List of English by-elections (1701–1707)
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in England held between 1701 and 1707, with the names of the previous incumbent and the victor in the by-election.
In the absence of a comprehensive and reliable source, for party and factional alignments in this period, no attempt is made to define them in this article. The House of Commons: 1690-1715 provides some guidance to the complex and shifting political relationships, but it is significant that the compilers of that work make no attempt to produce a definitive list of each members allegiances.
Dates[]
During this period England counted its legal year as beginning on 25 March. For the purposes of this list the year is considered to have started on 1 January.
By-elections[]
The c/u column denotes whether the by-election was a contested poll or an unopposed return. If the winner was re-elected, at the next general election and any intermediate by-elections, this is indicated by an * following the c or u. In a few cases the winner was elected at the next general election but had not been re-elected in a by-election after the one noted. In those cases no * symbol is used.
4th Parliament of William III (1701)[]
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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19 February 1701 | Amersham | u* | Sir John Garrard | Death | |
21 February 1701 | Hertford | c* | Death | ||
21 February 1701 | Northampton | c* | Thomas Andrew | Death | |
25 February 1701 | Droitwich | u | Thomas Foley | Philip Foley | Death |
3 March 1701 | Newport (I.o.W.) | u | The Lord Cutts | Henry Greenhill | Chose to sit for Cambridgeshire |
4 March 1701 | Steyning | c | Sir John Fagg | Sir Robert Fagg | Death |
4 March 1701 | Truro | u | Sir John Hawles | Chose to sit for Tregony | |
5 March 1701 | Wareham | u | Thomas Erle | Sir Edward Ernle | Chose to sit for Portsmouth |
7 March 1701 | Bere Alston | u* | Sir Rowland Gwynne | William Cowper | Chose to sit for Breconshire |
10 March 1701 | Amersham | u | The Viscount Newhaven | Sir Samuel Garrard | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
17 March 1701 | Taunton | c* | Henry Seymour Portman | Sir Francis Warre | Chose to sit for Wells |
18 March 1701 | Bramber | u* | Francis Seymour Conway | Chose to sit for Clitheroe | |
19 March 1701 | St Albans | c* | Void Election | ||
19 March 1701 | Thetford | u* | Joseph Williamson | Thomas Hanmer | Chose to sit for Rochester |
20 March 1701 | City of London | c | Gilbert Heathcote | Sir John Fleet | Expulsion |
21 March 1701 | Bossiney | u | Francis Robartes | Thomas Watson Wentworth | Chose to sit for Tregony |
21 March 1701 | Oxford University | c* | Sir Christopher Musgrave | William Bromley | Chose to sit for Westmorland |
22 March 1701 | Saltash | u* | Alexander Pendarves | Chose to sit for Penryn | |
2 April 1701 | St Germans | u | Daniel Eliot | Chose to sit for Cornwall | |
7 April 1701 | Sandwich | c | Sir Henry Furnese | Expulsion | |
16 April 1701 | Steyning | c* | Sir Robert Fagg | By-election voided 10 April 1701 | |
18 April 1701 | Lostwithiel | c* | Death | ||
29 April 1701 | Merionethshire | u* | Hugh Nanney | Richard Vaughan | Death |
30 April 1701 | Castle Rising | u | Thomas Howard | Robert Cecil | Death |
31 May 1701 | Morpeth | u | William Howard | Sir Richard Sandford | Chose to sit for Northumberland |
25 June 1701 | Cornwall | u | Hugh Boscawen | Richard Edgcumbe | Death |
9 July 1701 | Salisbury | u* | Thomas Mompesson | Charles Fox | Death |
5th Parliament of William III (1701–1702)[]
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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27 January 1702 | Exeter | u* | Sir Bartholomew Shower | John Snell | Death |
27 January 1702 | Portsmouth | u | Thomas Erle | John Gibson | Chose to sit for Wareham |
27 January 1702 | Seaford | u | Sir William Thomas | Chose to sit for Sussex | |
2 February 1702 | Castle Rising | u | The Earl of Ranelagh | Marquess of Hartington | Chose to sit for West Looe |
2 February 1702 | Flint Boroughs | u | Sir Thomas Hanmer | Sir John Conway | Chose to sit for Thetford |
3 February 1702 | Northallerton | u | Robert Dormer | Daniel Lascelles | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
4 February 1702 | Dorchester | u* | Thomas Trenchard | Sir Nathaniel Napier | Chose to sit for Dorset |
4 February 1702 | East Looe | u | Francis Godolphin | George Courtenay | Chose to sit for Helston |
4 February 1702 | Plymouth | u* | Henry Trelawny | John Woolcombe | Death |
5 February 1702 | Milborne Port | c* | Henry Thynne | John Hunt | Chose to sit for Tamworth |
5 February 1702 | Saltash | u* | Chose to sit for Cornwall | ||
5 February 1702 | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | c* | Maurice Ashley | Anthony Henley | Chose to sit for Wiltshire |
9 February 1702 | Berwick-upon-Tweed | u* | Chose to sit for Northumberland | ||
12 February 1702 | Truro | u | William Scawen | Robert Cotton | Chose to sit for Grampound |
19 February 1702 | Cockermouth | c* | Goodwin Wharton | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire | |
7 March 1702 | Newport (I.o.W.) | u | The Lord Cutts | James Stanhope | Chose to sit for Cambridgeshire |
23 March 1702 | Calne | u* | Sir Charles Hedges | Election voided due to a Double Return | |
13 April 1702 | Higham Ferrers | u* | Death |
(1702–1705)[]
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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14 November 1702 | Devizes | u | Sir Francis Child | John Child | Chose to sit for City of London |
21 November 1702 | Malmesbury | u | Sir Charles Hedges | Chose to sit for Calne | |
23 November 1702 | Hedon | u* | Sir Charles Duncombe | Anthony Duncombe | Chose to sit for Downton |
23 November 1702 | Northallerton | u* | Sir William Hustler | Robert Dormer | Chose to sit for Ripon |
24 November 1702 | Lewes | u | Thomas Pelham | Sir Nicholas Pelham | Chose to sit for Sussex |
24 November 1702 | Wareham | u | George Pitt | Chose to sit for Hampshire | |
25 November 1702 | Marlborough | c | John Jeffreys | Chose to sit for Breconshire | |
25 November 1702 | Southwark | c* | Charles Cox | Charles Cox | Void Election |
26 November 1702 | Truro | u | Thomas Powys | Philip Meadowes | Chose to sit for Ludlow |
27 November 1702 | Totnes | u | Sir Christopher Musgrave | William Seymour | Chose to sit for Westmorland |
28 November 1702 | Tiverton | u* | Lord Spencer | Succeeded to a peerage | |
1 December 1702 | Bletchingley | c | John Evelyn | Sir Robert Clayton | Death |
2 December 1702 | Bodmin | u* | John Grubham Howe | Russell Robartes | Chose to sit for Gloucestershire |
2 December 1702 | Flint Boroughs | u | Sir Roger Mostyn | Thomas Mostyn | Chose to sit for Cheshire |
3 December 1702 | West Looe | u | Sidney Godolphin | Chose to sit for Helston | |
14 December 1702 | Colchester | u* | Isaac Rebow | Isaac Rebow | Void Election |
14 December 1702 | Tamworth | c* | Henry Thynne | Chose to sit for Weymouth | |
21 December 1702 | Aylesbury | c | Sir John Pakington | Simon Harcourt | Chose to sit for Worcestershire |
26 December 1702 | Stafford | u* | John Chetwynd | Walter Chetwynd | Death |
29 December 1702 | Gloucester | c* | John Grubham Howe | John Hanbury | Chose to sit for Gloucestershire |
31 December 1702 | Newton | u | John Grubham Howe | Chose to sit for Gloucestershire | |
31 December 1702 | Portsmouth | u* | Thomas Erle | William Gifford | Chose to sit for Wareham |
11 January 1703 | Lancashire | u | James Stanley | Succeeded to a peerage | |
25 January 1703 | Saltash | u | John Rolle | Death | |
8 February 1703 | Sudbury | c | Void Election | ||
By-election results reversed on petition 6 December 1703 | |||||
10 February 1703 | Lincolnshire | u | Death | ||
3 March 1703 | Devizes | u | John Child | Francis Merewether | Death |
31 March 1703 | West Looe | u | Henry Poley | Chose to sit for Plympton Erle | |
The Earl of Ranelagh | Expelled | ||||
22 November 1703 | Bury St Edmunds | c* | John Hervey | Sir Robert Davers | Elevated to the peerage |
22 November 1703 | Higham Ferrers | u* | Thomas Watson Wentworth | Death | |
22 November 1703 | Oxford University | c* | Heneage Finch | Sir William Whitelock | Elevated to the peerage |
24 November 1703 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | c* | John Leveson Gower | Elevated to the peerage | |
26 November 1703 | Bramber | c | Francis Seymour Conway | Elevated to the peerage | |
26 November 1703 | Tavistock | c* | Death | ||
29 November 1703 | Beaumaris | u | Death | ||
30 November 1703 | Callington | u* | John Acland | Death | |
7 December 1703 | Newton | u* | Death | ||
8 December 1703 | Cornwall | u* | John Granville | Sir Richard Vyvyan | Elevated to the peerage |
22 December 1703 | Norwich | c(*) | Death | ||
13 January 1704 | Petersfield | u* | Richard Markes | Leonard Bilson | Death |
17 January 1704 | Camelford | u* | Henry Manaton | William Pole | Chose to sit for Tavistock |
1 February 1704 | Bramber | c | Void Election | ||
22 February 1704 | Wareham | u | Sir Edward Ernle | Death | |
29 March 1704 | Nottinghamshire | u | Gervase Eyre | John Thornhagh | Death |
18 April 1704 | Lancashire | u | Richard Fleetwood | Death | |
2 November 1704 | Northampton | c* | Death | ||
3 November 1704 | Maidstone | c | Sir Robert Marsham | Heneage Finch | Void Election |
c* | Sir Thomas Roberts | Thomas Bliss | |||
4 November 1704 | New Romney | u* | Sir Benjamin Bathurst | Death | |
7 November 1704 | Hindon | c | George Morley | Thomas Jervoise | Void Election |
8 November 1704 | Buckinghamshire | c* | Goodwin Wharton | Sir Richard Temple | Death |
8 November 1704 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | c | By-Election voided 1 February 1704 | ||
22 November 1704 | Haslemere | u | Lewis Oglethorpe | Death | |
24 November 1704 | Aylesbury | c | James Herbert | Sir Henry Parker | Death |
30 November 1704 | Anglesey | u* | The Viscount Bulkeley | The Viscount Bulkeley | Death |
30 November 1704 | Westmorland | u | Sir Christopher Musgrave | Death |
(1705–1707)[]
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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26 November 1705 | Brackley | u | John Sidney | Harry Mordaunt | Succeeded to a peerage |
26 November 1705 | Chichester | u | William Elson | Thomas Onslow | Death |
26 November 1705 | Chippenham | c | Viscount Mordaunt | Death | |
26 November 1705 | Reading | u | Sir William Rich | Death | |
27 November 1705 | Marlborough | c* | Earl of Hertford | Chose to sit for Heytesbury | |
28 November 1705 | Warwickshire | u* | Andrew Archer | Death | |
29 November 1705 | Castle Rising | u* | Sir Robert Clayton | William Feilding | Chose to sit for City of London |
30 November 1705 | Truro | u | Hugh Boscawen | Peregrine Bertie | Chose to sit for Cornwall |
1 December 1705 | Bere Alston | u* | William Cowper | Spencer Cowper | Appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal |
1 December 1705 | Bury St Edmunds | u* | Sir Robert Davers | Chose to sit for Suffolk | |
3 December 1705 | Buckingham | c | Sir Richard Temple | Browne Willis | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
3 December 1705 | Northallerton | c* | Robert Dormer | Roger Gale | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
4 December 1705 | St Germans | u* | Chose to sit for Callington | ||
6 December 1705 | Richmond | u | William Walsh | Death | |
7 December 1705 | Great Bedwyn | u* | Sir George Byng | Lord Bruce | Chose to sit for Plymouth |
7 December 1705 | Lymington | u | Thomas Dore | Marquess of Winchester | Death |
15 December 1705 | Colchester | c* | Sir Thomas Webster | Death | |
2 January 1706 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | u* | Sir William Blackett | Death | |
1 February 1706 | Cardiff Boroughs | u* | Sir John Aubrey | Death | |
27 February 1706 | Buckinghamshire | u | Robert Dormer | William Egerton | Appointed Puisne Justice of the Common Pleas |
2 March 1706 | Wootton Bassett | u* | Death | ||
5 March 1706 | Bishop's Castle | u | Henry Newport | Chose to sit for Montgomery Boroughs | |
11 December 1706 | Devizes | c* | Josiah Diston | Death | |
11 December 1706 | Oxford | c* | Sir John Walter | Death | |
12 December 1706 | Seaford | c* | Sir William Thomas | George Naylor | Death |
16 December 1706 | Sudbury | u* | Sir Gervase Elwes | Sir Hervey Elwes | Death |
17 December 1706 | Bodmin | c | John Hoblyn | Death | |
23 December 1706 | Nottingham | u* | John Plumptre | Death | |
27 December 1706 | Clitheroe | c(*) | Daniel Harvey | Death (Two MPs elected due to a Double Return) | |
Daniel Harvey | Daniel Harvey | Harvey declared elected 22 January 1707 | |||
27 December 1706 | Preston | c* | Arthur Maynwaring | Death | |
1 January 1707 | Yorkshire | c | The Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Death | |
21 January 1707 | Essex | u* | Lord Walden | Elevated to the peerage | |
21 January 1707 | Newport (Cornwall) | u | Death | ||
23 January 1707 | West Looe | u | John Mountstephen | Francis Palmes | Death |
20 February 1707 | Bath | c* | Alexander Popham | Death | |
20 February 1707 | Westmorland | u | Henry Graham | Michael Fleming | Death |
25 February 1707 | Coventry | c* | Sir Orlando Bridgeman | Void Election | |
Edward Hopkins | |||||
3 March 1707 | Newport (I.o.W.) | u* | The Lord Cutts | Sir Tristram Dillington | Death |
5 March 1707 | County Durham | u | Sir William Bowes | Death | |
4 April 1707 | Horsham | u | Henry Cowper | Henry Goring | Death |
References[]
- List of MPs since 1660
- Return of the name of every member of the lower house of parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency represented, and date of return, from 1213 to 1874.
- The House of Commons 1690-1715, edited by David Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002) ISBN 0521772214
External links[]
- Lists of by-elections in the United Kingdom
- By-elections to the Parliament of England
- 1700s in England
- Kingdom of England-related lists