Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)
Minehead was a parliamentary borough in Somerset, forming part of the town of Minehead, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
| Minehead | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1563–1832 | |
| Number of members | Two |
Members of Parliament
MPs 1563–1629
- Constituency probably established 1563[1]
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament of 1563-1567 | Thomas Luttrell | Thomas Fitzwilliams | |
| Parliament of 1571 | John Colles | Thomas Mallett | |
| Parliament of 1572-1581 | Dominick Chester | Richard Cabell | |
| 1578 | Andrew Hemmerford | ||
| 1582 | George Luttrell | ||
| Parliament of 1584-1585 | George Luttrell | Edward Rogers | |
| Parliament of 1586-1587 | John Luttrell | Robert Crosse | |
| Parliament of 1588-1589 | Benedict Barnham | ||
| Parliament of 1593 | Richard Hanbury | James Quirke | |
| Parliament of 1597-1598 | Amias Bampfield (sat for Devon, replaced) |
Conrad Prowse | |
| Parliament of 1601 | Dr Francis James | Lewis Lashbrooke | |
| Parliament of 1604-1611 | Sir Ambrose Turville | Sir Maurice Berkeley | |
| Addled Parliament (1614) | No return made | ||
| Parliament of 1621-1622 | Francis Pearce | Sir Robert Lloyd[2] | |
| Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Dr Arthur Duck | Sir Arthur Lake | |
| Useless Parliament (1625) | Thomas Luttrell | Charles Pyne | |
| Parliament of 1625-1626 | John Gill | Thomas Horner | |
| Parliament of 1628-1629 | Thomas Horner | Edward Wyndham | |
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
MPs 1640–1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Francis Wyndham | Alexander Popham [3] | ||||
| 1640 | Dr Arthur Duck | |||||
| November 1640 | Alexander Luttrell I [4] | Parliamentarian | Sir Francis Popham | Parliamentarian | ||
| 1642 | Thomas Hanham | Royalist | ||||
| January 1644 | Hanham disabled from sitting — seat vacant | |||||
| August 1644 | Popham died — seat vacant | |||||
| 1645 | Walter Strickland | Edward Popham | ||||
| December 1648 | Popham not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
| 1653 | Minehead was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
| January 1659 | Richard Hutchinson | Colonel Alexander Popham | ||||
| May 1659 | Walter Strickland | One seat vacant | ||||
| 1660 | Francis Luttrell I | Charles Pym | ||||
| 1661 | Sir Hugh Wyndham | |||||
| 1666 by-election | Sir John Malet | |||||
| 1673 by-election | Thomas Wyndham | |||||
| February 1679 | Francis Luttrell II | |||||
| September 1679 | Thomas Palmer | |||||
| 1685 | Nathaniel Palmer | |||||
| September 1690 by-election | John Sanford | |||||
| October 1690 by-election | Alexander Luttrell II | |||||
| 1698 | Sir Jacob Banks | |||||
| 1708 | Sir John Trevelyan | |||||
| 1715 [5] | Sir William Wyndham | |||||
| April 1717 by-election[6] | Samuel Edwin | Thomas Gage | ||||
| May 1717 (on petition) | Sir John Trevelyan | James Milner | ||||
| 1721 by-election | Sir Richard Lane [7] | |||||
| January 1722 (on petition) | Robert Mansel | |||||
| March 1722 | Thomas Hales | |||||
| 1723 by-election | Francis Whitworth | |||||
| 1727 | Alexander Luttrell III | |||||
| 1737 by-election | Sir William Codrington | |||||
| 1739 by-election | Thomas Carew | |||||
| 1742 by-election | John Periam | |||||
| 1747 | Percy Wyndham-O'Brien | Charles Whitworth | ||||
| 1754 | Daniel Boone | |||||
| 1761 | Henry Shiffner | The Earl of Thomond | ||||
| 1768 | Henry Fownes Luttrell I | Sir Charles Whitworth | ||||
| October 1774 | John Fownes Luttrell | Tory | ||||
| December 1774 by-election | Thomas Pownall | |||||
| 1780 | Francis Fownes Luttrell | |||||
| 1783 by-election | Henry Beaufoy [8] | |||||
| June 1784 by-election | Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps | |||||
| 1786 by-election | Robert Wood | |||||
| 1790 | Viscount Parker | Tory | ||||
| 1795 by-election | Thomas Fownes Luttrell | Tory | ||||
| 1796 | John Langston | Tory | ||||
| 1802 | John Patteson | Tory | ||||
| 1806 | The Lord Rancliffe | Whig | Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet | Tory | ||
| January 1807 by-election | John Fownes Luttrell | Tory | ||||
| May 1807 | John Denison | Tory | ||||
| 1812 | John Fownes Luttrell, junior | Tory | ||||
| 1816 by-election | Henry Fownes Luttrell II | Tory | ||||
| 1822 by-election | John Douglas | Tory | ||||
| 1826 | James Blair | Tory | ||||
| 1830 | William Edward Tomline | Tory | ||||
| 1831 | Viscount Villiers | Tory | ||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | |||||
Notes
- Most sources date Minehead's enfranchisement from 1563, which seems clearly implied by the House of Commons Journals, but Browne Willis gives two names (Thomas Fitzwilliams and John Fowler) as the town's representatives in the 1559 Parliament. Sir John Neale notes that the names differ from those given for 1563 "which normally is a sign of reliability"
- This is the name given by Cobbett, whereas Browne Willis lists "Tho. Wentworth, Kt". There were two Thomas Wentworths in the House, but both sat for other constituencies, as Browne Willis correctly also records - "Tho. Wentworth, Kt. and Bart." for Yorkshire and "Tho. Wentworth Esq" for Oxford City. While it is possible that either of these might also have been elected for Minehead and chosen to sit for their other constituency, allowing Lloyd to be elected in their place, Browne Willis usually records this, and neither could correctly be described as "Tho. Wentworth, Kt" at that time, although of course an error is perfectly possible.
- Popham was also elected for Bath, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Minehead
- Died June 1642
- The election of 1715 was declared void on petition, and Wyndham and Trevelyan declared not duly elected. A by-election was held 1717
- The by-election of 1717 was declared void on petition (in a dispute over the franchise), and Edwin and Gage declared not duly elected. Trevelyan and Milner were declared elected in their place
- Lane was declared not to have been duly elected
- Beaufoy was re-elected in 1784, but had also been elected for Great Yarmouth, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Minehead
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gollark: *really really needs to hunt now*
gollark: How long did it take to get them?
gollark: *should really hunt now*
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- 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)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- 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)
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.
- Jenkins, Terry. "Minehead". The History of Parliament. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
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