Andover (UK Parliament constituency)

Andover was the name of a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1295 to 1307, and again from 1586, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, represented by two Members of Parliament until 1868, and by one member from 1868 to 1885. The name was then transferred to a county constituency electing one MP from 1885 until 1918.

Andover
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1586–1885
Seats	two (1586–1868); one (1868–1885)

Hampshire, Western or Andover Division
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Seats	one
Replaced by	Basingstoke and Winchester

History

The parliamentary borough of Andover, in the county of Hampshire (or as it was still sometimes known before about the eighteenth centuries, Southamptonshire), sent MPs to the parliaments of 1295 and 1302–1307. It was re-enfranchised as a two-member constituency in the reign of Elizabeth I of England. It elected MPs regularly from 1586.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

The House of Commons decided, in 1689, that the elective franchise for the seat was limited to the twenty four members of the Andover corporation and not the freemen of the borough. This ruling was confirmed after another disputed election in 1727. Matthew Skinner and Abel Kettleby received the most votes, from many householders, but James Brudenell and Charles Colyear (Viscount Milsington) were declared elected for winning the most support from corporation members. Under the Reform Act 1832 the electorate was expanded by allowing householders, whose property was valued at £10 or more, to vote. There were 246 registered electors in 1832.

From the 1868 United Kingdom general election the constituency returned one member. The electorate was further extended, in 1868, to 775 registered electors.

Apart from the period between 1653 and 1658, Andover continued to be represented as a borough constituency until that was abolished in 1885. Immediately thereafter, from the 1885 United Kingdom general election, the town of Andover was combined with surrounding rural territory to form a county division of Hampshire, known formally as the Western or Andover division. The registered electorate for the expanded seat was 9,175 in 1885, and 9,460 in 1901.^[10]

The constituency was abolished in 1918, when the Municipal Borough of Andover and Andover Rural District were included in the Basingstoke seat.

Boundaries

The constituency was based on the northern Hampshire town of Andover.

The Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 (2 & 3 William IV, c. 64) defined the seat as "the respective parishes of Andover and Knights Enham, and the tithing of Foxcot". The boundaries were left unaltered, until the end of the borough constituency in 1885.

Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the county division was defined as including the Sessional Divisions of Andover, and Kingsclere; with parts of the Sessional Divisions of Winchester, Romsey, and Basingstoke, and the Municipal Boroughs of Andover and Winchester, and the parish of Coombe, Hampshire in the Hungerford Sessional Division of Berkshire.

Members of Parliament

The Roman numerals after some names are to distinguish different members for this constituency, with the same name. It is not suggested this use of Roman numerals was applied at the time.

• In this section by-elections are indicated by an asterisk after the date.

Parliament of England 1586-1707 (two members)

As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or (before 1558) is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

Elected			Assembled	Dissolved	First Member	Second Member
		1586	13 October 1586	23 March 1587	Edwin Sandys	James Hawley
		1588	4 February 1589	29 March 1589	Thomas Temple	Henry Reade
		1593	18 February 1593	10 April 1593	Miles Sandys	Edward Barker
		1597	24 October 1597	9 February 1598	Edward Reynolds	Edward Phelips
		1601	27 October 1601	19 December 1601	Henry Ludlow	Nicholas Hyde
		1604	19 March 1604	9 February 1611	Sir Thomas Jermyn	Thomas Antrobus
		1614	5 April 1614	7 June 1614	Richard Venables	Peter Noyes
		1620 or 1621	16 January 1621	25 August 1621	Richard Venables	John Shuter
		1621	22 November 1621	8 February 1622	Robert Wallop
		1623 or 1624	12 February 1624	27 March 1625	Robert Wallop	John Shuter
		1625	17 May 1625	12 August 1625	Sir Henry Wallop	Henry Shuter
		1626	6 February 1626	15 June 1626	Lord Henry Paulett	John Shuter
		1628	17 March 1628	10 March 1629	Robert Wallop	Ralph Conway
		1640	13 April 1640	5 May 1640	Robert Wallop	Sir Richard Wynn
		1640	3 November 1640	5 December 1648	Robert Wallop	Sir Henry Rainsford[11]
		1641 *				Henry Vernon[12]
		3 May 1642[13]				Sir William Waller[14]
			6 December 1648[15]	20 April 1653[16]		Seat vacant
		1653[17]	4 July 1653	12 December 1653	unrepresented
		1654	3 September 1654	22 January 1655	John Duns
		1656	17 September 1656	4 February 1658	Thomas Hussey
		1658 or 1659	27 January 1659	22 April 1659	Colonel Gabriel Beck	Robert Gough
		N/A[18]	7 May 1659	20 February 1660	Robert Wallop	Seat vacant
			21 February 1660	16 March 1660		Sir William Waller
		1660, April 20	25 April 1660	29 December 1660	Sir John Trott, Bt	John Collins
		1661	8 May 1661	24 January 1679	Sir John Trott, Bt[19]	John Collins
		1673, January 31 *			Sir Kingsmill Lucy, Bt[20]
		1678, October 29 *			Charles West
		1679, February 11	6 March 1679	12 July 1679	Francis Powlett	William Wither
		1679, August 14	21 October 1680	18 January 1681	Francis Powlett	Sir Robert Henley
		1681, March 4	21 March 1681	28 March 1681	Charles West	Sir John Collins
		1685, March 16	19 May 1685	2 June 1687	Robert Phelips	Sir John Collins
		1689, January 14	22 January 1689	6 February 1690	Francis Powlett	John Pollen II
		1690, March 3	20 March 1690	11 October 1695	Francis Powlett (Whig)[21]	John Pollen II (Tory)
		1695, October 30	22 November 1695	6 July 1698	John Smith (Whig)	Sir Robert Smyth, Bt (Whig)
		1698, July 21	24 August 1698	19 December 1700	John Smith (Whig)	Anthony Henley (Whig)
		1701, January 14	6 February 1701	11 November 1701	John Smith (Whig)	Francis Shepheard (Whig)[22]
		1701, November 25	30 December 1701	2 July 1702	John Smith (Whig)	Francis Shepheard (Whig)
		1702, July 16	20 August 1702	5 April 1705	John Smith (Whig)	Francis Shepheard (Whig)
		1705, May 11	14 June 1705	1707[23]	John Smith (Whig)	Francis Shepheard (Whig)

1707–1868 (two members)

Date			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1707, October 23[24]	John Smith	Whig	Francis Shepheard	Whig
		1708, May 6			William Guidott	Whig
		1713, August 25	Sir Ambrose Crowley[25]	Tory
		1714, March 30 *	Gilbert Searle	Tory
		1715, January 29 *	John Wallop
		1715, April 1	James Brudenell
		1727, August 23			Viscount Milsington[26]
		1730, January 20 *			William Guidott	Whig
		1734, April 25	John Pollen III	Whig
		1741, May 5			Hon. John Wallop[27]	Whig
		1749, November 28 *			Sir John Griffin
		1754, April 16	Sir Francis Blake Delaval
		1768, March 21	Benjamin Lethieullier
		1784, August 11 *			William Fellowes
		1796, May 25			Hon. Coulson Wallop
		1797, December 14 *	Thomas Assheton Smith I[28]	Tory[29]
		1802, July 5			Hon. Newton Fellowes	Whig[29]
		1820, March 8			Sir John Pollen, 2nd Bt	Tory[29]
		1821, May 11 *	Thomas Assheton Smith II	Tory[29]
		1831, May 2	Henry Arthur Wallop Fellowes	Whig[29]	Ralph Etwall	Whig[29][30][31]
		1835, January 8	Sir John Pollen, 2nd Bt	Conservative[29]
		1841, June 29	Lord William Paget	Whig[29]
		1847, July 29	Henry Beaumont Coles	Conservative	William Cubitt[32]	Conservative
		1857, March 28	Hon. Dudley Fortescue	Whig
		1859		Liberal
		1861, July 29 *			Henry Beaumont Coles[33]	Conservative
		1862, December 17 *			William Cubitt[34]	Conservative
		1863, November 18 *			William Humphery[35]	Conservative
		1867, February 11 *			Sir John Burgess Karslake	Conservative
1868			constituency reduced to one member

• In this sub-section Liberal MPs elected before the formal founding of the Liberal Party, in 1859, are indicated by a + symbol after the party name.^[36]

1868-1918 (one member)

Year		Member	Party	Note
	1868	Hon. Dudley Fortescue	Liberal
	1874	Henry Wellesley	Conservative
	1880	Francis Buxton	Liberal
	1885	Bramston Beach	Conservative	Re-elected unopposed 1886, 1892, 1895, 1900; died 3 August 1901
	1901	Edmund Faber	Conservative
	1906	Walter Faber	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Andover^[29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Thomas Assheton Smith	Unopposed
	Tory	John Pollen	Unopposed
	Tory hold
	Tory hold

General election 1831: Andover^[29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Arthur Wallop Fellowes	Unopposed
	Whig	Ralph Etwall	Unopposed
	Whig gain from Tory
	Whig gain from Tory

General election 1832: Andover^[29][37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Arthur Wallop Fellowes	Unopposed
	Whig	Ralph Etwall	Unopposed
Registered electors			246
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1835: Andover^[29][37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Ralph Etwall	149	38.0	N/A
	Conservative	John Pollen	108	27.6	New
	Whig	William Nightingale	100	25.5	N/A
	Conservative	Edward Rose Tunno	35	8.9	New
Turnout			209	87.1	N/A
Registered electors			240
Majority			41	10.4	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			8	2.1	N/A
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

General election 1837: Andover^[29][37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Ralph Etwall	Unopposed
	Conservative	John Pollen	Unopposed
Registered electors			265
	Whig hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Andover^[29][37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Ralph Etwall	131	37.6	N/A
	Whig	William Paget	112	32.2	N/A
	Conservative	John Pollen	105	30.2	N/A
Majority			7	2.0	N/A
Turnout			213	91.0	N/A
Registered electors			234
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

General election 1847: Andover^[37][38]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Beaumont Coles	134	31.8	+16.7
	Conservative	William Cubitt	121	28.7	+13.6
	Whig	John Newton Fellowes[39]	107	25.4	−12.2
	Whig	Thomas Chaloner Smith[40]	60	14.2	−18.0
Majority			14	3.3	N/A
Turnout			211 (est)	86.8 (est)	−4.2
Registered electors			243
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+15.9
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+14.4

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Cubitt	140	49.8	+21.1
	Conservative	Henry Beaumont Coles	121	43.1	+11.3
	Whig	John Curling[41]	20	7.1	−32.5
Majority			101	36.0	+32.3
Turnout			151 (est)	62.4 (est)	−24.4
Registered electors			241
	Conservative hold		Swing	+18.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+13.8

General election 1857: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Cubitt	143	39.2	−10.6
	Whig	Dudley Fortescue	120	32.9	+25.8
	Conservative	Henry Beaumont Coles	102	27.9	−15.2
Turnout			183 (est)	78.3 (est)	+15.9
Registered electors			233
Majority			23	6.3	−29.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−11.8
Majority			18	5.0	N/A
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	+25.8

General election 1859: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Cubitt	153	39.5	+0.3
	Liberal	Dudley Fortescue	120	31.0	−1.9
	Conservative	Richard William Johnson[42]	114	29.5	+1.6
Turnout			194 (est)	81.0 (est)	+2.7
Registered electors			239
Majority			33	8.5	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.6
Majority			6	1.5	−3.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.3

Elections in the 1860s

Cubitt resigned to contest the 1861 by-election at City of London, causing a by-election.

By-election, 29 Jul 1861: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Beaumont Coles	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Coles' death caused a by-election.

By-election, 17 Dec 1862: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Cubitt	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Cubitt's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 18 Nov 1863: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Humphery	130	61.0	−8.0
	Liberal	John Clarke Hawkshaw[43]	83	39.0	+8.0
Majority			47	22.0	+13.5
Turnout			213	87.3	+6.3
Registered electors			244
	Conservative hold		Swing	−8.0

General election 1865: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Humphery	Unopposed
	Liberal	Dudley Fortescue	Unopposed
Registered electors			255
	Conservative hold
	Liberal hold

Humphery resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 11 Feb 1867: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Burgess Karslake	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Karslake was appointed Attorney General for England and Wales, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 22 Jul 1867: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Burgess Karslake	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

The seat was reduced to one member.

General election 1868: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dudley Fortescue	377	55.1	N/A
	Conservative	Henry Wellesley	307	44.9	N/A
Majority			70	10.2	N/A
Turnout			684	88.3	N/A
Registered electors			775
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Wellesley	395	60.4	+15.5
	Liberal	Dudley Fortescue	259	39.6	−15.5
Majority			136	20.8	N/A
Turnout			654	85.6	−2.7
Registered electors			764
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+15.5

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Andover^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Buxton	405	52.7	+13.1
	Conservative	Henry Wellesley	364	47.3	−13.1
Majority			41	5.2	N/A
Turnout			769	92.3	+6.7
Registered electors			833
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+13.1

General election 1885: Andover^[44][45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bramston Beach	4,559	59.5	+12.2
	Liberal	Francis Buxton	3,108	40.5	−12.2
Majority			1,451	19.0	N/A
Turnout			7,667	83.6	−8.7
Registered electors			9,175
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+12.2

General election 1886: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bramston Beach	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bramston Beach	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1895: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bramston Beach	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bramston Beach	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

1901 Andover by-election^[44][45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Faber	3,696	51.6	N/A
	Liberal	George Judd	3,473	48.4	New
Majority			223	3.2	N/A
Turnout			7,169	75.8	N/A
Registered electors			9,460
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1906: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Faber	4,603	50.4	N/A
	Liberal	George Judd	4,524	49.6	N/A
Majority			79	0.8	N/A
Turnout			9,127	87.6	N/A
Registered electors			10,423
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Faber	6,127	62.2	+11.8
	Liberal	P Wodehouse	3,723	37.8	−11.8
Majority			2,404	24.4	+23.6
Turnout			9,850	86.6	−1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.8

General election December 1910: Andover ^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Walter Faber	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Walter Faber
• Liberal:

Notes

1. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1558–1603). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
2. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1604–1629). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
3. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1640–1660). Retrieved 27 March 2019.(currently unavailable )
4. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1660–1690). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
5. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
6. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
7. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1754–1790). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
8. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1790–1820). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
9. "Andover". History of Parliament Online (1820–1832). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
10. "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36544. London. 27 August 1901. p. 4.
11. Rainsford died April 1641
12. On petition, Vernon's election was declared void. The returning officer had given his casting vote to Vernon after he tied in votes with Sir William Waller, but Waller would have won had one of his supporters not been prevented from voting (on the grounds that he had not been sworn in as a burgess). After Vernon's election was declared void without a division, the House voted 107-102 to recognise Waller as duly elected.
13. Date on which the House of Commons resolved that Henry Vernon's election in 1641 was void and that Waller was duly elected
14. Waller was disabled from membership in January 1648 at the instigation of the army, but this order was revoked in June 1648; he was excluded permanently in Pride's Purge, December 1648
15. Date of Pride's Purge, which converted the Long Parliament into the Rump Parliament.
16. Date when Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament by force.
17. Date when the members of the nominated or Barebones Parliament were selected. Andover was not represented in this body, except as part of Hampshire.
18. The Rump Parliament was recalled and subsequently Pride's Purge was reversed, allowing the full Long Parliament to meet until it agreed to dissolve itself.
19. Trott died 14 July 1672
20. Lucy died 19 September 1678
21. Powlett died c. August 1695. Seat vacant at the dissolution.
22. On petition, Shepheard was "discharged from membership" on 19 March 1701. No new writ was issued and the seat was vacant at the dissolution.
23. The MPs of the last Parliament of England and 45 members co-opted from the former Parliament of Scotland, became the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain which assembled on 23 October 1707 (see below for the members in that Parliament).
24. Co-opted, not elected, to the Parliament of Great Britain
25. Crowley died 7 October 1713
26. Milsington succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Portmore in January 1730.
27. Styled Viscount Lymington from 11 October 1743; died 19 November 1749.
28. Stooks Smith suggests that Thomas Assheton Smith I's term was interrupted by Henry Smith, in the 1812-18 Parliament. However Rayment does not mention such an additional MP. T. A. Smith resigned 1821
29. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
30. "Londonderry Sentinel". 14 February 1835. p. 1. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
31. Dodd, Charles R. (1843). The Parliamentary Companion, for 1843. London: Whittaker & Co. p. 151. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via Google Bookes.
32. Cubitt resigned in 1861, to contest a City of London by-election (which he lost).
33. Coles died 23 November 1862.
34. Cubitt died 28 October 1863.
35. Humphery resigned, 1867.
36. F. W. S. Craig classified Whig, Radical and similar candidates, as Liberals from 1832. Other sources may classify all these groups as Whigs. The term Liberal gradually developed as a description for the Whigs and allies, until the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 United Kingdom general election.
37. 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.
38. "Results of Contested Elections". Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser. 3 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
39. "The Elections". Western Times. 7 August 1847. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
40. "Salisbury and Winchester Journal". 31 July 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
41. "Andover Election". The Globe. 10 July 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
42. "Andover". Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette. 14 April 1859. p. 3. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
43. "Andover Election". Hertford Mercury and Reformer. 21 November 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 26 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
44. "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36545. London. 28 August 1901. p. 4.
45. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

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