- Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)
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Minehead Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1563–1832 Number of members Two Minehead was a parliamentary borough in Somerset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Contents
Members of Parliament
MPs 1563–1629
- Constituency probably established 1563[1]
Parliament First member Second member Parliament of 1563-1567 Thomas Luttrell Thomas Fitzwilliams Parliament of 1571 John Coles Thomas Mallet Parliament of 1572-1581 Dominicus Chester Richard Cabell Parliament of 1584-1585 George Luttrell Edward Rogers Parliament of 1586-1587 John Luttrell Robert Crosse Parliament of 1588-1589 Benedict Barnham Parliament of 1593 Richard Hanbury James Quirke Parliament of 1597-1598 William Bampfield Conrad Powle (or Powlet?) Parliament of 1601 Dr Francis James Lewis Lashbrooke Parliament of 1604-1611 Sir Ambrose Turville Sir Maurice Berkeley Addled Parliament (1614) No return made Parliament of 1621-1622 Francis Pearce Sir Robert Lloyd[2] Happy Parliament (1624-1625) Dr Arthur Duck Sir Arthur Lake Useless Parliament (1625) Francis Luttrell Charles Pyne Parliament of 1625-1626 Hugh Wyndham Parliament of 1628-1629 Thomas Horner Edward Wyndham No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 MPs 1640–1832
Year First member First party Second member Second party April 1640 Francis Wyndham Alexander Popham [3] 1640 Dr Arthur Duck November 1640 Alexander Luttrell [4] Parliamentarian Sir Francis Popham Parliamentarian 1642 Thomas Hanham Royalist January 1644 Hanham disabled from sitting - seat vacant August 1644 Popham died - seat vacant 1645 Walter Strickland Edward Popham December 1648 Popham not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge 1653 Minehead was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 Richard Hutchinson Colonel Alexander Popham May 1659 Walter Strickland One seat vacant 1660 Francis Luttrell Charles Pym 1661 Sir Hugh Wyndham 1666 Sir John Malet 1673 Thomas Wyndham February 1679 Francis Luttrell September 1679 Thomas Palmer 1685 Nathaniel Palmer September 1690 John Sanford October 1690 Alexander Luttrell 1698 Sir Jacob Banks 1708 Sir John Trevelyan 1715 [5] Sir William Wyndham April 1717 [6] Samuel Edwin Thomas Gage May 1717 Sir John Trevelyan James Milner 1721 Sir Richard Lane [7] January 1722 Robert Mansel March 1722 Thomas Hales 1723 Francis Whitworth 1727 Alexander Luttrell 1737 Sir William Codrington 1739 Thomas Carew 1742 John Periam 1747 Percy Wyndham-O'Brien Charles Whitworth 1754 Daniel Boone 1761 Henry Shiffner The Earl of Thomond 1768 Henry Fownes-Luttrell Sir Charles Whitworth October 1774 John Fownes Luttrell Tory December 1774 Thomas Pownall 1780 Francis Fownes-Luttrell 1783 Henry Beaufoy [8] 1784 Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps 1786 Robert Wood 1790 Viscount Parker Tory 1795 Thomas Fownes Luttrell Tory 1796 John Langston Tory 1802 John Patteson Tory 1806 The Lord Rancliffe Whig Sir John Lethbridge Tory January 1807 John Fownes Luttrell Tory May 1807 John Denison Tory 1812 John Fownes Luttrell, junior Tory 1816 Henry Fownes Luttrell Tory 1822 John Douglas Tory 1826 James Blair Tory 1830 William Edward Tomline Tory 1831 Viscount Villiers Tory 1832 Constituency abolished Notes
- ^ Most sources date Minehead's enfranchisement from 1563, which seems clearly implied by the House of Commons Journals, but Browne Willis gives two names (Thomas Fitzwilliams and John Fowler) as the town's representatives in the 1559 Parliament. Sir John Neale notes that the names differ from those given for 1563 "which normally is a sign of reliability"
- ^ This is the name given by Cobbett, whereas Browne Willis lists "Tho. Wentworth, Kt". There were two Thomas Wentworths in the House, but both sat for other constituencies, as Browne Willis correctly also records - "Tho. Wentworth, Kt. and Bart." for Yorkshire and "Tho. Wentworth Esq" for Oxford City. While it is possible that either of these might also have been elected for Minehead and chosen to sit for their other constituency, allowing Lloyd to be elected in their place, Browne Willis usually records this, and neither could correctly be described as "Tho. Wentworth, Kt" at that time, although of course an error is perfectly possible.
- ^ Popham was also elected for Bath, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Minehead
- ^ Died June 1642
- ^ The election of 1715 was declared void on petition, and Wyndham and Trevelyan declared not duly elected. A by-election was held
- ^ The by-election of 1717 was declared void on petition (in a dispute over the franchise), and Edwin and Gage declared not duly elected. Trevelyan and Milner were declared elected in their place
- ^ Lane was declared not to have been duly elected
- ^ Beaufoy was re-elected in 1784, but had also been elected for Great Yarmouth, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Minehead
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]
- 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)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [3]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1563
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1832
- Rotten boroughs
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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