List of MPs elected in the 1761 British general election facts for kids
List of MPs elected in the 1761 British general election
| 10th Parliament | (1747) |
| 11th Parliament | (1754) |
| 12th Parliament | (1761) |
| 13th Parliament | (1768) |
| 14th Parliament | (1774) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1761, the 12th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | David Scott – died Replaced by Sir John Lindsay 1767 |
Administration ? |
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | Lord Adam Gordon | Administration |
| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | John Morton | Tory |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Cholmley | Administration |
| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | Andrew Wilkinson – took office Replaced by Viscount Villiers 1765 |
Administration |
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Philip Fonnereau | |
| Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) | Zachary Philip Fonnereau | Administration |
| Amersham (seat 1/2) | Benet Garrard – died Replaced by John Affleck 1767 |
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| Amersham (seat 2/2) | William Drake, Sr | Tory |
| Andover (seat 1/2) | Francis Blake Delaval | Opposition Whig |
| Andover (seat 2/2) | John Griffin Whitwell | Administration |
| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | Owen Meyrick | Whig |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Henry Erskine, Bt – died Replaced by Sir John Anstruther 1766 |
Administration |
| Appleby (seat 1/2) | John Stanwix – died Replaced by Charles Jenkinson 1767 |
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| Appleby (seat 2/2) | Philip Honywood | Administration |
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Dugald Campbell – took office Replaced by Lord William Campbell 1764 – took office Replaced by Robert Campbell 1766 |
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| Arundel (seat 1/2) | George Colebrooke | Opposition Whig |
| Arundel (seat 2/2) | John Bristow | |
| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | John Harris of Hayne – died Replaced by Robert Palk 1767 |
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| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Hon. Thomas Walpole | |
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | John Wilkes – expelled Replaced by Anthony Bacon 1764 |
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| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | Welbore Ellis | |
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | Lord Frederick Campbell – sat for Glasgow Burghs Replaced by Alexander Wedderburn 1761 |
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| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | Archibald Montgomerie | Whig |
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Lord North | Administration |
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | Hon. James Duff | Whig (doubtful) |
| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | Denys Rolle | |
| Barnstaple (seat 2/2) | Sir George Amyand – died Replaced by John Clevland 1766 |
Whig Whig |
| Bath (seat 1/2) | Sir John Ligonier – resigned Replaced by Sir John Sebright 1763 |
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| Bath (seat 2/2) | William Pitt – ennobled Replaced by John Smith 1766 |
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| Beaumaris (seat 1/1) | Richard Thelwall Price | Tory |
| Bedford (seat 1/2) | Francis Herne | |
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | Richard Vernon | Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | Marquess of Tavistock – died Replaced by The 1st Earl of Upper Ossory 1767 |
Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Henley-Ongley | Tory |
| Bedwyn | see Great Bedwyn | ... |
| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | Sir Francis Henry Drake | Administration |
| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Hobart | |
| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | Arthur Vansittart | |
| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | Henry Pye – died Replaced by Thomas Craven 1766 |
Tory . |
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | James Pringle | |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | Thomas Watson – resigned Replaced by Wilmot Vaughan 1765 |
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| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | John Craufurd – died Replaced by John Delaval 1765 |
. Opposition Whig |
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | Michael Newton | |
| Beverley (seat 2/2) | George Tufnell | |
| Bewdley (seat 1/1) | Sir Edward Winnington | |
| Bishops Castle (seat 1/2) | Francis Child – died Replaced by George Clive 1763 |
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| Bishops Castle (seat 2/2) | Peregrine Cust | |
| Bletchingley (seat 1/2) | Sir Kenrick Clayton, Bt | Administration |
| Bletchingley (seat 2/2) | (Sir) Charles Whitworth | |
| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | John Parker – resigned to contest Devon Replaced by Sir Christopher Treise 1762 |
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| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | George Hunt | Administration |
| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Sir Cecil Bishopp | |
| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | Brice Fisher – died Replaced by James West 1767 |
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| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | John Richmond Webb – died Replaced by Lord Mount Stuart 1766 |
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| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | Edward Wortley Montagu | Opposition Whig |
| Boston (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Bertie | Administration |
| Boston (seat 2/2) | John Michell – died Replaced by Charles Amcotts 1766 |
Tory |
| Brackley (seat 1/2) | Marshe Dickinson – died Replaced by Viscount Hinchingbrooke 1765 |
Tory . |
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | Robert Wood | |
| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Andrew Archer – sat for Coventry Replaced by The Lord Winterton 1761 |
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| Bramber (seat 2/2) | William Fitzherbert – resigned to contest Derby Replaced by George Venables Vernon 1762 |
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| Brecon (seat 1/1) | Thomas Morgan, Jr – resigned to contest Monmouthshire Replaced by Charles Morgan 1763 |
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| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Morgan | Administration |
| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | John Grey | Administration |
| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | William Whitmore | Administration |
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | The 2nd Earl of Egmont – ennobled Replaced by Viscount Perceval 1762 |
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| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | Edward Southwell – resigned to contest Gloucestershire Replaced by The Lord Coleraine 1763 |
Administration |
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | Sir Gerard Napier – died Replaced by Benjamin Way 1765 |
Tory |
| Bridport (seat 2/2) | Thomas Coventry | Administration |
| Bristol (seat 1/2) | Robert Nugent | Administration |
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Jarrit Smith | |
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | James Grenville | Administration |
| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | George Grenville | Administration |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Sir William Stanhope | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Richard Lowndes | Tory |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Fitzroy | |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Augustus John Hervey – resigned Replaced by William Hervey 1763 |
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| Buteshire (seat 1/1) | James Stuart – died Replaced by Henry Wauchope 1762 |
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir John Wynn, Bt | |
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet | |
| Caithness (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Bute-shire. No representation in 1761 | |
| Callington (seat 1/2) | Richard Stevens | |
| Callington (seat 2/2) | Fane William Sharpe | |
| Calne (seat 1/2) | Thomas Duckett – died Replaced by John Calcraft 1766 |
Tory |
| Calne (seat 2/2) | Daniel Bull – took office Replaced by Thomas FitzMaurice 1762 |
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| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | Soame Jenyns | |
| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | Charles Sloane Cadogan | |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | Marquess of Granby | |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Royston Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt 1764 |
Administration |
| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | Edward Finch | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Thomas Townshend | |
| Camelford (seat 1/2) | Samuel Martin | |
| Camelford (seat 2/2) | Bartholomew Burton | |
| Canterbury (seat 1/2) | Richard Milles | |
| Canterbury (seat 2/2) | Thomas Best | |
| Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Herbert Mackworth, Sr – died Replaced by Herbert Mackworth 1766 |
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| Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet | |
| Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) | John Pugh Pryse | |
| Carlisle (seat 1/2) | Raby Vane | |
| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | Henry Curwen | |
| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | The Earl Verney | |
| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | George Rice | |
| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | Charles Boone | |
| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Hon. Thomas Howard | |
| Cheshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Cholmondeley | |
| Cheshire (seat 2/2) | Samuel Egerton | |
| Chester (seat 1/2) | Richard Wilbraham-Bootle | |
| Chester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Grosvenor | |
| Chichester (seat 1/2) | Lord George Henry Lennox – resigned to contest Sussex Replaced by William Keppel 1767 |
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| Chichester (seat 2/2) | John Page | |
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | Edward Bayntun-Rolt | |
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | Samuel Fludyer – died Replaced by Sir Thomas Fludyer 1768 |
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| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Viscount FitzMaurice – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Isaac Barré 1761 |
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| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | Robert Waller | |
| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Robinson | |
| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | James Harris | |
| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | James Whitshed | Tory |
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | John Dawnay | Tory |
| City of Durham | see Durham (City of) | ... |
| City of London | see London (City of) | ... |
| Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) | James Abercromby | |
| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lister – died Replaced by Nathaniel Lister 1761 |
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| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | Assheton Curzon | |
| Clyde Burghs | see Glasgow Burghs | ... |
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | Sir John Mordaunt | |
| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | Charles Jenkinson – took office Replaced by John Elliot 1767 |
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| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Charles Gray | Tory |
| Colchester (seat 2/2) | Isaac Martin Rebow | Whig |
| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | Viscount Malpas – died Replaced by John Bond 1764 |
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| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | Henry Bankes – took office Replaced by John Campbell 1762 |
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| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | James Buller – died Replaced by Sir John Molesworth 1765 |
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| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | Sir John St Aubyn, Bt | |
| County Durham | see Durham (County) | ... |
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | James Hewitt – took office Replaced by Henry Seymour Conway 1766 |
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| Coventry (seat 2/2) | Hon. Andrew Archer | |
| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | Arnold Nesbitt | |
| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Thomas Gore | |
| Cromartyshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Nairnshire – unrepresented in this Parliament | |
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | Sir James Lowther – sat for Westmorland Replaced by Sir Wilfrid Lawson 1761 – died Replaced by Sir James Lowther 1762 |
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| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | Sir John Pennington, Bt | |
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | John Jeffreys – died Replaced by Richard Hopkins 1766 |
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| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | Richard Howe | |
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Richard Myddelton | |
| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton | |
| Derby (seat 1/2) | Lord Frederick Cavendish | Administration |
| Derby (seat 2/2) | George Venables-Vernon – ennobled Replaced by William Fitzherbert 1762 |
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| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Lord George Cavendish | |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Bt. | Tory |
| Devizes (seat 1/2) | William Willy – died Replaced by James Sutton 1765 |
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| Devizes (seat 2/2) | John Garth – died Replaced by Charles Garth 1765 |
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| Devon (seat 1/2) | Sir William Courtenay – ennobled Replaced by John Parker 1762 |
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| Devon (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde | |
| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | The 1st Baron Milton – ennobled Replaced by John Damer 1762 |
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| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Foster – died Replaced by William Ewer 1765 |
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| Dorset (seat 1/2) | Humphry Sturt | |
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | George Pitt | Tory |
| Dover (seat 1/2) | Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke | |
| Dover (seat 2/2) | Edward Simpson – died Replaced by Marquess of Lorne 1765 – ennobled Replaced by John Bindley 1766 |
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| Downton (seat 1/2) | Charles Pratt – took office Replaced by Thomas Pym Hales 1762 |
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| Downton (seat 2/2) | James Hayes | |
| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Thomas Foley | |
| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Robert Harley | |
| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Miller – took office Replaced by James Montgomery 1766 |
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| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Lt Gen Archibald Douglas | |
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | John Campbell – ennobled Replaced by Archibald Edmonstone 1761 |
Tory |
| Dunwich (seat 1/2) | Henry Fox – ennobled Replaced by Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, Bt 1763- died Replaced by Miles Barne 1764 |
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| Dunwich (seat 2/2) | Eliab Harvey | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) | John Tempest | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) | Henry Lambton – died Replaced by Ralph Gowland 1761- election reversed on petition Replaced by John Lambton 1762 |
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| Durham (County) (seat 1/2) | Robert Shafto | |
| Durham (County) (seat 2/2) | Hon. Frederick Vane | |
| Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Oswald | |
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | Earl of Middlesex – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Sir Charles Farnaby 1765 |
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| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | Lord George Sackville – sat for Hythe Replaced by Sir Thomas Hales 1761 – died Replaced by John Irwin 1762 |
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| East Looe (seat 1/2) | Francis Gashry – died Replaced by The Viscount Palmerston 1762 |
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| East Looe (seat 2/2) | John Buller | |
| East Retford (seat 1/2) | John White | Administration |
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | John Shelley | |
| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | George Lind – took office Replaced by James Coutts 1762 |
Administration |
| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Alexander Gilmour | |
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | Andrew Mitchell | |
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | James Grant | |
| Essex (seat 1/2) | William Harvey – died Replaced by John Luther 1763 |
Tory |
| Essex (seat 2/2) | Sir William Maynard | |
| Evesham (seat 1/2) | Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet | |
| Evesham (seat 2/2) | John Rushout | |
| Exeter (seat 1/2) | John Tuckfield – died Replaced by William Spicer 1767 |
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| Exeter (seat 2/2) | John Rolle Walter | |
| Eye (seat 1/2) | Henry Cornwallis – died Replaced by Henry Townshend 1761 – died Replaced by The Viscount Allen 1762 |
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| Eye (seat 2/2) | Viscount Brome – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Richard Burton 1762 |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | James St. Clair – died Replaced by James Wemyss 1763 |
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| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet | |
| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn | |
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | The 1st Earl Panmure | |
| Fowey (seat 1/2) | Jonathan Rashleigh – died Replaced by Philip Rashleigh 1765 |
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| Fowey (seat 2/2) | George Edgcumbe – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Robert Walsingham 1761 |
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Brand | |
| Gatton (seat 2/2) | James Colebrooke – died Replaced by Edward Harvey 1761 |
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| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Edmond Thomas – died Replaced by Richard Turbervill 1767 |
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| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Lord Frederick Campbell | |
| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | George Augustus Selwyn | |
| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | Charles Barrow | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Chester – died Replaced by Edward Southwell 1763 |
Tory |
| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Norborne Berkeley – resigned Replaced by Thomas Tracy 1763 |
Tory |
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Merrick Burrell | |
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Simon Fanshawe | |
| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Sir John Cust, Bt | |
| Grantham (seat 2/2) | Lord George Manners | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | Thomas Cotes – died Replaced by Sir Thomas Fludyer 1767 |
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| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | William Woodley – took office Replaced by William Burke 1766 |
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| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | Henry Knight – died Replaced by The Lord Luxborough 1762 |
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| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | Joseph Mellish | |
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | William Clayton | |
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | William Mathew Burt | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | Charles Townshend of Honingham | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Walpole | |
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet | |
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | George Onslow | |
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Hew Dalrymple | |
| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | Andrew Fletcher | |
| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | Henry Bilson Legge – died Replaced by Sir Richard Mill 1765 |
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| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Simeon Stuart | |
| Harwich (seat 1/2) | Charles Townshend – died Replaced by Thomas Bradshaw 1767 |
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| Harwich (seat 2/2) | John Roberts | |
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | Thomas More Molyneux | |
| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | Philip Carteret Webb | |
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | Hon. James Brudenell | |
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | William Ashburnham | |
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | William Edwardes | |
| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Charles Saunders | |
| Hedon (seat 2/2) | Peter Denis | |
| Helston (seat 1/2) | Francis Godolphin – succeeded to peerage Replaced by William Windham 1766 |
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| Helston (seat 2/2) | John Evelyn – died Replaced by William Evelyn 1767 |
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| Hereford (seat 1/2) | Charles Fitzroy Scudamore | |
| Hereford (seat 2/2) | John Symons – died Replaced by John Scudamore 1764 |
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| Herefordshire (seat 1/2) | Velters Cornewall | |
| Herefordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir John Morgan – died Replaced by Thomas Foley 1767 |
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| Hertford (seat 1/2) | John Calvert | |
| Hertford (seat 2/2) | Timothy Caswall | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Plumer Byde | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | Jacob Houblon | |
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | William A'Court | Administration |
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | Pierce A'Court-Ashe | Administration |
| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | John Yorke | |
| Hindon (seat 1/2) | Professor William Blackstone | |
| Hindon (seat 2/2) | Edward Morant | |
| Honiton (seat 1/2) | Henry Reginald Courtenay – died Replaced by Sir George Yonge 1763 |
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| Honiton (seat 2/2) | John Duke | |
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | Charles Ingram – ennobled Replaced by Robert Pratt 1763 |
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| Horsham (seat 2/2) | Sir Lionel Pilkington | |
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | Edward Montagu | |
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | Robert Jones | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) | The 1st Baron Carysfort | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Mandeville – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Lord Charles Greville Montagu 1762 – took office Replaced by Robert Bernard 1765 |
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| Hythe (seat 1/2) | Lord George Sackville | |
| Hythe (seat 2/2) | William Glanville – died Replaced by William Amherst 1765 |
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | Joseph Tolson Lockyer – died Replaced by Peter Legh 1765 |
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| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | The Earl of Egmont – sat for Bridgwater Replaced by William Wilson 1761 |
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| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Alexander Grant, Bt | |
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | Simon Fraser | |
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | The Lord Orwell | |
| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | Thomas Staunton | |
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Sir Wyndham Knatchbull Wyndham – died Replaced by Sir Brook Bridges 1763 |
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| Kent (seat 2/2) | Robert Fairfax | Administration |
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Carnegie, Bt – died Replaced by Sir Alexander Ramsay Irvine 1765 |
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| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Horace Walpole | |
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Sir John Turner | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Manners | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | Sir George Montgomery Metham – took office Replaced by William Weddell 1766 |
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| Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Clackmannanshire. No representation in 1761 | |
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | John Mackye | |
| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | Lord John Cavendish | Rockingham Whig |
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Slingsby – died Replaced by Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy 1763 |
Rockingham Whig |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | Daniel Campbell | |
| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Lord Strange | |
| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | James Shuttleworth | |
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | (Sir) George Warren | |
| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Francis Reynolds | |
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | Peter Burrell | |
| Launceston (seat 2/2) | Humphry Morice | |
| Leicester (seat 1/2) | George Wrighte – died Replaced by John Darker 1766 |
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| Leicester (seat 2/2) | James Wigley – died Replaced by Anthony James Keck 1765 |
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| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Palmer – died Replaced by Sir John Palmer | 1765 |
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| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | Edward Smith – died Replaced by Sir Thomas Cave 1762 |
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| Leominster (seat 1/2) | Chase Price – resigned Replaced by Edward Willes 1767 – took office Replaced by John Carnac 1768 |
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| Leominster (seat 2/2) | Jenison Shafto | |
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Thomas Sergison – died Replaced by Lord Edward Bentinck 1766 |
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| Lewes (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Poole – died Replaced by William Plumer 1763 |
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| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | John Levett Replaced on petition by Hugo Meynell 1762 |
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| Lichfield (seat 2/2) | Thomas Anson | Administration |
| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | George Monson | |
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Coningsby Sibthorp | |
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Brownlow Bertie | |
| Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Whichcot | |
| Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Lockhart-Ross | |
| Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) | Charles Hope-Weir | |
| Liskeard (seat 1/2) | Philip Stephens | |
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | Anthony Champion | |
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Sir William Meredith | |
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | Sir Ellis Cunliffe – died Replaced by Richard Pennant 1767 |
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| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | Sir Richard Glyn | |
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | Sir Robert Ladbroke | |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | William Beckford | |
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | Thomas Harley | |
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | George Howard – took office Replaced by Viscount Beauchamp 1766 |
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| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | James Edward Colleton | |
| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | Thomas Whately | |
| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | John Paterson | |
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Edward Herbert | |
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | Henry Bridgeman | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | Thomas Fane – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Lord Burghersh 1762 |
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| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | Henry Fane | |
| Lymington (seat 1/2) | Adam Drummond | |
| Lymington (seat 2/2) | Harry Burrard | |
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Rose Fuller | Whig |
| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | William Northey | Tory |
| Maldon (seat 1/2) | John Bullock | |
| Maldon (seat 2/2) | Bamber Gascoyne – took office Replaced by John Huske 1763 |
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| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | Thomas Conolly | |
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | The Earl Tylney | |
| Malton (seat 1/2) | Henry Finch – died Replaced by Savile Finch 1761 |
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| Malton (seat 2/2) | John Mostyn | |
| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | Lord Brudenell – ennobled Replaced by James Long 1762 |
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| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Colonel the Hon. Robert Brudenell | |
| Marlow | see Great Marlow | ... |
| Melcombe Regis | see Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | ... |
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | William Vaughan | |
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, Bt | Administration |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | George Cooke | Tory |
| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | William Hamilton – resigned Replaced by Bamber Gascoyne 1765 |
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| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | John Burgoyne | |
| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | Edward Walter | |
| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | Thomas Medlycott – died Replaced by Thomas Hutchings Medlycott 1763 |
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| Minehead (seat 1/2) | Henry Shiffner | |
| Minehead (seat 2/2) | The Earl of Thomond | |
| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | John Stephenson | |
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | James Scawen | |
| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Benjamin Bathurst – died Replaced by John Stepney 1767 |
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| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | William Morgan – died Replaced by Thomas Morgan 1763 |
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| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | Capel Hanbury – died Replaced by John Hanbury 1766 |
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| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | Richard Clive | |
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | Edward Kynaston | |
| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Viscount Garlies | |
| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | Thomas Duncombe | |
| Much Wenlock (seat 1/2) | see Wenlock | ... |
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| Nairnshire (seat 1/1) | Pryse Campbell | |
| Newark (seat 1/2) | John Manners | |
| Newark (seat 2/2) | Thomas Thoroton | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | Henry Vernon – died Replaced by Sir Lawrence Dundas 1762 |
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| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | John Waldegrave – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Thomas Gilbert 1763 |
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| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Sir Walter Calverley Blackett | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | Matthew Ridley | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | John Lee – died Replaced by William de Grey 1761 |
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| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | Richard Bull | |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Charles Holmes – died Replaced by William Rawlinson Earle 1762 |
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| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Thomas Lee Dummer – died Replaced by Thomas Dummer 1765 |
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| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Edward Lewis | |
| New Romney (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Dering | Tory |
| New Romney (seat 2/2) | Thomas Knight | |
| New Shoreham (seat 1/2) | Sir William Peere Williams – died Replaced by The Lord Pollington 1761 |
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| New Shoreham (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Midleton – died Replaced by Samuel Cornish 1765 |
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| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) | Randle Wilbraham | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) | Peter Legh | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir John Barrington | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Harcourt Powell | |
| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | Augustus Keppel | |
| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | John Fitzwilliam | |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | The 2nd Viscount Bateman | |
| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | Anthony Keck – died Replaced by William Gordon 1767 |
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| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Armine Wodehouse | Tory |
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | George Townshend – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Thomas de Grey 1764 |
Whig |
| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Daniel Lascelles | |
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Edward Lascelles | |
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | Spencer Compton – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Lucy Knightley 1763 |
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| Northampton (seat 2/2) | Frederick Montagu | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Edmund Isham, Bt | Tory |
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | William Cartwright | |
| Northern Burghs | see Tain Burghs | ... |
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | George Shafto Delaval | |
| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Grey, 2nd Baronet | |
| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Harbord Harbord | |
| Norwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Bacon | |
| Nottingham (seat 1/2) | William Howe | |
| Nottingham (seat 2/2) | John Plumptre | |
| Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Manners-Sutton – died Replaced by Thomas Willoughby 1762 |
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| Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) | John Thornhagh later Hewett | |
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | Alexander Forrester | |
| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | Wenman Coke | |
| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pitt – died Replaced by Thomas Pitt 1761 |
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| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | Howell Gwynne | |
| Orford (seat 1/2) | John Offley | |
| Orford (seat 2/2) | Thomas Worsley | |
| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | James Douglas | |
| Oxford (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Stapleton | |
| Oxford (seat 2/2) | Robert Lee | |
| Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Charles Spencer | Whig |
| Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir James Dashwood | Tory |
| Oxford University (seat 1/2) | Peregrine Palmer Replaced by Sir Walter Bagot, Bt |
Tory Tory |
| Oxford University (seat 2/2) | Sir Roger Newdigate, Bt | Tory |
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | John Dickson – died Replaced by Adam Hay 1767 |
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| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir William Owen, Bt | |
| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Sir John Philipps – died Replaced by Sir Richard Philipps 1765 |
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| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Turner – died Replaced by Francis Basset 1766 |
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| Penryn (seat 2/2) | George Brydges Rodney | |
| Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) | George Dempster | |
| Perthshire (seat 1/1) | John Murray – ennobled Replaced by David Graeme 1764 |
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| Peterborough (seat 1/2) | Matthew Lamb | |
| Peterborough (seat 2/2) | Armstead Parker | Tory |
| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | John Jolliffe | |
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Richard Pennant – resigned to contest Liverpool Replaced by Richard Croftes 1767 |
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| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | The 2nd Viscount Barrington | |
| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | George Pocock | |
| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | William Baker | |
| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | George Treby – died Replaced by George Hele Treby 1761 – died Replaced by Paul Henry Ourry 1763 |
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| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | The 2nd Viscount Galway | |
| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | William Gerard Hamilton | |
| Poole (seat 1/2) | Joseph Gulston – resigned Replaced by Joseph Gulston 1765 |
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| Poole (seat 2/2) | Thomas Calcraft | |
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Hawke | |
| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bt | |
| Preston (seat 1/2) | Nicholas Fazackerley – died Replaced by Sir Peter Leicester 1767 |
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| Preston (seat 2/2) | Edmund Starkie | |
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | Charles Frederick | |
| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Peircy Brett | |
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| Radnor Boroughs | see New Radnor Boroughs | ... |
| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Marquess of Carnarvon | Whig |
| Reading (seat 1/2) | John Dodd | Whig |
| Reading (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Knollys | |
| Reigate (seat 1/2) | Charles Cocks | |
| Reigate (seat 2/2) | Charles Yorke | Whig |
| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | Patrick Craufurd | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | Sir Ralph Milbanke | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Earl of Ancram – resigned Replaced by Thomas Dundas 1763 |
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| Ripon (seat 1/2) | William Aislabie | doubtful |
| Ripon (seat 2/2) | William Lawrence | |
| Rochester (seat 1/2) | Viscount Parker – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Sir Charles Hardy 1764 |
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| Rochester (seat 2/2) | Isaac Townsend – died Replaced by Grey Cooper 1765 |
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| Romney | see New Romney | ... |
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | James Stuart Mackenzie | |
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | Walter Scott – took office Replaced by Gilbert Elliot 1765 |
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| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Thomas Noel | Tory |
| Rutland (seat 2/2) | Hon. Thomas Chambers Cecil | |
| Rye (seat 1/2) | Phillips Gybbon – died Replaced by John Norris 1762 |
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| Rye (seat 2/2) | John Bentinck | |
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | James West | |
| St Albans (seat 2/2) | Viscount Nuneham | |
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | Edward Eliot | |
| St Germans (seat 2/2) | Philip Stanhope – resigned Replaced by William Hussey 1765 |
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| St Ives (seat 1/2) | Humphrey Mackworth Praed | |
| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Charles Hotham | |
| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | James Newsham | |
| St Mawes (seat 2/2) | Richard Hussey | |
| St Michael's | see Mitchell | ... |
| Salisbury (seat 1/2) | Hon. Edward Bouverie | |
| Salisbury (seat 2/2) | Julines Beckford – died Replaced by Samuel Eyre 1765 |
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| Saltash (seat 1/2) | John Clevland – died Replaced by Augustus John Hervey 1763 |
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| Saltash (seat 2/2) | George Adams | Whig |
| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | George Hay | |
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Conyngham | |
| Sarum | see Old Sarum or for New Sarum see Salisbury | ... |
| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | John Major | |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | William Osbaldeston – died Replaced by Fountayne Wentworth Osbaldeston 1766 |
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| Seaford (seat 1/2) | William Hall Gage | |
| Seaford (seat 2/2) | James Peachey | |
| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | Gilbert Elliot – resigned to contest Roxburghshire Replaced by John Pringle 1765 |
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| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | Sir Gilbert Heathcote | Whig |
| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Samuel Touchet | Whig |
| Shoreham | see New Shoreham | ... |
| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | Thomas Hill | |
| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Robert Clive | Tory |
| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Astley, Bt | Tory |
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Richard Lyster – died Replaced by Charles Baldwyn 1766 |
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| Somerset (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Kemys Tynte | |
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | Thomas Prowse – died Replaced by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 1767 |
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| Southampton (seat 1/2) | Hans Stanley | |
| Southampton (seat 2/2) | Henry Dawkins | |
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | Joseph Mawbey | |
| Southwark (seat 2/2) | Alexander Hume – died Replaced by Henry Thrale 1765 |
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| Stafford (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Richard Chetwynd | |
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | William Richard Chetwynd- died Replaced by John Crewe 1765 |
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| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | William Bagot | Tory |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | Lord Grey | Whig |
| Stamford (seat 1/2) | John Chaplin – died Replaced by George René Aufrère 1765 |
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| Stamford (seat 2/2) | George Bridges Brudenell | |
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | Frazer Honywood – died Replaced by Richard Fuller 1764 |
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| Steyning (seat 2/2) | John Thomlinson – died Replaced by Sir John Filmer 1767 |
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| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | Francis Holburne | |
| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | James Campbell | |
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | George Prescott | |
| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | Nicholas Linwood | |
| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | Thomas Fonnereau | |
| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | John Henniker | |
| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt | |
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Rowland Holt | Tory |
| Surrey (seat 1/2) | George Onslow | |
| Surrey (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Vincent | |
| Sussex (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pelham | Whig |
| Sussex (seat 2/2) | John Butler – died Replaced by Lord George Henry Lennox 1767 |
. Rockingham Whig |
| Sutherland (seat 1/1) | Hon. Alexander Mackay | |
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Scott | |
| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas Villiers | |
| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | Viscount Villiers – took office Replaced by Edward Thurlow 1765 |
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| Taunton (seat 1/2) | The 3rd Baron Carpenter – died Replaced by Laurence Sulivan 1762 |
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| Taunton (seat 2/2) | Robert Maxwell | |
| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Richard Rigby | |
| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Richard Neville Neville | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | Nicolson Calvert | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | Sir William Codrington | Tory |
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | Henry Seymour Conway | Rockingham Whig |
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk | |
| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Henry Grenville – took office Replaced by James Grenville 1765 |
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| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | Thomas Frankland | |
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Ryder | |
| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Hussey Montagu – ennobled Replaced by Charles Gore 1762 – died Replaced by John Duntze 1768 |
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| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Browse Trist – resigned Replaced by Henry Seymour 1763 |
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| Totnes (seat 2/2) | Richard Savage Lloyd | |
| Tregony (seat 1/2) | William Trevanion – died Replaced by Thomas Pownall 1767 |
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| Tregony (seat 2/2) | Abraham Hume | |
| Truro (seat 1/2) | Edward Boscawen John Boscawen – died Replaced by Edward Hugh Boscawen 1767 |
Tory Tory |
| Truro (seat 2/2) | Lt General the Hon. George Boscawen | Tory |
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | John Hervey – died Replaced by Sir George Pigot 1765 |
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| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | Sir John Gibbons, Bt | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | Thomas Erle Drax | |
| Wareham (seat 2/2) | John Pitt | |
| Warwick (seat 1/2) | Viscount Dungarvan – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Paul Methuen 1762 |
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| Warwick (seat 2/2) | Henry Archer | |
| Warwickshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Mordaunt | |
| Warwickshire (seat 2/2) | William Craven – succeeded to peerage Replaced by William Throckmorton Bromley 1765 |
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| Wells (seat 1/2) | The Lord Digby – ennobled Replaced by double return Robert Child/Peter Taylor 1765 Replaced by Robert Child 1765 |
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| Wells (seat 2/2) | Clement Tudway | |
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | Richard Chandler-Cavendish | |
| Wendover (seat 2/2) | Verney Lovett – resigned Replaced by Edmund Burke 1765 |
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| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | Cecil Forester | |
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | Brooke Forester | |
| Weobley (seat 1/2) | Marquess of Titchfield – succeeded to peerage Replaced by William Lynch 1762 |
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| Weobley (seat 2/2) | Henry Frederick Thynne | |
| Westbury (seat 1/2) | Chauncy Townsend | |
| Westbury (seat 2/2) | Peregrine Bertie | |
| West Looe (seat 1/2) | William Trelawny – took office Replaced by James Townsend 1767 |
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| West Looe (seat 2/2) | Francis Buller died Replaced by John Sargent 1765 |
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| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Edward Cornwallis – took office Replaced by Edwin Sandys 1762 |
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| Westminster (seat 2/2) | Viscount Pulteney – died Replaced by Lord Warkworth 1763 |
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| Westmorland (seat 1/2) | Sir James Lowther – resigned to contest Cumberland Replaced by Robert Lowther 1763 – resigned Replaced by John Robinson 1764 |
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| Westmorland (seat 2/2) | John Upton | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) | Sir Francis Dashwood – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Charles Walcott 1763 |
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| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) | The Lord Waltham – died Replaced by Richard Jackson 1762 |
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| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | Richard Glover | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | John Tucker | |
| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | George Jennings | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | Thomas Townshend | |
| Wigan (seat 1/2) | Fletcher Norton | |
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | Simon Luttrell | |
| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | Archibald Montgomerie – sat for Ayrshire Replaced by Keith Stewart 1762 Replaced by |
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| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | John Hamilton – resigned to contest Wigtown Burghs Replaced by James Murray 1762 |
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| Wilton (seat 1/2) | Robert Herbert | |
| Wilton (seat 2/2) | Nicholas Herbert | |
| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Long, Bt – died Replaced by Thomas Goddard 1767 |
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| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Edward Popham | |
| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | The Earl of Thomond – took office Replaced by Thomas Sewell 1761 |
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| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | Thomas Orby Hunter | |
| Winchester (seat 1/2) | Henry Penton | |
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | Lord Harry Powlett – succeeded to peerage Replaced by George Paulet 1765 |
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| Windsor | see New Windsor | ... |
| Woodstock | see New Woodstock | ... |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | Major the Hon. Henry St John | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | Thomas Estcourt Cresswell | |
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | John Walsh | |
| Worcester (seat 2/2) | Henry Crabb-Boulton | |
| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | John Ward | |
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | William Dowdeswell | |
| Wycombe | see Chipping Wycombe | ... |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Thomas Holmes – died Replaced by John Eames 1765 |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Henry Holmes – died Replaced by Jeremiah Dyson 1762 |
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| Yarmouth (Norfolk) | see Great Yarmouth | ... |
| York (seat 1/2) | Sir George Armytage | |
| York (seat 2/2) | Robert Fox-Lane | Tory |
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | Edwin Lascelles | Tory |
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | Sir George Savile | |
By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1754–74)
See also
- 1761 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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