Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Cricklade County constituency |
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| Created: | 1295 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two until 1885, then one |
Cricklade was a county constituency in the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire. The constituency incorporated the town of Swindon and its surrounds.
It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 until 1885, and one from then until the constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election.
It was replaced by the new Swindon constituency.
Contents |
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1660-1885
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1660 | Hungerford Dunch | Nevil Maskelyne | ||||
| 1661 | Sir George Hungerford | John Ernle | ||||
| 1679 | Hungerford Dunch | Edmund Webb | ||||
| 1680 | John Pleydell | |||||
| 1681 | William Lenthall | |||||
| 1685 | Charles Fox | |||||
| 1689 | Thomas Freke | |||||
| 1690 | Edmund Richmond Webb | |||||
| 1698 | Edward Pleydell | |||||
| 1699 | Sir Stephen Fox | |||||
| 1701 | Edmund Dunch | |||||
| 1702 | Thomas Richmond Webb | Samuel Barker | ||||
| 1705 | Edmund Dunch | |||||
| 1708 | James Vernon | |||||
| 1710 | Samuel Robinson | |||||
| 1713 | Sir Thomas Reade | William Gore | ||||
| 1714 | Samuel Robinson | |||||
| 1715 | Jacob Sawbridge[1] | |||||
| 1721 | Hon. Matthew Ducie Moreton | |||||
| 1722 | Thomas Gore | |||||
| 1727 | Christopher Tilson | |||||
| 1734 | William Gore | |||||
| 1739 | Charles Gore | |||||
| 1741 | Welbore Ellis | |||||
| 1747 | William Rawlinson Earle | John Gore | ||||
| 1754 | Thomas Gore | |||||
| 1761 | Arnold Nesbitt | |||||
| 1768 | George Damer | Sir Robert Fletcher | ||||
| 1774 | William Earle | Arnold Nesbitt | ||||
| 1774 | Samuel Peach[2] | |||||
| 1776 | John Dewar | |||||
| 1779 | John Macpherson | |||||
| 1780 | Paul Benfield | |||||
| 1782 | George St John | |||||
| 1784 | Charles Westley Coxe | Robert Adamson | ||||
| 1785 | John Walker-Heneage | Robert Nicholas | ||||
| 1790 | Thomas Estcourt | |||||
| 1794 | Lord Porchester | |||||
| 1806 | Thomas Goddard | |||||
| 1811 | William Herbert | |||||
| 1812 | Joseph Pitt | Thomas Calley | Whig | |||
| 1818 | Robert Gordon | Whig | ||||
| 1831 | Thomas Calley | Whig | ||||
| 1835 | John Neeld | Conservative | ||||
| 1837 | Ambrose Goddard | Conservative | ||||
| 1841 | Hon. Henry Howard | Whig | ||||
| 1847 | Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard | Conservative | ||||
| 1859 | Lord Ashley | Liberal | ||||
| 1865 | Sir Daniel Gooch | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | Hon. Frederick Cadogan | Liberal | ||||
| 1874 | Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard | Conservative | ||||
| 1880 | Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne | Liberal | ||||
| 1885 | constituency returns one member from now | |||||
[edit] MPs 1885-1918
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1892 | John Husband | Liberal | |
| 1895 | Alfred Hopkinson | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1900 | Edmond FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice | Liberal | |
| 1906 | John Massie | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1910 | Richard Cornthwaite Lambert | Liberal | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Swindon | ||
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
