Great_Marlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Great Marlow
Great Marlow
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1624–1885
Seats	two (1311-1868); one (1868-1885)
Replaced by	Aylesbury

Great Marlow (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom 1801-1885

Great Marlow, sometimes simply called Marlow, was a parliamentary borough in Buckinghamshire. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England between 1301 and 1307, and again from 1624 until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1868. It elected one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

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[1] The election of Borlase and Hippesley to the Long Parliament were declared void.^{[citation needed]}

[2] Expelled from the House of Commons for "indirect and fraudulent Practices in the Affairs of the Charitable Corporation, and for having never attended the Service of the House, although required to do so".

[3] Created a baronet, 1775

[1841-petition-5] At the 1841 general election (Sir) William Clayton, who succeeded as baronet in January 1834, was initially declared re-elected by 1 vote in 1841, but on petition and after scrutiny his election was declared void and his opponent, Hampden, was declared elected instead.

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Year	First member	Second member
Constituency re-enfranchised by Parliament in 1624
1624	Henry Borlase	Thomas Cotton
1625	John Backhouse	Thomas Cotton
1626	John Backhouse	Sir William Hicks, 1st Baronet
1628	Sir John Backhouse	Miles Hobart

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		John Borlase	Royalist		Sir William Hicks
November 1640^{[lower-alpha 1]}		John Borlase	Royalist		Gabriel Hippesley
1640		Bulstrode Whitelocke	Parliamentarian		Peregrine Hoby	Parliamentarian
December 1648		Bulstrode Whitelocke	Parliamentarian	Hoby excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653	Great Marlow was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		William Borlase			Peregrine Hoby
May 1659		Bulstrode Whitelocke		One seat vacant
April 1660		William Borlase			Peregrine Hoby
1666		Charles Cheyne			Peregrine Hoby
1679		John Borlase			Sir Humphrey Winch
1681		John Borlase			Thomas Hoby
1685		Sir John Borlase			Sir Humphrey Winch
January 1689		Sir John Borlase			The Viscount Falkland

February 1689		John Hoby
December 1689		Sir William Whitelock
1690		Sir William Whitelock			James Chase
1695		Sir James Etheridge			James Chase
1710		Sir James Etheridge			George Bruere
1715		The Lord Shelburne			George Bruere
1722		Edmund Waller			Sir John Guise
1727					John Clavering
1731					George Robinson^{[lower-alpha 2]}
1732 by-election					Sir Thomas Hoby
1741		Samuel Tufnell			Sir Thomas Hoby
1744 by-election		Samuel Tufnell			William Ockenden
1747		Merrick Burrell			William Ockenden
1754		Charles Churchill			Daniel Moore
1761		William Clayton (elder)			William Mathew Burt
1768					William Dickinson
1774					(Sir) John Borlase Warren^{[lower-alpha 3]}
1783 by-election		William Clayton (later 4th Bt)			(Sir) John Borlase Warren^{[lower-alpha 3]}
1784		William Clayton (later 4th Bt)			Captain Sir Thomas Rich
1790		Thomas Williams	Tory^[1]		William Lee-Antonie	Whig^[1]
1796		Thomas Williams	Tory^[1]		Owen Williams	Whig^[1]
1802 by-election		Pascoe Grenfell	Whig^[1]
1820		Thomas Peers Williams	Whig^[1]
1832			Tory^[1]		(Sir) William Clayton^{[lower-alpha 4]}	Whig^[1]^[2]^[3]
1834			Conservative^[1]		(Sir) William Clayton^{[lower-alpha 4]}	Whig^[1]^[2]^[3]
1842^{[lower-alpha 4]}					Renn Hampden	Conservative^[1]
1847					Brownlow William Knox	Conservative
1868	Representation reduced to one member

Election		Member	Party
1868		Thomas Owen Wethered	Conservative
1880		Owen Williams	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Owen Williams	209	36.5
	Whig	Thomas Peers Williams	192	33.6
	Whig	William Clayton	171	29.9
Majority			21	3.7
Turnout			360	c. 90.0
Registered electors			c. 400
	Whig hold		Swing
	Whig hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Owen Williams	196	34.1	*New*
	Tory	Thomas Peers Williams	192	33.4	*New*
	Whig	William Clayton	187	32.5	+2.6
Majority			5	0.9	−2.8
Turnout			374	c. 93.5	c. +3.5
Registered electors			c. 400
	Tory gain from Whig		Swing	−1.9
	Tory gain from Whig		Swing	−0.8

Great_Marlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Great Marlow (UK Parliament constituency)

History

Members of Parliament

MPs 1624–1640

MPs 1640–1868

MPs 1868–1885

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

References

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Great Marlow
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1624–1885
Seats	two (1311-1868); one (1868-1885)
Replaced by	Aylesbury

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	William Clayton	Unopposed
	Whig gain from Tory

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	William Clayton	201	47.9
	Conservative	Thomas Peers Williams	185	44.0
	Radical	William Carpenter	34	8.1
Turnout			240	64.3
Registered electors			373
Majority			16	3.9
	Whig hold
Majority			151	35.9
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Peers Williams	233	40.7	*N/A*
	Whig	William Clayton	170	29.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	Renn Hampden	169	29.5	N/A
Turnout			333	90.2	N/A
Registered electors			354
Majority			63	11.0	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			1	0.2	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Peers Williams	238	41.2	+0.5
	Conservative	Renn Hampden	178	30.8	+1.3
	Whig	William Clayton	161	27.9	−0.8
Majority			17	2.9	−8.1
Turnout			289 (est)	77.8 (est)	−12.4
Registered electors			371
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.5
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+0.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Peers Williams	242	45.1	+3.9
	Conservative	Brownlow William Knox	198	36.9	+6.1
	Whig	Jacob Bell^[7]^[8]^[9]	96	17.9	−10.0
Majority			102	19.0	+16.1
Turnout			316 (est)	89.3 (est)	+11.5
Registered electors			354
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Peers Williams	229	43.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	Brownlow William Knox	175	33.4	*N/A*
	Liberal	John Webb Probyn^[10]	120	22.9	New
Majority			55	10.5	N/A
Turnout			322 (est)	94.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			354
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Owen Wethered	345	52.4	*N/A*
	Liberal	Edmund Verney	314	47.6	New
Majority			31	4.8	N/A
Turnout			659	86.7	N/A
Registered electors			760
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Williams	505	58.7	*N/A*
	Liberal	James Olliff Griffits^[11]	355	41.3	New
Majority			150	17.4	N/A
Turnout			860	91.4	N/A
Registered electors			941
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A