Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)

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Whitby Borough constituency
Created:	1832
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election as a parliamentary borough, Whitby being at that point one of the most prosperous towns in England which had not previously been represented. (Whitby had been summoned to send members to the Protectorate Parliaments during the Civil War period, but never at any other time.) It consisted of Whitby itself and the adjoining townships of Ruswarp and Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre, and had a population of just over 10,000.

North Riding, Whitby Division County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Whitby's shipbuilding industry had been in decline even before the new borough was established, and by 1885 a separate MP for the town could no longer be justified. However, when the borough was abolished the county constituency which absorbed it was also named Whitby (strictly, the Whitby Division of the North Riding of Yorkshire): it contained all the easternmost part of the Riding apart from Scarborough (which remained a separate borough), stretching south-west to Pickering which was the only other town in the constituency.

The Whitby division was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new Scarborough & Whitby constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Aaron Chapman	Conservative
	1847	Robert Stephenson	Conservative
	1859	Harry Stephen Thompson	Liberal
	1865	Charles Bagnall	Conservative
	1868	William Henry Gladstone	Liberal
	1880	Arthur Pease	Liberal
	1885	Ernest Beckett	Conservative
	1905	Noel Buxton	Liberal
	1906	Gervase Beckett	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished: see Scarborough and Whitby

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page