Editing University constituency (section)

===Notable members===
The members for the university constituencies include many notable statesmen: [[William Pitt the Younger]] and [[Lord Palmerston]] both served as MPs for Cambridge University, and [[Robert Peel]] and [[William Ewart Gladstone]] each served as MP for Oxford University for portions of their careers. In his last years [[Ramsay MacDonald]] was MP for Combined Scottish Universities after losing his previous seat in the [[1935 United Kingdom general election|1935 general election]]. Many criticised this, as he had previously sought to abolish the seats whilst Labour prime minister and many now felt the seats were being used to provide a failed politician with a seat he could not find elsewhere.

The humorist and law reform activist [[A. P. Herbert]] sat as an independent member for Oxford University from 1935 to 1950. He described the counting of the votes at the 1935 election in a chapter entitled '''P.R.': Or, Standing for Oxford'' in his 1936 book ''[[Mild and Bitter]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mild and Bitter |chapter=XV: 'PR': Or, Standing for Oxford |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tX6vDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 |last=Herbert |first=A. P. |author-link=A. P. Herbert |year=1936 |publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] |location=London |isbn=9780755151578|oclc=559753655}}</ref>