- Morpeth (UK Parliament constituency)
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Morpeth Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1553–1983 Number of members 1553–1832: two
1832–1983: oneReplaced by Wansbeck 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.
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Members of Parliament
1553-1640
Parliament First member Second member 1558/9 William Ward Nicholas Purslow[1] 1562 (Dec) William Ward Arthur Welshe [1] 1571 Francis Gawdy Nicholas Mynn [1] 1572 (Apr) Sir George Bowes died
and replaced Dec 1580 by Richard DrakeRichard Wroth[1] 1584 William Carey George Gifford [1] 1586 Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth Anthony Felton [1] 1588/9 Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth Henry Noel [1] 1593 Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth,
sat for Callington, replaced by Edmund BowyerFrancis Tyndale [1] 1597 (Sep) Robert Printis Thomas Carleton [1] 1601 (Oct) George Savile John Browne [1] 1604-1611 Sir Christopher Perkins John Hare 1614 Sir Christopher Perkins William Button 1621-1622 Robert Brandling R Fetherstonhaugh 1624 Sir Thomas Reynel Sir William Carnaby 1625 Sir Thomas Reynel Sir Anthony Herbert 1626 Sir Thomas Reynel John Banks 1629–1640 No Parliaments convened 1640-1832
Year First member First party Second member Second party November 1640 Sir William Carnaby Royalist John Fenwick Royalist August 1642 Carnaby disabled from sitting - seat vacant January 1643 Fenwick disabled from sitting - seat vacant 1645 Hon. John Fiennes George Fenwick December 1648 Fiennes excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant 1653 Morpeth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 Robert Delaval Robert Mitford May 1659 Morpeth was unrepresented in the restored Rump April 1660 Thomas Widdrington jnr 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 Whig January 1701 William Howard May 1701 Sir Richard Sandford December 1701 Emanuel Scrope Howe Whig 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 [2] 1717 Hon. George Carpenter 1727 Thomas Robinson 1734 Sir Henry Liddell 1738 Henry Furnese 1741 Robert Ord 1747 Viscount Limerick 1754 Thomas Duncombe Tory 1755 Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh 1761 Viscount Garlies Whig 1768 Peter Beckford Sir Matthew White Ridley 1774 Francis Eyre [3] Peter Delmé 1775 Hon. William Byron 1776 Gilbert Elliot 1777 John William Egerton Tory 1780 Anthony Morris Storer 1784 Major Sir James Erskine [4] Whig 1790 Francis Gregg 1795 Viscount Morpeth 1796 William Huskisson Tory 1802 William Ord Whig 1806 Hon. William Howard 1826 Viscount Morpeth 1830 Hon. William Howard 1832 representation reduced to one member 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 Co-operative 1970 George Grant Labour 1983 constituency abolished Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/morpeth. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- ^ Castlecomer was also elected for Ripon but there was a petition against his election there; he sat for Morpeth until the petition was withdraw, then chose to represent Ripon, a by-election was held for Morpeth
- ^ On petition, Eyre was declared not to have been duly elected, and his opponent Byron was seated in his place
- ^ Adopted the surname St Clair-Erskine, July 1789. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 1792, Colonel 1795.
Election results
Elections in the 1920s
Morpeth by-election, 1923 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Robert Smillie 20,053 60.5 +12.2 Liberal Frank Crane Thornborough 13,087 39.5 +7.3 Majority 6,966 21.0 −4.9 Turnout 33,140 76.9 48 Labour hold Swing 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]
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
See also
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1553
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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