King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)
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| King's Lynn | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1298–1918 | |
| Number of members | two (1298–1885), one (1885–1918) |
| Norfolk, King's Lynn | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1918–February 1974 | |
| Number of members | one |
King's Lynn was a constituency in Norfolk, known as Lynn or Bishop's Lynn prior to 1537, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. Until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough, after which the name was transferred to a county constituency. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, was an MP for the constituency for almost the entirety of his Commons career, from 1702 until 1742.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] c.1290–1640
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| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1386 | Edmund Beleyeter | Thomas Morton [1] |
| 1388 (Feb) | Henry Betley | Thomas Morton [1] |
| 1388 (Sep) | Edmund Beleyeter | Thomas Drew [1] |
| 1390 (Jan) | Robert Waterden | John Wace [1] |
| 1390 (Nov) | John Wentworth | Thomas Waterden [1] |
| 1391 | Robert Botkesham | John Kepe [1] |
| 1393 | Thomas Morton | Thomas Brigge [1] |
| 1394 | Thomas Morton | Thomas Drew [1] |
| 1395 | Thomas Waterden | John Brandon [1] |
| 1397 (Jan) | Thomas Drew | John Brandon [1] |
| 1397 (Sep) | John Wentworth | Roger Rawlin [1] |
| 1399 | Robert Botkesham | Thomas Waterden [1] |
| 1401 | Robert Botkesham | Thomas Waterden [1] |
| 1402 | Thomas Fawkes | Robert Bruhham [1] |
| 1404 (Jan) | Thomas Drew | John Wentworth [1] |
| 1404 (Oct) | John Brandon | Thomas Drew [1] |
| 1406 | Thomas Brigge | Thomas Derham [1] |
| 1407 | William Lok | John Wesenham [1] |
| 1410 | John Spicer | John Brown [1] |
| 1411 | Bartholomew Sistern | Philip Frank [1] |
| 1413 (Feb) | William Halyate | John Tilney [1] |
| 1413 (May) | William Halyate | John Tilney [1] |
| 1414 (Apr) | John Bilney | John Tilney [1] |
| 1414 (Nov) | John Spicer | Andrew Swanton [1] |
| 1415 | Thomas Brigge | John Tilney [1] |
| 1416 (Mar) | John Spicer | Thomas Brigge [1] |
| 1416 (Oct) | William Herford | John Warner [1] |
| 1417 | Robert Brunham | Thomas Hunt [1] |
| 1419 | Philip Frank | Walter Curson [1] |
| 1420 | Thomas Brigge | Andrew Swanton [1] |
| 1421 (May) | Bartholomew Sistern | John Parmenter [1] |
| 1421 (Dec) | John Waterden | Robert Brandon [1] |
| 1510 | Thomas Gibbon | Francis Monford[2] |
| 1512 | Francis Monford | Thomas Wythe [2] |
| 1515 | Robert Soome | Thomas Wythe [2] |
| 1523 | Thomas Miller | Richard Bewcher [2] |
| 1529 | Thomas Miller | Richard Bewcher replaced Oct 1535 by Robert Southwell [2] |
| 1536 | Robert Southwell | Willian Coningsby [2] |
| 1539 | Thomas Waters | Robert Southwell [2] |
| 1542 | Thomas Waters | Thomas Miller [2] |
| 1545 | Edmund Grey | Thomas Miller [2] |
| 1547 | Thomas Gawdy | William Overend replaced Jan 1549 by George Amyas [2] |
| 1553 (Mar) | Sir Richard Corbet | John Walpole [2] |
| 1553 (Oct) | John Walpole | Thomas Waters [2] |
| 1554 (Apr) | Thomas Waters | William Overend [2] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Sir Thomas Moyle | Thomas Waters [2] |
| 1555 | Sir Nicholas L'Estrange | Thomas Waters [2] |
| 1558 | Ambrose Gilberd, died and replaced Sep 1558 by William Telverton |
Thomas Waters [2] |
| 1558/9 | Thomas Hogan | Thomas Waters [3] |
| 1562/3 | (Sir) Robert Bell | Richard L'Estrange [3] |
| 1571 | (Sir) Robert Bell | John Kynne [3] |
| 1572 | (Sir) Robert Bell, died and replaced Jan 1580 by John Peyton |
John Pell [3] |
| 1584 (Mar) | John Peyton | Richard Clarke [3] |
| 1586 (Oct) | Richard Clarke | Thomas Oxborough [3] |
| 1588/9 | Richard Clarke | Thomas Boston [3] |
| 1593 | Sir John Peyton | William Lewis [3] |
| 1597 (Sep) | Thomas Oxborough | Nathaniel Bacon [3] |
| 1601 | Sir Robert Mansell | Thomas Oxborough [3] |
| 1604 | Thomas Oxborough | Robert Hitcham |
| 1614 | Matthew Clerke | Thomas Oxborough |
| 1621–1622 | Matthew Clerke | John Wallis |
| 1624 | John Wallis | William Doughty |
| 1625 | Thomas Gurling | John Cooke |
| 1626 | Thomas Gurling | John Cooke |
| 1628 | William Doughty | Sir John Hare |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
[edit] 1640–1832
[edit] 1885–1974
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/bishops-lynn. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/lynn. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/kings-lynn. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ Salisbury had been a peer, sitting in the House of Lords, since 1612, but became eligible to sit in the Commons after the House of Lords was abolished
- ^ Desborough was also elected for Somerset
- ^ Walpole was expelled from the House of Commons in January 1712 for "a high Breach of trust and notorious corruption". He was re-elected at the ensuing by-election, but the Commons resolved that having been expelled he was not capable of being re-elected to the House in the same session. Rather than awarding the election to his opponent, the election was declared void and a new writ was issued.
- ^ Styled Lord Walpole from 1806
- ^ Styled Lord Stanley from 1851
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
| King's Lynn by-election, 1943 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Lord Fermoy | 10,696 | 54.2 | +4.2 | |
| Independent Labour | Frederick Wise | 9,027 | 45.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,669 | 8.4 | −7.1 | ||
| Turnout | 9,723 | 39.8 | −31.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
[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)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)[self-published source?][better source needed]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by None |
Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1721–1742 |
Succeeded by vacant. Next was Sussex in 1743 |
