Southern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Southern West Riding of Yorkshire County constituency
Created:	1865
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Southern West Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) 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 when the two-member West Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided for the 1865 general election into two new constituencies, each returning two members: Northern West Riding of Yorkshire and Southern West Riding of Yorkshire. The extra seats were taken from parliamentary boroughs which had been disenfranchised for corruption.

In the redistribution which took effect for the 1868 general election the two divisions were redistributed into three. Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire was created and the Northern and Southern divisions modified. Each of the three divisions returned two members.

All three were abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. The Souhern division was replaced by eight new single-member constituencies: Barnsley, Colne Valley, Doncaster, Hallamshire , Holmfirth, Morley, Normanton and Rotherham.

[edit] Boundaries

The place of election was at Wakefield.

From 1865 to 1868 the constituency comprised the south half of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Reform Act 1867, as amended by the Boundary Act 1868, re-defined the constituency (as it existed between 1868 and 1885) as the wapentakes of Agbrigg, Strafforth and Tickhill and Staincross.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1865		William FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton	Liberal		Henry Frederick Beaumont	Liberal
1872		Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope	Conservative
1874					Lewis Randle Starkey	Conservative
1880		Hon. William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam	Liberal		William Henry Leatham	Liberal
1885	constituency abolished: see Barnsley, Colne Valley, Doncaster, Hallamshire , Holmfirth, Morley, Normanton and Rotherham

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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