Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

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Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Borough constituency
Created:	1570
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	four (1570-1832), two (1832-1885)

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formed by an Act of Parliament in 1570 which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Until 1832, it continued to elect the four Members of Parliament (MPs) to which its constituent parts had previously been entitled; the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to two MPs, and the constituency was abolished altogether in 1885.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 1.1 1455-1660 1.2 1660-1832 1.3 1832-1885 1.4 Notes 2 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1455-1660

• 1576-1584: Moyle Finch
• 1610-1611: Viscount Cranborne
• 1628-1629: Robert Napier
• 1640-1645: (Sir) Gerrard Napier ^[1]

[edit] 1660-1832

Year	First member		Party	Second member		Party	Third member		Party	Fourth member		Party
April 1660		Edward Montagu			Sir William Penn			Peter Middleton			Henry Waltham
June 1660		Bullen Reymes
1661								Winston Churchill			Sir John Strangways
1667											Sir John Coventry
1670					Lord Ashley
1673		John Man
February 1679		Thomas Browne						Michael Harvey
August 1679					Sir John Morton
1680		Henry Henning
1685								Francis Mohun			George Strangways
1689								Michael Harvey			Sir Robert Napier
1690											Nicholas Gould
1691											Thomas Freke
1695		Maurice Ashley			John Knight
March 1698					Philip Taylor
August 1698		Arthur Shallett
January 1701		Henry Thynne			Charles Churchill						Maurice Ashley
November 1701		George St Loe						Sir Christopher Wren
February 1702											Anthony Henley
July 1702								Henry Thynne
1705		Maurice Ashley
1709								Edward Clavell
1710 [2]					James Littleton			William Betts
May 1711					Sir Thomas Hardy			William Harvey	Tory
December 1711											Reginald Marriott
1713 [3]		John Baker			Rear-Admiral James Littleton			Lieutenant-General Daniel Harvey	Whig		William Betts
1714		Sir Thomas Hardy						William Harvey	Tory		Reginald Marriott
1715		John Baker			Thomas Littleton			Lieutenant-General Daniel Harvey	Whig		William Betts
1717		Edward Harrison
1722		Sir James Thornhill			Thomas Pearse			John Ward [4]
1726								John Willes
January 1727					Edward Tucker
August 1727								Thomas Pearse
1730											George Dodington
1734		George Bubb Dodington [5]
1735		John Tucker
1737					John Olmius
1741					Joseph Damer			John Raymond			James Steuart
1747		Welbore Ellis			Richard Plumer			George Dodington			Edward Hungate Beaghan
1751					Lord George Cavendish
1754					Lord John Cavendish			George Bubb Dodington			John Tucker
1761		Sir Francis Dashwood			John Olmius [6]			Richard Glover
1762					Richard Jackson
1763		Charles Walcott
1768		The Lord Waltham			Sir Charles Davers			Jeremiah Dyson
1774		Welbore Ellis			William Chaffin Grove			John Purling
1778											Gabriel Steward
September 1780											Warren Lisle
November 1780											Gabriel Steward
1781					William Richard Rumbold
1784					Sir Thomas Rumbold
1786											George Jackson
1788											Gabriel Steward
1790		Colonel Sir James Murray [7]	Tory		(Sir) Richard Bempde Johnstone [8]			Andrew Stuart			Thomas Jones
1791											Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Johnstone
1794											Gabriel Tucker Steward	Tory
1796					William Garthshore	Tory
1801								Charles Adams	Tory
1806					Richard Augustus Tucker Steward	Tory
1810											Sir John Lowther Johnstone
1811		General Sir John Murray
January 1812											Joseph Hume	Tory
October 1812 [9]					John Broadhurst			Thomas Wallace			Henry Trail
1813					Viscount Cranborne	Tory		Christopher Idle	Tory		Masterton Ure	Tory
1817					Adolphus Dalrymple	Tory
1818		William Williams	Whig		Thomas Fowell Buxton	Whig		Thomas Wallace	Tory
1826		Colonel John Gordon	Tory
1828								Edward Sugden	Tory
May 1831								Richard Weyland [10]	Whig
August 1831								Charles Baring Wall	Tory
1832	Representation reduced to two Members

[edit] 1832-1885

Year	First member		First party	Second member		Second party
1832		Sir Frederick Johnstone	Conservative		Thomas Fowell Buxton	Whig
1835		William Wharton Burdon	Whig
1837		Viscount Villiers	Conservative		George William Hope	Conservative
1842 [11]		Ralph Bernal	Whig		William Dougal Christie	Whig
August 1847		William Lockyer Freestun	Whig
December 1847					Hon. Frederick Child Villiers	Conservative
1852					George Medd Butt	Conservative
1857					Robert James Roy Campbell	Whig
1859		Robert Brooke	Conservative		Viscount Grey de Wilton	Conservative
1865					Henry Gillett Gridley	Liberal
1867					Henry Edwards	Liberal
1868		Charles J. T. Hambro	Conservative
1874		Sir Frederick Johnstone	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Created a baronet, June 1641
2. ^ On petition, the election of Littleton and Betts was declared void, and a writ for a by-election was issued. Both were returned at the by-election, but were once again declared not to have been duly elected.
3. ^ On petition, Baker, Harvey and Betts were all declared not to have been duly elected
4. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons 1726 following his conviction for forgery
5. ^ Dodington was also elected for Bridgwater, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this parliament for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis
6. ^ Created The Lord Waltham (in the Peerage of Ireland), June 1762
7. ^ Major-General from 1793, Lieutenant-General from 1799; adopted the surname Murray-Pulteney on his marriage in July 1794
8. ^ Created a baronet, July 1795
9. ^ On petition, the election of Wallace, Broadhurst and Trail was declared void, and a by-election was held; Murray's election was not disturbed
10. ^ Weyland was also elected for Oxfordshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis
11. ^ At the election of 1841, the two sitting Conservative members, Villiers and Hope, were initially declared re-elected, by margins of 5 votes and 3 votes respectively, but on petition the result was overturned and the opponents, Bernal and Christie, were seated in their place

[edit] References

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• Grey's Debates of the House of Commons: volume 8 (1769), pp. 373-381 [2]
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.