South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Warwickshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Warwickshire
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth
Created from	Warwickshire

South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.

South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with four new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.

Boundaries

The Hundreds of Barlichway and Kington, and the Divisions of Kenilworth and Southam in the Hundred of Knightlow.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Sir Grey Skipwith, Bt	Liberal		Sir George Philips, Bt	Liberal
1835		Sir John Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative		Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon	Liberal
1836 by-election					Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1845 by-election		Lord Brooke	Conservative
1849 by-election					Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1853 by-election		Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1857					Edward Bolton King	Liberal
1859					Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative
1865		Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative
1868					John Hardy	Conservative
1874		Earl of Yarmouth	Conservative		Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt	Conservative
1880		Hon. Gilbert Leigh	Liberal
1884 by-election		Sampson Samuel Lloyd	Conservative

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)