Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
- Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
UK former constituency infobox
Name = Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)
Type = Borough
Year = 1584
Abolition = 1832
members = two
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.
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
Notes
Elections
ee also
*Politics of the Isle of Wight
*Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight
*Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency) in Norfolk
References
* Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=024wW9LmFc5kXY0FI2&id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&printsec=toc&dq=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament&as_brr=1&sig=SK5GVtGLfWQ9ovZDbyZObAyIO5I#PPP9,M1]
* 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) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=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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