Lymington (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Lymington Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1584 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | Two (1584-1868); One (1868-1885) |
Lymington was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.
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[edit] History
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1584-1640
- 1604-1611: Thomas Marshal
- 1604-1611: Thomas South
- 1621-1622: Sir William Doddington
- 1621-1622: Henry Crompton
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[edit] 1640-1868
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | |||
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| November 1640 | John Button | Parliamentarian | Henry Campion | Parliamentarian | |||
| December 1648 | Button excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | Campion not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
| 1653 | Lymington was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| January 1659 | John Button | Richard Whitehead | |||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | ||||||
| April 1660 | John Button | Henry Bromfield | |||||
| 1661 | Sir William Lewis | John Bulkeley | |||||
| 1663 | Sir Nicholas Steward | ||||||
| 1678 | Sir Richard Knight | ||||||
| February 1679 | John Button | Bartholomew Bulkeley | |||||
| May 1679 | John Burrard | ||||||
| 1680 | Henry Dawley | ||||||
| 1685 | Richard Holt | ||||||
| 1690 | Thomas Dore | ||||||
| May 1698 | William Tulse | ||||||
| July 1698 | George Burrard | ||||||
| 1701 | Paul Burrard | ||||||
| May 1705 | Paul Burrard, junior | ||||||
| December 1705 | Marquess of Winchester | ||||||
| 1708 | Richard Chaundler | ||||||
| 1710 | Lord William Powlett [1] | ||||||
| 1713 | Sir Joseph Jekyll | Whig | |||||
| April 1715 | Richard Chaundler | ||||||
| March 1722 | Lord Harry Powlett [2] | Paul Burrard, junior | |||||
| October 1722 | Sir Gilbert Heathcote | Whig | |||||
| 1727 | Lord Nassau Powlett | Anthony Morgan | |||||
| 1729 | William Powlett | ||||||
| 1734 | Sir John Cope | Colonel Maurice Bocland | |||||
| May 1741 | Lord Nassau Powlett | (Sir) Harry Burrard [3] | |||||
| December 1741 | (Sir) Charles Powlett [4] | Whig | |||||
| 1755 | Captain Lord Harry Powlett | ||||||
| 1761 | Adam Drummond [5] | ||||||
| 1769 | Hugo Meynell | Whig | |||||
| 1774 | Edward Morant | ||||||
| 1778 | Henry Goodricke | ||||||
| 1780 | Thomas Dummer | Captain Harry Burrard [6] | |||||
| 1781 | Edward Gibbon | Whig | |||||
| 1784 | Robert Colt | ||||||
| 1788 | George Rose | Tory | |||||
| 1790 | Lieutenant Colonel Harry Burrard | Lieutenant (Sir) Harry Burrard (later Burrard-Neale) [7] | |||||
| 1791 | Nathaniel Brassey Halhed | ||||||
| 1796 | William Manning | ||||||
| July 1802 | Major-General Harry Burrard | ||||||
| December 1802 | John Kingston | ||||||
| 1806 | Captain Sir Harry Burrard-Neale | ||||||
| 1814 | John Taylor | ||||||
| 1818 | William Manning | ||||||
| 1820 | George Finch | ||||||
| 1821 | William Manning | ||||||
| 1823 | Walter Boyd | ||||||
| 1826 | Guy Lenox Prendergast | ||||||
| 1827 | Thomas Divett | ||||||
| 1828 | George Burrard | ||||||
| 1830 | William Tatton Egerton | ||||||
| 1831 | William Alexander Mackinnon | Tory | |||||
| 1832 | Sir Harry Burrard-Neale | Conservative | John Stewart | Conservative | |||
| 1835 | William Alexander Mackinnon | Conservative | |||||
| 1847 | Hon. George Keppel | Whig | |||||
| 1850 by-election | Edward John Hutchins | Whig | |||||
| 1852 | Sir John Rivett-Carnac | Conservative | |||||
| 1857 | William Mackinnon (the younger) | Whig | |||||
| 1859 | Liberal | ||||||
| 1860 by-election | Lord George Gordon-Lennox | Conservative | |||||
| 1868 | representation reduced to one member | ||||||
[edit] 1868-1885
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | Lord George Gordon-Lennox | Conservative | |
| 1874 | Edmund Hegan Kennard | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
- ^ Powlett was re-elected in 1715, but had also been elected for Winchester, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington
- ^ Powlett was also elected for Hampshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lymington
- ^ Created a baronet, April 1769
- ^ Styled Marquess of Winchester from 1754
- ^ Drummond was re-elected in 1768, but had also been elected for St Ives, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington
- ^ Major from 1786
- ^ Succeeded as a baronet, April 1791; Captain (RN) from 1793; took the surname Burrard-Neale in 1795
[edit] Election results
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[edit] 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]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
