South Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Hampshire
County constituency
Created: 1832
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: two

South Hampshire (formally the Southern division of Hampshire) was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Hampshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Sir George Thomas Staunton
1835 John Willis Fleming Conservative Henry Combe Compton
1842 by-election Lord Charles Wellesley
1852 Lord William Henry Hugh Cholmondeley Conservative
1857 Sir Jervoise Clarke Clarke-Jervois Ralph Heneage Dutton
1865 Henry Hamlyn Fane
1868 William Francis Cowper-Temple Liberal Lord Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott Conservative
1880 Francis Compton
1884 by-election Sir Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram
1885 constituency abolished

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