Flintshire was a parliamentary constituency

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 in North-East Wales

Wales

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 which returned one Member of Parliament

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

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1950

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.

Boundaries

From its creation in 1542 until 1918, the constituency consisted of 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 borough constituency of Flint or Flint Boroughs

Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

Flint Boroughs 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 and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1918 general election.-Boundaries:From its first known general...

, which existed from the sixteenth century until 1918.

In 1889 an administrative county

Administrative county

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 of Flintshire was created. This formed the basis of the constituency which existed from 1918 until 1950, when the county was split between East and West divisions.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Member
1545	Peter Mostyn
1547	George Wood
1553 (Mar)	Sir Thomas Hanmer
1553 (Oct)	Robert Massey
1554 (Apr)	William Mostyn
1554 (Nov)	William Mostyn
1555	Robert Massey
1558	John Conway
1559	John Griffith I
1562/3	George Ravenscroft
1571	John Griffith I
1572	William Mostyn, died and replaced Feb 1577 by Thomas Mostyn
1584	John Hope
1586	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,...
1588	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...
1593	Thomas Hanmer
1597	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,...
1601	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,...

MPs 1604–1950

Year		Member
	1604	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...
	1614	Robert Ravenscroft
	1621	Sir Roger Mostyn Roger Mostyn Sir Roger Mostyn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.Mostyn was the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Mostyn of Mostyn. His father was MP for Flintshire in 1577. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 8 May 1584 aged 16, and was admitted at...
	1624	Sir John Hanmer, 1st Baronet Sir John Hanmer, 1st Baronet Sir John Hanmer, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624.Hanmer was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was MP for Flintshire in 1593....  died and replaced 1624 by Sir John Trevor
	1625	Sir John Trevor
	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	Robert Jones Robert Jones (of Castell-March) Robert Jones was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1625 and 1629.Jones was the son of Sir William Jones and his wife Margaret Griffith, daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Carnarvonshire. His father was a judge and MP...
	1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned
	1640	John Mostyn John Mostyn (MP for Flintshire) John Mostyn was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1640.Mostyn was the son of Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Anglesey. He was entered at Middle Temple in November 1637.In April 1640, Mostyn was elected...
	1640	John Mostyn John Mostyn (MP for Flintshire) John Mostyn was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1640.Mostyn was the son of Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Anglesey. He was entered at Middle Temple in November 1637.In April 1640, Mostyn was elected... , disabled 1643
	1646	John Trevor
	1653	Flintshire not represented in Barebones Parliament

Year	First Member	Second Member
Two members in first and second Protectorate Parliaments
1654	John Trevor	Andrew Ellice Andrew Ellice Andrew Ellice was a Welsh soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. He served in the Parliamentary army.Ellice was from Althrey in Wales. He was an officer in the Parliamentary army and was Commissioner of Sequestration for Denbighsire and Flintshire...
1656	John Trevor	Sir John Glynne John Glynne (judge) Sir John Glynne KS was a Welsh lawyer of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, under Oliver Cromwell...

Year		Name	Party
	1659	John Trevor
	1660	Kenrick Eyton Kenrick Eyton Sir Kenrick Eyton was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War....
	1661	Sir Henry Conway
	1669	Sir Thomas Hanmer 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...
	1678	Mutton Davies
	1681	Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet 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...
	1685	Sir John Conway
	1689	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...
	1695	Sir John Conway
	1701	Sir Roger Mostyn 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...
	1702	Sir Thomas Hanmer
	1705	Sir John Conway
	1708	Sir Roger Mostyn 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...
	1713	Sir John Conway
	1715	Sir Roger Mostyn 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...
	1734	Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet
	1741	Sir John Glynne 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...
	1747	Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet
	1758	Sir Roger Mostyn
	1796	Sir Thomas Mostyn
	1797	John Lloyd John Lloyd (scholar) John Lloyd FRS was a British naturalist.-Selected works:* Letter from John Lloyd, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. KB PRS. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 86 , pp. 34–37....
	1799	Sir Thomas Mostyn
	1831	Edward Lloyd-Mostyn Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn , was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Mostyn was the son of Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn...	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...
	1832	Edward Lloyd-Mostyn Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn , was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Mostyn was the son of Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn...	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...
	1837	Sir Stephen Glynne 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...	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...
	1841	Edward Lloyd-Mostyn Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn , was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Mostyn was the son of Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn...	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...
	1842	Sir Stephen Glynne 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...	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...
	1847	Edward Lloyd-Mostyn Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn , was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Mostyn was the son of Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn...	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...
	1854	Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn Thomas Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn , was a British Conservative Member of Parliament .Lloyd-Mostyn was the eldest son and heir apparent of Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn...	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...
	1861	Lord Richard Grosvenor Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge PC , styled Lord Richard Grosvenor between 1845 and 1886, was a British politician and businessman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1872 and 1874 and as Parliamentary...	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...
	1886	Samuel Smith	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	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...
	1918	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...
	1924	Ernest Handforth Goodman Roberts Ernest Roberts (Conservative politician) Ernest Handforth Goodman Roberts was a Welsh Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Flintshire from 1924 to 1929....	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...
	1929	Frederick Llewellyn-Jones Frederick Llewellyn-Jones Frederick Llewellyn-Jones was a Welsh solicitor who became Coroner for the county of Flintshire and a Liberal, later Liberal National politician.-Family and education:...	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...
	1931	Frederick Llewellyn-Jones Frederick Llewellyn-Jones Frederick Llewellyn-Jones was a Welsh solicitor who became Coroner for the county of Flintshire and a Liberal, later Liberal National politician.-Family and education:...	Liberal National National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
	1935	Gwilym Rowlands Gwilym Rowlands Gwilym Rowlands was a Welsh Conservative Party politician.Gwilym was the son of Rowland Rowlands, who was manager of the Penygraig Colliery Company in the Rhondda Valley...	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...
	1945	Nigel Birch Nigel Birch, Baron Rhyl Evelyn Nigel Chetwode Birch, Baron Rhyl, PC, OBE was a British Conservative politician.The son of General Sir Noel Birch and his wife Florence Chetwode, Nigel Birch was educated at Eton. He was a partner in Cohen Laming Hoare until May 1939 when he retired to study politics...	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...
Constituency divided into East and West Flintshire in 1950

Election results