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Revision as of 12:40, 8 March 2014
| Devon | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Devon |
| 1290–1832 | |
| Seats | Two |
| Replaced by | North Devon South Devon |
Devon was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Devon in England. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. Elections were held using the bloc vote system of elections.
Under the Reform Act 1832, it was split into two divisions: Northern Devon and Southern Devon for the 1832 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the historic county of Devon, excluding the city of Exeter which had the status of a county in itself after 1537. (Although Devon contained a number of other parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Devon was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Exeter.)
Members of Parliament
1290-1640
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Constituency created (1290)
| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1364 | John Carew | William Carew |
| 1369 | John Carew | William Carew |
| 1371 | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1376 | Sir William Bonville |
| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1377 (Oct) | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1378 | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1379 | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1379 | John Beaumont (d.1379/80)[1] | |
| 1380 | John Beaumont (d.1379/80)[1] | |
| 1380 (Nov) | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1381 | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1382 (May) | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1382 (Oct) | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1383 | Sir Philip Courtenay | |
| 1383 | Ivo FitzWarin | |
| 1384 (Apr) | Sir William Bonville | |
| 1385 | Sir John Stretch [2] | |
| 1386 | Sir Philip Courtenay | Sir John Stretch [3] |
| 1388 (Feb) | Sir Philip Courtenay | Sir John Prideaux [3] |
| 1388 (Sep) | Sir John Stretch | Sir John Grenville [3] |
| 1390 (Jan) | Sir Philip Courtenay | Sir James Chudleigh [3] |
| 1390 (Nov) | Sir James Chudleigh | John Prescott [3] |
| 1391 | Sir James Chudleigh | Sir William Sturmy [3] |
| 1393 | Sir Philip Courtenay | Sir James Chudleigh [3] |
| 1394 | Sir John Grenville | Sir James Chudleigh [3] |
| 1395 | Sir Philip Courtenay | Sir Hugh Courtenay [3] |
| 1397 (Jan) | Sir William Bonville | Sir John Grenville [3] |
| 1397 (Sep) | Sir Hugh Courtenay | Sir William Bonville [3] |
| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1399 | Sir Philip Courtenay | John Stretch [3] |
| 1401 | Sir Philip Courtenay | Sir John Wadham [3] |
| 1402 | Sir William Bonville | Sir John Grenville [3] |
| 1404 (Jan) | Sir Thomas Pomeroy | Edmund Pyne [3] |
| 1404 (Oct) | Sir William Sturmy | Walter Reynell [3] |
| 1406 | Sir Hugh Luttrell | Sir Thomas Pomeroy [3] |
| 1407 | Sir Hugh Luttrell | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1410 | Sir Thomas Pomeroy | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1411 | Edmund Pyne | Robert Cary [3] |
| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1413 (Feb) | ||
| 1413 (May) | Sir Thomas Pomeroy | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1414 (Apr) | John St. Aubyn | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1414 (Nov) | Richard Hankford | John Arundell [3] |
| 1415 | ||
| 1416 (Mar) | Richard Hankford | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1416 (Oct) | ||
| 1417 | John Cole | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1419 | Edward Pomeroy | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1420 | Sir Robert Chalons | Thomas Archdeacon [3] |
| 1421 (May) | Sir Hugh Courtenay | Robert Cary [3] |
| 1421 (Dec) | John Copplestone | Henry Fortescue [3] |
| No | Year | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1422 | William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville | Robert Carry[4] | |
| 2nd | 1423 | Richard Hankeford | John Cole[4] | |
| 3rd | 1425 | William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville | Robert Carry[4] | |
| 4th | 1426 | Robert Carry | John Chuddeligh[4] | |
| 5th | 1427 | Philip Courtenay | William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville[4] | |
| 6th | 1429 | |||
| 7th | 1430 | |||
| 8th | 1432 | |||
| 9th | 1433 | |||
| 10th | 1435 | Nicholas RadfordCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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John Chichester | Gawin Carew |
| 1571[5] | Sir John St Leger | Peter Edgcumbe | ||
| 1572-1583[5] | Arthur Bassett | |||
| 1584-1585[5] | Walter Raleigh | William Courtenay | ||
| 1586-1587[5] | John Chudleigh | |||
| 1588-1589[5] | William Courtenay | George Cary | ||
| 1593[5] | Sir Thomas Denys | Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet | ||
| 1597-1598[5] | William Strode | Amias Bampfield | ||
| 1601[5] | William Courtenay | Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet |
| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1604-1611[6] | Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet | Thomas Ridgeway[7] |
| (from 1607)[6] | Sir John Acland | |
| 1614[6] | John Drake | Sir Edward Giles |
| 1621-1622[6] | Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet | |
| 1624-1625[6] | Sir William Strode |
| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1625[6] | Francis Fulford | Francis Courtenay |
| 1626[6] | John Drake | John Pole |
| 1628-1629[6] | John Bampfield | Sir Francis Drake, Bt[8] |
1640-1832
- Constituency abolished (1832)
Elections
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Notes
- ^ a b Beaumont, Edward T., The Beaumonts in History. A.D. 850-1850. Oxford, c.1929, (privately published), Chapter 5, pp.56-63, The Devonshire Family, p.62 (term given as 1376-80)
- ^ "STRETCH, Sir John (1341-90), of Pinhoe and Hempston Arundel (Little Hempston), Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ 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 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-09-12.
- ^ a b c d e Willis 1715, p. 252.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cite error: The named reference
DA15was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k J. J. Alexander (1916), "Devon Country Members of Parliament, Part V, The Stuart Period (1603-1688)", Rep. Trans. Devon. Ass. Advmt Sci., XLVIII: 330–332
- ^ Appointed Treasurer in Ireland 1607
- ^ Youngest brother (1588-1637) of Francis Drake
- ^ Died March 1641
- ^ Died December 1647
- ^ Morice may not have taken his seat before being excluded in Pride's Purge
References
- 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) [1]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
- Willis, Browne (1715). Notitia parliamentaria: or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: Cornwall, Cumberland, Darby, Devon, Dorset and Durham. Vol. II. Printed by Robert Gosling. p. 252.
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