North Riding of Yorkshire was the constituency of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832, when the four-seat Yorkshire constituency was divided in three for the 1832 general election. It was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and replaced for the 1885 general election by the new single-member constituencies of Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby, most its remaining small boroughs seeing disenfranchisement in 1868 or in 1885.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1654–1658 (Protectorate Parliaments) ElectionFirst memberSecond memberThird memberFourth member 1654 Lord EureFrancis LascellesThomas HarrisonGeorge Smithson 1656 ?Francis LascellesLuke Robinson?
MPs 1832–1885 Election1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party1832 constituency created by division of the Yorkshire constituency 1832 Hon. William Duncombe Conservative Edward Cayley Whig 1841 by-election Hon. Octavius Duncombe Conservative 1859 Hon. William Duncombe ConservativeLiberal 1862 by-election William Morritt Conservative 1865 Frederick Milbank Liberal 1867 by-election Hon. Octavius Duncombe Conservative 1874 Viscount Helmsley Conservative 1882 by-election Hon. Guy Dawnay Conservative1885 constituency abolished: see Cleveland, Richmond, Thirsk & Malton and Whitby
Election results Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Duncombe succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Baron Feversham and causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s Cayley's death caused a by-election.
Duncombe was elevated to the peerage, becoming 3rd Lord Feversham, and causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Duncombe's death caused a by-election.
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