Marylebone West (UK Parliament constituency)

Marylebone West was a borough constituency located in the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone, in London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

Marylebone West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Marylebone West in London
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Replaced by	St Marylebone
Created from	Marylebone

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was formerly part of the two-seat Marylebone constituency. It was abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The previous Parliamentary borough of Marylebone was split up in the boundary review of 1884-85. The new Parliamentary borough consisted of the parish of St Marylebone, and therefore had identical boundaries to the St Marylebone Vestry which was the main institution of local government. The Commissioners divided the parish into two Divisions, each of which contained four of the parishes' eight wards. Marylebone West division was defined as containing the Bryanston, Hamilton Terrace, New Church Street, and Portman wards. The population in 1881 was 83,871.[1]

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Frederick Hunt	Conservative
	1895	Sir Horace Farquhar	Liberal Unionist
	1898	Sir Samuel Scott	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Marylebone West [2][3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Seager Hunt	3,093	56.3
	Independent Liberal	Henry Seymour Trower	1,595	29.1
	Liberal	Henry Edmund Knight	701	12.8
	Independent	Joseph Diggle	101	1.8
Majority			1,498	27.2
Turnout			5,490	72.6
Registered electors			7,566
	Conservative win (new seat)

Diggle stood in order to test the eligibility of Church of England clergyman to stand as candidates, but if he had won he would have been disqualified from sitting in the Commons.

General election 1886: Marylebone West [2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Seager Hunt	3,064	61.2	+4.9
	Liberal	Henry Seymour Trower	1,942	38.8	+26.0
Majority			1,122	22.4	-4.8
Turnout			5,006	66.2	-6.4
Registered electors			7,566
	Conservative hold		Swing	-10.6

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Marylebone West [2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Seager Hunt	2,913	54.1	-7.1
	Liberal	John Charles Foulger	2,476	45.9	+7.1
Majority			437	8.2	-14.2
Turnout			5,389	66.9	+0.7
Registered electors			8,052
	Conservative hold		Swing	-7.1

Straus

General election 1895: Marylebone West [2][3][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Horace Townsend-Farquhar	3,734	62.2	+8.1
	Liberal	Bertram Straus	2,273	37.8	−8.1
Majority			1,461	24.4	+16.2
Turnout			6,007	69.9	+3.0
Registered electors			8,593
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+8.1

Townsend-Farquhar was elevated to the peerage.

1898 Marylebone West by-election [2][3][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Scott	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Marylebone West [2][3][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Scott	3,487	69.5	+7.3
	Liberal	William Hastings Sands	1,532	30.5	−7.3
Majority			1,955	39.0	+14.6
Turnout			5,019	57.1	−12.8
Registered electors			8,792
	Conservative hold		Swing	+7.3

Johnston

General election 1906: Marylebone West [2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Scott	3,446	55.3	−14.2
	Liberal	Henry Hamilton Johnston	2,791	44.7	+14.2
Majority			655	10.6	−28.4
Turnout			6,237	74.6	+17.5
Registered electors			8,365
	Conservative hold		Swing	-14.2

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Marylebone West [2][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Scott	4,451	64.3	+9.0
	Liberal	Donald Alexander Forbes	2,474	35.7	-9.0
Majority			1,977	28.6	+18.0
Turnout			6,925	80.7	+6.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.0

General election December 1910: Marylebone West [2][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Scott	3,929	67.1	+2.8
	Liberal	Arthur Hewett Spokes	1,926	32.9	-2.8
Majority			2,003	34.2	+5.6
Turnout			5,855	68.3	-12.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.8

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Samuel Scott
• Liberal:

References

1. "Boundary Commission (England and Wales). Report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales 1885", Part II.--Boroughs, C. 4287-I, p. 61-62.
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
3. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
4. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
5. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 35. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.