Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cambridgeshire County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Cambridgeshire County constituency
Created:	1290
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	2 (1290-1832), 3 (1832-1885)

Cambridgeshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire until 1832, when the number of members was increased to three. It was divided between the constituencies of Chesterton, Newmarket and Wisbech in 1885.

The parliamentary county was again reconstituted in 1918. In 1983, when the redistribution of seats took place on the basis of the expanded post-1974 Cambridgeshire, the constituency was divided between the new constituencies of North East Cambridgeshire (including a small part of Peterborough), South East Cambridgeshire and South West Cambridgeshire (including a minority of territory from the former Huntingdonshire).

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1660-1832 2.2 MPs 1832-1885 2.3 MPs 1918-1983 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

1290-1653, 1658-1885: The historic county of Cambridgeshire. (Although Cambridgeshire contained the borough of Cambridge, which elected two MPs in its own right, this was not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. In the elections of 1830 and 1831, about an eighth of the votes cast for the county came from within Cambridge itself. The city of Ely also elected its own MPs in 1295.)

1654-1658 The historic county was divided for the First and the Second Protectorate Parliaments , between the two-member Isle of Ely area and the four-member constituency consisting of the rest of the county.

1918-1983: The administrative county of Cambridgeshire, excluding the Municipal Borough of Cambridge.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1290)

[edit] MPs 1660-1832

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	Thomas Wendy		Isaac Thornton
		1661			Thomas Chicheley
		1674	Sir Thomas Hatton, Bt
		February 1679	Gerard Russell		Edward Partherich
		August 1679	Sir Levinus Bennet, Bt		Sir Robert Cotton
		1693	The Lord Cutts
		1695			Edward Russell	Whig
		1697			Sir Rushout Cullen, Bt
		1702	Granado Pigot
		1705	John Bromley
		1707	John Bromley
		1710			John Jenyns
		1717			Robert Clarke
		1718	Francis Whichcote
		1722	Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt		Lord Harley
		1724			Samuel Shepheard
		1727	Henry Bromley
		1741	Soame Jenyns
		1747			Viscount Royston	Whig
		1754	Marquess of Granby
		1764			Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt
		1770	Sir Sampson Gideon, Bt
		1780	Lord Robert Manners		Viscount Royston	Whig
		1782	Sir Henry Peyton, Bt
		1789	James Whorwood Adeane
		1790			Charles Philip Yorke	Tory
		May 1802	Sir Henry Peyton, Bt
		July 1802	Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners
		1810			Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne
		1830	Henry John Adeane
		1831			Richard Greaves Townley

[edit] MPs 1832-1885

• Third member added (1832)

Year				First member	First party	Second member	Second party	Third member	Third party
			1832	Richard Greaves Townley		Charles Philip Yorke		John Walbanke Childers
			1835			Eliot Thomas Yorke		Richard Jefferson Eaton
			1841	John Peter Allix
			1847	Richard Greaves Townley				Lord George John Manners
			1852	Edward Ball
			1857					Henry John Adeane
			1863	Lord George John Manners
			1865			Viscount Royston		Sir Henry Brand	Liberal
			January 1874			Eliot Constantine Yorke
			October 1874	Benjamin Bridges Hunter Rodwell
			1879			Edward Hicks
			1881	James Redfoord Bulwer
			1884					Arthur John Thornhill

• Constituency abolished (1885)

[edit] MPs 1918-1983

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Edwin Samuel Montagu	Liberal
	1922	Harold William Stannus Gray	Unionist
	1923	Richard George Briscoe	Unionist
	1945	Albert Ernest Stubbs	Labour
	1950	Gerald Howard	Conservative
	1961	Francis Pym	Conservative

• Constituency abolished (1983)

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

[edit] References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
• John Cannon, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page