DERBY (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)


'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 Members of Parliament. It was divided between the constituencies of Derby North and Derby South in 1950.

Contents
Boundaries
Members of Parliament
1295-1640
1640-1945
Elections
See also
References

Boundaries


Members of Parliament


1295-1640


★ 1604-1611: John Baxter

★ 1604-1611: Edward Sleighe

★ 1614: Gilbert Kniveton

★ 1621-1622: Timothy Leeving

★ 1621-1622: Edward Leeche
1640-1945

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
November 1640 William Allestry Royalist Nathaniel Hallowes Parliamentarian
October 1643''Allestry disabled to sit - seat vacant''
1645Thomas Gell
December 1648''Gell excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant''
1653''Derby was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament''
1654 Gervase Bennet ''Derby had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659John Dalton
May 1659 Nathaniel Hallowes ''One seat vacant''
April 1660Roger Allestry John Dalton
1665Anchitell Grey
1679George Vernon
1685William Allestry John Coke
1689Anchitell Grey
1690Robert Wilmot
1695Lord Henry Cavendish John Bagnold
1698George Vernon
1701Lord James Cavendish Sir Charles Pye, Bt
1701John Harpur
1702Thomas Stanhope
1705Lord James Cavendish Sir Thomas Parker Whig
1710Richard Pye
1710Sir Richard Levinge, Bt John Harpur
1711Edward Mundy
1713Nathaniel Curzon
1715Lord James Cavendish William Stanhope Whig
1722Thomas Bayley
1727William Stanhope Whig
1730Charles Stanhope
1736John Stanhope
1742Viscount Duncannon
1748Thomas Rivett
1754Lord Frederick Cavendish George Venables-Vernon
1762William Fitzherbert
1772Wenman Coke
1775John Gisborne
1776Daniel Parker Coke
1780Lord George Augustus Cavendish Edward Coke
1797George Walpole
1806William Cavendish
1807Thomas William Coke
1807Edward Coke
1812Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish Whig
1818Thomas Wenman Coke
1826Samuel Crompton
1830Edward Strutt Whig
1835Hon. John George Brabazon Ponsonby Whig
1847[1]Hon. Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower Whig
1848Michael Thomas Bass WhigLaurence Heyworth Whig
1852Thomas Berry Horsfall [2]Conservative
1853Laurence Heyworth Whig
1857LiberalSamuel Beale Liberal
1865William Thomas Cox Conservative
1868Samuel Plimsoll Liberal
1880Sir William Vernon-Harcourt Liberal
1883Thomas Roe Liberal
1895Sir Henry Howe Bemrose ConservativeGeoffrey Drage Conservative
1900Thomas Roe LiberalRichard Bell Labour,later Liberal
1910James Henry Thomas Labour
1916Sir William Job Collins Liberal
1918Albert Green Conservative
1922Charles Henry Roberts Liberal
1923William Robert Raynes Labour
1924Sir Richard Harman Luce Conservative
1929William Robert Raynes Labour
1931William Allan Reid ConservativeNational Labour
1936Philip John Noel-Baker Labour
1945Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock Labour


★ ''Constituency split into North and South divisions'' (1950)

Elections


See also



★ List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

★ Unreformed House of Commons

References



★ D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)

★ ''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) d&cl=CL1

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