Weobley (UK Parliament constituency)
Weobley | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1628–1832 | |
Number of members | Two |
Replaced by | Herefordshire |
Weobley was a parliamentary borough in Herefordshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons in 1295 and from 1628 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Contents
1 Members of Parliament
1.1 MPs 1628–1660
1.2 MPs 1660–1832
2 Notes
3 References
Members of Parliament
MPs 1628–1660
Parliament | First Member | Second Member |
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Weobley re-enfranchised in 1628 | ||
1628 | William Walter | William Tomkins |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
1640 (Apr) | William Tomkins | Thomas Tomkins |
1640 (Nov) | Arthur Jones Lord Ranelagh | Thomas Tomkins |
1645 | Robert Andrews | William Crowther |
1653 | Weobley not represented in Barebones parliament | |
1654,1656 | Weobley not represented in 1st and 2nd Protectorate parliaments | |
1659 | Herbert Perrott | Robert Andrews |
MPs 1660–1832
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1660, April 13 | James Pytts | Richard Weston | ||||
August 1660 | Thomas Tomkyns | Herbert Perrott | ||||
April 1661 | John Barneby | |||||
1675 | Sir Thomas Williams, Bt | |||||
1678 | William Gregory | |||||
February 1679 | John Birch | |||||
September 1679 | John Booth | |||||
1685 | Henry Cornewall | Robert Price | ||||
1689 | John Birch | James Morgan | ||||
1690 | Robert Price | |||||
1691 | Thomas Foley | |||||
January 1701 | Henry Cornewall | John Birch | ||||
November 1701 | Robert Price | |||||
1702 | Henry Cornewall | |||||
1705 | John Birch | |||||
May 1708 | Henry Thynne [1] | |||||
December 1708 | Henry Gorges | |||||
1710 | Henry Cornewall | |||||
1713 | Uvedale Tomkins Price | |||||
February 1715 | Paul Foley [2] | Vice-Admiral Charles Cornewall | ||||
June 1715 | John Birch [3] | |||||
1718 | Nicholas Philpott | |||||
1727 | Uvedale Tomkins Price | |||||
1732 | James Cornewall | |||||
1734 | John Birch | Sir John Buckworth, Bt | ||||
October 1735 | Seat vacant pending resolution of disputed election [4] | |||||
1737 | James Cornewall | |||||
1741 | Lieutenant-Colonel The Lord Carpenter | The Viscount Palmerston | ||||
July 1747 | Mansel Powell [5] | Captain Savage Mostyn [6] | ||||
December 1747 | Viscount Perceval | |||||
1754 | John Craster | |||||
1757 | George Venables-Vernon | Whig | ||||
1761 | Marquess of Titchfield | Whig | Hon. Henry Thynne | |||
1762 | William Lynch | |||||
1768 | Simon Luttrell [7] | |||||
1770 | Bamber Gascoyne | |||||
1774 | Sir William Lynch | John St Leger Douglas | ||||
1780 | Andrew Bayntun-Rolt | |||||
1783 | (Sir) John Scott | |||||
1786 | Hon. Thomas Thynne [8] | Tory | ||||
1790 | Lord George Thynne | |||||
May 1796 | Lord John Thynne | |||||
December 1796 | Inigo Freeman Thomas | |||||
1800 | Sir Charles Talbot, Bt | |||||
1802 | Robert Steele | |||||
1807 | Lord Guernsey | |||||
January 1812 | Lord Apsley | Tory | ||||
October 1812 | Viscount St Asaph | William Bathurst | ||||
1813 | James Lenox William Naper | |||||
1816 | Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck | |||||
1818 | Viscount Weymouth | |||||
1820 | Sir George Cockburn, Bt | Tory | ||||
1824 | Lord Henry Frederick Thynne | Tory | ||||
1826 | Lord William Thynne | |||||
1828 | Lord Henry Frederick Thynne | Tory | ||||
1831 | Lord Edward Thynne |
Notes
^ Thynne was also elected for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Weobley
^ On petition, Foley was declared not to have been duly elected.
^ Expelled from the House of Commons, 14 March 1732, "for a notorious Breach of Trust reposed in him, as a Commissioner and Trustee for the Sale of the Forfeited Estates, referring to the Derwentwater estates.
^ Cornewall petitioned against Birch's election (in a dispute over the franchise), but Birch died before the dispute was resolved; no by-election could be called until it was determined whether Birch had been duly elected. His election was eventually annulled, and Cornewall declared to have been elected.
^ On petition, Powell was declared not to have been duly elected
^ Later Rear-Admiral
^ Created The Lord Irnham (in the Peerage of Ireland), December 1768
^ Styled Viscount Weymouth from August 1788 (when his father was created Marquess of Bath). He was re-elected in 1790, but had also been elected for Bath, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Weobley
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 2)