Hitchin (UK Parliament constituency)

This article is about the pre-1983 constituency. For the post-1997 constituency, see Hitchin and Harpenden (UK Parliament constituency).

Hitchin was a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

When created in 1885, the constituency also included, as well as Hitchin itself, the areas of Letchworth and Stevenage, both of which were transferred to other constituencies at subsequent boundary redistributions.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Baron Robert Dimsdale a	Conservative
	1892	George Bickersteth Hudson	Conservative
	1906	Julius Bertram	Liberal
	Jan 1910	Alfred Peter Hillier	Conservative
	1911 by-election	Lord Robert Cecil b	Conservative
	1918		Coalition Conservative
	1922		Conservative
	1923	Guy Molesworth Kindersley	Conservative
	1931	Viscount Knebworth	Conservative
	1933 by-election	Sir Arnold Wilson	Conservative
	1941 by-election	Seymour Berry	Conservative
	1945	Philip Asterley Jones	Labour
	1950	Nigel Fisher	Conservative
	1955	Martin Maddan	Conservative
	1964	Shirley Williams	Labour
	Feb 1974	Ian Stewart	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ^a Dimsdale was a Baron of the Russian Empire.
• ^b Cecil associated himself with the non-coalition wing of the Conservative Party, at some point in the 1918-1922 Parliament.

References

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