Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)

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Richmond was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Richmond, which is in the north-western part of the historic county of Surrey and (since 1965) in South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) 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 by the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election. It had formerly been the northern part of the Kingston division.

The seat was abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Richmond & Barnes constituency.

Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency was created as a county division of Surrey, in the north-west corner of the historic county. It comprised the Municipal Borough of Richmond, as well as the Urban Districts of Barnes and Ham.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |	1918	Clifford Blackburn Edgar	Coalition Conservative
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1922	Harry Thomas Alfred Becker	Independent Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1922		Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1924	Sir Newton James Moore
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1932	Sir William Ray	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1937	Sir George Steven Harvie-Watt	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1959	Sir Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Richmond & Barnes

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages