Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Hastings | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1366–1983 | |
| Number of members | one |
Hastings was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.
It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Hastings and Rye constituency.
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[edit] Boundaries
As its name suggested, the main settlement in the constituency was the seaside resort of Hastings. From 1950 to 1955, it also took in the towns of Battle and Rye.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] MPs 1366–1640
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1386 | John Clyvessend | Edward Martham [1] |
| 1388 (Feb) | John Clyvessend | Edward Martham [1] |
| 1388 (Sep) | Richard Bannok | John Scott [1] |
| 1390 (Jan) | John Clyvessend | Richard Wybard [1] |
| 1390 (Nov) | ||
| 1391 | John Clyvessend | Richard Bannok [1] |
| 1393 | John Scott | John Sharp [1] |
| 1394 | ||
| 1395 | Edward Martham | John Hokere [1] |
| 1397 (Jan) | John Clyvessend | John Hokere [1] |
| 1397 (Sep) | ||
| 1399 | Edward Martham | Henry Mordant [1] |
| 1401 | ||
| 1402 | John Sharp | Robert Burgrove [1] |
| 1404 (Jan) | ||
| 1404 (Oct) | ||
| 1406 | Henry Mordant | John Bexle [1] |
| 1407 | Robert Burgrove | Thomas Wybard [1] |
| 1410 | Edward Martham | John Harry [1] |
| 1411 | ||
| 1413 (Feb) | ||
| 1413 (May) | Henry Mordant | Richard Huntingdon [1] |
| 1414 (Apr) | ||
| 1414 (Nov) | John Sharp | Thomas Julyan [1] |
| 1415 | ||
| 1416 (Mar) | ||
| 1416 (Oct) | ||
| 1417 | John Lyvett | Richard Huntingdon [1] |
| 1419 | Simon Lymbergh | John Martham [1] |
| 1420 | Simon Lymbergh | William Courthope [1] |
| 1421 (May) | John Parker | William Courthope [1] |
| 1421 (Dec) | Richard Huntingdon | William Courthope [1] |
| 1510 | No names known[2] | |
| 1512 | Robert Hall | Henry Benever [2] |
| 1515 | ? | |
| 1523 | Edmund Jacklin alias Bocher | Edmund Franke [2] |
| 1529 | Richard Calveley | Thomas Shoyswell [2] |
| by 1534 | John Durrant | John Taylor [2] |
| 1536 | ?John Durrant | ?John Taylor [2] |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | John Franke | Richard Bishop [2] |
| 1545 | ? | |
| 1547 | Sir William Stafford | John Isted [2] |
| 1553 (Mar) | John Isted | ? |
| 1553 (Oct) | Thomas Rhodes | John Peyton [2] |
| 1554 (Apr) | John Franke | John Isted [2] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Thomas Rhodes | John Peyton [2] |
| 1555 | Thomas Rhodes | Roger Manwood [2] |
| 1558 | Thomas Brett | Henry Tennant [2] |
| 1559 | John Franke | James Hobson[3] |
| 1562/3 | Sir William Damsell[4] | Richard Lyffe [3] |
| 1571 | Richard Lyffe | James Bryan [3] |
| 1572 | Richard Lyffe | Thomas Lake [3] |
| 1584 | Thomas Lake | Thomas Phillips [3] |
| 1586 | Thomas Lake | Thomas Phillips [3] |
| 1588/9 | Richard Lyffe | John Parker [3] |
| 1593 | Richard Lyffe | Henry Apsley [3] |
| 1597 | Richard Lyffe | Edmund Pelham [3] |
| 1601 | Sir Thomas Shirley | Richard Lyffe [3] |
| 1604–1611 | Sir Edward Hales | Sir George Carew [5] |
| 1614 | Sir Edward Hales | James Lasher |
| 1621 | Samuel Moore | James Lasher |
| 1624 | Nicholas Eversfield | Samuel Moor |
| 1625 | Nicholas Eversfield | Sackville Crowe |
| 1626 | ? | |
| 1628 | John Ashburnham | Nicholas Eversfield |
[edit] MPs 1640–1885
[edit] MPs 1885–1983
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "history of Parliament Trust". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/hastings. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "history of Parliament Trust". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/hastings. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "history of Parliament Trust". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/hastings. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ Stanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons: 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9
- ^ Cobbett's Parliamentary History records the second member for Hastings in the 1604 Parliament as being James Lasher, but this seems to be an error; Lasher is mentioned only in the Commons Journal from 1621 while Carew was certainly a member in 1604, and other sources name his constituency as Hastings
- ^ Townshend was also elected for Cambridge University, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Hastings
[edit] Election results
| 1906 General Election: Hastings | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Harvey du Cros | 4,348 | 52.49 | ||
| Liberal | Freeman Freeman-Thomas | 3,935 | 47.51 | ||
| Majority | 413 | 4.98 | |||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
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[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)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
