Tynemouth and North Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

Tynemouth and North Shields
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Northumberland (now Tyne and Wear)
1832–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Tynemouth
Created from	Northumberland

Tynemouth and North Shields was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1832 and 1885. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency was based upon the communities of Tynemouth and North Shields, in the part of the historic county of Northumberland which has (since 1974) been in Tyne and Wear.

Tynemouth was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1849 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. The borough covered the whole area east of Wallsend and south of Whitley Bay, including the less historic but more economically significant town of North Shields as well as smaller villages such as New York and Cullercoats.

From 1885 approximately the same area as the Tynemouth and North Shields constituency comprised a seat named Tynemouth.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1832	George Frederick Young	Liberal ^1	1837: Unseated on petition
	1837	Sir Charles Edward Grey	Liberal ^1	1837: Declared duly elected on petition
	1841	Henry Mitcalfe	Liberal ^1
	1847	Ralph William Grey	Liberal ^1
	1852	Hugh Taylor	Conservative	April 1853: Unseated and election declared void on petition
	1854 by-election	William Schaw Lindsay	Liberal ^1	30 March 1854 by-election
	1859	Hugh Taylor	Conservative	April 1861: Resigned
	1861 by-election	Richard Hodgson	Conservative	23 April 1861 by-election
	1865	George Otto Trevelyan	Liberal
	1868	Thomas Eustace Smith	Liberal	Last MP for the constituency
Constituency abolished (1885)

Supplemental Note:-

• ¹ F. W. S. Craig, in his compilations of election results for Great Britain, classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.

Elections

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

References

• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)