Woodstock (UK Parliament constituency)

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Oxfordshire, Mid or Woodstock Division
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members one
Woodstock
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1553–1885
Number of members two to 1832, then one

Woodstock, sometimes called New Woodstock, was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It comprised the town of Woodstock in the county of Oxfordshire and (from 1832) the surrounding countryside and villages, and elected two Members of Parliament from its re-enfranchisement in 1553 until 1832. From 1832 until its abolition in 1918, the seat elected only one member.

In 1885, the Woodstock borough was abolished but the name was transferred to a county constituency, one of the three divisions into which the previous Oxfordshire constituency had been divided; this constituency was alternatively called Mid Oxfordshire. In 1918, Oxfordshire lost one county seat, and the Woodstock constituency was divided between Banbury and Henley.

Members of Parliament

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1553–1640

Parliament First member Second member
1553 (Oct) William Cooke Sir Ralph Chamberlain[1]
1554 (Apr) Sir Ralph Chamberlain William Johnson [1]
1554 (Nov) Anthony Restwold George Chamberlain [1]
1571 Thomas Peniston Martin Johnson [2]
1572 George Whiton Martin Johnson [2]
1584 Lawrence Tanfield Henry Unton [2]
1586 Lawrence Tanfield Francis Stonor [2]
1588 Lawrence Tanfield John Lee [2]
1593 Lawrence Tanfield John Lee [2]
1597 Lawrence Tanfield John Lee [2]
1601 Lawrence Tanfield William Scott [2]
1604 Sir Richard Lee Thomas Spencer
1614 Sir James Whitelocke Sir Philip Cary
1621 Sir James Whitelocke Sir Philip Cary
1624 Sir Philip Cary William Lenthall
1625 Sir Philip Cary Sir Gerard Fleetwood
1626 Edward Tavernor Sir Gerard Fleetwood
1628 Edward Tavernor Sir Miles Fleetwood
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

1640–1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 William Lenthall Parliamentarian William Fleetwood
November 1640 Hon. William Herbert [3] Royalist
December 1640 Sir Robert Pye Parliamentarian
December 1648 Pye excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653 Woodstock was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Lieutenant General Charles Fleetwood Woodstock had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Major General William Packer
January 1659 Sir Jerome Sankey Miles Fleetwood
May 1659 William Lenthall One seat vacant
April 1660 Sir Thomas Spencer Edward Atkyns
1661 Sir William Fleetwood
1674 Thomas Howard
1679 Sir Littleton Osbaldeston Nicholas Bayntun
1681 Henry Bertie
1685 Richard Bertie Sir Littleton Osbaldeston
1689 Sir Thomas Littleton Sir John D'Oyly
1690 Thomas Wheate
1695 James Bertie
1702 Sir William Glynne
1705 Lieutenant General William Cadogan Whig Hon. Charles Bertie
1708 Sir Thomas Wheate
1716 William Clayton
1721 Charles Crisp
1722 Samuel Trotman Sir Thomas Wheate
1727 Marquess of Blandford Whig
1732 Hon. John Spencer
1734 James Dawkins
1746 Hon. John Trevor, KC
1747 The Viscount Bateman
1753 Anthony Keck
1767 Hon. William Gordon
1768 Lord Robert Spencer
1771 John Skynner
1774 William Eden
1777 Viscount Parker Tory
1784 Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood Tory Francis Burton
1790 Lord Henry John Spencer
1795 The Rt. Hon. The Lord Lavington KB PC
1799 Charles Moore
1802 Charles Abbot Speaker
1806 Hon. William Eden
1810 Hon. George Eden Whig
1812 William Thornton
1813 Hon. George Eden Whig
1814 William Thornton
1818 Lord Robert Spencer
1820 John Gladstone Tory James Haughton Langston
1826 Marquess of Blandford Tory Lord Ashley Tory
1830 Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill Tory
1831 Viscount Stormont Tory
1832 Constituency abolished

1832–1918

Year Member Party
1832 George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford Conservative
1835 Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill Conservative
1837 Henry Peyton Conservative
1838 George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford Conservative
1840 Frederic Thesiger Conservative
1844 John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford Conservative
May 1845 John Loftus, Viscount Loftus Conservative
December 1845 Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill Conservative
1847 John Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford Conservative
1857 Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill Conservative
1865 Henry Barnett Conservative
1874 Lord Randolph Churchill Conservative
1885 Francis William Maclean Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1891 George Herbert Morrell Conservative
1892 Godfrey Rathbone Benson Liberal
1895 George Herbert Morrell Conservative
1906 Ernest Nathaniel Bennett Liberal
January 1910 Alfred St. George Hamersley Conservative
1918 Constituency abolished

Notes

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Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Woodstock[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Francis William Maclean 4,327 51.1
Conservative Viscount Valentia 4,138 48.9
Majority 189 2.2
Turnout 84.5
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1886: Woodstock[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Francis William Maclean unopposed n/a n/a
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal Swing n/a

Elections in the 1890s

George Morrell
Woodstock by-election, 1891[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Herbert Morrell 54.2
Liberal Godfrey Rathbone Benson 3,760 45.8
Majority 688 8.4
Turnout 84.4
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1892: Woodstock[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Godfrey Rathbone Benson 4,278 50.7
Conservative George Herbert Morrell 4,167 49.3
Majority 111 1.4
Turnout 86.6
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1895: Woodstock[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Herbert Morrell
Liberal
Majority
Turnout
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Woodstock[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Herbert Morrell
Liberal
Majority
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1906: Woodstock[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ernest Nathaniel Bennett 4,585 52.5 n/a
Conservative George Herbert Morrell 4,144 47.5 n/a
Majority 441 5.0 n/a
Turnout 8,729 87.4 n/a
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing n/a

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Woodstock[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alfred St. George Hamersley
Liberal Ernest Nathaniel Bennett
Majority
Turnout
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
General Election December 1910[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alfred St. George Hamersley 4,773 52.1 -1.7
Liberal Ernest Nathaniel Bennett 4,381 47.9 +1.7
Turnout 9,154 87.0 -3.0
Majority 392 4.2 -3.4
Conservative hold Swing -1.7

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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Unionist: Capt. Henderson
  • Liberal:

References

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  • 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]
  • The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
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  3. ↑ Herbert was also elected for Monmouthshire, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Woodstock
  4. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  5. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  6. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  7. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  8. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  9. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  10. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885–1918 (Craig)
  11. ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
  12. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1885–1918
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