Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)

Hythe
Former constituency for the House of Commons
1366–1950
Number of members	1298–1832: two 1832–1950: one
Replaced by	Folkestone and Hythe

Hythe was a constituency centred on the town of Hythe in Kent. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until 1832, when its representation was reduced to one member. The constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, and replaced with the new Folkestone and Hythe constituency.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Folkestone and Hythe, the Urban District of Cheriton, and part of the Urban District of Sandgate.

Members of Parliament

1366-1640

Parliament	First Member	Second Member
1386	Henry Browning	John Bernard [1]
1388 (Feb)	John Dyne	William Hughelot [1]
1388 (Sep)	Walter Fisher	John Cundy[1]
1390 (Jan)	John Dyne	Henry Browning [1]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Henry Browning	William Cundy [1]
1393	John French	Alan Honywode [1]
1394
1395	John Dyne	John Storme [1]
1397 (Jan)	John Dyne	John Honywode [1]
1397 (Sept)
1399	Thomas Canterbury	Alexander Appleford [1]
1401
1402	Thomas Casebourne	Alexander Appleford [1]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	Thomas Casebourne	Henry Philpot [1]
1407	Martin French	Henry Philpot [1]
1410	Alexander Appleford	Stephen Rye [1]
1411	William Canoun [1]
1413 (Feb)	Henry Philpot	Stephen Rye [1]
1413 (May)	Thomas Casebourne	Stephen Rye [1]
1414 (Apr)	William Canoun	Stephen Rye [1]
1414 (Nov)	Robert Bannok	William Yoklete [1]
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417	Henry Philpot	Stephen Rye [1]
1419	Henry Philpot	John Skinner [1]
1420	Alexander Appleford	John Overhaven [1]
1421 (May)	Thomas Bromlegh	John Leigh [1]
1421 (Dec)	John Overhaven	Richard Rykedon [1]
1510	John Honywood	John Berde[2]
1512	Clement Holwey	John Berde [2]
1515	not known
1523	not known
1529	John Hull	Stephen Harry [2]
1536	?John Hull	?Stephen Harry [2]
1539	not known
1542	not known
1545	not known
1547	William Brooke alias Cobham	William Baddell [2]
1553 (Mar)	William Dalmyngton	John Knight [2]
1553 (Oct)	Thomas Jekyn	William Oxenden [2]
1554 (Apr)	William Carden	John Estday [2]
1554 (Nov)	John Estday	Thomas Keys [2]
1555	John Knight	John Fowler [2]
1558	John Knight	Richard Daper [2]
1559	William Baddell	Ralph Haselhurst[3]
1562/3	Edward Popham	John Bridgman [3]
1571	William Cromer	John Stephenson [3]
1572	Thomas Honywood, died and replaced Nov 1584 by George Morton	John Bridgman [3]
1584	Christopher Honywood	Thomas Bodley, sat for Portsmouth replaced by ?George Morton [3]
1586	John Smythe	William Dalmyngton [3]
1588/9	John Collins	John Smythe [3]
1593	Henry Fane	John Collins [3]
1597	Christopher Honywood	Christopher Toldervey [3]
1601	William Knight	Christopher Toldervey [3]
1604	Sir John Smith died and replaced 1609 by Sir Norton Knatchbull	Christopher Toldervey
1614	Sir Richard Smythe	Lionel Cranfield
1621-1622	Sir Peter Heyman	Dr Richard Zouche
1624	Sir Peter Heyman	Dr Richard Zouche
1625	Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet	Edward Clarke
1626	Sir Peter Heyman	Basil Dixwell
1628-1629	Sir Peter Heyman	Sir Edward Scott
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
November 1640		John Harvey	Parliamentarian		(Sir) Henry Heyman	Parliamentarian
1645		Thomas Westrow
1653	Hythe was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Sir Robert Hales			William Kenrick
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
1660		The Viscount Strangford			Phineas Andrews
May 1661		John Hervey
November 1661					Sir Henry Wood
1673					Sir Leoline Jenkins
February 1679		Sir Edward Dering			Julius Deedes
August 1679					Edward Hales
April 1685		Heneage Finch			Julius Deedes
June 1685					William Shaw
1689		Edward Hales			Julius Deedes
1690		Sir Philip Boteler			William Brockman
1695					Jacob des Bouverie
1701					John Boteler
1708		John Fane
1710 [note 1]					The Viscount Shannon
1711		John Boteler			William Berners
1712					The Viscount Shannon
1713		Jacob des Bouverie
1715					Sir Samuel Lennard
1722		Captain Hercules Baker
1728					William Glanville
1744		(Sir) Thomas Hales [note 2]
1761		Lord George Sackville
1766					William Amherst
1768		John Sawbridge			William Evelyn
1774		Sir Charles Farnaby [note 3]
1798		Hon. Charles Marsham [note 4]
1802		Matthew White			Thomas Godfrey
1806		Viscount Marsham
1807		William Deedes
1810					Sir John Perring
1812		Matthew White
1818		John Bladen Taylor
1819		Samuel Jones-Loyd	Liberal
1820					Stewart Marjoribanks
1826		Sir Robert Townsend-Farquhar
1830		John Loch
1832	Representation reduced to one member

1832-1950

Year		Member	Party
1832		Stewart Marjoribanks	Whig
1837		Viscount Melgund	Whig
1841		Stewart Marjoribanks	Whig
1847		Edward Drake Brockman	Whig
1857		Sir John Ramsden	Whig
1859		Baron Mayer de Rothschild	Liberal
1874		Sir Edward Watkin	Liberal
1885			Independent Liberal
1886			Liberal Unionist
1895		Sir James Bevan Edwards	Conservative
1899		Sir Edward Sassoon	Liberal Unionist
1912		Sir Philip Sassoon	Unionist
1939		Rupert Brabner	Conservative
1945		Harry Mackeson	Conservative
1950	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Hythe ^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent Liberal	Sir Edward William Watkin	2,247		n/a
	Liberal	Alpheus Cleophas Morton	797
Majority			1,450
Turnout
	Independent Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing	n/a

General Election 1886: Hythe ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Edward William Watkin	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Hythe ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Edward William Watkin	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Edwards

General Election 1895: Hythe ^[4][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir James Bevan Edwards	2,189		n/a
	Liberal	Sir Israel Hart	1,726		n/a
Majority			463		n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Hythe by-election, 1899 ^[4][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Edward Albert Sassoon	2,425
	Liberal	Sir Israel Hart	1,898
Majority			527
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Hythe ^[4][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Edward Albert Sassoon	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Biron

General Election 1906: Hythe ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Edward Albert Sassoon	3,246		n/a
	Liberal	Henry Chartres Biron	2,347		n/a
Majority			899		n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Hythe ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Edward Albert Sassoon	3,746	65.7
	Liberal	William Clarke Hall	1,954	34.3
Majority			1,792	31.4
Turnout				87.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Hythe ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Edward Albert Sassoon	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Hythe by-election, 1912^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	3,722	65.0	n/a
	Liberal	Samuel Moorhouse	2,004	35.0	n/a
Majority			1,718	30.0	n/a
Turnout				82.2	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon
• Liberal: William Deedes

Sassoon

General Election 1918: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	8,809	72.0
	Labour	Robert William Forsyth	3,427	28.0	n/a
Majority			5,392	44.0
Turnout				61.6
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	12,843	76.5	n/a
	Labour	Constantine Gallop	3,936	23.5	n/a
Majority			8,907	53.0	n/a
Turnout				79.7	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1929: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	12,982	57.8	-18.7
	Liberal	Miss Hester Lloyd Holland	6,912	30.7	n/a
	Labour	Grace Mary Colman	2,597	11.5	-12.0
Majority			6,070	27.1	-22.9
Turnout				70.8	-8.9
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	20,277	84.9	+27.1
	Labour	Grace Mary Colman	3,608	15.1	+3.6
Majority			16,669	69.8	+42.7
Turnout				71.8	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

• The Liberal candidate, Hester Holland withdrew on 14 Oct 1931

General Election, 14 November 1935: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon	15,359	63.9
	Liberal	Richard Hathaway Ellis	8,688	36.1	n/a
Majority			6,671	27.7
Turnout			24,047	68.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hythe by-election, 1939^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Rupert Arnold Brabner	12,016	54.2	-9.7
	Liberal	Frank Ongley Darvall	9,577	43.2	+7.1
	Independent	Harry St. John Bridger Philby	576	2.6	n/a
Majority			2,439	11.0	-16.8
Turnout				62.4	-5.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.4

• Philby was a candidate for the British People's Party.

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Hythe^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Harry Ripley Mackeson	8,048	46.5	-7.7
	Labour	David Graham Widdiscombe	6,091	35.2	n/a
	Liberal	Arthur Dyke Beauchamp James	3,152	18.2	-25.0
Majority			1,957	11.3
Turnout				73.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes

1. At the election of 1710, Fane and Shannon were returned as elected but, on petition, they were declared not to have been duly elected and Berners and Boteler were seated in their place.
2. Succeeded as baronet, January 1748.
3. Farnaby adopted the surname Radcliffe in 1783.
4. Styled Viscount Marsham from June 1801 (when his father was created Earl of Romney).

References

Citations

1. "Hythe (1386–1421)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
2. "Hythe (1509–1558)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
3. "Hythe (1558–1603)". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
4. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
5. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
9. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
10. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
11. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
12. Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications.

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