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Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency)

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Marlborough was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

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Members of Parliament

1295–1640

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1640–1868

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1868–1885

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Election results

Elections in the 1830s

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  • The mayor refused to accept the nominations of Malet and Mirehouse, and Bucknall-Estcourt and Bankes were declared elected unopposed.
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Elections in the 1840s

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Baring was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring by-elections.

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Elections in the 1850s

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Brudenell-Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.

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Elections in the 1860s

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Seat reduced to one member

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Brudenell-Bruce succeeded to the peerage, becoming Marquess of Ailesbury.

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Elections in the 1880s

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Bruce was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election.

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References and sources

References
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    "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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    "Vaughan, Sir Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28147. Retrieved 2 December 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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    "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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    Hertford was re-elected in 1708, but had also been elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
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    On petition, Ward was declared not to have been duly elected
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    Hertford was also elected for Northumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Marlborough
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    Lisle was re-elected in 1734, but had also been elected for Hampshire; however, the result there was disputed. He continued to sit for Marlborough until the Hampshire petition was withdrawn in 1737, then chose to sit for Hampshire for the rest of the Parliament
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    Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 117–119.
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    Succeeded as baronet and adopted the surname Tylney-Long in 1767
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    "No. 16898". The London Gazette. 14 May 1814. p. 1009.
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    Saunders, Robert (2016). Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-1-4094-1794-1. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
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    "Peelites". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
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    "Marlborough". Londonderry Standard. 6 August 1847. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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    Farrell, Stephen. "Marlborough". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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    Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 208–209. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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    "Marlborough". Reading Mercury. 4 April 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Sources
  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
  • 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)
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
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