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Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

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|year = 1290

|abolished = 1832

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Devon was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Devon in England. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. Elections were held using the bloc vote system of elections.

Under the Reform Act 1832, it was split into two divisions, North Devon and South Devon, for the 1832 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency consisted of the historic county of Devon, excluding the city of Exeter which had the status of a county in itself after 1537. (Although Devon contained a number of other parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Devon was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Exeter.)

Members of Parliament

= 1290–1640 =

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Constituency created 1290, during the reign of King Edward I (1272–1307).

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Edward I (1272–1307)

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1290 (Jul)Sir Robert de WodetonSir Andrew Trelosk of Dunterton
1294 (Nov)unknown
1295 (Nov), the
Model Parliament		Sir Robert de WodetonSir William Prous of Gidleigh (1245–1315)
1297 (Oct)Sir Henry Ralegh of Strete Ralegh in WhimpleSir Hugh Prous of Gatcombe in Colyton
1298 (May)Sir John Umfraville of LapfordSir William Champernowne (c.1240–1304) of Ilfracombe{{cite journal | author=J. J. Alexander| title=Devon County Members of Parliament. Part I. The early Plantagenet Period (1212–1327)| journal=Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association| year=1912| volume=44| pages=366–381}}
1300 (Mar)Sir Robert Beaple of KnowstoneSir Reginald Ferrers of Bere and Newton Ferrers

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Edward III (1327–1377)

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1331Sir Roger de Pridias (Prideaux) of Orcheton, ModburyVivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 616, pedigree of Prideaux.
1340Adam de Branscombe
1356/7John Daubernon of DunslandRisdon, Tristram (d. 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 251.
1364Sir John Cary (d. 1395) of Cockington, Devon, Chief Baron of the ExchequerVivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 150, pedigree of Cary (regnal year 37 Edward III, i.e. 1363); see also biography of his son Sir Robert Cary in History of Parliament [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/cary-robert-1431]Sir William Cary (brother)Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 150, pedigree of Cary (regnal year 37 Edward III, i.e. 1363).
1348Adam de Branscombe
1369Sir John Cary (d. 1395) of Cockington, Devon, Chief Baron of the ExchequerVivian, p. 150 (regnal year 42 Edward III, i.e. 1368).Sir William Cary (brother)
1371Sir William Bonville
1376 |Sir William Bonville

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Richard II

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1377 (Oct)Sir William Bonville
1378Sir William Bonville
1379Sir William Bonville
1379John Beaumont (d. 1379/80)Beaumont, Edward T., The Beaumonts in History. A.D. 850-1850. Oxford, c. 1929, (privately published), Chapter 5, pp. 56–63, The Devonshire Family, p. 62 (term given as 1376–80).
1380John Beaumont (d. 1379/80)
1380 (Nov)Sir William Bonville
1381Sir William Bonville
1382 (May)Sir William Bonville
1382 (Oct)Sir William Bonville
1383Sir Philip Courtenay
1383Ivo FitzWarin
1384 (Apr)Sir William Bonville
1385Sir John Stretch{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/stretch-sir-john-1341-90| title= STRETCH, Sir John (1341-90), of Pinhoe and Hempston Arundel (Little Hempston), Devon.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 12 May 2013}}
1386Sir Philip CourtenaySir John Stretch{{cite web | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/devon | title= History of Parliament| access-date = 2011-09-12}}
1388 (Feb)Sir Philip CourtenaySir John Prideaux
1388 (Sep)Sir John StretchSir John Grenville
1390 (Jan)Sir Philip CourtenaySir James de Chudleigh
1390 (Nov)Sir James de ChudleighJohn Prescott
1391Sir James de ChudleighSir William Sturmy
1393Sir Philip CourtenaySir James de Chudleigh
1394Sir John GrenvilleSir James de Chudleigh
1395Sir Philip CourtenaySir Hugh Courtenay
1397 (Jan)Sir William BonvilleSir John Grenville
1397 (Sep)Sir Hugh CourtenaySir William Bonville

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Henry IV

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1399Sir Philip CourtenayJohn Stretch
1401Sir Philip CourtenaySir John Wadham
1402Sir William BonvilleSir John Grenville
1404 (Jan)Sir Thomas PomeroyEdmund Pyne
1404 (Oct)Sir William SturmyWalter Reynell
1406Sir Hugh LuttrellSir Thomas Pomeroy
1407Sir Hugh LuttrellRobert Cary
1410Sir Thomas PomeroyRobert Cary
1411Edmund PyneRobert Cary

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Henry V

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)Sir Thomas PomeroyRobert Cary
1414 (Apr)John St. AubynRobert Cary
1414 (Nov)Richard I HankfordJohn Arundell
1415
1416 (Mar)Richard I HankfordRobert Cary
1416 (Oct)
1417John ColeRobert Cary
1419Edward PomeroyRobert Cary
1420Sir Robert ChalonsThomas Archdeacon
1421 (May)Sir Hugh CourtenayRobert Cary
1421 (Dec)John CopplestoneHenry Fortescue

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Henry VI

!No!!Year!!First member!!Second member

1st1422William Bonville, 1st Baron BonvilleRobert Cary{{sfn|Willis|1715|p=252}}
2nd1423Richard HankefordJohn Cole{{sfn|Willis|1715|p=252}}
3rd1425William Bonville, 1st Baron BonvilleRobert Cary{{sfn|Willis|1715|p=252}}
4th1426Robert CaryJames Chuddelegh{{sfn|Willis|1715|p=252}}
5th1427Philip CourtenayWilliam Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville{{sfn|Willis|1715|p=252}} (& John Reynell 1427/8Vivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 643: regnal date "6 Henry IV" (sic), probably "6 Henry VI" 1427/8; corrected date deduced as his brother was Walter Reynell (died 1478) of Malston (Vivian, p. 643) a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1454/5 (Vivian, p. 643).)
6th1429
7th1430
8th1432
9th1433Sir Philip Cary
10th1435Nicholas Radfordhttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/radford-nicholas-1455 History of Parliament Online article.John Copplestone
171439John Copplestone{{Cite web|url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/copplestone-john-1458|title = COPPLESTONE, John (D.1458), of Copplestone in Colebrooke, Devon. | History of Parliament Online}}
331454/5Walter Reynell (died 1478) of Malston in the parish of Sherford, DevonRegnal date 33 Henry VI per Vivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 643–5, pedigree of Reynell, p. 643.

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Edward IV

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1491John Crocker

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Henry VII|

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1510–1523colspan = "2"|No names known
1529Sir William Courtenay (d. 1535) of Powderham, died Nov.1535
and repl. Jan 1536 by George Carew		Sir Thomas Denys
1536
1539Sir Thomas DenysRichard Pollard
1542Richard Pollard?Gawain Carew
1545?Sir Gawain Carew

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Edward VII

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1547Sir Gawain CarewJohn Chichester
1553 (Mar)Sir Peter CarewJohn Fulford

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Mary I

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1553 (Oct)Sir Peter CarewSir Thomas Denys
1554 (Apr)Sir John ChichesterJohn Prideaux
1554 (Nov)James BassettJames Courtenay
1555James BassettRobert Denys

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Elizabeth I

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1558James BassettGeorge Kirkham
1559

|Sir Peter Carew

|Sir John St Leger

1563–1567{{Citation | author = J. J. Alexander | title = Devon Country Members of Parliament, Part IV, The Tudor Period (1485-1603)| journal = Rep. Trans. Devon. Ass. Advmt Sci.

| volume = XLVII | pages = 365–370 | year = 1915 }}

|John Chichester

|Gawin Carew

1571

|rowspan="2"|Sir John St Leger

|Peter Edgcumbe

1572–1583

|Arthur Bassett

1584–1585

|rowspan="2"|Walter Raleigh

|William Courtenay

1586–1587John Chudleigh
1588–1589

|William Courtenay

|George Cary

1593

|Sir Thomas Denys

|Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet

1597–1598

|William Strode

|Amias Bampfield

1601

|William Courtenay

|Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of James I

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1604–1611{{Citation

| author = J. J. Alexander

| title = Devon Country Members of Parliament, Part V, The Stuart Period (1603-1688)

| journal = Rep. Trans. Devon. Ass. Advmt Sci.

| volume = XLVIII

| pages = 330–332

| year = 1916

}}

|rowspan="2"|Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet

|Thomas RidgewayAppointed Treasurer in Ireland 1607.

(from 1607)Sir John Acland
1614

|rowspan="3"|John Drake

|Sir Edward Giles

1621–1622

|Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet

1624–1625

|Sir William Strode

class="wikitable"

|+Parliaments of Charles I

!Year!!First member!!Second member

1625

|Francis Fulford

|Francis Courtenay

1626

|John Drake

|John Pole

1628–1629

|John Bampfield

|Sir Francis Drake, BtYoungest brother (1588–1637) of Francis Drake.

= 1640–1832 =

class="wikitable"
colspan="3"|YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|April 1640

|rowspan="3"| Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet

rowspan="3"|Royalist

|rowspan="2"|Thomas WyseDied March 1641.

rowspan="2"|
November 1640
rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1641

|rowspan="3"|Sir Samuel RolleDied December 1647.

rowspan="3"|Parliamentarian
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|January 1643

|colspan="2"|Seymour disabled to sit – seat vacant

rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1646

|rowspan="2"|Sir Nicholas Martyn

rowspan="2"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1648

|William MoriceMorice may not have taken his seat before being excluded in Pride's Purge.

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|December 1648

|colspan="4"|Morice and Martyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant.

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1653

|colspan="4"|Seven nominated members in the Barebones Parliament: George Monck, John Carew, Thomas Saunders, Christopher Martyn, James Erisey, Francis Rous, Richard Sweet

colspan="7"|Devon's representation was increased to 11 MPs in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1654

|colspan="4"|Thomas Saunders, Robert Rolle, Arthur Upton, Thomas Reynell, William Morice, John Hale,
William Bastard, William Fry, Sir John Northcote, Bt, Henry Hatsell, John Quick

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1656

|colspan="4"|Thomas Saunders, Robert Rolle, Arthur Upton, Thomas Reynell, William Morice, John Hale,
Sir John Northcote, Bt, Captain Henry Hatsell, Sir John Yonge, Edmund Fowell, John Doddridge

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|January 1659

|Sir John Northcote, Bt

|Robert Rolle

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|May 1659

|colspan="4"|Not represented in the restored Rump

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="2" |

|April 1660

|George Monck

|rowspan="2"|Sir John Northcote, Btrowspan="2"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|July 1660

|Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="3" |

|1661

|Sir Hugh Pollard, Bt

|rowspan="3"|Sir John Rollerowspan="3"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1667

|Earl of Torrington

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1671

|Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="2" |

|February 1679

|Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet

Tory

|rowspan="2"|Sir William Courtenay, Bt

rowspan="2"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|September 1679

|Samuel Rolle

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1685

|Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bt

|Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="3" |

|1689

|Francis Courtenay

|rowspan="3"|Samuel Rollerowspan="3" |
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|September 1699

|Thomas Drewe

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="3" |

|January 1701

|rowspan="3"|Sir William Courtenay, Bt

rowspan="3"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|December 1701

|Sir John Pole, Bt

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1702

|Robert Rolle

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="2" |

|1710

|Sir William Pole

|rowspan="2"|John Rollerowspan="2"| Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="4" |

|1712

|rowspan="4"|Sir William Courtenay, Bt

rowspan="4"| Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|1713

|Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt

Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |

|1727

|John Rolle

Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="2" |

|1730

|rowspan="2"|Henry Rolle

rowspan="2"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1736

|John Bampfylde

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="3" |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1741

|rowspan="3"|Sir William Courtenay, Bt

rowspan="3"|

|Theophilus Fortescue

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1746

|Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, Bt

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="2" |

|1747

|rowspan="2"|Sir Richard Bampfylde, Bt

rowspan="2"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="3" |

|1762

|rowspan="3"|John Parker

rowspan="3"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1776

|John Rolle Walter

style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="2" |

|1780

|rowspan="2"|John Rolle

rowspan="2"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="3" |

|1784

|rowspan="3"|John Pollexfen Bastard

rowspan="3"|Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |

|1796

|Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="2" |

|1812

|rowspan="2"|Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, Bt

rowspan="2"|Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: white" rowspan="3" |

|1816

|rowspan="3"|Edmund Pollexfen Bastard

rowspan="3"|
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

|1818

|Viscount Ebrington

Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="2" |

|1820

|rowspan="2"|Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, Bt

rowspan="2"|Tory
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" rowspan="2" |

|1830

|rowspan="2"|Viscount Ebrington

rowspan="2"|Whig
style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |

|1831

|Lord John Russell

Whig

  • Constituency abolished (1832)

Elections

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Notes

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References

  • D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • [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 Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803] (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
  • J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  • {{Rayment-hc|d|2|date=March 2012}}
  • {{cite book|first=Browne |last=Willis |year=1715 |title=Notitia parliamentaria: or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: Cornwall, Cumberland, Darby, Devon, Dorset and Durham |volume=II |publisher=Printed by Robert Gosling |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5V09AAAAYAAJ/page/n382 252]}}

See also

Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Devon (historic)

Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832

Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1290