Whitechapel (UK Parliament constituency)

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Whitechapel Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Whitechapel was a parliamentary constituency in the Whitechapel district of East London. In 1885 the seat was established as a division of the parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History and Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] History and Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Whitechapel is part of the historic county of Middlesex, in the far east of the county. The constituency was on the north bank of the River Thames. The City of London was to the west; Shoreditch Hoxton and Bethnal Green South West to the north; with Stepney and St George to the east.

From 1889 the district was included in the administrative County of London. In 1900 the constituency became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

In the redistribution of 1918 Whitechapel was incorporated in a new Whitechapel and St George's constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Samuel Montagu, Bt	Liberal
	1900	Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, Bt	Liberal
	1916	James Daniel Kiley	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III 1919-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1979)