Derby (UK Parliament constituency)

Derby
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1295–1950 (split)
Number of members two

Derby 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 1950. It was represented by two members of parliament. It was divided into the single-member constituencies of Derby North and Derby South in 1950.

History

Derby regularly sent two representatives to Parliament from Edward I’s reign.

In 1950 the constituency was abolished and replaced by the two single-member constituencies of Derby North and Derby South.

Members of Parliament

1294–1640

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1294 William de la CornereRandalph Makeneye[1]
1297 William Bourne de DerbyNicklos de Lorimer[1]
1299 Nicklos de LorimorGervase de Derby[1]
1301 Gervase de WilnyeAdam le Rede[1]
1304 John de la CorneRichard Cardoyl[1]
1305 John de ChaddesdonGervase de Wileyne[1]
1306 Hugh AlibonPeter la Chapman[1]
1307 John ChaddesdonGervase de Wilney[1]
1310 Henry AlwastonThomas de Stade[1]
1311 Thomas del StedHenry Bindetton[1]
1312 Geffry de LeycestreRobert de Breydsale[1]
1313 John Fitz JohnHenry Lomb[1]
1314 Adam le RedeWilliam de Aleby[1]
1314 William de AlebyAdam le Rede[1]
1318 Simon de ChesterRichard Breddon[1]
1318 Alexander de HolandJohn de Weston[1]
1325 Henry le CarpenterJohn Fitz Richard[1]
1327 John Fitz GilbertFerhun Tutbury[1]
1328 Simon de ChesterJohn Collings[1]
1328 Thomas TulaxbarGeffry Snayth[1]
1330 Simon de NottinghamJohn de Weston[1]
1333 Hugh AllibonJohn Gibbonson[1]
1334 John Gibbonson ?[1]
1335 Nicholas LangfordJohn Fitz Thomas[1]
1336 Simon de ChesterJohn Gibbonson[1]
1337 John Fitz WilliamThomas Tuttebury[1]
1338 William de DerbyJohn HacheRobert Allibon[1]
1338 William de DerbyRobert de Weston[1]
1338 Simon de ChesterRobert Allibon[1]
1338 Henry del HoweRobert Saundry[1]
1339 Alexander HollandJohn Weston[1]
1339 John GibbonsonThomas Preston[1]
1339 Thomas TutburyThomas Thurmondsley[1]
1341 Thomas de TutburyThomas Derby[1]
1341 Richard de TrowellPeter de Quarndon[1]
1342 Simon de NottinghamThomas de Derby[1]
1344 William de NottinghamSimon de Chester[1]
1348 William de ChaddesdonThomas de Tutbury[1]
1350 William GilbertJohn de Chaddesdon[1]
1351 Thomas TutburyWilliam de Derby[1]
1354 William ChesterRichard Chelford[1]
1355 Thomas TutburyHenry Diddound[1]
1355 Edmund ToucherJohn Bech[1]
1356 William EnningtonWilliam Nayle[1]
1358 William de ChesterWilliam Nayle[1]
1361 Peter PrenticeWilliam de Rossington[1]
1362 Peter PrenticeWilliam de Rossington[1]
1363 John TrowellJohn Weeke[1]
1364 John BradonRobert Allibon[1]
1365 William ChesterJohn Gilbert[1]
1366 John BerdWilliam Sese[1]
1369 John de BrakkerleyWilliam Glasyere[1]
1370 John PreestJohn de Brakkerley[1]
1372 John Trowell ?[1]
1373 William ChesterJohn Gilbert[1]
1374 William PakemanRoger Allibon[1]
1377 William GroosJohn de Berdee[1]
1378 John HayRichard de Trowell[1]
1378 Henry FlansteadRoger Allibon[1]
1379 Richard DellRoger Ashe[1]
1382 Thomas ToppeleyseJohn Hay[1]
1383 William PakemanJohn Bowyer[1]
1383 Richard de TrowellJohn Gibbon[1]
1384 Richard ShermanJohn de Stockes[1]
1385 Richard TrowellJohn Dell[1]
1386John StokkesJohn Prentice I[2]
1388 (Feb) William PakemanThomas Tappely[2]
1388 (Sep) William PakemanHugh Adam[2]
1390 (Jan) John StokkesJohn Hay[2]
1390 (Nov)
1391Richard ShermanThomas Docking[2]
1393John StokkesRichard Trowell[2]
1394
1395John StokkesWilliam Groos[2]
1397 (Jan) William GroosThomas Shore[2]
1397 (Sep) William GroosThomas Shore[2]
1399John StokkesThomas Docking[2]
1401
1402Elias StokkesRichard Trowell[2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct) John Prentice IIJohn Stokkes[2]
1406Thomas GoldsmithJohn Fairclough[2]
1407
1410
1411John BrasierThomas Shore[2]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) Elias Stokkes[2]
1414 (Apr) John Prentice IIRobert Bolton[2]
1414 (Nov) Elias StokkesThomas Ridgeway[2]
1415
1416 (Mar) Elias StokkesRoger Wolley[2]
1416 (Oct)
1417Robert IrelandThomas Steppingstones[2]
1419John SparhamRalph Shore[2]
1420Richard BrownRobert Smith[2]
1421 (May) Ralph ShoreThomas Stokkes[2]
1421 (Dec) Ralph ShoreJohn Spicer[2]
1422 John StokesJohn Barker[1]
1423 John de BothElias Dell[1]
1424 John StokesElias Dell[1]
1425 Roger WolleyHenry Crabbe[1]
1427 Nicholas MeyshamJohn de Stokkys[1]
1429 John de BathElias Stokkys[1]
1430 Thomas StokkesRobert Smith[1]
1432 John BoothRobert Sutton[1]
1434 John BotheThomas Stokeys[1]
1436 Thomas StokksElias Tildesley[1]
1441 Thomas StokkysHenry Spicer[1]
1446 Thomas ChatleyRobert Mundy[1]
1448 Thomas ChatterleyJohn Spicer[1]
1449 Richard ChitterleyThomas Chitterley[1]
1450 Thomas AcardThomas Bradshawe[1]
1454 John BirdEdward Lovel[1]
1459 John BirdWilliam Hunter[1]
1468 Thomas BakyntonThomas Allestre[1]
1473 John NewtonRoger Wilkinson[1]
1478 John BriddleJohn Newton[1]
1510–1523 No names known[3]
1529Thomas WardHenry Ainsworth[3]
1536?
1539?
1542Thomas SuttonWilliam Allestry[3]
1545Thomas SuttonWilliam Allestry[3]
1547Thomas SuttonRobert Ragg[3]
1553 (Mar) Robert RaggWilliam Allestry[3]
1553 (Oct) Thomas SuttonGeorge Cherneley[3]
1554 (Apr) William AllestryGeorge Stringer[3]
1554 (Nov) William MoreWilliam Bainbridge[3]
1555Richard WardWilliam Allestry[3]
1558James ThatcherWilliam Bainbridge[3]
1558/9 Richard DoughtyWilliam Bainbridge[4]
1562/3 William MoreWilliam Bainbridge[4]
1571Robert StringerWilliam Bainbridge[4]
1572Robert StringerTristram Tyrwhitt, expelled
and repl. 1576 by
Robert Bainbridge[4]
1584Sir Henry BeaumontWilliam Botham[4]
1586 (Sep) William BothamRobert Bainbridge[4]
1588/9 Richard FletcherWilliam Botham[4]
1593Robert StringerWilliam Botham[4]
1597Henry DuportRobert Stringer[4]
1601 (Oct) Peter EureJohn Baxter[4]
1604–1611 John BaxterEdward Sleighe
1614 Gilbert Kniveton
1621–1622 Timothy LeevingEdward Leech
1624 Timothy LeevingSir Edward Leech
1625 Timothy LeevingSir Edward Leech
1626 Sir Henry CroftsJohn Thoroughgood
1628–1629 Philip MainwaringTimothy Leeving
1629–1640No Parliaments summoned

1640–1950

Sir William Harcourt
YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
November 1640 William Allestry Royalist Nathaniel Hallowes Parliamentarian
October 1643 Allestry disabled to sit – seat vacant
1645 Thomas Gell
December 1648 Gell excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653 Derby was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Gervase Bennet Derby had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 John Dalton
May 1659 Nathaniel Hallowes One seat vacant
April 1660 Roger Allestry John Dalton
1665 Anchitell Grey
1679 George Vernon
1685 William Allestry John Coke
1689 Anchitell Grey
1690 Robert Wilmot
1695 Lord Henry Cavendish John Bagnold
1698 George Vernon
1701 Lord James Cavendish Sir Charles Pye
1701 John Harpur
1702 Thomas Stanhope
1705 Lord James Cavendish Sir Thomas Parker Whig
1710 Richard Pye
1710 Sir Richard Levinge John Harpur
1711 Edward Mundy
1713 Nathaniel Curzon
1715 Lord James Cavendish William Stanhope Whig
1722 Thomas Bayley
1727 William Stanhope Whig
1730 Charles Stanhope
1736 John Stanhope
1742 Viscount Duncannon
1748 Thomas Rivett
1754 Lord Frederick Cavendish George Venables-Vernon
1762 William Fitzherbert
1772 Wenman Coke
1775 John Gisborne
1776 Daniel Parker Coke
1780 Lord George Cavendish Edward Coke
1797 George Walpole
1806 William Cavendish
1807 Thomas Coke
1807 Edward Coke
1812 Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish Whig
1818 Thomas Wenman Coke
1826 Samuel Crompton
1830 Edward Strutt Whig
1835 John Ponsonby Whig
1847[5] Hon. Frederick Leveson-Gower Whig
1848 Michael Thomas Bass Whig Lawrence Heyworth Whig
1852 Thomas Berry Horsfall[6]Conservative
1853 Lawrence Heyworth Whig
1857 Liberal Samuel Beale Liberal
1865 William Thomas Cox Conservative
1868 Samuel Plimsoll Liberal
1880 Sir William Vernon-Harcourt Liberal
1883 Thomas Roe Liberal
1895 Sir Henry Howe Bemrose Conservative Geoffrey Drage Conservative
1900 Sir Thomas Roe Liberal Richard Bell Labour
1904 Liberal
1910 James Henry Thomas Labour
1916 Sir William Job Collins Liberal
1918 Albert Green Conservative
1922 Charles Henry Roberts Liberal
1923 William Robert Raynes Labour
1924 Sir Richard Harman Luce Conservative
1929 William Robert Raynes Labour
1931 William Allan Reid Conservative National Labour
1936 Philip Noel-Baker Labour
1945 Clifford Wilcock Labour
1950 Constituency split into North and South seats

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Harcourt
General Election 1885: Derby (2 seats)[7][8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Thomas Roe 7,813 36.1
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt 7,630 35.3
Conservative William Brown Hextall 4,943 22.8
Independent Liberal Alfred S Dyer 1,251 5.8
Majority 2,687 12.5
Turnout 86.2
Liberal hold Swing
Roe
General Election 1886: Derby (2 seats)[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Thomas Roe 6,571
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt 6,431
Liberal Unionist T W Evans 4,346
Majority 2,085
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1890s

Haslam
General Election 1892: Derby (2 seats)[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt 7,507
Liberal Thomas Roe 7,389
Conservative William Brown Hextall 5,546
Conservative Sir Alfred Seale Haslam 5,363
Majority 1,843
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing
Derby by-election, 1892 [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt 6,508
Conservative Henry John Farmer Atkinson 1,619
Majority 4,889
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing
Bemrose
Drage
General Election 1895: Derby (2 seats)[13][14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Henry Howe Bemrose 7,907
Conservative Geoffrey Drage 7,076
Liberal Rt Hon. Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt 6,785
Liberal Sir Thomas Roe 6,475
Majority 291
Turnout
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1900s

Bell
General Election 1900: Derby (2 seats)[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Sir Thomas Roe 7,922 26.6 +3.7
Labour Richard Bell 7,640 25.7 n/a
Conservative Sir Henry Howe Bemrose 7,397 24.9
Conservative Geoffrey Drage 6,775 22.8
Majority 243 0.8
Turnout 84.5
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1906: Derby (2 seats)[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Richard Bell 10,361 31.0
Liberal Sir Thomas Roe 10,239 30.6
Conservative James Henry Edward Holford 6,421 19.2
Conservative Edward George Spencer Churchill 6,409 19.2
Majority 3,818 11.4
Turnout 87.6
Liberal hold Swing
Liberal gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Derby (2 seats)[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Sir Thomas Roe 10,343 28.3
Labour James Henry Thomas 10,189 27.9
Conservative Arthur Edward Beck 8,038 22.0
Conservative Arthur Page 7,953 21.8
Majority
Turnout 92.5
Labour gain from Liberal Swing
Liberal hold Swing
General Election December 1910: Derby (2 seats)[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Sir Thomas Roe 9,515 35.5
Labour James Henry Thomas 9,144 34.1
Conservative Arthur Edward Beck 8,160 30.4
Majority 984 3.7
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Liberal hold Swing
Asquith

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Collins
Derby by-election, 1916
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Sir William Job Collins Unopposed N/A N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A
General Election 1918: Derby (2 seats)[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas 25,145 37.8
Unionist Albert Green 14,920 22.4
Liberal William Blews Rowbotham 13,408 20.2
National Democratic Harold Machin Smith 13,012 19.6
Turnout 65.5
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
Majority 1,512 2.2
Labour hold Swing
Majority 11,737 17.6

Elections in the 1920s

Roberts
General Election 1922: Derby (2 seats) [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Green tickY Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas 25,215 27.0 -10.8
Liberal Green tickY Charles Henry Roberts 24,068 25.8 +5.6
Unionist Albert Green 22,240 23.9 +1.5
Labour William Robert Raynes 21,677 23.3 n/a
Turnout 84.0 +18.5
Majority 1,828 1.9 -0.3
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing
Majority 2,975 3.1 -14.5
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1923: Derby (2 seats) [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Green tickY Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas 24,887 29.0 +2.0
Labour Green tickY William Robert Raynes 20,318 23.7 +0.4
Unionist Henry Fitz-Herbert Wright 20,070 23.4 -0.5
Liberal Charles Henry Roberts 10,669 12.5 -13.3
Independent Unionist Thomas Clifford Newbold 9,772 11.4 n/a
Turnout 81.1 -2.9
Majority 248 0.3 2.2
Labour gain from Liberal Swing +6.8
Henderson Stewart
General Election 1924: Derby (2 seats) [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Green tickY Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas 27,423 25.7 -3.3
Unionist Green tickY Sir Richard Harman Luce 25,425 23.8 +0.4
Labour William Robert Raynes 25,172 23.6 -0.1
Unionist Mrs Hilda Hulse 21,700 20.3 n/a
Liberal James Henderson Stewart 7,083 6.6 -5.9
Turnout 85.2 +4.1
Majority 5,723 5.4
Labour hold Swing
Majority 353 0.2
Unionist gain from Labour Swing
General Election 1929: Derby (2 seats) [15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Green tickYRt Hon. James Henry Thomas 39,688 30.0 +4.3
Labour Green tickYWilliam Robert Raynes 36,237 27.4 +3.8
Unionist Sir Richard Harman Luce 24,553 18.6 -5.2
Unionist John Arthur Aiton 20,443 15.4 -4.9
Liberal Lawrence du Garde Peach 11,317 8.6 +2.0
Turnout 82.6 -2.6
Majority 11,684 8.8 9.0
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +4.5
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Derby (2 seats)[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
National Labour Green tickY Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas 49,257 36.4
Conservative Green tickY William Allan Reid 47,729 34.3
Labour William Robert Raynes 21,841 15.7
Labour Walter Halls 20,241 14.6
Majority 27,4168 19.7
Turnout 84.5
National Labour hold Swing
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
General Election 1935: Derby (2 seats)[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Green tickY William Allan Reid 37,707 30.19
National Labour Green tickY Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas 37,566 30.08
Labour Herbert Arthur Hind 25,037 20.04
Labour Leonard John Barnes 24,594 19.69
Majority 12,529
Turnout
Conservative hold Swing
National Labour hold Swing
Noel-Baker
Derby by-election, 1936[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Philip John Noel-Baker 28,419 52.5
National Labour Archibald George Church 25,666 47.5
Majority 2,753 5.0
Turnout 65.5
Labour gain from National Labour Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place in Autumn 1939 and by then, the following candidates had been selected;

General Election 1945: Derby (2 seats)[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Green tickY Philip John Noel-Baker 42,196 33.60
Labour Green tickY Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock 40,800 32.49
Conservative Francis Henry Alastair Julian Lochrane 21,460 17.09
Conservative John Maxwell Bemrose 21,125 16.82
Majority 19,340 15.67
Turnout 76.39
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour hold Swing

See also

References

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  10. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  11. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
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  13. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
  14. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
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  16. F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
  17. Report of the Annual Conference, 1939
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  19. Derby Daily Telegraph, Mar 1939
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