Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency)
| Plympton Erle | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1295–1832 | |
| Seats | Two |
Plympton Erle, also spelt Plympton Earle, was a parliamentary borough in Devon. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Members of Parliament
1295–1640
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1640–1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| April 1640 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Thomas Hele | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Richard Strode Sir Nicholas Slanning (Double return) |
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| November 1640 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Michael Oldisworth[7] | Parliamentarian | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Nicholas Slanning[8] | Royalist |
| 1640 (?) | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Thomas Hele | Royalist | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hugh Potter | Parliamentarian |
| January 1644 | Hele disabled from sitting – seat vacant | |||||
| 1646 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Christopher Martyn | ||||
| December 1648 | Potter excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Plympton Erle was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
| January 1659 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Christopher Martyn | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Captain Henry Hatsell | ||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Christopher Martyn | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Strode | ||
| 1661 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Hele | ||||
| 1666 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Edmund Fortescue | ||||
| 1667 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Nicholas Slanning | ||||
| 1677 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir George Treby | ||||
| February 1679 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Hillersdon | ||||
| August 1679 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Pollexfen | ||||
| 1685 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Strode | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Christopher Wren | ||
| 1689 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir George Treby | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Pollexfen | ||
| March 1690[9] | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Strode | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Parker | ||
| April 1690 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir George Treby | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Pollexfen | ||
| 1692 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Thomas Trevor | ||||
| 1695 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Courtenay Croker | ||||
| 1698 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Martin Ryder | ||||
| 1701 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Hele | ||||
| 1702 | rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Richard Edgcumbe[10] | Whig | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Jervoise[11] | |
| 1703 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Hele | ||||
| 1705 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Cope | ||||
| 1708 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Treby[12] | ||||
| 1728 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Fuller | ||||
| 1734 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Clutterbuck | ||||
| 1735 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Walker | ||||
| 1741 | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Richard Edgcumbe | Whig | |||
| May 1742 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | The Lord Sundon | ||||
| December 1742 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Richard Edgcumbe[13] | ||||
| July 1747 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. George Edgcumbe[14] | ||||
| December 1747 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | (Sir) William Baker[15] | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Treby | ||
| 1761 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Hele Treby | ||||
| 1763 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Paul Henry Ourry | ||||
| 1768 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Baker | ||||
| 1774 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Richard Philipps, Bt | ||||
| 1775 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Durand | ||||
| 1779 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Fullarton | ||||
| September 1780 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Viscount Cranborne | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Ralph Payne | ||
| November 1780 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. James Stuart | ||||
| April 1784 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Paul Treby Ourry | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Stephenson | ||
| August 1784 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Pardoe | ||||
| 1790 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | The Earl of Carhampton | Tory | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Philip Metcalfe | |
| 1794 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Manning | ||||
| 1796 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Adams | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Mitchell | ||
| 1799 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Hankey | ||||
| 1801 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie | ||||
| 1802 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Golding | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Philip Metcalfe | ||
| 1806 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Viscount Castlereagh | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Stephen Lushington | ||
| 1807 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. William Harbord | ||||
| 1810 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Drummond | ||||
| October 1812 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Ranald George Macdonald | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Duckett | ||
| December 1812 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Douglas | ||||
| 1816 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Alexander Boswell | Tory | |||
| 1821 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Gill Paxton | Independent | |||
| 1824 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | John Henry North | Tory | |||
| June 1826 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | George Edgcumbe | Tory | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Gibbs Antrobus | Tory |
| December 1826 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Sir Charles Wetherell | Tory | |||
| August 1830 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Viscount Valletort | Tory | |||
| December 1830 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Sir Compton Domvile | Tory | |||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | |||||
Elections
Elections in Plympton Erle were normally uncontested. The only contest between the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 and the abolition of the borough in 1832 was at the general election of 1802.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | Edward Golding | 12 | 60% | N/A | |
| N/A | Philip Metcalfe | 12 | 60% | N/A | |
| N/A | Captain Palmer | 8 | 40% | N/A | |
Notes
- ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/burlestone-%28borleston%29-william-1406
- ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/raymond-thomas-1418
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
- ^ "Fitzwillam, Sir Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2004.
- ^ Oldisworth was also elected for Salisbury, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Plympton Erle
- ^ Slanning was also elected for Penryn, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Plympton Erle
- ^ The election of 1690 was declared void by the House of Commons, and a writ for a by-election was issued
- ^ Edgcumbe was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for Lostwithiel, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this Parliament for Plympton Erle
- ^ Jervoise was originally declared elected, but on petition (in a dispute over the franchise) his opponent Hele was declared to have been duly elected
- ^ Treby was re-elected in 1727, but had also been elected for Dartmouth, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Plympton Erle
- ^ Richard Edgcumbe was re-elected in 1747, but had also been elected for Lostwithiel, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Plympton Erle
- ^ George Edgcumbe was also elected for Fowey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Plympton Erle
- ^ Knighted November 1760
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]
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
- 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 "P" (part 2)