Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency)

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For the county constituency called Montgomery until the 1990s, see Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency).
Montgomery
constituency
Created: 1542
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Montgomery was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) but was abolished in 1918. After 1832 the constituency was more usually called the Montgomery Boroughs or Montgomery District of Boroughs.

Contents

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1542-1640

  • 1563-1567: John Price
  • 1571: Arthur Price
  • 1604-1611: Edward Whittingham
  • 1621-1622: Edward Herbert
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[edit] 1640-1918

Election Member Party
November 1640 Richard Herbert Royalist
September 1642 Herbert disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1646 George Devereux [1]
1653 Not represented in the Barebones Parliament and
the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 Charles Lloyd
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 (Sir) Thomas Myddelton [2]
1661 John Purcell
1665 Henry Herbert
1679 Matthew Pryce
April 1685 William Williams
July 1685 Charles Herbert
1691 Price Devereux
1701 John Vaughan
1705 Charles Mason
1708 John Pugh
1727 (Sir) William Corbet [3]
1741 James Cholmondeley
1747 Henry Herbert
1748 Francis Herbert
1754 William Bodvell
1759 Richard Clive
1771 Captain Frederick Cornewall
1774 Whitshed Keene
1818 Henry Clive
1832 David Pugh [4] Conservative
1833 by-election John Edwards Whig
1841 Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley Conservative
1847 David Pugh [5] Conservative
1861 by-election John Samuel Willes Johnson Conservative
1863 by-election Hon. Charles Hanbury-Tracy Liberal
1877 by-election Hon. Frederick Hanbury-Tracy Liberal
1885 Pryce Pryce-Jones Conservative
1886 Hon. Frederick Hanbury-Tracy Liberal
1892 Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones Conservative
1895 Major Edward Pryce-Jones Conservative
1906 John David Rees Liberal
Dec 1910 Colonel Edward Pryce-Jones Conservative

Notes

  1. ^ Devereux is not known ever to have taken his seat
  2. ^ Created a baronet, July 1660
  3. ^ Created a baronet, October 1740
  4. ^ On petition, the election of 1832 was declared void and a by-election held
  5. ^ At the election of 1847, Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley and David Pugh tied, with 389 votes each, and the returning officer made a double return. However, when a petition was lodged against Cholmondeley he decided not to defend his claim, and Pugh took the seat.

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
  • The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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