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Great Bedwyn was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, centred on Great Bedwyn, 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.
| Great Bedwyn | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1295–1832 | |
| Number of members | Two |
Members of Parliament
1295–1640
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| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1295 | Sir William Russell (d.1311), Lord of Yaverland[1] | |
| 1386 | John Combe | William Bailiff[2] |
| 1388 (Feb) | ||
| 1388 (Sep) | ||
| 1390 (Jan) | John Combe | William Plomer[2] |
| 1399 | Thomas Smith | Geoffrey Mauncell[2] |
| 1420 | John Benger | John Everard[2] |
| 1421 (May) | ||
| 1421 (Dec) | Thomas Hussey | Maurice Hommedieux[2] |
| 1449 | Sir Thomas Malory | |
| 1491 | William Paston[3] | |
| 1510–1523 | No names known[4] | |
| 1529 | William Newdigate died and replaced 1532/3 by ?Thomas Polsted | John Berwick[4] |
| 1536 | ? | |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | ? | |
| 1545 | John Winchcombe alias Smallwood | John Seymour[4] |
| 1547 | Anthony Browne | Robert Pagman[4] |
| 1553 (Mar) | ? | |
| 1553 (Oct) | Richard Fulmerston | John Hungerford[4] |
| 1554 (Apr) | Richard Fulmerston | Sir Edmund Rous[4] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Richard Fulmerston | Edward Hungerford[4] |
| 1555 | Henry Clifford | David Seymour[4] |
| 1558 | John Temple | George Hidden[4] |
| 1559 | Francis Newdigate | Henry Clifford[5] |
| 1562–3 | John Thynne | Stephen Hales[5] |
| 1571 | Nicholas St John | Thomas Blagrave[5] |
| 1572 | Simon Bowyer | George Ireland[5] |
| 1584 | Richard Wheler | Roger Puleston[5] |
| 1586 | Richard Wheler | Roger Puleston[5] |
| 1588 | John Seymour | Henry Ughtred[5] |
| 1593 | Thomas Hungerford | James Kirton[5] |
| 1597 | Sir Anthony Hungerford | Francis Castilian |
| 1601 | Sir Anthony Hungerford | Levinus Munck |
| 1604–1611 | John Rodney | Sir Anthony Hungerford |
| 1614 | Robert Hyde | Sir Giles Mompesson |
| 1621–1622 | Sir Francis Popham | Sir Giles Mompesson |
| 1624 | Hugh Crompton | William Cholmeley |
| 1625 | Sir John Brooke | William Cholmeley |
| 1626-? | John Selden | Sir Maurice Berkeley |
| 1628 | Edward Kyrton | Sir John Trevor |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
1640–1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Charles Seymour | Richard Hardinge | Royalist | ||||
| November 1640 | Sir Walter Smith | Royalist | |||||
| February 1644 | Smith and Harding disabled from sitting – both seats vacant | ||||||
| 1646 | Edmund Harvey | Parliamentarian | Henry Hungerford | Parliamentarian | |||
| December 1648 | Hungerford not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | ||||||
| 1653 | Great Bedwyn was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| January 1659 | Thomas Manley | Henry Hungerford | |||||
| May 1659 | Colonel Edmund Harvey | One seat vacant | |||||
| 1660 | Robert Spencer | Thomas Gape | |||||
| 1661 | Duke Stonehouse | Henry Clerke | |||||
| 1663 | John Trevor | ||||||
| 1673 | Daniel Finch | ||||||
| February 1679 | Francis Stonehouse | John Deane | |||||
| August 1679 | William Finch | ||||||
| 1681 | Sir John Ernle | John Wildman | |||||
| 1685 | Lemuel Kingdon | Thomas Loder | |||||
| 1689 | Sir Edmund Warneford | John Wildman | |||||
| 1690 | The Viscount Falkland | Sir Jonathan Raymond | |||||
| 1694 | Francis Stonehouse | ||||||
| 1695 | Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval | ||||||
| 1698 | Charles Davenant | ||||||
| 1701 | Michael Mitford | ||||||
| 1702 | Hon. James Bruce | ||||||
| May 1705 | Sir George Byng[6] | Nicholas Pollexfen | |||||
| December 1705 | Lord Bruce[7] | ||||||
| November 1707 | Tracy Pauncefort[8] | ||||||
| December 1707 | Nicholas Pollexfen | ||||||
| 1708 | Samuel Vanacker Sambrooke | ||||||
| 1710 | Sir Edward Seymour | ||||||
| 1711 | Thomas Millington | ||||||
| 1715 | Stephen Bisse | William Sloper | |||||
| 1722 | Robert Bruce | Charles Longueville | |||||
| 1727 | Sir William Willys | Viscount Lewisham[9] | |||||
| 1729 | William Sloper | ||||||
| 1732 | Francis Seymour | ||||||
| 1734 | Brigadier Robert Murray | ||||||
| 1738 | Edward Popham | ||||||
| 1741 | Sir Edward Turner | Whig | Lascelles Metcalfe | ||||
| 1747 | William Sloper | ||||||
| 1754 | Sir Robert Hildyard | ||||||
| 1756 | Hon. Robert Brudenell | ||||||
| 1761 | Vice Admiral Thomas Cotes | William Woodley | |||||
| 1766 | William Burke | ||||||
| 1767 | Sir Thomas Fludyer | ||||||
| March 1768 | Hon. James Brudenell | Hon. Robert Brudenell[10] | |||||
| May 1768 | William Burke | ||||||
| November 1768 | William Northey | ||||||
| 1771 | Benjamin Hopkins | ||||||
| October 1774 | The Earl of Courtown | Paul Methuen | |||||
| December 1774 | Viscount Cranborne | ||||||
| 1780 | Sir Merrick Burrell | ||||||
| 1781 | Paul Cobb Methuen | ||||||
| 1784 | Marquess of Graham | Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Manners | |||||
| June 1790 | Lord Doune | ||||||
| December 1790 | Viscount Stopford | Tory | |||||
| 1792 | Edward East | ||||||
| 1796 | Lieutenant General the Hon. Thomas Bruce | John Wodehouse[11] | |||||
| 1797 | Sir Robert Buxton | ||||||
| 1802 | Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt | ||||||
| 1806 | Viscount Stopford | Tory | James Henry Leigh | Tory | |||
| April 1807 | Sir Vicary Gibbs | Tory | |||||
| May 1807 | Sir John Nicholl | Tory | |||||
| March 1818 | John Buxton | Tory | |||||
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | ||||||
Notes
- Wiffen, J. H. Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell, 1884, vol. 1, pp.127–131. The Russell family, of Kingston Russell, Dorset, held the manor of Little Bedwyn
- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504.
- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- Byng was also elected for Plymouth, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Great Bedwyn
- Bruce was re-elected in 1710, but had also been elected for Marlborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Great Bedwyn
- On petition, Pauncefort was found not to have been duly elected and was taken into custody by order of the House of Commons for bribery and corruption at his election
- On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Lewisham was declared not to have been duly elected
- Brudenell was also elected for Marlborough, which he chose to represent, and did not sit in this Parliament for Great Bedwyn
- Styled The Hon. John Wodehouse from October 1797
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- 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) via Internet Archive
- 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 "G" (part 2)
- Ward, John (1859). "Great Bedwyn: Parish, Church, Representative History". Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. 6 (18): 261–316 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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