Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency)
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Dorchester was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 to 1868, when its representation was reduced one member.
The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1295-1640
- 1571: Henry Macwilliams
- 1572-1581: George Carleton
- 1584-1586: Robert Beale
- 1604-1611: Matthew Chubbe
- 1604-1611: John Spicer
- 1621-1622: John Barkins
- 1621-1622: Sir Francis Ashley
- 1628-1629: Denzil Holles
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[edit] 1640-1868
| Year | First Member | First Party | Second Member | Second Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Denzil Holles[1] | Parliamentarian | ? | |||
| November 1640 | Denis Bond | Parliamentarian | ||||
| December 1648 | Holles excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Dorchester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | John Whiteway | Dorchester had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| 1656 | John Whiteway | |||||
| January 1659 | James Gould | John Bulstrode | ||||
| May 1659 | Dorchester was not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Denzil Holles | John Whiteway | ||||
| March 1661 | James Gould | |||||
| May 1661 | John Churchill | |||||
| 1677 | James Gould | |||||
| 1679 | Sir Francis Holles | Nicholas Gould | ||||
| 1680 | James Gould | |||||
| 1681 | Nathaniel Bond | |||||
| 1685 | Edward Meller | William Churchill | ||||
| January 1689 | Gerard Napier | Thomas Trenchard | ||||
| December 1689 | Thomas Chafin | |||||
| March 1690 | James Gould | Sir Robert Napier | ||||
| December 1690 | Thomas Trenchard | |||||
| 1695 | Nathaniel Bond | Nathaniel Napier | ||||
| 1698 | Sir Robert Napier | |||||
| 1701 | Thomas Trenchard | |||||
| 1702 | Sir Nathaniel Napier | |||||
| 1705 | Awnsham Churchill | |||||
| 1708 | John Churchill | |||||
| 1709 | Denis Bond | |||||
| 1710 | Sir Nathaniel Napier | Benjamin Gifford | ||||
| 1713 | Henry Trenchard | |||||
| April 1720 | Robert Browne [2] | |||||
| May 1720 | Abraham Janssen | |||||
| 1722 | Edmund Morton Pleydell [3] | Joseph Damer | ||||
| 1723 | William Chapple | |||||
| 1727 | John Browne | |||||
| 1737 | Robert Browne | |||||
| 1741 | Nathaniel Gundry | |||||
| 1751 | George Damer | John Pitt | ||||
| 1752 | George Clavell | |||||
| 1754 | The Lord Milton | |||||
| 1761 | Thomas Foster | |||||
| 1762 | John Damer | |||||
| 1765 | William Ewer | |||||
| 1780 | Hon. George Damer [4] | |||||
| 1789 | Thomas Ewer | |||||
| 1790 | Hon. Cropley Ashley | |||||
| 1790 | Francis Fane | |||||
| 1791 | Hon. Cropley Ashley | |||||
| 1807 | Robert Williams | |||||
| 1811 | Charles Henry Bouverie | |||||
| October 1812 | Robert Williams | |||||
| December 1812 | William A'Court | |||||
| 1814 | Sir Samuel Shepherd | |||||
| 1819 | Charles Warren | |||||
| 1826 | Lord Ashley | |||||
| 1830 | Henry Charles Sturt | |||||
| 1830 | Lord Ashley | |||||
| 1831 | Hon. Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper | Tory | ||||
| 1835 | Conservative | Robert Williams | Conservative | |||
| 1841 | Sir James Graham | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | George Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | Henry Gerard Sturt | Conservative | ||
| 1852 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan [5] | Liberal | ||||
| 1856 | Charles Napier Sturt | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | representation reduced to one member | |||||
[edit] 1868-1885
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | representation reduced to one member | ||
| 1868 | Charles Napier Sturt | Conservative | |
| 1874 | William Ernest Brymer | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
- ^ Disabled from sitting January 1648 but re-instated June 1648
- ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Browne was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Janssen, was seated in his place
- ^ On petition, Pleydell was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Chapple, was seated in his place
- ^ Damer was declared re-elected in 1790, but on petition was found not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Ashley, was seated in his place
- ^ Sheridan was the grandson of his celebrated namesake Richard Brinsley Sheridan
[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)
- 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 E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- M Stenton (ed), Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885 (The Harvester Press, 1976)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
