List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1659

Parliaments of England 1604–1705
Parliament Date Blessed Parliament 1604 Addled Parliament 1614 3rd Parliament of King James I 1621 4th Parliament of King James I 1624 Useless Parliament 1625 2nd Parliament of King Charles I 1626 3rd Parliament of King Charles I 1628 Short Parliament Apr 1640 Long Parliament (1) Nov 1640 Oxford Parliament 1644 Long Parliament (2) 1645 Rump Parliament (1) 1648 Barebone's Parliament 1653 First Protectorate Parliament 1654 Second Protectorate Parliament 1656 Third Protectorate Parliament 1659 Rump Parliament (2) 1659 Long Parliament (3) 1660 Convention Parliament 1660 Cavalier Parliament 1661 Habeas Corpus Parliament 1679 Exclusion Bill Parliament 1680 Oxford Parliament 1681 Loyal Parliament 1685 Convention Parliament 1689 2nd Parliament of King William III and Queen Mary II 1690 3rd Parliament of King William III 1695 4th Parliament of King William III 1698 5th Parliament of King William III 1701 6th Parliament of King William III Dec 1701 1st Parliament of Queen Anne 1702 2nd Parliament of Queen Anne 1705
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This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Third Protectorate Parliament under the Commonwealth of England which began at Westminster on 27 January 1659, and was held until 22 April 1659.

This Parliament was called by Richard Cromwell and was dissolved by him after three months, shortly before he was turned out of the Protectorship. The parliament was succeeded by a restoration of the last parliament called by Royal Authority, which was originally the Long Parliament called on 3 November 1640, but subsequently reduced to the Rump parliament under Pride's Purge. This summoned a new Convention Parliament to meet on 25 April 1660, which called back the King, and restored the Constitution in Church and State.

This list contains details of the MPs elected in 1659. The preceding First and Second Protectorate Parliaments had excluded a number of Rotten Boroughs and given representation to several towns including Manchester, Leeds and Halifax and to the county and city of Durham. The Third Protectorate Parliament reverted to the earlier full representation for England but still included representatives from Scotland and Ireland.

List of constituencies and members[]

Thomas Scot (Wycombe)

John Thurloe (Cambridge University)

John Bradshaw (Cheshire)

Sir William Petty (Westlow)

Sir John Glanville (Newport)

Sir George Downing (Carlisle)

Sir Arthur Hesilrige (Leicester)

Edmund Ludlow (Hindon)

Thomas Fairfax (Yorkshire)

Andrew Marvell (Hull)

Thomas Chaloner (Scarborough)

John Bathurst (Richmond)

John Lambert (Pontefract)

See also[]

• List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1654 (First Protectorate Parliament)
• List of MPs elected to the English parliament in 1656 (Second Protectorate Parliament)
• List of Parliaments of England
• Third Protectorate Parliament

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References[]

• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803, London: Thomas Hansard, 1808
• Willis, Browne (1750), Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ..., London, pp. 285–300