Edward Hunt's Forest of Dean Miscellany

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Forest of Dean Members of Parliament

Forest of Dean is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP). It was created for the 1885 general election to replace part of West Gloucestershire, and abolished for the 1950 election. It was re-established for the 1997 general election.

Mr Thomas Blake of Ross-on-Wye

(born 1825 - 31 died March 1901)

Politics: Radical Liberal
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: November 24, 1885 - July 1887

Mr Godfrey Samuelson

Politics: Liberal
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: July 29, 1887 - July 4, 1892

Sir Charles Dilke

Politics: Liberal
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: July 4, 1892 - January 26, 1911

Sir Henry Webb

(born 28 July 1866, Hereford – died 29 October 1940, Caerleon)

Politics: Liberal
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: February 24, 1911 - December 14, 1918

Mr James Wignall

Politics: Labour
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: December 14, 1918 - June 10, 1925

Mr Albert Purcell

Politics: Labour
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: July 14, 1925 - May 30, 1929

Mr David Vaughan

Politics: Labour
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: May 30, 1929 - October 27, 1931

Dr John Worthington

Politics: National Labour
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: October 27, 1931 - November 14, 1935

Mr Morgan Price

Politics: Labour
Constituency: Forest of Dean then West Gloucestershire
Term: Forest of Dean, November 14, 1935 - February 23, 1950
Term: West Gloucestershire, February 23, 1950 - September 18, 1959

Mr Charles Loughlin

(16 February 1914 - 23 September 1993)

Politics: Labour
Constituency: West Gloucestershire
Term: October 8, 1959 - October 10, 1974

Mr John Watkinson

(born January 25 1941; died September 21 2004)

Politics: Labour politician who defected to the Social Democratic party in 1981
Constituency: West Gloucestershire
Term: 10 Oct 1974 – 7 Apr 1979

Mr Paul Marland

(born 19 March 1940)

Politics: Conservative
Constituency: West Gloucestershire
Term: 3 May 1979 – 8 April 1997

Mrs Diana Organ

(born February 21, 1952)

Politics: Labour
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term
: May 1, 1997 - May 5, 2005

Mr Mark Harper

(born June 26, 1970)

Politics: Conservative
Constituency: Forest of Dean
Term: May 5, 2005 - ?

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