GRANTHAM (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Grantham' was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England. The constituency was created in 1468 and abolished in 1997. The area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in the Grantham and Stamford constituency.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1468-1640

1640-1885

MPs 1885-present

Election results

References

Boundaries

The constituency was based on Grantham, a market town on the River Witham.

Members of Parliament

1468-1640

★ 1571-1581: Arthur Hall ^[1]

★ 1585: Arthur Hall

★ 1586: Sir Henry Bagenall ^[2]

★ 1604-1611: Sir George Manners

★ 1604-1611: Sir T Horseman

★ 1621-1622: Sir William Airmine

★ 1621-1622: Sir Clement Cotterill

★ 1624-1626: Sir George Manners

★ 1625: Sir William Airmine

1640-1885

Year			First Member	First Party	Second Member	Second Party
		November 1640	Thomas Hussey	Royalist	Henry Pelham	Parliamentarian
		1641	Sir William Airmine	Parliamentarian
		December 1648			''Pelham excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant''
		1653	''Grantham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament''
		1654	William Bury		''Grantham had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
		1656	William Ellys
		January 1659	Thomas Skipwith		Sir William Ellys
		May 1659	''Not represented in the restored Rump''
		April 1660	Thomas Skipwith		Sir John Newton
		1661	Sir William Thorold
		1678	Sir Robert Markham
		1679	Sir William Ellys
		1685	Thomas Harrington		John Thorold
		1689	Sir John Brownlow		Sir William Ellys
		1697	Sir John Thorold
		Jan. 1701	Thomas Baptist Manners
		Nov. 1701	Richard Ellys
		1705	Marquess of Granby
		1711	Sir John Thorold
		1713			John Brownlow
		1715	Edward Rolt		John Heathcote
		1722	Francis Fisher		The Viscount Tyrconnel
		1727	Sir Michael Newton
		1741			Marquess of Granby
		1743	Sir John Cust
		1754			Lord George Manners
		1770	Francis Cust
		1774	Sir Brownlow Cust
		1776	Peregrine Cust
		1780	Francis Cockayne-Cust		George Manners-Sutton
		1792	Philip Yorke
		1793	Simon Yorke
		1802	Thomas Thoroton		Sir William Earle Welby
		1806			Russell Manners
		1807			Sir William Earle Welby
		1812	Robert Percy Smith
		1818	Edward Cust
		March 1820			James Hughes
		July 1820			Sir Montague Cholmeley
		1826	Frederick James Tollemache	Tory
		1830	Glynne Earle Welby	Tory/Conservative
		1831			James Hughes
		1832			Hon. Algernon Gray Tollemache	Conservative
		1837			Hon. Frederick James Tollemache	Conservative
		1852			Lord Montagu William Graham	Conservative
		1857	William Earle Welby	Conservative	Hon. Frederick James Tollemache	Liberal
		1865			John Henry Thorold	Conservative
		April 1868	Edmund Turnor	Conservative
		November 1868	Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley	Liberal	Hon. Frederick James Tollemache	Liberal
		1874			Henry Francis Cockayne Cust	Conservative
		1880	John William Mellor	Liberal	Charles Savile Roundell	Liberal

★ Constituency reduced to one member in 1885.

MPs 1885-present

Year		Member	Party
	1885	John William Mellor	Liberal
	1886	William Malcolm Low	Conservative
	1892	Henry Yarde Buller Lopes	Conservative
	1900	Arthur Priestley	Liberal
	1918	Edmund Royds	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Robert Pattinson	Liberal
	1923	Victor Warrender	Conservative
	1942	William Denis Kendall	Independent
	1950	Eric Smith	Conservative
	1951	Joseph Godber	Conservative
	1979	Douglas Hogg	Conservative
	1997	''Constituency abolished becoming part of Grantham and Stamford Constituency''

'Notes'
1. Expelled from the Commons, 1581
2. Bagenall was also elected for Anglesey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Grantham

Election results

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

★ J E Neale, ''The Elizabethan House of Commons'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)

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