North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

North Cumberland
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1918 (1918)–1950 (1950)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Penrith and The Border
Created from	Eskdale and Penrith

North Cumberland was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Christopher William Lowther	Coalition Conservative†
	1922	Donald Sterling Palmer Howard	Conservative
	1926	Frederick Fergus Graham	Conservative
	1935	Wilfrid Hugh Wace Roberts	Liberal
1950		Constituency abolished

† In January 1921 Lowther defected to the Independent Parliamentary Group led by Horatio Bottomley.^[1]

Election results

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)

1. ^ "Major Lowther's Secession". The Times: p. 10. 20 January 1921.