Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)
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Chatham was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1832 general election, when the borough of Chatham was enfranchised under the Reform Act 1832.
It was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely repaced by the new Rochester and Chatham constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | William Leader Maberly | Liberal | |
| 1834 | George Stevens Byng | Liberal | |
| 1835 | Sir John Poo Beresford | Conservative | |
| 1837 | George Stevens Byng | Liberal | |
| 1852 | Sir John Mark Frederick Smith | Conservative | |
| 1853 | Leicester Viney Vernon | Conservative | |
| 1857 | Sir John Mark Frederick Smith | Conservative | |
| 1865 | Arthur Otway | Liberal | |
| 1874 | George Elliott | Conservative | |
| 1875 | Sir John Eldon Gorst | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Lewis Vivian Loyd | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Sir Horatio David Davies | Conservative | |
| 1906 | John Hagan Jenkins | Conservative | |
| 1910 | Gerald Fitzroy Hohler | Conservative | |
| 1918 | John Moore-Brabazon | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Sydney Frank Markham | Labour | |
| 1931 | Sir Park Goff | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Leonard Frank Plugge | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Arthur Bottomley | Labour | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished: see Rochester and Chatham | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
