History
Derby regularly sent two representatives to Parliament from Edward I’s reign.
In 1950 the constituency was abolished and replaced by the two single-member constituencies of Derby North and Derby South.
Members of Parliament
1294–1640
Parliament | First member | Second member |
1294 | William de la Cornere | Randalph Makeneye[1] |
1297 | William Bourne de Derby | Nicklos de Lorimer[1] |
1299 | Nicklos de Lorimer | Gervase de Derby[1] |
1301 | Gervase de Wilnye | Adam le Rede[1] |
1304 | John de la Corne | Richard Cardoyl[1] |
1305 | John de Chaddesdon | Gervase de Wileyne[1] |
1306 | Hugh Alibon | Peter la Chapman[1] |
1307 | John Chaddesdon | Gervase de Wilney[1] |
1310 | Henry Alwaston | Thomas de Stade[1] |
1311 | Thomas del Sted | Henry Bindetton[1] |
1312 | Geffry de Leycestre | Robert de Breydsale[1] |
1313 | John Fitz John | Henry Lomb[1] |
1314 | Adam le Rede | William de Aleby[1] |
1314 | William de Aleby | Adam le Rede[1] |
1318 | Simon de Chester | Richard Breddon[1] |
1318 | Alexander de Holand | John de Weston[1] |
1325 | Henry le Carpenter | John Fitz Richard[1] |
1327 | John Fitz Gilbert | Ferhun Tutbury[1] |
1328 | Simon de Chester | John Collings[1] |
1328 | Thomas Tulaxbar | Geffry Snayth[1] |
1330 | Simon de Nottingham | John de Weston[1] |
1333 | Hugh Allibon | John Gibbonson[1] |
1334 | John Gibbonson | ?[1] |
1335 | Nicholas Langford | John Fitz Thomas[1] |
1336 | Simon de Chester | John Gibbonson[1] |
1337 | John Fitz William | Thomas Tuttebury[1] |
1338 | William de Derby | John Hache | Robert Allibon[1] |
1338 | William de Derby | Robert de Weston[1] |
1338 | Simon de Chester | Robert Allibon[1] |
1338 | Henry del Howe | Robert Saundry[1] |
1339 | Alexander Holland | John Weston[1] |
1339 | John Gibbonson | Thomas Preston[1] |
1339 | Thomas Tutbury | Thomas Thurmondsley[1] |
1341 | Thomas de Tutbury | Thomas Derby[1] |
1341 | Richard de Trowell | Peter de Quarndon[1] |
1342 | Simon de Nottingham | Thomas de Derby[1] |
1344 | William de Nottingham | Simon de Chester[1] |
1348 | William de Chaddesdon | Thomas de Tutbury[1] |
1350 | William Gilbert | John de Chaddesdon[1] |
1351 | Thomas Tutbury | William de Derby[1] |
1354 | William Chester | Richard Chelford[1] |
1355 | Thomas Tutbury | Henry Diddound[1] |
1355 | Edmund Toucher | John Bech[1] |
1356 | William Ennington | William Nayle[1] |
1358 | William de Chester | William Nayle[1] |
1361 | Peter Prentice | William de Rossington[1] |
1362 | Peter Prentice | William de Rossington[1] |
1363 | John Trowell | John Weeke[1] |
1364 | John Bradon | Robert Allibon[1] |
1365 | William Chester | John Gilbert[1] |
1366 | John Berd | William Sese[1] |
1369 | John de Brakkerley | William Glasyere[1] |
1370 | John Preest | John de Brakkerley[1] |
1372 | John Trowell | ?[1] |
1373 | William Chester | John Gilbert[1] |
1374 | William Pakeman | Roger Allibon[1] |
1377 | William Groos | John de Berdee[1] |
1378 | John Hay | Richard de Trowell[1] |
1378 | Henry Flanstead | Roger Allibon[1] |
1379 | Richard Dell | Roger Ashe[1] |
1382 | Thomas Toppeleyse | John Hay[1] |
1383 | William Pakeman | John Bowyer[1] |
1383 | Richard de Trowell | John Gibbon[1] |
1384 | Richard Sherman | John de Stockes[1] |
1385 | Richard Trowell | John Dell[1] |
1386 | John Stokkes | John Prentice I[2] |
1388 (Feb) | William Pakeman | Thomas Tappely[2] |
1388 (Sep) | William Pakeman | Hugh Adam[2] |
1390 (Jan) | John Stokkes | John Hay[2] |
1390 (Nov) | |
1391 | Richard Sherman | Thomas Docking[2] |
1393 | John Stokkes | Richard Trowell[2] |
1394 | |
1395 | John Stokkes | William Groos[2] |
1397 (Jan) | William Groos | Thomas Shore[2] |
1397 (Sep) | William Groos | Thomas Shore[2] |
1399 | John Stokkes | Thomas Docking[2] |
1401 | |
1402 | Elias Stokkes | Richard Trowell[2] |
1404 (Jan) | |
1404 (Oct) | John Prentice II | John Stokkes[2] |
1406 | Thomas Goldsmith | John Fairclough[2] |
1407 | |
1410 | |
1411 | John Brasier | Thomas Shore[2] |
1413 (Feb) | |
1413 (May) | Elias Stokkes[2] |
1414 (Apr) | John Prentice II | Robert Bolton[2] |
1414 (Nov) | Elias Stokkes | Thomas Ridgeway[2] |
1415 |
1416 (Mar) | Elias Stokkes | Roger Wolley[2] |
1416 (Oct) | |
1417 | Robert Ireland | Thomas Steppingstones[2] |
1419 | John Sparham | Ralph Shore[2] |
1420 | Richard Brown | Robert Smith[2] |
1421 (May) | Ralph Shore | Thomas Stokkes[2] |
1421 (Dec) | Ralph Shore | John Spicer[2] |
1422 | John Stokes | John Barker[1] |
1423 | John de Both | Elias Dell[1] |
1424 | John Stokes | Elias Dell[1] |
1425 | Roger Wolley | Henry Crabbe[1] |
1427 | Nicholas Meysham | John de Stokkys[1] |
1429 | John de Bath | Elias Stokkys[1] |
1430 | Thomas Stokkes | Robert Smith[1] |
1432 | John Booth | Robert Sutton[1] |
1434 | John Bothe | Thomas Stokeys[1] |
1436 | Thomas Stokks | Elias Tildesley[1] |
1441 | Thomas Stokkys | Henry Spicer[1] |
1446 | Thomas Chatley | Robert Mundy[1] |
1448 | Thomas Chatterley | John Spicer[1] |
1449 | Richard Chitterley | Thomas Chitterley[1] |
1450 | Thomas Acard | Thomas Bradshawe[1] |
1454 | John Bird | Edward Lovel[1] |
1459 | John Bird | William Hunter[1] |
1468 | Thomas Bakynton | Thomas Allestre[1] |
1473 | John Newton | Roger Wilkinson[1] |
1478 | John Briddle | John Newton[1] |
1510–1523 | No names known[3] |
1529 | Thomas Ward | Henry Ainsworth[3] |
1536 | ? |
1539 | ? |
1542 | Thomas Sutton | William Allestry[3] |
1545 | Thomas Sutton | William Allestry[3] |
1547 | Thomas Sutton | Robert Ragg[3] |
1553 (Mar) | Robert Ragg | William Allestry[3] |
1553 (Oct) | Thomas Sutton | George Cherneley[3] |
1554 (Apr) | William Allestry | George Stringer[3] |
1554 (Nov) | William More | William Bainbridge[3] |
1555 | Richard Ward | William Allestry[3] |
1558 | James Thatcher | William Bainbridge[3] |
1558/9 | Richard Doughty | William Bainbridge[4] |
1562/3 | William More | William Bainbridge[4] |
1571 | Robert Stringer | William Bainbridge[4] |
1572 | Robert Stringer | Tristram Tyrwhitt, expelled and repl. 1576 by Robert Bainbridge[4] |
1584 | Sir Henry Beaumont | William Botham[4] |
1586 (Sep) | William Botham | Robert Bainbridge[4] |
1588/9 | Richard Fletcher | William Botham[4] |
1593 | Robert Stringer | William Botham[4] |
1597 | Henry Duport | Robert Stringer[4] |
1601 (Oct) | Peter Eure | John Baxter[4] |
1604–1611 | John Baxter | Edward Sleighe |
1614 | Gilbert Kniveton |
1621–1622 | Timothy Leeving | Edward Leech |
1624 | Timothy Leeving | Sir Edward Leech |
1625 | Timothy Leeving | Sir Edward Leech |
1626 | Sir Henry Crofts | John Thoroughgood |
1628–1629 | Philip Mainwaring | Timothy Leeving |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned |
1640–1950
Sir William Harcourt
Elections
Elections in the 1850s
Horsfall's election was in March 1853 declared void due to bribery, and Heyworth was declared elected in his place.[20]
Elections in the 1880s
Plimsoll's resignation caused a by-election.
Bass' resignation caused a by-election.
Harcourt
Harcourt's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer caused a by-election.
Roe
Elections in the 1900s
Bell
Elections in the 1910s
Asquith
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Collins
Elections in the 1920s
Roberts
Henderson Stewart
Elections in the 1930s
Noel-Baker
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939/40:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place in Autumn 1939 and by then, the following candidates had been selected;
References
Notes
- ↑ Supported by Henry Varley's Social Purity Alliance
- ↑ Compared to joint Liberal vote in 1895
- ↑ Compared to Lib-Lab candidate in 1906
- ↑ Compared to combined Conservative share at Jan 1910 election
- 1 2 Based on half of the total votes
References
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "History of Parliament". Retrieved 22 September 2011.
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- ↑ Walker, Martyn (2017). The Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond: Supporting further education for the adult working classes. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781315685021. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ↑ Howe, Anthony, ed. (2007). The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume 1, 1815-1847. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 423. ISBN 9780199211951. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ↑ "Wednesday & Thursday's Posts". Stamford Mercury. 11 April 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ The election of 1847 was declared void on petition; neither Strutt nor Leveson-Gower was a candidate in the resulting by-election
- ↑ "The Land and the Charter". Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser. 10 July 1847. p. 19. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Derby Election". Leicester Journal. 8 September 1848. p. 3. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Smith, Francis Barrymore (1966). "Second Reform Period, 1851-1865". The Making of the Second Reform Bill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Provincial News". Sheffield Independent. 9 September 1848. p. 7. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Ceadel, Martin (1996). "The Richard Cobden Era". The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 465. ISBN 0-19-822674-8. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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- ↑ Horsfall's election was subsequently declared void, and Heyworth declared elected in his place
- ↑ "Election Intelligence". Staffordshire Advertiser. 14 March 1857. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- ↑ "Election Committees". Chelmsford Chronicle. 11 March 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "To the Electors of the Borough of Derby". Derby Mercury. 20 April 1859. p. 4. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Derby". Bolton Chronicle. 9 April 1859. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Derby". Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. 20 May 1859. p. 4. Retrieved 6 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "The General Election". London Evening Standard. 28 January 1874. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 29 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ "Another Candidate for Derby". Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. 13 Nov 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ "Derby Election". Derby Mercury. 30 Jun 1886. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 25 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference, 1939
- ↑ Derby Daily Telegraph, 24 Jan 1939
- ↑ Derby Daily Telegraph, Mar 1939