List of MPs of Colchester, 1885–1983

Colchester in Essex, showing BOUNDARIES used from 1918 to 1950.

Colchester was a parliamentary 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 between 1885 and 1983. Before then, it elected two. In 1983, following boundary changes, the seat of Colchester was abolition and replaced by Colchester North and Colchester South and Maldon. It was reinstated in 1997, the boundaries of the current seat of Colchester being similar.

List

Member

Elected

Member until

Party

Henry John Trotter

1885

1888

Conservative

Lord Brooke

1888

1892

Conservative

Herbert Naylor-Leyland

1892

1895

Conservative

Weetman Dickinson Pearson

1895

1910

Liberal

Laming Worthington-Evans

1910 (January)

1929

Conservative

Oswald Lewis

1929

1945

Conservative

George Delacourt-Smith

1945

1950

Labour

Cuthbert James McCall Alport

1950

1961

Conservative

Philip Antony Fyson Buck

1961

1983

Conservative