User:Ingratis/List of MPs for Colchester, 1885–1983

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Colchester in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.

Colchester was a

Colchester South and Maldon. It was reinstated in 1997, the boundaries of the current seat of Colchester
being similar.

List

Member[1] Elected Member until Party Details
Henry John Trotter 1885 1888 Conservative Served as MP for Colchester since the seat's creation for the 1885 election until his death in 1888.[1]
Lord Brooke 1888 1892 Conservative Won a by-election on 18 December 1888.[1] Formerly MP for Somerset East.
Herbert Naylor-Leyland
 1892 1895 Conservative Resigned seat through the
Chiltern Hundreds. Later split with the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Party, becoming MP for Southport
in 1898 until his death in 1899.
Weetman Dickinson Pearson 1895 1910 Liberal Industrialist and philanthropist who won the seat for the Liberal Party. Created Baron Cowdray in 1910.
Laming Worthington-Evans
 1910 (January) 1929 Conservative Worthington-Evans unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1906. He won the seat in January 1910, holding it until 1929, when he transferred to the
Minister without Portfolio from 1920 to 1921 and as Secretary of State for War
from 1921 to 1922.
Oswald Lewis 1929 1945 Conservative A businessman of the John Lewis family, Oswald Lewis was chosen to replace Worthington-Evans. He had previous stood as a Liberal candidate in local elections in London before switching to the Conservatives. Lost the 1945 election to George Delacourt-Smith.
George Delacourt-Smith
 1945 1950 Labour Delacourt-Smith was a
Baron Delacourt-Smith
in 1967.
Cuthbert James McCall Alport
 1950 1961 Conservative Promoted from within the Conservative Party, Alport won the seat in the 1950 general election. He held the seat until 16 February 1961, when he was created Baron Alport and the seat went to a
Deputy Lieutenant of Essex
in 1974.
Philip Antony Fyson Buck
 1961 1983 Conservative Sir Philip Antony Fyson Buck, a barrister, was elected in the 1961 by-election, serving until 1983 when he became MP for Colchester North after boundary changes, retiring in 1992. He served as a junior minister for Defence with responsibility for the Royal Navy from 1972 to 1974.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Sir Antony Buck". The Times. 11 October 2003. Retrieved 20 June 2011.


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