Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1832}}
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{{Infobox UK constituency
|name = Northamptonshire
|type = County
|parliament = uk
|year = 1290
|abolished = 1832
|elects_howmany = two
|previous =
|next =
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The county constituency of Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands of England was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 and was represented in Parliament by two MPs, traditionally known as Knights of the Shire.
After 1832 the county was split into two new constituencies, North Northamptonshire and South Northamptonshire.
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the historic county of Northamptonshire. Although the county contained a number of parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected one or two MPs in its own right for parts of the period when Northamptonshire was a constituency, these areas were not excluded from the county constituency. Owning freehold property of the required value, within such boroughs, could confer a vote at the county election. (After 1832, only non-resident owners of forty shilling freeholds situated in borough seats could qualify for a county vote on the basis of that property.)
Members of Parliament
=1290–1640=
Constituency created (1290)
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As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given for those up to 1640. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.
| class="wikitable" | ||||
| Elected | Assembled | Dissolved | First Member | Second Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1558 | 20 January 1558 | 17 November 1558 | rowspan="8"|Sir Walter Mildmay | Sir John Spencer |
| 1559 | 23 January 1559 | 8 May 1559 | Edward Montagu | |
| 1563 | 11 January 1563 | 2 January 1567 | Sir William Cecil | |
| 1571 | 2 April 1571 | 29 May 1571 | Sir Robert Lane | |
| 1572 | 8 May 1572 | 19 April 1583 | rowspan="3"|(Sir) Christopher Hatton | |
| 1584 | 23 November 1584 | 14 September 1585 | ||
| 1586 | 15 October 1586 | 23 March 1587 | ||
| 1588 | 4 February 1589 | 29 March 1589 | Sir Richard Knightley | |
| 1593 | 18 February 1593 | 10 April 1593 | rowspan="2"|Sir Thomas Cecil | Christopher Yelverton |
| 1597 | 24 October 1597 | 9 February 1598 | Sir Richard Knightley | |
| 1601 | 27 October 1601 | 19 December 1601 | Sir John Stanhope | Sir William Lane |
| 1604 | 19 March 1604 | 9 February 1611 | Sir Valentine Knightley | rowspan="3"|Sir Edward Montagu |
| 1614 | 5 April 1614 | 7 June 1614 | Sir William Tate{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/tate-sir-william-155960-1617|title=TATE, Sir William (1559/60-1617), of Delapré Abbey, Northants.|publisher=History of Parliament Online|access-date= 11 April 2013}} | |
| 1620 | rowspan="2"| 16 January 1621 | rowspan="2"| 8 February 1622 | rowspan="5"|Sir William Spencer | |
| (1621) | rowspan="3"|Richard KnightleyElected following the elevation of Sir Edward Montagu to the peerage in 1621 | |||
| 1624 | 12 February 1624 | 27 March 1625 | ||
| 1625 | 17 May 1625 | 12 August 1625 | ||
| 1626 | 6 February 1626 | 15 June 1626 | Sir John Pickering | |
| 1628 | 17 March 1628 | 10 March 1629 | Francis Nicolls | Richard Knightley |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments convened |
=1640–1832=
| class="wikitable" | ||||
| colspan="3"|Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| colspan="7"|Northamptonshire was represented by 2 elected Knights of the Shire | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Roundhead}}" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Roundhead}}" | | Parliamentarian | Parliamentarian | ||
| colspan="7"|Northamptonshire was represented by 2 nominated MPs in Barebones Parliament | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| colspan="7"|Northamptonshire's representation was increased to 6 elected MPs in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| 1654 |
| (2) John CrewAppointed to Cromwell's Upper House, which first sat on 20 January 1658. | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | (3) Sir John Norwich, Bt |
| (4) John Claypole, senior | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | (5) Sir John Dryden, Bt |
| (6) Thomas Brooke | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| 1656 |
| (2) John ClaypoleClaypole was also elected for Carmarthenshire and chose Northamptonshire.[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030498939#page/n65/mode/2up] | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | (3) William Boteler |
| (4) James Langham | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | (5) Thomas Crew |
| (6) Alexander Blake | |||
| colspan="7"|Northamptonshire's representation was decreased to 2 MPs in the Third Parliament of the Protectorate and thereafter | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |
| vacant | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|21 March 1661 |
|rowspan="3"| George Clerke | rowspan="3"| | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|29 April 1675 | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|28 February 1678 | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|6 February 1679 |
|rowspan="2"| John Parkhurst | rowspan="2"| | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|21 August 1679 | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |
|12 May 1685 |
|rowspan="3"| Edward Montagu | rowspan="3"| Tory | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|14 January 1689 | Whig | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|13 June 1689 | ||||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan="2"| Sir St Andrew St John, Bt | rowspan="2"| Whig | Whig | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | |||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan="2"| Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Bt | rowspan="2"| Tory | Whig | |
| rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan="3"| Thomas Cartwright | rowspan="3"| Tory | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="4"| Sir Edmund Isham, Bt | rowspan="4"| | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Sir William Dolben, Bt | rowspan="2"| | |||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Lucy Knightley | rowspan="2"| | |||
| rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="3"| Thomas Powys | rowspan="3"| | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Francis Dickins | rowspan="2"| | |||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan="2"| William Ralph Cartwright | rowspan="2"| Tory | |||
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" |
|rowspan="2"| Viscount Althorp | rowspan="2"| Whig | |||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | |||
| colspan="7"| Constituency abolished 1832: see North Northamptonshire and South Northamptonshire. |
Notes
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Elections
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See also
References
- 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]
- The House of Commons 1690-1715, by Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D.W. Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973))
- {{Rayment-hc|n|3|date=March 2012}}
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