Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lostwithiel Borough constituency
Created:	1304
Abolished:	1832
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	Two

Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1304-1660 2.2 1660-1832 3 References

[edit] History

The borough consisted of the town of Lostwithiel and part of the neighbouring Lanlivery parish; it was a market town whose trade was mainly dependent on the copper mined nearby.

Unlike many of the most notorious Cornish rotten boroughs, Lostwithiel had been continuously represented since the middle ages and was originally of sufficient size to justify its status. However, by the time of the Great Reform Act it had long been a pocket borough, under the complete control of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe since 1702. The right to vote was vested in the corporation, who numbered 24 in 1816; they made no attempt to defy their patron, who regularly paid the corporation's debts and advanced them money.

In 1831, the borough had a population of 1,047, and 303 houses.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1304-1660

• 1553: John Courtenay
• 1597: William Cornwallis
• 1621-1622: George Chudleigh
• 1624-1625: John Hobart
• 1625: Sir George Chudleigh
• 1625: Sir Reginald Mohun

Long Parliament

• 1640-1644: Richard Arundell (Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
• 1640-1643: John Trevanion (Royalist) - died July 1643
• 1645(?)-1648 Sir John Maynard - not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
• 1645(?)-1648: Francis Holles - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648

Lostwithiel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: John Clayton
• 1659: Walter Moyle

Long Parliament (restored)

• 1659-1660: ?

[edit] 1660-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1660		Walter Moyle			John Clayton
1661		Sir Chichester Wrey			John Bulteel
1668		Charles Smythe
1670					Silius Titus
1679		Sir John Carew			Walter Kendall
1685		Sir Robert Southwell			Sir Matthias Vincent
1689		Francis Robartes			Walter Kendall
1690		Sir Bevil Granville
1695		Bernard Granville			Samuel Travers
1698		George Booth
January 1701		Sir John Molesworth			John Buller
April 1701					George Booth
1702					Russell Robartes
1705		Robert Molesworth
1706		James Kendall
1708					Joseph Addison
1709		Francis Robartes			Russell Robartes
January 1710					Horatio Walpole
October 1710		John Hill	Tory		Hugh Fortescue
1713		Sir Thomas Clarges			Erasmus Lewis
1715		Galfridus Walpole			Thomas Liddell
1718					Edward Eliot
1720					John Newsham
1721		Marquess of Hartington[1]
1722					Lord Stanhope
1724		Sir Orlando Bridgeman[2]			Henry Parsons
January 1727					Hon. Sir William Stanhope
August 1727					Darrell Trelawny
1728		Anthony Cracherode			Sir Edward Knatchbull
1730					Edward Walpole
1734		Richard Edgcumbe			Philip Lloyd
1735					Matthew Ducie Moreton
1736					Sir John Crosse
1741		Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton
1747		Richard Edgcumbe			James Edward Colleton
1754		Thomas Clarke
1761		George Howard
1766		Viscount Beauchamp
1768		Henry Cavendish			Charles Brett
1774		Viscount Fairford
1776					Thomas Potter
September 1780		Hon. John St. John[3]			Hon. Thomas de Grey
December 1780		Commodore George Johnstone	Independent
1781					Viscount Malden
1784		John Sinclair[4]			John Thomas Ellis
1790		Viscount Valletort[5]			Reginald Pole Carew
1791		George Smith
1796		Hans Sloane			William Drummond
1802					William Dickinson [6]
1806		The Viscount Lismore
January 1807					Charles Cockerell
May 1807		George Peter Holford			Ebenezer Maitland
1812		Reginald Pole-Carew			John Ashley Warre
1816		Viscount Valletort	Tory
1818		Sir Robert Wigram	Tory		Sir Alexander Cray Grant[7]	Tory
June 1826		Viscount Valletort	Tory
December 1826					Edward Cust	Tory
August 1830		Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory
December 1830		Viscount Valletort	Tory
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes

1. ^ Hartington was re-elected in 1722 but was also elected for Grampound, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1722 Parliament
2. ^ Bridgeman was re-elected in August 1727 but was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1727 Parliament
3. ^ St. John was also elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel
4. ^ Created a baronet as Sir John Sinclair, February 1786
5. ^ Valletort was also elected for Fowey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel
6. ^ Dickinson was re-elected in 1806 but had also been elected for Somerset, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lostwithiel
7. ^ Grant was re-elected in June 1826 but was also elected for Aldborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1826 Parliament

[edit] 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)
• Lewis Namier, "The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III" (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1961)
• 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 Peerage Page