Its MPs included the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce, and the poet Andrew Marvell.
Until the Reform Act 1832, the right to vote in Hull was vested in the freemen of the city, which made the constituency one of the larger and more competitive ones.
Baines was appointed President of the Poor Law Board, requiring a by-election.
After an election petition committee found evidence of bribery and treating, both members were unseated and the writ was suspended in March 1853.
Hoare was unseated after an election petition committee found evidence of corruption, causing a by-election.