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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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20 December 1832		2,249/2,550	88.20
Sir Grey Skipwith, bt	Whig	1,396	62.07
Sir George Philips, bt	Whig	1,121	49.84
Evelyn John Shirley	Tory	1,108	49.27
Majority		13	0.58

14 January 1835		2,901
Sir John Mordaunt, bt	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon	Radical	Unopposed

June 1836 Death of Edward Sheldon.

1 July 1836		3,245/3,997	81.19
Evelyn John Shirley	Conservative Party	1,885	58.09
Sir Grey Skipwith, bt	Whig	1,360	41.91
Majority		525	16.18

4 August 1837		4,304
Sir John Mordaunt, bt	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Evelyn John Shirley	Conservative Party	Unopposed

5 July 1841		4,261
Sir John Mordaunt, bt	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Evelyn John Shirley	Conservative Party	Unopposed

27 September 1845 Death of Sir John Mordaunt, bt.

5 November 1845
George Guy Brooke, Baron Brooke	Conservative Party	Unopposed

11 August 1847		4,066
Evelyn John Shirley	Conservative Party	Unopposed
George Guy Brooke, Baron Brooke	Conservative Party	Unopposed

May 1849 Resignation of Evelyn Shirley. (Chiltern Hundreds)

7 June 1849
Heneage Finch, Baron Guernsey	Conservative Party	Unopposed

17 July 1852		3,980
George Guy Brooke, Baron Brooke	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Heneage Finch, Baron Guernsey	Conservative Party	Unopposed

10 August 1853 Succession of Baron Brooke to the Peerage - 4th Earl of Warwick.

3 December 1853
Evelyn Philip Shirley	Conservative Party	Unopposed

3 April 1857		3,522
Evelyn Philip Shirley	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Edward Bolton King	Whig	Unopposed

3 May 1859		3,470
Evelyn Philip Shirley	Conservative Party	Unopposed
Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative Party	Unopposed

24 July 1865		2,872/3,517	81.66
Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative Party	1,585	55.19
Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative Party	1,517	52.82
Robert Adam Philips Haldane Haldane-Duncan, Viscount Duncan	Liberal Party	1,321	46.00
Majority		196	6.82

21 November 1868		5,004/6,205	80.64
Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative Party	2,581	51.58
John Hardy	Conservative Party	2,501	49.98
Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, Bt	Liberal Party	2,472	49.40
Edward Hyde Villiers, Baron Hyde	Liberal Party	2,453	49.02
Majority		29	0.58

1869 Petition - withdrawn.

13 February 1874		4,987/6,340	78.66
Hugh de Grey Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth	Conservative Party	2,832	56.79
Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Bt	Conservative Party	2,801	56.17
Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, Bt	Liberal Party	2,170	43.51
Majority		631	12.65

1879 Resignation of Earl of Yarmouth on appointment as Comptroller of H M Household.

21 February 1879
Hugh de Grey Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth	Conservative Party	Unopposed

7 April 1880		5,123/6,429	79.69
Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Bt	Conservative Party	2,644	68.67
Hon Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh	Liberal Party	2,550	66.23
Hugh de Grey Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth	Conservative Party	2,507	65.11
Majority		43	0.84

15 September 1884 Death of Hon Gilbert Leigh.

10 November 1884		5,014/6,590	76.08
Sampson Samuel Lloyd	Conservative Party	3,095	61.73
Lord William Compton	Liberal Party	1,919	38.27
Majority		1,176	23.45