South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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

South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

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[edit] History

The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.

South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with for new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.

[edit] Boundaries


[edit] Members of Parliament

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 Sir Grey Skipwith Sir George Philips
1835 Sir John Mordaunt Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon
1836 Evelyn John Shirley
1845 Lord Brooke
1849 Lord Guernsey Conservative
1853 Evelyn Philip Shirley
1857 Edward Bolton King
1859 Sir Charles Mordaunt
1865 Henry Christopher Wise
1868 John Hardy Conservative
1874 Earl of Yarmouth Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
1880 Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh
1884 Sampson Samuel Lloyd

[edit] Election results


[edit] References