"Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency) Falmouth and Camborne was, from 1950 until 2010, a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The Falmouth and Camborne seat was created in 1950, succeeding the former Camborne constituency. The seat had an industrial tradition, mostly in tin mining. The seat alternated between the Labour and Conservative parties until 2005, when it was won by Julia Goldsworthy of the Liberal Democrats. The former gold medal-winning athlete Sebastian Coe represented"
"Denis Coe Denis Walter Coe (5 June 1929 – 3 March 2015) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the marginal Middleton and Prestwich constituency from 1966 to 1970, when it was gained by the Conservative Alan Haselhurst. Coe was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland. He earned a Scout Silver Medal for Gallantry after saving a young girl from drowning in Cullercoats Bay when he was 14. He served in the armed forces before returning to the North East to begin a career in teaching. He later left the area again to move to"
"for supporting King Charles I. Coke died in 1661 and was buried at Thorington, Suffolk. Coke married Margaret Lovelace, daughter of Richard Lovelace. Henry Coke Henry Coke (1591–1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1642. Coke was the son of Sir Edward Coke, the Lord Chief Justice, of Thorington, Suffolk. He was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge on 18 August 1607. In 1624 Coke was elected Member of Parliament for Wycombe and was re-elected in 1625 and 1626. In April 1640, Coke was elected MP for Dunwich in the Short Parliament."
"Henry Coke Henry Coke (1591–1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1642. Coke was the son of Sir Edward Coke, the Lord Chief Justice, of Thorington, Suffolk. He was admitted at Queens' College, Cambridge on 18 August 1607. In 1624 Coke was elected Member of Parliament for Wycombe and was re-elected in 1625 and 1626. In April 1640, Coke was elected MP for Dunwich in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Dunwich for the Long Parliament in November 1640 and sat until he was disabled on 7 September 1642"
"London, where he studied economics at the London School of Economics. This triggered his move into politics and he was elected to Middleton and Prestwich as a Labour MP in 1966. Following the 1970 election, Coe worked in the arts world and went on to establish the British Youth Opera. In 2008, he published his memoirs – Variety Certainly Adds Spice. Denis Coe Denis Walter Coe (5 June 1929 – 3 March 2015) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the marginal Middleton and Prestwich constituency from 1966 to 1970, when it was gained"
"Clement Coke Clement Coke (died 24 May 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629. Coke was the son of Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice, and his wife Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston of Norwich. In 1614, Coke was elected Member of Parliament for Clitheroe. He was elected MP for Dunwich in 1621. Cooke reportedly assaulted the new MP for Hertfordshire, Sir Charles Morrison, on the Parliament stairs. After an enquiry, Cooke was imprisoned in the Tower of London for the attack. In 1626 he was elected MP"
"Kensington (UK Parliament constituency) Kensington is a constituency in Greater London which first existed between 1974 and 1997, and then was recreated in 2010. Since 2017, it has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Emma Dent Coad of the Labour Party. In the snap June 2017 general election Dent Coad gained the seat from incumbent Conservative Victoria Borwick by the slenderest margin in England, 20 votes, and Kensington which had previously existed (in its first creation) between 1974 and 1997 gained its first Labour MP. The constituency formed for the 2010 election comprises the"
"Geoffrey Cox (British politician) Charles Geoffrey Cox (born 30 April 1960) is a British politician and barrister. He has been the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Torridge and West Devon since 2005. He worked as a barrister from 1982 onwards and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2003. On 9 July 2018, he was appointed Attorney General and gave up private practice; prior to this he had been the highest earning MP in the UK. Cox was born in the Wiltshire village of Wroughton on 30 April 1960. He was educated at King's College, Taunton,"
"East Looe (UK Parliament constituency) East Looe was a parliamentary borough represented in the House of Commons of England from 1571 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1797 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1832. It elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the bloc vote system of election. It was disenfranchised in the Reform Act 1832. The borough consisted of the town of East Looe in Cornwall, connected by bridge across the River Looe to West Looe, which was also a"
"part of the north of the historic county of Kent, which was included in Greater London after 1965. The constituency was abolished in the redistribution which took effect in 1974. The London Borough of Bromley (a larger area than the previous Municipal Borough) was split into four seats. This constituency consisted largely of prosperous leafy suburbia and was one of the Conservatives' strongest seats. The character of the area was one of prosperous small businesses, rather than commuting professionals. Before 1918 this area was mostly the northern part of the Sevenoaks constituency. The first MP for this seat was Henry"
"for the Long Parliament. Coke supported King Charles and sat in the King's parliament at Oxford. As a result, he was disabled from sitting at Westminster in 1644 and fined £500 as a delinquent royalist. Coke was arrested as a conspirator in 1651 and imprisoned. He saved his life by voluminous confession of his activities and associates. Coke purchased the manor of Melton Mowbray. Coke died at Tottenham High Cross and was buried at Melbourne on 23 August 1656. Coke married Mary Pope, daughter of Richard Pope of Woolstaston, Shropshire. Their son John Coke was MP for Derby. Thomas Coke"
"Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency) Cornwall is a former county constituency covering the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire, elected by the bloc vote system. Under the Reform Act 1832, it was divided between the constituencies of East Cornwall and West Cornwall. The constituency consisted of the whole of the historic"
"Sir Samuel Scott, 6th Baronet Sir Samuel Edward Scott, 6th Baronet (25 October 1873 – 21 February 1943) was a British Conservative Party politician best known for complaint handling skills. He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Marylebone West at a by-election in February 1898 after his predecessor (and stepfather) Sir Horace Farquhar was elevated to the peerage as Baron Farquhar. He held the seat for over 20 years until the constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election. He was then elected unopposed as the Coalition Conservative MP for the new St Marylebone constituency. He"
"He was re-elected MP for Derbyshire in December 1701 and held the seat until 1710. In 1710 he was elected MP for Grampound and held the seat until 1715. Coke was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, a Privy Counsellor, and Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer. When he came into possession of Melbourne Hall he altered and extended the house. He is credited with creating the gardens at Melbourne. Coke died suddenly after a few days illness at the age of 52 and was buried at Melbourne Coke married firstly Lady Mary Stanhope daughter of Philip Earl of Chesterfield at"
"Thomas Coke (privy counsellor) Thomas Coke (19 February 1674 – 11 May 1727) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1698 and 1715. Coke was the son of John Coke and his wife Mary Leventhorpe, daughter of Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, 4th Baronet. He was born at Melbourne, Derbyshire where he was baptised on 19 February 1675. His father was MP for Derby. Coke lost his parents when under age and was educated abroad under Monsieur Chauvais of Rotterdam. Coke was elected Member of Parliament for Derbyshire in 1698 and sat until January 1701."
"Edward Coke, Viscount Coke Edward Coke, Viscount Coke (2 February 1719 – 31 August 1753), styled The Hon. Edward Coke from 1728 to 1744, was a British Member of Parliament. He represented Norfolk in Parliament from 1741 to 1747 and Harwich from 1747 to his death. He was the only child and heir of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, and his wife Margaret Coke, 19th Baroness de Clifford. The family estate was at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. He was married on 1 April 1747 to Lady Mary Campbell (6 February 1727 – 30 September 1811), the fifth and youngest daughter"
"he succeeded to 9th Baron of Castle Cuffe in 1802 upon the death of Charles Coote, 7th Earl of Mountrath. Upon his own death in 1874, the title passed to his son, Sir Charles Henry Coote, 10th Baronet. While he first stood unsuccessfully in 1818 and 1820, Coote was first elected Tory MP for Queen's County at a by-election in 1821—caused by the elevation of William Wellesley-Pole to Lord Maryborough—and, becoming a Conservative in 1834, held the seat until 1847 when he did not seek re-election. During this period, he was known as a lax attender, and he generally divided"
"Robert Coke (MP for Coventry and Fowey) Sir Robert Coke (1587–1653) was an English politician. He was the second son of Sir Edward Coke and his wife Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston, becoming his father's heir when the eldest son Edward died as an infant. He was knighted in 1607. After marrying Theophila, daughter of Sir Thomas Berkeley, he resided at Caludon Castle, owned by his wife's family the Berkeleys, and was elected to parliament for , in the vicinity, in 1614. That year he was the dedicatee of a mathematics book by William Bedwell, based on a work"
"Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency) Beaconsfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Dominic Grieve QC of the Conservative Party, the former Attorney General of England and Wales. It is traditionally one of the safest Conservative seats in Buckinghamshire and the country as a whole. 1974-1983: The Urban District of Beaconsfield, the Rural District of Eton, and the parishes of Hedsor and Wooburn in the Rural District of Wycombe. 1983-1997: The District of South Bucks, and the District of Wycombe wards of Bourne End-cum-Hedsor, Flackwell Heath, Loudwater, The Wooburns, and Tylers Green."
"Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency) Buckingham /ˈbʌkɪŋm̩/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by former Conservative MP John Bercow, who later became Speaker of the House of Commons. 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Sessional Divisions of Ashendon, Buckingham, Newport, and Stony Stratford, and part of the Sessional Division of Winslow. 1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Buckingham, the Urban Districts of Bletchley, Linslade, and Newport Pagnell, the Rural Districts of Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Stratford and Wolverton, Wing, and Winslow, and parts of the Rural Districts of Aylesbury and Long Crendon. 1950–1974:"
"John Coke Sir John Coke (5 March 1563 – 8 September 1644) was an English office holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. Coke was the son of Richard and Mary Coke of Trusley, Derbyshire. He was educated at Westminster School . After leaving the university he entered public life as a servant of Sir Fulke Greville, later Lord Brooke, a client of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, afterwards becoming deputy-treasurer of the navy and then a commissioner of the navy, and being specially commended for his labours on"
"Henry Cocke Sir Henry Cocke (1538 – 24 March 1610), of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, was an English politician. He was the eldest son of John Cock, the Master of Requests, 1550–1552 and educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge (Easter 1553) and the Inner Temple (1559). He was a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire from 1569 and was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1574–75. From 1597 to 1610 he served as Cofferer of the Household, a senior position in the English Royal Household. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Downton in 1571, St. Albans"
"Torridge and West Devon (UK Parliament constituency) Torridge and West Devon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Geoffrey Cox, a Conservative. 1983-1997: The District of Torridge, and the Borough of West Devon. 1997-2010: The District of Torridge, and the Borough of West Devon except the ward of Buckland Monachorum. 2010–present: The District of Torridge, and the Borough of West Devon wards of Bere Ferrers, Bridestowe, Buckland Monachorum, Burrator, Lydford, Mary Tavy, Milton Ford, Tamarside, Tavistock North, Tavistock South, Tavistock South West, Thrushel, and Walkham. Before the 2010 general election, the"
"in March 1552. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire in 1545, 1547, March 1533, April 1554, November 1554 and 1555 and for Calne in 1547. He married Anne, the daughter of Thomas Goodere of Hadley, Hertfordshire and had 3 sons and 2 daughters. He was succeeded by his son Henry. John Cock (MP died 1557) John Cock (by 1506 – 6 September 1557), of London and Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, was an English politician. He was the son of William Cock of Broxbourne and studied law at the Inner Temple. He was attorney-general to the"
"South, and the Kirkcaldy District electoral division of Cardenden and Kinglassie. The constituency's only MP was Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, who was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1992 to 1997 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007, when he became Prime Minister. <section begin=""General Election 1983""/> <section end=""General Election 1983""/> <section begin=""General Election 1987""/> <section end=""General Election 1987""/> <section begin=""General Election 1992""/> <section end=""General Election 1992""/> <section begin=""General Election 1997""/> <section end=""General Election 1997""/> <section begin=""General Election 2001""/> <section end=""General Election 2001""/> Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency) Dunfermline East was a burgh constituency represented in"
"of Lord Cavendish's regiment. In 1689 he was re-elected MP for Derby in the Convention Parliament of 1689. Coke went abroad for health reasons and died at Geneva at the age of 39. Coke married Mary Leventhorpe, daughter of Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, 4th Baronet in 1672. He had seven children and his son Thomas was also MP for Derbyshire. John Coke (died 1692) John Coke (c. 1653–1692) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in between 1685 and 1689. Coke was the son of Thomas Coke of Melbourne, and his wife Mary Pope, daughter of Richard"
"Mildred Cooke, had married Lord Burghley, and Cooke received patronage from both Burghley and Sir Robert Cecil, his own first cousin. Cecil's influence may have secured him his seats in Parliament. In 1597 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Helston. By January 1599 he was Purveyor to the Stable and had sufficient property to offer himself, with six men and horses, for service to Queen Elizabeth I. In 1601 he was elected an MP for Westminster. He was knighted at Theobalds House on 7 May 1603. In 1604 he was elected a MP for Wigan. He enhanced his"
"behalf of naval administration. Coke was also acquainted with Essex from his university days. In 1621 Coke was elected Member of Parliament for Warwick. He was appointed a Master of Requests in 1622 and was knighted in 1624. In 1624 he was elected MP for St Germans and was re-elected for the seat in 1625. In the parliament of 1625 Coke acted as a secretary of state; in this and later parliaments he introduced the royal requests for money, and defended the foreign policy of Charles I and Buckingham, and afterwards the actions of the king. His actual appointment as"
"Yeomanry on 2 August 1902. Sir Samuel Scott, 6th Baronet Sir Samuel Edward Scott, 6th Baronet (25 October 1873 – 21 February 1943) was a British Conservative Party politician best known for complaint handling skills. He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Marylebone West at a by-election in February 1898 after his predecessor (and stepfather) Sir Horace Farquhar was elevated to the peerage as Baron Farquhar. He held the seat for over 20 years until the constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election. He was then elected unopposed as the Coalition Conservative MP for the"
"Ealing Acton (UK Parliament constituency) Ealing Acton was a parliamentary constituency in West London, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. This safe Conservative seat was held by Sir George Young (sometimes known as the 'Bicycling Baronet') for the entire period of its existence. The London Borough of Ealing wards of Ealing Common, Hanger Lane, Heathfield, Pitshanger, Southfield, Springfield, Vale, and Victoria. The constituency consisted of the eastern area of the London Borough of Ealing, in particular"
"Kingdom, having been wounded and gassed. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918. In November 1917 the sitting Liberal member of parliament for Wisbech, Neil James Archibald Primrose, was killed in action. Coote was chosen as the Liberal candidate for the seat, and due to a war-time pact between the parties, was also nominated by the local Conservative and Unionist Association. Accordingly, he was elected unopposed to the Commons on 14 December 1917. A general election was held in 1918. Constituencies were completely reorganised by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and the Wisbech seat became part"
"at a by-election on 12 June 1958. He held the seat until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election, and did not stand for Parliament again. He was knighted in 1974. He was tenant of Lamb House, the National Trust property in Rye, East Sussex, 1980–87. Brian Batsford Sir Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford (18 December 1910 – 5 March 1991) was an English painter, designer, publisher and Conservative Party politician. Born at Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire as Brian Caldwell Cook, he adopted his mother's maiden name, Batsford, in 1946. As Brian Cook, he was well known as the"
"Hove (UK Parliament constituency) Hove is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Labour's Peter Kyle. 1950-1983: The County Borough of Hove, and the Urban District of Portslade-by-Sea. 1983-2010: The Borough of Hove. 2010-present: The City of Brighton and Hove wards of Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, Goldsmid, Hangleton and Knoll, Hove Park, North Portslade, South Portslade, Westbourne, and Wish. The constituency covers Hove and Portslade in the city of Brighton and Hove. The settlement of Hove is an economically active seaside resort which is both a commuter town and centred"