Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)

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Grantham County constituency
Created:	1468
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons

Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England. The constituency was created in 1468 and abolished in 1997. The area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in the Grantham and Stamford constituency.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was based on Grantham, a market town on the River Witham.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

Year			First Member	First Party	Second Member	Second Party
		1660	Thomas Skipwith		Sir John Newton
		1661	Sir William Thorold
		1678	Sir Robert Markham
		1679	Sir William Ellys
		1685	Thomas Harrington		John Thorold
		1689	Sir John Brownlow		Sir William Ellys
		1697	Sir John Thorold
		Jan. 1701	Thomas Baptist Manners
		Nov.1701	Richard Ellys
		1705	Marquess of Granby
		1711	Sir John Thorold
		1713			John Brownlow
		1715	Edward Rolt		John Heathcote
		1722	Francis Fisher		The Viscount Tyrconnel
		1727	Sir Michael Newton
		1741			Marquess of Granby
		1743	Sir John Cust
		1754			Lord George Manners
		1770	Francis Cust
		1774	Sir Brownlow Cust
		1776	Peregrine Cust
		1780	Francis Cockayne-Cust		George Manners-Sutton
		1792	Philip Yorke
		1793	Simon Yorke
		1802	Thomas Thoroton		Sir William Earle Welby
		1806			Russell Manners
		1807			Sir William Earle Welby
		1812	Robert Percy Smith
		1818	Edward Cust
		March 1820			James Hughes
		July 1820			Sir Montague Cholmeley
		1826	Frederick James Tollemache
		1830	Glynne Earle Welby
		1832			James Hughes
		1832			Algernon Gray Tollemache
		1837			Frederick James Tollemache
		1852			Lord Montagu William Graham
		1857	William Earle Welby-Gregory		Frederick James Tollemache
		1865			Sir Henry Thorold
		April 1868	Edmund Turnor
		Nov. 1868	Frederick James Tollemache		Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley
		1874	Henry Francis Cockayne Cust
		1880	John William Mellor		Charles Savile Roundell

• Constituency reduced to one member in 1885.

[edit] MPs 1885-present

Year		Member	Party
	1885	John William Mellor
	1886	William Malcolm Low
	1892	Henry Yarde Buller Lopes
	1900	Arthur Priestley
	1918	Edmund Royds
	1922	Robert Pattinson
	1923	Victor Warrender	Conservative
	1942	William Denis Kendall	Independent
	1950	Eric Smith	Conservative
	1951	Joseph Godber	Conservative
	1979	Douglas Hogg	Conservative
	1997	Constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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