Tonbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
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Tonbridge was a parliamentary constituency in Kent, centred on the town of Tonbridge. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1918 general election, replacing the earlier Tunbridge constituency, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new Tonbridge and Malling constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
Year | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Herbert Henry Spender-Clay | Conservative | |
1937 | Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie | Conservative | |
1945 | Gerald Wellington Williams | Conservative | |
1956 | Richard Phipps Hornby | Conservative | |
1974 | constituency abolished: see Tonbridge and Malling |
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.