Radnorshire was created in 1542 as 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 1918. It elected one knight of the shire (MP) by the first past the post system.
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Radnorshire
Context: 1832-1868. Extract from 1837 result: the "singly" yellow major area
Seats one Replaced by Brecon and Radnor
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By 1918, having too small a relative population the area was combined with that of Breconshire to form Brecon and Radnor constituency .
MPs 1542–1604
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MPs 1604–1918
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Elections in the 1830s
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Elections in the 1840s
Wilkins' death caused a by-election.
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Walsh was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Ormathwaite and causing a by-election.
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Bradney
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Edwards
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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;
Liberal : William Lewis[17]
Unionist : Herbert Clark Lewis, 2nd Baron Merthyr[18]
Escott, Margaret. "Radnorshire" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 7 May 2020 .
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
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
The Times, 14 January 1914
‘MERTHYR’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Feb 2015 accessed 27 Aug 2016
D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
W R Williams The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)