Gloucestershire (UK Parliament Constituency) - 1640-1832

1640-1832

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1640, April Sir Robert Tracy Royalist Sir Robert Cooke Parliamentarian
1640, November Nathaniel Stephens Parliamentarian John Dutton 1 Royalist
c. 1644 Sir John Seymour 2 Parliamentarian
Gloucestershire's representation was increased to 3 nominated MPs in Barebones Parliament
1653 John Crofts; William Neast; Robert Holmes
Gloucestershire's representation was increased to 5 elected MPs in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1654 George Berkeley; Matthew Hale; John Howe; Christopher Guise; Sylvanus Wood
1656 George Berkeley; John Howe; John Crofts; Baynham Throckmorton; William Neast
Gloucestershire's representation was decreased to 2 MPs in the Third Parliament of the Protectorate and thereafter
1659, January John Grobham Howe I John Stephens
1659, May unknown unknown
1660, April 18 Edward Stephens Matthew Hale
1661, April 17 John Grobham Howe I Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Bt 3
1664, December 21 Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Bt
1679, February 26 Sir John Guise, 2nd Bt Sir Ralph Dutton, Bt
1685, March 18 Marquess of Worcester Sir Robert Atkyns
1689, January 18 Sir John Guise, 2nd Bt Whig Sir Ralph Dutton, Bt Whig
1695, December 11 Thomas Stephens I Whig
1698, August 3 John Grobham Howe II Tory Sir Richard Cocks, Bt Whig
1701, December 3 Maynard Colchester Whig
1702, August 6 John Grobham Howe II Tory
1705, May 16 Sir John Guise, 3rd Bt Whig
1708, May 12 Matthew Ducie Moreton Whig
1710, October 25 John Symes Berkeley Tory
1713, September 23 Thomas Stephens II Whig
1715, February 9 Matthew Ducie Moreton Whig
1720, March 30 Hon. Henry Berkeley
1720, June 22 Edmund Bray
1722, March 28 Kinard de la Bere
1727, September 6 Sir John Dutton, Bt
1734, May 8 Thomas Chester Benjamin Bathurst
1741, May 12 Norborne Berkeley
1763, April 27 Thomas Tracy
1763, November 23 Edward Southwell
1770, August 6 Sir William Guise, Bt
1776, May 6 William Bromley-Chester Tory 4
1781, January 24 James Dutton
1783, April 28 Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley Whig 5
1784, April 12 Thomas Master Tory 5
1796, June 2 Marquess of Worcester Tory
1803, November 14 Lord Edward Somerset Tory
1810, May 18 Viscount Dursley
1811, February 7 Sir Berkeley Guise, Bt Whig
1831, May 10 Hon. Henry George Francis Moreton Whig
Constituency abolished (1832)

Notes:-

  • 1 Dutton was disabled from sitting for adhering to the King and joining the King's Oxford Parliament, c. 1644.
  • 2 Seymour was excluded from Parliament by the Army, c. 1648.
  • 3 Father of the Baynham Throckmorton elected in 1656 and 1664.
  • 4 Stooks Smith classifies Bromley-Chester as Tory in the 1776 by-election, but gives no label in subsequent elections.
  • 5 Stooks Smith classifies Berkeley as Whig in the 1776 by-election (which he lost), but gives no label in subsequent elections before the general election of 1790. Both Berkeley and Master are classified by party from 1790.

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