Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)

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Coventry
Borough constituency
Created: 1298
Abolished: 1945
Type: House of Commons
Members: two until 1885, then one

Coventry was a borough constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the City of Coventry, it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1295 until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when its represenation was reduced to one. The Coventry constituency was abolished for the 1945 general election.

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[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1660, March Richard Hopkins Robert Beake
1660, August William Jesson
1661 Sir Clement Fisher Thomas Flynt
1670 Richard Hopkins
1679, Feb Robert Beake
1679, August John Stratford
1685 Sir Roger Cave Sir Thomas Norton
1689 John Stratford
1690 Richard Hopkins
1695 George Bohun Thomas Gery
1698 Sir Christopher Hales Richard Hopkins
1701, Jan Thomas Hopkin
1701, Dec Edward Hopkins
1702 Thomas Gery
1707 Sir Orlando Bridgeman Edward Hopkins
1710, Oct Robert Craven Thomas Gery
1710, Dec Clobery Bromley
1711 Sir Christopher Hales
1713 Sir Fulwar Skipwith
1715 Lieutenant-Colonel (Sir) Adolphus Oughton [1] Sir Thomas Samwell
1722 [2] John Neale
1734 John Bird
1737, Feb John Neale
1737, Apr George Fitzroy, Earl of Euston
1741 William Grove
1747, Jun William Stanhope, Viscount Petersham
1747, Dec Samuel Greathead
1761 James Hewitt Hon. Andrew Archer
1766 Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
1768 Sir Richard Glyn
1773 Walter Waring
1774 Edward Roe Yeo
1780, Feb John Baker Holroyd
1780, Oct Election abandoned due to rioting; both seats vacant
1780, Dec [3] Sir Thomas Hallifax Thomas Rogers
1781 Edward Roe Yeo The Lord Sheffield
1783 Hon. William Seymour-Conway
1784 Sir Sampson Gideon [4] John Wilmot
1796 William Wilberforce Bird Nathaniel Jeffreys
1802 Francis William Barlow
1803 Peter Moore
1805 William Mills
1812 Joseph Butterworth
1818 Edward Ellice Whig
1826 Richard Edensor Heathcote Thomas Bilcliffe Fyler
1830 Edward Ellice Whig
1831 Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer Whig
1832 Edward Ellice Whig
1835 William Williams Radical
1847 George James Turner Conservative
1851 Charles Geach Whig
1854 Sir Joseph Paxton Liberal
1863 Morgan Treherne Conservative
1865 Henry Eaton Conservative
1867 Henry Mather Jackson Liberal
1868, March Samuel Carter Liberal
1868, November Alexander Staveley Hill Conservative
1874 Sir Henry Mather Jackson Liberal
1880 William Wills Liberal
1881 Henry Eaton Conservative
1885 representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1885-1945

Election Member Party
1885 Henry William Eaton Conservative
1887 William Henry Walter Ballantine Liberal
1895 Charles James Murray Conservative
1906 Alfred Edward Woodley Mason Liberal
1910 John Kenneth Foster Conservative
1910 David Marshall Mason Liberal
1918 Edward Manville Coalition Conservative
1922 Albert Arthur Purcell Labour
1924 Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter Conservative
1929 Philip Noel-Baker Labour
1931 William Frederick Strickland Conservative
1945 constituency abolished: see Coventry East and Coventry West

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Created a baronet, August 1718
  2. ^ The election of 1722 was declared void because of the "notorious and outrageous Riots, Tumults and Seditions ... in Defiance of the Civil Authority, and in Violation of the Freedom of Elections", and a new writ was issued, but the original victors (Oughton and Neale) were returned once more at the by-election.
  3. ^ On petition, the election of Hallifax and Rogers was declared void, and their opponents, Yeo and Seymour-Conway, were declared to have been duly elected and seated in their place
  4. ^ Changed his surname to Eardley, July 1789; created The Lord Eardley (in the Peerage of Ireland, September 1789

[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]
  • Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
  • F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790 (London: HMSO, 1964)
  • "The Constitutional Yearbook, 1913" (London: National Unionist Association, 1913)
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.
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