THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "H"
Last updated 28/02/2018 (20 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.
HORNCASTLE (LINCOLNSHIRE)
5 Dec 1885 Edward Stanhope 24 Sep 1840 21 Dec 1893 53
11 Jan 1894 Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby, later [1910] 2nd Earl of Ancaster 29 Jul 1867 29 Sep 1951 84
16 Feb 1911 William Ernest George Archibald Weigall [kt 1920], later [1938] 1st baronet 8 Dec 1874 3 Jun 1952 77
25 Feb 1920 Stafford Vere Hotchkin 1876 8 Aug 1953 77
15 Nov 1922 Samuel Pattinson 17 Dec 1870 15 Nov 1942 71
29 Oct 1924 Henry Cobden Haslam 1870 7 Feb 1948 77
26 Jul 1945 John Francis Whitaker Maitland [kt 1960] 24 Mar 1903 17 Nov 1977 74
31 Mar 1966 Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell [kt 1985] 1 Feb 1930 18 Aug 2018 88
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HORNCHURCH
26 Jul 1945 Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing 24 Jul 1909 24 Apr 1977 67
26 May 1955 Godfrey William Lagden 12 Apr 1906 31 Aug 1989 83
31 Mar 1966 Alan Lee Williams 29 Nov 1930
18 Jun 1970 John Warren Loveridge [kt 1988] 9 Sep 1925 13 Nov 2007 82
28 Feb 1974 Alan Lee Williams 29 Nov 1930
3 May 1979 Robin Clifford Squire 12 Jul 1944
1 May 1997 John Robert Cryer, later [2024] Baron Cryer [L] 11 Apr 1964
5 May 2005 James Peter Brokenshire 7 Jan 1968 7 Oct 2021 53
NAME ALTERED TO "HORNCHURCH AND UPMINSTER" 2010
HORNCHURCH AND UPMINSTER
6 May 2010 Angela Eileen Watkinson [Dame 2013] 18 Nov 1941
8 Jun 2017 Julia Louise Dockerill (Lopez from Sep 2017) 4 Jun 1984
HORNSEY (MIDDLESEX)
1 Dec 1885 Sir James Macnaghten McGarel-Hogg, 2nd baronet, later [1887] 1st Baron Magheramorne 3 May 1823 27 Jun 1890 67
19 Jul 1887 Henry Charles Stephens
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 1841 Jul 1918 77
2 Oct 1900 Charles Barrington Balfour 20 Feb 1862 31 Aug 1921 59
5 Jun 1907 Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, styled Earl of Ronaldshay, later [1929] 2nd Marquess of Zetland 11 Jun 1876 6 Feb 1961 84
6 Dec 1916 William Kennedy Jones 4 May 1865 20 Oct 1921 56
10 Nov 1921 William Humble Eric Ward, styled Viscount Ednam, later [1932] 3rd Earl of Dudley 30 Jan 1894 26 Dec 1969 75
29 Oct 1924 David Euan Wallace 20 Apr 1892 9 Feb 1941 48
28 May 1941 Leonard David Gammans, later [1955] 1st baronet 10 Nov 1895 8 Feb 1957 61
30 May 1957 Ann Muriel Gammans 6 Mar 1898 28 Dec 1989 91
31 Mar 1966 Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi [kt 1983] 21 Jun 1927 14 Apr 2020 92
NAME ALTERED TO "HORNSEY AND WOOD GREEN" 1983
HORNSEY AND FRIERN BARNET
4 Jul 2024 Catherine Elizabeth West 14 Sep 1966
HORNSEY AND WOOD GREEN (LONDON)
9 Jun 1983 Sir Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi 21 Jun 1927 14 Apr 2020 92
9 Apr 1992 Barbara Maureen Roche 13 Apr 1954
5 May 2005 Lynne Choona Featherstone, later [2015] Baroness Featherstone [L] 20 Dec 1951
7 May 2015 Catherine Elizabeth West 14 Sep 1966
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HORSHAM (SUSSEX)
c Apr 1660 Thomas Middleton 1 Mar 1589 c 1662
Hall Ravenscroft c 1600 after 1673
28 Mar 1661 Sir John Covert, 1st baronet (to 1679) 3 Jun 1620 11 Mar 1679 58
Henry Chowne c 1613 22 Oct 1668
25 Oct 1669 Orlando Bridgeman, later [1673] 1st baronet 9 Dec 1649 20 Apr 1701 51
17 Feb 1679 Anthony Eversfield c 1621 24 Oct 1695
John Michell (to 1685) 13 Aug 1644 26 Dec 1706 62
1 Mar 1681 John Machell (to Jan 1701) 1 May 1637 24 Jun 1704 67
12 Mar 1685 Anthony Eversfield c 1621 24 Oct 1695
3 Mar 1690 Thomas White 2 May 1667 20 Jul 1719 52
1 Nov 1695 Henry Yates (to 1702) 6 Sep 1659 10 May 1716 56
6 Jan 1701 Henry Cowper 30 Oct 1668 22 Mar 1707 38
22 Nov 1701 John Wicker (to 1705) 5 Aug 1658 May 1720 61
16 Jul 1702 Henry Cowper (to 1707) 30 Oct 1668 22 Mar 1707 38
10 May 1705 Charles Eversfield (to 1710) [at the general election in Oct 1710, Eversfield was also returned for Sussex, for which he chose to sit] 15 Sep 1683 17 Jan 1749 65
4 Apr 1707 Henry Goring, later [1714] 4th baronet 16 Sep 1679 12 Nov 1731 52
3 May 1708 John Wicker (to 1713) 5 Aug 1658 May 1720 61
5 Dec 1710 John Middleton (to Jan 1715) 5 Oct 1671 9 Nov 1745 74
28 Sep 1713 Charles Eversfield (to Jun 1715) 15 Sep 1683 17 Jan 1749 65
29 Jan 1715 Sir Henry Goring, 4th baronet 16 Sep 1679 12 Nov 1731 52
[Both sitting members (Eversfield and Goring) were unseated on petition in favour of the two Arthur Ingrams 16 Jun 1715]
16 Jun 1715 Arthur Ingram, later [1721] 6th Viscount Irvine [S] 21 Dec 1689 26 May 1736 46
Arthur Ingram (to 1722) 17 Jun 1742
12 Jun 1721 Charles Eversfield (to 1741) 15 Sep 1683 17 Jan 1749 65
21 Mar 1722 Henry Ingram, later [1736] 7th Viscount Irvine [S] 30 Apr 1691 4 Apr 1761 69
7 Feb 1737 Charles Ingram (to 1748) 27 Mar 1696 28 Nov 1748 52
4 May 1741 Sir Richard Mill, 5th baronet c 1689 16 May 1760
30 Jun 1747 Charles Ingram (to 1763) 19 Mar 1727 19 Jun 1778 51
17 Dec 1748 Sir Lionel Pilkington, 5th baronet (to 1768) 20 Jan 1707 11 Aug 1778 71
22 Nov 1763 Robert Pratt (to 1774) Mar 1726 21 Jul 1775 49
18 Mar 1768 James Grenville 12 Feb 1715 14 Sep 1783 68
18 Apr 1770 James Wallace (to 1783) 12 Mar 1729 16 Nov 1783 54
8 Oct 1774 Jeremiah Dyson c 1722 16 Sep 1776
28 Oct 1776 Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda [I], later [1791] 1st Marquess of Drogheda [I] 29 Jun 1730 22 Dec 1822 92
9 Sep 1780 George Legge, styled Viscount Lewisham, later [1801] 3rd Earl of Dartmouth [he was also returned for Staffordshire, for which he chose to sit] 3 Oct 1755 10 Nov 1810 55
30 Nov 1780 Sir George Osborn, 4th baronet (to 1784) 10 May 1742 29 Jun 1818 76
28 Nov 1783 James Crauford c 1744 22 Mar 1811
1 Apr 1784 Jeremiah Crutchley 20 Dec 1745 28 Dec 1805 60
Philip Metcalfe 29 Aug 1733 10 Aug 1818 84
19 Jun 1790 Timothy Shelley 7 Sep 1753 24 Apr 1844 90
Wilson Braddyll 10 Feb 1756 20 Nov 1818 62
[Both sitting members were unseated on petition in favour of Lord William Gordon and James Baillie 10 Mar 1792]
10 Mar 1792 Lord William Gordon (to 1796) 15 Aug 1744 1 May 1823 78
James Baillie c 1737 7 Sep 1793
24 Oct 1793 William Fullarton 12 Jan 1754 13 Feb 1808 54
30 May 1796 Sir John Macpherson, 1st baronet c 1745 12 Jan 1821
James Fox-Lane Aug 1756 7 Apr 1821 64
8 Jul 1802 Edward Hilliard (to 1806) c 1754 18 Dec 1815
Patrick Ross c 1740 24 Aug 1804
10 Oct 1804 James Edward Harris, styled Viscount FitzHarris, later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury 19 Aug 1778 10 Sep 1841 63
4 Nov 1806 Francis John Wilder c 1775 23 Jan 1824
Love Parry Jones-Parry (to 1808) 28 Nov 1781 23 Jan 1853 71
James Edward Harris, styled Viscount FitzHarris, later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury 19 Aug 1778 10 Sep 1841 63
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 20 Oct 1784 18 Oct 1865 80
Double return. Wilder and Jones-Parry declared elected 20 Jan 1807
12 May 1807 Sir Samuel Romilly
For further information about the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of the page for the members for Queenborough		 1 Mar 1757 2 Nov 1818 61
Both sitting members (Jones-Parry and Romilly) unseated on petition in favour of Joseph Marryat and Henry Goulburn 26 Feb 1808
26 Feb 1808 Joseph Marryat 8 Oct 1757 12 Jan 1824 66
Henry Goulburn 19 Mar 1784 12 Jan 1856 71
9 Oct 1812 Sir Arthur Leary Piggott 19 Oct 1749 6 Sep 1819 69
Robert Hurst (to 1829) 19 Sep 1750 13 Apr 1843 92
15 Jun 1818 George Richard Philips, later [1847] 2nd baronet 23 Dec 1789 22 Feb 1883 93
9 Mar 1820 Sir John Aubrey, 6th baronet 4 Jul 1739 14 Mar 1826 86
17 Mar 1826 Henry Edward Fox, later [1840] 4th Baron Holland 7 Mar 1802 18 Dec 1859 57
14 Feb 1827 Nicholas William Ridley‑Colborne, later [1839] 1st Baron Colborne (to 1832) 14 Apr 1779 3 May 1854 75
4 May 1829 Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard, styled Earl of Surrey, later [1842] 13th Duke of Norfolk 12 Aug 1791 18 Feb 1856 64
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1832
11 Dec 1832 Robert Henry Hurst (the elder) by May 1859
28 Jun 1841 Robert Campbell Scarlett, later [1844] 2nd Baron Abinger 5 Sep 1794 24 Jun 1861 66
1 May 1844 Robert Henry Hurst (the elder) by May 1859
28 Jul 1847 John Jervis [his election was declared void 23 Mar 1848] 1826
28 Jun 1848 William Robert Seymour Vesey FitzGerald [kt 1867] [He was unseated on petition in favour of Lord Edward George Fitzalan-Howard 4 Sep 1848] 1818 28 Jun 1885 67
4 Sep 1848 Lord Edward George Fitzalan-Howard, later [1869] 1st Baron Howard of Glossop 20 Jun 1818 1 Dec 1883 65
6 Jul 1852 William Robert Seymour Vesey FitzGerald [kt 1867] 1818 28 Jun 1885 67
12 Jul 1865 Robert Henry Hurst (the younger) 1817 12 Feb 1905 87
18 Nov 1868 Robert Henry Hurst (the younger) 1817 12 Feb 1905 87
John Aldridge 4 Jan 1832 23 Feb 1888 56
Double return,Hurst and Aldridge receiving an equal number of votes. Aldridge declined to pursue his claim, with the result that Hurst was declared elected 3 May 1869
4 Feb 1874 Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey FitzGerald 1818 28 Jun 1885 67
17 Dec 1875 Robert Henry Hurst (the younger) [his election was declared void 16 Feb 1876] 1817 12 Feb 1905 87
29 Feb 1876 James Clifton Brown 13 Feb 1841 15 Jan 1917 75
1 Apr 1880 Sir Henry Fletcher (Aubrey‑Fletcher from 1903), 4th baronet 24 Sep 1835 19 May 1910 74
2 Dec 1885 Sir Walter Barttelot Barttelot, 1st baronet 10 Oct 1820 2 Feb 1893 72
24 Feb 1893 John Heywood Johnstone 18 May 1850 10 Oct 1904 54
12 Nov 1904 Edward Turnour, styled Viscount Turnour, later [1907] 6th Earl Winterton [I] 4 Apr 1883 27 Aug 1962 79
NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM AND WORTHING" 1918, BUT REVERTED 1945
26 Jul 1945 Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton [I] 4 Apr 1883 27 Aug 1962 79
25 Oct 1951 Charles Frederick Howard Gough 16 Sep 1901 19 Sep 1977 76
15 Oct 1964 Peter Maudslay Hordern [kt 1985] 18 Apr 1929 18 Apr 2024 95
NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM AND CRAWLEY" 1974, BUT REVERTED 1983
9 Jun 1983 Peter Maudslay Hordern [kt 1985] 18 Apr 1929 18 Apr 2024 95
1 May 1997 Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, later [2015] Baron Maude of Horsham [L] 4 Jul 1953
7 May 2015 Jeremy Mark Quin 24 Sep 1968
4 Jul 2024 John Laurence Milne
HORSHAM AND CRAWLEY
28 Feb 1974 Peter Maudslay Hordern [kt 1985] 18 Apr 1929 18 Apr 2024 95
NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM" 1983
HORSHAM AND WORTHING (SUSSEX)
14 Dec 1918 Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton [I] 4 Apr 1883 27 Aug 1962 79
NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM" 1945
HOUGHTON AND SUNDERLAND SOUTH
6 May 2010 Bridget Maeve Phillipson 19 Dec 1983
HOUGHTON AND WASHINGTON (TYNE AND WEAR)
9 Jun 1983 Roland Boyes 12 Feb 1937 16 Jun 2006 69
NAME ALTERED TO "HOUGHTON AND WASHINGTON EAST" 1997
HOUGHTON AND WASHINGTON EAST
1 May 1997 Fraser Kemp 1 Sep 1958
NAME ALTERED TO "HOUGHTON AND SUNDERLAND SOUTH" 2010
HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING (DURHAM)
28 Nov 1885 John Wilson 1837 24 Mar 1915 77
14 Jul 1886 Nicholas Wood 1832 24 Dec 1892 60
Jul 1892 Henry Thomas Fenwick 20 Dec 1863 30 Aug 1939 75
22 Jul 1895 Robert Cameron 1825 13 Feb 1913 87
18 Mar 1913 Thomas Edward Wing 12 Aug 1853 12 May 1935 81
14 Dec 1918 Robert Richardson 1 Feb 1862 28 Dec 1943 81
27 Oct 1931 Robert Chapman, later [1958] 1st baronet 3 Mar 1880 31 Jul 1963 83
14 Nov 1935 William Joseph Stewart c 1878 5 Mar 1960
26 Jul 1945 William Reid Blyton, later [1964] Baron Blyton [L] 2 May 1899 25 Oct 1987 88
15 Oct 1964 Thomas William Urwin 9 Jun 1912 14 Dec 1985 73
ALTERED TO "HOUGHTON AND WASHINGTON" 1983
HOVE
23 Feb 1950 Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe 25 Oct 1904 8 Sep 1965 60
22 Jul 1965 William Francis Martin Maddan 4 Oct 1920 22 Aug 1973 52
8 Nov 1973 Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury [kt 1995] 11 Jun 1932
1 May 1997 Ivor Keith Caplin 8 Nov 1958
5 May 2005 Celia Anne Barlow 28 Sep 1955
6 May 2010 Michael Richard Weatherley 2 Jul 1957 20 May 2021 63
7 May 2015 Peter John Kyle 9 Sep 1970
NAME ALTERED TO "HOVE AND PORTSLADE" 2024
HOVE AND PORTSLADE
4 Jul 2024 Peter John Kyle 9 Sep 1970
HOWDEN (YORKSHIRE)
26 May 1955 Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan [kt 1972] 3 Aug 1913 11 Oct 2004 91
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HOWDENSHIRE (YORKSHIRE)
28 Nov 1885 Arthur Duncombe 11 Feb 1840 12 Jun 1911 71
Jul 1892 William Henry Wilson‑Todd, later [1903] 1st baronet 1828 10 Apr 1910 81
26 Jan 1906 Henry Broadley Harrison‑Broadley 12 Mar 1853 29 Dec 1914 61
10 Feb 1915 Francis Stanley Jackson [kt 1927] 21 Nov 1870 9 Mar 1947 76
25 Nov 1926 William Henton Carver 27 May 1868 28 Jan 1961 92
26 Jul 1945 Clifford William Hudson Glossop 30 Jun 1901 4 Jul 1975 74
27 Nov 1947 George William Odey 21 Apr 1900 16 Oct 1985 85
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
HOXTON
25 Nov 1885 James Stuart Jan 1843 12 Oct 1913 70
4 Oct 1900 Claude George Drummond Hay 24 Jun 1862 24 Oct 1920 58
17 Jan 1910 Christopher Addison, later [1945] 1st Viscount Addison 19 Jun 1869 11 Dec 1951 82
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
HUDDERSFIELD (YORKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1832 Lewis Fenton 27 Nov 1833
9 Jan 1834 John Blackburne 1787 21 Apr 1837 49
8 May 1837 Edward Ellice 19 Aug 1810 2 Aug 1880 70
29 Jul 1837 William Rookes Crompton Stansfield [following the general election in Jul 1852, he was unseated 15 Mar 1853] 3 Aug 1790 5 Dec 1871 81
22 Apr 1853 George Frederick Samuel Robinson, styled Viscount Goderich, later [1859] 2nd Earl of Ripon and [1871] 1st Marquess of Ripon 24 Oct 1827 9 Jul 1909 81
30 Mar 1857 Edward Akroyd 1810 19 Nov 1887 77
2 May 1859 Edward Aldam Leatham 2 Aug 1828 6 Feb 1900 71
14 Jul 1865 Thomas Pearson Crosland 1815 8 Mar 1868 52
20 Mar 1868 Edward Aldam Leatham 2 Aug 1828 6 Feb 1900 71
3 Jul 1886 William Summers 1853 1 Jan 1893 39
4 Feb 1893 Sir Joseph Crosland 1826 27 Aug 1904 78
15 Jul 1895 Sir James Thomas Woodhouse, later [1918] 1st Baron Terrington 16 Jul 1852 8 Feb 1921 68
27 Nov 1906 Arthur James Sherwell 11 Apr 1863 13 Jan 1942 78
14 Dec 1918 Sir Charles Sykes, later [1921] 1st baronet 31 Dec 1867 16 Nov 1950 82
15 Nov 1922 Sir Arthur Harold Marshall 2 Aug 1870 18 Jan 1956 85
6 Dec 1923 James Hindle Hudson 27 Sep 1881 10 Jan 1962 80
27 Oct 1931 William Mabane, later [1962] 1st Baron Mabane 12 Jan 1895 16 Nov 1969 74
26 Jul 1945 (Joseph Percival) William Mallalieu [kt 1979] 18 Jun 1908 13 Mar 1980 71
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "EAST" AND "WEST" DIVISIONS 1950, BUT RE-UNITED 1983
9 Jun 1983 Barry John Sheerman 17 Aug 1940
4 Jul 2024 Harpreet Kaur Uppal
HUDDERSFIELD EAST
23 Feb 1950 (Joseph Percival) William Mallalieu [kt 1979] 18 Jun 1908 13 Mar 1980 71
3 May 1979 Barry John Sheerman 17 Aug 1940
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HUDDERSFIELD WEST
23 Feb 1950 Donald William Wade, later [1964] Baron Wade [L] 16 Jun 1904 6 Nov 1988 84
15 Oct 1964 Kenneth Lomas 16 Nov 1922 15 Jul 2000 77
3 May 1979 Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens 26 Aug 1931 17 May 1995 63
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL (YORKSHIRE)
2 Apr 1660 John Ramsden c 1612 c 1665
Andrew Marvell (to 1678) 31 Mar 1621 16 Aug 1678 57
1 Apr 1661 Anthony Gilby (to Feb 1679) 27 Apr 1682
25 Nov 1678 William Ramsden (to Sep 1679) c 1618 2 Sep 1680
24 Feb 1679 Lemuel Kingdon c 1654 19 Feb 1686
1 Sep 1679 Sir Michael Warton c 1648 25 Mar 1725
William Gee c 1648 15 Oct 1718
16 Mar 1685 John Ramsden (to 1695) c 1657 26 Mar 1718
Sir Willoughby Hickman, 3rd baronet 20 Aug 1659 28 Oct 1720 61
10 Jan 1689 William Gee c 1648 15 Oct 1718
13 Mar 1690 Charles Osborne (to 1701) c 1633 7 Aug 1719
23 Oct 1695 Sir William St. Quintin, 3rd baronet (to 1724) c 1662 30 Jun 1723
11 Jan 1701 William Maister (to 1717) after 1660 27 Oct 1716
13 Mar 1717 Nathaniel Rogers (to 1727) after 1727
23 Jan 1724 George Crowle (to 1747) 11 May 1696 18 Jul 1754 58
23 Aug 1727 Joseph Micklethwaite, 1st Viscount Micklethwaite [I] c 1680 16 Jan 1734
6 Feb 1734 Henry Maister 1 Feb 1699 15 Dec 1744 45
7 May 1741 William Carter c 1681 2 Apr 1744
2 May 1744 Harry Pulteney 14 Feb 1686 26 Oct 1767 81
29 Jun 1747 Lord Robert Manners (to 1782) c 1717 31 May 1782
Thomas Carter c 1714 3 Jun 1767
18 Apr 1754 Richard Crowle 15 Jul 1699 21 Jun 1757 57
4 Jul 1757 Sir George Montgomery Metham 6 Feb 1716 2 Mar 1793 77
15 Mar 1766 William Weddell 13 May 1736 30 Apr 1792 55
12 Oct 1774 David Hartley c 1730 19 Dec 1813
11 Sep 1780 William Wilberforce (to Jun 1784) [at the general election in Mar 1784, he was also returned for Yorkshire, for which he chose to sit] 24 Aug 1759 29 Jul 1833 73
6 Jun 1782 David Hartley c 1730 19 Dec 1813
31 Mar 1784 Samuel Thornton (to 1806) 6 Nov 1754 3 Jul 1838 83
14 Jun 1784 Walter Spencer Stanhope 4 Feb 1749 10 Apr 1822 72
21 Jun 1790 Aubrey Beauclerk, styled Earl of Burford, later [1802] 6th Duke of St. Albans 21 Aug 1765 12 Aug 1815 49
27 May 1796 Sir Charles Turner, 2nd baronet 28 Jan 1773 1 Feb 1810 37
6 Jul 1802 John Staniforth (to 1818) 30 Mar 1830
31 Oct 1806 William Joseph Denison May 1770 2 Aug 1849 79
5 May 1807 Philip Henry Stanhope, styled Viscount Mahon, later [1816] 4th Earl Stanhope 7 Dec 1781 2 Mar 1855 73
6 Oct 1812 Sir George William Denys, 1st baronet 20 May 1788 26 Apr 1857 68
14 Jul 1818 John Mitchell (to 1826) c 1781 29 Aug 1859
James Robert George Graham, later [1824] 2nd baronet 1 Jun 1792 25 Oct 1861 69
7 Mar 1820 Daniel Sykes (to 1830) 1766 24 Jan 1832 65
10 Jun 1826 Augustus John Henry O'Neill 23 Jun 1792 after 1853
30 Jul 1830 George Schonswar 15 Jul 1775 19 Jan 1859 83
William Battie Wrightson 6 Oct 1789 10 Feb 1879 89
13 Dec 1832 Matthew Davenport Hill 6 Aug 1792 7 Jun 1872 79
William Hutt [kt 1865] (to 1837) 6 Oct 1801 24 Nov 1882 81
8 Jan 1835 David Carruthers Jun 1835
20 Jun 1835 Thomas Perronet Thompson 15 Mar 1783 6 Sep 1869 86
24 Jul 1837 William Wilberforce [he was unseated on petition in favour of William Hutt 7 May 1838] 1798 26 May 1879 80
Sir Walter Charles James, 2nd baronet, later [1884] 1st Baron Northbourne (to 1847) 3 Jun 1816 4 Feb 1893 76
7 May 1838 William Hutt [kt 1865] 6 Oct 1801 24 Nov 1882 81
30 Jun 1841 Sir John Hanmer, 3rd baronet, later [1872] 1st Baron Hanmer 22 Dec 1809 8 Mar 1881 71
29 Jul 1847 Matthew Talbot Baines 17 Feb 1799 22 Jan 1860 60
James Clay (to 1854) 20 Dec 1804 26 Sep 1873 69
8 Jul 1852 George Frederick Samuel Robinson, styled Viscount Goderich, later [1859] 2nd Earl of Ripon and [1871] 1st Marquess of Ripon 24 Oct 1827 9 Jul 1909 81
Election declared void 7 Mar 1853. Writ suspended until Aug 1854
18 Aug 1854 William Digby Seymour (to Mar 1857) 1805 1872 67
William Henry Watson 1796 13 Mar 1860 63
11 Feb 1857 James Clay (to 1873) 20 Dec 1804 26 Sep 1873 69
28 Mar 1857 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, styled Baron Ashley, later [1885] 8th Earl of Shaftesbury 27 Jun 1831 13 Apr 1886 54
30 Apr 1859 Joseph Hoare [he was unseated on petition 12 Aug 1859] 21 Mar 1814 21 Jan 1886 71
20 Aug 1859 Joseph Somes 1819 29 May 1871 52
13 Jul 1865 Charles Morgan Norwood (to 1885) 1825 24 Apr 1891 65
24 Oct 1873 Joseph Walker Pease 1820 22 Nov 1882 62
7 Feb 1874 Charles Henry Wilson, later [1906] 1st Baron Nunburnholme 22 Apr 1833 27 Oct 1907 74
SPLIT INTO 3 DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "HULL CENTRAL", "HULL EAST" AND "HULL WEST"
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL CENTRAL
25 Nov 1885 Henry Seymour King [kt 1892], later [1932] 1st baronet [following the general election in Dec 1910, he was unseated on petition 1 Jun 1911] 4 Jan 1852 14 Nov 1933 81
5 Jul 1911 Mark Sykes, later [1913] 6th baronet 16 Mar 1879 16 Feb 1919 39
29 Mar 1919 Joseph Montague Kenworthy, later [1934] 10th Baron Strabolgi 7 Mar 1886 8 Oct 1953 67
27 Oct 1931 Basil Kelsey Barton 1879 2 Jul 1958 79
14 Nov 1935 Walter Windsor 18 Jul 1884 29 Jun 1945 60
26 Jul 1945 Mark Hewitson 15 Dec 1897 27 Feb 1973 75
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955, BUT REVIVED FEB 1974
28 Feb 1974 Joseph Kevin McNamara 5 Sep 1934 6 Aug 2017 83
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL EAST
25 Nov 1885 William Saunders 1823 1 May 1895 71
5 Jul 1886 Frederick Brent Grotrian 1838 8 Apr 1905 66
Jul 1892 Clarence Smith [kt 1895] 16 Jun 1849 10 Jun 1941 91
17 Jul 1895 Joseph Thomas Firbank [kt 1902] 1850 7 Oct 1910 60
18 Jan 1906 Thomas Robinson Ferens 4 May 1847 9 May 1930 83
14 Dec 1918 Charles Kenneth Murchison [kt 1927] 22 Sep 1872 17 Dec 1952 80
15 Nov 1922 Lawrence Roger Lumley, later [1945] 11th Earl of Scarbrough 27 Jul 1896 29 Jun 1969 72
30 May 1929 George Muff, later [1945] 1st Baron Calverley 10 Feb 1877 20 Sep 1955 78
27 Oct 1931 John James Henry Nation 5 Dec 1874 5 Nov 1946 71
14 Nov 1935 George Muff, later [1945] 1st Baron Calverley 10 Feb 1877 20 Sep 1955 78
26 Jul 1945 Harry Pursey 24 Aug 1891 13 Dec 1980 89
18 Jun 1970 John Leslie Prescott, later [2010] Baron Prescott [L] 31 May 1938
6 May 2010 Karl William Turner 15 Apr 1971
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL NORTH
23 Feb 1950 Walter Richard Austen Hudson 8 Dec 1894 21 Aug 1970 75
8 Oct 1959 James Michael Coulson 23 Nov 1927 18 Jun 2002 74
15 Oct 1964 Henry Solomons 7 Nov 1902 7 Nov 1965 63
27 Jan 1966 Joseph Kevin McNamara 5 Sep 1934 6 Aug 2017 83
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974, BUT REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983 Joseph Kevin McNamara 5 Sep 1934 6 Aug 2017 83
5 May 2005 Diana Ruth Johnson [Dame 2020] 25 Jul 1966
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL NORTH AND COTTINGHAM
4 Jul 2024 Dame Diana Ruth Johnson 25 Jul 1966
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL NORTH WEST
14 Dec 1918 Albert Lambert Ward, later [1929] 1st baronet 7 Nov 1875 21 Oct 1956 80
26 Jul 1945 Ronald William Gordon Mackay 3 Sep 1902 15 Jan 1960 57
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL SOUTH WEST
14 Dec 1918 Cyril Fullard Entwistle [kt 1937] 23 Sep 1887 9 Jul 1974 86
29 Oct 1924 Herbert Brent Grotrian, later [1934] 1st baronet 29 Mar 1870 28 Oct 1951 81
30 May 1929 John Arnott 21 Dec 1871 20 Feb 1942 70
27 Oct 1931 Richard Kidston Law, later [1954] 1st Baron Coleraine 27 Feb 1901 15 Nov 1980 79
26 Jul 1945 Sydney Herbert Smith 27 Apr 1885 12 Jun 1984 99
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL WEST
25 Nov 1885 Charles Henry Wilson, later [1906] 1st Baron Nunburnholme 22 Apr 1833 27 Oct 1907 74
18 Jan 1906 Charles Henry Wellesley Wilson, later [1907] 2nd Baron Nunburnholme 24 Jan 1875 15 Aug 1924 49
28 Nov 1907 Guy Greville Wilson 19 May 1877 1 Feb 1943 65
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918, BUT REVIVED 1955
26 May 1955 Mark Hewitson 15 Dec 1897 27 Feb 1973 75
15 Oct 1964 James Johnson 16 Sep 1908 31 Jan 1995 86
9 Jun 1983 Stuart Jeffrey Randall, later [1997] Baron Randall [L] 22 Jun 1938 11 Aug 2012 74
NAME ALTERED TO "HULL WEST AND HESSLE" 1997
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL WEST AND HALTEMPRICE
4 Jul 2024 Emma Ann Hardy 16 Sep 1980
(KINGSTON UPON) HULL WEST AND HESSLE
1 May 1997 Alan Arthur Johnson 17 May 1950
8 Jun 2017 Emma Ann Hardy 16 Sep 1980
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2024
HULME (MANCHESTER)
14 Dec 1918 Sir Joseph Nall, later [1954] 1st baronet 24 Aug 1887 2 May 1958 70
30 May 1929 Andrew McElwee 18 Jun 1968
27 Oct 1931 Sir Joseph Nall, later [1954] 1st baronet 24 Aug 1887 2 May 1958 70
26 Jul 1945 Frederick Lee, later [1974] Baron Lee of Newton [L] 3 Aug 1906 4 Feb 1984 77
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
HUNTINGDON (HUNTINGDONSHIRE)
27 Mar 1660 John Bernard, later [1666] 2nd baronet Nov 1630 25 Jun 1679 48
Nicholas Pedley [kt 1672] 17 Sep 1615 6 Jul 1685 69
12 Apr 1661 Sir John Cotton, 3rd baronet 9 Mar 1621 12 Sep 1702 81
Lionel Walden [kt 1673] 19 Dec 1620 23 Mar 1698 77
25 Feb 1679 Sidney Wortley-Montagu (to 1685) 28 Jul 1650 11 Nov 1727 77
Sir Nicholas Pedley 17 Sep 1615 6 Jul 1685 69
19 Aug 1679 Lionel Walden (to 1689) 19 Dec 1620 23 Mar 1698 77
10 Mar 1685 Oliver Montagu c 1655 25 Dec 1689
9 Jan 1689 Sidney Wortley Montagu (to 1695) 28 Jul 1650 11 Nov 1727 77
John Bigg 5 Jul 1652 c 1710
25 Feb 1690 Richard Montagu (to 1697) c 1670 19 Apr 1697
22 Oct 1695 John Pocklington (to 1698) c 1658 22 Oct 1731
14 Dec 1697 Francis Wortley Montagu (to 1702) c 1676 Sep 1702
23 Jul 1698 Edward Carteret 28 Nov 1671 15 Apr 1739 67
6 Jan 1701 Charles Boyle, later [1703] 4th Earl of Orrery [I] (to 1705) 28 Jul 1674 28 Aug 1731 57
20 Jul 1702 Anthony Hammond 1 Sep 1668 1738 69
15 May 1705 Sir John Cotton, 4th baronet [he was unseated on petition in favour of John Pedley 22 Jan 1706] c 1680 5 Feb 1731
Edward Wortley-Montagu (to 1713) 8 Feb 1678 22 Jan 1761 82
22 Jan 1706 John Pedley c 1666 1722
6 May 1708 Francis Page c 1661 19 Dec 1741
28 Aug 1713 Edward Richard Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke 7 Jul 1692 3 Oct 1722 30
Sidney Wortley Montagu 28 Jul 1650 11 Nov 1727 77
22 Mar 1722 Edward Wortley-Montagu 8 Feb 1678 22 Jan 1761 82
Roger Handasyde (to 1741) c 1684 4 Jan 1763
25 Apr 1734 Edward Montagu (to 1768) 13 Nov 1692 20 May 1775 82
8 May 1741 Wills Hill, later [1742] 2nd Viscount Hillsborough and [1789] 1st Marquess Downshire [I] [he was also returned for Warwick, for which he chose to sit] 30 May 1718 7 Oct 1793 75
29 Dec 1741 Albert Nesbitt 12 Jan 1753
29 Jun 1747 Kelland Courtenay c 1707 8 Mar 1748
10 Mar 1748 John Montagu 1719 Sep 1795 76
15 Apr 1754 Robert Jones (to Feb 1774) 17 Feb 1774
18 Mar 1768 Henry Seymour (to Oct 1774) 21 Oct 1729 14 Apr 1807 77
28 Feb 1774 William Augustus Montagu (to 1776) 12 Feb 1752 14 Jan 1776 23
7 Oct 1774 George Wombwell, later [1778] 1st baronet (to 1780) 11 Jun 1734 2 Nov 1780 46
31 Jan 1776 Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave [I] (to 1784) 30 May 1744 10 Oct 1792 48
28 Nov 1780 Sir Hugh Palliser, 1st baronet 26 Feb 1723 19 Mar 1796 73
31 Mar 1784 Sir Walter Rawlinson (to 1790) 1734 13 Mar 1805 70
Lancelot Brown 13 Jan 1748 28 Feb 1802 54
9 May 1787 John Willett Payne (to 1796) 23 Apr 1752 17 Nov 1803 51
21 Jun 1790 John George Montagu 3 Apr 1767 29 Nov 1790 23
22 Dec 1790 Henry Speed 25 Jul 1766 1820 53
26 May 1796 William Henry Fellowes 15 Jul 1769 23 Aug 1837 68
John Calvert (to 1831) c 1758 2 Jun 1844
6 May 1807 William Meeke Farmer c 1777 Oct 1836
3 Apr 1809 Samuel Farmer c 1748 14 May 1839
16 Jun 1818 William Augustus Montagu c 1785 6 Mar 1852
7 Mar 1820 John William Robert Kerr, styled Earl of Ancrum, later [1824] 7th Marquess of Lothian 1 Feb 1794 14 Nov 1841 47
14 May 1824 James Stuart 12 Jul 1774 6 Apr 1833 58
2 May 1831 Jonathan Peel (to 1868) 12 Oct 1799 13 Feb 1879 79
Jonathan Frederick Pollock [kt 1834], later [1866] 1st baronet 23 Sep 1783 23 Aug 1870 86
22 Apr 1844 Thomas Baring (to 1873) 7 Sep 1799 18 Nov 1873 74
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1868
20 Dec 1873 Sir John Burgess Karslake 13 Dec 1821 4 Oct 1881 59
16 Feb 1876 Edward George Henry Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke, later [1884] 8th Earl of Sandwich 13 Jul 1839 26 Jun 1916 76
21 Mar 1884 Sir Robert Peel, 3rd baronet 4 May 1822 9 May 1895 73
28 Nov 1885 Thomas Coote 1850
14 Jul 1886 Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, later [1902] 1st Baron Barrymore 17 Jan 1843 22 Feb 1925 82
4 Oct 1900 George Charles Montagu, later [1916] 9th Earl of Sandwich 29 Dec 1874 15 Jun 1962 87
19 Jan 1906 Samuel Howard Whitbread 8 Jan 1858 29 Jul 1944 86
20 Jan 1910 John Cator 24 Sep 1862 27 Apr 1944 81
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918, BUT REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983 John Roy Major [KG 2005] 29 Mar 1943
7 Jun 2001 Jonathan Simon Djanogly 3 Jun 1965
4 Jul 2024 Benjamin Obese-Jecty
HUNTINGDONSHIRE
Apr 1660 Robert Montagu, styled Viscount Mandeville, later [1671] 3rd Earl of Manchester 25 Apr 1634 14 Mar 1683 48
Henry Cromwell (later Williams) (to Nov 1673) 22 Jun 1625 3 Aug 1673 48
15 Feb 1673 Sir Nicholas Pedley (to Feb 1679) 17 Sep 1615 6 Jul 1685 69
22 Nov 1673 Robert Apreece (to Aug 1679) c Dec 1638 1723 84
8 Feb 1679 Ralph Montagu, later [1683] 3rd Baron Montagu, [1689] 1st Earl of Montagu and [1705] 1st Duke of Montagu 24 Dec 1638 9 Mar 1709 70
23 Aug 1679 Sir Thomas Proby, 1st baronet 18 Oct 1632 22 Apr 1689 56
Silius Titus c 1623 Dec 1704
28 Mar 1685 Sir John Cotton, 3rd baronet 9 Mar 1621 12 Sep 1702 81
Sir Lionel Walden 19 Dec 1620 23 Mar 1698 77
14 Jan 1689 Robert Montagu (to 1693) c 1667 4 Dec 1693
Sir Robert Bernard, 3rd baronet by 1670 26 Jul 1703
22 Feb 1690 John Dryden (to 1695) c 1641 3 Jan 1708
23 Dec 1693 John Proby 16 Jan 1639 14 Nov 1710 71
26 Oct 1695 Heneage Montagu 13 Nov 1675 c Apr 1698 22
Anthony Hammond (to Jul 1698) 1 Sep 1668 1738 69
4 Jun 1698 Robert Apreece c Dec 1638 1723 84
30 Jul 1698 John Proby (to 1702) 16 Jan 1639 14 Nov 1710 71
Robert Throckmorton c 1662 9 Mar 1699
8 Apr 1699 John Dryden (to Jan 1708) c 1641 3 Jan 1708
25 Jul 1702 William Naylor c Oct 1713
26 May 1705 John Pocklington (to 1713) c 1658 22 Oct 1731
31 Jan 1708 John Proby 16 Jan 1639 14 Nov 1710 71
30 Dec 1710 Sir John Cotton, 4th baronet c 1680 5 Feb 1731
5 Sep 1713 Sir Matthew Dudley, 2nd baronet 1 Oct 1661 14 Apr 1721 59
Robert Pigott (to 1722) 24 Oct 1665 Dec 1746 81
22 Jan 1715 John Bigg (to 1734) 24 Mar 1748
13 Apr 1722 Edward Richard Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke 7 Jul 1692 3 Oct 1722 30
27 Oct 1722 John Proby c 1698 15 Mar 1762
26 Aug 1727 William Cavendish, styled Marquess of Hartington, later [1729] 3rd Duke of Devonshire 1698 5 Dec 1755 57
7 Feb 1730 Robert Pigott (to 1741) 24 Oct 1665 Dec 1746 81
27 Apr 1734 Lord Robert Montagu, later [1739] 3rd Duke of Manchester c 1710 10 May 1762
27 Nov 1739 Charles Clarke c 1702 17 May 1750
2 May 1741 William Mitchell c 1703 15 Sep 1745
Coulson Fellowes (to 1761) 12 Oct 1696 23 Feb 1769 72
9 Nov 1745 William Montagu c 1720 10 Feb 1757
18 Jul 1747 Edward Wortley-Montagu
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 16 May 1713 29 Apr 1776 62
4 May 1754 John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort [I] (to 1768) 25 Nov 1720 18 Oct 1772 51
28 Mar 1761 George Montagu, styled Viscount Mandeville, later [1762] 4th Duke of Manchester 6 Apr 1737 2 Sep 1788 51
5 Jun 1762 Lord Charles Greville Montagu 29 May 1741 4 Feb 1784 42
28 Dec 1765 Robert Bernard, later [1766] 5th baronet c 1739 2 Jan 1789
1 Apr 1768 John Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke, later [1792] 5th Earl of Sandwich 26 Jan 1744 6 Jun 1814 70
Peter Ludlow, Earl Ludlow [I] (to 1796) 21 Apr 1730 26 Oct 1803 73
15 May 1792 Lancelot Brown 13 Jan 1748 28 Feb 1802 54
3 Jun 1794 George John Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke, later [1814] 6th Earl of Sandwich (to 1814) 4 Feb 1773 21 May 1818 45
31 May 1796 Lord Frederick Montagu 8 Nov 1774 4 Oct 1827 52
5 Nov 1806 John Proby, styled Viscount Proby, later [1828] 2nd Earl of Carysfort [I] 1780 11 Jun 1855 74
13 May 1807 William Henry Fellowes (to 1830) 15 Jul 1769 23 Aug 1837 68
22 Jun 1814 John Proby, styled Viscount Proby, later [1828] 2nd Earl of Carysfort [I] 1780 11 Jun 1855 74
30 Jun 1818 Lord Frederick Montagu 8 Nov 1774 4 Oct 1827 52
16 Mar 1820 Lord John Russell, later [1861] 1st Earl Russell 18 Aug 1792 28 May 1878 85
20 Jun 1826 George Montagu, styled Viscount Mandeville, later [1843] 6th Duke of Manchester (to 1837) 9 Jul 1799 18 Aug 1855 56
10 Aug 1830 Charles Gordon, styled Lord Strathavon, later [1853] 10th Marquess of Huntly 4 Jan 1792 18 Sep 1863 71
9 May 1831 John Bonfoy Rooper 8 Aug 1778 11 Mar 1855 76
10 Aug 1837 Edward Fellowes, later [1887] 1st Baron de Ramsey (to 1880) 14 May 1809 9 Aug 1887 78
George Thornhill 12 Jun 1783 19 May 1852 68
11 Jun 1852 William Drogo Montagu, styled Viscount Mandeville, later [1855] 7th Duke of Manchester 15 Oct 1823 22 Mar 1890 66
2 Oct 1855 James Rust (to 1859) 1798 24 Jul 1875 77
4 Apr 1857 James Rust 1798 24 Jul 1875 77
Edward Fellowes, later [1887] 1st Baron de Ramsay 14 May 1809 9 Aug 1887 78
John Moyer Heathcote 27 Mar 1892
Treble return. Fellowes and Heathcote received an equal number of votes. On scrutiny, Heathcote's votes were reduced by 2 and he was declared unduly elected 31 Jul 1857
7 May 1859 Lord Robert Montagu 24 Jan 1825 6 May 1902 77
15 Feb 1874 Sir Henry Carstairs Pelly, 3rd baronet 23 Apr 1844 4 Jun 1877 33
30 Jun 1877 George Victor Drogo Montagu, styled Viscount Mandeville, later [1890] 8th Duke of Manchester 17 Jun 1853 18 Aug 1892 39
9 Apr 1880 William Henry Fellowes, later [1887] 2nd Baron de Ramsey 16 May 1848 8 May 1925 76
Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon 11 Oct 1851 4 Aug 1888 36
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO 2 DIVISIONS 1885. SEE "HUNTINGDON" AND "RAMSEY". RE-UNITED 1918
14 Dec 1918 Oliver Stillingfleet Locker‑Lampson 1880 8 Oct 1954 74
15 Nov 1922 Charles Kenneth Murchison [kt 1927] 22 Sep 1872 17 Dec 1952 80
6 Dec 1923 Leonard Wilfred James Costello [kt 1935] 25 Aug 1881 2 Dec 1972 91
29 Oct 1924 Charles Kenneth Murchison [kt 1927] 22 Sep 1872 17 Dec 1952 80
30 May 1929 Sidney John Peters 2 Dec 1885 9 Jan 1976 90
26 Jul 1945 David Lockhart Mure Renton [kt 1964], later [1979] Baron Renton [L] 12 Aug 1908 24 May 2007 98
3 May 1979 John Roy Major [KG 2005] 29 Mar 1943
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HUYTON
23 Feb 1950 James Harold Wilson [KG 1976], later [1983] Baron Wilson of Rievaulx [L] 11 Mar 1916 24 May 1995 79
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
HYDE (CHESHIRE)
5 Dec 1885 Thomas Gair Ashton, later [1911] 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde 5 Feb 1855 1 May 1933 78
10 Jul 1886 Joseph Watson Sidebotham 29 Apr 1857 10 Jun 1925 68
10 Oct 1900 Edward Chapman 1839 26 Jul 1906 67
24 Jan 1906 Charles Duncan Schwann (Swann from 1913), later [1929] 2nd baronet
20 Jan 1910 Francis Neilson 26 Jan 1867 13 Apr 1961 94
30 Mar 1916 Thomas Owen Jacobsen 1864 15 Jun 1941 76
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
HYNDBURN (LANCASHIRE)
9 Jun 1983 Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves 1 Mar 1939 23 Jun 2012 73
9 Apr 1992 Gregory James Pope 29 Aug 1960
6 May 2010 Graham Peter Jones 3 Mar 1966
12 Dec 2019 Sara Alice Britcliffe 21 Feb 1995
4 Jul 2024 Sarah Madeleine Webster Smith
HYTHE
c Apr 1660 Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford [I] 23 Mar 1634 8 Aug 1708 74
Phineas Andrews (to Nov 1661) c 1600 23 Sep 1661
6 May 1661 John Hervey (to Feb 1679) 18 Aug 1616 18 Jan 1680 63
15 Nov 1661 Sir Henry Wood, 1st baronet 17 Oct 1597 15 May 1671 73
2 Feb 1673 Sir Leoline Jenkins c 1625 1 Sep 1685
Election declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the subsequent by-election held on 11 Feb 1673, Jenkins was again elected
14 Feb 1679 Sir Edward Dering, 2nd baronet (to 1685) 8 Nov 1625 24 Jun 1684 58
Julius Deedes 6 Sep 1635 9 Mar 1692 56
8 Aug 1679 Edward Hales 18 Apr 1630 9 Aug 1696 66
3 Apr 1685 Heneage Finch, later [1712] 5th Earl of Winchilsea (to 1689) 3 Jan 1657 30 Sep 1726 69
Julius Deedes [his election was declared to be void and he was replaced by William Shaw - see below] 6 Sep 1635 9 Mar 1692 56
12 Jun 1685 William Shaw c 1644 20 Jan 1697
11 Jan 1689 Edward Hales 18 Apr 1630 9 Aug 1696 66
Julius Deedes 6 Sep 1635 9 Mar 1692 56
8 Mar 1690 Sir Philip Boteler, 3rd baronet (to 1708) c 1667 Jun 1719
William Brockman 2 Sep 1658 by Apr 1742
30 Oct 1695 Jacob des Bouverie 1659 2 Sep 1722 63
4 Jan 1701 John Boteler (to 1710) after 1668 by Feb 1746
4 May 1708 John Fane, later [1736] 7th Earl of Westmorland (to 1711) 24 Mar 1686 26 Aug 1762 76
9 Oct 1710 Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon [I] c 1675 20 Dec 1740
[The two sitting members (Fane and Shannon) were unseated on petition in favour of John Boteler and William Berners 27 Jan 1711]
27 Jan 1711 John Boteler (to 1715) after 1668 by Feb 1746
William Berners 25 Aug 1679 Jun 1712 32
25 Jul 1712 Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon [I] c 1675 20 Dec 1740
25 Aug 1713 Jacob des Bouverie (to 1722) 1659 2 Sep 1722 63
28 Jan 1715 Sir Samuel Lennard, 3rd baronet (to 1728) 2 Oct 1672 8 Oct 1727 55
26 Mar 1722 Hercules Baker (to 1744) 15 Aug 1683 1 Nov 1744 61
22 Feb 1728 William Glanville (to 1766) c 1686 19 Oct 1766
3 Dec 1744 Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd baronet c 1694 6 Oct 1762
25 Mar 1761 Lord George Sackville, later [1782] 1st Viscount Sackville (to 1768) 26 Jan 1716 26 Aug 1785 69
17 Nov 1766 William Amherst 5 Feb 1732 13 May 1781 49
16 Mar 1768 John Sawbridge 1732 21 Feb 1795 62
William Evelyn (to 1802) c 1734 3 Nov 1813
7 Oct 1774 Sir Charles Farnaby, 3rd baronet (Farnaby‑Radcliffe from 1784) c 1738 20 Oct 1798
27 Nov 1798 Charles Marsham, styled Viscount Marsham from 1801, later [1811] 2nd Earl of Romney 22 Nov 1777 29 Mar 1845 67
5 Jul 1802 Matthew White c 1766 11 Mar 1840
Thomas Godfrey (to 1810) 27 Aug 1751 7 Mar 1810 58
31 Oct 1806 Charles Marsham, styled Viscount Marsham, later [1811] 2nd Earl of Romney 22 Nov 1777 29 Mar 1845 67
7 May 1807 William Deedes (to 1812) Jun 1761 19 Apr 1834 72
19 Mar 1810 Sir John Perring, 1st baronet (to 1820) 26 Apr 1765 30 Jan 1831 65
7 Oct 1812 Matthew White c 1766 11 Mar 1840
19 Jun 1818 John Bladen Taylor 2 Jul 1764 4 Aug 1820 56
20 May 1819 Samuel Jones Loyd, later [1850] 1st Baron Overstone (to 1826) 25 Sep 1796 17 Nov 1883 87
8 Mar 1820 Stewart Marjoribanks (to 1837) 1774 31 Aug 1863 89
9 Jun 1826 Sir Robert Townsend Townsend-Farquhar, 1st baronet 14 Oct 1776 16 Mar 1830 53
26 Mar 1830 John Loch 8 Sep 1781 19 Feb 1868 86
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1832
16 May 1837 William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, styled Viscount Melgund, later [1859] 3rd Earl of Minto 19 Mar 1814 17 Mar 1891 76
29 Jun 1841 Stewart Marjoribanks 1774 31 Aug 1863 89
31 Jul 1847 Edward Drake Brockman 7 Nov 1858
28 Mar 1857 Sir John William Ramsden, 5th baronet 14 Sep 1831 15 Apr 1914 82
29 Apr 1859 Baron Mayer de Rothschild 29 Jun 1818 6 Feb 1874 55
5 Feb 1874 Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st baronet 26 Sep 1819 14 Apr 1901 71
18 Jul 1895 Sir James Bevan Edwards 5 Nov 1834 8 Jul 1922 87
1 Mar 1899 Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd baronet 20 Jun 1856 24 May 1912 55
11 Jun 1912 Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd baronet 4 Dec 1888 3 Jun 1939 50
20 Jul 1939 Rupert Arnold Brabner 29 Oct 1911 27 Mar 1945 33
26 Jul 1945 Harry Ripley Mackeson, later [1954] 1st baronet 25 May 1905 25 Jan 1964 58
NAME ALTERED TO "FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE" 1950
 

Henry Charles Stephens
MP for Hornsey 1887‑1900
Stephens was a central figure in a child custody case in 1898 when, together with his daughter, he was involved in the forced removal of his two grandsons from the custody of the governess who had been employed by his daughter's estranged husband.
The following report is taken from The Times of 29 July 1898:-
The Press Association has received from Mr. H.C. Stephens, M.P., the following account of what has been described as the Hythe kidnapping case:-
"The two boys, aged respectively five and seven, of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Edmunds, having been removed unknown to their mother from their school at Folkestone, were traced to a house at Hythe, where they were found in the custody of Miss Ford, a former nursery governess. Mrs. Edmunds discovered that it was intended to remove the children to the Continent in order that they should be beyond the jurisdiction of the Court to which she intended to apply for their custody. A watch was kept by a detective, who had instructions to follow to any place to which the children might be taken. On Tuesday, having heard that the projected removal of the children to the Continent might take place at any time, Mrs. Edmunds, accompanied by her father, Mr. H.C. Stephens, M.P., went to the house at Hythe to fetch the children. Having discovered that the children were in the yard or garden by the house, they walked into it, Mrs. Edmunds taking the younger and Mr. Stephens the older child. Miss Ford then became violently obstructive, screaming loudly and so drawing the lodging-house mistress, her daughters, and servants to the number of six or seven to the spot. The struggle of so many against two became less unequal through the appearance of a local official, who rendered Mrs. Edmunds invaluable assistance, and eventually both children were placed in a carriage and their mother and grandfather drove off with them. Mr. Stephens was chiefly engaged in keeping off the lodging-house mistress and her women helpers, while Mrs. Edmunds endeavoured to obtain possession of the children from Miss Ford. No persons other than the local official above referred to assisted Mrs. Edmunds and Mr. Stephens, the detective remaining in charge of the carriage during the whole affair."
Yesterday the local magistrates at Hythe granted Mr. C.W. Blaxland, solicitor, a summons against Mr. H.C. Stephens, M.P., for assaulting Miss Ford. The date fixed for the hearing of the summons is August 9.
Another version of the story appeared in The Washington Post of 21 August 1898:-
Our Dover correspondent telegraphing last night, states that he has investigated the circumstances attending the extraordinary case of kidnapping two children at Hythe by their mother and Mr. H.C. Stephens, M.P. for the Hornsey Division of Middlesex, and has gleaned the following particulars from eye-witnesses of the scene: The children are two little boys, aged five and seven, respectively, the sons of Mr. Lewis Edmunds, Q.C. The parents have recently, on account of some domestic dispute, been living apart. For some little time past the children had been in a school at Folkestone, but a few days ago, owing to the fact that the holidays were drawing near, the father decided to have them removed to Hythe, in charge of a young lady [Miss Ford], who had previously acted as their governess. The place selected was Sutherland House, a somewhat large boarding house facing the sea and at the corner of a road.
It appears that Mr. Edmunds had some idea that an attempt would be made to seize the children, for toward the end of last week he accompanied the children and their governess to Hythe, and stayed there till Sunday or Monday, when he returned to London. Mr. Edmunds gave the governess his written authority to take charge of the children, this authority being dated July 21. The children had evidently been watched at Folkestone, for they had not been transferred to Hythe many hours before a stranger called at the house and inquired if a lady and gentleman and two children had arrived there. This and other circumstances excited suspicion. Some men were next seen loitering about the house, evidently watching, and as the number increased to four or five, Mr. Blaxland, a solicitor, also residing in the boarding-house, thought it his duty to communicate with the Chief of Police, but the officer held it was not a case in which he could interfere. The children were carefully guarded by the governess, and kept in the house as much as possible. Yesterday, not wishing them to be too much confined to the house, she allowed them to play on the lawn in front. The children had not been there very long before they were kidnapped. This took place shortly after midday. The house is approached through a gate, which leads directly on to the lawn, this being bounded in front by a fence and some shrubs, and at the side by a high wall. It is behind this wall that the governess believes some of the kidnapping party concealed themselves, as they rushed in and took her completely by surprise.
Seeing that a rush was being made for the children, the governess screamed, and in a few seconds a wild struggle was taking place on the lawn. The screams of the governess attracted the attention of several of the neighbours and people in the house. She stated that the first persons she saw run in at the gate were the children's mother and her father, Mr. Stephens, M.P. Mr. Stephens was gesticulating to those present and exclaiming that he was a member of Parliament, and a Justice of the Peace, and that those with him were Scotland Yard officers. In this way he succeeded in preventing assistance from being rendered with sufficient promptness. The youngest child was first seized and handed over to one of the party standing at the gate, who hurried him off to the carriage and pair which was in waiting a little way up the street. The governess, who clung to the child, it is stated, was held by the throat. The young lady, in referring to the scene, displayed considerable nervous excitement. The capture of the second child quickly followed, and the carriages of which there were two, were rapidly driven away in the direction of Folkestone. The whole occurrence happened in a very few minutes, and was evidently planned to take place while Mr. Blaxland was away from the house.
The carriages were hired in Hythe, and the abduction was carried out by four or five persons.
It appears that the children were driven as far as Folkestone at a rapid pace, and thence to Dover, where the party drove to the Lord Warden Hotel, proceeding to London, by London, Chatham and Dover Railway.
Finally, The Times reported on 15 August 1898 on the outcome of the summons against Stephens for allegedly assaulting Miss Ford:-
At Hythe Police-court, on Saturday, Mr. Blaxland, solicitor to Miss Ford, who issued a summons against Mr. H.C. Stephens, M.P., for an alleged assault committed when Mr. Stephens took his two grandchildren from her custody, applied for permission to withdraw the summons on the ground that the case had been settled. The application was granted. The following is a copy, signed by counsel, of the terms of arrangement:- "Since the issue of the summons, proceedings in Judge's Chambers have resulted in an amicable arrangement under which the children have been restored to their father's custody, and Miss Ford has consequently decided to withdraw the summons against Mr. Stephens on the understanding that she did no more than she believed to be her duty on July 26 in carrying out the instructions of Mr. Lewis Edmunds, Q.C., the father of the children, and that Mr. Stephens in what he did was under the belief that he was justified, having regard to his relationship to the children."
Edward Wortley-Montagu
MP for Huntingdonshire 1747‑1754 and Bossiney 1754‑1768
Edward Wortley Montagu was the son of Edward and Mary Wortley Montagu, daughter of the 5th Earl of Kingston upon Hull. His father appears to have been intellectually overshadowed by Lady Mary, who was one of the foremost female literary figures of the eighteenth century, and from whom her son appears to have inherited his eccentricities.
The following sketch of the life of Edward Wortley-Montagu appeared in the Australian monthly magazine, Parade, in its issue for April 1955:-
One hot summer day in 1773, an aged man, his skin darkened by the Mediterranean sun, sat on a tiled floor in a Venetian mansion surrounded by all the luxuries of oriental splendour. On his head he wore the turban of a Mussulman; his beard touched his waist. At his side an Arabian youth knelt, took the wrinkled hand, kissed it and pressed it to his cheek. The old man bent and perfumed his beard with exotic incense rising from a smoking bowl. The man was Edward Wortley Montagu, rogue, charlatan, seducer and Englishman of the nobility.
Montagu's mother was the famous Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a woman of outstanding ability and wit. His father, Edward, lacked his wife's keen brain, but at his death left £1,340,000 to be fought over by his family.
Edward the younger in his time was fishmonger, army officer, scholar, gambler, member of the House of Commons and Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also, as the need arose, Protestant, Catholic and Mohammedan. He was the father of black, brown, brindle and white illegitimate children scattered from Turkey through Egypt, Italy and France to England. There were also a few about Holland, where he spent his military days.
Edward's first and practically only innocent bleat escaped his lips shortly after he was born in May of 1713. He was a troublesome baby and at the age of 14 months was still toothless. When the child was four, his father was appointed His Britannic Majesty's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. In Constantinople Lady Mary had her son immunized against smallpox, an action that caused an outcry in England. The child's veins were crudely opened, and a "nutshell" of smallpox pus rubbed into the wounds. It was then, Edward said later, he first took the blood of the Turk into his body.
Unfortunately, Edward Snr was a failure as a diplomat and he was recalled to England. Back in London it became apparent quickly that Edward had acquired a taste for luxury and soon alarmed a succession of tutors with his ability to curse them heartily in French, Greek and Turkish. His linguistic ability was not appreciated and he was sent to school at Westminster to learn figures, Edward spent most of his time escaping from the school, only to be returned by his furious parents. In July, 1726, when in was 13, he decided to do things properly, and after leaving the school by the back door enrolled himself at Oxford University for a course in Oriental languages. He took great care planning not only his lecture hours but his time for leisure. Soon Edward was found to be living with his delectable young landlady, a girl of 20. It was much against his will that his parents interrupted his premature essays into love and linguistics and again reduced him to the status of a schoolboy.
For the next four years Edward was sent abroad to collect himself and straighten his twisted character, but in 1730 he was back in London keeping good health and bad company and in the process of acquiring a wife. The first Mrs. Edward Wortley Montagu was variously described as a laundress or washerwoman. Her name was Sally and Edward married her in a frolic. Thus he was easily persuaded to part with her.
Little is known of his life for the next eight years except "he visited Italy, kept bad company in Venice, irritated Mr. Horace Mann in Florence, and borrowed money from Mr. Birtles in Genoa". Edward failed at all his enterprises (except the conquest of the ladies) and his despairing father had him appointed a cornet [second-lieutenant] in the 7th Hussars in Holland. He spent most of his military career begging his father for an increased allowance. Two years later, as a result of effective "string-pulling," Edward was appointed Capt.-Lieut. in the Royal Scots. But there was still one fly in his ointment. He could not return to England, for a host of creditors was waiting to pounce on him there.
His problem was solved when, with a little more stretching of the string, he was appointed to Parliament, thus getting immunity from creditors. Political life - he never got around to making a maiden speech or visiting his constituency - appealed to Edward and he resigned from the Army.
In April, 1748, he was appointed a British secretary to the congress at Aix-la-Chapelle. The pickings were good, and Edward returned to London to show himself in the streets in satin suits with diamond buttons and buckles. The most curious part of his dress was an iron wig, remarkably lifelike [One of his biographies, by Jonathan Curling, is entitled Edward Wortley Montagu: The Man in the Iron Wig.] But despite his satin and diamonds Edward had not lost his high delight in low company.
In fact he met his next "wife" while visiting the cell of a friend, a highwayman waiting to have his neck stretched. Elizabeth Ashe, a short, plump beauty of dubious morals, was also a friend of the unhappy knight of the road. With two male friends to add to the revelry, Edward and Elizabeth spent their "honeymoon" in Paris. The joys of "marital" bliss were interrupted only by Edward's arrest and imprisonment for cheating a friend of 120 louis d'or with loaded dice. Later Edward was cleared of the charge, but meanwhile Elizabeth could find no use for a penniless "husband" and he returned alone to London.
During the next seven years Edward did little except father, as far as history records, three natural children whose maternity is obscure, and divide his time between his house in London and another at Boreham Wood, in each of which he maintained a mistress.
At 83 Edward's father acceded to his son's persistent and secret wishes. In January, 1761, he lay on his bed and died. Old Wortley Montagu left £1,340,000, practically all to his daughter, the Countess of Bute. Edward and Lady Mary were not so lucky, for Edward received but an annuity of £1,600 and his mother £1,200. Edward, the affectionate son as ever, threatened to circulate a story that he was the son of a union between his mother and the Sultan Mustafa unless he was given a greater part of the estate. His story was that his mother, disguised as a eunuch, gained access to the sultan's seraglio and, being recognised, was admitted to his bed. The fact that he was three when his mother was in Constantinople was forgotten by that time. His purpose failed and Edward decided to leave England forever. He farmed out his four illegitimate sons, but decided to take his daughter Mary to Venice with him.
It was in this city of canals that Edward's "Turkish blood" welled in his veins. He adopted a turban, grew an impressive beard and clothed himself in splendid robes. He was not very surprised when news reached him that his mother had died, leaving him "one golden guinea."
Mary was an encumbrance to Edward, so he entered her in a convent and sailed for Egypt, where his amorous inclinations soon got him into trouble. At Alexandria the aging roué became acquainted with the Danish Consul, Herr Feroe, whose wife, Caroline, unfortunately for the consul, was a particularly lovely and charming young woman. Edward quickly decided Catherine would be a worthy successor to his other conquests and engaged Feroe to go to Holland on business for him. When the consul had been absent for an appropriate time, Edward produced a forged letter, telling of the consul's untimely death by drowning. Caroline, just 22, drowned her grief as quickly as Edward had drowned her husband and agreed to marry the 51-years-old rogue if he became a Catholic. The marriage was duly solemnised, in a fashion, and Edward carried Caroline off to Cairo. His departure was hastened by news that the consul had been resuscitated and was on his way back to Egypt. The couple crossed Egypt to Suez and began a tour of the Holy Land in pursuit of Edward's "archaeological studies." At her own request Edward left Caroline in a convent in Syria until the annulment of her marriage to Herr Feroe, who was a Protestant, was proclaimed, and left hurriedly for Italy. There he stayed, afraid to return, while the consul continued to utter violent threats against his person.
In the summer of 1766 Edward heard of Feroe's return to Europe, and he sailed for Alexandria to rejoin Caroline. Later that year Edward again decided to visit Turkey, and was perhaps the first Englishman to enter Constantinople bearded, turbaned and talking fluent Turkish. He hobnobbed with the Kapitan Pasha and was treated to all the Turkish luxuries he so richly enjoyed.
Back in Egypt his passion for the Turkish way of life became an obsession and the Montagu household was divided into separate quarters for men and women. Any infringement of the segregation angered him. But Edward was tiring of Caroline. The end came after the arrival of Ayesha, an Arabian beauty as black as ink whom Edward had maintained in another household in Egypt. Ayesha brought with her Massoud, her son, whose skin was lighter than his mother's and whose features, in some respects, bore a striking resemblance to the lord of the ménage. Caroline tried hard to ignore Ayesha, but it was no longer possible when in May, 1772, Edward added the black beauty and Massoud to his household, making the boy his heir.
Giving full play to his twisted character, Edward forced Caroline from his household, and to complete the change-over accepted the Muhammedan faith. Ayesha's black loveliness soon lost its attraction and, taking Massoud, Edward abandoned her as he had Sally, Elizabeth Ashe, Caroline Feroe and countless other unnamed women.
He intended to take Massoud to Mecca for the ceremony of circumcision - Edward had intended to be initiated with the boy - but because of political unrest in Arabia, went to Italy instead. In Venice in 1775 he set up his "little piece of Turkey", and until his death became one of the sights of the city. When Edward received visitors he met them at the stair head and led them through a series of apartments furnished in the Venetian style. A pair of black double doors were then thrown open by unseen hands, disclosing an inner room decorated with tiled walls, a painted wooden ceiling, a banquette [an upholstered bench] running the length of the wide recessed window and a small fountain playing in the middle of the floor. There were no chairs, but the guests sat on a sofa while Edward placed himself on a cushion on the carpet and crossed his legs in the Turkish fashion. He served the visitors with sickly-sweet coffee while a handsome young negro, magnificently garbed and turbaned in turquoise satin, handed them dried figs and little cubes of Turkish delight.
Before his death Edward decided to visit Padua, and there his final illness struck him. He died in an inn, saying to a monk who was mildly interested under which God he intended to die, "I die, I hope, a good Mussulman".
 

 
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