List of MPs elected in the 1774 British general election facts for kids
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| Legislative body | Parliament of Great Britain | ||||||||||||
| Meeting place | Palace of Westminster | ||||||||||||
| Term | 30 November 1774 – 8 July 1780 |
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| Election | 1774 British general election | ||||||||||||
| Government | North ministry | ||||||||||||
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| Members | 558 | ||||||||||||
| Speaker | The Lord Grantley | ||||||||||||
| Leader | The Lord North | ||||||||||||
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| Lord Chancellor | The Earl Bathurst | ||||||||||||
| Leader | The Earl of Suffolk | ||||||||||||
| Crown-in-Parliament King George III |
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List of MPs elected in the 1774 British general election
| 12th Parliament | (1761) |
| 13th Parliament | (1768) |
| 14th Parliament | (1774) |
| 15th Parliament | (1780) |
| 16th Parliament | (1784) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1774, the 14th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Lyon – resigned Replaced by Adam Drummond 1779 |
Pro-Admin Whig |
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Garden | Independent |
| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | John Mayor – void election, re-elected 1775 | |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | Charles Wilkinson – became insane Replaced by William Baker 1777 |
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| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | Abel Smith –- resigned Replaced by Hon. William Hanger 1778 |
Whig . |
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Thomas Fonnereau –- died Replaced by Martyn Fonnereau 1779 |
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| Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) | Richard Combe | |
| Amersham (seat1/2) | William Drake, Jr. | Tory |
| Amersham (seat 2/2) | William Drake, Sr. | Tory |
| Andover (seat 1/2) | Benjamin Lethieullier | |
| Andover (seat 2/2) | Sir John Griffin | |
| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | The Viscount Bulkeley | |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | Philip Anstruther II – resigned Replaced by Hon. George Damer 1778 |
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| Appleby (seat 1/2) | George Johnstone | |
| Appleby (seat 2/2) | Philip Honywood | |
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Adam Livingston | |
| Arundel (seat 1/2) | Thomas Brand | |
| Arundel (seat 2/2) | George Newnham | |
| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | Robert Palk | |
| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Charles Boone | |
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | Anthony Bacon | |
| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | John Aubrey | |
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir George Macartney – took post Replaced by Frederick Stuart 1776 |
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| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Adam Fergusson | |
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Frederick North, Lord North | Tory |
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | James Duff | |
| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | William Devaynes | |
| Barnstaple (seat 2/2) | John Clevland | Whig |
| Bath (seat 1/2) | Abel Moysey | |
| Bath (seat 2/2) | John Smith – died replaced by Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet 1775 |
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| Beaumaris (seat 1/1) | Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet | |
| Bedford (seat 1/2) | Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet | |
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | Robert Sparrow – unseated on petition Replaced by Samuel Whitbread 1775 |
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| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory | Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Ongley | Tory |
| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | Sir Francis Drake, 5th Baronet | |
| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Hobart | |
| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | Christopher Griffith – died replaced by Winchcombe Henry Hartley 1776 |
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| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | John Elwes | |
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | James Pringle – resigned replaced by Sir John Paterson, Bt 1779 |
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| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | Jacob Wilkinson | |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | Hon. John Vaughan | |
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | George Tufnell | |
| Beverley (seat 2/2) | Sir James Pennyman, Bt | |
| Bewdley (seat 1/1) | William Henry Lyttelton | |
| Bishops Castle (seat 1/2) | George Clive – died replaced by William Clive 1779 |
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| Bishops Castle (seat 2/2) | Henry Strachey – took office Replaced by Alexander Wedderburn 1778 – took office Replaced by Henry Strachey1780 |
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| Bletchingley (seat 1/2) | Frederick Standert | |
| Bletchingley (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Clayton | |
| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | James Laroche | |
| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | George Hunt | |
| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Anthony Eyre | |
| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | Charles Mellish – sat for Pontefract. Replaced by William Phillips, 1775 |
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| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart – ennobled Replaced by Hon. Charles Stuart |
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| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | Henry Lawes Luttrell | |
| Boston (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Bertie | |
| Boston (seat 2/2) | Charles Amcotts – died Replaced by Humphrey Sibthorp 1777 |
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| Brackley (seat 1/2) | William Egerton | |
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | Timothy Caswall | |
| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Thomas Thoroton | |
| Bramber (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Gough | |
| Brecon (seat 1/1) | Charles Van – died Replaced by Charles Gould, 1778 |
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| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | Charles Morgan | |
| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | The Lord Pigot – died Replaced by Hugh Pigot 1778 |
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| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | Thomas Whitmore | |
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | Hon. Anne Poulett | |
| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Allen | |
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | Lucius Ferdinand Cary | |
| Bridport (seat 2/2) | Thomas Coventry | |
| Bristol (seat 1/2) | Henry Cruger | |
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Edmund Burke | |
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | Richard Grenville | Grenvillite |
| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | James Grenville | Grenvillite |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Ralph Verney, Earl Verney | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | George Grenville – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Thomas Grenville 1779 |
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| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Davers, Bt | |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Augustus John Hervey – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Henry Seymour Conway 1775 |
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| Buteshire (seat 1/1) | James Stuart II | |
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Glyn Wynn | |
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | Thomas Assheton Smith | |
| Caithness (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Bute-shire. No representation in 1774 | |
| Callington (seat 1/2) | John Dyke Acland – died Replaced by George Stratton 1778 |
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| Callington (seat 2/2) | William Skrine | |
| Calne (seat 1/2) | John Dunning | |
| Calne (seat 2/2) | Isaac Barré | |
| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | Soame Jenyns | |
| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | Charles Sloane Cadogan – ennobled Replaced by Benjamin Keene |
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| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Sampson Gideon, Bt | |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt | |
| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | Richard Croftes | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby – succeeded to peerage Replaced by James Mansfield, 1779 |
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| Camelford (seat 1/2) | John Amyand | |
| Camelford (seat 2/2) | Francis Herne – died Replaced by Sir Ralph Payne 1776 |
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| Canterbury (seat 1/2) | Richard Milles | |
| Canterbury (seat 2/2) | Sir William Mayne | |
| Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Herbert Mackworth | |
| Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Smyth, Bt – unseated on petition Replaced by Thomas Johnes, 1775 – resigned Replaced by John Campbell 1780 |
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| Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) | Viscount Lisburne | |
| Carlisle (seat 1/2) | Fletcher Norton – sat for Guildford Replaced by Walter Spencer-Stanhope |
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| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | Anthony Morris Storer | |
| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | John Adams | |
| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | George Rice – died replaced by John Vaughan 1779 |
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| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | Alexander Wedderburn – sat for Okehampton Replaced by Hon. Charles Finch 1775 – resigned Replaced by John Chetwynd Talbot 1777 |
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| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Robert Mackreth | |
| Cheshire (seat 1/2) | John Crewe | Whig |
| Cheshire (seat 2/2) | Samuel Egerton – died Replaced by Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt, 1779 |
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| Chester (seat 1/2) | Richard Wilbraham-Bootle | |
| Chester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Grosvenor | |
| Chichester (seat 1/2) | William Keppel | |
| Chichester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Conolly | |
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt | |
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | Samuel Marsh | |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice | |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | Robert Waller | |
| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | Thomas Villiers, Lord Hyde | |
| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | James Harris | Whig |
| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | James Whitshed | |
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | Samuel Blackwell | |
| Clackmannanshire (seat 1/1) | Ralph Abercromby | |
| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lister | |
| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | Assheton Curzon | |
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | George Johnstone, RN – sat for Appleby Replaced by Ralph Gowland 1775 |
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| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | Fletcher Norton – sat for Guildford Replaced by James Adair 1775 |
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| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Charles Gray | Tory |
| Colchester (seat 2/2) | Isaac Martin Rebow | Whig |
| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | John Bond | |
| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | John Jenkinson | |
| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | Sir John Molesworth, Bt – died Replaced by Edward Eliot 1775 |
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| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | Sir William Lemon, Bt | |
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | Edward Roe Yeo | |
| Coventry (seat 2/2) | Walter Waring – died replaced by John Baker Holroyd, 1780 |
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| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | William Earle – died replaced by Samuel Peach 1775 – void election double return Replaced by John Dewar 1776 |
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| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Arnold Nesbitt – died replaced by John Macpherson 1779 |
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| Cromartyshire (seat 1/1) | William Pulteney | |
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | Henry Fletcher | |
| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale | |
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | Richard Hopkins | |
| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | Richard Howe, Viscount Howe | |
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Richard Myddelton | |
| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet | |
| Derby (seat 1/2) | Lord Frederick Cavendish | |
| Derby (seat 2/2) | Wenman Coke – sat for Norfolk Replaced by John Gisborne 1775 – unseated on petition Replaced by Daniel Coke 1776 |
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| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Lord George Cavendish | Whig |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | Godfrey Bagnall Clarke –- died Replaced by Hon. Nathaniel Curzon 1775 |
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| Devizes (seat 1/2) | James Sutton | |
| Devizes (seat 2/2) | Charles Garth | |
| Devon (seat 1/2) | John Parker | |
| Devon (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Bampfylde, Bt – died Replaced by John Rolle Walter 1776 – died Replaced by John Rolle 1780 |
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| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | John Damer | |
| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | William Ewer | |
| Dorset (seat 1/2) | Humphrey Sturt | |
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | Hon. George Pitt | |
| Dover (seat 1/2) | John Henniker | |
| Dover (seat 2/2) | John Trevanion | |
| Downton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Duncombe – unseated on petition Replaced by John Cooper 1775 – died Replaced by Thomas Duncombe 1779 – died Replaced by Hon. Bartholomew Bouverie 1779 – unseated on petition Replaced by Robert Shafto 1780 |
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| Downton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Dummer – unseated on petition Replaced by Sir Philip Hales 1775 |
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| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Thomas Foley junior – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Sir Edward Winnington, Bt 1777 |
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| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Andrew Foley | |
| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Douglas | |
| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Laurie | |
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet | Tory |
| Dunwich (seat 1/2) | Miles Barne – resigned Replaced by Barne Barne 1777 |
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| Dunwich (seat 2/2) | Gerard Vanneck | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) | John Tempest | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) | John Lambton | |
| Durham (County) (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet | |
| Durham (County) (seat 2/2) | Sir John Eden, Bt | |
| Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Johnstone | |
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | Lord George Germain | |
| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | John Irwin | |
| East Looe (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Whitworth – resigned Replaced by Thomas Graves 1775 – resigned Replaced by William Graves 1775 |
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| East Looe (seat 2/2) | John Buller | |
| East Retford (seat 1/2) | Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet | |
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton – sat for Westminster Replaced by William Hanger 1775 – resigned Replaced by Lord John Pelham-Clinton 1778 |
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| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | Sir Lawrence Dundas | Pro-Admin Whig |
| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | Henry Dundas | |
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | Staats Long Morris | |
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | Arthur Duff – resigned Replaced by Lord William Gordon 1779 |
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| Essex (seat 1/2) | John Luther | |
| Essex (seat 2/2) | John Conyers – died Replaced by William Harvey 1775 – died Replaced by Thomas Berney Bramston 1779 |
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| Evesham (seat 1/2) | Henry Seymour | |
| Evesham (seat 2/2) | John Rushout | |
| Exeter (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde | |
| Exeter (seat 2/2) | John Rolle Walter – resigned Replaced by John Baring 1776 |
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| Eye (seat 1/2) | Richard Burton Phillipson | |
| Eye (seat 2/2) | John St John | |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | John Scott – died Replaced by James Townsend Oswald 1776 – took office Replaced by Robert Skene 1779 – unseated on petition Replaced by John Henderson 1780 |
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| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir John Glynne, Bt – died Replaced by Watkin Williams 1777 |
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| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt | |
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | William Maule, Earl Panmure | |
| Fowey (seat 1/2) | Philip Rashleigh | |
| Fowey (seat 2/2) | Molyneaux Shuldham | |
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | Sir William Mayne – sat for Canterbury Replaced by Robert Mayne 1774 |
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| Gatton (seat 2/2) | Robert Scott – sat for Wootton Bassett Replaced by William Adam 1774 |
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| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | George Venables-Vernon | |
| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Lord Frederick Campbell | |
| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | George Augustus Selwyn | |
| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | Charles Barrow | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Edward Southwell – succeeded to peerage Replaced by William Bromley-Chester 1776 |
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| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Sir William Guise, Bt | |
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke | |
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Richard Neville | |
| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Sir Brownlow Cust – ennobled Replaced by Peregrine Cust 1776 |
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| Grantham (seat 2/2) | Lord George Manners-Sutton | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | James Stopforth – resigned Replaced by Viscount Cranborne 1774 |
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| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | Paul Methuen | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | Francis Evelyn Anderson | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | Joseph Mellish | |
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | William Clayton | |
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | Sir John Borlase Warren | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | Charles Townshend | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Walpole | |
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Sir Fletcher Norton | |
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | George Onslow | |
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Maitland – died Replaced by Francis Charteris, 1780 |
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| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | Sir George Suttie, Bt – resigned Replaced by William Hamilton Nisbet 1777 |
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| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry St John, Bt | |
| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Simeon Stuart, Bt – died Replaced by Jervoise Clarke Jervoise 1779 |
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| Harwich (seat 1/2) | Edward Harvey – died Replaced by George Augustus North, 1778 |
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| Harwich (seat 2/2) | John Robinson | |
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | Thomas More Molyneux -died Replaced by Peter Burrell 1776 |
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| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | Sir Merrick Burrell, Bt | |
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | Henry Temple, Lord Palmerston | |
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | Charles Jenkinson | |
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | William Edwardes | |
| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Saunders – died Replaced by Hon. Lewis Watson 1776 |
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| Hedon (seat 2/2) | Beilby Thompson | |
| Helston (seat 1/2) | Marquis of Carmarthen – unseated on petition Replaced by Francis Cockayne-Cust 1775 |
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| Helston (seat 2/2) | Francis Owen – unseated on petition Replaced by Philip Yorke 1775 |
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| Hereford (seat 1/2) | Richard Symons | |
| Hereford (seat 2/2) | John Scudamore | |
| Herefordshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Foley snr – ennobled Replaced by Thomas Harley 1776 |
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| Herefordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir George Cornewall, Bt | |
| Hertford (seat 1/2) | John Calvert | |
| Hertford (seat 2/2) | Paul Feilde | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | William Plumer | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Halsey | |
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | William Ashe-à Court | |
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Gordon | |
| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | Frederick Montagu | |
| Hindon (seat 1/2) | Richard Smith – void election, writ suspended 1775 – Reelected 1776 | |
| Hindon (seat 2/2) | Thomas Brand Hollis – void election, writ suspended 1775 Replaced by Henry Dawkins 1776 |
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| Honiton (seat 1/2) | Sir George Yonge, Bt | |
| Honiton (seat 2/2) | Laurence Cox | |
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | Jeremiah Dyson -died Replaced by Earl of Drogheda 1775 |
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| Horsham (seat 2/2) | James Wallace | |
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | George Wombwell | |
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | Hon. William Augustus Montagu – died Replaced by Constantine John Phipps 1776 |
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| Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) | The Earl Ludlow | |
| Hythe (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Farnaby | |
| Hythe (seat 2/2) | William Evelyn | |
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | Peregrine Cust – void election Replaced by Nathaniel Webb 1775 |
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| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | William Innes void election Replaced by Owen Salusbury Brereton |
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| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Hector Munro | |
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | Simon Fraser | |
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | William Wollaston | |
| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | Thomas Staunton | |
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Marsham Bt | |
| Kent (seat 2/2) | Thomas Knight, junior | |
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | Lord Adam Gordon | |
| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Thomas Walpole | |
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Crisp Molineux | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Manners | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | David Hartley | |
| Kinross-shire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Clackmannanshire. No representation in 1774 | |
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | William Stewart | |
| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | Robert Boyle-Walsingham | |
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Anthony Abdy, Bt – resigned Replaced by Lord George Cavendish 1775 |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | Andrew Stuart | |
| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Lord Stanley – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Thomas Stanley I 1776 –died Replaced by Thomas Stanley II 1780 |
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| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Egerton | |
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | Sir George Warren | |
| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Lord Richard Cavendish | |
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | John Buller | |
| Launceston (seat 2/2) | Humphry Morice | |
| Leicester (seat 1/2) | Hon. Booth Grey | |
| Leicester (seat 2/2) | John Darker | |
| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Palmer, Bt | |
| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Noel – succeeded to peerage Replaced by John Peach-Hungerford 1775 |
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| Leominster (seat 1/2) | Thomas Hill – died Replaced by Frederick Cornewall 1776 |
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| Leominster (seat 2/2) | John Bateman, Viscount Bateman | |
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Miller, Bt | |
| Lewes (seat 2/2) | Thomas Hay | |
| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | Thomas Gilbert | |
| Lichfield (seat 2/2) | George Adams (later Anson) | |
| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Lumley | |
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Robert Vyner | |
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Brownlow Bertie – succeeded to peerage Replaced by John Thorold 1779 |
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| Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) | Charles Anderson-Pelham | |
| Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir James Cockburn, Bt | |
| Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) | Sir William Cunynghame | |
| Liskeard (seat 1/2) | Edward Gibbon | |
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | Samuel Salt | |
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Sir William Meredith, Bt | |
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | Richard Pennant | |
| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | Richard Oliver | |
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | Frederick Bull | |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | John Sawbridge | |
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | George Hayley | |
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | Viscount Fairford | |
| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | Charles Brett – resigned Replaced by Thomas Potter 1776 |
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| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | Lord George Gordon | |
| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | Peniston Lamb | |
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Viscount Villiers | |
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | The Lord Clive | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | Hon. Henry Fane | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | Henry Fane (of Worsley) – died Replaced by Francis Fane 1777 |
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| Lymington (seat 1/2) | Edward Morant | |
| Lymington (seat 2/2) | Harry Burrard – resigned Replaced by Henry Goodricke 1778 |
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Sir Horatio Mann | |
| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | Lord Guernsey – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Hon. Charles Finch, 1777 |
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| Maldon (seat 1/2) | John Strutt | Tory |
| Maldon (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Savage Nassau – died Replaced by Eliab Harvey 1780 |
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| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles James Fox | Whig |
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | William Strahan | Tory |
| Malton (seat 1/2) | Savile Finch | |
| Malton (seat 2/2) | Edmund Burke – sat for Bristol Replaced by William Weddell 1775 |
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| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | Sir James Long, Bt | |
| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Hon. James Brudenell | |
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | Evan Lloyd Vaughan | |
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | John Wilkes | Radical |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | John Glynn – died Replaced by Thomas Wood 1779 |
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| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | Herbert Mackworth – sat for Cardiff Replaced by Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway 1774 |
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| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | Clement Tudway – sat for Wells Replaced by John Ord 1774 |
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| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | Hon. Temple Luttrell | |
| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | Captain Charles Wolseley | |
| Minehead (seat 1/2) | Henry Fownes Luttrell – resigned Replaced by Thomas Pownall 1774 |
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| Minehead (seat 2/2) | John Fownes Luttrell | |
| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | John Stephenson | |
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | James Scawen –- sat for Surrey Replaced by Hon. Thomas Howard 1774 – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Francis Hale 1779 |
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| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | John Stepney | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | John Morgan | |
| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | John Hanbury | |
| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | Whitshed Keene | |
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | William Mostyn Owen | |
| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Francis Eyre – unseated on petition Replaced by Hon. William Byron 1775 – died Replaced by Gilbert Elliot 1776 – resigned Replaced by John William Egerton 1777 |
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| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | Peter Delmé | |
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| Nairnshire (seat 1/1) | Cosmo Gordon – took office Replaced by John Campbell 1777 |
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| Newark (seat 1/2) | George Manners-Sutton | |
| Newark (seat 2/2) | Henry Clinton | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | George Hay – died Replaced by George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham 1779 |
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| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Sir Walter Calverley Blackett – died Replaced by Sir John Trevelyan, Bt, 1777 |
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| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | Humphry Morice – sat for Launceston Replaced by John Frederick 1775 |
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| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | Richard Bull | |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Worsley | |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Hans Sloane | |
| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | John Lewis – unseated on petition Replaced by Edward Lewis 1775 |
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| New Romney (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Dering, Bt | |
| New Romney (seat 2/2) | Richard Jackson | |
| New Shoreham (seat 1/2) | Charles Goring | |
| New Shoreham (seat 2/2) | Sir John Shelley | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) | Anthony James Keck | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) | Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir John Barrington, Bt – resigned Replaced by Edward Meux Worsley 1775 |
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| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Harcourt Powell – resigned Replaced by Charles Ambler 1775 |
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| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | Augustus Keppel | |
| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | John Montagu | |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | John Skynner –- took office Replaced by Viscount Parker 1777 |
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| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | William Eden | |
| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | |
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | Wenman Coke – died Replaced by Thomas Coke 1776 |
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| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Daniel Lascelles | |
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Henry Peirse (younger) | |
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | Sir George Robinson | |
| Northampton (seat 2/2) | Wilbraham Tollemache | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Lucy Knightley | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Powys | |
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | Lord Algernon Percy | |
| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Sir William Middleton, Bt | |
| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Harbord Harbord | |
| Norwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Bacon | |
| Nottingham (seat 1/2) | Colonel the Hon. (Sir) William Howe | |
| Nottingham (seat 2/2) | Sir Charles Sedley, Bt – died Replaced by Abel Smith 1778 – -died Replaced by Robert Smith 1779 |
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| Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Willoughby – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Lord Edward Bentinck 1775 |
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| Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Earl of Lincoln – died Replaced by Charles Medows (Charles Pierrepont) 1778 |
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | Richard Vernon | |
| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | Alexander Wedderburn – took office Replaced by Humphrey Minchin 1778 |
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| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | Pinckney Wilkinson | |
| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | Thomas Pitt (the younger) | |
| Orford (seat 1/2) | Viscount Beauchamp | |
| Orford (seat 2/2) | Hon. Robert Seymour-Conway | |
| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | Thomas Dundas | |
| Oxford (seat 1/2) | Lord Robert Spencer | |
| Oxford (seat 2/2) | Captain the Hon. Peregrine Bertie | |
| Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Charles Spencer | Whig |
| Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) | Viscount Wenman | |
| Oxford University (seat 1/2) | Francis Page | |
| Oxford University (seat 2/2) | Sir Roger Newdigate, Bt | |
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | James William Montgomery – took office Replaced by Adam Hay 1775 –- died Replaced by Sir Robert Murray-Keith, 1775 |
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| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Hugh Owen [III] | Whig |
| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Hugh Owen | |
| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Sir George Osborn | |
| Penryn (seat 2/2) | William Chaytor | |
| Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) | George Dempster | |
| Perthshire (seat 1/1) | James Murray | |
| Peterborough (seat 1/2) | Richard Benyon | |
| Peterborough (seat 2/2) | Matthew Wyldbore | Whig |
| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | William Jolliffe | |
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Sir Abraham Hume | |
| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Barrington – resigned Replaced by Viscount Lewisham 1778 |
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| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | Admiral Sir Charles Hardy – died Replaced by Sir Frederick Leman Rogers 1780 |
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| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Philipps, Bt – resigned Replaced by William Fullarton 1779 |
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| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | Paul Henry Ourry – took office Replaced by John Durand 1775 |
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| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | Sir John Goodricke, Bt. | |
| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | Charles Mellish | |
| Poole (seat 1/2) | Joshua Mauger | |
| Poole (seat 2/2) | Sir Eyre Coote | |
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Hawke –- ennobled Replaced by Maurice Suckling 1776 – died Replaced by Hon. Robert Monckton 1778 |
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| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Peter Taylor – died Replaced by Sir William Gordon 1777 |
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| Preston (seat 1/2) | John Burgoyne | |
| Preston (seat 2/2) | Sir Harry Hoghton, Bt | |
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Frederick | |
| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Walter Rawlinson | |
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| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Chase Price –- died Replaced by Thomas Johnes 1777 – died Replaced by Thomas Johnes |
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| Reading (seat 1/2) | John Dodd | |
| Reading (seat 2/2) | Francis Annesley | |
| Reigate (seat 1/2) | Charles Cocks | |
| Reigate (seat 2/2) | John Yorke | |
| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | John Craufurd | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | Thomas Dundas – sat for Stirlingshire Replaced by William Norton 1775 |
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| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt – sat for Edinburgh Replaced by Charles Dundas 1775 |
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| Ripon (seat 1/2) | William Aislabie | |
| Ripon (seat 2/2) | Charles Allanson – died Replaced by William Lawrence 1775 |
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| Rochester (seat 1/2) | George Finch-Hatton | |
| Rochester (seat 2/2) | Robert Gregory | |
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | James Stuart-Mackenzie | |
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bt – died Replaced by Sir Gilbert Elliot 1777 |
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| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Thomas Noel | |
| Rutland (seat 2/2) | George Bridges Brudenell | |
| Rye (seat 1/2) | Middleton Onslow – resigned Replaced by Hon. Thomas Onslow 1775 |
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| Rye (seat 2/2) | Rose Fuller – died Replaced by William Dickinson 1777 |
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | Richard Sutton | |
| St Albans (seat 2/2) | John Radcliffe | |
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | Edward Eliot – resigned Replaced by John Pownall 1775 – took office Replaced by John Peachey 1776 |
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| St Germans (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Langlois | |
| St Ives (seat 1/2) | William Praed – void election Replaced by Thomas Wynn 1775 |
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| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Adam Drummond – resigned Replaced by Philip Dehany 1778 |
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| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | Viscount Clare | |
| St Mawes (seat 2/2) | Hugh Boscawen | |
| Salisbury (seat 1/2) | Viscount Folkestone – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Hon. William Henry Bouverie 1776 |
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| Salisbury (seat 2/2) | William Hussey | |
| Saltash (seat 1/2) | Grey Cooper | |
| Saltash (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bradshaw –died Replaced by Sir Charles Whitworth 1775 – died Replaced by Henry Strachey 1778 –- resigned Replaced by Paul Wentworth |
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| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | Philip Stephens | |
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | William Hey – took office Replaced by Charles Brett 1776 |
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| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | Earl of Tyrconnell | |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | Sir Hugh Palliser, Bt – resigned Replaced by Charles Phipps 1779 |
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| Seaford (seat 1/2) | William Gage, Viscount Gage | |
| Seaford (seat 2/2) | George Medley | |
| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | John Pringle | |
| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | Thomas Rumbold – unseated on petition seat declared vacant 1775 By-election George Rous 1776 |
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| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Francis Sykes – unseated on petition Replaced by Hans Winthrop Mortimer 1775 |
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| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | Charlton Leighton – unseated on petition Replaced by William Pulteney 1775 |
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| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Robert Clive, Baron Clive – died Replaced by John Corbet 1775 |
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| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | Noel Hill | |
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Charles Baldwyn | |
| Somerset (seat 1/2) | Edward Phelips | |
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | Richard Hippisley Coxe | |
| Southampton (seat 1/2) | Hans Stanley – died Replaced by John Fuller 1780 |
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| Southampton (seat 2/2) | John Fleming | |
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Polhill | |
| Southwark (seat 2/2) | Henry Thrale | |
| Stafford (seat 1/2) | Hugo Meynell | |
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | Richard Whitworth | |
| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | William Bagot | |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir John Wrottesley, Bt | |
| Stamford (seat 1/2) | Henry Cecil | |
| Stamford (seat 2/2) | Sir George Howard | |
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | Thomas Edwards-Freeman | |
| Steyning (seat 2/2) | Filmer Honywood | |
| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | Archibald Campbell | |
| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Dundas | Pro-Admin Whig |
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | Captain the Hon. John Luttrell – resigned Replaced by Lieutenant the Hon. James Luttrell 1775 |
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| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | The Lord Irnham | |
| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | Thomas Fonnereau – unseated on petition Replaced by Sir Patrick Blake, 1st Baronet 1775 |
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| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | Philip Champion Crespigny – unseated on petition Replaced by Walden Hanmer 1775 |
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| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt | |
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Rowland Holt | |
| Surrey (seat 1/2) | James Scawen | |
| Surrey (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Vincent, Bt – died Replaced by Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bt 1775 |
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| Sussex (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Wilson, Bt | |
| Sussex (seat 2/2) | Lord George Lennox | |
| Sutherland (seat 1/1) | James Wemyss | |
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Grant | |
| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | Thomas de Grey | |
| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | Edward Thurlow –- ennobled Replaced by Anthony Chamier 1778 |
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| Taunton (seat 1/2) | Hon. Edward Stratford – unseated on petition Replaced by John Halliday 1775 |
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| Taunton (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Webb – unseated on petition Replaced by Alexander Popham 1775 |
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| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Richard Rigby | Whig |
| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | Joseph Martin -– died Replaced by James Martin 1776 |
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| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | Sir William Codrington, Bt | Tory |
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles FitzRoy | |
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore | |
| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Thomas Frankland | |
| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Frankland, Bt | |
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Ryder – ennobled Replaced by John Eardley Wilmot 1776 |
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| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | John Duntze | |
| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Philip Jennings | |
| Totnes (seat 2/2) | James Amyatt | |
| Tregony (seat 1/2) | Hon. George Lane Parker | |
| Tregony (seat 2/2) | Alexander Leith | |
| Truro (seat 1/2) | George Boscawen | |
| Truro (seat 2/2) | Bamber Gascoyne | |
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | John Cator | |
| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Barker | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | William Gerard Hamilton | |
| Wareham (seat 2/2) | Christopher D'Oyly | |
| Warwick (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Greville | |
| Warwick (seat 2/2) | Hon. Robert Fulke Greville | |
| Warwickshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Holte, Bt | |
| Warwickshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Skipwith, Bt | |
| Wells (seat 1/2) | Robert Child | |
| Wells (seat 2/2) | Clement Tudway | |
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | Joseph Bullock – resigned Replaced by Thomas Dummer 1775 |
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| Wendover (seat 2/2) | John Adams – sat for Carmarthen Replaced by Henry Drummond 1774 |
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| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | Henry Bridgeman | |
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | George Forester | |
| Weobley (seat 1/2) | Sir William Lynch – resigned Replaced by Andrew Bayntun-Rolt 1789 |
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| Weobley (seat 2/2) | John St Leger Douglas | |
| Westbury (seat 1/2) | Hon. Thomas Wenman | |
| Westbury (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Bayly – resigned Replaced by Samuel Estwick 1779 |
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| West Looe (seat 1/2) | Sir William James | |
| West Looe (seat 2/2) | Charles Ogilvie – resigned Replaced by John Rogers 1775 |
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| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton | |
| Westminster (seat 2/2) | Baron Warkworth (Earl Percy) – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Viscount Petersham 1776 – succeeded to peerage Replaced by Viscount Malden 1779 |
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| Westmorland (seat 1/2) | Sir James Lowther – sat for Cumberland Replaced by James Lowther |
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| Westmorland (seat 2/2) | Sir Michael le Fleming | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) | Welbore Ellis | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) | John Purling | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | William Chaffin Grove | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | John Tucker – resigned Replaced by Gabriel Steward 1778 |
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| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Midleton | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | Thomas Townshend | Whig |
| Wigan (seat 1/2) | George Byng | |
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | Beaumont Hotham – took office Replaced by John Morton 1775 -– died Replaced by Henry Simpson Bridgeman 1780 |
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| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Norton – unseated on petition Replaced by Henry Watkin Dashwood 1775 |
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| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | Keith Stewart | |
| Wilton (seat 1/2) | Henry Herbert | |
| Wilton (seat 2/2) | Hon. Nicholas Herbert – died Replaced by Charles Herbert 1775 |
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| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Charles Penruddocke | |
| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Ambrose Goddard | |
| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | Arnold Nesbitt – sat for Cricklade Replaced by William Nedham 1775 |
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| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | Charles Wolfran Cornwall | |
| Winchester (seat 1/2) | Henry Penton | |
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | Lovell Stanhope | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | Hon. Henry St John | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | Robert Scott | |
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | John Walsh | |
| Worcester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bates Rous | |
| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | Edward Foley | |
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | William Dowdeswell – died Replaced by William Lygon |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Edward Meux Worsley – resigned Replaced by James Worsley 1775 |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Jervoise Clarke – resigned Replaced by Captain Robert Kingsmill 1779 |
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| York (seat 1/2) | Charles Turner | |
| York (seat 2/2) | Lord John Cavendish | |
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | Edwin Lascelles | |
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | Sir George Savile | |
By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1774–90)
See also
- 1774 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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