Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)

Lostwithiel
Lostwithiel
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1304–1832
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	East Cornwall

Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

History[]

The borough consisted of the town of Lostwithiel and part of the neighbouring Lanlivery parish; it was a market town whose trade was mainly dependent on the copper mined nearby.

Unlike many of the most notorious Cornish rotten boroughs, Lostwithiel had been continuously represented since the Middle Ages and was originally of sufficient size to justify its status. However, by the time of the Great Reform Act it had long been a pocket borough, under the complete control of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe since 1702. The right to vote was vested in the corporation, who numbered 24 in 1816; they made no attempt to defy their patron, who regularly paid the corporation's debts and advanced them money.

In 1831, the borough had a population of 1,047, and 303 houses.

Members of Parliament[]

1304–1629[]

Constituency created (1304)

Parliament	First member	Second member
1355	John Hamely^[1]
1358	John Hamely^[1]
1388 (Feb)		^[2]
1388 (Sep)		^[2]
1390 (Jan)		John Brown^[2]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Simon Lowys	^[2]
1393		^[2]
1394
1395		^[2]
1397 (Jan)		^[2]
1397 (Sep)		^[2]
1399	John Day	^[2]
1401
1402		^[2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	John Curteys	^[2]
1407		^[2]
1410		?
1411	John Curteys	^[2]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Curteys	^[2]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)		^[2]
1415
1416 (Mar)		Thomas West^[2]
1416 (Oct)
1417		Thomas West^[2]
1419		^[2]
1420		^[2]
1421 (May)		^[2]
1421 (Dec)		^[2]
1510–1523	No names known^[3]
1529	John Tredeneck	^[3]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	Anthony Browne	Walter Mildmay^[3]
Parliament of 1547–1552		John Southcote
First Parliament of 1553	Richard Wooton
Second Parliament of 1553	John Courtenay
Parliament of 1554	George Southcote
Parliament of 1554–1555	John Southcote
Parliament of 1555	John Southcote
Parliament of 1558
Parliament of 1559	Thomas Mildmay
Parliament of 1563–1567	Thomas Mildmay	John Killigrew (d.1584), of Arwenack
Parliament of 1571
Parliament of 1572–1581
Parliament of 1584–1585	James Dalton	John Shirley
Parliament of 1586–1587	James Dalton
Parliament of 1588–1589	^[4]
Parliament of 1593	Sir Francis Godolphin	Robert Beale
Parliament of 1597–1598	William Cornwallis
Parliament of 1601		Nicholas Saunders
Parliament of 1604–1611	Sir Thomas Chaloner	Sir William Lower
Addled Parliament (1614)	Edward Leech	Sir Henry Vane
Parliament of 1621–1622	Edward Salter	George Chudleigh
Happy Parliament (1624–1625)	John Chichester (d.1669) of Hall	Sir John Hobart
Useless Parliament (1625)	Double return^[5]
Parliament of 1625–1626	Sir Robert Mansell	Reginald Mohun
Parliament of 1628-1629	Sir Robert Carr, also elected for Preston
No Parliament summoned 1629–1640

1640–1832[]

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		Richard Arundell	Royalist		Nicholas Kendall
November 1640					John Trevanion	Royalist
July 1643				Trevanion killed in action – seat vacant
January 1644	Arundell disabled from sitting – seat vacant			Trevanion killed in action – seat vacant
1646		Sir John Maynard			Francis Holles
December 1648	Maynard not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge			Holles excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653	Lostwithiel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Walter Moyle			John Clayton
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Walter Moyle			John Clayton
1661		Sir Chichester Wrey			John Bulteel
1668					John Bulteel
1670					Silius Titus
1679		Sir John Carew
1685		Sir Robert Southwell			Sir Matthias Vincent
1689		Francis Robartes
1690		Sir Bevil Granville
1695		Bernard Granville
1698
January 1701
April 1701
1702					Russell Robartes
1705		Robert Molesworth	Whig
1706		James Kendall
1708		James Kendall			Joseph Addison	Whig
1709		Francis Robartes			Russell Robartes
January 1710		Francis Robartes			Horatio Walpole
October 1710		John Hill	Tory		Hugh Fortescue
1713		Sir Thomas Clarges
1715		Galfridus Walpole
1718
1720
1721		Marquess of Hartington^[6]	Whig
1722		Marquess of Hartington^[6]	Whig		Lord Stanhope	Whig
1724		Sir Orlando Bridgeman^[7]	Whig		Henry Parsons
January 1727					Hon. Sir William Stanhope
August 1727					Darell Trelawny
1728		Anthony Cracherode			Sir Edward Knatchbull
1730		Anthony Cracherode			Edward Walpole
1734		Richard Edgcumbe	Whig		Philip Lloyd
1735					Matthew Ducie Moreton
1736					Sir John Crosse
1741		Sir Robert Cotton			Sir John Crosse
1747		Richard Edgcumbe	Whig		James Colleton
1754		Thomas Clarke
1761		George Howard
1766		Viscount Beauchamp	Tory
1768		Henry Cavendish			Charles Brett
1774		Viscount Fairford			Charles Brett
1776		Viscount Fairford			Thomas Potter
September 1780		Hon. John St. John^[8]			Hon. Thomas de Grey
December 1780		Commodore George Johnstone	Independent		Hon. Thomas de Grey
1781		Commodore George Johnstone	Independent		Viscount Malden
1784		John Sinclair^[9]
1790		Viscount Valletort^[10]			Reginald Pole-Carew
1791		George Smith			Reginald Pole-Carew
1796		Hans Sloane			William Drummond
1802		Hans Sloane			William Dickinson^[11]
1806		The Viscount Lismore			William Dickinson^[11]
January 1807		The Viscount Lismore			Charles Cockerell
May 1807					Ebenezer Maitland
1812		Reginald Pole-Carew			John Ashley Warre
1816		Viscount Valletort	Tory		John Ashley Warre
1818		Sir Robert Wigram	Tory		Sir Alexander Grant^[12]	Tory
June 1826		Viscount Valletort	Tory		Sir Alexander Grant^[12]	Tory
December 1826		Viscount Valletort	Tory		Edward Cust	Tory
August 1830		Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory
December 1830		Viscount Valletort	Tory
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b "HAMELY (HAMYLYN), Sir John (aft.1324-1399), of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u "History of Parliament". Retrieved 11 October 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "History of Parliament". Retrieved 11 October 2011.
^ "Fitzwilliam, William (c.1550–1618), of Dogsthorpe and Milton, Northants., The History of Parliament". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
^ Sir George Chudleigh, Reginald Mohun, Sir Henry Vane and Nicholas Kendall were all returned. It is not clear whether the dispute was resolved before the Parliament was dissolved.
^ Hartington was re-elected in 1722 but was also elected for Grampound, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1722 Parliament
^ Bridgeman was re-elected in August 1727 but was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1727 Parliament
^ St. John was also elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel
^ Created a baronet as Sir John Sinclair, February 1786
^ Valletort was also elected for Fowey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel
^ Dickinson was re-elected in 1806 but had also been elected for Somerset, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lostwithiel
^ Grant was re-elected in June 1826 but was also elected for Aldborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1826 Parliament

References[]

Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
Lewis Namier, "The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III" (2nd edition – London: St Martin's Press, 1961)
J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
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. p. 1.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)

[HOPJH-1] "HAMELY (HAMYLYN), Sir John (aft.1324-1399), of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 May 2013.

[HoP1-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u "History of Parliament". Retrieved 11 October 2011.

[HoP2-3] "History of Parliament". Retrieved 11 October 2011.

[4] "Fitzwilliam, William (c.1550–1618), of Dogsthorpe and Milton, Northants., The History of Parliament". Retrieved 4 November 2016.

[5] Sir George Chudleigh, Reginald Mohun, Sir Henry Vane and Nicholas Kendall were all returned. It is not clear whether the dispute was resolved before the Parliament was dissolved.

[6] Hartington was re-elected in 1722 but was also elected for Grampound, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1722 Parliament

[7] Bridgeman was re-elected in August 1727 but was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1727 Parliament

[8] St. John was also elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel

[9] Created a baronet as Sir John Sinclair, February 1786

[10] Valletort was also elected for Fowey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lostwithiel

[11] Dickinson was re-elected in 1806 but had also been elected for Somerset, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lostwithiel

[12] Grant was re-elected in June 1826 but was also elected for Aldborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Lostwithiel in the 1826 Parliament

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Lostwithiel
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1304–1832
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	East Cornwall