- Great Marlow (UK Parliament constituency)
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Great Marlow Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1624–1885 Number of members two (1311-1868); one (1868-1885) Great Marlow, sometimes simply called Marlow, was a parliamentary borough in Buckinghamshire. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons between 1301 and 1307, and again from 1624 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.
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History
In the 17th century a solicitor named William Hakewill, of Lincoln's Inn, rediscovered ancient writs confirming that Amersham, Great Marlow, and Wendover had all sent members to Parliament in the past, and succeeded in re-establishing their privileges (despite the opposition of James I), so that they resumed electing members from the Parliament of 1624. Hakewill himself was elected for Amersham in 1624.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1624–1640
Constituency re-enfranchised in 1624
Year First member Second member 1624 Henry Borlase Thomas Cotton 1625 John Backhouse Thomas Cotton 1626 John Backhouse Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet 1628 Sir John Backhouse Miles Hobart MPs 1640–1868
Year First member First party Second member Second party April 1640 John Borlase Royalist Sir William Hicks November 1640 [1] Gabriel Hippesley 1640 Bulstrode Whitelocke Parliamentarian Peregrine Hoby Parliamentarian December 1648 Hoby excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant 1653 Great Marlow was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 William Borlase Peregrine Hoby May 1659 Bulstrode Whitelocke One seat vacant April 1660 William Borlase Peregrine Hoby 1666 Charles Cheyne 1679 John Borlase Sir Humphrey Winch 1681 Thomas Hoby 1685 Sir John Borlase Sir Humphrey Winch January 1689 The Viscount Falkland February 1689 John Hoby December 1689 Sir William Whitelock 1690 James Chase 1695 Sir James Etheridge 1710 George Bruere 1715 The Lord Shelburne 1722 Edmund Waller Sir John Guise 1727 John Clavering 1731 George Robinson [2] 1732 by-election Sir Thomas Hoby 1741 Samuel Tufnell 1744 by-election William Ockenden 1747 Merrick Burrell 1754 Charles Churchill Daniel Moore 1761 William Clayton William Mathew Burt 1768 William Dickinson 1774 (Sir) John Borlase Warren [3] 1783 by-election William Clayton 1784 Captain Sir Thomas Rich 1790 Thomas Williams Tory William Lee-Antonie Whig 1796 Owen Williams Whig 1802 by-election Pascoe Grenfell Whig 1826 Thomas Peers Williams Tory 1832 Conservative (Sir) William Clayton [4] Whig 1842[4] Renn Hampden Conservative 1847 Brownlow William Knox Conservative 1868 Representation reduced to one member MPs 1868–1885
Election Member Party 1868 Thomas Owen Wethered Conservative 1880 Owen Lewis Cope Williams Conservative 1885 Constituency abolished Notes
- ^ The election of Borlase and Hippesley to the Long Parliament were declared void
- ^ Expelled from the House of Commons for "indirect and fraudulent Practices in the Affairs of the Charitable Corporation, and for having never attended the Service of the House, although required to do so"
- ^ Created a baronet, 1775
- ^ a b At the 1841 general election (Sir) William Clayton, who succeeded as baronet in January 1834, was initially declared re-elected by 1 vote in 1841, but on petition and after scrutiny his election was declared void and his opponent, Hampden, was declared elected instead
Election results
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References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
- Marlow, Buckinghamshire
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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