List of MPs elected to the English Parliament in 1660 explained

This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) in the Convention Parliament which began at Westminster on 25 April 1660, and was held until 29 December 1660. It was elected as a "free parliament",[1] i.e. with no oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth or to the monarchy. The last parliament called by Royal Authority was originally the Long Parliament called on 3 November 1640, but subsequently reduced to the Rump parliament under Pride's Purge. There were four intervening parliaments called under the Commonwealth. The restored Rump Parliament had finally voted for its own dissolution on 16 March and summoned the new Convention Parliament.

The Convention Parliament was predominantly Royalist in its membership and called back the King, and restored the Constitution in Church and State. After the Declaration of Breda had been received, Parliament proclaimed on 8 May that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the death of Charles I in January 1649. The Convention Parliament then proceeded to conduct the necessary preparation for the Restoration Settlement.

List of constituencies and members

This list contains details of the MPs elected in 1660.

Bedfordshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Bedfordshire
Sir Samuel Luke
Humphrey Winch
Winch created baronet 1660

Berkshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Richard Powle
Sir Robert Pye
Robert Packer
Hungerford Dunch
Dunch chose to sit for Cricklade - replaced by Thomas Saunders
Alexander Baker
Roger Palmer

Buckinghamshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Charles Cheyne
Thomas Proby
Richard Ingoldsby
Thomas Lee
John Dormer
Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet
Peregrine Hoby
William Borlase
Edmund Petty
Richard Browne
Browne knighted 1660

Cambridgeshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
CambridgeshireThomas Wendy
Isaac Thornton
Sir Dudley North
Sir Thomas Wills, 1st Baronet
Monck sat for Devon - replaced by William Montagu

Cheshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Mainwaring created baronet 1660
John Ratcliffe
William Ince

Cornwall

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Francis Gerard
Charles Pym
Robert Rolle
Edward Herle
Double return - seated 5 May - election voided 27 June
Double return - seated 5 May - election voided 12 June
Thomas Gewen
Edward Eliot
John Connock
John Robinson
Double return - seated 5 May
Double return - seated 5 May
William Morice
Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet
Samuel Enys
James Robyns
John Eliot
Richard Knightley
Double return - seated 5 May

Cumberland

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Sir Wilfred Lawson
Charles Howard
Richard Tolson
Wilfrid Lawson

Derbyshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes

Devon

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Monck also elected for Cambridge University
John Rolle
Nicholas Dennys
John Maynard
George Howard
Maynard chose to sit for Tavistock - replaced by Richard Arundell
John Frederick
John Hale
Josias Calmady
Edward Wise
Double Return. Maynard and Fowell replaced in June 1660 by William Morice and Samuel Trelawny. Maynard sat for Exeter, Fowell retired.
William Strode
Christopher Martyn
Double return - Howard seated 27 April
Bampfield chose to sit for Exeter - replaced July 1660 by Roger Colman; Colman died - replaced by Henry Newte
Thomas Chafe
Thomas Clifford

Dorset

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Drake
Henry Henley
Denzil Holles
John Whiteway
Walter Yonge
Thomas Moore
Moore sat for Heytesbury and was replaced 18 June 1660 by Henry Hyde
George Cooper
Sir Walter Erle
Thomas Grove
James Baker
George Pitt
Robert Culliford
Edward Montagu
William Penn
Montagu sat for Dover and was replaced by Bullen Reymes
Double return - Middleton seated 5 May

Essex

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Shaw
Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet
Capel Luckyn
Henry Wright
Henry Mildmay
Tristram Conyers

Gloucestershire

ConstituencyMembersNotes

Hampshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Trott
John Collins
John Bulkeley
Richard Norton
Richard Norton
Henry Whithed
Francis Rivett
John Evelyn
Robert Wallop
Giles Hungerford
John Hooke
Thomas Cole

Herefordshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Edward Harley
William Powell
Election declared void 16 July

Hertfordshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Rowland Lytton
Henry Caesar
Arthur Sparke
James Cowper

Huntingdonshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Nicholas Pedley
John Bernard

Kent (see also Cinque Ports)

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Sir John Tufton, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet
Sir Anthony Aucher
Heneage Finch
Thomas Twisden
Robert Barnham
Twisden replaced by Sir Edward Hales, 2nd Baronet

Lancashire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Sir Robert Bindlosse, 1st Baronet
Roger Bradshaigh
ClitheroeSir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Lever
William White
Col.William West
Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Harrow on the Hill
Gilbert Ireland
William Stanley
Richard Legh
William Banks
Alexander Rigby
Richard Standish

Leicestershire

ConstituencyMembersNotes

Lincolnshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Edward Rossiter
Viscount Castleton
Sir Anthony Irby
Thomas Hatcher
William Wray
Edward King

Middlesex

ConstituencyMembersNotes

Monmouthshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
William Morgan
Henry Somerset

Norfolk

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Sir Horatio Townsend, 3rd Baronet
The Lord Cramond
Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet
William D'Oyly
Sir Ralph Hare, 1st Baronet
Edward Walpole
Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet
Robert Paston

Northamptonshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Crew
Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet
Thomas Crew
William Lisle
Sir Thomas Dacres
Francis Harvey
Sir Richard Rainsford
Humphrey Orme
Charles Fane, Lord le Despencer

Northumberland

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Rushworth
Sir Thomas Widdrington
Widdrington chose York - replaced by Edward Grey
Thomas Widdrington
Ralph Knight

Nottinghamshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Sir William Hickman, 2nd Baronet
Wentworth Fitzgerald, 17th Earl of Kildare
Arthur Stanhope
John Hutchinson

Oxfordshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland
James Huxley
Thomas Clayton
John Mylles
Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet

Rutland

ConstituencyMembersNotes

Salop

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Job Charlton
Timothy Littleton
ShrewsburySamuel Jones
Thomas Jones
Thomas Whitmore
Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet

Somerset

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Alexander Popham
William Prynne

Staffordshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Edward Bagot
William Sneyd
Biddulph replaced by Thomas Minors

Suffolk

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Robert Brooke
Thomas Bacon
John Rous
Henry Bedingfield
Charles Cornwallis
George Reeve
Walter Devereux
Allen Brodrick

Surrey

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Goodwin
Sir John Evelyn
John Westbrooke
Richard West

Sussex

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Sir Henry Goring, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet
Falkland sat for Oxford - replaced by John Trevor
Marmaduke Gresham
George Courthope
Sir Henry Goring, 2nd Baronet
John Fagg
Goring sat for Sussex - replaced by John Eversfield

Warwickshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Thomas Archer
George Browne

Westmorland

ConstituencyMembersNotes

Wiltshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
John Ernle
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper
Edward Baytun
William Duckett
Hungerford Dunch
Nevil Maskelyne
Double return - seated 16 May
Moore also elected for Lyme Regis
Double return - Thynne seated 18 May
Double return - Thomas seated 23 May
Robert Danvers
Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet
Seymour Bowman
John Norden
Henry Eyre
Edward Tooker
Francis Swanton
Richard Grobham Howe
John Pleydell
Henry Somerset
Somerset sat for Monmouthshire - replaced by Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet

Worcestershire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Thomas Foley

Yorkshire

ConstituencyMembersNotes
Thomas Lord Fairfax
John Dawnay
Bethell sat for Hedon - replaced by Michael Warton
Cloberry chose to sit for Launceston - replaced by Henry Hildyard
John Ramsden
Andrew Marvell
Philip Howard
Thomas Hebblethwaite
Edmund Jennings
Henry Arthington
Double return - seated 3 May
Luke Robinson
John Legard
Barrington Bourchier
William Stanley
Stanley sat for Liverpool - replaced by The Earl of Ancram
Sir Thomas Widdrington
Metcalfe Robinson

Cinque Ports

Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet
John Knatchbull
William Hay
Herbert Morley
Sir Thomas Dyke
George Parker
William Howard
Samuel Gott

Wales

ConstituencyMembersNotes
The Viscount Bulkeley
NewburghGriffith Bodwrda
Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Williams, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Pryse, 2nd Baronet
James Philipps
John Lloyd
Sir Thomas Myddelton
John Carter
Roger Whitley
Sir Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet
Bussy Mansell
John Purcell
Thomas Myddelton
Arthur Owen
Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet
William Philipps
George Gwynne
Robert Harley

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. History of England, Thomas Babington Macaulay pp 109-110