Yarmouth was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.
| Yarmouth | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Isle of Wight |
| Major settlements | Yarmouth |
| 1584–1832 | |
| Seats | Two |
| Created from | Hampshire |
| Replaced by | Isle of Wight |
The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, and from the 1832 general election its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight.
Boundaries
editThe constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.
History
editThe borough was seen as a rotten borough and in the late eighteenth century was managed, together with the other Isle of Wight boroughs of Newtown and Newport by Thomas Holmes.[1]
Members of Parliament
editMPs 1584–1640
edit| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1584 | Arthur Gorges | William Stubbs |
| 1586 | Thomas West | John Duncombe |
| 1588 | Daniel Hills | John Howe |
| 1593 | Robert Dillington | Robert Crosse |
| 1597 | Benedict Barnham | John Snow |
| 1601 | William Cotton | Stephen Theobald |
| 1604 | Thomas Cheeke | Arthur Bromfield |
| 1614 | Arthur Bromfield | Sir Thomas Cheeke |
| 1621–1622 | Arthur Bromfield | Thomas Risley |
| 1624 | Thomas Risley | William Beeston |
| 1625 | Edward Clarke sat for Hythe replaced by Sir John Suckling | John Oglander |
| 1626 | Sir Edward Conway | Sir John Oglander |
| 1628–1629 | Edward Dennis | Sir John Oglander |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
MPs 1640–1832
editNotes
- ^ Page 25, Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957)
- ^ Sir Thomas Littleton died April 1681
- ^ Sir John Trevor was expelled from the House of Commons for accepting a bribe
- ^ a b At the election of 1715, Raymond and Holmes were declared to have defeated Morgan and Janssen, but on petition the result was reversed in 1717
- ^ Sir Theodore Janssen was expelled from the House of Commons on 30 January 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
- ^ Powlett was also elected for Hampshire in a disputed election. He sat for Yarmouth until 1737 when the petition against the Hampshire result was withdrawn, then chose to represent Hampshire rather than Yarmouth for the remainder of the Parliament
- ^ Thomas Holmes was created The Lord Holmes (in the peerage of Ireland) in 1760
- ^ Major General from 1756, Lieutenant General from 1759
- ^ a b At the election of 1768, Strode and Clarke were declared to have defeated Dummer and Parker, but on petition the result was reversed in 1769
- ^ Theodore Broadhead (2) later adopted the surname Brinckman
Elections
editSee also
editReferences
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]
- 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)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"