Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)

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Yarmouth
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyIsle of Wight
Major settlementsYarmouth
1584–1832
SeatsTwo
Created fromHampshire
Replaced byIsle of Wight

Yarmouth was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.

The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, and from the 1832 general election its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight.

Boundaries

The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1584–1640

Parliament First member Second member
1584 Arthur Gorges William Stubbs
1586 Thomas West John Duncombe
1588 Daniel Hills John Howe
1593 Robert Dillington Robert Crosse
1597 Benedict Barnham John Snow
1601 William Cotton Stephen Theobald
1604 Thomas Cheeke Arthur Bromfield
1614 Arthur Bromfield Sir Thomas Cheeke
1621–1622 Arthur Bromfield Thomas Risley
1624 Thomas Risley William Beeston
1625 Edward Clarke
sat for Hythe
replaced by Sir John Suckling		 John Oglander
1626 Sir Edward Conway Sir John Oglander
1628–1629 Edward Dennis Sir John Oglander
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1832

Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
April 1640 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Oglander style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Bulkeley
November 1640 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Philip Sidney Parliamentarian style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir John Leigh Parliamentarian
December 1648 Leigh excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653 Yarmouth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Sadler style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Lucy
May 1659 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Philip Sidney One seat vacant in the restored Rump
February 1660 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir John Leigh
April 1660 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Lucy
1661 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Smith
1678 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Lucy
February 1679 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Richard Mason
August 1679 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Wyndham
1681 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lemuel Kingdon style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Littleton[1]
1685 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Wyndham style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Hewer
1689 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Robert Holmes style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Fitton Gerard
1690 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir John Trevor[2] Tory rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Duncombe Tory
April 1695 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Holmes Tory
November 1695 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Anthony Morgan
1710 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet Tory
1715[3] style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir Robert Raymond Tory
1717[3] rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel Anthony Morgan style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Theodore Janssen[4]
1721 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Plumer
1722 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Stanwix
1725 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel Maurice Morgan
1727 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Paul Burrard
1733 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Maurice Bocland
1734 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Lord Harry Powlett[5] Whig
1736 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Gibson
1737 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Anthony Chute
1741 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel Maurice Bocland
1744 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Carteret
1747 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Thomas Holmes[6] Whig style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel Henry Holmes[7]
1762 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Jeremiah Dyson Tory
1765 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Eames
1768[8] style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Strode style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Jervoise Clarke Whig
1769[8] style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Dummer style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Major General the Hon. George Lane Parker
1774 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Meux Worsley rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Jervoise Clarke Whig
1775 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Worsley
1779 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Captain Robert Kingsmill
1780 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Morant style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Rushworth
1781 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Rumbold
1784 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Philip Francis
1787 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Clarke Jervoise
1790 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Rushworth
1791 by-election rowspan="12" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Jervoise Clarke Jervoise Whig style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir John Leicester, Bt
1796 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Rushworth
1797 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Peachy
1802 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Patrick Murray
February 1803 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel Charles Macdonnell
October 1803 by-election style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Swann Tory
February 1804 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Delgarno
March 1804 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham
January 1806 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | David Scott
November 1806 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas William Plummer
May 1807 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. William Orde-Powlett
August 1807 by-election rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Admiral Sir John Orde
January 1808 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Benjamin Griffinhoofe
April 1808 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Delgarno
June 1808 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Annesley
1810 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Myers
1812 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Wellesley style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Henry Montgomery, Bt
1816 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | John Leslie Foster Tory
1817 by-election style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Alexander Maconochie Tory
March 1818 by-election style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | John Copley Tory
June 1818 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | John Taylor Tory style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Mount Tory
1819 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir Peter Pole Tory style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | John Wilson Croker Tory
1820 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Theodore Broadhead Tory
1821 by-election style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Theodore He[9] Tory
1826 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Thomas Hamilton Tory rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Joseph Phillimore Tory
1827 by-election style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Thomas Wallace Tory
1830 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Yates Peel Tory style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | George Lowther Thompson Tory
1831 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir Henry Willoughby Whig style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Cavendish Whig
1832 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Sir Thomas Littleton died April 1681
  2. ^ Sir John Trevor was expelled from the House of Commons for accepting a bribe
  3. ^ a b At the election of 1715, Raymond and Holmes were declared to have defeated Morgan and Janssen, but on petition the result was reversed in 1717
  4. ^ Sir Theodore Janssen was expelled from the House of Commons on 30 January 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
  5. ^ Powlett was also elected for Hampshire in a disputed election. He sat for Yarmouth until 1737 when the petition against the Hampshire result was withdrawn, then chose to represent Hampshire rather than Yarmouth for the remainder of the Parliament
  6. ^ Thomas Holmes was created The Lord Holmes (in the peerage of Ireland) in 1760
  7. ^ Major General from 1756, Lieutenant General from 1759
  8. ^ a b At the election of 1768, Strode and Clarke were declared to have defeated Dummer and Parker, but on petition the result was reversed in 1769
  9. ^ Theodore Broadhead (2) later adopted the surname Brinckman

Elections

See also

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]
  • 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 – Constituencies beginning with "Y"
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