Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cornwall
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County Cornwall
1290–1832
SeatsTwo
Replaced by East Cornwall and West Cornwall

Cornwall is a former county constituency covering the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, elected by the bloc vote system.

Contents

Under the Reform Act 1832, it was divided between the constituencies of East Cornwall and West Cornwall.

Boundaries and franchise

The constituency consisted of the whole of the historic county of Cornwall, the most south-westerly county of England, occupying the part of the South West peninsula to the west of the River Tamar which divides the county from Devon. (Although Cornwall contained a number of parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in their own right, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within a borough could confer a vote at the county election. For a summary of the boroughs represented before 1832 see Parliamentary representation from Cornwall.)

As in other county constituencies the franchise between 1430 and 1832 was defined by the Forty Shilling Freeholder Act, which gave the right to vote to every man who possessed freehold property within the county valued at £2 or more per year for the purposes of land tax; it was not necessary for the freeholder to occupy his land, nor even in later years to be resident in the county at all.

By the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, the population of Cornwall was about 300,000. Only a tiny fraction of these were entitled to vote. Sedgwick estimated there were about 2,300 electors in this constituency in the 1715–1754 period, and Namier and Brooke suggest this had increased to about 2,500 electors in the 1754–1790 period. At the vigorously contested election of 1790, when a high turnout can be assumed, 4,656 valid votes were cast (each voter being entitled to vote twice). At Cornwall's final election, in 1831, 5,350 votes were cast.

Members of Parliament

1290–1510

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1298 Thomas Pridias [1]
1301 Michael Petyt
1307 Henry Bodrugan
1314 Michael Petyt
1324 Otto Bodrugan William Hureward
1336 William Bodrugan Richard Hiwis
1337 William Bodrugan Richard Hiwis
1341Ralph Speccot [2] of Speccot, Merton, Devon
1357 John Hamely [3]
1360 John Hamely [3]
1362 John Hamely [3]
1366 John de Tremayne [4]
1369 Otto Bodrugan Robert Tresilian [5] /John de Tremayne [4]
1380 Warin Archdeacon
1382 Warin Archdeacon
1383 (Feb) Michael Archdeacon
1384 Otto Bodrugan
1386 Sir Ralph Carminowe John Beville [6]
1388 (Feb) Sir Henry Ilcombe Sir John Reskymer [6]
1388 (Sep) Sir William Lambourne Sir John Reskymer [6]
1390 (Jan) Sir Richard Cergeaux Sir William Lambourne [6]
1390 (Nov) Sir John Reskymer [6] Michael Archdeacon
1391 John Colshull John Treverbyn [6]
1393 John Trevarthian John Treverbyn [6]
1394 John Colshull John Treverbyn [6]
1395 Sir Henry Ilcombe John Chenduyt [6]
1397 (Jan) John Arundell of Lanherne John Colshull [6]
1397 (Sep) John Arundell of Lanherne John Trevarthian [6]
1399 Sir William Lambourne John Colshull [6]
1401 Sir John Trevarthian William Bodrugan [6]
1402 Sir William Talbot John Whalesborough [6]
1404 (Jan) Sir John Arundell of Lanherne John Chenduyt [6]
1404 (Oct) Sir John Arundell of Lanherne Sir Ralph Botreaux [6]
1406 Sir John Arundell of Lanherne Nicholas Broomford [6]
1407 John Chenduyt Richard Trevanion [6]
1410Sir Ralph Botreaux Sir John Herle [6]
1411 Sir John Arundell of Lanherne John Urban [6]
1413 (May) John Wybbury John Trelawny [6]
1414 (Apr) Sir John Arundell of Lanherne John Colshull II [6]
1414 (Nov) Sir William Talbot John Colshull II [6]
1416 (Mar) Sir John Arundell of Lanherne William Bodrugan II [6]
1416 (Oct)
1417 Sir John Arundell of Lanherne Thomas Arundell [6]
1419 John Arundell Sir Thomas Arundell [6]
1420 Sir William Bodrugan John Tretherf [6]
1421 (May) Sir John Arundell of Lanherne Sir John Trelawny [6]
1421 (Dec) Sir John Trelawny John Arundell [6]
1422 Sir John Arundell of Lanherne John Arundell [6]
1423 Sir John Arundell of Lanherne
1429 Sir Thomas Arundell
1435 Sir Thomas Arundell
1437 Nicholas Aysshton
1439 Nicholas Aysshton
1453–4John Coleshill, of Duloe, Cornwall [7]
1472Sir Henry Bodrugan
1478 Sir Thomas Vaughan [8]
1483John Beaumont alias Bodrugan James Tyrrell
1484John Beaumont alias Bodrugan

1510–1629

As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or (before 1558) is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

The Roman numerals after some names are those used in The House of Commons 1509–1558 to distinguish a member from another politician of the same name.

In 1529 alternative versions are given of the names for one member. The first comes from the above book on the House of Commons. The second originates from another source.

ElectedAssembledDissolvedFirst MemberSecond Member
151021 January 151023 February 1510unknownunknown
15124 February 15124 March 1514unknownunknown
15155 February 151522 December 1515 Sir Peter Edgecombe unknown
152315 April 152313 August 1523unknownunknown
15293 November 152914 April 1536 Sir Peter Edgecombe Richard Grenville
15368 June 153618 July 1536unknownunknown
153928 April 153924 July 1540 Sir John Chamond William Godolphin I
154216 January 154228 March 1544 Richard Edgcumbe unknown
154523 November 154531 January 1547 Richard Chamond John Beauchamp
15474 November 154715 April 1552 (Sir) Richard Edgecumbe John Reskymer
15531 March 155331 March 1553 (Sir) William Godolphin I Henry Chiverton
15535 October 15535 December 1553 John Carminowe Richard Roscarrock
15542 April 15543 May 1554 Sir John Arundell
155412 November 155416 January 1555 ? Thomas Trefry I Henry Chiverton
155521 October 15559 December 1555 Richard Chamond
155820 January 155817 November 1558 John Arundell John Polwhele
155923 January 15598 May 1559 John Trelawny Richard Chamond
1562 or 156311 January 15632 January 1567 Peter Edgcumbe John Trelawny
died and repl. 1566 by Richard Chamond
15712 April 157129 May 1571 Richard Grenville William Mohun
15728 May 157219 April 1583 Peter Edgcumbe to 1581
(Unknown from 1581)
Richard Chamond
158423 November 158414 September 1585 Richard Grenville (Sir) William Mohun
158613 October 158623 March 1587 Peter Edgcumbe
15884 February 158929 March 1589 Sir Francis Godolphin
159318 February 159310 April 1593 William Bevil
159724 October 15979 February 1598 William Killigrew Jonathan Trelawny
160127 October 160119 December 1601 Sir Walter Raleigh John Arundell
160419 March 16049 February 1611 Sir Anthony Rous Sir Jonathan Trelawny died 1604
Sir William Godolphin
16145 April 16147 June 1614 Richard Carew John St Aubyn
1620 or 162116 January 16218 February 1622 Bevil Grenville John Arundell
1623 or 162412 February 162427 March 1625 William Coryton
162517 May 162512 August 1625 Sir Robert Killigrew Charles Trevanion
16266 February 162615 June 1626 Sir Francis Godolphin William Coryton
162817 March 162810 March 1629 Sir John Eliot

1640–1832

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
April 1640 William Godolphin Richard Buller Parliamentarian
November 1640 Sir Bevil Grenville Royalist Alexander Carew Royalist [9]
September 1642Grenville disabled to sit – seat vacant
September 1643Carew expelled – seat vacant
1646 Hugh Boscawen [10] Nicholas Trefusis
December 1648Boscawen not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge Trefusis excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
YearFirst memberSecond memberThird memberFourth member
1653 Robert Bennet Francis Langdon Anthony Rous John Bawden
YearFirst memberSecond memberThird memberFourth memberFifth memberSixth memberSeventh memberEighth member
1654 Anthony Rous Anthony Nicholl Thomas Silly Richard Carter Walter Moyle Charles Boscawen Thomas Gewen James Launce
1656 Francis Rous William Braddon John St Aubyn
YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
January 1659 Hugh Boscawen Francis Buller
Cornwall not represented in restored Rump
April 1660 Sir John Carew, Bt Robert Robartes
September 1660 Hugh Boscawen
1661 Jonathan Trelawny Sir John Coryton, Bt
1679 Francis Robartes Sir Richard Edgcumbe
May 1685 Lord Lansdown Viscount Bodmin
August 1685 Francis Robartes
1689 Sir John Carew, Bt Hugh Boscawen [10]
1690 Francis Robartes
1695 John Speccot
June 1701 Richard Edgcumbe Whig
December 1701 John Granville James Buller
1703 Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt Tory
1703 Hugh Boscawen Whig
1708 James Buller
1710 George Granville Tory John Trevanion [11] Tory
1712 Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt
1713 Sir William Carew, Bt Tory
1722 Sir John St Aubyn, Bt Tory
April 1744 Sir Coventry Carew, Bt Tory
December 1744 Sir John Molesworth, Bt Tory
1748 James Buller Tory
1761 Sir John St Aubyn, Bt
1765 Sir John Molesworth, Bt
1772 Humphrey Mackworth-Praed
1774 Sir William Lemon, Bt Whig
1775 Edward Eliot
1784 Sir William Molesworth, Bt
1790 Francis Gregor Tory
1806 John Hearle Tremayne Tory
1825 Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt Tory
1826 Edward William Wynne Pendarves Whig
1831 Sir Charles Lemon, Bt Whig

Elections

The bloc vote electoral system was used in two seat elections and first past the post for single member by-elections. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which were usually held at the county town. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contributed to the corruption and intimidation of electors, which was widespread in the unreformed British political system.

The expense, to candidates and their supporters, of contested elections encouraged the leading families of the county to agree on the candidates to be returned unopposed whenever possible. Contested county elections were therefore unusual.

There were no contested general election polls in Cornwall between 1710 and 1774. Leading Whig politicians, like Sir Robert Walpole, were happy to let Tory squires represent the county; to avoid them interfering with Whig plans in the county's numerous borough constituencies. The related families of Carew, Molesworth, St Aubyn and Buller monopolised the representation for much of the 18th century, until the partners in the Miners' Bank at Truro, Humphrey Mackworth Praed and William Lemon, became involved in elections in the 1770s.

Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Sedgwick 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790 and Stooks Smith 1790–1832.

1710s1720s1730s1740s1750s1760s1770s1780s1790s1800s1810s1820s1830s

Elections in the 1710s

General election 16 February 1715: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir William Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory John Trevanion UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1720s

General election 2 May 1722: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir William Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Sir John St Aubyn, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
General election 13 September 1727: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir William Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Sir John St Aubyn, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1730s

General election 15 May 1734: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir William Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Sir John St Aubyn, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1740s

General election 20 May 1741: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir William Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Sir John St Aubyn, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 4 April 1744: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir Coventry Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
By-Election 12 December 1744: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir John Molesworth, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory hold Swing N/A
General election 22 July 1747: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir Coventry Carew, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Sir John Molesworth, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 27 April 1748: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory James Buller UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1750s

General election 1 May 1754: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir John Molesworth, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory James Buller UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1760s

General election 8 April 1761: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Sir John St Aubyn, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory James Buller UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 15 May 1765: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan John Molesworth UnopposedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan gain from Tory Swing N/A
General election 29 March 1768: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Sir John St Aubyn, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan Sir John Molesworth, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1770s

By-Election 16 December 1772: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Humphrey Mackworth Praed ElectedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan William Lemon DefeatedN/A
Nonpartisan hold Swing N/A
General election 25 October 1774: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Sir William Lemon, Bt 1,09927.48N/A
Nonpartisan Sir John Molesworth 1,05026.26N/A
Nonpartisan John Buller, junior 96024.01N/A
Nonpartisan Humphrey Mackworth Praed 89022.26N/A
Turnout 3,999N/AN/A
By-Election 15 November 1775: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Edward Eliot UnopposedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1780s

General election 13 September 1780: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Sir William Lemon, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan Edward Eliot UnopposedN/AN/A
By-Election 25 February 1784: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Sir William Molesworth, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan hold Swing N/A
General election 21 April 1784: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Sir William Molesworth, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Nonpartisan Sir William Lemon, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1790s

General election 1790: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt 2,25048.32N/A
Tory Francis Gregor 1,27027.28N/A
Whig Sir Jonathan St Aubyn, Bt 1,13624.40N/A
Turnout 4,656N/AN/A
General election 1796: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt UnopposedN/AN/A
Tory Francis Gregor UnopposedN/AN/A

Elections in the 1800s

General election 1802: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory Francis Gregor Unopposed N/AN/A
General election 1806: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory John Hearle Tremayne Unopposed N/AN/A
General election 1807: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory John Hearle Tremayne Unopposed N/AN/A

Elections in the 1810s

General election 1812: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory John Hearle Tremayne Unopposed N/AN/A
General election 1818: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory John Hearle Tremayne Unopposed N/AN/A

Elections in the 1820s

General election 1820: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Sir William Lemon, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory John Hearle Tremayne Unopposed N/AN/A
By-Election February 1825: Cornwall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Tory gain from Whig Swing N/A
General election 1826: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Whig Edward William Wynne Pendarves Unopposed N/AN/A

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Tory Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt Unopposed N/AN/A
Whig Edward William Wynne Pendarves Unopposed N/AN/A
General election 1831: Cornwall (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Edward William Wynne Pendarves 1,819 35.42 N/A
Whig Sir Charles Lemon, Bt 1,804 35.13 N/A
Tory Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt 90117.55N/A
Tory Viscount Valletort 61111.90N/A
Majority90317.58N/A
Whig gain from Tory Swing
Turnout 5,135N/AN/A

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  2. "Ranulphus" perVivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.706; "Raph" per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.381
  3. 1 2 3 "HAMELY (HAMYLYN), Sir John (aft.1324–1399), of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.730, pedigree of Tremayne
  5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 55. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 318. ISBN   0-19-861405-5.Article by John L. Leland.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "History of Parliament: Cornwall" . Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  7. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p.144
  8. "Vaughan,Sir Thomas" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28147 . Retrieved 2 December 2011.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. Carew is classified as a Royalist by Brunton and Pennington on the grounds thathe was disabled for adhering to the king. However, he began the Civil War as a Parliamentarian and was appointed to the governorship of a crucial stronghold; he attempted to betray this to the Royalists when it seemed that their cause was prospering, but being discovered was arrested, disabled, and later executed as a traitor.
  10. 1 2 This Hugh Boscawen was NOT Hugh Boscawen, the first Earl of Falmouth, mentioned below.
  11. This John Trevanion was NOT John Trevanion, the Civil War hero, who died in 1643.
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