Kidderminster (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Kidderminster County constituency |
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|---|---|
| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Kidderminster was a county constituency in Worcestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election and was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wyre Forest constituency.
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It included the town of Kidderminster.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1832 | Richard Godson | ||
| 1835 | George Richard Philips | ||
| 1837 | Richard Godson | ||
| 5 Sep 1849 | John Best | ||
| 1852 | Robert Lowe | Liberal | |
| 1859 | Alfred Rhodes Bristow | ||
| 27 May 1862 | Luke White | ||
| 1865 | Albert Grant | ||
| 1868 | Thomas Lea | ||
| 1874 | Albert Grant | ||
| 2 Aug 1874 | Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt. | ||
| 1880 | John Brinton | ||
| 1886 | Sir Augustus Frederick Godson | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Edmund Broughton Barnard | Liberal | |
| Jan. 1910 | Major Eric Ayshford Knight | Conservative[1] | |
| 1922 | Sir John Sydney Wardlaw-Milne | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Louis Tolley | Labour | |
| 1950 | Sir Gerald Nabarro | Conservative | |
| 1964 | Tatton Brinton | Conservative | |
| 1974 | Esmond Bulmer | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Constituency abolished | ||
[edit] References
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.
