List of MPs elected in the 1784 British general election facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain |
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| Legislative body | Parliament of Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Meeting place | Palace of Westminster | ||||||||||||||
| Term | 19 May 1784 – 10 June 1790 |
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| Election | 1784 British general election | ||||||||||||||
| Government | First Pitt ministry | ||||||||||||||
| House of Commons | |||||||||||||||
| Members | 558 | ||||||||||||||
| Speaker | Charles Wolfran Cornwall | ||||||||||||||
| Leader | William Pitt the Younger | ||||||||||||||
| House of Lords | |||||||||||||||
| Lord Chancellor | The Baron Thurlow | ||||||||||||||
| Leader | The Viscount Sydney | ||||||||||||||
| Crown-in-Parliament King George III |
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MPs elected in the 1784 British general election
| 14th Parliament | (1774) |
| 15th Parliament | (1780) |
| 16th Parliament | (1784) |
| 17th Parliament | (1790) |
| 18th Parliament | (1796 ) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1784, the 16th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet | |
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Garden – died Replaced by George Skene 1786 |
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| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | Edward Loveden Loveden | |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | Richard Arden | |
| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | John Gally Knight | |
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Samuel Salt | |
| 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 – succeeded to peerage Replaced by William Fellowes 1784 |
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| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | Nicholas Bayly | |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Anstruther | |
| Appleby (seat 1/2) | Hon. John Leveson Gower | |
| Appleby (seat 2/2) | Richard Penn | |
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Lord Frederick Campbell | |
| Arundel (seat 1/2) | Earl of Surrey – sat for Carlisle Replaced by Richard Beckford 1784 |
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| Arundel (seat 2/2) | Thomas Fitzherbert | |
| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | Robert Palk – resigned Replaced by Lawrence Palk 1787 |
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| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Robert Mackreth | |
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Hallifax – died Replaced by Scrope Bernard 1789 |
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| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | William Wrightson | |
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | Archibald Edmonstone | |
| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | Hugh Montgomerie – took office Replaced by Wiliam MacDowall 1789 |
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Frederick North, Lord North | Tory |
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Duff – resigned Replaced by James Ferguson 1789 |
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| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | William Devaynes | |
| 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) | Hon. Hugh Fortescue – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet 1785 |
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| Bedford (seat 1/2) | William MacDowall Colhoun | |
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | Samuel Whitbread | |
| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory | Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Ongley Replaced by Hon. St Andrew St John 1785 |
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| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | Viscount Feilding | |
| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | The Earl of Mornington – took office Replaced by Charles Rainsford 1787– resigned Replaced by John Mitford 1788 |
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| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | George Vansittart | |
| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | Henry James Pye | |
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | Patrick Home | |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | Sir John Delaval, Bt – ennobled Replaced by Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bt 1786 |
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| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | Hon. John Vaughan | |
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | Sir Christopher Sykes, Bt | |
| 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) | John Nicholls – resigned Replaced by Sir Robert Clayton 1787 |
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| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | Sir John Morshead | |
| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | Thomas Hunt – died Replaced by George Wilbraham 1789 |
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| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Sutton, Bt | |
| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Palmerston | |
| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Stuart | |
| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | Bamber Gascoigne, senior – took office Replaced by Matthew Montagu 1786 |
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| Boston (seat 1/2) | Sir Peter Burrell | |
| Boston (seat 2/2) | Dalhousie Watherston | |
| Brackley (seat 1/2) | John William Egerton | |
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | Timothy Caswall – took office Replaced by Samuel Haynes 1789 |
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| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Daniel Pulteney – took office Replaced by Robert Hobart 1788 |
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| Bramber (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Gough | |
| Brecon (seat 1/1) | Charles Gould, – resigned Replaced by Sir Charles Gould Morgan 1787 |
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| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | Charles Morgan – died Replaced by Sir Charles Gould 1787 |
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| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | Isaac Hawkins Browne | |
| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | Thomas Whitmore | |
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | Hon. Anne Poulett – died Replaced by Robert Thornton 1785 |
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| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | Rear-Admiral Alexander Hood | |
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | Thomas Scott | |
| Bridport (seat 2/2) | Charles Sturt | |
| Bristol (seat 1/2) | Matthew Brickdale | |
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Henry Cruger | |
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | Charles Edmund Nugent | |
| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | Richard Grenville | Grenvillite |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | William Grenville | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Sir John Aubrey, 6th Bt | |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Davers, Bt | |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Hon. George FitzRoy – resigned Replaced by Lord Charles FitzRoy 1787 |
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| Buteshire (seat 1/1) | James Stuart II | |
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Glyn Wynn | |
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | John Parry | |
| Caithness (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Bute-shire. No representation in 1784 | |
| Callington (seat 1/2) | Sir John Call | |
| Callington (seat 2/2) | Paul Orchard | |
| Calne (seat 1/2) | James Townsend – died Replaced by Joseph Jekyll 1787 |
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| Calne (seat 2/2) | Isaac Barré | |
| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | James Whorwood Adeane – took office Replaced by Edward Finch 1789 |
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| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | John Mortlock – resigned Replaced by Francis Dickins 1788 |
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| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Peyton, Bt – died Replaced by James Whorwood Adeane 1789 |
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| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Royston | |
| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | William Pitt the Younger | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Earl of Euston | |
| Camelford (seat 1/2) | Jonathan Phillips – resigned Replaced by Sir Samuel Hannay, Bt 1784 |
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| 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 – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Edward Knubley 1786 – unseated on petition Replaced by Rowland Stephenson 1786 |
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| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | Edward Norton – died Replaced by John Lowther 1786 – unseated on petition Replaced by John Christian 1786 |
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| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | John George Philipps | |
| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | Sir William Mansel | |
| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | Charles Boone | |
| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Walter Sneyd | |
| 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) | George White-Thomas | |
| Chichester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Steele | |
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | James Dawkins | |
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | George Fludyer | |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Viscount Mahon – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Earl Wycombe 1786 |
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| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | Robert Waller | |
| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | Sir James Harris – ennobled Replaced by Hans Sloane 1788 |
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| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | (Sir) John Frederick | Whig |
| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | Lord Apsley | |
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | Samuel Blackwell – died Replaced by Richard Master 1785 |
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| Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) | Charles Allan Cathcart – died Died and replaced by Burnet Abercromby 1788 |
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| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lister | |
| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | John Lee | |
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | James Clarke Satterthwaite | |
| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | John Lowther – resigned Replaced by Humphrey Senhouse 1786 |
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| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Christopher Potter – election void Replaced by Sir Robert Smyth, Bt 1784 |
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| Colchester (seat 2/2) | Sir Edmund Affleck, Bt – died Replaced by George Tierney |
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| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | John Bond | |
| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | Henry Bankes | |
| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | Sir William Molesworth, Bt | |
| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | Sir William Lemon | |
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | Sir Sampson Gideon, Bt | |
| Coventry (seat 2/2) | John Eardley Wilmot | |
| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | Charles Westley Coxe – unseated on petition Replaced by John Walker-Heneage 1785 |
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| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Robert Adamson – unseated on petition Replaced by Robert Nicholas 1785 – took office Replaced by Thomas Estcourt 1790 |
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| Cromartyshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Nairnshire. No representation in 1784 | |
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | Henry Fletcher | |
| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | Sir William Lowther, Bt | |
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | Arthur Holdsworth – died Replaced by Edmund Bastard 1787 |
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| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | Richard Hopkins | |
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Richard Myddelton – resigned Replaced by Richard Myddelton (II) 1788 |
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| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet – died Replaced by Robert Watkin Wynne 1789 |
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| Derby (seat 1/2) | Lord George Cavendish | |
| Derby (seat 2/2) | Edward Coke | |
| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Lord George Cavendish | Whig |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | Edward Miller Mundy | |
| Devizes (seat 1/2) | James Tylney Long – resigned Replaced by Joshua Smith 1788 |
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| Devizes (seat 2/2) | Henry Addington | |
| Devon (seat 1/2) | John Pollexfen Bastard | |
| Devon (seat 2/2) | John Rolle | |
| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | Hon. George Damer | |
| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | William Ewer – died Replaced by Thomas Ewer 1789 – died Replaced by Hon. Cropley Ashley 1790 |
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| Dorset (seat 1/2) | Francis John Browne | |
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Pitt | |
| Dover (seat 1/2) | Captain the Hon. James Luttrell – died Replaced by John Trevanion 1789 |
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| Dover (seat 2/2) | Robert Preston | |
| Downton (seat 1/2) | William Scott– double return Replaced by Robert Shafto 1785 |
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| Downton (seat 2/2) | Edward Bouverie– double return Replaced by Hon. William Seymour-Conway 1785 |
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| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Winnington, Bt | |
| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Andrew Foley | |
| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir James Johnstone, 4th Bt | |
| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Laurie, Bt | |
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | George Keith Elphinstone | |
| 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 – resigned Replaced by William Henry Lambton 1787 |
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| 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 Charles Preston, Bt | |
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | Henry Arthur Herbert – resigned Replaced by James Cuninghame 1786 – died Replaced by Robert Cuninghame 1789 – resigned Replaced by Richard Ford 1789 |
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| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | George Medley | |
| East Looe (seat 1/2) | William Graves – resigned Replaced by Alexander Irvine 1786 – died Replaced by The Earl of Carysfort 1790 |
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| East Looe (seat 2/2) | John Buller – died Replaced by Richard Grosvenor 1786 – resigned Replaced by Viscount Belgrave 1788 |
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| East Retford (seat 1/2) | Wharton Amcotts | |
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | Earl of Lincoln | |
| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | James Hunter Blair – resigned Replaced by Sir Adam Fergusson 1784 |
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| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | Henry Dundas | |
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Adam | |
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | James Duff, Earl of Fife | |
| Essex (seat 1/2) | Colonel John Bullock | |
| 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, 1776 | |
| Eye (seat 1/2) | Richard Burton Phillipson | |
| Eye (seat 2/2) | Peter Bathurst | |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | Robert Skene – died Replaced by William Wemyss 1787 |
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| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Watkin Williams | |
| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt | |
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | Archibald Douglas | |
| Fowey (seat 1/2) | Philip Rashleigh | |
| Fowey (seat 2/2) | John Grant – resigned Replaced by Hon. Richard Edgcumbe 1786 |
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | Maurice Lloyd – resigned Replaced by James Fraser 1787 |
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| Gatton (seat 2/2) | The Lord Newhaven | |
| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | Charles Edwin – resigned Replaced by Thomas Wyndham 1789 |
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| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Ilay Campbell – took office Replaced by John Craufurd 1790 |
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| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | John Webb | |
| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | Charles Barrow – died Replaced by John Pitt 1789 |
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| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Master | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley | |
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Hon. John Somers Cocks | |
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Francis Baring | |
| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Francis Cockayne-Cust | |
| Grantham (seat 2/2) | George Manners-Sutton | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | Marquess of Graham | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Manners | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | John Harrison | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | Dudley Long | |
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | William Clayton | |
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | Captain Sir Thomas Rich | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | Captain Sir John Jervis | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Henry Beaufoy | |
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Viscount Cranley | |
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | Chapple Norton | |
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | Francis Charteris – eldest son of Scottish peer Replaced by William Fullarton 1787 |
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| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | Hew Dalrymple – took office Replaced by John Hamilton 1786 |
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| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | Robert Thistlethwayte | |
| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | Jervoise Clarke Jervoise | |
| Harwich (seat 1/2) | Thomas Orde | |
| Harwich (seat 2/2) | John Robinson | |
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | Thomas Postlethwaite – resigned Replaced by John Lowther, 1786 |
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| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | John Baynes-Garforth | |
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | John Dawes | |
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | John Stanley | |
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | The Lord Milford – resigned Replaced by Lord Kensington 1786 |
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| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Lionel Darell | |
| Hedon (seat 2/2) | William Chaytor | |
| Helston (seat 1/2) | John Rogers – resigned Replaced by Roger Wilbraham, 1786 |
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| Helston (seat 2/2) | Lord Hyde – succeeded to peerage Replaced by James Burges, 1787 |
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| Hereford (seat 1/2) | Earl of Surrey – sat for Carlisle Replaced by Robert Philipps 1784– resigned ; replaced by James Walwyn 1785 |
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| 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) | John Calvert | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | William Plumer | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Grimston | |
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | William Pierce Ashe A'Court | |
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | William Eden | |
| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | Frederick Montagu | |
| Hindon (seat 1/2) | William Egerton | |
| Hindon (seat 2/2) | Edward Bearcroft | |
| Honiton (seat 1/2) | Sir George Yonge, Bt | |
| Honiton (seat 2/2) | Sir George Collier | |
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | Jeremiah Crutchley | |
| Horsham (seat 2/2) | Philip Metcalfe | |
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | Walter Rawlinson | |
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | Lancelot Brown – resigned Replaced by John Willett Payne 1787 |
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| 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 | |
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | Peregrine Cust – died Replaced by John Harcourt 1785 – unseated on petition Replaced by Captain George Johnstone 1786– resigned Replaced by George Sumner 1787 |
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| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Bond-Hopkins | |
| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Hector Munro | |
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | Lord William Gordon | |
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | William Middleton | |
| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | John Cator – election void Replaced by Charles Crickitt June 1784 |
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Marsham Bt | |
| Kent (seat 2/2) | Filmer Honywood | |
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | Lord Adam Gordon – resigned Replaced by Robert Barclay Allardice 1788 |
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| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Hon. Horatio Walpole | |
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Crisp Molineux | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | Samuel Thornton | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | William Wilberforce – sat for Yorkshire Replaced by Walter Spencer Stanhope 1784 |
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| Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Clackmannanshire. No representation in 1784 | |
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | Peter Johnston – resigned Replaced by Alexander Stewart 1786 |
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| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | James Hare | |
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | Viscount Duncannon | |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Denham-Steuart, Bt | |
| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Stanley | |
| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | John Blackburne | |
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | Captain Francis Reynolds – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Sir George Warren 1786 |
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| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Abraham Rawlinson | |
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Perceval | |
| Launceston (seat 2/2) | George Rose – took office Replaced by Sir John Swinburne, Bt 1788 |
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| Leicester (seat 1/2) | John Macnamara | |
| Leicester (seat 2/2) | Charles Loraine-Smith | |
| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | John Peach-Hungerford | |
| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | William Pochin | |
| Leominster (seat 1/2) | John Hunter | |
| Leominster (seat 2/2) | Penn Assheton Curzon | |
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Henry Pelham | |
| Lewes (seat 2/2) | Thomas Kemp | |
| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | Thomas Gilbert | |
| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | George Adams (later Anson) – died Replaced by Thomas Anson 1789 |
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| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | John Fenton-Cawthorne | |
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Richard Lumley-Savile | |
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John 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) | Edward James Eliot | |
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | John Eliot | |
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Bamber Gascoyne | |
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | Richard Pennant | |
| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | John Sawbridge | |
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | Brook Watson | |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | Nathaniel Newman | |
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | Sir Watkin Lewes | |
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | John Sinclair | |
| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | John Thomas Ellis | |
| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | George Augustus Selwyn | |
| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel William Wraxall | |
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Richard Payne Knight | |
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | The Lord Clive | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | Hon. Henry Fane | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | Hon. Thomas Fane | |
| Lymington (seat 1/2) | Robert Colt | |
| Lymington (seat 2/2) | Harry Burrard – resigned Replaced by George Rose, 1788 |
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Gerard Noel Edwards – resigned Replaced by Sir Matthew Bloxham 1788 |
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| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | Clement Taylor | |
| Maldon (seat 1/2) | John Strutt | Tory |
| Maldon (seat 2/2) | The Lord Waltham – died Replaced by Sir Peter Parker, Bt 1787 |
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| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Melbourne | |
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | Viscount Maitland – ennobled Replaced by Paul Benfield 1790 |
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| Malton (seat 1/2) | Edmund Burke | Whig |
| Malton (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Gascoigne – resigned Replaced by William Weddell 1784 |
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| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | The Earl of Courtown | |
| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Philip Hales | |
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | Evan Lloyd Vaughan | |
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | John Wilkes | Radical |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | William Mainwaring | |
| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | Benjamin Lethieullier – sat for Andover Replaced by Edward Cotsford, 1784 |
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| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | Hon. Henry Drummond | |
| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | John Townson – resigned Replaced by William Popham 1787 |
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| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | John Pennington | |
| Minehead (seat 1/2) | Henry Beaufoy – sat for Great Yarmouth Replaced by Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps 1784 – died Replaced by Robert Wood 1786 |
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| Minehead (seat 2/2) | John Fownes Luttrell | |
| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | David Howell | |
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | Sir Christopher Hawkins | |
| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | John Stepney – resigned Replaced by Marquess of Worcester 1788 |
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| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | John Morgan | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | John Hanbury– died Replaced by Henry, Viscount Nevill 1784 – succeeded to peerage Replaced by James Rooke 1785 |
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| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | Whitshed Keene | |
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | William Mostyn Owen | |
| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Major Sir James Erskine | |
| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | Peter Delmé – died Replaced by Francis Gregg 1790 |
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| Nairnshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Campbell – died Replaced by Alexander Brodie 1785 |
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| Newark (seat 1/2) | John Manners-Sutton | |
| Newark (seat 2/2) | Constantine John Phipps | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | Richard Vernon | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | Sir Archibald Macdonald | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Charles Brandling | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | Sir John Riggs-Miller | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | John Coghill – died Replaced by William Mitford1785 |
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| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Edward Rushworth | |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Captain the Hon. Hugh Seymour-Conway – resigned Replaced by Hon. John Thomas Townshend1786– took office Replaced by George Byng 1790 |
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| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Edward Lewis | |
| New Romney (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Dering, Bt – resigned Replaced by Richard Joseph Sullivan 1787 |
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| New Romney (seat 2/2) | John Smith – resigned Replaced by Richard Atkinson 1784 – died replaced by John Henniker 1785 |
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| 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 – died Replaced by Thomas Brooke 1786 |
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| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | James Worsley – resigned Replaced by Mark Gregory 1784 |
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| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Sir John Barrington, Bt | |
| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | John Montagu – died Replaced by The Earl of Mornington 1787 |
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| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | Peniston Portlock Powney | |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood | |
| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | Francis Burton | |
| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | |
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | Sir John Wodehouse, Bt | |
| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Edwin Lascelles | |
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Henry Peirse (younger) | |
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | Lord Compton | |
| Northampton (seat 2/2) | Fiennes Trotman | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Sir James Langham, Bt | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Powys | |
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | Lord Algernon Percy – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Hon. Charles Grey 1786 |
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| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Sir William Middleton, Bt | |
| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Harbord Harbord – ennobled Replaced by Hon. Henry Hobart 1786 |
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| Norwich (seat 2/2) | William Windham | |
| 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) |
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | John Luxmoore -unseated on petition Replaced by Viscount Malden 1785 |
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| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Wiggens – unseated on petition Replaced by Humphrey Minchin 1785 |
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| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | George Hardinge | |
| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | The Hon. John Villiers | |
| Orford (seat 1/2) | Viscount Beauchamp | |
| Orford (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Seymour-Conway | |
| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | Thomas Dundas | |
| 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 | |
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | David Murray | |
| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Hugh Owen III | Whig |
| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Hugh Owen – died Replaced by The Lord Milford 1786 |
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| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Sir Francis Basset | |
| Penryn (seat 2/2) | Sir John St Aubyn | |
| 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 – died Replaced by Hon. Lionel Damer 1786 |
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| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | William Jolliffe | |
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Thomas Samuel Jolliffe – resigned Replaced by The Viscount Downe 1787 |
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| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | Captain John Macbride | |
| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | Captain Robert Fanshawe – took office Replaced by Alan Gardner 1790 |
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| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | Paul Treby Ourry – resigned Replaced by John Pardoe 1784 |
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| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | John Stephenson | |
| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | William Sotheron | |
| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | John Smyth | |
| Poole (seat 1/2) | Michael Angelo Taylor | |
| Poole (seat 2/2) | William Morton Pitt | |
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, Bt | |
| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Cornwallis | |
| Preston (seat 1/2) | John Burgoyne | |
| Preston (seat 2/2) | Sir Harry Hoghton, Bt | |
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | John Clater Aldridge | |
| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Captain George Bowyer | |
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| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Johnes | |
| Reading (seat 1/2) | Richard Aldworth-Neville | |
| Reading (seat 2/2) | Francis Annesley | |
| Reigate (seat 1/2) | William Bellingham – took office Replaced by The Lord Hood 1789 |
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| Reigate (seat 2/2) | Edward Leeds – resigned Replaced by Reginald Pole-Carew 1787 |
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| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | William Macdowall – resigned Replaced by John Shaw-Stewart 1786 |
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| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | The Earl of Inchiquin | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Charles Dundas – resigned Replaced by Sir Grey Cooper 1786 |
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| Ripon (seat 1/2) | William Lawrence | |
| Ripon (seat 2/2) | Frederick Robinson – pensioned Replaced by Sir John Goodricke, Bt 1787 – died replaced by Sir George Allanson-Winn, Bt 1789 |
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| Rochester (seat 1/2) | Captain Sir Charles Middleton | |
| Rochester (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Smith | |
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | Francis Humberston Mackenzie | |
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir George Douglas | |
| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Thomas Noel – died Replaced by Gerard Edwardes 1788 |
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| Rutland (seat 2/2) | George Bridges Brudenell | |
| Rye (seat 1/2) | Charles Wolfran Cornwall – died Replaced by Charles Long 1789 |
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| Rye (seat 2/2) | William Dickinson | |
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | William Charles Sloper | |
| St Albans (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Grimston | |
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | John Hamilton – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Sir Charles Hamilton 1790 |
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| St Germans (seat 2/2) | Abel Smith – died Replaced by Samuel Smith 1788 |
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| St Ives (seat 1/2) | William Praed | |
| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Richard Barwell | |
| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | Viscount Clare– resigned Sir William Young 1784 |
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| 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) | Charles Ambler | |
| Saltash (seat 2/2) | Charles Jenkinson – ennobled Replaced by The Earl of Mornington 1786 – unseated on petition replaced by John Lemon 1787 |
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| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | Philip Stephens | |
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | Charles Brett | |
| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | Earl of Tyrconnell | |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | George Osbaldeston | |
| Seaford (seat 1/2) | Henry Nevill – election void Replaced by Sir John Henderson, Bt 1784- unseated on petition Replaced by Henry Flood 1786 |
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| Seaford (seat 2/2) | Sir Peter Parker, Bt – election void Replaced by Sir Godfrey Webster, Bt 1786 |
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| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | John Pringle – resigned Replaced by Mark Pringle 1786 |
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| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | Hans Winthrop Mortimer | |
| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Adam Drummond – died Replaced by John Drummond 1786 |
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| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | William Pulteney | |
| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Sir Charlton Leighton– died Replaced by John Hill 1784 |
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| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | John Kynaston | |
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Hill | |
| Somerset (seat 1/2) | Sir John Trevelyan, Bt | |
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | Edward Phelips | |
| Southampton (seat 1/2) | John Fleming | |
| Southampton (seat 2/2) | James Amyatt | |
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | Henry Thornton | |
| Southwark (seat 2/2) | Sir Barnard Turner – died Replaced by Paul le Mesurier 1784 |
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| Stafford (seat 1/2) | Edward Monckton | |
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |
| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Littleton | |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | Captain (Sir) John Wrottesley – died Replaced by Earl Gower 1787 |
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| Stamford (seat 1/2) | Sir George Howard | |
| Stamford (seat 2/2) | Henry Cecil | |
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | Sir John Honywood – resigned Replaced by Thomas Edwards Freeman 1785 – died Replaced by Sir John Honywood 1788 |
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| Steyning (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Howard | |
| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Campbell – resigned Replaced by Archibald Campbell 1789 |
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| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Dundas | Pro-Admin Whig |
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | Thomas Boothby Parkyns | |
| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | Captain the Hon. John Luttrell – took office Replaced by James Gordon 1785 |
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| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | William Smith | |
| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | John Langston | |
| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Joshua Grigby | |
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Sir John Rous, Bt | |
| Surrey (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Norton – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Lord William Russell 1789 |
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| 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) | William Wemyss – resigned Replaced by James Grant 1787 |
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | Charles James Fox – sat for Westminster Replaced by George Ross 1786 – died Replaced by Sir Charles Lockhart-Ross, Bt 1786 |
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| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | John Courtenay | |
| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | John Calvert II | |
| Taunton (seat 1/2) | Alexander Popham | |
| Taunton (seat 2/2) | (Sir) Benjamin Hammet | |
| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Richard Rigby – died Replaced by Lord John Russell 1788 |
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| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | James Martin | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | Sir William Codrington, Bt | Tory |
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Kent, Bt | |
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | George Jennings | |
| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt – died Replaced by Robert Vyner 1785 |
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| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | Sir Gregory Page-Turner | |
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Hon. Dudley Ryder | |
| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | John Duntze | |
| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Philip Jennings – died Replaced by Viscount Barnard 1788 |
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| Totnes (seat 2/2) | The Hon. Henry Phipps | |
| Tregony (seat 1/2) | Lloyd Kenyon – ennobled Replaced by Hon. Hugh Seymour Conway 1788 |
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| Tregony (seat 2/2) | Robert Kingsmill | |
| Truro (seat 1/2) | William Macarmick – took office Replaced by John Hiley Addington 1787 |
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| Truro (seat 2/2) | William Augustus Spencer Boscawen | |
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | Thomas Aubrey | |
| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Sykes, Bt | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | Charles Lefebure – resigned Replaced by John Calcraft 1786 |
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| 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) | William Thomas Beckford | |
| Wells (seat 2/2) | Clement Tudway | |
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | Robert Burton | |
| Wendover (seat 2/2) | John Ord | |
| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Bridgeman | |
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | John Bridgeman (later Simpson) – resigned Replaced by George Forester 1785 |
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| Weobley (seat 1/2) | Andrew Bayntun-Rolt – resigned Replaced by Hon. Thomas Thynne 1786 |
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| Weobley (seat 2/2) | (Sir) John Scott | |
| Westbury (seat 1/2) | Chaloner Arcedeckne – resigned Replaced by John Madocks 1786 |
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| Westbury (seat 2/2) | Samuel Estwick | |
| West Looe (seat 1/2) | John Scott | |
| West Looe (seat 2/2) | John Lemon – resigned Replaced by James Adams 1784 |
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| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Samuel Hood – took office Replaced by Lord John Townshend 1788 |
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| 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) | Sir Thomas Rumbold | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | John Purling | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | Gabriel Steward – resigned Replaced by George Jackson 1786– resigned Replaced by Gabriel Steward 1788 |
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| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Midleton | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | William Selwyn | |
| Wigan (seat 1/2) | Orlando Bridgeman | |
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | John Cotes | |
| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Dalrymple (1736–1807) | |
| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | Keith Stewart – took office Replaced by Andrew McDouall 1784 |
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| Wilton (seat 1/2) | Lord Herbert – took office Replaced by Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Goldsworthy 1785– resigned Replaced by Lord Herbert 1788 |
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| Wilton (seat 2/2) | William Gerard Hamilton | |
| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Charles Penruddocke – died Replaced by Sir James Tylney-Long 1788 |
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| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Ambrose Goddard | |
| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | William Nedham | |
| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | John Nesbitt | |
| Winchester (seat 1/2) | Henry Penton | |
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | Richard Grace Gamon | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | Hon. George North | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | Hon. Robert Seymour Conway | |
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | William Ward – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Edmund Wigley 1789 |
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| Worcester (seat 2/2) | Samuel Smith | |
| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | Edward Foley | |
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | William Lygon | |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Edward Morant – resigned Replaced by Thomas Clarke Jervoise 1787 |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Philip Francis | |
| York (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Galway | |
| York (seat 2/2) | Richard Slater Milnes | |
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | Henry Duncombe | |
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | William Wilberforce | |
By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1774–90)
See also
- 1784 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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