Bradford (UK Parliament constituency)
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Bradford was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election.
It was then split into three new constituencies: Bradford Central, Bradford East, and Bradford West.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Ellis Cunliffe Lister | John Hardy | ||||
| 1837 | William Busfield | |||||
| 1841 | John Hardy | William Cunliffe Lister | ||||
| 1841 | William Busfield | |||||
| 1847 | Thomas Perronet Thompson | |||||
| 1851 | Robert Milligan | Liberal [1] | ||||
| 1852 | Henry Wickham Wickham | |||||
| 1857 | Thomas Perronet Thompson [2] | |||||
| 1859 | Titus Salt | Liberal | ||||
| 1861 | William Edward Forster | Liberal | ||||
| 1867 | Matthew William Thompson | |||||
| 1868 | Henry William Ripley | |||||
| 1869 | Edward Miall | Liberal | ||||
| 1874 | Henry William Ripley | |||||
| 1880 | Alfred Illingworth | |||||
| 1885 | constituency divided: see Bradford Central, Bradford East, and Bradford West | |||||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
