Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)
| Grantham | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | Lincolnshire |
| Major settlements | Grantham |
| 1885–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Sleaford & North Hykeham, and Grantham & Stamford |
| 1468–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two |
| Type of constituency | Borough 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 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.
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[edit] Boundaries
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The constituency was based on Grantham, a market town on the River Witham.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] MPs 1468–1640
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| Year | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1510–1523 | No names known [1] | |
| 1529 | William Hussey | Francis Hall [1] |
| 1536 | ? | |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | ? | |
| 1545 | Sir Edward Warner | Edmund Hall [1] |
| 1547 | Sir Edward Warner | Edmund Hall [1] |
| 1553 (Mar) | Sir Edward Warner | Thomas Hussey [1] |
| 1553 (Oct) | Sir Edward Warner | James Wallis [1] |
| 1554 (Apr) | Thomas Hussey | Richard Disney [1] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Roger Johnson | Richard Sharpe [1] |
| 1555 | George Williams | William Porter [1] |
| 1558 | Henry Savile | Anthony Thorold [1] |
| 1559 (Jan) | Thomas Randolph | William More[2] |
| 1562/3 | Roger Manners | Wlliam Cooke [2] |
| 1571 | William Killigrew | Arthur Hall [2] |
| 1572 | John Vaughan | Arthur Hall [2][3] |
| 1584 (Nov) | Arthur Hall | William Thorold [2] |
| 1586 (Oct) | Sir Henry Bagenall,sat for Anglesey, repl. by William Ashby |
Robert Markham [2] |
| 1588/9 | Richard More | William Armyn [2] |
| 1593 | Thomas Horsman | Francis Neale [2] |
| 1597 (Oct) | Thomas Horsman | Francis Neale [2] |
| 1601 (Oct) | Oliver Manners | Thomas Horsman [2] |
| 1604 | Sir George Manners | Sir Thomas Horsman |
| 1614 | Sir George Reynell | Richard Tufton |
| 1621 | Sir William Airmine | Sir Clement Cotterell |
| 1624 | Sir George Manners | Sir Clement Cotterell |
| 1625 | Sir George Manners | Sir William Airmine |
| 1626 | John Wingfield | Edward Stirmin |
| 1628–1629 | Thomas Hatcher | Alexander Moor |
[edit] MPs 1640–1885
[edit] MPs 1885–1997
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Grantham[5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Douglas Hogg | 37,194 | 56.2 | −0.9 | |
| Labour Co-op | S Taggart | 17,606 | 26.6 | +6.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | JP Heppell | 9,882 | 14.9 | −6.4 | |
| Liberal | JD Hiley | 1,500 | 2.3 | −19.0 | |
| Majority | 19,588 | 29.6 | −6.2 | ||
| Turnout | 66,182 | 79.2 | +4.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −3.5 | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/grantham. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/grantham. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ Expelled from the Commons, 1581
- ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
[edit] 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) [1]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
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