Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency)

For the county constituency called Montgomery until the 1990s, see Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Montgomery
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
1542 (1542)–1918 (1918)
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.

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 Protectorate
January 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

1. ^ Devereux is not known ever to have taken his seat
2. ^ Created a baronet, July 1660
3. ^ Created a baronet, October 1740
4. ^ On petition, the election of 1832 was declared void and a by-election held
5. ^ 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)