- New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)
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For the 1974 to 1997 constituency, see Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency).
New Shoreham Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons County Sussex (now West Sussex) Major settlements Shoreham-by-Sea 1295–1885 Number of members Two Replaced by Chichester New Shoreham, sometimes simply called Shoreham, was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in what is now West Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, then to then House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until it was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election.
A modern constituency called Shoreham existed from 1974 to 1997.
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Boundaries, Franchise and Boundary Changes
New Shoreham is a part of Shoreham-by-Sea, located around its port. The borough, in 1800, had about 1,000 electors. The qualification for the vote before 1832, unusually for a borough, was the possession of a 40 shilling freehold which was the normal franchise for a county constituency.
The explanation for the franchise qualification was the result of a disputed by-election in 1770. At that time all the electors qualified by paying scot and lot, a local property tax. Stooks Smith provides two notes on what happened, following a result in which Thomas Rumbold received 87 votes and John Purling had 37 votes (a third candidate, William James, received 4 votes).
The Returning Officer on the ground that nearly all the 87 were bribed declared Mr. Purling elected, but Mr. Rumbold was seated on petition. On the 14th Feb. 1771, Mr. Roberts the Returning Officer was brought to the Bar of the House, and on his knees received a very severe reprimand from the Speaker for having taken upon himself to return Mr. Purling.
However as a result of Mr. Roberts action there had been an investigation.
The evidence given by the Returning Officer, Mr. Hugh Roberts, before the Committee, was the means of bringing to light a most singular system of wholesale bribery, carried on by a body of Electors, who styled themselves, the "Christian Society", and who had for some time being in the habit of selling seats to the highest bidders. By 11th Geo. III. C. 55, the whole of the members, amounting to 81, were deprived of the right of again voting at any Parliamentary Election, and the old class of voters disfranchised, the right of election being extended to the 40s. freeholders of the Rape of Bramber.
The rapes were traditional subdivisions of Sussex. The six rapes each consisted of a strip of territory from the northern border of the county to its southern coast, so the area involved was considerably larger than that of the normal Parliamentary borough.
As a result of the extension of the boundaries the constituency became more like a county one than a typical borough of the era.
When an electoral register was first compiled, before the 1832 election, the 1,925 electors included 701 freeholders and 189 scot and lot voters. The remaining electors would have qualified under the occupation franchise introduced for all boroughs by the Reform Act 1832, which also preserved the ancient right franchises of the existing electors.
Members of Parliament
1295-1640
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Parliament First member Second member 1386 Richard Bernard William Corveysor [1] 1388 (Feb) Richard Bernard Simon Benefeld [1] 1388 (Sep) Richard Bernard John Skully [1] 1390 (Jan) Richard Bernard Simon Benefeld [1] 1390 (Nov) 1391 Robert Frye John Skully [1] 1393 Richard Bernard John Skully [1] 1394 1395 Richard Bernard Simon Benefeld [1] 1397 (Jan) Robert Frye Simon Benefeld [1] 1397 (Sep) Gregory Fromond William Hulle [1] 1399 Robert Frye John Soper [1] 1401 1402 William Ede Roger Farmcombe [1] 1404 (Jan) 1404 (Oct) 1406 William Hokere William Peck [1] 1407 John atte Gate John Skully [1] 1410 1411 1413 (Feb) 1413 (May) William Ede John Draper [1] 1414 (Apr) 1414 (Nov) William Ede Robert Benefeld [1] 1415 1416 (Mar) William Askewith John Draper [1] 1416 (Oct) 1417 Richard Dammer Adam Feret [1] 1419 1420 1421 (May) 1421 (Dec) John Findon Richard Roger [1] 1510-1523 No names known[2] 1529 John Covert John Michell [2] 1536 ? 1539 ? 1542 ? 1545 John Gates[3] Henry Gates[2] 1547 William Fitzwilliam Anthony Bourchier, dies
and repl. by Jan 1552 by Sir Henry Hussey [2]1553 (Mar) John Fowler Thomas Harvey[2] 1553 (Oct) Thomas Roper Thoms Elrington[2] 1554 (Apr) Leonard West William Mody[2] 1554 (Nov) Simon Lowe alias Fyfield William Mody[2] 1555 Francis Shirley Thomas Hogan [2] 1558 Anthony Hussey Richard Baker [2] 1558/9 Richard Fulmerston John Hussey [4] 1562/3 Henry Knollys[5] Nicholas Mynn [4] 1571 William Dix John Bowles[4] 1572 Edward Lewknor Edward Fenner[6][4] 1584 William Necton Thomas Fenner[7][4] 1586 William Nector John Young[4] 1588 William Nector John Young[4] 1593 William Nector Herbert Morley[4] 1597 William Nector John Young[4] 1601 John Morley Robert Booth[4] 1604-1611 Sir Bernard Whetston Sir Hugh Beeston 1614 Lord Howard of Effingham Thomas Shelley 1621-1622 Sir John Morley Sir John Leedes 1624 Anthony Stapley William Marlott 1625 Anthony Stapley William Marlott 1626 John Alford William Marlott 1628-1629 Robert Morley William Marlott 1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned 1640-1885
Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party April 1640 William Marlott Parliamentarian John Alford Parliamentarian November 1640 1646 Herbert Springet December 1648 Springet and Alford excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant 1653 New Shoreham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 John Whaley Edward Blaker May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 (Sir) Herbert Springet [8] Edward Blaker 1662 William Quatremaine 1667 John Fagg 1673 Henry Goring 1678 Sir Anthony Deane February 1679 Robert Fagg John Cheale August 1679 John Hales 1681 Robert Fagg 1685 Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Richard Haddock 1689 John Monke 1690 John Perry 1695 Henry Priestman 1698 Charles Sergison 1701 Nathaniel Gould 1702 John Perry 1705 John Wicker May 1708 Anthony Hammond [9] Richard Lloyd December 1708 Sir Gregory Page 1710 (Sir) Nathaniel Gould 1713 Francis Chamberlayne 1715 Sir Gregory Page 1720 Francis Chamberlayne 1729 Samuel Ongley John Gould 1734 Thomas Frederick John Phillipson 1740 John Frederick 1741 Charles Frederick Thomas Brand 1747 Robert Bristow 1754 Richard Stratton 1758 Sir William Williams March 1761 The Viscount Midleton December 1761 The Lord Pollington [10] 1765 Vice-Admiral (Sir) Samuel Cornish [11] 1768 Peregrine Cust November 1770 John Purling [12] December 1770 Thomas Rumbold 1774 Charles Goring Sir John Shelley 1780 Sir Cecil Bisshopp John Peachey 1790 Sir Harry Goring John Clater Aldridge 1795 Hon. Charles Wyndham 1796 Sir Cecil Bisshopp 1802 Timothy Shelley 1806 Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Bt Tory 1818 James Martin Lloyd 1826 Henry Howard 1832 Conservative Harry Goring [13] Whig 1837 Charles Goring Conservative 1849 Lord Alexander Gordon-Lennox Conservative 1859 Rt Hon. Sir Stephen Cave Conservative 1862 Sir Percy Burrell, Bt Conservative 1876 Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, Bt Conservative 1880 Robert Loder Conservative 1885 constituency abolished Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/new-shoreham. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/new-shoreham. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ "Gates, Sir John", 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/10448
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/new-shoreham. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
- ^ "New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)", 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/default
- ^ "New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)", 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/default
- ^ "New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)", 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/default
- ^ Created a baronet, January 1661
- ^ In December 1708 Hammond, who was a Commissioner of the Navy, was voted by the House of Commons to be therefore ineligible for election, and a writ for a by-election was immediately issued
- ^ Created Earl of Mexborough (in the Peerage of Ireland), February 1766
- ^ Created a baronet, February 1766
- ^ On petition, Purling was declared not have been duly elected, and his opponent Rumbold was declared to have been elected instead. Furthermore, the House voted that "the most corrupt practices had been used", and an Act of Parliament was passed in 1771 to permanently disqualify the returning officer and 80 other voters from ever voting again in a Parliamentary election, and to extend the right to vote for the Members for New Shoreham to all the 40 shilling freeholders of the Rape of Bramber.
- ^ Goring was classified by Craig as a Liberal, although his entry in Dod's Parliamentary Companion (reprinted in Stenton) describes him as "inclined to Conservative principles".
See also
External sources
- [1] Victoria History of the County of Sussex - south part of the Rape of Bramber
References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) out of copyright
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
- 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]
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
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- Parliamentary constituencies in South East England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1295
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
- Politics of West Sussex
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