Commons 1715-1754

Wales

Scotland

The following tables show the results of the general elections and the holders of the chief political offices in Scotland:

Ireland

Of the 66 Irish Members listed below, 26 were at the same time peers of Ireland; 16 marked with an asterisk were commoners, who sat simultaneously in the Irish House of Commons; seven others, marked with a cross, also sat in both Houses, but not at the same time.

Members

From the dissolution in 1715 to that in 1754 the number of men elected as Members of the House of Commons was 2,041, compared with 1,964 in the period 1754-90. The following lists and tables analyse, in summary form, the composition of the House, which in Namier Brooke is dealt with in the introductory survey.

First Ministers and leaders of the House of Commons

Speaker of the House of Commons

Chairmen of committees of Supply and Ways and Means

Dates of Parliaments

Parliamentary lists, 1715-1754

Reports of debates in the House of Commons, 1715-1754

Constituencies and Contested Elections

The House of Commons during the period 1715-54 had 558 Members, elected by 314 constituencies, as follows:

England, 489 Members, 245 constituencies:

40 counties, returning 2 Members each;

196 boroughs, returning 2 Members each;

2 boroughs (London and the combined constituency of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis), returning 4 Members each;

5 boroughs (Abingdon, Banbury, Bewdley, Higham Ferrers, and Monmouth), returning 1 Member each;

2 universities, returning 2 Members each.