- Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
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Dorset Former County constituency for the House of Commons County Dorset 1290–1885 Number of members 1290–1832: Two
1832–1885: ThreeReplaced by North Dorset
South Dorset, East Dorset
West DorsetDorset was a county constituency covering Dorset in southern England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England from 1290 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832.
The Great Reform Act increased its representation to three MPs with effect from the 1832 general election, and under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the constituency was abolished for the 1885 election, and replaced by four single-member divisions: North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset and West Dorset.
When elections were contested, the bloc vote system was used, but contests were rare. Even after the 1832 Reforms, only three of the nineteen elections before 1885 were contested; in the others, the nominated candidates were returned without a vote.[1]
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History
Members of Parliament
Before 1640
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Parliament First member Second member 1376 Sir Thomas Blount 1386 Sir Stephen Derby John Frome [2] 1388 (Feb) Sir Robert Turberville John Frome [2] 1388 (Sep) Sir Humphrey Stafford I Sir John Moigne [2] 1390 (Jan) Sir Humphrey Stafford I John Frome [2] 1390 (Nov) Sir Stephen Derby Theobald Wykeham [2] 1391 Sir Humphrey Stafford I Sir John Hamely [2] 1393 Sir Humphrey Stafford I Sir John Moigne [2] 1394 Sir Stephen Derby John Perle [2] 1395 Sir Humphrey Stafford I Theobald Wykeham [2] 1397 (Jan) Sir Humphrey Stafford I Sir John Moigne [2] 1397 (Sep) John Bathe William Martin [2] 1399 Sir Humphrey Stafford I John Frome [2] 1401 Sir Humphrey Stafford I John Frome [2] 1402 Sir William Cheyne John Bathe [2] 1404 (Jan) Sir Humphrey Stafford I John Frome [2] 1404 (Oct) Sir John Devereux John Frampton [2] 1406 Sir Humphrey Stafford I Sir Ivo Fitzwaryn [2] 1407 Sir Humphrey Stafford I Sir Ivo Fitzwaryn [2] 1410 Sir Humphrey Stafford I William Stourton [2] 1411 1413 (Feb) 1413 (May) Thomas Brooke William Stourton[2] 1414 (Apr) Sir Humphrey Stafford II William Filoll [2] 1414 (Nov) Sir Humphrey Stafford II John Chideock [2] 1415 1416 (Mar) 1416 (Oct) 1417 Sir Humphrey Stafford II Robert More [2] 1419 Sir Humphrey Stafford II Ralph Bush [2] 1420 Sir Humphrey Stafford II William Carent [2] 1421 (May) Sir Humphrey Stafford II Robert Lovell [2] 1421 (Dec) Sir John Horsey John Roger [2] 1431 John Hody 1510–1523 No names known 1529 Sir Giles Strangways I John Horsey 1536 ? 1539 Sir Giles Strangways I Sir John Horsey 1542 ? 1545 Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Rogers 1547 Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Rogers 1553 (Mar) ? 1553 (Oct) Sir John Horsey Sir Giles Strangeways Parliament of 1554 John Lewson Parliament of 1554-1555 Sir Henry Ashley Richard Phelips Parliament of 1555 Sir John Rogers Sir Giles Strangeways Parliament of 1558 Sir Oliver Laurence Parliament of 1559 Sir John Rogers Thomas Strangeways Parliament of 1563-1567 Sir Henry Ashley Thomas Howard Parliament of 1571 John Horsey Sir William Pawlet Parliament of 1572-1581 Richard Rogers John Strode Parliament of 1584-1585 George Trenchard John Fitzjames Parliament of 1586-1587 Ralph Horsey Andrew Rogers Parliament of 1588-1589 Sir John Wolley Parliament of 1593 Thomas Hussey Arthur Gorges Parliament of 1597-1598 Sir Ralph Horsey Sir Walter Raleigh Parliament of 1601 George Trenchard Sir Edmund Uvedall Parliament of 1604-1611 Sir Thomas Freke John Williams Addled Parliament (1614) Sir Mervyn Audley Sir John Strangways Parliament of 1621-1622 Sir Thomas Trenchard Happy Parliament (1624-1625) Sir George Hussey Useless Parliament (1625) Sir Walter Erle Sir Nathaniel Napier Parliament of 1625-1626 Sir George Morton Sir Thomas Freke Parliament of 1628-1629 Sir George Hussey Sir John Strangways No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 MPs 1640–1832
Year First member First party Second member Second party April 1640 Lord Digby Royalist Richard Rogers Royalist November 1640 1641 John Browne Parliamentarian September 1642 Rogers disabled from sitting - seat vacant 1645 Sir Thomas Trenchard December 1648 Trenchard did not sit after Pride's Purge - seat vacant 1653 William Sydenham John Bingham Dorset had six seats in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate 1654 William Sydenham, John Bingham, Sir Walter Earle, John Fitzjames, John Trenchard, Henry Henley 1656 William Sydenham, John Bingham, Robert Coker, John Fitzjames, John Trenchard, James Dewey Dorset reverted to two seats in the Third Protectorate Parliament January 1659 Sir Walter Earle John Bingham May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 John Fitzjames Robert Coker Apr 1661 John Strode Giles Strangways 1675 Lord Digby 1677 Thomas Browne 1679 Thomas Strangways I Thomas Freke 1701 Thomas Trenchard 1702 Thomas Chafin 1711 Richard Bingham 1713 George Chafin Thomas Strangways II Jan 1727 George Pitt Sep 1727 Edmund Morton Pleydell 1747 George Pitt Tory
later Independent1754 Humphrey Sturt 1774 Hon. George Pitt 1784 Francis John Brown 1790 William Morton Pitt 1806 Edward Berkeley Portman I 1823 Edward Portman II 1826 Henry Bankes 1831 John Calcraft Whig 1832 Lord Ashley Tory 1832 Representation increased to 3 members MPs 1832–1885
Election First member First party [1] Second member Second party [1] Third member Third party [1] 1832 Lord Ashley Conservative William John Bankes Conservative Hon. William Ponsonby Whig 1835 Henry Sturt Conservative 1837 Hon. John Fox-Strangways Whig 1841 George Bankes Conservative 1846 by-election Henry Ker Seymer Conservative John Floyer Conservative 1856 by-election Henry Sturt Conservative 1857 Hon. Henry Portman Liberal 1864 by-election John Floyer Conservative 1876 by-election Hon. Edward Digby Conservative 1885 Constituency divided among North, South, East, and West Dorset. Election results
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Notes
- ^ a b c d Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 376–377. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/dorset. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
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]
- 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)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Heywood Townshend, Historical Collections:: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth (1680) [2]
- British History Online - 'List of members nominated for Parliament of 1653', Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 4: March - April 1659 (1828),
- 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 1290
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
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