Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)

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Southwark was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Southwark district of South London. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament from 1295 to 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to theParliament of the United Kingdom until the constituency's abolition for the for the 1885 general election

The constituency was re-established a single-member seat for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 1.1 1295-1885 1.2 1950-1974 2 Election results 3 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1885

Year	Member		2nd Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1761		Joseph Mawbey			Alexander Hume
1765					Henry Thrale
1774		Nathaniel Polhill
1782					Henry Thornton
1784		Sir Barnard Turner
1784		Paul le Mesurier
1796		George Woodford Thellusson	Whig
1796		George Tierney
1806		Sir Thomas Turton
1812		Charles Calvert	Whig
1815					Charles Barclay
1818					Sir Robert Thomas Wilson	Liberal
1830		John Rawlinson Harris
1830		Charles Calvert	Whig
1831					William Brougham
1832		John Humphery
1835					Daniel Whittle Harvey
1840					Benjamin Wood
1845					Sir William Molesworth
1852		Apsley Pellatt
1855					Sir Charles Napier
1857		John Locke
1860					Austen Henry Layard	Liberal
1870					Marcus Beresford
1880		Edward George Clarke
1880		Arthur Cohen	Liberal		James Edwin Thorold Rogers
1885	constituency abolished: see Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Southwark West

[edit] 1950-1974

Year		Member	Party
	1950	George Alfred Isaacs	Labour
	1959	Raymond Jones Gunter	Labour
	1971	Harry George Lamborn	Labour
1974		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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