Derby (UK Parliament constituency)
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 | - |
| 1297 | William Bourne de Derby | Nicklos de Lorimer | - |
| 1299 | Nicklos de Lorimer | Gervase de Derby | - |
| 1301 | Gervase de Wilnye | Adam le Rede | - |
| 1304 | John de la Corne | Richard Cardoyl | - |
| 1305 | John de Chaddesdon | Gervase de Wileyne | - |
| 1306 | Hugh Alibon | Peter la Chapman | - |
| 1307 | John Chaddesdon | Gervase de Wilney | - |
| 1310 | Henry Alwaston | Thomas de Stade | - |
| 1311 | Thomas del Sted | Henry Bindetton | - |
| 1312 | Geffry de Leycestre | Robert de Breydsale | - |
| 1313 | John Fitz John | Henry Lomb | - |
| 1314 | Adam le Rede | William de Aleby | - |
| 1314 | William de Aleby | Adam le Rede | - |
| 1318 | Simon de Chester | Richard Breddon | - |
| 1318 | Alexander de Holand | John de Weston | - |
| 1325 | Henry le Carpenter | John Fitz Richard | - |
| 1327 | John Fitz Gilbert | Ferhun Tutbury | - |
| 1328 | Simon de Chester | John Collings | - |
| 1328 | Thomas Tulaxbar | Geffry Snayth | - |
| 1330 | Simon de Nottingham | John de Weston | - |
| 1333 | Hugh Allibon | John Gibbonson | - |
| 1334 | John Gibbonson | ? | - |
| 1335 | Nicholas Langford | John Fitz Thomas | - |
| 1336 | Simon de Chester | John Gibbonson | - |
| 1337 | John Fitz William | Thomas Tuttebury | - |
| 1338 | William de Derby | John Hache | Robert Allibon |
| 1338 | William de Derby | Robert de Weston | - |
| 1338 | Simon de Chester | Robert Allibon | - |
| 1338 | Henry del Howe | Robert Saundry | - |
| 1339 | Alexander Holland | John Weston | - |
| 1339 | John Gibbonson | Thomas Preston | - |
| 1339 | Thomas Tutbury | Thomas Thurmondsley | - |
| 1341 | Thomas de Tutbury | Thomas Derby | - |
| 1341 | Richard de Trowell | Peter de Quarndon | - |
| 1342 | Simon de Nottingham | Thomas de Derby | - |
| 1344 | William de Nottingham | Simon de Chester | - |
| 1348 | William de Chaddesdon | Thomas de Tutbury | - |
| 1350 | William Gilbert | John de Chaddesdon | - |
| 1351 | Thomas Tutbury | William de Derby | - |
| 1354 | William Chester | Richard Chelford | - |
| 1355 | Thomas Tutbury | Henry Diddound | - |
| 1355 | Edmund Toucher | John Bech | - |
| 1356 | William Ennington | William Nayle | - |
| 1358 | William de Chester | William Nayle | - |
| 1361 | Peter Prentice | William de Rossington | - |
| 1362 | Peter Prentice | William de Rossington | - |
| 1363 | John Trowell | John Weeke | - |
| 1364 | John Bradon | Robert Allibon | - |
| 1365 | William Chester | John Gilbert | - |
| 1366 | John Berd | William Sese | - |
| 1369 | John de Brakkerley | William Glasyere | - |
| 1370 | John Preest | John de Brakkerley | - |
| 1372 | John Trowell | ? | - |
| 1373 | William Chester | John Gilbert | - |
| 1374 | William Pakeman | Roger Allibon | - |
| 1377 | William Groos | John de Berdee | - |
| 1378 | John Hay | Richard de Trowell | - |
| 1378 | Henry Flanstead | Roger Allibon | - |
| 1379 | Richard Dell | Roger Ashe | - |
| 1382 | Thomas Toppeleyse | John Hay | - |
| 1383 | William Pakeman | John Bowyer | - |
| 1383 | Richard de Trowell | John Gibbon | - |
| 1384 | Richard Sherman | John de Stockes | - |
| 1385 | Richard Trowell | John Dell | - |
| 1386 | John Stokkes | John Prentice I | - |
| 1388 | William Pakeman | Thomas Tappely | - |
| 1388 | William Pakeman | Hugh Adam | - |
| 1390 | John Stokkes | John Hay | - |
| 1390 | - | - | |
| 1391 | Richard Sherman | Thomas Docking | - |
| 1393 | John Stokkes | Richard Trowell | - |
| 1394 | - | - | |
| 1395 | John Stokkes | William Groos | - |
| 1397 | William Groos | Thomas Shore | - |
| 1397 | William Groos | Thomas Shore | - |
| 1399 | John Stokkes | Thomas Docking | - |
| 1401 | - | - | |
| 1402 | Elias Stokkes | Richard Trowell | - |
| 1404 | - | - | |
| 1404 | John Prentice II | John Stokkes | - |
| 1406 | Thomas Goldsmith | John Fairclough | - |
| 1407 | - | - | |
| 1410 | - | - | |
| 1411 | John Brasier | Thomas Shore | - |
| 1413 | - | - | |
| 1413 | Elias Stokkes | - | - |
| 1414 | John Prentice II | Robert Bolton | - |
| 1414 | Elias Stokkes | Thomas Ridgeway | - |
| 1415 | - | - | - |
| 1416 | Elias Stokkes | Roger Wolley | - |
| 1416 | - | - | |
| 1417 | Robert Ireland | Thomas Steppingstones | - |
| 1419 | John Sparham | Ralph Shore | - |
| 1420 | Richard Brown | Robert Smith | - |
| 1421 | Ralph Shore | Thomas Stokkes | - |
| 1421 | Ralph Shore | John Spicer | - |
| 1422 | John Stokes | John Barker | - |
| 1423 | John de Both | Elias Dell | - |
| 1424 | John Stokes | Elias Dell | - |
| 1425 | Roger Wolley | Henry Crabbe | - |
| 1427 | Nicholas Meysham | John de Stokkys | - |
| 1429 | John de Bath | Elias Stokkys | - |
| 1430 | Thomas Stokkes | Robert Smith | - |
| 1432 | John Booth | Robert Sutton | - |
| 1434 | John Bothe | Thomas Stokeys | - |
| 1436 | Thomas Stokks | Elias Tildesley | - |
| 1441 | Thomas Stokkys | Henry Spicer | - |
| 1446 | Thomas Chatley | Robert Mundy | - |
| 1448 | Thomas Chatterley | John Spicer | - |
| 1449 | Richard Chitterley | Thomas Chitterley | - |
| 1450 | Thomas Acard | Thomas Bradshawe | - |
| 1454 | John Bird | Edward Lovel | - |
| 1459 | John Bird | William Hunter | - |
| 1468 | Thomas Bakynton | Thomas Allestre | - |
| 1473 | John Newton | Roger Wilkinson | - |
| 1478 | John Briddle | John Newton | - |
| 1510–1523 | No names known | - | - |
| 1529 | Thomas Ward | Henry Ainsworth | - |
| 1536 | ? | - | - |
| 1539 | ? | - | - |
| 1542 | Thomas Sutton | William Allestry | - |
| 1545 | Thomas Sutton | William Allestry | - |
| 1547 | Thomas Sutton | Robert Ragg | - |
| 1553 | Robert Ragg | William Allestry | - |
| 1553 | Thomas Sutton | George Cherneley | - |
| 1554 | William Allestry | George Stringer | - |
| 1554 | William More | William Bainbridge | - |
| 1555 | Richard Ward | William Allestry | - |
| 1558 | James Thatcher | William Bainbridge | - |
| 1558/9 | Richard Doughty | William Bainbridge | - |
| 1562/3 | William More | William Bainbridge | - |
| 1571 | Robert Stringer | William Bainbridge | - |
| 1572 | Robert Stringer | Tristram Tyrwhitt, expelled and repl. 1576 by Robert Bainbridge | - |
| 1584 | Sir Henry Beaumont | William Botham | - |
| 1586 | William Botham | Robert Bainbridge | - |
| 1588/9 | Richard Fletcher | William Botham | - |
| 1593 | Robert Stringer | William Botham | - |
| 1597 | Henry Duport | Robert Stringer | - |
| 1601 | Peter Eure | John Baxter | - |
| 1604–1611 | John Baxter | Edward Sleighe | - |
| 1614 | Gilbert Kniveton | Arthur Turnor | - |
| 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 | No Parliaments summoned | - |
1640–1950
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 the 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 Hunter
- Conservative: P C Cooper-Parry
- National Labour: Archibald Church