Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency)
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Batley and Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Batley and Morley in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by Batley and Spen and partly by Morley and Leeds South.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Gerald Ashburner France | Coalition Liberal | |
| 1922 | Ben Turner | Labour | |
| 1924 | Walter Forrest | Liberal | |
| 1929 | Sir Ben Turner | Labour | |
| 1931 | Wilfrid Dewhurst Wills | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Willie Brooke | Labour | |
| 1939 | Hubert Beaumont | Labour | |
| 1949 | Sir Alfred Davies Devonsher Broughton | Labour | |
| 1979 | Kenneth Woolmer | Labour | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished: see Batley & Spen and Morley and Leeds South | ||
[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
