Northallerton | |
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Former Borough constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
1640 –1885 |
Northallerton was a parliamentary borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1640 to 1832, and by one member from 1832 until 1885.
The constituency consisted of the market town of Northallerton, the county town of the North Riding. In 1831 it encompassed only 622 houses and a population of 3,004. The right to vote was vested in the holders of the burgage tenements, of which there were roughly 200 - most of which were ruined or consisted only of stables or cowhouses, and had no value except for the vote which was attached to them. As in most other burgage boroughs, the ownership of the burgages had early become concentrated in the hands of a single family, who in effect had a free hand to nominate both MPs. At the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, the patrons were the Earl of Harewood and Henry Peirse, who was the Earl's brother-in-law.
Under the Reform Act, the boundaries were extended to include neighbouring Romanby and Brompton, increasing the population to 4,839, and its representation was reduced to a single member. The Act also, of course, extended the franchise.
At the 1885 election, the constituency was abolished, being absorbed into the new Richmond division of the North Riding.
Contents |
Northallerton re-enfranchised by Parliament, Nov 1640
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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November 1640 | Henry Darley | Parliamentarian | John Wastell | Parliamentarian | ||
1653 | Northallerton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
1654,1656 | Northallerton was unrepresented in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
January 1659 | James Danby | Major George Smithson | ||||
May 1659 | Henry Darley | One seat vacant | ||||
April 1660 | Thomas Lascelles | Francis Lascelles | ||||
July 1660 | George Marwood[1] | |||||
1661 | Gilbert Gerard [2] | Roger Talbot | ||||
1679 | Sir Henry Calverley | |||||
1685 | Sir David Foulis | Sir Henry Marwood | ||||
1689 | Thomas Lascelles | Sir William Robinson | ||||
1695 | Sir William Hustler | |||||
1697 | Ralph Milbancke | |||||
1701 | Robert Dormer | |||||
February 1702 | Daniel Lascelles | |||||
July 1702 | John Aislabie | Tory | ||||
November 1702 | Robert Dormer | |||||
May 1705 | Sir William Hustler | |||||
December 1705 | Roger Gale | |||||
1710 | Robert Raikes | |||||
1713 | Leonard Smelt | Henry Peirse | ||||
1715 | Cholmley Turner | |||||
1722 | Henry Peirse | |||||
1740 | William Smelt | |||||
1745 | Henry Lascelles | |||||
1752 | Daniel Lascelles | |||||
1754 | Edwin Lascelles | Tory | ||||
1761 | Edward Lascelles | Tory | ||||
1774 | Henry Peirse (younger) | Whig | ||||
1780 | Edwin Lascelles | Tory | ||||
1790 | Edward Lascelles | Tory | ||||
1796 | Viscount Lascelles | Tory | ||||
1814 | John Bacon Sawrey Morritt | Tory | ||||
1818 | Viscount Lascelles | Tory | ||||
1820 | William Lascelles | Whig | ||||
1824 | Marcus Beresford | Whig | ||||
1826 | Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford | Tory | Henry Lascelles | Tory | ||
1831 | William Lascelles | Tory |
Election | Member | Party | |
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1832 | Representation reduced to one member | ||
1832 | John George Boss | Whig | |
1835 | William Battie-Wrightson | Whig | |
1857 | Liberal | ||
1865 | Charles Mills [3] | Conservative | |
1866 | Hon. Egremont William Lascelles | Conservative | |
1868 | John Hutton | Conservative | |
1874 | George William Elliot | Conservative | |
1885 | Constituency abolished: see Richmond (Yorks) |
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