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Hythe
Borough
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Background Information
Right of Election:
in the freemen
Number of voters:
50-70
Elections
Date | Candidate | Votes |
---|---|---|
28 June 1715 | JACOB DES BOUVERIE | 26 |
SIR SAMUEL LENNARD | 25 | |
John Boteler | 22 | |
William Brockman | 20 | |
26 Mar. 1722 | SIR SAMUEL LENNARD | |
HERCULES BAKER | ||
Julius Deedes | ||
22 Aug. 1727 | SIR SAMUEL LENNARD | 54 |
HERCULES BAKER | 33 | |
Thomas Hales | 29 | |
22 Feb. 1728 | WILLIAM GLANVILLE vice Lennard, deceased | 39 |
James Brockman | 27 | |
27 Apr. 1734 | WILLIAM GLANVILLE | |
HERCULES BAKER | ||
5 Apr. 1736 | BAKER re-elected after appointment to office | |
1 July 1737 | GLANVILLE re-elected after appointment to office | |
6 May 1741 | HERCULES BAKER | |
WILLIAM GLANVILLE | ||
3 Dec. 1744 | THOMAS HALES vice Baker, deceased | |
27 June 1747 | WILLIAM GLANVILLE | |
THOMAS HALES |
Main Article
Hythe was controlled by the Duke of Dorset, lord warden of the Cinque Ports, who used the patronage of that office and of the Treasury to support his private interest.1 His son, the second Duke, wrote of Hythe to the Duke of Grafton in 1767:
My father for many years contested it while parties ran high, with the Tories of that place; he by degree established his interest in it, and the Whigs prevailed.2
The Tories in question were Sir Philip Boteler of Barham Court, M.P. Hythe 1690-1708, his brother, John Boteler, M.P. Hythe 1701-15, and his brother-in-law, Jacob des Bouverie, M.P. Hythe 1695-1700 and 1713-22. In 1715 Bouverie was re-elected after a contest, but John Boteler was ousted by a government candidate, Sir Samuel Lennard. Thereafter all Members returned were ministerialists, from 1728 without opposition. In the 2nd Lord Egmont's electoral survey, c.1749-50, Hythe is described as ‘in the Crown’.