Milborne Port is a former parliamentary borough located in Somerset. It elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons between 1298 and 1307 and again from 1628, but was disenfranchised in the Reform Act 1832 as a rotten borough.
Members of Parliament Milborne Port re-franchised in 1628 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party1628Philip DigbySir Nathaniel NapierNo Parliament summoned 1629-1640
MPs 1640–1832 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond partyApril 1640Edward Kyrton RoyalistThomas ErleNovember 1640Lord DigbyLord Digby was also elected for Dorset, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Milborne PortRoyalist1640 (?)John DigbyRoyalistAugust 1642Kyrton and Digby disabled from sitting – both seats vacant1645William CarentThomas GroveDecember 1648Grove excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant1653Milborne Port was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament 1654,1656Milborne Port was unrepresented in the First and Second Protectorate ParliamentsJanuary 1659William CarentRobert HuntMay 1659Not represented in the restored RumpApril 1660 William Milborne Michael Malet August 1660 Francis Wyndham 1677 John Hunt February 1679 William Lacy August 1679 Henry Bull 1689 Thomas Saunders 1690 Sir Thomas Travell Sir Charles Carteret January 1701 Sir Richard Newman December 1701 Henry Thynne 1702 John Hunt 1705 Thomas MedlycottMedlycott was re-elected at the general election of 1708, but had also been elected for Westminster, and did not sit for Milborne Port in that Parliament 1709 Thomas Smith 1710 James Medlycott 1715 John Cox June 1717 Michael HarveyAt the by-election of 1717, Harvey was initially declared elected by 27 votes to 22, but after considering a petition alleging gross bribery the House of Commons overturned the result and declared his opponent, Stanhope, to have been elected instead July 1717 Charles Stanhope 1722 Michael Harvey George Speke 1727 Thomas Medlycott 1734 Thomas Medlycott, junior 1741 Jeffrey French 1742 by-election Michael Harvey 1747At the 1747 general election, there was a double return for Milborne Port: Jeffrey French, Michael Harvey, Charles Churchill and Thomas Medlycott, junior were all returned (see ). The first two (i.e. French, Harvey) were seated (see Stooks Smith, page 535)1748 by-election Thomas Medlycott, junior 1754 Edward Walter 1763 by-election Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott 1770 by-election Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough April 1772 by-election The result of the 1772 by-election was overturned on petition in May 1772, and Richard Combe was unseated in favour of George Prescott (Stooks Smith, p. 535) Richard CombeAt the by-election of 1772, Combe was initially declared elected but on petition the result was overturned and his opponent, Prescott, was seated May 1772 George Prescott 1774 Hon. Temple Luttrell Captain Charles Wolseley 1780 John Townson Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott 1781 by-election John PenningtonCreated The Lord Muncaster (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1783 1787 by-election William Popham 1790 William Medlycott 1791 by-election Richard Johnson 1794 by-election Colonel Mark Wood 1796 Lord Paget Sir Robert Ainslie 1802 Hugh Leycester 1804 by-election Captain Charles Paget 1806 Lord Paget January 1810 by-election Viscount Lewisham December 1810 Hon. Sir Edward Paget Tory1812 Robert Matthew Casberd Tory1820 Hon. Berkeley Paget Tory Thomas Graves Tory1826 Arthur Chichester Whig1827 by-election John Henry North Tory1830 George Byng WhigWilliam Sturges-BourneTory4 March 1831 by-electionRichard Lalor SheilWhig14 March 1831 by-election Captain George Byng WhigJuly 1831 by-election Philip Cecil Crampton Whig 1832 Constituency abolished
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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, Volume 3 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1850)
See also Milborne Port