This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in England held between 1689 and 1700, with the names of the previous incumbent and the victor in the by-election.
In the absence of a comprehensive and reliable source, for party and factional alignments in this period, no attempt is made to define them in this article. The House of Commons: 1690–1715 and The House of Commons: 1660–1690 provides some guidance to the complex and shifting political relationships, but it is significant that the compilers of those works make no attempt to produce a definitive list of each members allegiances.
Dates
editDuring this period England counted its legal year as beginning on 25 March. For the purposes of this list the year is considered to have started on 1 January.
By-elections
editThe c/u column denotes whether the by-election was a contested poll or an unopposed return. If the winner was re-elected, at the next general election and any intermediate by-elections, this is indicated by an * following the c or u. In a few cases the winner was elected at the next general election but had not been re-elected in a by-election after the one noted. In those cases no * symbol is used.
Convention Parliament of 1689 (1689–1690)
edit1st Parliament of William III & Mary II (1690–1695)
edit2nd Parliament of William III (1695–1698)
edit3rd Parliament of William III (1698–1700)
editDate | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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22 December 1698 | Buckingham | c* | Alexander Denton | Edmund Denton | Death |
30 December 1698 | Bere Alston | u | Sir Rowland Gwynne | James Montagu | Chose to sit for Breconshire |
31 December 1698 | Seaford | u | Sir William Thomas | William Campion | Chose to sit for Sussex |
2 January 1699 | Amersham | u | The Viscount Newhaven | John Drake | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
2 January 1699 | Stockbridge | u* | George Pitt | John Pitt | Chose to sit for Wareham |
9 January 1699 | Newport (I.o.W.) | c | The Lord Cutts | Henry Greenhill | Chose to sit for Cambridgeshire |
11 January 1699 | Totnes | u | Sir Edward Seymour | Francis Gwyn | Chose to sit for Exeter |
14 January 1699 | Droitwich | u* | Thomas Foley | Thomas Foley | Chose to sit for Stafford |
16 January 1699 | Grampound | u* | John Tanner | Francis Scobell | Chose to sit for St Germans |
16 January 1699 | Penryn | c* | James Vernon | Alexander Pendarves | Chose to sit for Westminster |
16 January 1699 | Thetford | c | Sir Joseph Williamson | Lord Paston | Chose to sit for Rochester |
17 January 1699 | East Looe | u* | Charles Trelawny | Sir Henry Seymour | Chose to sit for Plymouth |
21 January 1699 | Chipping Wycombe | c | John Archdale | Thomas Archdale | Refused to take the oaths |
23 January 1699 | Rye | u* | Sir John Austen | Sir Robert Austen | Death |
25 January 1699 | Saltash | u* | John Specott | James Buller | Chose to sit for Cornwall |
26 January 1699 | Cricklade | u* | Charles Fox | Sir Stephen Fox | Chose to sit for Salisbury |
27 January 1699 | Newport (Cornwall) | c* | John Morice | Francis Stratford | Chose to sit for Saltash |
6 February 1699 | Sudbury | c | Sir Thomas Barnardiston | John Gurdon | Death |
22 February 1699 | Aylesbury | c | Sir Thomas Lee | Robert Dormer | Void Election |
23 February 1699 | Banbury | u | James Isaacson | Sir John Cope | Expulsion (Commissioner of Stamp Duties) |
23 February 1699 | Shaftesbury | u* | Henry Cornish | Thomas Chafin | Expulsion (Commissioner of Stamp Duties) |
24 February 1699 | Bramber | u | Sir Henry Furnese | John Courthope | Expulsion (Director of the East India Company) |
25 February 1699 | Harwich | u | Samuel Atkinson | Sir Thomas Middleton | Expulsion (Commissioner of Hawkers and Pedlars) |
7 March 1699 | Whitchurch | u* | Richard Wollaston | Richard Wollaston | Expulsion (Receiver-General of Taxes in Heretfordshire) |
14 March 1699 | Maldon | u | Sir Eliab Harvey | John Bullock | Death |
1 April 1699 | Bramber | u | John Courthope | John Asgill | Death |
8 April 1699 | Huntingdonshire | u* | Robert Throckmorton | John Dryden | Death |
26 April 1699 | Corfe Castle | c* | William Culliford | Richard Fownes | Void Election |
9 May 1699 | Bridgnorth | u* | Sir William Whitmore | Roger Pope | Death |
10 May 1699 | Somerset | u | Sir Edward Phelips | Nathaniel Palmer | Death |
16 May 1699 | Devon | u | Francis Courtenay | Thomas Drewe | Death |
28 November 1699 | Bridgwater | u | Roger Hoar | Sir Francis Warre | Death |
28 November 1699 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | c* | Sir Thomas Bellot | Rowland Cotton | Death |
29 November 1699 | Nottingham | c | Richard Slater | Robert Sacheverell | Death |
29 November 1699 | Oxfordshire | c | Lord Norreys | Sir Robert Dashwood | Succeeded to a peerage |
30 November 1699 | Great Grimsby | c* | Sir Edward Ayscough | Thomas Vyner | Death |
4 December 1699 | Warwick | u | Robert Greville | Algernon Greville | Death |
8 December 1699 | Hereford | u | Paul Foley | Samuel Pytts | Death |
12 December 1699 | Shropshire | u* | Edward Kynaston | Robert Lloyd | Death |
16 December 1699 | Dartmouth | c* | Joseph Herne | Nathaniel Herne | Death (Two MPs elected due to a Double Return. Results voided 12 February 1700. No by-election held.) |
c | Rowland Holt | ||||
20 December 1699 | Glamorganshire | u* | Bussy Mansel | Thomas Mansel | Death |
27 December 1699 | Southampton | c* | Sir Benjamin Newland | Roger Mompesson | Death |
4 January 1700 | St Germans | u* | John Tanner | Henry Fleming | Death |
29 January 1700 | Dunwich | u* | Sir Robert Rich | Sir Charles Blois | Death |
1 February 1700 | Pontefract | c* | John Bright | John Bright | Void Election |
8 February 1700 | Thetford | c | James Sloane | James Sloane | Void Election |
16 February 1700 | Sudbury | u* | Samuel Kekewich | Sir Gervase Elwes | Death |
References
edit- List of MPs since 1660[usurped]
- The House of Commons 1660–1690, edited by Basil Duke Henning (Published for the History of Parliament Trust by Secker & Warburg 1983) ISBN 0436192748
- The House of Commons 1690–1715, edited by David Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002) ISBN 0521772214