Holderness (UK Parliament constituency)

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Holderness was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Holderness area of East Yorkshire. 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 1950 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1885 George Richard Bethell Conservative
1900 Arthur Stanley Wilson Conservative
1922 William Audley Bowdler Liberal
1923 Sir Samuel Servington Savery Conservative
1939 Joseph Gurney Braithwaite Conservative
1950 constituency abolished

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