Haslemere (UK Parliament constituency)

Haslemere
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1584–1832
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	West Surrey

Haslemere was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Members of Parliament

1584-1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1584	Christopher Rithe	Marlyon Rithe
1586	William Morgan	William Campion
1588/9	Hugh Hare	John Haselrigge
1593	Adrian Stoughton	Nicholas Saunders
1597	Francis Aungier	George Austen
1601	Francis Wolley	John Clarke
1604	Edward Fraunceys	William Jackson
1614	Sir Thomas Grimes	Sir William Browne
1621	Sir Thomas Grimes	Sir William Browne
1624-1625	Francis Carew	Poynings More
1625	Francis Carew	Poynings More
1626	Francis Carew	Poynings More
1628	George Grimes	Sir Thomas Canon
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		Poynings More [1]	Parliamentarian		Sir John Jacques, Bt
November 1640					John Goodwin	Parliamentarian
1649		Carew Raleigh
1653	Haslemere was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		John Westbrooke			Henry Fitzjames
May 1659		Carew Raleigh			John Goodwin
April 1660		John Westbrooke			Richard West
March 1661		James Gresham			Chaloner Chute
May 1661		George Evelyn			Thomas Morrice
1675					Sir William More, Bt
1679		James Gresham
1680		Denzil Onslow	Whig		Francis Dorrington
1681		Sir William More, Bt			Sir George Woodroffe
1685		Sir George Vernon
1689		White Tichborne			Denzil Onslow	Whig
1690		George Rodney Brydges
1695					George Woodroffe
1698		Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe			George Vernon
January 1701					George Woodroffe
November 1701		George Vernon
1702					Lewis Oglethorpe
1704					Thomas Heath
1705		George Woodroffe			John Fulham
1708		Thomas Onslow [2]			Theophilus Oglethorpe
1708		Nicholas Carew
1710		Sir John Clerke, Bt
1713		Thomas Onslow[3]			George Vernon
1714		Nicholas Carew [4]
1715					Sir Montague Blundell, Bt [5]
1722		James Oglethorpe	Tory		Peter Burrell
1754		James More Molyneux			Philip Carteret Webb
1759		Thomas More Molyneux
1768					William Burrell
1774					Sir Merrick Burrell, Bt
1776		Peter Burrell
September 1780		Sir James Lowther [6]			Edward Norton
December 1780		Walter Spencer Stanhope
1784		Thomas Postlethwaite			John Baynes-Garforth
1786		John Lowther
June 1790		William Gerard Hamilton			James Lowther [7]
December 1790					Richard Penn
1791					James Clarke Satterthwaite
1796		James Lowther [8]
November 1796		George Wood
1802					Richard Penn
1806		Viscount Garlies	Tory		Charles Long	Tory
1807		Robert Plumer Ward	Tory
1823		George Lowther Thompson	Tory
1826					Sir John Beckett, Bt	Tory
1830		William Holmes	Tory
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes

1. Created a baronet, May 1642
2. Onslow was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
3. Onslow was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
4. Created a baronet, January 1715
5. Created Viscount Blundell (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1720
6. Lowther was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
7. Lowther was also elected for Westmorland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
8. Lowther was also elected for Westmorland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere

References

• 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)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)