East Grinstead (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Grinstead Borough constituency
Created:	1307, 1885
Abolished:	1832, 1983
Type:	House of Commons

East Grinstead was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. In its first spell of existence it returned two members of Parliament, but when it was revived in 1885, it returned only one member.

Upon its abolition in 1983, its territory was most divided between Mid Sussex and Wealden.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year	First member	Second member
1660	Marmaduke Gresham	George Courthope
1661	Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst
1675	Edward Sackville
1678	Thomas Pelham
February 12, 1679		Edward Sackville
April 7, 1679		Henry Powle
April 19, 1679		Sir Thomas Littleton, Bt
August 19, 1679	Goodwin Wharton	William Jephson
1681	Sir Cyril Wyche	Henry Powle
1685	Simon Smith	Thomas Jones
1689	Sir Thomas Dyke	Thomas Sackville
1693		Simon Smith
February 1695		Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery
November 1695		John Conyers
1698	Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery
January 1701	Matthew Prior
November 1701	Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery
1702	John Toke
1708	Richard Lumley, Viscount Lumley	Henry Campion
1710	John Conyers	Leonard Gale
1713		Spencer Compton
1715		Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
March 1722		Sir Spencer Compton
November 1722		Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
1725	Edward Conyers
1727	Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston
1734	Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex	Edward Conyers
1741		Sir Whistler Webster
1742	John Butler
1747	Sydney Smythe
1751	Joseph Yorke
March 1761	Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex	Lord George Sackville
December 1761		Sir Thomas Hales
1762		John Irwin
1765	Sir Charles Farnaby
1767	Lord George Sackville
1782	Henry Arthur Herbert
1783		George Medley
1786	James Cuninghame
1788	Robert Cuninghame
1789	Richard Ford
1790	Nathaniel Dance	William Hamilton Nisbet
1796		James Strange
1802	Sir Henry Strachey	Nathaniel Giles
1807	Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt.	Charles Rose Ellis
January 1812	Richard Wellesley
March 1812	George Gunning
June 1812	Nicholas Vansittart
October 1812	George Gunning	James Stephen
1815		Sir George Johnstone Hope
May 1818		Charles Gordon, Baron Strathavon
June 1818	Lord Charles Jenkinson
1829	William Pitt Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale
1830		Frederick Richard West

• Constituency abolished (1832)
• Constituency revived (1885)
• 1885 – 1886: George Burrow Gregory
• 1886 – 1895: Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy
• 1895 – 1906: George Goschen
• 1906 – 1910: Charles Joseph Henry Corbett
• 1910 – 1936: Henry Struther Cautley
• 1936 – 1955: Ralph Stephenson Clarke
• 1955 – 1965: Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet
• 1965 – 1983: Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, Conservative
• Constituency abolished (1983)

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

[edit] Elections

[edit] Sources

• Historical list of MPs
• Election results, 1950 - 1979