South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Warwickshire County constituency
Created:	1832
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

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

[edit] History

The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.

South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with for new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Sir Grey Skipwith			Sir George Philips
1835		Sir John Mordaunt			Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon
1836					Evelyn John Shirley
1845		George Guy Brooke, Baron Brooke, later Earl of Warwick
1849					Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1853		Evelyn Philip Shirley
1857					Edward Bolton King
1859					Sir Charles Mordaunt
1865		Henry Christopher Wise
1868					John Hardy	Conservative
1874		Hugh de Grey Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth			Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
1880		Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh
1884		Sampson Samuel Lloyd

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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