Torquay (UK Parliament constituency)

Torquay
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–February 1974 (February 1974)
Number of members	one

Torquay was a county constituency in Devon, South West England, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the February 1974 general election. The area it represented became part of the Torbay constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Lewis McIver	Liberal
	1886	Richard Mallock	Conservative
	1895	Arthur Stephens Philpotts	Conservative
	1900	Sir Francis Layland-Barratt	Liberal
	1910 (Dec)	Charles Rosdew Burn	Conservative
	1918		Coalition Conservative
	1922		Conservative
	1923	Piers Gilchrist Thompson	Liberal
	1924	Charles Williams	Conservative
	1955	Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett	Conservative
	1974	constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)