Haslemere was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Members of Parliament 1584-1640 ParliamentFirst memberSecond member1584 Christopher RitheMarlyon Rithe1586 William MorganWilliam Campion1588–9Hugh HareJohn Haselrigge1593 Adrian StoughtonNicholas Saunders1597 Francis AungierGeorge Austen1601 Francis WolleyJohn Clarke1604Edward FraunceysWilliam Jackson1614 Sir Thomas Grimes Sir William Browne1621 Sir Thomas Grimes Sir William Browne1624-1625 Francis Carew Poynings More1625 Francis Carew Poynings More1626 Francis Carew Poynings More1628 George Grimes Sir Thomas Canon1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned
1640-1832
YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond partyApril 1640 Poynings MoreCreated a baronet, May 1642Parliamentarian Sir John Jacques, Bt November 1640John GoodwinParliamentarian 1649Carew Raleigh1653Haslemere was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the ProtectorateJanuary 1659 John Westbrooke Henry Fitzjames May 1659 Carew Raleigh John Goodwin April 1660 John Westbrooke Richard West March 1661 James Gresham Chaloner Chute May 1661 George Evelyn Thomas Morrice 1675 Sir William More, Bt 1679 James Gresham 1680 Denzil Onslow Whig Francis Dorrington 1681 Sir William More, Bt George Woodroffe Sr. 1685 Sir George Vernon 1689 White Tichborne Denzil Onslow Whig 1690 George Rodney Brydges 1695 George Woodroffe Jr. 1698 Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe George Vernon January 1701 George Woodroffe Jr. November 1701 George Vernon 1702 Lewis Oglethorpe 1704 Thomas Heath 1705 George Woodroffe Jr. John Fulham 1708 Thomas OnslowOnslow was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere Theophilus Oglethorpe 1708 Nicholas Carew 1710 Sir John Clerke, Bt 1713 Thomas OnslowOnslow was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere George Vernon 1714 Nicholas CarewCreated a baronet, January 1715 1715 Sir Montague Blundell, BtCreated Viscount Blundell (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1720 1722 James Oglethorpe Tory Peter Burrell 1727 1734 1741 1747 1754 James More Molyneux Philip Carteret Webb 1759 Thomas More Molyneux 1761 1768 William Burrell 1774 Sir Merrick Burrell, Bt 1776 Peter Burrell September 1780 Sir James LowtherLowther was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere Edward Norton December 1780 Walter Spencer Stanhope 1784 Thomas Postlethwaite John Baynes Garforth 1786 John Lowther June 1790 William Gerard Hamilton James LowtherLowther was also elected for Westmorland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere December 1790 Richard Penn 1791 James Clarke Satterthwaite 1796James LowtherLowther was also elected for Westmorland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for HaslemereNovember 1796 George Wood 1802 Richard Penn 1806 Viscount Garlies Tory Charles Long Tory 1807 Robert Plumer Ward Tory 1823 George Lowther Thompson Tory 1826 Sir John Beckett, Bt Tory 1830 William Holmes Tory1832 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 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)