Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)

Wallingford was a constituency in 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...

.

It was a parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

Parliamentary boroughs are a type of administrative division, usually covering urban areas, that are entitled to representation in a Parliament...

created in 1295, centred on the market town Wallingford in Berkshire

Berkshire

Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

(now in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....

). It used to return two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

(MPs) to the House of Commons; this was cut to one in 1832, and the constituency was abolished in 1885. The town of Wallingford is now within the constituency of Wantage

Wantage (UK Parliament constituency)

-Elections in the 1990s:- Notes and references :...

History

Before 1832 the borough consisted only of the town of Wallingford, which by the 19th century was divided into four parishes. The franchise was limited to (male) inhabitants paying scot and lot

Scot and lot

Scot and lot is a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to householders who were assessed for a tax paid to the borough for local or national purposes.They were usually members of a merchant guild.Before the Reform Act 1832, those who paid scot and bore...

, a local tax. Namier and Brooke estimated that the number of electors in the mid-18th century was about 200; but the number fluctuated considerably with the fortunes of the town, which had no manufacturing interests and considerable unemployment at some periods. There were never enough voters to avoid the risk of corruption, and systematic bribery generally prevailed, with anything up to 150 votes being bought and sold at any one election. (In 1754, Thomas Sewell

Thomas Sewell

Sir Thomas Sewell was an English judge and Member of Parliament, and Master of the Rolls from 1764 to 1784.Sewell was a member of Middle Temple, called to the bar in 1734, and practised in the Chancery courts. He became a bencher of his inn and King's Counsel in 1754, and Treasurer of the Inn in...

, one of the 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...

candidates, spent over £1000 of his own money and not only was this reimbursed from the "secret service" funds but the government spent further money unsuccessfully attempting to secure him a seat in Wallingford.) By the 19th century Wallingford was regarded as one of the worst of the rotten borough

Rotten borough

A "rotten", "decayed" or pocket borough was a parliamentary borough or constituency in the United Kingdom that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within Parliament....

s, and Oldfield recorded in 1816 that the price of a vote was 40 guineas.

The 1831 census found the borough had a population of approximately 2,500, and 485 houses. Under the Reform Act 1832

Reform Act 1832

The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...

, the constituency was allowed to survive and to keep one of its two MPs, but the boundaries were considerably extended, taking in the Wallingford Castle

Wallingford Castle

Wallingford Castle was a major medieval castle situated in Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire , adjacent to the River Thames...

precincts, which had previously been excluded, and all or part of a dozen neighbouring parishes including Benson

Benson, Oxfordshire

Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England. It is about north of Wallingford at the foot of the Chiltern Hills at the confluence of a chalk stream and the River Thames, next to Benson Lock...

and Crowmarsh

Crowmarsh

Crowmarsh is a civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England.-Formation and constituent settlements:The civil parish was formed on 1 April 1932 by the amalgamation of four existing parishes....

, and part of Cholsey

Cholsey

Cholsey is a village and civil parish south of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to the county of Oxfordshire, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire....

. This change of boundaries almost trebled the population, but the effect on the electorate was much smaller. According to the reports on which the Reform Act was based, Wallingford had about 300 men qualified to vote in 1831 (though no more than 230 had ever voted in the previous thirty years). Yet despite the widening of the right to vote, which preserved the ancient right voters of the borough while adding new electors on an occupation franchise, there were only 453 names on the 1832 electoral register for the extended borough. (Stooks Smith records that 166 of these claimed their vote as scot and lot payers, while 287 qualified as £10 occupiers; but many of the latter group presumably paid scot and lot within the old boundaries and could have voted before the Reform Act.)

In 1868 the franchise was further extended and there were 942 registered electors, but the constituency was much too small to survived the Third Reform Act, and was abolished with effect from the general election of 1885. The constituency was mostly included in the new Berkshire North or Abingdon

Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

Abingdon was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , electing one Member of Parliament from 1558 until 1983...

county constituency, but Benson and the other parts of the extended borough on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames

River Thames

The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...

were placed in the Oxfordshire South or Henley

Henley (UK Parliament constituency)

Henley is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It covers south Oxfordshire, including Henley-on-Thames. The constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. It has long been a safe Conservative...

division of that county.

1295-1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1302	Osbert de Notele	William Clericus
1304	Nicholas de la Barre	William Mareschal
1306	Nicholas de la Barre	Richard de Cippenham
1306	John Mariot	Osbert de Notele
1307	Nicholas de la Barre	John Mariot
1309	Thomas de Morton	Thomas Bene
1311	Nicholas de la Barre	Osbert de Notele
1311	Nicholas de la Barre	Osbert de Notele
1312	Nicholas de la Barre	Richard de Cippenham
1313	Nicholas de la Barre	William Butty
1314	Walter at Russhe	William Butty
1314/5	Osbert de Notele	Thomas Bone
1318	Thomas Garston	Thomas Bone
1327	John Osbern	Richard Grotard
1320	Thomas Bone	Thomas Bortorat
1321	Nicholas de la Barre	John Osbern
1322	Reginald de Bradebourn	Alexander le Vacher
1322	Thomas at Gaston	Alexander le Vacher
1323	Osbert de Notele	Reginald de Bradebourn
1325	Robert Butty	Richard Reswald
1327	John Osbern	Roger de Saucer
1328	Thomas Bone	John Osbern
1328	John Osbern	John Breton
1329	John Mariot	William Arnyot
1330	John Mariot	Robert Butty
1331	John Mariot	Robert Butty
1331	Thomas Bone	William de Dene
1333	John Mariot	John de Preston
1335	William de Cornwall	Philip Preston
1335	William de Cornwall	Thomas Bone
1336	William de Cornwall	Edmund Bonham
1336	William de Cornwall	Thomas Bone
1337	John Mariot	William de Cornwall
1337	John Mariot	William de Cornwall
1338	William le Goldsmith	John Berewyk
1338	John Mariot	William Arnyat
1339	John Stacy	Thomas Batheshall
1339	Robert Butty	William le Goldsmith
1341	John Mariot	Robert Butty
1344	Roger Tylewyne	John Berewyk
1347	John atte Ruysshe	John at Barston
1348	Philip de Preston	William le Goldsmith
1350/1	William Harewell	Thomas Reynald
1355	John Louch	John Brightwalton
1357/8	Robert Berot	John Heronn
1360	John Louch	John Andrew
1360	Nicholas Payable	Roger Preston
1362	William Harewell	Henry Redyng
1363	William Harewell	Alexander Absolan
1364	John James	Roger Preston
1366	John James	Nicholas Payable
1368	Nicholas Tanner
1369	John James	Nicholas Tanner
1370	John James	Richard Attefelde
1371	John James	Richard Attefelde
1372	Richard Attefelde	Roger Melbourne
1373	Thomas Grove	Roger Arnyate
1375	John James	Richard Attefelde
1376	Thomas Beneshef	Henry de Bedyng
1377	Thomas Reynald	Richard Attefelde
1378	Roger Arnyate
1379/80	Roger Melbourne	Walter Hervy
1381	Roger Melbourne
1383	Thomas Grove	Robert Oxenford
1383	Roger Melbourne	John Kerre
1383	Roger Arnyate	John Kerre
1384	Thomas Grove	John Lyttel
1384	Thomas Grove	Walter Harby
1385	Thomas Beneshef	Robert Oxenford
1386	Thomas Beneshef	John Derby
1387	Thomas Beneshef	Roger Melbourne
1388	Richard de Brugge	John Bernard
1389	John Cotterell	Roger Melbourne
1391	Richard Hovelock	William Hende
1392	John Cotterell	William Cary
1393	John Cotterell	John Derby
1394	John Cotterell	John Derby
1396	John Cotterell	Robert Oxenford
1397	John Cotterell	Walter Colete
1399	Walter Hervy	John Culham
1405/6	William Essex	Walter Hyndon
1407	John Culham	William Clowd
1409/10	John Cotterell	William Cotterell
1413	Thomas Ravening	Lewys Ihon
1413/4	Robert Deffonte	Robert Carswell
1419	John Denby	Richard Algate
1420	John Cotterell	Richard Algate
1421	John Cotterell	John Mercham
1421	John Warfeld	William Bodyngton
1422	John Warfeld	Laurence Haweman
1423	Laurence Haweman	Henry Payne
1429	John Mercham	Thomas Jones
1425/6	Laurence Haweman	John Denby
1427	John Warfeld	William Borde
1429	John Warfeld	Laurence Haweman
1430/1	John Warfeld	Thomas Ramsey
1432	John Warfeld	William Bodyngton
1433	John Warfeld	William Bodyngton
1435	John Warfeld	William Borde
1436/7	John Warfeld	William Borde
1441/2	John Bruggewater	John Stoke
1446	John Stoke	Robert Dalby
1448	Thomas Carlyll	Henry Herleton
1449	Robert Hopton	Thomas Browne Thomas Browne (High Sheriff of Kent) -Career:Sworn to the peace in Kent in 1434. He was Justice of Peace for Kent from 1436 to 24 Dec. 1450. He was Member of Parliament between 1439 and 1444 for Dover. He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1443-4, and then MP between 1445 and 1446 for Kent. He was present at Parliament in 1447 and 1449 as...
1450	Henry Spencer	Richard Bulstrode
1452/3	Thomas Preston	John Burgh
1459	Richard Houghton	Henry Spencer
1460	William Bedeston	John Bydon
1467	John Colynggrugge	Robert Hopton
1472	Thomas Roos	Thomas Ashynden
1477/8	Thomas Wode Thomas Wode Sir Thomas Wode KS was a British judge.His early life and career are unknown, leading to him being described as 'perhaps the most obscure chief justice of the Tudor period'...	Thomas Vynsent
1529	Edward Chamberlain	Godelacius Overton
1536	Thomas Denton Thomas Denton Thomas Denton was an English lawyer and politician, a Member of Parliament from 1536 until his death in 1558. He was elected, consecutively, by six parliamentary consituencies: Wallingford , Oxford , Berkshire , Banbury , Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire...
1547	Sir Thomas Parry Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household) Sir Thomas Parry was a Comptroller of the Household to the English Queen Elizabeth I.He was knighted by Elizabeth at her accession in 1558, and held the offices of royal steward, Cofferer, Privy Counselor, Comptroller of the Household , Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries , Member of...	Henry Hontley
1552-3	Sir Thomas Parry Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household) Sir Thomas Parry was a Comptroller of the Household to the English Queen Elizabeth I.He was knighted by Elizabeth at her accession in 1558, and held the offices of royal steward, Cofferer, Privy Counselor, Comptroller of the Household , Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries , Member of...	George Wright
1553	George Wright	Edmund Plowden Edmund Plowden Sir Edmund Plowden was a distinguished English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist during the late Tudor period.-Life:...
1554	Edmund Ashfield	Anthony Butler
1554	Edmund Ashfield	Robert Cockson
1555	Sir Thomas Parry Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household) Sir Thomas Parry was a Comptroller of the Household to the English Queen Elizabeth I.He was knighted by Elizabeth at her accession in 1558, and held the offices of royal steward, Cofferer, Privy Counselor, Comptroller of the Household , Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries , Member of...	Thomas Mynde
1557	Thomas Mynde	Radulphus Pollyngton
1558-9	Thomas Mynde	John Fortesque John Fortescue of Salden Sir John Fortescue of Salden was the seventh Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, serving from 1589 until 1603....
1563	William Dunch William Dunch (1508-1597) William Dunch was an English politician, a local official in the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire and Auditor of the Royal Mint for Kings Henry VIII and Edward IV....	Thomas Brown
1571	Sir Edmund Dunch Sir Edmund Dunch, 1551-1623 Sir Edmund Dunch was an English MP and High Sheriff.He was born the son of William Dunch and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford....	Thomas Dudley
1572	Thomas Digges Thomas Digges Sir Thomas Digges was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances; he was also first to postulate the "dark night sky...	John Fortesque John Fortescue of Salden Sir John Fortescue of Salden was the seventh Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, serving from 1589 until 1603....
1584	Christopher Edmonds	Richard Knollys Knollys (family) Knollys, the name of an English family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys , Lord Mayor of London. The first distinguished member of the family was Sir Francis Knollys , English statesman, son of Sir Robert Knollys, or Knolles , a courtier in the service and favour of Henry VII and Henry VIII...
1586	Richard Knollys Knollys (family) Knollys, the name of an English family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys , Lord Mayor of London. The first distinguished member of the family was Sir Francis Knollys , English statesman, son of Sir Robert Knollys, or Knolles , a courtier in the service and favour of Henry VII and Henry VIII...	Thomas Stampe
1588/9	Michael Molyns	Thomas Stampe
1592/3	Thomas Fortesque	Anthony Bacon Anthony Bacon (1558–1601) Anthony Bacon was a member of the powerful English Bacon family who was also a spy during the Elizabethan era.-Early years, 1558-1580:...
1597	Thomas Fortesque	Owen Oglethorpe
1601	(Sir John Herbert John Herbert (Secretary of State) Sir John Herbert was a Welsh lawyer, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1611. He was Secretary of State under Elizabeth I and James I.-Life:... ) sat for Glamorgan and repl. by Thomas Fortescue	Henry Doyley
1604	Sir William Dunch Sir William Dunch Sir William Dunch was an English politician during the reign of King James I.Dunch represented Wallingford in Berkshire as an MP in 1603....	Griffith Payne
1614	Sir Carey Reynolds	Sir George Simeon George Simeon Sir George Simeon was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.Simeon was the son of John Simeon of Brightwell Baldwin, Minigrove, Britwell Priory, Chilworth, and Stoke Talmage Oxfordshire and his wife Anne Molyns, daughter of Anthony Molyns. In...
1621-1622	Sir George Simeon George Simeon Sir George Simeon was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.Simeon was the son of John Simeon of Brightwell Baldwin, Minigrove, Britwell Priory, Chilworth, and Stoke Talmage Oxfordshire and his wife Anne Molyns, daughter of Anthony Molyns. In...	Samuel Dunch Samuel Dunch Samuel Dunch was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1621 and 1653.Dunch was the son of Edmund Dunch of Little Wittenham, Berkshire. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 11 November 1608, aged 15 and was awarded BA on 23 January 1612. He was a student of Gray's Inn...
1624	(Sir Edward Howard Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick was a British nobleman and Parliamentarian.Howard was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk. He was knighted KB. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Calne and for Wallingford and chose to sit for Calne... ) sat for Calne, Wiltshire and replaced by Sir Anthony Forrest	Sir George Simeon George Simeon Sir George Simeon was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.Simeon was the son of John Simeon of Brightwell Baldwin, Minigrove, Britwell Priory, Chilworth, and Stoke Talmage Oxfordshire and his wife Anne Molyns, daughter of Anthony Molyns. In...
1625	Sir Anthony Forrest	Michael Molyns
1625	Sir Anthony Forrest	Unton Croke Unton Croke Unton Croke was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1628 and 1640. He supported the Parliamentarian cause during the English Civil War....
1628-1629	Sir Robert Knollys Robert Knollys (MP) Sir Robert Knollys was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1629.Knollys was the son of Richard Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, Berkshire. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 13 May 1603, aged 15. He was knighted on 12 January 1613. In 1614, he was elected...	Edmund Dunch Edmund Dunch, Baron Burnell of East Wittenham Edmund Dunch was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he sat as an Member of Parliament. In 1659, after the Protectorate and before the Restoration, regaining his seat in the Rump he also sat in...
1629–1640	No parliaments summoned

1640-1832

1640 (Apr): Edmund Dunch
Edmund Dunch, Baron Burnell of East Wittenham
Edmund Dunch was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he sat as an Member of Parliament. In 1659, after the Protectorate and before the Restoration, regaining his seat in the Rump he also sat in...

(Parliamentarian); Unton Croke
Unton Croke
Unton Croke was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1628 and 1640. He supported the Parliamentarian cause during the English Civil War....
1640 (Nov): Edmund Dunch
Edmund Dunch, Baron Burnell of East Wittenham
Edmund Dunch was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he sat as an Member of Parliament. In 1659, after the Protectorate and before the Restoration, regaining his seat in the Rump he also sat in...

; Thomas Howard
Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire
Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire was an English peer, styled Hon. Thomas Howard until 1679. He was the second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire....

(Royalist) - disabled to sit, January 1644
1645: Edmund Dunch
Edmund Dunch, Baron Burnell of East Wittenham
Edmund Dunch was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he sat as an Member of Parliament. In 1659, after the Protectorate and before the Restoration, regaining his seat in the Rump he also sat in...

;Robert Packer
Robert Packer
Robert Packer was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1646 and 1679, as well as being Usher of the Exchequer....

- 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...

, December 1648
1648: Edmund Dunch
Edmund Dunch, Baron Burnell of East Wittenham
Edmund Dunch was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Parliamentary cause before and during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he sat as an Member of Parliament. In 1659, after the Protectorate and before the Restoration, regaining his seat in the Rump he also sat in...

(one seat only)
1653: Wallingford not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654: Wallingford not represented in first Protectorate Parliament
1656: Wallingford not represented in second Protectorate Parliament
1659: William Cook; Walter Bigg
Walter Bigg
Walter Bigg was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.Bigg was the son of Walter Bigg Senior of Wallingford in Berkshire and Crowmarsh Gifford in Oxfordshire. He lived in the parish of St Giles in the Fields and was a citizen of London and a member of the...

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
April 1660	Robert Packer Robert Packer Robert Packer was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1646 and 1679, as well as being Usher of the Exchequer....		Hungerford Dunch Hungerford Dunch Hungerford Dunch was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660 and from 1679 to 1680.-Biography:In 1660, Dunch was elected MP for both Wallingford and Cricklade for the Convention Parliament...
June 1660			Thomas Saunders
1661			Hon. George Fane George Fane Colonel George Fane DL, JP was the fifth but fourth surviving son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his wife, Mary , daughter and heir of Sir Anthony Mildmay of Apethorpe, co. Northampton....
1663			Sir John Bennet John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston -Life:His father was also Sir John Bennet and his mother was Dorothy Crofts. His younger brother was Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington. He sat as MP for Wallingford, Oxfordshire. He was made a knight at the coronation of Charles II. He was created Lord Ossulston, Baron Ossulston in 1682 to...
February 1679	John Stone		Scorey Barker
August 1679	William Lenthall
1681	Taverner Harris
1685	John Stone		John Holloway
1689	Thomas Tipping Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Tipping was a late 17th century English baronet and Member of Parliament.Sir Thomas was the second son, but tenth child, of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield Park in Oxfordshire by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir White Beconshaw of Moyles Court at Ellingham in Hampshire...		William Jennens
1690	John Wallis
1695	Sir Thomas Tipping Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Tipping was a late 17th century English baronet and Member of Parliament.Sir Thomas was the second son, but tenth child, of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield Park in Oxfordshire by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir White Beconshaw of Moyles Court at Ellingham in Hampshire...
1698			Richard Pye
1701	William Jennens		Thomas Renda
1705			Clement Kent
1708			Grey Neville Grey Neville Grey Neville was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Abingdon from 1705 to 1708, Wallingford from 1708 to 1710 and Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1715 to 1723.-Life:...
1709	Thomas Renda
1710	Thomas Renda		Simon Harcourt
1713	Richard Bigg		Simon Harcourt
1714	Richard Bigg		Thomas Renda
1715	Edmund Dunch Edmund Dunch Edmund Dunch was Master of the Royal Household to Queen Anne and a British Member of Parliament .-Biography:...	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...	William Hucks
1719	Henry Grey Henry Grey (MP) Henry Grey was a British politician, born Henry Neville.The younger son of Richard Neville of Billingbear House in Berkshire and Katherine Grey, daughter of Ralph Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Werke, he changed his surname to Grey in 1707 to inherit the estates of his uncle Ralph Grey, 4th Baron Grey of...	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...
1722	Viscount Parker George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, FRS was an English peer and astronomer.Styled Viscount Parker from 1721 to 1732, he was Member of Parliament for Wallingford from 1722 to 1727, but his interests were not in politics...
1727	George Lewen
1734	Thomas Tower
1740	Thomas Tower		Joseph Townsend Joseph Townsend Joseph Townsend was a physician, geologist and vicar of Pewsey in Wiltshire, perhaps best known for his 1786 treatise A Dissertation on the Poor Laws in which he expounded a naturalistic theory of economics and opposed the provision of 'outdoor' relief to the able bodied poor under English Poor...
1741	John Bance		John Rush
1747	Joseph Townsend Joseph Townsend Joseph Townsend was a physician, geologist and vicar of Pewsey in Wiltshire, perhaps best known for his 1786 treatise A Dissertation on the Poor Laws in which he expounded a naturalistic theory of economics and opposed the provision of 'outdoor' relief to the able bodied poor under English Poor...		Richard Tonson Jacob Tonson Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the elder was an 18th-century English bookseller and publisher....
1754	John Hervey		Richard Neville Aldworth	Bedford Whig Bedfordite The Bedfordites were an 18th century British political faction, led by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. Other than Bedford himself, notable members included John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower; Richard Rigby, who served as principal Commons manager for the...
1761	John Hervey		Sir John Gibbons, Bt
1765	Sir George Pigot, Bt		Sir John Gibbons, Bt
1768	Robert Pigot		John Aubrey Sir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet Sir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet was a British politician. In 1786, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.Baptised in Boarstall in Buckinghamshire on 2 July 1739, he was the son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, 5th Baronet and Martha Carter. Aubrey was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church,...
1772	John Cator John Cator John Cator was a wealthy timber merchant and landowner responsible for the layout of much of the areas around Blackheath and Beckenham, both in London — and both of which were in the county of Kent during the late 18th century.The son of a Herefordshire timber merchant and Quaker, Cator...
1774			Sir Robert Barker Sir Robert Barker, 1st Baronet of Bushbridge Brigadier-General Sir Robert Barker Bt was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Barker went to India in 1749 and in 1757, during the Seven Years' War, commanded the artillery at the Capture of Chandannagar and at the Battle of Plassey...
1780	Chaloner Arcedeckne		John Aubrey Sir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet Sir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet was a British politician. In 1786, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.Baptised in Boarstall in Buckinghamshire on 2 July 1739, he was the son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, 5th Baronet and Martha Carter. Aubrey was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church,...
1784	Chaloner Arcedeckne		Sir Francis Sykes, Bt
1784	Thomas Aubrey
1790	Nathaniel Wraxall
1794	Francis Sykes	Tory
1796	The Lord Eardley Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley , known as Sampson Gideon until 1789, was the son of another Sampson Gideon , a Jewish banker in the City of London who advised the British government in the 1740s and 1750s.He served as Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1770 to 1780, Midhurst from 1780...	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...		Tory
1802	William Hughes William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben William Lewis Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben , was a British copper mine owner, philanthropist and Whig politician....	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...		Tory
1804			George Galway Mills
1806			Richard Benyon Richard Benyon De Beauvoir Richard Benyon De Beauvoir MP was a 19th century British landowner, philanthropist and High Sheriff of Berkshire.-Background:He was born Richard Benyon in Westminster on 28 April 1769, the son of Richard Benyon of Gidea Hall in Essex and his wife, Hannah the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse,...	Tory
1812			Ebenezer Fuller Maitland	Tory
1820			George James Robarts	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...
1826			Robert Knight	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...
1831	Thomas Charles Leigh	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...	Robert Knight

Constituency reduced to one seat, (1832)

1832-1885

	Member	Party	Note
1832	William Seymour Blackstone William Seymour Blackstone William Seymour Blackstone was an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.He was the son of James Blackstone, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and grandson of the legal writer William Blackstone . Elected Conservative MP for Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England in 1832, he served...	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	Richard Malins	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...
1865	Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bt Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet , English Whig politician, son of Charles Wentworth Dilke, proprietor and editor of The Athenaeum, was born in London, and was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge...	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	Stanley Vickers Stanley Vickers (MP) Stanley Vickers was an English distiller and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1872....	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...	Died 24 February 1872
1872	Edward Wells	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...
1880	Walter Wren Walter Wren Walter Wren was an English tutor and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons briefly in 1880....	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...	Election declared void, on petition, 19 June 1880
1880	Pandeli Ralli Pandeli Ralli Pandeli Ralli JP DL was a British politician.Born in France, son of Toumazis Stephanou Ralli of Ralli Brothers, Pandeli graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Bridport in 1875 and held the seat until 1880...	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...

Constituency abolished (1885)

Elections

Electoral system: The bloc vote

Plurality-at-large voting

Plurality-at-large voting is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election...

electoral system was used in two seat elections and first past the post for single member elections. Each voter had up to as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings (until the secret ballot was introduced in 1872).

Percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

Sources (unless otherwise indicated): (1754–1784) Namier and Brooke; (1790–1831) Stooks Smith; (1832–1880) Craig. Where Stooks Smith gives additional information or differs from the other sources this is indicated in a note after the result.

Swing: Positive swing is from Whig/Liberal to Tory/Conservative. Negative swing is from Tory/Conservative to Whig/Liberal.

1750-1760s – 1770-1780s –
1790s – 1800s – 1810s – 1820s – 1830s – 1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1870s – 1880s

Elections in the 1750-1760s

Death of Hervey

Creation of Pigot as the 1st Baron Pigot in the Peerage of Ireland, 1766

Elections in the 1770-1780s

Seat vacated on the appointment of Pigot as Warden of the Mint
Warden of the Mint
The Warden of the Mint was in principle the highest ranking officer of the Royal Mint of Great Britain, having oversight over its operations and physical plant by virtue of a royal warrant. The office received a yearly emolument of £500. Technically subordinate to the Warden was the Master of the...

Seat vacated on the appointment of Aubrey as a Lord of the Admiralty ²

Seat vacated on the appointment of Aubrey to an office

Seat vacated on the appointment of Aubrey as a Commissioner of the Treasury ²

Note (1784 by-election): Namier and Brooke do not include this by-election, which is noted in Stooks Smith's book. Stooks Smith does not include the previous by-election won by Aubrey.

Elections in the 1790s

Resignation of Wraxall

Elections in the 1800s

Death of Sykes

Elections in the 1810s

Elections in the 1820s

Resignation of Robarts

Elections in the 1830s

Creation of Hughes as the 1st Baron Dinorben
Baron Dinorben
Baron Dinorben, of Kinmel in the County of Denbigh, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 September 1831 for William Hughes, the long-standing Whig Member of Parliament for Wallingford. He was succeeded by his younger and only surviving son, the second Baron...

Note (1832): Change and swing calculated from the 1831 by-election. Stooks Smith classifies Blackstone as a Tory and Eyston as a Whig. Blackstone used crimson and white colours and Eyston used green.

Note (1835): Stooks Smith classifies Blackstone as a Tory and gives the registered electors as 344.

Note (1837): Stooks Smith classifies Blackstone as a Tory and Teed as a Whig. He also gives the registered electorate as 322. Blackstone used crimson and white colours and Teed used light blue.

Elections in the 1840s

Note (1841): Stooks Smith classifies Blackstone as a Tory and gives the registered electors as 368.

Note (1847): Stooks Smith classifies Blackstone as a Tory and Morrison as a Whig.

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Death of Vickers

Elections in the 1880s

Election declared void on petition

Constituency abolished (1885)

Notes:-

¹ A Peer of Ireland.
² This is the office attributed to the MP by Stooks Smith. However Pigot in 1772 does not appear on the Wikipedia list of Masters of the Mint.

External links

Wallingford History Gateway

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