Cricklade (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Wiltshire, North or Cricklade Division | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Number of members | one |
| Cricklade | |
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| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1295–1885 | |
| Number of members | two |
Cricklade was a parliamentary constituency named after the town of Cricklade in Wiltshire.
From 1295 until 1885, Cricklade was a parliamentary borough, returning two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, previously to the House of Commons of England.
Initially this consisted of only the town of Cricklade, but from 1782 the vote was extended to the surrounding countryside as a punishment for the borough's corruption. The extended area came to include the village of Swindon, which later grew into a large town with the coming of the railways in the 19th century.
From the 1885 general election the borough was abolished, but the name was transferred to a county division of Wiltshire covering much the same area, and electing a single MP. This constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election, being mostly replaced by the new Swindon constituency.
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Members of Parliament [edit]
1295-1640 [edit]
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- Constituency created 1295
1640-1885 [edit]
1885-1918 [edit]
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1892 | John Husband | Liberal | |
| 1895 | Alfred Hopkinson | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1898 by-election | Lord Edmond FitzMaurice (later 1st Baron FitzMaurice) | Liberal | |
| 1906 | John Massie | Liberal | |
| January 1910 | Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley | Liberal Unionist | |
| December 1910 | Richard Cornthwaite Lambert | Liberal | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Swindon | ||
Notes [edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/bailey-john-1436
- ^ a b c d e f g "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
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"Brydges, Grey". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - ^ Wroughton, John. "Hungerford, Sir Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14173. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Gore was also elected for Colchester, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Cricklade
- ^ Sawbridge was expelled from the House for his role in the South Sea Bubble
- ^ A by-election was held in December 1774 after the death of William Earle, but the result was disputed and the Returning Officer made a double return, naming both Samuel Peach and John Dewar. The Commons declared the election void, and a second election was held; Peach was initially declared elected but on petition the result was reversed and Dewar took his seat.
- ^ On petition, Macpherson's election in 1779 was declared void and a new writ issued, but he was re-elected in the by-election. At the general election of 1780 he was again elected and his opponent again entered a petition. On investigation the Committee reported that "instances of the most notorious bribery had occurred"; the House voted that neither Macpherson nor his opponent Samuel Petrie were duly elected, and shortly afterwards passed an Act to extend the right of voting in Cricklade to the surrounding hundreds.
- ^ On petition the result of the election of 1784 was reversed, Coxe and Adamson being declared not duly elected and Heneage and Nicholas being seated in their place
References [edit]
- 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)
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
