Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)

Arundel
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County Sussex
Major settlements Arundel
1974 (1974)–1997
Number of members One
Replaced by Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
Created from Arundel & Shoreham
1332–1868
Number of members 1332–1832: Two
1832–1868: One
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Replaced by West Sussex

Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town centre of Arundel and was a borough constituency in Sussex first enfranchised in 1332 and disfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.

The second incarnation of the seat comprised also the area surrounding Arundel, including Littlehampton. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, and existed until 1997. This Arundel seat elected only one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Arundel borough (1332-1868)

1332-1640

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ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1386William ColynRichard Wodeland[1]
1388 (Feb)Roger ClerkJohn Hereward[1]
1388 (Sep)Robert FisherNicholas Hereward[1]
1390 (Jan)William ColcheterRobert Fisher[1]
1390 (Nov)
1391Hugh HasellRichard Wodeland[1]
1393John ChamberlainRobert Fisher[1]
1394
1395Richard WodelandRobert Fisher[1]
1397 (Jan)Henry SkimmerRichard Wodeland[1]
1397 (Sep)John PatchingRichard Wodeland[1]
1399John EsshingWilliam Terry[1]
1401William TerryJohn Wiltshire[1]
1402John DusseJohn Wyldebess[1]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406John PatchingThomas Spicer[1]
1407John DusseJohn Patching[1]
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)John DusseJohn Wiltshire[1]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)John DusseJohn Patching[1]
1415
1416 (Mar)William ChapmanRichard Smith[1]
1416 (Oct)
1417Thomas DusseRichard Smith[1]
1419John HillyThomas Kyng[1]
1420Thomas DusseThomas Pursell[1]
1421 (May)John HillyAlan Chamber[1]
1421 (Dec)Thomas PursellThomas Dusse[1]
1449Thomas Bellingham
1510-1523No names known[2]
1529Richard SackvilleThomas Prestall[1]
1536?
1539?
1542?
1545?
1547Sir Nicholas PelhamThomas Carpenter[2]
1553 (Mar)Thomas PalmerThomas Morley[2]
1553 (Oct)Sir Thomas PalmerThomas Gawdy[2]
1554 (Apr)Sir Thomas HolcroftSir Thomas Stradling[2]
1554 (Nov)John BurnetRichard Bowyer[2]
1555Sir Henry PagetSir William Damsell[2][3]
1558Edward StradlingDavid Stradling[2]
1559Sir Francis KnollysThomas Heneage[4]
1562/3Sir John St LegerWilliam Aubrey[4]
1571Thomas BrowneMichael Heneage[4]
1572Thomas FanshaweRichard Browne[4]
1584Thomas FanshaweRobert Buxton[4]
1586Thomas FanshaweThomas Palmer[4]
1588Sir Owen HoptonThomas Fanshawe[4]
1593Thomas FanshaweRichard Baker[4]
1597William EssexJames Smith[4]
1601Thomas PalmerThomas Baker[4]
1604-1611Thomas PrestonJohn Tye
1614Sir Henry SpillerEdward Morley
1621Lionel Cranfield, ennobled Sep 1622
and repl. Nov 1622 by Sir Richard Weston		Sir Henry Spiller
1624Sir Henry SpillerSir George Chaworth
replaced 1624 on petition by William Mill
1625Sir Henry SpillerWilliam Mill
1626Nicholas JordainWilliam Mill
1628John AlfordHenry Lord Maltravers
1629–1640No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

YearFirst member[5]First partySecond member[5]Second party
April 1640Henry GartonParliamentarian Henry Goring
November 1640 Henry GartonParliamentarian Sir Edward AlfordRoyalist
1641 John Downes[6]Parliamentarian
January 1644 Alford disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 Herbert Hay
December 1648 Hay excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Arundel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Anthony Shirley Arundel had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Sir John Trevor
January 1659 Henry Onslow Richard Marriot
May 1659 John Downes One seat vacant
April 1660 The Earl of Orrery The Viscount Falkland
May 1660John Trevor
1661The Lord Aungier of Longford
1679 William Garway James Butler
1685William Westbrooke
1689William Morley
1690James Butler
January 1694Lord Walden
February 1694John Cooke
1695Lord Walden Edmund Dummer
1698John Cooke Christopher Knight
January 1701Edmund Dummer
November 1701Carew Weekes
1702Edmund Dummer
1705James Butler
May 1708Sir Henry Peachey, Bt The Viscount Shannon
December 1708Viscount Lumley
1710The Earl of Thomond Viscount LumleyWhig
1715General Henry Lumley Thomas Micklethwaite
1718Joseph Micklethwaite
1722Thomas Lumley
1727Sir John Shelley, Bt The Viscount Gage
1728John Lumley
1739Garton Orme
1741James Lumley
1747Theobald Taafe
1754Sir George Colebrooke, Bt Thomas Griffin
1761John Bristow
1768Lauchlin Macleane
1771John Stewart
1774Thomas Brand George Newnham
1780Sir Patrick Crauford Thomas Fitzherbert
1781Peter William Baker
April 1784Earl of Surrey
June 1784Richard Beckford
1790Sir George Thomas, Bt Henry HowardWhig
1795Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt
1796James Greene
1797Nisbet Balfour
1802Viscount Andover John Atkins
1806Sir Arthur Piggott Francis Wilder
January 1807The Lord Lecale
May 1807Francis Wilder
October 1812Henry Molyneux-HowardWhig
December 1812Sir Samuel RomillyWhig
1818Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-HowardWhig Sir Arthur Piggott
1819Robert Blake
1820Viscount Bury
1823Thomas Read Kemp
1826Edward Lombe John Atkins
1830Lord Dudley StuartWhig
1832 Representation reduced to one member

1832-1868

YearMember[5]Party
1832Lord Dudley StuartWhig
1837Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of ArundelWhig
1851Edward StruttWhig[7][8][9][10]
1852Lord Edward Fitzalan-HowardWhig[11]
1859Liberal
1868 Constituency abolished

Arundel County Constituency (1974-1997)

ElectionMember[5]Party
Feb 1974Sir Michael MarshallConservative
1997 constituency abolished: see Arundel and South Downs &
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

Elections

Elections in the 1850s

FitzAlan-Howard's resignation in protest at the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 caused a by-election.[12]

By-election, 16 July 1851: Arundel[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Whig Edward Strutt Unopposed
Whig hold
General Election 1852: Arundel[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Whig Edward Fitzalan-Howard Unopposed
Registered electors 208
Whig hold
General Election 1857: Arundel[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Whig Edward Fitzalan-Howard Unopposed
Registered electors 199
Whig hold
General Election 1859: Arundel[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Edward Fitzalan-Howard Unopposed
Registered electors 196
Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1865: Arundel[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Edward Fitzalan-Howard Unopposed
Registered electors 174
Liberal hold

Elections in the 1970s

General Election February 1974: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Marshall 37,655 57.1 N/A
Liberal John Rex Kingsbury 17,712 26.9 N/A
Labour Ben Pimlott 10,597 16.1 N/A
Majority 19,943 30.2 N/A
Turnout 65,964 79.6 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)
General Election October 1974: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Marshall 34,215 56.2 −0.9
Liberal John Rex Kingsbury 15,404 25.3 −1.6
Labour Michael Ewart Stedman 11,268 18.5 +2.4
Majority 18,811 30.9
Turnout 60,887 73.0 −6.6
Conservative hold Swing +0.4
General Election 1979: Arundel
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Marshall 43,968 65.0 +8.8
Liberal John Rex Kingsbury 13,208 19.5 −5.8
Labour John Nigel Tizard 10,509 15.5 −3.0
Majority 30,760 35.5
Turnout 67,685 73.9 +0.9
Conservative hold Swing +7.3

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Arundel[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Marshall 31,096 59.6 −5.4
Liberal James Walsh 15,391 29.5 +10.0
Labour Gareth Rees 4,302 8.2 −7.3
Conservative for Corporal Punishment John Wadman 1,399 2.7 N/A
Majority 15,705 30.1
Turnout 52,188 69.7 −4.2
Conservative hold Swing −7.7
General Election 1987: Arundel[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Marshall 34,356 61.3 +1.7
Liberal James Walsh 15,476 27.6 −1.9
Labour Peter Slowe 6,177 11.0 +2.8
Majority 18,880 33.7
Turnout 56,009 71.2 +1.5
Conservative hold Swing +1.8

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Arundel[16][17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Robert Marshall 35,405 58.0 −3.4
Liberal Democrat James Walsh 15,542 25.5 −2.2
Labour Roger Nash 8,321 13.6 +2.6
Liberal Denise Renson 1,103 1.8 −25.8
Green Robert Corbin 693 1.1 N/A
Majority 19,863 32.5 −1.2
Turnout 61,064 77.0 +5.8
Conservative hold Swing −0.6

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  3. ↑ Stanley T. Bindoff, The House of Commons|| 1509-1558, vol. 4, p. 9.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
  6. ↑ Downes was elected after a disputed return at the by-election which followed the death of Garton
  7. ↑ Pickard, Willis (Winter 2010–11). "The 'Member for Scotland': Duncan McLaren and the Liberal Dominance of Victorian Scotland" (PDF). Journal of Liberal History. 69: 22. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  8. ↑ Walker, Martyn (2017). The Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond: Supporting further education for the adult working classes. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781315685021. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  9. ↑ Howe, Anthony, ed. (2007). The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume 1, 1815-1847. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 423. ISBN 9780199211951. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Wednesday & Thursday's Posts". Stamford Mercury. 11 April 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  11. ↑ "Horsham Election". Brighton Gazette. 29 June 1848. p. 5. Retrieved 7 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  12. ↑ "Oxford DNB article: Howard, Henry Granville Fitzalan- (subscription needed)". Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)|format= requires |url= (help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  15. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

Sources

  • Election results, 1974 - 1997
  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham)
  • 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)
  • Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
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