THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "P"
Last updated 20/03/2018 (21 Dec 2023)
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.
PADDINGTON
28 Feb 1974 Arthur Charles Latham 14 Aug 1930 3 Dec 2016 86
3 May 1979 John Daniel Wheeler [kt 1990] 1 May 1940
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
PADDINGTON NORTH
25 Nov 1885 Lionel Louis Cohen 1832 26 Jun 1887 54
8 Jul 1887 John Aird, later [1901] 1st baronet 3 Dec 1833 6 Jan 1911 77
17 Jan 1906 Leo George Chiozza Money [kt 1915]
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 13 Jun 1870 25 Sep 1944 74
17 Jan 1910 Arthur Strauss 28 Apr 1847 30 Nov 1920 73
14 Dec 1918 William George Perring [kt 1926] 17 Mar 1866 24 Aug 1937 71
30 May 1929 Brendan Bracken, later [1952] 1st Viscount Bracken 15 Feb 1901 8 Aug 1958 57
26 Jul 1945 Sir Frank Noel Mason‑Macfarlane 23 Oct 1889 12 Aug 1953 63
20 Nov 1946 William James Field 22 May 1909 11 Oct 2002 93
3 Dec 1953 Benjamin Theaker Parkin 21 Apr 1906 3 Jun 1969 63
30 Oct 1969 Arthur Charles Latham 14 Aug 1930 3 Dec 2016 86
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
PADDINGTON SOUTH
25 Nov 1885 Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill 13 Feb 1849 24 Jan 1895 45
10 Feb 1895 Thomas George Fardell [kt 1897] 26 Oct 1833 12 Mar 1917 83
17 Jan 1910 Henry Percy Harris [kt 1917] 8 Sep 1856 23 Aug 1941 84
15 Nov 1922 Henry Douglas King
For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 1 Jun 1877 20 Aug 1930 53
30 Oct 1930 Ernest Augustus Taylor [kt 1952] 17 Apr 1876 11 Mar 1971 94
23 Feb 1950 Somerset Struben de Chair 22 Aug 1911 3 Jan 1995 83
25 Oct 1951 Robert Alexander Allan, later [1973] Baron Allan of Kilmahew [L] 11 Jul 1914 4 Apr 1979 64
31 Mar 1966 Nicholas Paul Scott [kt 1995] 5 Aug 1933 6 Jan 2005 71
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
PAISLEY
21 Dec 1832 Sir John Maxwell, 7th baronet 31 Oct 1768 30 Jul 1844 75
24 Mar 1834 Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford 3 Feb 1798 4 Feb 1838 40
19 Jan 1835 Alexander Graham Speirs 24 Dec 1847
17 Mar 1836 Archibald Hastie 1791 9 Nov 1857 66
11 Dec 1857 Humphrey Ewing Crum‑Ewing 16 Jul 1802 3 Jul 1887 84
7 Feb 1874 William Holms 1827 8 Oct 1903 76
15 Feb 1884 Stewart Clark 1830 21 Nov 1907 77
25 Nov 1885 William Boyle Barbour 1828 13 May 1891 62
1 Jun 1891 William Dunn, later [1895] 1st baronet 22 Sep 1833 31 Mar 1912 78
15 Jan 1906 John Mills McCallum [kt 1912] 1847 10 Jan 1920 72
12 Feb 1920 Herbert Henry Asquith, later [1925] 1st Earl of Oxford & Asquith 12 Sep 1852 15 Feb 1928 75
29 Oct 1924 Edward Rosslyn Mitchell 16 May 1879 31 Oct 1965 86
30 May 1929 James Welsh 29 Jan 1881 16 Dec 1969 88
27 Oct 1931 Joseph Paton Maclay [kt 1946], later [1951] 2nd Baron Maclay 31 May 1899 7 Nov 1969 70
26 Jul 1945 Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, styled Viscount Corvedale, later [1947] 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 1 Mar 1899 10 Aug 1958 59
18 Feb 1948 Douglas Harold Johnston 1 Feb 1907 18 Feb 1985 78
20 Apr 1961 John Robertson 3 Feb 1913 16 May 1987 74
3 May 1979 Allender Steele Adams 16 Feb 1946 5 Sep 1990 44
CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1983
PAISLEY NORTH
9 Jun 1983 Allender Steele Adams 16 Feb 1946 5 Sep 1990 44
29 Nov 1990 Katherine Patricia Irene Adams, later [2005] Baroness Adams of Craigielea [L] 27 Dec 1947
NAME ALTERED TO "PAISLEY AND RENFREWSHIRE NORTH" 2005
PAISLEY SOUTH
9 Jun 1983 Norman Findlay Buchan 27 Oct 1922 23 Oct 1990 67
29 Nov 1990 Gordon James McMaster 13 Feb 1960 25 Jul 1997 37
6 Nov 1997 Douglas Garven Alexander 26 Oct 1967
NAME ALTERED TO "PAISLEY AND RENFREWSHIRE SOUTH" 2005
PAISLEY AND RENFREWSHIRE NORTH
5 May 2005 James Sheridan 24 Nov 1952
7 May 2015 Gavin Andrew Stuart Newlands 2 Feb 1980
PAISLEY AND RENFREWSHIRE SOUTH
5 May 2005 Douglas Garven Alexander 26 Oct 1967
7 May 2015 Mhairi Black 12 Sep 1994
PARK (SHEFFIELD)
14 Dec 1918 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, later [1936] 1st baronet 16 Aug 1865 20 Sep 1947 82
6 Dec 1923 Richard Storry Deans 1868 31 Aug 1938 70
30 May 1929 George Lathan 5 Aug 1875 14 Jun 1942 66
27 Oct 1931 Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st baronet, later [1936] 1st Baron Glenravel 20 Dec 1858 13 Jun 1937 78
14 Nov 1935 George Lathan 5 Aug 1875 14 Jun 1942 66
27 Aug 1942 Thomas William Burden, later [1950] 1st Baron Burden 29 Jan 1885 27 May 1970 85
23 Feb 1950 Frederick William Mulley, later [1984] Baron Mulley [L] 3 Jun 1918 15 Mar 1995 76
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
PARTICK (GLASGOW)
4 Dec 1885 Alexander Craig Sellar 1835 16 Jan 1890 54
11 Feb 1890 James Parker Smith 30 Aug 1854 30 Apr 1929 74
25 Jan 1906 Robert Balfour, later [1911] 1st baronet 6 Mar 1844 4 Nov 1929 85
15 Nov 1922 Sir Robert John Collie 15 Aug 1860 4 Apr 1935 74
6 Dec 1923 Andrew Young 6 Nov 1858 9 Feb 1943 84
29 Oct 1924 George Humphrey Maurice Broun‑Lindsay 23 Oct 1888 23 Jun 1964 75
30 May 1929 Adam Storey McKinlay 1887 17 Mar 1950 62
27 Nov 1931 Charles Glen MacAndrew [kt 1935], later [1959] 1st Baron MacAndrew 13 Jan 1888 11 Jan 1979 90
14 Nov 1935 Sir Arthur Stewart Leslie Young, 1st baronet 10 Oct 1889 14 Aug 1950 60
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
PAVILION (BRIGHTON)
23 Feb 1950 Luke William Burke Teeling [kt 1962] 5 Feb 1903 26 Oct 1975 72
27 Mar 1969 Harold Julian Amery, later [1992] Baron Amery of Lustleigh [L] 27 Mar 1919 3 Sep 1996 77
9 Apr 1992 Sir Derek Harold Spencer 31 Mar 1936 19 May 2023 87
1 May 1997 David Lepper 15 Sep 1945
6 May 2010 Caroline Patricia Lucas 9 Dec 1960
PECKHAM
28 Nov 1885 Arthur Anthony Baumann 9 Jan 1856 20 Jun 1936 80
Jul 1892 Frederick George Banbury, later [1903] 1st baronet and [1924] 1st Baron Banbury of Southam 2 Dec 1850 13 Aug 1936 85
17 Jan 1906 Charles Goddard Clarke 10 May 1849 7 Mar 1908 58
23 Mar 1908 Henry Cubitt Gooch [kt 1928] 7 Dec 1871 15 Jan 1959 87
Dec 1910 Albion Henry Herbert Richardson [kt 1919] 2 Oct 1874 7 Jul 1950 75
15 Nov 1922 Collingwood James Hughes 31 Jan 1872 25 Mar 1963 91
29 Oct 1924 Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, later [1960] Baron Dalton [L] 26 Aug 1887 13 Feb 1962 74
30 May 1929 John Warburton Beckett
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the members for Gateshead		 11 Oct 1894 28 Dec 1964 70
27 Oct 1931 David Field Beatty, styled Viscount Borodale, later [1936] 2nd Earl Beatty 22 Feb 1905 10 Jun 1972 67
6 May 1936 Lewis Silkin, later [1950] 1st Baron Silkin 14 Nov 1889 11 May 1972 82
23 Feb 1950 Freda Kunzlen Corbet 15 Nov 1900 1 Nov 1993 92
28 Feb 1974 Harry George Lamborn 1 May 1915 21 Aug 1982 67
28 Oct 1982 Harriet Ruth Harman 30 Jul 1950
NAME ALTERED TO "CAMBERWELL AND PECKHAM" 1997
PEEBLES
8 Jun 1708 William Morison 19 Apr 1663 1739 76
3 Nov 1710 Alexander Murray, later [1729] 3rd baronet after 1684 18 May 1743
9 Oct 1713 William Morison 19 Apr 1663 1739 76
8 Feb 1715 Alexander Murray c 1686 Sep 1755
26 Apr 1722 John Douglas c 1698 16 Mar 1732
28 Apr 1732 Sir James Naesmyth, 2nd baronet (to 1741) c 1704 4 Feb 1779
25 May 1734 Sir Alexander Murray
Double return between Sir James Nasmyth and Sir Alexander Murray. Nasmyth declared elected 7 Feb 1735
4 Jun 1741 Alexander Murray c 1686 Sep 1755
23 Jul 1747 John Dickson c 1707 2 Dec 1767
31 Dec 1767 Adam Hay 15 Nov 1775
31 Mar 1768 James Montgomery, later [1801] 1st baronet Oct 1721 2 Apr 1803 81
17 Jun 1775 Adam Hay 15 Nov 1775
14 Dec 1775 Sir Robert Murray-Keith 30 Sep 1730 21 Jun 1795 64
28 Sep 1780 Alexander Murray 11 May 1736 16 Mar 1795 58
20 Mar 1783 Alexander Murray, later [1785] 7th Lord Elibank 24 Apr 1747 24 Sep 1820 73
3 May 1784 David Murray 10 May 1748 7 May 1794 45
5 Jul 1790 William Montgomery 25 Jan 1765 25 Oct 1800 35
23 Dec 1800 James Montgomery, later [1803] 2nd baronet 9 Oct 1766 27 May 1839 72
4 Mar 1831 Sir George Montgomery, 2nd baronet 1765 10 Jul 1831 66
9 Aug 1831 Sir John Hay, 6th baronet 3 Aug 1788 1 Nov 1838 50
4 Aug 1837 William Forbes Mackenzie 18 Apr 1807 24 Sep 1860 53
16 Jul 1852 Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, 3rd baronet 9 Jul 1823 2 Jun 1901 77
UNITED WITH "SELKIRK" 1868
PEEBLES AND SELKIRK
25 Nov 1868 Sir Graham Graham‑Montgomery, 3rd baronet 9 Jul 1823 2 Jun 1901 77
9 Apr 1880 Charles Tennant, later [1885] 1st baronet 4 Nov 1823 4 Jun 1906 82
14 Jul 1886 Walter Thorburn [kt 1900] 22 Nov 1842 10 Nov 1908 65
19 Jan 1906 Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, later [1912] 1st Baron Murray of Elibank 12 Apr 1870 13 Sep 1920 50
20 Jan 1910 William Younger, later [1911] 1st baronet 28 Jun 1862 28 Jul 1937 75
Dec 1910 Donald Maclean [kt 1917] 9 Jan 1864 15 Jun 1932 68
NAME ALTERED TO "PEEBLES AND SOUTHERN MIDLOTHIAN" 1918
PEEBLES AND SOUTHERN MIDLOTHIAN
14 Dec 1918 Sir Donald Maclean 9 Jan 1864 15 Jun 1932 68
15 Nov 1922 Joseph Westwood 11 Feb 1884 17 Jul 1948 64
27 Oct 1931 Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 4 May 1894 11 Mar 1955 60
26 Jul 1945 David Johnstone Pryde 3 Mar 1890 2 Aug 1959 69
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
PEMBROKE (DUBLIN COUNTY)
14 Dec 1918 Thomas Desmond Fitzgerald 13 Feb 1888 9 Apr 1947 59
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
PEMBROKE (PEMBROKESHIRE)
c Apr 1660 Sir Hugh Owen, 1st baronet 4 May 1604 c Oct 1670 66
22 Apr 1661 Rowland Laugharne c 1607 16 Nov 1675
2 Oct 1676 Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd baronet c 1645 13 Jan 1699
3 Mar 1679 Arthur Owen 18 Jul 1647 c Jun 1705 57
30 Dec 1695 John Philipps, later [1697] 4th baronet c 1666 5 Jan 1737
24 Jul 1702 John Meyrick c 1673 by May 1735
17 May 1708 Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd baronet c 1674 6 Jun 1753
23 Feb 1712 Lewis Wogan by 1676 28 Nov 1714
14 Feb 1715 Thomas Ferrers c 1665 22 Oct 1722
27 Nov 1722 William Owen, later [1753] 4th baronet [At the general election in Jul 1747, he was also returned for Pembrokeshire, for which he chose to sit] c 1697 7 May 1781
21 Dec 1747 Hugh Barlow 29 Nov 1763
2 Apr 1761 Sir William Owen, 4th baronet c 1697 7 May 1781
14 Oct 1774 Hugh Owen, later Barlow 1729 23 Jan 1809 79
9 Feb 1809 Sir Hugh Owen, 6th baronet 12 Sep 1782 8 Aug 1809 26
13 Sep 1809 John Owen, later [1813] 1st baronet [at the general election in Oct 1812, he was also returned for Pembrokeshire, for which he chose to sit] 1776 6 Feb 1861 84
19 Mar 1813 Sir Thomas Picton
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 24 Aug 1758 18 Jun 1815 56
3 Jul 1815 John Jones 15 Sep 1777 10 Nov 1842 65
19 Jun 1818 John Hensleigh Allen 29 Aug 1769 12 Apr 1843 73
13 Jun 1826 Hugh Owen Owen, later [1861] 2nd baronet 25 Dec 1803 5 Sep 1891 87
20 Feb 1838 Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd baronet 1 Jun 1792 25 Oct 1861 69
3 Jul 1841 Sir John Owen, 1st baronet 1776 6 Feb 1861 84
22 Feb 1861 Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd baronet 25 Dec 1803 5 Sep 1891 87
18 Nov 1868 Thomas Meyrick, later [1880] 1st baronet 14 Mar 1837 30 Jul 1921 84
12 Feb 1874 Edward James Reed [kt 1880] 20 Sep 1830 30 Nov 1906 76
7 Apr 1880 Henry George Allen 29 Jul 1815 20 Nov 1908 93
NAME ALTERED TO "PEMBROKE AND HAVERFORDWEST" 1885
PEMBROKE AND HAVERFORDWEST
30 Nov 1885 Henry George Allen 29 Jul 1815 20 Nov 1908 93
8 Jul 1886 Richard Charles Mayne 1835 29 May 1892 56
Jul 1892 Charles Francis Egerton Allen 14 Oct 1847 31 Dec 1927 80
17 Jul 1895 John Wimburn Laurie 1 Oct 1835 20 May 1912 76
18 Jan 1906 Sir Owen Cosby Philipps, later [1923] 1st Baron Kylsant 25 Mar 1863 5 Jun 1937 73
Dec 1910 Christian Henry Charles Guest 15 Feb 1874 9 Oct 1957 83
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
PEMBROKESHIRE
c Apr 1660 Arthur Owen c 1608 8 Sep 1678
19 Nov 1678 John Owen c 1645 1696
11 Feb 1679 Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd baronet c 1645 13 Jan 1699
8 Mar 1681 William Wogan [kt 1689] c 1638 1 Dec 1708
28 Apr 1685 William Barlow c 1655 1733
16 Jan 1689 Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd baronet c 1645 13 Jan 1699
31 Dec 1695 Arthur Owen, later [1699] 3rd baronet c 1674 6 Jun 1753
5 Jun 1705 Wirriot Owen c 1681 1713
17 Oct 1710 John Barlow c 1682 29 Oct 1739
1 Mar 1715 Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd baronet c 1674 6 Jun 1753
5 Sep 1727 John Campbell 1695 6 Sep 1777 82
21 Jul 1747 William Owen, later [1753] 4th baronet c 1697 7 May 1781
7 Apr 1761 Sir John Philipps, 6th baronet c 1701 23 Jun 1764
12 Feb 1765 Sir Richard Philipps, 7th baronet, later [1776] 1st Baron Milford [I] [his election declared void 6 Mar 1770] 1744 28 Nov 1823 79
20 Mar 1770 Hugh Owen, later [1781] 5th baronet c 1731 16 Jan 1786
9 Feb 1786 Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford [I] 1744 28 Nov 1823 79
30 Oct 1812 John Owen, later [1813] 1st baronet [following the general election in May 1831, his election was declared void 30 Sep 1831. At the subsequent by-election held on 24 Oct 1831, he was again returned] 1776 6 Feb 1861 84
6 Jul 1841 John Frederick Vaughan, styled Viscount Emlyn, later [1860] 2nd Earl Cawdor 11 Jun 1817 29 Mar 1898 80
19 Jan 1861 George Lort Phillips 1811 30 Oct 1866 55
26 Nov 1866 James Bevan Bowen 1828 14 Nov 1905 77
21 Nov 1868 Sir John Henry Scourfield, 1st baronet 30 Jan 1808 3 Jun 1876 68
28 Jun 1876 James Bevan Bowen 1828 14 Nov 1905 77
5 Apr 1880 William Davies [kt 1893] 1821 23 Nov 1895 74
Jul 1892 William Rees Morgan Davies [kt 1913] May 1863 14 Apr 1939 75
15 Feb 1898 John Wynford Philipps, later [1908] 1st Baron St. Davids and [1918] 1st Viscount St. Davids 30 May 1860 28 Mar 1938 77
15 Jul 1908 Walter Francis Roch 20 Jan 1880 3 May 1965 85
14 Dec 1918 Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st baronet 18 Apr 1859 20 Apr 1949 90
15 Nov 1922 Gwilym Lloyd-George, later ]1957] 1st Viscount Tenby 4 Dec 1894 14 Feb 1967 72
29 Oct 1924 Charles William Mackay Price [kt 1932] 22 Nov 1872 6 Jul 1954 81
30 May 1929 Gwilym Lloyd-George, later ]1957] 1st Viscount Tenby 4 Dec 1894 14 Feb 1967 72
23 Feb 1950 Desmond Louis Donnelly 16 Oct 1920 4 Apr 1974 53
18 Jun 1970 Roger Nicholas Edwards, later [1987] Baron Crickhowell [L] 25 Feb 1934 17 Mar 2018 84
11 Jun 1987 Nicholas Jerome Bennett 7 May 1949
9 Apr 1992 Nicholas Richard Ainger 24 Oct 1949
NAME ALTERED TO "PRESELI PEMBROKESHIRE" 1997
PENDLE (LANCASHIRE)
9 Jun 1983 John Robert Louis Lee, later [2006] Baron Lee of Trafford [L] 21 Jun 1942
9 Apr 1992 Gordon Prentice 28 Jan 1951
6 May 2010 Andrew Stephenson 17 Feb 1981
PENISTONE (YORKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918 Sydney Arnold, later [1924] 1st Baron Arnold 13 Jan 1878 3 Aug 1945 67
5 Mar 1921 William Gillis 10 Nov 1859 18 Sep 1929 69
15 Nov 1922 William Mather Rutherford Pringle 22 Jan 1874 1 Apr 1928 54
29 Oct 1924 Rennie Smith 14 Apr 1888 25 May 1962 74
27 Oct 1931 Clifford William Hudson Glossop 30 Jun 1901 4 Jul 1975 74
14 Nov 1935 Henry George McGhee 3 Jul 1898 6 Feb 1959 60
11 Jun 1959 John Jakob Mendelson 6 Jul 1917 20 May 1978 60
13 Jul 1978 Allen McKay 5 Feb 1927 2 May 2013 86
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
PENISTONE AND STOCKSBRIDGE
6 May 2010 Angela Christine Smith 16 Aug 1961
12 Dec 2019 Miriam Joy Cates 23 Aug 1982
PENRITH (CUMBERLAND)
3 Dec 1885 Henry Charles Howard 17 Sep 1850 4 Aug 1914 63
10 Jul 1886 James William Lowther, later [1921] 1st Viscount Ullswater 1 Apr 1855 27 Mar 1949 93
NAME ALTERED TO "PENRITH AND COCKERMOUTH" 1918
PENRITH AND COCKERMOUTH (CUMBERLAND)
14 Dec 1918 James William Lowther, later [1921] 1st Viscount Ullswater 1 Apr 1855 27 Mar 1949 93
13 May 1921 Sir Henry Cecil Lowther 27 Jan 1869 1 Nov 1940 71
15 Nov 1922 Levi Collison 1875 22 Oct 1965 90
6 Dec 1923 Arthur Carlyne Niven Dixey 1889 25 May 1954 64
14 Nov 1935 Alan Vincent Gander Dower 28 Mar 1898 6 May 1980 82
NAME ALTERED TO "PENRITH AND THE BORDER" 1950
PENRITH AND THE BORDER
23 Feb 1950 Robert Donald Scott [kt 1955] 13 Nov 1901 18 Jun 1974 72
26 May 1955 William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, later [1983] 1st Viscount Whitelaw 28 Jun 1918 1 Jul 1999 81
28 Jul 1983 David John Maclean, later [2011] Baron Blencathra [L] 16 May 1953
6 May 2010 Roderick James Nugent ["Rory"] Stewart 3 Jan 1973
12 Dec 2019 Neil Peter Hammerton Hudson 1969
PENRYN (CORNWALL)
13 Apr 1660 Samuel Enys 11 Oct 1611 8 Nov 1697 86
James Robyns by 1625 after 1682
16 Apr 1661 William Pendarves 20 Jul 1600 4 Jun 1671 70
John Birch (to 1679) 7 Sep 1615 10 May 1691 75
3 Feb 1673 Sir Robert Southwell (to Sep 1679) 31 Dec 1635 11 Sep 1702 66
This election was declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the subsequent by-election held on 13 Feb 1673, Southwell was again elected
14 Feb 1679 Francis Trefusis 8 Jul 1650 5 Nov 1680 30
17 Sep 1679 Sir Nicholas Slanning, 1st baronet (to 1689) Jun 1643 Apr 1691 47
Charles Smythe 10 Mar 1628 Feb 1683 54
9 May 1685 Henry Fanshawe 8 Jun 1634 31 Aug 1685 51
12 Jan 1689 Anthony Rowe after 1641 9 Sep 1704
Alexander Pendarves (to 1698) 11 Nov 1662 8 Mar 1725 62
1 Mar 1690 Samuel Rolle [he was also returned for Devon, for which he chose to sit] 5 Nov 1646 5 Nov 1719 73
30 Apr 1690 Sidney Godolphin 12 Jan 1652 23 Sep 1732 80
30 Oct 1695 James Vernon (to 1699) [at the general election of 1698 he was also returned for Westminster, for which he chose to sit] 1 Apr 1646 31 Jan 1727 80
1 Aug 1698 Samuel Trefusis (to 1713) 6 Oct 1676 4 Apr 1724 47
16 Jan 1699 Alexander Pendarves 11 Nov 1662 8 Mar 1725 62
19 May 1705 James Vernon 1 Apr 1646 31 Jan 1727 80
21 Oct 1710 Alexander Pendarves (to 1714) 11 Nov 1662 8 Mar 1725 62
7 Sep 1713 Hugh Boscawen, later [1720] 1st Viscount Falmouth (to 1720) c 1680 25 Oct 1734
15 Mar 1714 Samuel Trefusis (to 1722) 6 Oct 1676 4 Apr 1724 47
24 Jun 1720 William Godolphin, styled Viscount Rialton 1712‑1722 and Marquess of Blandford 1722‑1731 c 1699 24 Aug 1731
12 Apr 1722 Sidney Meadows c 1699 15 Nov 1792
Edward Vernon (to 1734) 12 Nov 1684 30 Oct 1757 72
26 Aug 1727 Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th baronet 15 Jun 1778
3 May 1734 Sir Richard Mill, 5th baronet c 1689 16 May 1760
John Clavering 19 Jul 1698 23 May 1762 63
12 May 1741 John Evelyn, later [1763] 2nd baronet (to 1747) 24 Aug 1706 11 Jun 1767 60
Edward Vernon [he was also returned for Ipswich, for which he chose to sit] 12 Nov 1684 30 Oct 1757 72
22 Feb 1743 George Boscawen (to 1761) 1 Dec 1712 3 May 1775 62
1 Jul 1747 Henry Seymour Conway 12 Aug 1719 9 Jul 1795 75
18 Apr 1754 Richard Edgcumbe, later [1758] 2nd Baron Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe 2 Aug 1716 10 May 1761 44
2 Dec 1758 John Plumptre 10 Feb 1711 23 Feb 1791 80
4 Apr 1761 Sir Edward Turner, 2nd baronet 18 Apr 1719 31 Oct 1766 47
George Brydges Rodney, later [1764] 1st baronet and [1782] 1st Baron Rodney (to 1768) 13 Feb 1719 24 May 1792 73
19 Nov 1766 Francis Basset (to 1770) 1715 17 Nov 1769 54
21 Mar 1768 Hugh Pigot (to 1774) 28 May 1722 15 Dec 1792 70
17 Jan 1770 William Lemon, later [1774] 1st baronet 11 Oct 1748 11 Dec 1824 76
12 Oct 1774 Sir George Osborn, 4th baronet 10 May 1742 29 Jun 1818 76
William Chaytor 11 Jan 1732 15 May 1819 87
11 Sep 1780 Sir Francis Basset, 1st baronet, later [1796] 1st Baron de Dunstanville (to 1796) 9 Aug 1757 14 Feb 1835 77
John Rogers 15 Aug 1750 22 Feb 1832 81
13 Dec 1782 Reginald Pole-Carew 28 Jul 1753 3 Jan 1835 81
3 Apr 1784 Sir John St. Aubyn, 5th baronet 17 May 1758 10 Aug 1839 81
19 Jun 1790 Richard Glover c 1750 20 Aug 1822
27 May 1796 Thomas Wallace, later [1828] 1st Baron Wallace c 1768 23 Feb 1844
William Meeke 3 Jan 1758 15 Jul 1830 72
10 Jul 1802 Sir Stephen Lushington, 1st baronet 17 Jun 1744 12 Jan 1807 62
Sir John Nicholl 16 Mar 1759 26 Aug 1838 79
1 Nov 1806 Henry Swann (to 1819) 15 Nov 1763 24 Apr 1824 60
Sir Christopher Hawkins [he was unseated on petition in favour of John Bettesworth‑Trevanion 4 Feb 1807] May 1758 6 Apr 1829 70
4 Feb 1807 John Trevanion Purnell Bettesworth‑Trevanion 1780 8 Mar 1840 59
9 May 1807 Charles Lemon, later [1824] 2nd baronet 30 Sep 1784 13 Feb 1868 83
10 Oct 1812 Philip Gell Jul 1775 25 Jan 1842 66
19 Jun 1818 Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1st baronet (to 1820) 29 May 1758 6 Apr 1829 70
26 Feb 1819 Henry Swann declared not elected on petition, and no writ issued until the next general election
9 Mar 1820 Pascoe Grenfell (to 1826) 3 Sep 1761 23 Jan 1838 76
Henry Swann 15 Nov 1763 24 Apr 1824 60
10 May 1824 Robert Stanton 4 Jan 1793 3 May 1833 40
12 Jun 1826 David Barclay 29 Sep 1784 1 Jul 1861 76
William Manning 1 Dec 1763 17 Apr 1835 71
2 Aug 1830 Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd baronet 30 Sep 1784 13 Feb 1868 83
James William Freshfield (to 1832) 8 Apr 1774 27 Jun 1864 90
2 May 1831 Charles Stewart 30 Sep 1801 30 Jun 1891 89
NAME ALTERED TO "PENRYN AND FALMOUTH" 1832
PENRYN AND FALMOUTH (CORNWALL)
11 Dec 1832 Robert Monsey Rolfe [kt 1835], later [1850] 1st Baron Cranworth (to 1840) 18 Dec 1790 26 Jul 1868 77
Charles William Bury, styled Baron Tullamore, later [1835] 2nd Earl of Charleville 29 Apr 1801 14 Jul 1851 50
6 Jan 1835 James William Freshfield (to 1841) 8 Apr 1774 27 Jun 1864 90
23 Jan 1840 Edward John Hutchins 1809 11 Feb 1876 66
30 Jun 1841 John Cranch Walker Vivian 18 Apr 1818 22 Jan 1879 60
James Hanway Plumridge [kt 1855] c 1788 29 Nov 1863
30 Jul 1847 Howel Gwyn (to 1857) 24 Jun 1806 25 Jan 1888 81
Francis Mowatt 1803 12 Feb 1891 87
8 Jul 1852 James William Freshfield 8 Apr 1774 27 Jun 1864 90
27 Mar 1857 Thomas George Baring, later [1866] 2nd Baron Northbrook and [1876] 1st Earl of Northbrook 22 Jan 1826 15 Nov 1904 78
Samuel Gurney (to 1868) 1816 4 Apr 1882 65
15 Oct 1865 Jervoise Smith 1828 21 Jul 1884 56
17 Nov 1868 Robert Nicholas Fowler, later [1885] 1st baronet 12 Sep 1828 22 May 1891 62
Edward Backhouse Eastwick 1814 16 Jul 1883 69
6 Feb 1874 David James Jenkins (to 1886) 1824 26 Feb 1891 66
Henry Thomas Cole 1816 5 Jan 1885 68
2 Apr 1880 Reginald Baliol Brett, later [1899] 2nd Viscount Esher 30 Jun 1852 22 Jan 1930 77
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885
2 Jul 1886 William George Cavendish‑Bentinck 1854 22 Aug 1909 55
16 Jul 1895 Frederick John Horniman 8 Oct 1835 5 Mar 1906 70
15 Jan 1906 John Barker, later [1908] 1st baronet 6 Apr 1840 16 Dec 1914 74
15 Jan 1910 Charles Sydney Goldman 1868 7 Apr 1958 89
14 Dec 1918 Sir Edward Nicholl 17 Jun 1862 30 Mar 1939 76
15 Nov 1922 Denis Ewart Bernard Kingston Shipwright 20 May 1898 13 Sep 1984 86
6 Dec 1923 Sir Courtenay Cecil Mansel, 13th baronet 25 Feb 1880 4 Jan 1933 52
29 Oct 1924 George Pilcher 26 Feb 1882 8 Dec 1962 80
30 May 1929 Sir John Tudor Walters 25 Feb 1866 16 Jul 1933 67
27 Oct 1931 Maurice Petherick 5 Oct 1894 4 Aug 1985 90
26 Jul 1945 Evelyn Mansfield King 30 May 1907 14 Apr 1994 86
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
PENTLANDS (EDINBURGH)
23 Feb 1950 Lord John Adrian Hope, later [1964] 1st Baron Glendevon 7 Apr 1912 18 Jan 1996 83
15 Oct 1964 Norman Russell Wylie, later [1974] Lord Wylie (Scottish Lord of Session) 26 Oct 1923 7 Sep 2005 81
28 Feb 1974 Malcolm Leslie Rifkind [kt 1997] 21 Jun 1946
1 May 1997 Lynda Margaret Clark, later [2005] Baroness Clark of Calton [L] 26 Feb 1949
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
PERRY BARR (BIRMINGHAM)
23 Feb 1950 Cecil Charles Poole 1902 2 Feb 1956 53
26 May 1955 Charles Alfred Howell 22 Oct 1905 26 Oct 1974 69
15 Oct 1964 Wyndham Roy Davies 3 Jun 1926 4 Dec 1984 58
31 Mar 1966 Christopher Price 26 Jan 1932 21 Feb 2015 83
18 Jun 1970 Joseph Ronald Kinsey 28 Aug 1921 7 Jul 1983 61
28 Feb 1974 Jeffrey William Rooker, later [2001] Baron Rooker [L] 5 Jun 1941
7 Jun 2001 Khalid Mahmood 13 Jul 1961
PERTH (PERTHSHIRE)
26 May 1708 Joseph Austin 8 Nov 1735
28 Oct 1710 George Yeaman by Feb 1733
6 Feb 1715 Patrick Haldane c 1683 10 Jan 1769
28 Apr 1722 William Erskine 19 Mar 1691 2 May 1754 62
Charles Leslie
Double return. Erskine declared elected 27 Oct 1722
9 Sep 1727 John Drummond 1676 20 Dec 1742 66
20 Jan 1743 Thomas Leslie c 1701 17 Mar 1772
20 Apr 1761 George Dempster 8 Dec 1732 13 Feb 1818 85
13 Apr 1768 William Pulteney [he was also returned for Cromartyshire, for which he chose to sit] 19 Oct 1729 30 May 1805 75
4 Apr 1769 George Dempster 8 Dec 1732 13 Feb 1818 85
12 Jul 1790 George Murray 22 Aug 1741 17 Oct 1797 56
4 Apr 1796 David Scott 27 Feb 1746 4 Oct 1805 59
27 Nov 1805 Sir David Wedderburn, 1st baronet 10 Mar 1775 7 Apr 1858 83
11 Jul 1818 Archibald Campbell c 1763 13 Jun 1838
1 Apr 1820 Hugh Primrose Lindsay 31 Oct 1765 22 Apr 1844 78
23 Aug 1830 John Stuart-Wortley (Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie from 1845), later [1845] 2nd Baron Wharncliffe 20 Apr 1801 22 Oct 1855 54
13 Jan 1831 Francis Jeffrey [his name was erased from the return and that of William Ogilvy substituted 28 Mar 1831] 23 Oct 1773 26 Jan 1850 76
28 Mar 1831 William Ogilvy 19 Sep 1793 10 Apr 1871 77
23 May 1831 Francis Jeffrey 23 Oct 1773 26 Jan 1850 76
26 Dec 1832 Laurence Oliphant 22 Jun 1791 29 May 1862 70
29 Jul 1837 Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, later [1878] 10th Lord Kinnaird [S] 8 Jul 1814 26 Apr 1887 72
19 Aug 1839 David Greig
2 Jul 1841 Fox Maule, later [1860] 11th Earl of Dalhousie 22 Apr 1801 6 Jul 1874 73
15 May 1852 Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, later [1878] 10th Lord Kinnaird [S] 8 Jul 1814 26 Apr 1887 72
29 Jan 1878 Charles Stuart Parker 1 Jun 1829 18 Jun 1910 81
Jul 1892 William Whitelaw 15 Mar 1868 19 Jan 1946 77
13 Jul 1895 Robert Wallace [kt 1916] 1850 19 Mar 1939 88
12 Feb 1907 Sir Robert Pullar 18 Feb 1828 9 Sep 1912 84
17 Jan 1910 Alexander Frederick Whyte [kt 1922] 30 Sep 1883 30 Jul 1970 86
14 Dec 1918 William Young 5 Feb 1863 7 Jun 1942 79
15 Nov 1922 Archibald Noel Skelton 1 Jul 1880 22 Nov 1935 55
6 Dec 1923 Robert Macgregor Mitchell 1875 25 Apr 1938 62
29 Oct 1924 Archibald Noel Skelton 1 Jul 1880 22 Nov 1935 55
27 Oct 1931 Mungo David Malcolm Murray, styled Baron Scone, later [1935] 8th Earl of Mansfield 9 Aug 1900 2 Sep 1971 71
16 Apr 1935 Francis Norie-Miller, later [1936] 1st baronet 11 Mar 1859 4 Jul 1947 88
14 Nov 1935 Thomas Hunter [kt 1944] 2 Oct 1872 19 Mar 1953 80
26 Jul 1945 Alan Gomme Gomme‑Duncan [kt 1956] 5 Jul 1893 13 Dec 1963 70
NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH AND EAST PERTHSHIRE" 1950, BUT REVERTED 1997
1 May 1997 Roseanna Cunningham 27 Jul 1951
7 Jun 2001 Annabelle Janet Ewing 20 Aug 1960
NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH AND NORTH PERTHSHIRE" 2005
PERTH AND EAST PERTHSHIRE
23 Feb 1950 Alan Gomme Gomme‑Duncan [kt 1956] 5 Jul 1893 13 Dec 1963 70
8 Oct 1959 Ian MacArthur 17 May 1925 30 Nov 2007 82
10 Oct 1974 George Douglas Crawford 1 Nov 1939 17 Apr 2002 62
3 May 1979 William Connoll Walker 20 Feb 1929 6 Jun 2017 88
NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH AND KINROSS" 1983
PERTH AND KINROSS
9 Jun 1983 Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn [kt 1988] 24 Dec 1933 19 Feb 1995 61
25 May 1995 Roseanna Cunningham 27 Jul 1951
NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH" 1997
PERTH AND NORTH PERTHSHIRE
5 May 2005 Peter Wishart 9 Mar 1962
PERTHSHIRE
15 Jun 1708 Dougal Stewart [he was also returned for Buteshire at the general election in 1708 and appears to have been permitted to sit for both seats until his appointment as a Lord of Session on 7 Jun 1709. No writ for a fresh election appears to have been issued before the general election in 1710] after 1658 16 Jun 1712
25 Oct 1710 Lord James Murray 8 May 1663 30 Dec 1719 56
10 Feb 1715 Lord James Murray, later [1724] 2nd Duke of Atholl 28 Aug 1690 8 Jan 1764 73
31 Dec 1724 David Graeme c 1676 14 Mar 1726
28 Apr 1726 Mungo Haldane c 1682 1 Jun 1755
12 Oct 1727 John Drummond 1752
9 May 1734 Lord John Murray 14 Apr 1711 26 May 1787 76
21 Apr 1761 John Murray, later [1764] 3rd Duke of Atholl 25 Apr 1729 5 Nov 1774 45
23 Mar 1764 David Graeme 2 Feb 1716 19 Jan 1797 80
11 Jun 1773 James Murray 19 Mar 1734 19 Mar 1794 60
11 Apr 1794 Thomas Graham, later [1814] 1st Baron Lynedoch 19 Oct 1748 19 Dec 1843 95
19 May 1807 Lord James Murray, later [1821] 1st Baron Glenlyon 29 May 1782 12 Oct 1837 55
19 Mar 1812 James Andrew John Lawrence Charles Drummond, later [1824] 6th Viscount Strathallan 24 Mar 1767 14 May 1851 84
6 Apr 1824 Sir George Murray 6 Feb 1772 28 Jul 1846 74
29 Dec 1832 John Campbell, styled Earl of Ormelie, later [1834] 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane 26 Oct 1796 8 Nov 1862 66
5 May 1834 Sir George Murray 6 Feb 1772 28 Jul 1846 74
17 Jan 1835 Fox Maule, later [1860] 11th Earl of Dalhousie 22 Apr 1801 6 Jul 1874 73
4 Aug 1837 William David Murray, styled Viscount Stormont, later [1840] 4th Earl of Mansfield 20 Feb 1806 2 Aug 1898 92
9 Mar 1840 Henry Home-Drummond 1783 12 Sep 1867 84
16 Jul 1852 Sir William Stirling (Stirling‑Maxwell from Mar 1866), 9th baronet 8 Mar 1818 15 Jan 1878 59
23 Nov 1868 Charles Stuart Parker 1 Jun 1829 18 Jun 1910 81
12 Feb 1874 Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th baronet 8 Mar 1818 15 Jan 1878 59
4 Feb 1878 Henry Edward Home-Drummond-Moray [later Henry Edward Stirling-Home-Drummond] 15 Sep 1846 16 May 1911 64
5 Apr 1880 Donald Currie [kt 1881] 17 Sep 1825 13 Apr 1909 83
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "EAST" AND "WEST" DIVISIONS 1885
PERTHSHIRE EAST
1 Dec 1885 Robert Stewart Menzies 1856 25 Jan 1889 32
19 Feb 1889 Sir John George Smyth Kinloch, 2nd baronet 8 Jan 1849 20 May 1910 61
26 Feb 1903 Thomas Ryburn Buchanan 1846 7 Apr 1911 64
25 Jan 1910 William Young 5 Feb 1863 7 Jun 1942 79
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
PERTHSHIRE WEST
28 Nov 1885 Sir Donald Currie 17 Sep 1825 13 Apr 1909 83
6 Oct 1900 John Stroyan 1856 5 Dec 1941 85
18 Jan 1906 David Charles Erskine 1866 26 May 1922 55
20 Jan 1910 John George Stewart‑Murray, styled Marquess of Tullibardine, later [1917] 8th Duke of Atholl 15 Dec 1871 15 Mar 1942 70
21 Feb 1917 Archibald Stirling 1867 18 Feb 1931 63
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
PETERBOROUGH (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)
c Mar 1660 Humphrey Orme (to 1671) 12 Oct 1620 2 Mar 1671 50
Charles Fane, styled Lord Le Despencer, later [1666] 3rd Earl of Westmorland 6 Jan 1635 18 Sep 1691 56
Francis St. John c 1634 29 Jul 1705
Double return between Lord le Despencer and St. John. Lord le Despencer declared elected 26 May 1660
12 Apr 1666 Edward Palmer [he was unseated on petition in favour of William Fitzwilliam, Baron Fitzwilliam 8 Nov 1667] 26 Aug 1644 14 Aug 1667 22
8 Nov 1667 William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Baron Fitzwilliam [I], later [1716] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam [I] (to Aug 1679) 29 Apr 1643 28 Dec 1719 76
22 Mar 1671 Sir Vere Fane, later [1691] 4th Earl of Westmorland 13 Feb 1645 29 Dec 1693 48
24 Feb 1679 Francis St. John (to 1685) c 1634 29 Jul 1705
28 Aug 1679 Charles Orme c 1654 25 Sep 1691
15 Feb 1681 William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Baron Fitzwilliam [I], later [1716] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam [I] 29 Apr 1643 28 Dec 1719 76
16 Mar 1685 Charles Fitzwilliam (to Dec 1689) c 1646 Sep 1689
Charles Orme c 1654 25 Sep 1691
8 Jan 1689 Gilbert Dolben, later [1704] 1st baronet (to 1698) c 1659 22 Oct 1722
28 Dec 1689 William Brownlow, later [1697] 4th baronet 5 Nov 1665 6 Mar 1701 35
23 Jul 1698 Sidney Wortley-Montagu (to 1710) 28 Jul 1650 11 Nov 1727 77
Francis St. John c 1634 29 Jul 1705
3 Jan 1701 Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st baronet c 1659 22 Oct 1722
6 Oct 1710 John Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton from 1716, later [1719] 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam [I] (to 1729) c 1681 28 Aug 1728
Charles Parker 1663 1730 67
22 Mar 1722 Sidney Wortley-Montagu 28 Jul 1650 9 Nov 1727 77
18 Aug 1727 John Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton from 1716, later [1719] 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam [I] c 1681 28 Aug 1728
Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd baronet 7 Apr 1705 26 Nov 1765 60
Sidney Wortley-Montagu 28 Jul 1650 9 Nov 1727 77
Two returns - one naming Fitzwilliam and O'Brien and the other naming Fitzwilliam and Wortley. O'Brien was unseated on petition 9 Apr 1728. Wortley‑Montagu was declared to have been duly elected 13 May 1728, even though he had died six months earlier
13 May 1728 Sidney Wortley-Montagu 28 Jul 1650 9 Nov 1727 77
22 May 1728 Joseph Banks (to Apr 1734) 21 Jun 1695 31 Mar 1741 45
29 Jan 1729 Charles Gounter-Nicoll 7 Oct 1704 24 Nov 1733 29
29 Jan 1734 Armstead Parker (to 1741) c 1699 5 Feb 1777
26 Apr 1734 Edward Wortley-Montagu (to 1761) 8 Feb 1678 22 Jan 1761 82
4 May 1741 William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam [I] and later [1746] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam [E] 15 Jan 1719 10 Aug 1756 37
3 May 1742 Armstead Parker c 1699 5 Feb 1777
26 Jun 1747 Matthew Lamb, later [1755] 1st baronet (to Nov 1768) c 1705 6 Nov 1768
27 Mar 1761 Armstead Parker c 1699 5 Feb 1777
16 Mar 1768 Matthew Wyldbore (to 1780) c 1716 15 Mar 1781
29 Nov 1768 Henry Belasyse, styled Viscount Belasyse, later [1774] 2nd Earl Fauconberg 13 Apr 1743 23 Mar 1802 58
16 Feb 1774 Richard Benyon (to 1796) 28 Jun 1746 22 Aug 1796 50
9 Sep 1780 James Farrel Phipps 24 Jul 1744 6 Feb 1786 41
28 Feb 1786 Lionel Damer (to 1802) 16 Sep 1748 28 May 1807 58
26 Oct 1796 French Laurence (to 1809) 3 Apr 1757 27 Feb 1809 51
5 Jul 1802 William Elliot (to Feb 1819) 12 Mar 1766 26 Oct 1818 52
14 Mar 1809 Francis Russell, styled Marquess of Tavistock, later [1839] 7th Duke of Bedford 13 May 1788 14 May 1861 73
8 Oct 1812 George Ponsonby 4 Mar 1755 8 Jul 1817 62
16 Apr 1816 William Lamb, later [1828] 2nd Viscount Melbourne (to Nov 1819) 15 Mar 1779 24 Nov 1848 69
10 Feb 1819 Sir James Scarlett, later [1835] 1st Baron Abinger (to 1830) 13 Dec 1769 7 Apr 1844 74
30 Nov 1819 Sir Robert Heron, 2nd baronet (to 1847) 27 Nov 1765 29 May 1854 88
2 Aug 1830 Charles William Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton, later [1833] 5th Earl Fitzwilliam 4 May 1786 4 Oct 1857 71
24 Nov 1830 John Nicholas Fazakerley 7 Mar 1787 16 Jul 1852 65
29 Jun 1841 George Wentworth Fitzwilliam (to 1859) 3 May 1817 4 Mar 1874 56
30 Jul 1847 William George Cavendish, later [1863] 2nd Baron Chesham 29 Oct 1815 26 Jun 1882 66
7 Jul 1852 Richard Watson 6 Jan 1800 24 Jul 1852 52
6 Dec 1852 George Hampden Whalley [His election was declared void 8 Jun 1853. At the subsequent by-election held on 25 Jun 1853, he was again returned, but his election was again declared void 15 Aug 1853] 22 Jan 1813 7 Oct 1878 65
15 Aug 1853 Thomson Hankey (to 1868) 1805 13 Jan 1893 87
30 Apr 1859 George Hampden Whalley (to 1878) 22 Jan 1813 7 Oct 1878 65
18 Nov 1868 William Wells 15 Mar 1818 1 May 1889 71
3 Feb 1874 Thomson Hankey (to 1880) 1805 13 Jan 1893 87
29 Oct 1878 William John Wentworth‑Fitzwilliam (to 1889)
For further information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 7 Aug 1852 11 Sep 1889 37
1 Apr 1880 George Hammond Whalley
For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page		 1851
23 Jun 1883 Sydney Charles Buxton, later [1914] 1st Viscount Buxton and [1920] 1st Earl Buxton 25 Oct 1853 15 Oct 1934 80
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885
7 Oct 1889 Alpheus Cleophas Morton [kt 1918] 1840 26 Apr 1923 82
15 Jul 1895 Robert Purvis [kt 1905] 1844 23 Jun 1920 75
15 Jan 1906 Granville George Greenwood [kt 1916] 3 Jan 1850 27 Oct 1928 78
14 Dec 1918 Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, later [1922] 1st baronet and [1938] 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe 7 Mar 1870 22 Oct 1958 88
30 May 1929 James Francis Horrabin 1 Nov 1884 2 Mar 1962 77
27 Oct 1931 David George Brownlow Cecil, styled Baron Burghley, later [1956] 6th Marquess of Exeter 9 Feb 1905 21 Oct 1981 76
15 Oct 1943 John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson, styled Viscount Suirdale, later [1948] 7th Earl of Donoughmore 12 Sep 1902 12 Aug 1981 78
26 Jul 1945 Stanley Tiffany 11 Jun 1908 19 Mar 1971 62
23 Feb 1950 Harmar Nicholls, later [1960] 1st baronet and [1975] Baron Harmar-Nicholls [L] 1 Nov 1912 15 Sep 2000 87
10 Oct 1974 Michael John Ward 7 Apr 1931 25 Mar 2009 77
3 May 1979 Brian Stanley Mawhinney [kt 1997], later [2005] Baron Mawhinney [L] 26 Jul 1940
1 May 1997 Helen Rosemary Brinton (later Clark) 23 Dec 1954
5 May 2005 Stewart James Jackson, later [2022] Baron Jackson of Peterborough [L] 31 Jan 1965
8 Jun 2017 Fiona Oluyinka Onasanya [she was unseated as a result of a recall petition 1 May 2019] 23 Aug 1983
6 Jun 2019 Lisa Jane Forbes 28 Jul 1969
12 Dec 2019 Paul Bristow 27 Mar 1979
PETERSFIELD (HAMPSHIRE)
9 Apr 1660 Thomas Cole 15 Jan 1622 4 Mar 1681 59
Arthur Bold (to 1677) c 1604 22 May 1677
15 Apr 1661 Sir Humphrey Bennet c 1605 Dec 1667
14 Feb 1668 Thomas Neale (to 1679) 3 Oct 1641 17 Dec 1699 58
28 May 1677 Leonard Bilson (to 1685) 5 Dec 1616 10 Dec 1695 79
18 Feb 1679 Sir John Norton, 3rd baronet (to 1689) 7 Dec 1619 9 Jan 1687 67
19 Mar 1685 Thomas Bilson (to 1690) c 1655 11 Jan 1692
11 Jan 1689 Robert Michell (to 1701) 11 Apr 1653 1 Aug 1729 76
Thomas Bilson (to 1690) c 1655 11 Jan 1692
Richard Norton
Double return between Michell and Norton. Michell declared elected 23 Feb 1689
28 Feb 1690 Richard Holt c 1635 14 Apr 1710
21 Jul 1698 Peter Bettesworth 21 Nov 1676 13 Feb 1738 61
6 Jan 1701 Ralph Bucknall c Jan 1711
Richard Markes (to 1704) 3 Aug 1671 Jan 1704 32
28 Nov 1701 Robert Michell (to 1705) 11 Apr 1653 1 Aug 1729 76
13 Jan 1704 Leonard Bilson (to Nov 1715) 25 Sep 1681 28 Jun 1715 33
11 May 1705 Norton Powlett (to 1734) 27 Sep 1680 18 Jun 1741 60
7 Nov 1715 Samuel Pargiter-Fuller c 1690 21 Nov 1722
21 Mar 1722 Edmund Miller c 1669 21 May 1730
28 Jan 1727 Joseph Taylor [he was unseated on petition in favour of Edmund Miller 4 May 1727] c 1679 19 May 1759
4 May 1727 Edmund Miller c 1669 21 May 1730
21 Aug 1727 Joseph Taylor c 1679 19 May 1759
27 Apr 1734 Sir William Jolliffe 1660 7 Mar 1750 89
Edward Gibbon Oct 1707 10 Nov 1770 63
27 May 1741 John Jolliffe (to 1754) c 1697 31 Jan 1771
Francis Fane c 1698 27 May 1757
2 Jul 1747 William James Conolly by Dec 1706 2 Jan 1754
9 Feb 1754 William Gerard Hamilton (to 1761) 28 Jan 1729 16 Jul 1796 67
19 Apr 1754 William Beckford [he was also returned for London, for which he chose to sit] 19 Dec 1709 21 Jun 1770 60
9 Dec 1754 Sir John Philipps, 6th baronet c 1701 23 Jun 1764
1 Apr 1761 John Jolliffe (to 1768) c 1697 31 Jan 1771
Richard Pennant, later [1783] 1st Baron Penrhyn [I] c 1736 21 Jan 1808
17 Dec 1767 Richard Croftes c 1740 5 Jul 1783
22 Mar 1768 William Jolliffe (to Mar 1802) 16 Apr 1745 20 Feb 1802 56
Welbore Ellis, later [1794] 1st Baron Mendip 15 Dec 1713 2 Feb 1802 88
7 Oct 1774 Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd baronet 20 Feb 1749 24 Mar 1838 89
6 Sep 1780 Thomas Samuel Jolliffe 22 Jun 1746 6 Jun 1824 77
9 Feb 1787 John Christopher Burton Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe [I] 15 Nov 1764 18 Feb 1832 67
16 Jun 1790 George Augustus North, styled Baron North from Aug 1790, later [1792] 3rd Earl of Guilford 11 Sep 1757 20 Apr 1802 44
29 Dec 1790 William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, styled Marquess of Titchfield, later [1809] 4th Duke of Portland 24 Jun 1768 27 Mar 1854 85
29 Apr 1791 Welbore Ellis, later [1794] 1st Baron Mendip 15 Dec 1713 2 Feb 1802 88
12 Jan 1795 Charles Greville 2 Nov 1762 26 Aug 1832 69
26 May 1796 Hylton Jolliffe 28 Feb 1773 13 Jan 1843 69
7 Jan 1797 Sir John Sinclair, 1st baronet 10 May 1754 21 Dec 1835 81
29 Mar 1802 Hylton Jolliffe (to 1830) 28 Feb 1773 13 Jan 1843 69
6 Jul 1802 William Draper Best, later [1829] 1st Baron Wynford 13 Dec 1767 3 Mar 1845 77
31 Oct 1806 John William Ward, later [1827] 1st Earl of Dudley of Dudley Castle 9 Aug 1781 6 Mar 1833 51
6 May 1807 Booth Grey 12 Feb 1783 13 Apr 1850 67
9 Oct 1812 George Canning [he was also returned for Liverpool, for which he chose to sit] 11 Apr 1770 8 Aug 1827 57
24 Dec 1812 George Canning, later [1818] 1st Baron Garvagh [I] 15 Nov 1778 20 Aug 1840 61
9 Mar 1820 Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham [I] [he was also returned for Leominster, for which he chose to sit] 9 Aug 1794 12 Dec 1870 76
27 Jun 1820 Sir Philip Musgrave, 8th baronet 12 Jul 1794 16 Jul 1827 33
2 Apr 1825 James Law Lushington [kt 1837] 24 Jul 1780 29 May 1859 78
10 Jun 1826 William Marshall 26 May 1796 16 May 1872 75
2 Aug 1830 Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st baronet, later [1866] 1st Baron Hylton of Hylton (to 1832) 7 Dec 1800 1 Jun 1876 75
Gilbert East Jolliffe 13 Jan 1802 17 Dec 1833 31
2 May 1831 Hylton Jolliffe 28 Feb 1773 13 Jan 1843 69
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1832
14 Dec 1832 John George Shaw-Lefevre [he was unseated on petition in favour of Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe 5 Mar 1833] 24 Jan 1797 20 Aug 1879 82
5 Mar 1833 Hylton Jolliffe 28 Feb 1773 13 Jan 1843 69
7 Jan 1835 Cornthwaite John Hector 1773 19 Feb 1842 68
25 Aug 1837 Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st baronet, later [1866] 1st Baron Hylton of Hylton [he was unseated on petition in favour of Cornthwaite John Hector 14 Feb 1838] 7 Dec 1800 1 Jun 1876 75
14 Feb 1838 Cornthwaite John Hector 1773 19 Feb 1842 68
29 Jun 1841 Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st baronet, later [1866] 1st Baron Hylton of Hylton 7 Dec 1800 1 Jun 1876 75
23 Jul 1866 William Nicholson 1824
5 Feb 1874 William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe 27 Sep 1841 19 Jan 1912 70
2 Apr 1880 William Nicholson 1824
3 Dec 1885 William Waldegrave Palmer, styled Viscount Wolmer, later [1895] 2nd Earl of Selborne 17 Oct 1859 26 Feb 1942 82
Jul 1892 William Wickham 10 Jul 1831 16 May 1897 65
8 Jun 1897 William Graham Nicholson 11 Mar 1862 29 Jul 1942 80
14 Nov 1935 Reginald Hugh Dorman‑Smith [kt 1937] 10 Mar 1899 20 Mar 1977 77
22 Feb 1941 Sir George Darell Jeffreys, later [1952] 1st Baron Jeffreys 8 Mar 1878 19 Dec 1960 82
25 Oct 1951 Peter Richard Legh, later [1960] 4th Baron Newton 6 Apr 1915 16 Jun 1992 77
16 Nov 1960 Joan Mary Quennell 23 Dec 1923 2 Jul 2006 82
10 Oct 1974 Michael John Mates 9 Jun 1934
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
PLAISTOW (WEST HAM)
14 Dec 1918 William James Thorne 8 Oct 1857 2 Jan 1946 88
26 Jul 1945 Frederick Elwyn Jones [kt 1964], later [1974] Baron Elwyn‑Jones [L] 24 Oct 1909 4 Dec 1989 80
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
PLATTING (MANCHESTER)
14 Dec 1918 John Robert Clynes 27 Mar 1869 23 Oct 1949 80
27 Oct 1931 Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton 24 Feb 1874 6 Oct 1946 72
14 Nov 1935 John Robert Clynes 27 Mar 1869 23 Oct 1949 80
26 Jul 1945 Hugh James Delargy 26 Sep 1908 4 May 1976 67
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
 

Sir Leo George Chiozza Money
MP for Paddington North 1906‑1910 and Northamptonshire East 1910‑1918
On 23 April 1928, Sir Leo and 22-year-old Irene Savage (or Savidge) were arrested in Hyde Park and later charged with 'being concerned together in behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency'. When arrested, Sir Leo protested that 'I am not the usual riff-raff. I am a man of substance. For God's sake, let me go.'
At the police station Sir Leo was allowed to phone his friend, the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks (later Viscount Brentford). When the case came before the magistrate Sir Leo denied that the incident had taken place and the charges were dismissed, and £10 costs were awarded against the police.
The divisional superintendent of police sensed a conspiracy between social equals and demanded a re-trial, although this was against the judicial principle of autrefois acquit which states that an accused cannot be tried for a crime of which he has already been acquitted.
On 17 May 1928, Thomas Johnston, MP for Dundee, accused the police of examining Miss Savage using third degree methods and sending her home in a state of collapse. Joynson-Hicks decided to have the case investigated by Chief Inspector Collins, a policeman with an impeccable record. Sir Leo, however, refused to co-operate. Eventually, the Director of Public Prosecutions warned Sir Leo that he persisted in his refusal to co-operate, more serious steps would be taken.
By this stage, the matter had become serious enough for Joynson-Hicks to establish a public inquiry, chaired by Sir John Eldon Banks, a retired judge. Miss Savage accused Collins of distorting her testimony by putting words into her mouth. She insisted that, with regard to a statement that Sir Leo's hand had been on her knee, Collins had made this suggestion and that she let it go as she was 'fed up' by this time and would have 'signed anything to get away'. The inquiry's eventual decision was to acquit Collins of any improper conduct.
Sir Leo, however, appears not have learnt his lesson. In September 1933, he was back in court, charged with assaulting Miss Ivy Ruxton, a 30-year-old shop assistant by kissing her on a train carriage on the Southern Railway. He was convicted and fined 40 shillings.
Henry Douglas King
MP for Norfolk North 1918‑1922 and Paddington South 1922‑1930
King, together with five other persons, was drowned when the motor yacht on which he was a passenger was smashed onto rocks near Fowey in Cornwall during a gale on 20 August 1930.
The following (edited) report appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 22 August 1930:-
Eight [actually six] persons, including Commodore Henry Douglas King, a Conservative member of parliament, drowned last night as the 22-ton motor yacht Islander was swept on jagged rocks during a violent gale off Lantivet Bay, Cornwall.
Commodore King had chartered the yacht for a three week's cruise off the Cornish coast …
The vessel was pounded on the rocks and the helpless occupants hurled into the raging sea as a coast guard boat and hundreds standing on the cliff held an impotent watch over the disaster. None of the bodies was recovered today.
There is uncertainty regarding the actual number of victims owing to the statement of one witness that he saw two women floating on an inflated lifebuoy and further assertions that at least one child lost its life.
The witness, who saw the two women in the sea, said, "I believe they were dead. Neither struggled nor shouted. But a man who was near them was still struggling and holding up an arm as if to arrest attention. All three, however, were soon buried in the mountainous seas and I saw them no more."
The vessel was first known to be in distress early last night when flares were seen from the yacht by watchers on the coast. Those aboard the yacht had, it is reported, made the flares by stripping themselves of their clothing and setting it alight.
The Fowey coast guard boat immediately put off in an attempt to rescue the boat. At the same time watchers made a perilous descent down the face of a steep cliff in order to get near the ship which the waves were hurling ever nearer to the rocks. They stood only a short distance from the craft but were helpless to aid. A mountainous wave finally turned over and shattered the craft to bits.
Witnesses to the tragedy tell a ghastly story of how they could hear the screams of the victims through the roaring of the gale. They threw a rope to the Islander and those aboard managed to tie it to the mast, but the tossing of the vessel snapped it off. One of the men on the yacht then threw a heavier line from the Islander, and this was held by those on the shore while attempted to pull himself to safety. But heaving of the yacht caused the rescuer to be dragged in the water and nearly drowned. Seeing this, the man who thrown the rope clambered back into the yacht and this moment the waves turned it turtle. One of the victims was at one time less than three yards away, but it suicide to attempt to pull him out.
The coast guard boat also shot a lifeline to the Islander, which, at the time, was dragging its anchor in an effort to escape going on the rocks. No one aboard the craft, however, seized the line, and a huge wave so changed the position of the ship that it was impossible to get near it.
Commodore King had had a distinguished career as a sailor, soldier and politician. He was a sailor until 1899, when he went into law and politics. He saw active service during the world war both in France and at Gallipoli, was wounded, and decorated for gallantry. He became aide-de-camp to King George, Conservative whip in the House of Commons in 1921, [and] was Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1922 to 1924.
Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay
MP for Peebles and Southern Midlothian 1931‑1945
Ramsay was the only MP to be interned during the Second World War.
He was descended from the aristocratic family of the Earls of Dalhousie, and married into another aristocratic family, his wife being the daughter of Viscount Gormanston and widow of Lord Ninian Crichton‑Stuart, 2nd son of the 3rd Marquess of Bute. Lord Ninian was MP for Cardiff between December 1910 and his death in action in 1915.
Ramsay enlisted at the outbreak of the Great War and served for two years in France before being wounded and invalided out of the services. During the next ten years he became active in the Conservative Party and was elected for Peebles and Southern Midlothian at the 1931 general election. Until 1938, he appears to have had an unremarkable career on the back-benches, although he openly supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War. After 1938, however, he became a rabid anti-Semite and was convinced that most, if not all, of the revolutionary causes throughout history, including the English Civil War and the French and Russian Revolutions had been brought about by the actions of Jews. These views were shared by his wife, who claimed that the British press was largely under Jewish control.
Given Ramsay's prejudices, it is not surprising that he believed that the Conservative Party was also under Jewish control. In order to combat this threat, he established The Right Club in May 1939. The club included a wide range of anti-Semitic men and women, including William Joyce, later to become infamous as 'Lord Haw-Haw'. Details of the membership of the club were maintained by Ramsay in the so-called 'Red Book'.
During the next year, Ramsay became increasingly strident in his denunciation of all things Jewish. He made a grave mistake, however, when he entrusted the care of the 'Red Book' to Tyler Kent, a cipher clerk at the American Embassy in London. Kent was suspected of stealing documents from the Embassy which he then passed on to pro-German agents. After the Americans had waived Kent's diplomatic immunity, his flat was raided and he was arrested. The police also found in his possession the 'Red Book'. This discovery caused deep concern for the authorities, since, if Kent had chosen to pass the stolen documents to Ramsay, who as an MP enjoyed Parliamentary privilege, there was nothing to stop Ramsay from publishing such documents.
On 23 May 1940, Ramsay was arrested under Section 18B of the Emergency Powers Act (1939) and lodged in Brixton prison. The Emergency Powers Act allowed for the internment of people suspected of being Nazi sympathisers and it suspended the rights of individuals to the doctrine of habeas corpus, in much the same way as has happened in recent years with regard to suspected terrorists.
As an MP, Ramsay argued that his detention was a breach of Parliamentary privilege. As a result, his case was referred to the Committee for Privileges in October 1940, but the Committee ruled that this was not the case. In 1941, Ramsay's constituency complained that his internment had deprived them of parliamentary representation and he was pressed to resign, but refused to do so.
In 1941, Ramsay sued the New York Times for libel. That paper had printed an article on 25 August 1940 under the heading Britain's Fifth Column. The article read as follows:-
A car from Brixton Prison drew up last week at the British House of Commons. Waiting was the Sergeant-at-Arms … He took from the police custody of Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, M.P., World War veteran of the Coldstream Guards. The captain, arrested last May under the Defence Regulations, had been brought to Westminster to argue that the detention violated his traditional Parliamentary rights of immunity … Before the war he was strongly anti-Communist, anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler. Although no specific charges were made against him on his arrest - Defence Regulations allow that - informed American sources said that he had sent to the German Legation in Dublin treasonable information given him by Tyler Kent, clerk in the American Embassy in London.
Ramsay complained that the article's words meant that he had committed high treason. When the court reached its decision, it found that Ramsay had indeed been libelled, but it awarded him derisory damages of one farthing and ordered that he pay the defendant's costs.
Ramsay was released from internment on 26 September 1944 and immediately returned to Westminster to resume his seat in the House of Commons. His final action in Parliament, in June 1945, was to table a motion calling on the government to reintroduce the Statute of Jewry of 1275, which placed a number of heavy restrictions on the Jewish population in England at that time. A number of fellow MPs complained about this motion, but the Speaker ruled that he was the protector of minority opinions in the House, whether he agreed with them or not.
At the July 1945 general election, Ramsay did not defend his seat. In 1952, he published his autobiography The Nameless War which sought to justify his actions.
Sir Thomas Picton
MP for Pembroke 1813‑1815
The following biography of Sir Thomas Picton appeared in the monthly Australian magazine Parade in its issue for June 1955:-
It is a curious fact that some of the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor William Bligh, who, as Governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short while before Bligh was ousted from New South Wales by the Rum Rebellion, another British dominion was undergoing a similar lesson at the hands of an equally redoubtable warrior, a British Army officer, Brigadier-General [later Major General Sir] Thomas Picton. There are some strange parallels matching the character of the soldier, Picton, with that of the sailor, Bligh - probably because both men were the product of a brutal code of discipline, when rankers were savagely flogged, tortured and even hanged for misdemeanours that would bring a few days stopped shore leave today.
Picton, who had been a professional soldier since the age of 15, first went to the West Indies with Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition against the Spanish colonies in 1794. He took part in the capture of the islands of St. Vincent and St. Lucia, and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel for his part in the latter operation. When Trinidad fell to the British in 1797 Abercromby appointed Picton, who was then 39, Governor of the island, and ordered him to continue to administer the Spanish law until he received instructions from the British government.
But apparently the absolute nature of his power went to Picton's already autocratic head and by October, 1801 - in which month he was gazetted Brigadier-General - there was a growing list of abuses of power of which he had been guilty, which in several instances had resulted in acts of shocking cruelty. Rumours of his rigorous and despotic rule spread to England and resulted in a demand by humanitarians that he be removed from office.
The demands swelled into a public outcry and the British Government decided to send a commission of inquiry to Trinidad to investigate the allegations at first hand. The commission, led by Colonel William Fullarton [1754-1808, MP for Plympton Erle 1779-1780, Haddington Burghs 1787-1790, Horsham 1793-1796 and Ayrshire 1796-1803], arrived at the island in January, 1803.
Among the stories of brutality which were placed before the commission was that of Goliah, a negro slave owned by a planter named Dawson who was arrested one Sunday on his way from church despite the fact that he was able to produce his "ticket of protection" or "leave pass". As soon as he heard of the arrest Dawson called at the Governor's residence and asked that the slave be freed. He even offered to pay the gaol fees, but Picton angrily refused to release the negro and shouted at Dawson: "You give your slaves too much freedom, sir. I'll humble them!" Dawson returned to his plantation, and next day was shocked to discover Goliah lying near the gates, soaked in blood and near to death, his back cut to pieces by a merciless flogging. Before he died the slave was able to gasp: "Me go dead. The Governor kill me."
On the military side of the record, the injustice meted out to Private Hugh Gallagher was indefensible even in those days of inhuman military administration. Gallagher was confined to the guard-room at the barracks for some alleged offence by order of the Governor. He was given no trial, but despite that and the fact that he stoutly protested his innocence, Picton ordered him to be hanged. The unhappy soldier was taken to the gallows and while preparations for the execution were under way, Picton arrived and furiously harangued and abused the condemned man. When he paused for breath the object of his venom cried out that he swore before God that he was innocent. The assertion seemed to make Picton momentarily insane. "By God", he screamed, "you are going to hell with a lie in your mouth!" And before Gallagher could make another protestation of his innocence the Governor signalled to the execution squad and the doomed man was swung up to his death.
The presence of the Commission made Picton's position untenable, so he resigned and took ship to England, only to be arrested on his arrival in December 1803. Legal complications - and doubtless, the Government's reluctance to prosecute such a distinguished soldier - caused the proceedings to drag on for more than two years before Picton was brought to trial.
When the trial at last began on February 24, 1806, before Lord Ellenborough, the only charge brought against Picton was one relating to the application of torture to a Creole girl, Liusa Calderon, in December, 1801. Evidence was given that the Creole girl, though less than 15 years old, was at that time living with a man named Pedro Rouis and at the same time having an affair with one Carlos Gonzales. It was established that Gonzales had broken into Rouis' house and stolen 2000 dollars from a trunk. He was arrested, and both Luisa and her mother were also taken into custody and charged, in effect, with having been accessories to the crime.
Interrogated by the alcalde, or Spanish magistrate, the girl had denied that she had assisted Gonzales in the commission of the theft, and the alcalde, one Hilariot Begorrat, had then written to Picton asking the Governor's permission to inflict "a slight torture" on Luisa with the object of making her confess. Begorrat's evidence in this respect seems to indicate that torture was not unknown during the Spanish regime in Trinidad, but other witnesses swore that it had not been employed since 1786.
In reply to the alcalde's request Picton had written and signed a note which read: "Inflict the torture on Luisa Calderon". Before the torture was applied Luisa had been warned, and to frighten her, three negresses who had been tortured for "witch-craft" were brought into the cell. Still she had protested her innocence, and the torture known as "picketing" was applied to her. Her left wrist was tied by a long rope, passed through a pulley fastened to the ceiling; her right wrist and left foot were lashed together behind her back, and she was then suspended in such a way that her right foot, with practically the whole weight of her body above it, came down upon a sharp stick in the floor of the cell.
Luisa herself, a graceful figure clad in a white muslin gown and white turban, was called as a witness at the trial, having been brought to England by Colonel Fullarton. She said that she had endured the agony of the torture for 45 minutes on the first occasion. At the end of that period it had proved too much for her, and she had screamed out that she was guilty. On being released she had fainted, but on recovering consciousness she had retracted her "confession" and had been strung up again, for 20 minutes.
She had been held in prison for eight months, and during the whole period, she said, her wrists had been bound and her ankles fettered in an instrument called the "grillo" - a long piece of [rope?] fastened to the wall of the cell at one end with two holes at the other through which her feet were thrust. She had not been permitted to see either a doctor or a lawyer.
In his address to the jury, Mr. [later Sir William] Garrow [1760-1840], counsel for the Crown, subjected Picton to a verbal flaying. The ex-Governor, he said, had "abused his situation and discredited the country to which he belongs by inflicting what in England few people have ever heard of, and have only read of with detestation and horror - the torture of one of His Majesty's subjects without the least pretence of law, the least justification".
Counsel for the defence, a Mr. Dallas [Sir Robert Dallas 1756-1824], argued, principally, that the Spanish law provided for the employment of torture, and that Picton had been bound to administer that law; that therefore there had been no malice towards Luisa Calderon in his order to the magistrate; that if it were shown that torture was unlawful in Trinidad, then Picton had been guilty merely of having made a mistake. But the jury found that there was no such law in Trinidad, and returned a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Dallas immediately moved for a new trial, and Picton was released on the enormous bail of £40,000. Another two years passed before the retrial was heard, again before Lord Ellenborough. It resulted in a "special verdict" which amounted to an acquittal, and it is reasonable to assume that there was a collective sigh of relief both at Whitehall and at the War Office at the result.
So, while technically the principle of equal justice for all had been upheld, in fact the Creole girl obtained no satisfaction for the physical and mental anguish she had suffered, and the reputation and military value of the general - very important at that time, with England at grips with the great Napoleon - suffered no impairment.
In July, 1809, Picton returned to active soldiering when he was appointed to command a brigade in the attack on the French and their allies at Walcheren, a large island off the coast of Holland. In the following year he was given command of the famous 3rd Division, which he led ably and bravely during the Peninsula War in Spain and Portugal under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington). He was wounded and returned to England, but recovered and resumed command of the 3rd Division in time to lead it at the battle of Vittoria in the Pyrenees campaign [21 June 1813], and at Orthez [27 February 1814] and Toulouse [10-12 April 1814].
In 1813 he was elected to Parliament, received, for the seventh time, the thanks of the House of Commons for his military services to the country and was knighted with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
The ruthless and despotic ex-governor of Trinidad died a hero's death, shot through the head while leading a charge at the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. It was doubly a hero's death because he had been severely wounded at Quatre Bas two days previously but had concealed his wound. And so, perhaps, Picton worked out his own redemption for the cruelty of which he had been guilty in the island of Trinidad.
Edward Vernon
MP for Penryn 1722‑1734, Portsmouth 1741 and Ipswich 1741‑1757
The following sketch of the life of Edward Vernon appeared in the November 1964 issue of the Australian monthly magazine Parade:-
Captain Jenkins, formerly master of the sloop Rebecca, appeared before a committee of the House of Commons in 1738 with a trophy which he had carried for seven years in a wooden box. It was his right ear, sliced off by Spanish privateers who had captured his ship in 1731. The ear was magnificent propaganda for His Majesty's Opposition, which was anxious to declare war on Spain. It served its purpose. The ensuing conflict, known to historians as the "War of Jenkins' Ear" added a new expression to the language and conferred unexpected greatness on a sailor, Edward Vernon, whose hopes of fame had faded. But for the cutlass stroke which removed Captain Jenkins' ear, Edward Vernon would have remained a forgotten man, and the word 'grog' would never have been heard of.
When Jenkins displayed his ear to the House of Commons, Captain Edward Vernon RN MP was 54 years old and had been off the navy's active list for a decade. An odd mixture of kindness and bluster, brag and sound common sense, the veteran seadog had become a critic of Prime Minister Robert Walpole and a vigorous advocate of naval reform. In 1738, when Spanish attacks on British merchant shipping in the West Indies became a burning topic, Vernon's oratory reached new heights. Because he had spent much of his career on the Spanish Main, he was listened to as an authority. He told the House that the first step towards reducing Spanish depredations was to destroy bases like Porto Bello, on the Isthmus of Panama. A government supporter interjected that he was talking nonsense, as everybody knew that Porto Bello was impregnable, and could be taken only after a long land and sea siege. [This makes it appear that Vernon was a member of the House of Commons at that time, but he most certainly was not - although it is possible that the report is still focusing on his appearance before the committee of the House of Commons].
The captain offered to capture Porto Bello himself with half a dozen ships. Forthwith he was promoted to vice‑admiral and commander-in-chief of a squadron which was to leave at once for the West Indies. Whether this was Walpole's way of calling the veteran's bluff was not known. If so, it failed. Admiral Vernon did exactly what he had set out to do. He destroyed Porto Bello with six ships.
Born in London in 1684, Edward Vernon entered the navy at 16. He had attended Westminster school, specialised in classics and history and developed a very pugnacious style of self-expression. Promotion came rapidly. He was a lieutenant at 18, a captain at 21. His first command was nearly his last, for he was in the fleet commanded by Sir Clowdesley Shovell which was caught in the terrific blizzard of 1707 and wrecked on the Scilly Isles. Shovell's flagship and three others went down with all hands, and several more were badly damaged. But the 23-year-old Vernon brought his ship safely home. He saw service in the Mediterranean, but most of his experience was gained in the West Indies. As a result of his superior educational background, he acquired a more extensive knowledge of the military, naval and political history and geographical layout of the Caribbean Sea than any other officer in the service.
Then came an interval of comparative peace. Bored with inaction and seeing no chance of further promotion, Vernon went on half-pay and did his fighting in the House of Commons. Although he had not been to sea for 10 years when Walpole appointed him admiral, he moved fast. Receiving his instructions on July 19, he sailed from Portsmouth four days later in his flag-ship, the 70-gun Burford, which led eight other ships. But Vernon was disgusted with his crews, which consisted largely of pressed men. Few had ever sailed in a ship of war. Many, indeed, had never been to sea.
As soon as the fleet left Portsmouth, training began for the attack on Porto Bello. Seasick men who had never handled guns were taught the complicated drill required to load, lay and fire the ponderous muzzle-loading smoothbores. When they were ready to drop with weariness, they were persuaded not to by the liberal use of the boatswain's cane. On the other hand Vernon's officers delighted him. To show his approval, he issued orders that when the fleet went into action captains were to use their own initiative if necessity arose. This was a radical innovation. Hitherto officers had been bound by orders issued before battle and were liable to court martial if they deviated from them.
Despite his demands on them, the men of Vernon's squadron liked their commander-in-chief. He might have been brusque and dogmatic but he was competent, and, like most popular officers, was soon given a nickname. From his wardrobe of earlier days he had salvaged an ancient boat-cloak made of grogram, a coarse material woven from a mixture of mohair and silk, then water-proofed with gum. When the weather looked bad, he appeared wrapped in this garment, sometimes adding breeches made from the same fabric. As a result, the seamen dubbed him Old Grog, the nickname under which he eventually took his place in history.
The word "grog" was to acquire a much wider significance. In Vernon's day, rum was regarded as the white man's only hope of survival in the West Indies, where disease was rampant. The men of Vernon's fleet were issued with a daily half-pint, measured by the generous standards of the 18th century. The effect of half a gallon of raw spirit a week on the young Englishmen was disastrous. Vernon ordered the rum issue in his squadron to be watered down four to one. The men soon became accustomed to the mixture, which they called "grog" after its originator.
Having unconsciously added another word to the English language, the admiral proceeded with his plan to capture Porto Bello. The first part of it was to leave three of his nine ships at Jamaica in case of a surprise counter-attack on that island. The belief in Porto Bello's impregnability had grown mainly because the narrow entrance to the harbour was defended by a huge fort called the Iron Castle. Two mother forts at the head of the bay protected the town. Vernon believed that the element of surprise was in his favour, and that the Spanish garrison, enervated by long service in a malaria-ridden death-trap, would not resist strongly.
Old Grog's judgment was sound. Most of the guns in the formidable Iron Castle had fallen off their rotting carriages and the morale of the garrison was in similar shape. The governor of Porto Bello, Don Francisco Javier Martinez de la Vega y Retes, was described by one of his own officers as being "of cowardly disposition, outward physical signs being the only evidence that he was a man at all".
Although Vernon did not know the circumstances were so much in his favour, he soon realised that all was not well in Porto Bello. Anchoring his three biggest ships within pistol shot of the Iron Castle, he pounded it with 500 cannon balls each hour. When the roof fell in, most of the Spaniards fled, although one battery held out gamely and refused to surrender until all hope was lost. The commander handed his sword to Vernon, who, with typical generosity, passed it over to his second-in-command, Commodore [Charles] Brown, commander of the ship that had done the most damage. By now the two town forts had wasted all their powder firing fruitlessly at the fleet, and the crews of the Spanish privateers in port were ransacking the place. As a result, the governor surrendered before his own countrymen burned the town. After blowing up the forts, thus ruining Porto Bello as a base, Vernon returned to Jamaica.
When news reached England that he had done as he promised, he became a public hero. Bonfires blazed, cities were illuminated and hundreds of inns changed their signs overnight, becoming the "Admiral Vernon" instead of the popular "Green Man" or "Red Lion." Old Grog himself was not particularly elated. He had merely proved that he was right.
After he had demolished another privateer base at Chagre [also in Panama], the government decided to follow up his victories with an all-out amphibious war against the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean. For this purpose, Vernon's fleet was heavily reinforced, and an army sent under [the 8th] Lord Cathcart to take Cuba, Cartagena and possibly Panama. But Vernon had seen too many abortive military operations in the West Indies to believe that this scheme of territorial expansion could succeed. He denounced the plan in vain.
Any chance the British had was lost when Lord Cathcart died of dysentery [in December 1740] and the incompetent General [Thomas] Wentworth assumed command. While Wentworth delayed and changed his plans from day to day his soldiers died like flies. Meanwhile, Vernon believed that if the campaign was accelerated the invasion might succeed. Many backed him. On the other hand, the admiral's suggestions were not stated diplomatically. If Wentworth was the dullest general in the army, Old Grog was by long odds the rudest man in the navy. The runner-up was his second-in-command, Admiral [Sir Chaloner] Ogle.
Finally Vernon and Wentworth were recalled. But if the government thought to make a scapegoat of Old Grog it was mistaken. To the public he was still the hero of Porto Bello. Back in the House of Commons, he attacked the government strongly and, when he was not promoted to the rank of full admiral, accused the administration of telling the King he was dead. He spent much of his time and energy trying to obtain better conditions for the men of the navy. In speeches and pamphlets he demanded more humane treatment, higher pay, pensions and the abolition of the press gang.
Temporarily shelved, the irascible old sailor staged a brilliant comeback during the war against France in 1744. With invasion threatened, the people demanded [Vernon's] reinstatement. Promoted to admiral at last, he took command of the naval forces in the Channel. He certainly harried the French, but he harried the Admiralty even more as he demanded more suitable ships, better trained crews, and more efficient organisation. In the end the French invasion plans fell through, owing, naval experts agree, to Old Grog, whose untiring enthusiasm and and unorthodox tactics checked them at every move.
By the time the war was over, Admiral Vernon had insulted the cabinet so often that they had had enough of him. He was struck off the list of flag officers. Walpole patronisingly referred to him as a simpleton, but the common people loved the kindly, if truculent, old sea-dog who stood up for his men. through thick and thin. Dying in 1757, at the age of 73, he was buried at Nacton, Suffolk, "without any unnecessary pomp or vain pageantry" as he had instructed in his will. Six years afterwards a marble monument was raised to his memory in Westminster Abbey.
Vernon's victory at Porto Bello is commemorated in the town of Porto Bello in Scotland, and in famous Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London. But his most notable memorial stands on the banks of the Potomac River, Virginia. Here, in 1743, Captain Lawrence Washington, who had served in the ill-fated army in the West Indies. built a mansion which he called Mount Vernon after the admiral he admired. It became the home and burial place of George Washington.
William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
MP for Peterborough 1878‑1889
Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the fifth son of the 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, died as a result of a riding accident. The Leeds Mercury of 11 September 1889 reported:-
On Monday evening [9 September 1889] the Hon. W.J. Wentworth-Fitzwilliam met with a serious accident whilst riding in Wentworth Park, the seat of Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G. Mr. Fitzwilliam had been to the village of Hoober, about a mile from the house, where he had a farm. He remained there until close upon seven o'clock, and upon his return he travelled by what is known as Sheepcoat Hill. The Park constable and two workmen on the estate report that soon after seven o'clock they saw a horseman ride at a gentle trot in front of Wentworth Woodhouse, and directly afterwards they heard a noise from that direction. The men hurried to the spot and found the hon. gentleman in an insensible condition. He was stretched out on the ground with his face downwards. A messenger was despatched to the house, and Mrs. Cape, the housekeeper, and Mr. Romaine, the house steward, together with a number of other servants, were speedily in attendance. Mr. Fitzwilliam was carried directly to his bedroom, and Dr. Clarke, of Wentworth, was called in. He ascertained that the unfortunate gentleman was still unconscious, and suffering from concussion of the brain. A bruise was noticeable above the left eye. Dr. Favell, of Sheffield, was summoned by telegraph, and arrived about 11.50 the same night. Yesterday, Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, of London, and [the delightfully named] Mr. Pridgin Teale, of Leeds, saw Mr. Fitzwilliam, and no signs then appeared of returning consciousness, and it is feared there is very little hope for his recovery.
And so it proved, as Wentworth-Fitzwilliam died early in the morning of 11 September, the immediate cause of death being a fractured skull.
George Hammond Whalley
MP for Peterborough 1880‑1883
George Hampden Whalley was the son of George Hammond Whalley, MP for Peterborough 1852-1853 and 1859-1878. After a career in the Army, during which he saw action during the Zulu War in 1879, he too was elected to represent Peterborough in 1880, and sat until he resigned in 1883.
Shortly after he left the House he was made bankrupt, but was soon in deeper trouble. The following report appeared in the Birmingham Daily Post of 27 October 1884:-
At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday - before the Recorder - George Hampden Whalley (33), late M.P. for Peterborough, and Thomas Herbert (19) were indicted for stealing a brooch and other articles, valued at £200, the goods of Mrs. Mary Gamble.
In opening the case for the prosecution, Mr. Poland said the prosecutrix was a lady residing in the Colherne Road, Kensington, who, desiring to let her house furnished, came into communication with the prisoner Whalley. Enquiries were made by her agent, and the prisoner Whalley was accepted as tenant. He should have paid the rent in advance, but instead of doing so gave a bill at sight for £45, drawn on someone in Coleman Street. The transaction was commenced with fraud, because the bill turned out to be worthless paper. When possession was obtained he, his wife, the prisoner Herbert, a young man who had been brought up to the sea, and a man named Frazer, who had been brought up as a gentleman, lived in the house. The agreement having been broken legal proceedings were taken to recover possession. This was obtained in August last, and it was then discovered that a room in which the prosecutrix had locked up a quantity of valuable property had been broken open and the whole of the property removed. The drawers and boxes, which had been sealed as well as locked, had been forced, and the contents removed. The two prisoners both absconded to Boulogne, and when Herbert, happening to return, was arrested, he said he had pledged the property for Whalley, who told him that it would be all right Whalley, he said, had also informed him that he hoped to redeem the property. Frazer was also concerned in the robbery. When the cellars of the house came to be examined it was found that the whole of the wine had been stolen. Whalley, when arrested, asked the officer what imprisonment he thought he should get if the case went against him.
Evidence was then given to prove the contents of the house, and it was also stated that at the request of Whalley, Messrs. Bear and co. acted as his agents in the matter.
Henry Briant, clerk to Messrs. Bear and co. , said that when possession was recovered the room, which had been left locked up, was found open, and in great disorder - Cross-examined: Whalley, he believed, was elected M.P. for Peterborough in 1880.
Mrs. Gamble deposed to letting the house to the prisoner Whalley, and she described the property she left in the room which was locked up. In August last, from what she heard, she went to the house and found that the room had been forced open, the seals on the drawers broken, and a quantity of valuable property, including the wine from the cellars missing. She had since seen some of her property in the hands of the pawnbrokers.
A locksmith stated that in July he repaired the lock of the door of the room in question at the request of Herbert. He saw Whalley there. Anyone could see that the lock had been forced open.
Emily Cole, domestic servant to the Whalleys, said that when she entered the service the room door was open. She had seen the prisoner and Mrs. Whalley in the room, and heard them moving things about. Whalley broke open the seals of the wine bin, and took some of the wine out. On the 28th August the prisoner Herbert left, and between one and two o'clock in the morning Whalley and his wife, Captain Nicholson, and a lady left. She did not know they were going until about eleven o'clock. Whalley said he should be back on the Monday, but he never returned. They did not pay her any wages, but Captain Nicholson had given her 10s - Cross-examined: When Whalley was taking the wine his wife told him not to take it.
Mr. Grain, in defence of Whalley, denied that there was any proof in the first instance contemplating acting fraudulently. His client bore an honourable name, and had occupied the position of member of Parliament for the borough of Peterborough, and at the time he took possession of the house there could be no doubt that he intended to have carried out the engagement he had entered into. Mr. Whalley regretted very much indeed that the prosecutrix had been put to so much inconvenience. As to the bill for £45, there was no evidence to show that he did not believe that it was a valuable instrument. There was no doubt the property had been pawned, but from first to last it did not appear that he had pawned it. The whole of the case upon this point rested upon the statement of Herbert, which ought to have no weight against his client.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, and Herbert was recommended to mercy by the prosecutrix.
Mr. Grain said that Whalley was the son of a late M.P., also for Peterborough, but owing to an accident he was unable to pass his examinations in the navy. He then joined the Militia and served in the Zulu War with Lonsdale's Horse. Coming into a sum of money by his father's death, he had given way to intemperance, and fell into the hands of the man Frazer, who had been convicted of fraud.
The Recorder said it was with great pain that he was now called upon to pass sentence upon the son of a gentleman whom he had known so well in the House of Commons. He sentenced Whalley to nine months' hard labour, and Herbert to three months.
According to one source, Whalley later changed his surname to White and emigrated to Australia, where all trace of him was lost.
 

 
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