Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton which existed until 1974.

It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Northampton North and Northampton South.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1295-1640 2.2 1640-1918 2.3 1918-1974 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

• 1295: constituency established, electing two MPs
• 1572: Christopher Yelverton
• 1604-1614: Henry Yelverton
• 1604-1611: Edward Mercer
• 1621-1622: Richard Spencer
• 1621-1622: Thomas Crewe

[edit] 1640-1918

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		Richard Knightley	Parliamentarian		?
November 1640					Zouch Tate	Parliamentarian
December 1648	Knightley excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant			Tate not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653	Northampton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Peter Whalley		Northampton had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656		Francis Harvey
January 1659					James Langham
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
March 1660		Francis Harvey			Richard Rainsford
June 1660		Sir John Norwich, Bt.
April 1661		Francis Harvey			James Langham
November 1661		Sir Charles Compton			Richard Rainsford
1662		Sir James Langham, Bt.
March 1663		Sir William Dudley, Bt.
April 1663		Hon. Christopher Hatton
March 1664					Sir John Bernard
April 1664					Sir Henry Yelverton, Bt.
1670		Sir William Fermor			The Lord Ibracken
1678					Ralph Montagu
February 1679					Sir Hugh Cholmley, Bt.
August 1679		William Langham			Ralph Montagu
1685		Richard Rainsford			Sir Justinian Isham, Bt.
1689		William Langham
1690					Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt.
1694					Sir Justinian Isham, Bt.
1695		Christopher Montagu
1698					William Thursby
1701					Thomas Andrew
1702		Sir Matthew Dudley, Bt.			Bartholomew Tate
1704					Francis Arundell
1705		George Montagu
1710					William Wykes
1715		William Wilmer
1722					Edward Montagu
1727		Hon. George Compton
1734					William Wilmer
1744					George Montagu
April 1754					Charles Montagu
December 1754		Hon. Charles Compton
1755		Richard Backwell
1759					Frederick Montagu
1761		Spencer Compton
1763		Lucy Knightly
1768		Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney			Sir George Osborn, Bt. [1]
1769					Hon. Thomas Howe
1771					Wilbraham Tollemache
1774		Sir George Robinson, 5th Bt.
1780		Viscount Althorp			George Rodney
1782		The Lord Lucan
1784		Lord Compton			Fiennes Trotman
1790					Hon. Edward Bouverie
1796		Hon. Spencer Perceval
1810					William Hanbury Bateman
1812		Earl Compton
1818					Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt.
1820		Sir George Robinson, 6th Bt.			William Leader Maberly
1830					Sir Robert Gunning, Bt.
1831					Robert Vernon Smith	Whig
1832		Charles Ross	Conservative
1837		Raikes Currie	Whig
1857		Charles Gilpin	Whig
1859			Liberal		The Lord Henley	Liberal
February 1874					Pickering Phipps	Conservative
October 1874		Charles George Merewether	Conservative
1880		Henry du Pré Labouchere	Liberal		Charles Bradlaugh	Liberal
1891					(Sir) Moses Philip Manfield	Liberal
1895					Charles Gustavus Adoplhus Drucker	Conservative
1900					John Greenwood Shipman	Liberal
1906		Herbert Woodfield Paul	Liberal
1910		Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	Liberal		Charles McCurdy	Liberal
1918	Representation reduced to one member

Notes

1. ^ On petition, Osborn was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent Howe was declared elected in his place

[edit] 1918-1974

Year		Member	Party
1918		Charles McCurdy	Coalition Liberal
1922			National Liberal
1923		Margaret Bondfield	Labour
1924		Sir Arthur Holland	Conservative
1928		Cecil L'Estrange Malone	Labour
1931		Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller	Conservative
1940		Gerard Spencer Summers	Conservative
1945		Reginald Thomas Paget, later Baron Paget of Northampton	Labour
1974	Constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

• Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
• 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) [2]
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by vacant. Last was Cambridge University in 1806	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1809 - 1812	Succeeded by vacant. Next was Newport (Isle of Wight) in 1827