Castle Rising

Borough

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
Available from Boydell and Brewer

Background Information

Right of Election:

in burgage holders1

Number of voters:

60 or 61 in 1695

Elections

DateCandidate
29 Jan. 1715WILLIAM FEILDING
 CHARLES CHURCHILL
19 Mar. 1716FEILDING re-elected after appointment to office
23 June 1720CHURCHILL re-elected after appointment to office
28 Mar. 1722WILLIAM FEILDING
 CHARLES CHURCHILL
22 Jan. 1724ALGERNON COOTE, Earl of Mountrath, vice Feilding, deceased
23 Aug. 1727ALGERNON COOTE, Earl of Mountrath
 CHARLES CHURCHILL
7 May 1734CHARLES CHURCHILL
 THOMAS HANMER
16 Apr. 1737WILLIAM HOWARD, Visct. Andover, vice Hanmer, deceased
5 May 1741WILLIAM HOWARD, Visct. Andover
 CHARLES CHURCHILL
24 Oct. 1745RICHARD RIGBY vice Churchill, deceased
29 June 1747ROBERT KNIGHT, Baron Luxborough
 THOMAS HOWARD

Main Article

In 1715 one seat at Castle Rising was controlled by Walpole, whose father had purchased 25 burgages there,2 the other by Lady Diana Feilding, the lord of the manor, which she had inherited from her first husband, Thomas Howard, M.P. On her death without surviving issue in 1732, the manor passed by entail to Henry Bowes Howard, 4th Earl of Berkshire and 11th Earl of Suffolk,3 with whom Walpole concluded a written agreement for securing to the two families ‘an equal interest and power to each ... to choose one representative for the borough’.4

Author: Romney R. Sedgwick

Notes

  • 1. Supersedes Namier & Brooke, i. 339.
  • 2. H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence, ‘Castle Rising and the Walpoles’, in A Supplement to Blomefield’s Norfolk, 33-34.
  • 3. PCC 49 Dyer; 39 Bedford.
  • 4. Ld. Suffolk to Ld. Orford, 4 May 1753, Cholmondeley (Houghton) mss, cited by B. D. Hayes, ‘Politics in Norfolk, 1750-1832’ (Cambridge Univ. Ph.D. thesis), 436.