Derby (UK Parliament constituency)

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Derby Borough constituency
Created:	1295
Abolished:	1950 (split)
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Derby is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of Derby North and Derby South in 1950.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1290 or 1660 ?)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	Roger Allestry		John Dalton
		1665	Anchitell Grey
		1679			George Vernon
		1685	John Coke		William Allestry
		1689			Anchitell Grey
		1690	Robert Wilmot
		1695	Lord Henry Cavendish		John Bagnold
		1698			George Vernon
		1701	Sir Charles Pye, Bt		Lord James Cavendish
		1701	John Harpur
		1702			Thomas Stanhope
		1705	Lord James Cavendish		Sir Thomas Parker	Whig
		1710			Richard Pye
		1710	Sir Richard Levinge, Bt		John Harpur
		1711	Edward Mundy
		1713			Nathaniel Curzon
		1715	Lord James Cavendish		William Stanhope	Whig
		1722			Thomas Bayley
		1727			William Stanhope	Whig
		1730			Charles Stanhope
		1736			John Stanhope
		1742	Viscount Duncannon
		1748			Thomas Rivett
		1754	Lord Frederick Cavendish		George Venables-Vernon
		1762			William Fitzherbert
		1772			Wenman Coke
		1775			John Gisborne
		1776			Daniel Parker Coke
		1780	Lord George Augustus Cavendish		Edward Coke
		1797	George Walpole
		1806	William Cavendish
		1807			Thomas William Coke
		1807			Edward Coke
		1812	Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish	Whig
		1818			Thomas Wenman Coke
		1826			Samuel Crompton
		1830			Edward Strutt	Whig
		1835	Hon. John George Brabazon Ponsonby	Whig
		1847[1]	Hon. Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower	Whig
		1848	Michael Thomas Bass	Whig	Laurence Heyworth	Whig
		1852			Thomas Berry Horsfall [2]	Conservative
		1853			Laurence Heyworth	Whig
		1857		Liberal	Samuel Beale	Liberal
		1865			William Thomas Cox	Conservative
		1868			Samuel Plimsoll	Liberal
		1880			Sir William Vernon-Harcourt	Liberal
		1883	Thomas Roe	Liberal
		1895	Sir Henry Howe Bemrose	Conservative	Geoffrey Drage	Conservative
		1900	Thomas Roe	Liberal	Richard Bell	Liberal, later Labour
		1910			James Henry Thomas	Labour
		1916	Sir William Job Collins
		1918	Albert Green	Conservative
		1922	Charles Henry Roberts	Liberal
		1923	William Robert Raynes	Labour
		1924	Sir Richard Harman Luce	Conservative
		1929	William Robert Raynes	Labour
		1931	William Allan Reid	Conservative		National Labour
		1936			Philip John Noel-Baker	Labour
		1945	Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock	Labour

• Constituency split into North and South divisions (1950)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

[edit] References