| Newport | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1529 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Elects Howmany: | Two |
| Previous: | Dunheved |
| Next: | Launceston |
Newport was a rotten borough situated in Cornwall. It is now the suburb of Newport within the town of Launceston, which was itself also a parliamentary borough at the same period. It is also referred to as Newport iuxta Launceston, to distinguish it from other constituencies named Newport.
From 1529 until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832, Newport returned two Members of Parliament. Until the early 18th century, the right to vote was held by all inhabitants paying scot and lot, but subsequently it was converted to a burgage franchise, meaning that the right to vote was tied to ownership of certain properties within the borough, which could be bought and sold at will. This reduced the number of qualified voters: under the scot and lot qualification around 70 people had had the right to vote, but by 1831 the number was only about 12.
The borough had a population of 595 in 1831. The Lord of the Manor, owning extensive property within the borough and with the effective power of choosing both members of parliament, was the Duke of Northumberland.
By the Reform Act, Newport was abolished as a separate borough, but the boundaries of Launceston were extended to include Newport. As Launceston's representation was halved by the same measure, the combined borough was thereafter represented by a single MP whereas previously there had been four members.
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament of 1529 | Simon Mountford | William Harris[1] | |
| Parliament of 1536 | ? | ||
| Parliament of 1539 | ? | ||
| Parliament of 1542 | ? | ||
| Parliament of 1545 | Richard Grenville | Walter Skinner | |
| Parliament of 1547 | Reginald Mohun | James Trewynnard | |
| First Parliament of 1553 | Henry Killigrew | Francis Roscarrock | |
| Second Parliament of 1553 | William Smith | John Gayer | |
| Parliament of Apr 1554 | Roger Tavernor | Thomas Prideaux | |
| Parliament of Nov 1554 | Robert Monson | Robert Browne | |
| Parliament of 1554/5 | William Stourton | Robert Monson | |
| Parliament of 1558 | Thomas Hungate | Thomas Roper | |
| Parliament of 1559 | (Richard) Grenville | Thomas Hickes | |
| Parliament of 1563-1567 | George Basset | Ayshton Ayleworth | |
| Parliament of 1571 | Edward Holte | Robert Colshill | |
| Parliament of 1572-1581 | George Basset | William Marbury | |
| Parliament of 1584-1585 | Robert Mordaunt | Walter Covert | |
| Parliament of 1586-1587 | John Osborne | Edward Winter | |
| Parliament of 1588-1589 | William Cavendish | Daniel Rogers | |
| Parliament of 1593 | Richard Stephens | Emanuel Chamond | |
| Parliament of 1597-1598 | Morgan Coleman | Edward Lewknor | |
| Parliament of 1601 | Tobie Matthew | Sir John Leigh | |
| Parliament of 1604-1611 | Sir Robert Killigrew | Sir Edward Seymour | |
| Addled Parliament (1614) | Thomas Trevor | Sir Thomas Cheek | |
| Parliament of 1621-1622 | Sir Robert Killigrew | ||
| Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Sir John Eliot | Richard Estcourt | |
| Ralph Speccot | |||
| Parliament of 1625-1626 | Sir Henry Hungate | Thomas Williams, junior | |
| Parliament of 1628-1629 | Piers Edgcumbe | Sir William Killigrew[2] Nicholas Trefusis | |
| No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Nicholas Trefusis | John Maynard[3] | |||||
| 1640 | Paul Speccot | ||||||
| November 1640 | Richard Edgcumbe< | --Elected 1640, sat until 1644???--> | John Maynard | ||||
| December 1640 | Seat left vacant after Maynard chose to sit for Totnes | ||||||
| January 1644 | Edgcumbe disabled from sitting - seat vacant | ||||||
| 1647 | Sir Philip Perceval (died November 1647) | Nicholas Leach (died May 1647) | |||||
| 1648 | William Prynne | Alexander Pym | |||||
| December 1648 | Prynne excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | Pym not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
| 1653 | Newport was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | ||||||
| April 1660 | Sir Francis Drake | < | -- party --> | William Morice[4] | |||
| August 1660 | Hon. Laurence Hyde | ||||||
| 1661 | John Speccot | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1662 | Piers Edgcumbe | ||||||
| 1667 | Nicholas Morice | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1678 | Ambrose Manaton | < | -- party --> | ||||
| February 1679 | John Coryton | ||||||
| September 1679 | William Coryton | ||||||
| 1681 | William Morice | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1685 | John Speccot | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1689 | Sir William Morice | ||||||
| February 1690 | The Viscount Newhaven | ||||||
| December 1690 | John Morice | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1695 | The Viscount Newhaven | ||||||
| 1698 | John Granville | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1699 | Francis Stratford | < | -- party --> | ||||
| January 1701 | John Prideaux | ||||||
| December 1701 | William Pole | John Spark | < | -- party --> | |||
| 1702 | Sir Nicholas Morice | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1707 | Sir John Pole | ||||||
| 1708 | Sir William Pole | ||||||
| 1710 | George Courtenay | ||||||
| 1713 | Humphry Morice | Whig | |||||
| April 1722 | Sir William Pole[5] | ||||||
| December 1722 | John Morice | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1726 | Thomas Herbert | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1727 | Sir William Morice | ||||||
| 1734 | Sir John Molesworth | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1740 | Nicholas Herbert | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1741 | Thomas Bury | ||||||
| 1754 | John Lee | < | -- party --> | Edward Bacon | |||
| 1756 | Richard Bull | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1761 | William de Grey | ||||||
| 1770 | Richard Henry Alexander Bennet | ||||||
| October 1774 | Humphry Morice[6] | Whig | |||||
| December 1774 | John Frederick | ||||||
| 1780 | Viscount Maitland | Whig | John Coghill[7] | Tory | |||
| 1784 | Sir John Riggs-Miller | < | -- party --> | ||||
| 1785 | William Mitford | Tory | |||||
| 1790 | Viscount Feilding | Charles Rainsford | |||||
| 1796 | William Northey | Tory | Joseph Richardson | ||||
| 1803 | Edward Morris | Whig | |||||
| 1812 | Jonathan Raine | Tory | |||||
| 1826 | Lord Charles Greatheed Bertie Percy | Tory | |||||
| 1829 | William Vesey-Fitzgerald | Tory | |||||
| July 1830 | John Doherty[8] | Tory | |||||
| December 1830 | Sir Henry Hardinge | Tory | |||||
| 1831 | Viscount Grimston | Tory | |||||
| 1832 | constituency abolished | ||||||