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
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.