Petersfield (UK Parliament constituency) Totally Explained

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Petersfield was an English Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire. It existed for several hundred years until its abolition for the 1983 general election.
Until 1832, it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Thereater, its representation was reduced to one member until its abolition in 1983.

Members of Parliament

MPs for Petersfield borough (1547-1885)

1547-1660

1660-1832

Year		irst member	econd member
April 1660		Thomas Cole	Arthur Bold
1661		Sir Humphrey Bennet
1668		Thomas Neale
1677		Thomas Neale	Leonard Bilson
1679		Sir John Norton	Leonard Bilson
1685		Sir John Norton	Thomas Bilson
1689		Robert Michell	Thomas Bilson
1690			Richard Holt
1698			Peter Bettesworth
January 1701		Ralph Bucknall	Richard Markes
November 1701		Robert Michell	Richard Markes
1704		Robert Michell	Leonard Bilson
1705		Norton Powlett	Leonard Bilson
1715			Samuel Pargiter-Fuller
1722			Edmund Miller
January 1727			Joseph Taylor
May 1727			Edmund Miller
August 1727			Joseph Taylor
1734		Sir William Jolliffe	Edward Gibbon
1741		John Jolliffe	Francis Fane
1747			William Conolly
February 1754			William Gerard Hamilton
April 1754		William Beckford
December 1754		Sir John Philipps
1761		John Jolliffe	Richard Pennant
1767		John Jolliffe	Richard Croftes
1768		William Jolliffe	Welbore Ellis
1774			Sir Abraham Hume
1780			Thomas Samuel Jolliffe
1787			The Viscount Downe
June 1790			Hon. George Augustus North
December 1790			Marquess of Titchfield
1791			Welbore Ellis
1795			Hon. Charles Greville
1796			Hylton Jolliffe
1797			Sir John Sinclair
March 1802		Hylton Jolliffe	Sir John Sinclair
July 1802			William Draper Best
1806			Hon. John Ward
1807			Booth Grey
October 1812			George Canning
December 1812			George Canning, junior
March 1820			The Lord Hotham
June 1820			Sir Philip Musgrave
1825			James Law Lushington
1826			William Marshall
1830		Sir William Jolliffe	Gilbert East Jolliffe
1832	Representation reduced to one member

1832-1885

Year		ember
1832		John George Shaw-Lefevre
1833		Sir William Jolliffe
1835		Cornthwaite Hector
1837		Sir William Jolliffe
1838		Cornthwaite Hector
1841		Sir William Jolliffe
1866		William Nicholson
1874		William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe
1880		William Nicholson
1885	Borough abolished - name transferred to county division

MPs for Petersfield county constituency (1885-1983)

Year		ember	arty
1885		Viscount Wolmer	Liberal
1886		Viscount Wolmer	Liberal Unionist
1892		William Wickham
1897		William Graham Nicholson	Conservative
1935		Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith	Conservative
1941		Sir George Jeffreys	Conservative
1951		Peter Legh	Conservative
1960		Joan Quennell	Conservative
1974		Michael Mates	Conservative
1983	Constituency abolished

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