Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Leicestershire was a county constituency in Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

, represented in the House of Commons. It 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), traditionally called Knights of the Shire
Knights of the Shire
From the creation of the Parliament of England in mediaeval times until 1826 each county of England and Wales sent two Knights of the Shire as members of Parliament to represent the interests of the county, when the number of knights from Yorkshire was increased to four...

, by the bloc vote
Plurality-at-large voting
Plurality-at-large voting is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election...

 system of election, to the Parliament of England
Parliament of England
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws...

 until 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of Great Britain
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland...

 from 1707 until 1800
Act of Union 1800
The Acts of Union 1800 describe two complementary Acts, namely:* the Union with Ireland Act 1800 , an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and...

, and then to Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

 until 1832
Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...

.

History

The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832
Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...

 for the 1832 general election
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....

, when it was replaced by the Northern
North Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Leicestershire, formally the "Northern Division of Leicestershire", was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 and Southern
South Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
Leicestershire South is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system....

 divisions, each of which elected two MPs.

Both divisions were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, in an attempt to equalise representation across...

 for the 1885 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1885
-Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...

, when they were replaced by four new single-seat constituencies: Bosworth
Bosworth (UK Parliament constituency)
Bosworth is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

, Harborough
Harborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Harborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

, Loughborough
Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Loughborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.-Boundaries:...

 and Melton
Melton (UK Parliament constituency)
Melton was a county constituency centred on the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

.

1290–1640

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1295 Robert de Wyvill
1297 Sir Thomas de Meynill
1315 Robert de Wyvill (son of Robert, 1295)
1322 Hugh de Prestwold
1324 Sir Robert de Burdet
1325 Ralph Beler
1327 Sir Robert de Burdet
1362–1391 William Flamville (13 times)
1371–1397 Thomas Walsh (15 times)
1376–1383 Ralph Bellers (4 times)
1378 Ralph Hastings
1378 Edmund Appleby
1380 John Burdet
1382 John Neville
1385 John Calverley
1386 Sir William Flamville Sir Thomas Walsh
1388 (Feb) Sir William Flamville Sir Thomas Walsh
1388 (Sep) Sir William Flamville Sir Roger Perwych
1390 (Jan) John Burdet Sir Thomas Walsh
1390 (Nov) Robert Langham Sir Thomas Walsh
1391 Sir William Flamville Sir Thomas Walsh
1393 Sir Robert Harrington Sir Hugh Shirley
1394 Sir Robert Harrington Sir Thomas Walsh
1395 Nicholas Colman Sir Thomas Walsh
1397 (Jan) Edmund Bugge Sir Thomas Walsh
1397 (Sep) Sir John Calverley Sir Henry Neville
1399 Thomas Mandeville Sir Thomas Maureward
1401 Thomas Derby Sir John Neville
1402 Sir John Berkeley II Sir Henry Neville
1404 (Jan) William Brokesby Edmund Bugge
1404 (Oct) Sir John Berkeley II Robert Veer
1406 Sir John Neville Sir Henry Neville
1407 John Blaket Robert Sherard
1410 John Blaket Bartholemew Brokesby
1411 Sir John Berkeley II Sir Thomas Maureward
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) James Bellers William Belgrave
1414 (Apr) Thomas Ashby John Blaket
1414 (Nov) James Bellers Richard Hotoft
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417
1419 Thomas Ashby William Mallory
1420 James Bellers Sir Ralph Shirley
1421 (May) John Burgh III Richard Hotoft
1421 (Dec) Sir Laurence Berkeley Sir William Trussell
1422 Bartholemew Brokesby
1433 Thomas Palmer John Burgh
1439 Richard Hotoft Thomas Palmer
1442 Thomas Palmer Richard Neel
1449 Thomas Palmer
1455 Sir Leonard Hastings Thomas Palmer
1467 Thomas Palmer Robert Staunton
1510–1515 No names known
1523 ?Sir Richard Sacheverell ?
1529 Sir Richard Sacheverell, died 1534 Sir William Skeffington, died 1535
by 1536 ?William Ashby
1536 ?William Ashby ?
1539 Sir John Villers John Digby
1542 Sir Richard Manners ?Thomas Brokesby
1545 Sir Ambrose Cave  Robert Burdett
1547 Edward Hastings  Sir Ambrose Cave 
1553 (Mar) Edward Hastings Sir Ambrose Cave 
1553 (Oct) Robert Strelley Sir Thomas Hastings
1554 (Apr) Sir Thomas Hastings Henry Poole
1554 (Nov) Sir Thomas Hastings George Turpin
1555 William Faunt William Skeffington
1558 George Vincent George Sherard
1559 (Jan) Adrian Stokes Francis Cave
1562–1563 Nicholas Beaumont George Turpin
1571 Francis Hastings (died 1610) Adrian Stokes 
1572 (Apr) (Sir) George Turpin Nicholas Beaumont
1584 George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
Sir George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon was an English nobleman.He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole. He was a younger brother of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and older brother of Francis Hastings...

Francis Hastings
Francis Hastings (died 1610)
Sir Francis Hastings was an English Puritan politician.He was the fifth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Huntingdon. His older brothers were Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon....

 
1586 George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
Sir George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon was an English nobleman.He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole. He was a younger brother of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and older brother of Francis Hastings...

Francis Hastings
Francis Hastings (died 1610)
Sir Francis Hastings was an English Puritan politician.He was the fifth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Huntingdon. His older brothers were Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon....

 
1588 (Oct) Sir Henry Beaumont William Turpin
1593 Francis Hastings (son of George) Thomas Skeffington
1597 Sir Edward Hastings Sir Francis Hastings
Francis Hastings (died 1610)
Sir Francis Hastings was an English Puritan politician.He was the fifth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Huntingdon. His older brothers were Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon....

 
1601 Henry Hastings (1551–1650) William Skipwith
1604 Sir George Villiers Thomas Beaumont
1614 Sir Thomas Hastings Sir Thomas Hesilrige
Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1624.Hesilrige was the son of Thomas Hesilrige of Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire and his wife Ursula Andrews daughter of Sir Thomas Andrews of Charwelton, Northamptonshire and his wife...

1621-1622 Sir George Hastings
George Hastings (died 1641)
Sir George Hastings was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1626.Hastings was the second son of Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings and his wife Sarah Harington, daughter of Sir James Harington and Lucy Sydney. He was admitted at Sidney Sussex...

 
Sir Henry Hastings
1624 Sir Thomas Hesilrige
Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1624.Hesilrige was the son of Thomas Hesilrige of Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire and his wife Ursula Andrews daughter of Sir Thomas Andrews of Charwelton, Northamptonshire and his wife...

Sir Henry Hastings
1625 Ferdinando Lord Hastings
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon was the son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer...

Sir Wolstan Dixie
Wolstan Dixie
Sir Wolstan Dixie, , was a merchant and administrator, and Lord Mayor of London in 1585.-Life:He was the son of Thomas Dixie and Anne Jephson, who lived at Catworth in Huntingdonshire. Wolstan was the fourth son of his father, and went into business...

1626 Sir Henry Hastings Francis Staresmore
1628-1629 Sir Edward Hartopp Ferdinando, Lord Hastings
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon was the son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer...

1629-1640 No Parliament convened

1640–1832

Year|2nd Member2nd Party
Apr 1640 Sir Arthur Hesilrige  Hon. Lord Grey of Ruthyn
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent , known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in 1643....

 
Nov 1640 Sir Arthur Hesilrige  Henry Smith
Henry Smith (regicide)
Henry Smith was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.He was born in Withcote, Leicestershire in 1620; son of Henry Smith born in 1589 and Frideswide Wright. He studied at Oxford University and Lincoln's Inn. He married miss Holland.In 1640 he was elected...

 

Parliament1st member2nd member3rd member4th member
1653 Henry Danvers Edward Smith
Sir Edward Smith, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Smith, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653.Smith was the son of Edward Smith of Cressy Hall Lincolnshire and his wife Elizabeth Heron daughter of Sir Edward Heron. His father died in 1632. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 8...

John Prat 3 seats only
1654 Thomas Beaumont
Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet was an English politician.He was the oldest son of Sir Henry Beaumont and Elizabeth Turpin, daughter of Sir William Turpin. Beaumont sat as a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire between 1654 and 1659 and was High Sheriff of Leicestershire between 1668 and 1669...

Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford , known as the Lord Grey of Groby from 1614 to 1628, was an English nobleman and military leader. He was the eldest son of Sir John Grey and Elizabeth Nevill...

Lord Grey of Groby
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby
Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby , was an elected Member of Parliament for Leicester during the English Long Parliament, an active member of the Parliamentary party and a regicide...

 
Thomas Pochin
1656 Thomas Beaumont
Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet was an English politician.He was the oldest son of Sir Henry Beaumont and Elizabeth Turpin, daughter of Sir William Turpin. Beaumont sat as a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire between 1654 and 1659 and was High Sheriff of Leicestershire between 1668 and 1669...

Francis Hacker (of Okeham) William Quarks Thomas Pochin

Year|2nd Member2nd Party
1659 Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1st Baronet was an English politician.He was the oldest son of Sir Henry Beaumont and Elizabeth Turpin, daughter of Sir William Turpin. Beaumont sat as a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire between 1654 and 1659 and was High Sheriff of Leicestershire between 1668 and 1669...

 
Francis Hacker
1660 Thomas Merry  Matthew Babington
Matthew Babington
Matthew Babington was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Babington was the son of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. He matriculated from Queens College, Cambridge at Easter, 1631...

 
1661 Lord Roos
John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland
John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and 9th Earl of Rutland was the son of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Frances Montagu. His maternal grandparents were Sir Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton and his wife Elizabeth Jeffries...

 
George Faunt 
Feb 1679 The Lord Sherard 
Apr 1679 Sir John Hartopp 
1685 John Verney 
1689 Sir Thomas Halford 
1690 Sir Thomas Hesilrige
Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 4th Baronet
Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 4th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1690 to 1695.Hesilrige was the son of Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 3rd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Fenwick, daughter of George Fenwick, of Bruntonhall, Northumberland...

 
1695 John Verney  George Ashby
George Ashby (MP)
George Ashby was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1707 to 1708.- References :...

 
1698 John Wilkins 
1701 Lord Roos
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG was the son of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and his third wife Catherine Wriothesley Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden...

 
The Lord Sherard
Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough
Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough was a British peer and Member of Parliament....

1702 John Verney  John Wilkins 
1707 George Ashby
George Ashby (MP)
George Ashby was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1707 to 1708.- References :...

 
1708 Sir Geoffrey Palmer Sir Gilbert Pickering 
1710 The Marquess of Granby
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG was the son of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and his third wife Catherine Wriothesley Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden...

 
1711 Sir Thomas Cave
Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet DL was a British Tory politician and baronet.He was the oldest son of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet and his first wife Martha Browne, daughter of John Browne. In 1703, he succeeded his father as baronet. Cave was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford...

 
Tory
Tory
Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...

1713 Viscount Tamworth  Tory
Tory
Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...

1714 Sir Geoffrey Palmer 
1719 Lord William Manners
Lord William Manners
Lord William Manners , English nobleman and Member of Parliament, was the second son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and his first wife, Catherine Russell....

 
1722 Edmund Morris
Edmund Morris (MP)
Edmund Morris was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1722 to 1727.- References :...

 
1727 Sir Clobery Noel
Sir Clobery Noel, 5th Baronet
Sir Clobery Noel, 5th Baronet was an English politician. He sat as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1727 to 1733....

 
Feb 1734 Ambrose Phillipps
Ambrose Phillipps
Ambrose Phillipps was an English politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire at a by-election in February 1734, and held the seat until his death in 1737....

 
May 1734 Edward Smith
Edward Smith (MP)
Edward Smith was an English Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1734 to 1762.Smith was the eldest son of Rev. Roger Smith of Bosworth and his wife Judith Tomlinson. He was educated at Melton Mowbray and at Rugby School...

 
1738 Lord Grey
Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford
Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford was an English peer, styled Lord Grey from 1720 to 1739.Harry Grey was born in Enville Hall, the eldest son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford. He was educated at Rugby and Westminster. In 1736, he married Lady Mary Booth, the only daughter and heiress of George...

 
1739 Lord Guernsey
Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford
Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford , styled Lord Guernsey between 1719 and 1757, was a British peer and politician.-Background and education:...

 
1741 Sir Thomas Cave
Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet
Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet was a British politician and lawyer.-Background:Baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Covent Garden, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet and his wife Hon. Margaret Verney, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh. Cave was educated at...

 
1747 Wrightson Mundy
Wrightson Mundy
Wrightson Mundy was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1737 and MP for Leicestershire in 1747.-Biography:Wrightson married Anne daughter of Robert Burdett and sister of Sir Robert Burdett, Bt of Foremarke Hall, Derbyshire by whom he had one son and four daughters...

 
1754 Sir Thomas Palmer
Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Carlton
Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Carlton was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1754 to 1765....

 
1762 Sir Thomas Cave
Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet
Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet was a British politician and lawyer.-Background:Baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Covent Garden, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet and his wife Hon. Margaret Verney, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh. Cave was educated at...

 
1765 Sir John Palmer 
1774 Thomas Noel
Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth
Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth was a British politician.Wentworth was the only son of the Edward Noel, 1st Viscount Wentworth and his wife, Judith, and was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford...

 
1775 John Peach-Hungerford 
1780 William Pochin 
1790 Sir Thomas Cave
Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet
Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet was a British politician.The son of Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Baronet and Sarah Edwards, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1780. Cave was educated at the Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1785. From 1790 and 1792, he was Member of Parliament for...

 
1792 Penn Assheton Curzon 
1797 George Anthony Legh-Keck 
1798 Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp
Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet
Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet was a British baronet and politician.Born Edmund Bunney, he was the son of Joseph Bunney and Mary Cradock in Freathby, Leicestershire...

 
1806 Lord Robert William Manners
Lord Robert William Manners
Major-General Lord Robert William Manners, CB was a British soldier and nobleman, the third son of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland and Lady Mary Somerset...

 
1818 Charles March Phillipps 
1820 George Anthony Legh-Keck 
1831 Charles March-Phillipps
Charles March-Phillipps
Charles March-Phillipps was a British Whig politician from Garrendon Park in Leicestershire.He sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1818 and 1837....

 
Thomas Paget
Thomas Paget (1778–1862)
Thomas Paget was a banker and Whig politician in England.He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in 1831, and held seat until the constituency was divided at the 1832 general election....

 
Whig
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....

Great Reform Act
Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...

: constituency abolished
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