THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "H"
Last updated 11/06/2018 (25 Aug 2024)
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.
HACKNEY
18 Nov 1868		Charles Reed [kt 1874]	19 Jun 1819	25 Mar 1881	61
		John Holms	1830	31 Mar 1891	60
		[Following the general election in Feb 1874, this election was declared void 16 Apr 1874]
25 Apr 1874		John Holms (to 1885)	1830	31 Mar 1891	60
		Henry Fawcett For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the constituency of Brighton	26 Aug 1833	6 Nov 1884	51
19 Nov 1884		James Stuart	Jan 1843	12 Oct 1913	70
SPLIT INTO 3 DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "HACKNEY CENTRAL", "HACKNEY NORTH" AND "HACKNEY SOUTH"
HACKNEY CENTRAL
25 Nov 1885		Sir William Guyer Hunter	29 Dec 1827	14 Mar 1902	74
Jul 1892		Sir Andrew Richard Scoble	25 Sep 1831	17 Jan 1916	84
4 Oct 1900		Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen	1867	2 May 1925	57
17 Jan 1906		Sir Albert Spicer, 1st baronet	16 Mar 1847	20 Dec 1934	87
14 Dec 1918		William James Uglow Woolcock	1878	13 Nov 1947	69
15 Nov 1922		Sir Arthur Levy Lever, 1st baronet	17 Nov 1860	23 Aug 1924	63
6 Dec 1923		Leonard Benjamin Franklin	15 Nov 1862	11 Dec 1944	82
29 Oct 1924		Robert Vaughan Gower [kt 1935]	10 Nov 1880	6 Mar 1953	72
30 May 1929		Frederick Charles Watkins	24 Feb 1883	31 Jan 1954	70
27 Oct 1931		John Cutts Lockwood	Dec 1890	18 Jan 1983	92
14 Nov 1935		Frederick Charles Watkins	24 Feb 1883	31 Jan 1954	70
26 Jul 1945		Henry Hynd	4 Jul 1900	1 Feb 1985	84
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950, BUT REVIVED 1955
26 May 1955		Herbert William Butler	30 Jan 1897	16 Nov 1971	74
18 Jun 1970		Stanley Clinton Davis, later [1990] Baron Clinton-Davis [L]	6 Dec 1928	11 Jun 2023	94
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HACKNEY NORTH
25 Nov 1885		Sir Lewis Pelly	14 Nov 1825	22 Apr 1892	66
11 May 1892		William Robert Bousfield	12 Jan 1854	16 Jul 1943	89
17 Jan 1906		Thomas Hart-Davies	1849	3 Jan 1920	70
19 Jan 1910		Walter Raymond Greene, later [1920] 2nd baronet	4 Aug 1869	24 Aug 1947	78
6 Dec 1923		John Hobbis Harris [kt 1933]	29 Jul 1874	30 Apr 1940	65
29 Oct 1924		Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, later [1942] 1st baronet	6 Feb 1897	29 Nov 1956	59
26 Jul 1945		Henry Edwin Goodrich	6 Apr 1887	13 Apr 1961	74
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
HACKNEY NORTH AND STOKE NEWINGTON
23 Feb 1950		David Weitzman For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the constituency of Stoke Newington	18 Jun 1898	6 May 1987	88
3 May 1979		Ernest Alfred Cecil Roberts	20 Apr 1912	28 Aug 1994	82
11 Jun 1987		Diane Julie Abbott	27 Sep 1953
HACKNEY SOUTH
25 Nov 1885		Sir Charles Russell, later [1894] Baron Russell of Killowen [L]	10 Nov 1832	10 Aug 1900	67
7 May 1894		John Fletcher Moulton [kt 1906], later [1912] Baron Moulton [L]	18 Nov 1844	9 Mar 1921	76
16 Jul 1895		Thomas Herbert Robertson	26 Apr 1849	11 Jul 1916	67
17 Jan 1906		Horatio William Bottomley For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page	23 Mar 1860	26 May 1933	73
24 May 1912		Hector Morison	1850	4 Jun 1939	88
14 Dec 1918		Horatio William Bottomley [expelled 1 Aug 1922]	23 Mar 1860	26 May 1933	73
18 Aug 1922		Clifford Charles Alan Lawrence Erskine‑Bolst	1878	11 Jan 1946	67
6 Dec 1923		Herbert Stanley Morrison, later [1959] Baron Morrison of Lambeth [L]	3 Jan 1888	6 Mar 1965	77
29 Oct 1924		George Morgan Garro‑Jones, later [1947] 1st Baron Trefgarne	14 Sep 1894	27 Sep 1960	66
30 May 1929		Herbert Stanley Morrison, later [1959] Baron Morrison of Lambeth [L]	3 Jan 1888	6 Mar 1965	77
27 Oct 1931		Frances Marjorie Graves	17 Sep 1884	17 Nov 1961	77
14 Nov 1935		Herbert Stanley Morrison, later [1959] Baron Morrison of Lambeth [L]	3 Jan 1888	6 Mar 1965	77
26 Jul 1945		Herbert William Butler	30 Jan 1897	16 Nov 1971	74
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955
HACKNEY SOUTH AND SHOREDITCH
28 Feb 1974		Ronald William Brown	7 Sep 1921	27 Jul 2002	80
9 Jun 1983		Brian Charles John Sedgemore	17 Mar 1937	29 Apr 2015	78
5 May 2005		Margaret Olivia ("Meg") Hillier [Dame 2021]	14 Feb 1969
HADDINGTON BURGHS (HADDINGTONSHIRE)
Haddington Burghs (also called Haddington District of Burghs) comprised Haddington, Dunbar (Haddingtonshire), Jedburgh (Roxburghshire), Lauder (Berwickshire) and North Berwick (Haddingtonshire)
26 May 1708		Sir David Dalrymple, 1st baronet	c 1665	3 Dec 1721
5 Jan 1722		Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd baronet	24 Jul 1692	24 Feb 1751	58
18 May 1734		James Fall		25 Dec 1743
28 May 1741		James Fall		25 Dec 1743
		Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd baronet	12 Mar 1712	24 Nov 1790	78
		Double return. Dalrymple declared elected 27 Jan 1742
22 Jul 1747		Andrew Fletcher	1722	24 May 1779	56
20 Apr 1761		Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd baronet	12 Mar 1712	24 Nov 1790	78
11 Apr 1768		Patrick Warrender, later [1772] 3rd baronet	7 Mar 1731	14 Jun 1799	68
		John Maitland	1732	22 Oct 1779	47
		Double return. Warrender declared elected 14 Nov 1768
31 Oct 1774		John Maitland	1732	22 Oct 1779	47
23 Feb 1780		Francis Charteris	31 Jan 1749	20 Jan 1808	58
22 Jun 1787		William Fullarton	12 Jan 1754	13 Feb 1808	54
12 Jul 1790		Thomas Maitland	10 Mar 1760	17 Jan 1824	63
20 Jun 1796		Robert Baird	c 1745	10 Jun 1828
10 Mar 1802		Thomas Maitland	10 Mar 1760	17 Jan 1824	63
14 Feb 1805		John Dalrymple, later [1834] 5th baronet	2 Dec 1780	26 May 1835	54
17 Apr 1806		Henry Erskine	1 Nov 1746	8 Oct 1817	70
24 Nov 1806		William Lamb, later [1828] 2nd Viscount Melbourne	15 Mar 1779	24 Nov 1848	69
30 May 1807		Sir George Warrender, 4th baronet	5 Dec 1782	21 Feb 1849	66
30 Oct 1812		Thomas Maitland	10 Mar 1760	17 Jan 1824	63
16 Jul 1813		Anthony Maitland, later [1860] 10th Earl of Lauderdale [S]	10 Jun 1785	22 Mar 1863	77
11 Jul 1818		Dudley Long-North	14 Mar 1748	21 Feb 1829	80
1 Apr 1820		Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th baronet	3 Jan 1774	23 Feb 1834	60
3 Jul 1826		Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple, 2nd baronet	3 Feb 1784	3 Mar 1866	82
23 May 1831		Robert Steuart [his name was erased from the return and that of Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple substituted 10 Aug 1831]	9 Jul 1806	15 Jul 1843	37
10 Aug 1831		Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple, 2nd baronet	3 Feb 1784	3 Mar 1866	82
18 Dec 1832		Robert Steuart	9 Jul 1806	15 Jul 1843	37
3 Jul 1841		James Maitland Balfour	5 Jan 1820	23 Feb 1856	36
29 Jul 1847		Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, 1st baronet	1797	30 Nov 1885	88
3 Aug 1878		Lord William Montagu Hay, later [1878] 10th Marquess of Tweeddale	27 Jan 1826	25 Nov 1911	85
26 Feb 1879		Sir David Wedderburn, 3rd baronet	20 Dec 1835	18 Sep 1882	46
22 Aug 1882		Alexander Craig Sellar	1835	16 Jan 1890	54
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
HADDINGTONSHIRE
24 May 1708		John Cockburn	c 1679	13 Nov 1758
26 May 1741		Lord Charles Hay	c 1700	1 May 1760
11 Jul 1747		Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd baronet	12 Mar 1712	24 Nov 1790	78
16 Apr 1761		Andrew Fletcher	1722	24 May 1779	56
31 Mar 1768		Sir George Suttie, 3rd baronet	12 Oct 1715	25 Nov 1783	68
29 May 1777		William Nisbet	1747	17 Jul 1822	75
28 Sep 1780		Hew Dalrymple (Hamilton-Dalrymple from 1796), later [1790] 3rd baronet	26 Oct 1746	13 Feb 1800	53
24 Jul 1786		John Hamilton	22 Dec 1751	25 Dec 1804	53
26 Nov 1795		Hew Dalrymple (Hamilton‑Dalrymple from 1796 and Dalrymple‑Hamilton from 1800), later [1800] 4th baronet	3 Jan 1774	23 Feb 1834	60
12 May 1800		Charles Hope	16 Oct 1768	1 Jul 1828	59
21 Mar 1816		Sir James Suttie (Grant-Suttie from 1818), 4th baronet	10 May 1759	20 May 1836	77
20 Jun 1826		Lord John Hay	1 Apr 1793	26 Aug 1851	58
9 May 1831		James Balfour	c 1775	19 Apr 1845
20 Jan 1835		Robert Ferguson	Aug 1769	3 Dec 1840	71
1 Aug 1837		James Andrew Ramsay, styled Lord Ramsay, later [1838] 10th Earl of Dalhousie and [1849] 1st Marquess of Dalhousie	22 Apr 1812	19 Dec 1860	48
14 Apr 1838		Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 3rd baronet	30 Sep 1804	17 Dec 1893	89
7 Aug 1847		Francis Wemyss Charteris Douglas, styled Lord Elcho, later [1883] 10th Earl of Wemyss [S] and 6th Earl of March [S]	4 Aug 1818	30 Jun 1914	95
5 Feb 1883		Hugo Richard Douglas, styled Lord Elcho, later [1914] 11th Earl of Wemyss [S] and 7th Earl of March [S]	25 Aug 1857	12 Jul 1937	79
1 Dec 1885		Richard Burdon Haldane, later [1911] 1st Viscount Haldane	30 Jul 1856	19 Aug 1928	72
19 Apr 1911		John Deans Hope	8 May 1860	13 Dec 1949	89
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
HAGGERSTON
25 Nov 1885		William Randal Cremer [kt 1907]	18 Mar 1838	22 Jul 1908	70
16 Jul 1895		John Lowles	1850	c Nov 1903	53
4 Oct 1900		William Randal Cremer [kt 1907]	18 Mar 1838	22 Jul 1908	70
31 Jul 1908		Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, styled Viscount Elveden, later [1927] 2nd Earl of Iveagh	29 Mar 1874	14 Sep 1967	93
17 Jan 1910		Henry George Chancellor	3 Jun 1863	14 Mar 1945	81
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
HALESOWEN
4 Jul 2024		Alexander Robert Ballinger
HALESOWEN AND ROWLEY REGIS
1 May 1997		Sylvia Lloyd Heal	20 Jul 1942
6 May 2010		James George Morris	4 Feb 1967
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HALESOWEN AND STOURBRIDGE
28 Feb 1974		John Heydon Romaine Stokes [kt 1988]	23 Jul 1917	27 Jun 2003	85
9 Apr 1992		Philip Warren Hawksley	10 Mar 1943	9 Mar 2018	74
NAME ALTERED TO "HALESOWEN AND ROWLEY REGIS" 1997
HALIFAX (YORKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1832		Rawdon Briggs		15 Apr 1835
		Charles Wood [kt 1856], later [1866] 1st Viscount Halifax (to 1865)	20 Dec 1800	8 Aug 1885	84
8 Jan 1835		James Archibald Stuart‑Wortley	3 Jul 1805	22 Aug 1881	76
27 Jul 1837		Edward Protheroe (Davis Protheroe from 1845)	c 1798	18 Aug 1852
30 Jul 1847		Henry Edwards, later [1866] 1st baronet	20 Jul 1812	23 Apr 1886	73
8 Jul 1852		Francis Crossley, later [1863] 1st baronet	26 Oct 1817	5 Jan 1872	54
29 Apr 1859		James Stansfeld [kt 1895] (to 1895)	5 Oct 1820	17 Feb 1898	77
11 Jul 1865		Edward Akroyd	1810	19 Nov 1887	77
3 Feb 1874		John Crossley	16 May 1812	16 Apr 1879	66
21 Feb 1877		John Dyson Hutchinson	1822	25 Aug 1882	60
19 Aug 1882		Thomas Shaw	1823	15 Jan 1893	69
9 Feb 1893		William Rawson Shaw (to 1897)	1 May 1860	14 Apr 1932	71
15 Jul 1895		Alfred Arnold [kt 1903] (to 1900)	18 Nov 1835	31 Oct 1908	72
3 Mar 1897		Alfred Billson For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of members for the constituency of Staffordshire North West	18 Apr 1839	9 Jul 1907	68
4 Oct 1900		Sir Savile Brinton Crossley, 2nd baronet, later [1916] 1st Baron Somerleyton	14 Jun 1857	25 Feb 1935	77
		John Henry Whitley (to 1928)	8 Feb 1866	3 Feb 1935	68
13 Jan 1906		James Parker	1863	11 Feb 1948	84
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1918
13 Jul 1928		Arthur William Longbottom	25 May 1883	12 Sep 1943	60
27 Oct 1931		Gilbert Gledhill	22 May 1889	2 Sep 1946	57
26 Jul 1945		Dryden Brook [kt 1965]	25 Aug 1884	30 Jan 1971	86
26 May 1955		Maurice Victor Macmillan, later [from 1984] styled Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden	27 Jan 1921	10 Mar 1984	63
15 Oct 1964		Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill	9 Sep 1931
9 Jun 1983		Roy Galley	8 Dec 1947
11 Jun 1987		Alice Mahon	28 Sep 1937	25 Dec 2022	85
5 May 2005		Linda Riordan	31 May 1953
7 May 2015		Holly Jamie Lynch	8 Oct 1986
4 Jul 2024		Kate Alexandra Dearden
HALLAM (SHEFFIELD)
25 Nov 1885		Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, later [1917] 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley	15 Sep 1851	24 Apr 1926	74
23 Dec 1916		Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher	21 Mar 1865	18 Apr 1940	75
14 Dec 1918		Douglas Vickers	1861	23 Nov 1937	76
15 Nov 1922		Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes	23 Jul 1877	30 Sep 1954	77
16 Jul 1928		Louis William Smith [kt 1938]	21 Mar 1879	15 Mar 1939	59
10 May 1939		Roland Jennings [kt 1954] For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page	1894	5 Dec 1968	74
8 Oct 1959		John Holbrook Osborn [kt 1983]	14 Dec 1922	2 Dec 2015	92
11 Jun 1987		(Cyril) Irvine Patnick [kt 1994]	29 Oct 1929	30 Dec 2012	83
1 May 1997		Richard Beecroft Allan, later [2010] Baron Allan of Hallam [L]	11 Feb 1966
5 May 2005		Nicholas William Peter Clegg [kt 2018]	7 Jan 1967
8 Jun 2017		Jared Cain O'Mara	15 Nov 1981
12 Dec 2019		Olivia Frances Blake	10 Mar 1990
HALLAMSHIRE (YORKSHIRE)
2 Dec 1885		Frederick Thorpe Mappin, later [1886] 1st baronet	16 May 1821	19 Mar 1910	88
24 Jan 1906		John Wadsworth	4 Feb 1850	10 Jul 1921	71
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
HALL GREEN (BIRMINGHAM)
23 Feb 1950		Aubrey Jones	20 Nov 1911	10 Apr 2003	91
6 May 1965		Reginald Edwin Eyre [kt 1984]	28 May 1924	27 Jan 2019	94
11 Jun 1987		Andrew Raikes Hargreaves	15 May 1955
1 May 1997		Stephen James McCabe	4 Aug 1955
6 May 2010		Roger Duncan Godsiff	28 Jun 1946
12 Dec 2019		Tahir Ali	15 Oct 1971
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HALL GREEN AND MOSELEY (BIRMINGHAM)
4 Jul 2024		Tahir Ali	15 Oct 1971
HALTEMPRICE (YORKSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		Richard Kidston Law, later [1954] 1st Baron Coleraine	27 Feb 1901	15 Nov 1980	79
11 Feb 1954		Patrick Henry Bligh Wall [kt 1981]	19 Oct 1915	15 May 1998	82
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HALTEMPRICE AND HOWDEN
1 May 1997		David Michael Davis [He resigned the seat on 12 Jun 2008, but was re-elected at the subsequent by-election held on 10 Jul 2008]	23 Dec 1948
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HALTON (CHESHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		Gordon James Oakes	22 Jun 1931	14 Aug 2005	74
1 May 1997		(John) Derek Twigg	9 Jul 1959
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HAMBLE VALLEY (HAMPSHIRE)
4 Jul 2024		Paul John Holmes	25 Aug 1988
HAMILTON (LANARKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Duncan Macgregor Graham	Mar 1867	19 Oct 1942	75
29 Jan 1943		Thomas Fraser	18 Feb 1911	21 Nov 1988	77
2 Nov 1967		Winifred Margaret Ewing	10 Jul 1929	21 Jun 2023	93
18 Jun 1970		Alexander Wilson	5 Jun 1917	23 Mar 1978	60
31 May 1978		George Islay Macneill Robertson, later [1999] Baron Robertson of Port Ellen [L]	12 Apr 1946
SPLIT INTO "HAMILTON NORTH AND BELSHILL" AND "HAMILTON SOUTH" 1 MAY 1997
HAMILTON AND CLYDE VALLEY
4 Jul 2024		Imogen Walker
HAMILTON NORTH AND BELLSHILL
1 May 1997		John Reid, later [2010] Baron Reid of Cardowen [L]	8 May 1947
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
HAMILTON SOUTH
1 May 1997		George Islay Macneill Robertson, later [1999] Baron Robertson of Port Ellen [L]	12 Apr 1946
23 Sep 1999		William Tynan	18 Aug 1940
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
HAMMERSMITH
25 Nov 1885		Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy	1837	13 Oct 1911	74
4 Oct 1900		Sir William James Bull, later [1922] 1st baronet For further information of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page	29 Sep 1863	23 Jan 1931	67
SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1918, BUT REUNITED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Clive Stafford Soley, later [2005] Baron Soley [L]	7 May 1939
NAME ALTERED TO "HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM" 1997 BUT REVERTED TO "HAMMERSMITH" 2010
6 May 2010		Andrew Francis Slaughter	29 Sep 1960
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HAMMERSMITH AND CHISWICK
4 Jul 2024		Andrew Francis Slaughter	29 Sep 1960
HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM
1 May 1997		Iain Coleman	18 Jan 1958
5 May 2005		Gregory William Hands	14 Nov 1965
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010
HAMMERSMITH NORTH
14 Dec 1918		Henry Foreman [kt 1921]	1852	11 Apr 1924	71
6 Dec 1923		James Patrick Gardner	5 Mar 1883	25 Jul 1937	54
29 Oct 1924		Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	11 Feb 1881	4 May 1931	50
28 May 1926		James Patrick Gardner	5 Mar 1883	25 Jul 1937	54
27 Oct 1931		Mary Ada Pickford	1884	6 Mar 1934	49
24 Apr 1934		Fielding Reginald West	Nov 1892	6 Oct 1935	42
14 Nov 1935		Denis Nowell Pritt	22 Sep 1887	23 May 1972	84
23 Feb 1950		Frank Tomney	24 May 1908	19 Sep 1984	76
3 May 1979		Clive Stafford Soley, later [2005] Baron Soley [L]	7 May 1939
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HAMMERSMITH SOUTH
14 Dec 1918		William James Bull, later [1922] 1st baronet For further information of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page	29 Sep 1863	23 Jan 1931	67
30 May 1929		Daniel Chater	1870	25 May 1959	88
27 Oct 1931		James Douglas Cooke [kt 1945]	19 Jun 1879	13 Jul 1949	70
26 Jul 1945		William Thomas Adams	10 Sep 1884	9 Jan 1949	64
24 Feb 1949		(William) Thomas Williams [kt 1976]	22 Sep 1915	28 Feb 1986	70
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955
HAMPSHIRE
7 Apr 1660		Richard Norton	19 Nov 1615	May 1691	75
		John Bulkeley	11 Nov 1614	Sep 1662	57
18 Mar 1661		Charles Powlett, styled Baron St. John, later [1675] 6th Marquess of Winchester and [1689] 1st Duke of Bolton	c 1625	27 Feb 1699
		Sir John Norton, 3rd baronet (to Feb 1679)	7 Dec 1619	9 Jan 1687	67
26 Apr 1675		Sir Francis Rolle	c 1630	6 Apr 1686
24 Feb 1679		Edward Noel, later [1682] 1st Earl of Gainsborough	27 Jan 1641	8 Apr 1689	48
		Richard Norton	19 Nov 1615	May 1691	75
11 Aug 1679		William Russell, styled Baron Russell [he was also returned for Bedfordshire, for which he chose to sit]	29 Sep 1639	21 Jul 1683	43
		Sir Francis Rolle (to 1685)	c 1630	6 Apr 1686
29 Nov 1680		Thomas Jervoise	16 Mar 1616	13 May 1693	77
21 Feb 1681		Charles Powlett, styled Earl of Wiltshire, later [1699] 2nd Duke of Bolton (to 1698)	1661	21 Jan 1722	60
16 Mar 1685		Wriothesley Baptist Noel, styled Viscount Campden, later [1689] 2nd Earl of Gainsborough	c 1661	21 Sep 1690
16 Jan 1689		Lord William Powlett [he was also returned for Winchester, for which he chose to sit]	c 1667	21 Sep 1690
19 Feb 1689		Thomas Jervoise	16 Mar 1616	13 May 1693	77
10 Mar 1690		Richard Norton	19 Nov 1615	May 1691	75
16 Nov 1691		Sir Robert Henley	c 1624	25 Dec 1692
9 Jan 1693		Richard Norton (to 1701)	c 1666	10 Dec 1732
20 Jul 1698		Thomas Jervoise (to 1702)	6 Sep 1667	10 May 1743	75
14 Jan 1701		Richard Chaundler	c 1650	by Sep 1729
30 Jul 1702		Richard Norton	c 1666	10 Dec 1732
		George Pitt	18 Jun 1663	28 Feb 1735	71
16 May 1705		Thomas Jervoise	6 Sep 1667	10 May 1743	75
		Richard Chaundler	c 1650	1729
12 May 1708		Charles Powlett, styled Marquess of Winchester, later [1722] 3rd Duke of Bolton (to 1710)	3 Sep 1685	26 Aug 1754	68
		William Henry Bentinck, styled Viscount Woodstock, later [1709] 2nd Earl of Portland and [1716] 1st Duke of Portland	17 Mar 1682	4 Jul 1726	44
21 Dec 1709		Thomas Jervoise	6 Sep 1667	10 May 1743	75
25 Oct 1710		George Pitt	18 Jun 1663	28 Feb 1735	71
		Sir Simeon Stuart, 2nd baronet	17 Nov 1685	11 Aug 1761	75
26 Aug 1713		Thomas Lewis	c 1679	22 Nov 1736
		Sir Anthony Sturt	c 1656	10 Dec 1741
9 Feb 1715		George Pitt (to 1722)	18 Jun 1663	28 Feb 1735	71
		John Wallop, later [1720] 1st Viscount Lymington and [1743] 1st Earl of Portsmouth	15 Apr 1690	22 Nov 1762	72
22 Jun 1720		Lord Nassau Powlett (to 1727)	23 Jun 1698	24 Aug 1741	43
28 Mar 1722		Lord Harry Powlett, later [1754] 4th Duke of Bolton (to 1754)	24 Jul 1691	9 Oct 1759	68
6 Sep 1727		Sir John Cope, 6th baronet	1 Dec 1673	8 Dec 1749	76
8 May 1734		Edward Lisle	17 May 1692	15 Jun 1753	61
6 May 1741		Paulet St. John, later [1772] 1st baronet	7 Apr 1704	8 Jun 1780	76
8 Jul 1747		Francis Whithed	c 1719	30 Mar 1751
8 May 1751		Alexander Thistlethwayte (to 1761)	c 1717	15 Oct 1771
25 Dec 1755		Charles Powlett, styled Marquess of Winchester, later [1759] 5th Duke of Bolton	c 1718	5 Jul 1765
3 Dec 1759		Henry Bilson-Legge (to 1765)	29 May 1708	23 Aug 1764	56
8 Apr 1761		Simeon Stuart (to 1779)	c 1721	19 Nov 1779
6 Feb 1765		Sir Richard Mill, 6th baronet	c 1717	17 Mar 1770
30 Mar 1768		Robert Henley, styled Baron Henley, later [1772] 2nd Earl of Northington	3 Jan 1747	5 Jul 1786	39
5 Feb 1772		Sir Henry Paulet St. John, later [1780] 2nd baronet (to 1780)	Jul 1737	7 Aug 1784	47
13 Dec 1779		Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise (to 1790)	c 1733	5 Jul 1808
20 Sep 1780		Robert Thistlethwayte	24 May 1755	22 Oct 1802	47
22 Jun 1790		Sir William Heathcote, 3rd baronet	21 Jun 1746	26 Jun 1819	73
		William John Chute	24 May 1757	13 Dec 1824	67
17 Nov 1806		Thomas Thistlethwayte	14 Sep 1779	14 Sep 1850	71
		William Herbert	12 Jan 1778	28 May 1847	69
11 May 1807		Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay, 3rd baronet For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the St. John‑Mildmay baronets	30 Sep 1764	11 Nov 1808	44
		William John Chute (to 1820)	24 May 1757	13 Dec 1824	67
19 Dec 1808		Thomas Freeman-Heathcote, later [1819] 4th baronet	3 Sep 1769	21 Feb 1825	55
14 Mar 1820		John Willis Fleming (to 1831)	28 Nov 1781	18 Jul 1844	62
		George Purefoy-Jervoise	10 Apr 1770	1 Dec 1847	77
16 Jun 1826		Sir William Heathcote, 5th baronet	17 May 1801	17 Aug 1881	80
6 May 1831		Sir James Macdonald, 2nd baronet	14 Feb 1784	29 Jun 1832	48
		Charles Shaw Lefevre, later [1857] 1st Viscount Eversley (to 1832)	22 Feb 1794	28 Dec 1888	94
22 Jun 1832		Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd baronet	12 Jun 1772	3 Apr 1848	75
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1832
HAMPSHIRE EAST
9 Jun 1983		Michael John Mates	9 Jun 1934
6 May 2010		Damian Patrick George Hinds	27 Nov 1969
HAMPSHIRE NORTH
14 Dec 1832		Charles Shaw Lefevre, later [1857] 1st Viscount Eversley (to 1857)	22 Feb 1794	28 Dec 1888	94
		James Winter Scott	26 May 1799	4 Jan 1873	73
31 Aug 1837		Sir William Heathcote, 5th baronet	17 May 1801	18 Aug 1881	80
6 Apr 1849		Melville Portal	31 Jul 1819	24 Jan 1904	84
6 Apr 1857		William Withey Bramston Beach	25 Dec 1826	3 Aug 1901	74
		George Sclater-Booth, later [1887] 1st Baron Basing	19 May 1826	22 Oct 1894	68
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "ANDOVER", "BASINGSTOKE", "FAREHAM", "NEW FOREST" AND "PETERSFIELD"
HAMPSHIRE NORTH EAST
1 May 1997		James Norwich Arbuthnot, later [2015] Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom [L]	4 Aug 1952
7 May 2015		Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena	3 Sep 1986
4 Jul 2024		Alexandra Katherine Brewer
HAMPSHIRE NORTH WEST
9 Jun 1983		David Bower Mitchell [kt 1988]	18 Jun 1928	30 Aug 2014	86
1 May 1997		Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th baronet, later [2015] Baron Young of Cookham [L]	16 Jul 1941
7 May 2015		Christopher Laurie ["Kit"] Malthouse	27 Oct 1966
HAMPSHIRE SOUTH
15 Dec 1832		Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston [I]	20 Oct 1784	18 Oct 1865	80
		Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd baronet	26 May 1781	10 Aug 1859	78
13 Jan 1835		John Willis Fleming	28 Nov 1781	18 Jul 1844	62
		Henry Combe Compton (to 1857)	1789	27 Nov 1866
23 Aug 1842		Lord Charles Wellesley	16 Jan 1808	9 Oct 1858	50
14 Jul 1852		Lord William Henry Hugh Cholmondeley, later [1857] 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley	31 Mar 1800	16 Dec 1884	84
4 Apr 1857		Sir Jervoise Clarke Clarke-Jervoise, 2nd baronet (to 1868)	1804	1 Apr 1889	84
		Ralph Heneage Dutton	5 Aug 1821	8 Oct 1892	71
18 Jul 1865		Henry Hamlyn Fane	5 Sep 1817	27 Dec 1868	51
26 Nov 1868		William Francis Cowper-Temple, later [1880] 1st Baron Mount Temple	13 Dec 1811	16 Oct 1888	76
		Lord Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, later [1885] 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (to 1884)	5 Nov 1832	4 Nov 1905	72
2 Apr 1880		Francis Compton (to 1885)	1824	24 Oct 1915	91
20 Jun 1884		Sir Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram, 4th baronet	29 Aug 1823	9 Dec 1904	81
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "ANDOVER", "BASINGSTOKE", "FAREHAM", "NEW FOREST" AND "PETERSFIELD"
HAMPSTEAD
26 Nov 1885		Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, 2nd baronet, later [1888] 1st Baron Knutsford and [1895] 1st Viscount Knutsford	3 Aug 1825	29 Jan 1914	88
28 Feb 1888		Edward Brodie Hoare	30 Oct 1841	12 Aug 1911	69
24 Jan 1902		Thomas Milvain [kt 1913]	4 May 1844	23 Sep 1916	72
27 Oct 1905		John Samuel Fletcher, later [1919] 1st baronet	3 Nov 1841	20 May 1924	82
14 Dec 1918		George Balfour	1872	26 Sep 1941	69
27 Nov 1941		Charles Challen	15 Feb 1894	20 Jun 1960	66
23 Feb 1950		Henry Brooke, later [1966] Baron Brooke of Cumnor [L]	9 Apr 1903	29 Mar 1984	80
31 Mar 1966		Benjamin Charles George Whitaker	15 Sep 1934	8 Jun 2014	79
18 Jun 1970		Geoffrey Finsberg [kt 1984], later [1992] Baron Finsberg [L]	13 Jun 1926	7 Oct 1996	70
ALTERED TO "HAMPSTEAD AND HIGHGATE" 1983
HAMPSTEAD AND HIGHGATE
9 Jun 1983		Geoffrey Finsberg [kt 1984], later [1992] Baron Finsberg [L]	13 Jun 1926	7 Oct 1996	70
9 Apr 1992		Glenda May Jackson	9 May 1936	15 Jun 2023	87
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010, BUT REVIVED 2024
4 Jul 2024		Tulip Rizwana Siddiq	16 Sep 1982
HAMPSTEAD AND KILBURN
6 May 2010		Glenda May Jackson	9 May 1936	15 Jun 2023	87
7 May 2015		Tulip Rizwana Siddiq	16 Sep 1982
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HANDSWORTH (STAFFORDSHIRE)
8 Dec 1885		Henry Samuel Wiggin, later [1892] 1st baronet	14 Feb 1824	12 Nov 1905	81
Jul 1892		Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, 2nd baronet, later [1905] 1st Baron Knaresborough	30 Aug 1845	3 Mar 1929	83
22 Jan 1906		Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson	18 Feb 1859	28 Feb 1944	85
15 Nov 1922		Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson	1880	8 Oct 1954	74
26 Jul 1945		Harold Roberts	23 Aug 1884	28 Sep 1950	66
16 Nov 1950		Sir Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, 3rd baronet, later [1970] Baron Boyle of Handsworth [L]	31 Aug 1923	29 Sep 1981	58
18 Jun 1970		Sydney Brookes Chapman [kt 1995]	17 Oct 1935	9 Oct 2014	78
28 Feb 1974		John Michael Hubert Lee	13 Aug 1927	14 Apr 2020	92
3 May 1979		Sheila Rosemary Rivers Wright	22 Mar 1925	5 Jul 2013	88
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HANLEY (STOKE-UPON-TRENT)
24 Nov 1885		William Woodall	15 Mar 1832	8 Apr 1901	69
4 Oct 1900		Arthur Howard Heath	29 May 1856	26 Apr 1930	73
16 Jan 1906		Enoch Edwards	10 Apr 1852	28 Jun 1912	60
13 Jul 1912		Robert Leonard Outhwaite	1868	6 Nov 1930	62
14 Dec 1918		James Andrew Seddon	7 May 1868	31 May 1939	71
15 Nov 1922		Myles Harper Parker	1864	14 Jan 1929	64
29 Oct 1924		Samuel Clowes	1864	25 Mar 1928	63
23 Apr 1928		Arthur Hollins	19 Sep 1876	22 Apr 1962	85
27 Oct 1931		Harold Keates Hales	22 Apr 1868	7 Nov 1942	74
14 Nov 1935		Arthur Hollins	19 Sep 1876	22 Apr 1962	85
26 Jul 1945		Barnett Stross [kt 1964]	25 Dec 1899	13 May 1967	67
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
HARBOROUGH (LEICESTERSHIRE)
4 Dec 1885		Thomas Tertius Paget	27 Dec 1807	16 Oct 1892	84
10 Jul 1886		Thomas Keay Tapling	30 Oct 1855	11 Apr 1891	35
8 May 1891		John William Logan	1845	25 May 1925	79
17 Jun 1904		Philip James Stanhope, later [1906] 1st Baron Weardale For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of his peerage	8 Dec 1847	1 Mar 1923	75
25 Jan 1906		Rudolph Chambers Lehmann	3 Jan 1856	22 Jan 1929	73
Dec 1910		John William Logan	1845	25 May 1925	79
23 Mar 1916		Percy Alfred Harris, later [1932] 1st baronet	6 Mar 1876	28 Jun 1952	76
14 Dec 1918		Sir Keith Alexander Fraser, 5th baronet	24 Dec 1867	21 Sep 1935	67
6 Dec 1923		John Wycliffe Black	21 Jul 1862	18 Jun 1951	88
29 Oct 1924		Lewis Phillips Winby	17 Jan 1874	27 Jan 1956	82
30 May 1929		Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart [I]	6 Aug 1889	5 Nov 1961	72
28 Nov 1933		Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree	26 Sep 1897	14 Jul 1976	78
26 Jul 1945		Humphrey Cooper Attewell	14 Jul 1894	15 Oct 1972	78
23 Feb 1950		John Markham Baldock	19 Nov 1915	3 Oct 2003	87
8 Oct 1959		John Arnold Farr [kt 1984]	25 Sep 1922	25 Oct 1997	75
9 Apr 1992		Edward Henry Garnier [kt 2012], later [2018] Baron Garnier [L]	26 Oct 1952
8 Jun 2017		Neil John O'Brien	6 Nov 1978
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HARBOROUGH, OADBY AND WIGSTON (LEICESTERSHIRE)
4 Jul 2024		Neil John O'Brien	6 Nov 1978
HARBOUR (DUBLIN)
1 Dec 1885		Timothy Charles Harrington	1851	12 Mar 1910	58
14 Jun 1910		William Abraham	1840	2 Aug 1915	75
1 Oct 1915		Alfred Byrne	14 Mar 1882	13 Mar 1956	73
14 Dec 1918		Philip Shanahan
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
HARLOW (ESSEX)
28 Feb 1974		(Arthur) Stanley Newens	4 Feb 1930	2 Mar 2021	91
9 Jun 1983		Jeremy Joseph James Hayes	20 Apr 1953
1 May 1997		William Ernest Rammell	10 Oct 1959
6 May 2010		Robert Henry Halfon	22 Mar 1969
4 Jul 2024		Christopher John Vince
HARPENDEN AND BERKHAMSTED
4 Jul 2024		Victoria Mel Elizabeth Collins
HARROGATE (NORTH YORKSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		Christopher York	27 Jul 1909	13 Mar 1999	89
11 Mar 1954		James Edward Ramsden	1 Nov 1923
28 Feb 1974		Robert George Banks	18 Jan 1937
NAME ALTERED TO "HARROGATE AND KNARESBOROUGH" 1997
HARROGATE AND KNARESBOROUGH
1 May 1997		George Philip Willis, later [2010] Baron Willis of Knaresborough [L]	30 Nov 1941
6 May 2010		Andrew Hanson Jones	28 Nov 1963
4 Jul 2024		Thomas Anthony Gordon
HARROW (MIDDLESEX)
4 Dec 1885		William Ambrose	1832	18 Jan 1908	75
5 Apr 1899		Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox	9 Jul 1838	27 Aug 1922	84
22 Jan 1906		James Gibb	3 May 1844	23 Jun 1910	66
24 Jan 1910		Harry Mallaby Mallaby-Deeley, later [1922] 1st baronet	27 Oct 1863	4 Feb 1937	73
14 Dec 1918		Oswald Ernald Mosley, later [1928] 6th baronet	16 Nov 1896	3 Dec 1980	84
29 Oct 1924		Isidore Salmon [kt 1933]	10 Feb 1876	16 Sep 1941	65
2 Dec 1941		Norman Adolph Henry Bower	18 May 1907	7 Dec 1990	83
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "EAST" AND "WEST" DIVISIONS 1945
HARROW CENTRAL
23 Feb 1950		Frank Patrick Bishop [kt 1964]	7 Mar 1900	5 Oct 1972	72
15 Oct 1964		(John) Anthony Grant [kt 1983]	29 May 1925	9 Oct 2016	91
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HARROW EAST
26 Jul 1945		Frederick William Skinnard	8 Mar 1902	5 Aug 1984	82
23 Feb 1950		Ian Douglas Harvey	25 Jan 1914	10 Jan 1987	72
19 Mar 1959		Anthony Tosswill Courtney	16 May 1908	24 Jan 1989	80
31 Mar 1966		Roy Delville Roebuck	25 Sep 1929	17 Dec 2023	94
18 Jun 1970		Hugh John Maxwell Dykes, later [2004] Baron Dykes [L]	17 May 1939
1 May 1997		Anthony James McNulty	3 Nov 1958
6 May 2010		Robert John Blackman	26 Apr 1956
HARROW WEST
26 Jul 1945		Norman Adolph Henry Bower	18 May 1907	7 Dec 1990	83
21 Apr 1951		Sir Albert Newby Braithwaite	2 Sep 1893	20 Oct 1959	66
17 Mar 1960		Arthur John Page [kt 1984]	16 Sep 1919	31 Oct 2008	89
11 Jun 1987		Robert Gurth Hughes	14 Jul 1951
1 May 1997		Gareth Richard Thomas	15 Jul 1967
HARTLEPOOL
19 Nov 1868		Ralph Ward-Jackson	7 Jun 1806	6 Aug 1880	74
6 Feb 1874		Thomas Richardson	6 Jun 1821	29 Dec 1890	69
29 Jul 1875		Isaac Lowthian Bell, later [1885] 1st baronet	15 Feb 1816	20 Dec 1904	88
Apr 1880		Thomas Richardson	6 Jun 1821	29 Dec 1890	69
21 Jan 1891		Sir Christopher Furness, later [1910] 1st Baron Furness	23 Apr 1852	10 Nov 1912	60
15 Jul 1895		Thomas Richardson [kt 1897]	28 Dec 1846	22 May 1906	59
1 Oct 1900		Sir Christopher Furness, later [1910] 1st Baron Furness [he was unseated on petition 3 May 1910]	23 Apr 1852	10 Nov 1912	60
20 Jun 1910		Stephen Wilson Furness, later [1913] 1st baronet	26 May 1872	6 Sep 1914	42
22 Sep 1914		Sir Walter Runciman, 1st baronet, later [1933] 1st Baron Runciman	6 Jul 1847	13 Aug 1937	90
14 Dec 1918		William George Howard Gritten	1870	5 Apr 1943	72
15 Nov 1922		William Allen Jowitt [kt 1929], later [1945] 1st Baron Jowitt, [1947] 1st Viscount Jowitt and [1951] 1st Earl Jowitt	15 Apr 1885	16 Aug 1957	72
29 Oct 1924		Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden	1889	27 Apr 1960	70
30 May 1929		William George Howard Gritten	1870	5 Apr 1943	72
1 Jun 1943		Thomas George Greenwell	18 Dec 1894	15 Nov 1967	72
26 Jul 1945		David Thomas Jones	17 Oct 1899	4 Apr 1963	63
8 Oct 1959		John Simon Kerans	30 Jun 1915	12 Sep 1985	70
15 Oct 1964		Edward Leadbitter	18 Jun 1919	23 Dec 1996	77
9 Apr 1992		Peter Benjamin Mandelson, later [2008] Baron Mandelson [L]	21 Oct 1953
30 Sep 2004		Iain David Wright	9 May 1972
8 Jun 2017		Michael Robert Hill	12 May 1963
6 May 2021		Jillian Wendy Mortimer	20 Mar 1965
4 Jul 2024		Jonathan James Frederick Brash
HARWICH (ESSEX)
2 Apr 1660		Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd baronet	8 May 1622	23 Jan 1680	57
		Sir Henry Wright, 1st baronet (to 1664)	c 1637	5 Feb 1664
3 Apr 1661		Thomas King (to 1679)		mid 1688
4 Apr 1664		Sir Capel Luckyn, 2nd baronet	8 May 1622	23 Jan 1680	57
		Sir William Turner
		Double return. Luckyn seated c Dec 1664
5 Feb 1679		Sir Anthony Deane	3 Dec 1633	11 Jun 1721	87
		Samuel Pepys	23 Feb 1633	26 May 1703	70
23 Aug 1679		Sir Philip Parker, 1st baronet	c 1625	Mar 1690
		Sir Thomas Middleton	21 Apr 1654	11 Jun 1702	48
16 Apr 1685		Sir Anthony Deane	3 Dec 1633	11 Jun 1721	87
		Samuel Pepys	23 Feb 1633	26 May 1703	70
16 Jan 1689		Sir Thomas Middleton (to 1698)	21 Apr 1654	11 Jun 1702	48
		John Eldred	2 Oct 1629	2 Sep 1717	87
27 Feb 1690		Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven [S]	23 Oct 1625	30 Jun 1698	72
21 Oct 1695		Sir Thomas Davall (to 1708)	18 May 1644	7 Nov 1712	68
23 Jul 1698		Samuel Atkinson [expelled 14 Feb 1699]	c 1645	13 Dec 1718
25 Feb 1699		Sir Thomas Middleton	21 Apr 1654	11 Jun 1702	48
6 Jan 1701		Dennis Lyddell	c 1657	19 Nov 1717
16 Jul 1702		John Ellis	1646	8 Jul 1738	92
3 May 1708		Sir John Leake [he was also returned for Rochester, for which to chose to sit]	4 Jul 1656	21 Aug 1720	64
		Thomas Frankland, later [1726] 3rd baronet (to 1713)	c 1685	17 Apr 1747
6 Dec 1708		Sir Thomas Davall	18 May 1644	Nov 1712	68
		Kenrick Edisbury	3 Jun 1670	1736	66
		Double return. Election declared void 13 Jan 1709
24 Jan 1709		Kenrick Edisbury	3 Jun 1670	1736	66
31 Aug 1713		Sir Thomas Davall	25 Oct 1682	Apr 1714	31
		Carew Harvey Mildmay (to 1715)	6 Mar 1691	16 Jan 1784	92
		Thomas Heath	10 Jul 1684	7 Sep 1741	57
		Double return between Mildmay and Heath. Mildmay declared elected 6 Apr 1714
17 May 1714		Thomas Heath [he was unseated on petition in favour of Benedict Calvert 29 Jun 1714]	10 Jul 1684	7 Sep 1741	57
29 Jun 1714		Benedict Leonard Calvert, later [1715] 4th Baron Baltimore	21 Mar 1679	16 Apr 1715	36
24 Jan 1715		Sir Philip Parker (Parker-a-Morley-Long from 1729), 3rd baronet (to 1734)	23 Mar 1682	20 Jan 1741	58
		Thomas Heath	10 Jul 1684	7 Sep 1741	57
22 Mar 1722		Humphry Parsons	c 1676	21 Mar 1741
16 Aug 1727		John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval [I], later [1733] 1st Earl of Egmont [I]	12 Jul 1683	1 May 1748	64
27 Apr 1734		Carteret Leathes	Jul 1698	1780	81
		Charles Stanhope	1673	16 Mar 1760	86
6 May 1741		John Phillipson (to 1756)	28 Apr 1698	27 Nov 1756	58
		Hill Mussenden	c 1699	23 Nov 1772
2 Jul 1747		Edward Coke, styled Viscount Coke	2 Feb 1719	31 Aug 1753	34
21 Nov 1753		Wenman Coke (to 1761)	7 Jan 1717	10 Apr 1776	59
13 Dec 1756		William Ponsonby, styled Viscount Duncannon, later [1758] 2nd Earl of Bessborough [I]	by Nov 1704	11 Mar 1793
29 Dec 1758		Thomas Sewell	c 1710	6 Mar 1784
30 Mar 1761		Charles Townshend	27 Aug 1725	4 Sep 1767	42
		John Roberts (to 1772)	c 1711	13 Jul 1772
30 Nov 1767		Thomas Bradshaw	25 Jan 1733	6 Nov 1774	41
19 Mar 1768		Edward Harvey (to 1778)	1 Aug 1718	27 Mar 1778	59
7 Aug 1772		Charles Jenkinson, later [1786] 1st Baron Hawkesbury and [1796] 1st Earl of Liverpool	26 Apr 1727	17 Dec 1808	81
10 Oct 1774		John Robinson (to 1803)	15 Jul 1727	23 Dec 1802	75
24 Apr 1778		George Augustus North, later [1792] 3rd Earl of Guilford	11 Sep 1757	20 Apr 1802	44
2 Apr 1784		Thomas Orde, later [1797] 1st Baron Bolton	30 Aug 1746	30 Jul 1807	60
27 May 1796		Richard Hopkins	c 1728	19 Mar 1799
10 Apr 1799		Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, later [1813] 13th Viscount Dillon	28 Oct 1777	24 Jul 1832	54
6 Jul 1802		Thomas Myers (to Apr 1803) [he was unseated on petition in favour of James Adams 7 Apr 1803]	26 Jul 1764	1 Oct 1835	71
4 Jan 1803		John Hiley Addington (to 1818)	1759	11 Jun 1818	58
7 Apr 1803		James Adams	5 Jun 1752	14 Sep 1816	64
31 Oct 1806		William Henry Fremantle [as a result of a petition, he was also subsequently returned for Saltash, for which he chose to sit]	28 Dec 1766	19 Oct 1850	83
9 Mar 1807		James Adams	5 Jun 1752	14 Sep 1816	64
7 May 1807		William Huskisson For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the members for Liverpool	11 Mar 1770	15 Sep 1830	60
6 Oct 1812		Nicholas Vansittart, later [1823] 1st Baron Bexley (to 1823)	29 Apr 1766	8 Feb 1851	84
17 Jun 1818		Charles Bragge-Bathurst	28 Feb 1754	13 Aug 1831	77
10 Feb 1823		George Canning	11 Apr 1770	8 Aug 1827	57
		John Charles Herries (to 1841)	Nov 1778	24 Apr 1855	76
12 Jun 1826		Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal	12 Dec 1776	6 Jul 1846	69
16 May 1827		Sir William Rae, 3rd baronet	14 Apr 1769	19 Oct 1842	73
2 Aug 1830		George Robert Dawson	24 Dec 1790	3 Apr 1856	65
11 Dec 1832		Christopher Thomas Tower	1 Nov 1775	19 Feb 1867	91
6 Jan 1835		Francis Robert Bonham	6 Sep 1785	26 Apr 1863	77
25 Jul 1837		Alexander Ellice	c 1793	8 Oct 1853
30 Jun 1841		John Attwood (to 1848) [following the general election in Jul 1847, his election was declared void 14 Mar 1848]		1865
		William Beresford	17 Apr 1797	6 Oct 1883	86
30 Jul 1847		John Bagshaw (to Jul 1852)	1784	20 Dec 1861	77
1 Apr 1848		Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 2nd baronet, later [1851] 1st Baron Broughton	27 Jun 1786	3 Jun 1869	82
5 Mar 1851		Henry Thoby Prinsep [his election was declared void 19 May 1851]	1793	11 Feb 1878	84
28 May 1851		Robert Wigram Crawford [his election was declared void 15 Jul 1851. The issue of a new writ was suspended until 1 Apr 1852]	1813	30 Jul 1889	76
10 Apr 1852		Sir Fitzroy Kelly [he was also returned for Suffolk East, for which he chose to sit]	1 Oct 1796	18 Sep 1880	83
8 May 1852		Isaac Butt	6 Sep 1813	5 May 1879	65
7 Jul 1852		George Montagu Warren Peacocke (Sandford from 1866) [his election was declared void 6 May 1853]	c 1821	17 Jun 1879
		David Waddington (to Mar 1857)	1810	12 Oct 1863	53
21 Jun 1853		John Bagshaw (to Mar 1859)	1784	20 Dec 1861	77
28 Mar 1857		George Drought Warburton	1816	23 Oct 1857	41
9 Dec 1857		Robert John Bagshaw (to May 1859)	1803	11 Aug 1873	70
18 Mar 1859		Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (to 1880)	1825	22 Sep 1881	56
2 May 1859		William Frederick Campbell, later [1860] 2nd Baron Stratheden and [1861] 2nd Baron Campbell of St. Andrews	15 Oct 1824	21 Jan 1893	68
24 Apr 1860		Richard Thomas Rowley	1812	11 Nov 1887	75
12 Jul 1865		John Kelk, later [1874] 1st baronet	21 Feb 1816	12 Sep 1886	70
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1868
3 Apr 1880		Sir Henry Whatley Tyler	7 Mar 1827	30 Jan 1908	80
28 Nov 1885		James Round	6 Apr 1842	25 Dec 1916	74
22 Jan 1906		Arthur Levy Lever, later [1911] 1st baronet	17 Nov 1860	23 Aug 1924	63
20 Jan 1910		Harry Kottingham Newton, later [1921] 2nd baronet	2 Apr 1875	22 Jun 1951	76
15 Nov 1922		Albert Ernest Hillary	20 Jan 1868	10 Feb 1954	86
29 Oct 1924		Sir Frederick Gill Rice	6 Aug 1866	30 Jun 1935	68
30 May 1929		Percy John Pybus, later [1934] 1st baronet	25 Jan 1880	23 Oct 1935	55
14 Nov 1935		Joseph Stanley Holmes [kt 1945], later [1954] 1st Baron Dovercourt	31 Oct 1878	22 Apr 1961	82
11 Feb 1954		Julian Errington Ridsdale [kt 1981]	8 Jun 1915	21 Jul 2004	89
9 Apr 1992		Iain MacDonald Sproat	8 Nov 1938	29 Sep 2011	72
1 May 1997		Ivan John Henderson	7 Jun 1958
5 May 2005		John Douglas Wilson Carswell	3 May 1971
NAME ALTERED TO "HARWICH AND NORTH ESSEX" 2010
HARWICH AND ESSEX NORTH (ESSEX)
6 May 2010		Bernard Christison Jenkin [kt 2018]	9 Apr 1959

	Horatio William Bottomley
	MP for Hackney South 1906‑1912 and 1918‑1922
	The following biography of Horatio Bottomley appeared in the March 1971 issue of the Australian monthly magazine Parade:-
	A visitor to England's Wormwood Scrubs Prison one day in 1922 recognised a podgy little man sitting in a yard and busily stitching up mailbags. "Ah, there, Bottomley," the visitor remarked brightly. "Sewing?" The prisoner was Horatio Bottomley, former Member of Parliament, arch swindler and rogue and golden-tongued financial racketeer who fleeced 10 million crooked pounds in 40 years of flamboyant rascality. He did not bother to look up and merely grunted: "No, not sewing - reaping."
	Probably no other share swindler and crook in history achieved such eminence as Horatio Bottomley. As an orator he could sway an audience and many people believed he could well have been Prime Minister of England had he set his mind to it. He rose from orphan waif to millionaire sportsman, newspaper editor and publisher, Member of the House of Commons and amateur lawyer who could confound the best legal brains in England. Underneath, Bottomley remained an oily fraud who could not resist the lure of easy money - from crooked companies, fraudulent lotteries and even blackmail. He spent his loot on champagne for breakfast, a stable of horses, a huge country estate and a harem of mistresses on whom he lavished apartments and jewellery and backed in disastrous stage shows. When the law eventually caught up with him he ended as a convict in Wormwood Scrubs stitching those mail-bags for a few cents a day.
	Horatio Bottomley was born in London on March 23, 1860, son of a tailor. Before he was five his father had died of tuberculosis and his mother was in an insane asylum. Packed off to an orphanage in Birmingham he ran away to London at 14 and got a job in a Cheapside clothing factory. A few months later he talked a drunken solicitor into taking him on as office boy. Shrewd and sharp as a ferret he got a good grounding in financial rackets and frauds operating on just the right side of the law before his crooked employer was eventually arrested and imprisoned.
	Then 20, Bottomley married and persuaded a former client of the solicitor to put up £1,000 to buy a small publishing business. Within a few years he had transformed it into the Hansard Union Company capitalised at £1,000,000 and was selling the gullible investing public shares to that amount. Out of the cash that flowed in Bottomley paid a dividend of 12 per cent, with the result that he had no trouble unloading another million dollars worth of shares. He then calmly "borrowed" some of the cash and dashed off to Austria where he bought 13 different printing works for £200,000. Back in London he sold them back to this own company for £600,000 and pocketed the difference.
	For years Bottomley milked the Hansard Union Company with similar dodges, but in 1893 shareholders' complaints brought an official investigation and Bottomley went on trial for mis-appropriation. More than £1 million had just disappeared, but Bottomley had tangled the company's affairs so effectively and conducted his own defence so brilliantly that after a six-week trial the jury acquitted him. He then turned to Western Australian gold mines and by the turn of the century had sold British investors £10 million worth of shares in scores of companies owning worthless claims in the Western Australian bush.
	Much of the money found itself into Bottomley's own pocket. Stocky, ever-smiling and with a magnetic personality he was seen at racecourses, restaurants, fashionable parties and influential political gatherings. During the week he lived in a luxury Pall Mall apartment. On Fridays he retired to his 30-room mansion, The Dicker, near Eastbourne where Mrs. Bottomley was kept conveniently out of the way.
	Only one of the gold mines Bottomley floated proved of any value. He was flabbergasted when he received the news that one of his smaller companies - with a capital of a mere £325,000 - had located some real gold. However, he soon recovered his wits and before the news got out persuaded the shareholders to exchange their certificates for those of another of his companies. "This is a much more promising speculation I am reserving for my oldest clients", he wrote to them. A few months later the shares of the first concern skyrocketed and the dummies who now held them for Bottomley sold out for £1 million. With that windfall he became a patron of the turf by purchasing £125,000 of bloodstock. He also acquired the London Sun newspaper and in a single deal snapped up six London theatres.
	In 1902 Bottomley had visions of being elected to Parliament by the London slum electorate of South Hackney. His campaign was going well until a rival newspaper printed a vitriolic attack on him. It called him "a bare-faced swindler" concocting schemes to rob and cheat and declared his proper place was "at the Old Bailey - not Westminster". Bottomley ignored the blast, but it cost him the seat, for he missed election by only a few hundred votes. However, he tried again in 1906 and romped home.
	By that time the gold boom had collapsed and having spent his profits on his publishing and theatrical ventures he was running a London bucket shop called the Joint Stock Institute. In three years Bottomley sold about £2½ million worth of shares in the Joint Stock Institute, although it was only capitalised at a quarter of that amount. The excess consisted of bogus and forged shares. Millions bearing the same serial numbers were sold over and over again. It was blatant fraud. Even in his gold mining ventures shareholders did have legitimate shares in a proper company and there was a slight chance gold might be found in its mine. But with the Joint Stock Institute Bottomley was working a gigantic confidence trick, and amazingly he got away with it - but only just.
	Complaints from shareholders who did not get dividends eventually brought an official investigation. As a result, early in 1909 Bottomley was again in the dock charged with fraud. He defended himself through the 29-day trial as scores of people came forward and testified they had been defrauded, yet somehow he managed to convince the jury that although the investors' money was gone it was all a gigantic mistake and certainly Horatio Bottomley was not responsible. What had seemed an open-and-shut case gradually slipped away from the prosecution as it let Bottomley divert attention from his obvious guilt in duplicating shares. Finally, he made a five-hour speech in which he pointed out that, despite the alleged duplication, no two people had been brought forward to show they had received shares with the same numbers. "I say", Bottomley's voice rose to a dramatic climax, "radical and democrat as I call myself, I still revere the traditions, the prestige and the power of the law. I do not hesitate today, hunted, hounded and harassed on all sides, to come to you, a jury of my peers, to give me sanctuary from official persecution".
	Once again Horatio Bottomley was acquitted in triumph. When he emerged from the court a free man, spectators sang For He's A Jolly Good Fellow. A few days later Bottomley addressed an enthusiastic meeting in his electorate of South Hackney. Supporters carried banners with the captions, Vindicated and Victory, but he had not learned a lesson and was soon up to his old tricks to replenish his finances. Shortly after the trial he wrote to an associate: "What have you done with our nugget - the one we used to show shareholders in the old Western Australian days? I have just got hold of a promising client. All he wants is a sight of the stuff".
	By such means Bottomley kept afloat financially until 1911 when the executors of one of his victims won a verdict for the return of £50,000 lent to him. He did not have the money and bankruptcy followed. That meant he had to resign his House of Commons seat. Aside from that, bankruptcy had little effect on Bottomley's way of life. He somehow managed to hang on to The Dicker and also his weekly paper, John Bull. With John Bull he began blackmailing other city sharks as crooked as himself, including a financial wizard named Alfred Carpenter who appropriated £5 million from a private bank [the Charing Cross Bank] he started. Well aware of what Carpenter was up to, Bottomley called on him, produced a wad of shares in one of his old defunct companies and demanded a loan of £5,000. Carpenter pointed out that the shares were worthless. "So is your bank", retorted Bottomley, who then made it clear that unless he got the loan - and further sums from time to time - he would expose Carpenter's frauds in John Bull. Carpenter duly paid and the blackmail racket continued until his death three years later - by which time Bottomley had gouged £20,000 from him.
	During World War I Bottomley decided that if Carpenter could do it so could he. He started his own bank, paid 8 per cent interest and kept it going until he went to gaol in 1922 when deposits of £220,000 were found to have vanished. The war itself was a golden opportunity for Bottomley as he took to the recruiting platform and toured the country making speeches. The Government paid him fees of up to £200 for each speech urging the young men of England to remember their "glorious heritage" and enlist to make the nation safe.
	During the war he thought up a new racket in running a sweepstakes from Switzerland on big English horse races such as the Derby and Grand National. Bottomley paid a prize of £15,000, but still showed a profit of £250,000 from each different sweepstakes or glorified lottery. When war conditions temporarily halted racing he made his sweeps guessing competitions. The money still rolled in and Bottomley was able to pay off some of his old liabilities. As a result in December 1918 he was granted his discharge from bankruptcy. Then, despite his record, the man's remarkable personality persuaded the electors of South Hackney to put him back into the House of Commons.
	Once more a respected MP, Bottomley plunged into his last swindle, another intricate lottery ramp from which he collected about £1 million in three years. All might have gone well had he not grown greedy. Despite the huge profits he could not keep his fingers out of the till and misappropriated some government bonds set aside as prizes. In 1922 a disgruntled employee tipped off the police. The subsequent investigation disclosed the defalcations and Bottomley drew seven years' imprisonment. That was the end of Horatio Bottomley. He once more lost his seat in Parliament and was in his late 60s when released from gaol.
	Sir William James Bull, 1st baronet
	MP for Hammersmith 1900‑1918 and Hammersmith South 1918‑1929
	The following report is taken from the Los Angeles Times of 8 January 1910:-
	Pugilism has become a regular feature of the British political contest. Occasional fist fights have occurred in various parts of the country, from the opening of the struggle [i.e. the January 1910 General Election], but until the last few days they have been confined to the less notable meetings. Now, however, they are in vogue in much higher quarters. Male electioneers and their hecklers have ceased to combine against the Suffragettes and [have] begun to maul each other.
	Yesterday the pugilistic infection … seized in virulent form that well-known knight, Sir William Bull. Sir William was trying to make a speech to a crowd of workingmen at Hammersmith. One of his hearers repeatedly interrupted him and finally called him a liar. The titled gentleman sprung over the door of his motor car into the midst of the crowd, crying:
	"I'll punch your head!"
	"Come on," replied the interrupter.
	Sir William came on and the crowd chivalrously made room. Tariff reform, the budget, socialism and the German peril quickly gave way to something more concrete. Sir William did what he said he would and punched the fellow's head, but the other chap was busy too.
	He caved in Sir William's silk hat, peeled the skin from Sir William's left temple and tore off one sleeve of Sir William's frock coat. The crowd roared with delight until at last the police stopped the fight. Sir William resumed his place in the car, saying that he had thoroughly enjoyed himself.
	Sir Roland Jennings
	MP for Sedgefield 1931‑1935 and Hallam division of Sheffield 1939‑1959
	Clause 24 of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 specified "that no person who shall have in his own name, or in the name of any person or persons in trust for him, or for his benefit, any new office or place of profit whatsoever under the crown, which at any time since the five and twentieth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and five have been created or erected … shall be capable of being elected, or sitting and voting in the House of Commons in any Parliament which shall be hereafter summoned and holden".
	Clause 25 of the same Act specified that "nevertheless that such person shall be capable of being again elected as if his place had not become void as aforesaid". The effect of Clause 25 was that any member of the House of Commons who accepted government office or a place of profit under the Crown was obliged to step down from the House and contest a by-election; if they won the by-election, the individual in question could then continue to serve both as an MP and as a minister or holder of a place of profit in compliance with the law.
	As a result, between 1707 and 1926, there was a regular succession of by-elections triggered by the requirement for newly appointed ministers (or MPs appointed to an office of profit under the Crown) to submit themselves for re-election. In the overwhelming majority, such by-elections were uncontested, but, on the other hand, there have been a reasonable number of by-elections which were fought out and the incumbent member was defeated. For example, when Winston Churchill was appointed President of the Board of Trade in 1908, he was defeated in the resulting by-election for his seat of Manchester NW.
	The legislation governing the need for such by-elections was gradually watered down during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Reform Act of 1867 removed the necessity of re-election when a member moved from one office to another; the Re-election of Ministers Act of 1919 made re-election unnecessary within nine months of a general election, and the Re-election of Ministers Act Amendment Act of 1926 finally abolished the requirement for a by-election altogether.
	It nevertheless remained the case that any member who accepted any other Crown office was obliged to comply with the law and vacate their office, a state of affairs which persisted beyond 1926. The problem was, however, that there was no real definition of what constituted an 'office or place of profit under the Crown.' This lack of definition caused a number of problems during the 1950s, with at least three cases being heard by a House of Commons Select Committee during 1954 and 1955.
	Following the 1955 general election, the election of Sir Roland Jennings was found to be invalid because he held an office of profit under the Crown. For over 30 years, Jennings had audited the accounts of his local club. In order to do so, he had to be appointed as a Public Auditor, an office the appointments to which were made by the Treasury. Jennings' charge for the annual audit was a token one guinea per annum, which was paid by the club rather than by the Treasury. However, it was still held that his role as a public auditor was an office of profit under the Crown. Other instances of MPs who were found to be inadvertently in breach of the rules are outlined at the foot of this note.
	In July 1955, legislation was rushed through Parliament which validated Sir Roland's election. Finally, in 1957, the House of Commons Disqualification Act, which was in turn replaced by a similar Act in 1975, was passed. This latter act specifically states: "Except as provided by this Act, a person shall not be disqualified for membership of the House of Commons by reason of his holding an office or place of profit under the Crown or any other office or place; and a person shall not be disqualified for appointment to or for holding any office or place by reason of his being a member of that House". Attached to the Act is a listing, which runs to over 50 pages, of those offices which continue to disqualify a person from sitting in the House of Commons.
	Other similar instances include:-
	Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool 1935-1946: - Jenkins was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee when he was appointed to the unpaid post of chairman of a local appeal board for a Royal Ordnance Factory. Notwithstanding that the post was unpaid, he was held to be in breach of the law and a special act indemnifying him was passed.
	Niall Macpherson, MP for Dumfriesshire 1945-1963: - Macpherson had accepted an appointment as Chairman of the London agency of the Dried Fruits Control Board, a body constituted under Australian legislation. A special Act was passed in May 1954 to indemnify him.
	John George, MP for Pollok division of Glasgow 1955-1964: - in 1947, George had been appointed by the Minister of Works as Chairman of Scottish Slate Industries Ltd., to which company the Minister of Works had authorized a loan on the condition that he should nominate two directors. George received no payment apart from reimbursement of expenses but was held to occupy a place of profit. He was indemnified by the same Act which indemnified Sir Roland Jennings.
	Even as late as 1974, the House had to pass a motion which ignored the technical disqualification of Dr. Michael Winstanley (MP for Cheadle 1966-1970 and Hazel Grove Feb-Oct 1974), who was a sessional medical officer at a Royal Ordnance Factory.

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