Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)

Honiton was a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

centred on the town of Honiton

Honiton

Honiton is a town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. The town's name is pronounced in two ways, and , each pronunciation having its adherents...

in east Devon

Devon

Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

, formerly represented in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

(MPs) until it was abolished in 1868. It was recreated in 1885 as a single-member constituency.

For the 1997 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1997

The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...

, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Tiverton

Tiverton (UK Parliament constituency)

Tiverton was a constituency located in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Enfranchised as a parliamentary borough in 1615 and first represented in 1621, it elected two Members of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...

to form the Tiverton & Honiton constituency.

Honiton was regarded as a potwalloper

Potwalloper

A potwalloper is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the House of Commons of England before 1707, the House of Commons of Great Britain and the Irish House of Commons before 1801, and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832, when the Reform Act...

borough by the time of Thomas Cochrane

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM , styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician....

MPs 1640–1660

Long Parliament

The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...

1640-1643: William Poole (Royalist) - disabled to sit, June 1643
1640-1648: Walter Yonge
Walter Yonge of Colyton
Walter Yonge of Colyton and Devon was an English lawyer, merchant and diarist.-Life:He was the ancestor of Sir George Yonge, and great-great-grandson of John Yonge of Colliton and Devon, a well known merchant in Elizabethan England....

(Parliamentarian) - not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
Pride's Purge
Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...

, December 1648; died December 1649
1645(?)-1648: Charles Vaughan - excluded in Pride's Purge
Pride's Purge
Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...

, December 1648

Honiton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
Barebones Parliament
Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...

.

First Protectorate Parliament

First Protectorate Parliament

The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....

1654: John Yonge
Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet
Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1642 and 1660.Yonge was the son of Walter Yonge of Colyton and his wife Jane Peryan, daughter of Sir John Peryan...

Second Protectorate Parliament

The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...

1656: Samuel Serle
Samuel Serle
Samuel Serle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1656 and 1660.Serle was the son of Hugh Serle, yeoman of Hale, and was baptised in July 1620. He was apprenticed to a merchant taylor in London in 1638. He was a captain of the militia for Devon in 1650...

Third Protectorate Parliament

The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...

1659: Walter Yonge
Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet
Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1660 and 1670....

(grandson of the Member from 1640 -1648)
1659: Samuel Serle
Samuel Serle
Samuel Serle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1656 and 1660.Serle was the son of Hugh Serle, yeoman of Hale, and was baptised in July 1620. He was apprenticed to a merchant taylor in London in 1638. He was a captain of the militia for Devon in 1650...

Long Parliament (restored)

1659-1660: Not represented

MPs 1660–1868

Election		First member			Second member
1660		Sir John Yonge Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1642 and 1660.Yonge was the son of Walter Yonge of Colyton and his wife Jane Peryan, daughter of Sir John Peryan...		Samuel Serle Samuel Serle Samuel Serle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1656 and 1660.Serle was the son of Hugh Serle, yeoman of Hale, and was baptised in July 1620. He was apprenticed to a merchant taylor in London in 1638. He was a captain of the militia for Devon in 1650...
1661		Sir Courtenay Pole		Peter Prideaux
1679		Sir Walter Yonge Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet of Colliton was the father of Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet and great-grandson of Walter Yonge of Colyton....		Sir Thomas Putt
1685		Edmond Walrond		Sir Thomas Putt
1689		Edmond Walrond		Richard Courtenay
1690		Sir William Drake		Sir Walter Yonge Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet of Colliton was the father of Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet and great-grandson of Walter Yonge of Colyton....
1711		Sir William Drake		James Sheppard
1715		Sir William Courtenay Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet was an English landowner.He was the son of Francis Courtenay and grandson of Sir William Courtenay, 1st Baronet; he succeeded his grandfather in the baronetcy in 1702...		Sir William Yonge William Yonge Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet KCB FRS , English politician, was the son of Sir Walter Yonge, and great-great-grandson of Walter Yonge of Colyton , whose diaries , more especially four volumes now in the British Museum Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet KCB FRS (ca. 1693 – 10 August 1755), English...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
1716		Sir William Pole
1727		James Sheppard
1731		Sir William Pole
1734		William Courtenay William Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay , also de jure 7th Earl of Devon, was a British peer. He was the son of William Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon and 2nd Baronet Courtenay, and Lady Anne Bertie.-Life:...
1741		Henry Reginald Courtenay
1747		John Heath (later John Duke)
1754		Henry Reginald Courtenay		Sir George Yonge George Yonge Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC was a British Secretary at War and the namesake of Yonge Street, a principal road in Toronto, Canada, which was named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe...
1761		Henry Reginald Courtenay		John Duke
1763		Sir George Yonge George Yonge Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC was a British Secretary at War and the namesake of Yonge Street, a principal road in Toronto, Canada, which was named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe...		John Duke
1768				Brass Crosby Brass Crosby Brass Crosby was an English radical lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.-Life:Brass Crosby was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1725. He qualified in law and came to London to practise his chosen profession. In 1758 he was elected to the City Council and elected 'lay' Sheriff in 1764...
1774				Laurence Cox
1780				Alexander Macleod
1781				Jacob Wilkinson
1784				Sir George Collier George Collier Sir George Collier was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. As commander of the frigate HMS Rainbow, he was one of the most successful British naval commanders during the opening stages of war...
1790				George Templer
1796		George Chambers		George Shum
1802		Sir John Honywood		George Shum
1805		Sir John Honywood		Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw
1806 (April)		Richard Bateman-Robson
1806 (October)		Thomas Cochrane Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM , styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician....
1807		Sir Charles Hamilton
1812		Richard Howard-Vyse Richard William Howard Vyse Major-General Sir Richard William Howard Vyse, KCMG was a British soldier, anthropologist and Egyptologist. He was also Member of Parliament for Beverley and Honiton .-Family life:...		George Abercrombie Robinson
1818		Hon. Peregrine Cust Peregrine Cust (1791–1873) Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Peregrine Francis Cust was a British Tory Member of Parliament .Cust was the son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of Wimbledon. He was the brother of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, William Cust and Sir Edward Cust, 1st...		Samuel Crawley Samuel Crawley Samuel Crawley was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1818 and 1841....
1826		Josiah John Guest John Josiah Guest Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company...		Henry Baines Lott
1830				Sir George Warrender Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet Sir George Warrender of Lochend, 4th Baronet PC, FRS was a Scottish politician. In 1799, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Due to his lifestyle, he was nicknamed Sir Gorge Provender....
1831		Henry Baines Lott
1832		Viscount Villiers George Child-Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey , was an English peer, the son of George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey.He was Member of Parliament for* Rochester 1830–1831...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	James Ruddell-Todd	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
1835		Hugh Duncan Baillie	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	Arthur Chichester	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1837				James Stewart	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
1841				Forster McGeachy	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1847		Joseph Locke Joseph Locke Joseph Locke was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway projects...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Sir James Weir Hogg James Weir Hogg Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Baronet was a lawyer and Liberal Conservative Member of Parliament.-Background and education:Hogg was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of William Hogg and his wife Mary, née Dickey... 1st Bt	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1857				Archibald Stuart-Wortley Archibald Stuart-Wortley (politician) Archibald Henry Plantagenet Stuart-Wortley , was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background:Stuart-Wortley was the son of the Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, second son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe. His mother was Lady Emmeline, daughter of John Manners,...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1859			Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	Alexander Baillie-Cochrane Alexander Baillie-Cochrane Alexander Dundas Ross Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie, 1st Baron Lamington , better known as Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, was a British Conservative politician perhaps best known for his association with Young England in the early 1840s.The son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, he succeeded...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1860		George Moffatt George Moffatt (English politician) George Moffatt was a British Liberal Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth 1845–1852, Ashburton 1852–1859, for Honiton 1860–1865, and for Southampton 1865–1868. He was also the owner of Goodrich Court, a neo-gothic castle in Herefordshire.- External...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1865		Frederick Goldsmid	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1866		Julian Goldsmid	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1868	Constituency abolished, but re-established in 1885

MPs 1885–1997

	Member	Party
1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918Representation of the People Act 1884Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...	Sir John Kennaway Sir John Kennaway, 3rd Baronet Sir John Henry Kennaway, 3rd Baronet PC was an English Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for East Devon from 1870 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
Jan. 1910	Sir Clive Morrison-Bell	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931 The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the...	Sir Cedric Drewe Cedric Drewe Sir Cedric Drewe, KCVO was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Julius Drewe, the English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1955 United Kingdom general election, 1955 The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...	Robert Mathew Robert Mathew Robert Mathew TD was a British Barrister and politician.From a military family , Mathew went to Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He read for the Bar and was called in 1937...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1967 Honiton by-election, 1967 The Honiton by-election, 1967 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Honiton in Devon on 16 March 1967. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Peter Emery.- Vacancy :...	Sir Peter Emery Peter Emery Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Emery was born in London, but was evacuated to the United States during World War II. He was educated at Scotch Plains High School, New Jersey before serving with the Royal Air Force. He attended Oriel...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	constituency abolished: see Tiverton and Honiton

Elections in the 1990s

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