Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency)

Dorchester 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:...

centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

. It returned two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

from 1295 to 1868, when its representation was reduced one member.

The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

-Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...

1295-1629

Parliament	First member	Second member
Second Parliament of 1553	Christopher Hoole	William Holeman
Parliament of 1554		Owen Heyman
Parliament of 1554-1555		John Davy
Parliament of 1555	? Robertson	Ralph Perne
Parliament of 1558	Christopher Hoole	John Hayward
Parliament of 1559	William Holeman	John Lewston
Parliament of 1563-1567	Thomas Marten	Lewis Montgomery Chose to sit for Northampton By-election John Gardener
Parliament of 1571	Henry Macwilliams	William Adyn
Parliament of 1572-1581	George Carleton	George Trenchard
Parliament of 1584-1585	Robert Beale Robert Beale (diplomat) Robert Beale was an English diplomat, administrator, and antiquary in the reign of Elizabeth I. As Clerk of the Privy Council, Beale wrote the official record of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which he was an eyewitness.-Early life:...	Thomas Freake
Parliament of 1586-1587		Robert Napier Robert Napier (judge) Sir Robert Napier was an English-born judge in Ireland.. He was High Sheriff of Dorset in 1606 and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland. He was a Member of Parliament for Dorchester , Bridport and Wareham ....
Parliament of 1588-1589		Noel Sotherton
Parliament of 1593	Dr Francis James	Robert Dabridgecourt
Parliament of 1597-1598	Robert Ashley	Richard Wright
Parliament of 1601	Francis Bronker	Matthew Chubb
Parliament of 1604-1611	John Spicer	Matthew Chubb
Addled Parliament (1614) Addled Parliament The Addled Parliament was the second Parliament of England of the reign of James I of England , which sat between 5 April and 7 June 1614...	(Sir) Francis Ashley	George Horsey George Horsey Sir George Horsey was an English landowner engaged in ambitious industrial and land reclamation schemes. He was knighted in 1581.He was the son of Sir Ralph Horsey and Edith Mohun. In 1612, after his father's death, he inherited the family estates, which lay in Somerset and Dorset.He married...
Parliament of 1621-1622	(Sir) Francis Ashley	John Barkins
Happy Parliament (1624-1625) Happy Parliament The Happy Parliament was the fourth and last Parliament of England of the reign of King James I, sitting from 19 February 1624 to 24 May 1624 and then from 2 November 1624 to 16 February 1625...	William Whitby	Richard Bulstrode
Useless Parliament (1625) Useless Parliament The Useless Parliament was the first Parliament of England of the reign of King Charles I, sitting only from June until August 1625. It gained its name because it transacted no significant business, making it 'useless' from the king's point of view...	Sir Francis Ashley	William Whiteway
Parliament of 1625-1626	Michael Humphreys	Nicholas Bulstrode
Parliament of 1628-1629	Denzil Holles Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.-Early life:...	John Hill
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

1640-1868

Year	\|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....		Denzil Holles Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.-Early life:...	Parliamentarian		Denis Bond Denis Bond (President of the Council) Denis Bond , was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1656. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and served as president of the Council of State during the Commonwealth....	Parliamentarian
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...			Parliamentarian
December 1648	Holles 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	Dorchester 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....		John Whiteway John Whiteway John Whiteway was an English wool merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660....		Dorchester 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...		John Whiteway John Whiteway John Whiteway was an English wool merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660....
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...		James Gould James Gould (died 1676) James Gould was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1676.Gould was the second son of John Gould of Dorchester and his wife Joan Benvenewe, daughter of John Benvenewe of Abbotsbury and widow of John Roy of Weymouth. He was baptised on 21 July 1593...			John Bulstrode
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....	Dorchester was not represented 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		Denzil Holles Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.-Early life:...			John Whiteway John Whiteway John Whiteway was an English wool merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660....
March 1661					James Gould James Gould (died 1676) James Gould was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1676.Gould was the second son of John Gould of Dorchester and his wife Joan Benvenewe, daughter of John Benvenewe of Abbotsbury and widow of John Roy of Weymouth. He was baptised on 21 July 1593...
May 1661		John Churchill
1677		John Churchill			James Gould James Gould (died 1707) James Gould was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1695.Gould was the son of James Gould of Dorchester and his wife Margery Savage, daughter of George Savage of Bloxworth His father was a wealthy woollen merchant in Dorchester and MP for the...
1679		Sir Francis Holles Francis Holles, 2nd Baron Holles Francis Holles, 2nd Baron Holles was an English statesman, and only child of Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles and his first wife Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Ashley...			Nicholas Gould
1680		James Gould James Gould (died 1707) James Gould was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1695.Gould was the son of James Gould of Dorchester and his wife Margery Savage, daughter of George Savage of Bloxworth His father was a wealthy woollen merchant in Dorchester and MP for the...			Nicholas Gould
1681					Nathaniel Bond Nathaniel Bond Nathaniel Bond, KS, , of Creech Grange in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament....
1685		Edward Meller			William Churchill
January 1689		Gerard Napier			Thomas Trenchard
December 1689		Thomas Chafin			Thomas Trenchard
March 1690		James Gould James Gould (died 1707) James Gould was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1677 and 1695.Gould was the son of James Gould of Dorchester and his wife Margery Savage, daughter of George Savage of Bloxworth His father was a wealthy woollen merchant in Dorchester and MP for the...			Sir Robert Napier, Bt
December 1690					Thomas Trenchard
1695		Nathaniel Bond Nathaniel Bond Nathaniel Bond, KS, , of Creech Grange in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament....			Nathaniel Napier
1698		Sir Robert Napier, Bt
1701		Thomas Trenchard
1702		Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bt
1705		Awnsham Churchill
1708					John Churchill
1709					Denis Bond Denis Bond (MP) Denis Bond , of Creech Grange, Dorset, was English Member of Parliament for Dorchester, Corfe Castle, and Poole. He was also a director of the Charitable Corporation at the time of its collapse...
1710		Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bt			Benjamin Gifford
1713					Henry Trenchard
April 1720					Robert Browne
May 1720					Abraham Janssen
1722		Edmund Morton Pleydell			Joseph Damer
1723		William Chapple William Chapple William Allan Chapple was a member of both the New Zealand House of Representatives and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.-Early life:...			Joseph Damer
1727					John Browne
1737		Robert Browne
1741		Nathaniel Gundry Nathaniel Gundry Sir Nathaniel Gundry , was an English lawyer and politician.Gundry was born at Lyme Regis, and entered as a member of the Middle Temple in 1720. In 1725 he was called to the bar, when he migrated to Lincoln's Inn. At the dissolution in 1741 he was returned to parliament for the borough of...
1751		George Damer			John Pitt
1752		George Clavell
1754		The Lord Milton Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester was a wealthy landowner particularly associated with the reshaping of Milton Abbey and the creation of the village of Milton Abbas in Dorset, south-west England....
1761					Thomas Foster
1762		John Damer			Thomas Foster
1765		John Damer			William Ewer
1780		Hon. George Damer George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester PC, PC , styled Viscount Milton between 1792 and 1798, was a British politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795.-Background:...			William Ewer
1789					Thomas Ewer
1790					Hon. Cropley Ashley Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury , styled The Honourable Cropley Ashley-Cooper until 1811, was a British politician. He was the father of the social reformer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury....
1790					Francis Fane
1791		Hon. Cropley Ashley Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury , styled The Honourable Cropley Ashley-Cooper until 1811, was a British politician. He was the father of the social reformer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury....			Francis Fane
1807					Robert Williams
1811		Charles Henry Bouverie			Robert Williams
October 1812		Charles Henry Bouverie			Robert Williams Robert Williams (1767–1847) Robert Williams was an English banker and politician. He purchased the Bridehead estate near Dorchester, Dorset around 1797. It comprised the manor of Littlebredy, Bridehead being a name fabricated by Williams, and in later years became the main family residence.Williams was the Member of...
December 1812		William A'Court William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury GCB PC , known as Sir William à Court, Bt, from 1817 to 1828, was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
1814		Sir Samuel Shepherd Samuel Shepherd Sir Samuel Shepherd KS PC was a British barrister, judge and politician who served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Lord Chief Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer...
1819		Charles Warren
1826		William Ashley-Cooper
1830		Henry Sturt Henry Sturt Henry Charles Sturt , of Crichel House, Dorset, was a British landowner and politician.-Background:Sturt was the son of Charles Sturt, son of Humphrey Sturt and his wife Diana, daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and his wife the Hon...
1830		Lord Ashley Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG , styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was an English politician and philanthropist, one of the best-known of the Victorian era and one of the main proponents of Christian Zionism.-Youth:He was born in London and known informally as Lord Ashley...	Tory
1831		Hon. Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper	Tory
1835			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...		Robert Williams Robert Williams (1811–1890) Robert Williams was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Dorchester at the 1835 general election, and held the seat until he stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1841 general election.- External links :...	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...
1841					Sir James Graham, Bt	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...
1847 United Kingdom general election, 1847 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...		Hon. George Dawson-Damer George Dawson-Damer Colonel the Hon. George Lionel Dawson-Damer was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background:Dawson-Damer was a younger son of John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington, and Lady Caroline, daughter of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.-Political career:Dawson-Damer was returned to...	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...		Henry Sturt Henry Sturt, 1st Baron Alington Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington was a British peer and Conservative Party politician. The son of Henry Sturt, he was created 1st Baron Alington of Crichel on 15 January 1876....	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...
1852 United Kingdom general election, 1852 The July 1852 United Kingdom general election was a watershed election in the formation of the modern political parties of Britain. Following 1852, the Tory/Conservative party became, more completely, the party of the rural aristocracy, while the Whig/Liberal party became the party of the rising...					Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan (MP) Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an English Whig politician.Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the eldest son of Thomas Sheridan, colonial treasurer in the Cape of Good Hope and the novelist Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craigforth, and grandson of his namesake the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan...	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...
1856		Charles Napier Sturt	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...
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...	representation reduced to one member

1868-1885

Election		Member	Party
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...		representation reduced to one member
	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...	Charles Napier Sturt	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...
	1874 United Kingdom general election, 1874 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...	William Ernest Brymer William Ernest Brymer William Ernest Brymer was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two stages between 1874 and 1906....	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...
1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918Representation of the People Act 1884Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...		constituency abolished

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