| Helston Borough constituency |
|
|---|---|
| Created: | 1298 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | 1298–1832: two 1832–1885: one |
Helston was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.
It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election.
Contents |
Members of Parliament
Before 1640
- Constituency created (1298)
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Parliament of 1553 | Thomas Mildmay | Robert Docatt | |
| Second Parliament of 1553 | William Bendlowes | Henry Nause | |
| Parliament of 1554 | William St Aubyn | John Keyme | |
| Parliament of 1554-1555 | Reginald Throckmorton | ||
| Parliament of 1555 | Thomas Mildmay | Edward Newell | |
| Parliament of 1558 | Peter Martyn | ||
| Parliament of 1559 | William Porter | John Dudley | |
| Parliament of 1563-1567 | |||
| Parliament of 1571 | Sir Edward Bray | John Gayer | |
| Parliament of 1572-1581 | William Killigrew | John Vyvyan | |
| Parliament of 1584-1585 | Humphrey Prideaux | William Lewis | |
| Parliament of 1586-1587 | William Godolphin | Hannibal Vyvyan | |
| Parliament of 1588-1589 | William Briggin | Christopher Osborne | |
| Parliament of 1593 | William Gardiner | Ralph Knevitt | |
| Parliament of 1597-1598 | William Cooke | Nicholas Sanders | |
| Parliament of 1601 | William Twysden | Hannibal Vyvyan | |
| Parliament of 1604-1611 | Sir John Leigh | John Bogans (died) Robert Naunton (from 1606) |
|
| Addled Parliament (1614) | Sir Robert Killigrew | Henry Bulstrode | |
| Parliament of 1621-1622 | Sir Thomas Stafford | William Noy | |
| Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Thomas Carey | Francis Carew | |
| Useless Parliament (1625) | |||
| Parliament of 1625-1626 | Francis Godolphin | ||
| Parliament of 1628-1629 | Sidney Godolphin | William Noy | |
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
-
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
1640-1832
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Sidney Godolphin | Royalist | William Godolphin | |||
| November 1640 | Francis Godolphin | Royalist | ||||
| February 1643 | Sidney Godolphin killed in battle - seat vacant | |||||
| January 1644 | Francis Godolphin disabled from sitting - seat vacant | |||||
| 1646 | John Penrose | John Thomas | ||||
| December 1648 | Penrose not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge | Thomas excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | ||||
| 1653 | Unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | |||||
| January 1659 | Robert Rous | Thomas Juxon | ||||
| May 1659 | Helston was unrepresented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Anthony Rous | Alexander Penhellick | ||||
| July 1660 | Thomas Robinson | (Sir) Francis Godolphin | ||||
| 1661 | Sir Peter Killigrew | |||||
| 1665 | Sir William Godolphin | |||||
| 1668 | Sidney Godolphin | Tory | ||||
| Feb 1679 | Sir Vyell Vyvyan | |||||
| Sep 1679 | Sidney Godolphin | Tory | ||||
| 1681 | Charles Godolphin | |||||
| 1685 | Sidney Godolphin | |||||
| 1689 | Sir John St. Aubyn | |||||
| 1695 | Francis Godolphin | |||||
| 1698 | Sidney Godolphin | |||||
| 1701 | Francis Godolphin[1] | |||||
| 1708 | John Evelyn | |||||
| Oct 1710 | George Granville [2] | |||||
| Dec 1710 | Robert Child | |||||
| 1713 | Henry Campion [3] | Charles Coxe [4] | ||||
| 1714 | Thomas Tonkin | Alexander Pendarves | ||||
| 1715 | Sir Gilbert Heathcote | Whig | Sidney Godolphin | |||
| 1722 | Sir Robert Raymond | Tory | Walter Carey | |||
| 1724 | Sir Clement Wearg | |||||
| 1726 | Exton Sayer | |||||
| 1727 | John Evelyn | John Harris | ||||
| 1741 | Francis Godolphin | Thomas Walker | ||||
| 1747 | (Sir) John Evelyn [5] | |||||
| 1766 | William Windham | |||||
| 1767 | ||||||
| 1768 | The Earl of Clanbrassil | |||||
| 1774 [7] | Marquess of Carmarthen | Francis Owen | ||||
| 1775 | Francis Cockayne Cust | Philip Yorke | ||||
| 1780 | Jocelyn Deane [8] | |||||
| March 1781 | Richard Barwell | |||||
| June 1781 | Lord Hyde | Tory | ||||
| 1784 | John Rogers | |||||
| 1786 | Roger Wilbraham | |||||
| 1787 | James Bland Burges | |||||
| 1790 | Sir Gilbert Elliot | Whig | Stephen Lushington [9] | |||
| 1795 | Charles Abbot | Tory [10] | ||||
| 1796 | Richard Richards | |||||
| 1799 | Lord Francis Osborne | |||||
| 1802 | Viscount Fitzharris | John Penn | ||||
| 1804 | Davies Giddy | |||||
| 1805 | Viscount Primrose | |||||
| April 1806 | Sir John Shelley | |||||
| November 1806 | Nicholas Vansittart [11] | John Du Ponthieu | ||||
| January 1807 | Thomas Brand | |||||
| May 1807 | Sir John St Aubyn | Richard Richards | ||||
| July 1807 | The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye | |||||
| 1812 | William Horne | Hugh Hammersley | ||||
| 1818 | Lord James Townshend | Tory | Harrington Hudson | |||
| 1820 | The Marquess of Carmarthen | |||||
| 1830 | Sir Samuel Brooke-Pechell | Whig | ||||
| 1831 | Sackville Walter Lane-Fox | Tory | ||||
| 1832 | Representation reduced to one member | |||||
1832-1885
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Representation reduced to one member | ||
| 1832 | Sackville Walter Lane-Fox | Conservative | |
| 1835 | Lord James Townshend | Conservative | |
| 1837 | Viscount Cantelupe | Conservative | |
| 1840 | John Basset | Conservative | |
| 1841 | Sir Richard Vyvyan | Conservative | |
| 1857 | Charles Trueman | Liberal | |
| 1859 | John Jope Rogers[12] | Conservative | |
| 1865 | Adolphus William Young | Liberal | |
| 1866[13] | Robert Campbell | Liberal | |
| Sir William Brett | Conservative | ||
| 1868 | Adolphus William Young | Liberal | |
| 1880 | William Napleton Molesworth-St Aubyn | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
- ^ Styled Viscount Rialton from 1706. He was re-elected for Helston in 1708, but had also been elected for Oxfordshire, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Helston
- ^ Granville was also elected for Cornwall, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Pontefract
- ^ Campion was also elected for Sussex, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
- ^ Coxe was also elected for Gloucester, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
- ^ Succeeded to a baronetcy, 1763
- ^ Major-General from 1770
- ^ On petition, Carmarthen and Owen were adjudged not to have been duly elected, and their opponents, Cust and Yorke, were declared to have been duly elected instead
- ^ Dean was elected at a disputed election where the returning officer made a double return. Although eventually adjudged to have been duly elected, he never sat as he had died before the case was heard.
- ^ Sir Stephen Lushington from 1791
- ^ Speaker from 1802
- ^ Vansittart was also elected for Old Sarum, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Helston
- ^ Marchant, E. C. (1897). "Rogers, John (1778–1856), divine, by E. C. Marchant" (HTML). Dictionary of National Biography Vol. IL. Smith, Elder & Co.. http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=23988. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ^ At the Helston by-election, 1866, both candidates polled exactly the same number of votes. The mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote for the Liberal candidate Robert Campbell. As this vote was given after four o'clock, however, an appeal was lodged, and the House of Commons declared that the returning officer had no right to a casting vote, and that he should have returned the names of both tied candidates. On scrutiny of the votes, one vote was struck off Campbell's total, and the Conservative candidate Sir William Baliol Brett declared duly elected.
Elections
 |
This section requires expansion. |
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)
- 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)
- Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [3]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
| This United Kingdom constituency article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
