Changes in Parliamentary Boundaries between 1917 and 1918
Apr 12, 2017 18:30:27 GMT
Adrian and islington like this
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 12, 2017 18:30:27 GMT
This is something I prepared many years ago and meant to post. All the changes in Parliamentary boundaries made in the Representation of the People Bill in the 1917-18 session. I'm sort of assuming, but haven't checked, that the Bill as introduced exactly copied the boundaries as proposed by the Boundary Commissions.
Changes made in Committee, 7th and 8th November 1917
1. Parliamentary Borough of Finsbury and Holborn (returning two members) was divided into two Parliamentary Boroughs (Finsbury, Holborn) each returning one member. Amendment moved by Sir James F. Remnant, Bt. (C, Finsbury, Holborn).
2. Change to the boundaries of the North and West divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Islington to move the part of Tufnell Ward proposed to be included in the West to the North division. Amendment moved by Sir George A. Touche (C, Islington, North) and supported by Rt. Hon. Thomas Lough (L, Islington, West).
3. Change to the boundaries of the Balham and Tooting and Streatham divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Wandsworth to move the part of Balham Ward proposed to be included in Streatham to the Balham and Tooting division. Amendment moved by Samuel Samuel (C, Wandsworth) and supported by Frederick Hall (C, Camberwell, Dulwich).
4. Change to the description of the constitution of the Parliamentary Borough of Hythe to take account of the fact that Folkestone is a Borough. Amendment moved by Ronald McNeill (C, Kent, St. Augustine’s).
5. Change of the name of the Parliamentary Borough of The Medway Boroughs to Rochester. Amendment moved by Sir Ernest H. Lamb (L, Rochester) and supported by Rt. Hon. Laurence Hardy (C, Kent, Ashford). A rival amendment to change the name to Chatham was proposed by Gerald F. Hohler (C, Chatham). In consequence, the Chatham division was renamed Gillingham, and the Rochester division was renamed Chatham.
6. Change of the name of the Parliamentary Borough of Morley to Batley and Morley. Amendment moved by W. Tyson Wilson (Lab, Lancashire, Westhoughton) and supported by Theodore C. Taylor (L, Lancashire, Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth).
7. Change of the name of the Parliamentary Borough of Nelson to Nelson and Colne. Amendment moved by W. Tyson Wilson (Lab, Lancashire, Westhoughton).
8. Change of the name of the Central division of the Parliamentary Borough of Plymouth to Drake. Amendment moved by A. Shirley Benn (C, Plymouth).
9. Change of the name of the East division of the Parliamentary Borough of Plymouth to Sutton. Amendment moved by A. Shirley Benn (C, Plymouth).
10. Change to the boundaries of the Montrose District of Burghs and the Parliamentary County of Forfar to remove the Borough of Kirriemuir from the Montrose District to the Parliamentary County of Forfar. Amendment moved by James Falconer (L, Forfar), and supported by Robert V.V. Harcourt (L, Montrose Burghs).
11. Change to the name of the Chester division of the Parliamentary County of Chester to City of Chester. Amendment proposed by Sir Owen C. Phillipps (C, Chester) and supported by John F.L. Brunner (L, Cheshire, Northwich), Gershom Stewart (C, Cheshire, Wirral), Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsford) and Harry Barnston (C, Cheshire, Eddisbury).
12. Change to the boundaries of the Eddisbury and Northwich divisions of the Parliamentary County of Chester to move the Urban District of Runcorn and the Civil Parish of Weston from the Eddisbury division to the Northwich division. Amendment moved by Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsford), and supported by John F.L. Brunner (L, Cheshire, Northwich) and Harry Barnston (C, Cheshire, Eddisbury).
13. Change to the boundaries of the Knutsford and Northwich divisions of the Parliamentary County of Chester to move that part of the Rural District of Runcorn which consists of the Civil Parishes of Acton Grange, Antrobus, Appleton, Crowley, Daresbury, Grappenhall, Hatton, Higher Whitley, Keckwick, Latchford Without, Lower Whitley, Moore, Newton by Daresbury, Preston on the Hill, Seven Oaks, Stockton Heath, Stretton, Thelwall, Walton Inferior and Walton Superior from the Northwich division to the Knutsford division. Amendment moved by Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsford).
14. Change to the name of the Stalybridge division of the Parliamentary County of Chester to Stalybridge and Hyde. Amendment moved by John F.L. Brunner (L, Cheshire, Northwich), and supported by Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsfor>d), William C. Anderson (Lab, Sheffield, Attercliffe) and (in his absence) Thomas O. Jacobsen (L, Cheshire, Hyde). (A drafting mistake in this amendment was corrected on Report)
15. Change to the description of the constitution of the divisions of the Parliamentary County of Cornwall to reflect the inclusion of the Isles of Scilly. Amendment moved by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Sir George Cave (C, Surrey, Kingston).
16. Change to the name of the Ashbourne division of the Parliamentary County of Derby to Western. Amendment moved by the Earl of Kerry (C, Derbyshire, Western).
17. Change to the name of the Shardlow division of the Parliamentary County of Derby to South. Amendment moved by Sir Herbert H. Raphael (L, Derbyshire, Southern) and supported by John Gretton (C, Rutlandshire) and Sir William J. Collins (L, Derby).
18. Change to the boundaries of the Torquay and Totnes divisions of the Parliamentary County of Devon to move the Urban District of Teignmouth from the Torquay division to the Totnes division. Amendment moved by Charles R. Burn (C, Devon, Torquay) and supported by Ernest F. Morrison-Bell (C, Devon, Ashburton) and Sir Francis Layland-Barrett, Bt. (L, Cornwall, St. Austell).
19. Change to the name of the Cirencester division of the Parliamentary County of Gloucester to Cirencester andÈ Tewkesbury. Amendment moved by William F. Hicks Beach (C, Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury) and supported by Hon. Allen B. Bathurst (C, Gloucestershire, Cirencester).
20. Change to the boundaries of the Cirencester, Forest of Dean and Stroud divisions of the Parliamentary County of Gloucester to move the Urban and Rural Districts of Tetbury from the Stroud division to the Cirencester Division, and the part of the Rural District of Gloucester which consists of the Civil Parishes of Barnwood, Churchdown, Down Hatherley, Elmore, Hempsted, Hucclecote, Longford, Norton, Quedgley, Sandhurst, Twigworth, Wotton St. Mary Without and Wotton Village from the Forest of Dean division to the Stroud division. Amendment moved by William F. Hicks Beach (C, Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury) and supported by Hon. Allen B. Bathurst (C, Gloucestershire, Cirencester). (A drafting amendment to this amendment was made on Report)
21. Change to the name of the Brentford division of the Parliamentary County of Middlesex to Brentford and Chiswick. Amendment moved by Herbert Nield (C, Middlesex, Ealing).
22. Change to the boundaries of the King’s Lynn and South-Western divisions of the Parliamentary County of Norfolk to move the part of the Rural District of Downham which consists of the Civil Parishes of Wiggenhall St. Germans, Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin, Wiggenhall St. Mary Magdalen, and Wiggenhall St. Peter from the South-Western division to the King’s Lynn division, and the part of the Rural District of Marshland which consists of the Civil Parishes of Outwell and Upwell from the King’s Lynn division to the South-Western division. Amendment moved by Holcombe Ingleby (C, King’s Lynn) and supported (in his absence) by Richard Winfrey (L, Norfolk, South-Western).
23. Change to the name of the Scarborough division of the Parliamentary County of York, North Riding to Scarborough and Whitby. Amendment moved by Walter R. Rea (L, Scarborough).
24. Change to the description of the constitution of the divisions of the Parliamentary County of Carmarthen to correct a clerical error that described them as consisting of parts of the Administrative County of Carnarvon.
25. Change to the name of the St. Andrews division of the Parliamentary County of Fife to Eastern. Amendment moved by Rt. Hon. Herbert H. Asquith (L, Fife, Eastern).
26. Change to the constitution of the University constituencies in England to create a new constituency of the University of London returning one member, and reduce the representation of the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Wales, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Bristol to two members. Amendment moved by Sir Philip Magnus, Bt. (C, London University) and agreed to on division (Ayes, 162; Noes, 34).
Changes made on Report, 29th November 1917
1. Change to the name of the Whitechapel division of the Parliamentary Borough of Stepney to Whitechapel and St. Georßge’s. Amendment moved by William S. Glyn-Jones (L, Tower Hamlets, Stepney) and supported by Sir J. Herbert Roberts, Bt. (L, Denbighshire, Western) and, in his absence, by William Wedgwood Benn (L, Tower Hamlets, St. George).
2. Change to the name of the Hockley division of the Parliamentary Borough of Birmingham to West Birmingham. Amendment moved by Evelyn Cecil (C, Aston Manor).
3. Change to the name of the Collyhurst division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester to Platting. Amendment moved by John E. Sutton (Lab, Manchester, East) and supported by Christopher T. Needham (L, Manchester, South-West).
4. Change to the name of the Newton Heath division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester to Clayton. Amendment moved by John E. Sutton (Lab, Manchester, East).
5. Change to the description of the Chatham and Gillingham divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Rochester to reflect the fact that Chatham is a Municipal Borough.
6. Change to the name of the Launceston division of the Parliamentary County of Cornwall to Northern. Amendment moved by Sir Francis Layland-Barrett, Bt. (L, Cornwall, St. Austell) but opposed by Sir G. Croydon Marks (C, Cornwall, Launceston).
7. Change to the name of the Bolsover division of the Parliamentary County of Derbyshire to North Eastern Derbyshire. Amendment moved by George R.H. Bowden (C, Derbyshire, North-Eastern).
8. Change to the name of the Woodstock division of the Parliamentary County of Oxford to Banbury. Amendment moved by Henry S. Staveley-Hill (C, Staffordshire, Kingswinford) and supported by Sir George Younger, Bt. (C, Ayr Burghs).
9. Change to the name of the Horsham division of the Parliamentary County of West Sussex to Horsham and Worthing. Amendment moved by Henry S. Cautley (C, Sussex, East Grinstead).
10. Change to the name of the Southern division of the Parliamentary County of Ayr and Bute to South Ayrshire. Amendment moved by Sir William P. Beale, Bt. (L, Ayrshire, Southern) and supported by Rt. Hon. Eugene Wason (L, Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire).
11. Change to the name of the Southern division of the Parliamentary County of Lanark to Lanark. Amendment moved by J.A. Murray Macdonald (L, Falkirk Burghs).
Changes made in Committee in the Lords, 23rd January 1918
1. Change to the description of the constitution of the Scotland University constituency so that the Universities are not named in the order Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, but instead in the order St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh. Amendment moved by Viscount Peel (C).
Changes made in Committee, 7th and 8th November 1917
1. Parliamentary Borough of Finsbury and Holborn (returning two members) was divided into two Parliamentary Boroughs (Finsbury, Holborn) each returning one member. Amendment moved by Sir James F. Remnant, Bt. (C, Finsbury, Holborn).
2. Change to the boundaries of the North and West divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Islington to move the part of Tufnell Ward proposed to be included in the West to the North division. Amendment moved by Sir George A. Touche (C, Islington, North) and supported by Rt. Hon. Thomas Lough (L, Islington, West).
3. Change to the boundaries of the Balham and Tooting and Streatham divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Wandsworth to move the part of Balham Ward proposed to be included in Streatham to the Balham and Tooting division. Amendment moved by Samuel Samuel (C, Wandsworth) and supported by Frederick Hall (C, Camberwell, Dulwich).
4. Change to the description of the constitution of the Parliamentary Borough of Hythe to take account of the fact that Folkestone is a Borough. Amendment moved by Ronald McNeill (C, Kent, St. Augustine’s).
5. Change of the name of the Parliamentary Borough of The Medway Boroughs to Rochester. Amendment moved by Sir Ernest H. Lamb (L, Rochester) and supported by Rt. Hon. Laurence Hardy (C, Kent, Ashford). A rival amendment to change the name to Chatham was proposed by Gerald F. Hohler (C, Chatham). In consequence, the Chatham division was renamed Gillingham, and the Rochester division was renamed Chatham.
6. Change of the name of the Parliamentary Borough of Morley to Batley and Morley. Amendment moved by W. Tyson Wilson (Lab, Lancashire, Westhoughton) and supported by Theodore C. Taylor (L, Lancashire, Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth).
7. Change of the name of the Parliamentary Borough of Nelson to Nelson and Colne. Amendment moved by W. Tyson Wilson (Lab, Lancashire, Westhoughton).
8. Change of the name of the Central division of the Parliamentary Borough of Plymouth to Drake. Amendment moved by A. Shirley Benn (C, Plymouth).
9. Change of the name of the East division of the Parliamentary Borough of Plymouth to Sutton. Amendment moved by A. Shirley Benn (C, Plymouth).
10. Change to the boundaries of the Montrose District of Burghs and the Parliamentary County of Forfar to remove the Borough of Kirriemuir from the Montrose District to the Parliamentary County of Forfar. Amendment moved by James Falconer (L, Forfar), and supported by Robert V.V. Harcourt (L, Montrose Burghs).
11. Change to the name of the Chester division of the Parliamentary County of Chester to City of Chester. Amendment proposed by Sir Owen C. Phillipps (C, Chester) and supported by John F.L. Brunner (L, Cheshire, Northwich), Gershom Stewart (C, Cheshire, Wirral), Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsford) and Harry Barnston (C, Cheshire, Eddisbury).
12. Change to the boundaries of the Eddisbury and Northwich divisions of the Parliamentary County of Chester to move the Urban District of Runcorn and the Civil Parish of Weston from the Eddisbury division to the Northwich division. Amendment moved by Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsford), and supported by John F.L. Brunner (L, Cheshire, Northwich) and Harry Barnston (C, Cheshire, Eddisbury).
13. Change to the boundaries of the Knutsford and Northwich divisions of the Parliamentary County of Chester to move that part of the Rural District of Runcorn which consists of the Civil Parishes of Acton Grange, Antrobus, Appleton, Crowley, Daresbury, Grappenhall, Hatton, Higher Whitley, Keckwick, Latchford Without, Lower Whitley, Moore, Newton by Daresbury, Preston on the Hill, Seven Oaks, Stockton Heath, Stretton, Thelwall, Walton Inferior and Walton Superior from the Northwich division to the Knutsford division. Amendment moved by Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsford).
14. Change to the name of the Stalybridge division of the Parliamentary County of Chester to Stalybridge and Hyde. Amendment moved by John F.L. Brunner (L, Cheshire, Northwich), and supported by Sir Alan J. Sykes (C, Cheshire, Knutsfor>d), William C. Anderson (Lab, Sheffield, Attercliffe) and (in his absence) Thomas O. Jacobsen (L, Cheshire, Hyde). (A drafting mistake in this amendment was corrected on Report)
15. Change to the description of the constitution of the divisions of the Parliamentary County of Cornwall to reflect the inclusion of the Isles of Scilly. Amendment moved by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Sir George Cave (C, Surrey, Kingston).
16. Change to the name of the Ashbourne division of the Parliamentary County of Derby to Western. Amendment moved by the Earl of Kerry (C, Derbyshire, Western).
17. Change to the name of the Shardlow division of the Parliamentary County of Derby to South. Amendment moved by Sir Herbert H. Raphael (L, Derbyshire, Southern) and supported by John Gretton (C, Rutlandshire) and Sir William J. Collins (L, Derby).
18. Change to the boundaries of the Torquay and Totnes divisions of the Parliamentary County of Devon to move the Urban District of Teignmouth from the Torquay division to the Totnes division. Amendment moved by Charles R. Burn (C, Devon, Torquay) and supported by Ernest F. Morrison-Bell (C, Devon, Ashburton) and Sir Francis Layland-Barrett, Bt. (L, Cornwall, St. Austell).
19. Change to the name of the Cirencester division of the Parliamentary County of Gloucester to Cirencester andÈ Tewkesbury. Amendment moved by William F. Hicks Beach (C, Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury) and supported by Hon. Allen B. Bathurst (C, Gloucestershire, Cirencester).
20. Change to the boundaries of the Cirencester, Forest of Dean and Stroud divisions of the Parliamentary County of Gloucester to move the Urban and Rural Districts of Tetbury from the Stroud division to the Cirencester Division, and the part of the Rural District of Gloucester which consists of the Civil Parishes of Barnwood, Churchdown, Down Hatherley, Elmore, Hempsted, Hucclecote, Longford, Norton, Quedgley, Sandhurst, Twigworth, Wotton St. Mary Without and Wotton Village from the Forest of Dean division to the Stroud division. Amendment moved by William F. Hicks Beach (C, Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury) and supported by Hon. Allen B. Bathurst (C, Gloucestershire, Cirencester). (A drafting amendment to this amendment was made on Report)
21. Change to the name of the Brentford division of the Parliamentary County of Middlesex to Brentford and Chiswick. Amendment moved by Herbert Nield (C, Middlesex, Ealing).
22. Change to the boundaries of the King’s Lynn and South-Western divisions of the Parliamentary County of Norfolk to move the part of the Rural District of Downham which consists of the Civil Parishes of Wiggenhall St. Germans, Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin, Wiggenhall St. Mary Magdalen, and Wiggenhall St. Peter from the South-Western division to the King’s Lynn division, and the part of the Rural District of Marshland which consists of the Civil Parishes of Outwell and Upwell from the King’s Lynn division to the South-Western division. Amendment moved by Holcombe Ingleby (C, King’s Lynn) and supported (in his absence) by Richard Winfrey (L, Norfolk, South-Western).
23. Change to the name of the Scarborough division of the Parliamentary County of York, North Riding to Scarborough and Whitby. Amendment moved by Walter R. Rea (L, Scarborough).
24. Change to the description of the constitution of the divisions of the Parliamentary County of Carmarthen to correct a clerical error that described them as consisting of parts of the Administrative County of Carnarvon.
25. Change to the name of the St. Andrews division of the Parliamentary County of Fife to Eastern. Amendment moved by Rt. Hon. Herbert H. Asquith (L, Fife, Eastern).
26. Change to the constitution of the University constituencies in England to create a new constituency of the University of London returning one member, and reduce the representation of the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Wales, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Bristol to two members. Amendment moved by Sir Philip Magnus, Bt. (C, London University) and agreed to on division (Ayes, 162; Noes, 34).
Changes made on Report, 29th November 1917
1. Change to the name of the Whitechapel division of the Parliamentary Borough of Stepney to Whitechapel and St. Georßge’s. Amendment moved by William S. Glyn-Jones (L, Tower Hamlets, Stepney) and supported by Sir J. Herbert Roberts, Bt. (L, Denbighshire, Western) and, in his absence, by William Wedgwood Benn (L, Tower Hamlets, St. George).
2. Change to the name of the Hockley division of the Parliamentary Borough of Birmingham to West Birmingham. Amendment moved by Evelyn Cecil (C, Aston Manor).
3. Change to the name of the Collyhurst division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester to Platting. Amendment moved by John E. Sutton (Lab, Manchester, East) and supported by Christopher T. Needham (L, Manchester, South-West).
4. Change to the name of the Newton Heath division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester to Clayton. Amendment moved by John E. Sutton (Lab, Manchester, East).
5. Change to the description of the Chatham and Gillingham divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Rochester to reflect the fact that Chatham is a Municipal Borough.
6. Change to the name of the Launceston division of the Parliamentary County of Cornwall to Northern. Amendment moved by Sir Francis Layland-Barrett, Bt. (L, Cornwall, St. Austell) but opposed by Sir G. Croydon Marks (C, Cornwall, Launceston).
7. Change to the name of the Bolsover division of the Parliamentary County of Derbyshire to North Eastern Derbyshire. Amendment moved by George R.H. Bowden (C, Derbyshire, North-Eastern).
8. Change to the name of the Woodstock division of the Parliamentary County of Oxford to Banbury. Amendment moved by Henry S. Staveley-Hill (C, Staffordshire, Kingswinford) and supported by Sir George Younger, Bt. (C, Ayr Burghs).
9. Change to the name of the Horsham division of the Parliamentary County of West Sussex to Horsham and Worthing. Amendment moved by Henry S. Cautley (C, Sussex, East Grinstead).
10. Change to the name of the Southern division of the Parliamentary County of Ayr and Bute to South Ayrshire. Amendment moved by Sir William P. Beale, Bt. (L, Ayrshire, Southern) and supported by Rt. Hon. Eugene Wason (L, Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire).
11. Change to the name of the Southern division of the Parliamentary County of Lanark to Lanark. Amendment moved by J.A. Murray Macdonald (L, Falkirk Burghs).
Changes made in Committee in the Lords, 23rd January 1918
1. Change to the description of the constitution of the Scotland University constituency so that the Universities are not named in the order Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, but instead in the order St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh. Amendment moved by Viscount Peel (C).
