Kent (UK Parliament constituency)
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For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation).
| Kent County constituency |
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| Created: | 1290 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Kent was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency covering the county of Kent in southeast England. It returned two "knights of the shire" (Members of Parliament) by the bloc vote system from 1290 (initially as a constituency of the Parliament of England) until it was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, being split into two separate divisions each electing two MPs.
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[edit] History
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1290-1660
- 1562-1567: Sir Henry Cheyne
- 1593: Moyle Finch
- 1601: Sir Francis Fane
- 1624: Nicholas Tufton
- 1625: Mildmay Fane
- 1626: Sir Edward Hales
- 1628-1629: Thomas Finch
- 1640: Norton Knatchbull
- 1640: Sir Roger Twysden
- 1640: Sir John Colepeper
- 1640-1642: Sir Edward Dering
- 1653: Viscount L'Isle
- 1654-1658: Henry Oxenden
- 1656-1658: Richard Meredith
- 1656-1659: Sir Thomas Style
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[edit] 1660-1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| April 1660 | Sir Edward Dering | Sir John Tufton | ||||
| 1661 | Sir Thomas Peyton | |||||
| 1679 | Sir Vere Fane | (Sir) Edward Dering [1] | ||||
| 1685 | Sir William Twysden | Sir John Knatchbull | ||||
| 1689 | Sir Vere Fane | |||||
| 1691 | Sir Thomas Roberts | |||||
| 1695 | Philip Sydney | |||||
| 1698 | Sir James Oxenden Bt | Sir Stephen Lennard | ||||
| January 1701 | Sir Thomas Hales | Thomas Meredith | ||||
| December 1701 | William Campion | |||||
| 1702 | Sir Francis Leigh | |||||
| 1705 | Sir Cholmeley Dering | Viscount Villiers | ||||
| 1708 | Sir Thomas Palmer | Sir Stephen Lennard | ||||
| January 1710 | David Polhill | |||||
| October 1710 | Sir Cholmeley Dering | Percival Hart | ||||
| 1711 | Sir William Hardres | |||||
| 1713 | Sir Edward Knatchbull | |||||
| February 1715 | Mildmay Fane | William Delaune | ||||
| September 1715 | Colonel the Hon. John Fane | |||||
| 1722 | Sir Edward Knatchbull | Sir Thomas Twisden | ||||
| 1727 | Sir Roger Meredith | Sir Robert Furnese | ||||
| 1733 | Sir Edward Dering | |||||
| 1734 | The Viscount Vane | |||||
| 1735 | Sir Christopher Powell | |||||
| 1741 | Sir Roger Twisden | |||||
| 1754 | Hon. Lewis Watson | Hon. Robert Fairfax | ||||
| 1760 | Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham | |||||
| 1763 | Sir Brook Bridges | |||||
| 1768 | John Frederick Sackville | |||||
| 1769 | Sir Charles Farnaby | |||||
| 1774 | Hon. Charles Marsham | Thomas Knight, junior | ||||
| 1780 | Filmer Honywood | |||||
| 1790 | Sir Edward Knatchbull | |||||
| 1796 | Sir William Geary | |||||
| 1802 | Filmer Honywood | |||||
| 1806 | Sir Edward Knatchbull | William Honywood | ||||
| 1812 | Sir William Geary | |||||
| 1818 | William Philip Honywood | |||||
| 1819 | Sir Edward Knatchbull | |||||
| 1830 | Thomas Law Hodges | |||||
| 1831 | Thomas Rider | |||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished: see Eastern Kent, Western Kent | |||||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- ^ Succeeded to baronetcy, June 1684
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
