List of Great Britain by-elections (1707–1715)
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in Great Britain held between 1707 and 1715, 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 provides some guidance to the complex and shifting political relationships, but it is significant that the compilers of that work make no attempt to produce a definitive list of each members allegiances.
Resignations
- See Resignation from the British House of Commons for more details.
Where the cause of by-election is given as "resignation", this indicates that the incumbent was appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown" causing him to vacate his seat and prohibited membership in the House of Commons. This office is noted in brackets.
In addition certain offices of profit, such as cabinet positions, required the MP to seek re-election. These offices are noted separately.
Dates
During this period England (but not Scotland) 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
The 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.
1st Parliament (1707–1708)
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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21 November 1707 | Amersham | u | The Viscount Newhaven | John Drake | Ineligible to sit due to holding a Scottish Peerage |
21 November 1707 | Ipswich | c* | Henry Poley | William Churchill | Death |
21 November 1707 | Liskeard | u* | Thomas Dodson | John Dolben | Death |
21 November 1707 | St Mawes | u* | Joseph Tredenham | John Tredenham | Death |
22 November 1707 | Scarborough | u* | Robert Squire | John Hungerford | Death |
28 November 1707 | New Romney | u* | John Brewer | John Brewer | Receiver General of Prizes |
29 November 1707 | Aldborough | u* | William Jessop | William Jessop | Justice of the Anglesey Circuit |
29 November 1707 | Chipping Wycombe | u* | Fleetwood Dormer | Fleetwood Dormer | Commissioner of Prizes |
29 November 1707 | Great Bedwyn | c | Nicholas Pollexfen | Tracy Pauncefort | Commissioner of Prizes |
Tracy Pauncefort | Nicholas Pollexfen | By-election result reversed on petition 22 December 1707 | |||
29 November 1707 | Reigate | u* | Stephen Hervey | James Cocks | Death |
1 December 1707 | Hedon | u | Anthony Duncombe | Anthony Duncombe | Commissioner of Prizes |
2 December 1707 | Lymington | u* | Paul Burrard, junior | Paul Burrard, junior | Sub-Commissioner of Prizes at Portsmouth |
2 December 1707 | Rye | u* | Philip Herbert | Phillips Gybbon | Commissioner for the Sick and Wounded and for Exchange of Prisoners |
3 December 1707 | Suffolk | c | The Earl of Dysart | Leicester Martin | Ineligible to sit due to holding a Scottish Peerage |
3 December 1707 | Worcestershire | u* | William Bromley | Sir Thomas Cookes Winford | Death |
3 December 1707 | Yorkshire | u* | Marquess of Hartington | The Viscount Downe | Succeeded to a peerage |
u | The Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Conyers Darcy | Ineligible to sit due to holding a Scottish Peerage | ||
4 December 1707 | Cambridgeshire | u* | John Bromley (the elder) | John Bromley (the younger) | Death |
4 December 1707 | Leicestershire | c | John Verney | George Ashby | Death |
15 December 1707 | Bedford | u* | Sir Philip Monoux | William Hillersden | Death |
16 December 1707 | City of London | c* | Sir Robert Clayton | Sir William Withers | Death |
29 December 1707 | Bramber | u* | John Asgill | William Shippen | Expulsion |
3 January 1708 | Rochester | u* | Sir Cloudesley Shovell | Sir John Leake | Death |
17 January 1708 | Whitchurch | c(*) | John Shrimpton | Frederick Tylney | Death |
c | Frederick Tylney | Charles Wither | By-election result reversed on petition 17 February 1708 | ||
21 January 1708 | Ashburton | c* | Gilbert Yarde | Roger Tuckfield | Death |
31 January 1708 | Huntingdonshire | u* | John Dryden | John Proby | Death |
21 February 1708 | Westminster | u* | Henry Boyle | Henry Boyle | Northern Secretary |
2 March 1708 | Sandwich | u* | Josiah Burchett | Josiah Burchett | Secretary to the Marines |
6 March 1708 | King's Lynn | u* | Robert Walpole | Robert Walpole | Secretary at War |
13 April 1708 | Exeter | c* | Sir Edward Seymour | John Harris | Death |
2nd Parliament (1708–1710)
3rd Parliament (1710–1713)
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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5 December 1710 | Horsham | u* | Charles Eversfield | John Middleton | Chose to sit for Sussex |
8 December 1710 | Bramber | u | The Viscount Windsor | William Shippen | Chose to sit for Monmouthshire |
11 December 1710 | Castle Rising | u* | Robert Walpole | Horatio Walpole | Chose to sit for King's Lynn |
12 December 1710 | Andover | u | John Smith | John Smith | Teller of the Exchequer |
12 December 1710 | Thetford | u | Sir Thomas Hanmer | Sir Edmund Bacon | Chose to sit for Suffolk |
13 December 1710 | Abingdon | u | Sir Simon Harcourt | James Jennings | Appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal |
13 December 1710 | Wareham | u | George Pitt | Sir Edward Ernle | Chose to sit for Hampshire |
13 December 1710 | Warwick | c | Francis Greville | Charles Leigh | Death |
14 December 1710 | Wootton Bassett | u* | Henry St. John | Edmund Pleydell | Chose to sit for Berkshire |
16 December 1710 | Tiverton | c* | John Worth | John Worth | Election voided due to Treble Return |
Thomas Bere | Sir Edward Northey | ||||
Richard Mervin | |||||
19 December 1710 | Saltash | u* | Sir Cholmeley Dering | Jonathan Elford | Chose to sit for Kent |
22 December 1710 | Bossiney | u | Francis Robartes | Henry Campion | Chose to sit for Bodmin |
22 December 1710 | Helston | u | George Granville | Robert Child | Chose to sit for Cornwall |
22 December 1710 | Newport (I.o.w.) | u | John Richmond Webb | William Seymour | Chose to sit for Ludgershall |
23 December 1710 | Tregony | c | John Trevanion | George Robinson | Chose to sit for Cornwall |
26 December 1710 | Coventry | u | Robert Craven | Clobery Bromley | Death |
30 December 1710 | Huntingdonshire | u | John Proby | Sir John Cotton | Death |
2 January 1711 | Newtown | u* | James Worsley | James Worsley | Woodward of New Forest |
17 January 1711 | Saltash | u | Alexander Pendarves | Sir William Carew | Chose to sit for Penryn |
20 January 1711 | St Mawes | u | John Tredenham | John Anstis | Death |
1 February 1711 | Carlisle | u* | Thomas Stanwix | Thomas Stanwix | Governor of Gibraltar |
21 February 1711 | Portsmouth | u* | Sir James Wishart | Sir James Wishart | Naval Lord |
22 February 1711 | Leicestershire | u* | Marquess of Granby | Sir Thomas Cave | Succeeded to a peerage |
26 February 1711 | Oxford | u* | Sir John Walter | Sir John Walter | Clerk Comptroller of the Green Cloth |
7 March 1711 | Poole | u* | Thomas Ridge | William Lewen | Expulsion |
26 March 1711 | Camelford | c | Jasper Radcliffe | Henry Manaton | Death |
Henry Manaton | Paul Orchard | By-election result reversed on petition 8 May 1711 | |||
26 March 1711 | Shaftesbury | u* | Edward Seymour | Henry Whitaker | Death |
30 March 1711 | Ashburton | u | George Courtenay | Andrew Quick | Chose to sit for Newport (Cornwall) |
2 April 1711 | Stamford | u* | Charles Bertie | Charles Bertie | Death |
18 April 1711 | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | c(*) | James Littleton | James Littleton | Void Election |
William Betts | William Betts | ||||
James Littleton | Thomas Hardy | By-election results reversed on petition 22 May 1711 | |||
William Betts | William Harvey | ||||
24 April 1711 | Coventry | u* | Clobery Bromley | Sir Christopher Hales | Death |
25 April 1711 | Dorset | u | Thomas Chafin | Richard Bingham | Death |
30 April 1711 | Maldon | u | Thomas Richmond | William Fytche | Death |
9 May 1711 | Downton | u | Sir Charles Duncombe | Thomas Duncombe | Death |
15 May 1711 | Cockermouth | c | James Stanhope | James Stanhope | Void Election |
15 May 1711 | Hindon | u | George Morley | Henry Lee Warner | Death |
18 May 1711 | New Windsor | u | William Paul | Samuel Masham | Death |
29 May 1711 | Launceston | u | Lord Hyde | George Clarke | Succeeded to a peerage |
29 May 1711 | Northumberland | u* | Earl of Hertford | Earl of Hertford | Governor of Tynemouth Castle |
2 June 1711 | Ilchester | u* | Samuel Masham | Sir James Bateman | Cofferer of the Household |
13 June 1711 | Kent | u | Sir Cholmeley Dering | Sir William Hardres | Death |
16 June 1711 | Great Bedwyn | u* | Lord Bruce | Thomas Millington | Chose to sit for Marlborough |
20 June 1711 | Surrey | u* | Heneage Finch | Heneage Finch | Master of the Jewel Office |
21 June 1711 | Hertford | u* | Charles Caesar | Charles Caesar | Treasurer of the Navy |
21 June 1711 | Thirsk | u | Sir Thomas Frankland | Thomas Worsley | Resignation (Joint-Postmaster General) |
26 June 1711 | Ilchester | u* | Edward Phelips | Edward Phelips | Comptroller of the Mint |
26 June 1711 | Totnes | u* | Francis Gwyn | Francis Gwyn | Lord of Trade |
2 July 1711 | Somerset | u* | Sir William Wyndham | Sir William Wyndham | Master of the Buckhounds |
3 July 1711 | Newton | u* | John Ward | John Ward | Puisne Justice of Chester |
16 July 1711 | New Radnor Boroughs | u* | Robert Harley | Lord Harley | Elevated to the peerage |
18 July 1711 | Droitwich | u* | Edward Foley | Edward Jeffreys | Resignation (Receiver-General of the Leather Duty) |
Edward Jeffreys | Richard Foley | Puisne Justice of the Great Sessions for Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire | |||
18 July 1711 | Glamorganshire | u | Sir Thomas Mansel | Sir Thomas Mansel | Teller of the Exchequer |
13 December 1711 | Staffordshire | u | Henry Paget | Henry Paget | Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard |
17 December 1711 | Canterbury | u* | Henry Lee | Henry Lee | Victualling Commissioner |
18 December 1711 | Fowey | u | Henry Vincent (junior) | Henry Vincent (junior) | Victualling Commissioner |
Viscount Dupplin | Viscount Dupplin | Teller of the Exchequer | |||
20 December 1711 | Boston | c* | Peregrine Bertie | William Cotesworth | Death |
21 December 1711 | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | u | Anthony Henley | Reginald Marriott | Death |
22 December 1711 | Berwick-upon-Tweed | c* | Jonathan Hutchinson | Richard Hampden | Death |
26 December 1711 | Chester | u* | Sir Henry Bunbury | Sir Henry Bunbury | Irish Revenue Commissioner |
26 December 1711 | Flintshire | u | Sir Roger Mostyn | Sir Roger Mostyn | Paymaster of Marines |
26 December 1711 | Selkirkshire | u* | John Pringle | John Pringle | Joint-Keeper of the Signet |
27 December 1711 | Derby | u* | Sir Richard Levinge | Edward Mundy | Appointed Attorney General for Ireland |
27 December 1711 | Newport (Cornwall) | u | George Courtenay | George Courtenay | Victualling Commissioner |
27 December 1711 | Stirlingshire | u* | Sir Hugh Paterson | Sir Hugh Paterson | Commissioner of Chamberlainry and Trade |
28 December 1711 | Midhurst | c* | Robert Orme | John Pratt | Death |
31 December 1711 | Shaftesbury | u* | Edward Nicholas | Edward Nicholas | Commissioner of the Privy Seal |
1 January 1712 | Tewkesbury | u* | Henry Ireton | William Dowdeswell | Death |
4 January 1712 | Leicester | u* | Sir George Beaumont | Sir George Beaumont | Commissioner of the Privy Seal |
8 January 1712 | Peeblesshire | c | Alexander Murray | Alexander Murray | Commissioner of Chamberlainry and Trade |
10 January 1712 | Wigtown Burghs | u | William Cochrane | William Cochrane | Joint-Keeper of the Signet |
12 January 1712 | Southwark | c | John Cholmley | Edmund Halsey | Death |
Edmund Halsey | Sir George Matthews | By-election results reversed on petition 7 February 1712 | |||
21 January 1712 | New Windsor | c* | Samuel Masham | Charles Aldworth | Elevated to the peerage |
23 January 1712 | Cirencester | u* | Allen Bathurst | Thomas Master | Elevated to the peerage |
23 January 1712 | Marlborough | c | Lord Bruce | Richard Jones | Elevated to the House of Lords through a Writ of acceleration |
24 January 1712 | Stafford | u* | Thomas Foley | Walter Chetwynd | Elevated to the peerage |
28 January 1712 | Maldon | u* | William Fytche | Thomas Bramston | Resignation (Comptroller of Lotteries) |
28 January 1712 | Newark | c* | Sir Thomas Willoughby | Richard Sutton | Elevated to the peerage |
30 January 1712 | Glamorganshire | u* | Sir Thomas Mansel | Robert Jones | Elevated to the peerage |
31 January 1712 | Warwickshire | u | Lord Compton | Sir William Boughton | Elevated to the House of Lords through a Writ of acceleration |
7 February 1712 | Staffordshire | u | Henry Paget | Charles Bagot | Elevated to the peerage |
11 February 1712 | Callington | u | Sir William Coryton | Henry Manaton | Death |
11 February 1712 | Fowey | u | Viscount Dupplin | Bernard Granville | Elevated to the peerage |
11 February 1712 | King's Lynn | c | Robert Walpole | Robert Walpole | Expulsion |
16 February 1712 | Steyning | c | William Wallis | The Lord Bellew of Duleek | Void Election |
18 February 1712 | Monmouthshire | u | The Viscount Windsor | James Gunter | Became a British Peer |
20 February 1712 | Bury St Edmunds | u | Joseph Weld | Samuel Batteley | Death |
20 February 1712 | Camelford | u* | Bernard Granville | Sir Bourchier Wrey | Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull |
20 February 1712 | Cornwall | u | George Granville | Sir Richard Vyvyan | Elevated to the peerage |
3 March 1712 | City Durham | u | Sir Henry Belasyse | Robert Shafto | Expulsion (Commissioner of an inquiry into forces and garrisons in Italy, Portugal and Spain) |
6 March 1712 | Southampton | u* | Adam de Cardonnel | Roger Harris | Expulsion |
15 March 1712 | Launceston | u | Francis Scobell | Francis Scobell | Receiver General of Cornwall |
17 March 1712 | Cardigan Boroughs | u | John Meyrick | Owen Brigstocke | Appointed Puisne Judge of the Anglesey Circuit |
2 April 1712 | Boston | c | William Cotesworth | William Cotesworth | Previous by-election declared void |
7 April 1712 | King's Lynn | u | Robert Walpole | John Turner | Void Election. Walpole declared incapable of being re-elected |
5 May 1712 | Lewes | u* | Peter Gott | John Morley Trevor | Death |
2 July 1712 | Scarborough | u* | John Hungerford | John Hungerford | Commissioner of the Alienation Office |
4 July 1712 | York | u | Robert Benson | Robert Benson | Chancellor of the Exchequer |
9 July 1712 | Lostwithiel | u | John Hill | John Hill | Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance |
13 July 1712 | Somerset | u* | Sir William Wyndham | Sir William Wyndham | Secretary at War |
16 July 1712 | Hereford | u* | Thomas Foley | Thomas Foley | Lord of Trade |
18 July 1712 | Cambridge | u* | John Hynde Cotton | John Hynde Cotton | Lord of Trade |
18 July 1712 | Cambridge University | u* | Dixie Windsor | Dixie Windsor | Storekeeper of the Ordnance |
18 July 1712 | Newport (I.o.w.) | u* | William Stephens | William Stephens | Victualling Commissioner |
22 July 1712 | Devon | c* | Sir William Pole | Sir William Courtenay | Master of the Household |
23 July 1712 | Berkshire | u* | Henry St John | Robert Packer | Elevated to the peerage |
25 July 1712 | Hythe | u | William Berners | The Viscount Shannon | Death |
30 July 1712 | Hampshire | u | Sir Simeon Stuart | Sir Simeon Stuart | Chamberlain of the Exchequer |
30 July 1712 | Herefordshire | u* | John Prise | Sir Thomas Morgan | Resignation (Commissioner of Excise) |
7 August 1712 | Sussex | u | Charles Eversfield | Charles Eversfield | Paymaster and Treasurer of the Ordnance |
9 January 1713 | Knaresborough | u* | Robert Byerley | Robert Byerley | Commissioner of the Privy Seal |
15 April 1713 | Westminster | u* | Thomas Medlycott | Thomas Medlycott | Irish Revenue Commissioner |
17 April 1713 | Sandwich | u* | Sir Henry Furnese | John Michel | Death |
20 April 1713 | Malmesbury | u* | Thomas Farrington | Sir John Rushout | Death |
20 April 1713 | New Romney | u* | Walter Whitfield | Edward Watson | Death |
20 April 1713 | West Looe | u* | Arthur Maynwaring | John Trelawny | Death |
22 April 1713 | Castle Rising | u | Horatio Walpole | Horatio Walpole | Irish Revenue Commissioner |
22 April 1713 | East Retford | u* | Willoughby Hickman | Francis Lewis | Death |
22 April 1713 | Wigan | u* | Henry Bradshaigh | George Kenyon | Death |
23 April 1713 | Clitheroe | u* | Christopher Parker | Thomas Lister | Death |
23 April 1713 | Tregony | c | Viscount Rialton | Edward Southwell | Succeeded to a peerage |
24 April 1713 | Steyning | u | The Lord Bellew of Duleek | Robert Leeves | Previous by-election declared void |
30 April 1713 | Monmouthshire | u | James Gunter | Thomas Lewis | Death |
9 May 1713 | Dumfries Burghs | u* | John Hutton | Sir William Johnstone | Death |
4th Parliament (1713–1715)
Date | Constituency | c/u | Former Incumbent | Winner | Cause |
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12 March 1714 | Guildford | c* | Sir Richard Onslow | Denzil Onslow | Chose to sit for Surrey |
12 March 1714 | Higham Ferrers | u* | Thomas Watson Wentworth | Charles Leigh | Chose to sit for Malton |
13 March 1714 | Wendover | u | Richard Hampden | James Stanhope | Chose to sit for Berwick-upon-Tweed |
15 March 1714 | Knaresborough | u | Christopher Stockdale | Francis Fawkes | Death |
15 March 1714 | Ripon | u | John Sharp | John Sharp | Lord of Trade |
15 March 1714 | Salisbury | u | Charles Fox | Sir Stephen Fox | Death |
15 March 1714 | Penryn | c* | Alexander Pendarves | Samuel Trefusis | Surveyor General of Crown Lands |
15 March 1714 | Winchester | u* | George Rodney Brydges | George Brydges | Death |
u | Thomas Lewis | John Popham | Chose to sit for Hampshire | ||
15 March 1714 | Wallingford | c | Simon Harcourt | Thomas Renda | Chose to sit for Abingdon |
16 March 1714 | Whitchurch | u* | Thomas Vernon | Thomas Vernon | Lord of Trade |
17 March 1714 | Haslemere | u* | Thomas Onslow | Nicholas Carew | Chose to sit for Bletchingley |
17 March 1714 | Much Wenlock | u* | William Whitmore | Richard Newport | Chose to sit for Bridgnorth |
18 March 1714 | Amersham | u | The Viscount Fermanagh | James Herbert | Chose to sit for Buckinghamshire |
18 March 1714 | Hastings | c | Sir Joseph Martin | Sir Joseph Martin | Commissary for Commercial Negotiations with France |
20 March 1714 | Dartmouth | u* | Frederick Herne | John Fownes | Commissioner for Settling Trade with France and Death |
22 March 1714 | Bossiney | u | John Manley | Paul Orchard | Death |
24 March 1714 | Ludgershall | c | John Richmond Webb | John Ward | Chose to sit for Newport (I.o.w.) |
24 March 1714 | New Woodstock | u* | William Cadogan | William Cadogan | Void Election |
Sir Thomas Wheate | Sir Thomas Wheate | ||||
30 March 1714 | Andover | u | Sir Ambrose Crowley | Gilbert Searle | Death |
5 April 1714 | Elgin Burghs | u* | James Murray | James Murray | Commissary for Commercial Negotiations with France |
12 April 1714 | Helston | c | Charles Coxe | Thomas Tonkin | Chose to sit for Gloucester |
Henry Campion | Alexander Pendarves | Chose to sit for Sussex | |||
15 April 1714 | Forfarshire | u* | John Carnegie | John Carnegie | Solicitor General for Scotland |
22 April 1714 | Leicester | u* | Sir George Beaumont | Sir George Beaumont | Lord of the Admiralty |
30 April 1714 | Stockbridge | u | Richard Steele | The Earl of Barrymore | Expulsion |
3 May 1714 | Southwark | c* | John Lade | John Lade | Void Election |
Fisher Tench | Fisher Tench | ||||
4 May 1714 | Droitwich | u* | Edward Jeffreys | Edward Jeffreys | Puisne Justice of Chester |
7 May 1714 | Sutherland | u* | William Morison | Sir William Gordon | Chose to sit for Peeblesshire |
17 May 1714 | Harwich | c(*) | Thomas Davall | Thomas Heath | Death |
c | Thomas Heath | Benedict Calvert | By-election result reversed on petition 29 June 1714 | ||
17 May 1714 | Knaresborough | u | Robert Byerley | Henry Slingsby | Death |
1 June 1714 | Cricklade | c | William Gore | Samuel Robinson | Chose to sit for Colchester |
5 June 1714 | Leicestershire | u* | Viscount Tamworth | Sir Geoffrey Palmer | Death |
18 June 1714 | Tewkesbury | c* | Charles Dowdeswell | Anthony Lechmere | Death |
12 August 1714 | Truro | u | Thomas Hare | Thomas Hare | First Register and Clerk of the Crown in Barbados |
References
- List of MPs since 1660
- Return of the name of every member of the lower house of parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency represented, and date of return, from 1213 to 1874.
- The House of Commons 1690-1715, edited by David Hayton (Cambridge University Press 2002) ISBN 0521772214