NOTTINGHAM (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Nottingham' was a parliamentary borough in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295. In 1885 the constituency was abolished and the city of Nottingham divided into three single-member constituencies.

Contents

History

Members of Parliament

1295-1640

1640-1885

Election results

References

History

Members of Parliament

1295-1640

★ 1559: Thomas Markham

★ 1559-1567: John Bateman

★ 1572-1585: John Bateman

★ 1586: Sir Robert Constable

★ 1604-1611: Alderman Richard Harte

★ 1604-1611: Alderman A. Jackson

★ 1621-1622: Michael Purefoy

★ 1621-1622: George Lascelles

★ 1623-1625: John Byron

★ 1626: Sir Gervase Clifton

★ 1627: John Byron

1640-1885

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
November 1640		William Stanhope	Royalist		Gilbert Millington	Parliamentarian
January 1644	''Stanhope disabled to sit - seat vacant''
1645		Francis Pierrepont
1653	''Nottingham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament''
1654		James Chadwick			John Mason
1656					William Drury
January 1659		John Whaley			John Parker
May 1659		Gilbert Millington		''One seat vacant''
April 1660		Arthur Stanhope			John Hutchinson
June 1660					Robert Pierrepont
1679		Richard Slater
1685		John Beaumont			Sir William Stanhope
1689		Francis Pierrepont			Edward Bigland
1690		Charles Hutchinson			Richard Slater
1695		William Pierrepont
1699					Robert Sacheverell
January 1701					George Gregory
June 1701					Robert Sacheverell
December 1701					Robert Sacheverell
1702					George Gregory
1705					Robert Sacheverell
1706		John Plumptre
1708					Roby Sherwin
1710					Robert Sacheverell
1713		Borlase Warren
1715		John Plumptre			George Gregory
1727		John Stanhope			Borlase Warren
1734		John Plumptre
May 1747					Sir Charles Sedley
June 1747		The Viscount Howe
1754					Sir Willoughby Aston
1758		Colonel the Hon. (Sir) William Howe [1]
1761					John Plumptre
1774					Sir Charles Sedley
1778					Abel Smith
1779					Robert Smith
1780		Daniel Parker Coke
1797					Captain Sir John Borlase Warren [2]
1802		Joseph Birch [3]
1803		Daniel Parker Coke
1806					John Smith	Tory
1812		The Lord Rancliffe
1818					Joseph Birch
1820		Thomas Denman	Whig
1826		The Lord Rancliffe
1830		Thomas Denman	Whig		Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson	Whig
1832		Viscount Duncannon	Whig
1834		Sir John Cam Hobhouse	Whig
April 1841					John Walter	Conservative
June 1841					George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent	Whig
1842					John Walter [4]	Conservative
1843					Thomas Gisborne	Whig
1847		John Walter (junior)	Conservative		Feargus Edward O'Connor	Chartist
1852					Edward Strutt	Radical
1856					Charles Paget	Whig
1859		John Mellor	Liberal			Liberal
1861		Sir Robert Juckes Clifton	Liberal
1865 [5]					Samuel Morley	Liberal
1866		Ralph Bernal Osborne	Liberal		Viscount Amberley	Liberal
1868		Sir Robert Juckes Clifton	Liberal		Charles Ichabod Wright	Conservative
1869		Charles Seely	Liberal
1870					Hon. Auberon Herbert	Liberal
1874		William Evelyn Denison	Conservative		Saul Isaac	Conservative
April 1880		Charles Seely	Liberal		John Skirrow Wright	Liberal
May 1880					Arnold Morley	Liberal
1885	''Constituency abolished''

'Notes'
1. Later General; knighted 1775
2. Later Rear-Admiral
3. On petition, Birch was found not to have been duly elected
4. On petition, Walter's election was declared void and a by-election held, in which his son, John Walter (junior), took his place as Conservative candidate and was defeated
5. On petition, the election of 1865 was declared void and a by-election held

Election results

References

★ Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]

★ F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)

★ J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)