Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)

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Gravesend was a constituency centred on the town of Gravesend, Kent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1868 – 1874: Sir Charles John Wingfield
• 1874 – 1880: Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim
• 1880 – 1880: Thomas Bevan
• 1880 – 1885: Sir Sydney Waterlow
• 1885 – 1892: John Bazley White
• 1892 – 1898: James Dampier Palmer
• 1898 – 1900: John Herbert Dudley Ryder
• 1900 – 1918: Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker
• 1918 – 1923: Sir Alexander Richardson, Conservative
• 1923 – 1924: George Alfred Isaacs, Labour
• 1924 – 1945: Sir Irving James Albery, Conservative
• 1945 – 1947: Garry Allighan, Labour
• 1947 – 1955: Sir Richard Acland, Labour, Independent from 1955
• 1955 – 1964: Peter Michael Kirk, Conservative
• 1964 – 1970: Albert James Murray, Labour
• 1970 – 1974: Roger Lowrey White, Conservative
• 1974 – 1979: John Ovenden, Labour
• 1979 – 1983: Timothy Brinton, Conservative

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