Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentiary constituency for the county of Cheshire. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.

As a county palatine it was unrepresented in the Parliament until the Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542 (34 & 35 Hen VIII. c. 13). Cheshire was represented by two Knights of the Shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that.

It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832.

Members of Parliament

1545–1659

• Constituency created (1545)

Year	First member	Second member
1545	Sir Lawrence Smith	Sir Hugh Calverley
1547	Sir William Brereton	Sir Hugh Cholmley
Mar 1553	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Thomas Venables
Oct 1553		Edward Fytton
Apr 1554	Sir Henry Delves	Richard Wilbraham
Nov 1554	Sir Richard Cotton
1555	Sir Lawrence Smith	Richard Wilbraham
1558	Richard Hough	James Done
1559	Sir William Brereton	Sir Ralph Leycester
1563	Sir Thomas Venables	William Massye
1571	Thomas Calveley	Thomas Stanley
1572	George Calveley	William Booth
1584	Thomas Egerton	Hugh Cholmondeley
1586		John Savage
1589	Sir George Beeston
1593	Thomas Holcroft	John Done
1597	Sir William Brereton	Thomas Egerton II
1601	Sir Peter Legh	Thomas Holcroft
1604	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Roger Aston
1614	Sir William Brereton	Sir Roger Wilbraham
1621		Sir Richard Grosvenor
1624	William Booth	William Brereton
1625	Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bt	Sir Anthony St John
1626	Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet	Peter Daniell
1628		Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
April 1640	Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet
November 1640	Peter Venables
1646	George Booth
1653	Robert Duckenfield	Henry Birkenhead

• Four members returned to First Protectorate Parliament (1654)

Year	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth member
1654	John Bradshaw	Sir George Booth, Bt	Henry Brooke	John Crew
1656	Richard Legh		Thomas Marbury	Peter Brooke

1659–1832

• Two members returned to Third Protectorate Parliament (1659)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1659	John Bradshaw		Richard Legh
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1660	Sir George Booth, Bt		Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	1661	The Lord Brereton		Peter Venables
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	1664	Sir Fulk Lucy
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	1670			Thomas Cholmondeley
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	1678	Hon. Henry Booth	Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	February 1679			Sir Philip Egerton
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	September 1679			Sir Robert Cotton, Bt	Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1685	Sir Philip Egerton		Thomas Cholmondeley
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	1689	Sir Robert Cotton, Bt	Whig	Sir John Mainwaring, Bt	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" |	1702	Sir George Warburton, Bt	Tory	Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt	Tory
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	1705	Langham Booth	Whig	John Offley-Crewe	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1710	Sir George Warburton, Bt	Tory	Charles Cholmondeley
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	1715	Langham Booth			Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5"|	style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	1722	Charles Cholmondeley		John Offley-Crewe	Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1727	Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1734	John Crewe
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1753	Charles Crewe
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	1754	Samuel Egerton
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1756		Thomas Cholmondeley
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	1768		John Crewe	Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1780	Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	1796	Thomas Cholmondeley
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1802		William Egerton
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	1806		Davies Davenport
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	1812	Wilbraham Egerton			Tory
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	1830		Viscount Belgrave	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" |	1831	George Wilbraham			Whig

• Constituency abolished (1832)

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

References

• Cheshire Gentry
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)