Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency

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. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town centre of Arundel

Arundel

Arundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...

 and was a borough constituency first enfranchised in 1332 and disfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867

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. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.

The second incarnation of the seat comprised also the area surrounding Arundel, including Littlehampton

Littlehampton

Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....

. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, and existed until 1997. This Arundel seat elected only one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.

1332-1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	William Colyn	Richard Wodeland
1388 (Feb)	Roger Clerk	John Hereward
1388 (Sep)	Robert Fisher	Nicholas Hereward
1390 (Jan)	William Colcheter	Robert Fisher
1390 (Nov)
1391	Hugh Hasell	Richard Wodeland
1393	John Chamberlain	Robert Fisher
1394
1395	Richard Wodeland	Robert Fisher
1397 (Jan)	Henry Skimmer	Richard Wodeland
1397 (Sep)	John Patching	Richard Wodeland
1399	John Esshing	William Terry
1401	William Terry	John Wiltshire
1402	John Dusse	John Wyldebess
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	John Patching	Thomas Spicer
1407	John Dusse	John Patching
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Dusse	John Wiltshire
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	John Dusse	John Patching
1415
1416 (Mar)	William Chapman	Richard Smith
1416 (Oct)
1417	Thomas Dusse	Richard Smith
1419	John Hilly	Thomas Kyng
1420	Thomas Dusse	Thomas Pursell
1421 (May)	John Hilly	Alan Chamber
1421 (Dec)	Thomas Pursell	Thomas Dusse
1510-1523	No names known
1529	Richard Sackville	Thomas Prestall
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	?
1547	Sir Nicholas Pelham	Thomas Carpenter
1553 (Mar)	Thomas Palmer	Thomas Morley
1553 (Oct)	Sir Thomas Palmer	Thomas Gawdy Thomas Gawdy Sir Thomas Gawdy SL was a British justice and Member of Parliament.He was the second of three sons of Thomas Gawdy, all by different wives and all baptised Thomas The mother of this Thomas was Anne Bennett...
1554 (Apr)	Sir Thomas Holcroft Sir Thomas Holcroft Sir Thomas Holcroft was a sixteenth-century English courtier and politician.He was born at Vale Royal, Cheshire, the son of John Holcroft and Margaret Massey...	Sir Thomas Stradling
1554 (Nov)	John Burnet	Richard Bowyer
1555	Sir Henry Paget Henry Paget, 2nd Baron Paget Henry Paget, 2nd Baron Paget was an English MP and peer.He was the son of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert, Staffordshire and his wife Anne Preston. He was knighted in 1553 and succeeded to the title Baron Paget in 1563 on the death of his father.He was elected as Member of Parliament...	Sir William Damsell William Damsell Sir William Damsell , sometimes spelt Damosel, was Receiver-General of the Court of Wards and Liveries and a Member of Parliament....
1558	Edward Stradling	David Stradling
1559	Sir Francis Knollys Francis Knollys (the elder) Sir Francis Knollys , of Greys Court, in Oxfordshire, KG was an English courtier in the service and favour of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I of England, and was a Member of Parliament for a number of constituencies....	Thomas Heneage Thomas Heneage Sir Thomas Heneage PC was an English politician and a courtier at the court of Elizabeth I.-Early and personal life:...
1562/3	Sir John St Leger John St Leger Sir John St Leger , of Annery in Devon, was an English Member of Parliament.He was the grandson of John St Leger and Katherine Neville...	William Aubrey William Aubrey William Aubrey was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1553 to 1559, and was one of the founding Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford. He was also a MP.-Early life and Oxford University:...
1571	Thomas Browne	Michael Heneage
1572	Thomas Fanshawe	Richard Browne
1584	Thomas Fanshawe	Robert Buxton
1586	Thomas Fanshawe	Thomas Palmer
1588	Sir Owen Hopton	Thomas Fanshawe
1593	Thomas Fanshawe	Richard Baker Richard Baker (chronicler) Sir Richard Baker was the English author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works.-Life:He was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, the grandson of Sir John Baker, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, as a commoner in 1584...
1597	William Essex	James Smith
1601	Thomas Palmer	Thomas Baker
1604-1611	Thomas Preston	John Tye
1614	Sir Henry Spiller	Edward Morley
1621	Lionel Cranfield Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex was a successful merchant in London, England.-Life:He was the second son of Thomas Cranfield, a mercer at London, and his wife Martha Randill, the daughter and heiress of Vincent Randill of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. He was apprenticed in to Richard Sheppard, a... , ennobled Sep 1622 and repl. Nov 1622 by Sir Richard Weston Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, KG , was Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Lord Treasurer of England under James I and Charles I, being one of the most influential figures in the early years of Charles I's Personal Rule and the architect of many of the policies that enabled him to rule...	Sir Henry Spiller
1624	Sir Henry Spiller	Sir George Chaworth George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth of Armagh was an English Parliamentarian.-Family:He was the son of John Chaworth and Jane Vincent. His main residence was Wiverton Hall in Nottinghamshire. He married Mary Knyveton, daughter of William Knyveton and Jane Leeche...
1625	Sir Henry Spiller	William Mills
1626	Nicholas Jordain	William Mills
1628	John Alford John Alford (MP) John Alford was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1626 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War....	Henry Lord Maltravers Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, PC was an English noble and the second son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel and Lady Alethea Talbot, later 13th Baroness Furnivall...
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		April 1640 Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640 during the reign of King Charles I of England, so called because it lasted only three weeks....	Henry Garton Henry Garton Henry Garton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1641.Garton was the son of Sir Peter Garton of Woolavington, Sussex. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 27 Octoner 1615, aged 15 and was awarded BA on 20 April 1618...	Parliamentarian	Henry Goring
		November 1640 Long Parliament The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...	Henry Garton Henry Garton Henry Garton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1641.Garton was the son of Sir Peter Garton of Woolavington, Sussex. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 27 Octoner 1615, aged 15 and was awarded BA on 20 April 1618...	Parliamentarian	Sir Edward Alford	Royalist
		1641	John Downes John Downes (regicide) Colonel John Downes was a commissioner who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England. After the English Restoration he was found guilty of regicide and was imprisoned until he died....	Parliamentarian
		January 1644			Alford disabled from sitting - seat vacant
		1645			Herbert Hay
		December 1648			Hay excluded in Pride's Purge Pride's Purge Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...  - seat vacant
		1653	Arundel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament Barebones Parliament Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...
		1654 First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....	Anthony Shirley Sir Anthony Shirley, 1st Baronet Sir Anthony Shirley, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1659.Shirley was the son of Thomas Shirley of Preston near Brighton and his wife Elizabeth Stapley, daughter of Drew Stapley of London. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 14 July...		Arundel had only one seat in the First First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....   and Second Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...  Parliaments of the Protectorate
		1656 Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...	Sir John Trevor
		January 1659 Third Protectorate Parliament The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...	Henry Onslow		Richard Marriot
		May 1659 Rump Parliament The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....	John Downes John Downes (regicide) Colonel John Downes was a commissioner who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England. After the English Restoration he was found guilty of regicide and was imprisoned until he died....		One seat vacant
		April 1660	The Earl of Orrery Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Roger Boyle redirects here. For others of this name, see Roger Boyle Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery was a British soldier, statesman and dramatist. He was the third surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and Richard's second wife, Catherine Fenton. He was created Baron of Broghill on...		The Viscount Falkland Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland was a Scottish nobleman and Member of the Parliament of England; the son of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland.Cary inherited his title after his brother Lucius Cary died in 1649...
		May 1660			John Trevor
		1661			The Lord Aungier of Longford Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford PC was an English politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. He was an administrator in Ireland....
		1679	William Garway		James Butler James Butler (1651–1696) James Butler was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel from 1679 to 1685. Butler was a member of the wealthy Butler family who were influential figures in the county of Sussex. Butler himself was from Amberley, West Sussex....
		1685			William Westbrooke
		1689			William Morley William Morley Sir William Morley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.Morley was knighted at Titchfield on 4 September 1625....
		1690	James Butler
		January 1694			Lord Walden Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk, 1st Earl of Bindon PC was an English nobleman, styled Lord Walden from 1691 to 1706....
		February 1694			John Cooke
		1695	Lord Walden Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk, 1st Earl of Bindon PC was an English nobleman, styled Lord Walden from 1691 to 1706....		Edmund Dummer
		1698	John Cooke		Christopher Knight
		January 1701			Edmund Dummer
		November 1701			Carew Weekes
		1702	Edmund Dummer
		1705			James Butler
		May 1708	Sir Henry Peachey, Bt		The Viscount Shannon Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon Field Marshal Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon PC was a British military officer and statesman.-Military career:...
		December 1708	Viscount Lumley Henry Lumley, Viscount Lumley Henry Lumley, Viscount Lumley , British nobleman and politician, was the eldest son of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough....
		1710	The Earl of Thomond Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond Henry O'Brien, Lord Ibrackan or Lord O'Brien , styled Hon. Henry O'Brien until 1657, was an Irish nobleman and politician. He was the son of Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond and Anne O'Brien....		Viscount Lumley Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, KG, PC was a British, Whig politician, known as Lord Lumley from 1710-21....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
		1715	General Henry Lumley Henry Lumley General Henry Lumley was a British soldier and Governor of Jersey.He was the second son of John Lumley and Mary Compton, and younger brother of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough....		Thomas Micklethwaite
		1718			Joseph Micklethwaite Joseph Micklethwaite, 1st Viscount Micklethwaite Joseph Micklethwaite, 1st Viscount Micklethwaite was an English politician, peer and diplomat.Micklethwaite began his career as secretary to Earl Stanhope, the English ambassador to Spain. On 14 August 1724, he was created Baron Micklethwaite, of Portarlington, in the Peerage of Ireland...
		1722	Thomas Lumley Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough, KB was a British peer and diplomat.Born The Hon. Thomas Lumley, he was the third son of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough and his wife, Frances...
		1727	Sir John Shelley, Bt		The Viscount Gage Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Bt was the son of Joseph Gage of Sherborne Castle and Elizabeth Penruddock.He married Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall in 1717. Gage's first son was born in 1718...
		1728			John Lumley
		1739			Garton Orme
		1741	James Lumley
		1747	Theobald Taafe
		1754	Sir George Colebrooke, Bt Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet , of Gatton in Surrey, was an English merchant banker, chairman of the East India Company and Member of Parliament, who bankrupted himself through unwise speculations....		Thomas Griffin
		1761			John Bristow
		1768			Lauchlin Macleane
		1771			John Stewart
		1774	Thomas Brand		George Newnham
		1780	Sir Patrick Crauford		Thomas Fitzherbert
		1781	Peter William Baker
		April 1784	Earl of Surrey Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk , styled Earl of Surrey from 1777 to 1786, was a British peer, the son of Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Brockholes....
		June 1784	Richard Beckford
		1790	Sir George Thomas, Bt Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet , was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Arundel 1790–1797 and one of the Thomas Baronets of Yapton.-References:...		Henry Howard Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard , known as Henry Thomas Howard until 1812 and Henry Thomas Molyneux-Howard until 1817, was a British gentleman who served as Deputy Earl Marshal in the latter part of the reign of George III and early in the reign of George IV.Howard was the son of Henry...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
		1795			Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet was the son of Sir Edward Gascoigne, 7th Baronet and a member of the Gascoigne family....
		1796			James Greene
		1797	Nisbet Balfour Nisbet Balfour Major-General Nisbet Balfour was a British soldier in the American War of Independence and later a Scottish Member of Parliament in the British Parliament....
		1802	Viscount Andover Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk, 9th Earl of Berkshire , styled Viscount Andover between 1800 and 1820, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...		John Atkins
		1806	Sir Arthur Piggott		Francis Wilder
		January 1807			The Lord Lecale Charles FitzGerald, 1st Baron Lecale Rear-Admiral Charles James FitzGerald, 1st Baron Lecale PC , styled Lord Charles FitzGerald between 1761 and 1800, was an Irish naval commander and politician.-Background:...
		May 1807			Francis Wilder
		October 1812	Henry Molyneux-Howard Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard , known as Henry Thomas Howard until 1812 and Henry Thomas Molyneux-Howard until 1817, was a British gentleman who served as Deputy Earl Marshal in the latter part of the reign of George III and early in the reign of George IV.Howard was the son of Henry...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
		December 1812	Sir Samuel Romilly Samuel Romilly Sir Samuel Romilly , was a British legal reformer.-Background and education:Romilly was born in Frith Street, Soho, London, the second son of Peter Romilly, a watchmaker and jeweller...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
		1818	Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard , known as Henry Thomas Howard until 1812 and Henry Thomas Molyneux-Howard until 1817, was a British gentleman who served as Deputy Earl Marshal in the latter part of the reign of George III and early in the reign of George IV.Howard was the son of Henry...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Sir Arthur Piggott
		1819			Robert Blake
		1820	Viscount Bury Augustus Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle Augustus Frederick Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle , styled Viscount Bury from 1804 until 1849, was an English nobleman....
		1823			Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp Thomas Read Kemp was an English property developer and politician. He was the son of Sussex landowner Thomas Kemp, whose farmhouse in Brighton was rented by the Prince of Wales in 1786.-Biography:...
		1826	Edward Lombe		John Atkins
		1830	Lord Dudley Stuart Lord Dudley Stuart Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart was a British politician.Stuart was the youngest son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute and Frances Coutts.In 1820, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
	1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 -Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....	Representation reduced to one member

1832-1868

Year		Member	Party
	1832	Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
	1837	Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, Chief Butler of England was the son of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
	1851	Edward Strutt Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper PC, FRS , was a British Liberal Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 under Lord Aberdeen.-Background and education:...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1852	Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard	Liberal
1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom...	Constituency abolished

Arundel County Constituency (1974-1997)

Election		Member	Party
	Feb 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...	Sir Michael Marshall Michael Marshall (politician) Sir Robert Michael Marshall, DL , usually known as Michael Marshall, was a businessman, politician, cricketer and author....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	constituency abolished: see Arundel and South Downs & Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Sources

• Election results, 1974 - 1997
• Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham)
• 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) http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1
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• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)