Milborne Port (UK Parliament constituency)

Milborne Port is a former parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

Parliamentary boroughs are a type of administrative division, usually covering urban areas, that are entitled to representation in a Parliament...

located in Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

. It elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons

Unreformed House of Commons

The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act 1832.Until the Act of Union of 1707 joining the Kingdoms of Scotland and England , Scotland had its own Parliament, and the term refers to the House of Commons of England...

between 1298 and 1307 and again from 1628, but was disenfranchised in 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...

as a rotten borough

Rotten borough

A "rotten", "decayed" or pocket borough was a parliamentary borough or constituency in the United Kingdom that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within Parliament....

MPs 1640–1832

Year	\|2nd Member	2nd 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....		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....	Royalist		Thomas Erle
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...					Lord Digby George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he was raised to the House of Lords...	Royalist
1640 (?)					John Digby John Digby (MP) John Digby was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War and died as a priest at a convent in France....	Royalist
August 1642	Kyrton and Digby disabled from sitting – both seats vacant
1645		William Carent			Thomas Grove Thomas Grove Thomas Grove , of Ferne House in Wiltshire, was a 17th century English Member of Parliament.He was elected a member of the Long Parliament in 1645 to fill a vacancy at Milborne Port, but in December 1648 he was one of the Members excluded in Pride's Purge...
December 1648		William Carent		Grove excluded in 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... – seat vacant
1653	Milborne Port 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...		William Carent			Robert Hunt
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....	Not represented in the restored Rump 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....
April 1660		William Milborne			Michael Malet
August 1660		Francis Wyndham Sir Francis Wyndham, 1st Baronet Sir Francis Wyndham, 1st Baronet was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1640...
1677		John Hunt
February 1679					William Lacy
August 1679					Henry Bull Henry Bull (MP) Henry Bull was an English Member of Parliament who represented three Somerset boroughs in the second half of the 17th century.-References:...
1689					Thomas Saunders
1690		Sir Thomas Travell			Sir Charles Carteret
January 1701					Sir Richard Newman
December 1701					Henry Thynne Henry Thynne (1675–1708) Henry Thynne was an English gentleman and Tory Member of Parliament.Thynne was the eldest of the three sons of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth , of Longleat, a substantial landowner in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, by his marriage to Lady Frances Finch, a daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl...
1702					John Hunt
1705					Thomas Medlycott
1709					Thomas Smith
1710					James Medlycott
1715 British general election, 1715 The British general election of 1715 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707...		John Cox
June 1717		Michael Harvey
July 1717		Charles Stanhope
1722 British general election, 1722 The British general election of 1722 elected members to serve in the House of Commons of the 6th Parliament of Great Britain. This event took place following the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was fiercely fought, with contests taking place...		Michael Harvey			George Speke
1727 British general election, 1727 The British general election, 1727 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was triggered by the death of George I; at the time elections...					Thomas Medlycott
1734 British general election, 1734 The British general election, 1734 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Robert Walpole's increasingly unpopular Whig government lost ground to the...					Thomas Medlycott, junior
1741 British general election, 1741 The British general election, 1741 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707...		Jeffrey French			Thomas Medlycott, junior
1742 by-election					Michael Harvey
1747 British general election, 1747 The British general election, 1747 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election saw Henry Pelham's Whig government increase its majority and...					Michael Harvey
1748 by-election					Thomas Medlycott, junior
1754 British general election, 1754 The British general election, 1754 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707....		Edward Walter			Thomas Medlycott, junior
1763 by-election					Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott
1770 by-election					Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough, KB, , was a Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby , Castle Rising, Norfolk and Milborne Port, Somerset . He...
April 1772 by-election					Richard Combe
May 1772					George Prescott
1774 British general election, 1774 The British general election, 1774 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.-Summary of the Constituencies:...		Hon. Temple Luttrell			Captain Charles Wolseley
1780 British general election, 1780 The British general election, 1780 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 15th Parliament of Great Britain to be held after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707...		John Townson			Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott
1781 by-election		John Townson			John Pennington John Pennington, 1st Baron Muncaster John Pennington, 1st Baron Muncaster , known as John Pennington until 1783, was a British peer and Tory politician.-Background:...
1787 by-election		William Popham
1790 British general election, 1790 The British general election, 1790 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.-Political Situation:...		William Coles Medlycott
1791 by-election		Richard Johnson
1794 by-election		Colonel Mark Wood
1796 British general election, 1796 The British general election, 1796 returned members to serve in the 18th and last House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain to be held before the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801...		Lord Paget			Sir Robert Ainslie Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet was a Scottish ambassador to the Ottoman Empire ), orientalist and numismatist...
1802 United Kingdom general election, 1802 The United Kingdom general election, 1802 was the election to the 2nd Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...		Lord Paget			Hugh Leycester
1804 by-election		Captain Charles Paget Charles Paget (vice-admiral) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget GCH Kt was a British sailor who also became a liberal politician and Member of Parliament.-Naval career:...
1806 United Kingdom general election, 1806 The United Kingdom general election, 1806 was the election of members to the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. This was the second general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....		Lord Paget
January 1810 by-election		Viscount Lewisham William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth FRS, SA , styled The Honourable William Legge until 1801 and Viscount Lewisham between 1801 and 1810, was a British peer.-Background:...
December 1810		Hon. Sir Edward Paget Edward Paget General Sir Edward Paget GCB was a British Army officer.-Career:Born the fourth son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Edward Paget became a cornet in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1792...	Tory
1812 United Kingdom general election, 1812 The election to the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1812 was the fourth general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....			Tory		Robert Matthew Casberd	Tory
1820 United Kingdom general election, 1820 The 1820 UK general election, held shortly after the Radical War in Scotland and the Cato Street Conspiracy. In this atmosphere, the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool were able to win a substantial majority over the Whigs....		Hon. Berkeley Paget	Tory		Thomas North Graves Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves Thomas North Graves, 2nd Baron Graves was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Graves was the son of Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves. He succeeded his father as second Baron Graves in 1802, but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords...	Tory
1826 United Kingdom general election, 1826 The 1826 United Kingdom general election saw the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool win a substantial and increased majority over the Whigs. In Ireland, Home Rule candidates, working with the Whigs, won large gains from Unionist candidates....		Arthur Chichester Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore was an Anglo-Irish soldier, politician and courtier.Chichester was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of Lord Spencer Chichester, second son of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall. His mother was Lady Anne Harriet Stewart, daughter of John...	Whig			Tory
1827 by-election			Whig		John Henry North	Tory
1830 United Kingdom general election, 1830 The 1830 United Kingdom general election, was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, William IV. Fought in the aftermath of the Swing Riots, it saw electoral reform become a major election issue...		George Stephens Byng	Whig		William Sturges-Bourne	Tory
4 March 1831 by-election		Richard Lalor Sheil Richard Lalor Sheil Richard Lalor Sheil , Irish politician, writer and orator, was born at Drumdowney, Slieverue, County Kilkenny, Ireland...	Whig		William Sturges-Bourne	Tory
14 March 1831 by-election			Whig		Captain George Stephens Byng George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, PC , styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, was a British peer and Whig politician.-Background, education and military career:...	Whig
July 1831 by-election		Philip Cecil Crampton Philip Cecil Crampton Philip Cecil Crampton PC was a judge, politician and Solicitor-General for Ireland. He was appointed Solicitor-General in 1830. He was elected Member of Parliament for Saltash in February 1831, and MP for Milborne Port in July 1831.-References:...	Whig			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....		Constituency abolished

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