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Last updated 31/07/2018 (25 Feb 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. | |||||
ILCHESTER (SOMERSET) | |||||
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5 Apr 1660 | Robert Hunt | c 1609 | 20 Feb 1680 | ||
Henry Dunster (to 1679) | 6 Sep 1618 | 29 Jul 1684 | 65 | ||
4 Apr 1661 | Edward Phelips [kt by 1666] | 26 Sep 1638 | 4 Apr 1699 | 60 | |
20 Feb 1679 | William Strode | c 1625 | 19 Feb 1695 | 61 | |
John Speke | c 1652 | 1728 | |||
Edward Phelips [kt by 1666] | 26 Sep 1638 | 4 Apr 1699 | 60 | ||
Robert Hunt | c 1609 | 20 Feb 1680 | |||
Double return. Strode and Speke seated 1 Apr 1679 | |||||
1 Mar 1681 | Sir John St. Barbe, 1st baronet | c 1655 | 17 Sep 1723 | ||
John Hody | c 1659 | 6 Aug 1729 | |||
24 Mar 1685 | Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd baronet (to 1695) | c 1667 | 29 Jun 1695 | ||
Sir Edward Phelips | 26 Sep 1638 | 4 Apr 1699 | 60 | ||
11 Jan 1689 | William Helyar | 10 Jul 1662 | 8 Oct 1742 | 80 | |
22 Feb 1690 | John Hunt (to 1698) | c 1639 | 26 Apr 1721 | ||
26 Oct 1695 | Sir Francis Wyndham, 3rd baronet (to Jan 1701) | c 1654 | 22 Mar 1716 | ||
28 Jul 1698 | John Phelips | 1644 | 1701 | 57 | |
7 Jan 1701 | Sir Philip Sydenham, 3rd baronet | c 1676 | 10 Oct 1739 | ||
James Anderton (to 1705) | 22 Aug 1661 | after 1705 | |||
26 Nov 1701 | Sir Francis Wyndham, 3rd baronet | c 1654 | 22 Mar 1716 | ||
18 May 1705 | Edward Strode | 1651 | 5 Apr 1708 | 56 | |
John Webb | 1671 | after 1708 | |||
8 May 1708 | Edward Phelips (to 1715) | c 1677 | 13 May 1734 | ||
James Johnston | 9 Sep 1655 | 3 May 1737 | 81 | ||
12 Oct 1710 | Samuel Masham, later [1712] 1st Baron Masham of Otes | c 1679 | 16 Oct 1758 | ||
2 Jun 1711 | Sir James Bateman | 29 Apr 1660 | 9 Nov 1718 | 58 | |
4 Feb 1715 | William Bellamy | c 1672 | 10 Mar 1733 | ||
John Hopkins | c 1663 | 25 Apr 1732 | |||
22 Mar 1722 | William Burroughs | after 1732 | |||
Daniel Moore (to 1727) | after 1727 | ||||
11 Dec 1722 | Thomas Paget | c 1685 | 28 May 1741 | ||
21 Aug 1727 | Charles Lockyer (to 1747) | 13 Feb 1752 | |||
Thomas Crisp | c 1690 | 3 Apr 1758 | |||
30 Apr 1734 | Sir Robert Brown, 1st baronet | 5 Oct 1760 | |||
27 Jun 1747 | Francis Fane | c 1698 | 27 May 1757 | ||
Thomas Lockyer (to 1761) | 19 Sep 1699 | 9 Jul 1785 | 85 | ||
15 Apr 1754 | John Talbot | c 1712 | 23 Sep 1756 | ||
8 Dec 1756 | Joseph Tolson Lockyer (to 1765) | 15 Feb 1729 | 5 Apr 1765 | 36 | |
27 Mar 1761 | John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont [I] [he was also returned for Bridgwater, for which he chose to sit] | 24 Feb 1711 | 20 Dec 1770 | 58 | |
4 Dec 1761 | William Wilson (to 1768) | c 1720 | 12 Dec 1796 | ||
26 Apr 1765 | Peter Legh (to 1774) | 4 Mar 1723 | 12 Aug 1804 | 81 | |
16 Mar 1768 | Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th baronet, later [1776] 1st Baron Brownlow | 3 Dec 1744 | 25 Dec 1807 | 63 | |
8 Oct 1774 | Peregrine Cust | 19 May 1723 | 2 Jan 1785 | 61 | |
William Innes | 29 Jul 1719 | 14 Jan 1795 | 75 | ||
Election declared void 4 Dec 1775 | |||||
14 Dec 1775 | Nathaniel Webb | 21 Aug 1725 | Nov 1786 | 61 | |
Owen Salusbury-Brereton | c 1715 | 9 Sep 1798 | |||
7 Sep 1780 | Peregrine Cust (to 1785) | 19 May 1723 | 2 Jan 1785 | 61 | |
Samuel Smith | 19 Mar 1755 | 15 Jun 1793 | 38 | ||
2 Apr 1784 | Benjamin Bond-Hopkins (to 1790) | c 1745 | 30 Jan 1794 | ||
8 Feb 1785 | John Harcourt [he was unseated on petition in favour of George Johnstone 22 Feb 1786] | c Jan 1826 | |||
22 Feb 1786 | George Johnstone | 1730 | 24 May 1787 | 56 | |
24 Feb 1787 | George Sumner (Holme-Sumner from 1794) | 10 Nov 1760 | 26 Jun 1838 | 77 | |
22 Jun 1790 | John Harcourt | c Jan 1826 | |||
Samuel Long | 5 Aug 1746 | 19 Oct 1807 | 61 | ||
27 May 1796 | Sir Robert Clayton | c 1740 | 10 May 1799 | ||
William Dickinson (to 1802) | 1 Nov 1771 | 19 Jan 1837 | 65 | ||
28 May 1799 | Lewis Bayly | 1775 | 10 Aug 1848 | 73 | |
5 Jul 1802 | William Hunter | c 1769 | 31 May 1815 | ||
Thomas Plummer | c 1749 | 4 Apr 1818 | |||
Election declared void 29 Mar 1803 | |||||
5 Apr 1803 | Charles Brooke (to 1806) | 30 Jan 1760 | 22 May 1833 | 73 | |
Sir William Manners (Talmash from 1821), 1st baronet, styled Lord Huntingtower from 1821 [his election was declared void 7 Mar 1804] | 19 May 1766 | 11 Mar 1833 | 66 | ||
16 Mar 1804 | John Manners | c 1768 | 13 Feb 1837 | ||
31 Oct 1806 | Sir William Manners (Talmash from 1821), 1st baronet, styled Lord Huntingtower from 1821 | 19 May 1766 | 11 Mar 1833 | 66 | |
Nathaniel Saxon | c 1766 | 8 May 1844 | |||
5 May 1807 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 4 Nov 1751 | 7 Jul 1816 | 64 | |
Michael Angelo Taylor | 13 Jul 1757 | 16 Mar 1834 | 77 | ||
6 Oct 1812 | John William Ward, later [1827] 1st Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle | 9 Aug 1781 | 6 Mar 1833 | 51 | |
George Philips, later [1828] 1st baronet | 24 Mar 1766 | 3 Oct 1847 | 81 | ||
17 Jun 1818 | Sir Isaac Coffin (to 1826) | 16 May 1759 | 23 Jul 1839 | 80 | |
John William Drage Merest | 10 Jun 1789 | 1 Oct 1873 | 84 | ||
7 Mar 1820 | Stephen Lushington | 14 Jan 1782 | 19 Jan 1873 | 91 | |
9 Jun 1826 | Richard Sharp | 1759 | 30 Mar 1835 | 75 | |
John Williams [kt 1834] | 10 Feb 1777 | 15 Sep 1846 | 69 | ||
[the names of Sharp and Williams were erased from the return and those of Lionel Talmash and Felix Thomas Talmash substituted 22 Feb 1827] | |||||
22 Feb 1827 | Lionel William John Tollemache, later [1840] 8th Earl of Dysart [S] | 18 Nov 1794 | 23 Sep 1878 | 83 | |
Felix Thomas Tollemache | 16 Feb 1796 | 5 Oct 1843 | 47 | ||
31 Jul 1830 | Michael Bruce | 28 May 1787 | 4 Nov 1861 | 74 | |
James Joseph Hope-Vere | 3 Jun 1785 | 19 May 1843 | 57 | ||
30 Apr 1831 | Stephen Lushington | 14 Jan 1782 | 19 Jan 1873 | 91 | |
Edward Robert Petre | 26 Sep 1794 | 8 Jun 1848 | 53 | ||
CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832 | |||||
ILFORD | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Sir William Peter Griggs | 1 Nov 1853 | 11 Aug 1920 | 66 | |
25 Sep 1920 | Fredric Wise [kt 1924] | 1871 | 26 Jan 1928 | 56 | |
23 Feb 1928 | Sir George Clements Hamilton, later [1937] 1st baronet | 1 Nov 1877 | 12 Jan 1947 | 69 | |
29 Jun 1937 | Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, later [1962] Baron Ilford [L] | 14 Oct 1893 | 20 Aug 1974 | 80 | |
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1945 | |||||
ILFORD NORTH | |||||
26 Jul 1945 | Mabel Ridealgh | 11 Aug 1898 | 20 Jun 1989 | 90 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Sir Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, later [1962] Baron Ilford [L] | 14 Oct 1893 | 20 Aug 1974 | 80 | |
3 Feb 1954 | Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger | 14 Mar 1916 | 13 May 1998 | 82 | |
10 Oct 1974 | Millie Miller | Apr 1923 | 29 Oct 1977 | 54 | |
2 Mar 1978 | Vivian Walter Hough Bendall | 14 Dec 1938 | |||
1 May 1997 | Linda Perham | 29 Jun 1947 | |||
5 May 2005 | Lee Scott | 6 Apr 1956 | |||
7 May 2015 | Wesley Paul William Streeting | 21 Jan 1983 | |||
ILFORD SOUTH | |||||
26 Jul 1945 | James Ranger | 1889 | 26 Apr 1975 | 85 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Albert Edward Cooper | 23 Sep 1910 | 12 May 1986 | 75 | |
31 Mar 1966 | Arnold John Shaw | 12 Jul 1909 | 27 Jun 1984 | 74 | |
18 Jun 1970 | Albert Edward Cooper | 23 Sep 1910 | 12 May 1986 | 75 | |
28 Feb 1974 | Arnold John Shaw | 12 Jul 1909 | 27 Jun 1984 | 74 | |
3 May 1979 | Neil Gordon Thorne [kt 1992] | 8 Aug 1932 | |||
9 Apr 1992 | Michael John Gapes | 4 Sep 1952 | |||
12 Dec 2019 | Samuel Peter Tarry | 27 Aug 1982 | |||
ILKESTON (DERBYSHIRE) | |||||
2 Dec 1885 | Thomas Watson | 1823 | 7 Mar 1887 | 63 | |
24 Mar 1887 | Sir Balthazar Walter Foster, later [1910] 1st Baron Ilkeston | 17 Jul 1840 | 31 Jan 1913 | 72 | |
7 Mar 1910 | John Edward Bernard Seely, later [1933] 1st Baron Mottistone | 31 May 1868 | 7 Nov 1947 | 79 | |
15 Nov 1922 | George Harold Oliver | 24 Nov 1888 | 22 Sep 1984 | 95 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Abraham John Flint | 27 Mar 1903 | 23 Jan 1971 | 67 | |
14 Nov 1935 | George Harold Oliver | 24 Nov 1888 | 22 Sep 1984 | 95 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Leopold Raymond Fletcher | 3 Dec 1921 | 16 Mar 1991 | 69 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
INCE (LANCASHIRE) | |||||
27 Nov 1885 | Henry Blundell Blundell | 24 Jan 1831 | 28 Sep 1906 | 75 | |
Jul 1892 | Samuel Woods | 10 May 1846 | 23 Nov 1915 | 69 | |
18 Jul 1895 | Henry Blundell Blundell | 24 Jan 1831 | 28 Sep 1906 | 75 | |
18 Jan 1906 | Stephen Walsh | 26 Aug 1859 | 16 Mar 1929 | 69 | |
30 May 1929 | Gordon Macdonald [kt 1946], later [1949] 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaensygor | 27 May 1888 | 29 Jan 1966 | 77 | |
20 Oct 1942 | Thomas James Brown | 12 Aug 1886 | 10 Nov 1970 | 84 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Michael Thomas Francis McGuire | 3 May 1926 | |||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
INVERCLYDE | |||||
5 May 2005 | John David Cairns | 7 Aug 1966 | 9 May 2011 | 44 | |
30 Jun 2011 | Iain McKenzie | 4 Apr 1959 | |||
7 May 2015 | Ronnie Cowan | 6 Sep 1959 | |||
INVERNESS (INVERNESS-SHIRE) | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Thomas Brash Morison | 21 Nov 1868 | 28 Jul 1945 | 76 | |
16 Mar 1922 | Sir Murdoch Macdonald | 6 May 1866 | 24 Apr 1957 | 90 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Lord Malcolm Avondale Douglas‑Hamilton For further information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
12 Nov 1909 | 21 Jul 1964 | 54 | |
21 Dec 1954 | Neil Loudon Desmond McLean | 28 Nov 1918 | 17 Nov 1986 | 67 | |
15 Oct 1964 | (David) Russell Johnston [kt 1985], later [1997] Baron Russell‑Johnston [L] | 28 Jul 1932 | 27 Jul 2008 | 75 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "INVERNESS, NAIRN AND LOCHABER" 1983 | |||||
INVERNESS BURGHS | |||||
Inverness Burghs (also called Inverness District of Burghs) consisted of the burghs of Inverness (Inverness-shire), Forres (Elginshire), Fortrose (Ross-shire), and Nairn (Nairnshire) | |||||
26 May 1708 | Alexander Duff | 1657 | 22 Aug 1726 | 69 | |
27 Oct 1710 | George Mackenzie, later [1728] 4th baronet | c 1662 | 1 Apr 1760 | ||
17 Sep 1713 | William Steuart | 25 May 1686 | 13 Sep 1768 | 82 | |
13 Apr 1722 | Alexander Gordon [he was unseated on petition in favour of Duncan Forbes 23 Oct 1722] | Mar 1753 | |||
23 Oct 1722 | Duncan Forbes | 10 Nov 1685 | 10 Dec 1747 | 62 | |
21 Jul 1737 | Duncan Urquhart | 11 Jan 1742 | |||
28 May 1741 | Kenneth Mackenzie | Nov 1717 | 18 Oct 1761 | 43 | |
22 Jul 1747 | Alexander Brodie | 28 Apr 1770 | |||
9 May 1754 | John Campbell | 1695 | 6 Sep 1777 | 82 | |
20 Apr 1761 | Sir Alexander Grant, 5th baronet | 1 Aug 1772 | |||
11 Apr 1768 | Hector Munro [kt 1779] | 1726 | 27 Dec 1805 | 79 | |
30 Jul 1802 | Alexander Penrose Cumming-Gordon, later [1804] 1st baronet | 19 May 1749 | 10 Feb 1806 | 56 | |
26 Dec 1803 | George Cumming | 20 Nov 1752 | 1 May 1834 | 81 | |
24 Nov 1806 | Francis William Grant, later [1840] 6th Earl of Seafield | 6 Mar 1778 | 30 Jul 1853 | 75 | |
30 May 1807 | Peter Baillie | 1771 | 1 Sep 1811 | 40 | |
4 Nov 1811 | Charles Grant, later [1835] 1st Baron Glenelg | 26 Oct 1778 | 23 Apr 1866 | 87 | |
11 Jul 1818 | George Cumming | 20 Nov 1752 | 1 May 1834 | 81 | |
3 Jul 1826 | Robert Grant | 15 Jan 1780 | 9 Jul 1838 | 58 | |
23 Aug 1830 | John Baillie | 10 May 1772 | 20 Apr 1833 | 60 | |
23 May 1831 | Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce | 20 Feb 1790 | 1 Jan 1875 | 84 | |
24 Dec 1832 | John Baillie | 10 May 1772 | 20 Apr 1833 | 60 | |
17 May 1833 | Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce | 20 Feb 1790 | 1 Jan 1875 | 84 | |
29 Jul 1837 | Roderick MacLeod | 24 Nov 1786 | 13 Mar 1853 | 66 | |
4 Mar 1840 | James Morrison | 6 Sep 1789 | 30 Oct 1857 | 68 | |
6 Aug 1847 | Alexander Matheson, later [1882] 1st baronet | 16 Jan 1805 | 26 Jul 1886 | 81 | |
17 Nov 1868 | Aeneas William Mackintosh | 7 Sep 1819 | 18 Jun 1900 | 80 | |
9 Feb 1874 | Charles Fraser-Mackintosh | 1828 | 25 Jan 1901 | 72 | |
30 Nov 1885 | Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later [1919] 1st Viscount Finlay | 11 Jul 1842 | 9 Mar 1929 | 86 | |
Jul 1892 | Gilbert Beith | 1827 | 5 Jul 1904 | 77 | |
20 Jul 1895 | Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later [1919] 1st Viscount Finlay | 11 Jul 1842 | 9 Mar 1929 | 86 | |
19 Jan 1906 | John Annan Bryce | 1841 | 25 Jun 1923 | 81 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
INVERNESS, NAIRN AND LOCHABER | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | (David) Russell Johnston [kt 1985], later [1997] Baron Russell‑Johnston [L] | 28 Jul 1932 | 27 Jul 2008 | 75 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "INVERNESS EAST, NAIRN AND LOCHABER" 1997 | |||||
INVERNESS EAST, NAIRN AND LOCHABER | |||||
1 May 1997 | David John Stewart | 5 May 1956 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "INVERNESS, NAIRN, BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY" 2005 | |||||
INVERNESS, NAIRN, BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY | |||||
5 May 2005 | Daniel Grian Alexander [kt 2015] | 15 May 1972 | |||
7 May 2015 | Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry | 21 May 1964 | |||
INVERNESS-SHIRE | |||||
21 Jun 1708 | Alexander Grant | after 1673 | 19 Aug 1719 | ||
3 Nov 1710 | Alexander McKenzie | c 1683 | 3 Jun 1755 | ||
24 Feb 1715 | John Forbes | c 1673 | 18 Dec 1734 | ||
12 Apr 1722 | Sir James Grant, 6th baronet | 28 Jul 1679 | 16 Jan 1747 | 67 | |
25 May 1741 | Norman Macleod | 1706 | 21 Feb 1772 | 65 | |
16 May 1754 | Pryse Campbell | 1727 | 14 Dec 1768 | 41 | |
2 May 1761 | Simon Fraser | 19 Oct 1726 | 8 Feb 1782 | 55 | |
28 Mar 1782 | Archibald Campbell Fraser | 16 Aug 1736 | 8 Dec 1815 | 79 | |
29 Apr 1784 | Lord William Gordon | 15 Aug 1744 | 1 May 1823 | 78 | |
27 Jul 1790 | Norman Macleod | 4 Mar 1754 | 16 Apr 1801 | 47 | |
24 Jun 1796 | John Simon Frederick Fraser | Sep 1765 | 6 Apr 1803 | 37 | |
3 Aug 1802 | Charles Grant | Mar 1746 | 31 Oct 1823 | 77 | |
14 Jul 1818 | Charles Grant, later [1835] 1st Baron Glenelg | 26 Oct 1778 | 23 Apr 1866 | 87 | |
15 May 1835 | Alexander William Chisholm | c 1811 | 8 Sep 1838 | ||
12 Jun 1838 | Francis William Grant | 5 Oct 1814 | 11 Mar 1840 | 25 | |
31 Mar 1840 | Henry James Baillie | Mar 1803 | 16 Dec 1885 | 82 | |
19 Nov 1868 | Donald Cameron | 5 Apr 1835 | 30 Nov 1905 | 70 | |
5 Dec 1885 | Charles Fraser-Mackintosh | 1828 | 25 Jan 1901 | 72 | |
Jul 1892 | Donald MacGregor | 1839 | 20 Jul 1911 | 72 | |
13 Jun 1895 | James Evan Bruce Baillie | 8 Jan 1859 | 6 May 1931 | 72 | |
11 Oct 1900 | John Alexander Dewar, later [1907] 1st baronet and [1917] 1st Baron Forteviot | 6 Jun 1856 | 23 Nov 1929 | 73 | |
2 Jan 1917 | Thomas Brash Morison | 21 Nov 1868 | 28 Jul 1945 | 76 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1918 SEE "INVERNESS", "ROSS AND CROMARTY" AND "WESTERN ISLES" |
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IPSWICH (SUFFOLK) | |||||
11 Apr 1660 | Nathaniel Bacon | 12 Dec 1593 | Aug 1660 | 66 | |
Francis Bacon (to 1661) | 30 Sep 1600 | c Sep 1663 | 62 | ||
29 Oct 1660 | Sir Frederick Cornwallis, 1st baronet, later [1661] 1st Baron Cornwallis | 14 Mar 1611 | 7 Jan 1662 | 50 | |
17 Apr 1661 | John Sicklemore | c 1612 | mid 1670 | ||
William Blois (to 1674) | 7 Jul 1600 | 13 Nov 1673 | 73 | ||
9 Nov 1670 | John Wright (to 1685) | 9 Apr 1615 | 29 Nov 1683 | 68 | |
22 Jan 1674 | Gilbert Lindfield | 1680 | |||
14 Dec 1680 | Sir John Barker, 4th baronet (to 1696) | c 1655 | 14 Aug 1696 | ||
16 Mar 1685 | Sir Nicholas Bacon | c 1622 | 1687 | ||
12 Jan 1689 | Peyton Ventris | Nov 1645 | 6 Apr 1691 | 45 | |
28 May 1689 | Sir Charles Blois, 1st baronet | 14 Sep 1657 | 10 Apr 1738 | 80 | |
31 Oct 1695 | Charles Whitaker (to 1698) | c 1642 | 19 Jun 1715 | ||
10 Nov 1696 | Richard Philips (to Jan 1701) | c 1640 | 8 Jan 1720 | ||
26 Jul 1698 | Samuel Barnardiston, later [1707] 2nd baronet | 28 Jan 1660 | 3 Jan 1710 | 49 | |
9 Jan 1701 | Joseph Martin [kt 1712] | c 1649 | 16 Aug 1729 | ||
Sir Charles Duncombe | 16 Nov 1648 | 9 Apr 1711 | 62 | ||
9 Dec 1701 | Charles Whitaker (to 1705) | c 1642 | 19 Jun 1715 | ||
Richard Philips | c 1640 | 8 Jan 1720 | |||
29 Jul 1702 | John Bence (to 1708) | 27 Sep 1670 | 18 Oct 1718 | 48 | |
11 May 1705 | Henry Poley | 5 Jan 1654 | 7 Aug 1707 | 53 | |
21 Nov 1707 | William Churchill (to 1714) | 11 Aug 1661 | Feb 1737 | 75 | |
6 May 1708 | Sir William Barker, 5th baronet | c 1685 | 23 Jul 1731 | ||
3 Sep 1713 | William Thompson | c 1676 | 27 Oct 1739 | ||
Both sitting members (Churchill and Thompson) were unseated on petition in favour of Richard Richardson and Orlando Bridgeman 1 Apr 1714 | |||||
1 Apr 1714 | Richard Richardson | c 1664 | 31 Dec 1714 | ||
Orlando Bridgeman | 22 Jun 1680 | 24 Apr 1731 | 50 | ||
28 Jan 1715 | William Thompson [kt Jul 1715] (to 1730) | c 1676 | 27 Oct 1739 | ||
William Churchill | 11 Aug 1661 | Feb 1737 | 75 | ||
13 Dec 1717 | Francis Negus (to 1733) | 3 May 1670 | 9 Sep 1732 | 62 | |
27 Jan 1730 | Philip Broke (to 1734) | 1702 | 21 Sep 1762 | 60 | |
19 Jan 1733 | William Wollaston (to 1741) | 26 Apr 1693 | 20 Jun 1757 | 64 | |
25 Apr 1734 | Samuel Kent (to 1759) | c 1683 | 8 Oct 1759 | ||
8 May 1741 | Edward Vernon | 12 Nov 1684 | 30 Oct 1757 | 72 | |
7 Dec 1757 | Thomas Staunton (to 1784) | 13 Mar 1707 | 1 Oct 1784 | 77 | |
20 Nov 1759 | George Montgomerie | 30 Aug 1712 | 26 Mar 1766 | 53 | |
27 Mar 1761 | Francis Vernon, later [1762] 1st Baron Orwell [I], [1776] 1st Viscount Orwell [I] and [1777] 1st Earl of Shipbrook [I] | c 1715 | 15 Oct 1783 | ||
16 Mar 1768 | William Wollaston | Feb 1731 | 10 Nov 1797 | 66 | |
3 Apr 1784 | William Fowle Middleton, later [1804] 1st baronet (to 1790) | 8 Nov 1748 | 26 Dec 1829 | 81 | |
John Cator [his election was declared void 18 Jun 1784] | 12 Mar 1728 | 21 Feb 1806 | 77 | ||
25 Jun 1784 | Charles Alexander Crickett (to 1803) | 12 Jan 1736 | 16 Jan 1803 | 67 | |
18 Jun 1790 | Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, 6th baronet | Jan 1754 | 5 Jan 1818 | 63 | |
28 May 1796 | Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st baronet (to 1806) | 28 Dec 1738 | 12 Oct 1828 | 89 | |
8 Feb 1803 | William Fowle Middleton, later [1804] 1st baronet | 8 Nov 1748 | 26 Dec 1829 | 81 | |
29 Oct 1806 | Richard Wilson | 5 Oct 1759 | 7 Jun 1834 | 74 | |
Robert Stopford [kt 1815] | 5 Feb 1768 | 25 Jun 1847 | 79 | ||
6 May 1807 | Home Riggs Popham [kt 1815] | 12 Oct 1762 | 11 Sep 1820 | 57 | |
Robert Alexander Crickett (to Jun 1820) | 1784 | 3 Jan 1832 | 47 | ||
[following the general election in Apr 1820, his name was erased from the return and that of Thomas Barrett‑Leonard substituted 14 Jun 1820] | |||||
5 Oct 1812 | John Round | 8 Mar 1783 | 28 Apr 1860 | 77 | |
4 Jul 1818 | William Newton | c 1783 | 4 Nov 1862 | ||
14 Apr 1820 | William Haldimand (to 1827) | 9 Sep 1784 | 20 Sep 1862 | 78 | |
14 Jun 1820 | Thomas Barrett-Lennard | 4 Oct 1788 | 9 Jun 1856 | 67 | |
17 Jun 1826 | Robert Torrens For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
1780 | 27 May 1864 | 83 | |
[the names of the sitting members (Haldimand and Torrens) were erased from the return and those of Robert Adam Dundas and Charles Mackinnon substituted 23 Feb 1827] | |||||
23 Feb 1827 | Robert Adam Dundas (Christopher 1836‑1855, then Nisbet‑Hamilton) | 9 Feb 1804 | 9 Jun 1877 | 73 | |
Charles Mackinnon | 1773 | 19 Oct 1833 | 60 | ||
4 May 1831 | James Morrison | 6 Sep 1789 | 30 Oct 1857 | 68 | |
Rigby Wason | 12 Apr 1797 | 24 Jul 1875 | 78 | ||
8 Jan 1835 | Fitzroy Kelly [kt 1845] | 1 Oct 1796 | 18 Sep 1880 | 83 | |
Robert Adam Dundas (Christopher 1836‑1855, then Nisbet‑Hamilton) | 9 Feb 1804 | 9 Jun 1877 | 73 | ||
Election declared void 9 Jun 1835 | |||||
19 Jun 1835 | James Morrison | 6 Sep 1789 | 30 Oct 1857 | 68 | |
Rigby Wason | 12 Apr 1797 | 24 Jul 1875 | 78 | ||
27 Jul 1837 | Thomas Milner Gibson (to 1839) | 3 Sep 1806 | 25 Feb 1884 | 77 | |
Henry Tufnell [he was unseated on petition in favour of Fitzroy Kelly 26 Feb 1838] | 1805 | 15 Jun 1854 | 48 | ||
26 Feb 1838 | Fitzroy Kelly [kt 1845] (to 1841) | 1 Oct 1796 | 18 Sep 1880 | 83 | |
15 Jul 1839 | Sir Thomas John Cochrane | 5 Feb 1789 | 19 Oct 1872 | 83 | |
3 Jul 1841 | Rigby Wason | 12 Apr 1797 | 24 Jul 1875 | 78 | |
George Rennie | 1802 | 22 Mar 1860 | 57 | ||
Election declared void 25 Apr 1842 | |||||
3 Jun 1842 | Otway O'Connor Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart [I] | 12 Oct 1818 | 1 Apr 1865 | 46 | |
Thomas Gladstone, later [1851] 2nd baronet | 25 Jul 1804 | 20 Mar 1889 | 84 | ||
Election declared void 30 Jul 1842 | |||||
17 Aug 1842 | John Neilson Gladstone | 18 Jan 1807 | 7 Feb 1863 | 56 | |
Sackville Walter Lane-Fox | 24 Mar 1797 | 18 Aug 1877 | 80 | ||
30 Jul 1847 | John Chevallier Cobbold | 24 Aug 1797 | 6 Oct 1882 | 85 | |
Sir Hugh Edward Adair, later [1886] 3rd baronet (to 1874) | 26 Dec 1815 | 2 Mar 1902 | 86 | ||
20 Nov 1868 | Henry Wyndham West | 1823 | 25 Nov 1893 | 70 | |
6 Feb 1874 | John Patteson Cobbold | 12 Jul 1831 | 10 Dec 1875 | 44 | |
James Redfoord Bulwer (to 1880) | 22 May 1820 | 4 Mar 1899 | 78 | ||
1 Jan 1876 | Thomas Clement Cobbold (to 1883) | 22 Jul 1833 | 21 Nov 1883 | 50 | |
2 Apr 1880 | Jesse Collings (to 1886) | 2 Dec 1831 | 20 Nov 1920 | 88 | |
12 Dec 1883 | Henry Wyndham West | 7 Nov 1823 | 25 Nov 1893 | 70 | |
[following the general election in Nov 1885, the two sitting members (Collings and West) were unseated on petition 1 Apr 1886] | |||||
14 Apr 1886 | Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st baronet (to 1906) | 15 Oct 1839 | 20 Jun 1916 | 76 | |
Hugo Richard Charteris, styled Lord Elcho, later [1914] 11th Earl of Wemyss [S] and 7th Earl of March [S] | 25 Aug 1857 | 12 Jul 1937 | 79 | ||
15 Jul 1895 | Daniel Ford Goddard [kt 1907] (to 1918) | 17 Jan 1850 | 6 May 1922 | 72 | |
12 Jan 1906 | Felix Thornley Cobbold | 8 Sep 1841 | 6 Dec 1909 | 68 | |
15 Jan 1910 | Charles Silvester Horne | 15 Apr 1865 | 2 May 1914 | 49 | |
23 May 1914 | Francis John Childs Ganzoni, later [1929] 1st baronet and [1938] 1st Baron Belstead (to 1923) | 19 Jan 1882 | 15 Aug 1958 | 76 | |
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1918 | |||||
6 Dec 1923 | Robert Frederick Jackson | 28 May 1880 | 28 Jan 1951 | 70 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Francis John Childs Ganzoni, later [1929] 1st baronet and [1938] 1st Baron Belstead (to 1938) | 19 Jan 1882 | 15 Aug 1958 | 76 | |
16 Feb 1938 | Richard Rapier Stokes | 27 Jan 1897 | 3 Aug 1957 | 60 | |
24 Oct 1957 | Dingle Mackintosh Foot [kt 1964] | 24 Aug 1905 | 18 Jun 1978 | 72 | |
18 Jun 1970 | Ernle David Drummond Money | 17 Feb 1931 | 14 Apr 2013 | 82 | |
10 Oct 1974 | Kenneth Thomas Weetch | 17 Sep 1933 | |||
11 Jun 1987 | Michael Fraser Irvine | 21 Oct 1939 | |||
9 Apr 1992 | James Charles Cann | 28 Jun 1946 | 15 Oct 2001 | 55 | |
22 Nov 2001 | Christopher David Mole | 16 Mar 1958 | |||
6 May 2010 | Benedict Michael Gummer | 19 Feb 1978 | |||
8 Jun 2017 | Alexander Gordon ("Sandy") Martin | 2 May 1957 | |||
12 Dec 2019 | Thomas Patrick Hunt | ||||
ISLE OF ELY | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Colin Reith Coote [kt 1962] | 18 Oct 1893 | 8 Jun 1979 | 85 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Norman Coates | 27 Apr 1890 | |||
6 Dec 1923 | Henry Ludwig Mond, later [1930] 2nd Baron Melchett | 10 May 1898 | 22 Jan 1949 | 50 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas‑Tooth (Munro-Lucas-Tooth from 1965), 1st baronet | 13 Jan 1903 | 18 Nov 1985 | 82 | |
30 May 1929 | James Armand Edmond de Rothschild | 1 Dec 1878 | 7 May 1957 | 78 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Edward Alexander Henry Legge‑Bourke [kt 1960] | 16 May 1914 | 21 May 1973 | 59 | |
26 Jul 1973 | Clement Raphael Freud [kt 1987] | 24 Apr 1924 | 15 Apr 2009 | 84 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
ISLE OF THANET (KENT) | |||||
1 Dec 1885 | Edward Robert King-Harman | 1838 | 10 Jun 1888 | 49 | |
29 Jun 1888 | James Lowther | 1 Dec 1840 | 12 Sep 1904 | 63 | |
7 Oct 1904 | Harry Hananel Marks | 9 Apr 1855 | 22 Dec 1916 | 61 | |
25 Jan 1910 | Norman Carlyle Craig | 15 Nov 1868 | 14 Oct 1919 | 50 | |
15 Nov 1919 | Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, later [1940] 2nd Viscount Rothermere | 29 May 1898 | 12 Jul 1978 | 80 | |
30 May 1929 | Harold Harington Balfour, later [1945] 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye | 1 Nov 1897 | 21 Sep 1988 | 90 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Edward Carson | 17 Feb 1920 | 6 Mar 1987 | 67 | |
12 Mar 1953 | William Rupert Rees-Davies | 19 Nov 1916 | 12 Jan 1992 | 75 | |
SEAT SPLIT INTO "THANET EAST" AND "THANET WEST" FEB 1974 | |||||
ISLE OF WIGHT | |||||
17 Dec 1832 | Sir Richard Godin Simeon, 2nd baronet | 21 May 1784 | 11 Jan 1854 | 69 | |
10 Aug 1837 | William Henry Ashe A'Court‑Holmes, later [1860] 2nd Baron Heytesbury | 11 Jul 1809 | 21 Apr 1891 | 81 | |
10 Aug 1847 | John Simeon, later [1854] 3rd baronet | 5 Feb 1815 | 21 May 1870 | 55 | |
29 May 1851 | Edward Dawes | c 1801 | 27 Jan 1856 | ||
23 Jul 1852 | Francis Vernon Harcourt | 6 Jan 1801 | 23 Apr 1880 | 79 | |
6 Apr 1857 | Charles Cavendish Clifford, later [1892] 4th baronet | 7 Jan 1821 | 22 Nov 1895 | 74 | |
22 Jul 1865 | Sir John Simeon | 5 Feb 1815 | 21 May 1870 | 55 | |
13 Jun 1870 | Alexander Dundas Wishart Ross Baillie-Cochrane, later [1880] 1st Baron Lamington | 24 Nov 1816 | 15 Feb 1890 | 73 | |
10 Apr 1880 | Anthony Evelyn Melbourne Ashley | 24 Jul 1836 | 16 Nov 1907 | 71 | |
28 Nov 1885 | Sir Richard Everard Webster, later [1899] 1st baronet and [1913] 1st Viscount Alverstone | 22 Dec 1842 | 15 Dec 1915 | 72 | |
23 May 1900 | John Edward Bernard Seely, later [1933] 1st Baron Mottistone | 31 May 1868 | 7 Nov 1947 | 79 | |
24 Jan 1906 | Godfrey Baring, later [1911] 1st baronet | 18 Apr 1871 | 24 Nov 1957 | 86 | |
21 Jan 1910 | Douglas Bernard Hall [kt 1919] | 24 Dec 1866 | 30 Jun 1923 | 66 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Sir Edgar Chatfeild-Clarke | 17 Feb 1863 | 16 Apr 1925 | 62 | |
6 Dec 1923 | John Edward Bernard Seely, later [1933] 1st Baron Mottistone | 31 May 1868 | 7 Nov 1947 | 79 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Peter Drummond Macdonald [kt 1945] | 1895 | 2 Dec 1961 | 66 | |
8 Oct 1959 | Harold Frederick Martin Woodnutt | 23 Nov 1918 | 6 Nov 1974 | 55 | |
28 Feb 1974 | Stephen Sherlock Ross, later [1987] Baron Ross of Newport [L] | 6 Jul 1926 | 10 May 1993 | 66 | |
11 Jun 1987 | Barry John Anthony Field | 4 Jul 1946 | |||
1 May 1997 | Peter Brand | 16 May 1947 | 22 Sep 2023 | 76 | |
7 Jun 2001 | Andrew John Turner | 24 Oct 1953 | |||
8 Jun 2017 | Robert William Henry Seely | 1 Jun 1966 | |||
ISLINGTON CENTRAL | |||||
28 Feb 1974 | John Douglas Grant | 16 Oct 1932 | 29 Sep 2000 | 67 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
ISLINGTON EAST | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Henry Bret Ince | 1830 | 7 May 1889 | 58 | |
6 Jul 1886 | Isaac Cowley Lambert | 1850 | 16 Oct 1918 | 68 | |
Jul 1892 | Benjamin Louis Cohen, later [1905] 1st baronet | 18 Nov 1844 | 8 Nov 1909 | 64 | |
15 Jan 1906 | George Heynes Radford [kt 1916] | 1851 | 5 Oct 1917 | 66 | |
23 Oct 1917 | Edward Smallwood | 29 Aug 1861 | 26 Feb 1939 | 77 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Alfred Baldwin Raper For information on his death, see the note at the foot of this page |
8 May 1889 | 30 Apr 1941 | 51 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, later [1942] 1st baronet | 6 Feb 1897 | 29 Nov 1956 | 59 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Arthur Strettell Comyns-Carr [kt 1949] | 19 Sep 1882 | 20 Apr 1965 | 82 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Robert Inigo Tasker [kt 1931] | 1868 | 28 Feb 1959 | 90 | |
30 May 1929 | Ethel Bentham | 5 Jan 1861 | 19 Jan 1931 | 70 | |
19 Feb 1931 | Elizabeth Leah Manning | 14 Apr 1886 | 15 Sep 1977 | 91 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Thelma Cazalet Keir | 28 May 1899 | 13 Jan 1989 | 89 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Eric George Molyneux Fletcher [kt 1964], later [1970] Baron Fletcher [L] | 26 Mar 1903 | 9 Jun 1990 | 87 | |
18 Jun 1970 | John Douglas Grant | 16 Oct 1932 | 29 Sep 2000 | 67 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974 | |||||
ISLINGTON NORTH | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | George Christopher Trout Bartley [kt 1902] | 22 Nov 1842 | 13 Sep 1910 | 67 | |
15 Jan 1906 | David Sydney Waterlow | 18 Dec 1857 | 25 Aug 1924 | 66 | |
Dec 1910 | George Alexander Touche [kt 1917], later [1920] 1st baronet | 24 May 1861 | 7 Jul 1935 | 74 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Sir Newton James Moore | 17 May 1870 | 28 Oct 1936 | 66 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Sir William Henry Cowan | 22 May 1862 | 11 Jan 1932 | 69 | |
30 May 1929 | Reginald Stanley (Robert) Young | 28 May 1891 | 20 Mar 1985 | 93 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Albert William Goodman | 1880 | 22 Aug 1937 | 57 | |
13 Oct 1937 | Leslie Haden Haden-Guest, later [1950] 1st Baron Haden‑Guest | 10 Mar 1877 | 20 Aug 1960 | 83 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Ronw Moelwyn Hughes | 6 Oct 1897 | 1 Nov 1955 | 58 | |
25 Oct 1951 | Wilfred Fienburgh For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
4 Nov 1919 | 3 Feb 1958 | 38 | |
15 May 1958 | Gerald William Reynolds | 17 Jul 1927 | 7 Jun 1969 | 41 | |
30 Oct 1969 | Michael Joseph O'Halloran | 20 Aug 1933 | 29 Nov 1999 | 66 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Jeremy Bernard Corbyn | 26 May 1949 | |||
ISLINGTON SOUTH | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Henry Spicer | 1837 | 18 Oct 1915 | 78 | |
6 Jul 1886 | Sir Albert Kaye Rollit | 1842 | 12 Aug 1922 | 80 | |
15 Jan 1906 | Thomas Wiles | 19 Jun 1861 | 18 May 1951 | 89 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Charles Frederick Higham [kt 1922] | 17 Jan 1876 | 24 Dec 1938 | 62 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Charles Samuel Garland | 23 Jun 1887 | 6 Dec 1960 | 73 | |
6 Dec 1923 | William Sampson Cluse | 20 Dec 1875 | 8 Sep 1955 | 79 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Tom Forrest Howard | 23 Dec 1888 | 12 Jun 1953 | 64 | |
14 Nov 1935 | William Sampson Cluse | 20 Dec 1875 | 8 Sep 1955 | 79 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
ISLINGTON SOUTH AND FINSBURY | |||||
28 Feb 1974 | George Cunningham | 10 Jun 1931 | 27 Jul 2018 | 87 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Christopher Robert Smith, later [2005] Baron Smith of Finsbury [L] | 24 Jul 1951 | |||
5 May 2005 | Emily Anne Thornberry | 27 Jul 1960 | |||
ISLINGTON SOUTH WEST | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Albert Evans | 10 Jun 1903 | 4 Dec 1988 | 85 | |
18 Jun 1970 | George Cunningham | 10 Jun 1931 | 27 Jul 2018 | 87 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974 | |||||
ISLINGTON WEST | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Richard Chamberlain | 1840 | 2 Apr 1899 | 58 | |
Jul 1892 | Thomas Lough | 1850 | 11 Jan 1922 | 71 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Sir George Samuel Elliott | 1847 | 4 May 1925 | 77 | |
15 Nov 1922 | James Archibald St. George Fitzwarenne Despencer‑Robertson | 7 Nov 1886 | 5 May 1942 | 55 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Frederick Montague, later [1947] 1st Baron Amwell | 8 Oct 1876 | 15 Oct 1966 | 90 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Patrick William Donner [kt 1953] | 4 Dec 1904 | 19 Aug 1988 | 83 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Frederick Montague, later [1947] 1st Baron Amwell | 8 Oct 1876 | 15 Oct 1966 | 90 | |
25 Sep 1947 | Albert Evans | 10 Jun 1903 | 4 Dec 1988 | 85 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
ISLWYN (GWENT) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Neil Gordon Kinnock, later [2005] Baron Kinnock [L] | 28 Mar 1942 | |||
16 Feb 1995 | James Donnelly Touhig, later [2010] Baron Touhig [L] | 5 Dec 1947 | |||
6 May 2010 | Christopher James Evans | 7 Jul 1976 | |||
ITCHEN (SOUTHAMPTON) | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Ralph Morley | 25 Oct 1882 | 14 Jun 1955 | 72 | |
26 May 1955 | Horace Maybray King, later [1971] Baron Maybray‑King [L] | 25 May 1901 | 3 Sep 1986 | 85 | |
27 May 1971 | Richard Charles Mitchell | 22 Aug 1927 | 18 Sep 2003 | 76 | |
9 Jun 1983 | Christopher Robert Chope | 19 May 1947 | |||
9 Apr 1992 | John Yorke Denham | 15 Jul 1953 | |||
7 May 2015 | Royston Matthew Smith GM For details of his actions which led to the award of the George Medal, see the note at the foot of this page |
13 May 1964 | |||
Lord Malcolm Avondale Douglas-Hamilton | ||
MP for Inverness 1950‑1954 | ||
Lord Malcolm was the third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton and 10th Duke of Brandon. The plane which Lord Malcolm was flying disappeared between Monrovia, Liberia and Douala, Cameroon on 21 July 1964. The following articles appeared in The Times - | ||
28 July 1964:- | ||
New York, July 27 - Pan-American Airways and the United States Army Air Rescue Service have joined in the search for Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, whose aircraft is missing over West Africa, friends of the family said here today. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, aged 55 [sic], was reported missing on Saturday. His small aircraft was believed to have come down on a flight to Douala, Cameroon. | ||
Brazzaville, Congolese Republic, July 27 - French Air Force aircraft today conducted a search for Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and two others whose aircraft is believed to be down somewhere between here and Liberia. The Air Force base near here said that it was receiving mysterious S O S signals, leading officers to believe that there are at least one or more survivors. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton was accompanied by his son Niall [aged 21] and another person who is believed to be an American. A commando of French parachute troops, including a medical team, is standing by. | ||
11 August 1964:- | ||
A ground search is now under way for Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, his son Niall, and a passenger, whose aircraft disappeared over West Africa on a flight from Monrovia, Liberia and Douala, Cameroon, on July 21. Helicopters of the Cameroon Air Transport Company are taking part. A substantial reward has been offered by Dr. J.N. Foncha, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Cameroon, and 80 villages in the area have been alerted. | ||
The Duke of Hamilton, who has been taking part in the search for his missing brother, has expressed appreciation of the energetic action taken by the French Air Force. Their search has been continued intensely for 14 days in difficult flying conditions and at times at grave risk, and has covered over 10,000 square miles. The aircraft carried supplies and parachutists ready to jump if anything was seen. | ||
30 January 1965:- | ||
New York, Jan 29 - According to a statement issued here by his wife, the six-month search for Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, who has been missing in West Africa since last summer, may be coming to a tragic close. Since his disappearance while flying an aircraft with his young son, Niall, as passenger, over virgin jungle in the Cameroons, repeated efforts to find him have met with no success. | ||
These efforts, after the initial two-week official search by the French Air Force was abandoned, were sponsored by the Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton Search Fund, organized by his wife and supported by his friends and admirers all over the world. | ||
Two weeks ago, Colonel Daniel T. Brigham, an experienced American air rescue pilot and a close friend of Lord Malcolm, was sent by the search fund to join Mr. James Balmain, British Consul in west Cameroon, who has been in charge of the local aspects of the search. Colonel Brigham arrived on January 10 in Douala, the city in the Republic of the Cameroon which Lord Malcolm was approaching and to which he radioed seven minutes before his expected arrival. | ||
At considerable personal risk to themselves, Colonel Brigham and Mr. William Bond, an experienced British jungle pilot, flew over many thousands of square miles. They were obliged to do this at 300ft to 400ft altitudes, because of low-lying clouds over rain forests and swamps. | ||
In a final attempt to retrace Lord Malcolm's flight pattern, Colonel Brigham and Mr. Bond found that the northwest side of Mt. Cameroon forms an intense magnetic field, capable of distorting radio beacon signals, thus leading pilots up to eight to 10 miles off course. Returning to examine more closely this dangerous area, Colonel Brigham spotted a narrow gorge three-eighths of a mile deep, slashed in the side of the mountain with a 7,000ft drop to the floor. On the north-west side of the gorge, near the top, Colonel Brigham reported seeing what appeared to be a fresh scar, which reflected glints of light. | ||
He said this spot would have been directly on Lord Malcolm's inferential course and altitude in his normal approach to the city of Douala - unaware of the existence of the dangerous magnetic distortion in this section of Mt. Cameroon. Colonel Brigham subsequently determined that this section was charted as a "danger area" on French military maps of the region. This information, however, was not carried on either British or American official air maps, apparently because it had not been communicated to international agencies. Lord Malcolm was flying with both American and British maps. | ||
Colonel Brigham returned to Buea, where he was based, and reported his findings to the British authorities. A new ground party search was immediately organized which left Buea on Saturday, January 16, to go overland to search the floor of the nearly inaccessible 7,000ft gorge down which it is feared that Lord Malcolm's aircraft and its occupants fell after impact. | ||
Robert Torrens, MP for Ipswich 1826-1827, Ashburton 1831‑1832 and Bolton 1832‑1834, and his son, Sir Robert Richard Torrens, MP for Cambridge 1868‑1874 | ||
Both of these MPs had a profound influence upon Australian history. The following article appeared in the Australian monthly magazine Parade in its issue for January 1972:- | ||
An Anglo-Irishman with the gift of the blarney and an exaggerated sense of his own importance and dignity bankrupted South Australia in its foundling days. He was Robert Torrens, a retired colonel of the Royal Marines, a born publicist and a serious student of political economics. He was also one of the band of diverse individuals whose clashing ambitions, personalities and aims made South Australia in its early days a paradise of discord. | ||
For the colony's early bankruptcy, however, the energetic, religious-minded but politically naive Governor George Gawler [1795-1869] was made the scapegoat. He had arrived in South Australia to find an empty treasury, a stack of unpaid bills and a set of factious, negligent and, in some cases, incompetent officials, and he set about retrieving the position in a decisive manner, relying upon his actions being approved and endorsed in England because of the peculiar circumstances which confronted him. Gawler was too trustful, too artless, too confident that his disregard of his instructions would be overlooked because of the needs of necessity. Instead, he found himself accused of irregularities and extravagance, blamed for having sent the colony broke. | ||
The real blame, however, lay elsewhere. It was the mismanagement of the Colonisation Commissioners, and especially of Robert Torrens, their chairman, which led to South Australia's bankruptcy. Torrens allowed his persuasive tongue, his flair for publicity and his personal ambitions to override his good sense as a student of economics and politics. | ||
Born in Ireland in 1773 [actually 1780], he was the son of Robert Torrens, of Harveyhill, County Londonderry. His mother had been Elizabeth Bristow, the daughter of a clergyman in a nearby parish. He first emerges from the obscurity of his boyhood on February 1, 1796, when he was 23 [16] years old. On that day he became a second lieutenant in the Royal Marines. His first years of service in the marines were humdrum enough. He was posted to the Channel Fleet, in which service was always hard and arduous; for the Channel Fleet kept the seas in all kinds of weather and even its short sojourns in port at infrequent intervals meant hard work for all in getting ready for sea again. | ||
Torrens gained his first lieutenancy and by 1806 had been promoted captain, but he had to wait several years for an opportunity to distinguish himself in the service. In May 1809, at the cost of one corporal killed and two privates wounded, a British expedition had seized from the Danes the island of Anholt in the Kattegat. The British needed it as a convenient depot and so that they might keep the lighthouse burning to enable them to navigate the Kattegat without risk of shipwreck to their vessels. Earlier in the year a lightship they had stationed near Anholt to guide their ships had been wrecked, and it was feared that if the Danes doused the lighthouse more Royal Navy ships might be wrecked. | ||
Anholt was garrisoned by a detachment of marines, and in August 1810 Torrens was made their commander. On March 27, 1811, the Danes launched an assault for the recapture of Anholt. The alarm was given just before dawn, when lookouts reported the Danish flotilla off the island. But the Danes were, in fact already ashore, for they had landed under cover of darkness and fog, and when Torrens advanced with his marines he found that he was out-flanked on both wings by the Danish line. | ||
Instead of opposing their landing he found he had to retreat into the island's fixed defences. He was heavily outnumbered - about 2000 to 400. However, the defence had been strengthened by the arrival off the previous evening of the frigate Tartar and the sloop Sheldrake, but they were on the opposite side of the island and with the wind against them were unable to attack the Danish ships. When the Danes tried to storm the British batteries they were flung back by the accurate fire of the marine artillery and, after heavy losses in two unsuccessful attacks, surrendered. The Danish rearguard, under cover of the guns of their ships, was evacuated. Torrens, who had been wounded, was rewarded for his part in the defence of Anholt by being promoted to the brevet rank of major, and on his departure from the island received a sword of 100 guineas from the Royal Marines and another of 100 guineas from the officers. | ||
The remainder of Torrens' service with the Marines seems to have been uneventful. He was made brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1819 and was placed on half-pay in 1823. However, he returned to full pay in 1830, but presumably, because he had become interested in immigration schemes and the foundation of new British colonies, resigned from the service on October 17, 1834. | ||
By now Torrens was a fellow of the Royal Society (1818), the founder of the Political Economy Club (1821) and proprietor of the Whig Traveller. He tried, at first unsuccessfully, to enter the House of Commons [he was returned for Ipswich in 1826, but his name was subsequently erased from the return], and was eventually elected in 1831 [for Ashburton. He also sat for Bolton 1832-1834]. An inveterate publicist, his controversial writings were winning Torrens a name and bringing him before the public. He had been interested in a plan to found a settlement at the Bay of Islands in New Zealand and in the Swan River venture of Thomas Peel [c 1795-1864], but it was not until he actively canvassed for a charter for the South Australian Land Company that he became personally involved in emigration schemes. | ||
After the company failed in 1833, he joined the South Australian Association. As long ago as 1816 he had been hopeful of being appointed Governor of New South Wales, and it seems that he now anticipated receiving the post of Governor in South Australia. Torrens did not get the post, but in May 1835 he was made chairman of the Colonisation Commission. It was a tragic appointment, for a streak in Torrens' character made him entirely unsuited to be an administrator. Yet there was no doubt about his energy. He was tireless in his advocacy of South Australia as a colony. He wrote and lectured about it for six years, seeking to induce capitalists to sink their money in the venture and to recruit emigrants willing to settle in South Australia. | ||
But his administration was a calamity. Almost thoughtlessly, he spent money on publicity to obtain capital and emigrants. He authorised costly surveys which completely disrupted the work of surveying the colony. He insisted that emigrants with capital should receive preference, but set up no machinery to check their claims to the possession of capital, and to satisfy his own vanity he dispensed free passages to the colony with a capriciousness and lavishness that ignored the regulations. Much expenditure that should have been a charge to the company was saddled on the Land Revenue, and generally the finances of the colony were permitted to fall into chaos. Moreover, no real effort was made to direct or control Gawler, who was left to grapple with the practical difficulties of lack of roads, buildings and many other essential works without much help from England. | ||
So South Australia went bankrupt and in 1842 became a Crown colony, and while it would be unfair to lay all the blame on Torrens, he more than any other man was responsible for the failure of this first attempt at systemic colonisation on the principles advanced by Edward Gibbon Wakefield [1796-1862], a leading force in the colonisations of South Australia, Canada and New Zealand]. Yet Torrens did not desert South Australia despite his failure. In the 1840s he helped to form companies to mine copper and to build railways in the distant colony he had never seen. | ||
Torrens was a strange mixture. He was no administrator or financier, but he established a reputation as a writer on economic subjects and was accepted as an authority on this subject. Politically, he was both a Liberal and a Conservative. He advocated vote by ballot, spoke out against monopolies and urged the need to restrict them; and he was an advocate of civil and religious liberty. Yet he was a firm supporter of entrenched authority. He opposed universal suffrage. He believed that political power should remain firmly in the hands of the property owners and moneyed classes. Loquacious and digressive, quick tempered, very concerned about his own dignity, Torrens had not inaptly been described as "a utopian castle builder of baseless fabrics." | ||
It was probably inevitable that South Australia should become a Crown colony, but Torrens undoubtedly hastened the process, perhaps for South Australia's advantage. Yet, when all is said and done, Torrens is probably best remembered today for having lent his name as a place name. The river on which Adelaide stands, the island in the Port River on which the quarantine station is located, the great salt lake which Eyre discovered in 1839, the Adelaide suburb of Torrensville, and the more melodious Torrens Vale for the place south-east of Yankalilla which once was known drearily as Daisy Flats - all these commemorate on the map the man who bankrupted South Australia. | ||
But Torrens Park in Adelaide is not named for Robert Torrens, but for his son. The latter not only migrated to South Australia and resided in Adelaide, but was during the whole of the month of September 1857 its Premier and he gave it, and many other parts of the world as well, something more durable and beneficial than simply a name on its maps. | ||
Robert Richard Torrens was born in Cork in 1814. When he decided to emigrate to South Australia in 1839 he was a clerk in the London Customs House, and on his arrival in Adelaide he became Collector of Customs. His month-long term as Premier and Colonial Secretary followed his election to the House of Assembly after the introduction of responsible government in October 1856. If he was disappointed that his Ministry should have fallen so rapidly, he was at least consoled by the success he achieved in bringing about a simplified system of land registration. | ||
In January 1858 his Act was passed, and the following June he resigned his parliamentary seat to become head of the Land Titles Department, for he wanted to ensure that his Real Property Act would be given a fair trial. Until the introduction of the Torrens Title system, establishing a land title under the old conveyancing system was a costly, time-consuming and risky business. It involved locating and inspecting a whole series of deeds, stretching for many years back, to ensure, firstly, that the seller possessed a good title in the land he was disposing of and, secondly, that there were no encumbrances on the property. Many people had their fingers burnt because the system was complicated. A document might be missed and, having made his purchase, the buyer might suddenly discover that the seller did not have a good title to the land or that there was an undischarged mortgage that had to be repaid. | ||
The system which Torrens introduced was simplicity itself. It was title by registration. At one sweep, Torrens replaced the long series of deeds stretching back almost indefinitely into the past with a single page of a register book at the Titles Office. His reform, of course, was bitterly opposed by the legal profession, which saw the profitable conveyancing work slipping from their grasp. Not only did solicitors draw up the deeds by which titles to land passed from one person to another, but when a sale was made they charged for the lengthy investigation they had to make into the deeds to ensure that their clients were not being taken down. Once a title had been accepted by the Titles Office and inscribed in the Torrens Title Register it was unchallengeable. Any defect which might once have existed was removed. When a property changed hands, all the purchaser had to do was to inspect the Torrens Title Register. He had only one document to deal with instead of perhaps two or three dozen. | ||
The reform proved its worth in South Australia very quickly, and once it had proved itself, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and New Zealand. Torrens Title was adopted, too, in the United States and Canada [to a limited extent], Europe, and later, in England. | ||
Richard Torrens himself wanted to introduce it in England. He left Adelaide in 1863, determined to enter the House of Commons. Thrice he stood and thrice he was defeated. It was not until 1868 that he was elected [for Cambridge]. But no opportunity presented tself for him to introduce his cherished Bill, and in 1874, two years after he had been knighted, he lost his seat. Not until 50 years later was the Torrens System adopted in England. | ||
Alfred Baldwin Raper | ||
MP for Islington East 1918‑1922 | ||
This former MP was lost when the SS Nerissa, in which he was a passenger, was sunk by a German submarine on 30 April 1941. The following report appeared in the 'Manchester Guardian' of 23 July 1941, nearly three months after his death, which was not reported in The Times until 3 October. | ||
It is feared that Mr. Alfred Baldwin Raper, former M.P. for East Islington, was killed when a ship in which he was returning to Britain from America was torpedoed. He had been on a business mission to the United States. At the request of the authorities he postponed his return for some weeks to undertake additional speaking engagements. He was seen by his British friends in a recent "March of Time" film. | ||
In the last war Mr. Raper served as a pilot with the R.F.C. In 1918 he carried out a dangerous mission to Finland while the Germans were in occupation. In 1920 he made a spectacular descent from an aeroplane to test a new parachute. He helped Sir Ernest Shackleton in buying stores for the Murmansk expedition. | ||
A business associate of Mr. Raper told the press "Mr. Raper was playing bridge when the boat was torpedoed. The boats got away, but two or three were overturned by the wash." Another passenger said: "The presumption is that Mr. Raper's boat also overturned. No survivor appears to have seen him again. The ship sank rapidly. No one in Mr, Raper's boat appears to be among the survivors.' | ||
Wilfred Fienburgh | ||
MP for Islington North 1951‑1958 | ||
Fienburgh died following a car accident. The report of the subsequent inquest appeared in The Irish Times of 11 February 1958:- | ||
Mr. Wilfred Fienburgh, the 38-year-old Labour M.P. for North Islington, was looking tired and not his "usual gay self" on the day his car crashed into a lamp-post at Mill Hill, London, and he received fatal injuries. This was stated at the Hendon inquest yesterday, where a verdict of accidental death was recorded. | ||
Mr. Robert John Edwards, deputy editor of the Sunday Express, said that Mr. Fienburgh drove him from Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire) to London on February 1st. "He was complaining of a bad cough. He said it had kept him awake all night, and he did look very tired and was pale. He was not his usual gay self," he said. | ||
Mr. Fienburgh, of Little Cox Pond Farm, Leatherstock Green road, Hemel Hempstead, died in Edgware General Hospital on February 3rd from a fractured skull. | ||
Mr. Edwards said that Mr. Fienburgh had a wartime injury to one leg, and had injured the same leg in a fall from his garage about 18 months ago. He walked with a limp. | ||
Michael Young, of St. Catherine's Precincts, Regent's Park, London, said that on the Saturday morning he saw Mr. Fienburgh, who was working on a survey of housing conditions in East London. He complained of feeling tired and of a cough which was keeping him awake. "We also had some conversation about his car, and he said he was driving it very carefully, because it had a new engine." | ||
Mr. Harold John Rogers, of Uphill road, London N.W., said that he saw Mr. Fienburgh's car in the centre of the road, travelling at about 50-60 m.p.h. "I braked because I saw I was overtaking it, and would not be able to pass it freely. I did not see anything unusual about it," he said. "Then I noticed that although the road turns slightly, the little blue car appeared to be going straight. | ||
"I was continuing to brake all this time, when I suddenly realised that the driver of this car was not doing anything to correct the position. This went on until eventually, of course, the offside wheels mounted the centre island. The car still continued to go straight until it hit the standard. There was no evidence of any loss of control." | ||
Mr. F. Mathersdale, of the Public Carriage Office at Scotland Yard, said he could find nothing, when he examined the car, which could have caused or contributed to the accident. But he added that damage was so extensive that it provided little to go by. | ||
Summing up, the Coroner, Mr. A.P. Cogwell, said: "How, and why, this happened there is no evidence. You have heard how Mr. Fienburgh had not been very well and had not slept well. He had this slight defect in one leg. Whether that played any part in it, is pure supposition." | ||
Royston Matthew Smith GM | ||
MP for Itchen 2015‑ | ||
Smith, together with another civilian named Alistair Neill, was awarded the George Medal for his actions aboard a nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Astute in April 2011. The George Medal is granted in recognition of acts of great bravery. The citation in the London Gazette (issue 60096, page 5855) reads as follows:- | ||
On 8 April 2011 Alistair Neill and Royston Smith were both visitors on board HMS Astute, which was in Southampton for a liaison visit. Many civilians were on board. They were with other guests in the Control Room when they became aware of some loud bangs and saw one of the Naval Officers move towards the corridor. They then heard another bang and saw the same officer collapse to the floor. The gunman (who was an armed sentry on board) then entered the Control Room and shot another officer. | ||
Both men believed the submarine was under terrorist attack and that the sentry would continue to fire until he ran out of ammunition. Alistair Neill was stood in front of the sentry when Royston Smith grabbed the firearm and began to grapple with the sentry. Alistair Neill also wrestled with the sentry and attempted to restrain him against a wall during which the sentry fired his weapon again. They eventually succeeded in wrestling the gun away from the sentry and it dropped to the floor. They managed to pin the sentry to the floor and fought to restrain him. Both men were concerned that the sentry may have further weapons and even explosives. Alistair Neill was injured in the struggle but still managed to hold on to the sentry until Military Police officers arrived at the scene. | ||
Both men placed themselves at great risk by choosing to tackle someone who had shot at least two Naval Officers. By their actions they prevented further shootings and possible death or injury to others on board the submarine. | ||
The gunman was Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, who had apparently been drinking heavily prior to the incident. At his subsequent trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 25 years. | ||
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