Wilton (UK Parliament constituency)

Wilton
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Wiltshire
Major settlements	Wilton
1885–1918
Number of members	One
1295–1885
Number of members	1295–1832: Two 1832–1885: One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Wilton was the name of a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1295 to 1707, then in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It had two Members of Parliament (MPs) until 1832, but from 1832 to 1885 only one member, as a result of the Reform Act 1832. In 1885 the borough was abolished, but the name of the constituency was then transferred to a new county constituency electing one Member from 1885 until 1918.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Salisbury, the Sessional Divisions of Amesbury, Hindon, and Salisbury, and the civil parishes of Figheldean, Fisherton-de-la-Mere, Milston, and Wily.

Members of Parliament

Wilton borough

MPs 1295–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Thomas Cuttyng	Thomas Moleyns [1]
1388 (Feb)	Thomas Cuttyng	William Chitterne [1]
1388 (Sep)	Thomas Cuttyng	John Hulle [1]
1390 (Jan)	Thomas Cuttyng	William Chitterne [1]
1390 (Nov)
1391
1393	John Cole	Henry Bont [1]
1394	Thomas Cuttyng	John Cole [1]
1395	Thomas Cuttyng	John Hardy [1]
1397 (Jan)	John Hardy	William Chitterne [1]
1397 (Sep)	John Hardy	Thomas Cuttyng [1]
1399	Thomas Cuttyng	William Chitterne [1]
1401
1402	John Bottenham	William Chitterne [1]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406 Robert Frye	John Hardy [1]
1407 Robert Frye	Robert Lardiner [1]
1410 Robert Frye	John Harleston [1]
1411 Robert Frye	John Harleston [1]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Robert Frye	John Lambarde [1]
1414 (Apr)	John Valeys	John Harleston [1]
1414 (Nov)	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1415	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1419	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1420	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1421 (May)	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1421 (Dec)	John Harleston	John Whithorne [1]
1510-1523	No names known[2]
1529	Geoffrey Pole	Edmund Knightley [2]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	Sir Edward Bayntun[3]	William Herbert [2]
1545	Sir Thomas Lee	Christopher Willoughby [2]
1547	Robert Watson	Robert Warner [2]
1553 (Mar)	William Damsell[4]	William Wightman [2]
1553 (Oct)	Nicholas Chowne	Henry Creed [2]
1554 (Apr)	William Clerke	Matthew Colthurst [2]
1554 (Nov)	William Clerke	Henry Creed [2]
1555	Henry Creed	William Clerke [2]
1558	William Clerke	Henry Creed [2]
1559	Henry Bodenham	Thomas Highgate[5]
1562/3	William Wightman	Thomas Highgate [5]
1571	William Wightman	Thomas Highgate [5]
1572	William Clerke	Francis Vaughan [5]
1584	John Penruddock	Roger Earthe [5]
1586	Edward Penruddock	Henry Martyn [5]
1588	Thomas Cavendish	Robert Penruddock [5]
1593	Sir Thomas Morgan	Robert Penruddock [5]
1597	Thomas Muffet[6]	Robert Penruddock [5]
1601	Sir Edmund Morgan	Hugh Sanford [5]
1604-1611	Sir Thomas Edmonds	Hugh Sandford
1614	Sir Robert Sidney	Thomas Morgan
1621	Henry Nevill, 9th Baron Bergavenny ennobled 1622 replaced by Thomas Morgan	Sir Thomas Tracy
1624	Sir Thomas Morgan	Sir Percy Hobart
1625	Sir Thomas Morgan	Sir William Harrington
1626	Sir Thomas Morgan	Sir John Evelyn
1628	John Pooley	Sir Thomas Morgan
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		Sir Henry Vane (the elder)	Parliamentarian		Sir Benjamin Rudyerd	Parliamentarian
November 1640
December 1648				Rudyerd excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653	Wilton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Richard Grobham Howe			Hon. John Herbert
May 1659	Wilton was not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Richard Grobham Howe			Francis Swanton
April 1661		John Nicholas [7]			Thomas Mompesson
June 1661		John Berkenhead
February 1679		Hon. Thomas Herbert			Thomas Penruddocke
August 1679					Sir John Nicholas
1685		Oliver Nicholas
1689		Thomas Penruddocke			Thomas Wyndham
1690		Sir Richard Grobham Howe
1695		John Hawles			John Gauntlett
1698		Sir Henry Ashurst
January 1701		Thomas Phipps
November 1701		Sir Henry Ashurst
July 1702		Sir John Hawles			George Boddington
November 1702					John Gauntlett
1705		William Nicholas
1708		Sir Lambert Blackwell			Charles Mompesson
1710		John London [8]
1711		Peter Bathurst
1713		John London			Thomas Pitt [9]
1722		Hon. Robert Sawyer Herbert
1727					Thomas Martin
1734					Colonel the Hon. William Herbert
1757					Hon. Nicholas Herbert
1768		Henry Herbert
1775					Captain Charles Herbert
1780		Lord Herbert			William Gerard Hamilton
1785		Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Goldsworthy
1788		Lord Herbert
1790					The Viscount FitzWilliam
1794		Major General Philip Goldsworthy
1801		John Spencer
1804		Ralph Sheldon
1806					Captain the Hon. Charles Herbert
1816					Viscount FitzHarris
1821					John Hungerford Penruddocke	Tory
1823		Edward Baker
1830		Henry Bulwer
1831		James Dawkins
1832	Representation reduced to one member

MPs 1832–1885

Election		Member	Party
	1832	John Hungerford Penruddocke	Conservative
	1837	Edward Baker	Conservative
	1841	Viscount FitzHarris	Conservative
	1841 by-election	Viscount Somerton	Conservative
	1852	Charles Henry Wyndham A'Court	Whig
	1855 by-election	(Sir) Edmund Antrobus [10]	Whig
	1859		Liberal
	1877 by-election	Hon. Sidney Herbert	Conservative
	1885	Borough abolished - name transferred to county division

Wiltshire, Southern or Wilton Division

MPs 1885–1918

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Thomas Fraser Grove	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1892	Viscount Folkestone	Conservative
	1900 by-election	James Archibald Morrison	Conservative
	1906	Levi Lapper Morse	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Sir Charles Bathurst	Conservative
	1918 by-election	Hugh Morrison	Conservative
	1918	Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1900s

L.L.Morse

General Election 1906: Wilton^[11] Electorate 8,632

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Levi Lapper Morse	4,272	54.6	+12.9
	Conservative	James Archibald Morrison	3,548	45.4	-12.9
Majority			724	9.2
Turnout			7,820	90.6	+9.8
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+12.9

Notes

1. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
2. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
3. Wall, Alison. "Baynton family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71877. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. Stanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons|| 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9
5. "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
6.  "Moffett, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
7. Nicholas was also elected for West Looe and Ripon. He chose to represent Ripon, and did not sit for Wilton in this parliament
8. On petition, London was found not to have been duly elected
9. Created The Lord Londonderry 1719 and The Viscount Londonderry 1726, both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland
10. Succeeded to a baronetcy, May 1870
11. British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

Election results

References

• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
• 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)
• The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)