Leicester (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Leicester
Type = Borough
Year = 1295
Abolition = 1918
members = two

Leicester was a parliamentary borough in Leicestershire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1918, when it was split into three single-member divisions.

History

Members of Parliament

1295-1640

* 1584-1587: Thomas Johnson
* 1601: George Belgrave
* 1614: Henry Rich
* 1621-1622: Sir Richard Morrison
* 1621-1622: Sir William Herrick
* 1625: Thomas Jermyn

1640-1918

Notes

Election results

References

* 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]
* "The Constitutional Year Book for 1913" (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
* F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
* J E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
* J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
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