Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)

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Clitheroe
County constituency
Created: 1559
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons

Clitheroe was a constituency in Lancashire.

It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1832, and then one MP until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Ribble Valley constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] To 1832

Two members returned to Parliament

[edit] 1832-1983

Year Member Party
1832 representation reduced to one member
1832 John Fort
1841 Mathew Wilson
1842 Edward Cardwell Conservative
1847 Mathew Wilson
1853 John Thomas Walshman Aspinall
1853 Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie
1857 John Turner Hopwood
1865 Richard Fort
1868 Ralph Assheton
1880 Richard Fort
1885 Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth Liberal
1902 David James Shackleton Labour
1910 Albert Smith Labour
1918 Alfred Davies Labour
1922 Sir William Brass Conservative
1945 Harry Enos Randall Labour
1950 Richard Fort Conservative
1959 Sir Francis Fenwick Pearson Conservative
1970 Alan David Walder Conservative
1979 David Waddington Conservative
1983 constituency abolished: see Ribble Valley

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.