Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Derbyshire County constituency
Created:	1290
Abolished:	1832
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Derbyshire 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 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of North Derbyshire and South Derbyshire in 1832.

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

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1290)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	Viscount Mansfield		John Ferrers
		1661	Lord Cavendish		John Frescheville
		1665			John Milward
		1670			William Sacheverell
		1685	Sir Robert Coke, 2nd Bt.		Sir Gilbert Clarke
		January 1689	Sir John Gell, 2nd Bt.
		April 1689	Sir Philip Gell, 3rd Bt.	Whig
		1690	Henry Gilbert
		1695	Marquess of Hartington	Whig
		1698			Thomas Coke
		January 1701			Lord Roos
		December 1701	Thomas Coke		Sir John Curzon, 3rd Bt.	Tory
		1710	Godfrey Clarke
		1727			Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Bt.	Tory
		1734	Lord Charles Cavendish	Whig
		1741	Marquess of Hartington	Whig
		1751	Lord Frederick Cavendish	Whig
		1754	Lord George Augustus Cavendish	Whig	Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Bt.	Tory
		1761			Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Bt.
		1768			Godfrey Bagnall Clarke
		1775			Hon. Nathaniel Curzon	Tory
		1780	Lord Richard Cavendish
		1781	Lord George Augustus Cavendish	Whig
		1784			Edward Miller Mundy
		1794	Lord John Cavendish	Whig
		1797	Lord George Cavendish	Whig
		1822			Francis Mundy	Whig
		1831			Hon. George Venables-Vernon

• Constituency abolished (1832)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] Elections

General Election 1734: Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Lord Charles Cavendish	697	74.1
	Tory	Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet	134	14.2
		Henry Harpur	110	11.7

• Source

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References