Lyme Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

Lyme Regis
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1295–1868
Number of members	two (1295–1832); one (1832–1868)

Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1868, when the borough was abolished.

Members of Parliament

1295–1629

• Constituency created (1295)

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Walter Tropenell	Robert Membury[1]
1388 (Feb)	Walter Tropenell	Robert Membury[1]
1388 (Sep)	Walter Tropenell	John Dorset[1]
1390 (Jan)	Walter Tropenell	John Dorset[1]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Walter Tropenell	John Dorset[1]
1393	Robert Membury	Roger Crogge[1]
1394	Robert Membury	John Stikelane[1]
1395	John Dorset	John Wade[1]
1397 (Jan)	Thomas Bathe	Hugh Sampford[1]
1397 (Sep)	John Stikelane	John Crone[1]
1399	Roger Crogge	John Stikelane[1]
1401
1402	Roger Crogge	Ralph Stikelane[1]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	Roger Crogge	Ralph Stikelane[1]
1407	Peter Richman	John Baker III[1]
1410	Thomas Haseley	[1]
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Thomas Walsingham	Roger Crogge[1]
1414 (Apr)	John Tynham	Thomas Stikelane[1]
1414 (Nov)	John Tynham	Roger Crogge[1]
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417	Thomas Est	William Taverner[1]
1419	Thomas Stikelane	[1]
1420	Edward Cukkford	John Richman[1]
1421 (May)	Thoms Lond	Nicholas Radford[1]
1421 (Dec)	Thomas Richman	Richard Parker[1]
1491	John Burgh[2]
1510–1523	No names known
1529	John Pyne, died and repl. after 1532 by ?John Tudoll	Thomas Burgh
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	John Fry	William Pole
1547	Sir Francis Fleming	Henry Leke[3]
1553 (Mar)	?
1553 (Oct)	Thomas Goodwin	John Mallock
Parliament of 1554
Parliament of 1554–1555
Parliament of 1555	John Strowbridge	Jasper Poyntz
Parliament of 1558	Jasper Poyntz[4]	John Popham[5]
Parliament of 1559	Nicholas Throckmorton	John Mallock
Parliament of 1563–1567	Francis Walsingham	William Butler (or Boteler?)
Parliament of 1571	John Astley	William Ellesdon
Parliament of 1572–1581		George Ellesdon
Parliament of 1584–1585	Edward Drew	John Hassard
Parliament of 1586–1587	Thomas Hughes
Parliament of 1588–1589	Hamden Paulet	Robert Hassard
Parliament of 1593	Zachariah Bethel
Parliament of 1597–1598	Richard Tichborne	Christopher Ellesdon
Parliament of 1601	John FitzJames	Nicholas Throckmorton, later Nicholas Carew
Parliament of 1604–1611	Sir George Somers died 1610 By-election Sir Francis Russell	John Hassard too ill to continue sitting 1610[6] By-election George Jeffreys
Addled Parliament (1614)	Sir Edward Seymour	George Browne
Parliament of 1621–1622	John Poulett	Robert Hassard
Happy Parliament (1624–1625)	Sir John Drake	William Wynn
Useless Parliament (1625)	John Drake	Thomas Paramour
Parliament of 1625–1626	Sir Walter Erle
Parliament of 1628–1629	Christopher Erle
No Parliament summoned 1629–1640

1640–1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
April 1640[7]		Sir Walter Erle	Parliamentarian		Richard Rose	Parliamentarian
November 1640		Edmund Prideaux	Parliamentarian
December 1648				Rose not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653	Lyme Regis was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Sir Edmund Prideaux[8]		Lyme Regis had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
January 1659					Henry Henley
May 1659				One seat vacant
April 1660		Walter Yonge			Thomas Moore (sat for Heytesbury)
June 1660					Henry Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon
1661		Sir John Shaw			Henry Henley
1679		Sir George Strode
1679		Thomas Moore
1685		John Pole			Sir Winston Churchill
1689					John Burridge
1690		Henry Henley
1695					Robert Henley
1701		Joseph Paice
1701					John Burridge
1702		Henry Henley
1705		Thomas Freke
1710		Henry Henley			John Burridge, junior
1715		John Henley
1722		Henry Holt Henley
1727		Henry Drax
1728					Henry Holt Henley[9]
1734		John Scrope
1748					Robert Henley
1753		Thomas Fane, later Earl of Westmorland	Tory
1754					Francis Fane	Tory
1757					Henry Fane	Tory
1762		Lord Burghersh, later Earl of Westmorland	Tory
1772		Hon. Henry Fane	Tory
1777					Francis Fane	Tory
1780[10]					David Robert Michel	Tory
1784					Hon. Thomas Fane	Tory
1802		Henry Fane	Tory
1806					Lord Burghersh, later Earl of Westmorland	Tory
1816					John Thomas Fane	Tory
1818		Vere Fane	Tory
1826		Hon. Henry Sutton Fane	Tory
1832	Representation reduced to one member

1832–1868

Election		Member	Party
	1832	William Pinney	Whig
	1842[11]	Thomas Hussey	Conservative
	1847	Sir Thomas Neville Abdy	Whig
	1852	William Pinney	Whig
	1865	John Wright Treeby	Conservative
1868		Constituency abolished

Notes

1. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
2. The English Parliaments of Henry VII. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
3. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/leke-henry-1526-58-or-later
4. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/lyme-regis
5. This may be the future Speaker of the House of Commons, John Popham (1531–1607), but his entry in the Dictionary of National Biography judges this identification as "uncertain".
6. In 1607, Sir George Somers reported to the Commons that his colleague, Hassard, was too ill from gout to continue serving, and attempted to have him dismissed from his seat. However, the House resolved "That he shall still serve, and that he shall not be removed". But in 1610 Sir John Jeffreys offered a petition on behalf of the borough to allow Hassard to be replaced, and a committee on investigation found that the 69-year-old MP was bed-ridden and incurable, and a new writ was ordered to replace him. (Oldfield, Vol I, p 372).
7. Browne Willis gives three names for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament, those of Erle, Rose and Prideaux. Other sources do not suggest that Prideaux sat in that Parliament (whereas Erle certainly did), and it is probably his name that is in error.
8. Prideaux took his seat in the restored Rump, but died 1659
9. Burridge was re-elected at the general election of 1727 but was subsequently judged to be ineligible since he was Mayor of the borough at the time of the election, and his defeated opponent Henley was declared elected in his place
10. In 1780 there was a double return: on petition, the election was declared void and a new election held with the same candidates: Fane and Michel were elected in preference to Henry Harford and Lionel Darell, junior.
11. Pinney was initially declared re-elected at the general election of 1841, but on petition his election was declared void and Hussey declared elected in his place after scrutiny of the votes

Election results

References

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