Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)
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{{Infobox UK constituency
|name = Tregony
|type = Borough
|parliament = uk
|year = 1562
|abolished = 1832
|elects_howmany = Two
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Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562The writs for election were issued in 1562, so the constituency can be considered as having been established in that year, although Parliament did not meet until 12 January 1562/3, and is therefore generally called the Parliament of 1563 in New Style reckoning to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
History
The borough consisted of the town of Tregony. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period, it was a settlement of little importance or wealth even to begin with, and was not incorporated as a municipal borough until sixty years after it began to return members to Parliament in 1563.
Tregony was a potwalloper borough, meaning that every (male) householder with a separate fireplace on which a pot could be boiled was entitled to vote. The apparently democratic nature of this arrangement was a delusion in a borough as small and poor as Tregony, where the residents could not afford to defy their landlord and, indeed, regarded their vote as a means of income. Many of the houses in the borough were built purely for political purposes, and the borough itself was bought and sold for its political value on numerous occasions. In the 1760s, Viscount Falmouth (head of the Boscawen family) influenced the nomination to one of the two seatsPage 145, Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957) and William Trevanion the other;Page 148, Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957) later the Earl of Darlington controlled both seats, together with others in Cornwall, but by the time of the Great Reform Act the patronage had been transferred again, to James Adam Gordon.
In 1831, the borough had a population of 1,127, and 234 houses. Nevertheless, because of the wide franchise it had a comparatively large electorate for the time, between 260 and 300 voters.
Members of Parliament
=MPs 1559–1629=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| Parliament of 1558–9
|Adrian Poynings | ||
| Parliament of 1563–1567 | ||
| Parliament of 1571 | ||
| Parliament of 1572–1581 | ||
| Parliament of 1584–1585 | ||
| Parliament of 1586–1587 | ||
| Parliament of 1588–1589 | ||
| Parliament of 1593 | ||
| Parliament of 1597–1598 | ||
| Parliament of 1601 | ||
| Parliament of 1604–1611 | ||
| Addled Parliament (1614)
|rowspan="2"|William Hakewill |rowspan="2"|Thomas Malet | ||
| Parliament of 1621–1622 | ||
| Happy Parliament (1624–1625) | ||
| Useless Parliament (1625) | ||
| Parliament of 1625–1626 | ||
| Parliament of 1628–1629 | ||
| colspan="4"|No Parliament summoned 1629–1640 |
=MPs 1640–1832=
| class="wikitable" | ||||||
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640Browne Willis lists Nicholas Borlace and Charles Trevanion as Members, but this is contradicted by other sources.
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| November 1640
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Cavalier}}" | | Royalist
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Cavalier}}" | | Royalist | ||||
| January 1644
|colspan="6"|Vyvyan and Polwhele disabled from sitting - both seats vacant | ||||||
| 1647
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"|John Carew | rowspan="2"|
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |||||
| December 1648
|colspan="3"|Trevor excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | ||||||
| 1653
|colspan="6"|Tregony 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"|Not represented in the restored Rump | ||||||
| April 1660
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Sir John Temple |rowspan="2"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | Edward BoscawenBoscawen was also elected for Truro, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Tregony. | | ||||||
| October 1660
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1661
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="4"| Hugh Boscawen |rowspan="4"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| February 1679
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| April 1679
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| August 1679
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Charles Trevanion |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1685
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| January 1689
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="4"| Hugh Fortescue |rowspan="4"| | ||||||
| April 1689
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1690
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1694
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1695
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Francis Robartes |rowspan="3"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1698
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1701
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1702
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1705
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | John TrevanionThis John Trevanion was NOT John Trevanion, the Civil War hero, who died in 1643. | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1708
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| October 1710
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Viscount Rialton |rowspan="2"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| December 1710
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| George Robinson |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| April 1713
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| September 1713
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| James Craggs |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1720
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Charles Talbot |rowspan="3"| | ||||||
| March 1721
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| November 1721
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| John Merrill |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1722
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1727
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig |rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="3"| John Goddard |rowspan="3"| Whig | ||||||
| 1729
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1734
|rowspan="5" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="5"| Henry Penton |rowspan="5"| | ||||||
| February 1737
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| March 1737
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1741
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1742
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1747
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| William TrevanionWilliam Trevanion died 1767 according to [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50617 'General history: Gentry', Magna Britannia: volume 3: Cornwall (1814)], pp. XCVIII-CXVIII. Date accessed: 21 May 2008. |rowspan="3"| | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1754
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1761
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Abraham Hume |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1767
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Thomas Pownall |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1768
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1774
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | Alexander LeithCreated a baronet as Sir Alexander Leith, November 1775. | | ||||||
| 1780
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1784
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | Lloyd KenyonCreated a baronet as Sir Lloyd Kenyon, July 1784. | |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Robert Kingsmill |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1788
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1790
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Matthew Montagu |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1794
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1796
| style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||||
| 1802
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Charles Cockerell |rowspan="2"| | ||||||
| 1804
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1806
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="2"| James O'Callaghan |rowspan="2"| Whig | ||||||
| 1808
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1812
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1818
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1826At the 1826 election the Returning Officer made a double return, naming Lushington and Brougham, who had received the most votes, but also the two Tory candidates, James Adam Gordon and James Mackillop. The Committee decided that Lushington and Brougham had been duly elected.
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||||
| 1830
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory |rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="3"| James Mackillop |rowspan="3"| Tory | ||||||
| 1831
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Lt Colonel Charles Arbuthnot | Tory | ||||||
| 1832
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||||
| 1832
|colspan="6"| Constituency abolished |
Notes
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References
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
- 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) [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]
- W D Pink, 'The Parliamentary History of Tregony', The Western Antiquary, Volume VI, Part V (1886), 117-121 [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027210959/http://cornovia.org.uk/htexts/pink01.html]
- J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- {{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|page=1}}
- {{Rayment-hc|t|2|date=March 2012}}
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