Weymouth and Portland was a local government district and borough in Dorset,England. It consisted of the resort of Weymouth and the Isle of Portland,and includes the areas of Wyke Regis,Preston,Melcombe Regis,Upwey,Broadwey,Southill,Nottington,Westham,Radipole,Chiswell,Castletown,Fortuneswell,Weston,Southwell and Easton;the latter six being on the Isle of Portland.
South Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Richard Drax,a Conservative. The constituency was created as a consequence of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885,although the area covered has changed since then.
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset represented in the English House of Commons,later in that of Great Britain,and finally in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was formed by an Act of Parliament of 1570 which amalgamated the existing boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Until 1832,the combined borough continued to elect the four Members of Parliament (MPs) to which its constituent parts had previously been entitled;the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to two Members,and the constituency was abolished altogether in 1885,becoming part of the new South Dorset constituency.
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones,1st Baronet of Stanley Hall,Shropshire,was a British politician.
Ralph Bernal was a British Whig politician and art collector.
Richard Weyland was a British Whig politician.
Samuel Bond was an English academic,lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.
William Alexander Mackinnon was elected the whig MP for Rye on 10 July 1852 but the result was declared void as a result of "treating". There was a question of £220 left behind a sofa cushion at the Red Lion to pay for a dinner. At the resulting bye-election the seat was taken by his father. At the next election he was elected MP for Lymington which he held until 1868 but he never spoke in parliament. He was the 34th Chief of the Clan Mackinnon. He was educated at St John's College,Cambridge.
The Honourable Maurice Ashley,of Bedford Row,Westminster,was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1713.
Christopher Idle was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1813 to 1818.
William Chaffin Grove was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1781.
John Purling was an East India Company commander and director and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1770 and 1790.
John Tucker was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1735 and 1778.
Robert James Roy Campbell was a British Liberal and Whig politician.
William Betts of Epsom,Surrey was a British merchant,financier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1730
William Wharton Burdon (1803–1870) was an English Whig Member of Parliament who represented Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1835 to 1837.
Charles Adams was a British politician who served as the Tory MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis between 1801 and 1812.
Masterton Ure was a Scottish lawyer and Tory politician,serving as the Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
Henry Trail was the Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis between October 1812 and June 1813.
James Trail was a British lawyer and Tory politician,serving as the Member of Parliament for Orford between 1802 and 1806.
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