The Cardigan District of Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 in Wales

Wales

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 which returned one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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. The borough constituency comprised the four towns of Cardigan

Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan is a town in the county of Ceredigion in Mid Wales. It lies on the estuary of the River Teifi at the point where Ceredigion meets Pembrokeshire. It was the county town of the pre-1974 county of Cardiganshire. It is the second largest town in Ceredigion. The town's population was 4,203...

, Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....

, Lampeter

Lampeter

Lampeter is a town in Ceredigion, South West Wales, lying at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas.-Demographics:At the 2001 National Census, the population was 2894. Lampeter is therefore the smallest university town in both Wales and the United Kingdom...

 and Adpar

Adpar

Adpar, formerly Trefhedyn, is a village in Ceredigion, Wales now considered as a part of Newcastle Emlyn to which it is joined by a fine bridge across the River Teifi. Adpar used to be an ancient Welsh borough in its own right.-History:...

 - geographically separated from each other but all within the county of Cardiganshire.

Members of Parliament 1542-1640

As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or (before 1558) is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

Elected	Assembled	Dissolved	Member	Note
1542	16 January 1542	28 March 1544	unknown
1545	23 November 1545	31 January 1547	Jenkin ap Rhees
1547	4 November 1547	15 April 1552	John Cotton	History of Parliament gives Gruffydd Done
1553	1 March 1553	31 March 1553	Edward ap Howell
1553	5 October 1553	5 December 1553	John Gwynne
1554	2 April 1554	3 May 1554	John Powell
1554	12 November 1554	16 January 1555	John Powell
1555	21 October 1555	9 December 1555	Thomas Phaer
1558	20 January 1558	17 November 1558	Thomas Phaer
1559	23 January 1559	8 May 1559	Thomas Phaer
1562 or 1563	11 January 1563	2 January 1567	John Gwynne
1571	2 April 1571	29 May 1571	Edward Davies
1572	8 May 1572	19 April 1583	Edward Davies
1584	23 November 1584	14 September 1585	Francis Cheyne
1586	13 October 1586	23 March 1587	Francis Cheyne
1588	4 February 1589	29 March 1589	Alban Stepney Alban Stepney Alban Stepney or Stepneth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1572 and 1611.Stepney was the son of Thomas Stepney of Aldenham, Hertfordshire and his wife Dorothy Winde daughter of John Wilde of Ramsey Lincolnshire. He matriculated as a scholar from...
1593	18 February 1593	10 April 1593	Sir Ferdinando Gorges Ferdinando Gorges Sir Ferdinando Gorges , the "Father of English Colonization in North America", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.-Biography:...
1597	24 October 1597	9 February 1598	Thomas Rawlins
1601	27 October 1601	19 December 1601	William Aubrey Richard Delabere	Double return unresolved at the dissolution of Parliament
1604	19 March 1604	9 February 1611	William Bradshaw William Bradshaw (MP) William Bradshaw was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1611.Bradshaw was the eldest or only son of John Bradshaw of Presteign, Radnorshire. In 1604, he was an Alderman of Cardigan. He was elected Member of Parliament for Cardigan and was seated on petition on 13 April...
1614	5 April 1614	7 June 1614	Robert Wolverstone Robert Wolverstone Robert Wolverstone was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614.In 1614, Wolverstone was elected Member of Parliament for Cardigan....
1620	16 January 1621	8 February 1622	Walter Overbury Walter Overbury Walter Overbury was an English politician who sat in the House of Commonsat various times between 1621 and 1626.Overbury was the son of Sir Nicholas Overbury of Bourton-on-Hill, Gloucestershire and his wife Mary Palmer...
12 January 1624	12 February 1624	27 March 1625	Rowland Pugh Rowland Pugh Rowland Pugh was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1624 to 1625.Pugh was the eldest son of Richard ap John ap Hugh, of Mathafarn, Montgomeryshire. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford on 14 October 1597, aged 18. He became a student of the Inner Temple in November 1598...
4 March 1625	17 May 1625	12 August 1625	Rowland Pugh Rowland Pugh Rowland Pugh was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1624 to 1625.Pugh was the eldest son of Richard ap John ap Hugh, of Mathafarn, Montgomeryshire. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford on 14 October 1597, aged 18. He became a student of the Inner Temple in November 1598...
12 January 1626	6 February 1626	15 June 1626	Walter Overbury Walter Overbury Walter Overbury was an English politician who sat in the House of Commonsat various times between 1621 and 1626.Overbury was the son of Sir Nicholas Overbury of Bourton-on-Hill, Gloucestershire and his wife Mary Palmer...
31 March 1628	17 March 1628	10 March 1629	John Vaughan John Vaughan (judge) Sir John Vaughan SL , of Trawsgoed, was a British justice.-Life:He was born in Ceredigion, Wales, the eldest of eight children of Edward Vaughan and his wife Letitia Stedman of Strata Florida, and was educated initially at The King's School, Worcester between 1613 and 1618, when he was admitted to...
1640	13 April 1640	5 May 1640	John Vaughan John Vaughan (judge) Sir John Vaughan SL , of Trawsgoed, was a British justice.-Life:He was born in Ceredigion, Wales, the eldest of eight children of Edward Vaughan and his wife Letitia Stedman of Strata Florida, and was educated initially at The King's School, Worcester between 1613 and 1618, when he was admitted to...

Members of Parliament 1640-1660

This sub-section includes the Long Parliament

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...

 and the Rump Parliament

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....

, together with the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate (before the Convention Parliament of 1660).

Long Parliament

Year		Member	Party
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...	writ delivered too late to make a return, new writ ordered
December 1640		John Vaughan
1645	Vaughan expelled - seat vacant
1646		Thomas Wogan Thomas Wogan Thomas Wogan was a Welsh Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.Wogan was the son of Sir John Wogan, who was MP for Pembrokeshire and High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire. In 1646 Thomas Wogan was elected MP for Cardigan Boroughs. During the Second Civil War, he fought on the...
1653	Cardigan 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... and 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
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...		Col. Rowland Dawkins
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....	Unrepresented in the restored Rump 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....
April 1660		James Philipps James Philipps James Philipps was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1653 and 1662. He was a supporter of the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.-Life:...
1663		Sir Charles Cotterell
1679		Hector Phillips
1693		John Lewis
1698		Sir Charles Lloyd
1701		Henry Lloyd
1705		Lewis Pryse
February 1710		Simon Harcourt Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, PC was Queen Anne's Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He was her solicitor-general and her commissioner for arranging the union with Scotland...	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
October 1710		John Meyrick John Meyrick (politician) John Meyrick was a Welsh politician and judge.A member of an established Pembrokeshire family, he represented the parliamentary constituencies of Pembroke between 1702 and 1708, and Cardigan between 1710 and 1712. He was later puisne judge of the Anglesey circuit .-References:...
1712		Owen Brigstocke
1713		Sir George Barlow, 2nd Baronet
1715		Stephen Parry
1725		Thomas Powell Thomas Powell Thomas Powell is a teacher, writer, and entrepreneur.He is the author of:*Web Design: The Complete Reference**Coauthor Javascript: The Complete Reference with Fritz Schneider.*...
1727		Francis Cornwallis
1729		Richard Lloyd
1741		Thomas Pryse
1746		John Symmons
1761		Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician.He was born in Llanddewibrefi and educated at Jesus College, Oxford. His father, Walter Lloyd of Voelallt, Cardiganshire, was attorney-general for south Wales and was succeeded in that post by Herbert's elder brother, John Lloyd...
1768		Pryse Campbell
1769		Ralph Congreve
1774		Sir Robert Smyth, 5th Baronet
1775		Thomas Johnes
1782		John Campbell John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor John Campbell of Cawdor, 1st Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin was the son of Pryse Campbell and Sarah Bacon.He married Lady Isabella Caroline Howard, daughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, on 28 July 1789...
1796		Hon. John Vaughan John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Lisburne , known as the Honourable John Vaughan until 1820, was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.Lisburne was the younger son of Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne...
1818		Pryse Pryse	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...
1849		Pryse Loveden	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...
1855		John Lloyd Davies	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...
1857		Edward Lewis Pryse	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...
1868		Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd, 1st Baronet , was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, for Cardiganshire 1865-1868 and Cardigan Boroughs 1868-1874. An old fashioned Whig Liberal, he defeated David Davies of Llandinam for Cardiganshire, 1865...	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...
1874		David Davies David Davies (industrialist) David Davies was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886. Davies was often known as David Davies Llandinam , in order to differentiate him from others of the same name.Davies was the son of David Davies and his wife Elizabeth...	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...
1885		Constituency abolished