# Queenborough (UK Parliament constituency)

The constituency of Queenborough was a rotten borough situated on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
From 1572 until it was abolished by the Reform Act 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament. The franchise was vested in the freemen of the town, of whom there were more than 300. Its electorate was therefore one of largest of the 56 boroughs that were abolished. Most freemen, however, were non resident.
A small town in Kent, England, which grew as a port near the Thames Estuary. It was formerly a municipal borough in the Faversham parliamentary division of Kent, and is two miles south of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, nearby the westward entrance to the Swale, where it joins the River Medway. It is now in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey parliamentary constituency and governed by Swale Borough Council and Queenborough Town Council.

## Members of Parliament
### 1572-1640

| Parliament | First member | Second member |
| 1571 | John Brooke alias Cobham | John Parker |
| 1572 (May) | John Brooke alias Cobham | William Butler, died and replaced Dec 1580 by Sir Humphrey Gilbert |
| 1584 (Nov) | John Brooke alias Cobham | William Parry, expelled from the House and replaced Feb 1585 by Sir Edward Hoby |
| 1586 (Sep) | Sir Edward Hoby | Michael Sondes |
| 1588 | William Boys | Michael Sondes |
| 1593 | John Brooke alias Cobham | John Baynham |
| 1597 | Sir George Carew | Michael Sondes |
| 1601 | Sir Michael Sondes | Nicholas Troughton |
| 1604 | Sir Edward Stafford | Michael Sondes |
| 1605 | Sir Edward Stafford | Richard Wright |
| 1614 | Roger Palmer | Robert Hatton |
| 1621-1622 | James Palmer | William Frowde |
| 1624 | Roger Palmer | Robert Pooley |
| 1625 | Roger Palmer | Sir Edward Hales |
| 1626 | Roger Palmer | Robert Pooley |
| 1628 | Roger Palmer | Sir John Hales |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | No Parliaments summoned |

### 1640-1832

| Year | First member | First member | First party | Second member | Second member | Second party |
| April 1640 | | Sir Edward Hales | Parliamentarian | | John Wolstenholme | |
| November 1640 | | Sir Edward Hales | Parliamentarian | | William Harrison | Royalist |
| June 1643 | | Sir Edward Hales | Parliamentarian | Harrison disabled from sitting - seat vacant | Harrison disabled from sitting - seat vacant | Harrison disabled from sitting - seat vacant |
| 1645 | | Sir Edward Hales | Parliamentarian | | Sir Michael Livesey | |
| April 1648 | Hales disabled from sitting | Hales disabled from sitting | Hales disabled from sitting | | | | Sir Michael Livesey |
| 1648 | | Augustine Garland | | | Sir Michael Livesey | |
| 1653 | Queenborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | Queenborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | Queenborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | Queenborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | Queenborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | Queenborough was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament |
| 1654 | | Augustine Garland | | Queenborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Queenborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Queenborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
| 1656 | | Gabriel Livesey | | Queenborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Queenborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Queenborough had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
| January 1659 | | Thomas Bayles | | | Hon. James Herbert | |
| May 1659 | | Augustine Garland | | One seat vacant | One seat vacant | One seat vacant |
| April 1660 | | Sir William Wheler | | | Hon. James Herbert | |
| 1661 | | Sir Edward Hales | | | Hon. James Herbert | |
| 1677 | | Sir Edward Hales | | | James Herbert | |
| January 1681 | | Sir Edward Hales | | | William Glanville | |
| February 1681 | | Gerard Gore | | | William Glanville | |
| 1685 | | Sir John Godwin | | | Caleb Banks | |
| 1689 | | Robert Crawford | | | James Herbert (the younger) | |
| 1690 | | Robert Crawford | | | Sir John Banks | |
| 1695 | | Robert Crawford | | | Caleb Banks | |
| 1696 | | Robert Crawford | | | Thomas King | |
| 1705 | | Rear-Admiral Sir John Jennings | | | Thomas King | |
| 1708 | | Rear-Admiral Sir John Jennings | | | Henry Withers | |
| 1710 | | Colonel Thomas King | | | James Herbert (the third) | |
| 1713 | | Colonel Thomas King | | | Charles Fotherby | |
| 1715 | | Colonel Thomas King | | | Philip Jennings | |
| 1722 | | Vice Admiral James Littleton | | | Lieutenant Colonel John Cope | |
| 1723 | | Captain Lord Forbes | | | Lieutenant Colonel John Cope | |
| 1727 | | Sprig Manesty | | | John Crowley | |
| 1728 | | Sprig Manesty | | | Captain Sir George Saunders | |
| 1729 | | Richard Evans | | | Captain Sir George Saunders | |
| 1735 | | Richard Evans | | | Lord Archibald Hamilton | |
| 1741 | | Richard Evans | | | Thomas Newnham | |
| 1754 | | Sir Charles Frederick | | | Captain Sir Peircy Brett | |
| 1774 | | Sir Charles Frederick | | | Sir Walter Rawlinson | |
| 1784 | | John Clater Aldridge | | | Captain George Bowyer | |
| 1790 | | Gibbs Crawfurd | | | Richard Hopkins | |
| 1793 | | Augustus Rogers | Tory | | Richard Hopkins | |
| 1794 | | John Sargent | Tory | | Richard Hopkins | |
| 1796 | | John Sargent | Tory | | Evan Nepean | Tory |
| 1802 | | John Prinsep | Whig | | George Peter Moore | Whig |
| March 1806 | | John Prinsep | Whig | | Sir Samuel Romilly | Whig |
| October 1806 | | William Frankland | Whig | | Sir Samuel Romilly | Whig |
| 1807 | | Joseph Hunt | Tory | | Hon. John Villiers | Tory |
| 1810 | | Richard Wellesley | Tory | | Hon. John Villiers | Tory |
| January 1812 | | Sir Robert Moorsom | Tory | | Hon. John Villiers | Tory |
| October 1812 | | Sir Robert Moorsom | Tory | | John Osborn | Tory |
| 1818 | | Sir Robert Moorsom | Tory | | Hon. Edmund Phipps | Tory |
| 1820 | | Hon. John Villiers | Tory | | George Peter Holford | Tory |
| 1824 | | Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck | Whig | | George Peter Holford | Tory |
| 1826 | | The Lord Downes | Tory | | John Capel | Tory |
| August 1830 | | William Holmes | Tory | | Sir Philip Charles Henderson Durham | Tory |
| December 1830 | | John Capel | Tory | | Thomas Gladstone | Tory |
| 1831 | | John Capel | Tory | | Lt General Sir John Colquhoun Grant | Tory |
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished |