Deptford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Deptford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Deptford district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Lewisham Deptford.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1885 William John Evelyn
1888 Charles John Darling, later Baron Darling Conservative
1897 Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton
1906 Charles William Bowerman Labour
1931 Denis Augustine Hanley Conservative
1935 Walter Henry Green Labour
1945 John Wilmot Labour
1950 John Cooper Labour
1951 Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer Labour
1963 John Ernest Silkin Labour
1974 constituency abolished: see Lewisham Deptford

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