Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

Seatstwo

Replaced byEast Surrey, Greenwich. Lambeth and West Surrey

Surrey
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1290–1832
Seats	two
Replaced by	East Surrey, Greenwich. Lambeth and West Surrey

Surrey was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832.

The constituency was split into two two-member divisions, for Parliamentary purposes, in 1832. The county was then represented by the East Surrey and West Surrey constituencies.

Surrey is one of the historic counties of England, located south of the River Thames, in south east England. The constituency comprised the whole county but had six towns which were boroughs for some of when it was a constituency: Bletchingley, Gatton, Guildford, Haslemere, Reigate and Southwark - each of which elected two MPs in their own right, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the boroughs could confer a vote at the county election.)

Members of Parliament

Parliament	First member	Second member
1290	Roland of Oxted
1360	Nicholas Carew
1377 (Oct)	Nicholas Carew
1378	John Hathersham I
1379	John Legh
1380 (Nov)	William Weston I
1381	John Hathersham I
1382 (May)	John Hathersham I
1383 (Oct)	John Hathersham I
1386	Sir James Berners	John Newdigate^[1]
1388 (Feb)	John Hathersham I	Hugh Quecche^[1]
1388 (Sep)	John Thorpe	Thomas Kynnersley^[1]
1390 (Jan)	John Thorpe	John Hathersham I^[1]
1390 (Nov)	William Weston I	John Bentley^[1]
1391	Sir Thomas Brewes	Ralph Cuddington^[1]
1393	Sir Thomas Brewes	William Weston I^[1]
1394	Nicholas Carew	William Weston I^[1]
1395	Nicholas Carew	Robert Loxley^[1]
1397 (Jan)	Nicholas Carew	William Weston I^[1]
1397 (Sep)	Nicholas Carew	Thomas Wintershall^[1]
1399	John Hathersham II	Ralph Cuddington^[1]
1401	William Weston I	John Wintershall^[1]
1402	John Waterton	Ralph Cuddington^[1]
1404 (Jan)	Sir William Brantingham	John Wintershall^[1]
1404 (Oct)	Sir William Brantingham	William Croyser^[1]
1406	John Wintershall	John Gravesend^[1]
1407	Ralph Cuddington	Robert Bussebridge^[1]
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Burgh II	William Yerde^[1]
1414 (Apr)	John Bonet	John Clipsham^[1]
1414 (Nov)	John Burgh II	John Wintershall^[1]
1415	John Burgh II	William Weston I^[1]
1416 (Mar)	John Burgh II	William Yerde^[1]
1416 (Oct)
1417	Nicholas Carew	John Clipsham^[1]
1419	William Weston I	William Yerde^[1]
1420	Robert Skerne	William Ottworth^[1]
1421 (May)	John Clipsham	John Bonet^[1]
1421 (Dec)	John Clipsham	William Ottworth^[1]
1422	Robert Skerne
1423	John Clipsham
1425	John Wintershall
1426	John Clipsham
1427	John Clipsham
1433	John Wintershall
1441	Anthony Brocas
1459	Ralph Legh
1460	John Wood	^[2]
1478	John Wood	^[2]
1510–1523	No names known ^[3]
1529	Sir William Fitzwilliam	Sir Nicholas Carew^[3]
1536	?Sir William Fitzwilliam	? ^[3]
1539	Sir Anthony Browne	Sir Christopher More^[3]
1542	Sir Anthony Browne	Robert Southwell^[3]
1545	Sir Anthony Browne	Sir Edmund Walsingham^[3]
1547	Sir Anthony Browne, died 1548 and repl. Jan 1552 by Sir Thomas Cawarden	Sir Christopher More, died 1549 and repl. Feb 1552 by John Vaughan^[3]
1553 (Mar)	Sir Thomas Cawarden	Sir Thomas Saunders^[3]
1553 (Oct)	Sir Edward Bray	William Saunders^[3]
1554 (Apr)	Sir Anthony Browne	Sir Edward Bray^[3]
1554 (Nov)	Sir Thomas Cawarden	William Saunders^[3]
1555	William Saunders	John Skinner^[3]
1558	Sir Thomas Saunders	John Skinner^[3]
Parliament of 1559	Sir Thomas Cawarden	Thomas Browne
Parliament of 1563-1567	Hon. Charles Howard	William More
Parliament of 1571	Sir Henry Weston
Parliament of 1572-1583	Hon. (Sir) Charles Howard, ennobled 1573	Thomas Lyfield
By-election 1574	Sir Francis Walsingham
Parliament of 1584-1585	Sir William More
Parliament of 1586-1587
Parliament of 1588-1589	William Howard
Parliament of 1593	Sir John Wolley	Sir William More
Parliament of 1597-1598	Lord Howard of Effingham (1597)^[4] Hon. Charles Howard (1597-8)	(Sir) George More
Parliament of 1601	Lord Howard of Effingham
Parliament of 1604-1611	Sir Edmund Bowyer	Sir Robert More
Addled Parliament (1614)	Sir George More
Parliament of 1621-1622	Sir Nicholas Carew
Happy Parliament (1624-1625)	Sir Robert More	Sir Thomas Grimes
Useless Parliament (1625)	Sir Francis Leigh	Sir George More
Parliament of 1625-1626	Sir Francis Vincent
Parliament of 1628-1629	Sir Ambrose Browne	Sir Richard Onslow
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

Year	First member	First party	Second member
April 1640		Sir Ambrose Browne	Parliamentarian	Sir Richard Onslow	Parliamentarian
November 1640
December 1648	Browne and Onslow excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant
1653		Samuel Highland		Lawrence March
Surrey's representation was increased to six members in the First and Second parliaments of the Protectorate
1654	Sir Richard Onslow, Arthur Onslow, Francis Drake, Major-General John Lambert,^[5] Robert Holman, Colonel Robert Wood
1656	Sir Richard Onslow, Arthur Onslow, Francis Drake, Lewis Audley, George Duncombe, John Blackwell
Representation reverted to two members in the Third Protectorate Parliament
January 1659		Arthur Onslow		Francis Drake
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		The Lord Aungier		Daniel Harvey
1661		(Sir) Adam Browne^[6]		Sir Edmund Bowyer
1679		Arthur Onslow		George Evelyn
1685		Sir Adam Browne		Sir Edward Evelyn
1689		Sir Richard Onslow	Whig	George Evelyn
1690		Sir Francis Vincent
1695		Denzil Onslow	Whig
1698		John Weston
1702		Leonard Wessell
1705		Sir William Scawen
1710		Hon. Heneage Finch^[7]		Sir Francis Vincent
1713		Sir Richard Onslow	Whig
1715 by-election		Thomas Onslow	Whig
1717 by-election		Denzil Onslow	Whig
1719 by-election		John Walter
1721 by-election		Sir William Scawen
1722		Sir Nicholas Carew
April 1727 by-election		Thomas Scawen
August 1727		Arthur Onslow
1741		The Lord Baltimore
1751 by-election		Thomas Budgen
1761		George Onslow		Sir Francis Vincent
1774		James Scawen
1775 by-election		Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bt	Radical
1780		Admiral the Hon. Augustus Keppel
1782 by-election		Viscount Althorp
1783 by-election		Sir Robert Clayton
1784		Hon. William Norton
1789 by-election		Lord William Russell	Whig
1790		Captain the Hon. William Finch^[8]
1794 by-election		Sir John Frederick	Tory
1807		Samuel Thornton	Tory	George Holme Sumner	Tory
1812		Sir Thomas Sutton	Tory
1813 by-election		Samuel Thornton	Tory
1818		William Joseph Denison	Whig
1826		Charles Nicholas Pallmer	Whig
1830		John Ivatt Briscoe	Whig
1832	constituency divided

Elections

The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each voter had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, which took place in the county town of Guildford. The expense and difficulty of voting at only one location in the county, together with the lack of a secret ballot contributed to the corruption and intimidation of voters, which was widespread in the unreformed British political system.

The expense, to candidates, of contested elections encouraged the leading families of the county to agree on the candidates to be returned unopposed whenever possible. Contested county elections were therefore unusual.

Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom 1801-1832

General election 1802: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Lord William Russell	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
	Tory	Sir John Frederick, Bt	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*

Seat vacated on appointment of Russell as a Lord of the Admiralty 10 February 1806

By-election 22 February 1806: Surrey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Lord William Russell	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
	Whig hold

Note (1806 by-election): (Source: The Times edition of 24 February 1806)

General election 1806: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Lord William Russell	315	43.45	*N/A*
	Tory	Samuel Thornton	246	33.93	*N/A*
	Tory	Sir John Frederick, Bt	164	22.62	N/A
Majority			69	9.52	N/A
Turnout			725		N/A
	Whig hold		Swing
	Tory hold		Swing

Note (1806): Poll 2 days. "Although Mr. Thornton had lost his election for Hull, he resigned on the second day in favour of Sir J. Frederick, who was last on the poll". (Source: Stooks Smith)

General election 1807: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Samuel Thornton	1,471	52.48	+18.55
	Tory	George Holme Sumner	994	35.46	+35.46
	Whig	Lord William Russell	338	12.06	−31.39
Majority			956	23.40	N/A
Turnout			2,803
	Tory gain from Whig		Swing
	Tory hold		Swing

General election 1812: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	George Holme Sumner	1,924	40.66	+5.20
	Tory	Thomas Sutton (MP)	1,791	37.85	+37.85
	Tory	Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet	1,017	21.49	+21.49
Majority			774	16.36	−6.96
Turnout			4,732
	Tory hold		Swing
	Tory hold		Swing

Note (1807): Poll 9 days; 3,296 freeholders cast 4,732 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)
Death of Sutton

By-election November 1813: Surrey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Samuel Thornton	1,133	69.04	*N/A*
	Tory	Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet	508	30.96	N/A
Majority			625	38.08	N/A
Turnout			1,641
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

Note (1813 by-election): Poll 4 days; 1,641 freeholders voted. (Source: Stooks Smith)

General election 1818: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	George Holme Sumner	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
	Whig	William Joseph Denison	Unopposed	*N/A*	*New*

General election 1820: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	George Holme Sumner	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
	Whig	William Joseph Denison	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*

General election 1826: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Joseph Denison	2,309	40.23	*N/A*
	Whig	Charles Nicholas Pallmer	2,056	35.82	*N/A*
	Tory	George Holme Sumner	1,375	23.95	N/A
Majority			681	12.87	N/A
Turnout			5,740		N/A
	Whig gain from Tory		Swing
	Tory hold		Swing

Note (1826): Poll 5 days; 3,743 freeholders cast 5,740 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)

General election 1830: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Joseph Denison	2,159	44.08	+3.85
	Whig	John Ivatt Briscoe	1,487	30.36	+30.36
	Tory	Hylton Jolliffe	1,252	25.56	+1.61
Majority			235	4.80	−8.07
Turnout			4,898
	Whig hold		Swing
	Whig hold		Swing

Note (1830): Poll 3 days; 2,977 freeholders cast 4,898 votes. (Source: Stooks Smith)

General election 1831: Surrey (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Joseph Denison	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
	Whig	John Ivatt Briscoe	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*

Constituency abolished - county split into two divisions (1832)

Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

Members of Parliament

1290-1640

MPs 1640–1832

Elections

Parliament of the United Kingdom 1801-1832

See also

References

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