North Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Lancashire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1832 (1832)1885 (1885)
Number of members two
Replaced by Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool, Chorley, Lancaster, and North Lonsdale
Created from Lancashire

North Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Great Reform Act of 1832 by the splitting of Lancashire constituency into Northern and Southern divisions.

The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into five single member divisions of Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool, Chorley, Lancaster, and North Lonsdale.

Contents

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the hundreds of Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland and Lonsdale.

Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1832)
Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 John Wilson-Patten Conservative Hon. Edward Stanley[1] Whig
1837 Conservative
1844 by-election John Talbot Clifton Conservative
1847 James Heywood Liberal
1857 Lord Cavendish of Keighley[2] Liberal
1868 Hon. Frederick Stanley Conservative
1874 by-election Thomas Henry Clifton Conservative
1880 Joseph Feilden Conservative
1885 Constituency abolished (1885)

Elections

Notes

  1. ^ Styled Lord Stanley from 1834.
  2. ^ Styled Marquess of Hartington from 1858.

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