Morpeth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Morpeth
Morpeth
Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1553–1983
Seats	1553–1832: two; 1832–1983: one
Replaced by	Wansbeck and Berwick-upon-Tweed

Morpeth (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1832–1983

Morpeth was a constituency centred on the town of Morpeth in Northumberland represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1553 to 1707, the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1800 to 1983.

Quick Facts 1553–1983, Seats ...

The Parliamentary Borough of Morpeth first sent Members (MPs) to Parliament in 1553.^[2] It elected two MPs under the bloc vote system until the 1832 general election, when the Great Reform Act reduced its representation to one MP, elected under the first past the post system.^[3] The seat was redesignated as a county constituency for the 1950 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.

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Parliament	First member	Second member
1553 (Oct)	John Watson	William Ward^[11]
1554 (Apr)	Thomas Bates	William Ward^[11]
1554 (Nov)	Sir Henry Percy	William Ward^[11]
1555	?Cuthbert Horsley	?Thomas Bates^[11]
1558	Robert Wheatley	Thomas Bates^[11]
1558–9	William Ward	Nicholas Purslow^[12]
1562 (Dec)	William Ward	Arthur Welshe^[12]
1571	Francis Gawdy	Nicholas Mynn^[12]
1572 (Apr)	Sir George Bowes died and replaced Dec 1580 by Richard Drake	Richard Wroth^[12]
1584	William Carey	George Gifford^[12]
1586	Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth	Anthony Felton^[12]
1588–9	Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth	Henry Noel^[12]
1593	Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth, sat for Callington, replaced by Edmund Bowyer	Francis Tyndale^[12]
1597 (Sep)	Robert Printis	Thomas Carleton^[12]
1601 (Oct)	George Savile	John Browne^[12]
1604–1611	Sir Christopher Perkins	John Hare
1614	William Button	Arnold Herbert
1621–1622	Robert Brandling	John Robson Robson declared ineligible, being a priest replaced by Ralph Fetherstonhaugh
1624	Sir Thomas Reynell	Sir William Carnaby
1625	Sir Thomas Reynell	Sir Anthony Herbert
1626	Sir Thomas Reynell	John Bankes
1628	Sir Thomas Reynell	John Bankes
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
November 1640		Sir William Carnaby	Royalist		John Fenwick	Royalist
August 1642	Carnaby disabled from sitting – seat vacant				John Fenwick	Royalist
January 1643	Carnaby disabled from sitting – seat vacant			Fenwick disabled from sitting – seat vacant
1645		Hon. John Fiennes			George Fenwick
December 1648	Fiennes excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant				George Fenwick
1653	Morpeth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Robert Delaval			Robert Mitford
May 1659	Morpeth was unrepresented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Thomas Widdrington jnr (died May 1660)			Ralph Knight
June 1660		Sir George Downing			Ralph Knight
1661					Henry Widdrington
1666					Edward Howard
1679					Daniel Collingwood
1685		Sir Henry Pickering			Theophilus Oglethorpe
1689		Charles Howard			Roger Fenwick
1692		George Nicholas			Roger Fenwick
1695		George Nicholas			Sir Henry Belasyse
1698		Philip Howard	Whig
January 1701		William Howard
May 1701		Sir Richard Sandford
December 1701		Emanuel Scrope Howe	Whig		Sir John Delaval
1705		Sir Richard Sandford			Edmund Maine
1708					Sir John Bennett
1710					Christopher Wandesford
1713		Sir John Germain			Oley Douglas
1715		Viscount Morpeth			The Viscount Castlecomer^[13]
1717					Hon. George Carpenter
1727					Thomas Robinson
1734					Sir Henry Liddell
1738		Henry Furnese
1741		Robert Ord
1747					Viscount Limerick
1754					Thomas Duncombe	Tory
1755		Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh				Tory
1761		Viscount Garlies				Whig
1768		Peter Beckford			Sir Matthew White Ridley
1774		Francis Eyre^[14]			Peter Delmé
1775		Hon. William Byron
1776		Gilbert Elliot
1777		John Egerton	Tory
1780		Anthony Morris Storer
1784		Major Sir James Erskine^[15]	Whig
1790					Francis Gregg
1795					Viscount Morpeth	Whig^[16]
1796		William Huskisson	Tory
1802		William Ord	Whig^[16]
1806					Hon. William Howard	Whig^[16]
1826					Viscount Morpeth	Whig^[16]
1830					Hon. William Howard	Whig^[16]
1832	representation reduced to one member

Year		Member	Party
	1832	Frederick George Howard	Whig^[17]^[16]
	1834	Edward Howard	Whig^[18]^[19]^[17]^[16]
	1837	Granville Leveson-Gower	Whig^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]^[16]
	1840	Edward Howard	Whig^[18]^[19]^[17]^[16]
	1853	Sir George Grey	Whig^[24]^[18]^[25]^[26]
	1874	Thomas Burt	Lib-Lab
	1918	John Cairns	Labour
	1923	Robert Smillie	Labour
	1929	Ebby Edwards	Labour
	1931	Godfrey Nicholson	Conservative
	1935	Robert Taylor	Labour
	1954	Will Owen	Labour
	1970	George Grant	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	William Ord	Unopposed
	Whig	William Howard	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 233
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	William Ord	Unopposed
	Whig	William Howard	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 233
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Morpeth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Morpeth (UK Parliament constituency)

Boundaries

1832-1868

1868-1918

1918–1950

1950–1983

Abolition

Members of Parliament

1553–1640

1640–1832

1832–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

See also

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Morpeth
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1553–1983
Seats	1553–1832: two 1832–1983: one
Replaced by	Wansbeck and Berwick-upon-Tweed^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Frederick George Howard	Unopposed
Registered electors			321
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Edward Howard	Unopposed
Registered electors			336
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Granville Leveson-Gower	Unopposed
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	George Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors			391
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors			408
	Liberal hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Thomas Burt	3,332	85.1	*N/A*
	Conservative	Francis Duncan^[29]	585	14.9	New
Majority			2,747	70.1	N/A
Turnout			3,917	79.7	N/A
Registered electors			4,912
	Lib-Lab hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Thomas Burt	3,404	73.4	*N/A*
	Conservative	Maltman Barry	1,235	26.6	New
Majority			2,169	46.8	N/A
Turnout			4,639	60.8	N/A
Registered electors			7,627
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Thomas Burt	3,117	53.5	-19.9
	Conservative	Maltman Barry	2,707	46.5	+19.9
Majority			410	7.0	-39.8
Turnout			5,824	68.6	+7.8
Registered electors			8,490
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	-19.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Thomas Burt	5,518	74.2	+20.7
	Liberal Unionist	Stuart Coats	1,919	25.8	−20.7
Majority			3,599	48.4	+41.4
Turnout			7,437	78.9	+10.3
Registered electors			9,425
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	+20.7

General election 1918: Morpeth^[34]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cairns	7,677	34.3	*N/A*
	Liberal	Frank Thornborough	7,140	31.9	N/A
	Unionist	Claud Henry Meares	4,320	19.3	New
	Independent	*Gerald Douglas Newton	2,729	12.2	New
	National Democratic	Thomas Moffatt Allison	511	2.3	New
Majority			537	2.4	N/A
Turnout			22,377	56.3	N/A
Registered electors			39,773
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

General election 1922: Morpeth^[34]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Cairns	15,026	48.3	+14.0
	Liberal	Frank Thornborough	10,007	32.2	+0.3
	Unionist	Charles Septimus Shortt	6,045	19.5	+0.2
Majority			5,019	16.1	+13.7
Turnout			31,078	72.1	+15.8
Registered electors			43,098
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.9

1923 Morpeth by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Smillie	20,053	60.5	+12.2
	Liberal	Frank Thornborough	13,087	39.5	+7.3
Majority			6,966	21.0	+4.9
Turnout			33,140	76.9	+4.8
Registered electors			43,098
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.5

General election 1923: Morpeth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Smillie	16,902	64.2	+15.9
	Liberal	John Dodd	9,411	35.8	+3.6
Majority			7,491	28.4	+12.3
Turnout			26,313	59.4	−12.7
Registered electors			44,323
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Thomas Burt	5,874	66.1	−8.1
	Conservative	Jasper Ridley	3,009	33.9	+8.1
Majority			2,865	32.2	−16.2
Turnout			8,883	88.7	+9.8
Registered electors			10,010
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	−8.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Smillie	19,248	56.8	−7.4
	Unionist	Irene Ward	10,828	32.0	New
	Liberal	John Dodd	3,805	11.2	−24.6
Majority			8,420	24.8	−3.6
Turnout			33,881	75.0	+15.6
Registered electors			45,150
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ebby Edwards	25,508	61.3	+4.5
	Unionist	Irene Ward	9,206	22.1	−9.9
	Liberal	John Ritson	6,888	16.6	+5.4
Majority			16,302	39.2	+14.4
Turnout			41,602	75.5	+0.5
Registered electors			55,126
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Godfrey Nicholson	20,806	51.35
	Labour	Ebby Edwards	19,714	48.65
Majority			1,092	2.70	N/A
Turnout			39,520	70.28
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Taylor	28,900	59.17
	Conservative	Godfrey Nicholson	19,944	40.83
Majority			8,956	18.34	N/A
Turnout			48,844	78.68
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert Taylor	38,521	73.23
	Conservative	Gilbert Longden	14,079	26.77
Majority			24,442	46.46
Turnout			52,600	79.50
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert Taylor	27,548	71.51
	Conservative	T. Turnbull	10,973	28.49
Majority			16,575	43.02
Turnout			38,521	86.55
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert Taylor	27,718	71.88
	Conservative	Peter Molison Colvin-Smith	10,843	28.12
Majority			16,875	43.76
Turnout			38,561	85.47
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Will Owen	23,491	71.27	-0.61
	Conservative	William Elliott	9,469	28.73	+0.61
Majority			14,022	42.54	-1.22
Turnout			32,960
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour Co-op	Will Owen	25,452	70.56
	Conservative	William Elliott	10,619	29.44
Majority			14,833	41.12
Turnout			36,071	80.40
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour Co-op	Will Owen	27,435	71.91
	Conservative	Derek Bloom	10,716	28.09
Majority			16,719	43.82
Turnout			38,151	84.11
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour Co-op	Will Owen	26,114	72.70
	Conservative	Derek Bloom	9,805	27.30
Majority			16,309	45.40
Turnout			35,919	80.81
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour Co-op	Will Owen	25,223	74.36
	Conservative	Nigel Porter	8,698	25.64
Majority			16,525	48.72
Turnout			33,921	76.93
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Grant	21,826	60.35
	Conservative	K. Ian Tunnicliffe	9,515	26.31
	Liberal	Raymond McClure	4,825	13.34	New
Majority			12,311	34.04
Turnout			36,166	75.98
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Grant	22,026	56.40
	Conservative	David Curry	8,992	23.03
	Liberal	Humphrey Devereux	8,035	20.57
Majority			13,034	33.37
Turnout			39,053	81.18
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Grant	22,696	63.80
	Conservative	David Curry	8,009	22.52
	Liberal	Barrie Rogers	4,866	13.68
Majority			14,687	41.28
Turnout			35,571	73.32
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Grant	21,744	56.29
	Conservative	Stephen Edwards	9,913	25.66
	Liberal	Alan Thompson	6,972	18.05
Majority			11,831	30.63
Turnout			38,629	77.44
	Labour hold		Swing