Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency)

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Petersfield
Borough constituency
Created: 1547
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons
Members: 1547–1832: two;1832–1983: one

Petersfield was an English Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire. It existed for several hundred years until its abolition for the 1983 general election.

Until 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Thereater, its representation was reduced to one member until its abolition in 1983.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs for Petersfield borough (1547-1885)

[edit] 1547-1660

  • 1586-1587: Edward Radclyffe
  • 1588-1589: Benjamin Tichborne
  • 1621-1622: Richard Norton
  • 1640-1648: Sir William Lewis
  • 1659: Josias Child
  • 1659: Sir Henry Norton
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[edit] 1660-1832

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1660 Thomas Cole [1] Arthur Bold
1661 Sir Humphrey Bennet
1668 Thomas Neale
1677 Leonard Bilson
1679 Sir John Norton
1685 Thomas Bilson
1689 Robert Michell
1690 Richard Holt
1698 Peter Bettesworth
January 1701 Ralph Bucknall Richard Markes
November 1701 Robert Michell
1704 Leonard Bilson
1705 Norton Powlett
1715 Samuel Pargiter-Fuller
1722 Edmund Miller
January 1727 Joseph Taylor [2]
May 1727 Edmund Miller
August 1727 Joseph Taylor
1734 Sir William Jolliffe Edward Gibbon
1741 John Jolliffe Francis Fane
1747 William Conolly
February 1754 William Gerard Hamilton
April 1754 William Beckford [3]
December 1754 Sir John Philipps
1761 John Jolliffe Richard Pennant
1767 Richard Croftes
1768 William Jolliffe Welbore Ellis
1774 Sir Abraham Hume
1780 Thomas Samuel Jolliffe
1787 The Viscount Downe
June 1790 Hon. George Augustus North
December 1790 Marquess of Titchfield
1791 Welbore Ellis
1795 Hon. Charles Greville
1796 Hylton Jolliffe
1797 Sir John Sinclair
March 1802 Hylton Jolliffe
July 1802 William Draper Best
1806 Hon. John Ward
1807 Booth Grey
October 1812 George Canning
December 1812 George Canning, junior
March 1820 The Lord Hotham [4]
June 1820 Sir Philip Musgrave
1825 James Law Lushington
1826 William Marshall
1830 Sir William Jolliffe Gilbert East Jolliffe
1832 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1832-1885

Year Member Party
1832 John George Shaw-Lefevre
1833 Sir William Jolliffe
1835 Cornthwaite Hector
1837 Sir William Jolliffe
1838 Cornthwaite Hector
1841 Sir William Jolliffe
1866 William Nicholson
1874 William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe
1880 William Nicholson
1885 Borough abolished - name transferred to county division

[edit] MPs for Petersfield county constituency (1885-1983)

Year Member Party
1885 Viscount Wolmer Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1892 William Wickham
1897 William Graham Nicholson Conservative
1935 Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith Conservative
1941 Sir George Jeffreys Conservative
1951 Peter Legh Conservative
1960 Joan Quennell Conservative
1974 Michael Mates Conservative
1983 Constituency abolished

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Cole was also elected for Winchester, but appears never to have chosen which constituency he would sit for so as to allow a replacement to be elected for the other
  2. ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Taylor's election was declared void and his opponent, Miller, was declared to have been duly elected.
  3. ^ Beckford was also elected for the City of London, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Petersfield
  4. ^ Hotham was also elected for Leominster, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Petersfield

[edit] Election results

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