THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "H"
Last updated 13/10/2017 (4 Sep 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.
HASLEMERE (SURREY)
19 Apr 1660 John Westbrooke 1 Sep 1616 7 Jun 1666 49
Richard West 17 Jan 1636 27 Feb 1674 38
27 Mar 1661 James Gresham c 1617 4 Mar 1689
Chaloner Chute 15 Dec 1632 1666 33
George Evelyn (to 1679) 18 Jun 1617 4 Oct 1699 82
Thomas Morrice 1 Jun 1675
Double return. Evelyn and Morrice declared elected 20 May 1661
7 Jun 1675 Sir William More, 2nd baronet (to 1680) c 1644 24 Jul 1684
7 Feb 1679 James Gresham c 1617 4 Mar 1689
30 Aug 1679 Sir William More, 2nd baronet (to 1680) [he was unseated on petition in favour of Francis Dorrington 11 Nov 1680] c 1644 24 Jul 1684
James Gresham c 1617 4 Mar 1689
Denzil Onslow c 1642 27 Jun 1721
Double return between Gresham and Onslow. Onslow declared elected 11 Nov 1680 - see below
11 Nov 1680 Denzil Onslow c 1642 27 Jun 1721
Francis Dorrington 2 Sep 1619 12 Jun 1693 73
21 Feb 1681 Sir William More, 2nd baronet c 1644 24 Jul 1684
Sir George Woodroffe (to 1689) c 1625 6 Dec 1688
18 Mar 1685 Sir George Vernon c 1630 18 Nov 1692
10 Jan 1689 White Tichborne c 1638 20 May 1700
Denzil Onslow (to 1695) c 1642 27 Jun 1721
24 Feb 1690 George Rodney Brydges (to 1698) after 1649 9 Feb 1714
25 Oct 1695 George Woodroffe 8 Aug 1659 Mar 1713 53
22 Jul 1698 Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe (to Nov 1701) 14 Sep 1650 10 Apr 1702 51
George Vernon 10 Feb 1661 1735 74
3 Jan 1701 George Woodroffe (to 1702) 8 Aug 1659 Mar 1713 53
22 Nov 1701 George Vernon (to 1705) 10 Feb 1661 1735 74
17 Jul 1702 Lewis Oglethorpe 22 Feb 1681 30 Oct 1704 23
James Tichborne
Double return. Oglethorpe seated 10 Nov 1702
22 Nov 1704 Thomas Heath 1 Mar 1680 by Feb 1717
9 May 1705 George Woodroffe 8 Aug 1659 Mar 1713 53
John Fulham 19 Jun 1664 Apr 1726 61
4 May 1708 Thomas Onslow, later [1717] 2nd Baron Onslow [he was also returned for Bletchingley, for which he chose to sit] 27 Nov 1679 5 Jun 1740 60
Theophilus Oglethorpe (to 1713) 11 Mar 1684 c 1737
13 Dec 1708 Sir Nicholas Carew, later [1715] 1st baronet 26 Dec 1686 18 Mar 1727 40
4 Oct 1710 Sir John Clerke, 4th baronet after 1683 20 Feb 1727
25 Aug 1713 George Vernon (to 1715) 10 Feb 1661 1735 74
Thomas Onslow, later [1717] 2nd Baron Onslow [he was also returned for Bletchingley, for which he chose to sit] 27 Nov 1679 5 Jun 1740 60
17 Mar 1714 Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st baronet (to 1722) 26 Dec 1686 18 Mar 1727 40
1 Feb 1715 Sir Montague Blundell, 4th baronet, later [1720] 1st Viscount Blundell [I] 19 Jun 1689 19 Aug 1756 67
26 Mar 1722 James Edward Oglethorpe
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 22 Dec 1696 1 Jul 1785 88
Peter Burrell 6 Aug 1692 16 Apr 1756 63
13 Apr 1754 James More Molyneux c 1723 24 Jun 1759
Philip Carteret Webb (to 1768) c 1700 21 Jun 1770
24 Nov 1759 Thomas More Molyneux (to 1776) c 1724 3 Oct 1776
19 Mar 1768 William Burrell, later [1788] 2nd baronet 10 Oct 1732 20 Jan 1796 63
11 May 1774 Sir Merrick Burrell, 1st baronet (to 1780) 3 Apr 1699 6 Apr 1787 88
4 Nov 1776 Peter Burrell, later [1787] 2nd baronet and [1796] 1st Baron Gwydyr 16 Jun 1754 29 Jun 1820 66
9 Sep 1780 Sir James Lowther, 5th baronet, later [1784] 1st Earl of Lonsdale [he was also returned for Cumberland, for which he chose to sit] 5 Aug 1736 24 May 1802 65
Edward Norton (to 1784) 11 Mar 1750 Mar 1786 36
12 Dec 1780 Walter Spencer Stanhope 4 Feb 1749 10 Apr 1822 73
2 Apr 1784 Thomas Postlethwaite after 1786
John Baynes-Garforth (to 1790) 24 Jan 1727 15 Oct 1808 81
13 Jun 1786 John Lowther, later [1824] 1st baronet 1 Apr 1759 19 Mar 1844 84
17 Jun 1790 William Gerard Hamilton (to May 1796) 28 Jan 1729 16 Jul 1796 67
James Lowther [he was also returned for Westmorland, for which he chose to sit] 23 Feb 1753 c Jul 1837 84
20 Dec 1790 Richard Penn c 1734 27 May 1811
18 Jun 1791 James Clarke Satterthwaite (to 1802) c 1746 c 1818
25 May 1796 James Lowther [he was also returned for Westmorland, for which he chose to sit] 23 Feb 1753 c Jul 1837 84
5 Nov 1796 George Wood (to 1806) 13 Feb 1743 7 Jul 1824 81
5 Jul 1802 Richard Penn c 1734 27 May 1811
31 Oct 1806 George Stewart, styled Lord Garlies, later [Nov 1806] 8th Earl of Galloway 24 Mar 1768 27 Mar 1834 66
Charles Long, later [1826] 1st Baron Farnborough (to 1826) 29 Jan 1760 17 Jan 1838 77
10 Jan 1807 Robert Ward 19 Mar 1765 13 Aug 1846 81
15 Apr 1823 George Lowther Thompson (to 1830) 6 Dec 1786 25 Dec 1841 55
9 Jun 1826 Sir John Beckett, 2nd baronet (to 1832) 17 May 1775 31 May 1847 72
29 Jul 1830 William Holmes 2 Apr 1779 26 Jan 1851 71
CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
HASTINGS
c Apr 1660 Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st baronet (to 1679) c 1628 11 Dec 1697
Nicholas Delves 2 Dec 1618 3 Nov 1690 71
6 May 1661 Edmund Waller 3 Mar 1606 21 Oct 1687 81
11 Feb 1679 Sir Robert Parker, 1st baronet (to 1685) c 1655 30 Nov 1691
John Ashburnham, later [1689] 1st Baron Ashburnham 15 Jan 1656 21 Jan 1710 54
10 Mar 1681 Thomas Mun c 1645 15 Feb 1692
26 Mar 1685 Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st baronet c 1628 11 Dec 1697
John Ashburnham, later [1689] 1st Baron Ashburnham (to Aug 1689) 15 Jan 1656 21 Jan 1710 54
14 Jan 1689 Thomas Mun (to 1690) c 1645 15 Feb 1692
9 Aug 1689 John Beaumont (to 1695) c 1636 3 Jul 1701
28 Feb 1690 Peter Gott 22 May 1653 16 Apr 1712 58
25 Oct 1695 John Pulteney (to Oct 1710) by 1668 2 May 1726
Robert Austen c 1672 c Aug 1728
22 Jul 1698 Peter Gott 22 May 1653 16 Apr 1712 58
24 Nov 1701 John Mounsher 16 Jul 1665 by Dec 1702 37
20 Jul 1702 William Ashburnham, later [1710] 2nd Baron Ashburnham 21 May 1679 16 Jun 1710 31
10 Feb 1710 John Ashburnham, later [1710] 3rd Baron Ashburnham and [1730] 1st Earl of Ashburnham 13 Mar 1687 10 Mar 1737 49
10 Oct 1710 Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd baronet 1 Apr 1678 7 Nov 1755 77
Sir Joseph Martin (to 1715) c 1649 16 Aug 1729
27 Aug 1713 Archibald Hutcheson (to 1727) c 1659 12 Aug 1740
26 Jan 1715 Henry Pelham c 1694 2 Jun 1725
22 Mar 1722 Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd baronet (to 1741) 1 Apr 1678 7 Nov 1755 77
21 Aug 1727 Thomas Townshend [he was also returned for Cambridge University, for which he chose to sit] 2 Jun 1701 21 May 1780 78
22 Feb 1728 Thomas Pelham c 1705 1 Aug 1743
5 May 1741 James Pelham c 1683 27 Dec 1761
Andrew Stone 4 Feb 1703 17 Dec 1773 70
27 Mar 1761 James Brudenell, later [1790] 5th Earl of Cardigan 20 Apr 1725 24 Feb 1811 85
William Ashburnham, later [1797] 5th baronet (to 1774) 5 Mar 1739 21 Aug 1823 84
16 Mar 1768 Samuel Martin 1 Sep 1714 20 Nov 1788 74
10 Oct 1774 Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston [I] (to 1784) 4 Dec 1739 16 Apr 1802 62
Charles Jenkinson, later [1786] 1st Baron Hawkesbury and [1796] 1st Earl of Liverpool 26 Apr 1727 17 Dec 1808 81
9 Sep 1780 John Ord 11 Oct 1729 6 Jun 1814 84
3 Apr 1784 John Dawes 23 Mar 1822
John Stanley (to 1796) 1740 1 Apr 1799 58
19 Jun 1790 Sir Richard Pepper Arden, later [1801] 1st Baron Alvanley 20 May 1744 19 Mar 1804 59
9 May 1794 Robert Dundas (Saunders-Dundas from 1796), later [1811] 2nd Viscount Melville 14 Mar 1771 10 Jun 1851 80
25 May 1796 Sir James Sanderson, 1st baronet 30 Dec 1741 21 Jun 1798 56
Nicholas Vansittart, later [1823] 1st Baron Bexley (to 1802) 29 Apr 1766 8 Feb 1851 84
3 Jul 1798 William Sturges (Sturges-Bourne from 1803) 7 Nov 1769 1 Feb 1845 75
6 Jul 1802 Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie [I] 24 May 1743 2 May 1823 79
George William Gunning, later [1816] 1st baronet 15 Feb 1763 7 Apr 1823 60
1 Nov 1806 Sir John Nicholl 16 Mar 1759 26 Aug 1838 79
Sir William Fowle Middleton, 1st baronet 8 Nov 1748 26 Dec 1829 81
5 May 1807 George Canning 11 Apr 1770 8 Aug 1827 57
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd baronet (to 1818) 20 Feb 1749 24 Mar 1838 89
6 Oct 1812 James Dawkins (to 1826) 1760 13 Mar 1843 82
17 Jun 1818 George Peter Holford 1767 30 Apr 1839 71
8 Mar 1820 William Henry John Scott 25 Feb 1795 6 Jul 1832 37
9 Jun 1826 Sir William Curtis, 1st baronet 25 Jan 1752 18 Jan 1829 76
Sir Charles Wetherell 1770 17 Aug 1846 76
15 Dec 1826 John Evelyn Denison, later [1872] 1st Viscount Ossington (to 1830) 27 Jan 1800 7 Mar 1873 73
James Law Lushington [kt 1837] 24 Jul 1780 29 May 1859 78
21 Apr 1827 Joseph Planta (to 1831) 1 Jul 1787 5 Apr 1847 59
30 Jul 1830 Sir Henry Fane 26 Nov 1778 21 Mar 1840 61
29 Apr 1831 John Ashley Warre 5 Oct 1787 18 Nov 1860 73
Frederick North (to 1837) 2 Jul 1800 29 Oct 1869 69
8 Jan 1835 Howard Elphinstone, later [1846] 2nd baronet 9 Jun 1804 16 Mar 1893 88
26 Jul 1837 Joseph Planta 1 Jul 1787 5 Apr 1847 59
Robert Hollond (to 1852) 5 Jan 1808 26 Dec 1887 79
30 Mar 1844 Musgrave Brisco (to 1854) 1791 9 May 1854 62
9 Jul 1852 Patrick Francis Robertson (to 1859) 1807 20 Jan 1885 77
10 May 1854 Frederick North (to 1865) 2 Jul 1800 29 Oct 1869 69
2 May 1859 Lord Harry George Vane, later [1864] 4th Duke of Cleveland 19 Apr 1803 21 Aug 1891 88
6 Oct 1864 George Waldegrave-Leslie (to 1868) 30 Sep 1825 8 Jul 1904 78
12 Jul 1865 Patrick Francis Robertson 1807 20 Jan 1885 77
18 Nov 1868 Thomas Brassey, later [1886] 1st Baron Brassey and [1911] 1st Earl Brassey (to 1886) 11 Feb 1836 23 Feb 1918 82
Frederick North 2 Jul 1800 29 Oct 1869 69
18 Nov 1869 Ughtred James Kay‑Shuttleworth, later [1877] 2nd baronet and [1902] 1st Baron Shuttleworth 18 Dec 1844 20 Dec 1939 95
3 Apr 1880 Charles James Murray 1851 25 Sep 1929 78
29 Jun 1883 Henry Bret Ince 1830 7 May 1889 58
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885
2 Jul 1886 Wilson Noble 21 Nov 1854 1 Nov 1917 62
15 Jul 1895 William Lucas-Shadwell 14 Aug 1852 31 May 1915 62
2 Oct 1900 Freeman Freeman-Thomas, later [1910] 1st Baron Willingdon, [1924] 1st Viscount Willingdon, [1931] 1st Earl of Willingdon, and [1936] 1st Marquess of Willingdon 12 Sep 1866 12 Aug 1941 74
15 Jan 1906 William Harvey du Cros, later [1916] 1st baronet 19 Jun 1846 21 Dec 1918 72
3 Mar 1908 Sir Arthur Philip du Cros, 1st baronet 26 Jan 1871 28 Oct 1955 84
14 Dec 1918 Laurance Lyon 1875 12 Nov 1932 57
4 May 1921 Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, later [1953] 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle 21 Mar 1887 3 Apr 1958 71
24 Nov 1937 Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson 22 May 1887 11 Feb 1961 73
26 Jul 1945 Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key [kt 1960] 26 Apr 1907 5 Jan 1981 73
18 Jun 1970 Kenneth Robin Warren [kt 1994] 15 Aug 1926 29 Jun 2019 92
NAME ALTERED TO "HASTINGS AND RYE" 1983
HASTINGS AND RYE
9 Jun 1983 Kenneth Robin Warren [kt 1994] 15 Aug 1926 29 Jun 2019 92
9 Apr 1992 Jacqueline Anne Harkness Lait 16 Dec 1947
1 May 1997 Michael Jabez Foster 26 Feb 1946
6 May 2010 Amber Augusta Rudd 16 Aug 1963
12 Dec 2019 Sarah-Ann ["Sally-Ann"] Hart 6 Mar 1968
4 Jul 2024 Helena Dollimore
HAVANT (HAMPSHIRE)
9 Jun 1983 Ian Stewart Lloyd [kt 1986] 30 May 1921 26 Sep 2006 85
9 Apr 1992 David Lindsay Willetts, later [2015] Baron Willetts [L] 9 Mar 1956
7 May 2015 Alan Mak 19 Nov 1983
HAVANT AND WATERLOO
28 Feb 1974 Ian Stewart Lloyd [kt 1986] 30 May 1921 26 Sep 2006 85
NAME ALTERED TO "HAVANT" 1983
HAVERFORDWEST (PEMBROKESHIRE)
17 Apr 1660 William Philipps c 1615 c 1689
Election declared void 29 Jun 1660
7 Aug 1660 William Philipps c 1615 c 1689
11 Jun 1661 Isaac Lloyd c 1628 20 Apr 1675
Election declared void 23 May 1663
c Jun 1663 Sir William Morton c 1605 23 Sep 1672
c Sep 1666 Sir Frederick Hyde 28 Jun 1614 3 May 1677 62
14 Aug 1677 Sir Herbert Perrott c 1617 1 Aug 1683
c Feb 1679 William Wogan [kt 1689] c 1638 1 Dec 1708
9 Sep 1679 Thomas Owen c 1637 1708
22 Feb 1681 Thomas Howard c 1655 7 Jun 1682
14 Apr 1685 William Wogan [kt 1689] c 1638 4 Dec 1708
14 Jan 1701 William Wheeler 10 Mar 1708
28 Aug 1702 John Laugharne c 1666 15 Feb 1715
3 May 1715 Sir George Barlow, 2nd baronet [he was unseated on petition in favour of John Barlow 4 Jul 1715] c 1680 by Mar 1726
4 Jul 1715 John Barlow 30 Jan 1718
4 Mar 1718 Sir John Philipps, 4th baronet c 1666 5 Jan 1737
17 Apr 1722 Francis Edwardes 15 Dec 1725
8 Feb 1726 Erasmus Philipps, later [1737] 5th baronet 8 Nov 1699 15 Oct 1743 43
13 Dec 1743 George Barlow 6 Nov 1717 10 Dec 1756 39
4 Jul 1747 William Edwardes, later [1776] 1st Baron Kensington [I] c 1711 13 Dec 1801
6 Apr 1784 Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford [I] 1744 28 Nov 1823 79
6 Feb 1786 William Edwardes, 1st Baron Kensington [I] c 1711 13 Dec 1801
12 Jan 1802 William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington [I] 24 Apr 1777 10 Aug 1852 75
18 Jun 1818 William Henry Scourfield 1776 31 Jan 1843 66
13 Jun 1826 Richard Bulkeley Philipps, later [1828] 1st baronet and [1847] 1st Baron Milford 7 Jun 1801 3 Jan 1857 55
BOROUGH INCORPORATED INTO "HAVERFORDWEST BOROUGHS" 1832
HAVERFORDWEST BOROUGHS (PEMBROKESHIRE)
Haverfordwest Boroughs (also called Haverfordwest District of Boroughs) comprised Haverfordwest, Fishguard and Narberth, all in Pembrokeshire
1832 Richard Bulkeley Philipps, 1st baronet, later [1847] 1st Baron Milford 7 Jun 1801 3 Jan 1857 55
8 Jan 1835 William Henry Scourfield 1776 31 Jan 1843 66
8 Aug 1837 Sir Richard Bulkeley Philipps, 1st baronet, later [1847] 1st Baron Milford 7 Jun 1801 3 Jan 1857 55
30 Jul 1847 John Evans c 1796 17 Oct 1864
8 Jul 1852 John Henry Scourfield, later [1876] 1st baronet 30 Jan 1808 3 Jun 1876 68
19 Nov 1868 William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington [I] [Following the general election in Feb 1874, his election was declared void 2 Jun 1874. At the subsequent by-election held on 12 Jun 1874, he was again returned] 11 May 1835 7 Oct 1896 61
SEAT INCORPORATED IN "PEMBROKE AND HAVERFORDWEST BOROUGHS" 1885
HAWICK BURGHS
Hawick Burghs (also called Hawick District of Burghs) comprised Hawick (Roxburghshire), Galashiels (Selkirkshire) and Selkirk (Selkirkshire)
18 Nov 1868 George Otto Trevelyan, later [1886] 2nd baronet 20 Jul 1838 17 Aug 1928 90
10 Jul 1886 Alexander Laing Brown 1851 1 Oct 1930 79
Jul 1892 Thomas Shaw, later [1909] Baron Shaw [L] and [1929] 1st Baron Craigmyle 23 May 1850 28 Jun 1937 87
4 Mar 1909 Sir John Nicholson Barran, 2nd baronet 16 Aug 1872 8 Jul 1952 79
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
HAYES AND HARLINGTON
23 Feb 1950 Walter Henry Ayles 24 Mar 1879 6 Jul 1953 74
1 Apr 1953 Arthur Massey Skeffington 4 Sep 1909 18 Feb 1971 61
17 Jun 1971 Neville Devonshire Sandelson 27 Nov 1923 12 Jan 2002 78
9 Jun 1983 Terence Patrick Dicks 17 Mar 1937 17 Jun 2020 83
1 May 1997 John Martin McDonnell 8 Sep 1951
HAZEL GROVE
28 Feb 1974 Michael Platt Winstanley, later [1976] Baron Winstanley [L] 27 Aug 1918 18 Jul 1993 74
10 Oct 1974 Thomas Richard Arnold [kt 1990] 25 Jan 1947
1 May 1997 Robert Andrew Stunell [kt 2013], later [2015] Baron Stunell [L] 24 Nov 1942 29 Apr 2024 81
7 May 2015 William Peter Wragg 11 Dec 1987
4 Jul 2024 Lisa Smart
HEDON (YORKSHIRE)
3 Apr 1660 Hugh Bethell [kt after Sep 1660] (to 1680) 1 Oct 1615 3 Oct 1679 64
John Cloberry [he was also returned for Launceston, for which he chose to sit] c 1625 31 Jan 1688
30 Jul 1660 Henry Hildyard 26 Jan 1610 8 Jun 1674 64
13 Apr 1661 Sir Matthew Appleyard c 1607 20 Feb 1670
8 Mar 1670 Henry Guy (to Oct 1695) 16 Jun 1631 23 Feb 1711 79
11 Nov 1680 William Boynton 14 Jul 1641 17 Aug 1689 48
11 Mar 1685 Charles Duncombe [kt 1699] 16 Nov 1648 9 Apr 1711 62
10 Jan 1689 Matthew Appleyard c 1660 Jun 1700
24 Oct 1695 Charles Spencer, later [1702] 3rd Earl of Sunderland [he was also returned for Tiverton, for which he chose to sit] 23 Apr 1675 19 Apr 1722 46
Sir William Trumbull [he was also returned for Oxford University, for which he chose to sit] 8 Sep 1639 14 Dec 1716 77
3 Dec 1695 Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd baronet Sep 1665 30 Oct 1726 61
Hugh Bethell (to Jan 1701) c 1648 2 Feb 1717
28 Jul 1698 Anthony Duncombe (to Jul 1702) after 1650 4 Apr 1708
10 Jan 1701 Sir Robert Bedingfield by Jun 1637 2 May 1711 74
27 Dec 1701 Sir Robert Hildyard, 2nd baronet c 1670 30 Nov 1729
23 Jul 1702 Henry Guy (to 1705) 16 Jun 1631 23 Feb 1711 79
Sir Charles Duncombe [he was also returned for Downton, for which he chose to sit] 16 Nov 1648 9 Apr 1711 62
23 Nov 1702 Anthony Duncombe (to 1708) after 1650 4 Apr 1708
15 May 1705 William Pulteney, later [1742] 1st Earl of Bath (to 1734) 29 Mar 1684 7 Jul 1764 80
10 May 1708 Hugh Cholmley 3 Aug 1684 25 May 1755 70
7 Nov 1721 Daniel Pulteney [at the general election in Mar 1722, he was also returned for Preston, for which he chose to sit] c 1674 7 Sep 1731
5 Nov 1722 Harry Pulteney 14 Feb 1686 26 Oct 1767 81
27 Apr 1734 George Berkeley (to 1741) c 1692 20 Oct 1746
Sir Francis Boynton, 4th baronet 17 Nov 1677 16 Sep 1739 61
24 Nov 1739 Harry Pulteney 14 Feb 1686 26 Oct 1767 81
6 May 1741 Francis Chute c 1696 Apr 1745
Luke Robinson mid 1773
[Both members were unseated on petition in favour of Algernon Coote, Earl of Mountrath and George Berkeley 4 Mar 1742]
4 Mar 1742 Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath [I] 6 Jun 1689 27 Aug 1744 55
George Berkeley (to 1746) c 1692 20 Oct 1746
8 Dec 1744 George Anson, later [1747] 1st Baron Anson (to Jul 1747) 23 Apr 1697 6 Jun 1762 65
29 Nov 1746 Samuel Gumley [he was unseated on petition in favour of Luke Robinson 11 Feb 1747] c 1698 c Jun 1763
11 Feb 1747 Luke Robinson (to 1754) mid 1773
1 Jul 1747 John Savile [kt 1749], later [1753] 1st Baron Pollington [I] and [1766] 1st Earl of Mexborough [I] Dec 1719 12 Feb 1778 58
18 Apr 1754 Charles Saunders [kt 1761] (to 1776) c 1713 7 Dec 1775
Sir Peter Denis, 1st baronet 1713 11 Jun 1778 64
19 Mar 1768 Beilby Thompson (to 1780) 17 Apr 1742 10 Jun 1799 57
1 Jan 1776 Lewis Thomas Watson, later [1795] 2nd Baron Sondes 18 Apr 1754 21 Jun 1806 52
8 Sep 1780 Christopher Atkinson (Savile from 1798) [expelled 4 Dec 1783] c 1738 23 Apr 1819
William Chaytor (to 1790) 11 Jan 1732 15 May 1819 87
15 Dec 1783 Stephen Lushington, later [1791] 1st baronet 17 Jun 1744 12 Jan 1807 62
31 Mar 1784 Sir Lionel Darell, 1st baronet (to 1802) 25 Sep 1742 30 Oct 1803 61
18 Jun 1790 Beilby Thompson 17 Apr 1742 10 Jun 1799 57
30 May 1796 Christopher Atkinson (Savile from 1798) (to 1806) c 1738 23 Apr 1819
5 Jul 1802 George Johnstone (to 1813) 10 Dec 1764 20 Nov 1813 48
1 Nov 1806 Anthony Browne (to 1818) 2 Oct 1769 6 Mar 1840 70
4 Dec 1813 John Broadhurst c 1778 15 Sep 1861
18 Jun 1818 Edmund Turton 27 Apr 1796 12 Nov 1857 61
Robert Farrand (to 1826) 14 Mar 1792 2 Feb 1855 62
8 Mar 1820 John Baillie (to 1830) 1772 20 Apr 1833 60
12 Jun 1826 Thomas Hyde Villiers 27 Jan 1801 3 Dec 1832 31
30 Jul 1830 Robert Farrand 14 Mar 1792 2 Feb 1855 62
Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, 2nd baronet 3 May 1807 23 Dec 1870 63
CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
HEELEY (SHEFFIELD)
23 Feb 1950 Peter Geoffrey Roberts, later [1955] 3rd baronet 23 Jun 1912 22 Jul 1985 73
31 Mar 1966 Frank Oswald Hooley 30 Nov 1923 21 Jan 2015 91
18 Jun 1970 John Deane Spence 7 Dec 1920 4 Mar 1986 65
28 Feb 1974 Frank Oswald Hooley 30 Nov 1923 21 Jan 2015 91
9 Jun 1983 William Michie 24 Nov 1935 22 Sep 2017 81
7 Jun 2001 Margaret Patricia ("Meg") Munn 24 Aug 1959
7 May 2015 Louise Margaret Haigh 22 Jul 1987
HELSTON (CORNWALL)
11/12 Apr 1660 Anthony Rous c 1605 1 May 1677
Alexander Penhellick c 1632 c 1661
Sir Peter Killigrew c 1593 Jul 1668
Sir John Northcote, 1st baronet c 1600 24 Jun 1676
Double return. Rous and Penhellick seated 5 May 1660,but election subsequently declared void 27 Jun 1660
11 Jul 1660 Thomas Robinson (to 1665) 31 Dec 1608 12 Aug 1665 56
Francis Godolphin 25 Dec 1605 22 Mar 1667 61
Sir Peter Killigrew c 1593 Jul 1668
Double return. Robinson and Godolphin seated 8 Aug 1660
9 Apr 1661 Sir Peter Killigrew (to 1668) c 1593 Jul 1668
30 Oct 1665 Sir William Godolphin, 1st baronet (to Sep 1679) c 1640 27 Aug 1710
15 Oct 1668 Sidney Godolphin, later [1706] 1st Earl of Godolphin 15 Jun 1645 15 Sep 1712 67
8 Feb 1679 Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 2nd baronet (to 1681) 20 May 1639 24 Feb 1697 57
9 Sep 1679 Sidney Godolphin, later [1796] 1st Earl of Godolphin (to 1685) 15 Jun 1645 15 Sep 1712 67
21 Feb 1681 Charles Godolphin (to 1701) c 1650 10 Jul 1720
29 Apr 1685 Sidney Godolphin 12 Jan 1652 22 Sep 1732 80
14 Jan 1689 Sir John St. Aubyn, 2nd baronet 13 Jan 1670 20 Jun 1714 44
29 Oct 1695 Francis Godolphin, later [1712] 2nd Earl of Godolphin 3 Sep 1678 17 Jan 1766 87
2 Aug 1698 Sidney Godolphin (to 1713) 12 Jan 1652 22 Sep 1732 80
3 Dec 1701 Francis Godolphin, styled Viscount Rialton from 1706, later [1712] 2nd Earl of Godolphin [at the general election in May 1708, Rialton was also returned for Oxfordshire, for which he chose to sit] 3 Sep 1678 17 Jan 1766 87
15 Dec 1708 John Evelyn, later [1713] 1st baronet 2 Mar 1682 15 Jul 1763 81
24 Oct 1710 George Granville, later [1712] 1st Baron Lansdown [he was also returned for Cornwall, for which he chose to sit] 9 Mar 1666 29 Jan 1735 68
22 Dec 1710 Robert Child 6 Jun 1674 6 Oct 1721 47
9 Sep 1713 Henry Campion [he was also returned for Sussex, for which he chose to sit] c 1680 17 Apr 1761
Charles Coxe [he was also returned for Gloucester, for which he chose to sit] c 1661 17 Oct 1728
12 Apr 1714 Thomas Tonkin 20 Sep 1678 4 Jan 1742 63
Alexander Pendarves 11 Nov 1662 8 Mar 1725 62
27 Jan 1715 Sir Gilbert Heathcote, later [1733] 1st baronet 2 Jan 1652 25 Jan 1733 81
Sidney Godolphin 12 Jan 1652 22 Sep 1732 80
13 Apr 1722 Sir Robert Raymond, later [1731] 1st Baron Raymond 20 Dec 1673 19 Mar 1733 59
Walter Carey (to 1727) 17 Oct 1685 27 Apr 1757 71
10 Mar 1724 Sir Clement Wearg c 1686 6 Apr 1726
13 May 1726 Exton Sayer c 1691 21 Sep 1731
25 Aug 1727 John Evelyn, later [1763] 2nd baronet 24 Aug 1706 11 Jun 1767 60
John Harris c 1690 5 Oct 1767
12 May 1741 Francis Godolphin, later [1766] 2nd Baron Godolphin (to 1766) 2 Nov 1706 25 May 1785 78
Thomas Walker c 1664 22 Oct 1748
2 Jul 1747 John Evelyn, later [1763] 2nd baronet (to 1767) 24 Aug 1706 11 Jun 1767 60
4 Feb 1766 William Windham (to 1768) c 1705 4 May 1789
1 Jul 1767 William Evelyn (to 1774) 10 Feb 1723 15 Aug 1783 60
23 Mar 1768 James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassill [I] 23 Aug 1730 6 Feb 1798 67
11 Oct 1774 Francis Godolphin Osborne, styled Marquess of Carmarthen, later [1776] Baron Osborne and [1789] 5th Duke of Leeds 29 Jan 1751 31 Jan 1799 48
Francis Owen 24 Feb 1745 16 Nov 1774 29
Francis Cockayne-Cust 18 Mar 1722 30 Nov 1791 69
Philip Yorke (to Jun 1781) 30 Jul 1743 19 Feb 1804 60
On petition, Cust and Yorke were declared elected 15 Mar 1775
12 Sep 1780 Philip Yorke 30 Jul 1743 19 Feb 1804 60
Jocelyn Deane 19 Jul 1749 19 Nov 1780 31
Thomas Villiers, styled Baron Hyde, later [1786] 2nd Earl of Clarendon 25 Dec 1753 7 Mar 1824 70
William Evelyn 10 Feb 1723 15 Aug 1783 60
Double return. Yorke and Deane [notwithstanding that he was dead] declared elected 19 Feb 1781
12 Mar 1781 Richard Barwell (to 1784) 8 Oct 1741 2 Sep 1804 62
30 Jun 1781 Thomas Villiers, styled Baron Hyde, later [1786] 2nd Earl of Clarendon (to 1787) 25 Dec 1753 7 Mar 1824 70
5 Apr 1784 John Rogers 15 Aug 1750 22 Feb 1832 81
1 Apr 1786 Roger Wilbraham (to 1790) 1743 Jan 1829 85
27 Jan 1787 James Bland Burges (Lamb from 1821), later [1795] 1st baronet 8 Jun 1752 11 Oct 1824 72
21 Jun 1790 Sir Gilbert Elliot [Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound from 1797], 4th baronet, later [1813] 1st Earl of Minto 23 Apr 1751 21 Jun 1814 63
Stephen Lushington, later [1791] 1st baronet (to 1796) 17 Jun 1744 12 Jan 1807 62
James Bland Burges (Lamb from 1821), later [1795] 1st baronet 8 Jun 1752 11 Oct 1824 72
Charles Abbot, later [1817] 1st Baron Colchester 14 Oct 1757 8 May 1829 71
Double return. Elliot and Lushington declared elected 23 Dec 1790
19 Jun 1795 Charles Abbot, later [1817] 1st Baron Colchester (to 1802) 14 Oct 1757 8 May 1829 71
27 May 1796 Richard Richards 5 Nov 1752 11 Nov 1823 71
30 Mar 1799 Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne, later [1832] 1st Baron Godolphin 18 Oct 1777 15 Feb 1850 72
7 Jul 1802 James Edward Harris, styled Viscount Fitzharris, later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury 19 Aug 1778 10 Sep 1841 63
John Penn (to 1805) 22 Feb 1760 21 Jun 1834 74
26 May 1804 Davies Giddy, later [1817] Gilbert (to Apr 1806) 6 Mar 1767 24 Dec 1839 72
10 May 1805 Archibald John Primrose, styled Viscount Primrose, later [1814] 4th Earl of Rosebery (to Nov 1806) 14 Oct 1783 4 Mar 1868 84
21 Apr 1806 Sir John Shelley, 6th baronet 3 Mar 1772 28 Mar 1852 80
3 Nov 1806 Nicholas Vansittart, later [1823] 1st Baron Bexley [he was also returned for Old Sarum, for which he chose to sit] 29 Apr 1766 8 Feb 1851 84
John Du Ponthieu (to May 1807) 27 Apr 1765 26 Apr 1813 47
16 Jan 1807 Thomas Brand, later [1819] 20th Lord Dacre 15 Mar 1774 21 Mar 1851 77
11 May 1807 Sir John St. Aubyn, 5th baronet (to 1812) 17 May 1758 10 Aug 1839 81
Richard Richards 5 Nov 1752 11 Nov 1823 71
29 Jul 1807 James Stevenson Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye [I] 8 Jul 1755 8 Aug 1836 81
10 Oct 1812 William Horne [kt 1830] 2 Dec 1773 13 Jul 1860 86
Hugh Hammersley c 1775 19 Sep 1840
19 Jun 1818 Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend (to 1832) 11 Sep 1785 28 Jun 1842 56
Harrington Hudson 11 Apr 1772 30 Nov 1826 54
10 Jun 1826 Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne, styled Marquess of Carmarthen, later [1838] 7th Duke of Leeds 21 May 1798 4 May 1859 60
31 Jul 1830 Sir Samuel John Brooke-Pechell, 3rd baronet 1 Sep 1785 3 Nov 1849 64
29 Apr 1831 Sackville Walter Lane-Fox (to 1835) 24 Mar 1797 18 Aug 1877 80
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1832
8 Jan 1835 Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend 11 Sep 1785 28 Jun 1842 56
27 Jul 1837 George John Frederick Sackville, styled Viscount Cantelupe 26 Apr 1814 25 Jun 1850 36
12 Mar 1840 John Basset
1 Jul 1841 Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th baronet 6 Jun 1800 15 Aug 1879 79
27 Mar 1857 Charles Trueman 1814
30 Apr 1859 John Hope Rogers 16 Sep 1816 24 Apr 1880 63
12 Jul 1865 Adolphus William Young [his election was declared void 18 Apr 1866] 1814 4 Nov 1885 71
1 May 1866 Robert Campbell [he was unseated on petition in favour of William Baliol Brett 5 Jul 1866]
5 Jul 1866 Sir William Baliol Brett, later [1885] 1st Baron Esher and [1897] 1st Viscount Esher 13 Aug 1815 24 May 1899 83
17 Nov 1868 Adolphus William Young 1814 4 Nov 1885 71
5 Apr 1880 William Napleton Molesworth-St. Aubyn 18 Oct 1838 29 Jun 1895 56
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HERTFORDSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918 Gustavus Arthur Chetwynd Talbot 24 Dec 1848 16 Oct 1920 71
9 Nov 1920 John Colin Campbell Davidson, later [1937] 1st Viscount Davidson 23 Feb 1889 11 Dec 1970 81
6 Dec 1923 John Freeman Dunn 12 Apr 1874 7 Dec 1954 80
29 Oct 1924 John Colin Campbell Davidson, later [1937] 1st Viscount Davidson 23 Feb 1889 11 Dec 1970 81
22 Jun 1937 Frances Joan Davidson [Dame 1952], later [1964] Baroness Northchurch [L] 29 May 1894 25 Nov 1985 91
8 Oct 1959 James Harry Allason 6 Sep 1912 16 Jun 2011 98
10 Oct 1974 Robin Corbett, later [2001] Baron Corbett of Castle Vale [L] 22 Dec 1933 19 Feb 2012 78
3 May 1979 Nicholas Walter Lyell [kt 1987], later [2005] Baron Lyell of Markyate [L] 6 Dec 1938 30 Aug 2010 71
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983, BUT REVIVED 1997
1 May 1997 Anthony McWalter 20 Mar 1945
5 May 2005 Michael Alan Penning [kt 2017] 28 Sep 1957
4 Jul 2024 David Taylor
HEMSWORTH (YORKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918 John Guest 1867 6 Oct 1931 64
27 Oct 1931 Gabriel Price
For further information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 19 Apr 1879 24 Mar 1934 54
17 May 1934 George Arthur Griffiths 7 May 1880 15 Dec 1945 65
22 Feb 1946 Horace Edwin Holmes [kt 1966] 30 Mar 1888 9 Sep 1971 83
This by-election has the distinction of being the last occasion when a candidate at a by-election was returned unopposed
8 Oct 1959 Alan Beaney 3 Mar 1905 3 Mar 1985 80
28 Feb 1974 Alec Woodall 20 Sep 1918 3 Jan 2011 92
11 Jun 1987 George James Buckley 6 Apr 1935 14 Sep 1991 56
7 Nov 1991 Derek Anthony Enright 2 Aug 1935 31 Oct 1995 60
1 Feb 1996 Jon Hedley Trickett 2 Jul 1950
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HENDON (MIDDLESEX)
14 Dec 1918 Philip Lloyd-Greame (later Cunliffe-Lister), later [1935] 1st Viscount Swinton and [1955] 1st Earl of Swinton 1 May 1884 27 Jul 1972 88
14 Nov 1935 Sir Reginald Blair, later [1945] 1st baronet 8 Nov 1881 18 Sep 1962 80
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1945, BUT RE-UNITED 1997
1 May 1997 Andrew Hartley Dismore 2 Sep 1954
6 May 2010 Matthew James Offord 3 Sep 1969
4 Jul 2024 David Jonathan Pinto-Duschinsky
HENDON NORTH
26 Jul 1945 Barbara Bodichon Ayrton Gould c 1888 14 Oct 1950
23 Feb 1950 Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, later [1963] 1st baronet and [1971] Baron Orr-Ewing [L] 10 Feb 1912 19 Aug 1999 87
18 Jun 1970 John Michael Gorst [kt 1994] 28 Jun 1928 31 Jul 2010 82
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
HENDON SOUTH
26 Jul 1945 Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas‑Tooth (Munro-Lucas-Tooth from 1965), 1st baronet 13 Jan 1903 18 Nov 1985 82
18 Jun 1970 Peter John Mitchell Thomas, later [1987] Baron Thomas of Gwydir [L] 31 Jul 1920 4 Feb 2008 87
11 Jun 1987 John Leslie Marshall 19 Aug 1940
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
HENLEY (OXFORDSHIRE)
2 Dec 1885 Edward William Harcourt 1825 19 Dec 1891 66
15 Jul 1886 Francis Parker 15 Aug 1851 22 Oct 1931 80
24 Jul 1895 Robert Trotter Hermon‑Hodge, later [1902] 1st baronet and [1919] 1st Baron Wyfold 23 Sep 1851 3 Jun 1937 85
22 Jan 1906 Philip Edward Morrell 4 Jun 1870 5 Feb 1943 72
19 Jan 1910 Valentine Fleming 17 Feb 1882 20 May 1917 35
20 Jun 1917 Sir Robert Trotter Hermon‑Hodge, 1st baronet, later [1919] 1st Baron Wyfold 23 Sep 1851 3 Jun 1937 85
14 Dec 1918 Thomas Antonio Reginald Terrell [kt 1959] 18 Jan 1889 5 Feb 1979 90
29 Oct 1924 Robert Ronald Henderson 1876 16 Jan 1932 55
25 Feb 1932 Sir Gifford Wheaton Grey Fox, 2nd baronet 2 Feb 1903 11 Feb 1959 56
23 Feb 1950 John Albert Hay 24 Nov 1919 27 Jan 1998 78
28 Feb 1974 Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, later [2001] Baron Heseltine [L] 21 Mar 1933
7 Jun 2001 Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson 19 Jun 1964
26 Jun 2008 John Michael Howell 27 Jul 1955
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
HENLEY AND THAME (OXFORDSHIRE)
4 Jul 2024 Frederick Isaac van Mierlo
HEREFORD (HEREFORDSHIRE)
10 Apr 1660 Herbert Westfaling (to Apr 1661) 3 Jan 1630 1705 75
Roger Bosworth c 1607 1660
20 Nov 1660 Sir Henry Lingen (to 1662) 23 Oct 1612 22 Jan 1662 49
9 Apr 1661 Sir Henry Lingen (to 1662) 23 Oct 1612 22 Jan 1662 49
Sir Edward Hopton c 1603 1 Apr 1668
Herbert Westfaling (to 1679) 3 Jan 1630 1705 75
Double return between Hopton and Westfaling. Hopton was seated 16 May 1661, but the election was declared void 23 Jul 1661
24 Sep 1661 Sir Henry Lingen 23 Oct 1612 22 Jan 1662 49
Herbert Westfaling (to 1679) 3 Jan 1630 1705 75
11 Feb 1662 Roger Vaughan c 1641 28 May 1672
18 Feb 1673 John Scudamore, 2nd Viscount Scudamore [I] c 1650 22 Jul 1697
18 Feb 1679 Bridstock Harford 30 Sep 1634 10 Apr 1683 48
Paul Foley (to 1685) c 1645 13 Nov 1699
15 Feb 1681 Herbert Aubrey (to 1689) c 1635 9 Nov 1691
24 Mar 1685 Thomas Geers c 1643 Nov 1700
11 Jan 1689 Sir William Gregory 1 Mar 1625 28 May 1696 71
Paul Foley (to 1699) c 1645 13 Nov 1699
11 Jun 1689 Henry Cornewall c 1654 22 Feb 1717
22 Oct 1695 James Morgan c 1660 9 Nov 1717
29 Jul 1698 James Brydges, later [1714] 9th Baron Chandos and [1719] 1st Duke of Chandos (to 1715) 6 Jan 1673 9 Aug 1744 71
8 Dec 1699 Samuel Pytts c 1674 15 Jan 1729
6 Jan 1701 Thomas Foley (to 1722) c 1670 10 Dec 1737
3 Feb 1715 James Scudamore, 3rd Viscount Scudamore [I] 15 Jul 1684 2 Dec 1716 32
12 Mar 1717 Herbert Rudhale Westfaling (to 1727) c 1671 Nov 1743
27 Mar 1722 William Mayo after 1665 14 Mar 1723
2 Apr 1723 James Wallwyn c 1689 29 Jun 1766
22 Aug 1727 Henry Brydges, styled Marquess of Carnarvon, later [1744] 2nd Duke of Chandos 17 Jan 1708 28 Nov 1771 63
Thomas Geers (Winford from 1731) c 1697 23 May 1753
1 May 1734 Thomas Foley c 1695 3 Apr 1749
Sir John Morgan, 4th baronet 11 Jul 1710 29 Apr 1767 56
11 May 1741 Edward Cope Hopton 9 Feb 1708 24 Apr 1754 46
Thomas Winford (formerly Geers) c 1697 23 May 1753
3 Jul 1747 Henry Cornewall 1685 4 Jun 1756 70
Daniel Leighton 21 Jun 1694 Jan 1765 70
16 Apr 1754 Charles Fitzroy-Scudamore (to 1768) c 1713 22 Aug 1782
John Symons 1708 30 Dec 1763 55
23 Jan 1764 John Scudamore (to 1796) 30 Oct 1727 4 Jul 1796 68
19 Mar 1768 Richard Symons, later [1774] 1st baronet c 1743 4 Jul 1796
5 Apr 1784 Charles Howard, styled Earl of Surrey, later [1786] 11th Duke of Norfolk [he was also returned for Carlisle, for which he chose to sit] 15 Mar 1746 16 Dec 1815 69
12 Jul 1784 Robert Philipps 22 Jun 1749 1 Feb 1822 72
11 Apr 1785 James Walwyn (to 1800) 4 Oct 1744 2 Oct 1800 55
26 Oct 1796 John Scudamore (to 1805) 11 Jun 1757 12 Apr 1805 47
4 Nov 1800 Thomas Powell Symonds (to 1819) 1762 19 Aug 1819 57
1 May 1805 Richard Philip Scudamore 30 Jun 1762 5 Mar 1831 68
24 Jun 1818 John Somers Cocks, styled Viscount Eastnor from 1821, later [1841] 2nd Earl Somers (to 1832) 19 Mar 1788 5 Oct 1852 64
21 Sep 1819 Richard Philip Scudamore 30 Jun 1762 5 Mar 1831 68
20 Jun 1826 Edward Bolton Clive (to 1845) 1765 22 Jul 1845 80
12 Dec 1832 Robert Biddulph 3 Mar 1801 28 Feb 1864 62
25 Jul 1837 Daniel Higford Davall Burr 24 Mar 1811 29 Nov 1885 74
1 Jul 1841 Henry William Hobhouse 8 Aug 1791 22 May 1868 76
5 Oct 1841 Robert Pulsford (to 1847) 1814 Jun 1888 73
31 Jul 1845 Sir Robert Price, 2nd baronet (to 1857) 3 Aug 1786 5 Nov 1857 71
31 Jul 1847 Henry Morgan-Clifford (to 1865) 1806 12 Feb 1884 77
14 Feb 1857 George Clive (to 1869) Oct 1805 8 Jun 1880 74
14 Jul 1865 Richard Baggallay [kt 1868] 13 May 1816 13 Nov 1888 72
17 Nov 1868 John William Shaw Wylie 1835 15 May 1870 34
[following the general election in Nov 1868 both sitting members (Clive and Wylie) were unseated on petition 15 Mar 1869]
30 Mar 1869 Edward Henry Clive 23 Sep 1837 1 Mar 1916 78
Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (to 1874) 15 Feb 1812 28 Nov 1876 64
28 Feb 1871 George Arbuthnot 9 Jan 1836 26 Dec 1912 76
3 Feb 1874 Evan Pateshall 1817 9 Apr 1885 67
George Clive (to 1880) Oct 1805 8 Jun 1880 74
14 Mar 1878 George Arbuthnot 9 Jan 1836 26 Dec 1912 76
2 Apr 1880 Joseph Pulley, later [1893] 1st baronet (to 1886) 8 Sep 1822 5 Aug 1901 78
Robert Threshie Reid [kt 1884], later [1906] 1st Baron Loreburn and [1911] 1st Earl Loreburn 3 Apr 1846 30 Nov 1923 77
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885
2 Jul 1886 Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd baronet, later [1899] 1st Baron Glanusk 7 Apr 1840 6 Jan 1906 65
Jul 1892 William Henry Grenfell, later [1905] 1st Baron Desborough 30 Oct 1855 9 Jan 1945 89
15 Aug 1893 Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke 1841 26 May 1911 69
29 Sep 1900 John Stanhope Arkwright [kt 1934] 1872 19 Sep 1954 82
8 Mar 1912 William Alfred Samuel Hewins 11 May 1865 17 Nov 1931 66
14 Dec 1918 Charles Thornton Pulley [kt 1922] 24 Jul 1864 5 Apr 1947 82
11 Jan 1921 Sir Samuel Roberts 2 Sep 1882 13 Dec 1955 73
30 May 1929 Humphrey Frank Owen 27 Sep 1905 23 Jan 1979 73
27 Oct 1931 James Purdon Lewes Thomas, later [1956] 1st Viscount Cilcennin 13 Oct 1903 13 Jul 1960 56
14 Feb 1956 James David Gibson-Watt, later [1979] Baron Gibson-Watt [L] 11 Sep 1918 7 Feb 2002 83
10 Oct 1974 Colin Ryley Shepherd [kt 1996] 13 Jan 1938 17 Jan 2024 86
1 May 1997 Paul Stuart Keetch 21 May 1961 24 May 2017 56
NAME ALTERED TO "HEREFORD AND HEREFORDSHIRE SOUTH" 2010
HEREFORD AND HEREFORDSHIRE SOUTH
6 May 2010 (Alexander) Jesse Norman 23 Jun 1962
HEREFORDSHIRE
18 Apr 1660 Edward Harley [kt 1661] 21 Oct 1624 8 Dec 1700 76
Sir William Powell, 1st baronet c 1624 2 Dec 1680
20 Mar 1661 James Scudamore 26 Jun 1624 18 Jun 1668 43
Thomas Prise (to Feb 1679) 25 Dec 1634 c 1699
23 Sep 1668 Sir John Kyrle, 2nd baronet c 1617 4 Jan 1680
26 Feb 1679 John Scudamore, 2nd Viscount Scudamore [I] (to 1685) c 1650 22 Jul 1697
Sir Herbert Croft, 1st baronet c 1652 30 Nov 1720
10 Sep 1679 Sir Edward Harley 21 Oct 1624 8 Dec 1700 76
18 Mar 1685 Sir John Morgan, 2nd baronet (to 1693) c 1650 8 Jan 1693
Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd baronet 23 Jul 1634 12 Sep 1705 71
15 Jan 1689 Sir Edward Harley 21 Oct 1624 8 Dec 1700 76
12 Mar 1690 Sir Herbert Croft, 1st baronet (to 1698) c 1652 3 Nov 1720
8 Feb 1693 Sir Edward Harley 21 Oct 1624 8 Dec 1700 76
3 Aug 1698 Henry Cornewall c 1654 22 Feb 1717
Henry Gorges (to 1708) c 1665 14 Mar 1718
16 Jan 1701 Sir John Williams, later [1712] 2nd baronet 24 Nov 1653 28 Apr 1723 69
16 May 1705 James Scudamore, 3rd Viscount Scudamore [I] (to 1715) 15 Jul 1684 2 Dec 1716 32
12 May 1708 John Prise c 1674 27 Feb 1738
30 Jul 1712 Sir Thomas Morgan, 3rd baronet (to 1716) 28 Aug 1684 14 Dec 1716 32
9 Feb 1715 Richard Hopton (to 1722) 1685 21 Feb 1764 78
6 Mar 1717 Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 4th baronet c 1677 21 Dec 1767
28 Mar 1722 Velters Cornewall (to 1768) c 1697 3 Apr 1768
Sir Edward Goodere, 1st baronet 1657 29 Mar 1739 81
6 Sep 1727 Edward Harley, later [1741] 3rd Earl of Oxford c 1699 11 Apr 1755
6 Jan 1742 Thomas Foley c 1695 3 Apr 1749
15 Jul 1747 Edward Harley, Baron Harley, later [1755] 4th Earl of Oxford 2 Sep 1726 8 Oct 1790 64
5 May 1755 Sir John Morgan, 4th baronet 11 Jul 1710 29 Apr 1767 56
18 May 1767 Thomas Foley, later [1777] 2nd Baron Foley (to 1774) 24 Jun 1742 2 Jul 1793 51
6 Apr 1768 Thomas Foley, later [1776] 1st Baron Foley (to 1776) 8 Aug 1716 18 Nov 1777 61
12 Oct 1774 Sir George Cornewall, 2nd baronet (to 1796) 5 Nov 1748 26 Sep 1819 70
22 May 1776 Thomas Harley (to 1802) 24 Aug 1730 1 Dec 1804 74
8 Jun 1796 Robert Biddulph (Myddelton‑Biddulph 29 Dec 1801) Mar 1761 30 Aug 1814 53
14 Jul 1802 Sir George Cornewall, 2nd baronet (to 1807) 5 Nov 1748 26 Sep 1819 70
Sir John Geers Cotterell, later [1805] 1st baronet [his election was declared void 15 Mar 1803] 21 Sep 1757 26 Jan 1845 87
31 Mar 1803 John Matthews 30 Oct 1755 15 Jan 1826 70
8 Nov 1806 Sir John Geers Cotterell, 1st baronet (to 1831) 21 Sep 1757 26 Jan 1845 87
13 May 1807 Thomas Foley 19 Jul 1778 11 Jan 1822 43
29 Jun 1818 Robert Price, later [1829] 2nd baronet (to 1841) 3 Aug 1786 5 Nov 1857 71
7 May 1831 Kedgwin Hoskins (to 1847) 26 May 1777 24 Dec 1852 75
REPRESENTATION INCREASED TO THREE MEMBERS 1832
15 Dec 1832 Edward Thomas Foley 21 Dec 1791 30 Mar 1846 54
5 Jul 1841 Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville 9 Apr 1790 9 Sep 1864 74
Joseph Bailey (to 1850) 1812 Aug 1850 38
4 Aug 1847 Francis Richard Haggitt (Wegg‑Prosser from 1849) (to 1852) 19 Jun 1824 16 Aug 1911 87
George Cornewall Lewis, later [1855] 2nd baronet (to 1852) 21 Apr 1806 13 Apr 1863 56
18 Sep 1850 Thomas William Booker‑Blakemore (to 1858) 28 Sep 1801 7 Nov 1858 57
19 Jul 1852 James King King (to 1868) 6 Nov 1806 17 Jun 1881 74
Charles Spencer Bateman-Hanbury (Bateman-Hanbury-Kincaid-Lennox from 1862) 1827 22 Mar 1912 84
4 Apr 1857 Sir Geers Henry Cotterell, 2nd baronet (to 1859) 22 Aug 1834 17 Mar 1900 65
18 Dec 1858 Lord Montagu William Graham (to 1865) 2 Feb 1807 21 Jun 1878 71
2 May 1859 Humphrey Francis Mildmay 25 Dec 1825 29 Nov 1866 40
19 Jul 1865 Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd baronet, later [1899] 1st Baron Glanusk (to 1885) 7 Apr 1840 6 Jan 1906 65
Michael Biddulph, later [1903] 1st Baron Biddulph (to 1885) 17 Feb 1834 6 Apr 1923 89
23 Nov 1868 Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, 9th baronet 25 Jul 1838 11 Feb 1902 63
3 Feb 1874 Daniel Peploe Peploe 1829 4 Nov 1887 58
6 Apr 1880 Thomas Duckham 26 Sep 1816 2 Mar 1902 85
SPLIT INTO TWO DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "LEOMINSTER" AND "ROSS"
HEREFORDSHIRE NORTH
6 May 2010 William David Wiggin 4 Jun 1966
4 Jul 2024 Eleanor Elizabeth Chowns 7 Mar 1975
HERNE BAY AND SANDWICH (KENT)
4 Jul 2024 Sir Roger James Gale 20 Aug 1943
 

James Edward Oglethorpe
MP for Haslemere 1722‑1754
Oglethorpe is best remembered in history as the founder of the American state of Georgia. The following biography is taken from the February 1955 issue of the Australian monthly magazine Parade. Some of the descriptions of life in 18th century debtors' prisons are quite graphic in nature.
London sweltered in a heatwave in the summer of 1729 when the iron gates of the Fleet Debtors' Prison clanged shut behind a knot of ashen-faced M.P.s who, gasping and stumbling, emerged into the ill-paved street with kerchiefs to their noses. They were so shocked by the horrors they had encountered in the tour of the stinking, disease-ridden warren that three were violently ill, while another collapsed to the cobbles in a fainting fit. One alone was calm. He was James Edward Oglethorpe, gentleman, soldier of fortune, rake turned reformer. He was already planning a sizzling report which he determined should sweep away the atrocities he had just witnessed and which he had been fighting for years.
In the resultant popular outcry, rapacious gaolers who had battened cruelly on their victims were sacked and stripped of their loot. Sadistic tortures, including the weights and the thumb-screws, were banned. The merciless money laws, from which even small debtors had no appeal, were overhauled. Reform, however, came all too slowly for the crusading Oglethorpe, who chafed at Parliament's cumbersome delays. Britain's 30,000 debtors were still dying like flies from starvation and disease, so he founded a new colony in America and sent freed debtors there in shiploads to start a new and happier life. This fired the imagination even of Britain's stuffy Hanoverian monarch, George II, who gave his name and blessing to the fantastic debtors' Utopia, which is now the prosperous American State of Georgia.
James Edward Oglethorpe, the man who at one sweep effected wide prison reforms and founded a flourishing colony, came from a line of champions of forlorn causes. His earliest known ancestor, Ligulfe, Thane of Oglethorpe, was one of the last English chieftain to match his strength against the invading William of Normandy. His father, Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, was equerry and crony of James II, and helped the half-crazed king to escape to France as "Mr. Jones" when William of Orange landed to dethrone the Stuarts. When Whitehall Palace caught fire in 1691 and the nightgowned Queen Mary, William of Orange's spouse, fled alone into St. James' Park, Sir Theophilus and a friend, says a contemporary report, tried to shove her back into the flames.
Oglethorpe's early years are shrouded in mystery. Two dates are given for his birth. 1696 is officially recognised. The other, 1688, is linked with a legend which declares he was actually a son of James II, substituted for her own dying child by Lady Oglethorpe, who thus protected him during the rebellion. Another legend avers that young Oglethorpe concealed the Old Pretender for years at Westbrook, the Oglethorpe family home in Surrey, where the Pretender's ghost is said still to stalk the battlements on stormy nights.
Whatever his antecedents, Eton and Oxford knew young Oglethorpe as an inveterate haunter of gaming-rooms, cockpits and taverns. Tired of student brawling, he joined the army and served under Marlborough in Flanders, becoming captain-lieutenant in the Queen's Guards. He spent a riotous year among the ladies and at the gaming-tables in Paris, plotting wildly with the Old Pretender to tumble Anne off the throne and set the Stuarts back.
Finally he joined the hunchbacked military genius, Prince Eugene of Savoy, for his Turkish campaign. He won the hunchback's lasting friendship at a banquet given by the boorish Duke of Wurttemberg who, losing his temper in an argument, rudely flipped wine from his beaker into the cocksparrow young Briton's face. Grinning engagingly, Oglethorpe sloshed a whole glassful into the duke's pock-marked visage, remarking, "That was a good joke, but we do it much better in England". It was a tribute to his skill as a swordsman that no one dared to challenge him. He fought with distinction at Belgrade, where Eugene's 40,000 mercenaries saved Christendom by smashing 150,000 Turkish warriors [16 August 1717]. Eugene offered him a marshal's baton, which he refused.
It was, therefore, a lusty young firebrand who arrived home to manage the Oglethorpe estates. Spoiling for a fight, he flung himself into the shady game of politics, then notorious for graft and intrigue. In 1722 he won his father's old Commons seat of Haslemere. For some months he chafed against the inactivity of a backbencher. Then he found what he was looking for - a crusade.
An impractical artist friend, Robert Castell, was gaoled in the Fleet debtors' prison for debt [in 1729]. Too proud to seek aid, Castell was fleeced of his last few pounds by the rascally gaol governor, Bambridge, whose practice was to allow prisoners to redeem themselves from foetid, lice-infested cells by cash payments. When Castell could disgorge no more, he was man-handled to a filthy "sponging-house" where scores of smallpox and typhus victims lay dead or dying. Castell caught one of the plagues and died in torment.
Oglethorpe was unable to control his rage when he went to claim his friend's corpse. He gave the villainous Bambridge a thrashing in his own lair, and promised dire retribution to his whole rapacious crew. So persistent were his anti-prison tirades in the House that a committee of 14, headed by Oglethorpe, was appointed to investigate the three debtors' gaols - the Fleet, Marshalsea and King's Bench.
Horrors beyond the imagination of the ordinary citizen were dragged to light. Though the now-fawning Bambridge tried to steer his unwelcome visitors through a few hastily-scoured cells and corridors, Oglethorpe defied him and prodded his unwilling aides into every nook and cranny of the reeking hell-hole. Hearing groans from a locked cell, Oglethorpe found a half-crazed, emaciated wreck who had been held for eight months after he should have been released for the few coppers they could squeeze from his relatives. When they received the the order for release, his gaolers merely gave him a savage whipping and bundled him unto a dripping underground vault among a heap of fever victims awaiting the death-cart.
The dying wretch thought the investigation committee were his torturers returning, and his heart "raced so madly from panic" that blood rushed from mouth and nose. Oglethorpe found 52 cases of illegal detention in the Fleet prison alone. In another cell he discovered one of his own corporals who, falsely accused of theft and cleared by the jury, had been seized and gaoled as a debtor by Bambridge for gaol fees incurred during detention.
Refusing to pay the governor's blood-money, he was manacled with too-small fetters. The irons cut deep into his flesh and his legs and arms were gangrenous from suppurating wounds. A broken-down and singularly ill-named baronet, Sir William Rich, was found prostrate in a double set of irons and encrusted sores and ulcers. Although Oglethorpe struck his fetters and ordered his release, Rich was again secretly detained and treated to the "iron collar", a fiendish instrument designed to squeeze the neck. The ring was tightened until his eyes started from his head and blood poured from ears and nose.
Scores who refused to pay the illegal levies demanded by Bambridge were left manacled for weeks in reeking, airless dungeons over a filthy sewer where bodies were tossed for the coroner's cursory inspection. Most of the prison rations were seized and sold by Bambridge and his pirates, with the result that hundreds of prisoners were pitiful skeletons. Ill or pregnant women were left untended to die of neglect and despair. Many had lost their memory. Others were raving lunatics. Vice and perversion flourished unchecked.
The great Dr. Johnson computed that "in 1759 there were still 20,000 imprisoned debtors and that one in four died every year" from the iniquitous treatment they received. Vacant gaol governorships, Oglethorpe revealed, were hawked for sale to the highest bidder. Lord Clarendon "sold" the Fleet to a rogue named John Huggins for £5000. Bambridge got it for the same sum. Salary and "perks" were liberal and in addition the luckless debtors were fleeced of all they owned.
The revelations almost led to riots in the streets of London. The immortal caricaturist and engraver Hogarth added fuel to the flames with his sketches of squalid life in prisons and madhouses. Parliament was forced to act, but owing to the opposition of Oglethorpe's enemies and the automatic reactions of the diehards to all reform, particularly where it affected money, legislation was slow. It was then that the impetuous Oglethorpe whisked a shipload of unfortunates off to found the colony of Georgia.
Parliament belatedly voted him £10,000 to help create the colony, which was also to act as a buffer state between English settlements and French and Spanish colonies in America. Wealthy philanthropists and investors contributed substantial sums to what they considered a promising experiment. Oglethorpe went with the first shipload as Governor. Unwilling to entrust funds or material to men and women who, through recklessness, shiftlessness or weakness, had landed in a debtors' gaol, he organised the farms on the collective principle under his own control, and the new colony began to prosper.
Not only English debtors but political and religious refugees from all over Europe flocked there. Oglethorpe had his colony so well organised that when the Spanish attacked from Florida he was able to repulse them with brilliant success. Oglethorpe's enemies continued to attack him in his absence. He was branded as a rabble-rouser and accused of squandering the trust money. Returning indignantly to England, he was mobbed by thousands of cheering indigents.
When the Georgia charter ran out, Oglethorpe surrendered it to the Crown as an English province and accepted the rank of general in the English army. Unfortunately, Bonny Prince Charlie, last of the Stuarts, to whom Oglethorpe was still vaguely loyal, chose that time to land in Scotland and invade England. Oglethorpe's forces met him at Clifton in 1745 and took a trouncing. His enemies claimed Oglethorpe had not tried to defeat the prince and the veteran colonial administrator was hauled before fore a court-martial and tried for treason. He was acquitted.
In his later years he turned to literature. He was one of the first to realise the rising genius of the great Dr. Johnson, whom he helped. He was the crony of Oliver Goldsmith, the first of the novelists. and Edmund Burke, a statesman, orator, and one of the earliest champions for the emancipation of slaves. Oglethorpe died peacefully in 1785.
Gabriel Price
MP for Hemsworth 1931‑1934
The following report is taken from the Manchester Guardian of 26 March 1934:-
Mr. Gabriel Price, Labour M.P. for the Hemsworth Division of Yorkshire, was drowned in the River Calder at Mirfield on Saturday. Mr. Price, who had been in ill-health for a long time, was walking with his wife towards the railway station when a train came through a cutting. Mr. Price immediately began to run, shouting to his wife to extend her holiday and saying that he would return later. His wife followed him down the hill but by the time she had reached the junction of the road and the river Mr. Price had apparently jumped over a fence and was struggling in the water. Attempts at rescue failed, but later the body was recovered by Police Constable Cooper, of Mirfield.
Mr. James Price, the son with whom Mr. Gabriel Price had been staying at Mirfield, told a reporter yesterday that his father had refused to take the advice of a specialist and go for a holiday. "My father left me at a quarter past eight," he said, "with my mother. I had asked him to wait for me to accompany them but he said he had to return to South Elmsall to answer his letters and record his vote in the parish council election. He said he would be pleased to meet my brother and a friend later at Wakefield to go to a Rugby League football match."
Mr. Sidney Price, the other son, said: "My father died because he refused to think of himself and sacrificed himself on the altar of duty. Last October he addressed a number of meetings in Cumberland and caught a chill. He returned here and apparently recovered, but for some time past he has been suffering from neurasthenia and insomnia. A specialist had urged him to take a rest or go for a cruise but he refused as he had too many public engagements to fulfil."
Mrs. Price said yesterday: "My husband had been attended by doctors for some time as he suffered very badly from neurasthenia and insomnia. We had persuaded him to go to the Isle of Wight for a rest next week and we left my son's house soon after eight o'clock to go to South Elmsall. As we were coming down a hill a train rushed through the cutting. My husband began to run, shouting to me to go back and stay a little longer and that he would come back later. He disappeared round the corner and when I arrived he was in the water, shouting for someone to pull him out. I could not reach him and so ran for help."
Mrs. Price's cries attracted the attention of Mr. Smithson, of Ravensthorpe, and other persons, who ran to the bank, but the Calder was running swiftly and they were unable to render any assistance. Mr. Price had drifted out towards the centre of the river and was sinking.
Mr. Price, who was born in 1879, was a checkweighman at the Frickley Colliery, and his whole life had been devoted to the service of the miners. He was the son of a miner and at the age of twelve started work in the pit himself at Hemsworth Colliery. He represented his branch on the council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association and was a member of the West Riding County Council and the West Riding Education Committee. He was also an alderman and a county magistrate.
 

 
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