Great Bedwyn (UK Parliament constituency)
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Great Bedwyn was a parliamentary borough
Parliamentary borough
Parliamentary boroughs are a type of administrative division, usually covering urban areas, that are entitled to representation in a Parliament...

 in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

, which elected two Members of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 (MPs) to the House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

 from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

1295–1640

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1295 Sir William Russell
William Russell, knight
Sir William Russell was holder of a moiety of the feudal barony of North Cadbury, Somerset, but spent most of his life engaged in the administration and defence of the Isle of Wight, where he obtained by marriage the manor of Yaverland...

 (d.1311), Lord of Yaverland
Yaverland
Yaverland is a village on the Isle of Wight, just north of Sandown. It has about 200 houses. About 1/3 of a mile away from the village is the Yaverland Manor and Church. Holotype fossils have been discovered here of Yaverlandia and a pterosaur, Caulkicephalus...

1386 John Combe William Bailiff
1388 (Feb)
1388 (Sep)
1390 (Jan) John Combe William Plomer
1399 Thomas Smith Geoffrey Mauncell
1420 John Benger John Everard
1421 (May)
1421 (Dec) Thomas Hussey Maurice Hommedieux
1510–1523 No names known
1529 William Newdigate died
and replaced 1532/3 by
?Thomas Polsted
John Berwick
1536 ?
1539 ?
1542 ?
1545 John Winchcombe alias Smallwood John Seymour
1547 Anthony Browne Robert Pagman
1553 (Mar) ?
1553 (Oct) Richard Fulmerston John Hungerford
1554 (Apr) Richard Fulmerston Sir Edmund Rous
1554 (Nov) Richard Fulmerston Edward Hungerford
1555 Henry Clifford David Seymour
1558 John Temple George Hidden
1559 Francis Newdigate Henry Clifford
1562/3 John Thynne Stephen Hales
1571 Nicholas St John Thomas Blagrave
1572 Simon Bowyer George Ireland
1584 Richard Wheler Roger Puleston
Roger Puleston
Sir Roger Puleston was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1611.Puleston was the son of Sir Roger Puleston of Emral. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 27 April 1582 aged 16. In 1584, he was elected Member of Parliament for Great...

 
1586 Richard Wheler Roger Puleston
Roger Puleston
Sir Roger Puleston was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1611.Puleston was the son of Sir Roger Puleston of Emral. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 27 April 1582 aged 16. In 1584, he was elected Member of Parliament for Great...

 
1588 John Seymour Henry Ughtred
1593 Thomas Hungerford James Kirton
James Kirton (died 1620)
Sir James Kirton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1614.Kirton was the son of Edward Kirton of Almsford and his wife Lettice Gilbanke. After a period of study at the Temple he entered the service of the Earl of Hertford in about 1582. In...

 
1597 Sir Anthony Hungerford
Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton
Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton , was a religious controversialist. He was knighted in 1608, and was deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1624, when he resigned the office in favour of his eldest son Sir Edward.-Biography:...

Francis Castilian
1601 Sir Anthony Hungerford
Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton
Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton , was a religious controversialist. He was knighted in 1608, and was deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1624, when he resigned the office in favour of his eldest son Sir Edward.-Biography:...

Levinus Munck
1604–1611 John Rodney Sir Anthony Hungerford
Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton
Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton , was a religious controversialist. He was knighted in 1608, and was deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1624, when he resigned the office in favour of his eldest son Sir Edward.-Biography:...

1614 Robert Hyde Sir Giles Mompesson
Giles Mompesson
Giles Mompesson was an English malefactor and, officially, "notorious criminal" whose career was one based on speculation and graft. He has come to be regarded as a synonym for graft and official corruption due to his use of nepotism to gain positions of licensing businesses and pocketing the fees...

1621–1622 Sir Francis Popham
Francis Popham
Sir Francis Popham was an English soldier and politician.Francis Popham was the only son of Sir John Popham and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and the Middle Temple...

Sir Giles Mompesson
Giles Mompesson
Giles Mompesson was an English malefactor and, officially, "notorious criminal" whose career was one based on speculation and graft. He has come to be regarded as a synonym for graft and official corruption due to his use of nepotism to gain positions of licensing businesses and pocketing the fees...

1624 Hugh Crompton William Cholmley
1625 Sir John Broke William Cholmley
1626-? John Selden
John Selden
John Selden was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law...

Sir Maurice Berkeley
Maurice Berkeley (Gloucestershire MP)
Sir Maurice Berkeley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1626. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....

1628 Edward Kyrton
Edward Kyrton
Edward Kyrton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1642. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War....

Sir John Trevor
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

1640–1832

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
April 1640
Short Parliament
The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640 during the reign of King Charles I of England, so called because it lasted only three weeks....

Charles Seymour
Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge
Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge was the son of Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, whom he succeeded in the barony in 1664....

?
November 1640
Long Parliament
The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...

Sir Walter Smith Royalist Richard Hardinge
Richard Hardinge
Richard Hardinge was Groom to the Bedchamber to the then Prince of Wales .-Background:...

Royalist
February 1644 Smith and Harding disabled from sitting – both seats vacant
1646 Edmund Harvey
Edmund Harvey
Edmund Harvey or Hervey was an English soldier and member of Parliament during the English Civil War, who sat as a commissioner at the Trial of King Charles I and helped to draw up the final charge...

Parliamentarian
Roundhead
"Roundhead" was the nickname given to the supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I and his supporters, the Cavaliers , who claimed absolute power and the divine right of kings...

Henry Hungerford
Henry Hungerford
Henry Hungerford was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1660,Hungerford was the son of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Stock, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 4 November 1631 aged 19 and was awarded BA on 6 June 1633...

Parliamentarian
Roundhead
"Roundhead" was the nickname given to the supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I and his supporters, the Cavaliers , who claimed absolute power and the divine right of kings...

December 1648 Hungerford not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
Pride's Purge
Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...

1653 Great Bedwyn was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
Barebones Parliament
Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...

 and the First
First Protectorate Parliament
The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....

 and Second
Second Protectorate Parliament
The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...

 Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659
Third Protectorate Parliament
The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...

Thomas Manley Henry Hungerford
Henry Hungerford
Henry Hungerford was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1660,Hungerford was the son of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Stock, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 4 November 1631 aged 19 and was awarded BA on 6 June 1633...

May 1659
Rump Parliament
The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....

Colonel Edmund Harvey
Edmund Harvey
Edmund Harvey or Hervey was an English soldier and member of Parliament during the English Civil War, who sat as a commissioner at the Trial of King Charles I and helped to draw up the final charge...

 
One seat vacant
1660 Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer, 1st Viscount Teviot
Robert Spencer, 1st Viscount Teviot , styled The Honourable Robert Spencer until 1685, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679....

Thomas Gape
1661 Duke Stonehouse Henry Clerke
Henry Clerke
Henry Clerke was an English academic and physician, President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1672.-Life:He was son of Thomas Clerke of Willoughby, Warwickshire, England, and matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 20 April 1635, at the age of 16. He obtained a demyship at Magdalen College, and...

1663 John Trevor
John Trevor (1626-1672)
Sir John Trevor was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1672.Trevor was a son of Sir John Trevor of Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire...

1673 Daniel Finch
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea PC , was an English Tory statesman during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.-Early life:...

February 1679
Habeas Corpus Parliament
The Habeas Corpus Parliament, also known as the First Exclusion Parliament, was a short-lived English Parliament which assembled on 6 March 1679 during the reign of Charles II of England, the third parliament of the King's reign. It is named after the Habeas Corpus Act, which it enacted in May,...

Francis Stonehouse John Deane
John Deane (MP)
Sir John Deane was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.Deane was probably the son of William Deane of Great Maplestead, Essex. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 24 October 1595, aged 12 and was dispensed towards BA on 8 November 1600. In 1600, he...

August 1679 William Finch
1681 Sir John Ernle
John Ernle
The Right Honourable Sir John Ernle was an English Member of Parliament, sitting first in the Cavalier Parliament of 1660-1679 and becoming one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer of England, a position he held from 2 May 1676 to 9 April 1689.-Antecedents:Ernle was descended from...

John Wildman
John Wildman
Sir John Wildman was an English soldier and politician.-Biography:Wildman was born in the Norfolk town of Wymondham, the son of Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman. His father was a butcher. John was educated as a sizar at Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge taking an MA in 1644...

1685 Lemuel Kingdon Thomas Loder
1689 Sir Edmund Warneford John Wildman
John Wildman
Sir John Wildman was an English soldier and politician.-Biography:Wildman was born in the Norfolk town of Wymondham, the son of Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman. His father was a butcher. John was educated as a sizar at Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge taking an MA in 1644...

1690 The Viscount Falkland Sir Jonathan Raymond
1694 Francis Stonehouse
1695 Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval
Ralph Delaval
Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval was an English naval admiral.He was a member of a junior branch of the Delaval family of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland...

1698 Charles Davenant
Charles Davenant
Charles Davenant , English economist, eldest son of Sir William Davenant, the poet, was born in London.-Overview:He was educated at Cheam grammar school and Balliol College, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree...

1701 Michael Mitford
1702 James Bruce
May 1705 Sir George Byng
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington
Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, KB PC was a British naval officer and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His career included service as First Lord of the Admiralty during the reign of King George II.-Naval career:Byng was born at Wrotham, Kent, England...

 
Nicholas Pollexfen
December 1705 Lord Bruce
Charles Bruce, 4th Earl of Elgin
Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury and 4th Earl of Elgin , styled Viscount Bruce of Ampthill from 1685 to 1741, was the son of Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury and Lady Elizabeth Seymour...

 
November 1707 Tracy Pauncefort 
December 1707 Nicholas Pollexfen
1708 Samuel Vanacker Sambrooke
1710 Sir Edward Seymour
Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet
Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 5th Baronet, MP was a British gentleman and politician.He was a son of Royalist and Tory politician Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet and first wife Margaret Wale.-Family:...

1711 Thomas Millington
1715 Stephen Bisse William Sloper
William Sloper
William Sloper was a British Member of Parliament. He represented Great Bedwyn , as the second member, 1715-1722 and 1727-1741. He was the first member 1741-1756....

1722 Robert Bruce Charles Longueville
1727 Sir William Willys Viscount Lewisham 
1729 William Sloper
William Sloper
William Sloper was a British Member of Parliament. He represented Great Bedwyn , as the second member, 1715-1722 and 1727-1741. He was the first member 1741-1756....

1732 Francis Seymour
Francis Seymour, of Sherborne, Dorset
Francis Seymour was a British gentleman and politician, who owned an estate at Sherborne, DorsetHe was a son of Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet and his wife Letitia Popham....

1734 Brigadier Robert Murray
1738 Edward Popham
1741 Sir Edward Turner
Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet was one of the Turner Baronets of Ambrosden and a Member of Parliament.-Life:Turner was the son of Sir Edward Turner, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary. He received his early education at Bicester Grammar School. He went on to Balliol College, Oxford where he was noted...

Whig
British Whig Party
The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...

Lascelles Metcalfe
1747 William Sloper
William Sloper
William Sloper was a British Member of Parliament. He represented Great Bedwyn , as the second member, 1715-1722 and 1727-1741. He was the first member 1741-1756....

1754 Sir Robert Hildyard
1756 Hon. Robert Brudenell
Robert Brudenell
Robert Brudenell was a British army officer and Member of Parliament.Brudenell was the third son of the 3rd Earl of Cardigan and a younger brother of the 1st Duke of Montagu and 4th Earl of Cardigan and the 5th Earl of Cardigan...

1761 Vice Admiral Thomas Cotes William Woodley
1766 William Burke
1767 Sir Thomas Fludyer
March 1768 Hon. James Brudenell
James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan
James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan held several offices in the Parliament of Great Britain and in service to the King of Great Britain....

Hon. Robert Brudenell
Robert Brudenell
Robert Brudenell was a British army officer and Member of Parliament.Brudenell was the third son of the 3rd Earl of Cardigan and a younger brother of the 1st Duke of Montagu and 4th Earl of Cardigan and the 5th Earl of Cardigan...

 
May 1768 William Burke
November 1768 William Northey
1771 Benjamin Hopkins
October 1774 The Earl of Courtown
James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown
James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown KP, PC , known as Viscount Stopford from 1762 to 1770, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Tory politician....

Paul Methuen
Paul Methuen (MP)
Paul Methuen was an English politician.He was Member of Parliament for Westbury 1747–1748, for Warwick 1762–1768, Great Bedwyn 1774–1781.- References:...

December 1774 Viscount Cranborne
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , styled Viscount Cranborne until 1780 and known as 7th Earl of Salisbury between 1780 and 1789, was a British politician.-Background:...

1780 Sir Merrick Burrell
Sir Merrick Burrell, 1st Baronet
Sir Merrik Burrell, 1st Baronet was a British politician.He was the second son of Peter Burrell and his wife Isabella Merrik, daughter of John Merrik. Burrell entered the British House of Commons for Great Marlow in 1747, sat for it until 1754 and was subsequently returned for Grampound, which he...

1781 Paul Cobb Methuen
Paul Cobb Methuen
Paul Cobb Methuen was an English politician.He was Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn from 1781 to 1784.- References:...

1784 Marquess of Graham
James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose KG, KT, PC , styled Marquess of Graham until 1790, was a Scottish nobleman and statesman.-Background:...

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Manners
June 1790 Lord Doune
December 1790 Viscount Stopford
James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown KP, PC , known as Viscount Stopford from 1770 to 1810, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Tory politician....

Tory
1792 Edward Hyde East
Sir Edward Hyde East, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Hyde East, 1st Baronet was a British member of parliament, legal writer, and judge in India. He served as chief justice of Calcutta from 1813 to 1822....

1796 Lieutenant General the Hon. Thomas Bruce
Thomas Bruce (1738-1797)
General Thomas Bruce , was a British soldier and politician, the third son of William Bruce, 8th Earl of Kincardine. He was the Member of Parliament for Marlborough, 22 June 1790 – 30 May 1796, and Great Bedwyn, 28 May 1796 – 12 December 1797.-References:...

John Wodehouse
John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse
John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse , styled The Honourable John Wodehouse from 1797 to 1834, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....

 
1797 Sir Robert Buxton
Sir Robert Buxton, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert John Buxton, 1st Baronet was a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1790 and 1806.Buxton was born at Rushford, Norfolk, the son of John Buxton and his wife Elizabeth Jacob and grandson of John Buxton who designed and built Shadwell Lodge at Rushford...

1802 Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt
Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.The third son of architect George Dance the Elder, Dance studied art under Francis Hayman, and like many contemporaries also studied in Italy...

1806 Viscount Stopford
James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown KP, PC , known as Viscount Stopford from 1770 to 1810, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Tory politician....

Tory James Henry Leigh Tory
April 1807 Sir Vicary Gibbs
Vicary Gibbs
Sir Vicary Gibbs, KC was an English judge and politician. He was known for his caustic wit, which won for him the sobriquet of "Vinegar Gibbs".-Early life and education :...

Tory
May 1807 Sir John Nicholl
John Nicholl
Sir John Nicholl was a Welsh Member of Parliament and judge. As a judge he was noted 'for inflexible impartiality and great strength and soundness of judgement'.-Early history:...

Tory
1818 John Jacob Buxton
Sir John Buxton, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Jacob Buxton, 2nd Baronet was a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832.Buxton was the eldest son of Sir Robert Buxton, 1st Baronet and his wife Juliana Mary Beevor. He was educated at Harrow School and at Christ Church, Oxford...

Tory
1832
United Kingdom general election, 1832
-Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....

Constituency abolished


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