Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)

Yarmouth
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Isle of Wight
Major settlements	Yarmouth
1584–1832
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Isle of Wight
Created from	Hampshire

Yarmouth was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system.

The constituency was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, and from the 1832 general election its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight.

Boundaries

The constituency was a Parliamentary borough on the Isle of Wight, part of the historic county of Hampshire. Its boundaries were coterminous with the parish of Yarmouth. At the time that it was disfranchised, there were 114 houses in the borough and town, and a population of only 586.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1584–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1584	Arthur Gorges	William Stubbs
1586	Thomas West	John Duncombe
1588	Daniel Hills	John Howe
1593	Robert Dillington	Robert Crosse
1597	Benedict Barnham	John Snow
1601	William Cotton	Stephen Theobald
1604	Thomas Cheeke	Arthur Bromfield
1614	Arthur Bromfield	Sir Thomas Cheeke
1621–1622	Arthur Bromfield	Thomas Risley
1624	Thomas Risley	William Beeston
1625	Edward Clarke sat for Hythe replaced by Sir John Suckling	John Oglander
1626	Sir Edward Conway	Sir John Oglander
1628–1629	Edward Dennis	Sir John Oglander
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
April 1640		William Oglander			John Bulkeley
November 1640		Viscount L'Isle	Parliamentarian		Sir John Leigh	Parliamentarian
December 1648				Leigh excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653	Yarmouth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		John Sadler			Richard Lucy
May 1659		Viscount L'Isle		One seat vacant in the restored Rump
February 1660					Sir John Leigh
April 1660		Richard Lucy
1661					Edward Smith
1678		Thomas Lucy
February 1679					Sir Richard Mason
August 1679		Thomas Wyndham
1681		Lemuel Kingdon			Sir Thomas Littleton[1]
1685		Thomas Wyndham			William Hewer
1689		Sir Robert Holmes			Hon. Fitton Gerard
1690		Sir John Trevor[2]	Tory		Charles Duncombe	Tory
April 1695		Henry Holmes
November 1695					Anthony Morgan
1710					Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet
1715[3]					Sir Robert Raymond	Tory
1717[3]		Colonel Anthony Morgan			Sir Theodore Janssen[4]
1721 by-election					William Plumer
1722					Thomas Stanwix
1725 by-election					Colonel Maurice Morgan
1727		Paul Burrard
1733 by-election					Maurice Bocland
1734					Lord Harry Powlett[5]	Whig
1736 by-election		Thomas Gibson
1737 by-election					Anthony Chute
1741 by-election					Colonel Maurice Bocland
1744 by-election		Robert Carteret
1747		Thomas Holmes[6]	Whig		Colonel Henry Holmes[7]
1762 by-election					Jeremiah Dyson	Tory
1765 by-election		John Eames
1768[8]		William Strode			Jervoise Clarke	Whig
1769[8]		Thomas Dummer			Major General the Hon. George Lane Parker
1774		Edward Meux Worsley			Jervoise Clarke Jervoise	Whig
1775 by-election		James Worsley
1779 by-election					Captain Robert Kingsmill
1780		Edward Morant			Edward Rushworth
1781 by-election					Sir Thomas Rumbold
1784					Philip Francis
1787 by-election		Thomas Clarke Jervoise
1790					Edward Rushworth
1791 by-election		Jervoise Clarke Jervoise	Whig		Sir John Leicester, Bt
1796					Edward Rushworth
1797 by-election					William Peachy
1802					James Patrick Murray
February 1803 by-election					Colonel Charles Macdonnell
October 1803 by-election					Henry Swann	Tory
February 1804 by-election					John Delgarno
March 1804 by-election					Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham
January 1806 by-election					David Scott
November 1806					Thomas William Plummer
May 1807					Hon. William Orde-Powlett
August 1807 by-election					Admiral Sir John Orde
January 1808 by-election		Benjamin Cooke Griffinhoofe
April 1808 by-election		John Delgarno
June 1808 by-election		Viscount Valentia
1810 by-election		Thomas Myers
1812		Richard Wellesley			Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, Bt
1816 by-election					John Leslie Foster	Tory
1817 by-election		Alexander Maconochie	Tory
March 1818 by-election		John Singleton Copley	Tory
June 1818		John Taylor	Tory		William Mount	Tory
1819 by-election		Sir Peter Pole	Tory		John Wilson Croker	Tory
1820					Theodore Henry Broadhead	Tory
1821 by-election					Theodore Henry Lavington Broadhead[9]	Tory
1826		Lord Binning	Tory		Joseph Phillimore	Tory
1827 by-election		Thomas Wallace	Tory
1830		William Yates Peel	Tory		George Lowther Thompson	Tory
1831		Sir Henry Willoughby	Whig		Charles Compton Cavendish	Whig
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes

1. Sir Thomas Littleton died April 1681
2. Sir John Trevor was expelled from the House of Commons for accepting a bribe
3. At the election of 1715, Raymond and Holmes were declared to have defeated Morgan and Janssen, but on petition the result was reversed in 1717
4. Sir Theodore Janssen was expelled from the House of Commons on 30 January 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
5. Powlett was also elected for Hampshire in a disputed election. He sat for Yarmouth until 1737 when the petition against the Hampshire result was withdrawn, then chose to represent Hampshire rather than Yarmouth for the remainder of the Parliament
6. Thomas Holmes was created The Lord Holmes (in the peerage of Ireland) in 1760
7. Major General from 1756, Lieutenant General from 1759
8. At the election of 1768, Strode and Clarke were declared to have defeated Dummer and Parker, but on petition the result was reversed in 1769
9. Theodore Henry Lavington Broadhead later adopted the surname Brinckman

Elections

See also

• Politics of the Isle of Wight
• Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight
• Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency) in Norfolk

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)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"