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Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Former parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

Field	Value
name	Marlborough
type	Borough
parliament	uk
year	1295
abolished	1885
elects_howmany	two (1295–1868); one (1868–1885)
next	Devizes

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Marlborough was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

Members of Parliament

1295–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Thomas Cryps	url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/marlborough	title= History of Parliament	publisher = History of Parliament Trust	access-date = 2011-10-30}}
1388 (Feb)	John Curteys	John Wyly
1388 (Sep)	John Curteys	John Wyly
1390 (Jan)	Thomas Calston	Robert Warner
1390 (Nov)
1391
1393	John Curteys	Thomas Lechenore
1394	John Curteys	Richard Frys
1395	John Curteys	Robert Drake
1397 (Jan)
1397 (Sep)	John Canynges	Nicholas Cley
1399	Thomas Cryps	Thomas Cook
1401
1402	Richard Collingbourne	John Bird
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	Thomas Heose	Nicholas Tympeneye
1407
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Bird	William Byllyngtre
1414 (Apr)	Thomas Hathaway	William Alcliffe
1414 (Nov)	Thomas Hathaway	John Bird
1415	John Bird	Thomas Newman
1416 (Mar)	Thomas Newman	Nicholas Swan
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Hungate	Hugh Gower
1419
1420	Hugh Gower	Nicholas Swan
1421 (May)	Hugh Gower	Laurence Fitton
1421 (Dec)	Hugh Gower	John Giles
1455	Thomas Vaughan
1510–1523	No names known
1529	Edmund Darrell	Henry Bagot
1536	?
1539	?John Berwick	?John Thynne
1542	?William Barnes	?John Thynne
1545	John Thynne	Andrew Baynton
1547	Humphrey Moseley	Thomas Smith
1553 (Mar)	William Button	Roger Colly
1553 (Oct)	Robert Weare alias Brown	Robert Bithway
1554 (Apr)	Owen Gwyn	Thomas Tyndale
1554 (Nov)	Peter Taylor alias Perce	John Broke
1555	Andrew Baynton	Gabriel Pleydell
1558	William Daniell	William Fleetwood
1559	William Daniell	John Young
1562–3	Michael Blount	Leonard Dannett
1571	John Cornwall	Philip Godwyn
1572	Nicholas St John	John Stanhope
1584	Henry Ughtred	Edward Stanhope
1586	Edward Stanhope	Edmund Hungerford
1588	Richard Wheler	John Cornwall
1593	Richard Wheler	Anthony Hungerford
1597	Richard Digges	Richard Wheler
1601	Richard Digges	Lawrence Hyde
1604–1611	Lawrence Hyde	Richard Digges
1614	Richard Digges	Sir Francis Popham
1621	William Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, *ennobled 1621
and replaced by* Walter Devereux	Richard Digges
1624	Sir Francis Seymour	Richard Digges
1625	Richard Digges	Edward Kyrton
1626	Richard Digges	Edward Kyrton
1628	Richard Digges	Henry Piercy
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640–1868

Year	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
March 1640		Sir William Carnaby	Royalist
November 1640		John Francklyn	Parliamentarian
1641		Philip Smith	Parliamentarian
1645		Charles Fleetwood
1653	Marlborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Charles Fleetwood		*Marlborough had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate*
1656		Jerome Sankey
January 1659		Thomas Grove
May 1659		Charles Fleetwood
April 1660		Henry Hungerford
1661		Lord John Seymour
1673		Sir John Elwes
February 1679		Thomas Bennet
August 1679		Lord Bruce
1685		Sir John Ernle
January 1695		Thomas Bennet
November 1695		William Daniell
1698		The Earl of Ranelagh
January 1701		John Jeffreys
November 1701		Robert Yard
July 1702		Hon. Robert Bruce
November 1702		Edward Jeffreys
May 1705		Edward Ashe
November 1705		Earl of Hertford
May 1708		Hon. James Bruce
December 1708		Sir Edward Ernle
1710		Lord Bruce
1712		Richard Jones
1713		Gabriel Roberts
1715		Sir William Humphreys
1717		Gabriel Roberts
March 1722		Earl of Hertford
October 1722		Thomas Gibson
1727	Tories (British political party)}}"		Edward Lisle	Tory
1734		Francis Seymour
1737		John Crawley
1741	Tories (British political party)}}"		Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet	Tory
1747		John Talbot
1752		Sir John Hynde Cotton, 4th Baronet
1754		Hon. John Ward
1761		Lord Brudenell		Tories (British political party)}}"
1762	Tories (British political party)}}"		(Sir) James Long	Tory
1768	Tories (British political party)}}"		Hon. James Brudenell	Tory
1780	Tories (British political party)}}"		The Earl of Courtown	Tory	Tories (British political party)}}"
1784	Tories (British political party)}}"		Sir Philip Hales	Tory
1790	Tories (British political party)}}"		Major-General the Hon. Thomas Bruce	Tory
1793	Tories (British political party)}}"		Earl of Dalkeith	Tory
1796	Tories (British political party)}}"		Lord Bruce
Tory	Tories (British political party)}}"
1797	Tories (British political party)}}"		Robert Brudenell	Tory
1802	Tories (British political party)}}"		James Henry Leigh	Tory
1806	Tories (British political party)}}"		Earl of Dalkeith	Tory
1807	Tories (British political party)}}"		Viscount Stopford	Tory
1810	Tories (British political party)}}"		Edward Stopford	Tory
1814	Tories (British political party)}}"		William Hill	Tory
1818	Tories (British political party)}}"		John Wodehouse	Tory	Tories (British political party)}}"
1826	Tories (British political party)}}"		Earl Bruce	Tory
13 March 1829	Tories (British political party)}}"		Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt	Tory
23 March 1829	Tories (British political party)}}"		William John Bankes	Tory
1832	Tories (British political party)}}"		Lord Ernest Bruce	Tory	Tories (British political party)}}"
1834	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Conservative	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Conservative
1847	Peelite}}"		last1=Saunders	first1=Robert	title=Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act	date=2016	publisher=Routledge	location=Abingdon	isbn=978-1-4094-1794-1	pages=203–204	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwMpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA203	access-date=28 May 2018}}	Peelite}}"	Peelite
1859	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Liberal	Liberal Party (UK)}}"		Liberal
1868	Representation reduced to one member

1868–1885

Year	Member
1868	Liberal Party (UK)}}"	Lord Ernest Bruce
1878	Liberal Party (UK)}}"	Lord Charles Bruce
1885	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors =

The mayor refused to accept the nominations of Malet and Mirehouse, and Bucknall-Estcourt and Bankes were declared elected unopposed.

|reg. electors =

|reg. electors = 240

|reg. electors = 280

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 282

Baring was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring by-elections.

|reg. electors = 262

Elections in the 1850s

|reg. electors = 271

Brudenell-Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.

|reg. electors = 275

|reg. electors = 281

Elections in the 1860s

|reg. electors = 275

Seat reduced to one member

|reg. electors = 616

Elections in the 1870s

|reg. electors = 659

Brudenell-Bruce succeeded to the peerage, becoming Marquess of Ailesbury.

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 668

Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.

References and sources

;References ;Sources

Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&q=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament
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) https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/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
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)

References

"History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust.
(2004). "Vaughan, Sir Thomas".
"History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust.
"History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust.
Hertford was re-elected in 1708, but had also been elected for [[Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency). Northumberland]], which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
On petition, Ward was declared not to have been duly elected
Hertford was also elected for [[Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency). Northumberland]], which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
Lisle was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for [[Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency). Hampshire]]; however, the result there was disputed. He continued to sit for Marlborough until the Hampshire petition was withdrawn in 1737, then chose to sit for Hampshire for the rest of the Parliament
Succeeded as baronet and adopted the surname Tylney-Long in 1767
(1845). "The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive". Simpkin, Marshall, & Co..
{{London Gazette. (14 May 1814)
(2016). "Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act". Routledge.
"Peelites".
(6 August 1847). "Marlborough". Londonderry Standard.
"Marlborough".
(4 April 1857). "Marlborough". Reading Mercury.
(1977). "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885". Macmillan Press.

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