Kingston upon Hull (UK Parliament constituency)
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Kingston upon Hull, often simply referred to as Hull, was a parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire, electing two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1305 until 1885. Its MPs included the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce, and the poet Andrew Marvell.
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[edit] History
Kingston upon Hull was a borough constituency in the town (later city) of Hull. Until the Great Reform Act of 1832, it consisted only of the parish of St Mary's, Hull and part of Holy Trinity, Hull, entirely to the west of the River Hull. This excluded parts of the urban area which had not been originally part of the town, but some of these - the rest of Holy Trinity parish, Sculcoates, Drypool, Garrisonside and part of Sutton-on-Hull - were brought into the constituency by boundary changes in 1832. This increased the population of the borough from around 16,000 to almost 50,000.
Until the Reform Act, the right to vote in Hull was vested in the freemen of the city, which made the constituency one of the larger and more competitive ones. At the general election of 1831, 2,174 voters went to the polls.
The Hull constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election, the city being divided into three single-member constituencies, Kingston upon Hull Central, Kingston upon Hull East and Kingston upon Hull West.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1305-1640
- March 1332: William de la Pole
- September 1332: Unknown
- 1332–1333: Unknown
- February 1334: Unknown
- September 1334: Unknown
- 1335: William de la Pole
- 1336: William de la Pole
- 1337: Unknown
- 1338: William de la Pole
- 1604-1611: John Edmonds, Joseph Field
- 1620-1622: John Lister, Maurice Abbot
[edit] 1640-1885
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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November 1640 | Sir Henry Vane, junior | Parliamentarian | Sir John Lister (d. December 1640) | |||
1641 | Peregrine Pelham | Parliamentarian | ||||
1650 | Pelham died 1650, seat vacant thereafter | |||||
1653 | Hull was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
1654 | William Lister | Hull had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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1656 | William Lister | |||||
January 1659 | John Ramsden | Andrew Marvell | ||||
May 1659 | Sir Henry Vane, junior | One seat vacant | ||||
April 1660 | John Ramsden | Andrew Marvell | ||||
1661 | Anthony Gilby | |||||
1678 | William Ramsden | |||||
February 1679 | Lemuel Kingdon | |||||
September 1679 | Sir Michael Warton | William Gee | ||||
1685 | John Ramsden | Sir Willoughby Hickman | ||||
1689 | William Gee | |||||
1690 | Charles Osborne | |||||
1695 | Sir William St Quintin | Tory | ||||
1701 | William Maister | Tory | ||||
1717 | Nathaniel Rogers | |||||
1724 | George Crowle | |||||
1727 | The Viscount Micklethwaite | |||||
1734 | Henry Maister | |||||
1741 | William Carter | |||||
1744 | Harry Pulteney | |||||
1747 | Lord Robert Manners | Tory | Thomas Carter | |||
1754 | Richard Crowle | |||||
1757 | Sir George Montgomery Metham | |||||
1766 | William Weddell | |||||
1774 | David Hartley | Rockingham Whig | ||||
1780 | William Wilberforce [1] | Tory | ||||
1782 | David Hartley | Rockingham Whig | ||||
March 1784 | Samuel Thornton | Tory | ||||
June 1784 | Walter Spencer Stanhope | Tory | ||||
1790 | Earl of Burford | |||||
1796 | Sir Charles Turner | |||||
1802 | John Staniforth | Tory | ||||
1806 | William Joseph Denison | Whig | ||||
1807 | Viscount Mahon | Whig | ||||
1812 | George William Denys [2] | Tory | ||||
1818 | John Mitchell | Tory | James Graham | Whig | ||
1820 | Daniel Sykes | Whig | ||||
1826 | John Augustus O'Neill | Tory | ||||
1830 | George Schonswar | Tory | William Battie Wrightson | Whig | ||
1832 | Matthew Davenport Hill | Whig | William Hutt | Whig | ||
January 1835 | David Carruthers | Conservative | ||||
June 1835 | Thomas Perronet Thompson | Whig | ||||
1837 | Sir Walter Charles James | Conservative | William Wilberforce [3] | Conservative | ||
1838 | William Hutt | Whig | ||||
1841 | Sir John Hanmer | Conservative | ||||
1847 | Matthew Talbot Baines | Whig | James Clay | Whig | ||
1852[4] | Viscount Goderich | Whig | ||||
1854 | William Digby Seymour | Whig | William Henry Watson | Whig | ||
February 1857 | James Clay | Liberal | ||||
March 1857 | Lord Ashley | Liberal | ||||
April 1859 | Joseph Hoare [5] | Conservative | ||||
August 1859 | John Somes | Conservative | ||||
1865 | Charles Morgan Norwood | Liberal | ||||
1873 | Joseph Walker Pease | Conservative | ||||
1874 | Charles Henry Wilson | Liberal |
Constituency abolished 1885
[edit] Notes
- ^ Wilberforce was re-elected at the general election of 1784, but was also elected for Yorkshire, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Hull in this parliament
- ^ Created a baronet as Sir George Denys in 1813
- ^ On petition, Wilberforce's qualification as a candidate was declared defective and his election was voided. After scrutiny of the votes, Hutt (who had originally been placed third) was declared elected in his stead
- ^ The 1852 election was declared void on petition. Hull's right to representation was suspended and a Royal Commission appointed to investigate. Once it had reported, a new election was held, which none of the four original candidates contested.
- ^ On petition, the election of Hoare was declared void and a by-election held
[edit] References
- 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) [1]
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- 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)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page