- Northallerton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Northallerton Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1640–1885 Northallerton was a parliamentary borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1640 to 1832, and by one member from 1832 until 1885.
The constituency consisted of the market town of Northallerton, the county town of the North Riding. In 1831 it encompassed only 622 houses and a population of 3,004. The right to vote was vested in the holders of the burgage tenements, of which there were roughly 200 - most of which were ruined or consisted only of stables or cowhouses, and had no value except for the vote which was attached to them. As in most other burgage boroughs, the ownership of the burgages had early become concentrated in the hands of a single family, who in effect had a free hand to nominate both MPs. At the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, the patrons were the Earl of Harewood and Henry Peirse, who was the Earl's brother-in-law.
Under the Reform Act, the boundaries were extended to include neighbouring Romanby and Brompton, increasing the population to 4,839, and its representation was reduced to a single member. The Act also, of course, extended the franchise.
At the 1885 election, the constituency was abolished, being absorbed into the new Richmond division of the North Riding.
Contents
Members of Parliament
MPs 1640–1832
Election First member First party Second member Second party November 1640 Henry Darley Parliamentarian John Wastell Parliamentarian 1653 Northallerton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 James Danby Major George Smithson May 1659 Henry Darley One seat vacant April 1660 Thomas Lascelles Francis Lascelles July 1660 George Marwood[1] 1661 Gilbert Gerard [2] Roger Talbot 1679 Sir Henry Calverley 1685 Sir David Foulis Sir Henry Marwood 1689 Thomas Lascelles Sir William Robinson 1695 Sir William Hustler 1697 Ralph Milbancke 1701 Robert Dormer February 1702 Daniel Lascelles July 1702 John Aislabie Tory November 1702 Robert Dormer May 1705 Sir William Hustler December 1705 Roger Gale 1710 Robert Raikes 1713 Leonard Smelt Henry Peirse 1715 Cholmley Turner 1722 Henry Peirse 1740 William Smelt 1745 Henry Lascelles 1752 Daniel Lascelles 1754 Edwin Lascelles Tory 1761 Edward Lascelles Tory 1774 Henry Peirse (younger) Whig 1780 Edwin Lascelles Tory 1790 Edward Lascelles Tory 1796 Viscount Lascelles Tory 1814 John Bacon Sawrey Morritt Tory 1818 Viscount Lascelles Tory 1820 William Lascelles Whig 1824 Marcus Beresford Whig 1826 Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford Tory Henry Lascelles Tory 1831 William Lascelles Tory MPs 1832–1885
Election Member Party 1832 Representation reduced to one member 1832 John George Boss Whig 1835 William Battie-Wrightson Whig 1857 Liberal 1865 Charles Mills [3] Conservative 1866 Hon. Egremont William Lascelles Conservative 1868 John Hutton Conservative 1874 George William Elliot Conservative 1885 Constituency abolished: see Richmond (Yorks) Notes
- ^ Created a baronet as Sir George Marwood, December 1660
- ^ Created a baronet as Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1665
- ^ Mills' election was declared void on petition, and a by-election held in which he did not stand as a candidate
References
- 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) [1]
- 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" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
Categories:- History of North Yorkshire
- Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1640
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
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