Cardiff (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cardiff Borough constituency
Created:	1542
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Cardiff was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Cardiff in South Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1918 general election.

It was then replaced by three new constituencies: Cardiff Central, Cardiff East and Cardiff West.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1660-1832 2.2 MPs 1832-1918 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1832

Year		Member	Party
	1660	Bussy Mansel
	1661	Sir Richard Lloyd
	1661	William Bassett
	1661	Robert Thomas
	1681	Bussy Mansel
	1685	Francis Gwyn
	1689	Thomas Mansel
	1698	Sir Edward Stradling
	1701	Thomas Mansel
	1706	Sir John Aubrey
	1710	Sir Edward Stradling
	1722	Edward Stradling
	1727	Bussy Mansel
	1734	Herbert Windsor
	1739	Herbert Mackworth
	1766	Herbert Mackworth
	1790	John Stuart
	1794	Lord Evelyn James Stuart
	1802	Lord William Stuart
	1814	Lord Evelyn James Stuart
	1818	Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart
	1820	Wyndham Lewis
	1826	Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart
1832		Franchise extended under Reform Act 1832

[edit] MPs 1832-1918

Election		Member	Party
	1832	John Iltyd Nicholl
	1852	Walter Coffin
	1857	James Frederick Dudley Crichton-Stuart
	1880	Sir Edward James Reed
	1895	James Mackenzie Maclean
	1900	Sir Edward James Reed
	1906	Ivor Churchill Guest	Liberal
	1910	David Alfred Thomas	Liberal
	1910	Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart	Unionist
	1915	James Herbert Cory
1918		constituency abolished: see Cardiff Central, Cardiff East and Cardiff West

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.