Hitchin (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hitchin was a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1885 Baron Robert Dimsdale a Conservative
1892 George Bickersteth Hudson Conservative
1906 Julius Bertram Liberal
1910 Dr. Alfred Peter Hillier Conservative
1911 Rt Hon. Lord Robert Cecil b Conservative
1918 Coalition Conservative
1922 Conservative
1923 Guy Molesworth Kindersley Conservative
1931 Antony Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth Conservative
1933 Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson Conservative
1941 Hon. Seymour Berry Conservative
1945 Philip Asterley Jones Labour
1950 Nigel Fisher Conservative
1955 William Francis Martin Maddan Conservative
1964 Shirley Williams Labour
1974 Ian Stewart Conservative
1983 constituency abolished

Notes:-

  • a Dimsdale was a Baron of the Russian Empire.
  • b Cecil associated himself with the non-coalition wing of the Conservative Party, at some point in the 1918-1922 Parliament.

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