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Haslemere
Haslemere
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
Borough	Haslemere
1584–1832
Seats	2
Replaced by	West Surrey

Haslemere was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.

Members of Parliament

1584-1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1584	Christopher Rithe	Marlyon Rithe
1586	William Morgan	William Campion
1588–9	Hugh Hare	John Haselrigge
1593	Adrian Stoughton	Nicholas Saunders
1597	Francis Aungier	George Austen
1601	Francis Wolley	John Clarke
1604	Edward Fraunceys	William Jackson
1614	Sir Thomas Grimes	Sir William Browne
1621	Sir Thomas Grimes	Sir William Browne
1624-1625	Francis Carew	Poynings More
1625	Francis Carew	Poynings More
1626	Francis Carew	Poynings More
1628	George Grimes	Sir Thomas Canon
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640-1832

Year		First member	First party	Second member	Second party
April 1640		Poynings More^[1]	Parliamentarian	Sir John Jacques, Bt
November 1640		Poynings More^[1]	Parliamentarian	John Goodwin	Parliamentarian
1649		Carew Raleigh		John Goodwin	Parliamentarian
1653	Haslemere was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		John Westbrooke		Henry Fitzjames
May 1659		Carew Raleigh		John Goodwin
April 1660		John Westbrooke		Richard West
March 1661		James Gresham		Chaloner Chute
May 1661		George Evelyn		Thomas Morrice
1675		George Evelyn		Sir William More, Bt
1679		James Gresham		Sir William More, Bt
1680		Denzil Onslow	Whig	Francis Dorrington
1681		Sir William More, Bt		George Woodroffe Sr.
1685		Sir George Vernon		George Woodroffe Sr.
1689		White Tichborne		Denzil Onslow	Whig
1690		George Rodney Brydges		Denzil Onslow	Whig
1695		George Rodney Brydges		George Woodroffe Jr.
1698		Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe		George Vernon
January 1701		Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe		George Woodroffe Jr.
November 1701		George Vernon		George Woodroffe Jr.
1702				Lewis Oglethorpe
1704				Thomas Heath
1705		George Woodroffe Jr.		John Fulham
1708		Thomas Onslow^[2]		Theophilus Oglethorpe
1708		Nicholas Carew
1710		Sir John Clerke, Bt
1713		Thomas Onslow^[3]		George Vernon
1714		Nicholas Carew^[4]		George Vernon
1715		Nicholas Carew^[4]		Sir Montague Blundell, Bt^[5]
1722		James Oglethorpe	Tory	Peter Burrell
1727
1734
1741
1747
1754		James More Molyneux		Philip Carteret Webb
1759		Thomas More Molyneux
1761
1768				William Burrell
1774				Sir Merrick Burrell, Bt
1776		Peter Burrell		Sir Merrick Burrell, Bt
September 1780		Sir James Lowther^[6]		Edward Norton
December 1780		Walter Spencer Stanhope		Edward Norton
1784		Thomas Postlethwaite		John Baynes Garforth
1786		John Lowther		John Baynes Garforth
June 1790		William Gerard Hamilton		James Lowther^[7]
December 1790				Richard Penn
1791				James Clarke Satterthwaite
1796		James Lowther^[8]
November 1796		George Wood
1802		George Wood		Richard Penn
1806		Viscount Garlies	Tory	Charles Long	Tory
1807		Robert Plumer Ward	Tory
1823		George Lowther Thompson	Tory
1826		George Lowther Thompson	Tory	Sir John Beckett, Bt	Tory
1830		William Holmes	Tory	Sir John Beckett, Bt	Tory
1832	Constituency abolished

Notes

^ Created a baronet, May 1642
^ Onslow was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
^ Onslow was also elected for Bletchingley, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
^ Created a baronet, January 1715
^ Created Viscount Blundell (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1720
^ Lowther was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
^ Lowther was also elected for Westmorland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere
^ Lowther was also elected for Westmorland, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Haslemere

References

Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
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) [2]
J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)