Wareham 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...

 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...

, which elected 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

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...

 from 1302 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

History

The borough consisted of the town of Wareham

Wareham, Dorset

Wareham is an historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town, a civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles southwest of Poole.-Situation and geography:...

 on the Isle of Purbeck

Isle of Purbeck

The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in the county of Dorset, England. It is bordered by the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north. Its western boundary is less well...

, a market town close to Poole Harbour

Poole Harbour

Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome. The harbour has a long history of human settlement...

. In 1831, the population of the borough was 1,676, and it contained 364 houses.

The right to vote was exercised by the Mayor, magistrates and freemen

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 of the town and all inhabitants paying scot and lot

Scot and lot

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; the number who were qualified to vote under this provision by the time of the Reform Act was unknown, as there had not been a contested election for many years, but there were about 500 in the 1760s. In the early 18th century a number of wealthy local families were influential over the choice of members, but eventually John Calcraft of Kingstone Hall secured total control by buying up all the property in the borough occupied by potential voters.

Wareham retained one of its two MPs under the Reform Act, but its boundaries were extended to include several surrounding areas, including nearby Corfe Castle which had previously been a borough in its own right. The new borough had a population of 5,751.

The borough continued to elect one MP until the third Reform Act, which came into effect at the general election of 1885. This abolished the constituency, Wareham being placed in the new East Dorset

East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)

East Dorset is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was formally known as the Eastern Division of Dorset. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 county division.

1302-1629

• Constituency created (1302)

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Thomas Walbrond	Walter Byle
1388 (Feb)	Thomas Walbrond	Walter Byle
1388 (Sep)	Thomas Walbrond	Robert Calche
1390 (Jan)	Adam Denys	Robert Calche
1390 (Nov)
1391	Nicholas atte Gate	Henry Rauf
1393	Walter Byle	Robert Calche
1394	Adam Denys	Thomas Smithfield
1395	Richard Byle	Thomas Barbour
1397 (Jan)	Walter Byle	Adam Denys
1397 (Sep)	Nicholas atte Gate	Robert Cokeman
1399	Adam Denys	Thomas Barbour
1401
1402	Robert Calche	Richard Byle
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	Robert Craford	John Cheverell
1407	John Gramford	William Colyns
1410	Robert Craford	Thomas Walsingham
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Robert Craford	Thomas Faringdon
1414 (Apr)	Richard Byle	John Mayhew II
1414 (Nov)	William Gerard	John Shoyll
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Gerard	Robert Craford
1419	William Gerard	Robert Craford
1420	William Gerard	Walter Reson
1421 (May)	William Gerard	Walter Reson
1421 (Dec)	William Gerard	Walter Provost
1510-1523	No names known
1529	John Orenge	William Grimston
1536
1539	?
1542	?
1545	Thomas Phelips	Robert Keyle
1547	David Seymout	Richard Morison
1553 (Mar)	?Richard Phelips	?
1553 (Nov)	Thomas Philips	Leonard Willoughby
1554	Alexander Hughes Alexander Hughes Alexander Hughes was an English professional association footballer who played as a full-back. Born in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, he joined Football League Second Division side Burnley in August 1931. Predominantly a reserve player, Hughes made his first-team debut for Burnley on 21 November...	Thomas Girdler
Parliament of 1554-1555	Hugh Smith	Roger Gerard
Parliament of 1555	Thomas Philips	Clement Hyatt
Parliament of 1558	Matthew Smythe	Walter Raleigh
Parliament of 1559	Sir John Perrot	John Scriven
Parliament of 1563-1567	John Morrice	Richard Shaw
Parliament of 1571	John Baker	Clement Hyatt died during the 1572-81 Parliament In his place Henry Ashley
Parliament of 1572-1581	John Gwynne
Parliament of 1584-1585	John Rogers	Andrew Rogers
Parliament of 1586-1587		Thomas Lambert Thomas Lambert Thomas Lambert is a Swiss freestyle skier. He was born in Mettmenstetten. He participated at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where he placed 14th in aearials, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he placed 12th in aerials....
Parliament of 1588-1589		Christopher Gerrard
Parliament of 1593	Thomas Rogers	George Strode
Parliament of 1597-1598	John Frankland	Sampson Hussey
Parliament of 1601	Sir John Stafford	Edmund Scott
Parliament of 1604-1611	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 ....	Dr Francis James
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...	John Freke John Freke (MP) John Freke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.Freke was the son of Thomas Freke of Iwerne Courtney, Dorset. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford on 31 October 1605, aged 14. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1600. In 1614, he was elected Member of...	Sir William Pitt
Parliament of 1621-1622	John Trenchard John Trenchard (of Warmwell) John Trenchard was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.Trenchard was born in Charminster, Wareham, the son of Sir George Trenchard of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of SIr George Speke of Whitelackington.In 1621, Trenchard was...
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...
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...
Parliament of 1625-1626	Sir Nathaniel Napier Nathaniel Napier Sir Nathaniel Napier , of Middlemarsh Hall and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament . He was born c.1587, the only son of Sir Robert Napier, a judge and MP, who held the office of Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his second wife Magdalen Denton. He was knighted in...	Edward Laurence
Parliament of 1628-1629	Gerrard Napier Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet , of Middle Marsh and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Royalists during the English Civil War....	Sir John Meller John Meller Sir John Meller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1628 and in 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

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....		John Trenchard John Trenchard (of Warmwell) John Trenchard was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.Trenchard was born in Charminster, Wareham, the son of Sir George Trenchard of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of SIr George Speke of Whitelackington.In 1621, Trenchard was...	Parliamentarian		Dr Gilbert Jones Gilbert Jones Gilbert Jones was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.Jones was probably the son of Gilbert Jones of Poole, Montgomery and was a student of Gray's Inn in 1617. He attended All Souls' College, Oxford and was awarded BCL on 10 March, 1623 and DCL on 14 January...
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...					Thomas Erle	Parliamentarian
December 1648				Erle 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	Wareham 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...		Elias Bond Elias Bond The Bond District is a collection of historic buildings located in the district of North Kohala on the island of Hawaii.The district has three sections: the homestead of missionaries Ellen and Reverend Elias Bond , Kalahikiola Church, and the Kohala Seminary.-Ellen and Elias Bond:Elias Bond was...			James Dewey James Dewey James Dewey was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659.Dewey was the son and heir of James Dewey of Christchurch, Hampshire. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 20 November 1651 and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1656. In 1656, he...
May 1659 Rump Parliament The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....		John Trenchard John Trenchard (of Warmwell) John Trenchard was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659.Trenchard was born in Charminster, Wareham, the son of Sir George Trenchard of Warmwell and his wife Ann Speke daughter of SIr George Speke of Whitelackington.In 1621, Trenchard was...		One seat vacant
April 1660		George Pitt			Robert Culliford
1679		Thomas Erle Thomas Erle Lieutenant-General Thomas Erle PC was an English army general and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance....	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...		George Savage
1685					George Ryves George Ryves George Ryves D.D. was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.Ryves was elected Warden of New College, Oxford in 1599, a post he held until 1613....
1689					Thomas Skinner
1690					William Okeden
1695					Thomas Trenchard
1698		George Pitt
January 1701					Thomas Erle Thomas Erle Lieutenant-General Thomas Erle PC was an English army general and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance....	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...
March 1701					Sir Edward Ernle
November 1701					Thomas Erle Thomas Erle Lieutenant-General Thomas Erle PC was an English army general and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance....	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...
1702		Sir Josiah Child
1704		Sir Edward Ernle
1705		George Pitt
1710		Sir Edward Ernle
1713		George Pitt
1715		George Pitt, junior
1718					Henry Drax
1722		Sir Edward Ernle			Joseph Gascoigne
12 February 1729					Nathaniel Gould
26 February 1729		Thomas Tower
1734		Henry Drax			John Pitt
1747					Thomas Erle Drax
1748		Robert Banks Hodgkinson			John Pitt
1751					Henry Drax
April 1754	Seats vacant after disputed election
December 1754		William Augustus Pitt William Augustus Pitt General Sir William Augustus Pitt KB, PC was a long-serving if undistinguished senior officer of the British Army whose sixty years of service covered several major wars and numerous postings as garrison or regiment commander. He served as MP between 1754 and 1761...			Henry Drax
1755					Edward Drax
1761		Thomas Erle Drax			John Pitt
March 1768		Ralph Burton Ralph Burton Ralph Burton was a British soldier and Canadian settler.Burton's military career began in the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, where he rose to the rank of major, serving under George Augustus Eliott, the defender of Gibraltar...			Robert Palk
November 1768		Whitshed Keene
January 1774		Thomas de Grey Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham PC , was a British peer and politician. He served as Joint Postmaster General between 1787 and 1794 and was for many years Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.-Background:...
October 1774		William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton , English statesman and Irish politician, popularly known as "Single Speech Hamilton," was born in London, the son of a Scottish bencher of Lincoln's Inn....			Christopher D'Oyly
1780		John Boyd Sir John Boyd, 2nd Baronet Sir John Boyd, 2nd Baronet was the son of John Boyd, 1st Baronet Boyd, and his first wife Mary Bumpstead.On his father's death in 1800, John inherited the whole estate and his father's title...			Thomas Farrer
1784		Charles Lefebure
1786		John Calcraft John Calcraft (the younger) John Calcraft the younger , of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament....
1790		General Richard Smith			Lord Robert Spencer
May 1796		Charles Rose Ellis
November 1796		Sir Godfrey Vassall
1799					Joseph Chaplin Hankey
1800		John Calcraft John Calcraft (the younger) John Calcraft the younger , of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament....	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...
1802					Andrew Strahan
1806		Jonathan Raine
1807		Sir Granby Calcraft			Hon. John William Ward John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS , known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician...	Tory
1808		Sir Samuel Romilly Samuel Romilly Sir Samuel Romilly , was a British legal reformer.-Background and education:Romilly was born in Frith Street, Soho, London, the second son of Peter Romilly, a watchmaker and jeweller...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
1812		Robert Gordon			Theodore Henry Broadhead
1818		John Calcraft John Calcraft (the younger) John Calcraft the younger , of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament....	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...		Thomas Denman Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman PC KC was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord Chief Justice between 1832 and 1850.-Background and education:Denman was born in London, the son of Dr Thomas Denman...	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...
1820					John Hales Calcraft	Tory
1826					Charles Baring Wall
1828			Tory
1830					James Ewing James Ewing (MP) James Ewing was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Wareham, 1830–1831, and Glasgow, 1832–1835.-References:...	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		Granby Hales Calcraft	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...		Charles Wood Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax GCB PC , known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Bt between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig politician and Member of Parliament. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 -Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....	Representation reduced to one Member

1832-1885

Year		Member	Party
1832		John Hales Calcraft	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		John Erle-Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.-Personal life:...	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...
1852			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		John Hales Calcraft	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...
1859		John Erle-Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.-Personal life:...	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		John Hales Montagu Calcraft	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		John Erle-Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.-Personal life:...	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		Montague Guest Montague Guest Montague John Guest , was a British Liberal politician.A member of the prominent Guest family, he was the third son of Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey...	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 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:...	Constituency abolished

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