Ludgershall (UK Parliament constituency)
Ludgershall | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1295–1832 | |
Number of members | Two |
Ludgershall was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Ludgershall is a town 16 miles (26 km) north-east of Salisbury. The population was 535 in 1831.
Members of Parliament[]
1295–1640[]
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Parliament | First member | Second member |
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1421 (Dec) | [1] | |
1422 | John Seymour[2] | |
1432 | William Ludlowe[3] | |
1433 | William Ludlowe | |
1436 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
1437 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
1450–1451 | John Erley | Thomas Thorpe[4] |
1453 | William Ludlowe | |
1455 | William Ludlowe | |
1491 | Robert Lytton[5] | |
1510–1515 | No names known[6] | |
1523 | ? | ?Richard Brydges[6] |
1529 | Richard Brydges[6] | |
1536 | ? | ?Richard Brydges[6] |
1539 | ? | |
1542 | ? | |
1545 | [6] | |
1547 | Ralph Cockerell[6] | |
1553 (Mar) | Humphrey Cavell | ?[6] |
1553 (Oct) | Richard Brydges | Edmund Powell[6] |
1554 (Apr) | John Winchcombe | Edmund Powell[6] |
1554 (Nov) | Sir John Price | Arthur Allen[6] |
1555 | John Story | John Winchcombe[6] |
1558 | Sir Richard Brydges | Thomas Martin[6] |
1559 | William Wightman | [7] |
1562/3 | Griffin Curteys | George Cope[7] |
1571 | Christopher Wray | James Colbrand[7] |
1572 | James Colbrand | [7] |
1584 | John Kingsmill | [7] |
1586 | John Kingsmill[7] | |
1588 | Carew Raleigh | Henry Hyde[7] |
1593 | Edward Thornborough | [7] |
1597 | Edmund Ludlow | [7] |
1601 | James Kirton[7] | |
1604–1611 | James Kirton | Henry Ludlow |
1614 | Charles Danvers | James Kirton |
1621–1622 | Alexander Chocke | William Sotwell |
1624 | Edward Kyrton | William Sotwell |
1625 | Robert Pye | Sir Thomas Hinton |
1626 | /Sir Thomas Hinton Unresolved double return | |
1628 | John Selden | |
1629–1640 | No Parliament convened |
1640–1832[]
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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November 1640 | William Ashburnham[8] | Royalist | Sir John Evelyn | Parliamentarian | ||
1642 | Walter Long[9] | Parliamentarian | ||||
December 1648 | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | |||||
1653 | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
January 1659 | ||||||
May 1659 | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
April 1660 | William Prynne | William Thomas | ||||
July 1660 | Silius Titus | |||||
March 1661 | William Ashburnham | (died October 1661) | ||||
December 1661 | Sir Richard Browne | |||||
1669 | ||||||
1673 | George Legge | |||||
February 1679 | Thomas Neale | John Smith | ||||
August 1679 | John Garrard | |||||
1681 | Sir John Talbot | |||||
1685 | ||||||
1689 | John Smith | |||||
1690 | Thomas Neale | |||||
1695 | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory | ||||
1698 | ||||||
1699 | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory | ||||
1701 | Edmund Richmond Webb | |||||
1705 | ||||||
1706 | Major-General John Richmond Webb[10] | Tory | ||||
1708 | ||||||
1710 | Major-General Thomas Pearce | |||||
1713 | ||||||
1714 | ||||||
1715 | General John Richmond Webb | Tory | John Ivory-Talbot | |||
1722 | Borlase Richmond Webb | |||||
1724 | ||||||
1727 | Charles Boone | |||||
1734 | Peter Delmé | |||||
1741 | Charles Selwyn | |||||
1747 | Thomas Farrington | George Augustus Selwyn | ||||
1754 | ||||||
1755 | Henry Digby[11] | |||||
1761 | Thomas Whately | |||||
1768 | Lord Garlies | Sir Peniston Lamb[12] | ||||
January 1774 | Whitshed Keene | |||||
October 1774 | Lord George Gordon | |||||
1780 | George Augustus Selwyn | |||||
1784 | Nathaniel William Wraxall | |||||
1790 | Hon. William Assheton Harbord | |||||
1791 | ||||||
1793 | Tory | |||||
1796 | Earl of Dalkeith | Tory | Tory | |||
Magens Dorrien-Magens | Tory | |||||
Tory | ||||||
The Lord Headley | ||||||
Tory | ||||||
1812 | Whig | Joseph Birch | Whig | |||
Charles Nicholas Pallmer | Whig | |||||
The Earl of Carhampton | Tory | |||||
1818 | [13] | Whig | ||||
Earl of Brecknock | Tory | |||||
1826 | Edward Thomas Foley | Tory | George James Welbore Agar-Ellis | Whig | ||
1830 | Whig | |||||
1832 | Constituency abolished |
Sources[]
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)[14]
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)[15]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- 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)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
Notes and references[]
- ^ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ J. S. Roskell, The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 (Manchester University Press), p. 126 (see footnotes)
- ^ Dates for Ludlowe in Ludlow family website "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 December 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Thorpe, Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Expelled, December 1641
- ^ Long was disabled from sitting by an Order of the House on 27 January 1648, but re-instated on 8 June 1648
- ^ Webb was re-elected in 1713, but had also been elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Ludgershall in this Parliament
- ^ Succeeded as The Lord Digby (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1757
- ^ Created The Lord Melbourne in June 1770, and The Viscount Melbourne in December 1781 (both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland)
- ^ Succeeded as baronet, April 1824
- ^ Beatson, Robert (1807). "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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Categories:
- Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire (historic)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1295
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832
- Rotten boroughs
- Members of Parliament for Ludgershall