Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency)
Dorchester was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 to 1868, when its representation was reduced one member.
The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, after which Dorchester was placed in the new Dorset South constituency. In 1918 it was transferred to Dorset West, where it has remained since.
Members of Parliament
1295-1629
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1640-1868
| Year | First Member | First Party | Second Member | Second Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | Denzil Holles[5] | Parliamentarian | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | Denis Bond | Parliamentarian |
| November 1640 | ||||||
| December 1648 | Holles excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Dorchester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Whiteway | Dorchester had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||
| 1656 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Whiteway | ||||
| January 1659 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Gould | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Bushrode | ||
| May 1659 | Dorchester was not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Denzil Holles | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Whiteway | ||
| March 1661 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Gould | ||||
| May 1661 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Churchill | ||||
| 1677 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Gould | ||||
| 1679 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Francis Holles | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nicholas Gould | ||
| 1680 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Gould | ||||
| 1681 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nathaniel Bond | ||||
| 1685 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Meller | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Churchill | ||
| January 1689 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Gerard Napier | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Trenchard | ||
| December 1689 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Chafin | ||||
| March 1690 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Gould | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Robert Napier, Bt | ||
| December 1690 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Trenchard | ||||
| 1695 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nathaniel Bond | rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nathaniel Napier | ||
| 1698 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Robert Napier, Bt | ||||
| 1701 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Trenchard | ||||
| 1702 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bt | ||||
| 1705 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Awnsham Churchill | ||||
| 1708 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Churchill | ||||
| 1709 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Denis Bond | ||||
| 1710 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bt | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Benjamin Gifford | ||
| 1713 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Trenchard | ||||
| April 1720 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Browne [6] | ||||
| May 1720 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Abraham Janssen | ||||
| 1722 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edmund Morton Pleydell [7] | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Joseph Damer | ||
| 1723 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Chapple | ||||
| 1727 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Browne | ||||
| 1737 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Browne | ||||
| 1741 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nathaniel Gundry | ||||
| 1751 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Damer | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Pitt | ||
| 1752 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Clavell | ||||
| 1754 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | The Lord Milton | ||||
| 1761 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Foster | ||||
| 1762 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Damer | ||||
| 1765 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Ewer | ||||
| 1780 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. George Damer [8] | ||||
| 1789 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Ewer | ||||
| 1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Cropley Ashley | ||||
| 1790 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Francis Fane | ||||
| 1791 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Cropley Ashley | ||||
| 1807 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Williams | ||||
| 1811 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles Henry Bouverie | ||||
| October 1812 | rowspan="8" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Williams | ||||
| December 1812 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William A'Court | ||||
| 1814 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Samuel Shepherd | ||||
| 1819 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles Warren | ||||
| 1826 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Ashley-Cooper | ||||
| 1830 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Sturt | ||||
| 1830 | style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | | Lord Ashley | Tory | |||
| 1831 | style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | | Hon. Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper | Tory | |||
| 1835 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Robert Williams | Conservative | |
| 1841 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir James Graham, Bt | Conservative | |||
| 1847 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hon. George Dawson-Damer | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Henry Sturt | Conservative |
| 1852 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Brinsley Sheridan [9] | Liberal | |||
| 1856 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Napier Sturt | Conservative | |||
| 1868 | representation reduced to one member | |||||
1868-1885
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | representation reduced to one member | ||
| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1868 | Charles Napier Sturt | Conservative |
| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1874 | William Ernest Brymer | Conservative |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "Dorchester". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
- ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hussey-thomas-i
- ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/brouncker-henry-1550-1607
- ^ Ashley resigned his place in favour of Sir Thomas Edmondes but was rechosen when Edmondes chose to sit for another constituency
- ^ Disabled from sitting January 1648 but re-instated June 1648
- ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Browne was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Janssen, was seated in his place
- ^ On petition, Pleydell was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Chapple, was seated in his place
- ^ Damer was declared re-elected in 1790, but on petition was found not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Ashley, was seated in his place
- ^ Sheridan was the grandson of his celebrated namesake Richard Brinsley Sheridan
References
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- 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)
- M Stenton (ed), Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885 (The Harvester Press, 1976)
- 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)