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

Parliament	First member	Second member
1294	William de la Cornere	Randalph Makeneye[1]
1297	William Bourne de Derby	Nicklos de Lorimer[1]
1299	Nicklos de Lorimor	Gervase de Derby[1]
1301	Gervase de Wilnye	Adam le Rede[1]
1304	John de la Corne	Richard Cardoyl[1]
1305	John de Chaddesdon	Gervase de Wileyne[1]
1306	Hugh Alibon	Peter la Chapman[1]
1307	John Chaddesdon	Gervase de Wilney[1]
1310	Henry Alwaston	Thomas de Stade[1]
1311	Thomas del Sted	Henry Bindetton[1]
1312	Geffry de Leycestre	Robert de Breydsale[1]
1313	John Fitz John	Henry Lomb[1]
1314	Adam le Rede	William de Aleby[1]
1314	William de Aleby	Adam le Rede[1]
1318	Simon de Chester	Richard Breddon[1]
1318	Alexander de Holand	John de Weston[1]
1325	Henry le Carpenter	John Fitz Richard[1]
1327	John Fitz Gilbert	Ferhun Tutbury[1]
1328	Simon de Chester	John Collings[1]
1328	Thomas Tulaxbar	Geffry Snayth[1]
1330	Simon de Nottingham	John de Weston[1]
1333	Hugh Allibon	John Gibbonson[1]
1334	John Gibbonson	?[1]
1335	Nicholas Langford	John Fitz Thomas[1]
1336	Simon de Chester	John Gibbonson[1]
1337	John Fitz William	Thomas Tuttebury[1]
1338	William de Derby	John Hache	Robert Allibon[1]
1338	William de Derby	Robert de Weston[1]
1338	Simon de Chester	Robert Allibon[1]
1338	Henry del Howe	Robert Saundry[1]
1339	Alexander Holland	John Weston[1]
1339	John Gibbonson	Thomas Preston[1]
1339	Thomas Tutbury	Thomas Thurmondsley[1]
1341	Thomas de Tutbury	Thomas Derby[1]
1341	Richard de Trowell	Peter de Quarndon[1]
1342	Simon de Nottingham	Thomas de Derby[1]
1344	William de Nottingham	Simon de Chester[1]
1348	William de Chaddesdon	Thomas de Tutbury[1]
1350	William Gilbert	John de Chaddesdon[1]
1351	Thomas Tutbury	William de Derby[1]
1354	William Chester	Richard Chelford[1]
1355	Thomas Tutbury	Henry Diddound[1]
1355	Edmund Toucher	John Bech[1]
1356	William Ennington	William Nayle[1]
1358	William de Chester	William Nayle[1]
1361	Peter Prentice	William de Rossington[1]
1362	Peter Prentice	William de Rossington[1]
1363	John Trowell	John Weeke[1]
1364	John Bradon	Robert Allibon[1]
1365	William Chester	John Gilbert[1]
1366	John Berd	William Sese[1]
1369	John de Brakkerley	William Glasyere[1]
1370	John Preest	John de Brakkerley[1]
1372	John Trowell	?[1]
1373	William Chester	John Gilbert[1]
1374	William Pakeman	Roger Allibon[1]
1377	William Groos	John de Berdee[1]
1378	John Hay	Richard de Trowell[1]
1378	Henry Flanstead	Roger Allibon[1]
1379	Richard Dell	Roger Ashe[1]
1382	Thomas Toppeleyse	John Hay[1]
1383	William Pakeman	John Bowyer[1]
1383	Richard de Trowell	John Gibbon[1]
1384	Richard Sherman	John de Stockes[1]
1385	Richard Trowell	John Dell[1]
1386	John Stokkes	John Prentice I[2]
1388 (Feb)	William Pakeman	Thomas Tappely[2]
1388 (Sep)	William Pakeman	Hugh Adam[2]
1390 (Jan)	John Stokkes	John Hay[2]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Richard Sherman	Thomas Docking[2]
1393	John Stokkes	Richard Trowell[2]
1394
1395	John Stokkes	William Groos[2]
1397 (Jan)	William Groos	Thomas Shore[2]
1397 (Sep)	William Groos	Thomas Shore[2]
1399	John Stokkes	Thomas Docking[2]
1401
1402	Elias Stokkes	Richard Trowell[2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)	John Prentice II	John Stokkes[2]
1406	Thomas Goldsmith	John Fairclough[2]
1407
1410
1411	John Brasier	Thomas Shore[2]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Elias Stokkes[2]
1414 (Apr)	John Prentice II	Robert Bolton[2]
1414 (Nov)	Elias Stokkes	Thomas Ridgeway[2]
1415
1416 (Mar)	Elias Stokkes	Roger Wolley[2]
1416 (Oct)
1417	Robert Ireland	Thomas Steppingstones[2]
1419	John Sparham	Ralph Shore[2]
1420	Richard Brown	Robert Smith[2]
1421 (May)	Ralph Shore	Thomas Stokkes[2]
1421 (Dec)	Ralph Shore	John Spicer[2]
1422	John Stokes	John Barker[1]
1423	John de Both	Elias Dell[1]
1424	John Stokes	Elias Dell[1]
1425	Roger Wolley	Henry Crabbe[1]
1427	Nicholas Meysham	John de Stokkys[1]
1429	John de Bath	Elias Stokkys[1]
1430	Thomas Stokkes	Robert Smith[1]
1432	John Booth	Robert Sutton[1]
1434	John Bothe	Thomas Stokeys[1]
1436	Thomas Stokks	Elias Tildesley[1]
1441	Thomas Stokkys	Henry Spicer[1]
1446	Thomas Chatley	Robert Mundy[1]
1448	Thomas Chatterley	John Spicer[1]
1449	Richard Chitterley	Thomas Chitterley[1]
1450	Thomas Acard	Thomas Bradshawe[1]
1454	John Bird	Edward Lovel[1]
1459	John Bird	William Hunter[1]
1468	Thomas Bakynton	Thomas Allestre[1]
1473	John Newton	Roger Wilkinson[1]
1478	John Briddle	John Newton[1]
1510–1523	No names known[3]
1529	Thomas Ward	Henry Ainsworth[3]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	Thomas Sutton	William Allestry[3]
1545	Thomas Sutton	William Allestry[3]
1547	Thomas Sutton	Robert Ragg[3]
1553 (Mar)	Robert Ragg	William Allestry[3]
1553 (Oct)	Thomas Sutton	George Cherneley[3]
1554 (Apr)	William Allestry	George Stringer[3]
1554 (Nov)	William More	William Bainbridge[3]
1555	Richard Ward	William Allestry[3]
1558	James Thatcher	William Bainbridge[3]
1558/9	Richard Doughty	William Bainbridge[4]
1562/3	William More	William Bainbridge[4]
1571	Robert Stringer	William Bainbridge[4]
1572	Robert Stringer	Tristram Tyrwhitt, expelled and repl. 1576 by Robert Bainbridge[4]
1584	Sir Henry Beaumont	William Botham[4]
1586 (Sep)	William Botham	Robert Bainbridge[4]
1588/9	Richard Fletcher	William Botham[4]
1593	Robert Stringer	William Botham[4]
1597	Henry Duport	Robert Stringer[4]
1601 (Oct)	Peter Eure	John Baxter[4]
1604–1611	John Baxter	Edward Sleighe
1614	Gilbert Kniveton
1621–1622	Timothy Leeving	Edward Leech
1624	Timothy Leeving	Sir Edward Leech
1625	Timothy Leeving	Sir Edward Leech
1626	Sir Henry Crofts	John Thoroughgood
1628–1629	Philip Mainwaring	Timothy Leeving
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640–1950

Sir William Harcourt

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second 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;

• Liberal: Raymond Asquith
• Labour: James Henry Thomas
• Unionist: Arthur Edward Beck

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	Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas	25,215	27.0	-10.8
	Liberal	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	Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas	24,887	29.0	+2.0
	Labour	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	Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas	27,423	25.7	-3.3
	Unionist	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	Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas	39,688	30.0	+4.3
	Labour	William 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	Rt Hon. James Henry Thomas	49,257	36.4
	Conservative	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	William Allan Reid	37,707	30.19
	National Labour	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;

• Labour: Philip John Noel-Baker and A E Hunter^[17]
• Conservative: P C Cooper-Parry^[18]
• National Labour: Archibald George Church^[19]

General Election 1945: Derby (2 seats)^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Philip John Noel-Baker	42,196	33.60
	Labour	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

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

References

1. The history of Derby, William Hutton.
2. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 22 September 2011.
3. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 22 September 2011.
4. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 22 September 2011.
5. The election of 1847 was declared void on petition; neither Strutt nor Leveson-Gower was a candidate in the resulting by-election
6. Horsfall's election was subsequently declared void, and Heyworth declared elected in his place
7. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
9. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
10. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
11. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
12. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
13. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
14. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
15. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
16. F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
17. Report of the Annual Conference, 1939
18. Derby Daily Telegraph, 24 Jan 1939
19. Derby Daily Telegraph, Mar 1939

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• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)