Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)

Rochester was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned two Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1885 general election, when its representation as reduced to one seat.

It was abolished for the 1918 general election, and replaced by the new Chatham and Gillingham constituencies.

Members of Parliament

1295-1640

* 1555: Edward Baeshe
* 1559: Edward Baeshe
* 1563-1567: Edward Baeshe
* 1572-1581: George Catelyn
* 1588-1589: John Stanhope
* 1597-1614: (Sir) Thomas Walsingham
* 1604-1614: Sir Edward Hoby
* 1614: Sir Edwin Sandys
* 1621-1626: Sir Thomas Walsingham
* 1621-1622: H Clerke
* 1628-1629: William Brooke

1640-1918

1885-1918

Notes

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]
* Maija Jansson (ed.), "Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)" (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
* J E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
*Rayment