Colchester was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election between 1885 and 1983. Before then, it elected two. In 1983, following boundary changes, the seat of Colchester was abolition and replaced by Colchester North and Colchester South and Maldon. It was reinstated in 1997, the boundaries of the current seat of Colchester being similar.
| Member [1] | Elected | Member until | Party | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry John Trotter | 1885 | 1888 | Conservative | Served as MP for Colchester since the seat's creation for the 1885 election until his death in 1888. [1] | |
| Lord Brooke | 1888 | 1892 | Conservative | Won a by-election on 18 December 1888. [1] Formerly MP for Somerset East. | |
| Herbert Naylor-Leyland | 1892 | 1895 | Conservative | Resigned seat through the Chiltern Hundreds. Later split with the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Party, becoming MP for Southport in 1898 until his death in 1899. | |
| Weetman Dickinson Pearson | 1895 | 1910 | Liberal | Industrialist and philanthropist who won the seat for the Liberal Party. Created Baron Cowdray in 1910. | |
| Laming Worthington-Evans | 1910 (January) | 1929 | Conservative | Worthington-Evans unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1906. He won the seat in January 1910, holding it until 1929, when he transferred to the London seat of Westminster St George's. He served in David Lloyd George's coalition government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions from 1916 to 1918, as Minister of Blockade in 1918, as Minister of Pensions from 1919 to 1920, as Minister without Portfolio from 1920 to 1921 and as Secretary of State for War from 1921 to 1922. | |
| Oswald Lewis | 1929 | 1945 | Conservative | A businessman of the John Lewis family, Oswald Lewis was chosen to replace Worthington-Evans. He had previous stood as a Liberal candidate in local elections in London before switching to the Conservatives. Lost the 1945 election to George Delacourt-Smith. | |
| George Delacourt-Smith | 1945 | 1950 | Labour | Delacourt-Smith was a trade unionist and Captain in the British Army during the Second World War. Served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Noel-Baker. After losing the seat in 1950, we would return to Parliament after a life peerage, becoming Baron Delacourt-Smith in 1967. | |
| Cuthbert James McCall Alport | 1950 | 1961 | Conservative | Promoted from within the Conservative Party, Alport won the seat in the 1950 general election. He held the seat until 16 February 1961, when he was created Baron Alport and the seat went to a by-election. Alport held the post of Assistant Postmaster-General between 1955 and 1957 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations between 1957 and 1959. He held the office of Minister of State for the Commonwealth Relations Office between 1959 and 1961. He was appointed High Steward of Colchester in 1967 and Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 1974. | |
| Philip Antony Fyson Buck | 1961 | 1983 | Conservative | Sir Philip Antony Fyson Buck, a barrister, was elected in the 1961 by-election, serving until 1983 when he became MP for Colchester North after boundary changes, retiring in 1992. He served as a junior minister for Defence with responsibility for the Royal Navy from 1972 to 1974. [2] | |
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