Global political history

Global political history from 3000 BC to the 21st century – political leaders, elections, and more.

Past Constituencies (P)

Penryn and Falmouth | Plymouth | Pontefract | Portsmouth.


Penryn and Falmouth

Member of Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth
Robert Monsey Rolfe

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 18 1790; d. July 26 1868.

Whig Party

1832 – 1840

John Cranch Walker Vivian

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 18 1818; d. January 22 1879.

Whig Party

1841 – 1847

Thomas George Baring

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1826; d. November 15 1904.

Whig Party (1857 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1865)

1857 – 1866


Plymouth

Member of Parliament for Plymouth
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.

Whig Party

1754 – 1778

George Legge, Viscount Lewisham

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1717; d. October 15 1770.

Tory Party

1778 – 1780

Sir Edward George Clarke

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 15 1841; d. April 26 1931.

Conservative Party

1880 – 1900

Ivor Churchill Guest

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1873; d. June 14 1939

Noble titles: Baron Ashby St Ledgers (1910 – 1939); Baron Wimborne (1914 – 1939); Viscount Wimborne (1918 – 1939)

Conservative Party (1900 – 1904); Liberal Party (1904 – 1906)

1900 – 1906

Waldorf Astor

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1879; d. September 30 1952

Titles of nobility: Viscount Astor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1919 – 1952).

Conservative Party

1910 – 1918


Pontefract

Member of Parliament for Pontefract
Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1593; d. May 12 1641.

Non-Partisan

1624

John Smyth

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1748; d. February 12 1811.

Whig Party

1783 – 1807

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.

Liberal Party

1860 – 1885


Portsmouth

Member of Parliament for Portsmouth
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Edward Vernon

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1684; d. October 30 1757.

Tory Party

1741

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Hawke

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1705; d. October 17 1781.

Non-Partisan

1747 – 1776

Thomas Erskine

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 10 1750; d. November 17 1823.

Whig Party

1790 – 1806

Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1759; d. September 11 1801.

Non-Partisan

1796 – 1801

David Montagu Erskine

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1776; d. March 19 1855.

Non-Partisan

1806

Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1781; d. August 10 1859.

Whig Party

1838 – 1852

Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 10 1819; d. November 29 1894

Other offices held: Governor General of the Province of Canada (1861 – 1867); Governor General of Canada (1867 – 1868)

Note: As a member of the Irish peerage, Viscount Monck was eligible to sit in the House of Commons.

Whig Party

1852 – 1857

Sir Henry Drummond Charles Wolff

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1830; d. October 11 1908.

Conservative Party

1880 – 1885