Milborne Port (UK Parliament constituency)

Milborne Port
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Somerset
Major settlements	Milborne Port
1628–1832
Number of members	Two

Milborne Port is a former parliamentary borough located in Somerset. It elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons between 1298 and 1307 and again from 1628, but was disenfranchised in the Reform Act 1832 as a rotten borough.

Members of Parliament

Milborne Port re-franchised in 1628

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1628		Philip Digby			Sir Nathaniel Napier
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

MPs 1640–1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
April 1640		Edward Kyrton	Royalist		Thomas Erle
November 1640					Lord Digby [1]	Royalist
1640 (?)					John Digby	Royalist
August 1642	Kyrton and Digby disabled from sitting – both seats vacant
1645		William Carent			Thomas Grove
December 1648				Grove excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653	Milborne Port was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654,1656	Milborne Port was unrepresented in the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments
January 1659		William Carent			Robert Hunt
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		William Milborne			Michael Malet
August 1660		Francis Wyndham
1677		John Hunt
February 1679					William Lacy
August 1679					Henry Bull
1689					Thomas Saunders
1690		Sir Thomas Travell			Sir Charles Carteret
January 1701					Sir Richard Newman
December 1701					Henry Thynne
1702					John Hunt
1705					Thomas Medlycott [2]
1709					Thomas Smith
1710					James Medlycott
1715		John Cox
June 1717		Michael Harvey [3]
July 1717 [3]		Charles Stanhope
1722		Michael Harvey			George Speke
1727					Thomas Medlycott
1734					Thomas Medlycott, junior
1741		Jeffrey French
1742 by-election					Michael Harvey
1747[4]
1748 by-election					Thomas Medlycott, junior
1754		Edward Walter
1763 by-election					Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott
1770 by-election					Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough
April 1772 by-election [5]					Richard Combe [6]
May 1772 [5]					George Prescott
1774		Hon. Temple Luttrell			Captain Charles Wolseley
1780		John Townson			Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott
1781 by-election					John Pennington[7]
1787 by-election		William Popham
1790		William Coles Medlycott
1791 by-election		Richard Johnson
1794 by-election		Colonel Mark Wood
1796		Lord Paget			Sir Robert Ainslie
1802					Hugh Leycester
1804 by-election		Captain Charles Paget
1806		Lord Paget
January 1810 by-election		Viscount Lewisham
December 1810		Hon. Sir Edward Paget	Tory
1812					Robert Matthew Casberd	Tory
1820		Hon. Berkeley Paget	Tory		Thomas North Graves	Tory
1826		Arthur Chichester	Whig
1827 by-election					John Henry North	Tory
1830		George Stevens Byng	Whig		William Sturges-Bourne	Tory
4 March 1831 by-election		Richard Lalor Sheil	Whig
14 March 1831 by-election					Captain George Stevens Byng	Whig
July 1831 by-election		Philip Cecil Crampton	Whig
1832		Constituency abolished

Notes

1. Lord Digby was also elected for Dorset, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Milborne Port
2. Medlycott was re-elected at the general election of 1708, but had also been elected for Westminster, and did not sit for Milborne Port in that Parliament
3. At the by-election of 1717, Harvey was initially declared elected by 27 votes to 22, but after considering a petition alleging gross bribery the House of Commons overturned the result and declared his opponent, Stanhope, to have been elected instead
4. At the 1747 general election, there was a double return for Milborne Port: Jeffrey French, Michael Harvey, Charles Churchill and Thomas Medlycott, junior were all returned (see The London Gazette: no. 8660. p. 2. 21 July 1747. Retrieved 20 November 2010.). The first two (i.e. French, Harvey) were seated (see Stooks Smith, page 535)
5. The result of the 1772 by-election was overturned on petition in May 1772, and Richard Combe was unseated in favour of George Prescott (Stooks Smith, p. 535)
6. At the by-election of 1772, Combe was initially declared elected but on petition the result was overturned and his opponent, Prescott, was seated
7. Created The Lord Muncaster (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1783

References

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
• 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)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 3 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1850)
• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.

See also

• Milborne Port