Rye (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Rye | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | East Sussex |
| Major settlements | Rye |
| 1955–1983 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Bexhill and Battle |
| Created from | Hastings |
| 1885–1950 | |
| Type of constituency | County constituency |
| Replaced by | Hastings |
| 1366–1885 | |
| Number of members | 1366–1640: One 1640–1832: Two 1832–1885: One |
| Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Rye was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832.
From the 1832 general election, Rye returned one Member of Parliament until its abolition for the 1950 general election, when the town of Rye was transferred to the enlarged seat of Hastings where it remained until 1955 when it returned to the re-created Rye seat. The town of Battle was part of the constituency until 1918, and also (along with Bexhill) from 1955 to 1983, when the Bexhill and Battle seat was created.
The constituency was re-created for the 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] MPs 1366–1640
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| Parliament | First Member | Second Member |
|---|---|---|
| 1386 | Stephen Elyot | John Baddyng [1] |
| 1388 (Feb) | Stephen Elyot | William Marchaunt II [1] |
| 1388 (Sep) | William atte Vawte | John Macop [1] |
| 1390 (Jan) | Laurence Lunceford | Laurence Corboyle [1] |
| 1390 (Nov) | ||
| 1391 | John Salerne I | Laurence Lunceford [1] |
| 1393 | John Baddyng | John Bertelot [1] |
| 1394 | ||
| 1395 | John Baddyng | William Ormed [1] |
| 1397 (Jan) | Richard Tichebourne | John Langeport [1] |
| 1397 (Sep) | ||
| 1399 | John Baddyng | William atte Vawte [1] |
| 1401 | ||
| 1402 | John Baddyng | John Roberd [1] |
| 1404 (Jan) | ||
| 1404 (Oct) | ||
| 1406 | William atte Vawte | Laurence Mersey [1] |
| 1407 | John Baddyng | Thomas Long [1] |
| 1410 | John Shelley | William Long II |
| 1411 | ||
| 1413 (Feb) | ||
| 1413 (May) | William Long II | Robert Onewyn [1] |
| 1414 (Apr) | ||
| 1414 (Nov) | William Long II | Robert Onewyn [1] |
| 1415 | ||
| 1416 (Mar) | ||
| 1416 (Oct) | ||
| 1417 | John Shelley | Richard Posterf [1] |
| 1419 | Robert Onewyn | William Long II [1] |
| 1420 | John Shelley | William Long II [1] |
| 1421 (May) | Robert Onewyn | Thomas Piers [1] |
| 1421 (Dec) | William Thirlwall | John Shelley [1] |
| 1504 | Richard Berkeley | |
| 1510 | Nicholas Sutton | Richard Berkeley [1] |
| 1512 | Nicholas Sutton | Robert Mede [1] |
| 1515 | Robert Mede | Nicholas Sutton [1] |
| 1523 | Thomas Cheseman alias Baker | Thomas Basseden [1] |
| 1529 | Nicholas Sutton, died and replaced by 1534 by Richard Inglet |
John Fletcher [1] |
| 1536 | Richard Inglet | John Fletcher [1] |
| 1539 | Thomas Birchet | William Mede [1] |
| 1542 | John Fletcher | William Oxenbridge [1] |
| 1545 | Alexander Welles | Robert Wymond [1] |
| 1547 | Alexander Welles | George Reynolds [1] |
| 1553 (Mar) | Richard Fletcher | John Holmes I [1] |
| 1553 (Oct) | Clement Heigham | John Holmes I [1] |
| 1554 (Apr) | John Holmes I | Richard Fletcher [1] |
| 1554 (Nov) | John Holmes I | Thomas Smith [1] |
| 1555 | John Holmes I | Reginad Mohun [1] |
| 1558 | Thomas Fletcher | Thomas Cheyne [1] |
| 1559 | Richard Fletcher I | Robert Marche[2] |
| 1562/3 | George Reynolds I | John Bredes [2] |
| 1571 | John Donning | Thomas Fanshawe [2] |
| 1572 | Clement Cobbe, died and replaced July 1575 by Robert Carpenter |
Henry Gaymer [2] |
| 1534 | John Hammond | Robert Carpenter [2] |
| 1586 | Henry Gaymer | Robert Carpenter [2] |
| 1588/9 | Audley Dannett | Robert Carpenter [2] |
| 1593 | Henry Gaymer | Robert Carpenter [2] |
| 1597 | Sampson Lennard | Thomas Hamon [2] |
| 1601 | Sir Arthur Gorges | Thomas Colepeper [2] |
| 1604–1611 | Thomas Hamon, died and replaced by ?Heneage Finch |
John Young |
| 1614 | Edward Hendon | Thomas Watson |
| 1621–1622 | Emmanuel Gifford | John Angell |
| 1624 | Thomas Conway | Sir Edward Conway, sat for Warwick and replaced by John Angel |
| 1625 | Tomas Fotherby | John Sackvill |
| 1626 | ||
| 1628 | Richard Tufton | Thomas Fotherby |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
[edit] MPs 1640–1832
[edit] MPs 1832–1950
[edit] MPs 1955–1983
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Bryant Godman Irvine | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] 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 ag ah ai "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/rye. Retrieved 2011-11-330.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/rye. Retrieved 2011-11-330.
- ^ Expelled 1641 for being a tobacco monopolist
- ^ Styled Lord Hawkesbury from 1796
- ^ Arbuthnot was also elected for St Germans, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Rye
- ^ Pusey was originally declared elected, but by an order of the House of Commons on 17 May 1830 his name was erased from the return and that of De Lacy Evans was substituted
[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)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)[self-published source?][better source needed]
Categories:
- History of East Sussex
- Parliamentary constituencies in South East England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1366
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1955
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- Politics of East Sussex
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- Rye, East Sussex
