig Charles Compton Cavendish Whig
1832 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Died April 1681
  2. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons for accepting a bribe
  3. ^ At the election of 1715, Raymond and Holmes were declared to have defeated Morgan and Janssen, but on petition the result was reversed
  4. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons on 30 January 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
  5. ^ Powlett was also elected for Hampshire in a disputed election. He sat for Yarmouth until 1737 when the petition against the Hampshire result was withdrawn, then chose to represent Hampshire rather than Yarmouth for the remainder of the Parliament
  6. ^ Created The Lord Holmes (in the peerage of Ireland) in 1760
  7. ^ Major General from 1756, Lieutenant General from 1759
  8. ^ At the election of 1768, Strode and Clarke were declared to have defeated Dummer and Parker, but on petition the result was reversed
  9. ^ Broadhead later adopted the surname Brinckman

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[edit] See also

[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]
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page