Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Lincolnshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1290–1832 | |
Number of members | two |
Replaced by | North Lincolnshire and South Lincolnshire |
Lincolnshire was a county constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which returned two Members of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons from 1290 until 1832.
History[]
The constituency consisted of the historic county of Lincolnshire, excluding the city of Lincoln which had the status of a county in itself after 1409. (Although Lincolnshire contained four other boroughs, Boston, Grantham, Great Grimsby and Stamford, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Lincolnshire was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Lincoln.)
As in other county constituencies the franchise between 1430 and 1832 was defined by the Forty Shilling Freeholder Act, which gave the right to vote to every man who possessed freehold property within the county valued at £2 or more per year for the purposes of land tax; it was not necessary for the freeholder to occupy his land, nor even in later years[when?] to be resident in the county at all.
Except during the period of the Commonwealth, Lincolnshire has two MPs, traditionally referred to as Knights of the Shire, elected by the bloc vote method, under which each voter had two votes. In the nominated Barebones Parliament, five members represented Lincolnshire. In the First and Second Parliaments of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, however, there was a general redistribution of seats and Lincolnshire elected ten members, while each of the boroughs apart from Lincoln had their representation reduced to a single MP. The traditional arrangements were restored from 1659.
At the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, Lincolnshire had a population of approximately 317,000, though only 5,391 electors voted at the last contested election, a by-election in 1823.
Elections were held at a single polling place, Lincoln, and voters from the rest of the county had to travel to the county town to exercise their franchise. It was normal for voters to expect the candidates for whom they voted to meet their expenses in travelling to the poll, making the cost of a contested election substantial. Contested elections were therefore rare, potential candidates preferring to canvass support beforehand and usually not insisting on a vote being taken unless they were confident of winning; at all but 4 of the 29 general elections between 1701 and 1832, Lincolnshire's two MPs were elected unopposed.
The constituency was abolished in 1832 by the Great Reform Act, being divided into two two-member county divisions, Northern Lincolnshire (or The Parts of Lindsey) and Southern Lincolnshire (or The Parts of Kesteven and Holland).
Members of Parliament[]
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MPs 1290–1640[]
Year | First member | Second member |
---|---|---|
1290 | [1] | [1] |
1295 | [1] | [1] |
1297 | [1] | [1] |
1298 | [1] | Sir John Marmion[1] |
1300 | [1] | [1] |
1301 | [1] | [1] |
1302 | [1] | of Ormesby[1] |
1305 | [1] | [1] |
1306 | [1] | of Stoke[1] |
1307 (Jan) | [1] | [1] |
1307 (Oct) | [1] | [1] |
1309 | [1] | [1] |
1311 (Aug) | [1] | [1] |
1311 (Nov) | [1] | [1] |
1313 (Mar) | [1] | [1] |
1313 | [1] | [1] |
1314 | [1] | [1] |
1315 | [1] | William de Paris[1] |
1316 (Jan) | [1] | [1] |
1316 (Jul) | [1] | [1] |
1318 | [1] | [1] |
1319 | [1] | [1] |
1320 | [1] | [1] |
1321 | William de Paris[1] | [1] |
1322 (May) | [1] | [1] |
1322 (Nov) | [1] | William de Paris[1] |
1324 (Feb) | [1] | [1] |
1324 (Oct) | Sir [1] | , sergeant[1] |
1325 | [1] | [1] |
1327 (Jan) | [1] | [1] |
1327 (Sep) | [1] | [1] |
1328 (Feb) | [1] | [1] |
1328 (Apr) | [1] | [1] |
1328 (Jul) | [1] | [1] |
1329 | [1] | [1] |
1330 (Mar) | [1] | [1] |
1330 (Nov) | [1] | [1] |
1331 | [1] | [1] |
1332 (Mar) | [1] | [1] |
1332 (Sep) | [1] | [1] |
1333 | [1] | [1] |
1334 (Feb) | [1] | [1] |
1334 (Sep) | [1] | [1] |
1335 | , jnr.[1] | [1] |
1336 (Mar) | [1] | John Darcy[1] |
1336 (Sep) | [1] | [1] |
1337 (Mar) | [1] | [1] |
1337 (Sep) | [1] | [1] |
1338 (Feb) | [1] | [1] |
1338 (Jul) | [1] | [1] |
1339 (Feb) | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1339 (Oct) | [1] | [1] |
1340 (Jan) | [1] | |
1340 (Mar) | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1341 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1343 | [1] | [1] |
1344 | of Dowesby[1] | [1] |
1346 | [1] | [1] |
1348 (Jan) | Sir [1] | [1] |
1348 (Mar) | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1351 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1352 | [1] | [1] |
1353 | [1] | |
1354 | [1] | [1] |
1355 | [1] | [1] |
1357 | Sir [1] | [1] |
1358 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1360 | [1] | [1] |
1361 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1362 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1363 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1365 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1366 | Sir [1] | , Snr.[1] |
1368 | Sir [1] | [1] |
1369 | [1] | [1] |
1371 | [1] | |
1372 | [1] | [1] |
1373 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1376 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1377 (Jan) | [1] | [1] |
1377 (Oct) | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1378 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1379 | [1] | [1] |
1380 (Jan) | Sir [1] | [1] |
1380 (Nov) | [1] | |
1381 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1382 (May) | [1] | [1] |
1382 (Oct) | [1] | [1] |
1383 (Feb) | Sir [1] | [1] |
1383 (Oct) | [1] | John Bussy[1] |
1384 (Apr) | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1384 (Nov) | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1385 | Sir [1] | Sir [1] |
1386 | [2] | |
1388 (Feb) | [2] | |
1388 (Sep) | Sir John Bussy[2] | |
1390 (Jan) | Sir John Bussy[2] | |
1390 (Nov) | John Rochford | Sir John Bussy[2] |
1391 | Sir John Bussy[2] | |
1393 | Sir John Bussy[2] | |
1394 | John Rochford | Sir John Bussy[2] |
1395 | Sir John Bussy[2] | |
1397 (Jan) | Sir John Bussy[2] | |
1397 (Sep) | John Rochford | Sir John Bussy[2] |
1397 | ||
1399 | John Rochford | [2] |
1401 | Sir Henry de Retford | [2] |
1402 | Sir Henry de Retford | [2] |
1404 (Jan) | [2] | |
1404 (Oct) | Sir Henry de Retford | [2] |
1406 | [2] | |
1407 | [2] | |
1410 | ||
1411 | [2] | |
1413 (Feb) | ||
1413 (May) | [2] | |
1414 (Apr) | [2] | |
1414 (Nov) | [2] | |
1415 | ||
1416 (Mar) | Sir Robert Hilton | [3] |
1416 | ||
1416 (Oct) | ||
1417 | ||
1419 | ||
1420 | [2] | |
1421 (May) | [2] | |
1421 (Dec) | [2] | |
1423 | [3] | |
1425 | [4] | |
1426 | [3] | |
1431 | Hamond Sutton | |
1435 | Hamond Sutton | |
1432 | ||
1437 | [4] | |
1439 | Hamond Sutton | |
1445 | William Tailboys | |
1447 | John Byron | Sir Manser Marmion[5] |
1488 | Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam[6] | |
1491 | Sir William Tyrwhitt | |
1510 | ||
1512 | ?Sir Robert Sheffield | ? [7] |
1515 | ?Sir Robert Sheffield | ?John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford[7] |
1523 | John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford | ?[7] |
1529 | John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford | Gilbert Tailboys[7] |
1536 | ||
1539 | Sir William Skipwith | John Heneage[7] |
1542 | ||
1545 | Sir Robert Tyrwhitt I | Sir William Willoughby[7] |
1547 | Sir William Skipwith[7] | |
1553 (Mar) | ?Sir William Cecil | Sir Robert Tyrwhitt II[7] |
1553 (Oct) | William Dalison | Thomas Hussey[7] |
1554 (Apr) | Sir Robert Tyrwhitt II[7] | |
1554 (Nov) | [7] | |
1555 | Sir William Cecil | George St. Poll[7] |
1558 | Sir Robert Tyrwhitt II[7] | |
1559 (Jan) | Sir William Cecil | [8] |
1562–1563 | Sir William Cecil | Richard Bertie[8] |
1563 | Sir Thomas Heneage[8] | |
1571 | Sir Henry Clinton | Sir Thomas Heneage[8] |
1572 | Sir Thomas Heneage | Thomas St Poll[8] |
1584 (Nov) | Sir Thomas Cecil | [8] |
1586 (Oct) | Sir Thomas Cecil | [8] |
1588–1589 | George St. Poll[8] | |
1593 | George St. Poll[8] | |
1597 (Oct) | Thomas Monson | [8] |
1601 (Oct) | William Wray[8] | |
1604 | Thomas Clinton, Lord Clinton | |
1610 | ||
1614 | Sir George Manners | Sir Peregrine Bertie |
1621 | Sir George Manners | Sir Thomas Grantham |
1624 | Montagu Bertie | Sir Thomas Grantham |
1625 | Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet | Sir Nicholas Saunderson Bt |
1626 | John Monson | Sir William Airmine |
1628–1629 | Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet | Sir William Airmine |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
MPs 1640–1832[]
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
April 1640 | Sir John Wray | Parliamentarian | Sir Edward Hussey | |||
November 1640 | Sir Edward Ayscough | Parliamentarian | ||||
December 1648 | Wray and Ayscough excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | |||||
1653 | Lincolnshire was represented by five MPs in the Barebones Parliament: Sir William Brownlow, Richard Cust, , , William Thompson | |||||
1654 | Lincolnshire was represented by ten MPs in the First Protectorate Parliament: Edward Rossiter, Thomas Hall, Thomas Lister, Charles Hall, , (Sir) John Wray, Colonel Thomas Hatcher, , , | |||||
1656 | Lincolnshire was represented by ten MPs in the Second Protectorate Parliament: Edward Rossiter, Thomas Hall, Thomas Lister, Charles Hall, , Colonel Thomas Hatcher, , , , Sir Charles Hussey | |||||
January 1659 | Edward Rossiter | Colonel Thomas Hatcher | ||||
May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
1660 | Edward Rossiter | George Saunderson, Viscount Castleton | ||||
Apr 1661 | Sir Charles Hussey, 1st Bt. | |||||
Jan 1665 | Sir Robert Carr, 3rd Baronet | |||||
Mar 1685 | Sir Thomas Hussey, 2nd Bt. | |||||
Aug 1698 | ||||||
Jan 1701 | Sir John Thorold, 4th Bt. | |||||
Feb 1703 | ||||||
May 1705 | Albemarle Bertie | |||||
May 1708 | Peregrine Bertie, Baron Willoughby de Eresby | |||||
Oct 1710 | ||||||
Sep 1713 | Sir Willoughby Hickman, 3rd Bt. | |||||
Feb 1715 | Sir John Brownlow, Bt. | |||||
Jan 1721 | Sir William Massingberd, 3rd Bt. | |||||
Apr 1722 | Henry Heron | |||||
Feb 1724 | Robert Vyner | |||||
Aug 1727 | Sir Thomas Lumley Saunderson | |||||
Feb 1740 | ||||||
Apr 1761 | Lord Brownlow Bertie | |||||
Oct 1774 | Charles Anderson-Pelham | |||||
Dec 1779 | Sir John Thorold, 9th Bt. | |||||
Sep 1794 | ||||||
Jun 1796 | Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt. | |||||
Jul 1802 | Charles Chaplin | |||||
May 1807 | Charles Anderson-Pelham | |||||
Oct 1816 | William Cust | |||||
Jun 1818 | Charles Chaplin | |||||
Dec 1823 | Sir William Amcotts-Ingilby, Bt. | |||||
May 1831 | Charles Anderson Worsley Pelham | |||||
1832 | Great Reform Act: constituency abolished |
Election results[]
June 1818
- Hon. C. A. Pelham 3693 votes
- Sir Robert Heron 2623 votes
- Charles Chaplin Esq. 3069 votes
- Pelham and Chaplin elected. Total number of freeholders polled 5598.
See also[]
- Stamford (UK Parliament list of constituencies)
References[]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- John Cannon, Parliamentary Reform 1640–1832 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
- British History Online – Parliamentary papers
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 3)
- Poll Book, 1818. pub. W. Brooke, Lincoln (1818). See extracts.
- Willement’s roll of arms
Notes[]
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "History of Parliament". Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ^ a b c "TIRWHIT, William (d.1451), of Wrawby, Lincs. and Thorngumbald, Yorks". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ a b "CUMBERWORTH, Thomas (d.1451), of Somerby and Stain, Lincs. and Argam, Yorks". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Wedgwood, Josiah (1938). History of Parliament 1439–1509 Register. London: HMSO. p. 80.
- ^ "Fitzwilliam, Sir Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "History of Parliament". Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "History of Parliament". Retrieved 1 September 2011.
- Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire (historic)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1290
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832