- Milborne Port (UK Parliament constituency)
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Milborne Port Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons County Somerset Major settlements Milborne Port 1628–1832 Number of members Two Milborne Port is a former parliamentary borough located in Somerset. It elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons between 1298 and 1307 and again from 1628, but was disenfranchised in the Reform Act 1832 as a rotten borough.
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Members of Parliament
MPs 1640–1832
Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party April 1640 Edward Kyrton Royalist Thomas Erle November 1640 Lord Digby [1] Royalist 1640 (?) John Digby Royalist August 1642 Kyrton and Digby disabled from sitting – both seats vacant 1645 William Carent Thomas Grove December 1648 Grove excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant 1653 Milborne Port was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 William Carent Robert Hunt May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 William Milborne Michael Malet August 1660 Francis Wyndham 1677 John Hunt February 1679 William Lacy August 1679 Henry Bull 1689 Thomas Saunders 1690 Sir Thomas Travell Sir Charles Carteret January 1701 Sir Richard Newman December 1701 Henry Thynne 1702 John Hunt 1705 Thomas Medlycott [2] 1709 Thomas Smith 1710 James Medlycott 1715 John Cox June 1717 Michael Harvey [3] July 1717 [3] Charles Stanhope 1722 Michael Harvey George Speke 1727 Thomas Medlycott 1734 Thomas Medlycott, junior 1741 Jeffrey French 1742 by-election Michael Harvey 1747[4] 1748 by-election Thomas Medlycott, junior 1754 Edward Walter 1763 by-election Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott 1770 by-election Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough April 1772 by-election [5] Richard Combe [6] May 1772 [5] George Prescott 1774 Hon. Temple Luttrell Captain Charles Wolseley 1780 John Townson Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott 1781 by-election John Pennington[7] 1787 by-election William Popham 1790 William Coles Medlycott 1791 by-election Richard Johnson 1794 by-election Colonel Mark Wood 1796 Lord Paget Sir Robert Ainslie 1802 Hugh Leycester 1804 by-election Captain Charles Paget 1806 Lord Paget January 1810 by-election Viscount Lewisham December 1810 Hon. Sir Edward Paget Tory 1812 Robert Matthew Casberd Tory 1820 Hon. Berkeley Paget Tory Thomas North Graves Tory 1826 Arthur Chichester Whig 1827 by-election John Henry North Tory 1830 George Stephens Byng Whig William Sturges-Bourne Tory 4 March 1831 by-election Richard Lalor Sheil Whig 14 March 1831 by-election Captain George Stephens Byng Whig July 1831 by-election Philip Cecil Crampton Whig 1832 Constituency abolished Notes
- ^ Lord Digby was also elected for Dorset, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Milborne Port
- ^ Medlycott was re-elected at the general election of 1708, but had also been elected for Westminster, and did not sit for Milborne Port in that Parliament
- ^ a b At the by-election of 1717, Harvey was initially declared elected by 27 votes to 22, but after considering a petition alleging gross bribery the House of Commons overturned the result and declared his opponent, Stanhope, to have been elected instead
- ^ At the 1747 general election, there was a double return for Milborne Port: Jeffrey French, Michael Harvey, Charles Churchill and Thomas Medlycott, junior were all returned (see London Gazette: no. 8660. p. 2. 21 July 1747. Retrieved 20 November 2010.). The first two (i.e. French, Harvey) were seated (see Stooks Smith, page 535)
- ^ a b The result of the 1772 by-election was overturned on petition in May 1772, and Richard Combe was unseated in favour of George Prescott (Stooks Smith, p. 535)
- ^ At the by-election of 1772, Combe was initially declared elected but on petition the result was overturned and his opponent, Prescott, was seated
- ^ Created The Lord Muncaster (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1783
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, Volume 3 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1850) [3]
- Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [4]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
See also
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1628
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1832
- Rotten boroughs
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