Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cheshire County constituency
Created:	1545
Abolished:	1832
Type:	House of Commons

Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentiary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.

As a county palatine it was unrepresented in the Parliament until the 34 & 35 Hen VIII. c. 13. Cheshire was represented by two Knights of the Shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that.

It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1545)

Year	First member	Second member
1547	Thomas Holcroft	Unknown
1553	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Thomas Venables
April 1554		Edward Fytton
November 1554	Sir Henry Delves	Richard Wilbraham
1555	Sir Richard Cotton
1558	Richard Hough	James Done
1559	William Brereton	Sir Ralph Leycester
1563	Sir Thomas Venables	William Massye
1571	Thomas Calveley	Thomas Stanley
1572	George Calveley	William Booth
1584	Thomas Egerton	Hugh Cholmondeley
1586		John Savage
1589	Sir George Beeston
1593	Thomas Holcroft	John Done
1597		Sir William Beeston
1601		Sir Peter Legh
1604	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Roger Aston
1614	Sir William Brereton	Unknown
1621		Sir Richard Grosvenor
1624	William Booth	William Brereton
1625	Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bt	Sir Anthony St John
1626	Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bt	Peter Daniel
1628		Sir William Brereton, Bt
April 1640	Sir Thomas Aston, Bt
November 1640	Peter Venables
1646		George Booth
1653	Robert Duckenfield	Henry Birkenhead

• Four members returned to First Protectorate Parliament (1654)

Year	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth member
1654	John Bradshaw	Sir George Booth, Bt	Henry Brooke	John Crewe
1656	Richard Legh		Thomas Marbury	Peter Brooke

• Two members returned to Third Protectorate Parliament (1659)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1659	John Bradshaw		Richard Legh
		1660	Sir George Booth, Bt		Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bt
		1661	The Lord Brereton		Peter Venables
		1664	Sir Fulk Lucy
		1670			Thomas Cholmondeley
		1678	Hon. Henry Booth	Whig
		February 1679			Sir Philip Egerton
		September 1679			Sir Robert Cotton, Bt	Whig
		1685	Sir Philip Egerton		Thomas Cholmondeley
		1689	Sir Robert Cotton, Bt	Whig	Sir John Mainwaring, Bt	Whig
		1702	Sir George Warburton, Bt	Tory	Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt	Tory
		1705	Langham Booth	Whig	John Offley-Crewe	Whig
		1710	Sir George Warburton, Bt	Tory	Charles Cholmondeley
		1715			Langham Booth	Whig
		1722	Charles Cholmondeley		John Offley-Crewe	Whig
		1727			Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
		1734			John Crewe
		1753			Charles Crewe
		1754			Samuel Egerton
		1756	Thomas Cholmondeley
		1768	John Crewe
		1780			Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
		1796			Thomas Cholmondeley
		1802	William Egerton
		1806	Davies Davenport
		1812			Wilbraham Egerton	Tory
		1830	Viscount Belgrave	Conservative
		1831			George Wilbraham

• Constituency abolished (1832)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

[edit] References

• Cheshire Gentry

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