Lyme Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

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Lyme Regis Borough constituency
Created:	1295
Abolished:	1868
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two (1295-1832); one (1832-1868)

Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1868, when the borough was abolished.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1295-1640 2.2 1640-1832 2.3 1832-1868 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] History

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

• 1597-1598: Richard Tichborne
• 1614: Sir Edward Seymour
• 1621-1622: John Poulett

[edit] 1640-1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
November 1640		Edmund Prideaux	Parliamentarian		Richard Rose	Parliamentarian
December 1648				Rose not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653	Lyme Regis was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Sir Edmund Prideaux [1]		Lyme Regis had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
January 1659					Henry Henley
May 1659				One seat vacant
April 1660		Walter Yonge			Thomas Moore
1660					Henry Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon
1661		Sir John Shaw			Henry Henley
1679		Sir George Strode
1679		Thomas Moore
1685		John Pole			Sir Winston Churchill
1689					John Burridge
1690		Henry Henley
1695					Robert Henley
1701		Joseph Paice
1701					John Burridge
1702		Henry Henley
1705		Thomas Freke
1710		Henry Henley			John Burridge, junior
1715		John Henley
1722		Henry Holt Henley
1727		Henry Drax
1728					Henry Holt Henley [2]
1734		John Scrope
1748					Robert Henley
1753		Thomas Fane, later Earl of Westmorland
1754					Francis Fane
1757					Henry Fane
1762		Lord Burghersh, later Earl of Westmorland
1772		Hon. Henry Fane
1777					Francis Fane
1780					David Robert Michel
1784					Hon. Thomas Fane
1802		Henry Fane
1806					Lord Burghersh, later Earl of Westmorland
1816					John Thomas Fane
1818		Vere Fane
1826		Henry Sutton Fane
1832	Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1868

Election		Member	Party
	1832	William Pinney	Whig
	1842 [3]	Thomas Hussey	Conservative
	1847	Sir Thomas Neville Abdy	Whig
	1852	William Pinney	Whig
	1865	John Wright Treeby	Conservative
1868		Constituency abolished

Notes

1. ^ Prideaux took his seat in the restored Rump, but died 1659
2. ^ Burridge was re-elected at the general election of 1727 but was subsequently judged to be ineligible since he was Mayor of the borough at the time of the election, and his defeated opponent Henley was declared elected in his place
3. ^ Pinney was initially declared re-elected at the general election of 1841, but on petition his election was declared void and Hussey declared elected in his place after scrutiny of the votes

[edit] Election results

[edit] 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]
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page