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* D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) |
* D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) |
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*''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1] |
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* F W S Craig, ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885'' (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) |
* F W S Craig, ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885'' (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) |
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* Maija Jansson (ed.), ''Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)'' (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) |
* Maija Jansson (ed.), ''Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)'' (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) |
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Revision as of 05:06, 13 September 2017
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Dorset |
| 1290–1885 | |
| Seats | 1290–1832: Two 1832–1885: Three |
| Replaced by | North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset, West Dorset |
Dorset was a county constituency covering Dorset in southern England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs), traditionally known as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England from 1290 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832.
The Great Reform Act increased its representation to three MPs with effect from the 1832 general election, and under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the constituency was abolished for the 1885 election, and replaced by four single-member divisions: North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset and West Dorset.
When elections were contested, the bloc vote system was used, but contests were rare. Even after the 1832 Reforms, only three of the nineteen elections before 1885 were contested; in the others, the nominated candidates were returned without a vote.[1]
History
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Members of Parliament
Before 1640
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MPs 1640–1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| April 1640 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | | Lord Digby | Royalist | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | | Richard Rogers | Royalist |
| November 1640 | ||||||
| 1641 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | John Browne | Parliamentarian | |||
| September 1642 | Rogers disabled from sitting - seat vacant | |||||
| 1645 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Thomas Trenchard | ||||
| December 1648 | Trenchard did not sit after Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Sydenham | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Bingham | ||
| Dorset had six seats in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| 1654 | William Sydenham, John Bingham, Sir Walter Earle, John Fitzjames, John Trenchard, Henry Henley | |||||
| 1656 | William Sydenham, John Bingham, Robert Coker, John Fitzjames, John Trenchard, James Dewey | |||||
| Dorset reverted to two seats in the Third Protectorate Parliament | ||||||
| January 1659 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Walter Earle | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Bingham | ||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Fitzjames | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Coker | ||
| Apr 1661 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Strode | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Giles Strangways | ||
| 1675 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Lord Digby | ||||
| 1677 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Browne | ||||
| 1679 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Strangways I | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Freke | ||
| 1701 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Trenchard | ||||
| 1702 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Chafin | ||||
| 1711 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Bingham | ||||
| 1713 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Chafin | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Strangways II | ||
| Jan 1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Pitt | ||||
| Sep 1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edmund Morton Pleydell | ||||
| 1747 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | George Pitt | Tory later Independent | |||
| 1754 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Humphrey Sturt | ||||
| 1774 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. George Pitt | ||||
| 1784 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Francis John Browne | ||||
| 1790 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Morton Pitt | ||||
| 1806 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Berkeley Portman I | ||||
| 1823 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Edward Portman II | Whig | |||
| 1826 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Bankes | ||||
| 1831 | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | John Calcraft | Whig | |||
| 1832 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Lord Ashley | Tory | |||
| 1832 | Representation increased to 3 members | |||||
MPs 1832–1885
Election results
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Notes
- ^ a b c d Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 376–377. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ a b c "HAMELY (HAMYLYN), Sir John (aft.1324-1399), of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 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 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ a b "CARENT, William (d.1476), of Toomer in Henstridge, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
- 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)
- Heywood Townshend, Historical Collections:: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth (1680) [2]
- British History Online - 'List of members nominated for Parliament of 1653', Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 4: March - April 1659 (1828),
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)