Bridgnorth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency main Bridgnorth was a parliamentary borough in Shropshire which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1295 until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1885.

It was represented by two burgesses until 1868, when it was reduced to one Member of Parliament (MP).

Boundaries

According to the 1881 census, the borough of Bridgnorth comprised the parishes of Quatford, part of Quatt, St. Leonard and St Mary (in Bridgnorth town), Astley Abbotts, Eardingdon, Oldbury, Romsley and Tasley. This was smaller than the municipal borough, which only contained the first four.[1]

History

By the eighteenth century Bridgnorth had one of the widest franchises in England, consisting of "the burgesses and freement within and without the borough".[2] There were more than a thousand voters in the contested elections of 1727, 1734 and 1741[3] although in 1920 it was noted as 700.[2] Between 1661 and 1870 at least one of the MPs for Bridgnorth came from the Whitmore family.[3]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1295–1640

MPs 1295-1640 — MPs 1640-1868 — MPs 1868-1885 — Elections — See also — Notes and references — Sources

Parliament First member Second member
1388 (Feb) John Farnales William Palmer I[4]
1388 (Sep) William Palmer I William Goldsmith[4]
1390 (Jan) William Palmer I John Farnales[4]
1390 (Nov)
1391 William Palmer I Thomas Horde[4]
1393 William Palmer I John Farnales[4]
1394 William Palmer I John Farnales[4]
1395 William Palmer I John Farnales[4]
1397 (Jan) William Palmer I John Blockley[4]
1397 (Sep)
1399 William Palmer I Thomas Horde[4]
1402 Hugh Harnage John Bruyn[4]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406 Hugh Harnage Walter Green[4]
1407 Walter Green John Cook[4]
1410 ... Lange [4]
1411 Thomas Hopton Hugh Stanford[4]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) Hugh Stanford Thomas Green [4]
1414 (Apr) Richard Parlour Thomas Odyes[4]
1414 (Nov) Richard Horde Richard Parlour[4]
1415
1416 (Mar) Richard Horde Richard Parlour[4]
1416 (Oct)
1417 Richard Horde Richard Parlour[4]
1419 Richard Horde Richard Parlour[4]
1420 Richard Horde William Stapeley[4]
1421 (May) Thomas Green Robert Aylesbury[4]
1421 (Dec) Thomas Green Richard Parlour[4]
1425 John Bruyn[5]
1510-1523 No names known[6]
1529 Humphrey Goldston George Hayward[6]
1536 ?
1539 ?
1542 Edward Hall William Grey[6]
1545 Edward Hall Henry Blount [6]
1547 Roger Smith John Pulley[6]
1553 (Mar) Ambrose Gilberd Roger Smith [6]
1553 (Oct) Sir George Blount Jerome Horde[6]
1554 (Apr) Jerome Horde William Acton[6]
1554 (Nov) John Horde Jerome Horde[6]
1555 Jerome Horde William Acton [6]
1558 John Broke Thomas Bromley[6]
1559 Sir George Blount Richard Prince[7]
1562–3 John Broke Edward Cordell[7]
1571 Henry Townshend Thomas Otley[7]
1572 Henry Townshend Thomas Seckford, died
and replaced in 1580 by Edmund Molyneux [7]
1584 Jerome Corbet Walter Lee [7]
1586 Edward Bromley John Lutwich[7]
1588 Edward Bromley John Lutwich[7]
1593 Edward Bromley John Lutwich[7]
1597 Edward Bromley John Lutwich[7]
1601 Thomas Horde Edward Bromley[7]
1604 Sir Lewis Lewknor Edward Bromley,
replaced by Francis Lacon
1614 John Pierse Richard Singe
1621-1622 Sir John Hayward William Whitmore
1624 Sir William Whitmore George Smith
1625 Sir William Whitmore George Vernon
1626 Sir Richard Shelton George Vernon
1628-1629 Sir Richard Shelton Sir George Paule
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

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MPs 1640–1868

Elected First member First party Second member Second party
rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | April 1640 Edward Acton Royalist (Sir) Thomas Whitmore
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | November 1640 (Sir) Thomas Whitmore[8] Royalist
February 1644 Acton and Whitmore disabled to sit - both seats vacant
1646 Robert Clive Robert Charlton
December 1648 Clive and Charlton not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653 Bridgnorth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 William Crown Bridgnorth had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Edmund Waring
January 1659 Edmund Waring John Humphrys
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Sir Walter Acton John Bennet
1661 Sir William Whitmore, Bt
1663 Sir Thomas Whitmore
1685 Roger Pope
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"| 1689 Sir Edward Acton, Bt Tory
1694 Roger Pope
1702 Sir Humphrey Brigges, Bt
1705 William Whitmore
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1710 Whitmore Acton Richard Cresswell Tory
1713 William Whitmore John Weaver
1725 St John Charlton
1734 Thomas Whitmore Grey James Grove
1741 William Whitmore
1747 Arthur Weaver
1754 Hon. John Grey William Whitmore[9]
1768 The Lord Pigot
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"| 1771 Thomas Whitmore Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1778 Hugh Pigot[11] Whig[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"| 1784 Isaac Hawkins Browne Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1795 John Whitmore Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="4"| 1806 Thomas Whitmore Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1812 Hon. Charles Jenkinson Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1818 Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"| 1820 William Wolryche-Whitmore Whig[10][12]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1831 James Foster Whig[10][13]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1832 Robert Pigot Tory[10] Thomas Charlton Whitmore Tory[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"| 1834 Conservative[10] Conservative[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1837 Henry Hanbury-Tracy Whig[10][14]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"| 1838 by-election Sir Robert Pigot Conservative[10]
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2"| 1852 Henry Whitmore Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="3"| 1853 by-election[15] John Pritchard Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1865[16] Sir John Dalberg-Acton, Bt Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1866[16] Henry Whitmore Conservative
1868 Representation reduced to one Member

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MPs 1868–1885

Election Member Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1868 Henry Whitmore Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1870 by-election William Henry Foster Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1880 Conservative
1885 Constituency abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act

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Elections

1830s – 1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1870s – 1880s – See also – Notes and references – Sources

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[10]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Thomas Whitmore Template:Replace 41.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". William Wolryche-Whitmore Template:Replace 38.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Richard Arkwright 369 21.0
Turnout 986 1,759 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 52 3.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing
Majority 300 17.0 Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1831: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[10]
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General election 1832: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[10][17]
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General election 1835: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[10][17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Thomas Charlton Whitmore Template:Replace 38.7 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Robert Pigot Template:Replace 33.4 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Henry Hanbury-Tracy 353 27.9 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 70 5.5 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 698 88.2 Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing N/A
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General election 1837: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[10][17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Thomas Charlton Whitmore Template:Replace 36.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Henry Hanbury-Tracy Template:Replace 31.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Robert Pigot 367 31.4 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 727 92.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 58 5.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing −1.9
Majority 4 0.4 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Template:Yesno Swing +3.9

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Hanbury-Tracy resigned, by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, after a petition was lodged against his election.

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By-election, 20 February 1838: Bridgnorth[10][17]
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Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[10][17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Thomas Charlton Whitmore Template:Replace 39.3 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Robert Pigot Template:Replace 37.6 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Frederick John Howard[18] 225 17.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Nicholas Throckmorton[19] 66 5.2 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 250 19.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 703 86.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +3.5
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Template:Yesno Swing +5.3

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

General election 1847: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Thomas Charlton Whitmore Template:Replace 44.7 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Robert Pigot Template:Replace 28.4 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Easthope[20] 368 26.9 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 20 1.5 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 684 (est) 81.6 (est) Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +3.2
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing −5.6

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Henry Whitmore Template:Replace 40.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Robert Pigot Template:Replace 33.1 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Frederick William Cadogan[21] 283 26.1 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 77 7.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 685 (est) 95.5 (est) Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing −1.8
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +2.6

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Pigot's election was declared void on petition due to bribery, causing a by-election.[22]

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By-election, 22 March 1853: Bridgnorth[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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General election 1857: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
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Whitmore was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

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By-election, 3 March 1858: Bridgnorth[17]
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General election 1859: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Bridgnorth (2 seats)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Pritchard Template:Replace 34.1 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Dalberg-Acton Template:Replace 33.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Henry Whitmore 288 32.9 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 583 (est) 94.9 (est) Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors Template:Replace Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 10 1.1 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing N/A
Majority 1 0.1 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Template:Yesno Swing N/A

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

On 22 March 1866, after scrutiny, Dalberg-Acton was unseated and Whitmore was duly elected in his place.

Whitmore was then appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

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By-election, 21 Jul 1866: Bridgnorth (1 seat)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

The seat was reduced to one member for the 1868 election.

General election 1868: Bridgnorth[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Henry Whitmore Template:Replace 52.4 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Dalberg-Acton 497 47.6 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 51 4.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 1,045 81.7 Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors 1,279 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing −14.6

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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Elections in the 1870s

Whitmore resigned, causing a by-election.

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By-election, 16 Feb 1870: Bridgnorth[17]
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General election 1874: Bridgnorth[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". William Henry Foster Template:Replace 71.8 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". George Barbour[23] 275 28.2 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 426 43.6 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 976 77.0 Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors 1,267 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Template:Yesno Swing +24.2

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Bridgnorth[17]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". William Henry Foster Template:Replace 66.6 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Edward Reid Vyvyan[24] 321 33.4 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 320 33.2 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 962 78.6 Script error: No such module "String".
Registered electors 1,224 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Template:Yesno Swing +38.4

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Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Back to Elections

See also

Notes and references

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ a b Pages 242 to 243,Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  8. ↑ Created a baronet, June 1641
  9. ↑ Later Lieutenant-General
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  11. ↑ Later Admiral
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  13. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  14. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  15. ↑ The re-election of Sir Robert Pigot at the 1852 general election was voided on petition, triggering the 1853 by-election. A petition was also lodged against Henry Whitmore, but was dismissed.
  16. ↑ a b The election in 1865 of Sir John Dalberg-Acton, Bt was overturned on petition in 1866, and in 1866 the seat was awarded instead to Henry Whitmore
  17. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  18. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  19. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  20. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  21. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  22. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  23. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  24. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

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Sources

  • 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]
  • David Hayton, 'The Country Party in the House of Commons 1698-1699', Parliamentary History, volume 6 (1987), 141-63
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  • Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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