Lymington was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.
Members of Parliament 1584-1640 ParliamentFirst memberSecond member 1584 Anthony Cooke Richard Cooke 1586 (Oct) Francis Keilway William Wallop 1588 (Oct) Francis Keilway William White 1593Richard Blount John Knight 1597 (Oct) Thomas West Henry Wallop 1601 (Oct) Sir Francis Darcy Thomas Ridley 1604 Thomas Marshal Thomas South 1614 Philip Fleming Charles Thynne 1621-1622 Sir William Doddington Henry Crompton 1624 Nicholas Ferrar John More 1625 John Button John Mills 1626 Herbert Doddington John More 1628–1629 Herbert Doddington Richard Whitehead 1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned
1640-1868 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond partyNovember 1640John DoddingtonJohn KempeNovember 1640John ButtonParliamentarianHenry CampionParliamentarianDecember 1648Button excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacantCampion not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge1653Lymington was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the ProtectorateJanuary 1659John Button Richard WhiteheadMay 1659Not represented in the restored RumpApril 1660 John Button Henry Bromfield 1661 Sir William Lewis John Bulkeley 1663 Sir Nicholas Steward 1678 Sir Richard Knight February 1679 John Button Bartholomew Bulkeley May 1679 John Burrard 1680 Henry Dawley 1685 Richard Holt 1690 Thomas Dore May 1698 William Tulse July 1698 George Burrard 1701 Paul Burrard May 1705 Paul Burrard, junior December 1705 Marquess of Winchester 1708 Richard Chaundler 1710 Lord William PowlettPowlett was re-elected in 1715, but had also been elected for Winchester, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington 1713 Sir Joseph Jekyll WhigApril 1715 Richard Chaundler March 1722 Lord Harry PowlettPowlett was also elected for Hampshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Lymington Paul Burrard, junior October 1722 Sir Gilbert Heathcote Whig 1727 Lord Nassau Powlett Anthony Morgan 1729 William Powlett 1734 Sir John Cope, Bt Colonel Maurice Bocland May 1741 Lord Nassau Powlett (Sir) Harry BurrardCreated a baronet, April 1769 December 1741 (Sir) Charles PowlettStyled Marquess of Winchester from 1754 Whig 1755 Lord Harry Powlett 1761 Adam DrummondDrummond was re-elected in 1768, but had also been elected for St Ives, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Lymington 1769 Hugo Meynell Whig 1774 Edward Morant 1778 Henry Goodricke 1780 Thomas Dummer Harry BurrardMajor from 1786 1781 Edward Gibbon Whig 1784 Robert Colt 1788 George Rose Tory 1790 Harry Burrard (Sir) Harry Burrard (later Burrard-Neale) Succeeded as a baronet, April 1791; Captain (RN) from 1793; took the surname Burrard-Neale in 1795 1791 Nathaniel Brassey Halhed 1796 William Manning July 1802 Harry Burrard December 1802 John Kingston 1806 Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt 1807 George Duckett 1812 Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt Tory 1814 John Taylor 1818 William Manning Tory 1820 George Finch Tory 1821 William Manning Tory 1823 Walter Boyd Tory 1826 Guy Lenox Prendergast Tory 1827 Thomas Divett 1828 George Burrard Tory 1830 William Egerton Tory 1831 William Alexander Mackinnon Tory 1832 John StewartTory Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bt Tory 1834 ConservativeConservative 1835 William Alexander MackinnonConservative 1847 Hon. George Keppel Whig Peelite 1850 by-election Edward John Hutchins Whig 1852 Sir John Rivett-Carnac, Bt Conservative 1857 William Mackinnon (the younger)Whig 1859Liberal 1860 by-election Lord George Gordon-LennoxConservative 1868representation reduced to one member
1868-1885 ElectionMemberParty 1868 Lord George Gordon-Lennox Conservative 1874 Edmund Hegan Kennard Conservative 1885constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s Keppel resigned, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s Carnac's resignation caused a by-election.
Seat reduced to one member
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Notes
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) 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)