Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Derbyshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1290 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Derbyshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of North Derbyshire and South Derbyshire in 1832.
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- Constituency created (1290)
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1660 | Viscount Mansfield | John Ferrers | ||||
| 1661 | Lord Cavendish | John Frescheville | ||||
| 1665 | John Milward | |||||
| 1670 | William Sacheverell | |||||
| 1685 | Sir Robert Coke, 2nd Bt. | Sir Gilbert Clarke | ||||
| January 1689 | Sir John Gell, 2nd Bt. | |||||
| April 1689 | Sir Philip Gell, 3rd Bt. | Whig | ||||
| 1690 | Henry Gilbert | |||||
| 1695 | Marquess of Hartington | Whig | ||||
| 1698 | Thomas Coke | |||||
| January 1701 | Lord Roos | |||||
| December 1701 | Thomas Coke | Sir John Curzon, 3rd Bt. | Tory | |||
| 1710 | Godfrey Clarke | |||||
| 1727 | Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Bt. | Tory | ||||
| 1734 | Lord Charles Cavendish | Whig | ||||
| 1741 | Marquess of Hartington | Whig | ||||
| 1751 | Lord Frederick Cavendish | Whig | ||||
| 1754 | Lord George Augustus Cavendish | Whig | Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Bt. | Tory | ||
| 1761 | Sir Henry Harpur, 6th Bt. | |||||
| 1768 | Godfrey Bagnall Clarke | |||||
| 1775 | Hon. Nathaniel Curzon | Tory | ||||
| 1780 | Lord Richard Cavendish | |||||
| 1781 | Lord George Augustus Cavendish | Whig | ||||
| 1784 | Edward Miller Mundy | |||||
| 1794 | Lord John Cavendish | Whig | ||||
| 1797 | Lord George Cavendish | Whig | ||||
| 1822 | Francis Mundy | Whig | ||||
| 1831 | Hon. George Venables-Vernon | |||||
- Constituency abolished (1832)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
[edit] Elections
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| General Election 1734: Derbyshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Whig | Lord Charles Cavendish | 697 | 74.1 | ||
| Tory | Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet | 134 | 14.2 | ||
| Henry Harpur | 110 | 11.7 | |||
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