Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)
Newport | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1529–1832 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Dunheved |
Replaced by | Launceston |
Newport was a rotten borough situated in Cornwall. It is now the suburb of Newport within the town of Launceston, which was itself also a parliamentary borough at the same period. It is also referred to as Newport Iuxta Launceston,[1] to distinguish it from other constituencies named Newport.
History
From 1529 until it was abolished by the great reform act of 1832, Newport returned two Members of Parliament. Until the early 18th century, the right to vote was held by all inhabitants paying scot and lot, but subsequently it was converted to a burgage franchise, meaning that the right to vote was tied to ownership of certain properties within the borough, which could be bought and sold at will. This reduced the number of qualified voters: under the scot and lot qualification around 70 people had had the right to vote, but by 1831 the number was only about 12.
The borough had a population of 595 in 1831. The Lord of the Manor, owning extensive property within the borough and with the effective power of choosing both members of parliament, was the Duke of Northumberland.
By the Reform Act, Newport was abolished as a separate borough, but the boundaries of Launceston were extended to include Newport. As Launceston's representation was halved by the same measure, the combined borough was thereafter represented by a single MP whereas previously there had been four members.
Members of Parliament
1529-1629
- Constituency created 1529
1640-1832
Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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April 1640 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | Nicholas Trefusis | Parliamentarian | style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | John Maynard [4] | Parliamentarian |
1640 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Paul Speccot | ||||
November 1640 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | | Richard Edgcumbe[disambiguation needed] | Royalist | style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | | John Maynard [4] | Parliamentarian |
December 1640 | Seat left vacant after Maynard chose to sit for Totnes | |||||
January 1644 | Edgcumbe disabled from sitting - seat vacant | |||||
1647 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Philip Perceval (died November 1647) | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nicholas Leach (died May 1647) | ||
1648 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Prynne | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Alexander Pym | ||
December 1648 | Prynne excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | Pym not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | ||||
1653 | Newport was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
January 1659 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Glanville | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Morice | ||
May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
April 1660 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Francis Drake | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Morice[5] | ||
August 1660 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Laurence Hyde | ||||
1661 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Speccot | ||||
1662 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Piers Edgcumbe | ||||
1667 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nicholas Morice | ||||
1678 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Ambrose Manaton | ||||
February 1679 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Coryton | ||||
September 1679 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Coryton | ||||
1681 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Morice | ||||
1685 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Speccot | ||||
1689 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Morice | ||||
February 1690 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | The Viscount Newhaven | ||||
December 1690 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Morice | ||||
1695 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | The Viscount Newhaven | ||||
1698 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Granville | ||||
1699 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Francis Stratford | ||||
January 1701 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Prideaux | ||||
December 1701 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Pole | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Spark | ||
1702 | rowspan="7" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Nicholas Morice | ||||
1707 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Pole | ||||
1708 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Pole | ||||
1710 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Courtenay | ||||
1713 | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Humphry Morice | Whig | |||
April 1722 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Pole[6] | ||||
December 1722 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Morice | ||||
1726 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Herbert | ||||
1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Morice | ||||
1734 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Molesworth | ||||
1740 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nicholas Herbert | ||||
1741 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Bury | ||||
1754 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Lee | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Bacon | ||
1756 | rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Bull | ||||
1761 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William de Grey | ||||
1770 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Henry Alexander Bennet | ||||
October 1774 | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Humphry Morice[7] | Whig | |||
December 1774 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Frederick | ||||
1780 | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Viscount Maitland | Whig | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Coghill[8] | |
1784 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Riggs-Miller | ||||
1785 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | William Mitford | Tory | |||
1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Viscount Feilding | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles Rainsford | ||
1796 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | William Northey | Tory | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Joseph Richardson | |
1803 | style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Edward Morris | Whig | |||
1812 | rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Jonathan Raine | Tory | |||
1826 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Lord Charles Greatheed Bertie Percy | Tory | |||
1829 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | William Vesey-Fitzgerald | Tory | |||
July 1830 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | John Doherty[9] | Tory | |||
December 1830 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Sir Henry Hardinge | Tory | |||
1831 | style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | | Viscount Grimston | Tory | |||
1832 | constituency abolished |
Notes
- ^ Hasler 1981.
- ^ a b c "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-11-02.
- ^ Killigrew was also elected for Penryn, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Newport
- ^ a b Maynard was also elected for Totnes, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Newport
- ^ Morice was also elected for Plymouth, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Newport
- ^ Pole was also elected for Honiton, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Newport
- ^ Morice was also elected for Launceston, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Newport
- ^ Created a baronet as Sir John Coghill in March 1781
- ^ Appointed judge and resigned, December 1830. Replaced by Sir Henry Hardinge
References
- 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) [1]
- Hasler, P W. (1981), "Newport Iuxta Launceston, Borough", in Hasler, P.W. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, Boydell and Brewer
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