West Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Staffordshire County constituency
Created:	1868
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	Two until 1885, then one

West Staffordshire was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and then one member.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 MPs 1868-1885 3.2 MPs 1885-1918 4 Election results 5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created for the 1868 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1868-1885

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1868		Smith Child			Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram
1871					Francis Monckton
1874		Alexander Staveley Hill
1885	representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1885-1918

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Hamar Alfred Bass
	1898	Sir Alexander Henderson	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Henry Duncan McLaren	Liberal
	1910	George Ambrose Lloyd	Liberal Unionist
	1912		Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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