Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton which existed until 1974.

It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Northampton North and Northampton South.

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

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1295 — 1918 two MPs
• 1780 – 1782: George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp
• 1780 – 1784: George Rodney
• 1782 – 1784: George Bingham, 1st Baron Lucan
• 1784 – 1796: Charles Compton, Lord Compton
• 1784 – 1790: Fiennes Trotman
• 1790 – 1810: Edward Bouverie
• 1796 – 1812: Spencer Perceval
• 1810 – 1818: William Hanbury Bateman
• 1812 – 1820: Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Earl Compton
• 1818 – 1820: Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Bt
• 1820 – 1832: Sir George Robinson, 6th Bt
• 1820 – 1830: William Leader Maberley
• 1830 – 1831: Sir Robert Henry Gunning, 3rd Baronet
• 1831 – 1859: Robert Vernon Smith, Whig
• 1832 – 1837: Charles Ross
• 1837 – 1857: Raikes Currie
• 1857 – 1874: Charles Gilpin
• 1859 – 1874: Anthony Henley, 3rd Baron Henley, Liberal
• 1874 – 1880: Pickering Phipps
• 1874 – 1880: Charles George Merewether
• 1880 – 1906: Henry du Pré Labouchere
• 1880 – 1891: Charles Bradlaugh
• 1891 – 1895: Sir Moses Philip Manfield
• 1895 – 1900: Charles Gustavus Adoplhus Drucker
• 1900 – 1910: John Greenwood Shipman
• 1906 – 1910: Herbert Woodfield Paul
• 1910 – 1918: Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith, Liberal

repesentation was reduced to one member 1918

• 1910 – 1923: Charles McCurdy
• 1923 – 1924: Margaret Bondfield
• 1924 – 1928: Sir Arthr Holland
• 1928 – 1931: Cecil L'Estrange Malone
• 1931 – 1940: Sir Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller
• 1940 – 1945: Gerard Spencer Summers
• 1945 – 1974: Reginald Thomas Paget, later Baron Paget of Northampton
• 1974 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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