Appointment to the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds is a procedural device to allow Members of Parliament to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Members of the House of Commons are technically forbidden from resigning. To circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used. An appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP). As such, several such positions are maintained to allow MPs to resign.[1] Currently, the positions of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used; historically several other offices have also been used.[1] The position was reworked in 1861 by William Ewart Gladstone, who was worried about the honour conferred by appointment to people such as Edwin James, who had fled to the United States over £10,000 in debt. As such, the letter was rewritten to omit any references to honour.
The Parliamentary Information Office has produced a list of those appointed to the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds since 1850.[2] The current office holder is Mark Reckless, who was elected as Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood and asked for appointment as Steward in order to force a by-election at which he stood as candidate of the UK Independence Party. He was appointed to the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 30 September 2014.[3]
Appointees to the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated so that two MPs can resign at once (as happened on 22 October 2012). In situations in which more than two resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs, appointees are "fired" after a few hours to allow other resigning MPs to take their place.[1]
Key
1751 to 1800
Before 1770 (William de Grey), between 1775 and 1780 (Edward Meux Worsley to Sir William Lynch), and between 1782 and 1787 (John Buller to Sir George Duckett) the date given is that of the writ to replace the member who accepted the Stewardship.
1801 to 1849
Dates given in this section are of the writ to replace the member who accepted the Stewardship.
1850 to 1899
Date |
Member |
Constituency |
Party |
Reason for resignation |
9 February 1850 |
Sir George Smyth[4] |
Colchester |
Con |
|
4 March 1850 |
Lord Albert Conyngham[4] |
Canterbury |
Lib |
Raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough |
12 March 1850 |
John Ffolliott[4] |
Sligo County |
|
|
30 April 1850 |
Hon. George Thomas Keppel[4] |
Lymington |
Whig |
|
22 July 1850 |
Sir John Jervis[4] |
City of Chester |
Lib |
|
3 August 1850 |
Viscount Northland[4] |
Dungannon |
Con |
|
7 August 1850 |
Charles Pearson[9] |
Lambeth |
Lib |
|
24 December 1850 |
Viscount Adare |
Glamorganshire |
Con |
Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl[10] |
3 February 1851 |
Viscount Northland |
Dungannon |
Con |
|
3 February 1851 |
Sir John Hobhouse, Bt |
Harwich |
Lib |
Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton[11] |
1 March 1851 |
Richard Lalor Sheil |
Dungarvan |
Lib |
Retired due to ill health and to become a priest in Tuscany[12] |
31 March 1851 |
Hon. Henry Cole |
Enniskillen |
Con |
|
14 April 1851 |
William Trant Fagan |
Cork City |
RA |
|
5 May 1851 |
John Simeon |
Isle of Wight |
Lib |
|
10 July 1851 |
The Earl of Surrey |
Arundel |
Lib |
Resigned in protest at the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851[13] |
23 July 1851 |
John O'Connell |
Limerick City |
RA |
Resigned to allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place[14] |
1 August 1851 |
Richard Ker |
Downpatrick |
Con |
|
12 September 1851 |
Hon. Arthur Duncombe |
East Retford |
Con |
|
25 October 1851 |
Benjamin Hawes |
Kinsale |
Lib |
|
29 January 1852 |
John Plumptre |
East Kent |
Con |
|
16 March 1852 |
John Boyd |
Coleraine |
Con |
|
20 April 1852 |
Francis Rufford |
Worcester |
Con |
|
5 July 1853 |
William Evans |
North Derbyshire |
Whig |
|
3 August 1853 |
Hon. George Anson |
South Staffordshire |
Lib |
Appointed to command a Division in Bengal[15] |
13 August 1853 |
John Maguire |
Dungarvan |
Lib |
Became Mayor of Cork[16] |
28 January 1854 |
Richard Prime |
West Sussex |
Con |
|
5 May 1854 |
Musgrave Brisco |
Hastings |
Con |
|
5 August 1854 |
Hon. William Gordon |
Aberdeenshire |
Con |
|
11 August 1854 |
Lord Dudley Stuart |
Marylebone |
Lib |
|
30 March 1855 |
Edmond Roche |
Cork County |
Lib |
|
2 May 1855 |
William Mure |
Renfrewshire |
Con |
|
6 July 1855 |
Charles Berkeley |
Evesham |
Lib |
|
22 November 1855 |
Hon. Francis Child Villiers |
Rochester |
Con |
|
25 January 1856 |
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt |
Rutland |
Whig |
|
3 March 1856 |
Charles Gavan Duffy |
New Ross |
Lib |
|
2 May 1856 |
Charles Berkeley |
Cheltenham |
Lib |
|
15 July 1856 |
Henry Sturt |
Dorchester |
Con |
|
7 January 1857 |
William Biggs |
Newport |
Whig |
|
17 February 1857 |
Charles Frewen |
East Sussex |
Con |
|
23 July 1857 |
Lionel de Rothschild |
City of London |
Lib |
Resigned after a bill that would allow him to swear on the old testament was defeated, preventing him from taking his seat in the House of Commons[17] |
30 November 1857 |
Hon. Francis Baring |
Thetford |
Con |
|
19 December 1857 |
George Skene Duff |
Elgin Burghs |
Lib |
|
4 November 1858 |
Henry Tancred |
Banbury |
Whig |
|
9 February 1859 |
Sir John Ramsden, Bt |
Hythe |
Whig |
|
9 March 1859 |
John Bagshaw |
Harwich |
Lib |
|
2 August 1859 |
Henry Labouchere |
Taunton |
Lib |
Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton[18] |
12 August 1859 |
Ralph Anstruther Earle |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Con |
Resigned after accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies[19] |
6 March 1860 |
William Laslett |
Worcester |
Lib |
|
4 June 1860 |
Richard Davison |
Belfast |
Con |
|
27 August 1860 |
Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert |
Ludlow |
Con |
|
4 February 1861 |
Titus Salt |
Bradford |
Lib |
|
22 April 1861 |
Lachlan Gordon-Duff |
Banffshire |
Lib |
|
18 July 1861 |
Allen Eliott-Lockhart |
Selkirkshire |
Con |
|
January 1862 |
George Heneage |
Lincoln |
Lib |
|
26 March 1862 |
R. A. Cross |
Preston |
Con |
|
19 May 1862 |
Alfred Rhodes Bristow |
Kidderminster |
Lib |
|
7 January 1863 |
Edward Ball |
Cambridgeshire |
Con |
|
5 February 1863 |
Michael Seymour |
Plymouth Devonport |
Lib |
|
14 March 1863 |
Maxwell Close |
Armagh |
Con |
|
14 April 1863 |
Ion Hamilton |
Dublin County |
Con |
|
28 May 1863 |
Charles Tottenham |
New Ross |
Con |
|
4 February 1864 |
Sir James Buller East, Bt |
Winchester |
Con |
|
11 February 1865 |
Daniel O'Donoghue |
Tipperary |
Lib |
|
16 June 1865 |
Arthur William Buller |
Plymouth Devonport |
Lib |
|
1 March 1866 |
William Edward Dowdeswell |
Tewkesbury |
Con |
|
28 April 1866 |
Lord Clarence Paget |
Sandwich |
Whig |
|
7 May 1866 |
William Leslie |
Aberdeenshire |
Con |
|
8 August 1866 |
Hon. Charles Cust |
North Shropshire |
Con |
|
5 February 1867 |
William Humphery |
Andover |
Con |
|
5 February 1867 |
Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt |
East Suffolk |
Con |
|
10 May 1867 |
David Dundas |
Sutherland |
Lib |
|
26 July 1867 |
David Stewart Ker |
Downpatrick |
Con |
|
25 November 1867 |
Hon. Alexander Baring |
Thetford |
Con |
|
19 February 1868 |
Alexander Struthers Finlay |
Argyllshire |
Lib |
|
14 April 1868 |
William Welby-Gregory |
Grantham |
Con |
|
22 April 1868 |
Laurence Oliphant |
Stirling Burghs |
Lib |
|
17 February 1869 |
Richard Green-Price |
Radnor |
Lib |
|
28 July 1869 |
Edward William Terreck Hamilton |
Salisbury |
Lib |
|
7 February 1870 |
Austen Henry Layard |
Southwark |
Lib |
|
9 February 1870 |
Henry Whitmore |
Bridgnorth |
Con |
|
16 February 1870 |
William Lee |
Maidstone |
Lib |
|
16 February 1870 |
Charles Ichabod Wright |
Nottingham |
Con |
|
30 March 1870 |
Lord Courtenay |
East Devon |
Con |
|
9 February 1871 |
Lord John Hay |
Ripon |
Lib |
|
9 February 1871 |
Sir Thomas Burke, Bt |
Galway County |
Lib |
|
22 February 1871 |
Edward Clive |
Hereford |
Lib |
|
24 February 1871 |
Poulett Somerset |
Monmouthshire |
Con |
|
6 February 1872 |
John Tollemache |
West Cheshire |
Con |
|
29 February 1872 |
Robert Stayner Holford |
East Gloucestershire |
Con |
|
17 April 1872 |
Richard Joseph Devereux |
Wexford Borough |
Lib |
|
7 February 1873 |
Edward Wingfield Verner |
Lisburn |
Con |
|
21 February 1873 |
George Legh |
Mid Cheshire |
Con |
|
29 April 1873 |
William Philip Price |
Gloucester |
Lib |
|
24 June 1873 |
Edmond de la Poer |
Waterford County |
Lib |
|
21 July 1873 |
George Armitstead |
Dundee |
Lib |
|
5 February 1875 |
George Melly |
Stoke-upon-Trent |
Lib |
|
6 February 1875 |
Charles William White |
Tipperary |
Nat |
15 April 1875 |
Francis Bassett |
Bedfordshire |
Lib |
|
20 July 1875 |
Thomas Richardson |
Hartlepool |
Lib |
|
8 February 1876 |
Richard Arkwright |
Leominster |
Con |
|
24 April 1876 |
William McCombie |
West Aberdeenshire |
Lib |
|
21 June 1876 |
George Dixon |
Birmingham |
Lib |
|
28 June 1876 |
William Edward Dowdeswell |
West Worcestershire |
Con |
|
14 July 1876 |
Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, Bt |
East Kent |
Con |
|
31 July 1876 |
Charles William Nevill |
Carmarthen |
Con |
|
8 February 1877 |
Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bt |
Wilton |
Lib |
|
12 February 1877 |
John Crossley |
Halifax |
Lib |
|
7 August 1877 |
Edward Corbett |
South Shropshire |
Con |
|
16 January 1878 |
James Johnston Grieve |
Greenock |
Lib |
|
29 January 1878 |
Joseph Warner Henley |
Oxfordshire |
Con |
|
8 March 1878 |
Evan Pateshall |
Hereford |
Con |
|
16 April 1878 |
Robert William Hanbury |
Tamworth |
Con |
|
6 May 1878 |
Sir Emile Cowell-Stepney, Bt |
Carmarthen |
Lib |
|
3 August 1878 |
The Marquess of Lorne |
Argyllshire |
Lib |
|
15 August 1878 |
Edmund Buckley |
Newcastle-under-Lyme |
Con |
|
5 December 1878 |
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson |
Bristol |
Lib |
|
1 May 1879 |
Lewis Ashurst Majendie |
Canterbury |
Con |
|
3 December 1879 |
Samuel Danks Waddy |
Barnstaple |
Lib |
|
1 May 1880 |
John Brinton |
Kidderminster |
Lib |
|
20 May 1880 |
Samuel Plimsoll |
Derby |
Lib |
|
23 July 1880 |
Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt |
Scarborough |
Lib |
|
18 January 1881 |
Duncan McLaren |
Edinburgh |
Lib |
|
5 April 1881 |
Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, Bt |
Sunderland |
Lib |
|
3 February 1882 |
Alexander Martin Sullivan |
Meath |
HRL |
|
18 April 1882 |
Vaughan Vaughan-Lee |
West Somerset |
Con |
|
15 August 1882 |
John Dyson Hutchinson |
Halifax |
Lib |
|
19 October 1882 |
James Cowan |
Edinburgh |
Lib |
|
16 November 1882 |
Henry Cecil Raikes |
Preston |
Con |
|
16 February 1883 |
Henry Joseph Gill |
Westmeath |
HRL |
|
6 March 1883 |
John Dillon |
Tipperary |
IPP |
|
6 June 1883 |
Michael Thomas Bass, Jr. |
Derby |
Lib |
|
16 June 1883 |
Timothy Michael Healy |
Wexford Borough |
IPP |
|
30 July 1883 |
Robert Henry Metge |
Meath |
Nat |
21 August 1883 |
Hon. Gerard Noel |
Rutland |
Con |
|
24 January 1884 |
William Holms |
Paisley |
Lib |
|
12 February 1884 |
Charles Bradlaugh |
Northampton |
Con |
|
12 February 1884 |
George Bentinck |
West Norfolk |
Con |
|
20 February 1884 |
William Thackeray Marriott |
Brighton |
Lib |
|
7 May 1884 |
Edmund Filmer |
Mid Kent |
Con |
|
7 May 1884 |
Sir Henry Peek, Bt |
Mid Surrey |
Con |
|
5 August 1884 |
John Carpenter Garnier |
South Devon |
Con |
|
8 August 1884 |
John Aloysius Blake |
Waterford County |
HRL |
|
24 October 1884 |
John George Dodson |
Scarborough |
Lib |
|
19 February 1885 |
William Gore-Langton |
Mid Somerset |
Con |
|
17 February 1886 |
Lord Richard Grosvenor |
Flintshire |
Lib |
|
8 June 1886 |
William O'Shea |
Galway Borough |
Nat |
|
25 September 1886 |
Edmund Leamy |
North East Cork |
IPP |
|
30 April 1887 |
William Copeland Borlase |
St Austell |
Lib |
|
4 July 1887 |
Sir James McGarel-Hogg, Bt |
Hornsey |
Con |
|
5 July 1887 |
George Sclater-Booth |
North Hampshire |
Con |
|
15 July 1887 |
Thomas Blake |
Forest of Dean |
Lib |
|
8 September 1887 |
John O'Connor |
South Kerry |
IPP |
|
7 February 1888 |
Charles Carmichael Lacaita |
Dundee |
Lib |
|
9 February 1888 |
Walter Shirley Shirley |
Doncaster |
Lib |
|
3 March 1888 |
The Earl of March |
Chichester |
Lib |
|
6 April 1888 |
Henry Joseph Gill |
Limerick City |
Lib |
|
15 May 1888 |
John Edmund Commerell |
Southampton |
Con |
|
8 November 1888 |
John Simon |
Dewsbury |
Lib |
|
22 February 1889 |
John Slagg |
Burnley |
Lib |
|
27 February 1889 |
Robert Gent-Davis |
Kennington |
Con |
|
6 April 1889 |
Francis Hughes-Hallett |
Rochester |
Con |
|
10 July 1889 |
Lord Charles Beresford |
Marylebone East |
Con |
|
4 March 1890 |
William Leatham Bright |
Stoke-upon-Trent |
Lib |
|
17 March 1890 |
Richard Ker |
East Down |
Con |
|
26 March 1890 |
Robert Richardson-Gardner |
Windsor |
Con |
|
12 June 1890 |
James Edward O'Doherty |
North Donegal |
IPP |
|
4 July 1891 |
Charles William Selwyn |
Wisbech |
Con |
|
12 December 1892 |
Jabez Balfour |
Burnley |
Lib |
|
9 May 1893 |
Michael Davitt |
North East Cork |
INF |
|
16 June 1893 |
John Morrogh |
South East Cork |
INF |
|
4 August 1893 |
William Grenfell |
Hereford |
Lib |
|
8 December 1893 |
William Thackeray Marriott |
Brighton |
Con |
|
21 March 1894 |
John Philipps |
Mid Lanarkshire |
Lib |
|
26 June 1894 |
Hon. Bernard Coleridge |
Sheffield Attercliffe |
Lib |
|
17 August 1894 |
James Allanson Picton |
Leicester |
Lib |
|
21 August 1894 |
Patrick Alexander Chance |
South Kilkenny |
INF |
|
2 April 1895 |
Clement Higgins |
Mid Norfolk |
Lib |
|
18 May 1895 |
Hon. Sidney Herbert |
Croydon |
Con |
|
15 June 1895 |
William O'Brien |
Cork City |
INF |
|
24 August 1895 |
Alfred Webb |
West Waterford |
INF |
|
19 February 1896[20] |
Thomas Sexton |
North Kerry |
INF |
|
24 April 1896 |
William Alexander Hunter |
Aberdeen North |
Lib |
|
20 November 1896 |
James Martin White |
Forfar |
Lib |
|
16 January 1897 |
Alfred Wigram |
Romford |
Con |
|
2 February 1897 |
Sir George Trevelyan, Bt |
Glasgow Bridgeton |
Lib |
|
4 February 1897 |
Charles Harvey Combe |
Chertsey |
Con |
|
5 February 1898 |
Alfred Hopkinson |
Cricklade |
LU |
|
22 April 1898 |
Francis Taylor |
South Norfolk |
LU |
|
2 July 1898 |
James Dampier Palmer |
Gravesend |
Con |
|
21 July 1898 |
George Doughty |
Great Grimsby |
Lib |
|
7 February 1899 |
William Kenrick |
Birmingham North |
LU |
|
17 February 1899 |
Thomas Wayman |
Elland |
Lib |
|
16 June 1899 |
Sir John Austin, Bt |
Osgoldcross |
Lib |
|
1 July 1899 |
Robert Grant Webster |
St Pancras East |
Con |
|
26 October 1899 |
Hon. Henry Northcote |
Exeter |
Con |
|
1900 to 1999
Date |
Member |
Constituency |
Party |
Reason for resignation |
26 January 1900[21] |
Lord Charles Beresford |
City of York |
Con |
Appointed Second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. |
27 January 1900[22] |
Bernard Collery |
North Sligo |
INF |
|
14 March 1900 |
Evelyn Hubbard |
Brixton |
Con |
|
11 December 1900 |
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt |
Blackpool |
Con |
|
9 January 1902[23] |
Edward Brodie Hoare |
Hampstead |
Con |
Ill health[24] |
1 February 1902[25] |
Michael McCartan |
South Down |
IPP |
|
7 February 1902[26] |
James Daly |
South Monaghan |
Con |
resigned, owing chiefly to the refusal of the party leaders to publish the names of those members who were receiving payment from the Parliamentary fund and those who were not[27] |
18 April 1902[28] |
Edwin Hughes |
Woolwich |
Con |
|
7 October 1902 |
Cathcart Wason |
Orkney and Shetland |
LU |
Resigned to stand again as an Independent Liberal. |
27 October 1902 |
Augustus Frederick Warr |
Liverpool East Toxteth |
Con |
|
17 February 1903 |
William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Dublin University |
LU |
|
5 March 1903 |
Edward Archdale |
North Fermanagh |
Con |
|
1 January 1904 |
William O'Brien |
Cork City |
AFIL |
|
22 March 1904 |
J. E. B. Seely |
Isle of Wight |
Con |
|
8 June 1904 |
John Lockie |
Plymouth Devonport |
Con |
|
16 June 1904 |
John Arthur Fyler |
Chertsey |
Con |
|
11 February 1905 |
John Archibald Willox |
Liverpool Everton |
Con |
|
28 June 1905 |
Arthur Hill |
West Down |
Con |
|
19 March 1906 |
Henry Broadhurst |
Leicester |
Lib |
|
7 May 1906 |
Frederick Rutherfoord Harris |
Dulwich |
Con |
|
11 June 1906 |
Heneage Legge |
Westminster St George's |
Con |
|
10 December 1906 |
Daniel Sheehan |
Mid Cork |
IPP |
|
12 February 1907 |
Harold James Reckitt |
Brigg |
Con |
|
1 May 1907 |
William Evans-Gordon |
Stepney |
Con |
|
10 June 1907 |
Denis Joseph Cogan |
East Wicklow |
IPP |
|
1 July 1907 |
James O'Mara |
South Kilkenny |
IPP |
|
15 August 1907 |
Edward Blake |
South Longford |
Lib |
|
22 January 1908 |
William Alexander McArthur |
St Austell |
Lib |
|
22 February 1908 |
Harvey du Cros |
Hastings |
Con |
|
23 April 1908 |
Henry Fowler |
Wolverhampton East |
Lib |
|
28 April 1908 |
Edmund Robertson |
Dundee |
Lib |
|
29 June 1908 |
John Philipps |
Pembrokeshire |
Lib |
|
10 February 1909 |
John Sinclair |
Forfar |
Lib |
|
27 March 1909 |
William O'Brien |
Cork City |
IPP |
|
23 April 1909 |
J. Batty Langley |
Sheffield Attercliffe |
Lib |
|
25 June 1909 |
Herbert Samuel |
Cleveland |
Lib |
|
22 February 1910 |
Sir William Holland, Bt |
Rotherham |
Lib |
|
20 February 1911 |
Thomas Fleming Wilson |
North East Lanarkshire |
Lib |
|
15 March 1911 |
Lord Alwyne Compton |
Brentford |
Con |
|
27 April 1911 |
Viscount Morpeth |
Birmingham South |
LU |
|
28 June 1911 |
Thomas Ashton |
Luton |
Lib |
|
4 July 1911 |
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt |
Wellington |
CU |
|
5 July 1911 |
John Muldoon |
East Wicklow |
IPP |
|
27 October 1911 |
Alfred Emmott |
Oldham |
Lib |
|
8 March 1912 |
John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood |
South East Essex |
Con |
|
13 March 1912 |
Sir James Rankin, Bt |
Leominster |
Con |
|
16 May 1912 |
Horatio Bottomley |
Hackney South |
Lib |
|
30 July 1912 |
George Kemp |
Manchester North West |
Lib |
|
14 November 1912 |
George Lansbury |
Bow and Bromley |
Lab |
|
5 February 1913 |
Lord Balniel |
Chorley |
Con |
|
2 June 1913 |
Sir Henry Kimber, Bt |
Wandsworth |
Con |
|
19 January 1914 |
William O'Brien |
Cork City |
AFIL |
|
26 May 1914 |
Richard Hazleton |
North Galway |
IPP |
|
7 July 1914 |
Austen Chamberlain |
East Worcestershire |
Con |
Resigned to contest Birmingham West |
16 February 1915 |
Viscount Castlereagh |
Maidstone |
Con |
|
3 December 1915 |
William Walker |
Widnes |
Con |
|
16 December 1915 |
Charles Stuart-Wortley |
Sheffield Hallam |
Con |
|
6 January 1916 |
Sir Alexander Henderson, Bt |
Westminster St George's |
Con |
|
13 January 1916 |
Hon. Harry Levy-Lawson |
Mile End |
LU |
|
22 February 1916 |
Robert Yerburgh |
City of Chester |
Con |
|
24 February 1916 |
John Rolleston |
Hertford |
Con |
|
6 March 1916 |
John William Logan |
Harborough |
Lib |
|
8 April 1916 |
Henry Chaplin |
Wimbledon |
Con |
|
7 August 1916 |
Reginald Pole-Carew |
Bodmin |
LU |
|
10 October 1916 |
Felix Cassel |
St Pancras West |
Con |
|
27 November 1916 |
The Earl of Ronaldshay |
Hornsey |
Con |
|
16 December 1916 |
Charles Stuart-Wortley |
Sheffield Hallam |
Con |
|
21 December 1916 |
Sir John Dewar, Bt |
Inverness-shire |
Lib |
|
10 February 1917 |
The Marquess of Tullibardine |
West Perthshire |
Con |
|
22 March 1917 |
Arthur Annesley |
Oxford |
Con |
|
7 May 1917 |
Charles Henry Lyell |
Edinburgh South |
Lib |
|
19 June 1917 |
Amelius Lockwood |
Epping |
Con |
|
12 January 1918 |
Sir John Lonsdale, Bt |
Mid Armagh |
Con |
|
14 March 1918 |
William Redmond |
East Tyrone |
IPP |
|
12 June 1918 |
Denison Faber |
Clapham |
Con |
|
4 November 1918 |
Timothy Michael Healy |
North East Cork |
AFIL |
|
21 March 1919 |
Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont |
East Antrim |
Con |
|
22 October 1919 |
John Wilkinson Taylor |
Chester-le-Street |
Lab |
|
29 October 1919 |
Hon. Waldorf Astor |
Plymouth Sutton |
Co Con |
|
2 December 1919 |
Henry Forster |
Sevenoaks |
Co Con |
|
8 February 1920 |
Will Crooks |
Woolwich East |
Lab |
|
15 February 1920 |
Sydney Arnold |
Penistone |
Lab |
|
9 March 1920 |
George Wardle |
Stockport |
Co Lab |
|
25 March 1920 |
James Clyde |
Edinburgh North |
Co Con |
|
7 July 1920 |
Robert Francis Peel |
Woodbridge |
Co Con |
|
25 November 1920 |
William Brace |
Abertillery |
Lab |
|
17 December 1920 |
Viscount Duncannon |
Dover |
Co Con |
|
18 March 1921 |
Dennis Boles |
Taunton |
Co Con |
|
15 April 1921 |
Lord Edmund Talbot |
Chichester |
Co Con |
|
24 May 1921 |
Walter Long |
Westminster St George's |
Co Con |
|
9 January 1922 |
Henry Newton Knights |
Camberwell North |
Co Con |
|
27 February 1922 |
Thomas Brash Morison |
Inverness |
Co Lib |
|
26 May 1922 |
Sir William Mount, Bt |
Newbury |
Co Con |
|
27 November 1922 |
Herbert Cayzer |
Portsmouth South |
Co Con |
|
13 February 1923 |
Thomas Worsfold |
Mitcham |
Co Con |
|
15 February 1923 |
William Rutherford |
Liverpool Edge Hill |
Co Con |
|
10 November 1923 |
Hon. Alexander Shaw |
Kilmarnock |
Lib |
|
26 April 1924 |
Sir Robert Houston, Bt |
Liverpool West Toxteth |
Co Con |
|
19 July 1924 |
Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, Bt |
Carmarthen |
Lib |
|
25 May 1925 |
Sir John Baird, Bt |
Ayr Burghs |
Con |
|
15 February 1926 |
Herbert Fisher |
Combined English Universities |
Lib |
|
30 April 1926 |
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett |
Hammersmith North |
Con |
|
24 August 1926 |
Hon. Donald Howard |
North Cumberland |
Con |
|
4 November 1926 |
Hon. Joseph Kenworthy |
Kingston upon Hull Central |
Lib |
|
30 November 1926 |
John Davison |
Smethwick |
Lab |
|
9 March 1927 |
Leslie Haden-Guest |
Southwark North |
Lab |
|
9 June 1927 |
Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt |
Brixton |
Con |
|
7 June 1928 |
Sir Alfred Mond, Bt |
Carmarthen |
Con |
|
18 June 1928 |
Sir Rowland Blades, Bt |
Epsom |
Con |
|
12 July 1929 |
William Jowitt |
Preston |
Lib |
|
9 April 1930 |
Ernest Spero |
Fulham West |
Lab |
|
17 June 1930 |
Noel Buxton |
North Norfolk |
Lab |
|
3 February 1931 |
John Humphrey Davidson |
Fareham |
Con |
|
16 February 1931 |
Hugh Morrison |
Salisbury |
Con |
|
20 April 1931 |
Sidney Herbert |
Scarborough and Whitby |
Con |
|
3 June 1931 |
John Tinné |
Liverpool Wavertree |
Con |
|
4 April 1932 |
Newton Moore |
Richmond upon Thames |
Con |
|
7 June 1932 |
Sir Robert Hutchinson |
Montrose Burghs |
N Lib |
|
6 February 1933 |
George Herbert |
Rotherham |
Con |
|
16 February 1934 |
Viscount Lymington |
Basingstoke |
Con |
|
30 May 1934 |
Lord Erskine |
Weston-super-Mare |
Con |
|
22 May 1935 |
John Buchan |
Combined Scottish Universities |
UP |
|
9 July 1935 |
Hilton Young |
Sevenoaks |
Con |
|
18 April 1936 |
Viscount Borodale |
Peckham |
Con |
|
11 June 1936 |
James Henry Thomas |
Derby |
N Lab |
|
19 October 1936 |
William Kirkpatrick |
Preston |
Con |
|
14 January 1937 |
Ian Fraser |
St Pancras North |
Con |
|
16 March 1937 |
Philip Russell Rendel Dunne |
Stalybridge and Hyde |
Con |
|
25 May 1937 |
Robert Stevenon Horne |
Glasgow Hillhead |
UP |
|
1 June 1937 |
Stanley Baldwin |
Bewdley |
Con |
|
3 June 1937 |
Hon. Walter Runciman |
St Ives |
N Lib |
|
26 October 1937 |
Lord Eustace Percy |
Hastings |
Con |
28 November 1938 |
The Duchess of Atholl |
Kinross and Western Perthshire |
UP |
Resigned in protest of appeasement of Hitler.[29] |
27 March 1939 |
Hon. Arthur Hope |
Birmingham Aston |
Con |
|
1 July 1939 |
John Herbert |
Monmouth |
Con |
|
6 November 1939 |
John Remer |
Macclesfield |
Con |
|
24 January 1940 |
Sir Charles Barrie |
Southampton |
N Lib |
|
29 January 1940 |
Alan Garrett Anderson |
City of London |
Con |
|
8 February 1940 |
John Birchall |
Leeds North East |
Con |
|
10 April 1940 |
Nicholas Grattan-Doyle |
Newcastle upon Tyne North |
Con |
|
18 June 1940 |
Harry Nathan |
Wandsworth Central |
Lab |
|
12 July 1940 |
Bernard Cruddas |
Wansbeck |
Con |
|
18 September 1940 |
Thomas Sinclair |
Queen's University of Belfast |
UU |
|
11 November 1940 |
Viscount Wolmer |
Aldershot |
Con |
|
3 April 1941 |
Frederick Roberts |
West Bromwich |
Lab |
|
11 July 1941 |
Sir Hugh Seely, Bt |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Lib |
|
10 November 1941 |
Lord Erskine |
|
Con |
|
25 February 1942 |
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt |
Grantham |
Con |
|
9 April 1942 |
John Moore-Brabazon |
Wallasey |
Con |
|
9 July 1942 |
Gordon Macdonald |
Ince |
Lab |
|
14 January 1943 |
John Colville |
Midlothian and Peebles Northern |
Con |
|
20 September 1943 |
Lord Burghley |
Peterborough |
Con |
|
24 January 1944 |
Tom Kennedy |
Kirkcaldy Burghs |
Lab |
|
7 February 1944 |
Cecil Wilson |
Sheffield Attercliffe |
Lab |
|
26 February 1946 |
Ted Williams |
Ogmore |
Lab |
Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[30] |
24 May 1946 |
Francis Douglas |
Battersea North |
Lab |
Appointed Governor of Malta[31] |
2 October 1946 |
Clarice Shaw |
Kilmarnock |
Lab |
Ill health[32] |
16 October 1946 |
John Boyd Orr |
Combined Scottish Universities |
Ind |
Concentrating on work as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization |
4 November 1946 |
Sir Douglas Thomson, Bt |
Aberdeen South |
Con |
Pressure of business[33] |
3 November 1947 |
Sir Archibald Southby, Bt |
Epsom |
Con |
Ill health[34] |
1 March 1948 |
Tom Williamson |
Brigg |
Lab |
Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the GMWU |
2 July 1948 |
George Buchanan |
Glasgow Gorbals |
Lab |
Appointed Chairman of the National Assistance Board[35] |
19 December 1949 |
Jack Lawson |
Chester-le-Street |
Lab |
Appointed Vice-Chairman of the National Parks Commission[36] |
25 October 1950 |
Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps |
Bristol South East |
Lab |
Medical advice[37] |
22 March 1951 |
Sir Ronald Ross, Bt |
Londonderry |
Con |
Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London |
11 May 1951 |
Rhys Davies |
Westhoughton |
Lab |
Ill health[38] |
8 October 1952 |
Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill |
North Antrim |
Con |
Retiring[39] |
21 January 1953 |
Sidney Schofield |
Barnsley |
Lab |
Personal and domestic reasons[40] |
14 February 1953 |
Hon. Edward Carson |
Isle of Thanet |
Con |
Ill health[41] |
3 June 1953 |
Peter Bennett |
Birmingham Edgbaston |
Con |
Created a peer[42] |
27 October 1953 |
William J. Field |
Paddington North |
Lab |
Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes[43] |
15 January 1954 |
Richard Law |
Haltemprice |
Con |
Resigned to become Baron Coleraine.[44] |
12 February 1954 |
William Cuthbert |
Arundel and Shoreham |
Con |
Ill health[45] |
3 October 1954 |
Sidney Marshall |
Sutton and Cheam |
Con |
Ill health[46] |
28 November 1954 |
Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton |
Inverness |
Con |
Ill health; resigned to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise[47] |
7 May 1956 |
Gerald Wellington Williams |
Tonbridge |
Con |
Ill health[48] |
26 November 1956 |
Stanley Evans |
Wednesbury |
Lab |
Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis |
2 May 1957 |
William Darling |
Edinburgh South |
Con |
Ill health[49] |
8 November 1957 |
Victor Raikes |
Liverpool Garston |
Con |
Took up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia[50] |
18 April 1958 |
Angus Maude |
Ealing South |
Con |
Resigned to become Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.[51] |
1 June 1961 |
Hon. David Ormsby-Gore |
Oswestry |
Con |
Appointed British Ambassador to the United States.[52] |
29 November 1961 |
Hilary Marquand |
Middlesbrough East |
Lab |
Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office.[53] |
22 January 1962 |
George Chetwynd |
Stockton-on-Tees |
Lab |
Appointed Director of the North East Development Council[54] |
6 June 1963 |
John Profumo |
Stratford-on-Avon |
Con |
Confessed to lying to the House (the Profumo Affair)[55] |
9 March 1964 |
Peter Smithers |
Winchester |
Con |
Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe[56] |
24 June 1965 |
Anthony Marlowe |
Hove |
Con |
Medical advice |
29 September 1967 |
William Roots |
Kensington South |
Con |
Ill health[57] |
15 January 1968 |
Leslie Hale |
Oldham West |
Lab |
Ill health[58] |
6 February 1969 |
William Teeling |
Brighton Pavilion |
Con |
Ill health |
7 March 1969 |
Francis Noel-Baker |
Swindon |
Lab |
Ill health[59] |
11 January 1971 |
Horace King |
Southampton Itchen |
Lab |
Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons |
30 March 1972 |
Ray Gunter |
Southwark |
Ind |
Had left Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an Independent having been elected as Labour[60] |
29 December 1972 |
George Thomson |
Dundee East |
Lab |
Appointed a European Commissioner |
1 June 1973 |
Antony Lambton |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Con |
Prostitution scandal |
27 August 1976 |
John Stonehouse |
Walsall North |
Lab Co-op |
Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment |
12 November 1976 |
David Lane |
Cambridge |
Con |
Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality[61] |
5 January 1977 |
Roy Jenkins |
Birmingham Stechford |
Lab |
Appointed President of the European Commission |
16 June 1977 |
Brian Walden |
Birmingham Ladywood |
Lab |
In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World |
6 April 1978 |
Peter Rawlinson |
Epsom and Ewell |
Con |
Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer[62] |
24 October 1979 |
Geoffrey Dodsworth |
South West Hertfordshire |
Con |
Medical advice |
1 November 1982 |
Robert Mellish |
Bermondsey |
Ind |
Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; resigned to become Vice-Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation[63] |
17 December 1985 |
James Molyneaux |
Lagan Valley |
UUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
Roy Beggs |
East Antrim |
UUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
Harold McCusker |
Armagh |
UUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
William Ross |
Londonderry |
UUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
John Taylor |
Strangford |
UUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
James Kilfedder |
North Down |
UPUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
Jim Nicholson |
Newry and Armagh |
UUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
17 December 1985 |
William McCrea |
Mid Ulster |
DUP |
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] |
24 June 1986 |
John Golding |
Newcastle-under-Lyme |
Lab |
Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union[65] |
18 October 1988 |
Bruce Millan |
Glasgow Govan |
Lab |
Appointed a European Commissioner[66] |
18 May 1989 |
Stuart Holland |
Vauxhall |
Lab |
In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute |
20 January 1995 |
Neil Kinnock |
Islwyn |
Lab |
Appointed a European Commissioner[67] |
28 June 1999 |
Alastair Goodlad |
Eddisbury |
Con |
Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[68] |
2000 to present
See also
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27157. p. 519. 26 January 1900.
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- ↑ "Two M.P.s to Resign", The Times, 11 October 1946, p. 8.
- ↑ "Resignation of Sir A. Southby", The Times, 3 November 1947, p. 4.
- ↑ "Minister of Pensions Vacating Office", The Times, 2 July 1948, p. 4.
- ↑ "Mr. Lawson, M.P., Resigns", The Times, 21 December 1949, p. 4.
- ↑ "Sir Stafford Cripps Resigns", The Times, 20 October 1950, p. 4.
- ↑ "M.P. not to seek re-election", The Times, 10 April 1951, p. 7.
- ↑ "'Father' of Commons to Retire", The Times, 5 July 1952, p. 6.
- ↑ "Two M.P.s to Resign", The Times, 13 January 1953, p. 3.
- ↑ "Mr. Edward Carson", The Times, 18 February 1953, p. 4.
- ↑ "Two by-elections", The Times, 6 June 1953, p. 4.
- ↑ "Mr. W. J. Field, M.P., To Resign", The Times, 14 October 1953, p. 5."
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- ↑ "Conservative M.P.s' Resignations", The Times, 17 February 1954, p. 8.
- ↑ "Chiltern Hundreds for Sir Sidney Marshall", The Times, 6 October 1954, p. 6.
- ↑ "M.P. for Inverness to Resign", The Times, 3 December 1954, p. 8.
- ↑ "Conservative M.P. To Resign", The Times, 28 April 1956, p. 6.
- ↑ "Sir William Darling Resigns Seat", The Times, 4 May 1957, p 4.
- ↑ "Sir Victor Raikes Resigns Seat", The Times, 9 November 1957, p. 3.
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- ↑ "Swindon MP resigns his seat", The Times, 8 March 1969, p. 1.
- ↑ "Mr Gunter resigning: 'Improper to stay'", The Times, 4 March 1972, p. 1
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