Warwick was a parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Warwick, within the larger Warwickshire constituency of England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1885.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new single-member constituency of Warwick and Leamington.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1295–1640
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Parliament!!First member!!Second member
|-
| 1386|| Robert Norton|| Henry Trymenell
|-
| 1388 (Feb)|| Robert Norton|| Henry Trymenell
|-
| 1529|| William Newenham|| Thomas Holte
|-
| 1562/1563|| Walter Haddon|| John Butler
|-
| 1629-1640|| colspan = "2"| No Parliaments summoned
|}
MPs 1640–1885
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Election!!colspan="2"|First member!!First party!!colspan="2"|Second member!!Second party
|-
|November 1640
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: " |
|rowspan="2"|William Purefoy||rowspan="2"|Parliamentarian
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|Sir Thomas Lucy||
|-
|December 1640
|style="color:inherit;background-color: " |
|Godfrey Bosvile||Parliamentarian
|-
|1653
|colspan="6"|Warwick was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
|-
|1654
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|Richard Lucy||<!-- party -->
|rowspan="2" colspan="3"| Warwick had only one seat in the First and <br />Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
|-
|1656
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|Clement Throckmorton||<!-- party -->
|-
|January 1659
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|Fulke Lucy||<!-- party -->
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|Thomas Archer||<!-- party -->
|-
|May 1659
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|William Purefoy||
|colspan="3"|One seat vacant
|-
|August 1659
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|colspan="6"|Both seats vacant after Purefoy's death
|-
|April 1660
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Sir Clement Throckmorton
|rowspan="2"| <!-- party -->
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| John Rous
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1661
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Henry Puckering
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1664
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Fulke Greville
| <!-- party -->
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="3"| Sir Francis Compton
|rowspan="3"| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1677
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Robert Digby
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1678
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| John Bowyer
| <!-- party -->
|-
|February 1679
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| John Clopton
| <!-- party -->
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Henry Puckering
| <!-- party -->
|-
|August 1679
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Thomas Lucy
|rowspan="2"| <!-- party -->
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Richard Booth
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1681
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Thomas Coventry
|rowspan="2"| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1685
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Simon Digby
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1689
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|William Colemore
| <!-- party -->
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| William Digby
|rowspan="2"| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1695
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Francis Greville
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1698
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Robert Greville
| <!-- party -->
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="3"| Thomas Wagstaffe
|rowspan="3"| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1699
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Algernon Greville
| <!-- party -->
|-
| January 1701
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="3"| Francis Greville
|rowspan="3"| <!-- party -->
|-
| November 1701
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Algernon Greville
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1705
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="4"| Dodington Greville
|rowspan="4"| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1710
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Charles Leigh
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1713
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| William Colemore
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1722
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2" | William Keyt
|rowspan="2" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1727
|style="color:inherit;background-color: " |
| William Bromley
| Tory
|-
| 1735
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Thomas Archer
| <!-- party -->
|rowspan="6" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="6"| Henry Archer
|rowspan="6"| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1741
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Wills Hill
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1756
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| John Spencer
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1761
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Hamilton Boyle
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1762
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
| Paul Methuen
| <!-- party -->
|-
|March 1768
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| George Greville
|rowspan="2"| <!-- party -->
|-
|May 1768
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" |
|rowspan="2"| Paul Methuen
|rowspan="2"| <!-- party -->
|-
|January 1774
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: " |
|rowspan="3"| Charles Francis Greville
|rowspan="3"| Tory
|-
| 1790
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: " |
|rowspan="2"| Charles Perceval
|rowspan="2"| Tory
| Tory
|-
|July 1837
|style="color:inherit;background-color: " |
| Charles Eurwicke Douglas
| Conservative
Elections in the 1850s
Notes
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) <!-- quote=Return of Members of Parliament. -->
- 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) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9GqTX0uoT8C&pg=PR9]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)