Wareham (UK Parliament constituency)
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Wareham 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 Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

, 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 1302 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

History

The borough consisted of the town of Wareham
Wareham, Dorset
Wareham is an historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town, a civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles southwest of Poole.-Situation and geography:...

 on the Isle of Purbeck
Isle of Purbeck
The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in the county of Dorset, England. It is bordered by the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north. Its western boundary is less well...

, a market town close to Poole Harbour
Poole Harbour
Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome. The harbour has a long history of human settlement...

. In 1831, the population of the borough was 1,676, and it contained 364 houses.

The right to vote was exercised by the Mayor, magistrates and freemen
Freedom of the City
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 of the town and all inhabitants paying scot and lot
Scot and lot
Scot and lot is a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to householders who were assessed for a tax paid to the borough for local or national purposes.They were usually members of a merchant guild.Before the Reform Act 1832, those who paid scot and bore...

; the number who were qualified to vote under this provision by the time of the Reform Act was unknown, as there had not been a contested election for many years, but there were about 500 in the 1760s. In the early 18th century a number of wealthy local families were influential over the choice of members, but eventually John Calcraft of Kingstone Hall secured total control by buying up all the property in the borough occupied by potential voters.

Wareham retained one of its two MPs under the Reform Act, but its boundaries were extended to include several surrounding areas, including nearby Corfe Castle which had previously been a borough in its own right. The new borough had a population of 5,751.

The borough continued to elect one MP until the third Reform Act, which came into effect at the general election of 1885. This abolished the constituency, Wareham being placed in the new East Dorset
East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
East Dorset is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was formally known as the Eastern Division of Dorset. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 county division.

1302-1629

  • Constituency created (1302)

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1386 Thomas Walbrond Walter Byle
1388 (Feb) Thomas Walbrond Walter Byle
1388 (Sep) Thomas Walbrond Robert Calche
1390 (Jan) Adam Denys Robert Calche
1390 (Nov)
1391 Nicholas atte Gate Henry Rauf
1393 Walter Byle Robert Calche
1394 Adam Denys Thomas Smithfield
1395 Richard Byle Thomas Barbour
1397 (Jan) Walter Byle Adam Denys
1397 (Sep) Nicholas atte Gate Robert Cokeman
1399 Adam Denys Thomas Barbour
1401
1402 Robert Calche Richard Byle
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406 Robert Craford John Cheverell
1407 John Gramford William Colyns
1410 Robert Craford Thomas Walsingham
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) Robert Craford Thomas Faringdon
1414 (Apr) Richard Byle John Mayhew II
1414 (Nov) William Gerard John Shoyll
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417 William Gerard Robert Craford
1419 William Gerard Robert Craford
1420 William Gerard Walter Reson
1421 (May) William Gerard Walter Reson
1421 (Dec) William Gerard Walter Provost
1510-1523 No names known
1529 John Orenge William Grimston
1536
1539 ?
1542 ?
1545 Thomas Phelips Robert Keyle
1547 David Seymout Richard Morison
1553 (Mar) ?Richard Phelips ?
1553 (Nov) Thomas Philips Leonard Willoughby 
1554 Alexander Hughes
Alexander Hughes
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Thomas Girdler 
Parliament of 1554-1555 Hugh Smith Roger Gerard 
Parliament of 1555 Thomas Philips Clement Hyatt
Parliament of 1558 Matthew Smythe Walter Raleigh 
Parliament of 1559 Sir John Perrot John Scriven
Parliament of 1563-1567 John Morrice Richard Shaw
Parliament of 1571 John Baker Clement Hyatt died during the 1572-81 Parliament
In his place Henry Ashley
Parliament of 1572-1581 John Gwynne
Parliament of 1584-1585 John Rogers Andrew Rogers
Parliament of 1586-1587 Thomas Lambert
Thomas Lambert
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Parliament of 1588-1589 Christopher Gerrard
Parliament of 1593 Thomas Rogers George Strode
Parliament of 1597-1598 John Frankland Sampson Hussey
Parliament of 1601 Sir John Stafford Edmund Scott
Parliament of 1604-1611 Robert Napier
Robert Napier (judge)
Sir Robert Napier was an English-born judge in Ireland.. He was High Sheriff of Dorset in 1606 and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland. He was a Member of Parliament for Dorchester , Bridport and Wareham ....

Dr Francis James
Addled Parliament (1614)
Addled Parliament
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John Freke
John Freke (MP)
John Freke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.Freke was the son of Thomas Freke of Iwerne Courtney, Dorset. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford on 31 October 1605, aged 14. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1600. In 1614, he was elected Member of...

Sir William Pitt
Parliament of 1621-1622 John Trenchard
John Trenchard (of Warmwell)
John Trenchard was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.Trenchard was born in Charminster, Wareham, the son of Sir George Trenchard of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of SIr George Speke of Whitelackington.In 1621, Trenchard was...

Happy Parliament (1624-1625)
Happy Parliament
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Useless Parliament (1625)
Useless Parliament
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Parliament of 1625-1626 Sir Nathaniel Napier
Nathaniel Napier
Sir Nathaniel Napier , of Middlemarsh Hall and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament . He was born c.1587, the only son of Sir Robert Napier, a judge and MP, who held the office of Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his second wife Magdalen Denton. He was knighted in...

Edward Laurence
Parliament of 1628-1629 Gerrard Napier
Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet
Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet , of Middle Marsh and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Royalists during the English Civil War....

Sir John Meller
John Meller
Sir John Meller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1628 and in 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....

No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

1640-1832

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
April 1640
Short Parliament
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John Trenchard
John Trenchard (of Warmwell)
John Trenchard was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.Trenchard was born in Charminster, Wareham, the son of Sir George Trenchard of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of SIr George Speke of Whitelackington.In 1621, Trenchard was...

Parliamentarian Dr Gilbert Jones
Gilbert Jones
Gilbert Jones was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.Jones was probably the son of Gilbert Jones of Poole, Montgomery and was a student of Gray's Inn in 1617. He attended All Souls' College, Oxford and was awarded BCL on 10 March, 1623 and DCL on 14 January...

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...

Thomas Erle Parliamentarian
December 1648 Erle 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 Wareham 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...

Elias Bond
Elias Bond
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James Dewey
James Dewey
James Dewey was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659.Dewey was the son and heir of James Dewey of Christchurch, Hampshire. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 20 November 1651 and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1656. In 1656, he...

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....

John Trenchard
John Trenchard (of Warmwell)
John Trenchard was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.Trenchard was born in Charminster, Wareham, the son of Sir George Trenchard of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of SIr George Speke of Whitelackington.In 1621, Trenchard was...

One seat vacant
April 1660 George Pitt Robert Culliford
1679 Thomas Erle
Thomas Erle
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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...

George Savage
1685 George Ryves
George Ryves
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1689 Thomas Skinner
1690 William Okeden
1695 Thomas Trenchard
1698 George Pitt
January 1701 Thomas Erle
Thomas Erle
Lieutenant-General Thomas Erle PC was an English army general and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance....

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...

March 1701 Sir Edward Ernle
November 1701 Thomas Erle
Thomas Erle
Lieutenant-General Thomas Erle PC was an English army general and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance....

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...

1702 Sir Josiah Child
1704 Sir Edward Ernle
1705 George Pitt 
1710 Sir Edward Ernle
1713 George Pitt 
1715 George Pitt, junior
1718 Henry Drax
1722 Sir Edward Ernle Joseph Gascoigne
12 February 1729 Nathaniel Gould
26 February 1729 Thomas Tower
1734 Henry Drax John Pitt
1747  Thomas Erle Drax
1748 Robert Banks Hodgkinson John Pitt
1751 Henry Drax
April 1754 Seats vacant after disputed election
December 1754 William Augustus Pitt
William Augustus Pitt
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Henry Drax
1755 Edward Drax
1761 Thomas Erle Drax John Pitt
March 1768 Ralph Burton
Ralph Burton
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Robert Palk
November 1768 Whitshed Keene
January 1774 Thomas de Grey
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham
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October 1774 William Gerard Hamilton
William Gerard Hamilton
William Gerard Hamilton , English statesman and Irish politician, popularly known as "Single Speech Hamilton," was born in London, the son of a Scottish bencher of Lincoln's Inn....

Christopher D'Oyly
1780 John Boyd
Sir John Boyd, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Boyd, 2nd Baronet was the son of John Boyd, 1st Baronet Boyd, and his first wife Mary Bumpstead.On his father's death in 1800, John inherited the whole estate and his father's title...

Thomas Farrer
1784 Charles Lefebure
1786 John Calcraft
John Calcraft (the younger)
John Calcraft the younger , of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament....

1790 General Richard Smith Lord Robert Spencer
May 1796 Charles Rose Ellis
November 1796 Sir Godfrey Vassall
1799 Joseph Chaplin Hankey
1800 John Calcraft
John Calcraft (the younger)
John Calcraft the younger , of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament....

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...

1802 Andrew Strahan
1806 Jonathan Raine
1807 Sir Granby Calcraft Hon. John William Ward
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS , known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician...

Tory
1808 Sir Samuel Romilly
Samuel Romilly
Sir Samuel Romilly , was a British legal reformer.-Background and education:Romilly was born in Frith Street, Soho, London, the second son of Peter Romilly, a watchmaker and jeweller...

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...

1812 Robert Gordon Theodore Henry Broadhead
1818 John Calcraft
John Calcraft (the younger)
John Calcraft the younger , of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament....

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...

Thomas Denman
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
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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...

1820 John Hales Calcraft Tory
1826 Charles Baring Wall
1828 Tory
1830 James Ewing
James Ewing (MP)
James Ewing was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Wareham, 1830–1831, and Glasgow, 1832–1835.-References:...

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...

1831 Granby Hales Calcraft 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...

Charles Wood
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax GCB PC , known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Bt between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig politician and Member of Parliament. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852....

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...

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....

Representation reduced to one Member

1832-1885

YearMemberParty
1832 John Hales Calcraft Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

1841 John Erle-Drax
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.-Personal life:...

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...

1852 Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

1857 John Hales Calcraft 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...

1859 John Erle-Drax
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.-Personal life:...

Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

1865 John Hales Montagu Calcraft Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
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1868 John Erle-Drax
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax
John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.-Personal life:...

Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

1880 Montague Guest
Montague Guest
Montague John Guest , was a British Liberal politician.A member of the prominent Guest family, he was the third son of Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey...

Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

1885
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:...

Constituency abolished


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