Rye (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rye constituency
Created:	1366, 1955
Abolished:	1950, 1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Rye was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832.

From the 1832 general election, Rye returned one Member of Parliament until its abolition for the 1950 general election.

The constituency was re-established for the 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 1.1 1366-1640 1.2 1640-1832 1.3 1832-1950 1.4 1955-1983 2 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1366-1640

• 1571: Thomas Fanshaw
• 1597: Sampson Lennard
• 1604-1611: John Young
• 1604-1611: Heneage Finch
• 1621-1622: Emmanuel Gifford
• 1621-1622: John Angell

[edit] 1640-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
November 1640		Sir John Jacob [1]	Royalist		John White	Royalist
1641		William Hay	Parliamentarian
February 1644				White disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645					John Fagg
1653	Rye was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Herbert Morley		Rye had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656		William Hay
January 1659					Mark Thomas
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Herbert Morley			William Hay
May 1661					Richard Spencer
November 1661					Sir John Robinson
1667		Sir John Austen
February 1679		Thomas Frewen
October 1679					Sir John Darell
1685					Sir Thomas Jenner
January 1689					Sir John Darell
April 1689		Sir John Austen
1694					Thomas Frewen
1698					Joseph Offley	Country Whig
1699		Sir Robert Austen
1701		Thomas Fagg
1702					Edward Southwell
1705		Philip Herbert
1707		Phillips Gybbon
1708					Admiral Sir John Norris
1722					The Lord Aylmer
1727					John Norris
1733					Matthew Norris
1734					Admiral Sir John Norris
1749					Thomas Pelham
1754					George Onslow
1761					Captain John Bentinck
1762		John Norris
1768					Rose Fuller
1774		Middleton Onslow
1775		Hon. Thomas Onslow
1777					William Dickinson
1784		Charles Wolfran Cornwall
1789		Charles Long	Tory
1790					Hon. Robert Banks Jenkinson [2]	Tory
1796		Robert Saunders Dundas	Tory
1801		The Lord de Blaquiere
1802		Thomas Davis Lamb	Tory
1803					Sir Charles Talbot
April 1806		Major General the Hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley	Tory
November 1806		Patrick Crauford Bruce			Michael Angelo Taylor
May 1807		Sir John Nicholl			The Earl of Clancarty
July 1807		Sir William Elford			Stephen Rumbold Lushington
1808		William Jacob
October 1812		Thomas Phillipps Lamb			Sir Henry Sullivan
December 1812					Charles Wetherell
1813					Richard Arkwright
1816		John Maberly
1818		Charles Arbuthnot [3]	Tory		Peter Browne
February 1819		Thomas Phillipps Lamb
July 1819		John Dodson
1823		Robert Knight
1826		Richard Arkwright			Henry Bonham
March 1830					Philip Pusey [4]
May 1830					George de Lacy Evans
August 1830		Hugh Duncan Baillie			Francis Robert Bonham
1831		Thomas Pemberton			George de Lacy Evans
1832	Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1950

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Edward Barrett Curteis	Whig
	1837	Thomas Gybbon Monypenny	Conservative
	1841	Herbert Barrett Curteis	Whig
	1847	Herbert Mascall Curteis	Whig
	1852	William Alexander Mackinnon	Whig
	1859		Liberal
	1865	Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon	Liberal
	1868	John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy	Conservative
	1880	Frederick Andrew Inderwick	Liberal
	1885	Arthur Montagu Brookfield	Conservative
	1903	Charles Frederick Hutchinson	Liberal
	1906	George Lloyd Courthope	Conservative
	1945	William Nicolson Cuthbert	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] 1955-1983

Election		Member	Party
	1955	Bryant Godman Irvine	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Hastings and Rye

Notes

1. ^ Expelled 1641 for being a tobacco monopolist
2. ^ Styled Lord Hawkesbury from 1796
3. ^ Arbuthnot was also elected for St Germans, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Rye
4. ^ Pusey was originally declared elected, but by an order of the House of Commons on 17 May 1830 his name was erased from the return and that of De Lacy Evans was substituted

[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 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)
• Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page