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Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency)
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Rotten borough
A "rotten", "decayed" or pocket borough was a parliamentary borough or constituency in the United Kingdom that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within Parliament....
s', a parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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which was effectively controlled by a single person, until it was abolished under the Reform Act 1832
Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...
. The constituency was the site of what had been the original settlement of Salisbury, which was known as Old Sarum
Old Sarum
Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England. The site contains evidence of human habitation as early as 3000 BC. Old Sarum is mentioned in some of the earliest records in the country...
. The population had moved to nearby New Sarum (now usually called Salisbury
Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county...
) centuries before the abolition of the parliamentary borough.
History
Old Sarum was unlike other rotten boroughs in that it never had a substantial population. It was invited to send two members to the House of CommonsBritish 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...
from the reign of Edward II
Edward II of England
Edward II , called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in January 1327. He was the sixth Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II...
due to the presence of the Bishopric of Old Sarum, but shortly after this the site of the bishopric was moved to New Sarum
Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county...
, together with most of the population. A small hamlet, located alongside the Roman road to the south of the hill fort, remained but with steadily declining population as the houses became uninhabitable.
The borough was organised on a burgage
Burgage
Burgage is a medieval land term used in England and Scotland, well established by the 13th century. A burgage was a town rental property , owned by a king or lord. The property usually, and distinctly, consisted of a house on a long and narrow plot of land, with the narrow end facing the street...
franchise where the inhabitants of designated houses had the right to vote. From at least the 17th century it had no resident voters, but the overall landowner retained the right to nominate tenants for each of the burgages who were not required to live there. For a long time, the borough was owned by the Pitt family and used as their pocket borough (one of the members in the 18th century was William Pitt the Elder
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years' War...
). In 1802, the head of the family, Lord Camelford
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford was a British peer, naval officer and wastrel, best known for bedevilling George Vancouver during and after the latter's great voyage of exploration.-Early life:...
sold the borough to the Earl of Caledon
Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon
Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon KP , styled The Honourable from 1790 to 1800 and then Viscount Alexander to 1802, was an Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator, and was the second child and only son of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon.-Education and Inheritance:He was educated...
, who owned it until its abolition; the price was reportedly £60,000, even though the land and manorial rights were worth £700 a year at most, an indication of the value of a pair of parliamentary seats. At its last election in 1831, there were eleven voters, all of whom were landowners who lived elsewhere. This made Old Sarum the most notorious of the rotten boroughs. The Reform Act 1832
Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...
completely disenfranchised Old Sarum.
Elections in Old Sarum were conducted on a mobile hustings under a specific tree which was located in what was known as the 'Electing acre' (the tree died in 1905). In the last years, the spectacle of the election was enticing enough to draw a small crowd who observed the ritual presentation of the two candidates and the call for any further nominations.
Stooks Smith quotes a contemporary description of the 1802 election
United Kingdom general election, 1802
The United Kingdom general election, 1802 was the election to the 2nd Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
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1295-1640
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
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| 1386 | Walter Upton | Bartholomew Avery |
| 1388 (Feb) | Walter Upton | John Avery I |
| 1388 (Sep) | Walter Upton | John Avery I |
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| 1390 (Nov) | ||
| 1391 | ||
| 1393 | ||
| 1394 | John Avery I | John Chipplegh |
| 1395 | John Avery I | Robert Page |
| 1397 (Jan) | ||
| 1397 (Sep) | John Avery I | Robert Page |
| 1399 | ||
| 1414 (Apr) | Robert Long Robert Long (politician) Robert Long of Draycot Cerne was an English politician.Born in Wiltshire, he was the son of Roger le Long.In 1414 Long was elected Member of Parliament for Old Sarum, and MP for Wiltshire in 1421, 1423–24, 1429–30, 1433, and again in 1442... |
William Chesterton |
| 1414 (Nov) | ||
| 1415 | ||
| 1416 (Mar) | ||
| 1416 (Oct) | ||
| 1417 | John Giles | John Noble |
| 1419 | ||
| 1420 | ||
| 1421 (May) | Henry Bradley | John Ludwell |
| 1421 (Dec) | John Fruysthorp | John Ludwell |
| 1435 | Henry Long | |
| 1442 | Richard Long | |
| 1510-1523 | No names known | |
| 1529 | Thomas Hilton | William Lambert |
| 1536 | ? | |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | ? | |
| 1545 | William Hulcote | John Bassett |
| 1547 | John Young | ? |
| by Jan 1552 | William Thomas | |
| 1553 (Mar) | James Brande | William Wekys |
| 1553 (Oct) | Sir Nicholas Throckmorton | John Throckmorton |
| 1554 (Apr) | Richard Clipper | Edmund Twyneho |
| 1554 (Nov) | John Tull | Francis Killinghall |
| 1555 | John Marshe | William Chamber |
| 1558 | ?Sir Henry John | John Bateman |
| 1559 | John Harington | Henry Hart |
| 1562/3 | Edward Herbert | Henry Compton |
| 1571 | John Young | Edmund Ludlow Edmund Ludlow (died 1624) Sir Edmund Ludlow was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1571 and 1622.Ludlow was born before 1548, the eldest son of George Ludlow of Hill Deverill and his wife Edith, daughter of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsorof Stanwell, Middlesex. In... |
| 1572 | Hugh Powell | John Frenche |
| 1584 | Richard Topcliffe Richard Topcliffe Richard Topcliffe was a landowner and Member of Parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He became notorious as a priest-hunter and torturer and was often referred to as the Queen's principal "interrogator".... |
Roger Gifford |
| 1586 | Edward Berkeley | Richard Topcliffe Richard Topcliffe Richard Topcliffe was a landowner and Member of Parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He became notorious as a priest-hunter and torturer and was often referred to as the Queen's principal "interrogator".... |
| 1588/9 | Roger Gifford | Henry Baynton |
| 1593 | Anthony Ashley | Edmund Fortescue |
| 1597 | William Blaker | Nicholas Hyde Nicholas Hyde Sir Nicholas Hyde was Lord Chief Justice of England.He was the son of Lawrence Hyde and Ann Sybill and the brother of Henry Hyde and Lawrence Hyde, who became attorney-general... |
| 1601 | Robert Turner | Henry Hyde |
| 1604-1611 | William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628.Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586,... |
Edward Leache |
| 1614 | William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628.Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586,... |
William Price William Price (of Briton Ferry) William Price was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1626.Price was the eldest son of Lleisan Price of Briton Ferry, who had been MP for Cardiff, and his wife Maud Evans daughter of D Evans of Gnoll. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Old Sarum... |
| 1621-1622 | George Myne | Thomas Brett |
| 1624 | Sir Robert Cotton | Sir Arthur Ingram, sat for York and repl. by Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.... |
| 1625 | Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.... |
Sir Thomas Stradling |
| 1626 | Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.... |
Sir Benjamin Rudyerd Benjamin Rudyerd Sir Benjamin Rudyerd or Rudyard , of West Woodhay in Berkshire, was an English politician and poet, Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1620 and 1648, and a colonial investor who was one of the incorporators of the Providence Company in 1630.Benjamin was the son of James Rudyerd... |
| 1628 | Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth Michael Oldisworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1653. He supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.... |
Christopher Keightley |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
1640-1832
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| November 1640 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... |
Hon. Robert Cecil Robert Cecil (MP for Old Sarum) Robert Cecil was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653.Cecil was the son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. He was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge in October 1634.... |
Parliamentarian | Edward Herbert | Royalist | ||
| 1641 | Sir William Savile Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War and was killed in action.... |
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| September 1642 | Savile disabled from sitting - seat vacant | |||||
| 1646 | Roger Kirkham | |||||
| 1647 | Sir Richard Lucy Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Lucy, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1658.... |
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| December 1648 | Cecil 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... |
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| 1653 | Old Sarum 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... and the First 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.... and Second 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... Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| January 1659 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... |
Richard Hill | William Ludlow | ||||
| May 1659 Rump Parliament The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.... |
Old Sarum was not represented in the restored Rump Rump Parliament The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.... |
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| April 1660 | Seymour Bowman Seymour Bowman Seymour Bowman was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Bowman was the son of Stephen Bowman of Harnham, Wiltshire. He matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford on 19 May 1637 aged 16... |
John Norden John Norden (MP) John Norden was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1669.... |
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| 1661 | Edward Nicholas | John Denham John Denham (poet) Sir John Denham was an English poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey.... |
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| 1669 | Sir Eliab Harvey | |||||
| February 1679 Habeas Corpus Parliament The Habeas Corpus Parliament, also known as the First Exclusion Parliament, was a short-lived English Parliament which assembled on 6 March 1679 during the reign of Charles II of England, the third parliament of the King's reign. It is named after the Habeas Corpus Act, which it enacted in May,... |
Eliab Harvey | John Young | ||||
| August 1679 | The Lord Coleraine | Sir Eliab Harvey | ||||
| 1681 | Sir Thomas Mompesson | |||||
| January 1689 | John Young | Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt , born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.... |
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| March 1689 | William Harvey | John Hawles John Hawles -Life:The second son of Thomas Hawles of Moanton in Wiltshire, by Elizabeth Antrobus of Hampshire, was born in the Close at Salisbury. His father, whose name is sometimes spelled Hollis, belonged to the family of Hawles of Upwimborne, Dorset... |
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| 1690 | Sir Thomas Mompesson | |||||
| 1695 | Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt , born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.... |
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| 1698 | Charles Mompesson | |||||
| 1705 | Robert Pitt Robert Pitt Robert Pitt was a British politician who sat as Member of Parliament for Old Sarum from 1705, a pocket borough controlled by his family. He was the eldest son of Governor Thomas 'Diamond' Pitt, a businessman who had made a fortune while in India. Governor Pitt built the family's wealth on his... |
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| 1708 | William Harvey | |||||
| 1710 | Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt , born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.... |
William Harvey | ||||
| 1713 | Robert Pitt Robert Pitt Robert Pitt was a British politician who sat as Member of Parliament for Old Sarum from 1705, a pocket borough controlled by his family. He was the eldest son of Governor Thomas 'Diamond' Pitt, a businessman who had made a fortune while in India. Governor Pitt built the family's wealth on his... |
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| 1716 | Sir William Strickland, Bt Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet of Boynton, Yorkshire was an English landowner and racehorse owner who also served for many years as a Member of Parliament .... |
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... |
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| March 1722 | Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt , born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.... |
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| November 1722 | George Morton Pitt George Morton Pitt George Morton Pitt was a British politician and administrator who served as the President of Fort St George from 1730 to 1735.... |
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| 1724 | John Pitt | |||||
| 1726 | George Pitt | |||||
| 1727 | Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc was the Lord Warden of the Stannaries until 1751, when the Cornish Stannary Parliament last met. He was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt, and the son of Robert Pitt and elder brother of William Pitt the Elder... |
The Earl of Londonderry Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry Thomas Innes Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry was a British politician. He served as Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1728 to 1729.... |
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| March 1728 | Matthew St Quintin | |||||
| May 1728 | Thomas Harrison | |||||
| 1734 | Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc was the Lord Warden of the Stannaries until 1751, when the Cornish Stannary Parliament last met. He was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt, and the son of Robert Pitt and elder brother of William Pitt the Elder... |
Robert Nedham | ||||
| 1735 | William Pitt William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years' War... |
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| 1741 | George Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC , known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.-Background and education:... |
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| 1742 | James Grenville James Grenville James Grenville was a British politician.He was born at Wotton in 1715 into the influential Grenville political family and was one of five brothers who went into politics... |
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| May 1747 | Edward Willes Edward Willes (judge) Edward Willes was an English-born judge who became Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.- Family :He was the son of Edward Willes and was born on the family estate at Newbold Comyn, near Leamington. He married Mary Denny of Norfolk and had three children... |
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| July 1747 | Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc was the Lord Warden of the Stannaries until 1751, when the Cornish Stannary Parliament last met. He was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt, and the son of Robert Pitt and elder brother of William Pitt the Elder... |
Sir William Irby, Bt William Irby, 1st Baron Boston William Irby, 1st Baron Boston was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Irby was the son of Sir Edward Irby, 1st Baronet and inherited his father's baronetcy in 1718. On 26 August 1746, he married Albinia Selwyn and they had three children... |
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| December 1747 | Earl of Middlesex Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset PC was a British nobleman, politician, and cricketer. He was styled Lord Buckhurst from 1711 to 1720 and Earl of Middlesex from 1720 to 1765.-Early life:... |
The Viscount Doneraile | ||||
| January 1751 | Paul Jodrell | |||||
| November 1751 | Simon Fanshawe | |||||
| 1754 | Viscount Pulteney William Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney William Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney was a British Whig politician and soldier.He was the only son of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath and his wife Anna Maria Gumley, daughter of John Gumley. Pulteney was educated at Westminster School from 1740 to 1747 and began his Grand Tour in the following... |
Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc was the Lord Warden of the Stannaries until 1751, when the Cornish Stannary Parliament last met. He was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt, and the son of Robert Pitt and elder brother of William Pitt the Elder... |
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| 1755 | Sir William Calvert | |||||
| March 1761 | Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc was the Lord Warden of the Stannaries until 1751, when the Cornish Stannary Parliament last met. He was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt, and the son of Robert Pitt and elder brother of William Pitt the Elder... |
Howell Gwynne | ||||
| December 1761 | Thomas Pitt (the younger) Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford was a British politician and connoisseur of art.-Early life:He was the son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc , a brother of William Pitt the Elder, and was born and baptised at Boconnoc in Cornwall on 3 March 1737. His mother was Christian, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas... |
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| 1768 | William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton William Gerard Hamilton , English statesman and Irish politician, popularly known as "Single Speech Hamilton," was born in London, the son of a Scottish bencher of Lincoln's Inn.... |
John Crauford | ||||
| 1774 | Pinckney Wilkinson | Thomas Pitt (the younger) Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford was a British politician and connoisseur of art.-Early life:He was the son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc , a brother of William Pitt the Elder, and was born and baptised at Boconnoc in Cornwall on 3 March 1737. His mother was Christian, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas... |
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| January 1784 | The Hon. John Villiers John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon PC , styled The Honourable until 1824, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.... |
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| March 1784 | George Hardinge George Hardinge -Life:He was born on 22 June 1743 at Canbury, a manorhouse in Kingston upon Thames. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Hardinge, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Pratt. He was educated by Woodeson, a Kingston schoolmaster, and at Eton College under Edward Barnard.Hardinge... |
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| 1790 | John Sullivan | |||||
| 1796 | The Earl of Mornington Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, KG, PC, PC , styled Viscount Wellesley from birth until 1781, was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator.... |
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| 1797 | Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn | |||||
| 1799 | 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... |
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| 1801 | Rev. John Horne Tooke John Horne Tooke John Horne Tooke was an English politician and philologist.-Early life and work:He was born in Newport Street, Long Acre, Westminster, the third son of John Horne, a poulterer in Newport Market. As a youth at Eton College, Tooke described his father to friends as a "turkey merchant"... |
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| 1802 | Nicholas Vansittart Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley PC, FRS, FSA was an English politician, and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer in British history.-Background and education:... |
Tory | Henry Alexander | Tory | ||
| 1806 | The Lord Blayney Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney Lieutenant General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney was an Irish peer. He ruled the Blayney estate at Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan for fifty years from 1784 to 1834, and was one of the most illustrious soldiers ever to come from Co... |
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| 1807 | Josias du Pre Porcher | Tory | ||||
| 1812 | James Alexander | Tory | ||||
| 1818 | Arthur Johnston Crawford | Tory | ||||
| 1820 | Josias du Pre Alexander Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon KP , styled The Honourable from 1790 to 1800 and then Viscount Alexander to 1802, was an Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator, and was the second child and only son of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon.-Education and Inheritance:He was educated... |
Tory | ||||
| 1828 | Stratford Canning Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe KG GCB PC , was a British diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire... |
Tory | ||||
| 1830 | Josias du Pre Alexander Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon KP , styled The Honourable from 1790 to 1800 and then Viscount Alexander to 1802, was an Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator, and was the second child and only son of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon.-Education and Inheritance:He was educated... |
Tory | ||||
Notes
Elections
The last reported contested election in Old Sarum occurred at a byelection in November 1751, after the death of Paul Jodrell. The proprietor at the time, Thomas Pitt, had sold the privilege of choosing the Members to the Pelham Government for £2,000 and a pension of £1,000 a year, but the administration's choice of Simon Fanshawe was opposed by James Pitt (younger brother of George PittGeorge Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers
George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers was a British diplomat and politician.-Background and education:He born in Geneva, the eldest son of George Pitt of Stratfieldsaye, Hampshire and his wife Mary Louise Bernier from Strasbourg. General Sir William Augustus Pitt was his younger brother...
, Member for Dorset) and by John Thorold. The number of votes for each candidate was not recorded.