Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Scarborough
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	North Yorkshire
Major settlements	Scarborough, Whitby
February 1974–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Scarborough and Whitby
Created from	Scarborough and Whitby
1295–1918
Number of members	Two (1295-1885) One (1885-1918)
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Scarborough was the name of a constituency in Yorkshire, electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons, at two periods. From 1295 until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough consisting only of the town of Scarborough, electing two MPs until 1885 and one from 1885 until 1918. In 1974 the name was revived for a county constituency, covering a much wider area; this constituency was abolished in 1997.

Boundaries

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Scarborough, the Urban Districts of Pickering and Scalby, and the Rural Districts of Pickering and Scarborough.

1983-1997: The Borough of Scarborough wards of Ayton, Castle, Cayton, Central, Danby, Derwent, Eastfield, Eskdaleside, Falsgrave, Fylingdales, Lindhead, Mayfield, Mulgrave, Newby, Northstead, Scalby, Seamer, Streonshalh, Weaponness, and Woodlands.

History

Scarborough was first represented in a Parliament held at Shrewsbury in 1282, and was one of the boroughs sending 2 MPs to the Model Parliament of 1295 which is now generally considered to be the first parliament in the modern sense.

Until the Great Reform Act of 1832 Scarborough was a corporation borough, the right of election resting solely with the 44-member corporation or "common council". At an earlier period, it seems to have been a matter of some dispute whether the freemen of the borough could also vote, but at an election in 1736 the corporation and the (much more numerous) freemen backed different candidates. The candidate of the freemen was returned to Parliament, but on petition from his defeated opponent the House of Commons decided that only the corporation votes should stand, and overturned the result. In later days the Corporation was entirely under the influence of the Duke of Rutland and Earl of Mulgrave, who each nominated one of the Members of Parliament; by 1832, Scarborough had continuously been represented by junior members of their respective families for more than half a century. The restriction on the franchise was challenged in 1791, and Parliament declared in favour of "the ancient right of inhabitant householders" in the borough to vote, but the decision seems to have been a dead-letter for at the election of 1802, the last to be contested before the Reform Act, only 33 voters cast their votes.

At the time of the Reform Act, the borough had a population of about 8,760 in just over 2,000 houses, and the Act left its boundaries and two members intact, though widening the franchise. (There were 431 electors registered at the 1832 election.) The constituency remained broadly unchanged until 1918, though from 1885 its representation was reduced from two MPs to one.

After abolition in 1918, the constituency was absorbed into the new Scarborough and Whitby county constituency. However, the boundary changes which came into effect at the February 1974 general election created a new constituency named Scarborough. This was a county constituency including, in addition to Scarborough itself and its suburb Scalby, the town of Pickering and the Scarborough and Pickering rural districts.

There were further boundary changes at the 1983 general election, which brought in Whitby and its surrounding area in place of the Pickering district. The constituency was abolished once more for the 1997 general election, when it was again largely replaced by a new Scarborough and Whitby constituency.

Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1295)

MPs 1295-1540

Parliament	First member	Second member
1298	John Rofton	Robert Pau
1301	John Pickford	John Hammond
1307	Amaury Gegg	Robert Wawayn
1308	Radus Godge	John Gegg
1310	Roger Oughtred	John de Cropton
1313	Roger Oughtred	John de Cropton
1314	Roger Oughtred	Thomas de Cropton
1315	Roger Oughtred	John Huterburgh
1319	Evericus Godge	William de St Thomas
1321	Adam de Seamer	Henry de Roston
1327	Henry de Roston	Robert de Hubthorpe
1327	Henry de Newcastle	John de Bergh
1328	Robert the Coroner	John le Skyron
1328	Henry de Newcastle	William de Hedon
1329	Henry de Newcastle	William de Hedon
1330	Philip Humbury	John le Serjeant
1332	Henry the Coroner	Henry de Roston
1333	Henry the Coroner	Henry de Roston
1334	Robert de Helperthorpe	Henry the Coroner
1335	Henry de Newcastle	William de Bedale
1335	Richard de Willsthorpe	John de Mounte Pesselers
1336	Thomas le Blound	Henry de Newcastle
1337	Henry de Newcastle	Thomas the Coroner
1338	Henry de Roston	Henry de Newcastle
1339	Henry de Roston	Henry de Newcastle
1340	Henry de Roston	Robert the Coroner
1346	William de Kilham	John de Ireland
1347	Robert Scardeburgh	William Cutt
1348	Robert Scardeburgh	William son of Roger
1351	John Beaucola	Henry de Roston
1354	Henry de Roston	Richard de Newcastle
1356	John Burniston	William Barton
1358	Robert the Coroner	John Hammund
1359	Henry Roston	Peter Percy
1360	Richard de Newcastle	Peter Percy
1361	Peter Percy	John del Aumery
1362	Edward Thwailes	?
1365	Richard del Kichen	Richard Chelman
1368	Stephen Carter	Henry de Roston
1369	Robert Aclom	John de Barton
1373	William Cobberiham	John Aclom
1376	John de Stolwich	Henry de Roston
1378	William de Seamer	John de Moresham, jnr
1379	Henry de Roston	Thomas de Brune
1382	Henry de Roston	John Aclom
1383	John Stockwich	Richard Chelman
1384	John Aclom	Henry de Roston
1385	Robert Martyn	John de Moresham
1386	William de Seamer	John Carter[1]
1388 (Feb)	Willam Sage	John Aclom [1]
1388 (Sep)	John Folkton	John Carter [1]
1390 (Jan)
1390 (Nov)
1391	John Carter
1392	John Carter	John Martyn [1]
1393	Robert de Alnwick	John de Moresham, jnr [1]
1394	Robert Shilbottle	William Carter [1]
1395	Henry de Harom	Robert Shillbottle [1]
1397 (Jan)	John Carter	William Percy [1]
1397 (Sep)
1400	John Aclom	William Harom [1]
1401	John Mosdale	Robert Aclom [1]
1402	Thomas Carethorp	William Harom [1]
1404/5 (Jan)	John Mosdale	William Sage [1]
1404/4 (Sep)	John Mosdale	Robert Aclom [1]
1406	William Percy	William Harom [1]
1407	William Stapleton	William Carter [1]
1410
1411	John Mosdale	William Sage [1] John Carter
1412/3 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Thomas Carethorp	John Mosdale [1]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	John Mosdale	William Sage [1]
1415	Robert Bamburgh	George Topcliffe [1]
1415/6 (Mar)	Thomas Carethorp	Roger de Stapelton [1]
1416 (Oct)
1417
1419	William Forster	William Sage [1]
1420	John Carter	Thomas Copeland [1]
1421 (May)	John Carter	William Sage [1]
1421 (Dec)	John Aclom	William Forster [1]
1422	Hugo Raysyn	William Forster
1423	William Forster	Jack Daniell
1425	Robert Bambergh	William Forster
1428	John Danyell	William Forster
1429	John Danyell	William Forster
1432	William Forster	Jack Daniell
1442	William Forster	Robert Carethorp
1447	William Helperby	John Aclom
1449	Henry Eyre	William Paulin
1450	John Aclom	Robert Benton
1451	George Topcliff	Thomas Benton
1455	Jack Daniell	Robert Hoggson
1460	John Sherrifle	Thomas Hoggson
1467	John Paulin	John Robinson
1510-1523	No names known
1529	Sir Ralph Ellerker	George Flinton
1536	?
1539	?

MPs 1542-1640

Parliament	First Member	Second Member
Parliament of 1542-1544	Sir Ralph Eure	Sir Nicholas Fairfax
Parliament of 1545-1547	Reginald Beseley	William Lockwood
Parliament of 1547-1552	Richard Whaley	Reginald Beseley
First Parliament of 1553	Thomas Eyns	General Dakins
Second Parliament of 1553	John Tregonwell	Leonard Chamberlain
Parliament of 1554	Anthony Brann	Robert Massey
Parliament of 1554-1555	Reginald Beseley	Tristram Cook
Parliament of 1555	William Hasye	Francis Aislabie
Parliament of 1558	Richard Jones	Edward Beseley
Parliament of 1559	William Strickland	Sir Henry Gate
Parliament of 1563-1567
Parliament of 1571		Edward Gate
Parliament of 1572-1583	Sir Henry Gate	Edward Carey
Parliament of 1584-1585	William Strickland	John Hotham
Parliament of 1586-1587	Sir Ralph Bourchier	Edward Hutchinson
Parliament of 1588-1589	Edward Gate	William Fish
Parliament of 1593		Roger Dalton
Parliament of 1597-1598	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	Walter Pye
Parliament of 1601	Edward Stanhope	William Eure
Parliament of 1604-1611	Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby	Francis Eure
Addled Parliament (1614)	Edward Smith	William Conyers
Parliament of 1621-1622	Sir Richard Cholmeley
Happy Parliament (1624-1625)	(Sir) Hugh Cholmeley[2]
Useless Parliament (1625)		William Thompson
Parliament of 1625-1626		Stephen Hutchinson
Parliament of 1628-1629	Sir William Constable	John Harrison
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

MPs 1640-1885

Election			First member[3]	First party	Second member[3]	Second party
		April 1640	John Hotham the younger	Royalist	Sir Hugh Cholmeley
		November 1640
		April 1642			Cholmley disabled to sit - seat vacant
		September 1643	Hotham disabled to sit - seat vacant
		1645	Luke Robinson		Sir Matthew Boynton, Bt. (d. March 1647)
		1647			John Anlaby
		1653	Scarborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
		1654	John Wildman		Scarborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
		1656	Colonel Edward Salmon
		January 1659			Thomas Chaloner
		May 1659	Luke Robinson[4]		One seat vacant
		April 1660			John Legard
		June 1660			William Thompson
		July 1660	John Legard[5]
		1661	Sir Jordan Crosland
		1670	Sir Philip Monckton
		1679	Francis Thompson
		1685	Sir Thomas Slingsby, Bt		William Osbaldeston
		1689	William Thompson		Francis Thompson
		1692	John Hungerford
		1693			The Viscount of Irvine
		1695	Sir Charles Hotham, Bt	Court Whig
		1701			William Thompson
		1702	John Hungerford	Tory
		1705	Robert Squire
		1707	John Hungerford	Tory
		1722			Sir William Strickland, Bt	Whig
		1730	William Thompson
		January 1736			Viscount Dupplin[6]
		April 1736			William Osbaldeston
		1744	Edwin Lascelles
		1747			Roger Handasyde
		1754	Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bt		William Osbaldeston
		1761	John Major[7]
		1766			Fountayne Wentworth Osbaldeston
		1768	George Manners
		1770			Sir James Pennyman, Bt
		1772	The Earl of Tyrconnel	Tory
		1774			Sir Hugh Palliser, Bt
		1779			Charles Phipps
		1784			George Osbaldeston
		1790			Hon Henry Phipps[8]	Tory
		1794			Hon. Edmund Phipps	Tory
		1796	Lord Charles Somerset	Tory
		1802	Lord Robert Manners	Tory
		1806	Charles Manners Sutton	Tory
		1818			Viscount Normanby	Whig
		1820			Hon Edmund Phipps	Tory
		1832	Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt	Whig	Sir George Cayley, Bt	Whig
		1835			Sir Frederick Trench	Conservative
		1837	Sir Thomas Style, Bt	Whig
		1841	Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt	Conservative
		1847			Earl of Mulgrave	Whig
		1851			George Frederick Young	Conservative
		1852			Earl of Mulgrave	Whig
		1857		Liberal		Liberal
		1857			John Dent	Liberal
		1859			William Denison	Liberal
		1860			John Dent	Liberal
		1869	Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt	Liberal
		1874			Sir Charles Legard, Bt	Conservative
		1880			William Sproston Caine	Liberal
		1880	John George Dodson	Liberal
		1884	Richard Fell Steble	Liberal

• Representation reduced to one member (1885)

MPs 1885-1918

Election		Member[3]	Party
	1885	Sir George Sitwell	Conservative
	1886	Joshua Rowntree	Liberal
	1892	Sir George Sitwell	Conservative
	1895	Joseph Compton-Rickett	Liberal
	1906	Walter Rea	Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished

MPs 1974-1997

Election		Member[3]	Party
	1974	Sir Michael Shaw	Conservative
	1992	John Sykes	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Scarborough ^[9][10][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir George Reresby Sitwell	2,185	51.6
	Liberal	John Glover	2,048	48.4
Majority			137	3.2
Turnout				90.7
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1886: Scarborough ^[9][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Joshua Rowntree	2,122	51.2	+2.8
	Conservative	Sir George Reresby Sitwell	2,020	48.8	-2.8
Majority			102	48.8	5.6
Turnout				88.8	-1.9
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.8

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Scarborough ^[9][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir George Reresby Sitwell	2,293	51.9	+3.1
	Liberal	Joshua Rowntree	2,122	48.1	-3.1
Majority			171	3.8	6.2
Turnout				90.5	+1.7
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.1

Rickett

General Election 1895: Scarborough ^[9][10][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Joseph Compton Rickett	2,415	50.2	+2.1
	Conservative	Sir George Reresby Sitwell	2,391	49.8	-2.1
Majority			24	0.4	4.2
Turnout				91.0	+0.5
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.1

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Scarborough ^[9][10][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Joseph Compton Rickett	2,548	51.1	+0.9
	Conservative	Sir George Reresby Sitwell	2,441	48.9	-0.9
Majority			107	2.2	+1.8
Turnout				87.1	-3.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.9

General Election 1906: Scarborough ^[9][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Walter Russell Rea	3,128	54.4	+3.3
	Conservative	Charles Edward Hunter	2,619	45.6	-3.3
Majority			509	8.8	+6.6
Turnout				92.0	+4.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.3

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Scarborough ^[9][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Walter Russell Rea	3,011	52.5	-1.9
	Conservative	Hon. George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell	2,719	47.5	+1.9
Majority			292	5.0	-3.8
Turnout				92.9	+0.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.9

General Election December 1910: Scarborough ^[9][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Walter Russell Rea	2,763	50.5	-2.0
	Conservative	Hon. George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell		49.5	+2.0
Majority				1.0	-4.0
Turnout				88.8	-4.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.0

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;

• Liberal: Walter Russell Rea
• Unionist:

Elections in the 1970s

General Election February 1974: Scarborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Shaw	21,858	47.66
	Liberal	MF Pitts	16,751	36.53
	Labour	DJ Taylor-Goodby	7,034	15.34
	Independent	MJ Ellis	114	0.25
	Independent Conservative	BM Stoker	102	0.22
Majority			5,107	11.14
Turnout				78.93
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Scarborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Shaw	19,831	49.73
	Liberal	MJL Brook	10,123	25.39
	Labour	DJ Taylor-Goodby	9,923	24.88
Majority			9,708	24.34
Turnout				68.10
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Scarborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Shaw	23,669	53.16
	Labour	EJ Lahteela	11,344	25.48
	Liberal	S Galloway	9,025	20.27
	Independent	T Yelin	487	1.09
Majority			12,325	27.68
Turnout				73.12
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Scarborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Shaw	27,977	54.25
	Social Democratic	R Jordan	14,048	27.24
	Labour	J Battersby	9,545	18.51
Majority			13,929	27.01
Turnout				71.27
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Scarborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Shaw	27,672	50.65
	Social Democratic	H Callan	14,046	25.71
	Labour	M Wolstenholme	12,913	23.64
Majority			13,626	24.94
Turnout				73.22
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Scarborough^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Sykes	29,334	49.8	−0.9
	Labour	David L. Billing	17,600	29.9	+6.2
	Liberal Democrat	A. Bromley Davenport	11,133	18.9	−6.8
	Green	Dr. Richard C. Richardson	876	1.5	+1.5
Majority			11,734	19.9	−5.0
Turnout			58,943	77.2	+4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.6

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire

Notes and references

1. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-09-28.
2. Knighted 1626
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
4. Cobbett's Parliamentary History records that "21 June 1660, Mr Robinson was discharged by an Order of the House from sitting, and a writ ordered to be issued to elect another in his room; but the Journals do not give us the reason for this expulsion"
5. Created a baronet as Sir John Legard, December 1660
6. Dupplin beat Osbaldeston in the by-election by 154 votes to 27, but Dupplin's votes came mostly from the freemen and Osbaldeston had the majority of corporation votes (26 to 18). On petition the freemen's votes were discounted, Dupplin's election voided and Osbaldeston declared duly elected.
7. Created a baronet as Sir John Major, 1765
8. Became Lord Mulgrave in 1792
9. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
10. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
11. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
12. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
13. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
14. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
15. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
16. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

Sources

• 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)
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• Thomas Hinderwell, The history and antiquities of Scarborough and the vicinity (2nd edition, York: Thomas Wilson & Son, 1811)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
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