List of MPs elected in the 1768 British general election facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain |
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| Overview | |||||
| Jurisdiction | Kingdom of Great Britain | ||||
| Meeting place | Palace of Westminster | ||||
| Term | January 1, 1768 – October 1, 1774 | ||||
| Government | Grafton ministry North ministry |
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| House of Commons of Great Britain | |||||
| Members | 558 | ||||
| Leader | Lord North | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| 11th Parliament | (1754) |
| 12th Parliament | (1761) |
| 13th Parliament | (1768) |
| 14th Parliament | (1774) |
| 15th Parliament | (1780) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain at the 1768 British general election, the 13th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Lyon | Pro-Administration Whig | |
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Garden | Independent | |
| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | John Morton | Tory, Replaced on petition by Nathaniel Bayly, 1770 | |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk | ||
| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | Andrew Wilkinson | Whig. Vacated seat and replaced by Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, 1772 | |
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Zachary Philip Fonnereau | ||
| Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) | Nicholas Linwood | Died and replaced by Thomas Fonnereau | |
| Amersham (seat1/2) | William Drake, Sr. | Tory | |
| Amersham (seat 2/2) | William Drake, Jr. | Tory | |
| Andover (seat 1/2) | Sir John Griffin | ||
| Andover (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Lethieullier | ||
| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | Owen Meyrick | Whig. Died and replaced by Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, 1770 | |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir John Anstruther | ||
| Appleby (seat 1/2) | Philip Honywood | ||
| Appleby (seat 2/2) | Charles Jenkinson | Whig, Vacated seat and replaced by Fletcher Norton, 1773 | |
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Campbell | Appointed to Crown office and replaced by Adam Livingston, 1772 | |
| Arundel (seat 1/2) | Sir George Colebrooke, Bt. | ||
| Arundel (seat 2/2) | Lauchlin Macleane | Vacated seat and replaced by John Stewart, 1771 | |
| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | Laurence Sulivan | ||
| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Charles Boone | ||
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | Anthony Bacon | ||
| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | John Durand | ||
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Archibald Stuart | ||
| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | David Kennedy | ||
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Frederick North, Lord North | Tory | |
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | James Duff | ||
| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | John Clevland | Whig | |
| Barnstaple (seat 2/2) | Denys Rolle | ||
| Bath (seat 1/2) | Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet | ||
| Bath (seat 2/2) | John Smith | ||
| Beaumaris (seat 1/1) | Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet | ||
| Bedford (seat 1/2) | Richard Vernon | Whig | |
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | Samuel Whitbread | Tory | |
| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory | Whig | |
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Ongley | Tory | |
| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | Sir Francis Drake, 5th Baronet | Appointed to Crown office and replaced by Francis William Drake,1771 | |
| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Hobart | ||
| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | Arthur Vansittart | Tory | |
| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Craven | Died and replaced by John Elwes, 1772 | |
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | Sir John Hussey Delaval | ||
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | Robert Paris Taylor | ||
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | Sir James Pringle, 4th Baronet | ||
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | Hugh Bethell | ||
| Beverley (seat 2/2) | Charles Anderson-Pelham | ||
| Bewdley (seat 1/1) | Thomas Lyttelton | Evicted on petition and replaced by Sir Edward Winnington, 1st Baronet, 1769 | |
| Bishops Castle (seat 1/2) | George Clive | ||
| Bishops Castle (seat 2/2) | William Clive | Vacated seat and replaced by Alexander Wedderburn, 1770 | |
| Bletchingley (seat 1/2) | Sir Kenrick Clayton, 2nd Baronet | Died and replaced by Frederick Standert | |
| Bletchingley (seat 2/2) | Robert Clayton | ||
| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | George Hunt | ||
| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | James Laroche | ||
| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Cholmley | ||
| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | James West | Died and replaced by Henry Clinton, 1772 | |
| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart | ||
| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | Henry Lawes Luttrell | Vacated seat and replaced by Sir George Osborn, 4th Baronet, 1769 | |
| Boston (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Bertie | ||
| Boston (seat 2/2) | Charles Amcotts | ||
| Brackley (seat 1/2) | Robert Wood | Died and replaced by Timothy Caswall, 1771 | |
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | William Egerton | ||
| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Edward Garth-Turnour, Baron Winterton | Replaced on petition by Thomas Thoroton, 1769 | |
| Bramber (seat 2/2) | Charles Lowndes | Replaced on petition by Charles Ambler, 1769 | |
| Brecon (seat 1/1) | Charles Morgan | Vacated seat and replaced by John Morgan, 1769. John Morgan also vacated seat and replaced by Charles Van, 1774. | |
| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Morgan | Died and replaced by Charles Morgan, 1769 | |
| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | The Lord Pigot | ||
| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | William Whitmore | Died and replaced by Thomas Whitmore | |
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | Benjamin Allen | ||
| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | John James Perceval, Viscount Perceval | Replaced on petition by Hon. Anne Poulett, 1769 | |
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | Thomas Coventry | ||
| Bridport (seat 2/2) | Sambrooke Freeman | ||
| Bristol (seat 1/2) | Robert Nugent, Vicount Clare | ||
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Matthew Brickdale | ||
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | George Grenville | Grenvillite. Died and replaced by James Grenville, 1770 | |
| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | Henry Grenville | Grenvillite | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Richard Lowndes | ||
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Ralph Verney, Earl Verney | ||
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Fitzroy | ||
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Augustus John Hervey | ||
| Buteshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Caithness. No representation in 1768 | ||
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Glyn Wynn | ||
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet | ||
| Caithness (seat 1/1) | Viscount Fortrose | ||
| Callington (seat 1/2) | Fane William Sharpe | Died and replaced by William Skrine | |
| Callington (seat 2/2) | Thomas Worsley | ||
| Calne (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice | ||
| Calne (seat 2/2) | John Dunning | ||
| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | Charles Sloane Cadogan | ||
| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | Soame Jenyns | ||
| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | John Manners, Marquess of Granby | Manners died and replaced by Sir Sampson Eardley, Bt, 1770 | |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt | ||
| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | Charles Yorke | Rockingham Whig. Appointed to Crown office and replaced by William de Grey, 1770. Grey then also appointed to Crown office and replaced by Richard Croftes, 1771 | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Thomas Townshend | Whig | |
| Camelford (seat 1/2) | Charles Phillips | ||
| Camelford (seat 2/2) | William Wilson | ||
| Canterbury (seat 1/2) | William Lynch | ||
| Canterbury (seat 2/2) | Richard Milles | ||
| Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Herbert Mackworth | ||
| Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Pryse Campbell | Whig. Died and replaced by Ralph Congreve, 1769 | |
| Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) | Viscount Lisburne | ||
| Carlisle (seat 1/2) | Lord Edward Bentinck | ||
| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | George Musgrave | ||
| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | Griffith Philipps | ||
| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | George Rice | ||
| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | Thomas Whately | Whig. Died and replaced by Heneage Finch, 1772 | |
| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Jenison Shafto | Died and replaced by Crisp Molineux, 1771 | |
| Cheshire (seat 1/2) | Samuel Egerton | ||
| Cheshire (seat 2/2) | John Crewe | Whig | |
| Chester (seat 1/2) | Thomas Grosvenor | ||
| Chester (seat 2/2) | Richard Wilbraham-Bootle | ||
| Chichester (seat 1/2) | William Keppel | ||
| Chichester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Conolly | ||
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt | ||
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Fludyer | Died and replaced by Henry Dawkins, 1769 | |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Robert Waller | ||
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | Isaac Barré | Whig | |
| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas Robinson | Ennobled and replaced by James Harris, jnr | |
| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | James Harris | Whig | |
| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | Estcourt Creswell | ||
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | James Whitshed | ||
| Clackmannanshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Kinross-shire. No representation in 1768 | ||
| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Lister | Vacated seat and replaced by Thomas Lister, 1773 | |
| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | Assheton Curzon | ||
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | Sir George Macartney | Vacated seat and replaced by Sir James Lowther, 1769 | |
| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | Charles Jenkinson | Sat for Appleby and replaced by George Johnstone, RN | |
| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Charles Gray | Tory | |
| Colchester (seat 2/2) | Isaac Martin Rebow | Whig | |
| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | John Bond | ||
| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | John Jenkinson | ||
| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | Sir John St Aubyn, 4th Baronet | Died and replaced by Humphrey Mackworth-Praed, 1772 | |
| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | Sir John Molesworth, Bt | ||
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway | ||
| Coventry (seat 2/2) | Hon. Andrew Archer | Ennobled and replaced by Sir Richard Glyn, Bt, 1768. Glyn died and replaced by Walter Waring, 1773 | |
| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | George Damer | ||
| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Fletcher | ||
| Cromartyshire (seat 1/1) | William Pulteney | ||
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | Henry Curwen | ||
| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale | Replaced on petition by Sir Henry Fletcher, Bt, 1768 | |
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | Richard Howe, Viscount Howe | ||
| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | Richard Hopkins | ||
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Richard Myddelton | ||
| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet | ||
| Derby (seat 1/2) | Lord Frederick Cavendish | ||
| Derby (seat 2/2) | William Fitzherbert | Died and replaced by Wenman Coke, 1772 | |
| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Lord George Cavendish | Whig | |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | Godfrey Bagnall Clarke | Tory | |
| Devizes (seat 1/2) | Charles Garth | ||
| Devizes (seat 2/2) | James Sutton | ||
| Devon (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Bampfylde, Bt | ||
| Devon (seat 2/2) | John Parker | ||
| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | John Damer | ||
| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Ewer | ||
| Dorset (seat 1/2) | George Pitt | ||
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | Humphrey Sturt | ||
| Dover (seat 1/2) | Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke | ||
| Dover (seat 2/2) | Viscount Villiers | Ennobled and replaced by Sir Thomas Hales, 4th Baronet, 1770. Hales died and was replaced by Thomas Barret, 1773. | |
| Downton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Duncombe | ||
| Downton (seat 2/2) | Richard Croftes | Vacated seat and replaced by James Hayes | |
| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Thomas Foley, later Lord Foley | Whig. Sat for Herefordshire and was replaced by Edward Foley, 1768. Edward Foley vacated seat and was replaced by Rowland Berkeley | |
| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Robert Harley | Tory. Died and replaced by Andrew Foley, 1774 | |
| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Douglas | ||
| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Archibald Douglas | ||
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet | Tory | |
| Dunwich (seat 1/2) | Gerard Vanneck | ||
| Dunwich (seat 2/2) | Miles Barne | ||
| Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) | William Henry Lambton | Whig | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) | John Tempest | ||
| Durham (County) (seat 1/2) | Hon. Frederick Vane | ||
| Durham (County) (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet | ||
| Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Townsend Oswald | ||
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | Lord George Sackville | ||
| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | John Irwin | ||
| East Looe (seat 1/2) | Richard Hussey | ||
| East Looe (seat 2/2) | John Buller | ||
| East Retford (seat 1/2) | Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet | ||
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | John Offley | ||
| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | Sir Lawrence Dundas | Pro-Administration Whig | |
| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Alexander Gilmour | ||
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | Andrew Mitchell | Died and replaced by Thomas Lockhart, 1771 | |
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | Francis Grant | ||
| Essex (seat 1/2) | John Luther | ||
| Essex (seat 2/2) | Sir William Maynard, 4th Baronet | Died and replaced by John Conyers, 1772 | |
| Evesham (seat 1/2) | John Rushout | ||
| Evesham (seat 2/2) | George Durant | ||
| Exeter (seat 1/2) | John Rolle Walter | ||
| Exeter (seat 2/2) | John Buller | ||
| Eye (seat 1/2) | Joshua Allen, Viscount Allen | Vacated seat and replaced by Richard Burton Phillipson, 1770 | |
| Eye (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Cornwallis | Vacated seat and replaced by Marquis of Carmarthen, 1774 | |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | John Scott | Died and replaced by James Townsend Oswald, 1776. Oswald appointed to Crown office and replaced by Robert Skene, 1779. Skene replaced on petition by John Henderson, 1780 | |
| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir John Glynne, Bt | ||
| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt | ||
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | William Maule, Earl Panmure | ||
| Fowey (seat 1/2) | Philip Rashleigh | ||
| Fowey (seat 2/2) | James Modyford Heywood | ||
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | Hon. John Damer | ||
| Gatton (seat 2/2) | Joseph Martin | ||
| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | George Venables-Vernon | ||
| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Lord Frederick Campbell | ||
| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | Charles Barrow | ||
| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | George Augustus Selwyn | ||
| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Tracy | Died and replaced by Sir William Guise, Bt | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Edward Southwell | ||
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Grey Cooper | ||
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Charles Wolfran Cornwall | ||
| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Lord George Manners-Sutton | ||
| Grantham (seat 2/2) | Sir John Cust, Bt | Died and replaced by Francis Cust, 1770 | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | Hon. James Brudenell | Vacated seat and replaced by William Northey, 1768. Northey died and was replaced by Benjamin Hopkins, 1771 | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | Hon. Robert Brudenell | Chose to sit for Marlborough and replaced by William Burke, 1768 | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | Anthony St Leger | ||
| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | Joseph Mellish | ||
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | William Clayton | ||
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | William Dickinson (1745-1806) | ||
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | Charles Townshend | ||
| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Walpole | ||
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Sir Fletcher Norton | ||
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | George Onslow | ||
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | Patrick Warrender | ||
| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | Sir George Suttie, Bt | Vacated seat and replaced 1777 by William Hamilton Nisbet | |
| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | Robert Henley | Ennobled and replaced 1772 by Sir Henry St John, Bt | |
| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Simeon Stuart, Bt | ||
| Harwich (seat 1/2) | John Roberts | Died and replaced 1772 by Charles Jenkinson | |
| Harwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Harvey | ||
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | Thomas More Molyneux | ||
| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | William Burrell | Appointed to Crown office and replaced 1774 by Sir Merrick Burrell, Bt | |
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | William Ashburnham | ||
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | Samuel Martin | ||
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | William Edwardes | ||
| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Saunders | ||
| Hedon (seat 2/2) | Beilby Thompson | ||
| Helston (seat 1/2) | William Evelyn | ||
| Helston (seat 2/2) | Earl of Clanbrassil | ||
| Hereford (seat 1/2) | John Scudamour | ||
| Hereford (seat 2/2) | Richard Symons | ||
| Herefordshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Foley snr | ||
| Herefordshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Foley jnr | ||
| Hertford (seat 1/2) | John Calvert | ||
| Hertford (seat 2/2) | William Cowper | Died and replaced 1770 by Paul Fielde | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | William Plumer | ||
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Halsey | ||
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore | ||
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | William Ashe-à'Court | ||
| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | Frederick Montagu | ||
| Hindon (seat 1/2) | John St Leger Douglas | ||
| Hindon (seat 2/2) | William Hussey | ||
| Honiton (seat 1/2) | Sir George Yonge, Bt | ||
| Honiton (seat 2/2) | Brass Crosby | ||
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | James Grenville | Vacated seat and replaced 1770 by James Wallace | |
| Horsham (seat 2/2) | Robert Pratt | ||
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | Henry Seymour | ||
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | Robert Jones | Jones died and replaced 1774 by Hon. William Augustus Montagu | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | ||
| Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) | The Earl Ludlow | ||
| Hythe (seat 1/2) | John Sawbridge | ||
| Hythe (seat 2/2) | William Evelyn | ||
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | Peter Legh | ||
| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | Sir Brownlow Cust | ||
| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Hector Munro | ||
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | Simon Fraser | ||
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | William Wollaston | ||
| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | Thomas Staunton | ||
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Sir Brook Bridges, Bt | Whig | |
| Kent (seat 2/2) | John Frederick Sackville | Ennobled and replaced 1769 by Sir Charles Farnaby | |
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Rickart Hepburn | ||
| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Thomas Walpole | ||
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Sir John Turner, Bt | ||
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | William Weddell | ||
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | Lord Robert Manners | ||
| Kinross-shire (seat 1/1) | Robert Adam | ||
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | James Murray | ||
| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | Robert Boyle-Walsingham | ||
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Anthony Abdy, Bt | Rockingham Whig | |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | John Lockhart-Ross | ||
| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Lord Archibald Hamilton | Vacated seat and replaced 1772 by Sir Thomas Egerton | |
| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange | Died and replaced 1771 by Viscount Molyneux | |
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | Sir George Warren | ||
| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Francis Reynolds | Died and replaced 1773 by Lord Richard Cavendish | |
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | Humphry Morice | ||
| Launceston (seat 2/2) | William Amherst | ||
| Leicester (seat 1/2) | Hon. Booth Grey | ||
| Leicester (seat 2/2) | Eyre Coote | ||
| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Cave, Bt | ||
| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | Sir John Palmer, Bt | ||
| Leominster (seat 1/2) | John Bateman, Viscount Bateman | ||
| Leominster (seat 2/2) | John Carnac | ||
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Thomas Hampden | ||
| Lewes (seat 2/2) | Thomas Hay | ||
| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | Thomas Anson | Vacated seat and replaced 1770 by George Adams (later Anson) | |
| Lichfield (seat 2/2) | Thomas Gilbert | ||
| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | Thomas Scrope | ||
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Constantine Phipps | ||
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Brownlow Bertie | ||
| Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Whichcot | ||
| Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Lockhart-Ross | Sat for Lanarkshire and replaced 1768 by James Dickson. Dickson died and was replaced 1772 by Sir James Cockburn, Bt | |
| Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) | John Hope (writer) | Replaced on petition 1770 by James Dundas | |
| Liskeard (seat 1/2) | Edward Eliot | ||
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | Samuel Salt | ||
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Sir William Meredith, Bt | ||
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | Richard Pennant | ||
| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | Hon. Thomas Harley | ||
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | Sir Robert Ladbroke | Died and replaced 1773 by Frederick Bull | |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | William Beckford | Died and replaced 1770 by Richard Oliver | |
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | Barlow Trecothick | ||
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | Henry Cavendish | ||
| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | Charles Brett | ||
| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | John Stewart, Lord Garlies | Ennobled and replaced 1774 by Whitshed Keene | |
| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | Peniston Lamb | ||
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Edward Herbert | Died and replaced 1770 by Thomas Herbert | |
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | William Fellowes | ||
| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | John Fane, Lord Berghersh | Ennobled and replaced in 1772 by Henry Fane | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | Henry Fane | ||
| Lymington (seat 1/2) | Adam Drummond | Chose to sit for St Ives and replaced 1769 by Hugo Meynell | |
| Lymington (seat 2/2) | Harry Burrard | ||
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Marsham | ||
| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | Robert Gregory | ||
| Maldon (seat 1/2) | John Huske | Died and replaced 1773 by Charles Rainsford | |
| Maldon (seat 2/2) | John Bullock | ||
| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | Arthur Chichester, Earl of Donegall | ||
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk | ||
| Malton (seat 1/2) | John Dawnay, Viscount Downe | ||
| Malton (seat 2/2) | Savile Finch | ||
| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | Robert Brudenell | Died and replaced 1768 by Hon. James Brudenell | |
| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Sir James Long, Bt | ||
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | John Pugh Pryse | ||
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | John Wilkes | Radical - for the controversy around his election see Middlesex election affair | |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | George Cooke | Tory, Died and replaced 1768 by John Glynn | |
| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | Lord Stavordale | ||
| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | Charles James Fox | Whig | |
| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | Edward Walter | ||
| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott | Vacated seat and replaced 1770 by Robert Knight, Earl of Catherlough. Catherlough died and replaced 1772 by Richard Combe. Combe replaced on petition 1772 by George Prescott | |
| Minehead (seat 1/2) | Henry Fownes Luttrell | ||
| Minehead (seat 2/2) | Charles Whitworth | ||
| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | James Scawen | ||
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | John Stephenson | ||
| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | John Stepney | ||
| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Morgan | Died and replaced 1771 by John Morgan | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | John Hanbury | ||
| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | Richard Clive | Died and replaced 1771 by Frederick Cornewall | |
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | Edward Kynaston | Died and replaced 1772 by Watkin Williams | |
| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Peter Beckford | ||
| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt | ||
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| Nairnshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Cromartyshire. No representation in 1768 | ||
| Newark (seat 1/2) | John Manners | ||
| Newark (seat 2/2) | John Shelley | ||
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | John Wrottesley | Vacated seat and replaced 1768 by George Hay | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | Alexander Forrester | ||
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Sir Walter Calverley Blackett | ||
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | Matthew Ridley | ||
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | William de Grey | Vacated seat and replaced 1770 by Richard Henry Alexander Bennet | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | Richard Bull | ||
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | John Eames | Appointed to Crown office and replaced by Hon. John St John | |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Hans Sloane | ||
| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | John Lewis | Replaced on petition 1769 by Edward Lewis | |
| New Romney (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Dering, Bt | Vacated seat and replaced 1760 by John Morton | |
| New Romney (seat 2/2) | Richard Jackson | ||
| New Shoreham (seat 1/2) | Sir Samuel Cornish, Bt | Died and replaced 1770 by John Purling. Purling replaced on petition 1770 by Thomas Rumbold | |
| New Shoreham (seat 2/2) | Peregrine Cust | ||
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) | Peter Legh | ||
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) | Anthony James Keck | ||
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir John Barrington, Bt | ||
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Harcourt Powell | ||
| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | Augustus Keppel | ||
| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | Lord George Beauclerk | Died and replaced 1768 by Richard Tonson. Tonson died and replaced 1772 by John Montagu | |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Spencer | Vacated seat and replaced 1771 by John Skynner | |
| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | William Gordon | ||
| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | ||
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | Thomas de Grey | ||
| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Daniel Lascelles | ||
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Edward Lascelles | ||
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | George Brydges Rodney | ||
| Northampton (seat 2/2) | Sir George Osborn | Osborn replaced on petition 1769 by Hon. Thomas Howe. Howe died and replaced 1771 by Wilbraham Tollemache | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Edmund Isham, Bt | ||
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | Sir William Dolben, Bt | ||
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | George Shafto Delaval | ||
| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Blackett, Bt | ||
| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Harbord Harbord | ||
| Norwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Bacon | ||
| Nottingham (seat 1/2) | John Plumptre | ||
| Nottingham (seat 2/2) | Colonel the Hon. (Sir) William Howe | ||
| Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Willoughby | ||
| Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) | John Hewett | ||
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pitt | ||
| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Brand | Died and replaced 1770 by Hon. Richard FitzPatrick | |
| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | William Gerard Hamilton | ||
| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | John Craufurd | ||
| Orford (seat 1/2) | Viscount Beauchamp | ||
| Orford (seat 2/2) | Edward Colman | Appointed to Crown office and replaced 1771 by Hon. Robert Seymour-Conway | |
| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | Thomas Dundas | Pro-Administration Whig | |
| Oxford (seat 1/2) | George Nares | Nares appointed to Crown office and replaced 1771 by Lord Robert Spencer | |
| Oxford (seat 2/2) | William Harcourt | ||
| Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Charles Spencer | Whig | |
| Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Wenman | ||
| Oxford University (seat 1/2) | Sir Roger Newdigate, Bt | ||
| Oxford University (seat 2/2) | Francis Page | ||
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | James William Montgomery | ||
| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | William Owen | ||
| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Richard Philipps, Bt | Election declared void. Replaced 1770 by Hugh Owen | |
| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Francis Basset | Died and replaced 1770 by William Lemon | |
| Penryn (seat 2/2) | Hugh Pigot | ||
| Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Pulteney | Whig. Sat for Cromartyshire and replaced 1769 by George Dempster | |
| Perthshire (seat 1/1) | David Graeme | Vacated seat and replaced 1773 by James Murray | |
| Peterborough (seat 1/2) | Sir Matthew Lamb, Bt | Died and replaced 1768 by Henry Belasyse, Viscount Belasyse. Belasyse ennobled and replaced 1774 by Richard Benyon | |
| Peterborough (seat 2/2) | Matthew Wyldbore | Whig | |
| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | William Jolliffe | ||
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Welbore Ellis | ||
| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Barrington | ||
| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | Francis Holburne | Died and replaced 1771 by Sir Charles Hardy | |
| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | Paul Henry Ourry | ||
| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | William Baker | ||
| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | Viscount Galway | Election declared void but Galway re-elected, 1768. Died and replaced 1772 by 3rd Viscount Galway | |
| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | Sir Rowland Winn, Bt | Election declared void and Winn replaced by Sir Henry Strachey, Bt, 1768 | |
| Poole (seat 1/2) | Thomas Calcraft | ||
| Poole (seat 2/2) | Joshua Mauger | Election declared void but Mauger re-elected, 1768 | |
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Hawke | ||
| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Matthew Fetherstonhaugh | Died and replaced 1774 by Peter Taylor | |
| Preston (seat 1/2) | Sir Peter Byrne Leicester | Replaced on petition 1768 by Colonel John Burgoyne | |
| Preston (seat 2/2) | Sir Frank Standish, Bt | Replaced on petition 1768 by Sir Harry Hoghton, Bt | |
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Frederick | ||
| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Peircy Brett | ||
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| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Chase Price | ||
| Reading (seat 1/2) | Henry Vansittart | ||
| Reading (seat 2/2) | John Dodd | ||
| Reigate (seat 1/2) | John Yorke | ||
| Reigate (seat 2/2) | Charles Cocks | ||
| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | William Macdowall | ||
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt | Sat for Edinburgh and replaced 1768 by William Norton | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Alexander Wedderburn | Vacated seat and replaced 1769 by Charles John Crowle | |
| Ripon (seat 1/2) | William Aislabie | ||
| Ripon (seat 2/2) | Charles Allanson | ||
| Rochester (seat 1/2) | John Calcraft | Died and replaced 1772 by George Finch-Hatton | |
| Rochester (seat 2/2) | William Gordon | Vacated seat and replaced 1771 by Thomas Pye | |
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | James Stuart-Mackenzie | ||
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bt | ||
| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Thomas Noel | ||
| Rutland (seat 2/2) | George Bridges Brudenell | ||
| Rye (seat 1/2) | John Norris | ||
| Rye (seat 2/2) | Rose Fuller | ||
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | Richard Sutton | ||
| St Albans (seat 2/2) | John Radcliffe | ||
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | Edward Eliot | Whig. Sat for Liskeard and replaced 1768 by Benjamin Langlois. | |
| St Germans (seat 2/2) | Samuel Salt | Sat for Liskeard and replaced 1768 by George Jennings | |
| St Ives (seat 1/2) | Thomas Durrant | ||
| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Adam Drummond | ||
| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | Edmund Nugent | Vacated seat and replaced 1770 by Michael Byrne. Byrne died and was replaced 1772 by James Edward Colleton | |
| St Mawes (seat 2/2) | George Boscawen | ||
| Salisbury (seat 1/2) | Edward Bouverie | Vacated seat and replaced 1771 by Viscount Folkestone | |
| Salisbury (seat 2/2) | Hon. Stephen Fox | ||
| Saltash (seat 1/2) | Martin Bladen hawke | ||
| Saltash (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bradshaw | Appointed to Crown office and replaced May 1772 by John Williams. Williams replaced on petition June 1772 by Thomas Bradshaw. | |
| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | Viscount Conyngham | ||
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | Philip Stephens | ||
| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | George Manners | Died and replaced 1772 by George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell | |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | Fountayne Wentworth Osbaldeston | Died and replaced 1770 by Sir James Pennyman, Bt. | |
| Seaford (seat 1/2) | William Gage, Viscount Gage | ||
| Seaford (seat 2/2) | George Medley | ||
| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | John Pringle | ||
| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | William Chaffin Grove | ||
| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Ralph Payne | Appointed to Crown office and replaced 1771 by Francis Sykes | |
| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | Noel Hill | ||
| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Robert Clive, Baron Clive | Tory | |
| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Astley, Bt | Died and replaced 1772 by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bt | |
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Charles Baldwyn | ||
| Somerset (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Tynte, Bt | ||
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | Richard Hippisley Coxe | ||
| Southampton (seat 1/2) | Hans Stanley | ||
| Southampton (seat 2/2) | Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston | ||
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | Henry Thrale | ||
| Southwark (seat 2/2) | Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bt | ||
| Stafford (seat 1/2) | Richard Whitworth | ||
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Chetwynd, Viscount Chetwynd | Died and replaced 1770 by William Neville Hart | |
| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | George Grey, Lord Grey | Ennobled and replaced 1768 by Sir John Wrottesley, Bt | |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | William Bagot | ||
| Stamford (seat 1/2) | George Howard | ||
| Stamford (seat 2/2) | George René Aufrère | ||
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | Sir John Filmer | ||
| Steyning (seat 2/2) | Thomas Edwards-Freeman | ||
| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Masterton | Pro-Administration Whig | |
| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Dundas | Pro-Administration Whig | |
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | Richard Alchorne Worge | Vacated seat and replaced 1772 by James Hare | |
| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | Richard Fuller | ||
| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | Sir Patrick Blake, Bt | ||
| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | Walden Hanmer | ||
| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Sir John Rous, Bt | Died and replaced 1771 by Rowland Holt | |
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt | ||
| Surrey (seat 1/2) | George Onslow | ||
| Surrey (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Vincent, Bt | ||
| Sussex (seat 1/2) | Lord George Lennox | ||
| Sussex (seat 2/2) | Thomas Pelham | Ennobled and replaced 1768 by Richard Harcourt | |
| Sutherland (seat 1/1) | James Wemyss | ||
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | Alexander Mackay | Vacated seat and replaced 1773 by James Grant | |
| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | William de Grey | Sat for Newport and replaced 1768 by Charles Vernon | |
| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | Edward Thurlow | ||
| Taunton (seat 1/2) | Alexander Popham | ||
| Taunton (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Webb | ||
| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Richard Rigby | Whig | |
| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Richard Neville Aldworth Neville | ||
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | Sir William Codrington, Bt | Tory | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | Nicolson Calvert | ||
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | Henry Seymour Conway | Rockingham Whig | |
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | John Drummond | Died and replaced 1774 by Viscount Petersham | |
| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt | ||
| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | William Frankland | ||
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Ryder | ||
| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | John Duntze | ||
| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Philip Jennings | ||
| Totnes (seat 2/2) | Peter Burrell | ||
| Tregony (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pownall | ||
| Tregony (seat 2/2) | Hon. John Grey | ||
| Truro (seat 1/2) | George Bocawen | ||
| Truro (seat 2/2) | Edward Hugh Boscawen | ||
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | John Aubrey | ||
| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | Robert Pigot | Appointed to Crown office and replaced 1772 by John Cator | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | Ralph Burton | Died and replaced 1768 by Whitshed Keene | |
| Wareham (seat 2/2) | Robert Palk | ||
| Warwick (seat 1/2) | George Greville, Lord Greville | ||
| Warwick (seat 2/2) | Henry Archer | Died and replaced 1768 by Paul Methuen | |
| Warwickshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt | ||
| Warwickshire (seat 2/2) | William Throckmorton Bromley | ||
| Wells (seat 1/2) | Clement Tudway | ||
| Wells (seat 2/2) | Robert Child | ||
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | Edmund Burke | Whig | |
| Wendover (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Darling | Died and replaced 1770 by Joseph Bullock | |
| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | Henry Bridgeman | ||
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | George Forester | ||
| Weobley (seat 1/2) | Simon Luttrell | ||
| Weobley (seat 2/2) | Hon. Henry Thynne – took office Replaced by Bamber Gascoyne |
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| Westbury (seat 1/2) | Peregrine Bertie | ||
| Westbury (seat 2/2) | William Blackstone | Appointed to Crown office and replaced 1770 by Hon. Charles Dillon | |
| West Looe (seat 1/2) | James Townsend | Whig | |
| West Looe (seat 2/2) | William Graves | ||
| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Edwin Sandys | Ennobled and replaced by Sir Robert Bernard, Bt | |
| Westminster (seat 2/2) | Hugh Percy, Earl Percy | ||
| Westmorland (seat 1/2) | John Robinson | ||
| Westmorland (seat 2/2) | Thomas Fenwick | ||
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) | Drigue Olmius, Baron Waltham | ||
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) | Sir Charles Davers, Bt | ||
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | Jeremiah Dyson | ||
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | John Tucker | ||
| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | Thomas Townshend | Whig | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | Hon. Henry Wallop | ||
| Wigan (seat 1/2) | George Byng | ||
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | Beaumont Hotham | ||
| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | George Augustus Selwyn | Sat for Gloucester and replaced 1768 by Chauncy Townsend. Townsend died and was replaced by William Stewart | |
| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | Keith Stewart | ||
| Wilton (seat 1/2) | Hon. Nicholas Herbert | ||
| Wilton (seat 2/2) | Henry Herbert | ||
| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Edward Popham | ||
| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Goddard | Died and replaced 1770 by Charles Penruddocke | |
| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | Thomas Orby Hunter | Died and replaced 1770 by Arnold Nesbitt | |
| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, Earl of Thomond | Died and replaced 1774 by William Nedham | |
| Winchester (seat 1/2) | Henry Penton | ||
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | George Paulet | ||
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | Thomas Estcourt Cresswell | ||
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | Hon. Henry St John | ||
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | Henry Crabb-Boulton | Died and replaced 1773 by Thomas Bates Rous. By-election declared void, 1774 and Rous replaced 1774 by Nicholas Lechmere | |
| Worcester (seat 2/2) | John Walsh | ||
| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | John Ward | Ennobled and replaced 1774 by Edward Foley | |
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | William Dowdeswell | ||
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | William Strode | Replaced on petition 1769 by Thomas Dummer | |
| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Jervoise Clarke | Replaced on petition 1769 by George Lane Parker | |
| York (seat 1/2) | Lord John Cavendish | ||
| York (seat 2/2) | Charles Turner | ||
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | Sir George Savile | ||
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | Edwin Lascelles | ||
By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1754–74)
See also
- 1768 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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