| South Warwickshire | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | County |
| Region: | England |
| Elects Howmany: | Two |
South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.
South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with four new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.
1832–1885: The Hundreds of Barlichway and Kington, and the Kenilworth and Southam Divisions of the Hundred of Knightlow.[1]
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | Sir Grey Skipwith, Bt | Whig | Sir George Philips, Bt | Whig | ||
| 1835 | Sir John Mordaunt, Bt | Conservative | Edward Sheldon | Radical[2] [3] | ||
| 1836 by-election | Evelyn Shirley | Conservative | ||||
| 1845 by-election | Lord Brooke | Conservative | ||||
| 1849 by-election | Lord Guernsey | Conservative | ||||
| 1853 by-election | Evelyn Shirley | Conservative | ||||
| 1857 | Edward Bolton King | Whig[4] [5] | ||||
| 1859 | Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt | Conservative | ||||
| 1865 | Henry Christopher Wise | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | John Hardy | Conservative | ||||
| 1874 | Hugh Seymour | Conservative | Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt | Conservative | ||
| 1880 | Hon. Gilbert Leigh | Liberal | ||||
| 1884 by-election | Sampson Lloyd | Conservative | ||||
| constituency abolished | ||||||
Sheldon's death caused a by-election.
Mordaunt's death caused a by-election.
Shirley resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
Greville succeeded to the peerage, becoming 4th Earl of Warwick and causing a by-election.
Seymour was appointed Comptroller of the Household, causing a by-election.
Leigh's death caused a by-election.