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Great Bedwyn
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1295–1832
SeatsTwo

Great Bedwyn was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which 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

Parliament First member Second member
1295 Sir William Russell (d.1311), Lord of Yaverland[1]
1386 John Combe William Bailiff [2]
1388 (Feb)
1388 (Sep)
1390 (Jan) John Combe William Plomer [2]
1399 Thomas Smith Geoffrey Mauncell [2]
1420 John Benger John Everard [2]
1421 (May)
1421 (Dec) Thomas Hussey Maurice Hommedieux [2]
1449 Sir Thomas Malory
1491 William Paston[3]
1510–1523 No names known[4]
1529 William Newdigate died
and replaced 1532/3 by ?Thomas Polsted		 John Berwick [4]
1536 ?
1539 ?
1542 ?
1545 John Winchcombe alias Smallwood John Seymour [4]
1547 Anthony Browne Robert Pagman [4]
1553 (Mar) ?
1553 (Oct) Richard Fulmerston John Hungerford [4]
1554 (Apr) Richard Fulmerston Sir Edmund Rous [4]
1554 (Nov) Richard Fulmerston Edward Hungerford [4]
1555 Henry Clifford David Seymour [4]
1558 John Temple George Hidden [4]
1559 Francis Newdigate Henry Clifford[5]
1562/3 John Thynne Stephen Hales [5]
1571 Nicholas St John Thomas Blagrave [5]
1572 Simon Bowyer George Ireland [5]
1584 Richard Wheler Roger Puleston [5]
1586 Richard Wheler Roger Puleston [5]
1588 John Seymour Henry Ughtred [5]
1593 Thomas Hungerford James Kirton [5]
1597 Sir Anthony Hungerford Francis Castilian
1601 Sir Anthony Hungerford Levinus Munck
1604–1611 John Rodney Sir Anthony Hungerford
1614 Robert Hyde Sir Giles Mompesson
1621–1622 Sir Francis Popham Sir Giles Mompesson
1624 Hugh Crompton William Cholmeley
1625 Sir John Brooke William Cholmeley
1626-? John Selden Sir Maurice Berkeley
1628 Edward Kyrton Sir John Trevor
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

1640–1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Seymour style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Hardinge Royalist
November 1640 style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | Sir Walter Smith Royalist style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color"|
February 1644 Smith and Harding disabled from sitting – both seats vacant
1646 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | Edmund Harvey Parliamentarian style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | Henry Hungerford Parliamentarian
December 1648 Hungerford not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653 Great Bedwyn was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Manley style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Hungerford
May 1659 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel Edmund Harvey One seat vacant
1660 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Spencer style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Gape
1661 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Duke Stonehouse rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Clerke
1663 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Trevor
1673 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Daniel Finch
February 1679 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Stonehouse style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Deane
August 1679 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Finch
1681 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir John Ernle style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Wildman
1685 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lemuel Kingdon style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Loder
1689 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Edmund Warneford style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Wildman
1690 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | The Viscount Falkland rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Jonathan Raymond
1694 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Stonehouse
1695 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval
1698 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Davenant
1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Michael Mitford
1702 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. James Bruce
May 1705 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir George Byng [6] rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nicholas Pollexfen
December 1705 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lord Bruce [7]
November 1707 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Tracy Pauncefort [8]
December 1707 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nicholas Pollexfen
1708 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Samuel Vanacker Sambrooke
1710 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Edward Seymour
1711 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Millington
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Stephen Bisse style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Sloper
1722 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Bruce style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Longueville
1727 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir William Willys style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Viscount Lewisham [9]
1729 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Sloper
1732 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Seymour
1734 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Brigadier Robert Murray
1738 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Popham
1741 style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Sir Edward Turner Whig rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lascelles Metcalfe
1747 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Sloper
1754 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Robert Hildyard
1756 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Robert Brudenell
1761 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Vice Admiral Thomas Cotes style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Woodley
1766 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Burke
1767 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Fludyer
March 1768 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. James Brudenell style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Robert Brudenell [10]
May 1768 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Burke
November 1768 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Northey
1771 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Benjamin Hopkins
October 1774 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | The Earl of Courtown rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Paul Methuen
December 1774 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Viscount Cranborne
1780 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Merrick Burrell
1781 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Paul Cobb Methuen
1784 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Marquess of Graham style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Manners
June 1790 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lord Doune
December 1790 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Viscount Stopford Tory
1792 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Hyde East
1796 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lieutenant General the Hon. Thomas Bruce rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Wodehouse [11]
1797 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Robert Buxton
1802 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt
1806 style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Viscount Stopford Tory rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | James Henry Leigh Tory
April 1807 style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Sir Vicary Gibbs Tory
May 1807 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Sir John Nicholl Tory
March 1818 style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | John Jacob Buxton Tory
1832 Constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Wiffen, J. H. Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell, 1884, vol. 1, pp.127–131. The Russell family, of Kingston Russell, Dorset, held the manor of Little Bedwyn
  2. ^ a b c d e "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  3. ^ Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
  6. ^ Byng was also elected for Plymouth, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Great Bedwyn
  7. ^ Bruce was re-elected in 1710, but had also been elected for Marlborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Great Bedwyn
  8. ^ On petition, Pauncefort was found not to have been duly elected and was taken into custody by order of the House of Commons for bribery and corruption at his election
  9. ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Lewisham was declared not to have been duly elected
  10. ^ Brudenell was also elected for Marlborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this Parliament for Great Bedwyn
  11. ^ Styled The Hon. John Wodehouse from October 1797

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 "G" (part 2)
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