Marlborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Marlborough was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.
Quick Facts 1295–1885, Seats ...
Marlborough | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1295–1885 | |
Seats | two (1295–1868); one (1868–1885) |
Replaced by | Devizes |
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1295–1640
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1640–1868
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1868–1885
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Year | Member | Party | |
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1868 | Lord Ernest Bruce | Liberal | |
1878 | Lord Charles Bruce | Liberal | |
1885 | Constituency abolished |
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Elections in the 1830s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | T. H. S. Bucknall-Estcourt | Unopposed | |||
Tory | William John Bankes | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Alexander Charles Malet | ||||
Whig | John Mirehouse | ||||
Registered electors | c. 12 | ||||
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- The mayor refused to accept the nominations of Malet and Mirehouse, and Bucknall-Estcourt and Bankes were declared elected unopposed.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | T. H. S. Bucknall-Estcourt | Unopposed | |||
Tory | William John Bankes | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | c. 12 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | 135 | 41.4 | ||
Tory | Henry Bingham Baring | 118 | 36.2 | ||
Whig | Alexander Charles Malet | 73 | 22.4 | ||
Majority | 45 | 13.8 | |||
Majority | 170 | 70.8 | |||
Registered electors | 240 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 280 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 280 | ||||
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Elections in the 1840s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 282 | ||||
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Baring was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring by-elections.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Peelite | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Peelite | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 262 | ||||
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Elections in the 1850s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Peelite | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Peelite | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 271 | ||||
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Brudenell-Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Peelite | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Peelite | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | 184 | 51.1 | N/A | |
Peelite | Henry Bingham Baring | 125 | 34.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | William David Lewis[17] | 51 | 14.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 74 | 20.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 180 (est) | 74.4 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 275 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 281 | ||||
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Liberal hold | |||||
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Elections in the 1860s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Bingham Baring | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 275 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold | |||||
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Seat reduced to one member
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 616 | ||||
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Elections in the 1870s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 659 | ||||
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Brudenell-Bruce succeeded to the peerage, becoming Marquess of Ailesbury.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Bruce | Unopposed | |||
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Elections in the 1880s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Bruce | 333 | 58.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Henry Brudenell-Bruce | 239 | 41.8 | New | |
Majority | 94 | 16.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 572 | 85.6 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 668 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
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Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Bruce | Unopposed | |||
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- References
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- "Vaughan, Sir Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28147. Retrieved 2 December 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- Hertford was re-elected in 1708, but had also been elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
- On petition, Ward was declared not to have been duly elected
- Hertford was also elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
- Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 117–119.
- Succeeded as baronet and adopted the surname Tylney-Long in 1767
- "No. 16898". The London Gazette. 14 May 1814. p. 1009.
- Saunders, Robert (2016). Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-1-4094-1794-1. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
- "Peelites". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
- "Marlborough". Londonderry Standard. 6 August 1847. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Farrell, Stephen. "Marlborough". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 208–209. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- "Marlborough". Reading Mercury. 4 April 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Sources
- 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)
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)