Rye (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Rye constituency |
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| Created: | 1366, 1955 |
| Abolished: | 1950, 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Rye was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832.
From the 1832 general election, Rye returned one Member of Parliament until its abolition for the 1950 general election.
The constituency was re-established for the 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1366–1640
- 1571: Thomas Fanshawe
- 1597: Sampson Lennard
- 1604–1611: John Young
- 1604–1611: Heneage Finch
- 1621–1622: Emmanuel Gifford
- 1621–1622: John Angell
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[edit] 1640–1832
[edit] 1832–1950
[edit] 1955–1983
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1955 | Bryant Godman Irvine | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Hastings and Rye | ||
Notes
- ^ Expelled 1641 for being a tobacco monopolist
- ^ Styled Lord Hawkesbury from 1796
- ^ Arbuthnot was also elected for St Germans, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Rye
- ^ Pusey was originally declared elected, but by an order of the House of Commons on 17 May 1830 his name was erased from the return and that of De Lacy Evans was substituted
[edit] References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- 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) [2]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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