Wolverhampton (UK Parliament constituency)

Wolverhampton
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Wolverhampton East, Wolverhampton South and Wolverhampton West
Created from	Staffordshire

Wolverhampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created under the Great Reform Act, and first used at the 1832 general election. It was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when it was replaced for the 1885 general election by three new single-member constituencies: Wolverhampton East, Wolverhampton South and Wolverhampton West.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		William Wolryche-Whitmore	Liberal		Richard Fryer	Liberal
1835		Charles Pelham Villiers	Liberal		Thomas Thornley	Liberal
1859					Sir Richard Bethell	Liberal
1861 by-election					Thomas Matthias Weguelin	Liberal
1880					Henry Hartley Fowler	Liberal
1885	constituency divided: see Wolverhampton East, Wolverhampton South and Wolverhampton West.

See also

• List of Members of Parliament for Wolverhampton
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)