Hythe was a constituency centred on the town of Hythe in Kent . It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until 1832, when its representation was reduced to one member. The constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election , and replaced with the new Folkestone and Hythe constituency.
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1918–1950 : The Municipal Boroughs of Folkestone and Hythe, the Urban District of Cheriton, and part of the Urban District of Sandgate.
1366-1640
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Townsend-Farquhar's death caused a by-election.
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204 Scot and Lot votes were placed for Fraser and Kelly, but these were rejected
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Marjoribanks resigned, causing a by-election.
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Ramsden resigned, causing a by-election.
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Edwards
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Edwards' resignation caused a by-election.
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Biron
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General Election 1914–15 :
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Sassoon
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The Liberal candidate, Hester Holland withdrew on 14 Oct 1931
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At the election of 1710, Fane and Shannon were returned as elected but, on petition, they were declared not to have been duly elected and Berners and Boteler were seated in their place.
Succeeded as baronet, January 1748.
Farnaby adopted the surname Radcliffe in 1783.
Styled Viscount Marsham from June 1801 (when his father was created Earl of Romney ).
Citations
Fisher, David R. "Hythe" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 16 April 2020 .
The Liberal Year Book, 1907
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918 . London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984 .
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
Bibliography Beatson, Robert (1807). A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807 . London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
Brunton, D.; Pennington, D. H. (1954). Members of the Long Parliament . London: George Allen & Unwin.
Cobbett, William (1808). Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 . London: Thomas Hansard. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015.
The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 . London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. 1913.
Craig, F. W. S. (1989). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services.
Neale, John E. (1949). The Elizabethan House of Commons . London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224605144 .
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)