Stretford (UK Parliament constituency)
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Stretford was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was replaced by the new Stretford and Urmston constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | William Agnew | ||
| 1886 | Sir John William Maclure | ||
| 1901 | Charles Cripps | Unionist | |
| 1906 | Harry Nuttall | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Thomas Robinson | Liberal, then Constitutionalist, then Independent | |
| 1931 | Gustav Adolph Renwick | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Anthony Crommelin Crossley | Conservative | |
| 1939 | Ralph Humphrey Etherton | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Herschel Lewis Austin | Labour | |
| 1950 | Sir Samuel Storey | Conservative | |
| 1966 | Ernest Arthur Davies | Conservative | |
| 1970 | Winston Churchill | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Tony Lloyd | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Stretford and Urmston | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
