Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Cheshire is a former United Kingdom parliamentary constituency for the county of Cheshire. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.

Cheshire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
1545–1832

As a county palatine it was unrepresented in Parliament until the Chester and Cheshire (Constituencies) Act 1542 (34 & 35 Hen. 8. c. 13). Cheshire was represented by two knights of the shire from 1545, with only County Durham out of the English counties being left unrepresented after that.

It was divided between the constituencies of North Cheshire and South Cheshire in 1832.

Members of Parliament

1545–1659

• Constituency created (1545)

Year	First member	Second member
1545	Sir Lawrence Smith	Sir Hugh Calverley
1547	Sir William Brereton	Sir Hugh Cholmley
Mar 1553	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Thomas Venables
Oct 1553		Edward Fitton (the elder)
Apr 1554	Sir Henry Delves	Richard Wilbraham
Nov 1554	Sir Richard Cotton
1555	Sir Lawrence Smith	Richard Wilbraham
1558	Richard Hough	James Done
1559	Sir William Brereton	Sir Ralph Leycester
1563	Sir Thomas Venables	William Massye
1571	Thomas Calveley	Thomas Stanley
1572	George Calveley	William Booth
1584	Thomas Egerton	Hugh Cholmondeley
1586		John Savage[1]
1589	Sir George Beeston
1593	Thomas Holcroft	John Done
1597	Sir William Brereton	Thomas Egerton
1601	Sir Peter Legh	Thomas Holcroft
1604	Sir Thomas Holcroft	Sir Roger Aston
1614	Sir William Brereton	Sir Roger Wilbraham
1621		Sir Richard Grosvenor
1624	William Booth	William Brereton
1625	Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bt	Sir Anthony St John
1626	Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet	Peter Daniell
1628		Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
April 1640	Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet
November 1640	Peter Venables
1646	George Booth
1653	Robert Duckenfield	Henry Birkenhead

• Four members returned to First Protectorate Parliament (1654)

Year	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth member
1654	John Bradshaw	Sir George Booth, Bt	Henry Brooke	John Crew
1656	Richard Legh		Thomas Marbury	Peter Brooke

1659–1832

• Two members returned to Third Protectorate Parliament (1659)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1659	John Bradshaw		Richard Legh
		1660	Sir George Booth, Bt		Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bt
		1661	The Lord Brereton		Peter Venables
		1664	Sir Fulk Lucy
		1670			Thomas Cholmondeley
		1678	Hon. Henry Booth	Whig
		February 1679			Sir Philip Egerton
		September 1679			Sir Robert Cotton, Bt	Whig
		1685	Sir Philip Egerton		Thomas Cholmondeley
		1689	Sir Robert Cotton, Bt	Whig	Sir John Mainwaring, Bt	Whig
		1702	Sir George Warburton, Bt	Tory	Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt	Tory
		1705	Langham Booth	Whig	John Offley-Crewe	Whig
		1710	Sir George Warburton, Bt	Tory	Charles Cholmondeley
		1715			Langham Booth	Whig
		1722	Charles Cholmondeley		John Offley-Crewe	Whig
		1727			Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
		1734			John Crewe
		1753			Charles Crewe
		1754			Samuel Egerton
		1756	Thomas Cholmondeley
		1768	John Crewe	Whig
		1780			Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bt
		1796			Thomas Cholmondeley
		1802	William Egerton
		1806	Davies Davenport
		1812			Wilbraham Egerton	Tory
		1830	Viscount Belgrave	Conservative
		1831			George Wilbraham	Whig

• Constituency abolished (1832)

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Cheshire

References

• Cheshire Gentry
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)

1. Mimardière, A. M. (1981). "SAVAGE, John (1554-1615), of Clifton, Cheshire.". In Hasler, P. W. (ed.). The House of Commons 1558–1603. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 24 July 2023.