Great Bedwyn (UK Parliament constituency)
Great Bedwyn was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
| Great Bedwyn | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1295–1832 | |
| Number of members | Two |
Members of Parliament
1295–1640
1640–1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Charles Seymour | Richard Hardinge | Royalist | ||||
| November 1640 | Sir Walter Smith | Royalist | |||||
| February 1644 | Smith and Harding disabled from sitting – both seats vacant | ||||||
| 1646 | Edmund Harvey | Parliamentarian | Henry Hungerford | Parliamentarian | |||
| December 1648 | Hungerford not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | ||||||
| 1653 | Great Bedwyn was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| January 1659 | Thomas Manley | Henry Hungerford | |||||
| May 1659 | Colonel Edmund Harvey | One seat vacant | |||||
| 1660 | Robert Spencer | Thomas Gape | |||||
| 1661 | Duke Stonehouse | Henry Clerke | |||||
| 1663 | John Trevor | ||||||
| 1673 | Daniel Finch | ||||||
| February 1679 | Francis Stonehouse | John Deane | |||||
| August 1679 | William Finch | ||||||
| 1681 | Sir John Ernle | John Wildman | |||||
| 1685 | Lemuel Kingdon | Thomas Loder | |||||
| 1689 | Sir Edmund Warneford | John Wildman | |||||
| 1690 | The Viscount Falkland | Sir Jonathan Raymond | |||||
| 1694 | Francis Stonehouse | ||||||
| 1695 | Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval | ||||||
| 1698 | Charles Davenant | ||||||
| 1701 | Michael Mitford | ||||||
| 1702 | Hon. James Bruce | ||||||
| May 1705 | Sir George Byng [6] | Nicholas Pollexfen | |||||
| December 1705 | Lord Bruce [7] | ||||||
| November 1707 | Tracy Pauncefort [8] | ||||||
| December 1707 | Nicholas Pollexfen | ||||||
| 1708 | Samuel Vanacker Sambrooke | ||||||
| 1710 | Sir Edward Seymour | ||||||
| 1711 | Thomas Millington | ||||||
| 1715 | Stephen Bisse | William Sloper | |||||
| 1722 | Robert Bruce | Charles Longueville | |||||
| 1727 | Sir William Willys | Viscount Lewisham [9] | |||||
| 1729 | William Sloper | ||||||
| 1732 | Francis Seymour | ||||||
| 1734 | Brigadier Robert Murray | ||||||
| 1738 | Edward Popham | ||||||
| 1741 | Sir Edward Turner | Whig | Lascelles Metcalfe | ||||
| 1747 | William Sloper | ||||||
| 1754 | Sir Robert Hildyard | ||||||
| 1756 | Hon. Robert Brudenell | ||||||
| 1761 | Vice Admiral Thomas Cotes | William Woodley | |||||
| 1766 | William Burke | ||||||
| 1767 | Sir Thomas Fludyer | ||||||
| March 1768 | Hon. James Brudenell | Hon. Robert Brudenell [10] | |||||
| May 1768 | William Burke | ||||||
| November 1768 | William Northey | ||||||
| 1771 | Benjamin Hopkins | ||||||
| October 1774 | The Earl of Courtown | Paul Methuen | |||||
| December 1774 | Viscount Cranborne | ||||||
| 1780 | Sir Merrick Burrell | ||||||
| 1781 | Paul Cobb Methuen | ||||||
| 1784 | Marquess of Graham | Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Manners | |||||
| June 1790 | Lord Doune | ||||||
| December 1790 | Viscount Stopford | Tory | |||||
| 1792 | Edward East | ||||||
| 1796 | Lieutenant General the Hon. Thomas Bruce | John Wodehouse [11] | |||||
| 1797 | Sir Robert Buxton | ||||||
| 1802 | Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt | ||||||
| 1806 | Viscount Stopford | Tory | James Henry Leigh | Tory | |||
| April 1807 | Sir Vicary Gibbs | Tory | |||||
| May 1807 | Sir John Nicholl | Tory | |||||
| March 1818 | John Buxton | Tory | |||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | ||||||
Notes
- Wiffen, J. H. Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell, 1884, vol. 1, pp.127–131. The Russell family, of Kingston Russell, Dorset, held the manor of Little Bedwyn
- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504.
- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- Byng was also elected for Plymouth, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Great Bedwyn
- Bruce was re-elected in 1710, but had also been elected for Marlborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Great Bedwyn
- On petition, Pauncefort was found not to have been duly elected and was taken into custody by order of the House of Commons for bribery and corruption at his election
- On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Lewisham was declared not to have been duly elected
- Brudenell was also elected for Marlborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this Parliament for Great Bedwyn
- Styled The Hon. John Wodehouse from October 1797
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- 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)
- 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 – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
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