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Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1997
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1997
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Grantham |
| parliament | uk |
| map_entity | Lincolnshire |
| year | 1918 |
| abolished | 1997 |
| type | County |
| next | Sleaford & North Hykeham, and Grantham & Stamford |
| elects_howmany | One |
| year2 | 1885 |
| abolished2 | 1918 |
| type2 | Borough |
| elects_howmany2 | One |
| year3 | 1468 |
| abolished3 | 1885 |
| type3 | Borough |
| elects_howmany3 | Two |
| region | England |
| county | Lincolnshire |
| towns | Grantham |
Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England.
The constituency was created in 1468 as a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until the union with Scotland, and then to the Parliament of Great Britain until the Act of Union 1800 established the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The parliamentary borough had its representation reduced to one MP in 1885, and was finally abolished in 1918, the name transferring to a new county division which elected one MP. The county constituency was abolished for the 1997 election, and the area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in Sleaford and North Hykeham. Grantham became part of the new constituency of Grantham and Stamford.
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposes to re-establish the seat in its revised proposal.
Boundaries
The constituency was based on Grantham, a market town on the River Witham.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1468–1640
| Year | First member | Second member | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1491 | John Mordaunt | |||
| 1510–1523 | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/grantham | title= History of Parliament | access-date= 29 September 2011}} | |
| 1529 | William Hussey | Francis Hall | ||
| 1536 | ? | |||
| 1539 | ? | |||
| 1542 | ? | |||
| 1545 | Sir Edward Warner | Edmund Hall | ||
| 1547 | ||||
| 1553 (Mar) | Thomas Hussey | |||
| 1553 (Oct) | James Wallis | |||
| 1554 (Apr) | Thomas Hussey | Richard Disney | ||
| 1554 (Nov) | Roger Johnson | Richard Sharpe | ||
| 1555 | George Williams | William Porter | ||
| 1558 | Henry Savile | Anthony Thorold | ||
| 1559 (Jan) | Thomas Randolph | William More | ||
| 1562–3 | Roger Manners | William Cooke | ||
| 1571 | William Killigrew | Arthur Hall | ||
| 1572 | John Vaughan | Arthur Hall | ||
| 1584 (Nov) | Arthur Hall | William Thorold | ||
| 1586 (Oct) | Sir Henry Bagenall, *sat for Anglesey, | |||
| repl. by* William Ashby | Robert Markham | |||
| 1588–9 | Richard More | William Armyn | ||
| 1593 | Thomas Horsman | Francis Neale | ||
| 1597 (Oct) | ||||
| 1601 (Oct) | Oliver Manners | Thomas Horsman | ||
| 1604 | Sir George Manners | Sir Thomas Horsman | ||
| 1614 | Sir George Reynell | Richard Tufton | ||
| 1621 | Sir William Armyne | Sir Clement Cotterell | ||
| 1624 | Sir George Manners | |||
| 1625 | Sir William Airmine | |||
| 1626 | John Wingfield | Edward Stirmin | ||
| 1628–1629 | Thomas Hatcher | Alexander Moor |
MPs 1640–1885
| Election | g | 2 | date=March 2012}} | First Party | Second Member | Second Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640 | Sir Edward Bashe | |||||
| November 1640 | Thomas Hussey | Royalist | Henry Pelham | |||
| 1641 | Sir William Airmine | Parliamentarian | ||||
| December 1648 | Pelham excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Grantham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | William Bury | |||||
| 1656 | William Ellys | |||||
| January 1659 | Thomas Skipwith | |||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Thomas Skipwith | |||||
| 1661 | Sir William Thorold | |||||
| 1678 | Sir Robert Markham | |||||
| 1679 | Sir William Ellys | |||||
| 1685 | Thomas Harrington | |||||
| 1689 | Sir John Brownlow | |||||
| 1697 | Sir John Thorold | |||||
| Jan. 1701 | Thomas Baptist Manners | |||||
| Nov. 1701 | Richard Ellys | |||||
| 1705 | Marquess of Granby | |||||
| 1711 | Sir John Thorold | |||||
| 1713 | Sir John Brownlow | |||||
| 1715 | Edward Rolt | |||||
| 1722 | Francis Fisher | |||||
| 1727 | Sir Michael Newton | |||||
| 1741 | Marquess of Granby | |||||
| 1743 | Sir John Cust | |||||
| 1754 | Lord George Manners | |||||
| 1770 | Francis Cust | |||||
| 1774 | Sir Brownlow Cust | |||||
| 1776 | Peregrine Cust | |||||
| Tories (British political party)}}" | 1780 | Francis Cockayne-Cust | ||||
| 1792 | Philip Yorke | |||||
| Tories (British political party)}}" | 1793 | Simon Yorke | Tory{{cite book | last=Stooks Smith | ||
| Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="3" | Tories (British political party)}}" | 1802 | Thomas Thoroton | Sir William Earle Welby, Bt | ||
| Whigs (British political party)}}" | 1806 | Russell Manners | Whig | |||
| Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="3" | 1807 | Sir William Earle Welby, Bt | Tory | |||
| 1812 | Robert Percy Smith | |||||
| Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan="3" | 1818 | Edward Cust | Tory | |||
| Whigs (British political party)}}" | March 1820 | James Hughes | Whig | |||
| Whigs (British political party)}}" | July 1820 | Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Bt | Whig | |||
| Tories (British political party)}}" | Whigs (British political party)}}" | 1826 | Frederick Tollemache | Tory | ||
| Tories (British political party)}}" | 1830 | Glynne Welby | ||||
| Whigs (British political party)}}" | 1831 | James Hughes | ||||
| Tories (British political party)}}" | 1832 | Hon. Algernon Tollemache | Tory | |||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1834 | Conservative | Conservative | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1837 | Hon. Frederick Tollemache | ||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1852 | Lord Montagu Graham | Conservative | |||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Peelite}}" | 1857 | William Welby | Conservative | ||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1859 | Liberal | ||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1865 | John Thorold | Conservative | |||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1868 by-election | Edmund Turnor | ||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1868 | Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Bt | Liberal | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1874 | Henry Cockayne-Cust | Conservative | |||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1880 | John William Mellor | Charles Savile Roundell | ||
| 1885 | representation reduced to one member |
MPs 1885–1997
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1885 | John William Mellor | |
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1886 | Malcolm Low | |
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1892 | Henry Lopes | |
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1900 | Arthur Priestley | |
| Coalition Conservative}}" | 1918 | Edmund Royds | |
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | 1922 | Robert Pattinson | |
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1923 | Victor Warrender | |
| 1942 by-election | Denis Kendall | ||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1950 | Eric Smith | |
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1951 | Joseph Godber | |
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | 1979 | Douglas Hogg | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Grantham and Stamford |
Elections
Elections in the 1830s
|reg. electors =
|reg. electors =
|reg. electors = 698
|reg. electors = 667
|reg. electors = 669
Elections in the 1840s
|reg. electors = 691
|reg. electors = 760
Elections in the 1850s
|reg. electors = 774
|reg. electors = 740
|reg. electors = 743
Elections in the 1860s
|reg. electors = 755
Welby resigned in order to contest the 1868 by-election in South Lincolnshire, causing a by-election.
|reg. electors = 755
|reg. electors = 2,018
Elections in the 1870s
|reg. electors = 2,199
Elections in the 1880s
|reg. electors = 2,390
|reg. electors = 2,883
Mellor was appointed Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, requiring a by-election.
|reg. electors = 2,883
Elections in the 1890s
|reg. electors = 2,693
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|reg. electors = 2,896
Elections in the 1900s
|reg. electors = 3,046 |reg. electors = 3,383
Elections in the 1910s
|reg. electors = 3,647 |reg. electors = 3,647 General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Ernest Bennett
- Unionist: Herbert Guy Snowden
|reg. electors = 35,462
Elections in the 1920s
|reg. electors = 35,655 |reg. electors = 36,444 |reg. electors = 37,021 |reg. electors = 48,216
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939–40:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Victor Warrender
- Labour: Montague William Moore
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
Sources
- 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) https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
References
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- Casey, Martin. "Grantham".
- (10 January 1835). "Grantham". Leicester Chronicle.
- (24 July 1852). "Notes on the Elections". Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser.
- (28 July 1852). "The Elections". Aberdeen Press and Journal.
- (1977). "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885". Macmillan Press.
- (10 Apr 1880). "Advertisement for Election Expenses: Grantham Borough Parliamentary Election, 1880". [[Grantham#Grantham Journal.
- British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- (17 Jun 1891). "The Liberal Candidate for Grantham". [[Nottingham Post.
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
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- "Election Data 1983". [[Electoral Calculus]].
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