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Last updated 13/06/2017 (24 Jun 2022) | |||||
Date | Name | Born | Died | Age | |
Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that date was a by-election or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a previous election result. Dates shown in normal type were general elections. | |||||
Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the MP was baptised on that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the MP was buried on that date. | |||||
DAGENHAM | |||||
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26 Jul 1945 | Herbert John Harvey Parker | 15 Jul 1906 | 24 Nov 1987 | 81 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Bryan Charles Gould | 11 Feb 1939 | |||
9 Jun 1994 | Judith Ann Church | 19 Sep 1953 | |||
7 Jun 2001 | Jonathan Cruddas | 7 Apr 1962 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "DAGENHAM AND RAINHAM" 2010 | |||||
DAGENHAM AND RAINHAM | |||||
6 May 2010 | Jonathan Cruddas | 7 Apr 1962 | |||
DARLINGTON | |||||
18 Nov 1868 | Edmund Backhouse | 1824 | 7 Jun 1906 | 81 | |
3 Apr 1880 | Theodore Fry, later [1894] 1st baronet | 1 May 1836 | 5 Feb 1912 | 75 | |
13 Jul 1895 | Arthur Pease | 12 Sep 1837 | 27 Aug 1898 | 60 | |
17 Sep 1898 | Herbert Pike Pease, later [1923] 1st Baron Daryngton | 7 May 1867 | 10 May 1949 | 82 | |
15 Jan 1910 | Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
4 Apr 1879 | 6 Oct 1943 | 64 | |
Dec 1910 | Herbert Pike Pease, later [1923] 1st Baron Daryngton | 7 May 1867 | 10 May 1949 | 82 | |
28 Feb 1923 | William Edwin Pease | 3 Jun 1865 | 23 Jan 1926 | 60 | |
17 Feb 1926 | Arthur Lewis Shepherd | 7 Feb 1884 | 14 Apr 1951 | 67 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Charles Urie Peat | 28 Feb 1892 | 27 Oct 1979 | 87 | |
26 Jul 1945 | David Rennie Hardman | 18 Oct 1901 | 6 Dec 1989 | 88 | |
25 Oct 1951 | Sir Frederick Fergus Graham, 5th baronet | 10 Mar 1893 | 1 Aug 1978 | 85 | |
8 Oct 1959 | Anthony Temple Bourne-Arton | 1 Mar 1913 | 28 May 1996 | 83 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Edward Joseph Fletcher | 25 Feb 1911 | 13 Feb 1983 | 71 | |
24 Mar 1983 | Oswald O'Brien | 6 Apr 1928 | 10 Mar 1997 | 68 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Michael Cathel Fallon [kt 2016] | 14 May 1952 | |||
9 Apr 1992 | Alan Milburn | 27 Jan 1958 | |||
6 May 2010 | Jennifer Chapman, later [2021] Baroness Chapman of Darlington [L] | 25 Sep 1973 | |||
12 Dec 2019 | Peter Alexander Gibson | 22 May 1975 | |||
DARTFORD (KENT) | |||||
4 Dec 1885 | Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th baronet | 7 Aug 1837 | 3 Jul 1931 | 94 | |
19 Jan 1906 | James Rowlands | 1 Oct 1851 | 1 Mar 1920 | 68 | |
26 Jan 1910 | William Foot Mitchell [kt 1929] | 26 Jun 1859 | 31 Jul 1947 | 88 | |
Dec 1910 | James Rowlands | 1 Oct 1851 | 1 Mar 1920 | 68 | |
27 Mar 1920 | John Edmund Mills | 2 Sep 1882 | 11 Nov 1951 | 69 | |
15 Nov 1922 | George William Symonds Jarrett | 1880 | 6 Dec 1960 | 80 | |
6 Dec 1923 | John Edmund Mills | 2 Sep 1882 | 11 Nov 1951 | 69 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Angus McDonnell | 7 Jun 1881 | 22 Apr 1966 | 84 | |
30 May 1929 | John Edmund Mills | 2 Sep 1882 | 11 Nov 1951 | 69 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Frank Edward Clarke | 21 Nov 1886 | 12 Jul 1938 | 51 | |
7 Nov 1938 | Janet Laurel Adamson | 9 May 1882 | 25 Apr 1962 | 79 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Norman Noel Dodds | 25 Dec 1903 | 22 Aug 1965 | 61 | |
26 May 1955 | Sydney Irving, later [1979] Baron Irving of Dartford [L] | 1 Jul 1918 | 18 Dec 1989 | 71 | |
18 Jun 1970 | Peter John Edward Trew | 30 Apr 1932 | |||
28 Feb 1974 | Sydney Irving, later [1979] Baron Irving of Dartford [L] | 1 Jul 1918 | 18 Dec 1989 | 71 | |
3 May 1979 | Robert John Dunn | 14 Jul 1946 | 24 Apr 2003 | 56 | |
1 May 1997 | Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate | 14 Apr 1954 | |||
6 May 2010 | Gareth Alan Johnson | 12 Oct 1969 | |||
DARTMOUTH (DEVONSHIRE) | |||||
31 Mar 1660 | Sir John Frederick | 25 Oct 1601 | 19 Mar 1685 | 83 | |
John Hale | 19 Mar 1614 | Sep 1691 | 77 | ||
11 Apr 1661 | William Harbord (to Feb 1679) | 25 Apr 1635 | 31 Jul 1692 | 57 | |
Thomas Southcote | c 1622 | c Apr 1664 | |||
27 Apr 1664 | Thomas Kendall | 13 Aug 1609 | Dec 1666 | 57 | |
22 Jan 1667 | Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd baronet | c 1626 | 21 Nov 1670 | ||
22 Dec 1670 | William Gould | 31 Mar 1640 | 24 Oct 1671 | 31 | |
1 Feb 1673 | Josiah Child, later [1678] 1st baronet | c 1630 | 22 Jun 1699 | ||
This election was declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the subsequent by-election held on 15 Feb 1673, Child was again elected | |||||
20 Feb 1679 | Sir Nathaniel Herne | c 1629 | 10 Aug 1679 | ||
John Upton (to 1685) | 15 Aug 1639 | 7 Sep 1687 | 48 | ||
22 Aug 1679 | Edward Yarde | 22 Apr 1638 | 11 Aug 1703 | 65 | |
9 Apr 1685 | Roger Pomeroy | 20 Sep 1629 | 23 Jul 1708 | 78 | |
Arthur Farwell | c 1642 | 3 May 1687 | |||
14 Jan 1689 | Charles Boone | 18 Apr 1652 | 12 Aug 1689 | 37 | |
William Hayne (to 1698) | c 1665 | Jul 1698 | |||
19 Sep 1689 | George Booth [unseated on petition in favour of Sir Joseph Herne 28 Nov 1689] | c 1655 | 11 Jun 1726 | ||
28 Nov 1689 | Joseph Herne [kt 1690] (to 1699) | 17 Apr 1639 | 26 Feb 1699 | 59 | |
27 Jul 1698 | Frederick Herne (to 1714) | 3 Mar 1667 | 15 Mar 1714 | 47 | |
16 Dec 1699 | Rowland Holt | ||||
Nathaniel Herne | 5 Mar 1668 | 2 Jun 1722 | 54 | ||
Double return. Election declared void 12 Feb 1700 | |||||
11 Jan 1701 | Nathaniel Herne | 5 Mar 1668 | 2 Jun 1722 | 54 | |
2 Sep 1713 | Sir William Drake, 4th baronet (to 1715) [at the general election of 1713, he was also returned for Honiton, and appears to have been allowed to sit for both seats] | 12 Jul 1658 | 28 Feb 1716 | 57 | |
20 Mar 1714 | John Fownes (to 1722) | c 1661 | 4 Oct 1731 | ||
4 Feb 1715 | Joseph Herne | after 1682 | 19 Dec 1723 | ||
24 Mar 1722 | George Treby | 29 Oct 1685 | 8 Mar 1742 | 56 | |
Thomas Martyn | c 1689 | 17 May 1750 | |||
21 Aug 1727 | Walter Carey (to 1757) | 17 Oct 1685 | 27 Apr 1757 | 71 | |
George Treby | 29 Oct 1685 | 8 Mar 1742 | 56 | ||
27 Mar 1742 | Lord Archibald Hamilton | 17 Feb 1673 | 5 Apr 1754 | 81 | |
2 Jul 1747 | John Jeffreys (to 1766) | 1706 | 30 Jan 1766 | 59 | |
23 May 1757 | Richard Howe, later [1758] 4th Viscount Howe [I] and [1788] 1st Earl Howe (to 1782) | 19 Mar 1726 | 5 Aug 1799 | 73 | |
7 Feb 1766 | Richard Hopkins | c 1728 | 19 Mar 1799 | ||
12 Sep 1780 | Arthur Holdsworth (to 1787) | c 1757 | 21 Aug 1787 | ||
16 Apr 1782 | Charles Brett | c 1715 | 10 Feb 1799 | ||
5 Apr 1784 | Richard Hopkins (to 1790) | c 1728 | 19 Mar 1799 | ||
5 Oct 1787 | Edmund Bastard (to 1812) | 7 Feb 1758 | Jun 1816 | 58 | |
19 Jun 1790 | John Charles Villiers, later [1824] 3rd Earl of Clarendon | 14 Nov 1757 | 22 Dec 1838 | 81 | |
7 Jul 1802 | Arthur Howe Holdsworth (to 1820) | 26 Nov 1780 | 13 May 1860 | 79 | |
9 Oct 1812 | Edmund Pollexfen Bastard | 12 Jul 1784 | 8 Jun 1838 | 53 | |
9 May 1816 | John Bastard (to 1832) | c 1787 | 11 Jan 1835 | ||
4 Jan 1820 | Charles Milner Ricketts | 21 Apr 1776 | 7 Sep 1867 | 91 | |
8 Apr 1822 | James Hamilton Stanhope For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the members for Buckingham |
7 Sep 1788 | 5 Mar 1825 | 36 | |
24 Mar 1825 | John Hutton Cooper, later [1828] 1st baronet | 7 Dec 1765 | 24 Dec 1828 | 63 | |
26 Jan 1829 | Arthur Howe Holdsworth | 26 Nov 1780 | 14 May 1860 | 79 | |
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1832 | |||||
11 Dec 1832 | John Henry Seale, later [1838] 1st baronet | 25 Dec 1780 | 29 Nov 1844 | 63 | |
27 Dec 1844 | Joseph Somes | 27 Jun 1845 | |||
3 Jul 1845 | George Moffatt | 1807 | 20 Feb 1878 | 70 | |
13 Jul 1852 | Sir Thomas Herbert | 1793 | 4 Aug 1861 | 68 | |
28 Mar 1857 | James Caird [kt 1882] | 1816 | 9 Feb 1892 | 75 | |
30 Apr 1859 | Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley [his election was declared void 27 Jul 1859] | 1799 | 31 Jan 1878 | 78 | |
8 Aug 1859 | John Dunn | 1820 | 10 Sep 1860 | 40 | |
3 Nov 1860 | John Hardy, later [1876] 1st baronet | 23 Feb 1809 | 9 Jul 1888 | 79 | |
CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1868 | |||||
DARWEN (LANCASHIRE) | |||||
3 Dec 1885 | James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, styled Viscount Cranborne, later [1903] 4th Marquess of Salisbury | 23 Oct 1861 | 4 Apr 1947 | 85 | |
Jul 1892 | Charles Philip Huntington, later [1906] 1st baronet | 1833 | 23 Dec 1906 | 73 | |
23 Jul 1895 | John Rutherford, later [1916] 1st baronet | 16 Sep 1854 | 26 Feb 1932 | 77 | |
25 Jan 1910 | Frederick George Hindle | 15 Jan 1848 | 1 Mar 1925 | 77 | |
Dec 1910 | Sir John Rutherford, 1st baronet | 16 Sep 1854 | 26 Feb 1932 | 77 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, 1st baronet | 4 Oct 1880 | 18 Jul 1965 | 84 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Frederick Hindle [kt 1943] | 28 Jul 1877 | 23 Apr 1953 | 75 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, 1st baronet | 4 Oct 1880 | 18 Jul 1965 | 84 | |
30 May 1929 | Herbert Louis Samuel, later [1937] 1st Viscount Samuel | 6 Nov 1870 | 5 Feb 1963 | 92 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Stuart Hugh Minto Russell | 18 Jan 1909 | 30 Oct 1943 | 34 | |
12 Dec 1943 | William Robert Stanley Prescott | 25 Apr 1912 | 6 Jun 1962 | 50 | |
25 Oct 1951 | Charles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke [kt 1981] | 5 May 1914 | 24 Feb 2001 | 86 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
DAVENTRY (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE) | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Edward Algernon Fitzroy | 24 Jul 1869 | 3 Mar 1943 | 73 | |
20 Apr 1943 | Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller [kt 1951], later [1956] 4th baronet and [1964] 1st Viscount Dilhorne | 1 Aug 1905 | 7 Sep 1980 | 75 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950, BUT REVIVED 1974 | |||||
28 Feb 1974 | Albert Arthur Jones | 23 Oct 1915 | 6 Dec 1991 | 76 | |
3 May 1979 | Reginald Ernest Prentice [kt 1987], later [1992] Baron Prentice [L] | 16 Jul 1923 | 18 Jan 2001 | 77 | |
11 Jun 1987 | Timothy Eric Boswell, later [2010] Baron Boswell of Aynho [L] | 2 Dec 1942 | |||
6 May 2010 | Christopher Heaton-Harris | 28 Nov 1967 | |||
DAVYHULME (MANCHESTER) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Winston Spencer Churchill | 10 Oct 1940 | 2 Mar 2010 | 69 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
DEARNE VALLEY (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Wilfred Paling | 7 Apr 1883 | 17 Apr 1971 | 88 | |
8 Oct 1959 | Edwin Wainwright | 12 Aug 1908 | 22 Jan 1998 | 89 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
DELYN (CLWYD) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Keith William Twort Raffan | 21 Jun 1949 | |||
9 Apr 1992 | David George Hanson | 5 Jul 1957 | |||
12 Dec 2019 | Robert Joseph Roberts | 15 Oct 1979 | |||
DENBIGH (DENBIGHSHIRE) | |||||
6 Apr 1660 | John Carter [kt Jun 1660] | c 1619 | 28 Nov 1676 | ||
10 Apr 1661 | Sir John Salusbury, 4th baronet | c 1640 | 23 May 1684 | ||
10 Apr 1685 | Sir John Trevor | c 1637 | 20 May 1717 | ||
16 Jan 1689 | Edward Brereton | c 1642 | 10 Jan 1725 | ||
18 May 1705 | William Robinson | c 1668 | 15 Nov 1717 | ||
14 May 1708 | Sir William Williams, 2nd baronet | c 1665 | 20 Oct 1740 | ||
20 Oct 1710 | John Roberts | after 1672 | 4 Sep 1731 | ||
11 Sep 1713 | John Wynne | 6 Feb 1689 | 29 May 1718 | 29 | |
9 Feb 1715 | John Roberts | after 1672 | 4 Sep 1731 | ||
31 Mar 1722 | Robert Myddelton | 14 Jun 1678 | 5 Apr 1733 | 54 | |
27 Apr 1733 | John Myddelton | 21 Oct 1685 | 9 Apr 1747 | 61 | |
18 May 1741 | John Wynn, later [1749] 2nd baronet | Sep 1701 | 14 Feb 1773 | 71 | |
3 Jul 1747 | Richard Myddelton | 26 Mar 1726 | 2 Apr 1795 | 69 | |
20 May 1788 | Richard Myddelton | c 1764 | 20 Dec 1796 | ||
12 Jan 1797 | Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, later [1808] 1st baronet | 1 Sep 1765 | 26 Nov 1811 | 46 | |
12 Jul 1802 | Frederick West | 1767 | 22 Mar 1852 | 84 | |
3 Nov 1806 | Robert Myddelton-Biddulph | Mar 1761 | 30 Aug 1814 | 53 | |
15 Oct 1812 | John Hamilton Fitzmaurice, styled Viscount Kirkwall | 9 Oct 1778 | 23 Nov 1820 | 42 | |
20 Jun 1818 | John Wynne Griffith | 1 Apr 1763 | 20 Jun 1834 | 71 | |
24 Jun 1826 | Frederick Richard West | 6 Feb 1799 | 1 May 1862 | 63 | |
Joseph Ablett | |||||
Double return. West declared elected 29 Mar 1827 | |||||
31 Jul 1830 | Robert Myddleton-Biddulph | 20 Jun 1805 | 21 Mar 1872 | 66 | |
10 Dec 1832 | John Madocks | c 1787 | 20 Nov 1837 | ||
8 Jan 1835 | Wilson Jones | 3 Jul 1795 | 24 Aug 1864 | 69 | |
3 Jul 1841 | Townshend Mainwaring | 16 Mar 1807 | 25 Dec 1883 | 76 | |
29 Jul 1847 | Frederick Richard West | 6 Feb 1799 | 1 May 1862 | 63 | |
31 Mar 1857 | Townshend Mainwaring | 16 Mar 1807 | 25 Dec 1883 | 76 | |
19 Nov 1868 | Charles James Watkin Williams | 1828 | 17 Jul 1884 | 56 | |
8 Apr 1880 | Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th baronet | 17 Jan 1839 | 18 Jun 1905 | 66 | |
28 Nov 1885 | George Thomas Kenyon | 28 Dec 1840 | 26 Jan 1908 | 67 | |
19 Jul 1895 | William Tudor Howell | 1862 | 3 Oct 1911 | 49 | |
5 Oct 1900 | George Thomas Kenyon | 28 Dec 1840 | 26 Jan 1908 | 67 | |
19 Jan 1906 | Allen Clement Edwards | Jun 1869 | 23 Jun 1938 | 69 | |
19 Jan 1910 | William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, later [1938] 4th Baron Harlech | 11 Apr 1885 | 14 Feb 1964 | 78 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Sir David Sanders Davies | 11 May 1852 | 28 Feb 1934 | 81 | |
15 Nov 1922 | John Cledwyn Davies | 1869 | 31 Dec 1952 | 83 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Ellis William Davies | 12 Apr 1871 | 28 Apr 1939 | 68 | |
30 May 1929 | (John) Henry Morris-Jones [kt 1937] | 2 Nov 1884 | 9 Jul 1972 | 87 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Emlyn Hugh Garner Evans | 3 Sep 1911 | 11 Oct 1963 | 53 | |
8 Oct 1959 | William Geraint Oliver Morgan | 2 Nov 1920 | 2 Jul 1995 | 74 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
DENBIGHSHIRE | |||||
c Apr 1660 | Sir Thomas Myddelton | 10 Jul 1586 | 11 Dec 1666 | 80 | |
10 Apr 1661 | Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st baronet | 2 Nov 1624 | 13 Jul 1663 | 38 | |
4 May 1664 | John Wynne | c 1630 | 25 Feb 1689 | ||
19 Feb 1679 | Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd baronet | c 1651 | 5 Feb 1684 | ||
14 Feb 1681 | Sir John Trevor | c 1637 | 20 May 1717 | ||
8 Apr 1685 | Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd baronet | 23 Mar 1655 | 29 Apr 1716 | 61 | |
30 Jun 1716 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd baronet | c 1693 | 20 Sep 1749 | ||
26 May 1741 | John Myddelton [he was unseated on petition in favour of Sir Watkin Williams‑Wynn 23 Feb 1742] | 21 Oct 1685 | 9 Apr 1747 | 61 | |
23 Feb 1742 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd baronet | c 1693 | 20 Sep 1749 | ||
5 Dec 1749 | Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, 4th baronet | c 1705 | 14 Aug 1775 | ||
19 Oct 1774 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th baronet | 8 May 1748 | 29 Jul 1789 | 41 | |
28 Aug 1789 | Robert Watkin Wynne | c 1754 | 2 Mar 1806 | ||
10 Jun 1796 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th baronet (to 1840) | 26 Oct 1772 | 6 Jan 1840 | 67 | |
REPRESENTATION INCREASED TO TWO MEMBERS 1832 | |||||
17 Dec 1832 | Robert Myddleton-Biddulph | 20 Jun 1805 | 21 Mar 1872 | 66 | |
19 Jan 1835 | William Bagot, later [1856] 3rd Baron Bagot (to 1852) | 27 Mar 1811 | 19 Jan 1887 | 75 | |
30 Jan 1840 | Hugh Cholmondeley, later [1855] 2nd Baron Delamere | 3 Oct 1812 | 1 Aug 1887 | 74 | |
7 Jul 1841 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th baronet (to May 1885) | 22 May 1820 | 9 May 1885 | 64 | |
22 Jul 1852 | Robert Myddleton-Biddulph | 20 Jun 1805 | 21 Mar 1872 | 66 | |
24 Nov 1868 | George Osborne Morgan, later [1892] 1st baronet (to Nov 1885) | 8 May 1826 | 25 Aug 1897 | 71 | |
21 May 1885 | Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th baronet | 6 Jun 1860 | 24 May 1944 | 83 | |
SPLIT INTO "EAST" AND "WEST" DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
DENBIGHSHIRE EAST | |||||
5 Dec 1885 | George Osborne Morgan, later [1892] 1st baronet | 8 May 1826 | 25 Aug 1897 | 71 | |
28 Sep 1897 | Samuel Moss | 1858 | 14 May 1918 | 59 | |
14 Aug 1906 | Edward George Hemmerde | 13 Nov 1871 | 24 May 1948 | 76 | |
Dec 1910 | Edward Thomas John | 14 Mar 1857 | 16 Feb 1931 | 73 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
DENBIGHSHIRE WEST | |||||
9 Dec 1885 | William Cornwallis West | 20 Mar 1835 | 4 Jul 1917 | 82 | |
Jul 1892 | John Herbert Roberts, later [1908] 1st baronet and [1919] 1st Baron Clwyd | 8 Aug 1863 | 19 Dec 1955 | 92 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
DENTON AND REDDISH (MANCHESTER) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Andrew Francis Bennett | 9 Mar 1939 | |||
5 May 2005 | Andrew John Gwynne | 4 Jun 1974 | |||
DEPTFORD | |||||
25 Nov 1885 | William John Evelyn | 27 Jul 1822 | 26 Jul 1908 | 85 | |
29 Feb 1888 | Charles John Darling, later [1924] 1st Baron Darling | 6 Dec 1849 | 29 May 1936 | 86 | |
15 Nov 1897 | Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton | 1836 | 15 Jun 1913 | 76 | |
15 Jan 1906 | Charles William Bowerman | 22 Jan 1851 | 11 Jun 1947 | 96 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Denis Augustine Hanley | 26 Jul 1903 | 10 Jun 1980 | 76 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Walter Henry Green | Mar 1878 | 13 Apr 1958 | 80 | |
26 Jul 1945 | John Charles Wilmot, later [1950] 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston | 2 Apr 1895 | 22 Jul 1964 | 69 | |
23 Feb 1950 | John Cooper, later [1966] Baron Cooper of Stockton Heath [L] | 7 Jun 1908 | 2 Sep 1988 | 80 | |
25 Oct 1951 | Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer | 2 Jun 1901 | 15 Apr 1963 | 61 | |
4 Jul 1963 | John Ernest Silkin | 18 Mar 1923 | 26 Apr 1987 | 64 | |
NAME CHANGED TO "LEWISHAM DEPTFORD" FEB 1974 | |||||
DERBY (DERBYSHIRE) | |||||
2 Apr 1660 | Roger Allestry | c 1620 | 1 Feb 1665 | ||
John Dalton (to 1679) | c 1610 | 30 Aug 1679 | |||
16 Feb 1665 | Anchitell Grey (to 1685) | c 1624 | 8 Jul 1702 | ||
8 Feb 1679 | George Vernon | 1635 | 13 Jul 1702 | 67 | |
10 Mar 1685 | John Coke (to 1690) | c 1653 | 1692 | ||
William Allestry | c 1642 | c 1700 | |||
12 Jan 1689 | Anchitell Grey (to 1695) | c 1624 | 8 Jul 1702 | ||
3 Mar 1690 | Robert Wilmot | 1641 | 1722 | 81 | |
30 Oct 1695 | Lord Henry Cavendish (to Jan 1701) | 1673 | 10 May 1700 | 26 | |
John Bagnold | |||||
26 Jul 1698 | George Vernon | 1635 | 13 Jul 1702 | 67 | |
7 Jan 1701 | Sir Charles Pye, 2nd baronet | 20 Dec 1651 | 12 Feb 1721 | 69 | |
Lord James Cavendish (to 1702) | c 1678 | 14 Dec 1751 | |||
27 Nov 1701 | John Harpur (to 1705) | 9 Apr 1713 | |||
18 Jul 1702 | Thomas Stanhope | c 1679 | 10 Apr 1730 | ||
12 May 1705 | Lord James Cavendish (to Oct 1710) | c 1678 | 14 Dec 1751 | ||
Sir Thomas Parker, later [1721] 1st Earl of Macclesfield | 23 Jul 1667 | 28 Apr 1732 | 64 | ||
27 Mar 1710 | Richard Pye, later [1721] 3rd baronet | 2 Feb 1689 | 22 Nov 1724 | 35 | |
9 Oct 1710 | Sir Richard Levinge, 1st baronet | 2 May 1656 | 13 Jul 1724 | 68 | |
John Harpur (to 1713) | 9 Apr 1713 | ||||
27 Dec 1711 | Edward Mundy (to 1715) | 16 Sep 1667 | 18 Dec 1716 | 49 | |
25 Apr 1713 | Nathaniel Curzon, later [1719] 4th baronet | c 1676 | 18 Nov 1758 | ||
1 Feb 1715 | Lord James Cavendish (to 1742) | c 1678 | 14 Dec 1751 | ||
William Stanhope, later [1742] 1st Earl of Harrington | 1690 | 8 Dec 1756 | 66 | ||
26 Mar 1722 | Thomas Bayley | c 1679 | 24 Oct 1734 | ||
19 Aug 1727 | William Stanhope, later [1742] 1st Earl of Harrington | 1690 | 8 Dec 1756 | 66 | |
3 Feb 1730 | Charles Stanhope | 6 Sep 1708 | 20 Feb 1736 | 27 | |
13 Mar 1736 | John Stanhope (to 1748) | 5 Jan 1705 | 4 Dec 1748 | 43 | |
8 Mar 1742 | William Ponsonby, styled Viscount Duncannon, later [1758] 2nd Earl of Bessborough [I] (to 1754) | by Nov 1704 | 11 Mar 1793 | ||
20 Dec 1748 | Thomas Rivett | c 1713 | 6 Apr 1763 | ||
20 Apr 1754 | Lord Frederick Cavendish (to 1780) | Aug 1729 | 21 Oct 1803 | 74 | |
George Venables-Vernon, later [1762] 1st Baron Vernon | 9 Feb 1709 | 21 Aug 1780 | 71 | ||
5 May 1762 | William Fitzherbert | 1712 | 2 Jan 1772 | 59 | |
31 Jan 1772 | Wenman Coke [at the general election in Oct 1774, he was also returned for Norfolk, for which he chose to sit] | 7 Jan 1717 | 11 Apr 1776 | 59 | |
30 Jan 1775 | John Gisborne [he was unseated on petition in favour of Daniel Parker Coke 8 Feb 1776] | c 1717 | 13 Feb 1779 | ||
8 Feb 1776 | Daniel Parker Coke | 17 Jul 1745 | 4 Dec 1825 | 80 | |
11 Sep 1780 | Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, later [1831] 1st Earl of Burlington | 21 Mar 1754 | 4 May 1834 | 80 | |
Edward Coke (to 1807) | 1758 | 1837 | 79 | ||
2 Jan 1797 | George Walpole | 20 Jun 1758 | May 1835 | 76 | |
1 Nov 1806 | William Cavendish (to 1812) For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the members for Knaresborough |
10 Jan 1783 | 14 Jan 1812 | 29 | |
26 Feb 1807 | Thomas William Coke, later [1837] 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham | 6 May 1754 | 30 Jun 1842 | 88 | |
5 May 1807 | Edward Coke (to 1818) | 1758 | 1837 | 79 | |
8 Feb 1812 | Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (to 1835) | 5 Nov 1789 | 5 Apr 1873 | 83 | |
17 Jun 1818 | Thomas William Coke | 30 Jan 1793 | 21 May 1867 | 74 | |
10 Jun 1826 | Samuel Crompton, later [1838] 1st baronet | 8 Jul 1785 | 27 Dec 1848 | 63 | |
31 Jul 1830 | Edward Strutt, later [1856] 1st Baron Belper (to 1848) | 26 Oct 1801 | 30 Jun 1880 | 78 | |
8 Jan 1835 | John George Brabazon Ponsonby, later [1847] 5th Earl of Bessborough [I] | 14 Oct 1809 | 28 Jan 1880 | 70 | |
16 Jun 1847 | Edward Frederic Leveson-Gower | 3 May 1819 | 30 May 1907 | 88 | |
Following the general election in Jul 1847, the election of both sitting members (Strutt and Leveson-Gower) was declared void 22 Mar 1848. No new writ was issued until Aug 1848 | |||||
2 Sep 1848 | Michael Thomas Bass (to 1883) | 6 Jul 1799 | 29 Apr 1884 | 84 | |
Laurence Heyworth | 1786 | 17 Apr 1872 | 85 | ||
8 Jul 1852 | Thomas Berry Horsfall [he was unseated on petition in favour of Laurence Heyworth 9 Mar 1853] | 20 Aug 1805 | 22 Dec 1878 | 73 | |
9 Mar 1853 | Laurence Heyworth | 1786 | 17 Apr 1872 | 85 | |
28 Mar 1857 | Samuel Beale | 1803 | 11 Sep 1874 | 71 | |
12 Jul 1865 | William Thomas Cox | 1809 | 18 Mar 1877 | 67 | |
18 Nov 1868 | Samuel Plimsoll For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
10 Feb 1824 | 3 Jun 1898 | 74 | |
25 May 1880 | Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt (to 1895) | 14 Oct 1827 | 30 Sep 1904 | 76 | |
11 Jun 1883 | Thomas Roe, later [1917] 1st Baron Roe | 13 Jul 1832 | 7 Jun 1923 | 90 | |
13 Jul 1895 | Henry Howe Bemrose [kt 1897] | 19 Nov 1827 | 4 May 1911 | 83 | |
Geoffrey Drage | 17 Aug 1860 | 7 Mar 1955 | 94 | ||
3 Oct 1900 | Thomas Roe, later [1917] 1st Baron Roe (to 1916) | 13 Jul 1832 | 7 Jun 1923 | 90 | |
Richard Bell | 1859 | 1 May 1930 | 70 | ||
15 Jan 1910 | James Henry Thomas (to 1936) For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
3 Oct 1874 | 21 Jan 1949 | 74 | |
29 Dec 1916 | Sir William Job Collins | 9 May 1859 | 12 Dec 1946 | 87 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Albert Green | 3 Nov 1874 | 25 Sep 1941 | 66 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Charles Henry Roberts | 22 Aug 1865 | 25 Jun 1959 | 93 | |
6 Dec 1923 | William Robert Raynes | 26 Jan 1871 | 30 Jan 1966 | 95 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Sir Richard Harman Luce | 13 Jul 1867 | 21 Feb 1952 | 84 | |
30 May 1929 | William Robert Raynes | 26 Jan 1871 | 30 Jan 1966 | 95 | |
27 Oct 1931 | William Allan Reid (to 1945) | 11 Oct 1865 | 17 Mar 1952 | 86 | |
9 Jul 1936 | Philip John Noel-Baker, later [1977] Baron Noel-Baker [L] (to 1950) | 1 Nov 1889 | 8 Oct 1982 | 92 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock | 28 Apr 1898 | 14 Jan 1962 | 63 | |
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1950 | |||||
DERBY NORTH | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock | 28 Apr 1898 | 14 Jan 1962 | 63 | |
17 Apr 1962 | Niall MacDermot | 10 Sep 1916 | 22 Feb 1996 | 79 | |
18 Jun 1970 | Phillip Whitehead | 30 May 1937 | 31 Dec 2005 | 68 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Gregory Knight [kt 2013] | 4 Apr 1949 | |||
1 May 1997 | Robert Laxton | 7 Sep 1944 | |||
6 May 2010 | Christopher Williamson | 16 Sep 1956 | |||
7 May 2015 | Amanda Jane Solloway | 4 Jun 1961 | |||
8 Jun 2017 | Christopher Williamson | 16 Sep 1956 | |||
12 Dec 2019 | Amanda Jane Solloway | 4 Jun 1961 | |||
DERBY SOUTH | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Philip John Noel-Baker, later [1977] Baron Noel-Baker [L] | 1 Nov 1889 | 8 Oct 1982 | 92 | |
18 Jun 1970 | Walter Hamlet Johnson | 21 Nov 1917 | 12 Apr 2003 | 85 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Margaret Mary Beckett [Dame 2013] | 15 Jan 1943 | |||
DERBYSHIRE | |||||
26 Apr 1660 | Henry Cavendish, styled Viscount Mansfield, later [1676] 2nd Duke of Newcastle | 24 Jun 1630 | 26 Jul 1691 | 61 | |
John Ferrers | 26 Jul 1629 | 14 Aug 1680 | 51 | ||
28 Mar 1661 | William Cavendish, styled Baron Cavendish, later [1684] 4th Earl of Devonshire and [1694] 1st Duke of Devonshire (to 1685) | 25 Jan 1641 | 18 Aug 1707 | 66 | |
John Frescheville, later [1665] 1st Baron Frescheville | 4 Dec 1607 | 31 Mar 1682 | 74 | ||
2 Nov 1665 | John Milward | 28 Oct 1599 | 14 Sep 1670 | 70 | |
24 Nov 1670 | William Sacheverell | c 1638 | 9 Oct 1691 | ||
26 Mar 1685 | Sir Robert Coke, 2nd baronet | 29 Apr 1645 | 15 Jan 1688 | 42 | |
Sir Gilbert Clarke (to 1698) | c 1645 | 30 May 1701 | |||
Jan 1689 | Sir John Gell, 2nd baronet | 7 Oct 1612 | 8 Feb 1689 | 76 | |
18 Apr 1689 | Sir Philip Gell, 3rd baronet | 6 Jul 1651 | 15 Jul 1719 | 68 | |
20 Feb 1690 | Henry Gilbert | by 1636 | 1716 | ||
24 Oct 1695 | William Cavendish, styled Marquess of Hartington, later [1707] 2nd Duke of Devonshire (to Dec 1701) | 1672 | 4 Jun 1729 | 56 | |
28 Jul 1698 | Thomas Coke | 19 Feb 1674 | 17 May 1727 | 53 | |
9 Jan 1701 | John Manners, styled Baron Roos until 1703, then Marquess of Granby, later [1711] 2nd Duke of Rutland | 18 Sep 1676 | 22 Feb 1721 | 44 | |
11 Dec 1701 | Thomas Coke | 19 Feb 1674 | 17 May 1727 | 53 | |
John Curzon, later [1719] 3rd baronet (to 1727) | c 1674 | 7 Aug 1727 | |||
16 Oct 1710 | Godfrey Clarke (to 1734) | c 1678 | 25 Mar 1734 | ||
28 Aug 1727 | Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th baronet (to 1754) | c 1676 | 18 Nov 1758 | ||
16 May 1734 | Lord Charles Cavendish | after 1700 | 28 Apr 1783 | ||
19 May 1741 | William Cavendish, styled Marquess of Hartington, later [1755] 4th Duke of Devonshire | 1720 | 2 Oct 1764 | 44 | |
27 Jun 1751 | Lord Frederick Cavendish | Aug 1729 | 21 Oct 1803 | 74 | |
25 Apr 1754 | Lord George Augustus Cavendish (to 1780) | c 1727 | 2 May 1794 | ||
Nathaniel Curzon, later [1758] 5th baronet and [1761] 1st Baron Scarsdale | 19 Jan 1727 | 5 Dec 1804 | 77 | ||
2 Apr 1761 | Sir Henry Harpur, 6th baronet | c 1739 | 10 Feb 1789 | ||
29 Mar 1768 | Godfrey Bagnall Clarke | c 1742 | 26 Dec 1774 | ||
4 Feb 1775 | Nathaniel Curzon, later [1804] 2nd Baron Scarsdale (to 1784) | 16 Sep 1751 | 27 Jan 1837 | 85 | |
23 Sep 1780 | Lord Richard Cavendish | 19 Jun 1752 | 7 Sep 1781 | 29 | |
29 Nov 1781 | Lord George Augustus Cavendish (to 1794) | c 1727 | 2 May 1794 | ||
15 Apr 1784 | Edward Miller Mundy (to 1822) | 18 Oct 1750 | 18 Oct 1822 | 72 | |
22 May 1794 | Lord John Cavendish | 22 Oct 1732 | 18 Nov 1796 | 64 | |
12 Jan 1797 | Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, later [1831] 1st Earl of Burlington (to Sep 1831) | 21 Mar 1754 | 4 May 1834 | 80 | |
25 Nov 1822 | Francis Mundy | 29 Aug 1771 | 6 May 1837 | 65 | |
7 May 1831 | George John Venables-Vernon, later [1835] 5th Baron Vernon (to 1832) | 22 Jun 1803 | 31 May 1866 | 62 | |
22 Sep 1831 | William Cavendish, styled Baron Cavendish, later [1834] 2nd Earl of Burlington and [1858] 7th Duke of Devonshire | 27 Apr 1808 | 21 Dec 1891 | 83 | |
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1832 | |||||
DERBYSHIRE DALES | |||||
6 May 2010 | Patrick Allen McLoughlin [kt 2016], later [2020] Baron McLoughlin [L] | 30 Nov 1957 | |||
12 Dec 2019 | Sarah Elizabeth Dines | c 1965 | |||
DERBYSHIRE EAST | |||||
23 Nov 1868 | Francis Egerton (to 1885) | 15 Sep 1824 | 15 Dec 1895 | 71 | |
Henry Strutt, later [1880] 2nd Baron Belper | 20 May 1840 | 26 Jul 1914 | 74 | ||
16 Feb 1874 | Francis Arkwright | 17 Mar 1846 | 28 Feb 1915 | 68 | |
15 Apr 1880 | Alfred Barnes | 1823 | 28 Nov 1901 | 78 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "CHESTERFIELD", "DERBYSHIRE MID", "DERBYSHIRE NORTH-EAST", "DERBYSHIRE SOUTH", "DERBYSHIRE WEST", "HIGH PEAK" AND "ILKESTON" | |||||
DERBYSHIRE MID | |||||
5 Dec 1885 | James Alfred Jacoby [kt 1906] | 1852 | 23 Jun 1909 | 56 | |
14 Jul 1909 | John George Hancock | 15 Oct 1857 | 19 Jul 1940 | 82 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918, BUT RE-CREATED 2010 | |||||
6 May 2010 | Pauline Elizabeth Latham | 4 Feb 1948 | |||
DERBYSHIRE NORTH | |||||
24 Dec 1832 | William Cavendish, styled Baron Cavendish, later [1834] 2nd Earl of Burlington and [1858] 7th Duke of Devonshire | 27 Apr 1808 | 21 Dec 1891 | 83 | |
Thomas Gisborne (to 1837) | c 1790 | 20 Jul 1852 | |||
27 May 1834 | Lord George Henry Cavendish (to 1880) | 19 Aug 1810 | 23 Sep 1880 | 70 | |
10 Aug 1837 | William Evans | 17 Jan 1788 | 8 Apr 1856 | 68 | |
22 Jul 1853 | William Pole Thornhill | 1806 | 12 Feb 1876 | 69 | |
14 Jul 1865 | William Jackson, later [1869] 1st baronet | 28 Apr 1805 | 31 Jan 1876 | 70 | |
30 Nov 1868 | Augustus Peter Arkwright | 2 Mar 1821 | 6 Oct 1887 | 66 | |
15 Apr 1880 | Lord Edward Cavendish | 28 Jan 1838 | 18 May 1891 | 53 | |
John Frederick Cheetham | 1835 | 25 Feb 1916 | 80 | ||
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "CHESTERFIELD", "DERBYSHIRE MID", "DERBYSHIRE NORTH-EAST", "DERBYSHIRE SOUTH", "DERBYSHIRE WEST", "HIGH PEAK" AND "ILKESTON" | |||||
DERBYSHIRE NORTH-EAST | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Francis Egerton | 15 Sep 1824 | 15 Dec 1895 | 71 | |
17 Jul 1886 | Thomas Dolling Bolton | 1841 | 6 Dec 1906 | 65 | |
29 Jan 1907 | William Edwin Harvey | 5 Sep 1852 | 28 Apr 1914 | 61 | |
20 May 1914 | George Robert Harland Bowden | 1873 | 10 Oct 1927 | 54 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Joseph Stanley Holmes [kt 1945], later [1954] 1st Baron Dovercourt | 31 Oct 1878 | 22 Apr 1961 | 82 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Frank Lee | 1867 | 21 Dec 1941 | 74 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Jardine Bell Whyte | 5 Mar 1880 | 8 Jul 1954 | 74 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Frank Lee | 1867 | 21 Dec 1941 | 74 | |
2 Mar 1942 | Henry White | 5 Aug 1890 | 4 Feb 1964 | 73 | |
8 Oct 1959 | Thomas Henry Swain | 29 Oct 1911 | 2 Mar 1979 | 67 | |
3 May 1979 | Raymond Joseph Ellis | 17 Dec 1923 | 20 Apr 1994 | 70 | |
11 Jun 1987 | Harold Barnes | 22 Jul 1936 | |||
5 May 2005 | Natascha Engel | 9 Apr 1967 | |||
8 Jun 2017 | Lee Benjamin Rowley | 11 Sep 1980 | |||
DERBYSHIRE SOUTH | |||||
21 Dec 1832 | George John Venables-Vernon, later [1835] 5th Baron Vernon | 22 Jun 1803 | 31 May 1866 | 62 | |
Henry Manners Cavendish, 3rd Baron Waterpark [I] | 8 Nov 1793 | 31 Mar 1863 | 69 | ||
23 Jan 1835 | Sir George Harpur Crewe, 8th baronet (to 1841) | 1 Feb 1795 | 1 Jan 1844 | 48 | |
Sir Roger Gresley, 8th baronet | 27 Dec 1799 | 12 Oct 1837 | 37 | ||
29 Jul 1837 | Francis Hurt | 1780 | 22 Mar 1854 | 73 | |
16 Jul 1841 | Edward Miller Mundy | 10 Nov 1800 | 29 Jan 1849 | 48 | |
Charles Robert Colvile (to 1859) | 30 Mar 1815 | 10 Mar 1886 | 70 | ||
23 Mar 1849 | William Mundy | 14 Sep 1801 | 10 Apr 1877 | 75 | |
4 Apr 1857 | Thomas William Evans, later [1887] 1st baronet (to 1868) | 15 Apr 1821 | 4 Oct 1892 | 71 | |
9 May 1859 | William Mundy | 14 Sep 1801 | 10 Apr 1877 | 75 | |
19 Jul 1865 | Charles Robert Colvile | 30 Mar 1815 | 10 Mar 1886 | 70 | |
21 Nov 1868 | Rowland Smith (to 1874) | 6 Dec 1826 | 24 Feb 1901 | 74 | |
Sir Thomas Gresley, 10th baronet | 17 Jan 1832 | 18 Dec 1868 | 36 | ||
16 Jan 1869 | Sir Henry Sacheverell Wilmot VC, 5th baronet (to 1885) For further information on this MP and VC winner, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of his baronetcy |
3 Feb 1831 | 6 Apr 1901 | 70 | |
16 Feb 1874 | Thomas William Evans, later [1887] 1st baronet | 15 Apr 1821 | 4 Oct 1892 | 71 | |
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Henry Wardle | 1832 | 16 Feb 1892 | 59 | |
4 Mar 1892 | Harrington Evans Broad | 1844 | 8 Dec 1927 | 83 | |
17 Jul 1895 | John Gretton, later [1944] 1st Baron Gretton For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
1 Sep 1867 | 2 Jun 1947 | 79 | |
20 Jan 1906 | Herbert Henry Raphael, later [1911] 1st baronet | 23 Dec 1859 | 24 Sep 1924 | 64 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Henry Holman Gregory [kt 1935] | 30 Jun 1864 | 9 May 1947 | 82 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Henry Dubs Lorimer | 1879 | 8 Feb 1933 | 53 | |
29 Oct 1924 | James Augustus Grant, later [1926] 1st baronet | 8 Mar 1867 | 29 Jul 1932 | 65 | |
30 May 1929 | David Graham Pole | 11 Dec 1877 | 26 Nov 1952 | 74 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans | 1 Apr 1894 | 26 Oct 1967 | 73 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Arthur Joseph Champion, later [1962] Baron Champion [L] | 26 Jul 1897 | 2 Mar 1985 | 87 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950, BUT REVIVED 1983 | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Edwina Currie | 13 Oct 1946 | |||
1 May 1997 | Mark Wainwright Todd | 29 Dec 1954 | |||
6 May 2010 | Heather Kay Wheeler | 14 May 1959 | |||
DERBYSHIRE SOUTH EAST | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Arthur Joseph Champion, later [1962] Baron Champion [L] | 26 Jul 1897 | 2 Mar 1985 | 87 | |
8 Oct 1959 | Frank Lawson John Jackson | 12 Jun 1919 | 29 Mar 1976 | 56 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Joseph Trevor Park | 12 Dec 1927 | 6 Apr 1995 | 67 | |
18 Jun 1970 | Peter Lewis Rost | 19 Sep 1930 | |||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
DERBYSHIRE WEST | |||||
9 Dec 1885 | Lord Edward Cavendish | 28 Jan 1838 | 18 May 1891 | 53 | |
2 Jun 1891 | Victor Christian William Cavendish, later [1908] 9th Duke of Devonshire | 31 May 1868 | 6 May 1938 | 69 | |
15 Apr 1908 | Henry William Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice, styled Earl of Kerry, later [1927] 6th Marquess of Lansdowne | 14 Jan 1872 | 5 Mar 1936 | 64 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Charles Frederick White [he died after the nominations for the general election to be held on 6 Dec 1923 had closed nd the election in this seat was therefore postponed until 20 Dec 1923] | 11 Mar 1863 | 4 Dec 1923 | 60 | |
20 Dec 1923 | Edward William Spencer Cavendish, styled Marquess of Hartington, later [1938] 10th Duke of Devonshire | 6 May 1895 | 26 Nov 1950 | 55 | |
2 Jun 1938 | Henry Philip Hunloke | 27 Dec 1906 | 13 Jan 1978 | 71 | |
17 Feb 1944 | Charles Frederick White | 23 Jan 1891 | 27 Nov 1956 | 65 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, later [1962] 1st baronet | 24 Jul 1903 | 14 Jan 1969 | 65 | |
6 Jun 1962 | Aidan Merivale Crawley | 10 Apr 1908 | 3 Nov 1993 | 85 | |
23 Nov 1967 | James Sidney Rawdon Scott‑Hopkins | 29 Nov 1921 | 11 Mar 1995 | 73 | |
3 May 1979 | Matthew Francis Parris | 7 Aug 1949 | |||
8 May 1986 | Patrick Allen McLoughlin [kt 2016], later [2020] Baron McLoughlin [L] | 30 Nov 1957 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "DERBYSHIRE DALES" 2010 | |||||
DERITEND (BIRMINGHAM) | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | John William Dennis | 16 May 1865 | 4 Aug 1949 | 84 | |
15 Nov 1922 | John Smedley Crooke [kt 1938] | 1861 | 13 Oct 1951 | 90 | |
30 May 1929 | Fred Longden | 23 Feb 1894 | 5 Oct 1952 | 58 | |
27 Oct 1931 | John Smedley Crooke [kt 1938] | 1861 | 13 Oct 1951 | 90 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Fred Longden | 23 Feb 1894 | 5 Oct 1952 | 58 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln | ||
MP for Darlington Jan‑Dec 1910 | ||
Even Hollywood would draw the line at filming the life of Trebitsch Lincoln, since it would be unlikely to be believed as being a true story. | ||
Lincoln was born Ignacz Trebitsch at Paks, a small town on the Danube, south of Budapest in Hungary. His father was a prosperous Jewish merchant who owned a fleet of barges which plied along the Danube. As a youth, Lincoln appears to have been a conscientious student of religion, but in 1897, at the age of 18, he was accused of stealing a gold watch. He escaped to Hamburg, where he renounced his Jewish faith and adopted Christianity, joining a mission as a theological student and awarding himself some additional names. | ||
The mission authorities shipped him off to Canada where, in 1901, he married Margarethe Kahlor. Finding working on a farm for the mission too great an effort, he undertook a theological diploma and was ordained as a minister of the Church of England by the Archbishop of Montreal in 1902. Shortly after he left Canada for Germany, and finally settled in Britain as the curate of Appledore in Kent in 1903. | ||
After three years in this post, life in a Kentish village failed to challenge Lincoln's intellect and he resigned his ministry to become private secretary to Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, famous as the leading manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa products of the day. With the support of Rowntree and, having become a naturalised British subject, he talked himself into being adopted as the Liberal Party candidate for the supposedly safe Conservative seat of Darlington. He emerged as a passionate Free Trader and patriot and, dazzled by his persuasive appeals for Free Trade delivered in a thick Hungarian accent, the Darlington voters returned Lincoln to the House of Commons, by a mere 29 votes over his opponent, Herbert Pike Pease (later Baron Daryngton). His election was described by his biographer as 'one of the oddest aberrations of British political history,' | ||
During his time as Rowntree's secretary, one of his duties was to assist Rowntree's sociological researches. As part of this role, Lincoln spent a lot of time in Europe, where he apparently became a German double-agent, while at the same time defrauding Rowntree. At length, the Austrians informed the British authorities of Lincoln's juvenile career as a petty thief. Under both financial and political pressure he did not stand in the general election of December 1910. | ||
During the next four years, he promoted a string of oil companies, all of which failed. He now launched himself into a full career as a spy. In December 1914, he approached the War Office with the suggestion that the British send certain minor units to specified positions in the North Sea. Lincoln would then inform the Germans who would investigate, verify his information as correct, and bag one or two of the Royal Navy's unimportant ships. This was to happen three times, in order to secure German confidence in Lincoln's information. Finally the entire strength of the British fleet was be to turned out and Lincoln was to mislead the Germans into sending out the cream of their High Seas Fleet, which would be destroyed by the British, thus securing for them a dominant naval position. | ||
In his memoirs, however, Lincoln reveals that his real aim was to reverse this situation by assisting the Germans to destroy a large section of the British Fleet. Unfortunately for Lincoln, he appears to lived in a 'Boy's Own Paper' world, and the Admiralty began to make discreet inquiries into his background. On 27 January 1915, Lincoln was ordered to report to the Director of Intelligence and told to bring his passport. Realising that he was suspected, Lincoln fled to New York. | ||
There he foisted himself on his brother Harry while writing for The World newspaper an article titled Revelations of I.T.T. Lincoln, former Member of Parliament who became a German spy. Harry escaped his brother by enlisting in the US Army, but because of his relationship with Lincoln, he was secretly watched - eventually he was court-martialled for sodomy and sent to prison on Alcatraz. Lincoln seems to have had the knack of ruining every life he touched. | ||
Stung into action by Lincoln's newspaper article, the British government issued a warrant seeking his extradition. He was arrested in August 1915, pending extradition, which was delayed until January 1916. On the 18th of that month, while being moved from his cell to the Federal Court Buildings in New York, he and his guard entered a café for a meal. The gullible guard agreed to Lincoln's suggestion that he be allowed to wash his hands before eating and within minutes Lincoln had disappeared into the crowded streets of New York. | ||
Lincoln's inordinate vanity drove him to write to the New York press, mocking the British and his guards, and claiming that he was now going to Central Asia to arouse the Muslims into a jihad against the Allies. But before he could so, he was recaptured on 19 February 1916, after a month of freedom and this time was successfully extradited to London, where he was lodged in the Bow Street gaol on 5 June 1916. | ||
Curiously, Lincoln was charged with forging the name of his benefactor, Seebohm Rowntree, to a loan document - no mention was made of his spying activities, about which he had already bragged to the entire world. Lincoln admitted the forgery charge, but maintained throughout his trial, probably with justification, that the authorities were eager to have him imprisoned to curtail his spying activities. The jury found him guilty without leaving the box and he was sentenced to three years' hard labour. | ||
On his release in 1918, Lincoln went to Germany where he joined forces with Wolfgang Kapp who became the figurehead of the Kapp Putsch in March 1920 when the 'Friekorps' attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic in Germany. The putsch failed after five days and Lincoln was forced to flee to Vienna and then Budapest. Eventually, in 1922, he left for China to become chief adviser to Wu-pei-fu, a retired Chinese army commander. While in China, Lincoln was converted to Buddhism. | ||
On 23 December 1925 Lincoln's son Ignatius (who went by the name of John) had broken into a house and, when discovered, had shot dead a man who lived in the house. For this he was sentenced to death. Learning of the impending execution of his son for this crime, Lincoln pleaded to be allowed to visit his son. It was decided that he would be allowed to do so, provided he could reach an English port in time before the execution. It was made clear that the execution would not be delayed and that if Lincoln arrived too late, he would not be allowed to enter England. This proved to be the case, Lincoln having reached only as far as Holland when his son was executed. | ||
Returning to China, Lincoln changed his name to Abbot Chao Kung. He established his own monastery in Shanghai. When the Japanese invaded China, he changed his loyalties yet again, producing anti-British propaganda for the Japanese. At the outbreak of WW2, he contacted the Germans, offering to raise Buddhist influence against the British in the East. | ||
Lincoln's death, in a Shanghai hospital in October 1943, was announced as being due to a intestinal complaint, although it has also been suggested that he was poisoned. | ||
For further reading, I recommend The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein (Yale University Press, 1988). | ||
Samuel Plimsoll | ||
MP for Derby 1868‑1880 | ||
Plimsoll was responsible for a great improvement in maritime safety following his long fight against overloaded and unsafe ships. The story of his fight appeared in the Australian monthly magazine Parade in its issue for March 1965:- | ||
On a winter day in 1872 a small British steamer loaded with iron rails for South America left the port of Cardiff and butted out into the Atlantic. She was never seen again. One more casualty was recorded at Lloyd's and her owners pocketed a substantial sum in insurance. There was nothing unusual about the fate of this steamship, the Wimbledon. In that year more than 2,500 British sailors vanished into the hungry maw of the sea. | ||
When she sailed, the Wimbledon was loaded down to within two feet of her gunwales. Her original crew had been gaoled for 10 weeks for refusing to sail in her. Nor was there anything unusual about these facts either. At the end of 1872 at least 1,000 sailors were in prison for refusing to go to sea in rotten, undermanned, overloaded and over-insured coffin ships which disgraced the British merchant marine. But there was one man who had declared war on unscrupulous shipowners, the "murderous, bloodsucking, speculative scoundrels" who condemned thousands of mariners to almost certain death every year. | ||
His name was Samuel Plimsoll. Only a few months before the Wimbledon went down he had published a book, Our Seamen, that sent a thrill of horror and amazement through Britain. Hitherto Plimsoll had battled almost single-handed to win justice for the sailors. He was denounced as a crank, a crazy visionary and a traitor who would ruin the country's vast shipping industry. Prime Minister Disraeli called him "half rogue, half enthusiast." The Times contemptuously dismissed his "unrivalled capacity for becoming fervidly indignant on hearsay evidence". | ||
But Our Seamen could not be ignored. Callousness, greed and stupidity were laid bare on every page. With mass support behind him Plimsoll at last succeeded in forcing through Parliament legislation to protect seamen from the worst abuses of the coffin ships. Today every ocean-going ship in the world bears on its hull a painted circle with a line drawn through it to mark the depth to which the ship may be loaded. Officially it is called the Load Line. But to seamen of every nationality it is simply the Plimsoll Line. It remains as mute testimony to the greatest victory of the Sailors' Friend. | ||
Samuel Plimsoll was born in the seaport of Bristol in 1824. He never went to sea and his biographers disagree about what eventually inspired him to take up the sailors' cause. He was a solicitor's clerk, them manager of a brewery in Yorkshire, and in 1854 set up as a coal merchant in London. The venture failed and for some time he was destitute. He lived in the cheapest lodging houses and there met many seamen eking out a miserable existence while they searched for berths. He shared their tobacco and bread and cheese and listened to their stories. He did not forget them in the years that followed while he re-established himself as a successful businessman. | ||
By 1868 Plimsoll was a wealthy coal-merchant with a house in Parl Lane and a seat in Parliament as Liberal member for Derby. Gladstone had just become Prime Minister and a long-promised era of reforms was beginning. Two years later Plimsoll rose from his back bench to fire the first shot in the campaign for the seamen. He had a grim tale to tell and he told it with emotional fervour. Every week ships were sailing from British ports to certain destruction. Many were so old and rotten that they foundered in the first storm. They carried insufficient life-boats and the crews lived in conditions of foul squalor. | ||
Even worse was the suicidal overloading. Ships were sent into the Atlantic in mid-winter, with barely two feet of freeboard. Decks were heaped with extra cargo and sacks of coal for the engines. Greedy shipowners could patch and repair vessels until they almost fell to pieces. They could work ancient engines until the boilers exploded. They could tear out bulkheads to make room for a grain cargo that would burst the hull like paper if it swelled. If a coffin ship went down, its proprietor considered himself a lucky man. Though rates were high he had made sure that both ship and cargo were heavily over-insured. | ||
Plimsoll demanded legislation to enforce regular Board of Trade surveys of every ship and restrictions on loading. The more reputable shipowners agreed that something should be done, and in 1871 Gladstone introduced a new Merchant Shipping Bill. Plimsoll thought it a half-hearted measure. He was infuriated to find that the shipowners' friends in Parliament intended to fight it tooth and nail. | ||
In 1871 Britain owned more than half of the world's ocean-going tonnage. She was far ahead in the great changeover from sail to steam and her revenue from shipping was enormous. A torrent of abuse poured down on Plimsoll's head. He was denounced as a meddlesome fanatic who would drive British ships from the seas, bankrupt their owners and throw thousands of sailors out of work. The mercantile marine would no longer be the nursery of the Royal Navy. Britannia would cease to rule the waves. Foreigners would insult the Union Jack with impunity and the Empire would be lost. | ||
Plimsoll's enemies were divided in their opinions about the sailors themselves. Some believed they would scorn Plimsoll's grandmotherly concern for their comfort and safety. One speaker branded the sailors as "drunken, ignorant rascals" who caused most of the shipping disasters by their own stupidity while the unfortunate owners bore the blame. | ||
Eventually Gladstone's Bill was shelved. Frustrated in Parliament, Plimsoll turned with fierce determination to shock the public into action. He collected evidence. He went round the ports of Britain talking to seamen and captains, inspecting ships, interviewing the survivors of wrecks, endlessly asking questions and filling notebooks with facts and figures. Sometimes he was marched down the gangplank and threatened with arrest for trespass. Occasionally he was hooted and jeered, but the grim dossier grew. | ||
He found ships whose thin rusted plates were held together only by iron trusses within the hull. He found sailing ships with timbers so spongy that the crew dared not drive a nail into them. He discovered one Liverpool shipowner who had lost 18 ships, some with all hands, in the previous 10 years. Another coffin ship proprietor shamelessly declared he had made a profit of £80,000 in insurances on his wrecked vessels. Conditions in the crews' quarters provided a further indictment. Often Plimsoll recoiled in sickened horror as he inspected the reeking forecastles where the men lived like beasts in filth and airless gloom. | ||
He produced his book, Our Seamen, in a white heat of rage. "Oh my God, my God! What can I say to make people set right these terrible wrongs?" he wrote. "Why must thousands of brave men be sent to death each year, their wives made widows and their children left fatherless, so that greedy scoundrels fearing neither God nor man may reap their unholy gains?" His book, with its mixture of cold statistics and heart-rending personal stories, struck the British public's conscience. Almost overnight he became the most notorious man in the country. He addressed huge public meetings in London with the famous reformer, Lord Shaftesbury. Cheering crowds followed him through the streets of the ports. Mining, engineering and other trade unions levied their members to raise a fund of £5,000 for the seamen's cause. | ||
But the battle was far from won. In 1873 a Royal Commission rejected Plimsoll's demand for a compulsory load line although it urged the Board of Trade to police more rigidly the existing safety and loading regulations. Plimsoll knew the regulations were farcical. Before long his furious protests had involved him in 12 libel actions, most of which were dropped because the shipowners hesitated to have their affairs dragged through the courts. | ||
In 1874 Disraeli replaced Gladstone as Prime Minister and Plimsoll at once introduced a new Bill, backed by the signatures of 93 members, to make a clean sweep of the old Merchant Shipping Act. He was persuaded to withdraw it in favour of a government bill which Disraeli promised to introduce in the following year. Once more, however, powerful influences went to work behind the scenes. On July 22, 1875, Disraeli announced "with unfeigned regret" that pressure of business had forced him to shelve the bill. Livid with wrath, Plimsoll leapt to his feet, pointed a finger at some fellow members and shouted: "I will unmask those villains representing the murderous shipowners who send sailors to their deaths!" Amid the resulting uproar he stamped to the bar, shook his fist in the Speaker's face and then stalked from the chamber. | ||
The Times called Plimsoll's behaviour "Scandalous". But the public was on his side and the storm of indignation soon forced the Government's hand. Within a few months legislation covering Plimsoll's main demands was forced through Parliament. The "Seamen's Charter" had been won at last and the Plimsoll Line marked the victory of its heroic and uncrushable champion. | ||
To the day of his death in 1898 Samuel Plimsoll went on finding targets in his campaign to clean up the merchant marine. Perhaps the most remarkable tribute to his work was paid by the shipping company that named its finest new vessel the Samuel Plimsoll and even gave it a bearded and top-hatted figurehead representing the Sailor's Friend. | ||
James Henry Thomas | ||
MP for Derby 1910‑1936 | ||
Thomas was the son of a labourer in Newport, Monmouthshire. At the age of nine, he went to work as an errand-boy for 4 shillings a week. He was later apprenticed to the Great Western Railway, where he worked in the 'company town' of Swindon. | ||
By 1910, Thomas had reached the upper levels of the railway workers' trade union and was elected as MP for Derby. He refused a place in Lloyd George's WWI coalition government, on the basis that, as a committed socialist, he could not work with the Liberals or Tories. | ||
In Ramsay Macdonald's short-lived Labour government of 1924, he was Colonial Secretary. When Macdonald returned to power in 1929, he was made Lord Privy Seal, with special responsibility for employment. Between 1930 and 1935, he was Dominions Secretary. When the Labour government fell in 1931, to be replaced by a Nationalist government, Thomas followed his leader Macdonald into an all-party coalition. This action brought vilification from his old Labour comrades, who accused him of selling-out his principles. | ||
In 1935, he again became Colonial Secretary, this time in the government of Stanley Baldwin. He was still very popular with most of the British public, who knew him as a kindly and friendly man, a friend of King George V, fond of a flutter on the horses and who laced with speeches with homely working class humour. Even his enemies would never have accused him of corruption. | ||
On the afternoon of 21 April 1936, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, brought down the Budget in the House of Commons. This Budget included a rise of 3d in the rate of income tax and also increased duties on tea. | ||
Two days later, scandal erupted. Conservative MP Sir Assheton Pownall (Lewisham East 1918-1945) asked in the Commons whether there had been a leakage of Budget secrets before the Chancellor's speech. He producing damning evidence that some individuals had made large profits from such information. His question was prompted by a mass of rumour that had been buzzing around the City, especially in the insurance market of Lloyd's of London. It was customary for businesses to insure against a rise in the tax rates, but the speculation before the 1936 Budget had been extraordinary. Soon it also transpired that some individuals had been successfully gambling on a rise in tea duties as well. | ||
On 4 May 1936 it was announced that a legal tribunal had been established to conduct a full public enquiry. The tribunal, consisting of Mr Justice Porter and two eminent K.C.s, began its sittings on 11 May. For eight days the tribunal heard evidence that rocked the country and blasted forever the political career of Jimmy Thomas. | ||
Lloyd's brokers told of the astonishing last-minute rush for insurance just before the Budget was announced. The Secretary to the Cabinet, Sir Maurice (later Lord) Hankey told the hearings that the leakage could only have come from someone in the cabinet. Attention was focused on two men who appeared to have been very fortunate in predicting the contents of the Budget. Both of these men were close friends of Jimmy Thomas. | ||
The first of these was Mr Alfred Bates, owner of two sporting newspapers devoted to racing and the football pools. Bates strongly denied receiving the slightest information from Thomas. He admitted that he had sold large parcels of gilt-edged securities before the Budget and that he had insured against a tax increase. Other evidence showed that he had bought Thomas a £15,000 house on the Sussex coast, but Bates said that this was an advance against the literary rights of Thomas' autobiography. | ||
The other friend was Sir Alfred Butt, Bt and MP for Balham and Tooting 1922‑1936. He, too, denied receiving any information about the Budget. He had called on Thomas on the morning of the Budget day, but only to chat about prospects for the Derby. Later that day he had insured himself against tax increases, but only because his son, a member of a broking firm, had told him of the unusual activity at Lloyd's. | ||
Thomas himself entered the witness box on May 14 and denied that he had leaked any Budget information. Nevertheless, on 22 May 1936, Thomas resigned from the Cabinet. The tribunal's report, published on 2 June, found that there had been unauthorised disclosure of Budget information made by Thomas to Bates and Butt. On 10 June 1936, Thomas told a solemn House of Commons that, although he had never consciously betrayed a Cabinet secret, he intended to resign his seat. A few minutes later, Sir Alfred Butt announced the same intention. Thomas continued to deny the accusation until the day of his death in 1949. | ||
John Gretton | ||
MP for Derbyshire South 1895‑1906, Rutland 1907‑1918 and Burton 1918‑1943 | ||
Gretton holds the distinction of being the only sitting MP to have won an Olympic Gold Medal, a feat he achieved at the 1900 Paris Olympics, when he won two gold medals in sailing, being part of the crew of the Scotia which won both the half to one ton race and the open class race. Sebastian Coe won his gold medals before entering Parliament. | ||
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