HONITON (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Honiton' was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) until it was abolished in 1868. It was recreated in 1885 as a single-member constituency.
For the 1997 general election, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Tiverton to form the Tiverton & Honiton constituency.
Honiton was regarded as a rotten borough by the time of Thomas Cochrane.
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Contents

Members of Parliament

1640-1660

1660-1868

1885-1997

Members of Parliament

1640-1660

'Long Parliament'

★ 1640-1643: William Poole (Royalist) - ''disabled to sit, June 1643''

★ 1640-1648: Walter Yonge (Parliamentarian) - ''not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge, December 1648; died December 1649''

★ 1645(?)-1648: Charles Vaughan - ''excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648''
''Honiton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
'Third Protectorate Parliament'

★ 1659: Walter Yonge ''(grandson of the Member from 1640 -1648)''

★ 1659: ?
'Long Parliament (restored)

★ 1659-1660: ?

1660-1868

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1660		Sir John Yonge			Samuel Serle
1661		Sir Courtenay Pole			Peter Prideaux
1679		Sir Walter Yonge			Sir Thomas Putt
1685		Edmond Walrond
1689					Richard Courtenay
1690		Sir William Drake			Sir Walter Yonge
1711					James Sheppard
1715		Sir William Courtenay			Sir William Yonge	Whig
1716		Sir William Pole
1727		James Sheppard
1731		Sir William Pole
1734		William Courtenay
1741		Henry Reginald Courtenay
1747		John Heath (later John Duke)
1754		Henry Reginald Courtenay			Sir George Yonge
1761					John Duke
1763		Sir George Yonge
1768					Brass Crosby
1774					Laurence Cox
1780					Alexander Macleod
1781					Jacob Wilkinson
1784					Sir George Collier
1790					George Templer
1796		George Chambers			George Shum
1802		Sir John Honywood
1805					Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw
1806 (April)		Richard Bateman-Robson
1806 (October)		Thomas Cochrane
1807		Sir Charles Hamilton
1812		Richard Howard-Vyse			George Abercrombie Robinson
1818		Peregrine Francis Cust			Samuel Crawley
1826		Josiah John Guest			Henry Baines Lott
1830					Sir George Warrender
1831		Henry Baines Lott
1832		Viscount Villiers	Conservative		James Ruddell-Todd	Whig
1835		Hugh Duncan Baillie	Conservative		Arthur Chichester	Conservative
1837					James Stewart	Whig
1841					Forster McGeachy	Conservative
1847		Joseph Locke	Whig		Sir James Weir Hogg	Conservative
1857					Archibald Stuart-Wortley	Conservative
1859			Liberal		Alexander Baillie-Cochrane	Conservative
1860		George Moffatt	Liberal
1865		Frederick Goldsmid	Liberal
1866		Julian Goldsmid	Liberal
1868	'Constituency abolished, but re-established in 1885'

1885-1997

'Members of Parliament for Honiton'
Year		Member	Party
1885		''constituency re-established as single-member seat''
	1885	Sir John Kennaway	Conservative
	Jan. 1910	Sir Clive Morrison-Bell	Conservative
	1931	Sir Cedric Drewe	Conservative
	1955	Robert Mathew	Conservative
	1967	Sir Peter Emery	Conservative
1997		''constituency abolished: see Tiverton and Honiton''