Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Marlborough
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1295–1885
Seats	two (1295–1868); one (1868–1885)
Replaced by	Devizes

Marlborough was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

Members of Parliament

1295–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Thomas Cryps	John Jenewyne [1]
1388 (Feb)	John Curteys	John Wyly [1]
1388 (Sep)	John Curteys	John Wyly [1]
1390 (Jan)	Thomas Calston	Robert Warner [1]
1390 (Nov)
1391
1393	John Curteys	Thomas Lechenore [1]
1394	John Curteys	Richard Frys [1]
1395	John Curteys	Robert Drake [1]
1397 (Jan)
1397 (Sep)	John Canynges	Nicholas Cley [1]
1399	Thomas Cryps	Thomas Cook [1]
1401
1402	Richard Collingbourne	John Bird [1]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	Thomas Heose	Nicholas Tympeneye [1]
1407
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Bird	William Byllyngtre [1]
1414 (Apr)	Thomas Hathaway	William Alcliffe [1]
1414 (Nov)	Thomas Hathaway	John Bird [1]
1415	John Bird	Thomas Newman [1]
1416 (Mar)	Thomas Newman	Nicholas Swan [1]
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Hungate	Hugh Gower [1]
1419
1420	Hugh Gower	Nicholas Swan [1]
1421 (May)	Hugh Gower	Laurence Fitton [1]
1421 (Dec)	Hugh Gower	John Giles [1]
1455	Thomas Vaughan [2]
1510–1523	No names known [3]
1529	Edmund Darrell	Henry Bagot [3]
1536	?
1539	?John Berwick	?John Thynne [3]
1542	?William Barnes	?John Thynne [3]
1545	John Thynne	Andrew Baynton [3]
1547	Humphrey Moseley	Thomas Smith [3]
1553 (Mar)	William Button	Roger Colly [3]
1553 (Oct)	Robert Weare alias Brown	Robert Bithway [3]
1554 (Apr)	Owen Gwyn	Thomas Tyndale [3]
1554 (Nov)	Peter Taylor alias Perce	John Broke [3]
1555	Andrew Baynton	Gabriel Pleydell [3]
1558	William Daniell	William Fleetwood [3]
1559	William Daniell	John Young [4]
1562–3	Michael Blount	Leonard Dannett [4]
1571	John Cornwall	Philip Godwyn [4]
1572	Nicholas St John	John Stanhope [4]
1584	Henry Ughtred	Edward Stanhope [4]
1586	Edward Stanhope	Edmund Hungerford [4]
1588	Richard Wheler	John Cornwall [4]
1593	Richard Wheler	Anthony Hungerford [4]
1597	Richard Digges	Richard Wheler [4]
1601	Richard Digges	Lawrence Hyde
1604–1611	Lawrence Hyde	Richard Digges
1614	Richard Digges	Sir Francis Popham
1621	William Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, ennobled 1621 and replaced by Walter Devereux	Richard Digges
1624	Sir Francis Seymour	Richard Digges
1625	Richard Digges	Edward Kyrton
1626	Richard Digges	Edward Kyrton
1628	Richard Digges	Henry Piercy
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640–1868

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
March 1640		Sir William Carnaby	Royalist		Francis Baskerville
November 1640		John Francklyn	Parliamentarian		Sir Francis Seymour	Royalist
1641					Philip Smith	Parliamentarian
1645		Charles Fleetwood
1653	Marlborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Charles Fleetwood		Marlborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656		Jerome Sankey
January 1659		Thomas Grove			James Hayes
May 1659		Charles Fleetwood			Philip Smith
April 1660		Henry Hungerford			Jeffrey Daniel
1661		Lord John Seymour
1673		Sir John Elwes
February 1679		Thomas Bennet			Edward Goddard
August 1679					Lord Bruce
1685		Sir John Ernle			Sir George Willoughby
January 1695					Thomas Bennet
November 1695		William Daniell
1698		The Earl of Ranelagh			William Grinfield
January 1701					John Jeffreys
November 1701		Robert Yard
July 1702		Hon. Robert Bruce
November 1702					Edward Jeffreys
May 1705		Edward Ashe			John Jeffreys
November 1705		Earl of Hertford [5]
May 1708					Hon. James Bruce
December 1708		Sir Edward Ernle
1710		Lord Bruce			Hon. Robert Bruce
1712		Richard Jones
1713		Gabriel Roberts
1715		Sir William Humphreys			Joshua Ward [6]
1717					Gabriel Roberts
March 1722		Earl of Hertford [7]
October 1722		Thomas Gibson
1727					Edward Lisle [8]	Tory
1734		Francis Seymour
1737					John Crawley
1741		Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet	Tory
1747					John Talbot
1752		Sir John Hynde Cotton, 4th Baronet
1754					Hon. John Ward
1761		Lord Brudenell			Colonel the Hon. Robert Brudenell	Tory [9]
1762		(Sir) James Long [10]	Tory [9]
1768					Hon. James Brudenell	Tory [9]
1780		The Earl of Courtown	Tory [9]		William Woodley	Tory [9]
1784					Sir Philip Hales	Tory [9]
1790					Major-General the Hon. Thomas Bruce	Tory [9]
1793		Earl of Dalkeith	Tory [9]
1796		Lord Bruce (replaced on inheriting his father's earldom in April 1814) [11]	Tory [9]		Hon. James Bruce	Tory [9]
1797					Robert Brudenell	Tory [9]
1802					James Henry Leigh	Tory [9]
1806					Earl of Dalkeith	Tory [9]
1807					Viscount Stopford	Tory [9]
1810					Edward Stopford	Tory [9]
1814		William Hill	Tory [9]
1818		John Wodehouse	Tory [9]		Lord Brudenell	Tory [9]
1826		Earl Bruce	Tory [9]
13 March 1829		Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt	Tory [9]
23 March 1829					William John Bankes	Tory [9]
1832		Lord Ernest Bruce	Tory [9]		Henry Bingham Baring	Tory [9]
1834			Conservative [9]			Conservative [9]
1847			Peelite [12] [13] [14]			Peelite [12] [13] [14]
1859			Liberal			Liberal
1868	Representation reduced to one member

1868–1885

Year		Member	Party
1868		Lord Ernest Bruce	Liberal
1878		Lord Charles Bruce	Liberal
1885	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Marlborough ^{[9] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	T. H. S. Bucknall-Estcourt	Unopposed
	Tory	William John Bankes	Unopposed
	Whig	Alexander Charles Malet
	Whig	John Mirehouse
Registered electors			c. 12
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

• The mayor refused to accept the nominations of Malet and Mirehouse, and Bucknall-Estcourt and Bankes were declared elected unopposed.

General election 1831: Marlborough ^{[9] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	T. H. S. Bucknall-Estcourt	Unopposed
	Tory	William John Bankes	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 12
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

General election 1832: Marlborough ^{[9] [16]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	135	41.4
	Tory	Henry Bingham Baring	118	36.2
	Whig	Alexander Charles Malet	73	22.4
Majority			45	13.8
Majority			170	70.8
Registered electors			240
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

General election 1835: Marlborough ^{[9] [16]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
	Conservative	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
Registered electors			280
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1837: Marlborough ^{[9] [16]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
	Conservative	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
Registered electors			280
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
	Conservative	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			282
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Baring was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring by-elections.

By-election, 14 September 1841: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
	Conservative	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1847: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
	Peelite	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			262
	Peelite gain from Conservative
	Peelite gain from Conservative

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
	Peelite	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			271
	Peelite hold
	Peelite hold

Brudenell-Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 4 January 1853: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
	Peelite hold

General election 1857: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	184	51.1	N/A
	Peelite	Henry Bingham Baring	125	34.7	N/A
	Conservative	William David Lewis [17]	51	14.2	N/A
Majority			74	20.5	N/A
Turnout			180 (est)	74.4 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			275
	Peelite hold
	Peelite hold

General election 1859: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
	Liberal	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			281
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Bingham Baring	Unopposed
	Liberal	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			275
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

Seat reduced to one member

General election 1868: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			616
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ernest Brudenell-Bruce	Unopposed
Registered electors			659
	Liberal hold

Brudenell-Bruce succeeded to the peerage, becoming Marquess of Ailesbury.

By-election, 31 January 1878: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Bruce	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Bruce	333	58.2	N/A
	Conservative	Henry Brudenell-Bruce	239	41.8	New
Majority			94	16.4	N/A
Turnout			572	85.6	N/A
Registered electors			668
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 8 May 1880: Marlborough ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Bruce	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

References and sources

References

1. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
2. "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.)
3. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
4. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
5. Hertford was re-elected in 1708, but had also been elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
6. On petition, Ward was declared not to have been duly elected
7. Hertford was also elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
8. Lisle was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for Hampshire; however, the result there was disputed. He continued to sit for Marlborough until the Hampshire petition was withdrawn in 1737, then chose to sit for Hampshire for the rest of the Parliament
9. Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 117–119.
10. Succeeded as baronet and adopted the surname Tylney-Long in 1767
11. "No. 16898". The London Gazette . 14 May 1814. p. 1009.
12. Saunders, Robert (2016). Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 203–204. ISBN   978-1-4094-1794-1 . Retrieved 28 May 2018.
13. "Peelites". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
14. "Marlborough" . Londonderry Standard. 6 August 1847. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
15. Farrell, Stephen. "Marlborough". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
16. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 208–209. ISBN   978-1-349-02349-3.
17. "Marlborough" . Reading Mercury. 4 April 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.

Sources

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
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