Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)

Marylebone
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1885
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Marylebone East, Marylebone West, Paddington North, Paddington South, St Pancras East, St Pancras North, St Pancras South and St Pancras West
Created from	Middlesex

Marylebone was a parliamentary constituency in Middlesex, England from 1832 to 1885. The parliamentary borough formed part of the built up area of London, and returned two members to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832 and divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 into eight single member divisions (see below for details).

Boundaries

Marylebone in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used from 1868 to 1885.

Marylebone was one of five parliamentary boroughs in the metropolitan area of London enfranchised in 1832.^[1] The constituency was defined as consisting of three civil parishes in Middlesex:^[2]

• St Marylebone
• Paddington
• St Pancras

The commissioners appointed to fix parliamentary boundaries recommended that the part of St Pancras parish north of the Regent's Canal should not form part of the constituency and should remain in the parliamentary county of Middlesex as this was still a largely rural area.^[3] The inhabitants of St. Pancras, however, petitioned parliament for the inclusion of the entire parish, and this was accepted.^[4]

In 1885 the parliamentary borough was split into eight new single-member divisions. These were Marylebone East, Marylebone West, Paddington North, Paddington South, St. Pancras East, St. Pancras North, St. Pancras South and St. Pancras West.

Members of Parliament

Election			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	Edward Berkeley Portman	Liberal	Sir William Horne	Liberal
		1833 by-election	Sir Samuel St. Swithin Burden Whalley ^1	Liberal
		1835			Sir Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer	Liberal
		1837			Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt	Liberal
		1838 by-election	The Lord Teignmouth ^2	Conservative
		1841	Sir Charles Napier	Liberal
		1847	Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart	Liberal
		1854 by-election	Viscount Ebrington	Liberal
		December 1859 by-election	Edwin James	Liberal
		July 1859 by-election			The Lord Fermoy ^2	Liberal
		1861 by-election	John Harvey Lewis	Liberal
		1865			Sir Thomas Chambers	Liberal
		1874	William Forsyth	Conservative
		1880	Daniel Grant	Liberal
		1885	constituency abolished

Notes

• ¹ Election of Whalley in 1837 declared void on petition, as he could not prove his eligibility.
• ² A peer of Ireland.

Elections

Turnout, in multi-member elections, is estimated by dividing the number of votes by two. To the extent that electors did not use both their votes, the figure given will be an underestimate.

Change is calculated for individual candidates, when a party had more than one candidate in an election or the previous one. When a party had only one candidate in an election and the previous one change is calculated for the party vote.

Elections in the 1830s

General Election 1832: Marylebone (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Whig	Edward Berkeley Portman	4,317	39.1	N/A
	Whig	William Horne	3,320	30.1	N/A
	Radical	Sir Samuel St. Swithin Burden Whalley	2,165	19.6	N/A
	Chartist	Thomas Murphy	913	8.3	N/A
	Radical	Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Grove Jones	316	2.9	N/A

Marylebone by-election 1833

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Radical	Sir Samuel St. Swithin Burden Whalley	2,869	48.7	+29.1
	Conservative	Henry Thomas Hope	2,055	34.9	N/A
	Whig	Hon. Charles Augustus Murray †	791	13.4	-16.7
	Chartist	Thomas Murphy	172	2.9	-5.4

† Murray was the government-approved candidate, but withdrew from the contest prior to the completion of polling.^[5][6]

• Constituency abolished (1885)

References

1. Representation of the People Act 1832 c.45 Sch.L
2. Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 c.64 Sch.O
3. Commissioners on Proposed Division of Counties and Boundaries of Boroughs (1832). Parliamentary representation: further return to an address to His Majesty, dated 12 December, 1831; for copies of instructions given by the Secretary of State for the Home department with reference to Parliamentary representation; likewise copies of letters of reports received by the Secretary of state for the Home department in answer to such instructions. London. p. 118.
4. "House of Commons Debates 8 May 1832 vol 12 c752". Hansard 1803-2005.
5. "Mr Murray Resigns". The Times. 19 March 1833. p. 5.
6. Brooke, James Williamson (1839). The Democrats of Marylebone. London: William Jones Cleaver. pp. 144–145.

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)
• The Times, 8th Dec. 1884; p. 13.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)

External links

• MAPCO: Map And Plan Collection Online - Topographical Survey Of The Borough Of St. Marylebone 1834