- Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency)
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Marlborough Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1295–1885 Number of members two (1295-1868); one (1868-1885) Marlborough was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished. e
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History
Members of Parliament
1295-1640
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- 1386: Thomas Cryps; John Jenewyne [1]
- 1388 (Feb): John Curteys I; John Wyly [1]
- 1388 (Sep): John Curteys I; John Wyly [1]
- 1390 (Jan): Thomas Calston; Robert Warner [1]
- 1390 (Nov):
- 1391:
- 1393: John Curteys I; Thomas Lechenore [1]
- 1394: John Curteys I; Richard Frys [1]
- 1395: John Curteys I; Robert Drake [1]
- 1397 (Jan):
- 1397 (Sep): John Canynges; Nicholas Cley [1]
- 1399: Thomas Cryps; Thomas Cook [1]
- 1401:
- 1402: Richard Collingbourne; John Bird [1]
- 1404 (Jan):
- 1404 (Oct):
- 1406: Thomas Heose; Nicholas Tympeneye [1]
- 1407:
- 1410:
- 1411:
- 1413 (Feb):
- 1413 (May): John Bird; William Byllyngtre [1]
- 1414 (Apr): Thomas Hathaway; William Alcliffe [1]
- 1414 (Nov): Thomas Hathaway; John Bird [1]
- 1415: John Bird; Thomas Newman [1]
- 1416 (Mar): Thomas Newman; Nicholas Swan [1]
- 1416 (Oct):
- 1417: William Hungate; Hugh Gower [1]
- 1419:
- 1420: Hugh Gower; Nicholas Swan [1]
- 1421 (May): Hugh Gower; Laurence Fitton [1]
- 1421 (Dec): Hugh Gower; John Giles [1]
- 1510-1523: No names known [2]
- 1529: Edmund Darrell; Henry Bagot [2]
- 1536: ?
- 1539: ?John Berwick; ?John Thynne [2]
- 1542: ?William Barnes; ?John Thynne [2]
- 1545: John Thynne ; Andrew Baynton [2]
- 1547: Humphrey Moseley; Thomas Smith [2]
- 1553 (Mar): William Button; Roger Colly [2]
- 1553 (Oct): Robert Weare alias Brown; Robert Bithway [2]
- 1554 (Apr): Owen Gwyn; Thomas Tyndale [2]
- 1554 (Nov): Peter Taylor alias Perce; John Broke [2]
- 1555: Andrew Baynton; Gabriel Pleydell [2]
- 1558: William Daniell; William Fleetwood [2]
- 1559: William Daniell; John Young II[3]
- 1562/3: Michael Blount; Leonard Dannett [3]
- 1571: John Cornwall; Philip Godwyn [3]
- 1572: Nicholas St John; John Stanhope [3]
- 1584: Henry Ughtred; Edward Stanhope II [3]
- 1586: Edward Stanhope II ; Edmund Hungerford [3]
- 1588: Richard Wheler; John Cornwall [3]
- 1593: Richard Wheler; Anthony Hungerford [3]
- 1597: Richard Diggs; Richard Wheler [3]
- 1601: Richard Diggs; Lawrence Hyde
- 1604-1611: Lawrence Hyde; Richard Diggs
- 1614: Richard Diggs; Sir Francis Popham
- 1621: William Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, ennobled 1621 and replaced by Walter Devereux; Richard Diggs
- 1624: Sir Francis Seymour; Richard Diggs
- 1625: Richard Diggs; Edward Kyrton
- 1626: Richard Diggs; Edward Kyrton
- 1628: Richard Diggs; Henry Piercy
- 1629–1640: No Parliaments summoned
1640-1868
Year First member First party Second member Second party March 1640 Sir William Carnaby Royalist Francis Baskerville November 1640 John Francklyn Parliamentarian Sir Francis Seymour Royalist 1641 Philip Smith Parliamentarian 1645 Charles Fleetwood 1653 Marlborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament 1654 Charles Fleetwood Marlborough had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate1656 Jeremy Sankey January 1659 Thomas Grove James Hayes May 1659 Charles Fleetwood Philip Smith April 1660 Henry Hungerford Jeffrey Daniel 1661 Lord John Seymour 1673 Sir John Elwes February 1679 Thomas Bennet Edward Goddard August 1679 Lord Bruce 1685 Sir John Ernle Sir George Willoughby January 1695 Thomas Bennet November 1695 William Daniell 1698 The Earl of Ranelagh William Grinfield January 1701 John Jeffreys November 1701 Robert Yard July 1702 Robert Bruce November 1702 Edward Jeffreys May 1705 Edward Ashe John Jeffreys November 1705 Earl of Hertford [4] May 1708 Robert Bruce December 1708 Sir Edward Ernle 1710 Lord Bruce 1712 Richard Jones 1713 Gabriel Roberts 1715 Sir William Humphreys Joshua Ward [5] 1717 Gabriel Roberts March 1722 Earl of Hertford [6] October 1722 Thomas Gibson 1727 Edward Lisle [7] 1734 Francis Seymour 1737 John Crawley 1741 Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet 1747 John Talbot 1752 Sir John Hynde Cotton, 4th Baronet 1754 Hon. John Ward 1761 Lord Brudenell Colonel the Hon. Robert Brudenell 1762 (Sir) James Long [8] Tory 1768 Hon. James Brudenell 1780 The Earl of Courtown Tory William Woodley 1784 Sir Philip Hales 1790 Major-General the Hon. Thomas Bruce 1793 Earl of Dalkeith 1796 Lord Bruce Hon. James Bruce 1797 Robert Brudenell 1802 James Henry Leigh 1806 Earl of Dalkeith 1807 Viscount Stopford Tory 1810 Hon. Edward Stopford 1814 William Hill 1818 John Wodehouse Lord Brudenell Tory 1826 Earl Bruce Liberal 13 March 1829 Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt Tory 23 March 1829 William John Bankes Tory 1832 Lord Ernest Bruce Conservative Henry Bingham Baring Conservative 1857 Whig Whig 1859 Liberal Liberal 1868 Representation reduced to one member 1868-1885
Year Member Party 1868 Lord Ernest Bruce Liberal 1878 Lord Charles Bruce Liberal 1885 Constituency abolished Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/marlborough. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/marlborough. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/marlborough. Retrieved 2011-10-30. - ^ Hertford was re-elected in 1708, but had also been elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
- ^ On petition, Ward was declared not to have been duly elected
- ^ Hertford was also elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
- ^ Lisle was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for Hampshire; however, the result there was disputed. He continued to sit for Marlborough until the Hampshire petition was withdrawn in 1737, then chose to sit for Hampshire for the rest of the Parliament
- ^ Succeeded as baronet and adopted the surname Tylney-Long in 1767
Election results
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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)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
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- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1295
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