Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Yorkshire, East Riding, Buckrose Division County constituency |
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| Created: | 1885 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Buckrose was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a county constituency comprising the northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, represented by one Member of Parliament, and was created for the 1885 general election.
It was redefined in 1918 as covering the borough of Bridlington, the urban districts of Great Driffield, Filey, Norton and the rural districts of Bridlington, Driffield, Norton and Sherburn.
Buckrose was abolished for the 1950 general election, when boundary changes reduced the East Riding's number of county constituencies from three to two, the eastern part of the constituency and most of the voters being included in the new Bridlington constituency and the remainder in the Beverley constituency.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the northern third of the East Riding. The largest town was Bridlington, but the constituency also included Filey, Driffield and Norton, as well numerous villages, and the rural element was predominant. At the time of the 1921 census, almost two-fifths (38%) of the occupied male population were engaged in agriculture.
[edit] Name
Buckrose took its name from the wapentake of Buckrose, one of the medieval sub-divisions of the East Riding which, however, had long ceased to have much administrative significance by 1885, and had covered only part of the area of the constituency and a minority of its population. (The constituency also included the whole of the former wapentake of Dickering, which included Bridlington and Filey, and part of the wapentake of Harthill which included Driffield.) The name seems to have been chosen primarily to avoid offending any local sensibilities, and with little regard for comprehensibility (a criticism also levelled at many of the other new constituency names created under the 1885 Reform Act).
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1885 – 1886: Christopher Sykes (Conservative)
- 1886 – 1886: William Alexander McArthur (Gladstonian Liberal) (At the General Election of 1886, McArthur was declared the victor over Sykes by a single vote, 3,742 to 3,741, and took his seat, but "on scrutiny" the seat was eventually awarded to his opponent, Sykes)
- 1886 – 1892: Christopher Sykes (Conservative)
- 1892 – 1900: Sir Angus Holden (Gladstonian Liberal)
- 1900 – 1918: Sir Luke White (Liberal)
- 1918 – 1922: Algernon Henry Moreing (Coalition Liberal)
- 1922 – 1926: Sir Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt (Conservative) (resigned))
- 1926 – 1945: Albert Newby Braithwaite (Conservative)
- 1945 – 1950: George Wadsworth (Liberal)
[edit] References
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49" (Glasgow: Parliamentary Research Services, 1969)
- Michael Kinnear, "The British Voter" (London: Batsford, 1968)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II" (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- "The Constitutional Yearbook, 1913" (London: National Unionist Association, 1913)
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
