- Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency)
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Dorchester was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 to 1868, when its representation was reduced one member.
The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election.
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Members of Parliament
1295-1629
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Parliament First member Second member Second Parliament of 1553 Christopher Hoole William Holeman Parliament of 1554 Owen Heyman Parliament of 1554-1555 John Davy Parliament of 1555 ? Robertson Ralph Perne Parliament of 1558 Christopher Hoole John Hayward Parliament of 1559 William Holeman John Lewston Parliament of 1563-1567 Thomas Marten Lewis Montgomery Chose to sit for Northampton
By-election John GardenerParliament of 1571 Henry Macwilliams William Adyn Parliament of 1572-1581 George Carleton George Trenchard Parliament of 1584-1585 Robert Beale Thomas Freake Parliament of 1586-1587 Robert Napier Parliament of 1588-1589 Noel Sotherton Parliament of 1593 Dr Francis James Robert Dabridgecourt Parliament of 1597-1598 Robert Ashley Richard Wright Parliament of 1601 Francis Bronker Matthew Chubb Parliament of 1604-1611 John Spicer Addled Parliament (1614) (Sir) Francis Ashley[1] George Horsey Parliament of 1621-1622 John Barkins Happy Parliament (1624-1625) William Whitby Richard Bulstrode Useless Parliament (1625) Sir Francis Ashley William Whiteway Parliament of 1625-1626 Michael Humphreys Nicholas Bulstrode Parliament of 1628-1629 Denzil Holles John Hill No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 1640-1868
Year First Member First Party Second Member Second Party April 1640 Denzil Holles[2] Parliamentarian Denis Bond Parliamentarian November 1640 December 1648 Holles excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant 1653 Dorchester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament 1654 John Whiteway Dorchester had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate1656 John Whiteway January 1659 James Gould John Bulstrode May 1659 Dorchester was not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 Denzil Holles John Whiteway March 1661 James Gould May 1661 John Churchill 1677 James Gould 1679 Sir Francis Holles Nicholas Gould 1680 James Gould 1681 Nathaniel Bond 1685 Edward Meller William Churchill January 1689 Gerard Napier Thomas Trenchard December 1689 Thomas Chafin March 1690 James Gould Sir Robert Napier, Bt December 1690 Thomas Trenchard 1695 Nathaniel Bond Nathaniel Napier 1698 Sir Robert Napier, Bt 1701 Thomas Trenchard 1702 Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bt 1705 Awnsham Churchill 1708 John Churchill 1709 Denis Bond 1710 Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bt Benjamin Gifford 1713 Henry Trenchard April 1720 Robert Browne [3] May 1720 Abraham Janssen 1722 Edmund Morton Pleydell [4] Joseph Damer 1723 William Chapple 1727 John Browne 1737 Robert Browne 1741 Nathaniel Gundry 1751 George Damer John Pitt 1752 George Clavell 1754 The Lord Milton 1761 Thomas Foster 1762 John Damer 1765 William Ewer 1780 Hon. George Damer [5] 1789 Thomas Ewer 1790 Hon. Cropley Ashley 1790 Francis Fane 1791 Hon. Cropley Ashley 1807 Robert Williams 1811 Charles Henry Bouverie October 1812 Robert Williams December 1812 William A'Court 1814 Sir Samuel Shepherd 1819 Charles Warren 1826 William Ashley-Cooper 1830 Henry Sturt 1830 Lord Ashley Tory 1831 Hon. Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper Tory 1835 Conservative Robert Williams Conservative 1841 Sir James Graham, Bt Conservative 1847 Hon. George Dawson-Damer Conservative Henry Sturt Conservative 1852 Richard Brinsley Sheridan [6] Liberal 1856 Charles Napier Sturt Conservative 1868 representation reduced to one member 1868-1885
Election Member Party 1868 representation reduced to one member 1868 Charles Napier Sturt Conservative 1874 William Ernest Brymer Conservative 1885 constituency abolished Notes
- ^ Cobbett gives Ashley as having been re-elected in 1621; however, Browne Willis lists Sir Thomas Edmunds as MP
- ^ Disabled from sitting January 1648 but re-instated June 1648
- ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Browne was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Janssen, was seated in his place
- ^ On petition, Pleydell was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Chapple, was seated in his place
- ^ Damer was declared re-elected in 1790, but on petition was found not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Ashley, was seated in his place
- ^ Sheridan was the grandson of his celebrated namesake Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- M Stenton (ed), Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885 (The Harvester Press, 1976)
- Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [3]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1295
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
- Dorchester
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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