Plympton Erle (UK Parliament constituency)

Plympton
Plympton
Plympton, or Plympton Maurice or Plympton St Maurice or Plympton St Mary or Plympton Erle, in south-western Devon, England is an ancient stannary town: an important trading centre in the past for locally mined tin, and a former seaport...

Erle, also spelt Plympton Earle, was a parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

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in Devon

Devon

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. It elected two Members of Parliament

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(MPs) to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

1295-1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	John Golde	Richard Golde
1388 (Feb)	Ellis Beare	John Boys
1388 (Sep)	Peter Hadley	John Brendon
1390 (Jan)	John Selman I	John Lane
1390 (Nov)
1391	John Selman I	John Jaycock
1393	Thomas Branscombe	John Jaycock
1394	John Selman I	John Jaycock
1395	Thomas Norris II	John Jaycock
1397 (Jan)	Thomas Norris II	William Selman I
1397 (Sep)
1399
1401
1402	Thomas Topcliffe	... More
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	John Selman I	Thomas Prous
1407	William Isabel	Richard Hurston
1410
1411	John Selman I	John Jaybien
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Thomas Barry	Roger Wyke
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	John Selman II	John Serle I
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417
1419
1420	William Selman II	John Selman II
1421 (May)	William Selman II	John Selman II
1421 (Dec)	William Selman II	John Selman II
1467	William Fitzwilliam William Fitzwilliam William FitzWilliam may refer to:William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton , English courtierWilliam FitzWilliam , Lord Deputy of Ireland...
1510-1523	No names known
1512	Richard Strode I	?
1515	?
1523	?
1529	Thomas Gregory	John Martin alias Honychurch I
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	Edmund Sture	Adam Ralegh
1547	Thomas Dynham	Edward Darrell
1553 (Mar)	Sir John Pollard	Richard Strode II
1553 (Oct)	?John Foster	Reginald Mohum
1554 (Apr)	John Sparke	John Martin alias Honychurch II
1554 (Nov)	Richard Calmady	William Strowbridge
1555	Sir William Courtenay	Sir Arthur Champernowne Arthur Champernowne Sir Arthur Champernowne was a Vice-Admiral of the West who lived at Dartington Hall in Devon, England.-Biography:Champernowne was the second son of Sir Philip Champernowne of Modbury, Devon, whose family had lived in Devon since arriving from Cambernon in Normandy in the eleventh century as part...
1558	Thomas Southcote	?Christopher Perne
1558/9	Sir Gawain Carew	Richard Strode
1562/3	Nicholas Ogle	Thomas Percy, died and replaced 1566 by Edmund Wiseman
1571	Robert Guynes	Roger Hill
1572	Peter Osborne	William Strode
1584	John Hele	Hannibal Vyvyan Hannibal Vyvyan Hannibal Vyvyan , of Trelowarren in Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament ; his surname is sometimes spelt Vivian. The eldest son of John Vyvyan , also an MP, and head of one of Cornwall's leading families, he represented Plympton Erle in the Parliament of 1585, Helston in 1586-7 and 1601,...
1586	Richard More	Jasper Cholmley
1588	Richard Grafton II	Edwin Sandys Edwin Sandys (American colonist) Sir Edwin Sandys was an English politician, a leading figure in the parliaments of James I of England. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of...
1593	Edwin Sandys]]	Richard Southcote
1597	eorge Southcote	Edward Hancock
1601	Sir William Strode William Strode (died 1637) Sir William Strode was an English landowner, military engineer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1626....	John Hele John Hele (died 1605) John Hele was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1605.Hele was the second son of John Hele who was a money-lender and MP. He was a student of Exeter College, Oxford in 1588 and of Inner Temple in 1590. He was a J.P for Devon from 1592. In 1601, he was elected...
1604	Sir William Strode William Strode (died 1637) Sir William Strode was an English landowner, military engineer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1626....	Sir Henry Beaumont, replaced by John Hele John Hele (died 1605) John Hele was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1605.Hele was the second son of John Hele who was a money-lender and MP. He was a student of Exeter College, Oxford in 1588 and of Inner Temple in 1590. He was a J.P for Devon from 1592. In 1601, he was elected...
1614	Sampson Hele Sampson Hele Sampson Hele was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1624.Hele was the son of Walter Hele of Lewston, Devon. He matriculated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford on 6 May 1597, aged 15. He was of Gnaton and of Halwell, Devon. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for...	Sir Warwick Hele Warwick Hele Sir Warwick Hele was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1625....
1621–1622	Sir William Strode William Strode (died 1637) Sir William Strode was an English landowner, military engineer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1626....	Sir Warwick Hele Warwick Hele Sir Warwick Hele was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1625....
1624	Sir Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1625 and 1629....	John Garret
1625	Sir William Strode William Strode (died 1637) Sir William Strode was an English landowner, military engineer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1626....	Sir Warwick Hele Warwick Hele Sir Warwick Hele was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1625....
1626	Sir William Strode William Strode (died 1637) Sir William Strode was an English landowner, military engineer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1597 and 1626....	Sir Thomas Hele Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Hele. 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1626 and 1670...
1628-1629	Thomas Hele Bt Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Hele. 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1626 and 1670...	Sir James Bragge
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640 Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640 during the reign of King Charles I of England, so called because it lasted only three weeks....		Sir Thomas Hele Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Hele. 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1626 and 1670...			Sir Richard Strode Richard Strode (died 1669) Sir Richard Strode was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1604 and 1640.... Sir Nicholas Slanning Nicholas Slanning Sir Nicholas Slanning was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He was a Royalist army officer active in the West of England, during the English Civil War.-Background:... (Double return)
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...		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....	Parliamentarian		Sir Nicholas Slanning Nicholas Slanning Sir Nicholas Slanning was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He was a Royalist army officer active in the West of England, during the English Civil War.-Background:...	Royalist
1640 (?)		Sir Thomas Hele Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Hele. 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1626 and 1670...	Royalist		Hugh Potter Hugh Potter Hugh Potter was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1662....	Parliamentarian
January 1644	Hele disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1646		Christopher Martyn Christopher Martyn Christopher Martyn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War...
December 1648				Potter 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... - seat vacant
1653	Plympton Erle 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
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...		Christopher Martyn Christopher Martyn Christopher Martyn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War...			Captain Henry Hatsell
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....	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....
April 1660		Christopher Martyn Christopher Martyn Christopher Martyn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War...			Sir William Strode William Strode (died 1676) Sir William Strode was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1676.Strode was the eldest son of Sir Richard Strode of Newnham and Chalmington, Dorset and his second wife Elizabeth Erle, daughter of Thomas Erle of Charborough, Dorset. He was baptised on...
1661		Thomas Hele
1666		Sir Edmund Fortescue
1667		Sir Nicholas Slanning
1677		Sir Nicholas Slanning			Sir George Treby George Treby (judge) Sir George Treby JP was a British justice and politician.-Early life and education:He was the oldest son of Peter Treby, a barrister at the Court of Common Pleas and his wife Joan. He was educated at Plympton School, and was accepted into Exeter College, Oxford in June 1660...
February 1679		Richard Hillersdon
August 1679		John Pollexfen
1685		Richard Strode			Sir Christopher Wren Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...
1689		Sir George Treby George Treby (judge) Sir George Treby JP was a British justice and politician.-Early life and education:He was the oldest son of Peter Treby, a barrister at the Court of Common Pleas and his wife Joan. He was educated at Plympton School, and was accepted into Exeter College, Oxford in June 1660...			John Pollexfen
March 1690		Richard Strode			George Parker
April 1690		Sir George Treby George Treby (judge) Sir George Treby JP was a British justice and politician.-Early life and education:He was the oldest son of Peter Treby, a barrister at the Court of Common Pleas and his wife Joan. He was educated at Plympton School, and was accepted into Exeter College, Oxford in June 1660...			John Pollexfen
1692		Sir Thomas Trevor Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General and in 1695 became Attorney-General....			John Pollexfen
1695					Courtenay Croker
1698		Martin Ryder
1701		Richard Hele
1702		Richard Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, PC was an English politician.He was the son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe and Lady Anne Montagu, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich...	Whig		Thomas Jervoise
1703					Richard Hele
1705					Sir John Cope
1708					George Treby
1728					John Fuller
1734					Thomas Clutterbuck
1735		Thomas Walker
1741		Richard Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, PC was an English politician.He was the son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe and Lady Anne Montagu, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich...	Whig
May 1742		The Lord Sundon William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon was a British politician who served in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1716-1722, St Albans from 1722-1727, Westminster from 1727-1741, Plympton Erle from 1742-1747 and St Mawes from 1747-1752.Clayton was raised to the Peerage of...
December 1742					Hon. Richard Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe PC was a British nobleman and politician.The eldest surviving son of Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe and his wife Matilda Furnese, he was educated at Eton from 1725 to 1732...
July 1747		Hon. George Edgcumbe George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Admiral George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, PC was a British peer, naval officer and politician....
December 1747		(Sir) William Baker Sir William Baker Sir William Baker was an English businessman and politician.-References:*...			George Treby George Treby (younger) George Treby was a British politician from Devonshire.The eldest son of the politician George Treby, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1746, he went on the Grand Tour and visited Florence, Rome, and Naples...
1761					George Hele Treby George Hele Treby Lieutenant-Colonel George Hele Treby was a British soldier and politician from Devonshire.The younger son of the politician George Treby, he was commissioned into the British Army...
1763					Paul Henry Ourry
1768		William Baker William Baker (1743–1824) William Baker was a British politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Aldborough 4 March 1777 – 8 September 1780, Hertford 7 September 1780 – 30 March 1784, Hertfordshire 23 June 1790 – 10 July 1802 and 11 February 1805 – 11 May 1807 and Plympton Erle 22 March 1768 – 10 October 1774.He died...
1774		Sir Richard Philipps, Bt Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first creation) Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford , known as Sir Richard Philipps, Bt, from 1764 to 1776, was a Welsh landowner and Tory politician.-Background and education:...
1775					John Durand
1779		William Fullarton William Fullarton William Fullarton was a Scottish colonial administrator and Member of Parliament.-Early life:He was only son of William Fullarton of Fullarton, a wealthy Ayrshire gentleman. After spending some time at the Edinburgh University he was sent to travel on the continent with Patrick Brydone, at one...			John Durand
September 1780		Viscount Cranborne James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , styled Viscount Cranborne until 1780 and known as 7th Earl of Salisbury between 1780 and 1789, was a British politician.-Background:...			Sir Ralph Payne Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington KB PC was a British politician and Governor of the Leeward Islands.-Early life and education:...
November 1780		Hon. James Stuart
April 1784		Paul Treby Ourry			John Stephenson John Stephenson (MP) John Stephenson was a British merchant from Brentford, Middlesex, and a Member of Parliament for various western boroughs from 1754 to 1755 and 1761 until his death in 1794....
August 1784		John Pardoe
1790		The Earl of Carhampton	Tory Tory Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...		Philip Metcalfe Philip Metcalfe Philip Metcalfe was a distiller in London, UK and member of Parliament from Horsham from 1784. He representedPlympton Erle, Devon from 1790 to 1796 and Malmesbury Wiltshire from 1796....
1794		William Manning
1796		William Adams			William Mitchell
1799		William Adams			Richard Hankey
1801		Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie PC, KC, FRS, FSA was a British lawyer, politician and diarist. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1793 and 1794.-Background, education and legal career:...			Richard Hankey
1802		Edward Golding			Philip Metcalfe Philip Metcalfe Philip Metcalfe was a distiller in London, UK and member of Parliament from Horsham from 1784. He representedPlympton Erle, Devon from 1790 to 1796 and Malmesbury Wiltshire from 1796....
1806		Viscount Castlereagh			Sir Stephen Lushington Sir Stephen Lushington, 1st Baronet Sir Stephen Lushington, 1st Baronet , of South Hill Park in Easthampstead, Berkshire, was an English Member of Parliament and Chairman of the East India Company....
1807					Hon. William Assheton Harbord
1810					Henry Drummond Henry Drummond (1786-1860) Henry Drummond , English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church, was born at The Grange, near Northington, Hampshire....
October 1812		Ranald George Macdonald Ranald George Macdonald Ranald George Macdonald was a Scottish clan chief and Member of Parliament.He was the 19th Chief of Clan Macdonald of Clanranald. He married Caroline Anne, daughter of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, on 13 February 1812 and had issue.He was elected to Parliament for Plympton Erle on...			George Duckett
December 1812					William Douglas William Douglas (d. 1821) William Douglas of Almorness was an advocate and a British Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.Probably born in New York in about 1784, he was the son of James Douglas of Orchardton and Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of William Douglas of Worcester. He was educated at Edinburgh High School...
1816					Alexander Boswell Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet was a Scottish poet, antiquary and song writer. The son of Samuel Johnson's friend and biographer James Boswell of Auchinleck, he used the funds from his inheritance to pay for a seat in Parliament and then successfully sought a Baronetcy for his political...	Tory
1821					William Gill Paxton	Independent
1824		John Henry North	Tory		William Gill Paxton	Independent
June 1826		George Edgcumbe	Tory		Gibbs Crawfurd Antrobus	Tory
December 1826		Sir Charles Wetherell Charles Wetherell Sir Charles Wetherell , was an English lawyer, politician and judge.Wetherell was born in Oxford, the third son of Reverend Nathan Wetherell, of Durham, Master of the University College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford...	Tory
August 1830		Viscount Valletort Ernest Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , styled Viscount Valletort between 1818 and 1837, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...	Tory
December 1830		Sir Compton Domvile	Tory
1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 -Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....	Constituency abolished

Notes

Elections

Elections in Plympton Erle were normally uncontested. The only contest between the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 and the abolition of the borough in 1832 was at the general election of 1802

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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