Malton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Malton Borough constituency
Created:	1640
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons

Malton, also called New Malton, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England in 1295 and 1298, and again from 1640, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1868, among them the political philosopher Edmund Burke, and by one member from 1868 to 1885.

The constituency was divided between the new Thirsk and Malton division of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Buckrose division of the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1885.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Franchise 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 1640-1660 3.2 1660-1868 3.3 1868-1885 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency consisted of parts of the St Leonard's and St Michael's parishes of New Malton in the North Riding until the Great Reform Act of 1832; the borough at that point included 791 houses and had a population of 4,173 in the 1831 census. The Reform Act expanded the boundaries to include the whole of those two parishes, as well as that of Old Malton and of the adjoining town of Norton in the East Riding, increasing the population to 7,192 and encompassing 1,401 houses.

[edit] Franchise

The right of election in Malton was vested in the scot and lot householders of the borough, of whom there were about 800 in 1832. In practice the seats were generally in the gift of the landowner, Earl Fitzwilliam (and were frequently held by one of that family, often by the heir to the Earldom who had the courtesy title Viscount Milton); at an earlier period the borough was similarly dominated by the Watson-Wentworth family, and was used as a form of government patronage when the Marquess of Rockingham was Prime Minister.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency re-created (1640)

[edit] 1640-1660

Long Parliament

• 1640-1644: Thomas Hebblethwaite (Royalist) - disabled to sit, November 1644
• 1640-1648: Henry Cholmley (Parliamentarian) - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648
• 1645(?)-1653: Richard Darley

Malton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: Philip Howard
• 1659: George Marwood

The Returning Officer made a double return after a dispute over the franchise: the Committee of Elections and Privileges ruled in favour of Howard and Marwood, and against their opponents Luke Robinson and Robert Lilburne on the grounds that Old Malton as well as New Malton was entitled to vote. ^[1]

Long Parliament (restored)

• 1659-1660: ?

[edit] 1660-1868

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	Philip Howard		Thomas Hebblethwaite
		1661	Thomas Danby
		1661	Sir Thomas Gower
		1668	William Palmes
		1673			James Hebblethwaite
		1679			Sir Watkinson Payler
		1689	Hon. Thomas Fairfax		Thomas Worsley
		1689	William Palmes		Sir William Strickland
		1698			Thomas Worsley
		1701			Sir William Strickland
		1708			William Strickland	Whig
		1713	Thomas Watson-Wentworth
		1715			Thomas Watson-Wentworth (the younger)
		1722	Sir William Strickland
		1724	Henry Finch
		1727			Wardell Westby
		1731			Sir William Wentworth
		1741			Lord James Cavendish
		1741			John Mostyn
		1761	Savile Finch
		1768			Viscount Downe
		1774			Edmund Burke[2]	Whig
		1775			William Weddell	Whig
		1775	Edmund Burke	Whig
		1784			Sir Thomas Gascoigne	Whig
		1784			William Weddell	Whig
		1792			Hon. George Damer[3]	Whig
		1794	Richard Burke (d. 1794)	Whig
		1795	William Baldwin	Whig
		1798			Bryan Cooke	Whig
		1798	Charles Lawrence Dundas	Whig
		1805	Henry Grattan	Whig
		1806	Viscount Milton	Whig
		1807	Lord Headley[4]	Tory	Robert Lawrence Dundas	Whig
		March 1808	Bryan Cooke	Whig
		1812	John Ramsden	Whig	Viscount Duncannon	Whig
		1826			Viscount Normanby	Canningite Tory
		1830			Sir James Scarlett	Whig[5]
		1831			Francis Jeffrey [6]	Whig
		1831	Henry Gally Knight
		1831			William Cavendish
		1831			Charles Pepys	Whig
		1832	William Fitzwilliam [7]	Whig
		1833	John Ramsden	Whig
		1836			John Childers	Whig
		1837	Viscount Milton [8]	Whig
		1841	John Denison	Whig
		1846			Viscount Milton	Whig
		1847			John Childers	Whig
		1852			Hon Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam	Whig/Liberal
		1857	James Brown	Whig/Liberal
1868			Representation reduced to one member

Notes

1. ^ House of Commons Journal, 7 March 1659 [1]
2. ^ In 1774 Burke was also elected for Bristol, and did not sit for Malton in this Parliament
3. ^ Styled Viscount Milton from 1792
4. ^ Dundas and Headley won in a contested election in which Bryan Cooke came third. On petition, Headley's election was declared void and a by-election held at which Cooke was elected.
5. ^ Scarlett took the Chiltern Hundreds, April 1831, after switching from the Whigs to the Tories
6. ^ Jeffrey was also elected for Perth District of Burghs at the 1831 general election and chose to represent that constituency
7. ^ Fitzwilliam became Viscount Milton 1833 when his father succeeded as Earl Fitzwilliam, and resigned to contest his father's Northamptonshire, Northern seat)
8. ^ Not the same Viscount Milton who held the seat in 1806-7 or in 1833

[edit] 1868-1885

Year		Member	Party
	1867	Hon Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam	Liberal
1885		constituency abolished

[edit] References

• Michael Brock, "The Great Reform Act" (London: Hutchinson, 1973)
• F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, “Members of the Long Parliament” (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
• Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)

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