Ludgershall (UK Parliament constituency)
| Ludgershall | |
|---|---|
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1295–1832 | |
| Number of members | Two |
Ludgershall was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Ludgershall is a town 16 miles (26 km) north east of Salisbury. The population was 535 in 1831.
Members of Parliament
1295–1640
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| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1421 (Dec) | John Denby | William Bishop [1] |
| 1422 | John Seymour[2] | |
| 1432 | William Ludlowe[3] | |
| 1433 | William Ludlowe | |
| 1436 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
| 1437 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
| 1450–1451 | John Erley | Thomas Thorpe[4] |
| 1453 | William Ludlowe | |
| 1455 | William Ludlowe | |
| 1491 | Robert Lytton[5] | |
| 1510–1515 | No names known[6] | |
| 1523 | ?Henry Brydges | ?Richard Brydges [6] |
| 1529 | Henry Brydges | Richard Brydges [6] |
| 1536 | ?Henry Brydges | ?Richard Brydges [6] |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | ? | |
| 1545 | John Knight | Thomas Hawes [6] |
| 1547 | William Turner | Ralph Cockerell [6] |
| 1553 (Mar) | Humphrey Cavell | ? [6] |
| 1553 (Oct) | Richard Brydges | Edmund Powell [6] |
| 1554 (Apr) | John Winchcombe | Edmund Powell [6] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Sir John Price | Arthur Allen [6] |
| 1555 | John Story | John Winchcombe [6] |
| 1558 | Sir Richard Brydges | Thomas Martin [6] |
| 1559 | William Wightman | Henry Sharington[7] |
| 1562/3 | Griffin Curteys | George Cope [7] |
| 1571 | Christopher Wray | James Colbrand [7] |
| 1572 | James Colbrand | Thomas Walkeden [7] |
| 1584 | John Kingsmill | Francis Button [7] |
| 1586 | Ambrose Coppinger | John Kingsmill [7] |
| 1588 | Carew Raleigh | Henry Hyde [7] |
| 1593 | Edward Thornborough | Chidiock Wardour [7] |
| 1597 | Edmund Ludlow | Richard Leake [7] |
| 1601 | Robert Penruddocke | James Kirton [7] |
| 1604–1611 | James Kirton | Henry Ludlow |
| 1614 | Charles Danvers | James Kirton |
| 1621–1622 | Alexander Chocke | William Sotwell |
| 1624 | Edward Kyrton | William Sotwell |
| 1625 | Robert Pye | Sir Thomas Hinton |
| 1626 | Sir William Walter | Sir Thomas Jaye/Sir Thomas Hinton Unresolved double return |
| 1628 | John Selden | Sir Thomas Lay |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliament convened | |
1640–1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1640 | William Ashburnham [8] | Royalist | Sir John Evelyn | Parliamentarian | ||
| 1642 | Walter Long [9] | Parliamentarian | ||||
| December 1648 | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
| January 1659 | James Davy | Richard Sherwyn | ||||
| May 1659 | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | William Prynne | William Thomas | ||||
| July 1660 | Silius Titus | |||||
| March 1661 | William Ashburnham | Geoffrey Palmer (died October 1661) | ||||
| December 1661 | Sir Richard Browne | |||||
| 1669 | Thomas Grey | |||||
| 1673 | George Legge | |||||
| February 1679 | Thomas Neale | John Smith | ||||
| August 1679 | John Garrard | |||||
| 1681 | Sir John Talbot | |||||
| 1685 | Henry Clerke | |||||
| 1689 | John Smith | John Deane | ||||
| 1690 | Thomas Neale | |||||
| 1695 | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory | ||||
| 1698 | Walter Kent | |||||
| 1699 | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory | ||||
| 1701 | Edmund Richmond Webb | |||||
| 1705 | Thomas Powell | Walter Kent | ||||
| 1706 | Major-General John Richmond Webb [10] | Tory | ||||
| 1708 | Robert Bruce | |||||
| 1710 | Major-General Thomas Pearce | |||||
| 1713 | Robert Ferne | |||||
| 1714 | John Ward | |||||
| 1715 | General John Richmond Webb | Tory | John Ivory-Talbot | |||
| 1722 | Borlase Richmond Webb | |||||
| 1724 | Anthony Cornish | |||||
| 1727 | Charles Boone | |||||
| 1734 | Peter Delmé | Daniel Boone | ||||
| 1741 | Charles Selwyn | Thomas Hayward | ||||
| 1747 | Thomas Farrington | George Augustus Selwyn | ||||
| 1754 | Sir John Bland | Thomas Hayward | ||||
| 1755 | Henry Digby [11] | |||||
| 1761 | Thomas Whately | John Paterson | ||||
| 1768 | Lord Garlies | Sir Peniston Lamb [12] | ||||
| January 1774 | Whitshed Keene | |||||
| October 1774 | Lord George Gordon | |||||
| 1780 | George Augustus Selwyn | |||||
| 1784 | Nathaniel William Wraxall | |||||
| 1790 | Hon. William Assheton Harbord | |||||
| 1791 | Samuel Smith | |||||
| 1793 | Nathaniel Newnham | Tory | ||||
| 1796 | Earl of Dalkeith | Tory | Thomas Everett | Tory | ||
| 1804 | Magens Dorrien-Magens | Tory | ||||
| 1810 | Joseph Hague Everett | Tory | ||||
| 1811 | The Lord Headley | |||||
| 1812 | Joseph Hague Everett | Tory | ||||
| 1812 | Sandford Graham | Whig | Joseph Birch | Whig | ||
| 1815 | Charles Nicholas Pallmer | Whig | ||||
| 1817 | The Earl of Carhampton | Tory | ||||
| 1818 | (Sir) Sandford Graham [13] | Whig | ||||
| 1821 | Earl of Brecknock | Tory | ||||
| 1826 | Edward Thomas Foley | Tory | George James Welbore Agar-Ellis | Whig | ||
| 1830 | Sir Sandford Graham | Whig | ||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | |||||
Sources
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [14]
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [15]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- 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 Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
Notes and references
- ↑ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ↑ J. S. Roskell, The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 (Manchester University Press), p. 126 (see footnotes)
- ↑ Dates for Ludlowe in Ludlow family website http://www.ludlowfamilytree.org/
- ↑ "Thorpe, Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
- ↑ Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ↑ Expelled, December 1641
- ↑ Long was disabled from sitting by an Order of the House on 27 January 1648, but re-instated on 8 June 1648
- ↑ Webb was re-elected in 1713, but had also been elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Ludgershall in this Parliament
- ↑ Succeeded as The Lord Digby (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1757
- ↑ Created The Lord Melbourne in June 1770, and The Viscount Melbourne in December 1781 (both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland)
- ↑ Succeeded as baronet, April 1824
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?vid=024wW9LmFc5kXY0FI2&id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&printsec=toc&dq=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament&as_brr=1&sig=SK5GVtGLfWQ9ovZDbyZObAyIO5I#PPP9,M1
- ↑ http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1