Wisbech (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Wisbech County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Wisbech is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the abolition of Cambridgeshire in 1885 and was abolished in 1918.
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[edit] Boundaries
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 split the former three-member Cambridgeshire county constituency into three single-member divisions. Wisbech was the North division of the historic county of Cambridgeshire.
The area was bounded by the constituencies of Spalding to the north, North West Norfolk and South West Norfolk to the east, the other Cambridgeshire divisions of Newmarket and Chesterton to the south and Ramsey, Peterborough and North Northamptonshire to the west.
The constituency was dominated by the Fens, a district of Liberal inclined smallholders. The towns in the division, predominantly Conservative Wisbech and the more Liberal inclined March, were outvoted by the rural areas.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1885)
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Sir John Rigby | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Charles William Selwyn | Conservative | |
| 1891 | Arthur George Brand | Liberal | |
| 1895 | Charles Tyrrell Giles | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Arthur George Brand | Liberal | |
| 1906 | Cecil Beck | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Neil James Archibald Primrose | Liberal | |
| 1917 | Colin Reith Coote | Liberal | |
- Constituency abolished (1918)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
[edit] Elections
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910. by Henry Pelling (Macmillan 1967)
