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Petersfield was an English Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire. It existed for several hundred years until its abolition for the 1983 general election.
Until 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Thereater, its representation was reduced to one member until its abolition in 1983.
Members of Parliament
MPs for Petersfield borough (1547-1885)
1547-1660
- 1586-1587: Edward Radclyffe
- 1588-1589: Benjamin Tichborne
- 1621-1622: Richard Norton
- 1640-1648: Sir William Lewis
- 1659: Josias Child
- 1659: Sir Henry Norton
1660-1832
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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April 1660 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Cole [1] | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Arthur Bold | ||
1661 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Humphrey Bennet | ||||
1668 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Neale | ||||
1677 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Leonard Bilson | ||||
1679 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Norton | ||||
1685 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Bilson | ||||
1689 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Michell | ||||
1690 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Holt | ||||
1698 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Peter Bettesworth | ||||
January 1701 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Ralph Bucknall | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Markes | ||
November 1701 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Michell | ||||
1704 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Leonard Bilson | ||||
1705 | rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Norton Powlett | ||||
1715 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Samuel Pargiter-Fuller | ||||
1722 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edmund Miller | ||||
January 1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Joseph Taylor [2] | ||||
May 1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edmund Miller | ||||
August 1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Joseph Taylor | ||||
1734 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Jolliffe | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Gibbon | ||
1741 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Jolliffe | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Francis Fane | ||
1747 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Conolly | ||||
February 1754 | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Gerard Hamilton | ||||
April 1754 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Beckford [3] | ||||
December 1754 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Philipps | ||||
1761 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Jolliffe | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Pennant | ||
1767 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Croftes | ||||
1768 | rowspan="10" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Jolliffe | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Welbore Ellis | ||
1774 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Abraham Hume | ||||
1780 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Samuel Jolliffe | ||||
1787 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | The Viscount Downe | ||||
June 1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. George Augustus North | ||||
December 1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Marquess of Titchfield | ||||
1791 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Welbore Ellis | ||||
1795 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Charles Greville | ||||
1796 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hylton Jolliffe | ||||
1797 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Sinclair | ||||
March 1802 | rowspan="10" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hylton Jolliffe | ||||
July 1802 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Draper Best | ||||
1806 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. John Ward | ||||
1807 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Booth Grey | ||||
October 1812 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Canning | ||||
December 1812 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Canning, junior | ||||
March 1820 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | The Lord Hotham [4] | ||||
June 1820 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Philip Musgrave | ||||
1825 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Law Lushington | ||||
1826 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Marshall | ||||
1830 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Jolliffe, Bt | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Gilbert East Jolliffe | ||
1832 | Representation reduced to one member |
1832-1885
Year | Member | Party | |
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1832 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Shaw-Lefevre | |
1833 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Jolliffe, Bt | |
1835 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Cornthwaite Hector | |
1837 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Jolliffe | |
1838 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Cornthwaite Hector | |
1841 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir William Jolliffe | |
1866 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Nicholson | |
1874 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe | |
1880 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Nicholson | |
1885 | Borough abolished - name transferred to county division |
MPs for Petersfield county constituency (1885-1983)
Year | Member | Party | |
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1885 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Viscount Wolmer | Liberal |
1886 | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist/meta/color" | | Liberal Unionist | |
1892 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Wickham | |
1897 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Graham Nicholson | Conservative |
1935 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith | Conservative |
1941 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir George Jeffreys | Conservative |
1951 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Peter Legh | Conservative |
1960 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Joan Quennell | Conservative |
1974 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Michael Mates | Conservative |
1983 | Constituency abolished |
Notes
- ^ Cole was also elected for Winchester, but appears never to have chosen which constituency he would sit for so as to allow a replacement to be elected for the other
- ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Taylor's election was declared void and his opponent, Miller, was declared to have been duly elected
- ^ Beckford was also elected for the City of London, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Petersfield
- ^ Hotham was also elected for Leominster, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Petersfield
Election results
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
- Robert Beatson, (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament Google Books