Buckinghamshire (constituency)

Knights of the shire 1290–1660

Knights of the shire 1660–1832

Knights of the shire 1832–1885

Elections in the 1660-70s

• Appointment of Tyrrell as a Judge

Elections in the 1680-90s

• Succession of Wharton as 5th Baron Wharton

• Note (February 1696): The William Cheyne succeeded his father as the 2nd Viscount Newhaven, a Scottish peerage, in 1698.
• Death of Atkins

Elections in the 1700-10s

• Death of Wharton

• Appointment of Dormer as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

• Note (1708): Possible classification - Hampden (W)

• Note (1713): Possible classification - Fleetwood (T)

• Note (1715): Possible classification - Fleetwood (T), Hampden (W)
• Appointment of Hampden as a Teller of the Exchequer

• Note (1716): Possible classification - Hampden (W)
• Appointment of Hampden as Treasurer of the Navy

• Note (1717): Possible classification - Hampden (W)

Elections in the 1720-30s

• Note (1722): Possible classification - Drake (T), Lee & Dormer (W)

• Note (1727): Possible classification - Stanhope & Hampden (W), Gore (T)
• Death of Hampden

• Note (1729): Possible classification - Lee (W)

• Note (1734): Possible classification - Stanhope & Lee (W), Lowndes (T)

Elections in the 1740-50s

• Note (1741): Possible classification - Lowndes (T)

• Note (1747): Possible classification - Lowndes (T), Stanhope (W)

• Note (1754): Possible classification - Lowndes (T), Stanhope (W)

Elections in the 1760-70s

• Note (1761): Possible classification - Lowndes (T), Stanhope (W)

• Note (1768): Possible classification - Lowndes (T)

• Succession of Grenville as 3rd Earl Temple

Elections in the 1780-90s

• Note (1784): Poll 13 days. 3,548 voted. Possible classification for Aubrey (T). (Source: Stooks Smith)
• An alternative interpretation is that Aubrey was a supporter of Pitt (who called himself a Whig, although retrospectively usually classified as a Tory). Aubrey had very clearly identified himself with the opposition to the Fox-North coalition. (Source: Davis)
• Appointment of Grenville as Secretary of State for the Home Department

• Death of Verney

• Resignation of Grenville

Elections in the 1800-10s

• Note (1802): Identifying a definitive party label for Temple and Titchfield is difficult. Stooks Smith considered Temple a Tory and Titchfield a Whig, but he may not be reliable for Bucks candidates allegiances before about 1818. Both knights of the shire were members of traditional Whig families and were closely related to one or more Whig Prime Ministers. Temple was a member of the Grenville family, which had supported their cousin William Pitt the Younger during his first premiership 1783-1801. Former Bucks MP (and uncle of Earl Temple) William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville had become closer to Charles James Fox and his faction of opposition Whigs since leaving office with Pitt in 1801. This may have affected the political position of his relatives like Earl Temple. Titchfield was the son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland who had been the Whig Prime Minister of the Fox-North Coalition, in office before Pitt. However Portland had split his Whig faction and broken with the pre-eminent opposition Whig leader in the House of Commons, Charles James Fox, over the attitude to be taken to the French Revolution. Portland joined Pitt's cabinet in 1794. Pitt called himself a Whig, although his followers came from both traditional Whig and Tory families. Titchfield, when he was first elected for the county in 1791, had been brought forward as a candidate by the Buckinghamshire Independent Club. This club had supported the late Earl Verney, and were definitely a Whig organisation. At that time Titchfield's father was the leader of the largest Whig faction in opposition to Pitt's Ministry. However Davis does imply that Titchfield himself was a Tory, which is how he has been classified in this article. In the absence of a clear indication of whether Temple considered himself a Whig or Tory at this stage of his career, he has been classified as a Non Partisan member for this article.

• Note (1806): As for 1802 save that following Pitt's death William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, who had not joined Pitt's second Ministry in 1804, become Prime Minister of the Ministry of All the Talents in 1806. This may have led the Grenvilles, in retrospect, to continue to be regarded as Whig when Pitt and other groups of his supporters came to be called Tory after Pitt's death.

• Note (1807): As before save that in 1807 the Duke of Portland had formed a Tory administration (although he claimed to be the Whig Prime Minister of a Tory Ministry). In retrospect Portland has been regarded as a Tory at the time of his second Ministry.
• Succession of Titchfield as 4th Duke of Portland

• Note (1810): Possible party for Selby Lowndes is Whig (source: Stooks Smith), but given his conservative religious views and support for Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth's anti-dissenter policy it may be best to regard him as a member of a traditional Whig family who was moving towards being a nineteenth century Tory. He has been classified as Non Partisan for the purpose of this article.

• Succession of Temple as 2nd Marquess of Buckingham

• Note (1813): Grenville was the uncle of the 2nd Marquess of Buckingham (formerly Earl Temple MP). The same factors noted for Temple lead to Thomas Grenville being classified as Non Partisan for the purpose of this article. Stooks Smith however classifies him as Tory and he was of the same generation as his brother William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville classified by Stooks Smith as a Tory and in this article as a Whig.

Elections in the 1820-30s

• From 1822 Temple was known by the courtesy title of Marquess of Chandos, as his father was created 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

• Note (1831): Chandos 1,287 plumpers, 287 split with Smith, 18 split with Grenfell; Smith 191 plumpers, 806 split with Grenfell; Grenfell 2 plumpers. Total voters 2,593. (Source: Davis). Poll: 4 days.^[1]

• Death of Praed

• Succession of Chandos as 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Elections in the 1840-50s

• Death of Young

• Resignation of Scott-Murray by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Hempholme

• Appointment of Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer

• Creation of Cavendish as 1st Baron Chesham

• Appointment of Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer

Elections in the 1860-80s

• Succession of Cavendish as 2nd Baron Chesham

• Appointment of Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer

• Talley was a Slough solicitor who contested the seat as a "Progressive Conservative". (Source: Davis)
• Appointment of Disraeli as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury

• Creation of Disraeli as 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

• Constituency divided in the 1885 redistribution