List of MPs elected in the 1708 British general election

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MPs elected in the 1708 British general election

1st Parliament (1705-1708)
2nd Parliament(1708)
3rd Parliament (1710)
4th Parliament (1713)

This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1708, the 2nd Parliament of Great Britain, and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency. [1]

Contents

The reference, in the constituency section of the table, to the numbers of seats in a constituency has no relevance except to make clear how many members were elected in a particular constituency. The candidates returned in contested elections are listed in the descending order of the number of votes received. Where vote totals are unknown, the MPs received the same number of votes or were returned unopposed the order is that given by Hayton et al.

Peers of Ireland are differentiated from the holders of courtesy titles by including the succession number to the peerage, i.e. The 1st Earl of Upper Ossory is an Irish peer and Viscount Dupplin is the holder of a courtesy title.

Elections took place in May, 1708

Table of contents:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections Changes

A

Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) John Gordon Whig
Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) Lord Haddo - ineligible as son of Scottish peer
Replaced by Sir Alexander Cumming 1709
Tory
Tory
Abingdon (seat 1/1) Sir Simon Harcourt - unseated on petition
Replaced by William Hucks 1709
Tory
Whig
Aldborough (seat 1/2) Robert Monckton Whig
Aldborough (seat 2/2) William Jessop Whig
Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) Henry Johnson Tory
Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) William Johnson Tory
Amersham (seat 1/2) Francis Duncombe Tory
Amersham (seat 2/2) Sir Samuel Garrard, Bt Tory
Andover (seat 1/2) John Smith Whig
Andover (seat 2/2) William Guidott Whig
Anglesey (seat 1/1) The 4th Viscount Bulkeley Tory
Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir John Anstruther, Bt Whig
Appleby (seat 1/2) Edward Duncombe Tory
Appleby (seat 2/2) Nicholas Lechmere Whig
Argyllshire (seat 1/1) James Campbell Whig
Arundel (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Peachey, Bt - sat for Sussex
Replaced by Viscount Lumley 1708
Whig
Whig
Arundel (seat 2/2) The 2nd Viscount Shannon Whig
Ashburton (seat 1/2) Roger Tuckfield Whig
Ashburton (seat 2/2) Robert Balle Whig
Aylesbury (seat 1/2) Sir John Wittewronge, Bt Whig
Aylesbury (seat 2/2) Simon Mayne Whig
Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) James Campbell Whig
Ayrshire (seat 1/1) Francis Montgomerie Whig

B

Banbury (seat 1/1) Hon. Charles North Tory
Banffshire (seat 1/1) Alexander Abercromby Whig
Barnstaple (seat 1/2) Richard Acland Tory
Barnstaple (seat 2/2) Nicholas Hooper Tory
Bath (seat 1/2) William Blathwayt Whig
Bath (seat 2/2) Samuel Trotman Tory
Beaumaris (seat 1/1) Hon. Henry Bertie Tory
Bedford (seat 1/2) William Farrer Whig
Bedford (seat 2/2) William Hillersden Whig
Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) Lord Edward Russell Whig
Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) Sir William Gostwick, Bt Whig
Bere Alston (seat 1/2) Spencer Cowper Whig
Bere Alston (seat 2/2) Peter King Whig
Berkshire (seat 1/2) Sir John Stonhouse, Bt Tory
Berkshire (seat 2/2) Richard Neville Whig
Berwickshire (seat 1/1) George Baillie Whig
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) Samuel Ogle Whig
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) Jonathan Hutchinson Whig
Beverley (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Hotham, Bt Whig
Beverley (seat 2/2) Sir Michael Warton Tory
Bewdley (seat 1/1) Hon. Henry Herbert - succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Charles Cornwall 1709
Whig
Whig
Bishop's Castle (seat 1/2) Richard Harnage Whig
Bishop's Castle (seat 2/2) Charles Mason Whig
Bletchingley (seat 1/2) Thomas Onslow Whig
Bletchingley (seat 2/2) George Evelyn Whig
Bodmin (seat 1/2) Russell Robartes Whig
Bodmin (seat 2/2) John Trevanion Tory
Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) Sir Brian Stapylton, Bt Tory
Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) Craven Peyton Whig
Bossiney (seat 1/2) Samuel Travers Whig
Bossiney (seat 2/2) Francis Foote Whig
Boston (seat 1/2) Hon. Peregrine Bertie Tory
Boston (seat 2/2) Richard Wynn Tory
Brackley (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Egerton Whig
Brackley (seat 2/2) Hon. William Egerton Whig
Bramber (seat 1/2) The 1st Viscount Windsor - unseated on petition
Replaced by William Hale Jan 1709.
Tory
Whig
Bramber (seat 2/2) William Shippen - unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir Cleave More, Bt Jan 1709.
Tory
Whig
Brecon (seat 1/1) Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys - died
Replaced by Edward Jeffreys 1709
Tory
Tory
Breconshire (seat 1/1) Sir Edward Williams Tory
Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) William Whitmore Whig
Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) Sir Humphrey Brigges, Bt Whig
Bridgwater (seat 1/2) George Dodington Whig
Bridgwater (seat 2/2) George Balch Whig
Bridport (seat 1/2) Thomas Strangways Tory
Bridport (seat 2/2) William Coventry Whig
Bristol (seat 1/2) Robert Yate Whig
Bristol (seat 2/2) Sir William Daines Whig
Buckingham (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Temple, Bt Whig
Buckingham (seat 2/2) Alexander Denton Whig
Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) Sir Edmund Denton, Bt Whig
Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) Richard Hampden Whig
Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Felton, Bt - died
Replaced by Joseph Weld 1709
Whig
Tory
Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) Aubrey Porter Ind.
Buteshire (seat 1/1) Dugald Stewart - resigned
Replaced by John Montgomerie 1710
Tory
Whig

C

Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) William Griffith Tory
Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) Sir John Wynn, Bt Tory
Caithness (seat 0/0) unrepresented in this Parliament
Callington (seat 1/2) Sir William Coryton, Bt Tory
Callington (seat 2/2) Samuel Rolle Tory
Calne (seat 1/2) Edward Bayntun Whig
Calne (seat 2/2) George Duckett Whig
Cambridge (seat 1/2) John Hynde Cotton Tory
Cambridge (seat 2/2) Samuel Shepheard - Election void, but re-elected 1710Tory
Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) Sir Rushout Cullen, Bt Whig
Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) John Bromley Tory
Cambridge University (seat 1/2) Hon. Arthur Annesley Tory
Cambridge University (seat 2/2) Hon. Dixie Windsor Tory
Camelford (seat 1/2) Richard Munden Whig
Camelford (seat 2/2) John Manley Tory
Canterbury (seat 1/2) Hon. Edward Watson Whig
Canterbury (seat 2/2) Thomas D'Aeth Whig
Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir John Aubrey, Bt Whig
Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) Lewis Pryse -sat for Cardiganshire
Replaced by Simon Harcourt 1710
Tory
Tory
Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) Lewis Pryse Tory
Carlisle (seat 1/2) Sir James Montagu Whig
Carlisle (seat 2/2) Thomas Stanwix Whig
Carmarthen (seat 1/1) Richard Vaughan Whig
Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) Griffith Rice Whig
Castle Rising (seat 1/2) Hon. William Feilding Whig
Castle Rising (seat 2/2) Horatio Walpole Tory
Cheshire (seat 1/2) Hon. Langham Booth Whig
Cheshire (seat 2/2) John Offley-Crewe Whig
Chester (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Bunbury, Bt Tory
Chester (seat 2/2) Peter Shakerley Tory
Chichester (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Farington, Bt Whig
Chichester (seat 2/2) Thomas Carr Tory
Chippenham (seat 1/2) Sir James Long, Bt Tory
Chippenham (seat 2/2) James Montagu Whig
Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) Charles Godfrey Whig
Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) Fleetwood Dormer Whig
Christchurch (seat 1/2) Francis Gwyn Tory
Christchurch (seat 2/2) William Ettrick Tory
Cirencester (seat 1/2) Allen Bathurst - Election void, but re-elected 1709Tory
Cirencester (seat 2/2) Charles Coxe - Election void, but re-elected 1709Tory
Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) William Dalrymple Whig
Clitheroe (seat 1/2) Edward Harvey Tory
Clitheroe (seat 2/2) Christopher Parker Tory
Cockermouth (seat 1/2) James Stanhope Whig
Cockermouth (seat 2/2) Hon. Albemarle Bertie Whig
Colchester (seat 1/2) Sir Isaac Rebow Whig
Colchester (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Webster, Bt Whig
Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) John Bankes Tory
Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) Richard Fownes Tory
Cornwall (seat 1/2) James Buller Tory
Cornwall (seat 2/2) Hugh Boscawen Whig
Coventry (seat 1/2) Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bt Whig
Coventry (seat 2/2) Edward Hopkins Whig
Cricklade (seat 1/2) Edmund Dunch Whig
Cricklade (seat 2/2) James Vernon Whig
Cromartyshire (seat 0/0) unrepresented in this Parliament
Cumberland (seat 1/2) James Lowther Whig
Cumberland (seat 2/2) Gilfrid Lawson Tory

D

Dartmouth (seat 1/2) Nathaniel Herne Tory
Dartmouth (seat 2/2) Frederick Herne Tory
Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir William Williams, Bt Tory
Denbighshire (seat 1/1) Sir Richard Myddelton, Bt Tory
Derby (seat 1/2) Lord James Cavendish Whig
Derby (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Parker - resigned
Replaced by Richard Pye 1710
Whig
Whig
Derbyshire (seat 1/2) Thomas Coke Tory
Derbyshire (seat 2/2) John Curzon Tory
Devizes (seat 1/2) Josiah Diston Whig
Devizes (seat 2/2) Paul Methuen Whig
Devon (seat 1/2) Sir William Courtenay, Bt Tory
Devon (seat 2/2) Robert Rolle Tory
Dorchester (seat 1/2) John Churchill - died
Replaced by Denis Bond 1710
Whig
Whig
Dorchester (seat 2/2) Awnsham Churchill Whig
Dorset (seat 1/2) Thomas Strangways Tory
Dorset (seat 2/2) Thomas Chafin Tory
Dover (seat 1/2) Matthew Aylmer Whig
Dover (seat 2/2) Philip Papillon Whig
Downton (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Duncombe Tory
Downton (seat 2/2) John Eyre Whig
Droitwich (seat 1/2) Edward Foley Tory
Droitwich (seat 2/2) Edward Winnington Tory
Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) William Johnstone  ?
Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) Lord Johnstone - ineligible as eldest son of a Scottish peer
Replaced by Sir William Grierson, Bt 1709
 ?
Tory
Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) John Campbell Whig
Dunwich (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Blois, Bt - unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir Richard Allin, Bt 1709.
Tory
Whig
Dunwich (seat 2/2) Robert Kemp - unseated on petition
Replaced by Daniel Harvey 1709
Tory
Whig
Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) Thomas Conyers Tory
Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) James Nicolson Whig
Durham (County) (seat 1/2) Hon. William Vane Whig
Durham (County) (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Eden, Bt Tory
Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) Hon. John Sinclair - ineligible as the eldest son of a Scottish peer
Replaced by James Abercrombie 1710
Tory
Whig

E

East Grinstead (seat 1/2) Hon. Richard Lumley Whig
East Grinstead (seat 2/2) Henry Campion Tory
East Looe (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Seymour Tory
East Looe (seat 2/2) Harry Trelawny Tory
East Retford (seat 1/2) Thomas White Whig
East Retford (seat 2/2) William Levinz Tory
Edinburgh (seat 1/1) Sir Samuel MacClellan - died
Replaced by Sir Patrick Johnston 1709
 ?
Whig
Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) George Lockhart Tory
Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) Hon. Patrick Ogilvy Whig
Elginshire (seat 1/1) Robert Urquhart Whig
Essex (seat 1/2) Sir Francis Masham Whig
Essex (seat 2/2) Thomas Middleton Whig
Evesham (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Goodere Whig
Evesham (seat 2/2) John Rudge Whig
Exeter (seat 1/2) Nicholas Wood Tory
Exeter (seat 2/2) John Harris Whig
Eye (seat 1/2) Hon. Spencer Compton Whig
Eye (seat 2/2) Sir Joseph Jekyll Whig

F

Fife (seat 1/1) Patrick Moncreiff -died
Replaced by Sir Robert Anstruther 1710
?

?

Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir John Conway Tory
Flintshire (seat 1/1) Sir Roger Mostyn Tory
Forfarshire (seat 1/1) John Carnegie Tory
Fowey (seat 1/2) George Granville Tory
Fowey (seat 2/2) Henry Vincent Ind.

G

Gatton (seat 1/2) Sir George Newland Tory
Gatton (seat 2/2) Paul Docminique Tory
Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) Sir Thomas Mansel Tory
Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) Robert Rodger Whig
Gloucester (seat 1/2) William Cooke - died
Replaced by Francis Wyndham 1709
Whig
Whig
Gloucester (seat 2/2) Thomas Webb Tory
Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) Matthew Ducie Moreton Whig
Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) Sir John Guise Ind.
Grampound (seat 1/2) James Craggs Whig
Grampound (seat 2/2) Thomas Scawen Whig
Grantham (seat 1/2) Marquess of Granby Whig
Grantham (seat 2/2) Sir William Ellys Whig
Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) Lord Bruce Tory
Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) Sir Samuel Sambrooke Tory
Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) Arthur Moore Tory
Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) William Cotesworth Whig
Great Marlow (seat 1/2) Sir James Etheridge Tory
Great Marlow (seat 2/2) James Chase Whig
Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) Richard Ferrier Tory
Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) Hon. Roger Townshend died
Replaced by Nathaniel Symonds
Whig
Whig
Guildford (seat 1/2) Denzil Onslow Whig
Guildford (seat 2/2) Morgan Randyll Tory

H

Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) Hon. Sir David Dalrymple Whig
Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) John Cockburn Whig
Hampshire (seat 1/2) Marquess of Winchester Whig
Hampshire (seat 2/2) Viscount Woodstock - succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Thomas Jervoise 1709
Whig
Whig
Harwich (seat 1/2) Sir John Leake - sat for Rochester
Replaced by Kenrick Edisbury 1708
 ?

?

Harwich (seat 2/2) Thomas Frankland Whig
Haslemere (seat 1/2) Thomas Onslow - sat for Bletchingley
Replaced by Nicholas Carew 1708
Whig
Whig
Haslemere (seat 2/2) Theophilus Oglethorpe Tory
Hastings (seat 1/2) John Pulteney Whig
Hastings (seat 2/2) Hon. William Ashburnham - succeeded to peerage
Replaced by John Ashburnham
Tory
Tory
Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) John Laugharne Tory
Hedon (seat 1/2) William Pulteney Whig
Hedon (seat 2/2) Hugh Cholmley Whig
Helston (seat 1/2) Viscount Rialton - sat for Oxfordshire
Replaced by Sir John Evelyn, Bt 1708
Whig
Whig
Helston (seat 2/2) Sidney Godolphin ?
Hereford (seat 1/2) Hon. James Brydges ?
Hereford (seat 2/2) Thomas Foley Tory
Herefordshire (seat 1/2) The 3rd Viscount Scudamore Tory
Herefordshire (seat 2/2) John Prise Tory
Hertford (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Clarke Whig
Hertford (seat 2/2) William Monson Whig
Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) Ralph Freman Tory
Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Halsey Tory
Heytesbury (seat 1/2) Edward Ashe Whig
Heytesbury (seat 2/2) William Ashe Whig
Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) Hon. Thomas Watson-Wentworth Whig
Hindon (seat 1/2) Sir James Howe Tory
Hindon (seat 2/2) Edmund Lambert Tory
Honiton (seat 1/2) Sir William Drake Tory
Honiton (seat 2/2) Sir Walter Yonge Whig
Horsham (seat 1/2) Charles Eversfield Tory
Horsham (seat 2/2) John Wicker Whig
Huntingdon (seat 1/2) Edward Wortley Montagu Whig
Huntingdon (seat 2/2) Francis Page Whig
Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) John Proby Ind.
Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) John Pocklington Whig
Hythe (seat 1/2) Hon. John Fane Whig
Hythe (seat 2/2) John Boteler Tory

I

Ilchester (seat 1/2) Edward Phelips Tory
Ilchester (seat 2/2) James Johnston Tory
Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) Alexander Duff Tory
Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) Alexander Grant Whig
Ipswich (seat 1/2) William Churchill Whig
Ipswich (seat 2/2) Sir William Barker Whig

K

Kent (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Palmer Whig
Kent (seat 2/2) Sir Stephen Lennard - died
Replaced by David Polhill 1710
Whig
Whig
Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) Sir David Ramsay ?
King's Lynn (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Turner Whig
King's Lynn (seat 2/2) Robert Walpole Whig
Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) Sir William St Quintin Whig
Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) William Maister Whig
Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) unrepresented in this Parliament
Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) John Stewart Whig
Knaresborough (seat 1/2) Christopher Stockdale Whig
Knaresborough (seat 2/2) Robert Byerley Tory

L

Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) Lord Archibald Hamilton Whig
Lancashire (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Zedenno Stanley Whig
Lancashire (seat 2/2) Richard Shuttleworth Tory
Lancaster (seat 1/2) Robert Heysham Tory
Lancaster (seat 2/2) William Heysham Tory
Launceston (seat 1/2) Lord Hyde Tory
Launceston (seat 2/2) William Cary ?
Leicester (seat 1/2) Sir George Beaumont Tory
Leicester (seat 2/2) James Winstanley Tory
Leicestershire (seat 1/2) Geoffrey Palmer Tory
Leicestershire (seat 2/2) Sir Gilbert Pickering Whig
Leominster (seat 1/2) The 1st Lord Coningsby Whig
Leominster (seat 2/2) Edward Harley Tory
Lewes (seat 1/2) Peter Gott - sat for Sussex
Replaced by Samuel Gott 1708
Whig
Whig
Lewes (seat 2/2) Thomas Pelham Whig
Lichfield (seat 1/2) John Cotes Tory
Lichfield (seat 2/2) Sir Michael Biddulph Whig
Lincoln (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Meres Tory
Lincoln (seat 2/2) Thomas Lister Tory
Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) Lord Willoughby d'Eresby Tory
Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) George Whichcot Whig
Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) Hon. George Douglas Whig
Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) Lord Johnstone - ineligible as son of Scottish peer
Replaced by John Houstoun 1708
 ?
Tory
Liskeard (seat 1/2) William Bridges  ?
Liskeard (seat 2/2) John Dolben Whig
Liverpool (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Johnson Whig
Liverpool (seat 2/2) Richard Norris Whig
London (City of) (seat 1/4) Sir William Withers Tory
London (City of) (seat 2/4) Sir William Ashurst Whig
London (City of) (seat 3/4) Sir Gilbert Heathcote Whig
London (City of) (seat 4/4) John Ward Whig
Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) Joseph Addison - unseated on petition
Replaced by Francis Robartes 1709.
Whig
?
Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) James Kendall - unseated on petition
Replaced by Russell Robartes 1709 - sat for Bodmin
Replaced by Horatio Walpole 1710
Whig
Whig

?

Ludgershall (seat 1/2) Hon. Robert Bruce Tory
Ludgershall (seat 2/2) John Richmond Webb Tory
Ludlow (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Powys Tory
Ludlow (seat 2/2) Acton Baldwyn Tory
Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) John Burridge Whig
Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) Thomas Freke Whig
Lymington (seat 1/2) Paul Burrard Whig
Lymington (seat 2/2) Richard Chaundler Whig

M

Maidstone (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Culpeper Whig
Maidstone (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Marsham Whig
Maldon (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Child Tory
Maldon (seat 2/2) Thomas Richmond Whig
Malmesbury (seat 1/2) Hon. Henry Mordaunt - died
Replaced by Joseph Addison 1710
Whig
Whig
Malmesbury (seat 2/2) Thomas Farrington Whig
Malton (seat 1/2) William Palmes Whig
Malton (seat 2/2) William Strickland Whig
Marlborough (seat 1/2) Earl of Hertford - sat for Northumberland
Replaced by Edward Ernle, Bt 1708
Whig
Whig
Marlborough (seat 2/2) Hon. James Bruce Tory
Merionethshire (seat 1/1) Richard Vaughan Tory
Middlesex (seat 1/2) Sir John Wolstenholme - died
Replaced by John Austen 1708
Whig
Whig
Middlesex (seat 2/2) Scorie Barker Whig
Midhurst (seat 1/2) Lawrence Alcock Tory
Midhurst (seat 2/2) Robert Orme - election voided
Replaced by Thomas Meredyth, Mar 1709
Tory
Whig
Milborne Port (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Travell Whig
Milborne Port (seat 2/2) Thomas Medlycott - sat for Westminster
Replaced by Thomas Smith 1709
Tory
Whig
Minehead (seat 1/2) Sir John Trevelyan Tory
Minehead (seat 2/2) Sir Jacob Bancks Tory
Mitchell (seat 1/2) Hugh Fortescue Whig
Mitchell (seat 2/2) Sir William Hodges Whig
Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) Clayton Milborne Tory
Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) John Morgan Whig
Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) The 1st Viscount Windsor Tory
Montgomery (seat 1/1) John Pugh Tory
Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) Edward Vaughan Tory
Morpeth (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Sandford Whig
Morpeth (seat 2/2) Sir John Bennett Whig

N

Nairnshire (seat 1/1) Hugh Rose Whig
Newark (seat 1/2) Richard Sutton Whig
Newark (seat 2/2) Hon. James Saunderson Whig
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Bellot Tory
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) Rowland Cotton Tory
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) William Carr Whig
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Liddell Whig
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) Sir Nicholas Morice Tory
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) Sir William Pole Tory
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Sir Tristram Dillington Whig
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) William Stephens Tory
New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) Robert Harley Tory
New Romney (seat 1/2) John Brewer ?
New Romney (seat 2/2) Walter Whitfield ?
New Shoreham (seat 1/2) Anthony Hammond - ineligible to sit
Replaced by Sir Gregory Page, Bt 1708
Tory
Whig
New Shoreham (seat 2/2) Richard Lloyd Whig
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) Thomas Legh Tory
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) John Ward Tory
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Sir James Worsley Tory
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Henry Worsley Whig
New Windsor (seat 1/2) The 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge Whig
New Windsor (seat 2/2) Richard Topham Whig
New Woodstock (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Wheate Whig
New Woodstock (seat 2/2) William Cadogan Whig
Norfolk (seat 1/2) Sir John Holland Whig
Norfolk (seat 2/2) Ashe Windham Whig
Northallerton (seat 1/2) Sir William Hustler Whig
Northallerton (seat 2/2) Roger Gale Whig
Northampton (seat 1/2) George Montagu Whig
Northampton (seat 2/2) Francis Arundell Tory
Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) Sir Justinian Isham Tory
Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Cartwright Tory
Northumberland (seat 1/2) Earl of Hertford Whig
Northumberland (seat 2/2) Thomas Forster Tory
Norwich (seat 1/2) Waller Bacon Whig
Norwich (seat 2/2) John Chambers Whig
Nottingham (seat 1/2) John Plumptre Whig
Nottingham (seat 2/2) Roby Sherwin Whig
Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Willoughby Tory
Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) John Thornhagh Whig

O

Okehampton (seat 1/2) John Dibble Whig
Okehampton (seat 2/2) William Harris - died
Replaced by Christopher Harris 1709
 ?
Tory
Old Sarum (seat 1/2) William Harvey Tory
Old Sarum (seat 2/2) Robert Pitt Tory
Orford (seat 1/2) Clement Corrance Tory
Orford (seat 2/2) Sir Edward Turnour - unseated on petition
Replaced by William Thompson, Jan 1709
Tory
Whig
Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) Sir Alexander Douglas ?
Oxford (seat 1/2) Sir John Walter Tory
Oxford (seat 2/2) Thomas Rowney Tory
Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) Viscount Rialton Whig
Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Jenkinson - died
Replaced by Sir Robert Jenkinson 1710
Tory
Tory
Oxford University (seat 1/2) Sir William Whitelock Tory
Oxford University (seat 2/2) Wiliam Bromley Tory

P

Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) William Morison Whig
Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir Arthur Owen Whig
Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) Wirriot Owen Whig
Penryn (seat 1/2) James Vernon Whig
Penryn (seat 2/2) Samuel Trefusis Tory
Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) Joseph Austin Whig
Perthshire (seat 1/1) Dougal Stewart Whig
Peterborough (seat 1/2) Hon. Sidney Wortley Montagu Whig
Peterborough (seat 2/2) Sir Gilbert Dolben Tory
Petersfield (seat 1/2) Leonard Bilson Tory
Petersfield (seat 2/2) Norton Powlett Whig
Plymouth (seat 1/2) Charles Trelawny Tory
Plymouth (seat 2/2) Sir George Byng Whig
Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) Richard Edgcumbe Whig
Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) George Treby Whig
Pontefract (seat 1/2) Sir John Bland Tory
Pontefract (seat 2/2) William Lowther Whig
Poole (seat 1/2) William Lewen Tory
Poole (seat 2/2) Thomas Ridge Whig
Portsmouth (seat 1/2) George Churchill Tory
Portsmouth (seat 2/2) Thomas Erle - sat for Wareham
Replaced by Sir Thomas Littleton 1708
Whig
Whig
Preston (seat 1/2) Henry Fleetwood Tory
Preston (seat 2/2) Arthur Maynwaring Whig

Q

Queenborough (seat 1/2) Henry Withers Whig
Queenborough (seat 2/2) Sir John Jennings Whig

R

Radnorshire (seat 1/1) Thomas Harley Tory
Reading (seat 1/2) Owen Buckingham Whig
Reading (seat 2/2) Anthony Blagrave Tory
Reigate (seat 1/2) James Cocks Whig
Reigate (seat 2/2) Sir John Parsons Tory
Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) Sir John Shaw Whig
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) Thomas Yorke Whig
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) Hon. Harry Mordaunt Whig
Ripon (seat 1/2) John Aislabie Ind.
Ripon (seat 2/2) John Sharp Tory
Rochester (seat 1/2) Sir Stafford Fairborne Whig
Rochester (seat 2/2) Sir John Leake ?
Ross-shire (seat 1/1) Hugh Rose - election void
Replaced by Charles Rosse 1710
Whig
Ind. Whig
Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) Sir Gilbert Eliott Whig
Rutland (seat 1/2) Philip Sherard Whig
Rutland (seat 2/2) Richard Halford Tory
Rye (seat 1/2) Phillips Gybbon Whig
Rye (seat 2/2) Sir John Norris Whig

S

St Albans (seat 1/2) John Gape Tory
St Albans (seat 2/2) Joshua Lomax Whig
St Germans (seat 1/2) Edward Eliot Tory
St Germans (seat 2/2) Francis Scobell Tory
St Ives (seat 1/2) John Praed Tory
St Ives (seat 2/2) John Borlase ?
St Mawes (seat 1/2) Francis Godfrey Whig
St Mawes (seat 2/2) John Tredenham Tory
Salisbury (seat 1/2) Robert Eyre Whig
Salisbury (seat 2/2) Charles Fox Tory
Saltash (seat 1/2) James Buller - sat for Cornwall
Replaced by Sir Cholmeley Dering 1710
Tory
Tory
Saltash (seat 2/2) Alexander Pendarves Tory
Sandwich (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Furnese Whig
Sandwich (seat 2/2) Josiah Burchett Whig
Scarborough (seat 1/2) William Thompson Whig
Scarborough (seat 2/2) John Hungerford Tory
Seaford (seat 1/2) William Lowndes Whig
Seaford (seat 2/2) George Naylor Whig
Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) John Pringle ?
Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) Sir John Cropley Whig
Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) Edward Nicholas Tory
Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) John Kynaston - unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir Edward Leighton, Bt, Dec 1709
Tory
Whig
Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) Richard Mytton - unseated on petition
Not replaced.
Tory
Shropshire (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Corbet Whig
Shropshire (seat 2/2) Hon. Henry Newport Whig
Somerset (seat 1/2) Henry Seymour Portman Tory
Somerset (seat 2/2) John Prowse - died
Replaced by Sir William Wyndham 1710
Tory
Tory
Southampton (seat 1/2) Viscount Woodstock - sat for Hampshire
Replaced by Simeon Stuart 1708
Whig
Tory
Southampton (seat 2/2) Adam de Cardonnel Whig
Southwark (seat 1/2) Charles Cox Whig
Southwark (seat 2/2) John Cholmley Whig
Stafford (seat 1/2) Thomas Foley Tory
Stafford (seat 2/2) Walter Chetwynd Whig
Staffordshire (seat 1/2) Hon. Henry Paget Tory
Staffordshire (seat 2/2) John Wrottesley Tory
Stamford (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Cecil Tory
Stamford (seat 2/2) Hon. Charles Bertie Tory
Steyning (seat 1/2) Robert Fagge ?
Steyning (seat 2/2) Viscount Tunbridge Whig
Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) John Erskine Whig
Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) Henry Cunningham Whig
Stockbridge (seat 1/2) Sir John Hawles Whig
Stockbridge (seat 2/2) Sir Edward Lawrence Whig
Sudbury (seat 1/2) Philip Skippon Whig
Sudbury (seat 2/2) Sir Hervey Elwes Whig
Suffolk (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Hanmer Tory
Suffolk (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Davers Tory
Surrey (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Onslow Whig
Surrey (seat 2/2) Sir William Scawen Whig
Sussex (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Peachey Whig
Sussex (seat 2/2) Peter Gott Whig
Sutherland (seat 1/1) Sir William Gordon Whig

T

Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) Lord Strathnaver - ineligible as eldest son of a Scotch peer
Replaced by Robert Douglas 1709
 ?

?

Tamworth (seat 1/2) Joseph Girdler Tory
Tamworth (seat 2/2) Richard Swinfen Whig
Taunton (seat 1/2) Sir Francis Warre Tory
Taunton (seat 2/2) Edward Clarke Whig
Tavistock (seat 1/2) Sir John Cope Whig
Tavistock (seat 2/2) Henry Manaton Tory
Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) Richard Dowdeswell Whig
Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) Henry Ireton Whig
Thetford (seat 1/2) Robert Baylis Whig
Thetford (seat 2/2) Thomas de Grey Whig
Thirsk (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Frankland Whig
Thirsk (seat 2/2) Sir Godfrey Copley - died
Replaced by Leonard Smelt 1709
Tory
Whig
Tiverton (seat 1/2) Thomas Bere Whig
Tiverton (seat 2/2) Richard Mervin Tory
Totnes (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Seymour Tory
Totnes (seat 2/2) George Courtenay Tory
Tregony (seat 1/2) Anthony Nicoll Whig
Tregony (seat 2/2) Thomas Herne Tory
Truro (seat 1/2) Hon. James Brydges - sat for Hereford
Replaced by Robert Furnese 1708
Whig
Whig
Truro (seat 2/2) Henry Vincent Whig

W

Wallingford (seat 1/2) William Jennens - died
Replaced by Thomas Renda 1709
?

?

Wallingford (seat 2/2) Grey Neville Whig
Wareham (seat 1/2) Thomas Erle Whig
Wareham (seat 2/2) George Pitt Tory
Warwick (seat 1/2) Hon. Francis Greville Tory
Warwick (seat 2/2) Hon. Dodington Greville ?
Warwickshire (seat 1/2) Sir John Mordaunt Tory
Warwickshire (seat 2/2) Andrew Archer Tory
Wells (seat 1/2) Edward Colston Tory
Wells (seat 2/2) William Coward ?
Wendover (seat 1/2) Thomas Ellys - died
Replaced by Henry Grey 1709
?

Whig

Wendover (seat 2/2) Sir Roger Hill Whig
Wenlock (seat 1/2) Sir William Forester Whig
Wenlock (seat 2/2) Thomas Weld ?
Weobley (seat 1/2) John Birch Whig
Weobley (seat 2/2) Hon. Henry Thynne - sat for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
Replaced by Henry Gorges 1708
Tory

?

Westbury (seat 1/2) Hon. Henry Bertie Tory
Westbury (seat 2/2) Francis Annesley ?
West Looe (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Hedges Tory
West Looe (seat 2/2) John Conyers ?
Westminster (seat 1/2) Hon. Henry Boyle Whig
Westminster (seat 2/2) Thomas Medlycott Tory
Westmorland (seat 1/2) Daniel Wilson Whig
Westmorland (seat 2/2) James Grahme ?
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) Hon. Henry Thynne - died
Replaced by Edward Clavell 1709
Tory

?

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) Charles Churchill Tory
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) Hon. Maurice Ashley Whig
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) Anthony Henley Whig
Whitchurch (seat 1/2) Frederick Tylney - election void
Replaced by Richard Wollaston, Dec 1708
?

?

Whitchurch (seat 2/2) Thomas Lewis- election void
Replaced by George William Brydges, Dec 1708
Tory

Whig

Wigan (seat 1/2) Sir Roger Bradshaigh Tory
Wigan (seat 2/2) Henry Bradshaigh ?
Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) George Lockhart - sat for Edinburghshire
Replaced by William Cochrane 1708
Tory

Tory

Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) Hon. John Stewart ?
Wilton (seat 1/2) Sir Lambert Blackwell Whig
Wilton (seat 2/2) Charles Mompesson ?
Wiltshire (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Howe Tory
Wiltshire (seat 2/2) Robert Hyde ?
Winchelsea (seat 1/2) George Dodington - sat for Bridgwater
Replaced by Robert Bristow 1708
Whig

?

Winchelsea (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Dashwood Whig
Winchester (seat 1/2) Lord William Powlett ?
Winchester (seat 2/2) George Rodney Brydges Whig
Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) Francis Popham ?
Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) Hon. Robert Cecil Whig
Worcester (seat 1/2) Thomas Wylde ?
Worcester (seat 2/2) Samuel Swift Tory
Worcestershire (seat 1/2) Sir John Pakington Tory
Worcestershire (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Winford ?

Y

Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Henry Holmes Tory
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Anthony Morgan Whig
York (seat 1/2) Sir William Robinson Whig
York (seat 2/2) Robert Benson Tory
Yorkshire (seat 1/2) The 2nd Viscount Downe Tory
Yorkshire (seat 2/2) Sir William Strickland Whig

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