Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) until it was abolished in 1868. It was recreated in 1885 as a single-member constituency.
For the 1997 general election, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Tiverton to form the Tiverton & Honiton constituency.
Honiton was regarded as a potwalloper borough by the time of Thomas Cochrane.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1640-1660
- 1640-1643: William Poole (Royalist) - disabled to sit, June 1643
- 1640-1648: Walter Yonge (Parliamentarian) - not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge, December 1648; died December 1649
- 1645(?)-1648: Charles Vaughan - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648
Honiton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
- 1659: Walter Yonge (grandson of the Member from 1640 -1648)
- 1659: ?
Long Parliament (restored)
- 1659-1660: ?
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[edit] 1660-1868
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1660 | Sir John Yonge | Samuel Serle | ||||
| 1661 | Sir Courtenay Pole | Peter Prideaux | ||||
| 1679 | Sir Walter Yonge | Sir Thomas Putt | ||||
| 1685 | Edmond Walrond | |||||
| 1689 | Richard Courtenay | |||||
| 1690 | Sir William Drake | Sir Walter Yonge | ||||
| 1711 | James Sheppard | |||||
| 1715 | Sir William Courtenay | Sir William Yonge | Whig | |||
| 1716 | Sir William Pole | |||||
| 1727 | James Sheppard | |||||
| 1731 | Sir William Pole | |||||
| 1734 | William Courtenay | |||||
| 1741 | Henry Reginald Courtenay | |||||
| 1747 | John Heath (later John Duke) | |||||
| 1754 | Henry Reginald Courtenay | Sir George Yonge | ||||
| 1761 | John Duke | |||||
| 1763 | Sir George Yonge | |||||
| 1768 | Brass Crosby | |||||
| 1774 | Laurence Cox | |||||
| 1780 | Alexander Macleod | |||||
| 1781 | Jacob Wilkinson | |||||
| 1784 | Sir George Collier | |||||
| 1790 | George Templer | |||||
| 1796 | George Chambers | George Shum | ||||
| 1802 | Sir John Honywood | |||||
| 1805 | Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw | |||||
| 1806 (April) | Richard Bateman-Robson | |||||
| 1806 (October) | Thomas Cochrane | |||||
| 1807 | Sir Charles Hamilton | |||||
| 1812 | Richard Howard-Vyse | George Abercrombie Robinson | ||||
| 1818 | Peregrine Francis Cust | Samuel Crawley | ||||
| 1826 | Josiah John Guest | Henry Baines Lott | ||||
| 1830 | Sir George Warrender | |||||
| 1831 | Henry Baines Lott | |||||
| 1832 | Viscount Villiers | Conservative | James Ruddell-Todd | Whig | ||
| 1835 | Hugh Duncan Baillie | Conservative | Arthur Chichester | Conservative | ||
| 1837 | James Stewart | Whig | ||||
| 1841 | Forster McGeachy | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | Joseph Locke | Whig | Sir James Weir Hogg | Conservative | ||
| 1857 | Archibald Stuart-Wortley | Conservative | ||||
| 1859 | Liberal | Alexander Baillie-Cochrane | Conservative | |||
| 1860 | George Moffatt | Liberal | ||||
| 1865 | Frederick Goldsmid | Liberal | ||||
| 1866 | Julian Goldsmid | Liberal | ||||
| 1868 | Constituency abolished, but re-established in 1885 | |||||
[edit] 1885-1997
| Members of Parliament for Honiton | |||
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | constituency re-established as single-member seat | ||
| 1885 | Sir John Kennaway | Conservative | |
| Jan. 1910 | Sir Clive Morrison-Bell | Conservative | |
| 1931 | Sir Cedric Drewe | Conservative | |
| 1955 | Robert Mathew | Conservative | |
| 1967 | Sir Peter Emery | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Tiverton and Honiton | ||
