List of MPs elected in the 1722 British general election facts for kids
List of MPs elected in the 1722 British general election
| 4th Parliament | (1713) |
| 5th Parliament | (1715) |
| 6th Parliament | (1722) |
| 7th Parliament | (1727 ) |
| 8th Parliament | (1734) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1722, the 6th Parliament of Great Britain, and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.
Elections took place
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections Changes |
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Kerr – unseated on petition Replaced by John Middleton 1722 |
. Whig |
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Archibald Grant, Bt | |
| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | Robert Hucks | Whig |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | Charles Stanhope | Whig |
| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | William Jessop | Whig |
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Walter Plumer | Whig |
| Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) | Samuel Lowe | |
| Amersham (seat 1/2) | Montague Garrard Drake - sat for Buckinghamshire Replaced by Thomas Chapman 1722 |
Tory Tory |
| Amersham (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Fermanagh | Tory |
| Andover (seat 1/2) | James Brudenell | Whig |
| Andover (seat 2/2) | William Guidott | Whig |
| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | The Viscount Bulkeley - died Replaced by Hugh Williams 1725 |
Tory Whig |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | Philip Anstruther | |
| Appleby (seat 1/2) | Sackville Tufton | Tory |
| Appleby (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Sandford - died Replaced by James Lowther 1723 |
Whug Whig |
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Campbell | |
| Arundel (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lumley | |
| Arundel (seat 2/2) | Joseph Micklethwaite | |
| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | Richard Reynell | Tory |
| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Roger Tuckfield | Whig |
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | Richard Abell | Tory |
| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | John Guise | Whig |
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Steuart | Whig |
| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | John Montgomerie | |
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Monoux Cope | |
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Abercromby | |
| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | Lieutenant-General Thomas Whetham | |
| Barnstaple (seat 2/2) | Sir Hugh Acland | |
| Bath (seat 1/2) | General George Wade | |
| Bath (seat 2/2) | John Codrington | |
| Beaumaris (seat 1/1) | Hon. Henry Bertie | |
| Bedford (seat 1/2) | William Farrer | Whig |
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | George Huxley - Took office Replaced by John Thurlow Brace 1725 |
. Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Leigh | Tory |
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Rowland Alston, 4th Bt | Whig |
| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | Sir John Hobart -sat for St. Ives Replaced by Sir Robert Rich 1724 |
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| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | St John Brodrick | |
| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Stonhouse, Bt | Tory |
| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Packer | Tory |
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | George Baillie | |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | Grey Neville - died Replaced by William Kerr 1723 |
Whig |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Barrington - expelled Replaced by Henry Grey 1723 |
Whig |
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Hotham, Bt Replaced by Sir Charles Hotham |
Whig Whig |
| Beverley (seat 2/2) | Michael Newton | |
| Bewdley (seat 1/1) | Crewe Offley | Whig |
| Bishop's Castle (seat 1/2) | William Peere Williams | |
| Bishop's Castle (seat 2/2) | Bowater Vernon Replaced by Charles Mason 1726 |
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| Bletchingley (seat 1/2) | George Evelyn - died Replaced by Henry Herbert 1724 |
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| Bletchingley (seat 2/2) | William Clayton | |
| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | Isaac le Heup | |
| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | Richard West - died Replaced by John LaRoche 1727 |
. Whig |
| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Conyers Darcy -sat for Richmond Replaced by Joseph Danvers 1722 |
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| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | James Tyrrell | |
| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | Robert Corker | |
| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | Henry Kelsall | |
| Boston (seat 1/2) | Henry Pacey | |
| Boston (seat 2/2) | Richard Ellys | Whig |
| Brackley (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Egerton | |
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | Paul Methuen | Whig |
| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Gough | |
| Bramber (seat 2/2) | William Charles van Huls - died Replaced by David Polhill 1723 |
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| Brecon (seat 1/1) | William Morgan -sat for Monmouthshire Replaced by Thomas Morgan 1723 |
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| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | William Gwyn Vaughan | |
| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | William Whitmore - died Replaced by St John Charlton 1725 |
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| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | John Weaver | |
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | George Bubb Dodington | Whig |
| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | Thomas Palmer | Tory |
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | Peter Walter | |
| Bridport (seat 2/2) | Dewey Bulkeley | |
| Bristol (seat 1/2) | Sir Abraham Elton, Bt I | Whig |
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Joseph Earle | |
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | Alexander Denton - Took office Replaced by William Heathcote 1722 |
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| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | Richard Grenville - died Replaced by John Fane 1727 |
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| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Montague Garrard Drake | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. | |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | James Reynolds - took office Replaced by Lord Hervey 1725 |
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| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Sir Jermyn Davers, Bt | |
| Buteshire (seat 1/1) | Patrick Campbell | |
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Wynn, Bt | Whig |
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | John Griffith | Whig |
| Caithness (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Buteshire -unrepresented in this Parliament | |
| Callington (seat 1/2) | Thomas Coplestone | Whig |
| Callington (seat 2/2) | Thomas Lutwyche | |
| Calne (seat 1/2) | Benjamin Haskins-Stiles -sat for Devizes Replaced by Edmund Pike Heath 1723 |
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| Calne (seat 2/2) | George Duckett - took office Replaced by Matthew Ducie Moreton 1723 |
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| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | Sir John Hynde Cotton - sat for Cambridgeshire Replaced by Gilbert Affleck 1722 |
Tory . |
| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bacon | Tory |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Hynde Cotton | Tory |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | Lord Harley -succeeded to a peerage Replaced by Samuel Shepheard 1724 |
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| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | Hon. Dixie Windsor | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Thomas Willoughby | |
| Camelford (seat 1/2) | The Earl of Drogheda | |
| Camelford (seat 2/2) | William Sloper | |
| Canterbury (seat 1/2) | Samuel Milles | |
| Canterbury (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Hales, Bt | |
| Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Edward Stradling - died Replaced by Bussy Mansel 1727 |
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| Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Stephen Parry - died Replaced by Thomas Powell 2 April 1725 |
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| Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) | Francis Cornwallis | |
| Carlisle (seat 1/2) | James Bateman | Tory |
| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | Henry Aglionby | Tory |
| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | Richard Vaughan - died Replaced by James Phillips 1725 |
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| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | Edward Rice – unseated on petition Replaced by Sir Nicholas Williams |
. Whig |
| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | William Feilding - died Replaced by The Earl of Mountrath 1724 |
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| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Charles Churchill | Whig |
| Cheshire (seat 1/2) | Charles Cholmondeley | Tory |
| Cheshire (seat 2/2) | John Offley-Crewe | Whig |
| Chester (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Bunbury, Bt | Tory |
| Chester (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bt | |
| Chichester (seat 1/2) | Earl of March - succeeded to a peerage Replaced by Lord William Beauclerk 1724 |
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| Chichester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Miller | |
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | Sir John Eyles | |
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | Edward Rolt - died Replaced by Thomas Boucher 1723 |
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| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Charles Egerton Replaced by Viscount Milsington 1726- unseated on petition Replaced by Harry Waller 1726 |
. . Whig |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | The Earl of Shelburne | |
| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | Sir Peter Mews - died Replaced by Jacob Banks 1726 |
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| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | Francis Gwyn -sat for Wells Replaced by Edward Prideaux Gwyn 1724 |
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| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | Thomas Master | Tory |
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Bathurst | Tory |
| City of Durham | see Durham (City of) | ... |
| City of London | see London (City of) | ... |
| Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) | Sir John Shaw, 3rd Baronet | |
| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lister | Tory |
| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Curzon | |
| Clyde Burghs | see Glasgow Burghs | ... |
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | Wilfrid Lawson | Whig |
| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | Thomas Pengelly - took office Replaced by William Finch 1727 |
. Whig |
| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Webster | Whig |
| Colchester (seat 2/2) | Matthew Martin | Whig |
| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | Denis Bond | |
| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | John Bankes | |
| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | Sir William Carew, Bt | Tory |
| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | Sir John St Aubyn, Bt | Tory |
| County Durham | see Durham (County) | ... |
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | Sir Adolphus Oughton | Whig |
| Coventry (seat 2/2) | John Neale | |
| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Reade | Whig |
| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Thomas Gore | |
| Cromartyshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Nairnshire - unrepresented in this Parliament | |
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bt | |
| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | Gilfrid Lawson | |
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | George Treby | |
| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | Thomas Martyn | |
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Robert Myddelton | |
| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Watkin Williams | Tory |
| Derby (seat 1/2) | Lord James Cavendish | |
| Derby (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bayley | Whig |
| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Godfrey Clarke | |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | John Curzon | |
| Devizes (seat 1/2) | Sir Joseph Eyles | |
| Devizes (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Haskins Stiles | |
| Devon (seat 1/2) | Sir William Courtenay | |
| Devon (seat 2/2) | Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt | Tory |
| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | Edmund Morton Pleydell – unseated on petition Replaced by William Chapple 1723 |
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| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | Joseph Damer | |
| Dorset (seat 1/2) | George Chafin | |
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | Thomas Strangways - died Replaced by George Pitt 1727 |
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| Dover (seat 1/2) | George Berkeley | |
| Dover (seat 2/2) | Henry Furnese | |
| Downton (seat 1/2) | John Verney | |
| Downton (seat 2/2) | Giles Eyre | |
| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Richard Foley | |
| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Jeffreys - died Replaced by Thomas Winnington 1726 |
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| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Douglas | |
| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Charles Erskine | |
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | Mungo Haldane – unseated on petition Replaced by Hon. John Campbell 1725 |
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| Dunwich (seat 1/2) | Sir George Downing, Bt | |
| Dunwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Vernon - sat for Penryn Replaced by Sir John Ward 1722 - died Replaced by John Sambrooke 1726 |
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| Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) | Thomas Conyers | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) | Charles Talbot | |
| Durham (County) (seat 1/2) | Sir John Eden | Tory |
| Durham (County) (seat 2/2) | John Hedworth | Independent Whig |
| Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) | James St Clair | |
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | John Conyers - died Replaced by Edward Conyers 1725 |
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| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | Spencer Compton -sat for Sussex Replaced by The Viscount Shannon 1722 |
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| East Looe (seat 1/2) | John Smith - died Replaced by George Cholmondeley 1724 |
Whig Whig |
| East Looe (seat 2/2) | Horatio Walpole -sat for Great Yarmouth Replaced by William Lowndes 1722 - died Replaced by Sir Henry Hoghton 1724 |
Whig . . |
| East Retford (seat 1/2) | Thomas White | Whig |
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | Patrick Chaworth | |
| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | John Campbell | |
| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Dundas | Tory |
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Fraser Replaced by John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll 1725 |
. Whig |
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Brodie | |
| Essex (seat 1/2) | Robert Honywood | |
| Essex (seat 2/2) | William Harvey | |
| Evesham (seat 1/2) | Sir John Rushout | Whig |
| Evesham (seat 2/2) | John Rudge | Whig |
| Exeter (seat 1/2) | John Rolle | |
| Exeter (seat 2/2) | Francis Drewe | Tory |
| Eye (seat 1/2) | Edward Hopkins | |
| Eye (seat 2/2) | Spencer Compton -sat for Sussex Replaced by James Cornwallis 1722 |
. Whig |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | Sir John Anstruther | |
| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Eyton | |
| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn | |
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | James Scott | |
| Fowey (seat 1/2) | John Goodall - died Replaced by William Bromley 1725 |
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| Fowey (seat 2/2) | Nicholas Vincent - died Replaced by The Viscount FitzWilliam 1727 |
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | William Newland | |
| Gatton (seat 2/2) | Paul Docminique | |
| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Charles Kemeys | |
| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Daniel Campbell | |
| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | John Snell - died Replaced by John Howe 1727 |
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| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | Charles Hyett | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Henry Berkeley | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Kinard de la Bere | |
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Marquess of Hartington | Whig |
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Humphry Morice | Whig |
| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Francis Fisher | |
| Grantham (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Tyrconnel | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | Robert Bruce | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | Charles Longueville | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | Benjamin Collyer | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | Charles Pelham | |
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | Edmund Waller | |
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | Sir John Guise | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | Charles Townshend - ennobled Replaced by William Townshend 1723 |
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| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Horatio Walpole | |
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Arthur Onslow | Whig |
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | Thomas Brodrick | Whig |
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet | |
| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | John Cockburn | |
| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Harry Powlett | |
| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | Lord Nassau Powlett | |
| Harwich (seat 1/2) | Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, Bt | |
| Harwich (seat 2/2) | Humphrey Parsons | |
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | James Oglethorpe | Tory |
| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | Peter Burrell | |
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | Archibald Hutcheson | |
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | Sir William Ashburnham | |
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | Francis Edwardes - died Replaced by Sir Erasmus Philipps 1726 |
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| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Daniel Pulteney - sat for Preston Replaced by Harry Pulteney |
Whig |
| Hedon (seat 2/2) | William Pulteney | Whig |
| Helston (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Raymond Replaced by Sir Clement Wearg 1724 - died Replaced by Exton Sayer 1726 |
Tory Whig . |
| Helston (seat 2/2) | Walter Carey | |
| Hereford (seat 1/2) | Herbert Rudhale Westfaling | |
| Hereford (seat 2/2) | William Mayo - died Replaced by James Wallwyn 1723 |
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| Herefordshire (seat 1/2) | Velters Cornewall | |
| Herefordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Goodere, Bt | |
| Hertford (seat 1/2) | Edward Harrison - took office Replaced by George Harrison 1727 |
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| Hertford (seat 2/2) | Charles Caesar – unseated on petition Replaced by Sir Thomas Clarke 1723 |
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| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | Ralph Freman | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Sebright, Bt | |
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | Edward Ashe | |
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | Pierce A'Court - died Replaced by Lord Charles Cavendish 1725 |
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| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | Thomas Watson Wentworth - died Replaced by John Finch 1724 |
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| Hindon (seat 1/2) | Henry Ludlow Coker | |
| Hindon (seat 2/2) | Robert Gray | |
| Honiton (seat 1/2) | Sir William Pole | |
| Honiton (seat 2/2) | Sir William Yonge | Whig |
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | Charles Eversfield | |
| Horsham (seat 2/2) | Henry Ingram | |
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | Edward Wortley Montagu | |
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | Roger Handasyde | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) | John Bigg | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Hinchingbrooke - died Replaced by John Proby 1722 |
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| Hythe (seat 1/2) | Captain Hercules Baker | |
| Hythe (seat 2/2) | Sir Samuel Lennard | |
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | William Burroughs - took office Replaced by Thomas Paget 1722 |
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| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | Daniel Moore | |
| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | Duncan Forbes | |
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Grant, Bt. | Whig |
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | William Thompson | Whig |
| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | Francis Negus | Whig |
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bt | |
| Kent (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Twisden | |
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | James Scott | |
| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Walpole | Whig |
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Sir Charles Turner | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | Sir William St Quintin - died Replaced by George Crowle 1724 |
Tory |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Rogers | Tory |
| Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Clackmannanshire - unrepresented in this Parliament | |
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | Alexander Murray | |
| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | Richard Arundell | |
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Slingsby, Bt | |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | Lord Archibald Hamilton | |
| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Bland | |
| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | Richard Shuttleworth | Tory |
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | William Heysham - died Replaced by Christopher Tower 1727 |
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| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Lowther | |
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | Alexander Pendarves - died Replaced by John Freind 1725 |
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| Launceston (seat 2/2) | John Freind - unseated on petition Replaced by John Willes 1724 - took office Replaced by Henry Vane 31 May 1726 |
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| Leicester (seat 1/2) | Lawrence Carter - took office Replaced by Thomas Boothby Skrymsher 1727 |
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| Leicester (seat 2/2) | Sir George Beaumont | |
| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | Edmund Morris | |
| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | Lord William Manners | |
| Leominster (seat 1/2) | Sir Archer Croft | |
| Leominster (seat 2/2) | Sir George Caswall | |
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pelham | |
| Lewes (seat 2/2) | Henry Pelham - died Replaced by Sir Nicholas Pelham 1726 |
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| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | Walter Chetwynd | |
| Lichfield (seat 2/2) | Richard Plumer | |
| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | Sir John Tyrwhitt, Bt | |
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Sir John Monson | |
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Sir William Massingberd - died Replaced by Robert Vyner 1724 |
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| Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) | Henry Heron | |
| Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Daniel Weir - died Replaced by John Murray 1725 |
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| Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) | George Dundas | |
| Liskeard (seat 1/2) | Edward Eliot - died Replaced by Thomas Clutterbuck 1722 |
Tory |
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | John Lansdell | |
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Johnson - took office Replaced by Langham Booth 1723 - died Replaced by Thomas Brereton 1724 |
Whig |
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | William Cleiveland - died Replaced by Thomas Bootle 1724 |
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| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | Richard Lockwood | Tory |
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | Sir John Barnard | Whig |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | Peter Godfrey Replaced by Richard Hopkins 1724 |
Tory |
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | Francis Child | Whig |
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | Marquess of Hartington -sat for Grampound Replaced by Sir Orlando Bridgeman 1724 |
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| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | Lord Stanhope - took office Replaced by Henry Parsons 1724 - took office Replaced by Sir William Stanhope 1727 |
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| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | John Richmond Webb - died Replaced by Anthony Cornish 1724 |
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| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | Borlase Richmond Webb | |
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Abel Ketelby | |
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | Acton Baldwyn - died Replaced by Richard Herbert 1727 |
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| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | Henry Holt Henley | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | John Burridge | |
| Lymington (seat 1/2) | Lord Harry Powlett -sat for Hampshire Replaced by Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1722 |
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| Lymington (seat 2/2) | Paul Burrard, junior | Whig |
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Culpeper - died Replaced by Sir Barnham Rider 1723 |
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| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | John Finch | |
| Maldon (seat 1/2) | John Comyns - took office Replaced by Henry Parsons 1727 |
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| Maldon (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bramston | Whig |
| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | Giles Earle | |
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | John Fermor - died Replaced by Charles Stewart 1723 |
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| Malton (seat 1/2) | Sir William Strickland - died Replaced by Henry Finch 1724 |
Whig . |
| Malton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Watson-Wentworth II | |
| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | Earl of Hertford -sat for Northumberland Replaced by Thomas Gibson 1722 |
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| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Gabriel Roberts | |
| Marlow | see Great Marlow | ... |
| Melcombe Regis | see Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | ... |
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | Richard Vaughan | |
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | Hon. James Bertie | |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | John Austen | |
| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | Bulstrode Knight | |
| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | The Lord Midleton | |
| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | Michael Harvey | |
| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | George Speke | |
| Minehead (seat 1/2) | Thomas Hales | |
| Minehead (seat 2/2) | Robert Mansel - died Replaced by Francis Whitworth 1723 |
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| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | Charles Selwyn | |
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | John Hedges | |
| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Edward Kemeys | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | William Morgan | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | John Hanbury | |
| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | John Pugh | |
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | Price Devereux | |
| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Viscount Morpeth | |
| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | George Carpenter | |
| Much Wenlock (seat 1/2) | see Wenlock | ... |
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| Nairnshire (seat 1/1) | John Forbes | |
| Newark (seat 1/2) | Richard Sutton | |
| Newark (seat 2/2) | James Pelham | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | Sir Brian Broughton - died Replaced by Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet 1724 |
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| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | Thomas Leveson-Gower | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Sir William Blackett, Bt. | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | William Carr | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | Sir Nicholas Morice - died Replaced by Thomas Herbert 1726 |
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| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | Sir William Pole -sat for Honiton Replaced by John Morice 1722 |
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| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Earl of March - sat for Chichester Replaced by Charles Cadogan 1722- succeeded to a peerage Replaced by Sir William Willys 1727 |
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| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | The Lord Whitworth - died Replaced by George Huxley 1726 |
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| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Lewis | Whig |
| New Romney (seat 1/2) | Robert Furnese | Whig |
| New Romney (seat 2/2) | David Papillon | |
| New Shoreham (seat 1/2) | Francis Chamberlayne | |
| New Shoreham (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Gould | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Leicester | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) | William Shippen | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | William Stephens | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Charles Worsley | |
| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | Earl of Burford - succeeded to a peerage Replaced by Lord Vere Beauclerk 1726 |
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| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | William, Earl of Inchiquin | |
| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | Samuel Trotman | |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Wheate | |
| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Thomas de Grey | Whig |
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Coke | Whig |
| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Leonard Smelt | |
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Henry Peirse | |
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | William Wilmer | |
| Northampton (seat 2/2) | Edward Montagu | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Justinian Isham | Tory |
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Cartwright | Tory |
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | Sir William Middleton, Bt | |
| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Earl of Hertford - ennobled Replaced by William Wrightson 1723 - unseated on petition Replaced by Ralph Jenison 1724 |
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| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Waller Bacon | |
| Norwich (seat 2/2) | Robert Brightiffe | |
| Nottingham (seat 1/2) | John Plumptre | |
| Nottingham (seat 2/2) | George Gregory | |
| Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Howe | |
| Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Sutton | |
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | Robert Pitt | |
| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | John Crowley | |
| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pitt - died Replaced by George Pitt 1726 |
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| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | Robert Pitt -sat for Okehampton Replaced by George Morton Pitt 1722 -took office Replaced by John Pitt 1724 |
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| Orford (seat 1/2) | Dudley North | |
| Orford (seat 2/2) | William Acton | |
| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | George Douglas | |
| Oxford (seat 1/2) | Thomas Rowney, junior | |
| Oxford (seat 2/2) | Sir John Walter - died Replaced by Francis Knollys 1722 |
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| Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Banks Jenkinson | |
| Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) | Henry Perrot | |
| Oxford University (seat 1/2) | George Clarke | Tory |
| Oxford University (seat 2/2) | Wiliam Bromley | Tory |
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | John Douglas | |
| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Ferrers - died Replaced by William Owen 1722 |
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| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Arthur Owen, Bt | |
| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Sidney Meadows | |
| Penryn (seat 2/2) | Edward Vernon | |
| Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Erskine | |
| Perthshire (seat 1/1) | Lord James Murray -ennobled Replaced by David Graeme 1724 - died Replaced by Mungo Haldane 1726 |
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| Peterborough (seat 1/2) | Viscount Milton | Whig |
| Peterborough (seat 2/2) | Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu | Tory |
| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | Norton Powlett | |
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Edmund Miller - took office Replaced by Joseph Taylor 1727- unseated on petition Replaced Edmund Miller 1727 |
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| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | William Chetwynd | |
| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | Pattee Byng | |
| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | Richard Edgcumbe | Whig |
| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | George Treby | |
| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet | |
| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | John Lowther | |
| Poole (seat 1/2) | George Trenchard | |
| Poole (seat 2/2) | Thomas Ridge | |
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Wager | |
| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Sir John Norris | |
| Preston (seat 1/2) | Daniel Pulteney | |
| Preston (seat 2/2) | Thomas Hesketh | |
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | James Littleton - died Replaced by Viscount Forbes 1723 |
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| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Lieutenant Colonel John Cope | |
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| Radnor Boroughs | see New Radnor Boroughs | ... |
| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Humphrey Howorth | |
| Reading (seat 1/2) | Anthony Blagrave | |
| Reading (seat 2/2) | Clement Kent | |
| Reigate (seat 1/2) | James Cocks | |
| Reigate (seat 2/2) | Sir Joseph Jekyll | |
| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Cochrane | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | John Yorke | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Conyers Darcy | |
| Ripon (seat 1/2) | William Aislabie II | Tory |
| Ripon (seat 2/2) | John Scrope | |
| Rochester (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Palmer - died Replaced by Sir Thomas Colby 1724 |
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| Rochester (seat 2/2) | Sir John Jennings | |
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Urquhart | |
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Gilbert Elliot | |
| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Lord Finch | |
| Rutland (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Mackworth | |
| Rye (seat 1/2) | Phillips Gybbon | |
| Rye (seat 2/2) | The Lord Aylmer | Whig |
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | William Gore | |
| St Albans (seat 2/2) | William Clayton | |
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | Lord Binning | |
| St Germans (seat 2/2) | Philip Cavendish | |
| St Ives (seat 1/2) | Henry Knollys | |
| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Sir John Hobart | |
| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | Sidney Godolphin | |
| St Mawes (seat 2/2) | Samuel Travers - died Replaced by Samuel Molyneux 1726 |
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| Salisbury (seat 1/2) | Anthony Duncombe | |
| Salisbury (seat 2/2) | Francis Kenton | |
| Saltash (seat 1/2) | Thomas Swanton - died Replaced by Philip Lloyd 1723 |
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| Saltash (seat 2/2) | Edward Hughes | |
| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | Josiah Burchett | Whig |
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | Sir George Oxenden | Whig |
| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | John Hungerford | Tory |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | Sir William Strickland | Whig |
| Seaford (seat 1/2) | Sir William Gage, Bt | |
| Seaford (seat 2/2) | Sir Philip Yorke | |
| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | John Pringle | |
| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward des Bouverie | |
| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Edward Nicholas - died Replaced by Stephen Fox 1726 |
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| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | Richard Lyster – unseated on petition Replaced by Sir Richard Corbet 1723 |
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| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Corbet Kynaston – unseated on petition Replaced by Orlando Bridgeman 1723 |
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| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | John Kynaston | |
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Lloyd | |
| Shoreham | see New Shoreham | ... |
| Somerset (seat 1/2) | Edward Phelips | |
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | Sir William Wyndham, Bt | Tory |
| Southampton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lewis | |
| Southampton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Missing | |
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | George Meggott - died Replaced by John Lade 1724 |
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| Southwark (seat 2/2) | Edmund Halsey | |
| Stafford (seat 1/2) | Thomas Foley | |
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | John Dolphin - died Replaced by Francis Elde 1724- expelled Replaced by The Viscount Chetwynd 1725 |
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| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Paget | Tory |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | William Leveson Gower | |
| Stamford (seat 1/2) | Brownlow Cecil - succeeded to a peerage Replaced by William Noel 1722 |
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| Stamford (seat 2/2) | Hon. Charles Bertie | |
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | John Pepper - died Replaced by Marquess of Carnarvon 1726 - died Replaced by William Stanhope 1727 |
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| Steyning (seat 2/2) | John Gumley | |
| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | Henry Cunningham | |
| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | John Graham | |
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | John Chetwynd | |
| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | Martin Bladen | |
| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | John Knight | |
| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | William Windham | |
| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bt | |
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Davers - died Replaced by Sir William Barker 1722 |
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| Surrey (seat 1/2) | John Walter | |
| Surrey (seat 2/2) | Sir Nicholas Carew - died Replaced by Thomas Scawen 1727 |
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| Sussex (seat 1/2) | Henry Pelham | |
| Sussex (seat 2/2) | Hon. Spencer Compton | Whig |
| Sutherland (seat 1/1) | Sir William Gordon | |
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Munro, Bt | |
| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | Samuel Bracebridge – unseated on petition Replaced by Richard Swinfen 1723 - died Replaced by George Compton 1727 |
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| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | Francis Willoughby | |
| Taunton (seat 1/2) | John Trenchard - died Replaced by Abraham Elton 1724 |
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| Taunton (seat 2/2) | James Smith | Whig |
| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Sir John Cope | |
| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Henry Drake, Bt | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Gage | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | Brigadier George Reade | |
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | Sir Edmund Bacon | |
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | Robert Jacomb | |
| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | William St Quintin | |
| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Thomas Frankland | |
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Arthur Arscott | |
| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bere - died Replaced by George Deane 1726 |
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| Totnes (seat 2/2) | Joseph Banks | |
| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Charles Wills | |
| Tregony (seat 1/2) | James Cooke | |
| Tregony (seat 2/2) | John Merrill | |
| Truro (seat 1/2) | Thomas Wyndham | |
| Truro (seat 2/2) | Spencer Cowper | |
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | Viscount Parker | |
| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | William Hucks | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Ernle | |
| Wareham (seat 2/2) | Joseph Gascoigne | |
| Warwick (seat 1/2) | William Colemore - died Replaced by Sir William Keyt 1722 |
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| Warwick (seat 2/2) | Hon. Dodington Greville | |
| Warwickshire (seat 1/2) | William Peyto | |
| Warwickshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Digby - died Replaced by Edward Digby 1726 |
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| Wells (seat 1/2) | Thomas Edwards | |
| Wells (seat 2/2) | Francis Gwyn | |
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | Richard Hampden | |
| Wendover (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Steele | Whig |
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | Sir Humphrey Briggs | |
| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | Samuel Edwards | |
| Weobley (seat 1/2) | John Birch | |
| Weobley (seat 2/2) | Nicholas Philpott | |
| West Looe (seat 1/2) | George Delaval - died Replaced by Edward Trelawny 1724 |
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| West Looe (seat 2/2) | Sir John Trelawny | |
| Westbury (seat 1/2) | James Bertie – sat for Middlesex Replaced by Willoughby Bertie – unseated on petition Replaced by Lord Carbery |
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| Westbury (seat 2/2) | Francis Annesley | |
| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Archibald Hutcheson - election void Replaced by Charles Montagu 1722 |
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| Westminster (seat 2/2) | John Cotton - election void Replaced by The Lord Carpenter 1722 |
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| Westmorland (seat 1/2) | Anthony Lowther | |
| Westmorland (seat 2/2) | James Grahme | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) | Sir James Thornhill | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) | Thomas Pearse - took office Replaced by Edward Tucker 1727 |
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| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | John Ward | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | William Betts | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | Thomas Vernon - died Replaced by Thomas Farrington 1727 |
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| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | John Conduitt | |
| Wigan (seat 1/2) | Sir Roger Bradshaigh | |
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | James Barry | |
| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Dalrymple | |
| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | John Stewart | |
| Wilton (seat 1/2) | Robert Sawyer Herbert | |
| Wilton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Pitt | |
| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Grobham Howe | |
| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Hyde - died Replaced by Richard Goddard 1722 |
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| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | Robert Bristow II | |
| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | George Bubb Dodington -sat for Bridgwater Replaced by Thomas Townshend 1722 |
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| Winchester (seat 1/2) | George Brydges | |
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | Lord William Powlett | |
| Windsor | see New Windsor | ... |
| Woodstock | see New Woodstock | ... |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | Colonel Robert Murray | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | William Chetwynd | |
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | Thomas Wylde | |
| Worcester (seat 2/2) | Samuel Sandys | |
| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Pakington | Tory |
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Lyttelton | |
| Wycombe | see Chipping Wycombe | ... |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Anthony Morgan | |
| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Thomas Stanwix - died Replaced by Maurice Morgan 1725 |
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| Yarmouth (Norfolk) | see Great Yarmouth | ... |
| York (seat 1/2) | Sir William Milner, 1st Baronet | |
| York (seat 2/2) | Edward Thompson | |
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | The 2nd Viscount Downe | |
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Arthur Kaye - died Replaced by Cholmley Turner 1727 |
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By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1715–34)
See also
- 1722 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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