Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

Flint Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

in north-east Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

which returned one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

(MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1918 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1918

The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...

Boundaries

From its first known general election in 1542 until 1918, the constituency consisted of a number of boroughs within the historic county of Flintshire

Flintshire (historic)

Flintshire , also known as the County of Flint, is one of thirteen historic counties, a vice-county and a former administrative county, which mostly lies on the north east coast of Wales....

in north-east Wales. The seat should not be confused with the county constituency of Flintshire

Flintshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Flintshire was a parliamentary constituency in North-East Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.- Boundaries :...

, which existed from the 16th century until 1950.

After 1918 Flintshire was represented in Parliament by the single member county constituency, which included all the boroughs formerly in the Flint District of Boroughs.

Flint 1535-1832

On the basis of information from several volumes of the History of Parliament, it is apparent that the history of the borough representation of Wales and Monmouthshire is more complicated than that of the English boroughs.

The Laws in Wales Act 1535 (26 Hen. VIII, c. 26) provided for a single borough seat for each of 11 of the 12 Welsh counties and Monmouthshire. The legislation was ambiguous as to which communities were enfranchised. The county towns were awarded a seat, but these seats in some way represented all the ancient boroughs of the county, as the boroughs other than county towns were also required to contribute to the members' wages. It is not clear whether the burgesses of the contributing boroughs could vote in the election. The only election under the original scheme was that for the 1542 Parliament. It seems that only burgesses from the county towns actually took part. An Act of 1544 (35 Hen. VIII, c. 11) confirmed that the contributing boroughs could send representatives to take part in the election at the county town. As far as can be told from surviving indentures of returns, the degree to which the out boroughs participated varied, but by the end of the 16th century all the seats had some participation from them at some elections at least.

The original scheme was modified by later legislation and decisions of the House of Commons (which were sometimes made with no regard to precedent or evidence: for example in 1728 it was decided that only the freemen of the borough of Montgomery

Montgomery

-In France:* Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery, a commune in département Calvados, Normandy* Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery, idem* Colleville-Montgomery, idem-In Pakistan:...

could participate in the election for that seat, thus disenfranchising the freemen of Llanidloes

Llanidloes

Llanidloes is a town along the A470 road and B4518 road in Powys, within the historic county boundaries of Montgomeryshire , Mid Wales.It is the first town on the River Severn...

, Welshpool

Welshpool

Welshpool is a town in Powys, Wales, or ancient county Montgomeryshire, from the Wales-England border. The town is low-lying on the River Severn; the Welsh language name Y Trallwng literally meaning 'the marshy or sinking land'...

and Llanfyllin

Llanfyllin

Llanfyllin is a small town in Powys, Mid Wales, United Kingdom.- Location, history and amenities :Llanfyllin's population at the date of the 2001 Census was 1,407. The town lies on the River Cain by the Berwyn Mountains in Montgomeryshire. It is known for its holy well, dedicated to Saint Myllin....

).

In the case of Flintshire, the county town was Flint. The out boroughs were Caergwrle

Caergwrle

Caergwrle is a village in the county of Flintshire, in north east Wales. Approximately 5–6 miles from Wrexham and situated on the A541 road, it is contiguous with the village of Abermorddu and closely related to the village of Hope . The village lies on the River Alyn and sits at the base of Hope...

, Caerwys

Caerwys

Caerwys is a town in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated just under two miles from the A55 North Wales Expressway and one mile from the A541 Mold-Denbigh road. At the 2001 Census, the population of Caerwys civil parish was 1,315, with a total ward population of 2,496.Caerwys is mentioned in the...

, Overton

Overton

-People:* Constantine Overton* David M. Overton* Doug Overton* Edward Overton, Jr. , United States representative from Pennsylvania* Elli Overton* Frank Overton* Guy Overton* Hall Overton* Iain Overton...

and Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan is a town and community in the county of Denbighshire , in north Wales. It is situated to the south of the coastal town of Rhyl and overlooks the River Clwyd. The town gave its name to the Welsh district of Rhuddlan from 1974 to 1996...

.

In 1690-1715 the freemen of the five boroughs were entitled to vote. The exact number is unknown, but in the only poll of the period (a by-election in 1697) there were 760 voters.

Between 1715 and 1754 the House of Commons changed the franchise of the constituency. In 1727 there were about 1000 freemen entitled to vote. Thereafter the inhabitants of the five boroughs, paying scot and lot

Scot and lot

Scot and lot is a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to householders who were assessed for a tax paid to the borough for local or national purposes.They were usually members of a merchant guild.Before the Reform Act 1832, those who paid scot and bore...

(a local tax), formed the electorate. They numbered about 600.

From 1754 to 1790, there were still about 600 voters. Namier and Brooke point out that the constituency was controlled by local squires. No election went to a poll in that period.

Flint Boroughs 1832-1918

The Flint Boroughs was a district of boroughs constituency, which grouped a number of parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

Parliamentary boroughs are a type of administrative division, usually covering urban areas, that are entitled to representation in a Parliament...

s in Flintshire into one single member constituency. The voters from each participating borough cast ballots, which were added together over the whole district to decide the result of the poll. The enfranchised communities in this district, from 1832, were the eight boroughs of Flint

Flint, Flintshire

Flint is a town in Flintshire, North Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Dee. It was the county town of the historic county of Flintshire and today is the third largest town in Flintshire. According to the 2001 Census the population of the community of Flint was 12,804...

, Caergwrle

Caergwrle

, Caerwys

Caerwys

, Holywell

Holywell

Holywell is the fifth largest town in Flintshire, North Wales, lying to the west of the estuary of the River Dee.-History:The market town of Holywell takes its name from the St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel...

, Mold

Mold, Flintshire

Mold is a town in Flintshire, North Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council, and was also the county town of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996...

, Overton

Overton-on-Dee

Overton-on-Dee is a small rural town and a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales....

, Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan

and St Asaph

St Asaph

St Asaph is a town and community on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 3,491.The town of St Asaph is surrounded by countryside and views of the Vale of Clwyd. It is situated close to a number of busy coastal towns such as Rhyl, Prestatyn, Abergele,...

.

The boundaries of the parliamentary boroughs in the district were altered by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1868, but the general nature of the constituency was unchanged. There were no further boundary changes in the 1885 redistribution of parliamentary seats.

Members of Parliament 1542-1640

As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

Elected	Assembled	Dissolved	Member
1542	16 January 1542	28 March 1544	unknown
1545	23 November 1545	31 January 1547	Thomas Salusbury
1547	4 November 1547	15 April 1552	Robert Massey
1553	1 March 1553	31 March 1553	Edward Stanley II
1553	5 October 1553	5 December 1553	Edward Stanley II
1554	2 April 1554	3 May 1554	?Robert Massey
1554	12 November 1554	16 January 1555	Robert Massey'
1555	21 October 1555	9 December 1555	Edward Stanley II
1558	20 January 1558	17 November 1558	Peter Mostyn
1559	23 January 1559	8 May 1559	John Hanmer
1562/3	11 January 1563	2 January 1567	John Conway
1571	2 April 1571	29 May 1571	John Hanmer
1572	8 May 1572	19 April 1583	Humphrey Hanmer
1584	23 November 1584	14 September 1585	Richard Lloyd
1586	13 October 1586	23 March 1587	Michael Doughty
1588	4 February 1589	29 March 1589	John Edwards III
1593	18 February 1593	10 April 1593	Thomas Griffith
1597	24 October 1597	9 February 1598	Edward Morgan II
1601	27 October 1601	19 December 1601	John Price
1604	19 March 1604	9 February 1611	Roger Brereton Roger Brereton Roger Brereton was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1611Brereton was of Borras near Gresford, Denbighshire. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Flint....
1614	5 April 1614	7 June 1614	John Eyton
1620	16 January 1621	8 February 1622	William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628.Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586,...
1624	12 February 1624	27 March 1625	William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628.Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586,...
1625	17 May 1625	12 August 1625	William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628.Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586,...
1626	6 February 1626	15 June 1626	John Salusbury John Salusbury (MP) John Salusbury was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1643. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
1628	17 March 1628	10 March 1629	William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft William Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628.Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586,...
1640	13 April 1640	5 May 1640	Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bt Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1669 to 1678. He was a Royalist during the English Civil War and raised troops for Charles I. In his personal life he was a keen horticulturists...

Members of Parliament 1640-1660

This sub-section includes the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...

and the Rump Parliament

Rump Parliament

The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....

, together with the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate (before the Convention Parliament of 1660).

Elected	Assembled	Dissolved	Member	Note
1640	3 November 1640	5 December 1648	John Salusbury John Salusbury (MP) John Salusbury was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1626 and 1643. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.... Disabled 1643 Thomas Myddelton Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1663... 1646-1648	Long Parliament
...	6 December 1648	20 April 1653	unrepresented	Rump Parliament
...	4 July 1653	12 December 1653	unrepresented	Barebones Parliament Barebones Parliament Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Little Parliament, the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector...
1654	3 September 1654	22 January 1655	unrepresented	First Protectorate Parliament First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House....
1656	17 September 1656	4 February 1658	unrepresented	Second Protectorate Parliament Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons...
1658/59	27 January 1659	22 April 1659	John Hanmer Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1690.Hanmer was the son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet of Hanmer and his first wife Elizabeth Baker. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Flint in the Third...	Third Protectorate Parliament Third Protectorate Parliament The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons...
...	7 May 1659	20 February 1660	unrepresented	Rump Parliament restored
...	21 February 1660	16 March 1660	unknown	Long Parliament restored

Members of Parliament 1660-1918

First Election		Member	Party	Note
	1660, November 12	Roger Whitley Roger Whitley Roger Whitley was a royalist officer in the English Civil War, and was closely involved throughout the 1650s in plans for a royalist uprising against the Interregnum and Protectorate regimes....
	1681, March 7	Thomas Whitley
	1685, April 3	Sir John Hanmer, Bt Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1690.Hanmer was the son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet of Hanmer and his first wife Elizabeth Baker. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Flint in the Third...
	1690, March 17	Thomas Whitley	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
	1695, October 28	Sir Roger Puleston Roger Puleston Sir Roger Puleston was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1611.Puleston was the son of Sir Roger Puleston of Emral. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 27 April 1582 aged 16. In 1584, he was elected Member of Parliament for Great...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Died 28 February 1697
	1697, April 8	Thomas Ravenscroft Thomas Ravenscroft (MP) Thomas Ravenscroft was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.Ravenscroft was probably the son of William Ravenscroft who was MP for Flintshire in 1586. In 1621, Ravenscroft was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouth Boroughs.In November 1643, as Colonel...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Died 3 May 1698
	1698, August 13	Thomas Mostyn	Tory
	1701, December 13	Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bt Thomas Hanmer (politician) Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality...	Tory	Elected to sit for Thetford Thetford (UK Parliament constituency) Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1868...
	1702, February 2	Sir John Conway, Bt	Tory
	1702, August 1	Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet -Life:Mostyn was born on 31 July 1673. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 2nd Baronet, of Mostyn in Flintshire, north Wales, and inherited the title on the death of his father in 1692. He attended the University of Oxford, matriculating from Jesus College in 1690. He was elected as MP...	Tory	Elected to sit for Cheshire Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency) Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentiary constituency for the county of Cheshire. 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 1832.As a county...
	1702, December 2	Thomas Mostyn	Tory
	1705, May 29	Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet -Life:Mostyn was born on 31 July 1673. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 2nd Baronet, of Mostyn in Flintshire, north Wales, and inherited the title on the death of his father in 1692. He attended the University of Oxford, matriculating from Jesus College in 1690. He was elected as MP...	Tory
	1708, May 20	Sir John Conway, Bt	Tory
	1713, September 21	Sir Roger Mostyn, Bt Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet -Life:Mostyn was born on 31 July 1673. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 2nd Baronet, of Mostyn in Flintshire, north Wales, and inherited the title on the death of his father in 1692. He attended the University of Oxford, matriculating from Jesus College in 1690. He was elected as MP...	Tory
	1715, February 18	Sir John Conway, Bt		Died 27 April 1721
	1721, June 10	Thomas Eyton
	1727, August 31	Salusbury Lloyd		A double return. The House of Commons seated Lloyd.
	1734, May 16	Sir George Wynne, Bt		Unseated on petition
	1742, March 22	Richard Williams		Declared duly elected, on petition
	1747, July 3	Kyffin Williams		Died 30 October 1753
	1753, November 28	Sir John Glynne, Bt Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet was a Welsh politician and landowner.Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in 1729 and 1730...		Died 1 June 1777
	1777, June 26	Watkin Williams
	1806, November 11 United Kingdom general election, 1806 The United Kingdom general election, 1806 was the election of members to the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. This was the second general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....	Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd, Bt Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn , known as Sir Edward Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, from 1795 to 1831, was a British politician....
	1807, May 27 United Kingdom general election, 1807 The election to the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1807 was the third general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....	William Shipley William Shipley William Shipley was an English drawing master, social reformer and inventor who, in 1754, founded an arts society in London that became The Royal Society of Arts, or Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, .-Early years, training and career:Shipley was born in...
	1812, October 10 United Kingdom general election, 1812 The election to the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1812 was the fourth general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland....	Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd, Bt Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn , known as Sir Edward Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, from 1795 to 1831, was a British politician....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Created the Lord Mostyn Baron Mostyn Baron Mostyn, of Mostyn in the County of Flint, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1831 for Sir Edward Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, who had earlier represented Flint Boroughs and Beaumaris in the House of Commons. His son, the second Baron, sat as a Member of Parliament for... 1831
	1831, September 22	Henry Glynne	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Resigned
	1832, February 25	Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, Bt Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...	Deemed re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 -Seats summary:-Parties and leaders at the general election:The Earl Grey had been Prime Minister since 22 November 1830. His was the first predominantly Whig administration since the Ministry of all the Talents in 1806-1807....		Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day... ¹
	1837, August 1 United Kingdom general election, 1837 The 1837 United Kingdom general election saw Robert Peel's Conservatives close further on the position of the Whigs, who won their fourth election of the decade....	Charles Whitley Deans Dundas	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day... ¹
	1841, June 30 United Kingdom general election, 1841 -Seats summary:-Whig MPs who lost their seats:Viscount Morpeth - Chief Secretary for IrelandSir George Strickland, BtSir Henry Barron, 1st Baronet-References:F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987...	Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley, Bt Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley, 10th baronet was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1831 and 1868....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day... ¹
	1847, July 31 United Kingdom general election, 1847 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...	Sir John Hanmer, Bt John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer , known as Sir John Hanmer, Bt, between 1828 and 1872, was a British politician.-Background and education:...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1852 United Kingdom general election, 1852 The July 1852 United Kingdom general election was a watershed election in the formation of the modern political parties of Britain. Following 1852, the Tory/Conservative party became, more completely, the party of the rural aristocracy, while the Whig/Liberal party became the party of the rising...		Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day... ¹	Created the Lord Hanmer Baron Hanmer There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the Hanmer family of Flintshire, Wales, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Only one creation is extant as of 2008... 1872
	1872, October 16	Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, Bt Sir Robert Cunliffe, 5th Baronet Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1872 and 1885....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1874, February 6 United Kingdom general election, 1874 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...	Peter Ellis Eyton	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	Died 19 June 1878
	1878, July 5	John Roberts John Roberts (Flint MP) John Roberts , was a Welsh Liberal politician.Roberts was the son of David Roberts. His father, who was born in Llanrwst Wales, moved to Liverpool at an early age, where he built up a successful timber business, and later settled in Abergele. Roberts was educated at Brighton...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1892, July United Kingdom general election, 1892 The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won many more seats than in the 1886 general election...	(John) Herbert Lewis Herbert Lewis Sir John Herbert Lewis GBE, PC was a British Liberal politician.-Background and education:Born at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, Lewis was one of five sons of Enoch Lewis and Elizabeth Roberts. He was educated at McGill University and Exeter College, Oxford.-Political career:Lewis was the first Chairman...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1906, January 20 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:**-References:F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...	Thomas Howell Williams Idris	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1910, January 19	James Woolley Summers	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	Died 1 January 1913
	1913, January 21	Thomas Henry Parry Thomas Henry Parry Thomas Henry Parry DSO, DL was a Welsh Liberal politician, lawyer and soldier.-Date of birth:One usually reliable source shows Parry’s date of birth as 21 April 1878, however The Times newspaper in its obituary of Parry reported he was aged 58 at death making his date of birth 1881. This is also...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
1918		Constituency abolished

Supplemental Notes:-

¹ F. W. S. Craig
F. W. S. Craig
Frederick Walter Scott Craig was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compiling election results in his spare time which were published by the Scottish Unionist Party...

, in his compilations of election results for Great Britain, classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

shortly after the 1859 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1859
In the 1859 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, held their majority in the House of Commons over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives...

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Election results

Sources 1690-1715: Cruickshanks et al.; 1715-1754: Stooks Smith; 1754-1784: Narnier and Brooke; 1784-1832 Stooks Smith. Positive swing is from Whig to Tory.
Source 1832-1918: Craig. Positive swing is from Liberal to Conservative.

Death of Puleston

Seat vacant at dissolution, on the death of Ravenscroft

Hanmer was also returned by and elected to sit for Thetford
Thetford (UK Parliament constituency)
Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1868...

Mostyn was also returned by and elected to sit for Cheshire
Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Cheshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentiary constituency for the county of Cheshire. 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 1832.As a county...

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