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Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formed by an Act of Parliament in 1570 which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Until 1832, it continued to elect the four Members of Parliament (MPs) to which its constituent parts had previously been entitled; the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to two MPs, and the constituency was abolished altogether in 1885.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1455-1660
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[edit] 1660-1832
[edit] 1832-1885
- ^ Bacon was re-elected in 1586, but had also been elected for Taunton, which he chose to represent
- ^ Created a baronet, June 1641
- ^ On petition, the election of Littleton and Betts was declared void, and a writ for a by-election was issued. Both were returned at the by-election, but were once again declared not to have been duly elected.
- ^ On petition, Baker, Harvey and Betts were all declared not to have been duly elected
- ^ Expelled from the House of Commons 1726 following his conviction for forgery
- ^ Dodington was also elected for Bridgwater, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this parliament for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis
- ^ Created The Lord Waltham (in the Peerage of Ireland), June 1762
- ^ Major-General from 1793, Lieutenant-General from 1799; adopted the surname Murray-Pulteney on his marriage in July 1794
- ^ Created a baronet, July 1795
- ^ On petition, the election of Wallace, Broadhurst and Trail was declared void, and a by-election was held; Murray's election was not disturbed
- ^ Weyland was also elected for Oxfordshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis
- ^ At the election of 1841, the two sitting Conservative members, Villiers and Hope, were initially declared re-elected, by margins of 5 votes and 3 votes respectively, but on petition the result was overturned and the opponents, Bernal and Christie, were seated in their place
[edit] References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Grey's Debates of the House of Commons: volume 8 (1769), pp. 373-381 [2]
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
- 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)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
