MPs for Sowerby

This Foldout lists some people who have been elected MP for Sowerby

• 1885-1892: Edward Crossley
• 1892-1904: Right Hon. John William Mellor
• 1904-1918: John Sharp Higham
• 1918-1922: Major Robert Hewitt Barker
• 1922-1923: William Algernon Simpson-Hinchliffe
• 1923-1924: Arnold Williams
• 1924-1929: Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw
• 1929-1931: William John Tout
• 1931-1945: Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale
• 1945-1949: James Wiliam Belcher
• 1949-1974: Douglas Houghton
• 1974-1979: Max Madden
• 1979-1983: Sir Donald Thompson

At the 1983 general election, the Parliamentary seat was adjusted and renamed Calder Valley

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