Cricklade (constituency)

Cricklade
Cricklade
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1295–1885
Seats	two

Wiltshire, North or Cricklade Division
Wiltshire, North or Cricklade Division
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Seats	one
Replaced by	Swindon and partly Chippenham

Cricklade was a parliamentary constituency named after the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire.

Seatsone

Replaced bySwindon and partly Chippenham

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From 1295 until the general election of 1885, Cricklade was a parliamentary borough, returning two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, previously to the House of Commons of England and House of Commons of Great Britain.

Initially this consisted of only the town of Cricklade, but from 1782 the vote was extended to the surrounding countryside as a punishment for the borough's corruption. The extended area came to include the village of Swindon, which later grew into a large town with the coming of the railways in the 19th century.

From the 1885 general election the borough was abolished, but the name was transferred to a county division of Wiltshire covering much the same area, and electing a single MP. This constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election: Cricklade joined the Chippenham constituency and a new Swindon constituency was created.

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	John Andrew	Andrew Jones^[2]
1388 (Feb)	John Andrew	Thomas Weston^[2]
1388 (Sep)
1390 (Jan)	?John Crouch	?William Plomer^[2]
1399	Robert Andrew	John Ferrour^[2]
1413 (May)	Thomas Cricklade	Robert Newman^[2]
1421 (Dec)	[Thomas] Cricklade	Geoffrey Cowbridge^[2]
1442	John Long
1427	John Bailey^[3]
1510	Sir Andrew Windsor
1529	Robert Curzon	William Rede^[4]
1547	John Winchcombe alias Smallwood	John Walshe^[4]
1553 (Mar)	?
1553 (Oct)	Thomas Parker	William Badger ?^[4]
1554 (Apr)	William Hampshire	John Tunks^[4]
1554 (Nov)	Thomas Parker	John Rede^[4]
1555	Sir Nicholas Poyntz	George Huntley^[4]
1558	William Hampshire	John Marmion^[4]
1559	Sir Walter Denys	John Astley^[5]
1562–3	Nicholas St John	Anthony Throckmorton^[5]
1571	Sir Nicholas Arnold	Giles Brydges^[5]
1572	William Brydges	John Higford^[5]
1584	Rowland Leigh	Richard Smith^[5]
1586	John Higford	Richard Delabere^[5]
1588–9	George Snigge	Thomas Smith^[5]
1593	Henry Noel	John Pleydell^[5]
1597	Sir George Gifford	Grey Brydges^[5]^[6]
1601	Sir George Gifford	Robert Master^[5]
1604–1611	Sir John Hungerford	Sir Henry Poole
1614	Sir Thomas Monson	Sir John Eyre
1621–1622	Sir Thomas Howard	Sir Carew Reynell
1624	Sir William Howard	Sir Neville Poole
1625		Edward Dowse
1626		Sir Robert Hyde
1628	Robert Jenner	Sir Edward Hungerford^[7]
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

Year	First member		First party	Second member		Second party
April 1640		?
November 1640		Robert Jenner	Parliamentarian		Thomas Hodges	Parliamentarian
December 1648	Jenner excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant			Hodges not recorded as having sat after Pride's Purge
1653	Cricklade was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Edward Poole			John Hawkins
May 1659	Cricklade was unrepresented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Hungerford Dunch			Nevil Maskelyne
1661		Sir George Hungerford			John Ernle
1679		Hungerford Dunch			Edmund Webb
1680		John Pleydell
1681		William Lenthall
1685		Charles Fox
1689					Thomas Freke
1690					Edmund Webb
1698					Edward Pleydell
1699		Sir Stephen Fox			Edward Pleydell
1701		Sir Stephen Fox			Edmund Dunch	Whig
1702		Thomas Richmond Webb			Samuel Barker
1705		Edmund Dunch	Whig		Samuel Barker
1708					James Vernon the younger	Whig
1710					Samuel Robinson
1713		Sir Thomas Reade			William Gore^[8]
1714					Samuel Robinson
1715					Jacob Sawbridge^[9]
1721					Hon. Matthew Ducie Moreton
1722					Thomas Gore
1727					Christopher Tilson
1734					William Gore
1739					Charles Gore
1741					Welbore Ellis
1747		William Rawlinson Earle			Lieutenant-Colonel John Gore
1754		William Rawlinson Earle			Thomas Gore
1761		Arnold Nesbitt			Thomas Gore
1768		Hon. George Damer			Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Fletcher
1774		William Earle			Arnold Nesbitt
1775		Samuel Peach^[10]
1776		John Dewar
1779		John Dewar			John Macpherson^[11]
1780		Paul Benfield			John Macpherson^[11]
1782		Paul Benfield			Hon. George St John
1784^[12]		Charles Coxe	Whig^[13]		Robert Adamson	Whig^[13]
1785		John Walker-Heneage	Tory^[13]		Robert Nicholas	Tory^[13]
1790		John Walker-Heneage			Thomas Estcourt
1794		Henry Herbert			Thomas Estcourt
1806		Henry Herbert			Thomas Goddard
1811		William Herbert			Thomas Goddard
1812		Joseph Pitt			Thomas Calley	Whig^[13]
1818		Joseph Pitt			Robert Gordon	Whig^[13]^[14]
1831		Thomas Calley	Whig^[13]
1835		John Neeld	Conservative^[13]
1837					Ambrose Goddard	Conservative^[13]
1841					Hon. Henry Howard	Whig^[13]^[15]^[16]
1847					Ambrose Goddard	Conservative^[17]
1859		Anthony Ashley-Cooper	Liberal
1865		Sir Daniel Gooch	Conservative
1868					Hon. Frederick Cadogan	Liberal
1874					Ambrose Goddard	Conservative
1880					Nevil Story Maskelyne	Liberal
1885	Borough abolished - replaced by county constituency returning one member

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Nevil Story Maskelyne	Liberal
	1886	Nevil Story Maskelyne	Liberal Unionist
	1892	John Husband	Liberal
	1895	Alfred Hopkinson	Liberal Unionist
	1898	Lord Edmond FitzMaurice	Liberal
	1906	John Massie	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Thomas Calley	Liberal Unionist
	Dec. 1910	Richard Cornthwaite Lambert	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished: see Swindon

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	Joseph Pitt	Unopposed
	Whig	Robert Gordon	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 1,200
	Tory hold
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Robert Gordon	669	36.3	*N/A*
	Whig	Thomas Calley	639	34.7	*N/A*
	Whig	Philip Pleydell-Bouverie	533	29.0	N/A
Majority			106	5.7	N/A
Turnout			1,138	c. 94.8	N/A
Registered electors			c. 1,200
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
	Whig gain from Tory		Swing	N/A

Cricklade (constituency)

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1295–1640

1640–1885

1885–1918

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Notes

References

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Wiltshire, North or Cricklade Division
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Seats	one
Replaced by	Swindon and partly Chippenham

Cricklade
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1295–1885
Seats	two

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Neeld	833	36.4	*New*
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard (born 1779)	734	32.1	*New*
	Whig	Henry Thomas Howard	720	31.5	N/A
Majority			14	0.6	N/A
Turnout			1,389	82.3	N/A
Registered electors			1,687
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Henry Thomas Howard	Unopposed
	Conservative	John Neeld	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,663
	Whig gain from Conservative
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard	Unopposed
	Conservative	John Neeld	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,647
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Neeld	778	35.7	*N/A*
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard	770	35.3	*N/A*
	Whig	Charles James Monk^[20]^[21]	633	29.0	New
Majority			137	6.3	N/A
Turnout			1,407 (est)	83.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			1,682
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard	745	33.9	−1.4
	Liberal	Anthony Ashley-Cooper	743	33.8	+4.8
	Conservative	John Neeld	712	32.4	−3.3
Turnout			1,472 (est)	87.0 (est)	+3.3
Registered electors			1,692
Majority			2	0.1	−6.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.9
Majority			31	1.4	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+4.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard	978	37.2	+3.3
	Conservative	Daniel Gooch	879	33.4	+1.0
	Liberal	William Eliot	772	29.4	−4.4
Majority			107	4.0	+3.9
Turnout			1,701 (est)	83.8 (est)	−3.2
Registered electors			2,029
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+1.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frederick William Cadogan	2,844	38.9	+9.5
	Conservative	Daniel Gooch	2,452	33.6	+0.2
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard	2,009	27.5	−9.7
Majority			835	11.4	N/A
Turnout			5,075 (est)	87.1 (est)	+3.3
Registered electors			5,825
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Daniel Gooch	2,624	29.0	−4.6
	Conservative	Ambrose Goddard	2,231	24.6	−2.9
	Liberal	Frederick William Cadogan	2,092	23.1	+3.6
	Liberal	Henry Tucker^[23]	1,578	17.4	−2.1
	Lib-Lab	William Morris^[24]	497	5.5	N/A
	Independent Liberal	John Arkell^[25]	40	0.4	New
Majority			139	1.5	N/A
Turnout			4,800 (est)	75.9 (est)	−11.2
Registered electors			6,325
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.1
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	−0.4

General election 1886: Cricklade^[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Nevil Story Maskelyne	3,401	53.7	+15.8
	Liberal	Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe	1,683	26.6	−35.5
	Independent Liberal	Sir John Bennett	1,247	19.7	New
Majority			1,718	27.1	N/A
Turnout			6,331	70.1	−10.9
Registered electors			9,031
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+25.7

General election 1895: Cricklade^[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alfred Hopkinson	4,679	50.5	+6.6
	Liberal	Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice	4,580	49.5	−6.6
Majority			99	1.0	N/A
Turnout			9,259	84.2	+7.1
Registered electors			10,994
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Nevil Story Maskelyne	4,350	50.9	+10.4
	Conservative	Daniel Gooch	2,441	28.6	−0.4
	Conservative	Algernon Neeld^[26]	1,748	20.5	−4.1
Majority			2,602	30.4	N/A
Turnout			6,791 (est)	90.9 (est)	+15.0
Registered electors			7,473
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Nevil Story Maskelyne	4,541	62.1	+11.2
	Conservative	William Stone	2,770	37.9	−11.2
Majority			1,771	24.2	−6.2
Turnout			7,311	81.0	−9.9 (est)
Registered electors			9,031
	Liberal hold		Swing	+11.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Husband	4,569	56.1	+29.5
	Liberal Unionist	Nevil Story Maskelyne	3,571	43.9	−9.8
Majority			998	12.2	N/A
Turnout			8,140	77.1	+7.0
Registered electors			10,561
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+19.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice	5,624	52.3	+2.8
	Conservative	Frederick Campbell	5,135	47.7	−2.8
Majority			489	4.6	N/A
Turnout			10,759	90.3	+6.1
Registered electors			11,911
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+2.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice	5,754	53.9	+4.4
	Conservative	Ernest St Clair Pemberton	4,920	46.1	−4.4
Majority			834	7.8	N/A
Turnout			10,674	85.8	+1.6
Registered electors			12,441
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+4.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Massie	7,294	56.1	+2.2
	Conservative	Arnold Ward	5,716	43.9	−2.2
Majority			1,578	12.2	+4.4
Turnout			13,010	90.4	+4.6
Registered electors			14,390
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Calley	7,389	52.2	+8.3
	Liberal	John Massie	6,754	47.8	−8.3
Majority			635	4.4	N/A
Turnout			14,143	93.0	+2.6
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Cornthwaite Lambert	6,937	50.5	+2.7
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Calley	6,809	49.5	−2.7
Majority			128	1.0	N/A
Turnout			13,746	90.4	−2.6
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+2.7