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List of MPs elected in the 1734 British general election

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List of MPs elected in the 1734 British general election

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This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1734, the 8th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.[1]

Elections took place between 22 April 1734 and 6 June 1734.


Table of contents:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections Changes

A

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Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) John Middleton - died
Replaced by John Maule 1739
Whig
Whig
Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) Sir Arthur Forbes Whig
Abingdon (seat 1/1) Robert Hucks Whig
Aldborough (seat 1/2) Henry Pelham – sat for Sussex
Replaced by John Jewkes 1735
Whig
Whig
Aldborough (seat 2/2) William Jessop – died
Replaced by Andrew Wilkinson 1735
Whig
Whig
Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) William Conolly Whig
Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) George Purvis - died
Replaced by Francis Gashry 1741
Whig
Whig
Amersham (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Marshall Tory
Amersham (seat 2/2) Thomas Lutwyche - died
Replaced by Thomas Gore 1735
Tory.
Tory
Andover (seat 1/2) John Pollen Whig
Andover (seat 2/2) William Guidott .Whig
Anglesey (seat 1/1) Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bt Opp. Whig
Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) Philip Anstruther
Appleby (seat 1/2) Walter Plumer Whig
Appleby (seat 2/2) John Ramsden Ind Whig
Argyllshire (seat 1/1) Sir James Campbell - sat for Stirlingshire
Replaced by Charles Campbell 1736
.
Whig
Arundel (seat 1/2) Sir John Shelley, Bt Whig
Arundel (seat 2/2) John Lumley - died
Replaced by Garton Orme 1739
Ashburton (seat 1/2) Sir William Yonge - sat for Honiton
Replaced by Thomas Bladen 1735
Whig
.
Ashburton (seat 2/2) Roger Tuckfield - died
Replaced by Joseph Taylor 1739
Whig
Opp Whig
Aylesbury (seat 1/2) George Champion Whig
Aylesbury (seat 2/2) Christopher Tower Whig
Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) James Stuart Whig
Ayrshire (seat 1/1) James Campbell Whig

B

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Banbury (seat 1/1) Viscount Wallingford - died
Replaced by William Moore 1740
.
Opp Whig
Banffshire (seat 1/1) James Abercromby Whig
Barnstaple (seat 1/2) Sir John Chichester - died
Replaced by John Basset 1740
Tory
.
Barnstaple (seat 2/2) Theophilus Fortescue Whig
Bath (seat 1/2) General George Wade
Bath (seat 2/2) John Codrington Tory
Beaumaris (seat 1/1) The 5th Viscount Bulkeley - died
Replaced by The 6th Viscount Bulkeley 1739
Tory
Tory
Bedford (seat 1/2) Samuel Ongley Tory
Bedford (seat 2/2) Sir Jeremy Sambrooke - died
Replaced by Sir Boteler Chernock 1740
Tory
Tory
Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) John Spencer - sat for New Woodstock
Replaced by Sir Roger Burgoyne 1735
Tory
Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Bt Whig
Bere Alston (seat 1/2) Sir Francis Henry Drake - died
Replaced by Samuel Heathcote 1740
.
Whig
Bere Alston (seat 2/2) John Bristow Whig
Berkshire (seat 1/2) William Archer - died
Replaced by Peniston Powney 1739
Tory
Tory
Berkshire (seat 2/2) Winchcomb Packer Tory
Berwickshire (seat 1/1) Hon. Alexander Hume-Campbell Opp Whig
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) George Liddell - died
Replaced by Thomas Watson 1740
Whig
Tory
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) Viscount Polwarth
Replaced by The Viscount Barrington 1740
.
Tory
Beverley (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Hotham - died
Replaced by Charles Pelham 1738
Whig.
Tory
Beverley (seat 2/2) Ellerker Bradshaw
Bewdley (seat 1/1) William Bowles - sat for Bridport
Replaced by Phineas Bowles 1735
Whig
Whig
Bishop's Castle (seat 1/2) Robert More Whig
Bishop's Castle (seat 2/2) Edward Kynaston Tory
Bletchingley (seat 1/2) Kenrick Clayton
Bletchingley (seat 2/2) Sir William Clayton, bt
Bodmin (seat 1/2) Sir John Heathcote Whig
Bodmin (seat 2/2) John LaRoche Whig
Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) George Gregory Whig
Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) James Tyrrell
Bossiney (seat 1/2) The Viscount Palmerston
Bossiney (seat 2/2) Townshend Andrews - died
Replaced by Peregrine Poulett 1737
Whig
.
Boston (seat 1/2) Albemarle Bertie Whig
Boston (seat 2/2) Richard Fydell Tory
Brackley (seat 1/2) George Lee Whig
Brackley (seat 2/2) Paul Methuen Whig
Bramber (seat 1/2) Sir Harry Gough
Bramber (seat 2/2) Harry Gough (senior)
Brecon (seat 1/1) John Talbot Whig
Breconshire (seat 1/1) John Jeffreys
Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) Thomas Whitmore Whig
Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) Grey James Grove
Bridgwater (seat 1/2) George Dodington Whig
Bridgwater (seat 2/2) Thomas Palmer - died
Replaced by Charles Wyndham 1735
Tory
Tory
Bridport (seat 1/2) William Bowles Whig
Bridport (seat 2/2) Solomon Ashley
Bristol (seat 1/2) Thomas Coster - died
Replaced by Edward Southwell 1739
Tory
Opp. WHig
Bristol (seat 2/2) Sir Abraham Elton, BtI Whig
Buckingham (seat 1/2) George Chamberlayne Whig
Buckingham (seat 2/2) Richard Grenville
Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) William Stanhope Opp. Whig
Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Lee Whig
Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) Thomas Hervey
Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) Thomas Norton Whig
Buteshire (seat 1/1) Patrick Campbell

C

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Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir Thomas Wynn, Bt Whig
Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) John Griffith - died
Replaced by John Wynn 1740
Whig
Whig
Caithness (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Buteshire -unrepresented in this Parliament
Callington (seat 1/2) Thomas Coplestone Whig
Callington (seat 2/2) Isaac le Heup Whig
Calne (seat 1/2) William Duckett Whig
Calne (seat 2/2) Walter Hungerford
Cambridge (seat 1/2) Sir John Hynde Cotton Tory
Cambridge (seat 2/2) Thomas Bacon - died
Replaced by Gilbert Affleck 1737
Tory
Tory
Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) Henry Bromley Whig
Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) Samuel Shepheard
Cambridge University (seat 1/2) Edward Finch Whig
Cambridge University (seat 2/2) Thomas Townshend Whig
Camelford (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Lyttelton Whig
Camelford (seat 2/2) James Cholmondeley Whig
Canterbury (seat 1/2) Sir William Hardres, Bt – unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir Thomas Hales, Bt 1735
Tory
Whig
Canterbury (seat 2/2) Thomas May Tory
Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) Herbert Windsor - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Herbert Mackworth 1739
Tory
Tory
Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) Richard Lloyd Whig
Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) Walter Lloyd
Carlisle (seat 1/2) Charles Howard
Carlisle (seat 2/2) John Hylton Tory
Carmarthen (seat 1/1) Arthur Bevan Whig
Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) Sir Nicholas Williams Whig
Castle Rising (seat 1/2) Thomas Hanmer - died
Replaced by Viscount Andover 1737
Tory
Tory
Castle Rising (seat 2/2) Charles Churchill Whig
Cheshire (seat 1/2) Charles Cholmondeley Tory
Cheshire (seat 2/2) John Crewe
Chester (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Bunbury Tory
Chester (seat 2/2) Robert Grosvenor Tory
Chichester (seat 1/2) James Brudenell Whig
Chichester (seat 2/2) Thomas Yates
Chippenham (seat 1/2) Rogers Holland took office
Replaced by Edward Bayntun Rolt 1737
Whig
Opp. Whig
Chippenham (seat 2/2) Richard Long Tory
Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) Harry Waller Whig
Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) Edmund Waller - sat for Great Marlow
Replaced by Sir Charles Vernon 1735
Whig
Tory
Christchurch (seat 1/2) Joseph Hinxman - died
Replaced by Charles Armand Powlett 1740
.
Whig
Christchurch (seat 2/2) Edward Hooper
Cirencester (seat 1/2) Thomas Master Tory
Cirencester (seat 2/2) William Wodehouse - sat for Norfolk
Replaced by Henry Bathurst 1735
Tory
Tory
City of Durham see Durham (City of) ...
City of London see London (City of) ...
Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) James Erskine
Clitheroe (seat 1/2) Thomas Lister Tory
Clitheroe (seat 2/2) William Curzon
Clyde Burghs see Glasgow Burghs ...
Cockermouth (seat 1/2) Sir Wilfrid Lawson - died
Replaced by Eldred Curwen 1738
Opp. Whig
.
Cockermouth (seat 2/2) William Finch Opp. Whig
Colchester (seat 1/2) Isaac Lemyng Rebow - died
Replaced by Jacob Houblon 1735
Whig
Tory
Colchester (seat 2/2) Matthew Martin Whig
Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) John Bond
Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) John Bankes Tory
Cornwall (seat 1/2) Sir William Carew, Bt Tory
Cornwall (seat 2/2) Sir John St Aubyn, Bt Tory
County Durham see Durham (County) ...
Coventry (seat 1/2) Sir Adolphus Oughton - died
Replaced by John Neale 1737
Whig
.
Coventry (seat 2/2) John Bird
Replaced by Earl of Euston 1737
Cricklade (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Reade Whig
Cricklade (seat 2/2) William Gore - died
Replaced by Charles Gore 1739
Tory
Tory
Cromartyshire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Nairnshire - unrepresented in this Parliament
Cumberland (seat 1/2) James Lowther Whig
Cumberland (seat 2/2) Sir Joseph Pennington, Bt Whig

D

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Dartmouth (seat 1/2) George Treby Whig
Dartmouth (seat 2/2) Walter Carey Whig
Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) John Myddelton Tory
Denbighshire (seat 1/1) Watkin Williams Tory
Derby (seat 1/2) Lord James Cavendish Whig
Derby (seat 2/2) Charles Stanhope - died
Replaced by John Stanhope 1736
Opp. Whig
Opp. Whig
Derbyshire (seat 1/2) Lord Charles Cavendish Whig
Derbyshire (seat 2/2) Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Bt. Tory
Devizes (seat 1/2) Francis Eyles Whig
Devizes (seat 2/2) Sir Joseph Eyles - died
Replaced by John Garth 1740
Whig
Whig
Devon (seat 1/2) Sir William Courtenay - died
Replaced by John Bampfylde 1736
Whig
Tory
Devon (seat 2/2) Henry Rolle Tory
Dorchester (seat 1/2) Sir William Chapple - resigned
Replaced by Robert Browne 1737
Whig
Tory
Dorchester (seat 2/2) John Browne Tory
Dorset (seat 1/2) George Chafin Tory
Dorset (seat 2/2) Edmund Morton Pleydell Tory
Dover (seat 1/2) David Papillon
Dover (seat 2/2) Thomas Revell
Downton (seat 1/2) Anthony Duncombe Whig
Downton (seat 2/2) Joseph Windham-Ashe Whig
Droitwich (seat 1/2) Edward Foley Tory
Droitwich (seat 2/2) Thomas Winnington Whig
Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) Charles Erskine sat for Dumfriesshire
Replaced by William Kirkpatrick and Sir John Douglas 1735 - double return
Replaced by William Kirkpatrick 1736 - resigned
Replaced by Sir Robert Laurie 1738
Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) Charles Erskine
Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) John Campbell Whig
Dunwich (seat 1/2) Sir George Downing, Bt Whig
Dunwich (seat 2/2) Sir Orlando Bridgeman - resigned
Replaced by William Morden 1738
Whig
.
Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) John Shafto Tory
Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) Henry Lambton Whig
Durham (County) (seat 1/2) George Bowes Whig
Durham (County) (seat 2/2) John Hedworth Ind. Whig
Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) Hon. Thomas Leslie

E

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East Grinstead (seat 1/2) The Earl of Middlesex
East Grinstead (seat 2/2) Edward Conyers Tory
East Looe (seat 1/2) Charles Longueville Whig
East Looe (seat 2/2) Edward Trelawny ineligible to sit
Replaced by Samuel Holden 1735 - died
Replaced by Henry Legge 1740
,
.
Whig
East Retford (seat 1/2) John White Whig
East Retford (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Clifton
Edinburgh (seat 1/1) Paul Lindsay
Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) Robert Dundas - resigned
Replaced by Sir Charles Gilmour 1737
.
Opp.Whig
Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) William Steuart Whig
Elginshire (seat 1/1) Alexander Brodie Whig
Essex (seat 1/2) Thomas Bramston
Essex (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Abdy Tory
Evesham (seat 1/2) Sir John Rushout Whig
Evesham (seat 2/2) William Taylor
Exeter (seat 1/2) John King - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Sir Henry Northcote 1735
Exeter (seat 2/2) Thomas Balle
Eye (seat 1/2) Stephen Cornwallis Whig
Eye (seat 2/2) John Cornwallis Whig

F

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Fife (seat 1/1) Sir John Anstruther
Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir George Wynne, Bt Whig
Flintshire (seat 1/1) Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet Tory
Forfarshire (seat 1/1) Thomas Lyon - succeeded to peerage
Replaced by William Maule 1735
Tory
.
Fowey (seat 1/2) Jonathan Rashleigh Tory
Fowey (seat 2/2) John Hedges - died
Replaced by William Wardour 1737
Whig
.

G

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Gatton (seat 1/2) William Newland - died
Replaced by George Newland 1738
Tory
.
Gatton (seat 2/2) Paul Docminique - died
Replaced by Charles Docminique 1735
Tory
.
Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) William Talbot - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Bussy Mansel 1737
Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) William Campbell
Gloucester (seat 1/2) Benjamin Bathurst I
Gloucester (seat 2/2) John Selwyn
Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) Thomas Chester Tory
Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) Benjamin Bathurst II Tory
Grampound (seat 1/2) Philip Hawkins - died
Replaced by Thomas Trefusis 1739
Whig
.
Grampound (seat 2/2) Thomas Hales Whig
Grantham (seat 1/2) Sir Michael Newton
Grantham (seat 2/2) The Viscount Tyrconnel Whig
Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) Robert Murray - died
Replaced by Edward Popham 1738
Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) William Sloper
Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Sutton
Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) Robert Knight
Great Marlow (seat 1/2) Edmund Waller Whig
Great Marlow (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Hoby
Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) William Townshend - died
Replaced by Roger Townshend 1738
Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) Edward Walpole Whig
Guildford (seat 1/2) Richard Onslow - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Denzil Onslow 1740
Guildford (seat 2/2) Colonel Richard Onslow Whig

H

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Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) James Fall
Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) John Cockburn
Hampshire (seat 1/2) Lord Harry Powlett Whig
Hampshire (seat 2/2) Edward Lisle Whig
Harwich (seat 1/2) Carteret Leathes
Harwich (seat 2/2) Charles Stanhope
Haslemere (seat 1/2) James Oglethorpe Tory
Haslemere (seat 2/2) Peter Burrell
Hastings (seat 1/2) Thomas Pelham
Hastings (seat 2/2) Sir William Ashburnham
Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) Sir Erasmus Philipps
Hedon (seat 1/2) Sir Francis Boynton - died
Replaced by Harry Pulteney 1739
.
Whig
Hedon (seat 2/2) George Berkeley
Helston (seat 1/2) John Evelyn Whig
Helston (seat 2/2) John Harris
Hereford (seat 1/2) Thomas Foley
Hereford (seat 2/2) Sir John Morgan
Herefordshire (seat 1/2) Velters Cornewall Tory
Herefordshire (seat 2/2) Edward Harley Tory
Hertford (seat 1/2) Nathaniel Brassey
Hertford (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Clarke
Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) William Plumer
Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright - died
Replaced by Charles Caesar 1736
.
Tory
Heytesbury (seat 1/2) Pierce A'Court-Ashe
Heytesbury (seat 2/2) Edward Ashe Whig
Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) John Finch
Hindon (seat 1/2) Stephen Fox - sat for Shaftesbury
Replaced by Henry Fox 1735
Hindon (seat 2/2) George Fox
Honiton (seat 1/2) William Courtenay
Honiton (seat 2/2) Sir William Yonge Whig
Horsham (seat 1/2) Charles Eversfield Whig
Horsham (seat 2/2) Henry Ingram - raised to peerage
Replaced by Charles Ingram 1737
Huntingdon (seat 1/2) Edward Wortley Montagu Whig
Huntingdon (seat 2/2) Roger Handasyd
Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Montagu - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Charles Clarke 1739
Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) Robert Piggott
Hythe (seat 1/2) Captain Hercules Baker Whig
Hythe (seat 2/2) William Glanville Whig

I

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Ilchester (seat 1/2) Charles Lockyer Whig
Ilchester (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Brown
Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) Duncan Forbes - resigned
Replaced by Duncan Urquhart 1737
Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) Sir James Grant, Bt. Whig
Ipswich (seat 1/2) Samuel Kent
Ipswich (seat 2/2) William Wollaston

K

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Kent (seat 1/2) The Viscount Vane - died
Replaced by Sir Christopher Powell 1735
Whig
Kent (seat 2/2) Sir Edward Dering Tory
Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) John Falconer
King's Lynn (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Walpole Whig
King's Lynn (seat 2/2) Sir Charles Turner - died
Replaced by Sir John Turner 1739
Whig
.
Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) George Crowle Whig
Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) Henry Maister Whig
Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Clackmannanshire - unrepresented in this Parliament
Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) Patrick Heron
Knaresborough (seat 1/2) Richard Arundell Whig
Knaresborough (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Slingsby, Bt Tory

L

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Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) Lord William Hamilton - died
Replaced by Sir James Hamilton 1735
Whig
Lancashire (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Stanley - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Peter Bold 1736
.
Tory
Lancashire (seat 2/2) Richard Shuttleworth Tory
Lancaster (seat 1/2) Robert Fenwick
Lancaster (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Lowther
Launceston (seat 1/2) Hon. John King
Replaced by Sir William Irby
Launceston (seat 2/2) Sir William Morice
Leicester (seat 1/2) George Wrighte Tory
Leicester (seat 2/2) Sir George Beaumont - died
Replaced by James Wigley 1737
Leicestershire (seat 1/2) Ambrose Phillipps
Replaced by Lord Grey 1738 - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Lord Guernsey 1739
Tory
.
.
Leicestershire (seat 2/2) Edward Smith
Leominster (seat 1/2) Robert Harley
Leominster (seat 2/2) Sir George Caswall Whig
Lewes (seat 1/2) Thomas Pelham I Whig
Lewes (seat 2/2) Thomas Pelham - died
Replaced by John Morley Trevor 1738
Lichfield (seat 1/2) George Venables Vernon
Lichfield (seat 2/2) Rowland Hill
Lincoln (seat 1/2) Charles Monson
Lincoln (seat 2/2) Coningsby Sibthorp
Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) Robert Vyner Ind. Whig
Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Lumley Saunderson - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Thomas Whichcot 1740
Opp. Whig
.
Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) James Carmichael
Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) Alexander Hamilton
Liskeard (seat 1/2) Richard Eliot
Liskeard (seat 2/2) George Dennis - died
Replaced by Charles Trelawny 1740
Liverpool (seat 1/2) Thomas Salusbury Whig
Liverpool (seat 2/2) Richard Gildart
London (City of) (seat 1/4) Robert Willimot Tory
London (City of) (seat 2/4) Sir John Barnard Whig
London (City of) (seat 3/4) Micajah Perry Whig
London (City of) (seat 4/4) Humphry Parsons Tory
Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) Richard Edgcumbe
Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) Philip Lloyd - died
Replaced by Matthew Ducie Moreton 1735- succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by John Crosse 1736
Ludgershall (seat 1/2) Peter Delmé
Ludgershall (seat 2/2) Daniel Boone
Ludlow (seat 1/2) Henry Herbert Whig
Ludlow (seat 2/2) Richard Herbert Whig
Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) John Scrope
Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) Henry Holt Henley Whig
Lymington (seat 1/2) Sir John Cope, Bt
Lymington (seat 2/2) Colonel Maurice Bocland

M

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Maidstone (seat 1/2) William Horsemonden-Turner
Maidstone (seat 2/2) John Finch - died
Replaced by Robert Fairfax 1740
Tory
.
Maldon (seat 1/2) Henry Parsons - died
Replaced by Benjamin Keene 1740
Whig
.
Maldon (seat 2/2) Martin Bladen
Malmesbury (seat 1/2) Giles Earle
Malmesbury (seat 2/2) William Rawlinson Earle
Malton (seat 1/2) Henry Finch Whig
Malton (seat 2/2) Sir William Wentworth
Marlborough (seat 1/2) Francis Seymour
Marlborough (seat 2/2) Edward Lisle - sat for Hampshire
Replaced by John Crawley 1737
Whig
.
Marlow see Great Marlow ...
Melcombe Regis see Weymouth and Melcombe Regis ...
Merionethshire (seat 1/1) William Vaughan Ind
Middlesex (seat 1/2) William Pulteney Whig
Middlesex (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Child - died
Replaced by Sir Hugh Smithson 1740
Tory
Tory
Midhurst (seat 1/2) Bulstrode Peachey Knight - died
Replaced by Sir Henry Peachey 1736 - died
Replaced by Sir John Peachey 1738
Midhurst (seat 2/2) Thomas Bootle
Milborne Port (seat 1/2) Michael Harvey Tory
Milborne Port (seat 2/2) Thomas Medlycott Whig
Minehead (seat 1/2) Alexander Luttrell - died
Replaced by Sir William Codrington 1737 - died
Replaced by Thomas Carew 1739
Tory
.
Minehead (seat 2/2) Francis Whitworth
Mitchell (seat 1/2) Thomas Watts
Mitchell (seat 2/2) Robert Ord
Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) Lord Charles Somerset
Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) Thomas Morgan, the Elder
Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) John Hanbury - died
Replaced by Charles Hanbury Williams 1735
Whig
.
Montgomery (seat 1/1) (Sir)William Corbet
Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) Price Devereux - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Robert Williams 1740
Tory
.
Morpeth (seat 1/2) Viscount Morpeth - succeeded to a peerage
Replaced by Henry Furnese 1738
Whig
.
Morpeth (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Liddell
Much Wenlock (seat 1/2) see Wenlock ...

N

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Nairnshire (seat 1/1) John Campbell - sat for Pembrokeshire
Replaced by Alexander Brodie 1735
Newark (seat 1/2) Richard Sutton - died
Replaced by Lord William Manners 1738
Newark (seat 2/2) James Pelham
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) Baptist Leveson-Gower
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) John Lawton - died
Replaced by Randle Wilbraham 1740
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) Sir Walter Calverley-Blackett, Bt
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) Nicholas Fenwick Tory
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) Thomas Herbert - died
Replaced by Nicholas Herbert 1740
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) Sir John Molesworth
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) William Fortescue - resigned
Replaced by The Viscount Boyne 1736
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) George Huxley
New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) Thomas Lewis Whig
New Romney (seat 1/2) Stephen Bisse
New Romney (seat 2/2) David Papillon - sat for Dover
Replaced by Sir Robert Austen 1736
New Shoreham (seat 1/2) Thomas Frederick - died
Replaced by John Frederick 1740
New Shoreham (seat 2/2) John Phillipson
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) Legh Master Tory
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) William Shippen
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) James Worsley
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Thomas Holmes Whig
New Windsor (seat 1/2) Richard Oldfield and Lord Vere Beauclerk - double return
Replaced by

Lord Vere Beauclerk 1738

New Windsor (seat 2/2) Lord Sidney Beauclerk
New Woodstock (seat 2/2) James Dawkins
New Woodstock (seat 1/2) John Spencer
Norfolk (seat 1/2) William Wodehouse - died
Replaced by Armine Wodehouse 1737
Tory
Tory
Norfolk (seat 2/2) Sir Edmund Bacon Tory
Northallerton (seat 1/2) Leonard Smelt - died
Replaced by William Smelt 1740
Northallerton (seat 2/2) Henry Peirse
Northampton (seat 1/2) Hon. George Compton
Northampton (seat 2/2) William Wilmer
Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) Sir Justinian Isham - died
Replaced by Sir Edmund Isham 1737
Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Cartwright Tory
Northumberland (seat 1/2) Sir William Middleton, Bt
Northumberland (seat 2/2) Ralph Jenison
Norwich (seat 1/2) Waller Bacon - died
Replaced by Thomas Vere 1735
Norwich (seat 2/2) Horatio Walpole
Nottingham (seat 1/2) John Plumptre Whig
Nottingham (seat 2/2) Borlase Warren Tory
Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) William Levinz
Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Bennett - died
Replaced by John Mordaunt 1739
Whig
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O

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Okehampton (seat 1/2) William Northmore - died
Replaced by George Lyttelton 1735
Okehampton (seat 2/2) Thomas Pitt
Old Sarum (seat 1/2) Thomas Pitt - sat for Okehampton
Replaced by William Pitt 1735
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Old Sarum (seat 2/2) Robert Nedham
Orford (seat 1/2) Richard Powys
Orford (seat 2/2) Lewis Barlow - died
Replaced by John Cope 1738
Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) Robert Douglas
Oxford (seat 1/2) Thomas Rowney, junior
Oxford (seat 2/2) Matthew Skinner - resigned
Replaced by James Herbert 1739 - died
Replaced by Philip Herbert 1740
Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) Sir William Stapleton - died
Replaced by Sir James Dashwood 1740
Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) Henry Perrot - died
Replaced by Viscount Quarendon 1740
Oxford University (seat 1/2) George Clarke - died
Replaced by William Bromley 1737 - died
Replaced by Edward Butler 1737
Tory
Tory
Tory
Oxford University (seat 2/2) Viscount Cornbury Tory

P

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Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) Sir James Nasmyth 1732
Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) William Owen
Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) John Campbell
Penryn (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Mill
Penryn (seat 2/2) John Clavering
Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) John Drummond
Perthshire (seat 1/1) Lord John Murray
Peterborough (seat 1/2) Armstead Parker Tory
Peterborough (seat 2/2) Sir Edward Wortley Montagu Whig
Petersfield (seat 1/2) Sir William Jolliffe
Petersfield (seat 2/2) Edward Gibbon
Plymouth (seat 1/2) Arthur Stert Whig
Plymouth (seat 2/2) Robert Byng – took office
Replaced by John Rogers 1739 -unseated on petition
Replaced by Charles Vanbrugh 1740 - died
Replaced by Lord Henry Beauclerk 1740
Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) Richard Edgcumbe - sat for Lostwithiel
Replaced by Thomas Walker 1735
Whig
Whig
Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) Thomas Clutterbuck
Pontefract (seat 1/2) Sir William Lowther, 2nd Bt
Pontefract (seat 2/2) John Monckton
Poole (seat 1/2) George Trenchard
Poole (seat 2/2) Thomas Wyndham
Portsmouth (seat 1/2) Thomas Lewis - died
Replaced by Charles Stewart 1737 - died
Replaced by Edward Vernon 1741
Portsmouth (seat 2/2) Philip Cavendish
Preston (seat 1/2) Nicholas Fazakerley
Preston (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Hoghton

Q

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Queenborough (seat 1/2) Richard Evans
Queenborough (seat 2/2) Sir George Saunders - died
Replaced by Lord Archibald Hamilton 1735

R

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Radnor Boroughs see New Radnor Boroughs ...
Radnorshire (seat 1/1) Sir Humphrey Howorth
Reading (seat 1/2) Richard Potenger - died
Replaced by John Blagrave 1739
Reading (seat 2/2) Henry Grey – died
Replaced by William Strode 1740 – unseated on petition
Replaced by John Dodd 1741
Reigate (seat 1/2) James Cocks
Reigate (seat 2/2) Sir Joseph Jekyll - died
Replaced by John Hervey 1739
Whig
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Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) Alexander Cunninghame
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) John Yorke
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) Sir Conyers Darcy
Ripon (seat 1/2) William Aislabie Tory
Ripon (seat 2/2) Thomas Duncombe
Rochester (seat 1/2) David Polhill
Rochester (seat 2/2) Admiral Nicholas Haddock
Ross-shire (seat 1/1) Hugh Rose
Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) John Rutherfurd
Rutland (seat 1/2) James Noel
Rutland (seat 2/2) Thomas Noel
Rye (seat 1/2) Phillips Gybbon
Rye (seat 2/2) Admiral Sir John Norris

S

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St Albans (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Aston
St Albans (seat 2/2) Thomas Ashby
St Germans (seat 1/2) The Lord Baltimore
St Germans (seat 2/2) Charles Montagu
St Ives (seat 1/2) William Mackworth Praed
St Ives (seat 2/2) Major-General Sir Robert Rich
St Mawes (seat 1/2) Henry Vane Whig
St Mawes (seat 2/2) Richard Plumer
Salisbury (seat 1/2) Peter Bathurst
Salisbury (seat 2/2) Henry Hoare
Saltash (seat 1/2) Lord Glenorchy
Saltash (seat 2/2) Thomas Corbett
Sandwich (seat 1/2) Josiah Burchett Whig
Sandwich (seat 2/2) Sir George Oxenden Whig
Scarborough (seat 1/2) William Thompson Whig
Scarborough (seat 2/2) Sir William Strickland- died
Replaced by Viscount Dupplin 1736 – unseated on petition
Replaced by William Osbaldeston 1736
Whig
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Seaford (seat 1/2) Sir William Gage, Bt
Seaford (seat 2/2) William Hay
Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) John Murray
Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) Jacob Banks - died
Replaced by Philip Bennet 1738
Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) Philip Bennet – unseated on petition
Replaced by Stephen Fox 1735
Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) William Kinaston
Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) Sir Richard Corbet
Shropshire (seat 1/2) Sir John Astley
Shropshire (seat 2/2) Corbet Kynaston - died
Replaced by Richard Lyster 1740
Shoreham see New Shoreham ...
Somerset (seat 1/2) Thomas Strangways Horner Tory
Somerset (seat 2/2) Sir William Wyndham - died
Replaced by Thomas Prowse 1740
Tory
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Southampton (seat 1/2) William Heathcote
Southampton (seat 2/2) John Conduitt - died
Replaced by Thomas Lee Dummer 1737
Southwark (seat 1/2) George Heathcote
Southwark (seat 2/2) Thomas Inwen
Stafford (seat 1/2) Hon. William Chetwynd
Stafford (seat 2/2) Thomas Foley - died
Replaced by The Viscount Chetwynd 1738
Staffordshire (seat 1/2) Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot Tory
Staffordshire (seat 2/2) William Leveson Gower Tory
Stamford (seat 1/2) William Noel
Stamford (seat 2/2) John Proby
Steyning (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Fagg - died
Replaced by Hitch Younge 1740
Steyning (seat 2/2) Marquess of Carnarvon
Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) Peter Halkett
Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) Sir James Campbell
Stockbridge (seat 1/2) Sir Humphrey Monoux
Stockbridge (seat 2/2) John Montagu - died
Replaced by John Berkeley 1735
Sudbury (seat 1/2) Richard Price
Sudbury (seat 2/2) Edward Stephenson
Suffolk (seat 1/2) Sir Jermyn Davers, Bt
Suffolk (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Kemp - died
Replaced by Sir Cordell Firebrace 1735
Surrey (seat 1/2) Arthur Onslow
Surrey (seat 2/2) Thomas Scawen
Sussex (seat 1/2) Henry Pelham Whig
Sussex (seat 2/2) James Butler
Replaced by Earl of Middlesex
Whig
Sutherland (seat 1/1) Sir James Fergusson - resigned
Replaced by James St Clair 1736

T

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Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir Robert Munro, Bt
Tamworth (seat 1/2) Lord John Sackville
Tamworth (seat 2/2) George Compton - sat for Northampton
Replaced by Charles Cotes 1735
Taunton (seat 1/2) Henry William Berkeley Portman Tory
Taunton (seat 2/2) Francis Fane Whig
Tavistock (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Fane Whig
Tavistock (seat 2/2) Sidney Meadows
Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) The Viscount Gage
Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) Robert Tracy
Thetford (seat 1/2) Sir Edmund Bacon - died
Replaced by Lord Augustus FitzRoy 1739
Thetford (seat 2/2) Charles FitzRoy 1733
Thirsk (seat 2/2) Frederick Meinhardt Frankland
Thirsk (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Frankland
Tiverton (seat 1/2) Arthur Arscott
Tiverton (seat 2/2) Dudley Ryder
Totnes (seat 2/2) Sir Joseph Danvers, Bt
Totnes (seat 1/2) Charles Wills
Tregony (seat 1/2) Henry Penton
Tregony (seat 2/2) John Goddard - died
Replaced by Sir Robert Cowan 1737 - died
Replaced by Joseph Gulston 1737
Truro (seat 1/2) Kelland Courtenay
Truro (seat 2/2) Robert Trefusis

W

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Wallingford (seat 1/2) Thomas Tower Whig
Wallingford (seat 2/2) William Hucks - died
Replaced by Joseph Townsend 1740
Whig
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Wareham (seat 1/2) Henry Drax
Wareham (seat 2/2) John Pitt
Warwick (seat 1/2) Sir William Keyt – unseated on petition
Replaced by Thomas Archer
Tory
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Warwick (seat 2/2) William Bromley – unseated on petition
Replaced by Henry Archer
Tory
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Warwickshire (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Mordaunt Tory
Warwickshire (seat 2/2) Edward Digby Tory
Wells (seat 1/2) Thomas Edwards
Replaced by William Piers 1735
Tory
Whig
Wells (seat 2/2) George Hamilton
Replaced by George Speke 1735
Wendover (seat 1/2) John Boteler - election void
Replaced by The Viscount Limerick 1735
Wendover (seat 2/2) John Hampden
Wenlock (seat 2/2) William Forester II
Wenlock (seat 1/2) Samuel Edwards - died
Replaced by Brooke Forester 1739
Whig
Weobley (seat 1/2) John Birch -annulled on death 1735
Replaced by James Cornewall 1737
Weobley (seat 2/2) Sir John Buckworth, Bt
West Looe (seat 1/2) Edward Trelawny ineligible to sit
Replaced by John Owen 1735
West Looe (seat 2/2) Sir John Willes - resigned
Replaced by John Strange 1737
Westbury (seat 1/2) Hon. George Evans
Westbury (seat 2/2) John Bance
Westminster (seat 1/2) Charles Wager Whig
Westminster (seat 2/2) William Clayton Whig
Westmorland (seat 1/2) Anthony Lowther
Westmorland (seat 2/2) Daniel Wilson Whig
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) George Bubb Dodington - sat for Bridgwater
Replaced by John Tucker 1735
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) Edward Tucker - resigned
Replaced by John Olmius 1737
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) Thomas Pearse
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) George Dodington
Whitchurch (seat 2/2) John Selwyn, junior Whig
Whitchurch (seat 1/2) John Conduitt - sat for Southampton
Replaced by John Mordaunt 1735
Wigan (seat 1/2) Sir Roger Bradshaigh Tory
Wigan (seat 2/2) The Earl of Barrymore
Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) James Stewart
Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) William Dalrymple
Wilton (seat 1/2) Robert Sawyer Herbert
Wilton (seat 2/2) William Herbert
Wiltshire (seat 1/2) John Howe Tory
Wiltshire (seat 2/2) John Ivory-Talbot Tory
Winchelsea (seat 1/2) Robert Bristow II - died
Replaced by Robert Bristow III 1738
Winchelsea (seat 2/2) Edmund Hungate Beaghan
Winchester (seat 1/2) George Brydges Whig
Winchester (seat 2/2) Paulet St John
Windsor see New Windsor ...
Woodstock see New Woodstock ...
Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Long
Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) Captain Nicholas Robinson
Worcester (seat 1/2) Richard Lockwood
Worcester (seat 2/2) Samuel Sandys Whig
Worcestershire (seat 1/2) Sir Herbert Pakington, Bt Tory
Worcestershire (seat 2/2) Edmund Lechmere
Wycombe see Chipping Wycombe ...

Y

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Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Paul Burrard - died
Replaced by Thomas Gibson 1736
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Lord Harry Powlett - sat for Hampshire
Replaced by Anthony Chute 1737
Yarmouth (Norfolk) see Great Yarmouth ...
York (seat 1/2) Sir John Lister Kaye
York (seat 2/2) Edward Thompson
Yorkshire (seat 1/2) Sir Miles Stapylton, Bt
Yorkshire (seat 2/2) Cholmley Turner

By-elections

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Constituencies 1715-1754". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  • The House of Commons 1715–1754, ed. R Sedgwick (1970)
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