Hertford (UK Parliament Constituency) - Members of Parliament - Hertford Borough (1298-1885) - 1640-1868

1640-1868

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 Viscount Cranborne Parliamentarian Sir Thomas Fanshawe Royalist
November 1640
November 1643 Fanshawe disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 William Leman
December 1648 Cranborne not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653 Hertford was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Isaac Pulter Hertford had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656
January 1659 James Cowper
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Arthur Sparke James Cowper
1661 Sir Edward Turnor Thomas Fanshawe
1673 Sir Thomas Byde
1675 Edmund Feilde
1677 Sir John Gore
February 1679 Sir Charles Caesar
September 1679 Sir William Cowper
1685 Sir Francis Boteler
1689 Sir William Cowper
1690 Sir William Leman
1695 William Cowper
January 1701 Charles Caesar Thomas Filmer
February 1701 Richard Goulston
1705 Sir Thomas Clarke
1708 William Monson
1710 Charles Caesar Richard Goulston
1715 Sir Thomas Clarke John Boteler
1722 Edward Harrison Charles Caesar
1723 Sir Thomas Clarke
1727 George Harrison
1734 Nathaniel Brassey
1741 George Harrison
1759 Viscount Fordwich
1761 John Calvert Timothy Caswall
1768 William Cowper
1770 Paul Feilde
1780 Thomas, Baron Dimsdale William Baker
1784 John Calvert
1790 Nathaniel, Baron Dimsdale
1802 Hon. Edward Spencer Cowper Whig Nicolson Calvert Whig
1817 Viscount Cranborne Tory
1823 Thomas Byron
1826 Thomas Slingsby Duncombe Radical
1830 Viscount Ingestrie Tory
1831 John Currie Whig
1832 Viscount Ingestrie Conservative Viscount Mahon Conservative
1832 writ suspended: both seats vacant until 1835
1835 Hon. William Francis Cowper Whig Viscount Mahon Conservative
1852 Thomas Chambers Whig
1857 Sir Walter Minto Townshend-Farquhar Conservative
1859 Liberal
1866 Robert Dimsdale Conservative
1868 Representation reduced to one MP

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