Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rochester was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned two Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation as reduced to one seat.

It was abolished for the 1918 general election, and replaced by the new Chatham and Gillingham constituencies.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

  • 1555: Edward Baeshe
  • 1559: Edward Baeshe
  • 1563-1567: Edward Baeshe
  • 1597-1614: (Sir) Thomas Walsingham
  • 1604-1611: Sir Edward Hoby
  • 1621-1626: Sir Thomas Walsingham
  • 1621-1622: H Clerke
  • 1628-1629: William Brooke
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[edit] 1640-1918

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 Sir Thomas Walsingham Parliamentarian Richard Lee Parliamentarian
December 1648 Lee excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Rochester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 John Parker Rochester had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
January 1659 Peter Pett Richard Hutchinson
May 1659 Sir Thomas Walsingham One seat vacant
1660 Peter Pett John Marsham
1661 Sir Francis Clerke Sir William Batten
1667 Sir Richard Head
February 1679 Sir John Banks
August 1679 Francis Barrell
1681 Sir Francis Clerke
1689 Sir Roger Twisden
1690 Sir Joseph Williamson Francis Clerke
1691 Caleb Banks
1695 Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
1701 Francis Barrell William Bokenham
1702 Edward Knatchbull William Cage
1705 Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell Admiral Sir Stafford Fairborne
1708 Admiral Sir John Leake
1710 William Cage
1715 Sir Thomas Palmer Admiral Sir John Jennings
1724 Sir Thomas Colby
1727 David Polhill
1734 Admiral Nicholas Haddock
1741 Admiral Edward Vernon [1]
1743 David Polhill
1746 Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle
1751 Admiral The Hon. John Byng
1754 Nicholas Haddock
1757 Admiral Isaac Townsend
1761 Viscount Parker
1764 Admiral Sir Charles Hardy
1765 Grey Cooper
1768 John Calcraft William Gordon
1771 Admiral Thomas Pye
1772 George Finch-Hatton
1774 Robert Gregory
1784 Captain Sir Charles Middleton [2] Nathaniel Smith
1790 George Best Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton
1792 Nathaniel Smith
1794 Admiral Sir Richard King
1796 Hon. Henry Tufton
1802 Captain Sir Sidney Smith [3] James Hulkes
1806 John Calcraft James Barnett
1807 Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson
1816 James Barnett
1818 Lord Binning Tory
1820 Ralph Bernal
1826 Captain Henry Dundas
1830 Lord Villiers
1831 John Mills
1835 Thomas Twisden Hodges
1837 Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse
1841 James Douglas Stoddart Douglas William Henry Bodkin
1847 Ralph Bernal Thomas Twisden Hodges
1852 Francis John Robert Villiers Sir Thomas Maddock
1856 Philip Wykeham Martin
1857 John Alexander Kinglake
1870 Julian Goldsmid
1878 Sir Arthur Otway
1880 Roger Leigh
1885 Representation reduced to one-member

[edit] 1885-1918

Year Member Party
1885 Francis Charles Hughes-Hallett
1889 Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen Liberal
1892 Horatio David Davies
1893 James Gascoyne-Cecil Conservative
1903 Charles Tuff Conservative
1906 Ernest Lamb
1910 Samuel Forde Ridley
1910 Sir Ernest Lamb Liberal, later Labour
1918 constituency abolished: see Chatham and Gillingham

Notes

  1. ^ Vernon was also elected for Ipswich, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Rochester
  2. ^ Rear Admiral from 1787
  3. ^ Rear Admiral from 1805

[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]
  • J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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