Skipton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Faversham was a parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1885 general elction, and abolished nearly a hundred years later, for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Skipton & Ripon constituency
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Sir Mathew Wilson | ||
| 1886 | Walter Morrison | ||
| 1892 | Charles Savile Roundell | ||
| 1895 | Walter Morrison | ||
| 1900 | Frederick Whitley Thomson | ||
| 1906 | William Clough | ||
| 1918 | Richard Foulis Roundell | Conservative | |
| 1924 | Ernest Roy Bird | Conservative | |
| 1933 | George William Rickards | Conservative | |
| 1944 | Hugh McDowall Lawson | Common Wealth | |
| 1945 | Burnaby Drayson | Conservative | |
| 1979 | John Watson | Conservative | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
