Helston (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Helston Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1298 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | 1298–1832: two 1832–1885: one |
Helston was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.
It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] Before 1660
- 1572: William Killigrew
- 1597: William Cooke
- 1601: William Twysden
- 1628-1629: Sidney Godolphin
- 1640: Sidney Godolphin
- 1640: William Godolphin
- 1640-1643: Sidney Godolphin (Royalist) - killed in battle, February 1643
- 1640-1644: Francis Godolphin (Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
- 1645(?)-1648: John Penrose - not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
- 1645(?)-1648: John Thomas - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648
Helston was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
- 1659: Thomas Juxon
Long Parliament (restored)
- 1659-1660: ?
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[edit] 1660-1832
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| April 1660 | Anthony Rous | Alexander Penhellick | ||||
| July 1660 | Thomas Robinson | Francis Godolphin | ||||
| 1661 | Sir Peter Killigrew | |||||
| 1665 | Sir William Godolphin | |||||
| 1668 | Sidney Godolphin | Tory | ||||
| Feb 1679 | Sir Vyell Vyvyan | |||||
| Sep 1679 | Sidney Godolphin | Tory | ||||
| 1681 | Charles Godolphin | |||||
| 1685 | Sidney Godolphin | |||||
| 1689 | Sir John St. Aubyn | |||||
| 1695 | Francis Godolphin | |||||
| 1698 | Sidney Godolphin | |||||
| 1701 | Francis Godolphin[1] | |||||
| 1708 | John Evelyn | |||||
| Oct 1710 | George Granville | |||||
| Dec 1710 | Robert Child | |||||
| 1713 | Henry Campion | Charles Coxe | ||||
| 1714 | Thomas Tonkin | Alexander Pendarves | ||||
| 1715 | Sir Gilbert Heathcote | Whig | Sidney Godolphin | |||
| 1722 | Sir Robert Raymond | Walter Carey | ||||
| 1724 | Sir Clement Wearg | |||||
| 1726 | Exton Sayer | |||||
| 1727 | John Evelyn | John Harris | ||||
| 1741 | Francis Godolphin | Thomas Walker | ||||
| 1747 | John Evelyn | |||||
| 1766 | William Windham | |||||
| 1767 | William Evelyn | |||||
| 1768 | The Earl of Clanbrassil | |||||
| 1774 | The Marquess of Carmarthen | Francis Owen | ||||
| 1775 | Francis Cockayne Cust | Philip Yorke | ||||
| 1780 | Jocelyn Dean | |||||
| March 1781 | Richard Barwell | |||||
| June 1781 | Lord Hyde | |||||
| 1784 | John Rogers | |||||
| 1786 | Roger Wilbraham | |||||
| 1787 | James Bland Burges | |||||
| 1790 | Gilbert Elliot | Stephen Lushington [2] | ||||
| 1795 | Charles Abbot | |||||
| 1796 | Richard Richards | |||||
| 1799 | Lord Francis Osborne | |||||
| 1802 | James Harris | John Penn | ||||
| 1804 | Davies Giddy | |||||
| 1805 | Viscount Primrose | |||||
| April 1806 | Sir John Shelley | |||||
| November 1806 | Nicholas Vansittart [3] | John Du Ponthieu | ||||
| January 1807 | Thomas Brand | |||||
| May 1807 | Sir John St Aubyn | Richard Richards | ||||
| July 1807 | The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye | |||||
| 1812 | William Horne | Hugh Hammersley | ||||
| 1818 | Lord James Townshend | Harrington Hudson | ||||
| 1820 | The Marquess of Carmarthen | |||||
| 1830 | Sir Samuel Brooke-Pechell | |||||
| 1831 | Sackville Walter Lane-Fox | |||||
| 1832 | Representation reduced to one member | |||||
[edit] MPs 1832-1885
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Representation reduced to one member | ||
| 1832 | Sackville Walter Lane-Fox | Conservative | |
| 1835 | Lord James Townshend | Conservative | |
| 1837 | Viscount Cantelupe | Conservative | |
| 1840 | John Basset | Conservative | |
| 1841 | Sir Richard Vyvyan | Conservative | |
| 1857 | Charles Trueman | Liberal | |
| 1859 | John Jope Rogers[4] | Conservative | |
| 1865 | Adolphus William Young | Liberal | |
| 1866[5] | Robert Campbell | Liberal | |
| Sir William Brett | Conservative | ||
| 1868 | Adolphus William Young | Liberal | |
| 1880 | William Napleton Molesworth-St.Aubyn | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
- ^ Styled Viscount Rialton from 1706
- ^ Sir Stephen Lushington from 1791
- ^ Vansittart was also elected for Old Sarum, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
- ^ Marchant, E. C. (1897). Rogers, John (1778–1856), divine, by E. C. Marchant (HTML). Dictionary of National Biography Vol. IL. Smith, Elder & Co.. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
- ^ At the Helston by-election, 1866, both candidates polled exactly the same number of votes. The mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote for the Liberal candidate Robert Campbell. As this vote was given after four o'clock, however, an appeal was lodged, and the House of Commons declared that the returning officer had no right to a casting vote, and that he should have returned the names of both tied candidates. On scrutiny of the votes, one vote was struck off Campbell's total, and the Conservative candidate Sir William Baliol Brett declared duly elected.
[edit] Elections
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[edit] References
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- 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)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
