East Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
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East Gloucestershire, formally the Eastern division of Gloucestershire and often referred to as Gloucestershire Eastern, was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote system.
The constituency was created when the Great Reform Act split Gloucestershire into eastern and western divisions, with effect from the 1832 general election.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, East Gloucestershire was abolished from the 1885 election, when the former eastern and western divisions were replaced by five new single-seat county constituencies: Cirencester, Forest of Dean, Stroud, Tewkesbury, and Thornbury.
Boundaries
1832–1885: The Hundreds of Crowthorne and Minety, Brightwell's Barrow, Bradley, Rapsgate, Bisley, Longtree, Whitstone, Kiftsgate, Westminster, Deerhurst, Slaughter, Cheltenham, Cleeve, Tibaldston, Tewkesbury, and Dudstone and King's Barton, and also the City and County of Gloucester and the Borough of Cirencester.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The constituency was the eastern division of the historic county of Gloucestershire, in South West England.
The place of election was at Gloucester. This was where the hustings were situated and electors voted by spoken declaration in public, before the secret ballot was introduced in 1872.
The qualification to vote in county elections, in the period when this constituency operated, was to be a 40 shilling freeholder.
The parliamentary borough constituencies of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury were all located in East Gloucestershire. Qualified freeholders from those boroughs could vote in the county division. Bristol was a "county of itself", so its freeholders qualified to vote in the borough, not in any county division.
Members of Parliament
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| 1832, 21 December | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Sir Berkeley Guise, Bt<ref>Died 23 July 1834.</ref> | Whig<ref name="stooks-smith">Template:Cite book</ref> | rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Hon. Henry Reynolds-Moreton | Whig<ref name="stooks-smith"/> |
| 1834, 7 August | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Sir Christopher William Codrington<ref>Died 24 June 1864.</ref> | Tory<ref name="stooks-smith"/> | |||
| 1835, 10 January | rowspan="5" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Conservative<ref name="stooks-smith"/> | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Hon. Augustus Moreton | Whig<ref name="stooks-smith"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | |
| 1841, 5 July | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Hon. Francis Charteris | Conservative<ref name="stooks-smith"/> | |||
| 1846, 27 February | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Henry Somerset<ref>Succeeded as the 8th Duke of Beaufort, 17 November 1853.</ref> | Conservative | |||
| 1854, 9 January | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt<ref>Died 29 November 1854.</ref> | Conservative | |||
| 1854, 19 December | rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Robert Stayner Holford<ref>Vacated seat 1872.</ref> | Conservative | |||
| 1864, 12 July | rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt | Conservative | |||
| 1872, 11 March | style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | John Yorke | Conservative | |||
| 1885 | constituency abolished | |||||
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
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Elections in the 1860s
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Elections in the 1850s
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References
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F. W. S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973))
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
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