Thetford (UK Parliament constituency)

Thetford
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Norfolk
1529–1868
Number of members	Two

Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1868. Below are those MPs who held the seat from just prior to the Restoration onwards.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1529–1660

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Year	First member	Second member
1529	Giles Heron	William Dauntesey ^[1]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	?
1547	John Brende	Richard Heydon ^[1]
1553 (Mar)	Sir John Clere	Henry Northey ^[1]
1553 (Oct)	William Hunston	Robert Drury ^[1]
1554 (Apr)	Robert Drury	Nicholas Rookwood ^[1]
1554 (Nov)	Robert Drury	Nicholas Rookwood ^[1]
1555	Nicholas Rookwood	Robert Barker ^[1]
1558	Edward Clere	Walter Haddon ^[1]
1559	Edmund Gascoigne	Thomas Poley I ^[2]
1562/3	Sir Richard Fulmerston	Edward Clere ^[2]
1571	Philip Appleyard	Thomas Hogan ^[2]
1572	William Humberston, died and repl. Jan 1576 by Sir Valentine Browne	Thomas Colby ^[2]
1584	Edward Eden	Robert Whitney ^[2]
1586	Sir Roger Woodhouse	Thomas Poley II ^[2]
1588/9	William Waad	Philip Gawdy ^[2]
1593	Charles Chewte	Bassingbourne Gawdy ^[2]
1597	John Crofts	Philip Gawdy ^[2]
1601	Henry Warner	Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet ^[2]
1604	Bassingbourne Gawdy died and repl. 1606 by Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet	Sir William Paddy
1614	Framlingham Gawdy	Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet
1621	Framlingham Gawdy	Sir Thomas Holland
1624	Framlingham Gawdy	Drue Drury
1625	Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington	Framlingham Gawdy
1626	Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet	Framlingham Gawdy
1628	Edmund Moundeford	Sir Henry Spiller sat for Middlesex and repl.by Sir Henry Vane
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned
Apr 1640	Sir Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Baronet	Framlingham Gawdy
Nov 1640	Sir Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Baronet	Framlingham Gawdy secluded 1648
1648	Sir Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Baronet
1653–1658	Thetford not represented in Barebones and Protectorate Parliaments
1659	William Stene	Robert Steward

MPs 1660–1868

Year		First member^[3]	First party	Second member^[3]	Second party
April 1660		Sir Philip Wodehouse		Robert Paston
March 1661		Sir Allen Apsley		William Gawdy
October 1669		Sir Allen Apsley		Sir Joseph Williamson
February 1679		William Harbord		Sir Joseph Williamson
March 1685		Henry Heveningham		William de Grey
January 1689		Sir Henry Hobart	Whig	William Harbord
February 1689		Sir Francis Guybon		William Harbord
June 1689				John Trenchard	Whig
February 1690				William Harbord
May 1690				Baptist May
November 1695		Sir Joseph Williamson		Sir John Wodehouse
January 1696		James Sloane		Sir John Wodehouse
July 1698				Sir Joseph Williamson
January 1699				Lord Paston
January 1701		Sir Joseph Williamson		Edmund Soame
March 1701		Sir Thomas Hanmer		Edmund Soame
November 1701		Sir Thomas Hanmer		Sir John Wodehouse
July 1702		Robert Benson		Edmund Soame
May 1705		Sir Thomas Hanmer		Sir John Wodehouse
May 1708		Robert Baylis		Thomas de Grey
October 1710		Sir Thomas Hanmer		Dudley North
December 1710		Sir Edmund Bacon
August 1713		Sir William Barker
January 1715		John Ward
1722		Sir Edmund Bacon		Robert Jacomb
1733 by-election		Sir Edmund Bacon		Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore
1739 by-election		Lord Augustus FitzRoy
Dec. 1741 by-election		Lord Henry Beauclerk
1754		Lord Henry Beauclerk		Herbert Westfaling
1761		Henry Seymour Conway	Rockingham Whig	Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk
1768				John Drummond
Sept. 1774 by-election				Viscount Petersham
1774		Hon. Charles FitzRoy		Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore
1780		Richard Hopkins		Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore
1782 by-election		Richard Hopkins		Earl of Euston	Whig
1784		Sir Charles Kent, Bt		George Jennings
1790		Robert John Buxton		Joseph Randyll Burch
May 1796		John Harrison		Joseph Randyll Burch
1802		John Harrison		Thomas Creevey
1806		Lord William FitzRoy		James Mingay
February 1807		Lord William FitzRoy		Thomas Creevey
1812		Lord John FitzRoy		Thomas Creevey
1818		Lord Charles FitzRoy		Nicholas Ridley-Colborne
1826		Lord Charles FitzRoy		Bingham Baring
1830		Lord James FitzRoy	Whig	Francis Baring	Whig
1831				Alexander Baring	Tory
1832				Francis Baring	Tory
1834 by-election		Henry FitzRoy, Earl of Euston	Liberal	Francis Baring	Tory
1841		Henry FitzRoy, Earl of Euston	Liberal	Hon. Bingham Baring	Conservative
May 1842		Sir James Flower, Bt	Conservative
1847		William FitzRoy, Earl of Euston	Liberal
1848 by-election				Francis Baring	Conservative
1857 by-election				Alexander Baring	Conservative
1863 by-election		Lord Frederick FitzRoy	Liberal
1865		Robert Harvey	Conservative
1867 by-election		Robert Harvey	Conservative	Edward Gordon	Conservative
1868	Constituency abolished

FitzRoy family

Due to the town's close proximity to Euston Hall (the main residence of the FitzRoy family), the seat for Thetford has been held by various members of the family:

1733-54 & 1774-82: Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore
1739-41: Lord Augustus FitzRoy
1774-80: Hon. Charles FitzRoy
1782-84: George FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
1806-12: Lord William FitzRoy
1812-18: Lord John FitzRoy
1818-30: Lord Charles FitzRoy
1830-34: Lord James FitzRoy
1847-63: William FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
1863-65: Lord Frederick FitzRoy

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-11.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-11.
1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)

Sources

D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)

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