Minehead was a parliamentary borough in Somerset,[1] forming part of the town of Minehead, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Minehead | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1563–1832 | |
Number of members | Two |
Parliament | First member | Second member | |
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Parliament of 1563-1567 | Thomas Luttrell | Thomas Fitzwilliams | |
Parliament of 1571 | John Colles | Thomas Mallett | |
Parliament of 1572-1581 | Dominick Chester | Richard Cabell | |
1578 | Andrew Hemmerford | ||
1582 | George Luttrell | ||
Parliament of 1584-1585 | George Luttrell | Edward Rogers | |
Parliament of 1586-1587 | John Luttrell | Robert Crosse | |
Parliament of 1588-1589 | Benedict Barnham | ||
Parliament of 1593 | Richard Hanbury | James Quirke | |
Parliament of 1597-1598 | Amias Bampfield (sat for Devon, replaced) |
Conrad Prowse | |
Parliament of 1601 | Dr Francis James | Lewis Lashbrooke | |
Parliament of 1604-1611 | Sir Ambrose Turville | Sir Maurice Berkeley | |
Addled Parliament (1614) | No return made | ||
Parliament of 1621-1622 | Francis Pearce | Sir Robert Lloyd[3] | |
Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Dr Arthur Duck | Sir Arthur Lake | |
Useless Parliament (1625) | Thomas Luttrell | Charles Pyne | |
Parliament of 1625-1626 | John Gill | Thomas Horner | |
Parliament of 1628-1629 | Thomas Horner | Edward Wyndham | |
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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April 1640 | Francis Wyndham | Alexander Popham[4] | ||||
1640 | Dr Arthur Duck | |||||
November 1640 | Alexander Luttrell I[5] | Parliamentarian | Sir Francis Popham | Parliamentarian | ||
1642 | Thomas Hanham | Royalist | ||||
January 1644 | Hanham disabled from sitting — seat vacant | |||||
August 1644 | Popham died — seat vacant | |||||
1645 | Walter Strickland | Edward Popham | ||||
December 1648 | Popham not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
1653 | Minehead was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
January 1659 | Richard Hutchinson | Colonel Alexander Popham | ||||
May 1659 | Walter Strickland | One seat vacant | ||||
1660 | Francis Luttrell I | Charles Pym | ||||
1661 | Sir Hugh Wyndham | |||||
1666 by-election | Sir John Malet | |||||
1673 by-election | Thomas Wyndham | |||||
February 1679 | Francis Luttrell II | |||||
September 1679 | Thomas Palmer | |||||
1685 | Nathaniel Palmer | |||||
September 1690 by-election | John Sanford | |||||
October 1690 by-election | Alexander Luttrell II | |||||
1698 | Sir Jacob Banks | |||||
1708 | Sir John Trevelyan | |||||
1715[6] | Sir William Wyndham | |||||
April 1717 by-election[7] | Samuel Edwin | Thomas Gage | ||||
May 1717 (on petition) | Sir John Trevelyan | James Milner | ||||
1721 by-election | Sir Richard Lane[8] | |||||
January 1722 (on petition) | Robert Mansel | |||||
March 1722 | Thomas Hales | |||||
1723 by-election | Francis Whitworth | |||||
1727 | Alexander Luttrell III | |||||
1737 by-election | Sir William Codrington | |||||
1739 by-election | Thomas Carew | |||||
1742 by-election | John Periam | |||||
1747 | Percy Wyndham-O'Brien | Charles Whitworth | ||||
1754 | Daniel Boone | |||||
1761 | Henry Shiffner | The Earl of Thomond | ||||
1768 | Henry Fownes Luttrell I | Sir Charles Whitworth | ||||
October 1774 | John Fownes Luttrell | Tory | ||||
December 1774 by-election | Thomas Pownall | |||||
1780 | Francis Fownes Luttrell | |||||
1783 by-election | Henry Beaufoy[9] | |||||
June 1784 by-election | Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps | |||||
1786 by-election | Robert Wood | |||||
1790 | Viscount Parker | Tory | ||||
1795 by-election | Thomas Fownes Luttrell | Tory | ||||
1796 | John Langston | Tory | ||||
1802 | John Patteson | Tory | ||||
1806 | The Lord Rancliffe | Whig | Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet | Tory | ||
January 1807 by-election | John Fownes Luttrell | Tory | ||||
May 1807 | John Denison | Tory | ||||
1812 | John Fownes Luttrell, junior | Tory | ||||
1816 by-election | Henry Fownes Luttrell II | Tory | ||||
1822 by-election | John Douglas | Tory | ||||
1826 | James Blair | Tory | ||||
1830 | William Edward Tomline | Tory | ||||
1831 | Viscount Villiers | Tory | ||||
1832 | Constituency abolished |