Arundel (UK Parliament constituency)
historyArundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town of Arundel and was a borough constituency first enfranchised in 1332 and disenfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Arundel initially elected two members, but this was reduced to one in 1832 by the Great Reform Act.
The second incarnation of the seat comprised also the area surrounding Arundel, including towns like Littlehampton. It was created by the Boundary Commission in the 1974 boundary changes, existing until 1997. Arundel now only elected one member. The territory previously covered by Arundel was split between Arundel & South Downs and Bognor Regis & Littlehampton constituencies.
Members of Parliament
Arundel borough (1332-1868)
1332-1640
- 1547-1552: Sir Nicholas Pelham
- 1563-?: William Aubrey
- 1572-1593: Thomas Fanshawe
- 1604-1611: Thomas Preston
- 1604-1611: John Tye
- 1614-1622: Sir Henry Spiller
- 1614: Edward Morley
- 1621-1622: Lionel Cranfield Created a peer, September 1622
- November 1622: Sir Richard Weston
1640-1832
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|November 1640
|Henry Garton||Parliamentarian
|rowspan="2"|Sir Edward Alford||rowspan="2"|Royalist
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|1641
|rowspan="4"|John Downes Downes was elected after a disputed return at the by-election which followed the death of Garton||rowspan="4"|Parliamentarian
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|January 1644
|colspan="2"|Alford disabled from sitting - seat vacant
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|1645
|Herbert Hay||
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|December 1648
|colspan="2"|Hay excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
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|1653
|colspan="4"|Arundel was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
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|1654
|Anthony Shirley||
|rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Arundel had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
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|1656
|Sir John Trevor||
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|January 1659
|Henry Onslow||
|Richard Marriot||
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|May 1659
|John Downes||
|colspan="2"|''One seat vacant
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|April 1660
| rowspan="3"|The Earl of Orrery || rowspan="3"|
|The Viscount Falkland ||
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|May 1660 || John Trevor ||
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| 1661 || The Lord Aungier of Longford ||
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| 1679
|rowspan="3"|William Garway || rowspan="3"|
|James Butler ||
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| 1685 || William Westbrooke ||
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| 1689 || rowspan="2" | William Morley || rowspan="2"|
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| 1690 || rowspan="3" | James Butler || rowspan="3"|
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| January 1694 || Lord Henry Howard ||
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| February 1694 || John Cooke ||
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| 1695 || Lord Henry Howard ||
| Edmund Dummer ||
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| 1698 || rowspan="3" | John Cooke || rowspan="3"|
|Christopher Knight ||
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| January 1701 || Edmund Dummer ||
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| November 1701 || rowspan="2" | Carew Weekes || rowspan="2" |
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| 1702 || rowspan="2" | Edmund Dummer || rowspan="2" |
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| 1705 || James Butler ||
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| May 1708 || Sir Henry Peachey, Bt ||
|rowspan="2" | The Viscount Shannon || rowspan="2" |
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| December 1708 || Viscount Lumley ||
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| 1710 || The Earl of Thomond ||
| Viscount Lumley ||Whig
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| 1715 || rowspan="2" | General Henry Lumley || rowspan="2"|
| Thomas Micklethwaite ||
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| 1718 || rowspan="2"| Joseph Micklethwaite || rowspan="2"|
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| 1722 || Thomas Lumley ||
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| 1727 || rowspan="3" | Sir John Shelley, Bt || rowspan="3"|
| The Viscount Gage ||
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| 1728 || John Lumley ||
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| 1739 || rowspan="3" | Garton Orme || rowspan="3"|
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| 1741 || James Lumley ||
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| 1747 || Theobald Taafe ||
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| 1754 || rowspan="4" | Sir George Colebrooke, Bt || rowspan="4"|
| Thomas Griffin ||
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| 1761 || John Bristow ||
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| 1768 || Lauchlin Macleane ||
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| 1771 || John Stewart ||
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| 1774 || Thomas Brand ||
| George Newnham ||
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| 1780 || Sir Patrick Crauford ||
|rowspan="4" | Thomas Fitzherbert || rowspan="4"|
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| 1781 || Peter William Baker ||
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| April 1784 || Earl of Surrey ||
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| June 1784 || Richard Beckford ||
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| 1790 || rowspan="3" | Sir George Thomas, Bt || rowspan="3"|
| Lord Henry Thomas Howard ||
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| 1795 || Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bt ||
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| 1796 || rowspan="2" | James Greene || rowspan="2"|
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| 1797 || Major General Nisbet Balfour ||
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| 1802 || Viscount Andover ||
| John Atkins ||
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| 1806 || rowspan="3" | Sir Arthur Piggott || rowspan="3"|
| Francis Wilder ||
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| January 1807 || The Lord Lecale ||
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| May 1807 || rowspan="3" | Francis Wilder || rowspan="3" |
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| October 1812 || Lord Henry Thomas Howard ||
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| December 1812 || Sir Samuel Romilly || Whig
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| 1818 || rowspan="2" | Lord Henry Thomas Howard || rowspan="2"|
| Sir Arthur Piggott ||
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| 1819 || rowspan="2" | Robert Blake || rowspan="2"|
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| 1820 || rowspan="2" | Viscount Bury || rowspan="2"|
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| 1823 || Thomas Read Kemp
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| 1826 || Edward Lombe ||
| rowspan="2" | John Atkins || rowspan="2"|
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| 1830 || Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart || Whig
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|colspan="3"|1832
|colspan="4"| Representation reduced to one member
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1832-1868
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| style="background-color: " | || 1832 || Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart || Whig
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| style="background-color: " | || 1837 || Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel || Whig
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| style="background-color: " | || 1851 || Edward Strutt || Liberal
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| style="background-color: " | || 1852 || Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard || Liberal
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|colspan="2"|1868
|colspan="2"| Constituency abolished
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Arundel County Constituency (1974-1997)
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!colspan=2|Year!!Member!!Party
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| style="background-color: " | || 1974 || Sir Michael Marshall || Conservative
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|colspan="2"|1997
|colspan="2"| Constituency abolished
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- »Election results, 1974 - 1997
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography (entry on Sir Nicholas Pelham)
- 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) »http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [http://books.google.com/books?id=L9GqTX0uoT8C&pg=PR9&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=UkEf4ZrrR7tKn1fYUF0yU1YkPwc#PPR5,M1]
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)