North Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)

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North Lancashire
County constituency
Created: 1832
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

North Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions.

The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into four single member divisions of Blackpool, Chorley, Lancaster, and North Lonsdale.

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This constituency comprised the hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland and Lonsdale.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1832)
Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 Edward Stanley,Baron Stanley Whig John Wilson Patten Conservative
1837 Conservative
1844 John Talbot Clifton Conservative
1847 James Heywood Liberal
1857 Spencer Compton Cavendish Liberal
1868 Frederick Arthur Stanley Conservative
1874 Thomas Henry Clifton Conservative
1880 Randle Joseph Feilden Conservative
  • Constituency abolished (1885)

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