1640-1832
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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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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