- Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Ashburton Former County constituency for the House of Commons County Devon Major settlements Ashburton 1885–1918 Number of members One 1640–1868 Number of members Two (1640–1832); One (1832–1868) Type of constituency Borough constituency Ashburton was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament at Westminster, for one Parliament in 1298 and regularly from 1640 until it was abolished for the 1868 general election. It was one of three Devon borough constituencies newly enfranchised (or re-enfranchised after a gap of centuries) in the Long Parliament. It returned two Members of Parliament until the 1832 general election when the number was reduced to one MP.
From the 1885 general election Ashburton was revived as a county division of Devon. It returned one member until it was abolished from the 1918 general election.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Ashburton borough 1640-1868
MPs 1640–1832
Election First member First party Second member Second party November 1640 Sir John Northcote Parliamentarian Sir Edmund Fowell Parliamentarian December 1648 Northcote and Fowell excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant 1653 Ashburton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 Thomas Reynell John Fowell May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 Sir William Courtenay John Fowell [1] 1661 Sir George Sondes 1677 William Stawell Rawlin Mallock February 1679 Thomas Reynell September 1679 Richard Duke 1681 William Stawell 1685 Edward Yarde 1689 Sir Walter Yonge Thomas Reynell 1690 William Stawell Sir Richard Reynell 1695 Richard Duke 1701 Sir Thomas Lear 1702 Richard Reynell 1705 Gilbert Yarde January 1708 Roger Tuckfield May 1708 Robert Balle 1710 [2] Richard Lloyd March 1711 Richard Reynell George Courtenay [3] March 1711 Andrew Quick 1713 Roger Tuckfield 1734 Sir William Yonge [4] Whig 1735 Thomas Bladen 1739 Joseph Taylor 1741 John Harris John Arscott 1754 The Viscount Midleton 1761 Hon. Thomas Walpole 1767 Robert Palk 1768 Laurence Sulivan Charles Boone 1774 Robert Palk [5] 1784 Robert Mackreth [6] 1787 Lawrence Palk [7] 1796 Walter Palk 1802 Sir Hugh Inglis 1806 Hon. Gilbert Elliot Whig 1807 Lord Charles Bentinck 1811 John Sullivan 1812 Richard Preston 1818 Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk Sir John Singleton Copley Tory 1826 William Sturges Bourne Tory 1830 Charles Arbuthnot Tory February 1831 William Stephen Poyntz May 1831 Robert Torrens 1832 Representation reduced to one Member MPs 1632–1868
Election Member Party 1832 William Stephen Poyntz Whig 1835 Charles Lushington Whig 1841 William Jardine Whig 1843 by-election James Sutherland Matheson [8] Whig 1847 Thomas Matheson Whig 1852 George Moffatt Whig 1859 John Harvey Astell Conservative 1865 Robert Jardine Liberal 1868 Constituency abolished Mid or Ashburton division of Devon 1885-1918
Election Member Party 1885 Charles Seale-Hayne Liberal 1904 by-election Harry Trelawney Eve Liberal 1908 by-election Captain Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell Liberal Unionist January 1910 Charles Roden Buxton Liberal December 1910 Captain Ernest Fitzroy Morrison-Bell Conservative 1918 Constituency abolished Notes
- ^ Succeeded as 2nd Baronet, 1674
- ^ At the election of 1710, Lloyd and Tuckfield were returned but on petition both were found not to have been duly elected (in a dispute over the franchise), and Reynell and Courtenay were declared elected in their place
- ^ Courtenay had also been elected for Newport (Cornwall), which he chose to represent; on his being declared duly elected for Ashburton a new writ for a by-election was immediately issued, and Courtenay never sat for Ashburton
- ^ Yonge was also elected for Honiton, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Ashburton
- ^ Created a baronet, May 1782
- ^ Knighted, May 1795
- ^ Palk was re-elected in 1796 but was also elected for Devon, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Ashburton again
- ^ Created a baronet, 1850
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)
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- British History Online - list of speakers in the Parliaments of 1656 and 1658-9
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Devon (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1640
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1868
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
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- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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