Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)
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 was abolished in 1885, and the name transferred to a new county division which elected one MP. The county constituency was abolished for the 1997 election, and formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in Sleaford and North Hykeham. Grantham became part of the new parliamentary division of Grantham and Stamford.
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Boundaries
The constituency was based on Grantham, a market town on the River Witham.
MPs 1468–1640
- 1571-1581: Arthur Hall [1]
- 1585: Arthur Hall
- 1586: William Ashby and Sir Henry Bagenall [2]
- 1604-1611: Sir George Manners
- 1604-1611: Sir T Horseman
- 1621-1622: Sir William Airmine
- 1621-1622: Sir Clement Cotterill
- 1624-1626: Sir George Manners
- 1625: Sir William Airmine
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MPs 1640–1885
- 1885: representation reduced to one member
MPs 1885–1997
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | John William Mellor | Liberal | |
| 1886 | William Malcolm Low | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Henry Yarde Buller Lopes | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Arthur Priestley | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Edmund Royds | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Robert Pattinson | Liberal | |
| 1923 | Victor Warrender | Conservative | |
| 1942 by-election | Denis Kendall | Independent | |
| 1950 | Eric Smith | Conservative | |
| 1951 | Joseph Godber | Conservative | |
| 1979 | Douglas Hogg | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Grantham and Stamford | ||
Notes
- ↑ Expelled from the Commons, 1581
- ↑ Bagenall was also elected for Anglesey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Grantham
Election results
References
- 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) 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)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
See also