South Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

South Devon
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Devon
1832 (1832)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Created from	Devon

South Devon, formally known as the Southern Division of Devon, was parliamentary constituency in the county of Devon in England. From 1832 to 1885 it returned two Knights of the Shire to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

Boundaries

In 1832 the county of Devon, in south western England, was divided for Parliamentary purposes between this constituency and North Devon. In 1868 the Devon county constituencies were re-arranged into North, South and East Devon divisions. Each of these divisions returned two members of Parliament.

In 1885 the three constituencies were again redrawn, so that Devon was represented by eight single member County constituencies (there were also three borough constituencies, two of which returned two members and the third one member). The county was split between the new smaller constituencies of Ashburton (alternatively the Mid Division), Barnstaple (the North-Western Division), Honiton (the Eastern Division), South Molton (the Northern Division), Tavistock (the Western Division), Tiverton (the North-Eastern Division), Torquay and Totnes (the Southern Division). The constituencies in this redistribution are normally referred to by the distinctive place name rather than the alternative compass point designation, so the South Devon division is considered to have been abolished in 1885.

Members of Parliament

Election			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	Lord John Russell	Liberal	John Crocker Bulteel	Liberal
		1835			Sir John Buller Yarde-Buller, Bt	Conservative
		May 1835 by-election	Montague Edmund Newcombe Parker	Conservative
		1841	Lord Courtenay	Conservative
		1849 by-election	Sir Ralph Lopes, Bt	Conservative
		1854 by-election	Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt	Conservative
		1858 by-election			Samuel Trehawke Kekewich	Conservative
		1868	Sir Massey Lopes, Bt	Conservative
		1873 by-election			John Carpenter Garnier	Conservative
		1884 by-election			John Tremayne	Conservative
		1885	Constituency abolished

Elections

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See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)