Bramber was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons in 1295, and again from 1472 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act. A borough constituency (in Scotland, a burgh constituency) is a type of parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. ... February 20 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real. ... Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Parliamentary boroughs are boroughs that are entitled to representation in a Parliament. ... Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ... The term rotten borough referred to a parliamentary borough or constituency in Great Britain and Ireland which, due to size and population, was controlled and used by a patron to exercise undue and unrepresentative influence within parliament. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Events Mongol leader Ghazan Khan is converted to Islam, ending a line of Tantric Buddhist leaders. ... February 20 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real. ... Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The British Reform Act of 1832 (2 & 3 Will. ...

History

The borough consisted of the former market town of Bramber on the River Adur, which by the 19th century had decayed to the size of a small village. Bramber was barely distinguishable from neighbouring Steyning, with which it shared a main street, and for a century and a half after 1295 they formed a single borough collectively returning MPs. From the reign of Edward IV, however, they returned two MPs each, even though one part of Bramber was in the centre of Steyning so that a single property could in theory give rise to a vote in both boroughs. They were never substantial enough towns to deserve enfranchisement on their own merits, and both probably owed their status to a royal desire to gratify the courtiers that owned them with a degree of influence in the House of Commons. Bramber is a small town in in West Sussex (in England), on a small hill stand the small remains of a castle with just one wall still standing. ... The Adur is a river in Sussex (in England). ... Map sources for Steyning at grid reference TQ1711 The Clock Tower in Steyning High Street Steyning is a small town and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. ... Events Mongol leader Ghazan Khan is converted to Islam, ending a line of Tantric Buddhist leaders. ... Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470–1471. ...

Bramber was a burgage borough - the vote was restricted to inhabitants of ancient houses in the borough, or those built on ancient foundations, who paid scot and lot. In 1816 this amounted to only 20 voters, although as in 1831 the borough contained 35 houses and a population of approximately 170, this was a much higher proportion of the residents than in most burgage boroughs. a tenure under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering a service such as watching and warding This article is a stub. ... Scot and lot (0. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Bramber was slightly unusual in that the vote was accorded to the occupier rather than the owner of the burgage tenements, but in practice the owners had total control over the votes of their tenants - by bribery if not by threats - and therefore of elections in the borough. In Tudor times, the Dukes of Norfolk seem to have held sway. By the first half of the 18th century Bramber was wholly owned by Sir Harry Gough, who leased it (and the right to nominate its MPs) to Lord Archer; Lord Archer sold this right onwards in his turn, apparently being paid £1000 by the government to allow Lord Malpas to be elected in 1754. In 1768 the Duke of Rutland gained control, but Gough later regained power over one of the two seats and it was inherited by his descendants (who held the title Lord Calthorpe). These two families still shared the representation at the time of the Reform Act. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk holding the baton of the Earl Marshal. ... 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Earl of Rutland and Duke of Rutland are titles in the peerage of England, derived from Rutland, a traditional county. ... Baron Calthorpe, of Calthorpe in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. ...

Bramber was abolished as a separate constituency with effect from the 1832 general election. However, the nearby borough of New Shoreham had already been expanded to include the whole of the Rape of Bramber as an antidote to its corruption, and survived the Reform Act with both its MPs intact. Bramber therefore formed part of the New Shoreham constituency from 1832. The 1832 UK general election, the first after the Reform Act, saw the Whigs win a large majority, with the Tories winning less than 30% of the vote. ...

Members of Parliament

1295-1660

• 1621-1642: Sir Thomas Bowyer
• 1628-1629: Sir Sackville Crowe
• 1640: Sir Edward Bishopp
• 1640-1648: Arthur Onslow

1660-1832

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1. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons, 1699
2. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons, 1707, for his controversial writings on religion
3. ^ On petition, Middleton's election was declared void following a dispute over the frranchise
4. ^ At the general election of 1708, Windsor and Shippen were initially declared re-elected, but on petition the election was declared void
5. ^ The Viscount Windsor was also elected for Monmouthshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Bramber
6. ^ On petition (a dispute over the franchise), Style was found not to have been duly elected, and a by-election was held
7. ^ On petition, Gumley was found not to have been duly elected, and a by-election was held
8. ^ Archer was also elected for Coventry, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Bramber
9. ^ The Earl Winterton from 1766
10. ^ At the election of 1768, Winterton and Lowndes were initially declared elected, but on petition the result was reversed and their opponents Thoroton and Ambler were seated instead
11. ^ Adopted the surname Calthorpe in 1788
12. ^ Sir Thomas Coxhead from 1793

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References

• Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
• Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1961)
• J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
• T H B Oldfield, The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1816)
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
• Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.