MPs elected in the British general election, 1796

MPs elected in the British general election, 1796

16th Parliament (1784)
17th Parliament (1790)
18th Parliament (1796)
1st Parliament (1801)
2nd Parliament (1802)

This is a list of MPs or members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of Great Britain in 1790, for the 18th and final Parliament of Great Britain.

The reference, in the constituency section of the table, to the numbers of seats in a constituency has no relevance except to make clear how many members were elected in a particular constituency. The candidates returned in contested elections are listed in the descending order of the number of votes received. Where vote totals are unknown, the MPs received the same number of votes or were returned unopposed the order is that given by Namier and Brook.

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Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) Alexander Allardyce
Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) James Ferguson Tory
Abingdon (seat 1/1) Thomas Metcalfe Tory
Aldborough (seat 1/2) Trench Chiswell
Aldborough (seat 2/2) Charles Duncombe
Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) Sir John Aubrey, Bt. Whig
Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) Michael Angelo Taylor Foxite Whig
Amersham (seat 1/2) Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake Tory
Amersham (seat 2/2) Charles Drake Garrard Tory
Andover (seat 1/2) Benjamin Lethieullier
Andover (seat 2/2) Coulson Wallop
Anglesey (seat 1/1) Sir Arthur Paget Whig
Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) John Anstruther Foxite Whig
Appleby (seat 1/2) John Tufton
Appleby (seat 2/2) John Courtenay
Argyllshire (seat 1/1) Lord Frederick Campbell
Arundel (seat 1/2) Sir George Thomas, Bt.
Arundel (seat 2/2) James Greene
Ashburton (seat 1/2)
Ashburton (seat 2/2)
Aylesbury (seat 1/2)
Aylesbury (seat 2/2)
Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) John Campbell
Ayrshire (seat 1/1) Hugh Montgomerie
Banbury (seat 1/1)
Banffshire (seat 1/1) Sir William Grant Whig
Barnstaple (seat 1/2)
Barnstaple (seat 2/2)
Bath (seat 1/2)
Bath (seat 2/2)
Beaumaris (seat 1/1)
Bedford (seat 1/2)
Bedford (seat 2/2)
Bedfordshire (seat 1/2)
Bedfordshire (seat 2/2)
Bedwyn
Bere Alston (seat 1/2)
Bere Alston (seat 2/2)
Berkshire (seat 1/2)
Berkshire (seat 2/2)
Berwickshire (seat 1/1) George Baillie
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) The Earl of Tyrconnel
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) John Callender
Beverley (seat 1/2)
Beverley (seat 2/2)
Bewdley (seat 1/1)
Bishops Castle (seat 1/2)
Bishops Castle (seat 2/2)
Bletchingley (seat 1/2)
Bletchingley (seat 2/2)
Bodmin (seat 1/2)
Bodmin (seat 2/2)
Boroughbridge (seat 1/2)
Boroughbridge (seat 2/2)
Bossiney (seat 1/2)
Bossiney (seat 2/2)
Boston (seat 1/2)
Boston (seat 2/2)
Brackley (seat 1/2)
Brackley (seat 2/2)
Bramber (seat 1/2)
Bramber (seat 2/2)
Brecon (seat 1/1)
Breconshire (seat 1/1)
Bridgnorth (seat 1/2)
Bridgnorth (seat 2/2)
Bridgwater (seat 1/2)
Bridgwater (seat 2/2)
Bridport (seat 1/2)
Bridport (seat 2/2)
Bristol (seat 1/2)
Bristol (seat 2/2)
Buckingham (seat 1/2)
Buckingham (seat 2/2)
Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2)
Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2)
Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2)
Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2)
Buteshire (seat 0/0) Frederick Stuart
Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1)
Caithness (seat 1/1) No representation
Callington (seat 1/2) Sir John Call, Bt.
Callington (seat 2/2) Paul Orchard
Calne (seat 1/2) Joseph Jekyll
Calne (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Baring, Bt. Whig
Cambridge (seat 1/2) Edward Finch Tory
Cambridge (seat 2/2) Robert Manners Tory
Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) James Whorwood Adeane
Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) Charles Philip Yorke Tory
Cambridge University (seat 1/2) William Pitt Pittite Tory (Regarded self as Whig)
Cambridge University (seat 2/2) Earl of Euston Whig
Camelford (seat 1/2)
Camelford (seat 2/2)
Canterbury (seat 1/2)
Canterbury (seat 2/2)
Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Cardiganshire (seat 1/1)
Carlisle (seat 1/2)
Carlisle (seat 2/2)
Carmarthen (seat 1/1)
Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1)
Castle Rising (seat 1/2)
Castle Rising (seat 2/2)
Cheshire (seat 1/2)
Cheshire (seat 2/2)
Chester (seat 1/2)
Chester (seat 2/2)
Chichester (seat 1/2)
Chichester (seat 2/2)
Chippenham (seat 1/2)
Chippenham (seat 2/2)
Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2)
Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2)
Christchurch (seat 1/2)
Christchurch (seat 2/2)
Cirencester (seat 1/2)
Cirencester (seat 2/2)
Clackmannanshire (seat 0/0)
Clitheroe (seat 1/2)
Clitheroe (seat 2/2)
Cockermouth (seat 1/2)
Cockermouth (seat 2/2)
Colchester (seat 1/2)
Colchester (seat 2/2)
Corfe Castle (seat 1/2)
Corfe Castle (seat 2/2)
Cornwall (seat 1/2)
Cornwall (seat 2/2)
Coventry (seat 1/2)
Coventry (seat 2/2)
Coventry (seat 2/2)
Cricklade (seat 1/2)
Cricklade (seat 2/2)
Cromartyshire (seat 1/1)
Cumberland (seat 1/2)
Cumberland (seat 2/2)
Dartmouth (seat 1/2)
Dartmouth (seat 2/2)
Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Denbighshire (seat 1/1)
Derby (seat 1/2)
Derby (seat 2/2)
Derbyshire (seat 1/2)
Derbyshire (seat 2/2)
Devizes (seat 1/2)
Devizes (seat 2/2)
Devon (seat 1/2)
Devon (seat 2/2)
Dorchester (seat 1/2)
Dorchester (seat 2/2)
Dorset (seat 1/2)
Dorset (seat 2/2)
Dover (seat 1/2)
Dover (seat 2/2)
Downton (seat 1/2)
Downton (seat 2/2)
Droitwich (seat 1/2)
Droitwich (seat 2/2)
Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1)
Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1)
Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1)
Dunwich (seat 1/2)
Dunwich (seat 2/2)
Durham (City of) (seat 1/2)
Durham (City of) (seat 2/2)
Durham (County) (seat 1/2)
Durham (County) (seat 2/2)
Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1)
East Grinstead (seat 1/2)
East Grinstead (seat 2/2)
East Looe (seat 1/2)
East Looe (seat 2/2)
East Retford (seat 1/2)
East Retford (seat 2/2)
Edinburgh (seat 1/1) Henry Dundas Tory
Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) Robert Dundas Tory
Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) Alexander Brodie
Elginshire (seat 1/1) James Brodie
Essex (seat 1/2) Colonel John Bullock Whig
Essex (seat 2/2) Eliab Harvey Tory
Evesham (seat 1/2) Thomas Thompson
Evesham (seat 2/2) Charles Thellusson
Exeter (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde Whig
Exeter (seat 2/2) John Baring Independent
Eye (seat 1/2)
Eye (seat 2/2)
Fife (seat 1/1) Sir William Erskine, Bt.
Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Flintshire (seat 1/1)
Forfarshire (seat 1/1) Sir David Carnegie, Bt.
Fowey (seat 1/2)
Fowey (seat 2/2)
Gatton (seat 1/2)
Gatton (seat 2/2)
Glamorganshire (seat 1/1)
Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1)
Gloucester (seat 1/2)
Gloucester (seat 2/2)
Gloucestershire (seat 1/2)
Gloucestershire (seat 2/2)
Grampound (seat 1/2)
Grampound (seat 2/2)
Grantham (seat 1/2)
Grantham (seat 2/2)
Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2)
Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2)
Great Grimsby (seat 1/2)
Great Grimsby (seat 2/2)
Great Marlow (seat 1/2)
Great Marlow (seat 2/2)
Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2)
Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2)
Guildford (seat 1/2)
Guildford (seat 2/2)
Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1)
Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1)
Hampshire (seat 1/2)
Hampshire (seat 2/2)
Harwich (seat 1/2)
Harwich (seat 2/2)
Haslemere (seat 1/2)
Haslemere (seat 2/2)
Hastings (seat 1/2)
Hastings (seat 2/2)
Haverfordwest (seat 1/1)
Hedon (seat 1/2)
Hedon (seat 2/2)
Helston (seat 1/2)
Helston (seat 2/2)
Hereford (seat 1/2)
Hereford (seat 2/2)
Herefordshire (seat 1/2)
Herefordshire (seat 2/2)
Hertford (seat 1/2)
Hertford (seat 2/2)
Hertfordshire (seat 1/2)
Hertfordshire (seat 2/2)
Heytesbury (seat 1/2)
Heytesbury (seat 2/2)
Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1)
Hindon (seat 1/2)
Hindon (seat 2/2)
Honiton (seat 1/2)
Honiton (seat 2/2)
Horsham (seat 1/2)
Horsham (seat 2/2)
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Huntingdon (seat 1/2)
Huntingdon (seat 2/2)
Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2)
Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2)
Hythe (seat 1/2)
Hythe (seat 2/2)
Ilchester (seat 1/2)
Ilchester (seat 2/2)
Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1)
Inverness-shire (seat 1/1)
Ipswich (seat 1/2)
Ipswich (seat 2/2)
Kent (seat 1/2)
Kent (seat 2/2)
Kincardineshire (seat 1/1)
King's Lynn (seat 1/2)
King's Lynn (seat 2/2)
Kingston-upon-Hull (seat 1/2)
Kingston-upon-Hull (seat 2/2)
Kinross-shire (seat 1/1)
Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1)
Knaresborough (seat 1/2)
Knaresborough (seat 2/2)
Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) Sir James Denham-Steuart, Bt Tory
Lancashire (seat 1/2)
Lancashire (seat 2/2)
Lancaster (seat 1/2)
Lancaster (seat 2/2)
Launceston (seat 1/2)
Launceston (seat 2/2)
Leicester (seat 1/2) Thomas Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe
Leicester (seat 2/2) Samuel Smith
Leicestershire (seat 1/2)
Leicestershire (seat 2/2)
Leominster (seat 1/2)
Leominster (seat 2/2)
Lewes (seat 1/2)
Lewes (seat 2/2)
Lichfield (seat 1/2)
Lichfield (seat 2/2)
Lincoln (seat 1/2)
Lincoln (seat 2/2)
Lincolnshire (seat 1/2)
Lincolnshire (seat 2/2)
Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1)
Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1)
Liskeard (seat 1/2)
Liskeard (seat 2/2)
Liverpool (seat 1/2)
Liverpool (seat 2/2)
London (City of) (seat 1/4) William Lushington
London (City of) (seat 2/4) William Curtis Tory
London (City of) (seat 3/4) Harvey Christian Combe
London (City of) (seat 4/4) Sir John William Anderson, Bt.
Lostwithiel (seat 1/2)
Lostwithiel (seat 2/2)
Ludgershall (seat 1/2)
Ludgershall (seat 2/2)
Ludlow (seat 1/2)
Ludlow (seat 2/2)
Lyme Regis (seat 1/2)
Lyme Regis (seat 2/2)
Lymington (seat 1/2)
Lymington (seat 2/2)
Maidstone (seat 1/2)
Maidstone (seat 2/2)
Maldon (seat 1/2)
Maldon (seat 2/2)
Malmesbury (seat 1/2)
Malmesbury (seat 2/2)
Malton (seat 1/2)
Malton (seat 2/2)
Marlborough (seat 1/2)
Marlborough (seat 2/2)
Merionethshire (seat 1/1)
Middlesex (seat 1/2) George Byng Whig
Middlesex (seat 2/2) William Mainwaring Tory
Milborne Port (seat 1/2)
Milborne Port (seat 2/2)
Midhurst (seat 1/2)
Midhurst (seat 2/2)
Minehead (seat 1/2)
Minehead (seat 2/2)
Mitchell (seat 1/2)
Mitchell (seat 2/2)
Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Monmouthshire (seat 1/2)
Monmouthshire (seat 2/2)
Montgomery (seat 1/1)
Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1)
Morpeth (seat 1/2)
Morpeth (seat 2/2)
Nairnshire (seat 0/0)
Newark (seat 1/2)
Newark (seat 2/2)
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2)
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2)
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2)
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2)
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2)
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2)
New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1)
New Romney (seat 1/2)
New Romney (seat 2/2)
New Shoreham (seat 1/2)
New Shoreham (seat 2/2)
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2)
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2)
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2)
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2)
New Windsor (seat 1/2)
New Windsor (seat 2/2)
New Woodstock (seat 1/2)
New Woodstock (seat 2/2)
Norfolk (seat 1/2)
Norfolk (seat 2/2)
Northallerton (seat 1/2)
Northallerton (seat 2/2)
Northampton (seat 1/2)
Northampton (seat 2/2)
Northamptonshire (seat 1/2)
Northamptonshire (seat 2/2)
Northumberland (seat 1/2)
Northumberland (seat 2/2)
Norwich (seat 1/2)
Norwich (seat 2/2)
Nottingham (seat 1/2)
Nottingham (seat 2/2)
Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2)
Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2)
Okehampton (seat 1/2)
Okehampton (seat 2/2)
Old Sarum (seat 1/2)
Old Sarum (seat 2/2)
Orford (seat 1/2)
Orford (seat 2/2)
Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1)
Oxford (seat 1/2)
Oxford (seat 2/2)
Oxfordshire (seat 1/2)
Oxfordshire (seat 2/2)
Oxford University (seat 1/2)
Oxford University (seat 2/2)
Peeblesshire (seat 1/1)
Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1)
Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1)
Penryn (seat 1/2)
Penryn (seat 2/2)
Perth Burghs (seat 1/1)
Perthshire (seat 1/1)
Peterborough (seat 1/2)
Peterborough (seat 2/2)
Petersfield (seat 1/2)
Petersfield (seat 2/2)
Plymouth (seat 1/2)
Plymouth (seat 2/2)
Plympton Erle (seat 1/2)
Plympton Erle (seat 2/2)
Poole (seat 1/2)
Poole (seat 2/2)
Portsmouth (seat 1/2)
Portsmouth (seat 2/2)
Preston (seat 1/2)
Preston (seat 2/2)
Queenborough (seat 1/2)
Queenborough (seat 2/2)
Radnorshire (seat 1/1)
Reading (seat 1/2)
Reading (seat 2/2)
Reigate (seat 1/2)
Reigate (seat 2/2)
Renfrewshire (seat 1/1)
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2)
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2)
Ripon (seat 1/2)
Ripon (seat 2/2)
Rochester (seat 1/2)
Rochester (seat 2/2)
Ross-shire (seat 1/1) Sir Charles Lockhart-Ross, Bt.
Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) Sir George Douglas
Rutland (seat 1/2)
Rutland (seat 2/2)
Rye (seat 1/2)
Rye (seat 2/2)
St Albans (seat 1/2)
St Albans (seat 2/2)
St Germans (seat 1/2)
St Germans (seat 2/2)
St Ives (seat 1/2)
St Ives (seat 2/2)
St Mawes (seat 1/2)
St Mawes (seat 2/2)
Salisbury (seat 1/2)
Salisbury (seat 2/2)
Saltash (seat 1/2)
Saltash (seat 2/2)
Sandwich (seat 1/2)
Sandwich (seat 2/2)
Scarborough (seat 1/2)
Scarborough (seat 2/2)
Seaford (seat 1/2)
Seaford (seat 2/2)
Selkirkshire (seat 1/1)
Shaftesbury (seat 1/2)
Shaftesbury (seat 2/2)
Shrewsbury (seat 1/2)
Shrewsbury (seat 2/2)
Shropshire (seat 1/2)
Shropshire (seat 2/2)
Somerset (seat 1/2)
Somerset (seat 2/2)
Southampton (seat 1/2)
Southampton (seat 2/2)
Southwark (seat 1/2) Henry Thornton Independent
Southwark (seat 2/2) George Woodford Thellusson Whig
Stafford (seat 1/2)
Stafford (seat 2/2)
Staffordshire (seat 1/2)
Staffordshire (seat 2/2)
Stamford (seat 1/2)
Stamford (seat 2/2)
Steyning (seat 1/2)
Steyning (seat 2/2)
Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone Tory
Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) Sir George Keith Elphinstone
Stockbridge (seat 1/2)
Stockbridge (seat 2/2)
Sudbury (seat 1/2)
Sudbury (seat 2/2)
Suffolk (seat 1/2)
Suffolk (seat 2/2)
Surrey (seat 1/2)
Surrey (seat 2/2)
Sussex (seat 1/2)
Sussex (seat 2/2)
Sutherland (seat 1/1)
Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) William Dundas Tory
Tamworth (seat 1/2) Thomas Carter
Tamworth (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Peel Tory
Taunton (seat 1/2)
Taunton (seat 2/2)
Tavistock (seat 1/2)
Tavistock (seat 2/2)
Tewkesbury (seat 1/2)
Tewkesbury (seat 2/2)
Thetford (seat 1/2)
Thetford (seat 2/2)
Thirsk (seat 1/2)
Thirsk (seat 2/2)
Tiverton (seat 1/2)
Tiverton (seat 2/2)
Totnes (seat 1/2)
Totnes (seat 2/2)
Tregony (seat 1/2)
Tregony (seat 2/2)
Truro (seat 1/2)
Truro (seat 2/2)
Wareham (seat 1/2)
Wareham (seat 2/2)
Wallingford (seat 1/2)
Wallingford (seat 2/2)
Warwick (seat 1/2)
Warwick (seat 2/2)
Warwickshire (seat 1/2)
Warwickshire (seat 2/2)
Wells (seat 1/2)
Wells (seat 2/2)
Wendover (seat 1/2)
Wendover (seat 2/2)
Wenlock (seat 1/2)
Wenlock (seat 2/2)
Westbury (seat 1/2)
Westbury (seat 2/2)
West Looe (seat 1/2)
West Looe (seat 2/2)
Westminster (seat 1/2) Charles James Fox Foxite Whig
Westminster (seat 2/2) Alan Gardner, Bt. Tory
Westmorland (seat 1/2)
Westmorland (seat 2/2)
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4)
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4)
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4)
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4)
Whitchurch (seat 1/2)
Whitchurch (seat 2/2)
Wigan (seat 1/2)
Wigan (seat 2/2)
Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) John Spalding
Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) William Stewart
Wilton (seat 1/2)
Wilton (seat 2/2)
Wiltshire (seat 1/2)
Wiltshire (seat 2/2)
Winchelsea (seat 1/2)
Winchelsea (seat 2/2)
Winchester (seat 1/2)
Winchester (seat 2/2)
Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2)
Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2)
Worcester (seat 1/2)
Worcester (seat 2/2)
Worcestershire (seat 1/2)
Worcestershire (seat 2/2)
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Jervoise Clarke Jervoise Whig
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Edward Rushworth Independent
York (seat 1/2) Sir William Mordaunt Milner, Bt. Whig
York (seat 2/2) Richard Slater Milnes Tory
Yorkshire (seat 1/2) Hon. Henry Lascelles Tory
Yorkshire (seat 2/2) William Wilberforce Tory

See also