Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
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Yarmouth was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of England
House of Commons of England
The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain...

 then of the House of Commons of Great Britain
House of Commons of Great Britain
The House of Commons of Great Britain was the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801. In 1707, as a result of the Acts of Union of that year, it replaced the House of Commons of England and the third estate of the Parliament of Scotland, as one of the most significant...

 from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by 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), elected 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.

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...

, and from 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....

 its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency)
Isle of Wight is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, it covers the whole of the Isle of Wight and elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system.-...

.

Boundaries

The constituency 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...

 on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

, part of the historic county of Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
Yarmouth is a port and civil parish in the western part of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of mainland England. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river...

. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.

MPs 1584–1640

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1584 Arthur Gorges
Arthur Gorges
Sir Arthur Gorges , was a sea captain, poet, translator and courtier.-Early life:He was born the son of Sir William Gorges of Charlton and his wife Winifred Budockshede, heiress to the manor of Budockshede.Sir William Gorges died in Dec 1584, in the Tower of London: he was knighted in Ireland in...

William Stubbs
1586 Thomas West John Duncombe
1588 Daniel Hills John Howe
1593 Robert Dillington Robert Crosse
1597 Benedict Barnham John Snow
1601 William Cotton Stephen Theobald
1604 Thomas Cheeke Arthur Bromfield
1614 Arthur Bromfield Sir Thomas Cheeke
1621–1622 Arthur Bromfield Thomas Risley
Thomas Risley
Reverend Thomas Risley was a Presbyterian minister who founded the Thomas Risley Chapel.- His early life :Thomas Risley was born on 27 August 1630, the second son of Thomas Risley and Thomasin Lathon Risley and christened at Newchurch, Kenyon, Lancashire on 2 September 1630...

1624 Thomas Risley
Thomas Risley
Reverend Thomas Risley was a Presbyterian minister who founded the Thomas Risley Chapel.- His early life :Thomas Risley was born on 27 August 1630, the second son of Thomas Risley and Thomasin Lathon Risley and christened at Newchurch, Kenyon, Lancashire on 2 September 1630...

William Beeston
1625 John Clerk John Oglander
1626 Sir Edward Conway
Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway
Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway PC was an English politician, military commander and peer.-Early life and education:...

Sir John Oglander
1628–1629 Edward Dennis Sir John Oglander
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1832

Year|2nd Member2nd 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....

William Oglander
Sir William Oglander, 1st Baronet
Sir William Oglander, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1640 and from 1660 to 1670. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War....

John Bulkeley
John Bulkeley (MP)
John Bulkeley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1662....

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...

Viscount L'Isle
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659 and inherited the peerage of Earl of Leicester in 1677. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War...

Parliamentarian Sir John Leigh
John Leigh (Yarmouth MP)
Sir John Leigh was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1660.Leigh was the eldest son of Barnaby Leigh of Northcourt and his first wife Elizabeth Bampfield, daughter Hugh Bampfield of North Cadbury, Somerset. He matriculated at Christ Church,...

Parliamentarian
December 1648 Leigh 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 Yarmouth 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...

John Sadler  Richard Lucy 
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....

Viscount L'Isle
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659 and inherited the peerage of Earl of Leicester in 1677. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War...

 
One seat vacant 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....

February 1660 Sir John Leigh
John Leigh (Yarmouth MP)
Sir John Leigh was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1660.Leigh was the eldest son of Barnaby Leigh of Northcourt and his first wife Elizabeth Bampfield, daughter Hugh Bampfield of North Cadbury, Somerset. He matriculated at Christ Church,...

April 1660 Richard Lucy
1661 Edward Smythe
1678 Thomas Lucy
February 1679 Sir Richard Mason
August 1679 Thomas Wyndham
1681 Lemuel Kingdon Sir Thomas Littleton
Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1681....

 
1685 Thomas Wyndham William Hewer
William Hewer
William 'Will' Hewer was one of Samuel Pepys' manservants, and later Pepys's clerk, before embarking on an administrative career of his own...

1689 Sir Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes (admiral)
Sir Robert Holmes was an English Admiral of the Restoration Navy. He took part in the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars, both of which he is, by some, credited with having started. He was made governor of the Isle of Wight, where he is buried in Yarmouth parish church...

Hon. Fitton Gerard
Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield
Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield was a British peer, styled Hon. Fitton Gerard until 1701.He was the younger son of Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, and represented several constituencies, mostly in Lancashire, in the British House of Commons, before succeeding his brother Charles...

1690 Sir John Trevor
John Trevor (speaker)
Sir John Trevor was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was Speaker of the English House of Commons from 1685 to 1687 and from 1689 to 1695. Trevor also served as Master of the Rolls from 1685 to 1689 and from 1693 to 1717...

 
Tory Charles Duncombe Tory
April 1695 Henry Holmes
November 1695 Anthony Morgan
1710 Sir Gilbert Dolben
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...

 
Sir Robert Raymond
Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond
Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond PC was a British judge.Robert Raymond was the son of the judge Thomas Raymond. He was educated at Eton and Christ's College, Cambridge. Said to have been admitted to Gray's Inn aged nine, he became a barrister in 1697 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1710...

Tory
1717 Colonel Anthony Morgan Sir Theodore Janssen
Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet
Sir Theodore Janssen of Wimbledon, 1st Baronet was a Dutch-born English financier and Member of Parliament who after a long and successful career in commerce was ruined and disgraced by his part in the South Sea Bubble....

 
1721 by-election William Plumer
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...

Thomas Stanwix
Thomas Stanwix
Brigadier General Thomas Stanwix was a British Army officer, politician and Governor of Gibraltar.-Career:Stanwix joined the Army and had become a Captain-Lieutenant in Hasting's Foot Regiment by 1692. In March 1702 he was elected Member of Parliament for Carlisle...

1725 by-election Colonel Maurice Morgan
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...

Paul Burrard
1733 by-election Maurice Bocland
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...

Lord Harry Powlett
Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton
Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton PC , known until 1754 as Lord Harry Powlett, was a British nobleman and Whig politician, the second son of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton and Frances Ramsden...

 
Whig
1736 by-election Thomas Gibson
1737 by-election Anthony Chute
Anthony Chute
Anthony Chute was an Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer. Very little is known about him.Chute appears to have been a protégé of Gabriel Harvey. Harvey refers to him in his work Pierces Supererogation, saying that Chute was an orator and a herald...

1741 by-election Colonel Maurice Bocland
1744 by-election Robert Carteret
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...

Thomas Holmes
Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes
Thomas Holmes was an English Member of Parliament, who managed elections in the government interest in the Isle of Wight during the 1750s and 1760s....

 
Whig Colonel Henry Holmes
Henry Holmes (general)
Lieutenant-General Henry Holmes was a British army officer and Member of Parliament .The second son of Henry Holmes, an MP and lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, Holmes was commissioned as an ensign in the 28th Foot in 1721. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1723, captain in 1727, major in...

 
1762 by-election Jeremiah Dyson
Jeremiah Dyson
Jeremiah Dyson was a British civil servant and politician.He studied at Edinburgh University and matriculated at Leiden University in 1742. He settled a pension on his friend Mark Akenside, the poet and physician, and later defended Akenside's The Pleasures of the Imagination against William...

Tory
1765 by-election John Eames
1768
British general election, 1768
The British general election, 1768 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 13th 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:...

 
William Strode Jervoise Clarke
Jervoise Clarke Jervoise (died 1808)
Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, born Jervoise Clarke was an English Whig Member of Parliament who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain for most of the years from 1768 to 1808....

Whig
1769 Thomas Dummer
Thomas Dummer
Thomas Dummer was an English Member of Parliament for Newport , Yarmouth , Downton in Wiltshire , Wendover in Buckinghamshire and Lymington in Hampshire ....

Major General the Hon. George Lane Parker
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:...

Edward Meux Worsley Jervoise Clarke Jervoise
Jervoise Clarke Jervoise (died 1808)
Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, born Jervoise Clarke was an English Whig Member of Parliament who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain for most of the years from 1768 to 1808....

Whig
1775 by-election James Worsley
1779 by-election Captain Robert Kingsmill
Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Brice Kingsmill, 1st Baronet was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned nearly 60 years...

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...

Edward Morant Edward Rushworth
1781 by-election Sir Thomas Rumbold
1784
British general election, 1784
The British general election of 1784 resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the House of Commons of Great Britain, having previously had to survive in a House which was dominated by his opponents.-Background:...

Philip Francis
Philip Francis (English politician)
Sir Philip Francis was an Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer, the possible author of the Letters of Junius, and the chief antagonist of Warren Hastings. His accusations against the latter led to the Impeachment of Warren Hastings by Parliament.-Early life:Born in Dublin, he was the only...

1787 by-election Thomas Clarke Jervoise
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:...

Edward Rushworth
1791 by-election Jervoise Clarke Jervoise
Jervoise Clarke Jervoise (died 1808)
Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, born Jervoise Clarke was an English Whig Member of Parliament who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain for most of the years from 1768 to 1808....

Whig Sir John Leicester, Bt
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...

Edward Rushworth
1797 by-election William Peachy
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...

James Patrick Murray
February 1803 by-election Colonel Charles Macdonnell
October 1803 by-election Henry Swann
Henry Swann
Henry Swann was a British Tory politician. He sat in the House of Commons for three periods between 1803 and 1824....

Tory
February 1804 by-election John Delgarno
March 1804 by-election Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham
Home Riggs Popham
Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham KCB was a British Royal Naval Commander who saw service during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...

January 1806 by-election David Scott
Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet
Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet was a British politician and knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. He was elected at a by-election in January 1806 as the Member of Parliament for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and held the seat until the general election in November 1806, when he did not stand again.He...

November 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....

Thomas William Plummer
May 1807
United Kingdom general election, 1807
The election to the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1807 was the third general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....

Hon. William Orde-Powlett
August 1807 by-election Admiral Sir John Orde
Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet
Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet was the third son of John Orde, of Morpeth, Northumberland, and the brother of Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton...

January 1808 by-election Benjamin Cooke Griffinhoofe
April 1808 by-election John Delgarno
June 1808 by-election Viscount Valentia
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris FRS , styled Viscount Valentia between 1793 and 1816, was a British peer and politician.-Background:Mountnorris was the son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris, and the Hon...

1810 by-election Thomas Myers
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....

Richard Wellesley Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, Bt
1816 by-election John Leslie Foster
John Leslie Foster
John Leslie Foster, FRS was an Irish Tory Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament.The son of Lord Bishop Foster , he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge. He represented Dublin University from 1807 to 1812, having first contested the seat in 1806...

Tory
1817 by-election Alexander Maconochie
Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
Alexander Maconochie, later Maconochie-Welwood , was a Scottish judge.The son of Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, he was admitted as an advocate in 1799...

Tory
March 1818 by-election John Singleton Copley
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst PC KS FRS , was a British lawyer and politician. He was three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...

Tory
June 1818
United Kingdom general election, 1818
The 1818 general election of the United Kingdom saw the Whigs gain a few seats, but the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool retained a majority of around 90 seats...

John Taylor Tory William Mount Tory
1819 by-election Sir Peter Pole Tory John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker was an Irish statesman and author.He was born at Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1800...

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....

Theodore Henry Broadhead Tory
1821 by-election Theodore Henry Lavington Broadhead
Sir Theodore Brinckman, 1st Baronet
Sir Theodore Henry Lavington Brinckman, 1st Baronet was a British politician and baronet.Born Theodore Broadhead, he was the son of Theodore Henry Broadhead and his wife Elizabeth Macdougall, daughter of William Gordon Macdougall...

 
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....

Lord Binning
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington KT PC FRS , known as Lord Binning from 1794 to 1828, was a British Conservative politician and statesman.-Background and education:...

Tory Joseph Phillimore
Joseph Phillimore
Joseph Phillimore was an English civil lawyer and politician, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford from 1809.-Life:The eldest son of Joseph Phillimore, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, by Mary, daughter of John Machin of Kensington, was born on 14 September 1775...

Tory
1827 by-election Thomas Wallace 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...

William Yates Peel
William Yates Peel
William Yates Peel , was a British Tory politician.Peel was the second son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen . He was the younger brother of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, and the elder brother of Jonathan Peel. He was educated at Harrow and St John's College,...

Tory George Lowther Thompson
George Lowther Thompson
George Lowther Thompson was Member of Parliament for Haslemere and Yarmouth 1830-1831.His family was associated with Sheriff Hutton Park.- External links :...

Tory
1831
United Kingdom general election, 1831
The 1831 general election in the United Kingdom saw a landslide win by supporters of electoral reform, which was the major election issue. As a result it was the last unreformed election, as the Parliament which resulted ensured the passage of the Reform Act 1832. Polling was held from 28 April to...

Sir Henry Willoughby
Sir Henry Willoughby, 3rd Baronet
Sir Henry Pollard Willoughby, 3rd Baronet was a British Member of Parliament. He represented the constituencies of Newcastle-under-Lyme , Yarmouth and Evesham .- External links :...

Whig Charles Compton Cavendish
Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham
Charles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham was a British Liberal politician.Cavendish was the fourth son of George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington, third son of the former Prime Minister William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle,...

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


Notes

See also

  • Politics of the Isle of Wight
    Politics of the Isle of Wight
    As a geographical entity distinct from the mainland, the Isle of Wight has always fought to have this identity recognised. The Isle of Wight is currently a ceremonial and Non-metropolitan county and as it has no district councils it is effectively a unitary county...

  • Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight
    Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight
    The Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England, was part of the historic county of Hampshire , and was linked with it for parliamentary purposes until 1832, when it became a county constituency in its own right as it had also been during the Protectorate...

  • Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
    Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
    Great Yarmouth is a 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....

    in Norfolk
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