Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)

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Southwark was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Southwark district of South London. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament from 1295 to 1707, to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the constituency's abolition for the for the 1885 general election

The constituency was re-established as a single-member seat for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

  • 1601: Zachariah Locke
  • 1604-1611: Sir George Rivers
  • 1604-1611: William Mayhew
  • 1621-1622: Richard Yarward
  • 1621-1622: Robert Bromfield
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[edit] 1640-1885

Year Member 2nd Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
November 1640 Edward Bagshawe Royalist John White [1] Parliamentarian
January 1644 Bagshawe disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 George Thomson George Snelling
1653 Southwark was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Samuel Highland Robert Warcup
1656 Peter De La Noy
January 1659 George Thomson Andrew Brewer
April 1660 John Langham Sir Thomas Bludworth
1661 George Moore
1666 Sir Thomas Clarges
1679 Sir Richard How Peter Rich
1685 Sir Peter Daniel Anthony Bowyer
1689 John Arnold Sir Peter Rich
1690 Anthony Bowyer
1695 Sir Charles Cox
1698 John Cholmley
January 1712 Edmund Halsey [2]
February 1712 Sir George Matthews
1713 John Lade Fisher Tench [3]
1722 George Meggott Edmund Halsey
1724 John Lade
1727 Sir Joseph Eyles
1730 Thomas Inwen
1734 George Heathcote
1741 Ralph Thrale
1743 Alexander Hume
1747 William Belchier
1754 William Hammond
1761 Joseph Mawbey [4] Alexander Hume
1765 Henry Thrale
1774 Nathaniel Polhill
1782 Henry Thornton Independent
1784 Sir Barnard Turner
1784 Paul le Mesurier
May 1796 George Woodford Thellusson [5] Whig
December 1796 George Tierney Whig
1806 Sir Thomas Turton
1812 Charles Calvert Whig
1815 Charles Barclay
1818 Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Whig
1830 John Rawlinson Harris
1830 Charles Calvert Whig
1831 William Brougham Whig
1832 John Humphery Whig
1835 Daniel Whittle Harvey Radical
1840 Benjamin Wood Whig
1845 Sir William Molesworth Radical
1852 Apsley Pellatt Whig
1855 Sir Charles Napier Liberal
1857 John Locke Liberal
1860 Austen Henry Layard Liberal
1870 Francis Beresford Conservative
1880 Edward George Clarke Conservative
1880 Arthur Cohen Liberal James Edwin Thorold Rogers Liberal
1885 constituency abolished: see Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Southwark West

[edit] 1950-1974

Year Member Party
1950 George Alfred Isaacs Labour
1959 Raymond Jones Gunter Labour
1971 Harry George Lamborn Labour
1974 constituency abolished

Notes

  1. ^ Died January 1645; the writ to fill both vacancies was issued in August 1645
  2. ^ On petition, Halsey was found not to have been duly elected, and a new election was held
  3. ^ Created a baronet, August 1715
  4. ^ Created a baronet, July 1765
  5. ^ Thellusson's election was declared void in November 1796; a by-election was held at which he was re-elected but he was found to be ineligible to sit and Tierney was declared elected in his place

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
  • 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) [2]
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
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