MORPETH (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Morpeth' was a borough constituency centred on the town of Morpeth in Northumberland represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Morpeth elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) until the 1832 general election, when the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to one MP, elected under the first past the post system. The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

MPs 1660-1832

MPs 1832-1983

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

See also

References

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

MPs 1660-1832

Year	First Member	Second Member
April 1660	Thomas Widdrington	Ralph Knight
June 1660	Sir George Downing
1661		Henry Widdrington
1666		Edward Howard
1679		Daniel Collingwood
1685	Sir Henry Pickering	Theophilus Oglethorpe
1689	Charles Howard	Roger Fenwick
1692	George Nicholas
1695		Sir Henry Belasyse
1698	Philip Howard
January 1701	William Howard
May 1701	Sir Richard Sandford
December 1701	Emanuel Scrope Howe	Sir John Delaval
1705	Sir Richard Sandford	Edmund Maine
1708		Sir John Bennett
1710		Christopher Wandesford
1713	Sir John Germain	Oley Douglas
1715	Viscount Morpeth	The Viscount Castlecomer
1717		Hon. George Carpenter
1727		Thomas Robinson
1734		Sir Henry Liddell
1738	Henry Furnese
1741	Robert Ord
1747		Viscount Limerick
1754		Thomas Duncombe
1755	Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh
1761	Viscount Garlies
1768	Pether Beckford	Sir Matthew White Ridley
1774	Francis Eyre	Peter Delme
1775	William Byron
1776	Gilbert Elliot
1777	John William Egerton
1780	Anthony Morris Storer
1784	Sir James Erskine
1790		Francis Gregg
1795		Viscount Morpeth
1796	William Huskisson
1802	William Ord
1806		William Howard
1826		Viscount Morpeth
1830		William Howard
1832	''representation reduced to one member''

MPs 1832-1983

Year		Member	Party
	1832	Frederick George Howard	Liberal
	1834	Edward George Granville Howard	Liberal
	1837	Granville George Leveson-Gower	Liberal
	1840	Edward George Granville Howard	Liberal
	1853	Sir George Grey	Liberal
	1874	Thomas Burt	Lib-Lab
	1918	John Cairns	Labour
	1923	Robert Smillie	Labour
	1929	Ebenezer Edwards	Labour
	1931	Godfrey Nicholson	Conservative
	1935	Robert John Taylor	Labour
	1954	Will Owen	Labour
	1970	George Grant	Labour
1983		''constituency abolished''

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

See also

★ Morpeth by-election, 1923

References

★ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, , F. W. S., Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X

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