Morpeth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Morpeth
Borough constituency
Created: 1553
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons
Members: 1553–1832: two
1832–1983: one

Morpeth was a borough constituency centred on the town of Morpeth in Northumberland represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Morpeth elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) until the 1832 general election, when the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to one MP, elected under the first past the post system. The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election.

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[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1553-1640

  • 1604-1611: Sir Christopher Perkins
  • 1604-1611: John Hare
  • 1614: William Button
  • 1621-1622: Robert Brandling
  • 1621-1622: R Fetherstonhaugh
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 Sir William Carnaby Royalist John Fenwick Royalist
August 1642 Carnaby disabled from sitting - seat vacant
January 1643 Fenwick disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 Hon. John Fiennes George Fenwick
December 1648 Fiennes excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Morpeth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Robert Delaval William Fenwick
May 1659 Morpeth was unrepresented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Thomas Widdrington Ralph Knight
June 1660 Sir George Downing
1661 Henry Widdrington
1666 Edward Howard
1679 Daniel Collingwood
1685 Sir Henry Pickering Theophilus Oglethorpe
1689 Charles Howard Roger Fenwick
1692 George Nicholas
1695 Sir Henry Belasyse
1698 Philip Howard
January 1701 William Howard
May 1701 Sir Richard Sandford
December 1701 Emanuel Scrope Howe Sir John Delaval
1705 Sir Richard Sandford Edmund Maine
1708 Sir John Bennett
1710 Christopher Wandesford
1713 Sir John Germain Oley Douglas
1715 Viscount Morpeth The Viscount Castlecomer [1]
1717 Hon. George Carpenter
1727 Thomas Robinson
1734 Sir Henry Liddell
1738 Henry Furnese
1741 Robert Ord
1747 Viscount Limerick
1754 Thomas Duncombe Tory
1755 Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh
1761 Viscount Garlies Whig
1768 Pether Beckford Sir Matthew White Ridley
1774 Francis Eyre [2] Peter Delmé
1775 Hon. William Byron
1776 Gilbert Elliot
1777 John William Egerton Tory
1780 Anthony Morris Storer
1784 Major Sir James Erskine [3] Whig
1790 Francis Gregg
1795 Viscount Morpeth
1796 William Huskisson Tory
1802 William Ord Whig
1806 Hon. William Howard
1826 Viscount Morpeth
1830 Hon. William Howard
1832 representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1983

Year Member Party
1832 Frederick George Howard Liberal
1834 Edward George Granville Howard Liberal
1837 Granville George Leveson-Gower Liberal
1840 Edward George Granville Howard Liberal
1853 Sir George Grey Liberal
1874 Thomas Burt Lib-Lab
1918 John Cairns Labour
1923 Robert Smillie Labour
1929 Ebenezer Edwards Labour
1931 Godfrey Nicholson Conservative
1935 Robert John Taylor Labour
1954 Will Owen Labour Co-operative
1970 George Grant Labour
1983 constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Castlecomer was also elected for Ripon but there was a petition against his election there; he sat for Morpeth until the petition was withdraw, then chose to represent Ripon, a by-election was held for Morpeth
  2. ^ On petition, Eyre was declared not to have been duly elected, and his opponent Byron was seated in his place
  3. ^ Adopted the surname St Clair-Erskine, July 1789. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 1792, Colonel 1795.

[edit] Election results

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[edit] Elections in the 1920s

Morpeth by-election, 1923
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Smillie 20,053 60.5 +12.2
Liberal F.C. Thornborough 13,087 39.5 +7.3
Majority 6,966 21.0 −4.9
Turnout 33,140 76.9 48
Labour hold Swing

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
  • 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) [2]
  • 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 Peerage Page
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