List of English by-elections (1689–1700)
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in England held between 1689 and 1700, with the names of the previous incumbent and the victor in the by-election.
In the absence of a comprehensive and reliable source, for party and factional alignments in this period, no attempt is made to define them in this article. The House of Commons: 1690–1715 and The House of Commons: 1660–1690 provides some guidance to the complex and shifting political relationships, but it is significant that the compilers of those works make no attempt to produce a definitive list of each members allegiances.
Dates
[edit]During this period England counted its legal year as beginning on 25 March. For the purposes of this list the year is considered to have started on 1 January.
By-elections
[edit]The c/u column denotes whether the by-election was a contested poll or an unopposed return. If the winner was re-elected, at the next general election and any intermediate by-elections, this is indicated by an * following the c or u. In a few cases the winner was elected at the next general election but had not been re-elected in a by-election after the one noted. In those cases no * symbol is used.
Convention Parliament of 1689 (1689–1690)
[edit]1st Parliament of William III & Mary II (1690–1695)
[edit]2nd Parliament of William III (1695–1698)
[edit]3rd Parliament of William III (1698–1700)
[edit]Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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22 December 1698 | Buckingham | c* | Alexander Denton | Edmund Denton | Death |
30 December 1698 | Bere Alston | u | Sir Rowland Gwynne | James Montagu | Chose to sit for Breconshire |
31 December 1698 | Seaford | u | Sir William Thomas | William Campion | Chose to sit for Sussex |
2 January 1699 | Amersham | u | The Viscount Newhaven | John Drake | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
2 January 1699 | Stockbridge | u* | George Pitt | John Pitt | Chose to sit for Wareham |
9 January 1699 | Newport (I.o.W.) | c | The Lord Cutts | Henry Greenhill | Chose to sit for Cambridgeshire |
11 January 1699 | Totnes | u | Sir Edward Seymour | Francis Gwyn | Chose to sit for Exeter |
14 January 1699 | Droitwich | u* | Thomas Foley | Thomas Foley | Chose to sit for Stafford |
16 January 1699 | Grampound | u* | John Tanner | Francis Scobell | Chose to sit for St Germans |
16 January 1699 | Penryn | c* | James Vernon | Alexander Pendarves | Chose to sit for Westminster |
16 January 1699 | Thetford | c | Sir Joseph Williamson | Lord Paston | Chose to sit for Rochester |
17 January 1699 | East Looe | u* | Charles Trelawny | Sir Henry Seymour | Chose to sit for Plymouth |
21 January 1699 | Chipping Wycombe | c | John Archdale | Thomas Archdale | Refused to take the oaths |
23 January 1699 | Rye | u* | Sir John Austen | Sir Robert Austen | Death |
25 January 1699 | Saltash | u* | John Specott | James Buller | Chose to sit for Cornwall |
26 January 1699 | Cricklade | u* | Charles Fox | Sir Stephen Fox | Chose to sit for Salisbury |
27 January 1699 | Newport (Cornwall) | c* | John Morice | Francis Stratford | Chose to sit for Saltash |
6 February 1699 | Sudbury | c | Sir Thomas Barnardiston | John Gurdon | Death |
22 February 1699 | Aylesbury | c | Sir Thomas Lee | Robert Dormer | Void Election |
23 February 1699 | Banbury | u | James Isaacson | Sir John Cope | Expulsion (Commissioner of Stamp Duties) |
23 February 1699 | Shaftesbury | u* | Henry Cornish | Thomas Chafin | Expulsion (Commissioner of Stamp Duties) |
24 February 1699 | Bramber | u | Sir Henry Furnese | John Courthope | Expulsion (Director of the East India Company) |
25 February 1699 | Harwich | u | Samuel Atkinson | Sir Thomas Middleton | Expulsion (Commissioner of Hawkers and Pedlars) |
7 March 1699 | Whitchurch | u* | Richard Wollaston | Richard Wollaston | Expulsion (Receiver-General of Taxes in Heretfordshire) |
14 March 1699 | Maldon | u | Sir Eliab Harvey | John Bullock | Death |
1 April 1699 | Bramber | u | John Courthope | John Asgill | Death |
8 April 1699 | Huntingdonshire | u* | Robert Throckmorton | John Dryden | Death |
26 April 1699 | Corfe Castle | c* | William Culliford | Richard Fownes | Void Election |
9 May 1699 | Bridgnorth | u* | Sir William Whitmore | Roger Pope | Death |
10 May 1699 | Somerset | u | Sir Edward Phelips | Nathaniel Palmer | Death |
16 May 1699 | Devon | u | Francis Courtenay | Thomas Drewe | Death |
28 November 1699 | Bridgwater | u | Roger Hoar | Sir Francis Warre | Death |
28 November 1699 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | c* | Sir Thomas Bellot | Rowland Cotton | Death |
29 November 1699 | Nottingham | c | Richard Slater | Robert Sacheverell | Death |
29 November 1699 | Oxfordshire | c | Lord Norreys | Sir Robert Dashwood | Succeeded to a peerage |
30 November 1699 | Great Grimsby | c* | Sir Edward Ayscough | Thomas Vyner | Death |
4 December 1699 | Warwick | u | Robert Greville | Algernon Greville | Death |
8 December 1699 | Hereford | u | Paul Foley | Samuel Pytts | Death |
12 December 1699 | Shropshire | u* | Edward Kynaston | Robert Lloyd | Death |
16 December 1699 | Dartmouth | c* | Joseph Herne | Nathaniel Herne | Death (Two MPs elected due to a Double Return. Results voided 12 February 1700. No by-election held.) |
c | Rowland Holt | ||||
20 December 1699 | Glamorganshire | u* | Bussy Mansel | Thomas Mansel | Death |
27 December 1699 | Southampton | c* | Sir Benjamin Newland | Roger Mompesson | Death |
4 January 1700 | St Germans | u* | John Tanner | Henry Fleming | Death |
29 January 1700 | Dunwich | u* | Sir Robert Rich | Sir Charles Blois | Death |
1 February 1700 | Pontefract | c* | John Bright | John Bright | Void Election |
8 February 1700 | Thetford | c | James Sloane | James Sloane | Void Election |
16 February 1700 | Sudbury | u* | Samuel Kekewich | Sir Gervase Elwes | Death |
References
[edit]- List of MPs since 1660[usurped]
- The House of Commons 1660–1690, edited by Basil Duke Henning (Published for the History of Parliament Trust by Secker & Warburg 1983) ISBN 0436192748
- The House of Commons 1690–1715, edited by David Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002) ISBN 0521772214