Monmouth Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

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Monmouth Boroughs Borough constituency
Created:	1832
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Monmouth Boroughs (also known as the Monmouth District of Boroughs) was a parliamentary constituency in Monmouthshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 following the Reform Act of the same year. It was abolished for the 1918 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency comprised the three towns of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, which had previously been separate parliamentary boroughs.^[1]

The constituency was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918, with Newport becoming a parliamentary borough while Monmouth and Usk were included in the Monmouth county constituency.^[2]

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Benjamin Hall	Whig
	1837	Reginald James Blewitt	Whig
	1852	Crawshay Bailey	Conservative
	1868	Sir John William Ramsden	Whig
	1874	Thomas Cordes
	1880	Edward Hamer Carbutt
	1886	Sir George Eliot, baronet
	1892	Albert Spicer	Liberal
	1900	Frederick Rutherfoord Harris	Conservative
	1901	Joseph Lawrence	Conservative
	1906	Lewis Haslam	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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

1. ^ Schedule O to the Parliamentary Boundaries Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4 c.64)
2. ^ Ninth Schedule to the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict c.23)