Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1868
Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons . It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election . It was disenfranchised under the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 , which had resulted in a net increase of seven seats in Scotland, offset by the disenfranchisement of seven English Boroughs.
Below are those MPs who held the seat from just prior to the Restoration onwards.
Members of Parliament [ edit ] MPs 1529–1660 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] FitzRoy family [ edit ] 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:
Election results [ edit ] Elections in the 1830s [ edit ] FitzRoy's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s [ edit ] Due to the triple return, on petition, one vote was knocked off FitzRoy's total and Flower was declared elected in 1842.
Baring was appointed Paymaster General , requiring a by-election.
Baring succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Baron Ashburton and causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s [ edit ] Baring resigned , causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s [ edit ] FitzRoy succeeded to the peerage, becoming 6th Duke of Grafton and causing a by-election.
Baring resigned , causing a by-election.
References [ edit ] ^ a b c d e f g h "History of Parliament" . Retrieved 11 October 2011 . ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament" . Retrieved 11 October 2011 . ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1) ^ Escott, Margaret. "FITZROY, Lord Charles (1791–1865), of 49 Piccadilly, Mdx" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 27 April 2020 . ^ Escott, Margaret. "BARING, William Bingham (1799–1864), of Buckenham House, Brandon, Norf. and 12 Great Stanhope Street, Mdx" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 27 April 2020 . ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 227–228 . ISBN 0-900178-13-2 . ^ Mackie, Charles (1901). Norfolk Annals: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteen Century, 1801-1850 (Reprint ed.). Digipublishing. p. 352. ISBN 978-1-4710-8854-4 . Retrieved 15 July 2018 – via Google Books . ^ Mosse, Richard Bartholomew (1838). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc . p. 168. Retrieved 15 July 2018 – via Google Books . ^ a b Escott, Margaret. "Thetford" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 27 April 2020 . ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Craig, F. W. S. , ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3 . ^ "Eastern Counties Elections" . Bury and Norwich Post . 18 July 1865. p. 6. Retrieved 25 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive . Sources [ edit ] 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) [1]