Glamorganshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glamorganshire County constituency
Created:	1536
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Glamorganshire was a parliamentary constituency in Wales, returning two Members of Parliament to the British House of Commons. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 divided it into five new constituencies: East Glamorganshire, South Glamorganshire, Mid Glamorganshire, Gower and Rhondda.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1660-1832 2.2 MPs 1832-1885 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of Glamorganshire.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1832

Year	Member
1660	Sir Edward Mansel
1661	William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke
1670	Sir Edward Mansel
1679	Bussy Mansel
1681	Sir Edward Mansel
1689	Bussy Mansel
1699	Thomas Mansel
1701	Thomas Mansel, later Baron Mansell
1712	Robert Jones
1716	Sir Charles Kemys
1734	William Talbot, later Earl Talbot
1737	Bussy Mansel, later Baron Mansell of Magram
1745	Thomas Mathews
1747	Charles Edwin
1756	Thomas William Mathews
1761	Sir Edmund Thomas
1767	Richard Turbervill
1768	George Venables-Vernon, later Baron Vernon
1780	Charles Edwin
1789	Thomas Wyndham
1814	Benjamin Hall
1817	Sir Christopher Cole
1818	John Edwards
1820	Sir Christopher Cole
1830	Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot

[edit] MPs 1832-1885

Election	First member		1st Party	2nd member		2nd Party
1832	representation increased to two members under the Reform Act 1832
1832		Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot	Liberal		Lewis Weston Dillwyn
1837					Edwin Wyndham-Quin, Viscount Adare
1851					Sir George Tyler
1857					Sir Henry Hussey Vivian
1885	constituency abolished: see East Glamorganshire, South Glamorganshire, Mid Glamorganshire, Gower and Rhondda

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• A map of Glamorganshire in 1885, showing its new divisions.

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.