Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament Constituency)
Not to be confused with the Richmond constituency in Yorkshire.
| Richmond | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | 1918-1965 Surrey 1965-1983 Greater London |
| Major settlements | Richmond |
| 1918 (1918)–1983 (1983) | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Richmond and Barnes |
| Created from | Kingston |
Richmond was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Richmond, which is in the north-western part of the historic county of Surrey and (since 1965) in Greater London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
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Famous quotes containing the words richmond and/or parliament:
““Trams and dusty trees.
Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the harbor, with their balls piled pyramid-wise between them,—there are said to be in all about one hundred and eighty guns mounted at Quebec,—all which were faithfully kept dusted by officials, in accordance with the motto, “In time of peace prepare for war”; but I saw no preparations for peace: she was plainly an uninvited guest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)