Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Grantham County constituency |
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| Created: | 1468 |
| Abolished: | 1997 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England. The constituency was created in 1468 and abolished in 1997. The area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in the Grantham and Stamford constituency.
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The constituency was based on Grantham, a market town on the River Witham.
- 1571-1581: Arthur Hall [1]
- 1585: Arthur Hall
- 1586: Sir Henry Bagenall [2]
- 1604-1611: Sir George Manners
- 1604-1611: Sir T Horseman
- 1621-1622: Sir William Airmine
- 1621-1622: Sir Clement Cotterill
- 1624-1626: Sir George Manners
- 1625: Sir William Airmine
- Constituency reduced to one member in 1885.
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | John William Mellor | Liberal | |
| 1886 | William Malcolm Low | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Henry Yarde Buller Lopes | Conservative | |
| 1900 | Arthur Priestley | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Edmund Royds | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Robert Pattinson | Liberal | |
| 1923 | Victor Warrender | Conservative | |
| 1942 | William Denis Kendall | Independent | |
| 1950 | Eric Smith | Conservative | |
| 1951 | Joseph Godber | Conservative | |
| 1979 | Douglas Hogg | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Constituency abolished becoming part of Grantham and Stamford Constituency | ||
Notes
- ^ Expelled from the Commons, 1581
- ^ Bagenall was also elected for Anglesey, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Grantham
- 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)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.