YARMOUTH (ISLE OF WIGHT) (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Yarmouth' was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832.
The constituency was included in the new County constituency of Isle of Wight from 1832.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1584-1640

1640-1832

Elections

See also

References

Boundaries

The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.

Members of Parliament

1584-1640

★ 1604-1611: Thomas Cheeke

★ 1604-1611: Arthur Bromfield

★ 1614: Sir Thomas Cheeke

★ 1621-1622: Arthur Bromfield

★ 1621-1622: Thomas Risley

1640-1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
April 1640		William Oglander			John Bulkeley
November 1640		Viscount L'Isle	Parliamentarian		Sir John Leigh	Parliamentarian
December 1648				''Leigh excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant''
1653	''Yarmouth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate''
January 1659		John Sadler			Richard Lucy
May 1659		Viscount L'Isle		''One seat vacant in the restored Rump''
February 1660					Sir John Leigh
April 1660		Richard Lucy
1661					Edward Smythe
1678		Thomas Lucy
February 1679					Sir Richard Mason
August 1679		Thomas Wyndham
1681		Lemuel Kingdon			Sir Thomas Littleton[1]
1685		Thomas Wyndham			William Hewer
1689		Sir Robert Holmes			Fitton Gerard
1690		Sir John Trevor[2]			Charles Duncombe	Tory
April 1695		Henry Holmes
November 1695					Anthony Morgan
1710					Sir Gilbert Dolben
1715[3]					Sir Robert Raymond	Tory
1717		Colonel Anthony Morgan			Sir Theodore Janssen[4]
1721					William Plumer
1722					Thomas Stanwix
1725					Colonel Maurice Morgan
1727		Paul Burrard
1733					Maurice Bocland
1734					Lord Harry Powlett[5]	Whig
1736		Thomas Gibson
1737					Anthony Chute
1741					Colonel Maurice Bocland
1744		Robert Carteret
1747		Thomas Holmes[6]	Whig		Colonel Henry Holmes [7]
1762					Jeremiah Dyson	Tory
1765		John Eames
1768[8]		William Strode			Jervoise Clarke	Whig
1769		Thomas Dummer			Major General the Hon. George Lane Parker
1774		Edward Meux Worsley			Jervoise Clarke Jervoise	Whig
1775		James Worsley
1779					Captain Robert Kingsmill
1780		Edward Morant			Edward Rushworth
1781					Sir Thomas Rumbold
1784					Philip Francis
1787		Thomas Clarke Jervoise
1790					Edward Rushworth
1791		Sir John Fleming Leicester			Jervoise Clarke Jervoise	Whig
1796		Edward Rushworth
1797		William Peachy
1802		James Patrick Murray
February 1803		Colonel Charles Macdonnell
October 1803		Henry Swann	Tory
February 1804		John Delgarno
March 1804		Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham
January 1806		David Scott
November 1806		Thomas William Plummer
May 1807		Hon. William Orde-Powlett
August 1807		Admiral Sir John Orde
January 1808					Benjamin Cooke Griffinhoofe
April 1808					John Delgarno
June 1808					Viscount Valentia
1810					Thomas Myers
1812		Richard Wellesley			Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery
1816					John Leslie Foster	Tory
1817		Alexander Maconochie	Tory
March 1818		John Singleton Copley	Tory
June 1818		John Taylor	Tory		William Mount	Tory
1819		Sir Peter Pole	Tory		John Wilson Croker	Tory
1820					Theodore Henry Broadhead	Tory
1821					Theodore Henry Lavington Broadhead[9]	Tory
1826		Lord Binning	Tory		Joseph Phillimore	Tory
1827		Thomas Wallace	Tory
1830		William Yates Peel	Tory		George Lowther Thompson	Tory
1831		Sir Henry Pollard Willoughby	Whig		Charles Compton Cavendish	Whig
1832	''Constituency abolished''

'Notes'
1. Died April 1681
2. Expelled from the House of Commons for accepting a bribe
3. At the election of 1715, Raymond and Holmes were declared to have defeated Morgan and Janssen, but on petition the result was reversed
4. Expelled from the House of Commons on 30 January 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
5. Powlett was also elected for Hampshire in a disputed election. He sat for Yarmouth until 1737 when the petition against the Hampshire result was withdrawn, then chose to represent Hampshire rather than Yarmouth for the remainder of the Parliament
6. Created The Lord Holmes (in the peerage of Ireland) in 1760
7. Major General from 1756, Lieutenant General from 1759
8. At the election of 1768, Strode and Clarke were declared to have defeated Dummer and Parker, but on petition the result was reversed
9. Broadhead later adopted the surname Brinckman

Elections

See also

★ Politics of the Isle of Wight

★ Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight

References

★ Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]

★ D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)

★ ''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) d&cl=CL1

★ J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)

★ Henry Stooks Smith, ''The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847'' (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)

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