Hampshire (constituency)
Hampshire was a county constituency of the Parliament of England, Great Britain and after 1801 Parliament of the United Kingdom, which returned two Knights of the Shire (Members of Parliament) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832. (Officially, the name was The County of Southampton, and it was occasionally referred to as Southamptonshire.) == History == The constituency consisted of the historic county of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight.