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Ripon was a constituency sending members to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1983, centred on the town of Ripon in North Yorkshire.

History

Ripon was first represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and also returned members in 1307 and 1337, but it was not permanently represented until 1553, after which it returned two Members of Parliament. It was a parliamentary borough consisting only of the town of Ripon itself until the Great Reform Act of 1832; the right to vote was vested in the holders of the burgage tenements, but voting was rare for the last contested election in Ripon before the Reform Act had been in 1715! By 1832 it was estimated that there were 43 men qualified to vote, though the population of the borough was over 5,000.

A population of this size made Ripon one of the more substantial boroughs, and after the Reform Act it kept its right to return two members, though the boundaries of the borough were slightly extended to bring in another 600 people living in the neighbouring parish of Aismunderby-cum-Bondgate. However, the next Reform Act, which came into force at the 1868 election, reduced Ripon's representation from two MPs to one.

The Reform Act of 1885 abolished the borough of Ripon, but the county constituency in which the town was placed as a result was named Ripon (strictly speaking, at first, "The Ripon Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire"), and this continued as a single member constituency, though with some boundary changes, until it was abolished before the 1983 general election. Until 1950 it included, as well as Ripon itself, the towns of Harrogate and Knaresborough; after that date they were excluded, but the boundaries instead took in Ilkley and Otley.

Members of Parliament

  • Constituency re-created (1553)

1553–1640

1640-1867

Year First member First party Second member Second party
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | November 1640 William Mallory Royalist John Mallory Royalist
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | September 1642 William Mallory disabled to sit - seat vacant
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | January 1644 John Mallory disabled to sit - seat vacant
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1645 Sir Charles Egerton Miles Moody (d. March 1647)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1647 Sir John Bourchier
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | December 1648 Egerton excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1653 Ripon was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | January 1659 Edmund Jennings Jonathan Jennings
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | April 1660 Henry Arthington Edmund Jennings
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1661 John Nicholas Thomas Burwell
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1673 Sir Edmund Jennings
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | February 1679 Richard Sterne
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | August 1679 Christopher Wandesford
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1685 Gilbert Dolben Sir Edmund Jennings
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1689 Sir Jonathan Jennings Sir Edward Blackett
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1690 Sir Edmund Jennings
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1691 Jonathan Jennings
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1695 John Aislabie Tory
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1701 John Sharp
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1702 Sir William Hustler
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | 1705 John Aislabie[1] Tory, later Country Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1715 The Viscount Castlecomer
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1719 William Aislabie the elder
rowspan="10" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1721 William Aislabie the younger Tory
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1722 John Scrope
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1727 William Aislabie the third
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1734 Thomas Duncombe
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | 1741 Hon. Henry Vane Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1747 Sir Charles Vernon
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1761 William Lawrence
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1768 Charles Allanson
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1775 William Lawrence Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1780 Frederick Robinson Tory
rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1781 William Lawrence Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1787 Sir John Goodricke Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1789 Sir George Allanson-Winn[2] Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | April 1798 John Heathcote Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | October 1798 Sir James Graham Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1806 The Lord Headley Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1807 Frederick John Robinson Tory George Gipps Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1826 Lancelot Shadwell Tory
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1827 Louis Hayes Petit Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1828 Sir Robert Inglis Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1829 George Spence Tory
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | 1831 Whig Whig
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | 1832 Thomas Staveley Whig Joshua Crompton Whig
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1835 Sir Charles Dalbiac Conservative Thomas Pemberton Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1837 Sir Edward Sugden Conservative
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1841 Sir George Cockburn Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1843 Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith Conservative
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1846 Hon. Edwin Lascelles Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" | 1847 Sir James Graham Peelite
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1852 William Beckett Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1857 John Ashley Warre Liberal John Greenwood Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1860 Reginald Vyner Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1865 Sir Charles Wood Liberal Robert Kearsley Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1866 Lord John Hay Liberal
1868 Representation reduced to one member
  1. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons in 1721 for his role in the South Sea Bubble
  2. ^ Lord Headley (in the peerage of Ireland) from 1797

1868-1983

Year Member Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1868 Lord John Hay Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1871 by-election Sir Henry Knight Storks Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1874 Earl de Grey Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1880 George Goschen Liberal
1885 Ripon parliamentary borough abolished, replaced by Ripon Division of the West Riding (county constituency)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1885 William Harker Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1886 John Lloyd Wharton Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1906 Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Jan. 1910 Hon. Edward Wood Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1925 by-election John Waller Hills Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1939 by-election Christopher York Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1950 Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1973 by-election David Austick Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Feb 1974 Dr Keith Hampson Conservative
1983 constituency abolished: see Skipton and Ripon

See also

References

  • 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) [1]
  • F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949" (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
  • 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)
  • "The Constitutional Year Book for 1913" (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
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