- Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency)
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Wiltshire, North or Cricklade Division Former County constituency for the House of Commons 1885–1918 Number of members one Cricklade Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1295–1885 Number of members two Cricklade was a parliamentary constituency named after the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire.
From 1295 until 1885, Cricklade was a parliamentary borough, returning two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, previously to the House of Commons of England.
Initially this consisted of only the town of Cricklade, but from 1782 the vote was extended to the surrounding countryside as a punishment for the borough's corruption. The extended area came to include the village of Swindon, which later grew into a large town with the coming of the railways in the 19th century.
From the 1885 general election the borough was abolished, but the name was transferred to a county division of Wiltshire covering much the same area, and electing a single MP. This constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election, being mostly replaced by the new Swindon constituency.
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Members of Parliament
1295-1640
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- Constituency created 1295
Parliament First member Second member 1386 John Andrew Andrew Jones [1] 1388 (Feb) John Andrew Thomas Weston [1] 1388 (Sep) 1390 (Jan) ?John Crouch ?William Plomer II [1] 1399 Robert Andrew John Ferrour [1] 1413 (May) Thomas Cricklade Robert Newman [1] 1421 (Dec) [Thomas] Cricklade Geoffrey Cowbridge [1] 1442 John Long 1529 Robert Curzon William Rede [2] 1547 John Winchcombe alias Smallwood John Walshe [2] 1553 (Mar) ? 1553 (Oct) Thomas Parker William Badger [2] 1554 (Apr) William Hampshire John Tunks [2] 1554 (Nov) Thomas Parker John Rede [2] 1555 Sir Nicholas Poyntz George Huntley [2] 1558 William Hampshire John Marmion [2] 1559 Sir Walter Denys John Astley [3] 1562/3 Nicholas St John Anthony Throckmorton [3] 1571 Sir Nicholas Arnold Giles Brydges [3] 1572 William Brydges John Higford [3] 1584 Rowland Leigh Richard Smith [3] 1586 John Higford Richard Delabere [3] 1588/9 George Snigge Thomas Smith [3] 1593 Henry Noel John Pleydell [3] 1597 Sir George Gifford Grey Brydges[4] [3] 1601 Sir George Gifford Robert Master[3] 1604-1611 Sir John Hungerford Sir Henry Poole 1614 Sir Thomas Monson Sir John Eyre 1621-1622 Sir Thomas Howard Sir Carew Reynolds 1624 Sir William Howard Sir Neville Poole 1625 Hungerford Dunch Nevill Maskelyne 1626 Sir George Hungerford George Ernle 1628 Robert Jenner Sir Edward Hungerford[5] 1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned 1640-1885
Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party November 1640 Robert Jenner Parliamentarian Thomas Hodges Parliamentarian December 1648 Jenner excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant Hodges not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge 1653 Cricklade was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 Edward Poole John Hawkins May 1659 Cricklade was unrepresented in the restored Rump April 1660 Hungerford Dunch Nevil Maskelyne 1661 Sir George Hungerford John Ernle 1679 Hungerford Dunch Edmund Webb 1680 John Pleydell 1681 William Lenthall 1685 Charles Fox 1689 Thomas Freke 1690 Edmund Richmond Webb 1698 Edward Pleydell 1699 Sir Stephen Fox 1701 Edmund Dunch Whig 1702 Thomas Richmond Webb Samuel Barker 1705 Edmund Dunch Whig 1708 James Vernon the younger Whig 1710 Samuel Robinson 1713 Sir Thomas Reade William Gore [6] 1714 Samuel Robinson 1715 Jacob Sawbridge[7] 1721 Hon. Matthew Ducie Moreton 1722 Thomas Gore 1727 Christopher Tilson 1734 William Gore 1739 Charles Gore 1741 Welbore Ellis 1747 William Rawlinson Earle Lieutenant-Colonel John Gore 1754 Thomas Gore 1761 Arnold Nesbitt 1768 Hon. George Damer Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Fletcher 1774 William Earle Arnold Nesbitt 1775 Samuel Peach[8] 1776 John Dewar 1779 John Macpherson [9] 1780 Paul Benfield 1782 Hon. George St John 1784 [10] Charles Westley Coxe Robert Adamson 1785 John Walker-Heneage Robert Nicholas 1790 Thomas Estcourt 1794 Lord Porchester 1806 Thomas Goddard 1811 William Herbert 1812 Joseph Pitt Thomas Calley Whig 1818 Robert Gordon Whig 1831 Thomas Calley Whig 1835 John Neeld Conservative 1837 Ambrose Goddard Conservative 1841 Hon. Henry Howard Whig 1847 Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard Conservative 1859 Lord Ashley Liberal 1865 Sir Daniel Gooch Conservative 1868 Hon. Frederick Cadogan Liberal 1874 Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard Conservative 1880 Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne Liberal 1885 Borough abolished - replaced by county constituency returning one member 1885-1918
Election Member Party 1885 Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne Liberal 1886 Liberal Unionist 1892 John Husband Liberal 1895 Alfred Hopkinson Liberal Unionist 1898 by-election Lord Edmond FitzMaurice (later 1st Baron FitzMaurice) Liberal 1906 John Massie Liberal January 1910 Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley Liberal Unionist December 1910 Richard Cornthwaite Lambert Liberal 1918 constituency abolished: see Swindon Notes
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"Brydges, Grey". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - ^ Wroughton, John, "Hungerford, Sir Edward", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14173
- ^ Gore was also elected for Colchester, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Cricklade
- ^ Sawbridge was expelled from the House for his role in the South Sea Bubble
- ^ A by-election was held in December 1774 after the death of William Earle, but the result was disputed and the Returning Officer made a double return, naming both Samuel Peach and John Dewar. The Commons declared the election void, and a second election was held; Peach was initially declared elected but on petition the result was reversed and Dewar took his seat.
- ^ On petition, Macpherson's election in 1779 was declared void and a new writ issued, but he was re-elected in the by-election. At the general election of 1780 he was again elected and his opponent again entered a petition. On investigation the Committee reported that "instances of the most notorious bribery had occurred"; the House voted that neither Macpherson nor his opponent Samuel Petrie were duly elected, and shortly afterwards passed an Act to extend the right of voting in Cricklade to the surrounding hundreds.
- ^ On petition the result of the election of 1784 was reversed, Coxe and Adamson being declared not duly elected and Heneage and Nicholas being seated in their place
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) [2]
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1295
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- Politics of Swindon
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