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List of MPs elected in the 1780 British general election

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This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1780, the 15th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.


Table of contents:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections Changes

A

Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) Adam Drummond
Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) Alexander Garden Independent
Abingdon (seat 1/1) John Mayor – resigned
Replaced by Henry Howorth 1782 – died
Replaced by Edward Loveden Loveden 1783
Tory

Whig
Aldborough (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Sutton, Bt – sat for Sandwich
Replaced by Edward Onslow 1780 – resigned
Replaced by Sir Samuel Brudenell Fludyer, Bt 1781
Aldborough (seat 2/2) Charles Mellish – resigned
Replaced by John Gally Knight 1784
Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) Martyn Fonnereau
Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) Philip Champion Crespigny
Amersham (seat1/2) William Drake, Jr. Tory
Amersham (seat 2/2) William Drake, Sr. Tory
Andover (seat 1/2) Benjamin Lethieullier
Andover (seat 2/2) Sir John Griffin
Anglesey (seat 1/1) The Viscount Bulkeley
Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir John Anstruther – resigned
Replaced by John Anstruther 1783
Appleby (seat 1/2) William Lowther – sat for Carlisle
Replaced by William Pitt the Younger 1781
Tory
Whig
Appleby (seat 2/2) Philip Honywood
Argyllshire (seat 1/1) Lord Frederick Campbell
Arundel (seat 1/2) Sir Patrick Crauford – void election
Replaced by Peter William Baker 1781
Arundel (seat 2/2) Thomas Fitzherbert
Ashburton (seat 1/2) Robert Palk
Ashburton (seat 2/2) Charles Boone
Aylesbury (seat 1/2) Anthony Bacon
Aylesbury (seat 2/2) Thomas Orde Tory
Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) Archibald Edmonstone Tory
Ayrshire (seat 1/1) Hugh Montgomerie – unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir Adam Fergusson 1781

B

Banbury (seat 1/1) Frederick North, Lord North Tory
Banffshire (seat 1/1) James Duff
Barnstaple (seat 1/2) Francis Bassett
Barnstaple (seat 2/2) John Clevland Whig
Bath (seat 1/2) Abel Moysey
Bath (seat 2/2) Hon. John Jeffreys Pratt
Beaumaris (seat 1/1) Sir George Warren
Bedford (seat 1/2) Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet
Bedford (seat 2/2) Samuel Whitbread
Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory Whig
Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) Hon. St Andrew St John
Bere Alston (seat 1/2) Lord Algernon Percy – sat for Northumberland
Replaced by Viscount Feilding 1780
Bere Alston (seat 2/2) The Lord Macartney – resigned
Replaced by Laurence Cox 1781
Berkshire (seat 1/2) Winchcombe Henry Hartley
Berkshire (seat 2/2) John Elwes
Berwickshire (seat 1/1) Hugh Hepburne-Scott – void election re-elected1781
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) Sir John Delaval, Bt
Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) Hon. John Vaughan
Beverley (seat 1/2) Francis Evelyn Anderson
Beverley (seat 2/2) Sir James Pennyman, Bt
Bewdley (seat 1/1) William Henry Lyttelton
Bishops Castle (seat 1/2) William Clive
Bishops Castle (seat 2/2) Henry Strachey
Bletchingley (seat 1/2) John Kenrick
Bletchingley (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Clayton – resigned
Replaced by John Nicholls 1783
Bodmin (seat 1/2) William Masterman
Bodmin (seat 2/2) George Hunt
Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) Anthony Eyre
Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) Charles Ambler, KC
Bossiney (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Stuart
Bossiney (seat 2/2) Henry Lawes Luttrell
Boston (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Bertie – died
Replaced by Sir Peter Burrell 1782
Boston (seat 2/2) Humphrey Sibthorp
Brackley (seat 1/2) John William Egerton
Brackley (seat 2/2) Timothy Caswall
Bramber (seat 1/2) Thomas Thoroton – took office
Replaced by Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope 1782
Bramber (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Gough
Brecon (seat 1/1) Charles Gould,
Breconshire (seat 1/1) Charles Morgan
Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) Hugh Pigot
Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) Thomas Whitmore
Bridgwater (seat 1/2) Hon. Anne Poulett
Bridgwater (seat 2/2) Benjamin Allen – unseated on petition
Replaced by John Acland 1781
Bridport (seat 1/2) Thomas Scott
Bridport (seat 2/2) Richard Beckford
Bristol (seat 1/2) Matthew Brickdale
Bristol (seat 2/2) Sir Henry Lippincott, Bt – died
Replaced by George Daubeny 1781
Buckingham (seat 1/2) Richard Aldworth-Neville – Took office
Replaced by William Grenville 1782
Buckingham (seat 2/2) James Grenville Grenvillite
Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) Ralph Verney, Earl Verney
Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Grenville
Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Davers, Bt
Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) Henry Seymour Conway
Buteshire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Caithness. No representation in 1780

C

Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) Glyn Wynn
Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) John Parry
Caithness (seat 0/0) John Sinclair
Callington (seat 1/2) George Stratton
Callington (seat 2/2) John Morshead
Calne (seat 1/2) John Dunning – ennobled
Replaced by James Townsend 1782
Calne (seat 2/2) Isaac Barré
Cambridge (seat 1/2) James Whorwood Adeane
Cambridge (seat 2/2) Benjamin Keene
Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Manners – died
Replaced by Sir Henry Peyton, Bt 1782
Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) Viscount Royston
Cambridge University (seat 1/2) Lord John Townshend
Cambridge University (seat 2/2) James Mansfield
Camelford (seat 1/2) John Amyand
Camelford (seat 2/2) James Macpherson
Canterbury (seat 1/2) George Gipps
Canterbury (seat 2/2) Charles Robinson
Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) Sir Herbert Mackworth
Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) John Campbell
Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) Viscount Lisburne
Carlisle (seat 1/2) Earl of Surrey
Carlisle (seat 2/2) William Lowther
Carmarthen (seat 1/1) George Philipps
Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) John Vaughan II
Castle Rising (seat 1/2) John Chetwynd Talbot – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Major Sir James Erskine 1782
Castle Rising (seat 2/2) Robert Mackreth
Cheshire (seat 1/2) John Crewe Whig
Cheshire (seat 2/2) Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
Chester (seat 1/2) Richard Wilbraham-Bootle
Chester (seat 2/2) Thomas Grosvenor
Chichester (seat 1/2) William Keppel – died
Replaced by Percy Charles Wyndham 1782
Chichester (seat 2/2) Thomas Steele
Chippenham (seat 1/2) Henry Dawkins
Chippenham (seat 2/2) Giles Hudson – died
Replaced by George Fludyer 1783
Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) Viscount Mahon
Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) Robert Waller
Christchurch (seat 1/2) Sir James Harris
Christchurch (seat 2/2) James Harris – died
replaced by (Sir) John Frederick 1783
Whig
Cirencester (seat 1/2) Samuel Blackwell
Cirencester (seat 2/2) James Whitshed – resigned
Replaced by Lord Apsley 1783
Clackmannanshire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Kinross-shire. No representation in 1780
Clitheroe (seat 1/2) Thomas Lister
Clitheroe (seat 2/2) John Parker – resigned
Replaced by John Lee 1785
Cockermouth (seat 1/2) John Lowther
Cockermouth (seat 2/2) John Baynes Garforth
Colchester (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Smyth, Bt Rad. Whig
Colchester (seat 2/2) Isaac Martin Rebow – died
Replaced by Christopher Potter 1781 – on petition
Replaced by Sir Edmund Affleck, Bt 1782
Whig

Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) John Bond
Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) Henry Bankes
Cornwall (seat 1/2) Edward Eliot ennobled
Sir William Molesworth, Bt 1784
Cornwall (seat 2/2) Sir William Lemon
Coventry (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Hallifax – unseated on petition
Replaced by Edward Roe Yeo 1781– died
replaced by Hon. William Seymour-Conway 1783
Coventry (seat 2/2) Thomas Rogers – unseated on petition
Replaced by The Lord Sheffield 1781
Cricklade (seat 1/2) Paul Benfield
Cricklade (seat 2/2) John Macpherson – void election
Replaced by Hon. George St John 1782
Cromartyshire (seat 1/1) George Ross
Cumberland (seat 1/2) Henry Fletcher
Cumberland (seat 2/2) Sir James Lowther, Bt

D

Dartmouth (seat 1/2) Arthur Holdsworth
Dartmouth (seat 2/2) Richard Howe, Viscount Howe – ennobled
Replaced by Charles Brett 1782
Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) Richard Myddelton
Denbighshire (seat 1/1) Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Derby (seat 1/2) Lord George Cavendish
Derby (seat 2/2) Edward Coke
Derbyshire (seat 1/2) Lord Richard Cavendish – died
Replaced by Lord George Cavendish 1781
Whig
Whig
Derbyshire (seat 2/2) Hon. Nathaniel Curzon Tory
Devizes (seat 1/2) James Tylney Long
Devizes (seat 2/2) Charles Garth – took office
Replaced by Henry Jones 1780
Devon (seat 1/2) John Parker
Devon (seat 2/2) John Rolle
Dorchester (seat 1/2) Hon. George Damer
Dorchester (seat 2/2) William Ewer
Dorset (seat 1/2) Humphrey Sturt
Dorset (seat 2/2) Hon. George Pitt
Dover (seat 1/2) John Henniker
Dover (seat 2/2) John Trevenion
Downton (seat 1/2) Robert Shafto
Downton (seat 2/2) Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway
Droitwich (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Winnington, Bt
Droitwich (seat 2/2) Andrew Foley
Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir Robert Herries
Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) Sir Robert Laurie, Bt
Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) Lord Frederick Campbell – unseated on petition
Replaced by George Keith Elphinstone 1781
Dunwich (seat 1/2) Barne Barne
Dunwich (seat 2/2) Gerard Vanneck
Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) John Tempest
Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) John Lambton
Durham (County) (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet
Durham (County) (seat 2/2) Sir John Eden, Bt
Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir John Henderson

E

East Grinstead (seat 1/2) Lord George Germain – ennobled
Replaced by Henry Arthur Herbert 1782
East Grinstead (seat 2/2) John Irwin resigned
George Medley 1783
East Looe (seat 1/2) William Graves – resigned
Replaced by John James Hamilton 1783
East Looe (seat 2/2) John Buller
East Retford (seat 1/2) Wharton Amcotts
East Retford (seat 2/2) Lord John Pelham-Clinton – died
Replaced by Earl of Lincoln 1781
Edinburgh (seat 1/1) William Miller – unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir Lawrence Dundas 1781 – died
replaced by James Hunter Blair 1781
Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) Henry Dundas
Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) Staats Long Morris
Elginshire (seat 1/1) Lord William Gordon
Essex (seat 1/2) John Luther
Essex (seat 2/2) Thomas Berney Bramston
Evesham (seat 1/2) Charles Boughton
Evesham (seat 2/2) John Rushout
Exeter (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde
Exeter (seat 2/2) John Baring
Eye (seat 1/2) Richard Burton Phillipson
Eye (seat 2/2) Arnoldus Jones-Skelton – resigned
Replaced by Hon. William Cornwallis 1782

F

Fife (seat 1/1) Robert Skene
Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) Watkin Williams
Flintshire (seat 1/1) Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt
Forfarshire (seat 1/1) William Maule, Earl Panmure – died
Replaced by Archibald Douglas 1782
Fowey (seat 1/2) Philip Rashleigh
Fowey (seat 2/2) The Lord Shuldham

G

Gatton (seat 1/2) Robert Mayne – died
Replaced by Maurice Lloyd, 1783
Gatton (seat 2/2) The Lord Newhaven
Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) Charles Edwin
Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) John Craufurd
Gloucester (seat 1/2) John Webb
Gloucester (seat 2/2) Charles Barrow
Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) William Bromley-Chester – died
Replaced by James Dutton 1781
Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) Sir William Guise, Bt – died
Replaced by Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley 1783
Grampound (seat 1/2) Sir John Ramsden, Bt
Grampound (seat 2/2) Thomas Lucas
Grantham (seat 1/2) Francis Cockayne-Cust
Grantham (seat 2/2) George Manners-Sutton
Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) Sir Merrick Burrell
Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) Paul Methuen – resigned
Replaced by Paul Cobb Methuen 1781
Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) John Harrison
Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) Francis Eyre
Great Marlow (seat 1/2) William Clayton I – died
Replaced by William Clayton II 1783
Great Marlow (seat 2/2) Sir John Borlase Warren
Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) Charles Townshend
Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) Hon. Richard Walpole
Guildford (seat 1/2) Sir Fletcher Norton – ennobled
Replaced by William Norton 1782
Guildford (seat 2/2) George Onslow

H

Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) Francis Charteris
Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) Hew Dalrymple
Hampshire (seat 1/2) Robert Thistlethwayte
Hampshire (seat 2/2) Jervoise Clarke Jervoise
Harwich (seat 1/2) George North
Harwich (seat 2/2) John Robinson
Haslemere (seat 1/2) Sir James Lowther – sat for Cumberland
Replaced by Walter Spencer Stanhope, 1780
Haslemere (seat 2/2) Edward Norton
Hastings (seat 1/2) Henry Temple, Lord Palmerston
Hastings (seat 2/2) John Ord
Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) Baron Kensington
Hedon (seat 1/2) Christopher Atkinson – expelled for perjury
Replaced by Stephen Lushington 1783
Hedon (seat 2/2) William Chaytor
Helston (seat 1/2) Jocelyn Deane – died
Replaced by Richard Barwell 1781
Helston (seat 2/2) Philip Yorke – resigned
Replaced by Lord Hyde 1781
Hereford (seat 1/2) Richard Symons
Hereford (seat 2/2) John Scudamore
Herefordshire (seat 1/2) Thomas Harley
Herefordshire (seat 2/2) Sir George Cornewall, Bt
Hertford (seat 1/2) Thomas, Baron Dimsdale
Hertford (seat 2/2) William Baker
Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) William Plumer
Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Halsey
Heytesbury (seat 1/2) William Ashe-à Court – died
Replaced by William Pierce Ashe A'Court 1781
Heytesbury (seat 2/2) William Eden – sat for Woodstock
Replaced by Francis Burton 1780
Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) Frederick Montagu
Hindon (seat 1/2) Lloyd Kenyon
Hindon (seat 2/2) Nathaniel William Wraxall
Honiton (seat 1/2) Sir George Yonge, Bt
Honiton (seat 2/2) Alexander Macleod – election void
Replaced by Jacob Wilkinson 1781
Horsham (seat 1/2) Viscount Lewisham – died
Replaced by Sir George Osborn, Bt 1780
Horsham (seat 2/2) James Wallace – died
Replaced by James Craufurd 1783
Huntingdon (seat 1/2) George Wombwell – died
Hugh Palliser
Huntingdon (seat 2/2) Constantine John Phipps
Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) The Earl Ludlow
Hythe (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Farnaby
Hythe (seat 2/2) William Evelyn

I

Ilchester (seat 1/2) Peregrine Cust
Ilchester (seat 2/2) Samuel Smith
Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir Hector Munro
Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) Simon Fraser – died
Replaced by Archibald Campbell Fraser 1782
Ipswich (seat 1/2) William Wollaston
Ipswich (seat 2/2) Thomas Staunton

K

Kent (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Marsham Bt
Kent (seat 2/2) Filmer Honywood
Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) Lord Adam Gordon
King's Lynn (seat 1/2) Thomas Walpole
King's Lynn (seat 2/2) Crisp Molineux
Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Manners – died
Replaced by David Hartley 1782
Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) William Wilberforce
Kinross-shire (seat 1/) George Graham
Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) Peter Johnston – void election
Replaced by John Gordon 1781 – result reversed
Replaced by Peter Johnston 1782
Knaresborough (seat 1/2) Robert Boyle-Walsingham – died
Replaced by James Hare 1781
Knaresborough (seat 2/2) Viscount Duncannon

L

Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) Andrew Stuart
Lancashire (seat 1/2) Thomas Stanley
Lancashire (seat 2/2) Sir Thomas Egerton
Lancaster (seat 1/2) Wilson Braddyll
Lancaster (seat 2/2) Abraham Rawlinson
Launceston (seat 1/2) Viscount Cranborne – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Hon. Charles Perceval 1780
Launceston (seat 2/2) Thomas Bowlby – resigned
Replaced by Sir John Jervis 1783
Leicester (seat 1/2) Hon. Booth Grey
Leicester (seat 2/2) John Darker – died
Replaced by Shukburgh Ashby 1784
Leicestershire (seat 1/2) William Pochin
Leicestershire (seat 2/2) John Peach-Hungerford
Leominster (seat 1/2) Richard Payne Knight
Leominster (seat 2/2) John Bateman, Viscount Bateman
Lewes (seat 1/2) Henry Pelham
Lewes (seat 2/2) Thomas Gilbert
Lichfield (seat 1/2) George Adams (later Anson)
Lichfield (seat 2/2) Thomas Kemp
Lincoln (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Clarges, Bt – died
Replaced by John Fenton-Cawthorne 1783
Lincoln (seat 2/2) Robert Vyner
Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) SirJohn Thorold
Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) Charles Anderson-Pelham
Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) Sir John Moore
Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) Sir William Cunynghame
Liskeard (seat 1/2) Wilbraham Tollemache
Liskeard (seat 2/2) Samuel Salt
Liverpool (seat 1/2) Bamber Gascoyne
Liverpool (seat 2/2) Henry Rawlinson
London (City of) (seat 1/4) John Kirkman – died
Replaced by John Sawbridge 1780
London (City of) (seat 2/4) Frederick Bull – died
Replaced by Brook Watson
London (City of) (seat 3/4) Nathaniel Newman
London (City of) (seat 4/4) George Hayley – died
Replaced by Sir Watkin Lewes 1781
Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) Hon. John St. John – sat for Newport
Replaced by Commodore George Johnstone 1780
Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) Hon. Thomas de Grey – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Viscount Malden 1781
Ludgershall (seat 1/2) George Augustus Selwyn
Ludgershall (seat 2/2) Peniston Lamb
Ludlow (seat 1/2) Frederick Cornewall – died
Replaced by Somerset Davies1783
Ludlow (seat 2/2) The Lord Clive
Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) Lionel Darell – double return
Replaced by Hon. Henry Fane 1781
Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) Henry Harford – double return
Replaced by David Robert Michel 1781
Lymington (seat 1/2) Thomas Dummer – died
Replaced by Edward Gibbon 1781
Lymington (seat 2/2) Harry Burrard

M

Maidstone (seat 1/2) Sir Horatio Mann
Maidstone (seat 2/2) Clement Taylor
Maldon (seat 1/2) John Strutt – Tory
Maldon (seat 2/2) Eliab Harvey
Malmesbury (seat 1/2) Viscount Lewisham – sat for Staffordshire
Replaced by John Calvert 1780
Malmesbury (seat 2/2) Viscount Fairford
Malton (seat 1/2) Savile Finch – Resigned
Replaced by Edmund Burke 1780
Malton (seat 2/2) William Weddell
Marlborough (seat 1/2) The Earl of Courtown
Marlborough (seat 2/2) William Woodley
Merionethshire (seat 1/1) Evan Lloyd Vaughan
Middlesex (seat 1/2) John Wilkes Radical
Middlesex (seat 2/2) George Byng
Midhurst (seat 1/2) Hon. John St John – sat for Newport
Replaced by Sir Sampson Gideon 1780
Midhurst (seat 2/2) Hon. Henry Drummond
Milborne Port (seat 1/2) John Townson
Milborne Port (seat 2/2) Thomas Hutchings-Medlycott – resigned
Replaced by John Pennington 1781
Minehead (seat 1/2) Francis Fownes Luttrell resigned
Replaced by Henry Beaufoy 1783
Minehead (seat 2/2) John Fownes Luttrell
Mitchell (seat 1/2) Hon. William Hanger
Mitchell (seat 2/2) Francis Hale
Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) John Stepney
Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) John Morgan
Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) John Hanbury
Montgomery (seat 1/1) Whitshed Keene
Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) William Mostyn Owen
Morpeth (seat 1/2) Anthony Morris Storer
Morpeth (seat 2/2) Peter Delmé

N

Nairnshire (seat 0/0) Alternating seat with Cromartyshire. No representation in 1780
Newark (seat 1/2) Lord George Manners-Sutton – died
Replaced by John Manners-Sutton 1783
Newark (seat 2/2) Henry Clinton
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham
Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) Sir Archibald Macdonald
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) Viscount Maitland
Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) John Coghill
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Sir Richard Worsley
Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Hon. John St. John
New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) John Lewis – unseated on petition
Replaced by Edward Lewis 1781
New Romney (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Dering, Bt
New Romney (seat 2/2) Richard Jackson
New Shoreham (seat 1/2) Sir Cecil Bisshopp
New Shoreham (seat 2/2) John Peachey
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) Thomas Peter Legh
Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) Thomas Davenport, KC
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Edward Meux Worsley– died
Replaced by Henry Dundas 1782 – resigned
Replaced by Richard Pepper Arden 1783
Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Sir John Barrington, Bt
New Windsor (seat 1/2) John Montagu
New Windsor (seat 2/2) Peniston Portlock Powney
New Woodstock (seat 1/2) Viscount Parker
New Woodstock (seat 2/2) William Eden
Norfolk (seat 1/2) Sir Edward Astley, Bt
Norfolk (seat 2/2) Thomas Coke
Northallerton (seat 1/2) Daniel Lascelles – resigned
Replaced by Edwin Lascelles 1780
Northallerton (seat 2/2) Henry Peirse (younger)
Northampton (seat 1/2) Viscount Althorp – resigned
Replaced by The Lord Lucan 1782
Northampton (seat 2/2) George Rodney
Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) Lucy Knightley
Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) Thomas Powys
Northumberland (seat 1/2) Lord Algernon Percy
Northumberland (seat 2/2) Sir William Middleton, Bt
Norwich (seat 1/2) Harbord Harbord
Norwich (seat 2/2) Edward Bacon
Nottingham (seat 1/2) Daniel Coke
Nottingham (seat 2/2) Robert Smith
Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) Lord Edward Bentinck
Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) Charles Medows
(Charles Pierrepont)

O

Okehampton (seat 1/2) Richard Vernon
Okehampton (seat 2/2) Humphrey Minchin
Old Sarum (seat 1/2) Pinckney Wilkinson – died
Replaced by George Hardinge 1784
Old Sarum (seat 2/2) Thomas Pitt (the younger) – raised to the peerage
Replaced by The Hon. John Villiers 1784
Orford (seat 1/2) Viscount Beauchamp
Orford (seat 2/2) Hon. Robert Seymour-Conway
Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) Robert Baikie – unseated on petition
Replaced by Charles Dundas 1781
Oxford (seat 1/2) Lord Robert Spencer
Oxford (seat 2/2) Captain the Hon. Peregrine Bertie
Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) Lord Charles Spencer Whig
Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) Viscount Wenman
Oxford University (seat 1/2) Francis Page
Oxford University (seat 2/2) Sir William Dolben, Bt

P

Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) Alexander Murray I – resigned
Replaced by Alexander Murray II 1783
Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) Hugh Owen III – Whig
Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) Hugh Owen
Penryn (seat 1/2) Sir Francis Basset
Penryn (seat 2/2) John Rogers – took office
Replaced by Reginald Pole Carew 1782
Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) George Dempster
Perthshire (seat 1/1) James Murray
Peterborough (seat 1/2) Richard Benyon
Peterborough (seat 2/2) James Farrel Phipps Whig
Petersfield (seat 1/2) William Jolliffe
Petersfield (seat 2/2) Thomas Samuel Jolliffe
Plymouth (seat 1/2) Sir Frederick Rogers
Plymouth (seat 2/2) Vice Admiral George Darby
Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) Viscount Cranborne – succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Hon. James Stuart 1780
Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) Sir Ralph Payne
Pontefract (seat 1/2) William Nedham
Pontefract (seat 2/2) Viscount Galway – resigned
Replaced by Nathaniel Smith 1783 – results reversed
Replaced by John Smyth 1783
Poole (seat 1/2) Joseph Gulston
Poole (seat 2/2) William Morton Pitt
Portsmouth (seat 1/2) Hon. Robert Monckton – died
Replaced by Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, Bt 1782
Portsmouth (seat 2/2) Sir William Gordon – pensioned
Replaced by Hon. Thomas Erskine 1783
Preston (seat 1/2) John Burgoyne
Preston (seat 2/2) Sir Harry Hoghton, Bt

Q

Queenborough (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Frederick
Queenborough (seat 2/2) Sir Walter Rawlinson

R

Radnorshire (seat 1/1) Thomas Johnes
Reading (seat 1/2) John Dodd – died
Replaced by Richard Aldworth-Neville 1782
Reading (seat 2/2) Francis Annesley
Reigate (seat 1/2) Charles Cocks
Reigate (seat 2/2) John Yorke
Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) John Shaw-Stewart – resigned
Replaced by William Macdowall 1783
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) Marquess of Graham
Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt – sat for Edinburgh
Replaced by George Fitzwilliam 1781
Ripon (seat 1/2) William Aislabie – died
Replaced by William Lawrence 1781
Ripon (seat 2/2) Frederick Robinson
Rochester (seat 1/2) George Finch-Hatton
Rochester (seat 2/2) Robert Gregory
Ross-shire (seat 1/1) John Mackenzie
Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) Sir Gilbert Elliot
Rutland (seat 1/2) Thomas Noel
Rutland (seat 2/2) George Bridges Brudenell
Rye (seat 1/2) Hon. Thomas Onslow
Rye (seat 2/2) William Dickinson

S

St Albans (seat 1/2) William Charles Sloper
St Albans (seat 2/2) John Radcliffe – died
Replaced by The Viscount Grimston 1783
St Germans (seat 1/2) Edward James Eliot
St Germans (seat 2/2) Dudley Long
St Ives (seat 1/2) William Praed
St Ives (seat 2/2) Abel Smith
St Mawes (seat 1/2) Viscount Clare
St Mawes (seat 2/2) Hugh Boscawen
Salisbury (seat 1/2) Hon. William Henry Bouverie
Salisbury (seat 2/2) William Hussey
Saltash (seat 1/2) Grey Cooper
Saltash (seat 2/2) Charles Jenkinson
Sandwich (seat 1/2) Philip Stephens
Sandwich (seat 2/2) Sir Richard Sutton
Scarborough (seat 1/2) Earl of Tyrconnell
Scarborough (seat 2/2) Charles Phipps
Seaford (seat 1/2) John Durand
Seaford (seat 2/2) John Robinson – sat for Harwich
Replaced by Christopher D'Oyly 1780
Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) John Pringle
Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Rumbold – unseated on petition
Replaced by Hans Winthrop Mortimer 1781
Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) Sir Francis Sykes
Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) William Pulteney
Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) Sir Charlton Leighton
Shropshire (seat 1/2) Noel Hill
Shropshire (seat 2/2) Sir Richard Hill
Somerset (seat 1/2) Sir John Trevelyan, Bt
Somerset (seat 2/2) Richard Hippisley Coxe
Southampton (seat 1/2) John Fuller
Southampton (seat 2/2) Hans Sloane
Southwark (seat 1/2) Nathaniel Polhill – died
Replaced by Henry Thornton 1782
Southwark (seat 2/2) Sir Richard Hotham
Stafford (seat 1/2) Edward Monckton
Stafford (seat 2/2) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Staffordshire (seat 1/2) Viscount Lewisham
Staffordshire (seat 2/2) Captain (Sir) John Wrottesley
Stamford (seat 1/2) Sir George Howard
Stamford (seat 2/2) Henry Cecil
Steyning (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Skipwith
Steyning (seat 2/2) Filmer Honywood – sat for Kent
Replaced by Colonel John Bullock 1780
Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) James Campbell
Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) Sir Thomas Dundas Pro-Admin Whig
Stockbridge (seat 1/2) Lieutenant the Hon. James Luttrell
Stockbridge (seat 2/2) Captain the Hon. John Luttrell
Sudbury (seat 1/2) Sir Patrick Blake, Bt
Sudbury (seat 2/2) Philip Champion Crespigny – unseated on petition
Replaced by Sir James Marriott 1781
Suffolk (seat 1/2) Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt
Suffolk (seat 2/2) Sir John Rous, Bt
Surrey (seat 1/2) Admiral the Hon. Augustus Keppel – ennobled
Replaced by Viscount Althorp 1782 –succeeded to peerage
Replaced by Sir Robert Clayton 1783
Surrey (seat 2/2) Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bt
Sussex (seat 1/2) Thomas Pelham
Sussex (seat 2/2) Lord George Henry Lennox
Sutherland (seat 1/1) James Wemyss

T

Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) Charles Ross
Tamworth (seat 1/2) John Courtenay
Tamworth (seat 2/2) Anthony Chamier – died
Replaced by John Calvert 1780
Taunton (seat 1/2) John Halliday
Taunton (seat 2/2) Major-General John Roberts – died
Replaced by (Sir) Benjamin Hammet 1782
Tavistock (seat 1/2) Richard Rigby Whig
Tavistock (seat 2/2) Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick
Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) James Martin
Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) Sir William Codrington, Bt
Thetford (seat 1/2) Richard Hopkins
Thetford (seat 2/2) Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore – resigned
Replaced by Earl of Euston 1782
Thirsk (seat 1/2) Sir Thomas Gascoigne
Thirsk (seat 2/2) Beilby Thompson
Tiverton (seat 1/2) John Eardley Wilmot
Tiverton (seat 2/2) John Duntze
Totnes (seat 1/2) Philip Jennings
Totnes (seat 2/2) Launcelot Brown
Tregony (seat 1/2) John Stephenson
Tregony (seat 2/2) John Dawes
Truro (seat 1/2) Henry Rosewarne – died
Replaced by John Pollexfen Bastard 1783 – resigned
Replaced by Sir John St Aubyn, Bt 1784
Truro (seat 2/2) Bamber Gascoyne

W

Wallingford (seat 1/2) Chaloner Arcedeckne
Wallingford (seat 2/2) John Aubrey
Wareham (seat 1/2) John Boyd
Wareham (seat 2/2) Thomas Farrer
Warwick (seat 1/2) Hon. Charles Greville
Warwick (seat 2/2) Robert Ladbroke
Warwickshire (seat 1/2) Sir Robert Lawley, Bt
Warwickshire (seat 2/2) Sir George Shuckburgh, Bt
Wells (seat 1/2) Robert Child – died
Replaced by John Curtis 1782
Wells (seat 2/2) Clement Tudway
Wendover (seat 1/2) Richard Smith
Wendover (seat 2/2) John Mansell Smith
Wenlock (seat 1/2) Sir Henry Bridgeman
Wenlock (seat 2/2) Thomas Whitmore – sat for Bridgnorth
Replaced by George Forester 1780
Weobley (seat 1/2) Andrew Bayntun-Rolt
Weobley (seat 2/2) John St Leger Douglas – died
Vacated seat and replaced by (Sir) John Scott 1783
Westbury (seat 1/2) (Sir) John Whalley-Gardiner
Westbury (seat 2/2) Samuel Estwick
West Looe (seat 1/2) Sir William James – died
Replaced by John Buller 1784
West Looe (seat 2/2) John Buller – resigned
Replaced by John Somers Cocks 1782
Westminster (seat 1/2) George Brydges Rodney – ennobled
Replaced by Sir Cecil Wray, Bt 1782
Westminster (seat 2/2) Charles James Fox
Westmorland (seat 1/2) James Lowther
Westmorland (seat 2/2) Sir Michael le Fleming
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) Welbore Ellis
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) William Chaffin Grove – resigned
Replaced by William Richard Rumbold 1781
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) John Purling
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) Warren Lisle – resigned as ineligible
Replaced by Gabriel Steward 1780
Whitchurch (seat 1/2) The Viscount Midleton Whig
Whitchurch (seat 2/2) Thomas Townshend – ennobled
Replaced by William Selwyn 1783
Wigan (seat 1/2) Hon. Horatio Walpole
Wigan (seat 2/2) Henry Simpson Bridgeman – died
Replaced by John Cotes 1782
Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) William Adam
Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) Keith Stewart
Wilton (seat 1/2) Lord Herbert
Wilton (seat 2/2) William Gerard Hamilton
Wiltshire (seat 1/2) Charles Penruddocke
Wiltshire (seat 2/2) Ambrose Goddard
Winchelsea (seat 1/2) Charles Wolfran Cornwall
Winchelsea (seat 2/2) John Nesbitt
Winchester (seat 1/2) Henry Penton
Winchester (seat 2/2) Lovell Stanhope – died
Replaced by Henry Flood 1783
Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) Hon. Henry St John
Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) William Strahan
Worcester (seat 1/2) William Ward
Worcester (seat 2/2) Thomas Bates Rous
Worcestershire (seat 1/2) Edward Foley
Worcestershire (seat 2/2) William Lygon

Y

Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) Edward Morant
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) Edward Rushworth – resigned
Replaced by Sir Thomas Rumbold 1781
York (seat 1/2) Charles Turner – died
Replaced by The Viscount Galway 1783
York (seat 2/2) Lord John Cavendish
Yorkshire (seat 1/2) Henry Duncombe
Yorkshire (seat 2/2) Sir George Savile – resigned
Replaced by Francis Ferrand Folijambe 1784

By-elections

  • List of Great Britain by-elections (1774–90)

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