Brackley (UK Parliament constituency)
{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1832}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox UK constituency
|name = Brackley
|type = Borough
|parliament = uk
|year = 1547
|abolished = 1832
|elects_howmany = Two
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Brackley was a parliamentary borough in Northamptonshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1547 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
History
The borough consisted of the town of Brackley, a market town where the main economic interests were making lace and footwear. In 1831, the population of the borough was 2,107, and the town contained 378 houses. While this by no means put it among the smallest of the rotten boroughs, it was barely the half the size which was eventually required to retain representation after 1832.
Brackley was a corporation borough, the right to vote having been restricted to the Mayor, 6 aldermen and 26 "burgesses" (the remaining members of the corporation), a total electorate of 33, in the reign of James II. The Mayor was appointed by the Lord of the Manor, and the major local landowners or "patrons" had total control over the election of MPs. In the mid 18th century the Duke of Bridgewater was able to nominate both MPs;Page 144, Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition – London: St Martin's Press, 1957) by the time of the Reform Act, the Earl of Bridgewater nominated to one seat and the Marquess of Stafford to the other.
Brackley lost both its MPs under the provisions of the Reform Act.
Members of Parliament
=1547–1640=
{{Incomplete list|date=August 2008}}
=1640–1832=
| class="wikitable" | ||||||
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1640
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | Parliamentarian
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | Parliamentarian | ||||
| December 1648
|colspan="6"|Both members excluded in Pride's Purge – seats vacant | ||||||
| 1653
|colspan="6"|Brackley was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| January 1659
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |||||
| May 1659
|colspan="6"|Unrepresented in the restored Rump | ||||||
| April 1660
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Sir Thomas Crew |rowspan="3"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1661
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| February 1679
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| August 1679
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="4"| Hon. Richard WenmanSucceeded as The Viscount Wenman (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1686 |rowspan="4"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1681
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1685
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1689
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1690
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| John Blencowe |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1692
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Harry Mordaunt |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1695
|rowspan="7" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="7"| Charles EgertonEgerton was initially declared re-elected at the election of 1710, but on petition he was found not have been duly elected and his opponent Burgh was seated instead |rowspan="7"| | ||||||
| 1698
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1701
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1702
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| May 1705
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| November 1705
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1708
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| William Egerton |rowspan="3"| | ||||||
| 1711
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1713
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1714 At the election of 1713, Methuen and Egerton were initially declared elected, but there was dispute about the franchise. On petition, their seats were given to their opponents, Burgh and Watkins
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1715
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Sir Paul Methuen |rowspan="3"| | ||||||
| 1733
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1742
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Sewallis Shirley |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1747
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1754
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Marshe Dickinson |rowspan="3"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1755
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1761
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Robert Wood |rowspan="3"| | ||||||
| 1765
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1768
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| William Egerton |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1771
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Timothy Caswall |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1780
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="3"| John Egerton |rowspan="3"| Tory | ||||||
| 1789
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1802
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="4"| Robert Haldane Bradshaw |rowspan="4"| Tory | ||||||
| 1803
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1810
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1825
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1832
|colspan="6"| Constituency abolished |
Notes
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References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&q=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament]
- 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) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- {{Rayment-hc|b|4|date=March 2012}}
Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire (historic)
Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1547
Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832