Lymington (UK Parliament constituency)

Lymington
Lymington
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1584–1885
Seats	Two (1584–1868);; One (1868–1885)
Replaced by	New Forest

Lymington was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

Members of Parliament edit

1584-1640 edit

Parliament	First member	Second member
1584	Anthony Cooke	Richard Cooke^[1]
1586 (Oct)	Francis Keilway	William Wallop^[1]
1588 (Oct)	Francis Keilway	William White^[1]
1593	Richard Blount	John Knight^[1]
1597 (Oct)	Thomas West	Henry Wallop^[1]
1601 (Oct)	Sir Francis Darcy	Thomas Ridley^[1]
1604	Thomas Marshal	Thomas South
1614	Philip Fleming	Charles Thynne
1621-1622	Sir William Doddington	Henry Crompton
1624	Nicholas Ferrar	John More
1625	John Button	John Mills
1626	Herbert Doddington	John More
1628–1629	Herbert Doddington	Richard Whitehead
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1868 edit

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
November 1640		John Doddington			John Kempe
November 1640		John Button	Parliamentarian		Henry Campion	Parliamentarian
December 1648	Button excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant			Campion not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653	Lymington was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		John Button			Richard Whitehead
May 1659		Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		John Button			Henry Bromfield
1661		Sir William Lewis			John Bulkeley
1663		Sir William Lewis			Sir Nicholas Steward
1678		Sir Richard Knight			Sir Nicholas Steward
February 1679		John Button			Bartholomew Bulkeley
May 1679		John Button			John Burrard
1680		Henry Dawley
1685		Richard Holt
1690		Thomas Dore
May 1698					William Tulse
July 1698					George Burrard
1701					Paul Burrard
May 1705					Paul Burrard, junior
December 1705		Marquess of Winchester
1708		Richard Chaundler
1710		Lord William Powlett^[2]
1713		Lord William Powlett^[2]			Sir Joseph Jekyll	Whig
April 1715		Richard Chaundler			Sir Joseph Jekyll	Whig
March 1722		Lord Harry Powlett^[3]			Paul Burrard, junior
October 1722		Sir Gilbert Heathcote	Whig		Paul Burrard, junior
1727		Lord Nassau Powlett			Anthony Morgan
1729		Lord Nassau Powlett			William Powlett
1734		Sir John Cope, Bt			Colonel Maurice Bocland
May 1741		Lord Nassau Powlett			(Sir) Harry Burrard^[4]
December 1741		(Sir) Charles Powlett^[5]	Whig
1755		Lord Harry Powlett
1761		Adam Drummond^[6]
1769		Hugo Meynell	Whig
1774		Edward Morant
1778		Edward Morant			Henry Goodricke
1780		Thomas Dummer			Harry Burrard^[7]
1781		Edward Gibbon	Whig
1784		Robert Colt
1788		Robert Colt			George Rose	Tory
1790		Harry Burrard			(Sir) Harry Burrard (later Burrard-Neale) ^[8]
1791		Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
1796		William Manning
July 1802					Harry Burrard
December 1802					John Kingston
1806		Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt
1807		George Duckett
1812		Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt	Tory^[9]
1814					John Taylor
1818					William Manning	Tory^[9]
1820					George Finch	Tory^[9]
1821					William Manning	Tory^[9]
1823		Walter Boyd	Tory^[9]		William Manning	Tory^[9]
1826					Guy Lenox Prendergast	Tory^[9]
1827					Thomas Divett
1828					George Burrard	Tory^[9]
1830		William Egerton	Tory^[9]
1831		William Alexander Mackinnon	Tory^[9]
1832		John Stewart	Tory^[9]		Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt	Tory^[9]
1834			Conservative^[9]		Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt	Conservative^[9]
1835			Conservative^[9]		William Alexander Mackinnon	Conservative^[9]
1847		Hon. George Keppel	Whig^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]			Peelite^[13]^[14]^[15]
1850 by-election		Edward John Hutchins	Whig^[16]^[17]^[18]			Peelite^[13]^[14]^[15]
1852		Edward John Hutchins	Whig^[16]^[17]^[18]		Sir John Rivett-Carnac, Bt	Conservative
1857		William Mackinnon (the younger)	Whig
1859			Liberal
1860 by-election			Liberal		Lord George Gordon-Lennox	Conservative
1868	representation reduced to one member

1868-1885 edit

Election		Party
1868	Lord George Gordon-Lennox	Conservative
1874	Edmund Hegan Kennard	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished

Election results edit

Elections in the 1830s edit

General election 1830: Lymington^[9]^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	George Burrard	Unopposed
	Tory	William Egerton	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 38
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

General election 1831: Lymington^[9]^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	George Burrard	Unopposed
	Tory	William Alexander Mackinnon Sr.	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 38
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

General election 1832: Lymington^[20]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Harry Burrard-Neale	158	43.5
	Tory	John Stewart	128	35.3
	Radical	John Blackiston	77	21.2
Majority			51	14.1
Turnout			219	88.0
Registered electors			249
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

General election 1835: Lymington^[20]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	William Alexander Mackinnon Sr.	Unopposed
	Conservative	John Stewart	Unopposed
Registered electors			294
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1837: Lymington^[20]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Stewart	161	40.7
	Conservative	William Alexander Mackinnon Sr.	138	34.8
	Radical	Samuel Gregson	97	24.5
Majority			41	10.3
Turnout			227	76.7
Registered electors			296
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1840s edit

General election 1841: Lymington^[20]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stewart	170	40.0	−0.7
	Conservative	William Alexander Mackinnon Sr.	149	35.1	+0.3
	Whig	George Keppel	106	24.9	+0.4
Majority			43	10.2	−0.1
Turnout			266 (est)	86.5 (est)	c. +9.8
Registered electors			307
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.3

General election 1847: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Keppel	162	37.9	+13.0
	Peelite	William Alexander Mackinnon Sr.	146	34.1	−1.0
	Conservative	John Stewart	120	28.0	−12.0
Turnout			295 (est)	92.8 (est)	+6.3
Registered electors			307
Majority			42	9.9	N/A
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	+9.5
Majority			26	6.1	N/A
	Peelite gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.5

Elections in the 1850s edit

Keppel resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 30 April 1850: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward John Hutchins	121	54.0	+16.1
	Conservative	Andrew Stewart^[21]	103	46.0	+18.0
Majority			18	8.0	-1.9
Turnout			224	78.0 (est)	−14.8
Registered electors			287
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.0

General election 1852: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Rivett-Carnac	201	40.4	+12.4
	Whig	Edward John Hutchins	158	31.7	−6.2
	Peelite	William Alexander Mackinnon Sr.	139	27.9	−6.2
Turnout			249 (est)	73.7 (est)	−19.1
Registered electors			338
Majority			62	12.5	N/A
	Conservative gain from Peelite		Swing	+6.2
Majority			19	3.8	-6.1
	Whig hold		Swing	−6.2

General election 1857: Lymington^[20]^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Alexander Mackinnon Jr.	194	40.8	+9.1
	Conservative	John Rivett-Carnac	187	39.4	−1.0
	Conservative	Warren William Richard Peacocke	83	17.5	N/A
	Whig	Patrick Francis Campbell-Johnstone^[23]	11	2.3	N/A
Turnout			238 (est)	73.5 (est)	−0.2
Registered electors			323
Majority			7	1.4	−2.4
	Whig hold		Swing	+4.8
Majority			176	37.1	+24.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.8

General election 1859: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Alexander Mackinnon Jr.	157	37.2	−5.9
	Conservative	John Rivett-Carnac	140	33.2	−6.2
	Conservative	John Bramley-Moore^[24]	125	29.6	+12.1
Majority			17	4.0	+2.6
Turnout			290 (est)	88.8 (est)	+15.3
Registered electors			326
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.6

Elections in the 1860s edit

Carnac's resignation caused a by-election.

By-election, 24 May 1860: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Gordon-Lennox	147	54.4	−8.4
	Liberal	Henry Grenfell^[25]	123	45.6	+8.4
Majority			24	8.8	N/A
Turnout			270	81.8	−7.0
Registered electors			330
	Conservative hold		Swing	−8.4

General election 1865: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Alexander Mackinnon Jr.	192	49.1	+30.5
	Conservative	George Gordon-Lennox	174	44.5	−18.3
	Liberal	Thomas Norton^[26]	25	6.4	−12.2
Turnout			183 (est)	52.7 (est)	−36.1
Registered electors			347
Majority			18	4.6	+0.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+19.8
Majority			149	38.1	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	−18.3

Seat reduced to one member

General election 1868: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Gordon-Lennox	330	62.4	+17.9
	Liberal	Daniel Pratt^[27]	199	37.6	−17.9
Majority			131	24.8	−13.3
Turnout			529	79.9	+27.2
Registered electors			662
	Conservative hold		Swing	+17.9

Elections in the 1870s edit

General election 1874: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Hegan Kennard	449	74.0	+11.6
	Liberal	William West^[28]	158	26.0	−11.6
Majority			291	48.0	+22.8
Turnout			607	85.0	+5.1
Registered electors			714
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.6

Elections in the 1880s edit

General election 1880: Lymington^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Hegan Kennard	432	64.4	−9.6
	Liberal	Hermes Southwood Smith^[29]	239	35.6	+9.6
Majority			193	28.8	−19.2
Turnout			671	86.2	+1.2
Registered electors			778
	Conservative hold		Swing	−9.6

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "History of Parliament". Retrieved 25 September 2011.
^ Powlett was re-elected in 1715, but had also been elected for Winchester, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington
^ Powlett was also elected for Hampshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lymington
^ Created a baronet, April 1769
^ Styled Marquess of Winchester from 1754
^ Drummond was re-elected in 1768, but had also been elected for St Ives, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington
^ Major from 1786
^ Succeeded as a baronet, April 1791; Captain (RN) from 1793; took the surname Burrard-Neale in 1795
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 127–129. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
^ Robbins, Alfred Farthing (1894). The Early Public Life of William Ewart Gladstone: Four Times Prime Minister. London: Methuen & Co. p. 179. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ Chichester, Henry Manners (1892). "Keppel, George Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Gash, Norman (2013). Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation, 1830–1850. Faber & Faber. p. 250. ISBN 9780571302901. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ "John Stewart". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. University College London. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ "The New Parliament". Reading Mercury. 7 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Roberts, David (2016). Paternalism in Early Victorian England. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-315-61965-1. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ The Spectator, Volume 12. F.C. Westley. 1839. p. 1204. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ "The Recent Elections". Essex Standard. 31 January 1840. p. 1. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The Elections". Dublin Morning Register. 29 January 1840. p. 3. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ ^a ^b Salmon, Philip; Spencer, Howard. "Lymington". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 196–197. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^ "Representation of Lymington". Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette. 27 April 1850. p. 1. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Lymington, March 14". Hampshire Advertiser. 14 March 1857. p. 7. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Lymington, March 21". Hampshire Advertiser. 21 March 1857. p. 7. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Lymington". Hampshire Chronicle. 30 April 1859. p. 5. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Representation of Lymington". The Morning Chronicle. London. 24 May 1860. p. 5. Retrieved 1 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Expenses Incurred by or on Behalf of Thomas Norton". Hampshire Advertiser. Hampshire. 28 October 1865. pp. 1, 4, 5, 8. Retrieved 1 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Lymington". Hampshire Advertiser. Hampshire. 24 October 1868. p. 12. Retrieved 1 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Lymington". Sheffield Independent. 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Lymington". Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 12 June 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

References edit

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 "L" (part 4)

[HoP1-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "History of Parliament". Retrieved 25 September 2011.

[2] Powlett was re-elected in 1715, but had also been elected for Winchester, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington

[3] Powlett was also elected for Hampshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lymington

[4] Created a baronet, April 1769

[5] Styled Marquess of Winchester from 1754

[6] Drummond was re-elected in 1768, but had also been elected for St Ives, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington

[7] Major from 1786

[8] Succeeded as a baronet, April 1791; Captain (RN) from 1793; took the surname Burrard-Neale in 1795

[stooks-smith-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 127–129. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.

[10] Robbins, Alfred Farthing (1894). The Early Public Life of William Ewart Gladstone: Four Times Prime Minister. London: Methuen & Co. p. 179. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[11] Chichester, Henry Manners (1892). "Keppel, George Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[12] Gash, Norman (2013). Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation, 1830–1850. Faber & Faber. p. 250. ISBN 9780571302901. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[13] "John Stewart". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. University College London. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[14] "The New Parliament". Reading Mercury. 7 August 1847. p. 2. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[15] Roberts, David (2016). Paternalism in Early Victorian England. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-315-61965-1. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[16] The Spectator, Volume 12. F.C. Westley. 1839. p. 1204. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[17] "The Recent Elections". Essex Standard. 31 January 1840. p. 1. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[18] "The Elections". Dublin Morning Register. 29 January 1840. p. 3. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[hop1820-1832-19] Salmon, Philip; Spencer, Howard. "Lymington". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 April 2020.

[craig1832-20] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 196–197. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.

[21] "Representation of Lymington". Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette. 27 April 1850. p. 1. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[22] "Lymington, March 14". Hampshire Advertiser. 14 March 1857. p. 7. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[23] "Lymington, March 21". Hampshire Advertiser. 21 March 1857. p. 7. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[24] "Lymington". Hampshire Chronicle. 30 April 1859. p. 5. Retrieved 24 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[25] "Representation of Lymington". The Morning Chronicle. London. 24 May 1860. p. 5. Retrieved 1 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[26] "Expenses Incurred by or on Behalf of Thomas Norton". Hampshire Advertiser. Hampshire. 28 October 1865. pp. 1, 4, 5, 8. Retrieved 1 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[27] "Lymington". Hampshire Advertiser. Hampshire. 24 October 1868. p. 12. Retrieved 1 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[28] "Lymington". Sheffield Independent. 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[29] "Lymington". Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 12 June 1880. p. 7. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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Lymington
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1584–1885
Seats	Two (1584–1868); One (1868–1885)
Replaced by	New Forest