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 1900 it was one of the first two constituencies to elect a member from the then newly formed Labour Party, along with Merthyr Tydfil.
In 1950 the constituency was abolished and replaced by the two single-member constituencies of Derby North and Derby South.
Boundaries 1885–1918: The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the municipal borough of Derby as was not already included in the parliamentary borough.
Members of Parliament
1294–1640
ParliamentFirst memberSecond member 1294 William de la CornereRandalph Makeneye 1297 William Bourne de DerbyNicklos de Lorimer 1299 Nicklos de LorimerGervase de Derby 1301 Gervase de WilnyeAdam le Rede 1304 John de la CorneRichard Cardoyl 1305 John de ChaddesdonGervase de Wileyne 1306 Hugh AlibonPeter la Chapman 1307 John ChaddesdonGervase de Wilney 1310 Henry AlwastonThomas de Stade 1311 Thomas del StedHenry Bindetton 1312 Geffry de LeycestreRobert de Breydsale 1313 John Fitz JohnHenry Lomb 1314 Adam le RedeWilliam de Aleby 1314 William de AlebyAdam le Rede 1318 Simon de ChesterRichard Breddon 1318 Alexander de HolandJohn de Weston 1325 Henry le CarpenterJohn Fitz Richard 1327 John Fitz GilbertFerhun Tutbury 1328 Simon de ChesterJohn Collings 1328 Thomas TulaxbarGeffry Snayth 1330 Simon de NottinghamJohn de Weston 1333 Hugh AllibonJohn Gibbonson 1334 John Gibbonson ? 1335 Nicholas LangfordJohn Fitz Thomas 1336 Simon de ChesterJohn Gibbonson 1337 John Fitz WilliamThomas Tuttebury 1338 William de DerbyJohn HacheRobert Allibon 1338Robert de Weston 1338 Simon de ChesterRobert Allibon 1338 Henry del HoweRobert Saundry 1339 Alexander HollandJohn Weston 1339 John GibbonsonThomas Preston 1339 Thomas TutburyThomas Thurmondsley 1341 Thomas de TutburyThomas Derby 1341 Richard de TrowellPeter de Quarndon 1342 Simon de NottinghamThomas de Derby 1344 William de NottinghamSimon de Chester 1348 William de ChaddesdonThomas de Tutbury 1350 William GilbertJohn de Chaddesdon 1351 Thomas TutburyWilliam de Derby 1354 William ChesterRichard Chelford 1355 Thomas TutburyHenry Diddound 1355 Edmund ToucherJohn Bech 1356 William EnningtonWilliam Nayle 1358 William de Chester 1361 Peter PrenticeWilliam de Rossington 1362 1363 John TrowellJohn Weeke 1364 John BradonRobert Allibon 1365 William ChesterJohn Gilbert 1366 John BerdWilliam Sese 1369 John de BrakkerleyWilliam Glasyere 1370 John PreestJohn de Brakkerley 1372 John Trowell ? 1373 William ChesterJohn Gilbert 1374 William PakemanRoger Allibon 1377 William GroosJohn de Berdee 1378 John HayRichard de Trowell 1378 Henry FlansteadRoger Allibon 1379 Richard DellRoger Ashe 1382 Thomas ToppeleyseJohn Hay 1383 William PakemanJohn Bowyer 1383 Richard de TrowellJohn Gibbon 1384 Richard ShermanJohn de Stockes 1385 Richard TrowellJohn Dell 1386John StokkesJohn Prentice I 1388 (Feb) William PakemanThomas Tappely 1388 (Sep)Hugh Adam 1390 (Jan) John StokkesJohn Hay 1390 (Nov) 1391Richard ShermanThomas Docking 1393John StokkesRichard Trowell 1394 1395John StokkesWilliam Groos 1397 (Jan) William GroosThomas Shore 1397 (Sep) 1399John StokkesThomas Docking 1401 1402Elias StokkesRichard Trowell 1404 (Jan) 1404 (Oct) John Prentice IIJohn Stokkes 1406Thomas GoldsmithJohn Fairclough 1407 1410 1411John BrasierThomas Shore 1413 (Feb) 1413 (May) Elias Stokkes 1414 (Apr) John Prentice IIRobert Bolton 1414 (Nov) Elias StokkesThomas Ridgeway 1415 1416 (Mar) Elias StokkesRoger Wolley 1416 (Oct) 1417Robert IrelandThomas Steppingstones 1419John SparhamRalph Shore 1420Richard BrownRobert Smith 1421 (May) Ralph ShoreThomas Stokkes 1421 (Dec)John Spicer 1422 John StokesJohn Barker 1423 John de BothElias Dell 1424 John Stokes 1425 Roger WolleyHenry Crabbe 1427 Nicholas MeyshamJohn de Stokkys 1429 John de BathElias Stokkys 1430 Thomas StokkesRobert Smith 1432 John BoothRobert Sutton 1434 John BotheThomas Stokeys 1436 Thomas StokksElias Tildesley 1441 Thomas StokkysHenry Spicer 1446 Thomas ChatleyRobert Mundy 1448 Thomas ChatterleyJohn Spicer 1449 Richard ChitterleyThomas Chitterley 1450 Thomas AcardThomas Bradshawe 1454 John BirdEdward Lovel 1459William Hunter 1468 Thomas BakyntonThomas Allestre 1473 John NewtonRoger Wilkinson 1478 John BriddleJohn Newton 1510–1523 No names known 1529Thomas WardHenry Ainsworth 1536? 1539? 1542Thomas SuttonWilliam Allestry 1545 1547Robert Ragg 1553 (Mar) Robert RaggWilliam Allestry 1553 (Oct) Thomas SuttonGeorge Cherneley 1554 (Apr) William AllestryGeorge Stringer 1554 (Nov) William MoreWilliam Bainbridge 1555Richard WardWilliam Allestry 1558James ThatcherWilliam Bainbridge 1558–9 Richard DoughtyWilliam Bainbridge 1562–3 William More 1571Robert Stringer 1572Tristram Tyrwhitt, expelled and repl. 1576 by Robert Bainbridge 1584Sir Henry BeaumontWilliam Botham 1586 (Sep) William BothamRobert Bainbridge 1588–9 Richard FletcherWilliam Botham 1593Robert Stringer 1597Henry DuportRobert Stringer 1601 (Oct) Peter EureJohn Baxter 1604–1611 John BaxterEdward Sleighe 1614 Gilbert KnivetonArthur Turnor 1621–1622 Timothy LeevingEdward Leech 1624Sir Edward Leech 1625 1626 Sir Henry CroftsJohn Thoroughgood 1628–1629 Philip MainwaringTimothy Leeving 1629–1640No Parliaments summoned
1640–1950
YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond partyNovember 1640 William Allestry Royalist Nathaniel Hallowes ParliamentarianOctober 1643Allestry disabled to sit – seat vacant1645 Thomas Gell December 1648Gell excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant1653Derby was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament1654 Gervase Bennet Derby had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the ProtectorateJanuary 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 Whig1710 Richard Pye 1710 Sir Richard Levinge John Harpur 1711 Edward Mundy 1713Nathaniel Curzon 1715 Lord James Cavendish William Stanhope Whig1722 Thomas Bayley 1727 William Stanhope Whig1730 Charles Stanhope 1736 John Stanhope 1742 Viscount Duncannon 1748 Thomas Rivett 1754 Lord Frederick Cavendish Whig George Venables-Vernon 1762 William Fitzherbert 1772 Wenman Coke Whig1775 John Gisborne 1776 Daniel Coke Tory 1780 Lord George Cavendish Edward Coke Whig1797 George Walpole 1806 William Cavendish 1807 Thomas Coke 1807 Edward Coke 1812 Henry Cavendish 1818 Thomas William Coke Whig1826 Samuel Crompton Whig1830 Edward Strutt Whig1835 John Ponsonby Whig1847The election of 1847 was declared void on petition; neither Strutt nor Leveson-Gower was a candidate in the resulting by-election Hon. Frederick Leveson-Gower Whig 1848 Michael Thomas Bass Radical Lawrence Heyworth Radical1852 Thomas HorsfallHorsfall's election was subsequently declared void, and Heyworth declared elected in his placeConservative1853 Lawrence Heyworth Radical1857Samuel Beale Radical1859Liberal Liberal1865 William Thomas Cox Conservative1868 Samuel Plimsoll Liberal1880 Sir William Vernon-Harcourt 1883 Thomas Roe 1895Sir Henry Howe Bemrose Conservative Geoffrey Drage Conservative 1900 Sir Thomas Roe Liberal Richard Bell Labour1904Liberal1910 J. H. Thomas Labour1916Sir William Job Collins 1918 Albert Green Conservative1922 Charles Roberts Liberal1923 William Raynes Labour1924Sir Richard Luce Conservative1929 William Raynes Labour1931 William Allan Reid ConservativeNational Labour1936 Philip Noel-Baker Labour1945 Clifford Wilcock Labour1950 Constituency split into North and South seats
Elections Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Strutt was appointed Chief Commissioner of Railways, requiring a by-election.
Ponsonby succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl of Bessborough, causing a by-election.
The election was declared void on petition due to bribery and treating by Strutt's and Leveson-Gower's agents, and the writ suspended in March 1848, later causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s
Horsfall's election was in March 1853 declared void due to bribery, and Heyworth was declared elected in his place.
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Plimsoll's resignation caused a by-election.
Bass' resignation caused a by-election.
Harcourt's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1890s
Harcourt's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer requires a by-election.
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Liberal: Raymond Asquith Labour: J. H. Thomas Unionist: Arthur Edward Beck
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
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 Noel-Baker and A E HunterReport of the Annual Conference, 1939 Conservative: P C Cooper-ParryDerby Daily Telegraph, 24 January 1939 National Labour: Archibald ChurchDerby Daily Telegraph, Mar 1939
See also List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies Unreformed House of Commons
References Notes
References
D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)