Year |
|
First member |
First party |
|
Second member |
Second party
|
April 1640
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Walsingham
|
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
John Clerke
|
|
November 1640
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Walsingham |
Parliamentarian
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Richard Lee |
Parliamentarian
|
December 1648
|
Lee excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
|
1653
|
Rochester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
|
1654
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
John Parker |
|
Rochester had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
|
1656
|
January 1659
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Peter Pett |
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Richard Hutchinson |
|
May 1659
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Walsingham |
|
One seat vacant
|
1660
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Peter Pett
|
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
John Marsham
|
|
1661
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Francis Clerke
|
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir William Batten
|
|
1667
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Richard Head
|
|
February 1679
|
rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir John Banks
|
|
August 1679
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Francis Barrell
|
|
1681
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Francis Clerke
|
|
1689
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Roger Twisden
|
|
1690
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Joseph Williamson
|
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Francis Clerke
|
|
1691
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Caleb Banks
|
|
1695
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
|
|
1701
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Francis Barrell
|
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
William Bokenham
|
|
1702
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Edward Knatchbull
|
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
William Cage
|
|
1705
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
|
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Stafford Fairborne
|
|
1708
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir John Leake
|
|
1710
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
William Cage
|
|
1715
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Palmer, Bt
|
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir John Jennings
|
|
1724
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Colby
|
|
1727
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
David Polhill
|
Whig
|
1734
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Nicholas Haddock
|
|
1741
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Edward Vernon[4]
|
|
1743
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
David Polhill
|
Whig
|
1746
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle
|
|
1751
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral The Hon. John Byng
|
|
1754
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Nicholas Haddock
|
|
1757
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Isaac Townsend
|
|
1761
|
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Viscount Parker
|
|
1764
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Charles Hardy
|
|
1765
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Grey Cooper
|
Tory[5]
|
1768
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
John Calcraft
|
Whig[5]
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
William Gordon
|
Tory[5]
|
1771
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Thomas Pye
|
Tory[5]
|
1772
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
George Finch-Hatton
|
Tory[5]
|
1774
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Robert Gregory
|
Whig[5]
|
1784
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Captain Sir Charles Middleton[6]
|
Whig[5]
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Nathaniel Smith
|
Whig[5]
|
1790
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
George Best
|
Tory[5]
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton
|
Tory[5]
|
1792
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Nathaniel Smith
|
Whig[5]
|
1794
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Admiral Sir Richard King
|
Tory
|
1796
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Hon. Henry Tufton
|
Whig[5]
|
1802
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Captain Sir Sidney Smith[7]
|
Tory[5]
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
James Hulkes
|
Whig[5]
|
1806
|
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
John Calcraft
|
Whig[5]
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
James Barnett
|
Whig[5]
|
1807
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Thompson
|
Tory[5]
|
1816
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
James Barnett
|
Whig[5]
|
1818
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Lord Binning
|
Tory[5]
|
1820
|
rowspan="7" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Ralph Bernal
|
Whig[5][8][9][10][11]
|
1826
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Captain Henry Dundas
|
Tory[5]
|
1830
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
George Villiers
|
Tory[5]
|
1831
|
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
John Mills
|
Tory[5]
|
1834
|
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
1835
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Thomas Hodges
|
Whig[5][12][13][14]
|
1837
|
style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Thomas Hobhouse
|
Radical[15][16]
|
1841
|
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
James Douglas Stoddart Douglas
|
Conservative[5]
|
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
William Bodkin
|
Conservative[5]
|
1847
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Ralph Bernal
|
Whig[5][8][9][10][11]
|
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |
|
Thomas Hodges
|
Whig[5][12][13][14]
|
1852
|
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Hon. Francis Child Villiers
|
Conservative[17]
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Sir Thomas Maddock
|
Conservative[17]
|
1856 by-election
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Philip Wykeham Martin
|
Radical[18][19][20]
|
1857
|
style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" |
|
John Alexander Kinglake
|
Radical[21]
|
1859
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal
|
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal
|
1870 by-election
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Julian Goldsmid
|
Liberal
|
1878 by-election
|
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Sir Arthur Otway
|
Liberal
|
1880
|
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Roger Leigh
|
Conservative
|
1885
|
Representation reduced to one-member
|