Brentford (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Brentford County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Brentford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brentford district of West London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
[edit] Boundaries
This former constituency is located in the south-west of the historic county of Middlesex, in what (in 2007) is West London. It was a division of the county, named after the town of Brentford, on the north (or Middlesex) bank of the River Thames.
Between 1885 and 1918 the area was surrounded by the constituencies of Ealing to the north-east, Kingston to the east, Epsom to the south and Uxbridge to the west and north-west.
In 1965 the town of Brentford became part of the London Borough of Hounslow and Greater London.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Octavius Edward Coope | Conservative | |
| 1886 | James Bigwood | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Vickerman Henzell Rutherford | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Lord Alwyne Compton | Conservative | |
| 1911 | William Joynson-Hicks | Conservative | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Brentford and Chiswick | ||
[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 (The Macmillan Press 1974)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
