East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
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| East Dorset County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | One |
East Dorset is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was formally known as the Eastern Division of Dorset. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by one Knight of the Shire.
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[edit] Boundaries
Between 1832 and 1885 the historic county of Dorset, in south western England, was an undivided three member county constituency - see the article on the Dorset constituency. In 1885 the county was divided for Parliamentary purposes between this constituency, North Dorset, South Dorset and West Dorset (there were no borough constituencies in Dorset in the redistribution of 1885). Each of these divisions comprised roughly a quarter of the area of the county and returned one member of Parliament.
In 1918 the four Dorset divisions were retained, but the boundaries were altered. This constituency was reduced in area to about half its former size, with the northern part of the old East division being transferred to North Dorset and the southern section to South Dorset.
The then local authorities comprising East Dorset in 1918 were the Municipal Borough of Poole, the Urban District of Wimborne Minster, the Rural District of Poole and part of the Rural District of Wimborne and Cranborne.
In the redistribution which took effect in the United Kingdom general election, 1950 the East county division was abolished. A new borough constituency of Poole was created. Wimborne Minster and the part of the Rural District of Wimborne and Cranborne previously in the abolished constituency, were transferred to North Dorset.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1885)
| Year | Member | Party | Notes | |
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| 1885 | Pascoe Glyn | Liberal | ||
| 1886 | George Hawkesworth Bond | Conservative | Died in 1891 | |
| 1891 | Hon. Humphrey Napier Sturt | Conservative | Succeeded as 2nd Baron Alington in 1904 | |
| 1904 | Charles Henry Lyell | Liberal | ||
| January 1910 | Hon. Frederick Edward Guest | Liberal | Unseated on petition in May 1910 | |
| June 1910 | Hon. Christian Henry Charles Guest | Liberal | ||
| December 1910 | Rt Hon. Frederick Edward Guest | Liberal | ||
| 1918 | Coalition Liberal | |||
| 1922 | Gordon Ralph Hall Caine | Independent Conservative | ||
| 1923 | Conservative | Took Conservative Whip January 1923 | ||
| 1929 | Alec Ewart Glassey | Liberal | ||
| 1931 | Gordon Ralph Hall Caine | Conservative | ||
| 1945 | Mervyn James Wheatley | Conservative | ||
| 1950 | constituency abolished | |||
[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)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)
- 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)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
