North Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Derbyshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1832 (1832)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	two
Replaced by	High Peak and West Derbyshire
Created from	Derbyshire

North Derbyshire was a Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom constituencies. It originally returned two Knights of the Shire to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created when Derbyshire constituency was split into North Derbyshire and South Derbyshire under the 1832 Reform Act. It was abolished in 1885, together with the constituencies of South Derbyshire and East Derbyshire. In 1885 the area of the three constituencies was split between the new smaller constituencies of Chesterfield, Mid Derbyshire, North-East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire, West Derbyshire, High Peak and Ilkeston.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	Lord Cavendish of Keighley	Whig	Thomas Gisborne	Whig
		1834 by-election	Lord George Cavendish	Whig
		1837			William Evans	Whig
		1853 by-election			William Pole Thornhill	Whig
		1865			William Jackson	Liberal
		1868			Augustus Arkwright	Conservative
		1880	Lord Edward Cavendish	Liberal	John Frederick Cheetham	Liberal
		1885	Constituency abolished

Election results

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See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)