Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Hastings
Type = Borough
Year = 1366
Abolition = 1983
members = one

Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.

It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Hastings and Rye constituency.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1366-1640

* 1563-1567: Sir William Daunsell
* 1563-1567: Richard Lyffe
* 1597-1598: Edmund Pelham
* 1604-1611: Sir Edward Hales
* 1604-1611: Sir George Carew [Cobbett's "Parliamentary History" records the second member for Hastings in the 1604 Parliament as being James Lasher, but this seems to be an error; Lasher is mentioned only in the Commons Journal from 1621 while Carew was certainly a member in 1604, and other sources name his constituency as Hastings]
* 1614: Sir Edward Hales
* 1621-1622: James Lasher
* 1621-1622: Samuel Moore
* 1625: Sackville Crowe

1640-1885

1885-1983

Notes

Election results

References

*Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=024wW9LmFc5kXY0FI2&id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&printsec=toc&dq=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament&as_brr=1&sig=SK5GVtGLfWQ9ovZDbyZObAyIO5I#PPP9,M1]
*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) [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]
*F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
* J E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
*Rayment