Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cornwall County constituency
Created:	1290
Abolished:	1832
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Cornwall is a former county constituency covering the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, elected by the bloc vote system.

Under the Reform Act 1832, it was divided between the constituencies of East Cornwall and West Cornwall.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1290-1660 2.2 1660-1832 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

Cornwall is the most south western county of England, occupying the part of the South West peninsular to the west of the River Tamar which divides the county from Devon.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1290)

[edit] 1290-1660

• 1529: Piers Edgcumbe
• 1563-1567: Peter Edgcumbe
• 1572-1581: Peter Edgcumbe
• 1586-1593: Peter Edgcumbe
• 1597-1598: William Killigrew
• 1601: Sir Walter Raleigh
• 1614: Richard Carew

Long Parliament

• 1640-1642: Sir Bevil Grenville (Royalist) - disabled to sit, September 1642
• 1640-1643: Alexander Carew (Royalist) - expelled from the Commons, September 1643
• 1645(?)-1648: Hugh Boscawen - not known to have sat after Pride's Purge, December 1648
• 1645(?)-1648: Nicholas Trefusis - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648

Barebones Parliament

• 1653: Robert Bennet, Francis Langdon, Anthony Rous, John Bawden

First Protectorate Parliament (Eight members)

• 1654-1655: Hugh Boscawen, Thomas Gewen, James Launce, Antony Nicholl, Anthony Rous, ?

Second Protectorate Parliament (Eight members)

• 1656-1658: Anthony Rous, Francis Rous, ?

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: ?

Long Parliament (restored)

• 1659-1660: ?

[edit] 1660-1832

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		April 1660	Sir John Carew, Bt		Robert Robartes
		September 1660			Hugh Boscawen
		1661	Jonathan Trelawny		Sir John Coryton, Bt
		1679	Francis Robartes		Sir Richard Edgcumbe
		May 1685	Hon. Charles Granville		Viscount Bodmin
		August 1685			Francis Robartes
		1689	Sir John Carew, Bt		Hugh Boscawen
		1690	Francis Robartes
		1695	John Speccot
		June 1701			Richard Edgcumbe	Whig
		December 1701	John Granville		James Buller
		1703	Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt
		1703			Hugh Boscawen
		1708	James Buller
		1710	George Granville		John Trevanion
		1712	Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt
		1713	Sir William Carew, Bt
		1722			Sir John St Aubyn, Bt
		April 1744	Sir Coventry Carew, Bt
		December 1744			Sir John Molesworth, Bt
		1748	James Buller
		1761			Sir John St Aubyn, Bt
		1765	Sir John Molesworth, Bt
		1772			Humphrey Mackworth-Praed
		1774			Sir William Lemon, Bt	Whig
		1775	Edward Eliot
		1784	Sir William Molesworth, Bt
		1790	Francis Gregor
		1806	John Hearle Tremayne
		1825			Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, Bt	Tory
		1826	Edward William Wynne Pendarves	Whig
		1831			Sir Charles Lemon, Bt

• Constituency abolished (1832)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

[edit] References

• D Brunton & D H Pennington, “Members of the Long Parliament” (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• J E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
• Historical Parliamentary Papers at British History Online

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.