Thirsk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Thirsk
Thirsk
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1547–1885
Seats	Two (until 1832);; One (1832-1885)
Replaced by	Thirsk and Malton

Thirsk (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 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.

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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.

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Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir Thomas Frankland, October 1726

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Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir William St Quintin, June 1723

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Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir Thomas Frankland, January 1768

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Succeeded as 2nd Viscount Galway in the peerage of Ireland in 1751

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Created a baronet as Sir Robert Greenhill-Russell, September 1831

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Succeeded to the baronetcy as Sir Robert Frankland, January 1831

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Sir Samuel Crompton from 1838

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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

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Parliament	First member	Second member
1547	Sir William Cavendish	Robert Flint^[1]
1553 (Mar)	Thomas Lee	Reginald Beseley^[1]
1553 (Oct)	Thomas Eynns	John Gascoigne^[1]
1554 (Apr)	Thomas Waterton	Reginald Beseley^[1]
1554 (Nov)	Christopher Lascelles	Edward Beseley^[1]
1555	Christopher Lascelles	Robert Roos^[1]
1558	Christopher Lascelles	Thomas Eynns^[1]
1558–9	Thomas Eynns	Francis Wilstrop^[2]
1562–3	Thomas Eynns	Christopher Lascelles^[2]
1571	John Dawney	Thomas Layton^[2]
1572 (Apr)	John Dawney	Edward Gates^[2]
1584	Sir John Dawney	Robert Bowes^[2]
1586 (Oct)	Sir John Dawney	Henry Bellasis^[2]
1588–9	Sir John Dawney	Henry Bellasis^[2]
1593	Sir John Dawney	Henry Bellasis^[2]
1597 (Sep)	George Leycester	Thomas Belasyse^[2]
1601 (Oct)	Henry Bellasis	John Mallory^[2]
1604–1611	Sir Edward Swift	Timothy Whittingham
1614	Thomas Belasyse	Sir Robert Yaxley
1620	Thomas Belasyse	Sir John Gibson
1624	Thomas Belasyse	Sir William Sheffield
1625	Henry Belasyse	Henry Stanley
1626	Henry Belasyse	William Cholmeley
1628	Christopher Wandesford	William Frankland
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
April 1640	William Frankland		John Belasyse
November 1640	Sir Thomas Ingram	Royalist	John Belasyse	Royalist
September 1642	Ingram and Belasyse both disabled from sitting - seats vacant
1645	William Ayscough		Francis Lascelles
December 1648	Ayscough excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant		Francis Lascelles
1653	Thirsk was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659	Colonel Thomas Talbot		Major General Goodricke
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660	Barrington Bourchier		William Stanley
July 1660	Barrington Bourchier		The Earl of Ancram
1661	Sir Thomas Ingram		Walter Strickland
1671	Sir Thomas Ingram		Sir William Frankland
1673	Sir William Wentworth
1679	Nicholas Saunderson
1681	Sir William Ayscough
1685	Thomas Frankland		Sir Hugh Cholmeley
1689	Thomas Frankland		Richard Staines
1695	Sir Godfrey Copley		Richard Staines
1698	Sir Godfrey Copley		Sir Thomas Frankland
1709	Leonard Smelt
1710	Ralph Bell
1711			Thomas Worsley
1713			Thomas Frankland ^[3]
1717	Thomas Pitt
1722	William St Quintin^[4]
1727	Thomas Robinson
1734	Frederick Meinhardt Frankland
1747	Frederick Meinhardt Frankland		Thomas Frankland^[5]
1749	William Monckton^[6]
1754	Roger Talbot
1761	Henry Grenville
1765	James Grenville
1768	William Frankland
1774	Thomas Frankland
1780	Sir Thomas Gascoigne		Beilby Thompson
1784	Sir Thomas Frankland		Sir Gregory Page-Turner
1785	Robert Vyner
1796	Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt
1801	William Frankland
1805	William Frankland		Hon. Richard Griffin
1806	James Topping		Robert Greenhill-Russell^[7]	Whig^[8]
1807	William Frankland	Whig^[8]
1815	Robert Frankland^[9]	Whig^[8]
1832	Representation reduced to one member

	Member	Party
1832	Sir Robert Frankland	Whig^[8]
1834 by-election	Samuel Crompton^[10]	Whig^[8]^[11]^[12]
1841	John Bell^[13]	Whig^[14]^[15]^[16]^[8]
March 1851 by-election	Sir William Payne-Gallwey	Conservative
1880	Hon. Lewis Payn Dawnay	Conservative
1885	constituency abolished

	Candidate	Votes
Whig	Robert Greenhill-Russell	Unopposed
Whig	Robert Frankland	Unopposed
Whig hold
Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Robert Greenhill-Russell	Unopposed
	Whig	Robert Frankland	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 50
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Thirsk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Thirsk (UK Parliament constituency)

Members of Parliament

MPs 1547–1660

MPs 1640–1832

MPs 1832–1885

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

Notes

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Thirsk
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1547–1885
Seats	Two (until 1832); One (1832-1885)
Replaced by	Thirsk and Malton

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Samuel Crompton	Unopposed
Registered electors			267
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John Bell	Unopposed
Registered electors			328
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Payne-Gallwey	Unopposed
	Conservative gain from Whig

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Payne-Gallwey	416	51.6	*N/A*
	Liberal	Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone^[19]	390	48.4	New
Majority			26	3.2	N/A
Turnout			806	89.4	N/A
Registered electors			902
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Payne-Gallwey	410	50.1	−1.5
	Liberal	Henry Miles Stapylton	409	49.9	+1.5
Majority			1	0.2	−3.0
Turnout			819	87.6	−1.8
Registered electors			935
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lewis Payn Dawnay	485	52.9	+2.8
	Liberal	Henry Miles Stapylton	422	46.0	−3.9
	Conservative	Sir William Frankland, 9th Baronet	10	1.1	N/A
Majority			63	6.9	+6.7
Turnout			917	90.4	+2.8
Registered electors			1,014
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.4