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Revision as of 18:19, 28 January 2007
Kingston upon Hull, often simply referred to as Hull, was a parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire, electing two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1305 until 1885.
History
Kingston upon Hull was a borough constituency in the town (later city) of Hull. Until the Great Reform Act of 1832, it consisted only of the parish of St Mary's, Hull and part of Holy Trinity, Hull. This excluded parts of the urban area which had not been originally part of the town, but some of these - the rest of Holy Trinity parish, Sculcoates, Drypool, Garrisonside and part of Sutton-on-Hull - were brought into the constituency by boundary changes in 1832. This increased the population of the borough from around 16,000 to almost 50,000.
Until the Reform Act, the right to vote in Hull was vested in the freemen of the city, which made the constituency one of the larger and more competitive ones. At the general election of 1831, 2,174 voters went to the polls.
The Hull constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election, the city being divided into three single-member constituencies, Kingston upon Hull Central, Kingston upon Hull East and Kingston upon Hull West.
Members of Parliament
1640-1660
- 1640: ?
- 1640: ?
- 1640-1653: Sir Henry Vane, junior (Parliamentarian)
- 1640: Sir John Lister - died, December 1640
- 1641-1650: Peregrine Pelham (Parliamentarian)- died, 1650
Hull was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
First Protectorate Parliament (One member only)
- 1654-1655: ?
Second Protectorate Parliament (One member only)
- 1656-1658: ?
- 1659: ?
- 1659: ?
Long Parliament (restored)
- 1659-1660: Sir Henry Vane, junior
One seat vacant owing to the death of Peregrine Pelham
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1660-1885
Constituency abolished 1885
Notes
- ^ Created a baronet as Sir George Denys in 1813
References
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, “Members of the Long Parliament” (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]