Queenborough | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1572–1832 | |
Seats | Two |
The constituency of Queenborough was a rotten borough situated on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
From 1572 until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament. The franchise was vested in the freemen of the town, of whom there were more than 300. Its electorate was therefore one of largest of the 56 boroughs that were abolished. Most freemen, however, were non resident.
A small town in Kent, England, which grew as a port near the Thames Estuary. It was formerly a municipal borough in the Faversham parliamentary division of Kent, and is two miles south of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, nearby the westward entrance to the Swale, where it joins the River Medway. It is now in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey parliamentary constituency and governed by Swale Borough Council and Queenborough Town Council.
Parliament | First member | Second member |
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1571 | John Brooke alias Cobham | John Parker [1] |
1572 (May) | John Brooke alias Cobham | William Butler, died and replaced Dec 1580 by Sir Humphrey Gilbert [1] |
1584 (Nov) | John Brooke alias Cobham | William Parry, expelled from the House and replaced Feb 1585 by Sir Edward Hoby [1] |
1586 (Sep) | Sir Edward Hoby | Michael Sondes [1] |
1588 | William Boys | Michael Sondes [1] |
1593 | John Brooke alias Cobham | John Baynham [1] |
1597 | Sir George Carew | Michael Sondes [1] |
1601 | Sir Michael Sondes | Nicholas Troughton [1] |
1604 | Sir Edward Stafford | Michael Sondes |
1605 | Richard Wright | |
1614 | Roger Palmer | Robert Hatton |
1621-1622 | James Palmer | William Frowde |
1624 | Roger Palmer | Robert Pooley |
1625 | Roger Palmer | Sir Edward Hales |
1626 | Roger Palmer | Robert Pooley |
1628 | Roger Palmer | Sir John Hales |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary, centred 42 miles (68 km) from central London. It has an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). The island forms part of the local government district of Swale. Sheppey is derived from Old English Sceapig, meaning "Sheep Island".
Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.
Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. The council is based in Sittingbourne, the borough's largest town. The borough also contains the towns of Faversham, Queenborough and Sheerness, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. It includes the Isle of Sheppey and is named after The Swale, the narrow channel which separates Sheppey from the mainland part of the borough. Some southern parts of the borough lie within the Kent Downs, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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