- Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coventry Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons County Warwickshire
(West Midlands from 1974)Major settlements Coventry 1298–1945 Number of members 1298–1885: Two
1885–1945: OneReplaced by Coventry East
Coventry WestCoventry was a borough constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of England and its successors, the House of Commons of Great Britain and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Centred on the City of Coventry in Warwickshire, it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1295 until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when its representation was reduced to one. The Coventry constituency was abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was split into two new constituencies: Coventry East and Coventry West.
Elections were held using the bloc vote system when electing two MPs (until 1885), and then first-past-the-post to elect one MP thereafter.
Contents
Boundaries
Members of Parliament
MPs before 1660
- 1295: Anketil de Coleshull; Richard de Weston [1]
- 1298: Robert Russell; Robert Kelle [1]
- 1301: Thomas Ballard; Lawrence de Schepey [1]
- 1302: Ralph Tewe; John Russell [1]
- 1305: Henry Bagot; Peter Baron [1]
- 1306: Alexander de Moubray and Henry Bagot [1]
- 1315: Richard de Spicer; John de Langley [1]
- 1346: John de Percy; Nicholas de Hunt [1]
- 1353: Nicholas Michel;Richard de Stoke [1]
- 1354–1449: No representation
- 1450: Thomas Lyttelton; ? [1]
- 1453: William Elton; ? [1]
- 1460: Henry Butler; Richard Braytoft [1]
- 1467: Henry Butler; Richard Braytoft [1]
- 1472: Henry Butler; John Wildegryse [1]
- 1478: Henry Butler; John Wildegryse [1]
- 1485: Sir Robert Onley [1]
- 1491: Richard Cook; John Smith [1]
- 1495: Henry Marlar [1]
- 1510-1515: No names known [2]
- 1523: Ralph Swyllyngton; Richard Marlar [2]
- 1529: Roger Wigston; John Bond [2]
- 1536: ?Roger Wigston; ? [2]
- 1539: Roger Wigston; Baldwin Porter
- 1542: Roger Wigston, died and replacd Jan 1544 by Edward Saunders; Henry Over alias Waver [2]
- 1545: Christopher Warren; Henry Porter [2]
- 1547: Christopher Warren; Henry Porter [2]
- 1553 (Mar): James Rogers; John Talonts [2]
- 1553 (Oct): John Nethermill; Thomas Bond [2]
- 1554 (Apr): Thomas Keyvet; Edward Davenport [2]
- 1554 (Nov): John Throckmorton; John Harford [2]
- 1555: John Throckmorton; Henry Porter [2]
- 1558: John Throckmorton; John Talonts [2]
- 1558/1559: John Throckmorton; John Nethermill [3]
- 1562/1563: Thomas Dudley; Richard Grafton [3]
- 1571 Henry Goodere; Edmund Brownell [3]
- 1572 Edmund Brownell, died and replaced Apr 1573 by Bartholemew Tate; Thomas Wight [3]
- 1584 (Oct): Edward Boughton; Thomas Wight [3]
- 1586: Thomas Saunders; Henry Breres [3]
- 1588 (Oct): Thomas Saunders; Henry Breres [3]
- 1593 Thomas Saunders; John Myles [3]
- 1597 (Sep): Henry Kervyn; Thomas Saunders [3]
- 1601 (Oct): Henry Breres; Thomas Saunders [3]
- 1604: Henry Breres; John Rogerson, ill and replaced by Sir John Harington [1]
- 1614: Sir Robert Coke; Sampson Hopkins [1]
- 1621: Sampson Hopkins; Henry Sewall [1]
- 1624: Sir Edward Coke; Henry Harwell [1]
- 1626: Henry Harwell; Isaac Walden [1]
- 1628: William Purefoy of Caldecote; Richard Green of Wyken [1]
- 1629–1640: No Parliaments summoned
- 1640 (Apr): William Jesson; Simon Norton [1]
- 1640 (Nov): Simon Norton, died 1641 and replaced by William Jesson; John Barker (excluded in 1648 in Pride's Purge[1]
- 1649: John Barker (readmitted) (one seat only)[1]
- 1653: Coventry not represented in the Barebones Parliament[1]
- 1654: William Purefoy; Robert Beake[1]
- 1656: William Purefoy; Robert Beake
- 1659: William Purefoy; Robert Beake
MPs 1660–1885
Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party 1660, March Richard Hopkins Robert Beake 1660, August William Jesson 1661 Sir Clement Fisher, Bt Thomas Flynt 1670 Richard Hopkins 1679, Feb Robert Beake 1679, August John Stratford 1685 Sir Roger Cave, Bt Sir Thomas Norton 1689 John Stratford 1690 Richard Hopkins 1695 George Bohun Thomas Gery 1698 Sir Christopher Hales, Bt Richard Hopkins 1701, Jan Thomas Hopkins 1701, Dec Edward Hopkins 1702 Thomas Gery 1707 Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bt Edward Hopkins 1710, Oct Robert Craven Thomas Gery 1710, Dec Clobery Bromley 1711 Sir Christopher Hales, Bt 1713 Sir Fulwar Skipwith, Bt 1715 (Sir) Adolphus Oughton[4] Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt 1722[5] John Neale 1734 John Bird 1737, Feb John Neale 1737, Apr Earl of Euston 1741 William Grove 1747, Jun Viscount Petersham 1747, Dec Samuel Greathead 1761 James Hewitt Hon. Andrew Archer 1766 Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway 1768 Sir Richard Glyn, Bt 1773 Walter Waring 1774 Edward Roe Yeo 1780, Feb John Baker Holroyd 1780, Oct Election abandoned due to rioting; both seats vacant 1780, Dec[6] Sir Thomas Hallifax Thomas Rogers 1781 Edward Roe Yeo The Lord Sheffield 1783 Hon. William Seymour-Conway 1784 Sir Sampson Gideon, Bt[7] John Eardley Wilmot 1796 William Wilberforce Bird Nathaniel Jeffreys 1802 Francis William Barlow 1803 Peter Moore 1805 William Mills 1812 Joseph Butterworth 1818 Edward Ellice Whig 1826 Richard Edensor Heathcote Thomas Bilcliffe Fyler 1830 Edward Ellice Whig 1831 Henry Bulwer Whig 1835 William Williams Radical 1847 George James Turner Conservative 1851 Charles Geach Whig 1854 Sir Joseph Paxton Liberal 1863 Morgan Treherne Conservative 1865 Henry Eaton Conservative 1867 Henry Jackson Liberal 1868, March Samuel Carter Liberal 1868, November Alexander Staveley Hill Conservative 1874 Sir Henry Jackson, Bt Liberal 1880 William Wills Liberal 1881 Henry Eaton Conservative 1885 representation reduced to one member MPs 1885–1945
Election Member Party 1885 Henry Eaton Conservative 1887 by-election William Henry Walter Ballantine Liberal 1895 Charles James Murray Conservative 1906 Alfred Edward Woodley Mason Liberal Jan 1910 John Kenneth Foster Conservative Dec 1910 David Marshall Mason Liberal 1918 Edward Manville Coalition Conservative 1923 Albert Arthur Purcell Labour 1924 Archibald Boyd-Carpenter Conservative 1929 Philip Noel-Baker Labour 1931 William Strickland Conservative 1945 constituency abolished: see Coventry East & Coventry West Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "British History Online". http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16032. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/coventry. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/coventry. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ Created a baronet, August 1718
- ^ The election of 1722 was declared void because of the "notorious and outrageous Riots, Tumults and Seditions ... in Defiance of the Civil Authority, and in Violation of the Freedom of Elections", and a new writ was issued, but the original victors (Oughton and Neale) were returned once more at the by-election.
- ^ On petition, the election of Hallifax and Rogers was declared void, and their opponents, Yeo and Seymour-Conway, were declared to have been duly elected and seated in their place
- ^ Changed his surname to Eardley, July 1789; created The Lord Eardley (in the Peerage of Ireland, September 1789
Election results
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790 (London: HMSO, 1964)
- "The Constitutional Yearbook, 1913" (London: National Unionist Association, 1913)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Coventry
- Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1298
- 1470 establishments
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1945
- Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county) (historic)
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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