Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England, the House of Commons of Great Britain, and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom successively 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)
ParliamentFirst memberSecond member1386 Walter TropenellRobert Membury1388 (February) Walter Tropenell Robert Membury1388 (September)Walter TropenellJohn Dorset1390 (January)Walter Tropenell John Dorset1390 (November)1391 Walter TropenellJohn Dorset1393Robert MemburyRoger Crogge1394 Robert MemburyJohn Stikelane1395John DorsetJohn Wade1397 (January)Thomas Bathe Hugh Sampford1397 (September)John StikelaneJohn Crone1399 Roger CroggeJohn Stikelane14011402 Roger CroggeRalph Stikelane1404 (January)1404 (October)1406 Roger Crogge Ralph Stikelane1407 Peter RichmanJohn Baker III1410 Thomas Haseley14111413 (February)1413 (May)Thomas WalsinghamRoger Crogge1414 (April)John Tynham Thomas Stikelane1414 (November) John TynhamRoger Crogge14151416 (March)1416 (October)1417Thomas EstWilliam Taverner1419 Thomas Stikelane1420Edward CullyfordJohn Richman1421 (May)Thomas LondNicholas Radford1421 (December)Thomas RichmanRichard Parker1491 John Burgh1510–1523No names known1529 John Pyne, died and repl. after 1532 by? John TudollThomas Burgh1536 ?1539 ?1542 ?1545 John FryWilliam Pole1547 Sir Francis FlemingHenry Leke1553 (March) ?1553 (October)Thomas GoodwinJohn MallockParliament of 1554Parliament of 1554–1555Parliament of 1555John StrowbridgeJasper PoyntzParliament of 1558Jasper PoyntzJohn PophamThis 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".Parliament of 1559Nicholas ThrockmortonJohn MallockParliament of 1563–1567Francis WalsinghamWilliam Butler (or Boteler?)Parliament of 1571John AstleyWilliam EllesdonParliament of 1572–1581George EllesdonParliament of 1584–1585Edward DrewJohn HassardParliament of 1586–1587Thomas HughesParliament of 1588–1589Hamden PauletRobert HassardParliament of 1593Zachariah BethelParliament of 1597–1598Richard TichborneChristopher EllesdonParliament of 1601John FitzJamesNicholas Throckmorton, later Nicholas CarewParliament of 1604–1611Sir George Somers died 1610By-election Sir Francis RussellJohn Hassard too ill to continue sitting 1610In 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).By-election George JeffreysAddled Parliament (1614)Sir Edward SeymourGeorge BrowneParliament of 1621–1622 John Poulett Robert HassardHappy Parliament (1624–1625) Sir John Drake William WynnUseless Parliament (1625) John Drake Thomas ParamourParliament of 1625–1626 Sir Walter ErleParliament of 1628–1629 Christopher ErleNo Parliament summoned 1629–1640
1640–1832 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond partyApril 1640Browne 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.Sir Walter ErleParliamentarian Richard Rose ParliamentarianNovember 1640Edmund PrideauxParliamentarianDecember 1648Rose not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge1653Lyme Regis was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament1654Sir Edmund PrideauxPrideaux took his seat in the restored Rump, but died 1659 Lyme Regis had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate1656January 1659Henry Henley May 1659One seat vacantApril 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 HenleyBurridge 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 1734 John Scrope 1748 Robert Henley 1753 Thomas Fane, later Earl of Westmorland Tory 1754 Francis Fane Tory 1757 Henry Fane Tory 1762 John Fane, Lord Burghersh, later Earl of Westmorland Tory 1772 Hon. Henry Fane Tory 1777 Francis Fane Tory 1780In 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. 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 Tory1832 Representation reduced to one member
1832–1868 ElectionMemberParty 1832 William Pinney Whig 1842Pinney 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 Thomas Hussey Conservative 1847 Sir Thomas Abdy Whig 1852 William Pinney Whig 1859 Liberal 1865 John Wright Treeby Conservative 1868 Constituency abolished
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Pinney was unseated on petition on 31 May 1842, and Hussey was declared elected.
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s
Notes and references Notes
References
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and 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) F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754–1790 (London: HMSO, 1964)* J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) T. H. B. Oldfield, The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1816) 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 1 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1844)