Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom 1801 1885

Buckinghamshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was 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 1885. Its most prominent member was Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

This county constituency consisted of the historic county of Buckinghamshire, in south eastern England to the north west of the modern Greater London region. Its southern boundary was the River Thames. See History of Buckinghamshire for maps of the historic county and details about it. The county returned two knights of the shire until 1832 and three 1832–1885. The place of election for the county was at the county town of Aylesbury. Aylesbury replaced Buckingham as the county town in 1529. The county, up to 1885, also contained the borough constituencies of Amersham (originally enfranchised with 2 seats from 1300, revived 1625, disenfranchised 1832), Aylesbury (originally enfranchised with 2 seats from 1302, revived 1554), Buckingham (2 seats from 1529, 1 seat from 1868), Chipping Wycombe (2 seats from 1300, 1 seat from 1868), Great Marlow (2 seats 1625–1868, 1 seat from 1868) and Wendover (2 seats 1625–1832, disenfranchised 1832). In 1885 the county was split into three single member county divisions. These were Aylesbury, Buckingham and Wycombe. Aylesbury, Buckingham, Chipping Wycombe and Great Marlow were disenfranchised as borough constituencies. There were no remaining Parliamentary boroughs in the county from 1885.

Preliminary note: The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). The year used in the lists of Parliaments in this article have been converted to the new style where necessary. Old style dates would be a year earlier than the new style for days between 1 January and 24 March. No attempt has been made to compensate for the eleven days which did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland as well as other British controlled territories (when the day after 2 September was 14 September), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar. Constituency created (1265): See Simon de Montfort's Parliament for further details. Knights of the shire are known to have been summoned to most Parliaments from 1290 (19th Parliament of King Edward I of England) and to every one from 1320 (19th Parliament of King Edward II of England).

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party April 1660Thomas Tyrrell Sir William Bowyer, 1st Bt. August 1660William Tyringham 1679Hon. Thomas Wharton WhigJohn Hampden 1681Richard Hampden Whig1685Viscount Brackley Whig1689Sir Thomas Lee, 1st Bt. 1690Richard Hampden Whig1695Sir Richard Atkins, 2nd Bt. February 1696The Viscount Newhaven ToryDecember 1696Henry Neale 1698Goodwin Wharton Whig1701Robert Dormer 1702The Viscount Newhaven Tory1704Sir Richard Temple, 4th Bt. Whig1705Robert Dormer 1706William Egerton 1708Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Bt. Richard Hampden 1710The Viscount Fermanagh Tory1713John Fleetwood 1715Richard Hampden 1722Montague Garrard Drake Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. 1727Sir William Stanhope Richard Hampden (died 1728) 1729 Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. 1741Richard Grenville WhigRichard Lowndes 1747Sir William Stanhope 1768The Earl Verney Whig John Smith WhigBenjamin Disraeli Conservative 1857 William Cavendish Whig 1859Liberal 1863 by election Robert Harvey Conservative 1868Nathaniel Lambert Liberal 1874Sir Robert Harvey, Bt Conservative1876 by electionHon. Thomas Fremantle Conservative 1880Rupert Carington Liberal 1885Constituency divided. See Aylesbury, Buckingham and Wycombe