Thirsk (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Thirsk | |
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| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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| 1547–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two (until 1832); One (1832-1885) |
Thirsk was a parliamentary borough in Yorkshire, represented in the English and later British House of Commons in 1295, and again from 1547. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832, and by one member from 1832 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished and absorbed into the new Thirsk and Malton division of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The borough consisted of originally of the town of Old Thirsk, and included a population of only 1,378 at the 1831 census. The right to vote was restricted to the holders of burgage tenements, of which there were 50 in 1831. The Frankland family were the local landowners (in 1816 Sir Thomas owned 49 of the 50 burgage tenements), and in effect could nominate whoever they wanted as Members of Parliament; there was no contested election in Thirsk between 1715 and 1832.
The Great Reform Act of 1832 expanded the boundaries to include the townships of Thirsk, Sowerby, Carlton Miniott, Sandhutton, Bagby and South Kilvington, increasing the population to 4,672 and encompassing 1,064 houses, which was considered big enough for the borough to retain one of its two members.
Members of Parliament
- Constituency re-created (1547)
MPs 1547–1660
MPs 1640–1832
MPs 1832–1885
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Sir Robert Frankland | Whig | |
| 1834 by-election | Samuel Crompton [9] | Whig | |
| 1841 | John Bell [10] | Whig | |
| 1847 | Conservative | ||
| March 1851 by-election | Sir William Payne-Gallwey | Conservative | |
| 1880 | Hon. Lewis Payn Dawnay | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Notes
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- ↑ Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir Thomas Frankland, October 1726
- ↑ Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir William St Quintin, June 1723
- ↑ Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir Thomas Frankland, January 1768
- ↑ Succeeded as 2nd Viscount Galway in the peerage of Ireland in 1751
- ↑ Created a baronet as Sir Robert Greenhill-Russell, September 1831
- ↑ Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir Robert Frankland, January 1831
- ↑ Sir Samuel Crompton from 1838
- ↑ In July 1849 a Commission of Lunacy declared Bell to be of unsound mind, but as the law then stood he could not be deprived of his seat on those grounds and remained an MP until his death in 1851
References
- 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) [1]
- 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)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- History of North Yorkshire
- Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1547
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
