Oxford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Oxford
Borough constituency
Created: 1295
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons

Oxford was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It comprised the town of Oxford in the county of Oxfordshire, and elected two Members of Parliament from its creation in 1295 until 1881. From 1885, the seat elected only one member.

In 1983, Oxford was split into two separate constituencies: Oxford West and Abingdon and Oxford East.

Contents

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

  • 1563-1567: Sir Francis Knollys
  • 1563-1567: William Page
  • 1571-1575: Edward Knollys
  • 1575-1589: Francis Knollys
  • 1593: Mr Cary
  • 1597-1598: Anthony Bacon
  • 1604-1628: Thomas Wentworth
  • 1604-1611: Sir Francis Leigh
  • 1614: Sir John Ashley
  • 1621-1622: Sir John Brooke
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[edit] 1640-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 Viscount Andover [1] Royalist John Whistler Royalist
1640 John Smith Royalist
1644 Smith and Whistler disabled from sitting - both seats vacant
1646 John Nixon John Doyley
December 1648 Nixon and Doyley excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant
1653 Oxford was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Bulstrode Whitelocke [2] Oxford had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1654 ?
1656 Richard Croke
January 1659 Major Unton Croke
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 The Viscount Falkland James Huxley
1661 Richard Croke Brome Whorwood
1679 William Wright
1685 Hon. Henry Bertie Sir George Pudsey
1689 Sir Edward Norreys
1695 Thomas Rowney
1701 Francis Norreys
1706 Sir John Walter
March 1722 Thomas Rowney, junior
October 1722 Francis Knollys
1734 Matthew Skinner
1739 James Herbert
1740 Philip Herbert
1749 The Viscount Wenman
1754 Hon. Robert Lee
1759 Sir Thomas Stapleton
1768 George Nares Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William Harcourt
1771 Lord Robert Spencer
1774 Captain the Hon. Peregrine Bertie
June 1790 Francis Burton
December 1790 Arthur Annesley
1796 Henry Peters
1802 John Atkyns-Wright
1807 John Ingram Lockhart
1812 John Atkyns-Wright
1818 Frederick St John
1820 Charles Wetherell John Ingram Lockhart
1826 James Haughton Langston Whig
1830 William Hughes Hughes
1832 Thomas Stonor [3] Whig
1833 William Hughes Hughes Whig
1835 Donald Maclean Conservative Conservative
1837 William Erle Whig
1841 James Haughton Langston Whig
1847 (Sir) William Page Wood Whig
1853 Edward Cardwell Peelite
March 1857 Charles Neate [4] Whig
July 1857 Edward Cardwell Peelite
1859 Liberal Liberal
1863 Charles Neate Liberal
1868 (Sir) William Vernon Harcourt Liberal
1874 Alexander William Hall Conservative
April 1880 Joseph William Chitty Liberal
May 1880 Alexander William Hall [5] Conservative
1881 Writ suspended - seat vacant
September 1881 Writ suspended - seat vacant [6]
1885 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1885-1983

Election Member Party
1885 Alexander William Hall Conservative
1892 Sir George Tomkyns Chesney Conservative
1895 Arthur Annesley Conservative
1917 John Arthur Ransome Marriott Coalition Conservative
1922 Frank Gray Liberal
1924 Robert Croft Bourne Unionist
1938 Quintin Hogg Conservative
1950 Lawrence Turner Conservative
1959 Montague Woodhouse Conservative
1966 Evan Luard Labour
1970 Montague Woodhouse Conservative
1974 Evan Luard Labour
1979 John Patten Conservative
1983 constituency abolished: see Oxford East and Oxford West & Abingdon

Notes

  1. ^ Andover was summoned to the Lords by writ of acceleration in his father's barony as Lord Howard of Charlton before the House of Commons had met
  2. ^ Whitelocke was returned for four different constituencies; he chose to sit for Buckinghamshire
  3. ^ Stonor's election was declared void on petition and a by-election was held
  4. ^ Neate's election was declared void on petition and a by-election was held
  5. ^ Hall's election was declared void, the writ was suspended and a Royal Commission appointed to investigate
  6. ^ Chitty's election in April 1880 had not been questioned, but when he was appointed a judge and therefore vacated his seat, no election was held to replace him

[edit] Elections

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[edit] References

  • Historical list of MPs
  • Election results, 1951–1979
  • 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]
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
  • J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
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