Beverley (UK Parliament constituency)

Beverley
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Beverley in Humberside, showing boundaries used from 1983-1997
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
1983–1997
Seats	One
Created from	Haltemprice
Replaced by	Beverley and Holderness Haltemprice and Howden
1950–1955
Seats	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Created from	Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire
Replaced by	Haltemprice and Howden
1563–1869
Seats	Two
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Created from	Yorkshire
Replaced by	East Riding of Yorkshire
1295–1306
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Yorkshire

Beverley has been the name of a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for three periods. From medieval times until 1869 it was a parliamentary borough consisting of a limited electorate of property owners of its early designated borders within the market town of Beverley, which returned (elected) two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English and Welsh-turned-UK Parliament during that period (sometimes called burgesses).

A form of a Beverley seat was revived for a single-member county constituency created in 1950, abolished in 1955, and similarly between the 1983 and 1992 general elections inclusive after which the area was largely incorporated into one 1997-created seat Beverley and Holderness; the remainder of the seat contributed to two other late 20th century-created seats.

History

The Parliamentary Borough

Beverley was first represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, but after 1306 it did not elect members again until 1563. Thereafter it maintained two members until being disfranchised in 1870. The borough consisted of the three parishes of the town of Beverley, and by 1831 had a population of 7,432 and 1,928 houses. The right of election was vested not in the population as a whole, but in the freemen of the borough, whether resident or not; at the contested election of 1826, 2,276 votes were cast. The borough was large enough to retain two members under the compromise of the Reform Act of 1832 when its boundaries were slightly extended to include some outlying fringes, increasing the population by roughly 800. The first of three progressive Acts, by the third Act in 1885 were such boroughs more equally thus fairly apportioned.

For much of the borough's history, elections in Beverley were notorious for their corruption. In 1727, one of the victorious candidates was unseated on petition, his agents were imprisoned and Parliament passed a new Bribery Act as a result. Between 1857 and 1868 six petitions were lodged against election results, of which three succeeded in voiding the election and unseating one or more of the victors. After the 1868 election, the writ for the borough was suspended and a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of elections in Beverley; when it reported that it had found proof of extensive bribery, an Act of Parliament was passed permanently depriving Beverley of the right to return Members of Parliament, abolishing the constituency and incorporating it within the East Riding constituency.

The novelist Anthony Trollope was one of the defeated candidates in the final corrupt election for which Beverley was disfranchised. He drew on his experience directly for his description of the Percycross election in his novel Ralph the Heir , and also told the story in his Autobiography. He found that corruption was taken for granted and that the price of a vote was between 15 shillings and £1. His unsuccessful campaign cost him £400. Sir Henry Edwards and Edmund Hegan Kennard were those candidates deemed elected Members of Parliament in this final contest for the constituency.

1950 to 1955

The Beverley constituency which existed from 1950 to 1955 was a predominantly rural one. Under the boundary revisions introduced by the Representation of the People Act 1948, which came into effect at the 1950 general election, the three existing county constituencies of the East Riding were abolished, and the county was divided into two new constituencies, each named after their biggest towns - Bridlington and Beverley. The new Beverley constituency comprised the western half of the Riding. This encompassed parts of all three of the county's previously existing constituencies (Buckrose, Holderness and Howdenshire).

The Beverley constituency was abolished in further boundary changes implemented at the 1955 general election, being divided between the new Haltemprice and Howden seats.

1983 to 1997

Beverley again became a constituency name in 1983, this time for a constituency mostly suburban in character. The new constituency replaced, and strongly resembled, the Haltemprice constituency which had been introduced in 1955: its main components apart from Beverley were the prosperous suburbs to the north and west of Hull, such as Cottingham, Anlaby and Kirk Ella.

The Beverley constituency was abolished in 1997 general election, Beverley itself moving to the new Beverley and Holderness constituency.

Boundaries

1950–1955: The Borough of Beverley, the Urban District of Norton, and the Rural Districts of Beverley, Derwent, Howden, Norton, and Pocklington.

1983–1997: The East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley wards of Anlaby, Brough, Castle, Hessle East, Hessle West, Kirk Ella, Leconfield, Leven, Mill Beck and Croxby, Minster North, Minster South, Molescroft, Priory, St Mary's East, St Mary's West, Springfield, Swanland, Tickton, Willerby, and Woodmansey.

Members of Parliament

Beverley borough

1563–1660

Parliament	Year	First member	Second member
Parliament of 1563–1567		Nicholas Bacon	Robert Hall
Parliament of 1571		Edward Ellerker	Thomas Layton
Parliament of 1572–1583		Richard Topcliffe	Thomas Aglionby
Parliament of 1584–1585		Robert Wrote	John Stanhope
Parliament of 1586–1587		Michael Wharton	George Purefoy
Parliament of 1588–1589		Lancelot Alford	John Truslove
Parliament of 1593		John Mansfield	Edward Alford
Parliament of 1597–1598		Thomas Crompton	Edward Fraunceys
Parliament of 1601		Edward Fraunceys	Randolph Ewens
Parliament of 1604–1611		William Gee	Allan Percy
Addled Parliament (1614)		William Towse	Edmund Scott
Parliament of 1621–1622		Sir Christopher Hilliard
Happy Parliament (1624–1625)		Sir Henry Vane the elder, replaced 1624 by Sir Henry Carey
Useless Parliament (1625)		Sir John Hotham, Bt	Sir William Alford
Parliament of 1625–1626
Parliament of 1628–1629
No Parliament summoned 1629–1640
Short Parliament (1640)		Sir John Hotham, Bt	Michael Warton
Long Parliament (1640–1653)	1640	Sir John Hotham, Bt (Royalist) disabled to sit, September 1643	Michael Warton (Royalist) disabled to sit, January 1644
	1645	James Nelthorpe	John Nelthorpe
	1648		John Nelthorpe excluded in Pride's Purge
Barebones Parliament (1653)	Beverley not represented
First Protectorate Parliament (1654–1655)		Francis Thorpe	(One member only)
Second Protectorate Parliament (1656–1658)
Third Protectorate Parliament (1659)		Thomas Strickland	John Anlaby
Long Parliament (restored, 1659–1660)		James Nelthorpe

1660–1869

Year			First member [1]	First party	Second member [1]	Second party
		April 1660	Hugh Bethall [2]		Sir John Hotham, Bt
		June 1660	Michael Warton
		1685			Sir Ralph Warton
		1689	Sir Michael Warton	Tory	Sir John Hotham, Bt
		1689			Sir John Hotham, Bt
		1690			William Gee
		1695			Ralph Warton	Tory
		1701			William Gee	Whig
		1702	Sir Charles Hotham, Bt	Whig
		1705			John Moyser
		1708			Sir Michael Warton
		1722			Michael Newton
		1723	Sir Charles Hotham, Bt	Whig
		1727	Ellerker Bradshaw [3]	Whig	Charles Pelham	Tory
		1729	Sir Charles Hotham, Bt	Whig
		1734			Ellerker Bradshaw	Whig
		1738	Charles Pelham	Tory
		1741			William Strickland
		1747			Sir William Codrington, Bt
		1754	John Tufnell
		1761	Michael Newton		George Tufnell
		1768	Hugh Bethell		Charles Anderson-Pelham
		1772	Sir Griffith Boynton, Bt
		1774	George Tufnell		Sir James Pennyman, Bt
		1780	Francis Evelyn Anderson
		1784	Sir Christopher Sykes, Bt
		1790	John Wharton	Whig
		1796	William Tatton		Napier Christie Burton
		1799	John Morritt	Tory [4]
		1802	John Wharton	Whig [4]
		1806			Richard Vyse
		1807			Howard Vyse
		1812			Charles Forbes	Tory [4]
		1818			Robert Christie Burton	Tory [4]
		1820			George Lane-Fox	Tory
		1826	John Stewart	Tory [4]	Charles Harrison Batley	Tory [4]
		1830	Daniel Sykes	Whig [4] [5]	Henry Burton	Whig [4] [6]
		1831	William Marshall	Whig [4] [5]
		1832	Hon. Charles Langdale	Whig [4] [7]
		1835	James Hogg	Conservative [4]
		1837			George Lane-Fox	Conservative [4]
		1840			Sackville Lane-Fox	Conservative [4]
		1841			John Towneley	Whig [8] [9] [10] [4]
		1847	Sackville Lane-Fox	Conservative [4]
		1852	Hon. Francis Charles Lawley	Radical [11]	William Wells	Radical [11]
		1854	Hon. Arthur Hamilton-Gordon	Peelite [12] [13]
		Mar. 1857	Edward Glover [14]	Independent Conservative [15] [16] [17] [18]	Hon. William Denison	Whig [19]
		Aug. 1857	Henry Edwards	Conservative
		1859			Ralph Walters [20]	Liberal
		1860			James Walker	Conservative
		1865			Christopher Sykes	Conservative
		1868			Edmund Hegan Kennard	Conservative

Writ suspended 1869, constituency abolished 1870

Beverley County Constituency (1950–1955)

Election		Member [1]	Party
	1950	George Odey	Conservative
	1955	constituency abolished

Beverley County Constituency (1983–1997)

Election		Member [1]	Party
	1983	Patrick Wall	Conservative
	1987	James Cran	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Beverley ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Burton	1,065	43.3
	Whig	Daniel Sykes	739	30.0
	Tory	Capel Cure	657	26.7
Majority			82	3.3
Turnout			1,420
	Whig gain from Tory		Swing
	Whig gain from Tory		Swing

General election 1831: Beverley ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Marshall	734	41.1	+11.1
	Whig	Henry Burton	705	39.4	−3.9
	Tory	Charles Winn	349	19.5	−7.2
Majority			356	19.9	+16.6
Turnout			1,204
	Whig hold		Swing	+7.4
	Whig hold		Swing	−0.2

General election 1832: Beverley ^{[21] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Charles Langdale	516	35.1	−6.0
	Whig	Henry Burton	490	33.3	−6.1
	Tory	Charles Winn	464	31.6	+12.1
Majority			26	1.8	−18.1
Turnout			971	96.0
Registered electors			1,011
	Whig hold		Swing	−6.0
	Whig hold		Swing	−6.1

General election 1835: Beverley ^{[21] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Hogg	523	39.2	+7.6
	Whig	Henry Burton	497	37.3	+4.0
	Whig	Joseph Sykes	314	23.5	−11.6
Majority			26	1.9	N/A
Turnout			994	95.4	−0.6
Registered electors			1,042
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+7.6
	Whig hold		Swing	+0.1

General election 1837: Beverley ^{[21] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Hogg	622	32.2	+12.6
	Conservative	George Lane-Fox	582	30.1	+10.5
	Whig	James Clay	380	19.7	−17.6
	Whig	George Rennie	347	18.0	−5.5
Majority			202	10.5	+8.6
Turnout			976	91.9	−3.5
Registered electors			1,062
	Conservative hold		Swing	+12.1
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+11.0

Elections in the 1840s

Lane-Fox resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

By-election, 24 January 1840: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sackville Lane-Fox	556	57.6	−4.7
	Whig	Thomas Lamie Murray [22] [23]	410	42.4	+4.7
Majority			146	15.2	+4.7
Turnout			966	91.7	−0.2
Registered electors			1,053
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.7

General election 1841: Beverley ^{[21] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Towneley	531	34.3	−3.4
	Conservative	James Hogg	529	34.2	+2.0
	Conservative	Sackville Lane-Fox	489	31.6	+1.5
Majority			2	0.1	N/A
Turnout			1,012	94.3	+2.4
Registered electors			1,073
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	−3.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.9

General election 1847: Beverley ^{[21] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Towneley	543	40.5	+6.2
	Conservative	Sackville Lane-Fox	542	40.4	+8.8
	Whig	Isaac Goldsmid [24]	257	19.2	N/A
Turnout			671 (est)	49.4 (est)	−44.9
Registered electors			1,357
Majority			1	0.1	0.0
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.3
Majority			285	21.2	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.3

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	Francis Charles Lawley	611	36.1	New
	Radical	William Wells	584	34.5	New
	Ind. Conservative	Edward Glover [15]	497	29.4	New
Majority			87	5.1	N/A
Turnout			1,095 (est)	77.9 (est)	+28.5
Registered electors			1,405
	Radical gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A
	Radical gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

Lawley resigned after he was found to have been using his position as secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for insider trading, ^[25] causing a by-election.

By-election, 31 July 1854: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	Arthur Hamilton-Gordon	493	72.0	New
	Independent Whig	George Hastings [26]	192	28.0	N/A
Majority			301	44.0	N/A
Turnout			685	51.4	−26.5
Registered electors			1,333
	Peelite gain from Radical		Swing	N/A

General election 1857: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Denison	566	35.5	N/A
	Ind. Conservative	Edward Glover	537	33.7	+8.3
	Radical	William Wells	492	30.8	−3.7
Turnout			798 (est)	70.2 (est)	−7.7
Registered electors			1,136
Majority			29	1.8	N/A
	Whig gain from Radical		Swing	N/A
Majority			45	2.9	N/A
	Ind. Conservative gain from Radical		Swing	+5.1

Glover's election was declared void on petition, after he was found to have lied about meeting the required property qualifications, causing a by-election. ^{[27] [28] [29]}

By-election, 11 August 1857: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Edwards	579	59.1	New
	Radical	William Wells [30]	401	40.9	+10.1
Majority			178	18.2	N/A
Turnout			980	86.3	+16.1
Registered electors			1,136
	Conservative gain from Ind. Conservative		Swing	N/A

General election 1859: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ralph Walters	605	37.0	−29.3
	Conservative	Henry Edwards	539	32.9	New
	Conservative	James Walker	439	26.8	New
	Independent	Edward Glover [31]	54	3.3	−30.4
Turnout			819 (est)	67.6 (est)	−2.6
Registered electors			1,210
Majority			66	4.1	+2.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.6
Majority			485	29.6	N/A
	Conservative gain from Ind. Conservative		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1860s

Walters' election was declared void on petition.

By-election, 31 Jan 1860: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Walker	599	55.9	−3.8
	Liberal	Henry Gridley [32]	473	44.1	+7.1
Majority			126	11.8	−17.8
Turnout			1,072	88.4	+16.8
Registered electors			1,213
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	−5.5

General election 1865: Beverley ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Edwards	689	37.8	+4.9
	Conservative	Christopher Sykes	637	35.0	+8.2
	Liberal	David Keane [33]	495	27.2	−9.8
Majority			142	7.8	−21.8
Turnout			1,158 (est)	93.5 (est)	+25.9
Registered electors			1,239
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.9
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.6

General election 1868: Beverley ^{[34] [21]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Edwards	1,132	30.2	−7.6
	Conservative	Edmund Hegan Kennard	986	26.3	−8.7
	Liberal	Marmaduke Maxwell	895	23.8	+10.2
	Liberal	Anthony Trollope	740	19.7	+6.1
Majority			91	2.5	−5.3
Turnout			1,877 (est)	70.2 (est)	−23.3
Registered electors			2,672
	Conservative hold		Swing	−8.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−7.4

A Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the seat and, after finding extensive bribery, the borough's writ was suspended, the election result voided, and the seat was absorbed into East Riding of Yorkshire. ^[21]

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Beverley ^[35]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Odey	26,699	55.7
	Labour	Arnold William Gray	12,399	25.9
	Liberal	Harold Stewart Freemantle	7,719	16.1
	Ind. Conservative	G. Thorley	1,121	2.3
Majority			14,300	29.8
Turnout			47,938	83.0
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1951: Beverley ^[36]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Odey	27,937	59.1	+3.4
	Labour	Thomas Brennan	12,778	27.1	+1.2
	Liberal	Harold Stewart Freemantle	6,522	13.8	-1.3
Majority			15,159	32.0	+2.2
Turnout			47,237	80.0	-3.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.1

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Beverley ^{[37] [38]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Wall	31,233	56.3
	Liberal	Michael Ford Pitts	17,364	31.3
	Labour	Elliot Morley	6,921	12.5
Majority			13,869	25.0
Turnout			55,518	73.2
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1987: Beverley ^{[39] [40]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Cran	31,459	52.2	−4.1
	Liberal	John Bryant (British politician)	18,864	31.3	0.0
	Labour	Martin Shaw	9,901	16.4	+3.9
Majority			12,595	20.9	−4.1
Turnout			60,224	76.3	+3.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.1

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Beverley ^{[41] [42]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Cran	34,503	53.3	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Collinge	17,986	27.8	−3.5
	Labour	Colin Challen	12,026	18.6	+2.2
	Natural Law	D Hetherington	199	0.3	New
Majority			16,517	25.5	+4.6
Turnout			64,714	79.9	+3.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.3

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

Notes and references

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3. Pelham and Bradshaw beat Hotham in the 1727 election, but on petition Hotham was declared elected in Bradshaw's place. Bradshaw's agents at Beverley were imprisoned, and the investigations led directly to the passing of the Bribery Act, 1729
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14. Glover's election was declared void on petition, because he lacked the necessary property qualification to be a candidate, and a by-election held
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