Southampton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Southampton Borough constituency
Created:	1295
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Southampton was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the town of Southampton, it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1295 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1660-1832 2.2 1832-1950 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1660-1832

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1660		William Stanley			Robert Richbell
1661		Sir Richard Ford			William Legge
1670					Thomas Knollys
1678		Sir Benjamin Newland
1679					Sir Charles Wyndham
1689					Richard Brett
1689					Edward Fleming
1689					Sir Charles Wyndham
1698					John Smith
1699		Roger Mompesson
Jan 1701					Mitford Crow
Nov 1701		Adam de Cardonnel
1702					Frederick Tylney
1705					Henry Bentinck, later Duke of Portland
1708					Simeon Stewart
1710					Richard Fleming
1712		Roger Harris
1715		Thomas Lewis
1722					Thomas Missing
1727		Robert Eyre			Anthony Henley
1729		Sir William Heathcote
1734					John Conduitt
1737					Thomas Lee Dummer
1741		Peter Delme			Edward Gibbon
1747					Anthony Langley Swymmer
1754		Hans Stanley
1760					Henry Dawkins
1768					Henry Temple
1774					John Fleming
Jan 1780		John Fuller
Sep 1780					Hans Sloane
1784		John Fleming			James Amyatt
1790		Henry Martin
1794		George Henry Rose
1806					Arthur Atherley
1807					Josias Jackson
1812					Arthur Atherley
Mar 1818					William Chamberlayne
Jun 1818		Sir William Champion de Crespigny
1826		Abel Rous Dottin
1830					James Barlow-Hoy
1831		Arthur Atherley			John Storey Penleaze

[edit] 1832-1950

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		James Barlow-Hoy			Arthur Atherley
1833		John Storey Penleaze
1835		James Barlow-Hoy			Abel Rous Dottin
1837		Adam Duncan
1841		James Bruce			Charles Cecil Martyn
1842		Humphrey St John Mildmay			George William Hope
1847		Sir Alexander Cockburn	Liberal		Brodie McGhie Willcox
1857		Thomas Matthias Weguelin
1859		William Digby Seymour
1862					William Anderson Rose
1865		Russell Gurney			George Moffatt
1868					Peter Merrick Hoare
1874					Sir Frederick Perkins
1878		Alfred Giles
1880		Henry Lee			Charles Parker Butt
1883					Alfred Giles
1885		Sir John Edmund Commerell
1888		Francis Henry Evans
1892					Tankerville Chamberlayne
1895		Sir John Stephen Barrington Simeon
1896					Sir Francis Henry Evans
1900					Tankerville Chamberlayne
1906		Sir Ivor Philipps	Liberal		William Dudley Ward	Liberal
1922		Edwin King Perkins	Conservative		Allen Algernon Bathurst, Baron Apsley	Conservative
1929		Ralph Morley	Labour		Thomas Lewis	Labour
1931		William Craven-Ellis	Conservative		Sir Charles Coupar Barrie	Liberal
1940					Sir John Charles Walsham Reith
1940					William Stanley Russell Thomas	National Liberal
1945		Ralph Morley	Labour		Thomas Lewis	Labour
1950	constituency abolished: see Southampton Itchen and Southampton Test

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.