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Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Derbyshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1290 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
Derbyshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was divided between the constituencies of North Derbyshire and South Derbyshire in 1832.
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- Constituency created (1290)
- 1562: George Hastings
- 1563-1564: Sir William St Loe
- 1572-1584: Gilbert Talbot
- 1572-1598: Henry Cavendish
- 1584-1587: Henry Talbot
- 1601: Francis Leeke
- 1604-1611: William Kniveton
- 1604-1611: Sir John Harpur
- 1621-1626: Lord Cavendish of Hardwick
- 1621-1622: Sir Peter Frecheville
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| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| November 1640 | Sir John Curzon, 1st Bt. | Parliamentarian | Sir John Coke | Parliamentarian | ||
| December 1648 | Curzon and Coke excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant | |||||
| 1653 | Gervase Bennet | Nathaniel Barton | ||||
| Year | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
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| 1654 | Nathaniel Barton | Thomas Sanders | Edward Gell | John Gell |
| 1656 | Sir Samuel Sleigh | German Pole |
- Representation restored to two members in the Third Protectorate Parliament
- Constituency abolished (1832)
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| General Election 1734: Derbyshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Whig | Lord Charles Cavendish | 697 | 74.1 | ||
| Tory | Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet | 134 | 14.2 | ||
| Henry Harpur | 110 | 11.7 | |||
- 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]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.
Categories: Articles with sections needing expansion | Incomplete lists | Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire (historic) | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1290 | United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1832 | United Kingdom historical constituency stubs