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Aldeburgh was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessor bodies.

The town was enfranchised in 1571 as a borough constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two burgesses. The constituency was abolished in 1832 as a rotten borough.

Boundaries

The constituency comprised the parliamentary borough of Aldeburgh, in the county of Suffolk in Eastern England.

Members of Parliament

1571-1640

1640-1832

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
November 1640		William Rainsborough	Parliamentarian		Alexander Bence	Parliamentarian
1642		Squire Bence
November 1648	Squire Bence died, November 1648 - seat vacant
December 1648	Squire Bence died, November 1648 - seat vacant			Alexander Bence excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653	Aldeburgh was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Laurence Oxburgh			John Bence
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Sir Robert Brooke			Thomas Bacon
1661		Sir Robert Brooke			Sir John Holland
1669		John Bence			Sir John Holland
February 1679		Sir Richard Haddock			Henry Johnson
August 1679		John Bence			John Corrance
1685		John Bence			Sir Henry Bedingfield
1689		Sir Henry Johnson			William Johnson
1718		Sir Henry Johnson			Samuel Lowe
1719		Walter Plumer
1727		William Windham
1730		Sir John Williams
1732		Sir John Williams			Captain George Purvis
1734		William Conolly			Captain George Purvis
March 1741					Francis Gashry
May 1741					Richard Plumer
1747		William Windham			Zachary Philip Fonnereau
1761		Philip Fonnereau
1768		Nicholas Linwood
1773		Thomas Fonnereau
1774		Thomas Fonnereau			Richard Combe
1779		Martyn Fonnereau			Richard Combe
1780		Martyn Fonnereau			Philip Champion Crespigny
1784		Samuel Salt			Philip Champion Crespigny
1790		Lord Grey of Groby			Thomas Grenville
1796		Sir John Aubrey	Whig		Michael Angelo Taylor	Whig
1800					George Johnstone
1802					John McMahon	Tory
1812					Sandford Graham
1812		The Lord Dufferin & Claneboye	Tory		Andrew Strahan	Tory
1818		Samuel Walker	Tory		Joshua Walker	Tory
1820		James Blair	Tory
1826		John Wilson Croker	Tory
1827		Wyndham Lewis	Tory
February 1829		Marquess of Douro	Tory
May 1829					Spencer Horsey Kilderbee	Tory
1830					John Wilson Croker	Tory
1832	Constituency abolished

Election results

References

D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)