Westmorland (UK Parliament constituency)

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Westmorland County constituency
Created:	1290, 1918
Abolished:	1885, 1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	1290–1885: two 1918–1983: one

Westmorland was a constituency covering the county of Westmorland in the North of England, which returned Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency had two separate periods of existence.

—1885: It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For the 1885 general election, Westmorland was divided into two constituencies: Appleby and Kendal, both of which had been parliamentary boroughs but were reconstituted as county constituencies.

1918–1983: The constituency was recreated as a single-seater for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.

In the boundary changes in 1983 the southern part of the constituency became part of the new seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale and the northern area was transferred to Penrith and The Border

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
- 2.1 MPs 1660-1885
  - 2.1.1 Notes
- 2.2 MPs 1918-1983
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

The 1918 - 1983 seat corresponded to the country of Westmorland even after the abolition of the administrative county in 1974.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
1660	Sir John Lowther		Sir Thomas Wharton
1661	Sir Thomas Strickland		Sir Philip Musgrave
1677	Sir John Lowther		Sir Philip Musgrave
1678	Sir John Lowther		Alan Bellingham
1679	Christopher Philipson
1681	Sir John Lowther
January 1689			Henry Wharton
December 1689			Goodwin Wharton	Whig
1690			Sir Christopher Musgrave
1695			Sir Richard Sandford
1696	William Fleming		Sir Richard Sandford
January 1701	Sir Christopher Musgrave		Henry Grahme
December 1701	Sir Richard Sandford
1702	Sir Christopher Musgrave
1704	William Fleming
1705	Robert Lowther
1707	Robert Lowther		Michael Fleming
1708	Daniel Wilson		James Grahme
1722	Anthony Lowther		James Grahme
1727	Anthony Lowther		Daniel Wilson
1741	Sir Philip Musgrave		Daniel Wilson
1747	Edward Wilson		John Dalston
1754	Sir George Dalston		John Dalston
1759	Sir George Dalston		Robert Lowther
1761	Sir James Lowther		John Upton
1763	Robert Lowther
1764	John Robinson
1768	John Robinson		Thomas Fenwick
1774	Sir James Lowther ^[1]	Tory	Sir Michael le Fleming	Tory
1775	James Lowther	Tory	Sir Michael le Fleming	Tory
1806	James Lowther	Tory	The Lord Muncaster	Tory
1812	Henry Cecil Lowther	Tory	The Lord Muncaster	Tory
1813			Viscount Lowther	Tory
1831			Alexander Nowell	Whig
1832		Conservative	Viscount Lowther	Conservative
1841			William Thompson	Conservative
1854			Earl of Bective	Conservative
1868	William Lowther	Conservative	Earl of Bective	Conservative
1871	William Lowther	Conservative	Earl of Bective	Conservative

[edit] Notes

^ Sir James Lowther was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Westmorland in this Parliament

[edit] MPs 1918-1983

Election		Member	Party
	1918	John Wakefield Weston	Coalition Conservative
	1924	Oliver Frederick George Stanley	Conservative
	1945	William Fletcher-Vane	Conservative
	1964	Michael Jopling	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished, see Westmorland and Lonsdale