Milborne Port (UK Parliament constituency)
Milborne Port is a former parliamentary borough located in Somerset. It elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons between 1298 and 1307 and again from 1628, but was disenfranchised in the Reform Act 1832 as a rotten borough.
| Milborne Port | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Somerset |
| Major settlements | Milborne Port |
| 1628–1832 | |
| Seats | Two |
Members of Parliament
Milborne Port re-franchised in 1628
| Year | 1st member | 1st party | 2nd member | 2nd party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1628 | Philip Digby | Sir Nathaniel Napier | ||||
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | ||||||
MPs 1640–1832
| Year | 1st member | 1st party | 2nd member | 2nd party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Edward Kyrton | Royalist | Thomas Erle | |||
| November 1640 | Lord Digby[1] | Royalist | ||||
| 1640 (?) | John Digby | Royalist | ||||
| August 1642 | Kyrton and Digby disabled from sitting – both seats vacant | |||||
| 1645 | William Carent | Thomas Grove | ||||
| December 1648 | Grove excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Milborne Port was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654,1656 | Milborne Port was unrepresented in the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments | |||||
| January 1659 | William Carent | Robert Hunt | ||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | William Milborne | Michael Malet | ||||
| August 1660 | Francis Wyndham | |||||
| 1677 | John Hunt | |||||
| February 1679 | William Lacy | |||||
| August 1679 | Henry Bull | |||||
| 1689 | Thomas Saunders | |||||
| 1690 | Sir Thomas Travell | Sir Charles Carteret | ||||
| January 1701 | Sir Richard Newman | |||||
| December 1701 | Henry Thynne | |||||
| 1702 | John Hunt | |||||
| 1705 | Thomas Medlycott[2] | |||||
| 1709 | Thomas Smith | |||||
| 1710 | James Medlycott | |||||
| 1715 | John Cox | |||||
| June 1717 | Michael Harvey[3] | |||||
| July 1717 [3] | Charles Stanhope | |||||
| 1722 | Michael Harvey | George Speke | ||||
| 1727 | Thomas Medlycott | |||||
| 1734 | Thomas Medlycott, junior | |||||
| 1741 | Jeffrey French | |||||
| 1742 by-election | Michael Harvey | |||||
| 1747[4] | ||||||
| 1748 by-election | Thomas Medlycott, junior | |||||
| 1754 | Edward Walter | |||||
| 1763 by-election | Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott | |||||
| 1770 by-election | Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough | |||||
| April 1772 by-election [5] | Richard Combe[6] | |||||
| May 1772 [5] | George Prescott | |||||
| 1774 | Hon. Temple Luttrell | Captain Charles Wolseley | ||||
| 1780 | John Townson | Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott | ||||
| 1781 by-election | John Pennington[7] | |||||
| 1787 by-election | William Popham | |||||
| 1790 | William Medlycott | |||||
| 1791 by-election | Richard Johnson | |||||
| 1794 by-election | Colonel Mark Wood | |||||
| 1796 | Lord Paget | Sir Robert Ainslie | ||||
| 1802 | Hugh Leycester | |||||
| 1804 by-election | Captain Charles Paget | |||||
| 1806 | Lord Paget | |||||
| January 1810 by-election | Viscount Lewisham | |||||
| December 1810 | Hon. Sir Edward Paget | Tory | ||||
| 1812 | Robert Matthew Casberd | Tory | ||||
| 1820 | Hon. Berkeley Paget | Tory | Thomas Graves | Tory | ||
| 1826 | Arthur Chichester | Whig | ||||
| 1827 by-election | John Henry North | Tory | ||||
| 1830 | George Byng | Whig | William Sturges-Bourne | Tory | ||
| 4 March 1831 by-election | Richard Lalor Sheil | Whig | ||||
| 14 March 1831 by-election | Captain George Byng | Whig | ||||
| July 1831 by-election | Philip Cecil Crampton | Whig | ||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | |||||
Notes
- Lord Digby was also elected for Dorset, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Milborne Port
- Medlycott was re-elected at the general election of 1708, but had also been elected for Westminster, and did not sit for Milborne Port in that Parliament
- At the by-election of 1717, Harvey was initially declared elected by 27 votes to 22, but after considering a petition alleging gross bribery the House of Commons overturned the result and declared his opponent, Stanhope, to have been elected instead
- At the 1747 general election, there was a double return for Milborne Port: Jeffrey French, Michael Harvey, Charles Churchill and Thomas Medlycott, junior were all returned (see "No. 8660". The London Gazette. 21 July 1747. p. 2.). The first two (i.e. French, Harvey) were seated (see Stooks Smith, page 535)
- The result of the 1772 by-election was overturned on petition in May 1772, and Richard Combe was unseated in favour of George Prescott (Stooks Smith, p. 535)
- At the by-election of 1772, Combe was initially declared elected but on petition the result was overturned and his opponent, Prescott, was seated
- Created The Lord Muncaster (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1783
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- 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)
- 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, Volume 3 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1850)
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.
See also
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