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List of MPs elected in the 1761 British general election

10th Parliament (1747)
11th Parliament (1754)
12th Parliament (1761)
13th Parliament (1768)
14th Parliament (1774)

This is: a list of the 558 MPs. Or members of Parliament electedβ€”β€”to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1761, "the 12th Parliament of Great Britain." And their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, "arranged by," constituency.


Table of contents:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections Changes

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Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) David Scott – died
Replaced by Sir John Lindsay 1767
Administration
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Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) Lord Adam Gordon Administration
Abingdon (seat 1/1) John Morton Tory
Aldborough (seat 1/2) Nathaniel Cholmley Administration
Aldborough (seat 2/2) Andrew Wilkinson – took office
Replaced by Viscount Villiers 1765
Administration
Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) Philip Fonnereau
Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) Zachary Philip Fonnereau Administration
Amersham (seat 1/2) Benet Garrard – died
Replaced by John Affleck 1767
Amersham (seat 2/2) William Drake, Sr Tory
Andover (seat 1/2) Francis Blake Delaval Opposition Whig
Andover (seat 2/2) John Griffin Whitwell Administration
Anglesey (seat 1/1) Owen Meyrick Whig
Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir Henry Erskine, Bt – died
Replaced by Sir John Anstruther 1766
Administration
Appleby (seat 1/2) John Stanwix – died
Replaced by Charles Jenkinson 1767
Appleby (seat 2/2) Philip Honywood Administration
Argyllshire (seat 1/1) Dugald Campbell – took office
Replaced by Lord William Campbell 1764 – took office
Replaced by Robert Campbell 1766
Arundel (seat 1/2) George Colebrooke Opposition Whig
Arundel (seat 2/2) John Bristow
Ashburton (seat 1/2) John Harris of Hayne – died
Replaced by Robert Palk 1767
Ashburton (seat 2/2) Hon. Thomas Walpole
Aylesbury (seat 1/2) John Wilkes – expelled
Replaced by Anthony Bacon 1764
Aylesbury (seat 2/2) Welbore Ellis
Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) Lord Frederick Campbell – sat for Glasgow Burghs
Replaced by Alexander Wedderburn 1761
Ayrshire (seat 1/1) Archibald Montgomerie Whig

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Banbury (seat 1/1) Lord North Administration
Banffshire (seat 1/1) Hon. James Duff Whig (doubtful)
Barnstaple (seat 1/2) Denys Rolle
Barnstaple (seat 2/2) Sir George Amyand – died
Replaced by John Clevland 1766
Whig
Whig
Bath (seat 1/2) Sir John Ligonier – resigned
Replaced by Sir John Sebright 1763
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Bath (seat 2/2) William Pitt – ennobled
Replaced by John Smith 1766
Beaumaris (seat 1/1) Richard Thelwall Price Tory
Bedford (seat 1/2) Francis Herne
Bedford (seat 2/2) Richard Vernon Whig
Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) Marquess of Tavistock – died
Replaced by The 1st Earl of Upper Ossory 1767
Whig
Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) Robert Henley-Ongley Tory
Bedwyn see Great Bedwyn ...
Bere Alston (seat 1/2) Sir Francis Henry Drake Administration
Bere Alston (seat 2/2) Hon. George Hobart
Berkshire (seat 1/2) Arthur Vansittart
Berkshire (seat 2/2) Henry Pye – died
Replaced by Thomas Craven 1766
Tory
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Berwickshire (seat 1/1) James Pringle
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) Thomas Watson – resigned
Replaced by Wilmot Vaughan 1765
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) John Craufurd – died
Replaced by John Delaval 1765
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Opposition Whig
Beverley (seat 1/2) Michael Newton
Beverley (seat 2/2) George Tufnell
Bewdley (seat 1/1) Sir Edward Winnington
Bishops Castle (seat 1/2) Francis Child – died
Replaced by George Clive 1763
Bishops Castle (seat 2/2) Peregrine Cust
Bletchingley (seat 1/2) Sir Kenrick Clayton, Bt Administration
Bletchingley (seat 2/2) (Sir) Charles Whitworth
Bodmin (seat 1/2) John Parker – resignedβ€”β€”to contest Devon
Replaced by Sir Christopher Treise 1762
Bodmin (seat 2/2) George Hunt Administration
Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) Sir Cecil Bishopp
Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) Brice Fisher – died
Replaced by James West 1767
Bossiney (seat 1/2) John Richmond Webb – died
Replaced by Lord Mount Stuart 1766
Bossiney (seat 2/2) Edward Wortley Montagu Opposition Whig
Boston (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Bertie Administration
Boston (seat 2/2) John Michell – died
Replaced by Charles Amcotts 1766
Tory
Brackley (seat 1/2) Marshe Dickinson – died
Replaced by Viscount Hinchingbrooke 1765
Tory
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Brackley (seat 2/2) Robert Wood
Bramber (seat 1/2) Andrew Archer – sat for Coventry
Replaced by The Lord Winterton 1761
Bramber (seat 2/2) William Fitzherbert – resigned to contest Derby
Replaced by George Venables Vernon 1762
Brecon (seat 1/1) Thomas Morgan, Jr – resigned to contest Monmouthshire
Replaced by Charles Morgan 1763
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Breconshire (seat 1/1) Thomas Morgan Administration
Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) John Grey Administration
Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) William Whitmore Administration
Bridgwater (seat 1/2) The 2nd Earl of Egmont – ennobled
Replaced by Viscount Perceval 1762
Bridgwater (seat 2/2) Edward Southwell – resigned to contest Gloucestershire
Replaced by The Lord Coleraine 1763
Administration
Bridport (seat 1/2) Sir Gerard Napier – died
Replaced by Benjamin Way 1765
Tory
Bridport (seat 2/2) Thomas Coventry Administration
Bristol (seat 1/2) Robert Nugent Administration
Bristol (seat 2/2) Jarrit Smith
Buckingham (seat 1/2) James Grenville Administration
Buckingham (seat 2/2) George Grenville Administration
Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) Sir William Stanhope
Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) Richard Lowndes Tory
Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Fitzroy
Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) Augustus John Hervey – resigned
Replaced by William Hervey 1763
Buteshire (seat 1/1) James Stuart – died
Replaced by Henry Wauchope 1762
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Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir John Wynn, Bt
Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet
Caithness (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Bute-shire. No representation in 1761
Callington (seat 1/2) Richard Stevens
Callington (seat 2/2) Fane William Sharpe
Calne (seat 1/2) Thomas Duckett – died
Replaced by John Calcraft 1766
Tory
Calne (seat 2/2) Daniel Bull – took office
Replaced by Thomas FitzMaurice 1762
Cambridge (seat 1/2) Soame Jenyns
Cambridge (seat 2/2) Charles Sloane Cadogan
Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) Marquess of Granby
Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) Viscount Royston
Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt 1764
Administration
Cambridge University (seat 1/2) Edward Finch
Cambridge University (seat 2/2) Thomas Townshend
Camelford (seat 1/2) Samuel Martin
Camelford (seat 2/2) Bartholomew Burton
Canterbury (seat 1/2) Richard Milles
Canterbury (seat 2/2) Thomas Best
Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) Herbert Mackworth, Sr – died
Replaced by Herbert Mackworth 1766
Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet
Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) John Pugh Pryse
Carlisle (seat 1/2) Raby Vane
Carlisle (seat 2/2) Henry Curwen
Carmarthen (seat 1/1) The Earl Verney
Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) George Rice
Castle Rising (seat 1/2) Charles Boone
Castle Rising (seat 2/2) Hon. Thomas Howard
Cheshire (seat 1/2) Thomas Cholmondeley
Cheshire (seat 2/2) Samuel Egerton
Chester (seat 1/2) Richard Wilbraham-Bootle
Chester (seat 2/2) Thomas Grosvenor
Chichester (seat 1/2) Lord George Henry Lennox – resigned to contest Sussex
Replaced by William Keppel 1767
Chichester (seat 2/2) John Page
Chippenham (seat 1/2) Edward Bayntun-Rolt
Chippenham (seat 2/2) Samuel Fludyer – died
Replaced by Sir Thomas Fludyer 1768
Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) Viscount FitzMaurice – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Isaac BarrΓ© 1761
Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) Robert Waller
Christchurch (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Robinson
Christchurch (seat 2/2) James Harris
Cirencester (seat 1/2) James Whitshed Tory
Cirencester (seat 2/2) John Dawnay Tory
City of Durham see Durham (City of) ...
City of London see London (City of) ...
Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) James Abercromby
Clitheroe (seat 1/2) Thomas Lister – died
Replaced by Nathaniel Lister 1761
Clitheroe (seat 2/2) Assheton Curzon
Clyde Burghs see Glasgow Burghs ...
Cockermouth (seat 1/2) Sir John Mordaunt
Cockermouth (seat 2/2) Charles Jenkinson – took office
Replaced by John Elliot 1767
Colchester (seat 1/2) Charles Gray Tory
Colchester (seat 2/2) Isaac Martin Rebow Whig
Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) Viscount Malpas – died
Replaced by John Bond 1764
Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) Henry Bankes – took office
Replaced by John Campbell 1762
Cornwall (seat 1/2) James Buller – died
Replaced by Sir John Molesworth 1765
Cornwall (seat 2/2) Sir John St Aubyn, Bt
County Durham see Durham (County) ...
Coventry (seat 1/2) James Hewitt – took office
Replaced by Henry Seymour Conway 1766
Coventry (seat 2/2) Hon. Andrew Archer
Cricklade (seat 1/2) Arnold Nesbitt
Cricklade (seat 2/2) Thomas Gore
Cromartyshire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Nairnshire – unrepresented in this Parliament
Cumberland (seat 1/2) Sir James Lowther – sat for Westmorland
Replaced by Sir Wilfrid Lawson 1761 – died
Replaced by Sir James Lowther 1762
Cumberland (seat 2/2) Sir John Pennington, Bt

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Dartmouth (seat 1/2) John Jeffreys – died
Replaced by Richard Hopkins 1766
Dartmouth (seat 2/2) Richard Howe
Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) Richard Myddelton
Denbighshire (seat 1/1) Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton
Derby (seat 1/2) Lord Frederick Cavendish Administration
Derby (seat 2/2) George Venables-Vernon – ennobled
Replaced by William Fitzherbert 1762
Derbyshire (seat 1/2) Lord George Cavendish
Derbyshire (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Bt. Tory
Devizes (seat 1/2) William Willy – died
Replaced by James Sutton 1765
Devizes (seat 2/2) John Garth – died
Replaced by Charles Garth 1765
Devon (seat 1/2) Sir William Courtenay – ennobled
Replaced by John Parker 1762
Devon (seat 2/2) Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde
Dorchester (seat 1/2) The 1st Baron Milton – ennobled
Replaced by John Damer 1762
Dorchester (seat 2/2) Thomas Foster – died
Replaced by William Ewer 1765
Dorset (seat 1/2) Humphry Sturt
Dorset (seat 2/2) George Pitt Tory
Dover (seat 1/2) Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke
Dover (seat 2/2) Edward Simpson – died
Replaced by Marquess of Lorne 1765 – ennobled
Replaced by John Bindley 1766
Downton (seat 1/2) Charles Pratt – took office
Replaced by Thomas Pym Hales 1762
Downton (seat 2/2) James Hayes
Droitwich (seat 1/2) Thomas Foley
Droitwich (seat 2/2) Robert Harley
Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) Thomas Miller – took office
Replaced by James Montgomery 1766
Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) Lt Gen Archibald Douglas
Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) John Campbell – ennobled
Replaced by Archibald Edmonstone 1761
Tory
Dunwich (seat 1/2) Henry Fox – ennobled
Replaced by Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, Bt 1763- died
Replaced by Miles Barne 1764
Dunwich (seat 2/2) Eliab Harvey
Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) John Tempest
Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) Henry Lambton – died
Replaced by Ralph Gowland 1761- election reversed on petition
Replaced by John Lambton 1762
Durham (County) (seat 1/2) Robert Shafto
Durham (County) (seat 2/2) Hon. Frederick Vane
Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) James Oswald

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East Grinstead (seat 1/2) Earl of Middlesex – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Sir Charles Farnaby 1765
East Grinstead (seat 2/2) Lord George Sackville – sat for Hythe
Replaced by Sir Thomas Hales 1761 – died
Replaced by John Irwin 1762
East Looe (seat 1/2) Francis Gashry – died
Replaced by The Viscount Palmerston 1762
East Looe (seat 2/2) John Buller
East Retford (seat 1/2) John White Administration
East Retford (seat 2/2) John Shelley
Edinburgh (seat 1/1) George Lind – took office
Replaced by James Coutts 1762
Administration
Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) Sir Alexander Gilmour
Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) Andrew Mitchell
Elginshire (seat 1/1) James Grant
Essex (seat 1/2) William Harvey – died
Replaced by John Luther 1763
Tory
Essex (seat 2/2) Sir William Maynard
Evesham (seat 1/2) Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet
Evesham (seat 2/2) John Rushout
Exeter (seat 1/2) John Tuckfield – died
Replaced by William Spicer 1767
Exeter (seat 2/2) John Rolle Walter
Eye (seat 1/2) Henry Cornwallis – died
Replaced by Henry Townshend 1761 – died
Replaced by The Viscount Allen 1762
Eye (seat 2/2) Viscount Brome – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Richard Burton 1762

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Fife (seat 1/1) James St. Clair – died
Replaced by James Wemyss 1763
Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet
Flintshire (seat 1/1) Sir Roger Mostyn
Forfarshire (seat 1/1) The 1st Earl Panmure
Fowey (seat 1/2) Jonathan Rashleigh – died
Replaced by Philip Rashleigh 1765
Fowey (seat 2/2) George Edgcumbe – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Robert Walsingham 1761

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Gatton (seat 1/2) Thomas Brand
Gatton (seat 2/2) James Colebrooke – died
Replaced by Edward Harvey 1761
Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) Sir Edmond Thomas – died
Replaced by Richard Turbervill 1767
Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) Lord Frederick Campbell
Gloucester (seat 1/2) George Augustus Selwyn
Gloucester (seat 2/2) Charles Barrow
Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) Thomas Chester – died
Replaced by Edward Southwell 1763
Tory
Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) Norborne Berkeley – resigned
Replaced by Thomas Tracy 1763
Tory
Grampound (seat 1/2) Merrick Burrell
Grampound (seat 2/2) Simon Fanshawe
Grantham (seat 1/2) Sir John Cust, Bt
Grantham (seat 2/2) Lord George Manners
Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) Thomas Cotes – died
Replaced by Sir Thomas Fludyer 1767
Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) William Woodley – took office
Replaced by William Burke 1766
Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) Henry Knight – died
Replaced by The Lord Luxborough 1762
Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) Joseph Mellish
Great Marlow (seat 1/2) William Clayton
Great Marlow (seat 2/2) William Mathew Burt
Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) Charles Townshend of Honingham
Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) Sir Edward Walpole
Guildford (seat 1/2) Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet
Guildford (seat 2/2) George Onslow

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Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir Hew Dalrymple
Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) Andrew Fletcher
Hampshire (seat 1/2) Henry Bilson Legge – died
Replaced by Sir Richard Mill 1765
Hampshire (seat 2/2) Sir Simeon Stuart
Harwich (seat 1/2) Charles Townshend – died
Replaced by Thomas Bradshaw 1767
Harwich (seat 2/2) John Roberts
Haslemere (seat 1/2) Thomas More Molyneux
Haslemere (seat 2/2) Philip Carteret Webb
Hastings (seat 1/2) Hon. James Brudenell
Hastings (seat 2/2) William Ashburnham
Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) William Edwardes
Hedon (seat 1/2) Charles Saunders
Hedon (seat 2/2) Peter Denis
Helston (seat 1/2) Francis Godolphin – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by William Windham 1766
Helston (seat 2/2) John Evelyn – died
Replaced by William Evelyn 1767
Hereford (seat 1/2) Charles Fitzroy Scudamore
Hereford (seat 2/2) John Symons – died
Replaced by John Scudamore 1764
Herefordshire (seat 1/2) Velters Cornewall
Herefordshire (seat 2/2) Sir John Morgan – died
Replaced by Thomas Foley 1767
Hertford (seat 1/2) John Calvert
Hertford (seat 2/2) Timothy Caswall
Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) Thomas Plumer Byde
Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) Jacob Houblon
Heytesbury (seat 1/2) William A'Court Administration
Heytesbury (seat 2/2) Pierce A'Court-Ashe Administration
Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) John Yorke
Hindon (seat 1/2) Professor William Blackstone
Hindon (seat 2/2) Edward Morant
Honiton (seat 1/2) Henry Reginald Courtenay – died
Replaced by Sir George Yonge 1763
Honiton (seat 2/2) John Duke
Horsham (seat 1/2) Charles Ingram – ennobled
Replaced by Robert Pratt 1763
Horsham (seat 2/2) Sir Lionel Pilkington
Huntingdon (seat 1/2) Edward Montagu
Huntingdon (seat 2/2) Robert Jones
Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) The 1st Baron Carysfort
Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) Viscount Mandeville – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Lord Charles Greville Montagu 1762 – took office
Replaced by Robert Bernard 1765
Hythe (seat 1/2) Lord George Sackville
Hythe (seat 2/2) William Glanville – died
Replaced by William Amherst 1765

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Ilchester (seat 1/2) Joseph Tolson Lockyer – died
Replaced by Peter Legh 1765
Ilchester (seat 2/2) The Earl of Egmont – sat for Bridgwater
Replaced by William Wilson 1761
Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir Alexander Grant, Bt
Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) Simon Fraser
Ipswich (seat 1/2) The Lord Orwell
Ipswich (seat 2/2) Thomas Staunton

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Kent (seat 1/2) Sir Wyndham Knatchbull Wyndham – died
Replaced by Sir Brook Bridges 1763
Kent (seat 2/2) Robert Fairfax Administration
Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) Sir James Carnegie, Bt – died
Replaced by Sir Alexander Ramsay Irvine 1765
King's Lynn (seat 1/2) Horace Walpole
King's Lynn (seat 2/2) Sir John Turner
Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Manners
Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) Sir George Montgomery Metham – took office
Replaced by William Weddell 1766
Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Clackmannanshire. No representation in 1761
Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) John Mackye
Knaresborough (seat 1/2) Lord John Cavendish Rockingham Whig
Knaresborough (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Slingsby – died
Replaced by Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy 1763
Rockingham Whig

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Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) Daniel Campbell
Lancashire (seat 1/2) Lord Strange
Lancashire (seat 2/2) James Shuttleworth
Lancaster (seat 1/2) (Sir) George Warren
Lancaster (seat 2/2) Francis Reynolds
Launceston (seat 1/2) Peter Burrell
Launceston (seat 2/2) Humphry Morice
Leicester (seat 1/2) George Wrighte – died
Replaced by John Darker 1766
Leicester (seat 2/2) James Wigley – died
Replaced by Anthony James Keck 1765
Leicestershire (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Palmer – died
Replaced by Sir John Palmer | 1765
Leicestershire (seat 2/2) Edward Smith – died
Replaced by Sir Thomas Cave 1762
Leominster (seat 1/2) Chase Price – resigned
Replaced by Edward Willes 1767 – took office
Replaced by John Carnac 1768
Leominster (seat 2/2) Jenison Shafto
Lewes (seat 1/2) Thomas Sergison – died
Replaced by Lord Edward Bentinck 1766
Lewes (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Poole – died
Replaced by William Plumer 1763
Lichfield (seat 1/2) John Levett
Replaced on petition by Hugo Meynell 1762
Lichfield (seat 2/2) Thomas Anson Administration
Lincoln (seat 1/2) George Monson
Lincoln (seat 2/2) Coningsby Sibthorp
Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) Lord Brownlow Bertie
Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Whichcot
Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) John Lockhart-Ross
Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) Charles Hope-Weir
Liskeard (seat 1/2) Philip Stephens
Liskeard (seat 2/2) Anthony Champion
Liverpool (seat 1/2) Sir William Meredith
Liverpool (seat 2/2) Sir Ellis Cunliffe – died
Replaced by Richard Pennant 1767
London (City of) (seat 1/4) Sir Richard Glyn
London (City of) (seat 2/4) Sir Robert Ladbroke
London (City of) (seat 3/4) William Beckford
London (City of) (seat 4/4) Thomas Harley
Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) George Howard – took office
Replaced by Viscount Beauchamp 1766
Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) James Edward Colleton
Ludgershall (seat 1/2) Thomas Whately
Ludgershall (seat 2/2) John Paterson
Ludlow (seat 1/2) Edward Herbert
Ludlow (seat 2/2) Henry Bridgeman
Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) Thomas Fane – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Lord Burghersh 1762
Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) Henry Fane
Lymington (seat 1/2) Adam Drummond
Lymington (seat 2/2) Harry Burrard

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Maidstone (seat 1/2) Rose Fuller Whig
Maidstone (seat 2/2) William Northey Tory
Maldon (seat 1/2) John Bullock
Maldon (seat 2/2) Bamber Gascoyne – took office
Replaced by John Huske 1763
Malmesbury (seat 1/2) Thomas Conolly
Malmesbury (seat 2/2) The Earl Tylney
Malton (seat 1/2) Henry Finch – died
Replaced by Savile Finch 1761
Malton (seat 2/2) John Mostyn
Marlborough (seat 1/2) Lord Brudenell – ennobled
Replaced by James Long 1762
Marlborough (seat 2/2) Colonel the Hon. Robert Brudenell
Marlow see Great Marlow ...
Melcombe Regis see Weymouth and Melcombe Regis ...
Merionethshire (seat 1/1) William Vaughan
Middlesex (seat 1/2) Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, Bt Administration
Middlesex (seat 2/2) George Cooke Tory
Midhurst (seat 1/2) William Hamilton – resigned
Replaced by Bamber Gascoyne 1765
Midhurst (seat 2/2) John Burgoyne
Milborne Port (seat 1/2) Edward Walter
Milborne Port (seat 2/2) Thomas Medlycott – died
Replaced by Thomas Hutchings Medlycott 1763
Minehead (seat 1/2) Henry Shiffner
Minehead (seat 2/2) The Earl of Thomond
Mitchell (seat 1/2) John Stephenson
Mitchell (seat 2/2) James Scawen
Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) Benjamin Bathurst – died
Replaced by John Stepney 1767
Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) William Morgan – died
Replaced by Thomas Morgan 1763
Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) Capel Hanbury – died
Replaced by John Hanbury 1766
Montgomery (seat 1/1) Richard Clive
Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) Edward Kynaston
Morpeth (seat 1/2) Viscount Garlies
Morpeth (seat 2/2) Thomas Duncombe
Much Wenlock (seat 1/2) see Wenlock ...

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Nairnshire (seat 1/1) Pryse Campbell
Newark (seat 1/2) John Manners
Newark (seat 2/2) Thomas Thoroton
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) Henry Vernon – died
Replaced by Sir Lawrence Dundas 1762
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) John Waldegrave – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Thomas Gilbert 1763
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) Sir Walter Calverley Blackett
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) Matthew Ridley
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) John Lee – died
Replaced by William de Grey 1761
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) Richard Bull
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Charles Holmes – died
Replaced by William Rawlinson Earle 1762
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Thomas Lee Dummer – died
Replaced by Thomas Dummer 1765
New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) Edward Lewis
New Romney (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Dering Tory
New Romney (seat 2/2) Thomas Knight
New Shoreham (seat 1/2) Sir William Peere Williams – died
Replaced by The Lord Pollington 1761
New Shoreham (seat 2/2) The Viscount Midleton – died
Replaced by Samuel Cornish 1765
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) Randle Wilbraham
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) Peter Legh
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Sir John Barrington
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Harcourt Powell
New Windsor (seat 1/2) Augustus Keppel
New Windsor (seat 2/2) John Fitzwilliam
New Woodstock (seat 1/2) The 2nd Viscount Bateman
New Woodstock (seat 2/2) Anthony Keck – died
Replaced by William Gordon 1767
Norfolk (seat 1/2) Armine Wodehouse Tory
Norfolk (seat 2/2) George Townshend – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Thomas de Grey 1764
Whig
Northallerton (seat 1/2) Daniel Lascelles
Northallerton (seat 2/2) Edward Lascelles
Northampton (seat 1/2) Spencer Compton – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Lucy Knightley 1763
Northampton (seat 2/2) Frederick Montagu
Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) Sir Edmund Isham, Bt Tory
Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) William Cartwright
Northern Burghs see Tain Burghs ...
Northumberland (seat 1/2) George Shafto Delaval
Northumberland (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Baronet
Norwich (seat 1/2) Harbord Harbord
Norwich (seat 2/2) Edward Bacon
Nottingham (seat 1/2) William Howe
Nottingham (seat 2/2) John Plumptre
Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Manners-Sutton – died
Replaced by Thomas Willoughby 1762
Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) John Thornhagh later Hewett

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Okehampton (seat 1/2) Alexander Forrester
Okehampton (seat 2/2) Wenman Coke
Old Sarum (seat 1/2) Thomas Pitt – died
Replaced by Thomas Pitt 1761
Old Sarum (seat 2/2) Howell Gwynne
Orford (seat 1/2) John Offley
Orford (seat 2/2) Thomas Worsley
Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) James Douglas
Oxford (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Stapleton
Oxford (seat 2/2) Robert Lee
Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) Lord Charles Spencer Whig
Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) Sir James Dashwood Tory
Oxford University (seat 1/2) Peregrine Palmer
Replaced by Sir Walter Bagot, Bt
Tory
Tory
Oxford University (seat 2/2) Sir Roger Newdigate, Bt Tory

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Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) John Dickson – died
Replaced by Adam Hay 1767
Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir William Owen, Bt
Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) Sir John Philipps – died
Replaced by Sir Richard Philipps 1765
Penryn (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Turner – died
Replaced by Francis Basset 1766
Penryn (seat 2/2) George Brydges Rodney
Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) George Dempster
Perthshire (seat 1/1) John Murray – ennobled
Replaced by David Graeme 1764
Peterborough (seat 1/2) Matthew Lamb
Peterborough (seat 2/2) Armstead Parker Tory
Petersfield (seat 1/2) John Jolliffe
Petersfield (seat 2/2) Richard Pennant – resigned to contest Liverpool
Replaced by Richard Croftes 1767
Plymouth (seat 1/2) The 2nd Viscount Barrington
Plymouth (seat 2/2) George Pocock
Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) William Baker
Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) George Treby – died
Replaced by George Hele Treby 1761 – died
Replaced by Paul Henry Ourry 1763
Pontefract (seat 1/2) The 2nd Viscount Galway
Pontefract (seat 2/2) William Gerard Hamilton
Poole (seat 1/2) Joseph Gulston – resigned
Replaced by Joseph Gulston 1765
Poole (seat 2/2) Thomas Calcraft
Portsmouth (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Hawke
Portsmouth (seat 2/2) Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bt
Preston (seat 1/2) Nicholas Fazackerley – died
Replaced by Sir Peter Leicester 1767
Preston (seat 2/2) Edmund Starkie

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Queenborough (seat 1/2) Charles Frederick
Queenborough (seat 2/2) Sir Peircy Brett

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Radnor Boroughs see New Radnor Boroughs ...
Radnorshire (seat 1/1) Marquess of Carnarvon Whig
Reading (seat 1/2) John Dodd Whig
Reading (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Knollys
Reigate (seat 1/2) Charles Cocks
Reigate (seat 2/2) Charles Yorke Whig
Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) Patrick Craufurd
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) Sir Ralph Milbanke
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) Earl of Ancram – resigned
Replaced by Thomas Dundas 1763
Ripon (seat 1/2) William Aislabie doubtful
Ripon (seat 2/2) William Lawrence
Rochester (seat 1/2) Viscount Parker – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Sir Charles Hardy 1764
Rochester (seat 2/2) Isaac Townsend – died
Replaced by Grey Cooper 1765
Romney see New Romney ...
Ross-shire (seat 1/1) James Stuart Mackenzie
Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) Walter Scott – took office
Replaced by Gilbert Elliot 1765
Rutland (seat 1/2) Thomas Noel Tory
Rutland (seat 2/2) Hon. Thomas Chambers Cecil
Rye (seat 1/2) Phillips Gybbon – died
Replaced by John Norris 1762
Rye (seat 2/2) John Bentinck

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St Albans (seat 1/2) James West
St Albans (seat 2/2) Viscount Nuneham
St Germans (seat 1/2) Edward Eliot
St Germans (seat 2/2) Philip Stanhope – resigned
Replaced by William Hussey 1765
St Ives (seat 1/2) Humphrey Mackworth Praed
St Ives (seat 2/2) Charles Hotham
St Mawes (seat 1/2) James Newsham
St Mawes (seat 2/2) Richard Hussey
St Michael's see Mitchell ...
Salisbury (seat 1/2) Hon. Edward Bouverie
Salisbury (seat 2/2) Julines Beckford – died
Replaced by Samuel Eyre 1765
Saltash (seat 1/2) John Clevland – died
Replaced by Augustus John Hervey 1763
Saltash (seat 2/2) George Adams Whig
Sandwich (seat 1/2) George Hay
Sandwich (seat 2/2) The Viscount Conyngham
Sarum see Old Sarum/for New Sarum see Salisbury ...
Scarborough (seat 1/2) John Major
Scarborough (seat 2/2) William Osbaldeston – died
Replaced by Fountayne Wentworth Osbaldeston 1766
Seaford (seat 1/2) William Hall Gage
Seaford (seat 2/2) James Peachey
Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) Gilbert Elliot – resigned to contest Roxburghshire
Replaced by John Pringle 1765
Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) Sir Gilbert Heathcote Whig
Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) Samuel Touchet Whig
Shoreham see New Shoreham ...
Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) Thomas Hill
Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) Robert Clive Tory
Shropshire (seat 1/2) Sir John Astley, Bt Tory
Shropshire (seat 2/2) Richard Lyster – died
Replaced by Charles Baldwyn 1766
Tory
Somerset (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Kemys Tynte
Somerset (seat 2/2) Thomas Prowse – died
Replaced by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 1767
Southampton (seat 1/2) Hans Stanley
Southampton (seat 2/2) Henry Dawkins
Southwark (seat 1/2) Joseph Mawbey
Southwark (seat 2/2) Alexander Hume – died
Replaced by Henry Thrale 1765
Stafford (seat 1/2) Hon. William Richard Chetwynd
Stafford (seat 2/2) William Richard Chetwynd- died
Replaced by John Crewe 1765
Staffordshire (seat 1/2) William Bagot Tory
Staffordshire (seat 2/2) Lord Grey Whig
Stamford (seat 1/2) John Chaplin – died
Replaced by George René Aufrère 1765
Stamford (seat 2/2) George Bridges Brudenell
Steyning (seat 1/2) Frazer Honywood – died
Replaced by Richard Fuller 1764
Steyning (seat 2/2) John Thomlinson – died
Replaced by Sir John Filmer 1767
Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) Francis Holburne
Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) James Campbell
Stockbridge (seat 1/2) George Prescott
Stockbridge (seat 2/2) Nicholas Linwood
Sudbury (seat 1/2) Thomas Fonnereau
Sudbury (seat 2/2) John Henniker
Suffolk (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt
Suffolk (seat 2/2) Rowland Holt Tory
Surrey (seat 1/2) George Onslow
Surrey (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Vincent
Sussex (seat 1/2) Thomas Pelham Whig
Sussex (seat 2/2) John Butler – died
Replaced by Lord George Henry Lennox 1767
.
Rockingham Whig
Sutherland (seat 1/1) Hon. Alexander Mackay

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Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) John Scott
Tamworth (seat 1/2) Hon. Thomas Villiers
Tamworth (seat 2/2) Viscount Villiers – took office
Replaced by Edward Thurlow 1765
Taunton (seat 1/2) The 3rd Baron Carpenter – died
Replaced by Laurence Sulivan 1762
Taunton (seat 2/2) Robert Maxwell
Tavistock (seat 1/2) Richard Rigby
Tavistock (seat 2/2) Richard Neville Neville
Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) Nicolson Calvert
Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) Sir William Codrington Tory
Thetford (seat 1/2) Henry Seymour Conway Rockingham Whig
Thetford (seat 2/2) Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk
Thirsk (seat 1/2) Henry Grenville – took office
Replaced by James Grenville 1765
Thirsk (seat 2/2) Thomas Frankland
Tiverton (seat 1/2) Nathaniel Ryder
Tiverton (seat 2/2) Sir Edward Hussey Montagu – ennobled
Replaced by Charles Gore 1762 – died
Replaced by John Duntze 1768
Totnes (seat 1/2) Browse Trist – resigned
Replaced by Henry Seymour 1763
Totnes (seat 2/2) Richard Savage Lloyd
Tregony (seat 1/2) William Trevanion – died
Replaced by Thomas Pownall 1767
Tregony (seat 2/2) Abraham Hume
Truro (seat 1/2) Edward Boscawen John Boscawen – died
Replaced by Edward Hugh Boscawen 1767
Tory
Tory
Truro (seat 2/2) Lt General the Hon. George Boscawen Tory

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Wallingford (seat 1/2) John Hervey – died
Replaced by Sir George Pigot 1765
Wallingford (seat 2/2) Sir John Gibbons, Bt
Wareham (seat 1/2) Thomas Erle Drax
Wareham (seat 2/2) John Pitt
Warwick (seat 1/2) Viscount Dungarvan – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Paul Methuen 1762
Warwick (seat 2/2) Henry Archer
Warwickshire (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Mordaunt
Warwickshire (seat 2/2) William Craven – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by William Throckmorton Bromley 1765
Wells (seat 1/2) The Lord Digby – ennobled
Replaced by double return Robert Child/Peter Taylor 1765
Replaced by Robert Child 1765
Wells (seat 2/2) Clement Tudway
Wendover (seat 1/2) Richard Chandler-Cavendish
Wendover (seat 2/2) Verney Lovett – resigned
Replaced by Edmund Burke 1765
Wenlock (seat 1/2) Cecil Forester
Wenlock (seat 2/2) Brooke Forester
Weobley (seat 1/2) Marquess of Titchfield – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by William Lynch 1762
Weobley (seat 2/2) Henry Frederick Thynne
Westbury (seat 1/2) Chauncy Townsend
Westbury (seat 2/2) Peregrine Bertie
West Looe (seat 1/2) William Trelawny – took office
Replaced by James Townsend 1767
West Looe (seat 2/2) Francis Buller died
Replaced by John Sargent 1765
Westminster (seat 1/2) Edward Cornwallis – took office
Replaced by Edwin Sandys 1762
Westminster (seat 2/2) Viscount Pulteney – died
Replaced by Lord Warkworth 1763
Westmorland (seat 1/2) Sir James Lowther – resigned to contest Cumberland
Replaced by Robert Lowther 1763 – resigned
Replaced by John Robinson 1764
Westmorland (seat 2/2) John Upton
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) Sir Francis Dashwood – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Charles Walcott 1763
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) The Lord Waltham – died
Replaced by Richard Jackson 1762
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) Richard Glover
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) John Tucker
Whitchurch (seat 1/2) George Jennings
Whitchurch (seat 2/2) Thomas Townshend
Wigan (seat 1/2) Fletcher Norton
Wigan (seat 2/2) Simon Luttrell
Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) Archibald Montgomerie – sat for Ayrshire
Replaced by Keith Stewart 1762
Replaced by
Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) John Hamilton – resigned to contest Wigtown Burghs
Replaced by James Murray 1762
Wilton (seat 1/2) Robert Herbert
Wilton (seat 2/2) Nicholas Herbert
Wiltshire (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Long, Bt – died
Replaced by Thomas Goddard 1767
Wiltshire (seat 2/2) Edward Popham
Winchelsea (seat 1/2) The Earl of Thomond – took office
Replaced by Thomas Sewell 1761
Winchelsea (seat 2/2) Thomas Orby Hunter
Winchester (seat 1/2) Henry Penton
Winchester (seat 2/2) Lord Harry Powlett – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by George Paulet 1765
Windsor see New Windsor ...
Woodstock see New Woodstock ...
Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) Major the Hon. Henry St John
Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) Thomas Estcourt Cresswell
Worcester (seat 1/2) John Walsh
Worcester (seat 2/2) Henry Crabb-Boulton
Worcestershire (seat 1/2) John Ward
Worcestershire (seat 2/2) William Dowdeswell
Wycombe see Chipping Wycombe ...

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Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Thomas Holmes – died
Replaced by John Eames 1765
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Henry Holmes – died
Replaced by Jeremiah Dyson 1762
Yarmouth (Norfolk) see Great Yarmouth ...
York (seat 1/2) Sir George Armytage
York (seat 2/2) Robert Fox-Lane Tory
Yorkshire (seat 1/2) Edwin Lascelles Tory
Yorkshire (seat 2/2) Sir George Savile

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See alsoβ€»

Referencesβ€»

  1. ^ "Constituencies 1754–1790". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  • The House of Commons 1754–1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)

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