Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)

Arundel
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Sussex
Major settlements	Arundel
1974–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
Created from	Arundel & Shoreham
1332–1868
Number of members	1332–1832: Two 1832–1868: One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	West Sussex

Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town centre of Arundel and was a borough constituency in Sussex first enfranchised in 1332 and disfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.

The second incarnation of the seat comprised also the area surrounding Arundel, including Littlehampton. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, and existed until 1997. This Arundel seat elected only one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Arundel borough (1332-1868)

1332-1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	William Colyn	Richard Wodeland[1]
1388 (Feb)	Roger Clerk	John Hereward[1]
1388 (Sep)	Robert Fisher	Nicholas Hereward[1]
1390 (Jan)	William Colcheter	Robert Fisher[1]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Hugh Hasell	Richard Wodeland[1]
1393	John Chamberlain	Robert Fisher[1]
1394
1395	Richard Wodeland	Robert Fisher[1]
1397 (Jan)	Henry Skimmer	Richard Wodeland[1]
1397 (Sep)	John Patching	Richard Wodeland[1]
1399	John Esshing	William Terry[1]
1401	William Terry	John Wiltshire[1]
1402	John Dusse	John Wyldebess[1]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	John Patching	Thomas Spicer[1]
1407	John Dusse	John Patching[1]
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Dusse	John Wiltshire[1]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	John Dusse	John Patching[1]
1415
1416 (Mar)	William Chapman	Richard Smith[1]
1416 (Oct)
1417	Thomas Dusse	Richard Smith[1]
1419	John Hilly	Thomas Kyng[1]
1420	Thomas Dusse	Thomas Pursell[1]
1421 (May)	John Hilly	Alan Chamber[1]
1421 (Dec)	Thomas Pursell	Thomas Dusse[1]
1449	Thomas Bellingham
1510-1523	No names known[2]
1529	Richard Sackville	Thomas Prestall[1]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	?
1547	Sir Nicholas Pelham	Thomas Carpenter[2]
1553 (Mar)	Thomas Palmer	Thomas Morley[2]
1553 (Oct)	Sir Thomas Palmer	Thomas Gawdy[2]
1554 (Apr)	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Thomas Stradling[2]
1554 (Nov)	John Burnet	Richard Bowyer[2]
1555	Sir Henry Paget	Sir William Damsell[2][3]
1558	Edward Stradling	David Stradling[2]
1559	Sir Francis Knollys	Thomas Heneage[4]
1562/3	Sir John St Leger	William Aubrey[4]
1571	Thomas Browne	Michael Heneage[4]
1572	Thomas Fanshawe	Richard Browne[4]
1584	Thomas Fanshawe	Robert Buxton[4]
1586	Thomas Fanshawe	Thomas Palmer[4]
1588	Sir Owen Hopton	Thomas Fanshawe[4]
1593	Thomas Fanshawe	Richard Baker[4]
1597	William Essex	James Smith[4]
1601	Thomas Palmer	Thomas Baker[4]
1604-1611	Thomas Preston	John Tye
1614	Sir Henry Spiller	Edward Morley
1621	Lionel Cranfield, ennobled Sep 1622 and repl. Nov 1622 by Sir Richard Weston	Sir Henry Spiller
1624	Sir Henry Spiller	Sir George Chaworth replaced 1624 on petition by William Mill
1625	Sir Henry Spiller	William Mill
1626	Nicholas Jordain	William Mill
1628	John Alford	Henry Lord Maltravers
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

Year			First member[5]	First party	Second member[5]	Second party
		April 1640	Henry Garton	Parliamentarian	Henry Goring
		November 1640	Henry Garton	Parliamentarian	Sir Edward Alford	Royalist
		1641	John Downes[6]	Parliamentarian
		January 1644			Alford disabled from sitting - seat vacant
		1645			Herbert Hay
		December 1648			Hay excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
		1653	Arundel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
		1654	Anthony Shirley		Arundel had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
		1656	Sir John Trevor
		January 1659	Henry Onslow		Richard Marriot
		May 1659	John Downes		One seat vacant
		April 1660	The Earl of Orrery		The Viscount Falkland
		May 1660			John Trevor
		1661			The Lord Aungier of Longford
		1679	William Garway		James Butler
		1685			William Westbrooke
		1689			William Morley
		1690	James Butler
		January 1694			Lord Walden
		February 1694			John Cooke
		1695	Lord Walden		Edmund Dummer
		1698	John Cooke		Christopher Knight
		January 1701			Edmund Dummer
		November 1701			Carew Weekes
		1702	Edmund Dummer
		1705			James Butler
		May 1708	Sir Henry Peachey, Bt		The Viscount Shannon
		December 1708	Viscount Lumley
		1710	The Earl of Thomond		Viscount Lumley	Whig
		1715	General Henry Lumley		Thomas Micklethwaite
		1718			Joseph Micklethwaite
		1722	Thomas Lumley
		1727	Sir John Shelley, Bt		The Viscount Gage
		1728			John Lumley
		1739			Garton Orme
		1741	James Lumley
		1747	Theobald Taafe
		1754	Sir George Colebrooke, Bt		Thomas Griffin
		1761			John Bristow
		1768			Lauchlin Macleane
		1771			John Stewart
		1774	Thomas Brand		George Newnham
		1780	Sir Patrick Crauford		Thomas Fitzherbert
		1781	Peter William Baker
		April 1784	Earl of Surrey
		June 1784	Richard Beckford
		1790	Sir George Thomas, Bt		Henry Howard	Whig
		1795			Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt
		1796			James Greene
		1797	Nisbet Balfour
		1802	Viscount Andover		John Atkins
		1806	Sir Arthur Piggott		Francis Wilder
		January 1807			The Lord Lecale
		May 1807			Francis Wilder
		October 1812	Henry Molyneux-Howard	Whig
		December 1812	Sir Samuel Romilly	Whig
		1818	Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard	Whig	Sir Arthur Piggott
		1819			Robert Blake
		1820	Viscount Bury
		1823			Thomas Read Kemp
		1826	Edward Lombe		John Atkins
		1830	Lord Dudley Stuart	Whig
		1832	Representation reduced to one member

1832-1868

Year		Member[5]	Party
	1832	Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart	Whig
	1837	Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel	Whig
	1851	Edward Strutt	Liberal
	1852	Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard	Liberal
	1868	Constituency abolished

Arundel County Constituency (1974-1997)

Election		Member[5]	Party
	Feb 1974	Sir Michael Marshall	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Arundel and South Downs & Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

General Election February 1974: Arundel

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Michael Marshall	37,655	57.1	N/A
	Liberal	John Rex Kingsbury	17,712	26.9	N/A
	Labour	Ben Pimlott	10,597	16.1	N/A
Majority			19,943	30.2	N/A
Turnout			65,964	79.6	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

General Election October 1974: Arundel

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Michael Marshall	34,215	56.2	−0.9
	Liberal	John Rex Kingsbury	15,404	25.3	−1.6
	Labour	Michael Ewart Stedman	11,268	18.5	+2.4
Majority			18,811	30.9
Turnout			60,887	73.0	−6.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.4

General Election 1979: Arundel

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Michael Marshall	43,968	65.0	+8.8
	Liberal	John Rex Kingsbury	13,208	19.5	−5.8
	Labour	John Nigel Tizard	10,509	15.5	−3.0
Majority			30,760	35.5
Turnout			67,685	73.9	+0.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.3

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Arundel

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Michael Marshall	31,096	59.6	−5.4
	Liberal	James Michael Meade Walsh	15,391	29.5	+10.0
	Labour	Gareth Charles Rees	4,302	8.2	−7.3
	Conservative for Corporal Punishment	John Harold Wadman	1,399	2.7	N/A
Majority			15,705	30.1
Turnout			52,188	69.7	−4.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	−7.7

General Election 1987: Arundel

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Robert Michael Marshall	34,356	61.3	+1.7
	Liberal	Dr. James Michael Meade Walsh	15,476	27.6	−1.9
	Labour	Peter Malcolm Slowe	6,177	11.0	+2.8
Majority			18,880	33.7
Turnout			56,009	71.2	+1.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.8

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Arundel^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Robert Michael Marshall	35,405	58.0	−3.4
	Liberal Democrat	Dr. James Michael Meade Walsh	15,542	25.5	−2.2
	Labour	Roger Allfrey Nash	8,321	13.6	+2.6
	Liberal	Mrs Denise Ann Renson	1,103	1.8	−25.8
	Green	Robert Douglas Corbin	693	1.1	N/A
Majority			19,863	32.5	−1.2
Turnout			61,064	77.0	+5.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.6

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

Notes and references

1. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
2. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
3. Stanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons|| 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9.
4. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
5. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
6. Downes was elected after a disputed return at the by-election which followed the death of Garton
7. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

Sources

• Election results, 1974 - 1997
• Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham)
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
• Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)