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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
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Cheshire is a former United Kingdom parliamentary constituency for the county of Cheshire. 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 1832.
As a county palatine it was unrepresented in Parliament until the Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542 (34 & 35 Hen. 8. c. 13). Cheshire was represented by two knights of the shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that.
It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832.
Year | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
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1654 | John Bradshaw | Sir George Booth, Bt | Henry Brooke | John Crew |
1656 | Richard Legh | Thomas Marbury | Peter Brooke |
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1659 | John Bradshaw | Richard Legh | ||||
1660 | Sir George Booth, Bt | Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bt | ||||
1661 | The Lord Brereton | Peter Venables | ||||
1664 | Sir Fulk Lucy | |||||
1670 | Thomas Cholmondeley | |||||
1678 | Hon. Henry Booth | Whig | ||||
February 1679 | Sir Philip Egerton | |||||
September 1679 | Sir Robert Cotton, Bt | Whig | ||||
1685 | Sir Philip Egerton | Thomas Cholmondeley | ||||
1689 | Sir Robert Cotton, Bt | Whig | Sir John Mainwaring, Bt | Whig | ||
1702 | Sir George Warburton, Bt | Tory | Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt | Tory | ||
1705 | Langham Booth | Whig | John Offley-Crewe | Whig | ||
1710 | Sir George Warburton, Bt | Tory | Charles Cholmondeley | |||
1715 | Langham Booth | Whig | ||||
1722 | Charles Cholmondeley | John Offley-Crewe | Whig | |||
1727 | Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt | |||||
1734 | John Crewe | |||||
1753 | Charles Crewe | |||||
1754 | Samuel Egerton | |||||
1756 | Thomas Cholmondeley | |||||
1768 | John Crewe | Whig | ||||
1780 | Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt | |||||
1796 | Thomas Cholmondeley | |||||
1802 | William Egerton | |||||
1806 | Davies Davenport | |||||
1812 | Wilbraham Egerton | Tory | ||||
1830 | Viscount Belgrave | Conservative | ||||
1831 | George Wilbraham | Whig |
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