- Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency)
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For the county constituency called Montgomery until the 1990s, see Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency).
Montgomery Former constituency for the House of Commons 15421918 –Number of members one Replaced by Montgomeryshire Montgomery was a constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England and later in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member, but was abolished in 1918.
After 1832 the constituency was more usually called the Montgomery Boroughs or Montgomery District of Boroughs.
Contents
Boundaries
Members of Parliament
1542-1640
- 1563-1567: John Price
- 1571: Arthur Price
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1601-1918
Election Member Party 1601 John Harries 1604-1611 Edward Whittingham 1614 Sir John Danvers 1621-1622: Edward Herbert 1624 George Herbert 1625 George Herbert 1626 Sir Henry Herbert 1628 Sir Richard Lloyd November 1640 Richard Herbert Royalist September 1642 Herbert disabled from sitting - seat vacant 1646 George Devereux [1] 1653 Not represented in the Barebones Parliament and
the First and Second Parliaments of the ProtectorateJanuary 1659 Charles Lloyd May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 (Sir) Thomas Myddelton [2] 1661 John Purcell 1665 Henry Herbert 1679 Matthew Pryce April 1685 William Williams July 1685 Charles Herbert 1691 Price Devereux 1701 John Vaughan 1705 Charles Mason 1708 John Pugh 1727 (Sir) William Corbet [3] 1741 James Cholmondeley 1747 Henry Herbert 1748 Francis Herbert 1754 William Bodvell 1759 Richard Clive 1771 Captain Frederick Cornewall 1774 Whitshed Keene 1818 Henry Clive 1832 David Pugh [4] Conservative 1833 by-election John Edwards Whig 1841 Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley Conservative 1847 David Pugh [5] Conservative 1861 by-election John Samuel Willes Johnson Conservative 1863 by-election Hon. Charles Hanbury-Tracy Liberal 1877 by-election Hon. Frederick Hanbury-Tracy Liberal 1885 Pryce Pryce-Jones Conservative 1886 Hon. Frederick Hanbury-Tracy Liberal 1892 Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones Conservative 1895 Major Edward Pryce-Jones Conservative 1906 John David Rees Liberal Dec 1910 Colonel Edward Pryce-Jones Conservative Notes
- ^ Devereux is not known ever to have taken his seat
- ^ Created a baronet, July 1660
- ^ Created a baronet, October 1740
- ^ On petition, the election of 1832 was declared void and a by-election held
- ^ At the election of 1847, Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley and David Pugh tied, with 389 votes each, and the returning officer made a double return. However, when a petition was lodged against Cholmondeley he decided not to defend his claim, and Pugh took the seat.
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
General Election, January 1910: Montgomery District Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrat John David Rees 1,539 Conservative Col E Pryce Jones 1,526 27.4 -0.5 Majority 13 0.38 Turnout 3,065 91.83 Liberal Democrat hold Swing References
- 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]
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
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