Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)

Minehead was a parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

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in Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, which elected two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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(MPs) to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

MPs 1563–1629

Constituency probably established 1563

Parliament	First member	Second member
Parliament of 1563-1567	Thomas Luttrell	Thomas Fitzwilliams
Parliament of 1571	John Coles	Thomas Mallet
Parliament of 1572-1581	Dominicus Chester	Richard Cabell
Parliament of 1584-1585	George Luttrell	Edward Rogers
Parliament of 1586-1587	John Luttrell	Robert Crosse
Parliament of 1588-1589	John Luttrell	Benedict Barnham Benedict Barnham Benedict Barnham was a London merchant, the fourth son of the merchant Francis Barnham.-Life:Barnham was alderman of the City of London, and served as Sheriff of the City of London from 1591 to 1592. He was married to Dorothy Smith...
Parliament of 1593	Richard Hanbury	James Quirke
Parliament of 1597-1598	William Bampfield	Conrad Powle (or Powlet?)
Parliament of 1601	Dr Francis James	Lewis Lashbrooke
Parliament of 1604-1611	Sir Ambrose Turville	Sir Maurice Berkeley Maurice Berkeley (Somerset MP) Maurice Berkeley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1614.Berkeley was the son of Sir Henry Berkeley of Bruton and his wife Margaret Lygon, daughter of William Lygon of Madresfield, Worcestershire...
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...	No return made
Parliament of 1621-1622	Francis Pearce	Sir Robert Lloyd
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...	Dr Arthur Duck Arthur Duck Arthur Duck, LL.D., was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament.-Life:Born at Heavitree in Devon in 1580, the younger son of Richard Duck of Heavitree, by his wife, Joanna, and younger brother of Nicholas Duck, he was educated at Exeter College and Hart Hall, Oxford , and elected a fellow of...	Sir Arthur Lake
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...	Francis Luttrell Francis Luttrell Francis Luttrell was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1666....	Charles Pyne
Parliament of 1625-1626		Hugh Wyndham
Parliament of 1628-1629	Thomas Horner	Edward Wyndham
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

MPs 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....		Francis Wyndham Sir Francis Wyndham, 1st Baronet Sir Francis Wyndham, 1st Baronet was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1640...			Alexander Popham Alexander Popham Alexander Popham, of Littlecote, Wiltshire was an English politician. He is now remembered for his role as patron of the philosopher John Locke....
1640					Dr Arthur Duck Arthur Duck Arthur Duck, LL.D., was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament.-Life:Born at Heavitree in Devon in 1580, the younger son of Richard Duck of Heavitree, by his wife, Joanna, and younger brother of Nicholas Duck, he was educated at Exeter College and Hart Hall, Oxford , and elected a fellow of...
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...		Alexander Luttrell	Parliamentarian		Sir Francis Popham Francis Popham Sir Francis Popham was an English soldier and politician.Francis Popham was the only son of Sir John Popham and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and the Middle Temple...	Parliamentarian
1642		Thomas Hanham	Royalist
January 1644	Hanham disabled from sitting - seat vacant
August 1644	Hanham disabled from sitting - seat vacant			Popham died - seat vacant
1645		Walter Strickland Walter Strickland Walter Strickland was an English politician and diplomat who held high office during the Protectorate.-Life:Strickland was the younger son of Walter Strickland of Boynton. His elder brother, William, was knighted in 1630 and created a baronet in 1641, and was a Member of Parliament from 1640 to 1660...			Edward Popham Edward Popham Edward Popham was a General-at-Sea during the English Civil War.Edward Popham was son of Sir Francis Popham and his wife Anne . By 1636 he was a naval lieutenant. During the English Civil War he supported parliament and joined the forces of Oliver Cromwell. He was elected M.P. for Minehead in...
December 1648				Popham not recorded as sitting after 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...
1653	Minehead 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...		Richard Hutchinson			Colonel Alexander Popham Alexander Popham Alexander Popham, of Littlecote, Wiltshire was an English politician. He is now remembered for his role as patron of the philosopher John Locke....
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....		Walter Strickland Walter Strickland Walter Strickland was an English politician and diplomat who held high office during the Protectorate.-Life:Strickland was the younger son of Walter Strickland of Boynton. His elder brother, William, was knighted in 1630 and created a baronet in 1641, and was a Member of Parliament from 1640 to 1660...		One seat vacant
1660		Francis Luttrell Francis Luttrell Francis Luttrell was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1666....			Charles Pym Sir Charles Pym, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Pym, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1641 to 1648 and in 1660. He served in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.Pym was the son of John Pym and his wife Anna Hooker or Hooke....
1661					Sir Hugh Wyndham
1666		Sir John Malet			Sir Hugh Wyndham
1673					Thomas Wyndham
February 1679					Francis Luttrell Francis Luttrell Francis Luttrell was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1666....
September 1679		Thomas Palmer
1685		Nathaniel Palmer
September 1690		John Sanford
October 1690		John Sanford			Alexander Luttrell
1698		Sir Jacob Banks			Alexander Luttrell
1708		Sir Jacob Banks			Sir John Trevelyan Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet was a British politician.The member of an ancient Cornwall family, Trevelyan sat as Member of Parliament for Somerset from 1695 to 1698 and in 1701 and for Minehead from 1708 to 1717 and 1717 to 1722...
1715		Sir William Wyndham Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet , English politician, was the only son of Sir Edward Wyndham, Bart., a grandson of Sir William Wyndham and a great-great-grandson of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, who was created a baronet in 1661.Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he...
April 1717		Samuel Edwin			Thomas 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...
May 1717		Sir John Trevelyan Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet was a British politician.The member of an ancient Cornwall family, Trevelyan sat as Member of Parliament for Somerset from 1695 to 1698 and in 1701 and for Minehead from 1708 to 1717 and 1717 to 1722...			James Milner
1721					Sir Richard Lane
January 1722					Robert Mansel
March 1722		Thomas Hales Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd Baronet Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd Baronet , of Beakesbourne in Kent, was an English courtier and Member of Parliament.Hales was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet, of Brymore, and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford...			Robert Mansel
1723					Francis Whitworth
1727		Alexander Luttrell
1737		Sir William Codrington
1739		Thomas Carew
1742		Thomas Carew			John Periam
1747		Percy Wyndham-O'Brien Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond was a British Member of Parliament, Irish peer and the younger son of Tory statesman Sir William Wyndham and brother to Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont....			Charles Whitworth Charles Whitworth (MP) Sir Charles Whitworth was a British Member of Parliament, known for his expertise in statistics and finance.He represented the constituencies of Minehead from 1747 until 1761, and Bletchingley until 1768, in which year he was knighted...
1754		Daniel Boone
1761		Henry Shiffner			The Earl of Thomond Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond was a British Member of Parliament, Irish peer and the younger son of Tory statesman Sir William Wyndham and brother to Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont....
1768		Henry Fownes-Luttrell			Sir Charles Whitworth Charles Whitworth (MP) Sir Charles Whitworth was a British Member of Parliament, known for his expertise in statistics and finance.He represented the constituencies of Minehead from 1747 until 1761, and Bletchingley until 1768, in which year he was knighted...
October 1774		Henry Fownes-Luttrell			John Fownes Luttrell	Tory
December 1774		Thomas Pownall Thomas Pownall Thomas Pownall was a British politician and colonial official. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1758 to 1760, and afterward served in the British Parliament. He traveled widely in the North American colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War, and opposed...
1780		Francis Fownes-Luttrell
1783		Henry Beaufoy Henry Beaufoy Henry Beaufoy was a British MP.He was the son of a Quaker wine merchant and educated at the academies at Hoxton and Warrington before studying at Edinburgh University in the early 1770s...
1784		Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps
1786		Robert Wood
1790		Viscount Parker George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield PC , styled Viscount Parker between 1764 and 1795, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...	Tory
1795		Thomas Fownes Luttrell	Tory
1796		John Langston	Tory
1802		John Patteson John Patteson (1755–1833) John Patteson was an English Tory politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1802 to 1812.He was elected at the 1802 general election as a Member of Parliament for Minehead in Somerset....	Tory
1806		The Lord Rancliffe	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 John Lethbridge	Tory
January 1807		The Lord Rancliffe			John Fownes Luttrell	Tory
May 1807		John Denison	Tory
1812		John Fownes Luttrell, junior	Tory
1816					Henry Fownes Luttrell	Tory
1822					John Douglas John Douglas, MP John Douglas was a Tory politician. He was the son of Thomas Douglas of Grantham, a wealthy landowner, and Harriot Lucke.He was the Member of Parliament for Orford 1818 - April 1821 and for Minehead 12 April 1822 - 1826....	Tory
1826					James Blair	Tory
1830					William Edward Tomline William Edward Tomline William Edward Pretyman Tomline was an English politician, a Member of Parliament for several constituencies.He was the son of George Pretyman Tomline, bishop...	Tory
1831					Viscount Villiers George Child-Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey , was an English peer, the son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey.He was Member of Parliament for* Rochester 1830–1831...	Tory
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....	Constituency abolished

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