King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)

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King's Lynn was a constituency which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.

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Election Member Party
1885 Robert Bourke, later Baron Connemara Conservative
1886 Alexander Weston Jarvis
1892 Thomas Gibson Bowles Conservative
1906 Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs Liberal to 1909, then Conservative
1910 Thomas Gibson Bowles Liberal
1910 Holcombe Ingleby
1918 Sir Neville Paul Jodrell Conservative
1923 George Graham Woodwark Conservative
1924 Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy Conservative
1935 Somerset Arthur Maxwell Conservative
1943 Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy Conservative
1945 Frederick John Wise Labour
1951 Ronald Scott-Miller Conservative
1959 Denys Gradwell Bullard Conservative
1964 Derek Page Conservative
1970 Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler Conservative

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