Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)
MPs 1660–1883
The Tories (or Abhorrers) and Whigs (or Petitioners) originated in the Court and Country parties that emerged in the aftermath of the civil war, although it is more accurate to describe them as loose tendencies, both of which might be regarded as conservative in modern terms.

Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Section Title: MPs 1660–1883
Table Section Text: The Tories (or Abhorrers) and Whigs (or Petitioners) originated in the Court and Country parties that emerged in the aftermath of the civil war, although it is more accurate to describe them as loose tendencies, both of which might be regarded as conservative in modern terms.

Election	First Member	1st Party	Second Member	2nd Party

The Rump Parliament recalled (1659) and the Long Parliament restored (1660)

1660	Sir Humphrey Orme	Court	Charles Fane, Lord le Despencer	Country

1666	Edward Palmer	Whig

1667	William FitzWilliam, 3rd Baron FitzWilliam	Whig

1671	Sir Vere Fane

Feb. 1679	Francis St John

Aug. 1679	Whig	Charles Orme	Whig

1681	William FitzWilliam, 3rd Baron FitzWilliam

1685	Charles FitzWilliam	Charles Orme

Jan 1689	Whig	Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet	Whig

Dec 1689	Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet

1698	Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu	Whig	Francis St John	Whig

1701	Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet

1710	John FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton	Whig	Charles Parker	Tory

1722	Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu

1727	Sir Edward O'Bryan, 2nd Baronet	Tory

1727	Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu

1728 by-election	Joseph Banks

1729 by-election	Charles Gounter-Nicoll	Whig	Whig

Jan. 1734 by-election	Armstead Parker	Tory

April 1734	Sir Edward Wortley Montagu

1741	William FitzWilliam, 3rd Earl FitzWilliam	Whig	Whig

1742 by-election	Armstead Parker	Tory

1747	Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet

1761	Armstead Parker	Tory

March 1768	Whig	Matthew Wyldbore	Whig

Nov. 1768 by-election	Henry Belasyse, Viscount Belasyse

1774 by-election	Richard Benyon

1780	Whig	James Farrel Phipps	Whig

1786 by-election	Hon. Lionel Damer

1796	Dr. French Laurence

1802	Whig	William Elliot	Whig

1809 by-election	Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock

1812	George Ponsonby

1816 by-election	Hon. William Lamb

Feb. 1819 by-election	Whig	Sir James Scarlett	Whig

Nov. 1819 by-election	Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet

Aug. 1830	Whig	Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton	Whig

Nov. 1830 by-election	John Nicholas Fazakerley

1841	Hon. George Wentworth-FitzWilliam

1847	Hon. William Cavendish

1852	Hon. Richard Watson	Whig	Whig

1852 by-election	George Hammond Whalley	Radical

1853 by-election	Thomson Hankey

1859	Liberal	George Hammond Whalley	Liberal

1868	William Wells

1874	Thomson Hankey

1878 by-election	Liberal	Hon. John Wentworth-FitzWilliam	Independent Liberal

1880	Hampden Whalley

1883 by-election	Sir Sydney Buxton	Liberal

1885	representation reduced to one member

Sentence(s)

William Elliot, Whig member from 1802.

final_sentence: William Elliot, Whig member from 1802.