Carmarthenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Carmarthenshire
Type = County
Year = 1542
Abolition = 1885
members = one until 1832, then two

Carmarthenshire was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was increased to two members for the 1832 general election.

At the 1885 general election, it was divided into two new single-member seats: Carmarthenshire East and Carmarthenshire West.

Members of Parliament

1542-1640

* 1601: John Vaughan
* 1604-1614: Sir Robert Mansell [The Dictionary of National Biography records Mansell as MP for Carmathen borough in the 1604 Parliament and for the county only in 1614, but "Cobbett's Parliamentary History" names Mansell as MP for the county in 1604 and Sir Walter Rice as the borough MP]
* 1621-1622: Sir John Vaughan
* 1624-1629: (Sir) Richard Vaughan

1640-1832

1832-1885

Notes

References

*Rayment
*Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=024wW9LmFc5kXY0FI2&id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&printsec=toc&dq=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament&as_brr=1&sig=SK5GVtGLfWQ9ovZDbyZObAyIO5I#PPP9,M1]
*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) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
*F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
* [http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-VAUG-GEL-1500.html Welsh Biography Online]