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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. | |||||
SHANKILL (BELFAST) | |||||
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14 Dec 1918 | Samuel McGuffin | 18 Aug 1863 | 21 Nov 1952 | 89 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
SHEFFIELD (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
15 Dec 1832 | John Parker (to 1852) | 21 Oct 1799 | 5 Sep 1881 | 81 | |
James Silk Buckingham | 25 Aug 1786 | 30 Jun 1855 | 68 | ||
29 Jul 1837 | Henry George Ward [kt 1849] | 27 Feb 1797 | 2 Aug 1860 | 63 | |
3 May 1849 | John Arthur Roebuck (to 1868) | 28 Dec 1802 | 30 Nov 1879 | 76 | |
7 Jul 1852 | George Hadfield (to 1874) | 28 Dec 1787 | 21 Apr 1879 | 81 | |
18 Nov 1868 | Anthony John Mundella (to 1885) | 1825 | 21 Jul 1897 | 72 | |
4 Feb 1874 | John Arthur Roebuck | 28 Dec 1802 | 30 Nov 1879 | 76 | |
21 Dec 1879 | Samuel Danks Waddy | 1830 | 30 Dec 1902 | 72 | |
3 Apr 1880 | Charles Beilby Stuart‑Wortley, later [1917] 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley | 15 Sep 1851 | 24 Apr 1926 | 74 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "ATTERCLIFFE", "BRIGHTSIDE", "ECCLESALL", "HALLAM" AND "SHEFFIELD CENTRAL" | |||||
SHEFFIELD CENTRAL | |||||
25 Nov 1885 | Charles Edward Howard Vincent [kt 1896] | 31 May 1849 | 7 Apr 1908 | 58 | |
21 Apr 1908 | James Fitzalan Hope, later [1932] 1st Baron Rankeillour | 11 Dec 1870 | 14 Feb 1949 | 78 | |
30 May 1929 | Philip Christopher Hoffman | 26 Jun 1878 | 20 Apr 1959 | 80 | |
27 Oct 1931 | William Whytehead Boulton, later [1944] 1st baronet | 10 Jan 1873 | 9 Jan 1949 | 75 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Harry Morris, later [1950] 1st Baron Morris of Kenwood | 7 Oct 1893 | 1 Jul 1954 | 60 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950, BUT REVIVED 1983 | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Richard George Caborn | 6 Oct 1943 | |||
6 May 2010 | Paul Blomfield | 25 Aug 1953 | |||
SHEFFIELD SOUTH EAST | |||||
6 May 2010 | Clive James Charles Betts | 13 Jan 1950 | |||
SHERWOOD (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Andrew Struthers Stewart | 27 May 1937 | 6 Oct 2013 | 76 | |
9 Apr 1992 | Simon Patrick Tipping | 24 Oct 1949 | |||
6 May 2010 | Mark Steven Spencer | 20 Jan 1970 | |||
SHETTLESTON (GLASGOW) | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair | 6 Nov 1861 | 12 Aug 1928 | 66 | |
15 Nov 1922 | John Wheatley | 19 May 1869 | 12 May 1930 | 60 | |
26 Jun 1930 | John McGovern | 13 Dec 1887 | 14 Feb 1968 | 80 | |
8 Oct 1959 | Myer Galpern [kt 1960], later [1979] Baron Galpern [L] | 1 Jan 1903 | 23 Sep 1993 | 90 | |
3 May 1979 | David Marshall | 7 May 1941 | |||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005 | |||||
SHIPLEY (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
2 Dec 1885 | Joseph Craven | 1825 | 29 Nov 1914 | 89 | |
Jul 1892 | William Pollard Byles [kt 1911] | 13 Feb 1839 | 15 Oct 1917 | 78 | |
20 Jul 1895 | James Fortescue Flannery [kt 1899], later [1904] 1st baronet | 16 Dec 1851 | 5 Oct 1943 | 91 | |
15 Jan 1906 | Percy Holden Illingworth | 9 Mar 1869 | 3 Jan 1915 | 45 | |
9 Feb 1915 | Oswald Partington, later [1925] 2nd Baron Doverdale | 4 May 1872 | 23 Mar 1935 | 62 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Henry Norman Rae [kt 1922] | 20 Jan 1860 | 31 Dec 1928 | 68 | |
6 Dec 1923 | William Mackinder | 28 Apr 1880 | 8 Sep 1930 | 50 | |
6 Nov 1930 | James Horace Lockwood | 25 May 1888 | 29 Nov 1972 | 84 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Arthur Creech Jones | 15 May 1891 | 23 Oct 1964 | 73 | |
23 Feb 1950 | Geoffrey Audus Nicholson Hirst | 14 Dec 1904 | 18 Jun 1984 | 79 | |
18 Jun 1970 | (John) Marcus Fox [kt 1986] | 11 Jun 1927 | 16 Mar 2002 | 74 | |
1 May 1997 | Christopher Michael Leslie | 28 Jun 1972 | |||
5 May 2005 | Philip Andrew Davies | 5 Jan 1972 | |||
SHOREDITCH | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Christopher Addison, later [1945] 1st Viscount Addison | 19 Jun 1869 | 11 Dec 1951 | 82 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Ernest Griffith Price | 13 May 1870 | 5 Jan 1962 | 91 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Ernest Thurtle | 11 Nov 1884 | 22 Aug 1954 | 69 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Charles Harold Summersby | 1882 | 13 Aug 1961 | 79 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Ernest Thurtle | 11 Nov 1884 | 22 Aug 1954 | 69 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "SHOREDITCH AND FINSBURY" 1950 | |||||
SHOREDITCH AND FINSBURY | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Ernest Thurtle | 11 Nov 1884 | 22 Aug 1954 | 69 | |
21 Oct 1954 | Victor John Collins, later [1958] Baron Stonham [L] | 1 Jul 1903 | 22 Dec 1971 | 68 | |
27 Nov 1958 | Michael Cliffe | Mar 1904 | 9 Aug 1964 | 60 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Ronald William Brown | 7 Sep 1921 | 27 Jul 2002 | 80 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "HACKNEY SOUTH AND SHOREDITCH" FEB 1974 | |||||
SHOREHAM (SUSSEX) | |||||
See also "NEW SHOREHAM" | |||||
28 Feb 1974 | Richard Napier Luce [kt 1991], later [2000] Baron Luce [L] | 14 Oct 1936 | |||
9 Apr 1992 | Barrie Michael Lace Stephen | 25 Sep 1942 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "EAST WORTHING AND SHOREHAM" 1997 | |||||
SHREWSBURY (SHROPSHIRE) | |||||
13 Apr 1660 | Samuel Jones | c 1610 | 3 Jan 1673 | ||
Thomas Jones (to 1677) | 13 Oct 1614 | May 1692 | 77 | ||
2 May 1661 | Robert Leighton (to 1679) | 30 Dec 1628 | 27 Apr 1689 | 60 | |
17 Mar 1677 | Sir Richard Corbet, 2nd baronet (to 1685) | 2 Sep 1640 | 1 Aug 1683 | 42 | |
3 Feb 1679 | Edward Kynaston (to 1689) | 25 Mar 1641 | 15 Aug 1693 | 52 | |
4 Apr 1685 | Sir Francis Edwards, 2nd baronet (to 1690) | 13 May 1643 | 1690 | 47 | |
12 Jan 1689 | Andrew Newport (to 1698) | 30 Nov 1622 | 11 Sep 1699 | 76 | |
3 Mar 1690 | Richard Mytton | 27 Dec 1660 | 22 Oct 1718 | 57 | |
28 Oct 1695 | John Kynaston (to 1709) | 21 Aug 1664 | 10 Sep 1733 | 69 | |
25 Jul 1698 | Richard Mytton | 27 Dec 1660 | 22 Oct 1718 | 57 | |
The two sitting members (Kynaston and Mytton) were unseated on petition in favour of Sir Edward Leighton 20 Dec 1709. The other seat was filled at a by-election held on 3 Jan 1710 - see below | |||||
20 Dec 1709 | Sir Edward Leighton, 1st baronet (to Oct 1710) | c 1650 | 6 Apr 1711 | ||
3 Jan 1710 | Thomas Jones | c 1667 | 31 Jul 1715 | ||
9 Oct 1710 | Edward Cressett (to 1715) | 9 Jan 1727 | |||
Richard Mytton | 27 Dec 1660 | 22 Oct 1718 | 57 | ||
4 Sep 1713 | Thomas Jones [he was unseated on petition in favour of Corbet Kynaston 27 May 1714] | c 1667 | 31 Jul 1715 | ||
27 May 1714 | Corbet Kynaston (to 1723) | 28 Jan 1690 | 17 Jun 1740 | 50 | |
1 Feb 1715 | Thomas Jones | c 1667 | 31 Jul 1715 | ||
21 Nov 1715 | Andrew Corbet | 16 Oct 1694 | Feb 1757 | 62 | |
28 Mar 1722 | Richard Lyster | c 1692 | 13 Apr 1766 | ||
Both sitting members (Kynaston and Lyster) were unseated on petition in favour of Sir Richard Corbet and Orlando Bridgeman 9 Apr 1723 | |||||
9 Apr 1723 | Sir Richard Corbet, 4th baronet | 21 May 1696 | 25 Sep 1774 | 78 | |
Orlando Bridgeman, later [1747] 4th baronet | 6 Jul 1695 | 25 Jul 1764 | 69 | ||
30 Aug 1727 | Richard Lyster | c 1692 | 13 Apr 1766 | ||
Sir John Astley, 2nd baronet | 24 Jan 1687 | 29 Dec 1771 | 84 | ||
29 Apr 1734 | William Kinaston | c 1682 | 24 Feb 1749 | ||
Sir Richard Corbet, 4th baronet (to 1754) | 21 May 1696 | 25 Sep 1774 | 78 | ||
9 Mar 1749 | Thomas Hill (to 1768) | 1693 | 11 Jun 1782 | 78 | |
16 Apr 1754 | Robert More | May 1703 | 5 Jan 1780 | 76 | |
27 Mar 1761 | Robert Clive, later [1762] 1st Baron Clive of Plassey [I] (to 17 Mar 1775) | 29 Sep 1725 | 24 Nov 1774 | 49 | |
19 Mar 1768 | Noel Hill, later [1784] 1st Baron Berwick | Apr 1745 | 16 Jan 1789 | 43 | |
14 Oct 1774 | Charlton Leighton, later [1780] 4th baronet [he was unseated on petition in favour of William Pulteney 8 Mar 1775] | 1747 | 9 Sep 1784 | 37 | |
8 Mar 1775 | William Pulteney, later [1794] 5th baronet (to 1805) | 19 Oct 1729 | 30 May 1805 | 75 | |
17 Mar 1775 | John Corbet | 1751 | 19 May 1817 | 65 | |
12 Sep 1780 | Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th baronet | 1747 | 9 Sep 1784 | 37 | |
29 Oct 1784 | John Hill, later [1809] 3rd baronet | 21 Jul 1740 | 21 May 1824 | 83 | |
8 Jun 1796 | William Hill, later [1832] 3rd Baron Berwick (to 1812) | 21 Oct 1773 | 4 Aug 1842 | 68 | |
10 Jun 1805 | John Hill, later [1809] 3rd baronet | 21 Jul 1740 | 21 May 1824 | 83 | |
17 Nov 1806 | Henry Grey Bennet [his election was declared void 24 Apr 1807] | 2 Dec 1777 | 29 May 1836 | 58 | |
20 May 1807 | Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, later [1808] 1st baronet | 1 Sep 1765 | 26 Nov 1811 | 46 | |
23 Dec 1811 | Henry Grey Bennet (to 1826) | 2 Dec 1777 | 29 May 1836 | 58 | |
12 Oct 1812 | Sir Rowland Hill, later [1814] 1st Baron Hill and [1842] 1st Viscount Hill | 11 Aug 1772 | 10 Dec 1842 | 70 | |
27 May 1814 | Richard Lyster | c 1772 | 3 May 1819 | ||
25 May 1819 | John Mytton For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
30 Sep 1796 | 29 Mar 1834 | 37 | |
9 Mar 1820 | Panton Corbett (to 1830) | 2 Apr 1785 | 22 Nov 1855 | 70 | |
15 Jun 1826 | Robert Aglionby Slaney (to 1835) | 9 Jun 1791 | 19 May 1862 | 70 | |
2 Aug 1830 | Richard Jenkins [kt 1838] | 18 Feb 1785 | 30 Dec 1853 | 68 | |
14 Dec 1832 | Sir John Hanmer, 3rd baronet, later [1872] 1st Baron Hanmer (to 1837) | 22 Dec 1809 | 8 Mar 1881 | 71 | |
9 Jan 1835 | John Cressett-Pelham | c 1769 | 29 Aug 1838 | ||
27 Jul 1837 | Richard Jenkins [kt 1838] | 18 Feb 1785 | 30 Dec 1853 | 68 | |
Robert Aglionby Slaney | 9 Jun 1791 | 19 May 1862 | 70 | ||
30 Jun 1841 | George Tomline | 6 Mar 1813 | 29 Aug 1889 | 76 | |
Benjamin Disraeli, later [1876] 1st Earl of Beaconsfield | 21 Dec 1804 | 19 Apr 1881 | 76 | ||
30 Jul 1847 | Edward Holmes Baldock (to 1857) | 1812 | 15 Aug 1875 | 63 | |
Robert Aglionby Slaney | 9 Jun 1791 | 19 May 1862 | 70 | ||
7 Jul 1852 | George Tomline (to 1868) | 6 Mar 1813 | 29 Aug 1889 | 76 | |
28 Mar 1857 | Robert Aglionby Slaney | 9 Jun 1791 | 19 May 1862 | 70 | |
2 Jun 1862 | Henry Robertson | 11 Jun 1816 | 22 Mar 1888 | 71 | |
11 Jul 1865 | William James Clement (to 1870) | 29 Aug 1870 | |||
17 Nov 1868 | James Figgins (to 1874) | 1811 | 12 Jun 1884 | 72 | |
21 Sep 1870 | Douglas Straight [kt 1892] | 22 Oct 1844 | 4 Jun 1914 | 69 | |
4 Feb 1874 | Charles Cecil Cotes | 1846 | 9 Aug 1898 | 52 | |
Henry Robertson | 11 Jun 1816 | 22 Mar 1888 | 71 | ||
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
27 Nov 1885 | James Watson | 1817 | 5 Jul 1895 | 78 | |
Jul 1892 | Henry David Greene | 1843 | 11 Oct 1915 | 72 | |
16 Jan 1906 | Sir Clement Lloyd Hill | 5 May 1845 | 9 Apr 1913 | 67 | |
22 Apr 1913 | George Butler Lloyd | 8 Jan 1854 | 28 Mar 1930 | 76 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Dudley Ryder, styled Viscount Sandon, later [1956] 6th Earl of Harrowby | 11 Oct 1892 | 7 May 1987 | 94 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Joseph Sunlight | 2 Jan 1889 | 15 Apr 1978 | 89 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Dudley Ryder, styled Viscount Sandon, later [1956] 6th Earl of Harrowby | 11 Oct 1892 | 7 May 1987 | 94 | |
30 May 1929 | George Arthur Victor Duckworth | 3 Jan 1901 | 14 Nov 1986 | 85 | |
26 Jul 1945 | John Anthony Langford-Holt [kt 1962] | 30 Jun 1916 | 23 Jul 1993 | 77 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM" 1983 | |||||
SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM (SHROPSHIRE) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Derek Leslie Conway | 15 Feb 1953 | |||
1 May 1997 | Paul William Barry Marsden | 18 Mar 1968 | |||
5 May 2005 | Daniel Robert Kawczynski | 24 Jan 1972 | |||
SHROPSHIRE | |||||
c Apr 1660 | Sir William Whitmore, 2nd baronet | 6 Apr 1637 | 30 Mar 1699 | 61 | |
Sir Henry Vernon, 1st baronet | 16 Dec 1606 | 11 Apr 1676 | 69 | ||
21 Mar 1661 | Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd baronet (to 1679) | c 1626 | 25 Oct 1696 | ||
Sir Richard Ottley | 5 Aug 1626 | 10 Aug 1670 | 44 | ||
17 Nov 1670 | Richard Newport, later [1708] 2nd Earl of Bradford (to 1685) | 3 Sep 1644 | 14 Jun 1723 | 78 | |
6 Feb 1679 | Sir Vincent Corbet, 2nd baronet | c 1642 | 4 Feb 1681 | ||
3 Mar 1681 | William Leveson-Gower, later [1689] 4th baronet [he was also returned for Newcastle-under-Lyme, but the Parliament was dissolved before he chose which seat to represent] | c 1647 | 22 Dec 1691 | ||
2 Apr 1685 | Edward Kynaston (to 1699) | 24 Aug 1643 | 23 May 1699 | 55 | |
John Walcot | 24 Jun 1624 | 1702 | 78 | ||
Jan 1689 | Richard Newport, styled Viscount Newport from 1694, later [1708] 2nd Earl of Bradford | 3 Sep 1644 | 14 Jun 1723 | 78 | |
28 Jul 1698 | Sir Edward Leighton, 1st baronet (to Jan 1701) | c 1650 | 6 Apr 1711 | ||
12 Dec 1699 | Robert Lloyd (to 1702) | 9 Feb 1657 | 1 Jun 1709 | 52 | |
9 Jan 1701 | Sir Humphrey Briggs, 4th baronet | c 1670 | 8 Dec 1734 | ||
11 Dec 1701 | Richard Corbet (to 1705) | 15 Jan 1649 | Apr 1718 | 69 | |
23 Jul 1702 | Roger Owen | 3 Dec 1674 | 17 Jan 1718 | 43 | |
24 May 1705 | Sir Robert Corbet, 4th baronet (to 1710) | c 1670 | 3 Oct 1740 | ||
Robert Lloyd | 9 Feb 1657 | 1 Jun 1709 | 52 | ||
20 May 1708 | Henry Newport, styled Viscount Newport, later [1723] 3rd Earl of Bradford | 8 Aug 1683 | 25 Dec 1734 | 51 | |
19 Oct 1710 | John Kynaston (to 1715) | 21 Aug 1664 | 10 Sep 1733 | 69 | |
Robert Lloyd | c 1688 | 6 Jun 1734 | |||
17 Sep 1713 | Henry Newport, styled Viscount Newport, later [1723] 3rd Earl of Bradford (to 1722) | 8 Aug 1683 | 23 Dec 1734 | 51 | |
3 Feb 1715 | Sir Robert Corbet, 4th baronet | c 1670 | 3 Oct 1740 | ||
12 Apr 1722 | John Kynaston | Aug 1664 | 10 Sep 1733 | 69 | |
Robert Lloyd | c 1688 | 7 Jun 1734 | |||
7 Sep 1727 | John Walcot | 24 Jun 1697 | 1765 | 68 | |
William Lacon Childe | 3 Mar 1700 | 14 Dec 1757 | 57 | ||
9 May 1734 | Sir John Astley, 2nd baronet (to 1772) | 24 Jan 1687 | 29 Dec 1771 | 84 | |
Corbet Kynaston | 2 Feb 1690 | 17 Jun 1740 | 50 | ||
11 Dec 1740 | Richard Lyster | c 1692 | 13 Apr 1766 | ||
8 May 1766 | Charles Baldwyn (to 1780) | 29 Sep 1729 | 28 Sep 1801 | 71 | |
5 Mar 1772 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th baronet | 8 May 1748 | 29 Jul 1789 | 41 | |
13 Oct 1774 | Noel Hill, later [1784] 1st Baron Berwick (to 1784) | Apr 1745 | 16 Jan 1789 | 43 | |
20 Sep 1780 | Richard Hill, later [1783] 2nd baronet (to 1806) | 6 Jun 1733 | 28 Nov 1808 | 75 | |
15 Apr 1784 | John Kynaston (Powell from 1797), later [1818] 1st baronet (to 1822) | 5 Feb 1753 | 24 Oct 1822 | 69 | |
8 Nov 1806 | John Cotes | 1749 | 24 Aug 1821 | 72 | |
18 Oct 1821 | Rowland Hill, later [1824] 4th baronet and [1842] 2nd Viscount Hill (to 1832) | 10 May 1800 | 3 Jan 1875 | 74 | |
2 Dec 1822 | John Cressett-Pelham | c 1769 | 29 Aug 1838 | ||
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1832 | |||||
SHROPSHIRE NORTH | |||||
21 Dec 1832 | Sir Rowland Hill, 4th baronet, later [1842] 2nd Viscount Hill (to 1843) | 10 May 1800 | 3 Jan 1875 | 74 | |
John Cotes | 17 Jul 1799 | 10 Jan 1874 | 74 | ||
10 Jan 1835 | William Ormsby-Gore (to 1857) | 14 Mar 1779 | 4 May 1860 | 81 | |
16 Jan 1843 | Edward James Herbert, styled Viscount Clive, later [1848] 3rd Earl of Powis | 5 Nov 1818 | 7 May 1891 | 72 | |
16 Feb 1848 | John Whitehall Dod (to 1859) | 1797 | 8 Jul 1863 | 66 | |
31 Mar 1857 | Rowland Clegg Hill, later [1875] 3rd Viscount Hill (to 1865) | 5 Dec 1833 | 30 Mar 1895 | 61 | |
3 May 1859 | John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, later [1876] 1st Baron Harlech (to 1876) | 3 Jun 1816 | 15 Jun 1876 | 60 | |
13 Jul 1865 | Charles Henry Cust | 27 Sep 1813 | 19 May 1875 | 61 | |
17 Aug 1866 | Adelbert Wellington Cust, later [1867] 3rd Earl Brownlow | 19 Aug 1844 | 19 Apr 1927 | 82 | |
14 Mar 1867 | George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, styled Viscount Newport, later [1898] 4th Earl of Bradford (to 1885) | 3 Feb 1845 | 2 Jan 1915 | 69 | |
3 Feb 1876 | Stanley Leighton | 13 Oct 1837 | 4 May 1901 | 63 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "LUDLOW", "NEWPORT", "OSWESTRY" AND "WELLINGTON". CONSTITUENCY REVIVED 1983 | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | William John Biffen, later [1997] Baron Biffen [L] | 3 Nov 1930 | 14 Aug 2007 | 76 | |
1 May 1997 | Owen William Paterson | 24 Jun 1956 | |||
16 Dec 2021 | Helen Margaret Lilian Morgan | 9 Apr 1975 | |||
SHROPSHIRE SOUTH | |||||
24 Dec 1832 | Henry Vane, styled Earl of Darlington, later [1842] 2nd Duke of Cleveland | 6 Aug 1788 | 18 Jan 1864 | 75 | |
Robert Henry Clive (to 1854) | 15 Jan 1789 | 20 Jan 1854 | 65 | ||
3 Mar 1842 | Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, styled Viscount Newport, later [1865] 3rd Earl of Bradford (to 1865) | 24 Apr 1819 | 9 Mar 1898 | 78 | |
8 Feb 1854 | Robert Windsor Clive | 24 May 1824 | 4 Aug 1859 | 35 | |
14 Sep 1859 | Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th baronet (to Jul 1865) | 14 May 1805 | 26 May 1871 | 65 | |
12 Apr 1865 | Percy Egerton Herbert [kt 1869] (to 1876) | 15 Apr 1822 | 7 Oct 1876 | 54 | |
15 Jul 1865 | Robert Jasper More | 1836 | 25 Nov 1903 | 67 | |
25 Nov 1868 | Edward Corbett (to 1877) | 30 Dec 1817 | 6 Jan 1895 | 77 | |
3 Nov 1876 | John Edmund Severne (to 1885) | 24 Apr 1826 | 21 Apr 1899 | 72 | |
10 Aug 1877 | Sir Baldwin Leighton, 8th baronet | 27 Oct 1836 | 22 Jan 1897 | 60 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "LUDLOW", "NEWPORT", "OSWESTRY" AND "WELLINGTON" | |||||
SIDCUP | |||||
28 Feb 1974 | Edward Richard George Heath [KG 1992] | 9 Jul 1916 | 17 Jul 2005 | 89 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
SILVERTOWN (WEST HAM) | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | John Joseph Jones | 8 Dec 1873 | 21 Nov 1941 | 67 | |
22 Feb 1940 | James Henry Hollins | 1877 | 22 Sep 1954 | 77 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Louis Comyns | 17 Aug 1904 | 10 Feb 1962 | 57 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
SITTINGBOURNE AND SHEPPEY (KENT) | |||||
1 May 1997 | Derek Murray Wyatt | 4 Dec 1949 | |||
6 May 2010 | Gordon Henderson | 27 Jan 1948 | |||
SKIPTON (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
3 Dec 1885 | Sir Mathew Wilson, 1st baronet | 29 Aug 1802 | 18 Jan 1891 | 88 | |
13 Jul 1886 | Walter Morrison | 21 May 1836 | 18 Dec 1921 | 85 | |
Jul 1892 | Charles Savile Roundell | 19 Jul 1827 | 3 Mar 1906 | 78 | |
26 Jul 1895 | Walter Morrison | 21 May 1836 | 18 Dec 1921 | 85 | |
12 Oct 1900 | Frederick Whitley Thomson (Whitley‑Thomson from 1914) [kt 1916] | 1851 | 21 Jun 1925 | 73 | |
26 Jan 1906 | William Clough | 13 May 1862 | 11 May 1937 | 74 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Richard Foulis Roundell | 4 Nov 1872 | 5 Jan 1940 | 67 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Ernest Roy Bird | 13 Oct 1883 | 27 Sep 1933 | 49 | |
7 Nov 1933 | George William Rickards | 16 Dec 1877 | 27 Nov 1943 | 65 | |
7 Jan 1944 | Hugh McDowall Lawson | 13 Feb 1912 | 23 Mar 1997 | 85 | |
26 Jul 1945 | George Burnaby Drayson | 9 Mar 1913 | 16 Sep 1983 | 70 | |
3 May 1979 | John Grenville Bernard Watson | 21 Feb 1943 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "SKIPTON AND RIPON" 1983 | |||||
SKIPTON AND RIPON (NORTH YORKSHIRE) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | John Grenville Bernard Watson | 21 Feb 1943 | |||
11 Jun 1987 | David Maurice Curry | 13 Jun 1944 | |||
6 May 2010 | Julian Richard Smith | 30 Aug 1971 | |||
SLEAFORD (LINCOLNSHIRE) | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Henry Chaplin, later [1916] 1st Viscount Chaplin | 22 Dec 1840 | 29 May 1923 | 82 | |
17 Jan 1906 | Arnold Lupton | 11 Sep 1846 | 23 May 1930 | 83 | |
20 Jan 1910 | Edmund Royds | 6 Jul 1860 | 31 Mar 1946 | 85 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
SLEAFORD AND NORTH HYKEHAM | |||||
1 May 1997 | Douglas Martin Hogg, later [2001] 3rd Viscount Hailsham and [2015] Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe [L] | 5 Feb 1945 | |||
6 May 2010 | Stephen James Phillips | 9 Mar 1970 | |||
8 Dec 2016 | Caroline Elizabeth Johnson | 31 Dec 1977 | |||
SLIGO | |||||
1801 | Owen Wynne | 1755 | 12 Dec 1841 | 86 | |
16 Jul 1806 | George Canning, later [1818] 1st Baron Garvagh [I] | 15 Nov 1778 | 20 Aug 1840 | 61 | |
5 Nov 1812 | George Canning [he was also returned for Petersfield, for which he chose to sit] | 11 Apr 1770 | 8 Aug 1827 | 57 | |
5 Apr 1813 | Joshua Spencer | c 1758 | 1829 | ||
27 Mar 1815 | Sir Brent Spencer | c 1760 | 29 Dec 1828 | ||
29 Jun 1818 | John Bent | 27 Mar 1776 | 6 Oct 1848 | 72 | |
21 Mar 1820 | Owen Wynne | c 1756 | 12 Dec 1841 | ||
4 Aug 1830 | John Arthur Wynne | 20 Apr 1801 | 19 Jun 1865 | 64 | |
21 Dec 1832 | John Martin | ||||
5 Aug 1837 | John Patrick Somers [his election was declared void 27 Mar 1848] | 1791 | 10 Sep 1858 | 67 | |
11 Apr 1848 | Charles Towneley [his election was declared void 26 Jun 1848] | 1803 | 4 Nov 1870 | 67 | |
15 Jul 1848 | John Patrick Somers | 1791 | 10 Sep 1858 | 67 | |
15 Jul 1852 | Charles Towneley [his election was declared void 6 Jun 1853] | 1803 | 4 Nov 1870 | 67 | |
8 Jul 1853 | John Sadleir For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page which contains details of the members for Carlow |
1813 | 17 Feb 1856 | 42 | |
8 Mar 1856 | John Arthur Wynne | 20 Apr 1801 | 19 Jun 1865 | 63 | |
2 Apr 1857 | John Patrick Somers [he was unseated on petition in favour of John Arthur Wynne 31 Jul 1857] | 1791 | 10 Sep 1858 | 67 | |
31 Jul 1857 | John Arthur Wynne | 20 Apr 1801 | 19 Jun 1865 | 63 | |
9 Aug 1860 | Francis Macdonogh | 18 Apr 1882 | |||
15 Jul 1865 | Richard Armstrong | 1815 | 26 Aug 1880 | 65 | |
20 Nov 1868 | Lawrence Edward Knox [his election was declared void 2 Mar 1869. No writ was issued to replace him and the seat was disenfranchised by an Act which received Royal assent on 1 Aug 1870] | 1836 | 24 Jan 1873 | 36 | |
CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1870 | |||||
SLIGO COUNTY | |||||
1801 | Joshua Edward Cooper | 5 Mar 1762 | 8 Jun 1837 | 75 | |
Charles O'Hara (to 1823) | 26 Apr 1746 | 19 Sep 1822 | 76 | ||
17 Nov 1806 | Edward Synge Cooper (to 1830) | 5 Mar 1762 | 16 Aug 1830 | 68 | |
4 Dec 1822 | Henry King (to 1831) | 4 Jul 1776 | 25 Nov 1839 | 63 | |
14 Aug 1830 | Edward Joshua Cooper (to Jul 1841) | May 1798 | 23 Apr 1863 | 64 | |
17 May 1831 | Alexander Perceval (to Sep 1841) | 10 Feb 1788 | 9 Dec 1858 | 70 | |
8 Jul 1841 | William Richard Ormsby‑Gore, later [1876] 2nd Baron Harlech (to 1852) | 3 Mar 1819 | 27 Jun 1904 | 85 | |
28 Sep 1841 | John Ffolliott | 1798 | 11 Feb 1868 | 69 | |
12 Mar 1850 | Sir Robert Gore Booth, 4th baronet (to 1877) | 25 Aug 1805 | 21 Dec 1876 | 71 | |
26 Jul 1852 | Richard Swift | 1811 | 24 Mar 1872 | 60 | |
11 Apr 1857 | Edward Joshua Cooper | 1798 | 23 Apr 1863 | 64 | |
13 May 1859 | Charles William Cooper (O'Hara from 27 Nov 1860) | 1817 | 20 May 1870 | 52 | |
17 Jul 1865 | Edward Henry Cooper | 1827 | 26 Feb 1902 | 74 | |
2 Dec 1868 | Denis Maurice O'Conor (to 1883) | 1840 | 26 Jul 1883 | 43 | |
12 Jan 1877 | Edward Robert King‑Harman | 3 Apr 1838 | 10 Jun 1888 | 50 | |
10 Apr 1880 | Thomas Sexton (to 1885) | 1848 | 1 Nov 1932 | 84 | |
22 Aug 1883 | Nicholas Lynch | 1827 | 29 Jul 1900 | ||
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
SLIGO COUNTY NORTH | |||||
2 Dec 1885 | Peter McDonald | 1836 | 12 Mar 1891 | 54 | |
2 Apr 1891 | Bernard Collery | 1838 | 5 Jul 1907 | 69 | |
7 Mar 1900 | John O'Dowd | 1856 | Oct 1937 | 81 | |
4 Oct 1900 | William McKillop | 1860 | 25 Aug 1909 | 49 | |
16 Jan 1906 | Patrick Aloysius McHugh | 29 Sep 1858 | 30 May 1909 | 50 | |
4 Aug 1909 | Thomas Scanlan | 21 May 1874 | 9 Jan 1930 | 55 | |
14 Dec 1918 | John Joseph Clancy | c 1891 | 1 Jan 1932 | ||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
SLIGO COUNTY SOUTH | |||||
4 Dec 1885 | Thomas Sexton [at the general election in Jul 1886, he was also returned for Belfast West, for which he chose to sit] | 1848 | 1 Nov 1932 | 84 | |
7 Feb 1887 | Edward Joseph Kennedy | 1851 | |||
6 Jul 1888 | Edmund Leamy | 1848 | 10 Dec 1904 | 56 | |
Jul 1892 | Thomas Curran | 1840 | 13 Aug 1913 | 73 | |
2 Oct 1900 | John O'Dowd | 1856 | Oct 1937 | 81 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Alexander McCabe | 5 Jun 1886 | 31 May 1972 | 85 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
SLOUGH (BERKSHIRE) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | John Arthur Watts | 19 Apr 1947 | 8 Sep 2016 | 69 | |
1 May 1997 | Fiona Margaret Mactaggart | 12 Sep 1953 | |||
8 Jun 2017 | Tanmanjeet Singh ["Tan"] Dhesi | 17 Aug 1978 | |||
SMALL HEATH (BIRMINGHAM) | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Fred Longden | 23 Feb 1894 | 5 Oct 1952 | 58 | |
27 Nov 1952 | William Edwin Wheeldon | 20 Feb 1898 | 7 Oct 1960 | 62 | |
23 Mar 1961 | Denis Herbert Howell, later [1992] Baron Howell [L] | 4 Sep 1923 | 19 Apr 1998 | 74 | |
9 Apr 1992 | Roger Duncan Godsiff | 28 Jun 1946 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "SPARKBROOK AND SMALL HEATH" 1997 | |||||
SMETHWICK | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | John Emanuel Davison | 28 Nov 1870 | 2 Mar 1927 | 56 | |
21 Dec 1926 | Oswald Ernald Mosley, later [1928] 6th baronet | 16 Nov 1896 | 3 Dec 1980 | 84 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Alfred Roy Wise | 1901 | 21 Aug 1974 | 73 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Alfred James Dobbs For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
1882 | 27 Jul 1945 | 63 | |
1 Oct 1945 | Patrick Chrestien Gordon-Walker, later [1974] Baron Gordon‑Walker [L] | 7 Apr 1907 | 2 Dec 1980 | 73 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Peter Harry Steve Griffiths | 24 May 1928 | 20 Nov 2013 | 85 | |
31 Mar 1966 | Andrew Matthew William Faulds | 1 Mar 1923 | 31 May 2000 | 77 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974 | |||||
SOLIHULL | |||||
26 Jul 1945 | Martin Alexander Lindsay, later [1962] 1st baronet | 22 Aug 1905 | 5 May 1981 | 75 | |
15 Oct 1964 | William Percival Grieve | 25 Mar 1915 | 22 Aug 1998 | 83 | |
9 Jun 1983 | John Mark Taylor | 19 Aug 1941 | 30 May 2017 | 75 | |
5 May 2005 | Lorely Jane Burt, later [2015] Baroness Burt of Solihull [L] | 10 Sep 1954 | |||
7 May 2015 | Julian Carlton Knight | 5 Jan 1972 | |||
SOMERSET | |||||
2 Apr 1660 | George Horner | 3 Mar 1605 | 9 Feb 1677 | 71 | |
Hugh Smith, later [1661] 1st baronet | 21 Apr 1632 | 26 Jul 1680 | 48 | ||
1 Apr 1661 | Sir John Stawell | 29 Aug 1600 | 21 Feb 1662 | 61 | |
Edward Phelips (to Feb 1679) | c 1613 | 5 Feb 1680 | |||
31 Mar 1662 | John Poulett, later [1665] 3rd Baron Poulett | c 1641 | Jun 1679 | ||
6 Nov 1665 | Sir John Warre | 25 Dec 1636 | Sep 1669 | 32 | |
1 Nov 1669 | Sir John Sydenham, 2nd baronet (to Aug 1679) | 1643 | 19 Dec 1696 | 53 | |
10 Feb 1679 | Sir Hugh Smith, 1st baronet | 21 Apr 1632 | 26 Jul 1680 | 48 | |
25 Aug 1679 | Sir William Portman, 6th baronet | 5 Sep 1643 | 1690 | 46 | |
George Speke | 1 May 1623 | 2 Dec 1689 | 66 | ||
30 Mar 1685 | Sir John Smith, 2nd baronet | c Dec 1659 | 26 May 1726 | 66 | |
George Horner (to 1690) | 1646 | 11 Mar 1707 | 60 | ||
15 Jan 1689 | Edward Gorges | 18 Dec 1631 | 8 Sep 1708 | 76 | |
24 Feb 1690 | Sir Edward Phelips | 26 Sep 1638 | 4 Apr 1699 | 60 | |
Nathaniel Palmer | 1 Sep 1660 | 16 Jan 1718 | 57 | ||
28 Oct 1695 | Sir John Smith, 2nd baronet | c Dec 1659 | 26 May 1726 | 66 | |
Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd baronet | 9 Apr 1670 | 25 Sep 1755 | 85 | ||
3 Aug 1698 | Sir Edward Phelips | 26 Sep 1638 | 4 Apr 1699 | 60 | |
John Hunt (to Dec 1701) | c 1639 | 26 Apr 1721 | |||
10 May 1699 | Nathaniel Palmer | 1 Sep 1660 | 16 Jan 1718 | 57 | |
15 Jan 1701 | Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd baronet | 9 Apr 1670 | 25 Sep 1755 | 85 | |
17 Dec 1701 | Sir Philip Sydenham, 3rd baronet | c 1676 | 10 Oct 1739 | ||
Nathaniel Palmer (to 1708) | 1 Sep 1660 | 16 Jan 1718 | 57 | ||
30 May 1705 | John Pigott | c 1647 | 23 Dec 1727 | ||
26 May 1708 | Henry Seymour Portman (to Oct 1710) | c 1637 | 10 Feb 1728 | ||
John Prowse | 11 Mar 1676 | 4 Apr 1710 | 34 | ||
26 Apr 1710 | Sir William Wyndham, 3rd baronet (to 1740) | c 1688 | 17 Jun 1740 | ||
25 Oct 1710 | Sir Thomas Wroth, 3rd baronet | c 1674 | 27 Jun 1721 | ||
9 Sep 1713 | Thomas Horner (Thomas Strangways Horner from 1726) | 3 Jul 1688 | 19 Nov 1741 | 53 | |
9 Feb 1715 | William Helyar | 10 Jul 1662 | 8 Oct 1742 | 80 | |
11 Apr 1722 | Edward Phelips | c 1677 | 13 May 1734 | ||
23 Aug 1727 | Thomas Strangways Horner (to 1741) | 3 Jul 1688 | 19 Nov 1741 | 53 | |
26 Nov 1740 | Thomas Prowse (to 1767) | c 1707 | 1 Jan 1767 | ||
13 May 1741 | Henry William Portman | c 1709 | 19 Jan 1761 | ||
1 Jul 1747 | Sir Charles Kemys-Tynte, 5th baronet (to 1774) | 19 May 1710 | 25 Apr 1785 | 74 | |
28 Jan 1767 | Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th baronet | 14 Aug 1722 | 24 Feb 1785 | 62 | |
23 Mar 1768 | Richard Hippisley Coxe (to 1784) | 22 Sep 1742 | 26 Aug 1786 | 43 | |
26 Oct 1774 | Edward Phelips | c Mar 1725 | 1797 | 72 | |
20 Sep 1780 | Sir John Trevelyan, 4th baronet (to 1796) | 6 Feb 1735 | 18 Apr 1828 | 93 | |
12 Apr 1784 | Edward Phelips | c 1753 | 5 Aug 1792 | ||
14 Sep 1792 | Henry Hippisley Coxe | 28 Jun 1748 | 1 Aug 1795 | 47 | |
21 Sep 1795 | William Gore-Langton (to Nov 1806) | Dec 1760 | 14 Mar 1847 | 86 | |
3 Jun 1796 | William Dickinson | 13 Jul 1745 | 26 May 1806 | 60 | |
16 Jun 1806 | Thomas Buckler Lethbridge (to 1812) | 21 Feb 1778 | 17 Oct 1849 | 71 | |
7 Nov 1806 | William Dickinson (to 1831) | 1 Nov 1771 | 19 Jan 1837 | 65 | |
14 Oct 1812 | William Gore-Langton | Dec 1760 | 14 Mar 1847 | 86 | |
14 Mar 1820 | Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge | 21 Feb 1778 | 17 Oct 1849 | 71 | |
7 Aug 1830 | Edward Ayshford Sanford (to 1832) | 23 May 1794 | 1 Dec 1871 | 77 | |
11 May 1831 | William Gore-Langton | Dec 1760 | 14 Mar 1847 | 86 | |
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "EAST" AND "WEST" DIVISIONS 1832 | |||||
SOMERSET EAST | |||||
15 Dec 1832 | William Gore-Langton (to 1847) | Dec 1760 | 14 Mar 1847 | 86 | |
William Papwell Brigstocke | 1788 | 29 Dec 1833 | 45 | ||
3 Feb 1834 | Sir William Miles, 1st baronet (to 1865) | 13 May 1797 | 17 Jun 1878 | 81 | |
10 Apr 1847 | William Pinney | 1806 | 30 May 1898 | 91 | |
22 Jul 1852 | William Francis Knatchbull | 30 Jul 1804 | 2 May 1871 | 66 | |
18 Jul 1865 | Ralph Neville Grenville | 27 Feb 1817 | 20 Aug 1886 | 69 | |
Richard Horner Paget, later [1886] 1st baronet | 14 Mar 1832 | 3 Feb 1908 | 75 | ||
19 Nov 1868 | Ralph Shuttleworth Allen (to 1879) | 1817 | 6 Feb 1887 | 69 | |
Richard Bright | 1822 | 28 Feb 1878 | 55 | ||
20 Mar 1878 | Sir Philip John William Miles, 2nd baronet (to 1885) | 2 Sep 1825 | 5 Jun 1888 | 62 | |
19 Mar 1879 | Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, styled Baron Brooke, later [1893] 5th Earl Warwick and 5th Earl Brooke | 9 Feb 1853 | 15 Jan 1924 | 70 | |
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
28 Nov 1885 | Henry Hobhouse | 1 Mar 1854 | 25 Jun 1937 | 83 | |
26 Jan 1906 | John William Howard Thompson | 1861 | 17 Oct 1959 | 98 | |
19 Jan 1910 | Ernest Jardine, later [1919] 1st baronet | 23 Sep 1859 | 26 Apr 1947 | 87 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
SOMERSET MID | |||||
26 Nov 1868 | Richard Horner Paget, later [1886] 1st baronet (to Nov 1885) | 14 Mar 1832 | 3 Feb 1908 | 75 | |
Ralph Neville Grenville | 27 Feb 1817 | 20 Aug 1886 | 69 | ||
19 Mar 1878 | William Stephen Gore‑Langton, later [1889] 4th Earl Temple of Stowe | 11 May 1847 | 28 Mar 1902 | 54 | |
3 Mar 1885 | John Kenelm Digby Wingfield‑Digby | 2 Sep 1859 | 25 Dec 1904 | 45 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "BRIDGWATER", "FROME", "SOMERSET EAST", "SOMERSET NORTH", "SOMERSET SOUTH", "WELLINGTON" AND "WELLS" | |||||
SOMERSET NORTH | |||||
9 Dec 1885 | Evan Henry Llewellyn | 1847 | 27 Feb 1914 | 66 | |
Jul 1892 | Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner, later [1910] 1st baronet | 19 Jul 1857 | 15 Dec 1934 | 77 | |
22 Jul 1895 | Evan Henry Llewellyn | 1847 | 27 Feb 1914 | 66 | |
19 Jan 1906 | William Henry Bateman Hope | 28 Mar 1865 | Dec 1919 | 54 | |
22 Jan 1910 | Joseph King | 31 Mar 1860 | 25 Aug 1943 | 83 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918, BUT REVIVED 1950 | |||||
23 Feb 1950 | Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather [kt 1962] | 22 May 1919 | 5 Apr 2005 | 85 | |
15 Oct 1964 | (Arthur) Paul Dean [kt 1985], later [1993] Baron Dean of Harptree [L] | 14 Sep 1924 | 1 Apr 2009 | 84 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983, BUT RE-CREATED 2010 | |||||
6 May 2010 | Liam Fox | 22 Sep 1961 | |||
SOMERSET NORTH EAST | |||||
6 May 2010 | Jacob William Rees‑Mogg [kt 2023] | 24 May 1969 | |||
SOMERSET SOUTH | |||||
9 Dec 1885 | Frederick Edwin Gould Lambart, styled Viscount Kilcoursie, later [1887] 9th Earl of Cavan [I] | 21 Oct 1839 | 14 Jul 1900 | 60 | |
Jul 1892 | Edward Strachey, later [1901] 4th baronet and [1911] 1st Baron Strachie | 30 Oct 1858 | 25 Jul 1936 | 77 | |
23 Nov 1911 | Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert | 3 Apr 1880 | 26 Sep 1923 | 43 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
SOMERSET WEST | |||||
17 Dec 1832 | Edward Ayshford Sanford (to 1841) | 23 May 1794 | 1 Dec 1871 | 77 | |
Charles John Kemeys Tynte | 1800 | 16 Sep 1882 | 82 | ||
28 Jul 1837 | Thomas Dyke Acland, later [1871] 11th baronet (to 1847) | 25 May 1809 | 29 May 1898 | 89 | |
10 Jul 1841 | Francis Henry Dickinson | 6 Jan 1813 | 17 Jul 1890 | 77 | |
19 Aug 1847 | Charles Aaron Moody (to 1863) | 17 Dec 1867 | |||
Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd baronet | 5 Jul 1793 | 7 Mar 1851 | 57 | ||
10 Apr 1851 | William Henry Powell Gore‑Langton | 25 Jul 1824 | 11 Dec 1873 | 49 | |
3 May 1859 | Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Fuller-Acland-Hood, 3rd baronet (to 1868) | 20 Apr 1819 | 29 Apr 1892 | 73 | |
17 Feb 1863 | William Henry Powell Gore‑Langton (to 1874) | 25 Jul 1824 | 11 Dec 1873 | 49 | |
28 Nov 1868 | Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, later [1904] 2nd Viscount Bridport (to 1880) | 15 Dec 1839 | 28 Mar 1924 | 84 | |
12 Jan 1874 | Vaughan Hanning Vaughan‑Lee (to 1882) | 25 Feb 1836 | 7 Jul 1882 | 46 | |
8 Apr 1880 | Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (to 1884) | 1825 | c Aug 1884 | 59 | |
26 Apr 1882 | Edward James Stanley (to 1885) | 16 Dec 1826 | 29 Sep 1907 | 80 | |
18 Feb 1884 | Charles Isaac Elton | 6 Dec 1839 | 23 Apr 1900 | 60 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "BRIDGWATER", "FROME", "SOMERSET EAST", "SOMERSET NORTH", "SOMERSET SOUTH", "WELLINGTON" AND "WELLS" | |||||
SOMERTON AND FROME (SOMERSET) | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Robert Thomas Boscawen | 17 Mar 1923 | 28 Dec 2013 | 90 | |
9 Apr 1992 | Mark Noel Foster Robinson | 26 Dec 1946 | |||
1 May 1997 | David William St. John Heath | 16 Mar 1954 | |||
7 May 2015 | David John Warburton | 28 Oct 1965 | |||
20 Jul 2023 | Sarah Joanne Dyke | Nov 1971 | |||
SOUTHALL | |||||
26 Jul 1945 | Walter Henry Ayles | 24 Mar 1879 | 6 Jul 1953 | 74 | |
23 Feb 1950 | George Albert Pargiter, later [1966] Baron Pargiter [L] | 16 Mar 1897 | 16 Jan 1982 | 84 | |
31 Mar 1966 | Sydney James Bidwell | 14 Jan 1917 | 25 May 1997 | 80 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "EALING SOUTHALL" 1974 | |||||
SOUTHAMPTON (HAMPSHIRE) | |||||
Apr 1660 | William Stanley | c 1610 | 7 Aug 1678 | ||
Robert Richbell | c 1605 | 16 Jul 1688 | |||
8 Apr 1661 | Sir Richard Ford (to 1678) | c 1614 | 31 Aug 1678 | ||
William Legge | c 1608 | 13 Oct 1670 | |||
31 Oct 1670 | Thomas Knollys (to 1679) | c 1612 | 3 Jun 1679 | ||
4 Nov 1678 | Benjamin Newland [kt 1679] (to 1699) | c 1633 | 11 Dec 1699 | ||
16 Aug 1679 | Sir Charles Wyndham | 2 Apr 1638 | 22 Jul 1706 | 68 | |
10 Jan 1689 | Richard Brett | 5 Nov 1689 | |||
25 Nov 1689 | Edward Fleming [unseated on petition in favour of Sir Charles Wyndham 31 Dec 1689] | c 1653 | 1700 | ||
31 Dec 1689 | Sir Charles Wyndham | 2 Apr 1638 | 22 Jul 1706 | 68 | |
23 Jul 1698 | John Smith (to Jan 1701) | after 1707 | |||
27 Dec 1699 | Roger Mompesson (to Nov 1701) | c 1661 | Mar 1715 | ||
4 Jan 1701 | Mitford Crow (to Jul 1702) | 18 Apr 1669 | 15 Dec 1719 | 50 | |
26 Nov 1701 | Adam de Cardonnel [he was expelled from the House on 19 Feb 1712] (to 1712) | 1 Nov 1663 | 22 Feb 1719 | 55 | |
21 Jul 1702 | Frederick Tylney | 24 Nov 1652 | 2 Oct 1725 | 72 | |
12 May 1705 | William Henry Bentinck, styled Viscount Woodstock, later [1709] 2nd Earl of Portland and [1716] 1st Duke of Portland [at the general election in May 1708, Woodstock was also returned for Hampshire, for which he chose to sit] | 17 Mar 1682 | 4 Jul 1726 | 44 | |
11 Dec 1708 | Simeon Stuart, later [1710] 2nd baronet | 17 Nov 1685 | 11 Aug 1761 | 75 | |
6 Oct 1710 | Richard Fleming (to 1722) | c 1682 | 4 Aug 1740 | ||
6 Mar 1712 | Roger Harris | c 1668 | by Nov 1717 | ||
24 Jan 1715 | Thomas Lewis (to 1727) | c 1679 | 22 Nov 1736 | ||
22 Mar 1722 | Thomas Missing | 6 Jul 1733 | |||
19 Aug 1727 | Robert Eyre | c 1693 | 14 Dec 1752 | ||
Anthony Henley (to 1734) For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
c 1704 | 24 Dec 1748 | |||
29 May 1729 | Sir William Heathcote, 1st baronet (to 1741) | 15 Mar 1693 | 10 May 1751 | 58 | |
27 Apr 1734 | John Conduitt | 8 Mar 1688 | 23 May 1737 | 49 | |
Anthony Henley | c 1704 | 24 Dec 1748 | |||
Double return between Conduitt and Henley. Conduitt declared elected 3 Apr 1735 | |||||
10 Jun 1737 | Thomas Lee Dummer | c 1712 | 6 Oct 1765 | ||
8 May 1741 | Peter Delme (to 1754) | 28 Feb 1710 | 10 Apr 1770 | 60 | |
Edward Gibbon | Oct 1707 | 10 Nov 1770 | 63 | ||
3 Jul 1747 | Anthony Langley Swymmer (to 1760) | c 1724 | 4 Jan 1760 | ||
15 Apr 1754 | Hans Stanley (to Jan 1780) | 23 Sep 1721 | 12 Jan 1780 | 58 | |
29 Mar 1760 | Henry Dawkins | 24 May 1728 | 19 Jun 1814 | 86 | |
16 Mar 1768 | Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston [I] | 4 Dec 1739 | 16 Apr 1802 | 62 | |
7 Oct 1774 | John Fleming (to Sep 1780) | 1743 | 28 Feb 1802 | 58 | |
29 Jan 1780 | John Fuller (to 1784) | 20 Feb 1757 | 11 Apr 1834 | 77 | |
12 Sep 1780 | Hans Sloane | 14 Nov 1739 | 1827 | 87 | |
3 Apr 1784 | John Fleming | 1743 | 28 Feb 1802 | 58 | |
James Amyatt (to 1806) | 18 Jul 1734 | 10 Jan 1813 | 78 | ||
18 Jun 1790 | Henry Martin, later [1791] 1st baronet | 28 Aug 1733 | 1 Aug 1794 | 60 | |
26 Aug 1794 | George Henry Rose [kt 1819] (to 1818) | 3 May 1770 | 17 Jun 1855 | 85 | |
4 Nov 1806 | Arthur Atherley | c 1771 | 21 Oct 1844 | ||
5 May 1807 | Josias Jackson | 28 Jun 1765 | 30 Aug 1819 | 54 | |
10 Oct 1812 | Arthur Atherley | c 1771 | 21 Oct 1844 | ||
7 Mar 1818 | William Chamberlayne (to 1830) | 4 Dec 1760 | 10 Oct 1829 | 68 | |
22 Jun 1818 | Sir William Champion de Crespigny, 2nd baronet | 1 Jan 1765 | 28 Dec 1829 | 64 | |
9 Jun 1826 | Abel Rous Dottin (to 1831) | c 1768 | 7 Jun 1852 | ||
13 Jan 1830 | James Barlow Hoy For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
c 1794 | 13 Aug 1843 | ||
6 May 1831 | Arthur Atherley (to 1835) | 1772 | 21 Oct 1844 | 72 | |
John Storey Penleaze | c 1786 | 12 Apr 1855 | |||
13 Dec 1832 | James Barlow Hoy [he was unseated on petition in favour of John Storey Penleaze 2 Apr 1833] For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
c 1794 | 13 Aug 1843 | ||
2 Apr 1833 | John Storey Penleaze | c 1786 | 12 Apr 1855 | ||
9 Jan 1835 | James Barlow Hoy For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
c 1794 | 13 Aug 1843 | ||
Abel Rous Dottin (to 1841) | c 1768 | 7 Jun 1852 | |||
28 Jul 1837 | Adam Duncan, styled Viscount Duncan, later [1859] 2nd Earl of Camperdown | 25 Mar 1812 | 30 Jan 1867 | 54 | |
2 Jul 1841 | James Bruce, styled Baron Bruce, later [Nov 1841] 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine | 20 Jul 1811 | 20 Nov 1863 | 52 | |
Charles Cecil Martyn | 1809 | 3 Sep 1866 | 57 | ||
Election declared void 6 May 1842. Writ for new election issued on 1 Aug 1842 | |||||
9 Aug 1842 | Humphrey St. John Mildmay | 11 Jul 1794 | 9 Aug 1853 | 59 | |
George William Hope | 4 Jul 1808 | 18 Oct 1863 | 55 | ||
31 Jul 1847 | Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, later [1858] 12th baronet | 24 Dec 1802 | 20 Nov 1880 | 77 | |
Brodie McGhie Willcox (to 1862) | 1785 | c Nov 1862 | 77 | ||
11 Feb 1857 | Thomas Matthias Weguelin | 1809 | 5 Apr 1885 | 75 | |
2 May 1859 | William Digby Seymour (to 1865) | 1822 | 16 Mar 1895 | 72 | |
6 Dec 1862 | William Anderson Rose [kt 1867] | 16 Aug 1820 | 9 Jun 1881 | 60 | |
13 Jul 1865 | Russell Gurney (to 1878) | 1804 | 31 May 1878 | 73 | |
George Moffatt | 1807 | 20 Feb 1878 | 70 | ||
19 Nov 1868 | Peter Merrick Hoare | 29 Oct 1843 | 22 Feb 1894 | 50 | |
6 Feb 1874 | Sir Frederick Perkins (to 1880) | 1826 | 8 Nov 1902 | 76 | |
17 Jun 1878 | Alfred Giles | 1816 | 3 Mar 1895 | 78 | |
6 Apr 1880 | Henry Lee (to 1885) | 1817 | |||
Charles Parker Butt | 24 Jun 1830 | 25 May 1892 | 61 | ||
7 Apr 1883 | Alfred Giles (to 1892) | 1816 | 3 Mar 1895 | 78 | |
25 Nov 1885 | Sir John Edmund Commerell VC For further information on this MP and VC winner, see the note at the foot of this page |
13 Jan 1829 | 21 May 1901 | 72 | |
23 May 1888 | Francis Henry Evans [kt 1893], later [1902] 1st baronet (to 1895) | 29 Aug 1840 | 22 Jan 1907 | 66 | |
Jul 1892 | Tankerville Chamberlayne (to 1896) [following the general election in Jul 1895, he was unseated on petition 6 Dec 1895] | 9 Aug 1843 | 17 May 1924 | 80 | |
16 Jul 1895 | Sir John Stephen Barrington Simeon, 4th baronet (to 1906) | 31 Aug 1850 | 26 Apr 1909 | 58 | |
22 Feb 1896 | Sir Francis Henry Evans, later [1902] 1st baronet | 29 Aug 1840 | 22 Jan 1907 | 66 | |
4 Oct 1900 | Tankerville Chamberlayne | 9 Aug 1843 | 17 May 1924 | 80 | |
25 Jan 1906 | Ivor Philipps [kt 1917] | 9 Sep 1861 | 15 Aug 1940 | 78 | |
William Dudley Ward | 14 Oct 1877 | 11 Nov 1946 | 69 | ||
15 Nov 1922 | Edwin King Perkins [kt 1929] | 28 Feb 1855 | 8 Jan 1937 | 81 | |
Allen Algernon Bathurst, styled Baron Apsley | 3 Aug 1895 | 17 Dec 1942 | 47 | ||
30 May 1929 | Ralph Morley | 25 Oct 1882 | 14 Jun 1955 | 72 | |
Thomas Lewis | 12 Dec 1873 | 28 Feb 1962 | 88 | ||
27 Oct 1931 | William Craven Craven‑Ellis (to 1945) | 1880 | 17 Dec 1959 | 79 | |
Sir Charles Coupar Barrie, later [1940] 1st Baron Abertay | 1875 | 6 Dec 1940 | 65 | ||
1 Feb 1940 | Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, later [Oct 1940] 1st Baron Reith | 20 Jul 1889 | 16 Jun 1971 | 81 | |
27 Nov 1940 | William Stanley Russell Thomas | 5 Feb 1896 | 21 Mar 1957 | 61 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Ralph Morley | 25 Oct 1882 | 14 Jun 1955 | 72 | |
Thomas Lewis | 12 Dec 1873 | 28 Feb 1962 | 88 | ||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
John Mytton | ||
MP for Shrewsbury 1819‑1820 | ||
The following is extracted from The Emperor of the United States of America and Other Magnificent British Eccentrics by Catherine Caufield (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981) | ||
John Mytton was a sporting man. At the age of 12 he prevailed upon his widowed mother to allow him to establish his own pack of harriers. He was also highly spirited, strong willed and used to having his own way. Mrs Mytton, unable to cope, depended upon the good influence of John's tutor, a tractable cleric named William Owen. | ||
Luckily Owen, a keen outdoorsman himself, was able to accept being the victim of his charge's numerous practical jokes. On one occasion he spent the night with a pony that young Jack had coaxed up the stairs and into Owen's bedroom, and that refused to budge from there until morning. | ||
Eventually the private tutorials came to an end. In 1807 at the age of 11, Mytton was sent to Westminster School, where, as a contemporary remembered, 'the boys fought one another; they fought the Masters; the Masters fought them; they fought outsiders; in short we were ready to fight anybody'. After a year Mytton proved too pugnacious even for this set; he was expelled, sent to Harrow, and after only four days, was thrown out of that establishment as well. | ||
Owen came once more into Mytton's life when he advised his erstwhile pupil to go to University; 'Upon my word, sir, you must go. Every man of fortune ought to go to Christ Church if only for a term or so.' Mytton's reaction was sullen. 'Well then, if I do go, I go on the following terms - that I shall never open a book!' 'There is not the least occasion to - not the smallest', was Owen's reassuring reply. It appears that Mytton had settled on Cambridge, as he ordered more than 2,000 bottles of port to be sent up in anticipation of his arrival, but at the last moment he thought better of it and embarked upon the Grand Tour instead. | ||
In 1816, after his return from the Continent, he joined the 7th Hussars, and spent a pleasant year gambling, drinking and racing with the army of occupation in France. With his majority approaching, Mytton decided to leave the army and return to take charge of the family estates at Halston, in Shropshire. His last gesture as a soldier was to jump his oldone-eyed horse, Baronet, right over the fully laden mess-table as a farewell salute to his fellow officers. | ||
Mytton came into a fortune of £60,000 in cash and estates worth £18,000 a year. He needed all this, for in the remaining 17 years of his life he ran through more than £500,000. He began his adult life by running for Parliament. His appeal to voters was none too subtle; he walked the streets 'attired in a brilliant coloured coat trimmed with gold buttons and a ten pound note, intended for voters to snatch at, attached to each button'. These notes were replaced as they were taken, so that altogether Mytton spent £10,000 to win his place in Parliament. One might wonder why he bothered since, having a made a half-hour appearance for his swearing-in, Mytton returned to Halston and never showed himself at Westminster again. | ||
Meanwhile his fame as a daredevil sportsman and practical joker spread. Not content with riding fifty miles or more to and from meets several times a week, Mytton enjoyed going at fences, ditches and streams in a gig or a tandem. One night while dining with friends he agreed, on a wager of £150, to drive his tandem from the house to the highway - straight across a three-yard-wide sunk fence, a deep ditch and two hedges with ditches on the far side. The night was pitch black so twelve men were stationed along his route with lanterns. Mytton won the bet. | ||
On another occasion he was driving his friend and biographer, Nimrod (C J Apperley), late at night when they found their way blocked by a high hedge and a ditch. Mytton took a look and cheerfully announced, 'We'll manage it. This horse is a capital fencer.' Nimrod got out and watched as Mytton - horse, carriage and all - cleared the hurdle. | ||
Fear was a word Mytton refused to recognise. His imperious style of riding and hunting led to numberless accidents and broken bones; indeed he often rode out with broken ribs or with his arm in a sling, but he scorned caution and expected others to do likewise. He was shocked to hear from a friend as they were out driving that he had never been upset in a gig. 'What?' cried Mytton. 'Never! What a damned slow fellow you must have been all your life!' He then deliberately overturned the gig they were in, just to rectify this outrageous state of affairs. Luckily - and Mytton was incredibly lucky - no one was hurt. | ||
In his personal affairs Mytton was equally incautious. He started the day by opening a bottle of port which he drank as he shaved. Another four or five followed during the course of the day. Mytton was easily satisfied, however; he once drank a bottle of lavender water at his barber's when nothing else was available. How he managed to survive his field exploits with such a quantity of liquor under his belt is a mystery, but his drinking was such that a close friend signed an affidavit after Mytton's death to the effect that the Squire had been continually drunk for the previous twelve years. | ||
If port was Mytton's drink, filberts were his food. He had a standing order with a shopkeeper in Shrewsbury for filberts and as many as two cartloads were delivered to Halston in a season. Once he and a friend shared a carriage from London to Halston with 18 pounds of filberts and by the time they arrived they had eaten every one and were up to their knees in nut shells. | ||
Mytton's taste in clothes ran to lightweight garments totally unsuited to the winter sports he loved. He often went out in the dead of winter bare-headed, wearing no gloves and no underwear, and clad only in the thinnest silk stockings, delicate shoes, an unbuttoned waistcoat and unlined breeches. The better to camouflage himself while waiting in the snow for wildfowl, Mytton would often wear only a nightshirt, and once he crawled stark naked across a frozen pond in pursuit of some ducks. Still, his wardrobe was immense, with 1,000 hats, 3,000 shirts and 152 pair of breeches and trousers. | ||
Mytton never lacked for animal companions; at one time Halston was home to 2,000 dogs. He also had more than 60 cats, each dressed in a style that suited its own breed. Mytton had a way with animals and was supremely confident around them. He once intervened in a fight between two fierce 70-pound bulldogs, picking up one dog by the nose with his teeth and holding him suspended while the second was taken away to safety. He also had a pet bear named Nell, which was docile enough with him, but not so reliable with other people. There was havoc after one of Mytton's dinner parties when the host appeared in the dining room in full hunting pink, mounted on Nell. In the excitement - with his friends jumping out of the windows and leaping onto the furniture - Mytton forgot himself and calling out 'Tally-ho', he spurred his unbroken mount, who retaliated by sinking her teeth into his leg. Nell was finally removed, and Mytton's leg eventually healed, sooner no doubt than his guests' nerves. | ||
Bringing animals into the house had been a fancy of Mytton's ever since his prank with the pony at the age of nine. In later years he sometimes sat his favourite horse, Baronet, by the fire after a hard day's hunting and served him mulled port. | ||
Friends and neighbours were kept alert, if not always amused, by Mytton's exploits. These included setting four foxes free in a public house in Shrewsbury; riding his horse upstairs into a hotel dining-room and jumping, still on horseback, from the balcony down into the street; buttering a piece of bread, topping it with a five pound note and eating it; and replacing the last few pages of Mr Owen's - now Mytton's own chaplain - sermon with pages from the Sporting Magazine. | ||
On one occasion Mytton got George Underhill, his horse dealer, drunk and put him into bed with two bulldogs and Nell. Another time, Mytton gave Underhill a note to a banker in Shrewsbury, ostensibly authorising him to collect money on Mytton's behalf. Instead, the banker, who was also a Governor of the local lunatic asylum, read this message; 'Sir, admit the bearer, George Underhill, to the Lunatic Asylum. Your obedient servant, John Mytton.' | ||
On other occasions, Mytton amused himself by dressing up as a highwayman and robbing his own dinner guests at gunpoint or holding up his butler for the household payroll. Posing as a trespasser on his own property, Mytton was once thrashed by an applicant for the post of keeper on the estate. He cast off his disguise and hired the man on the spot. | ||
In spite of his impetuous, and often dangerous, behaviour, Mytton's generosity made him popular with his tenants. He gave money away as freely as he spent it. Visitors to Halston were likely to find bundles of notes lying around the grounds where their host had dropped them. One man, at whose parents' inn Mytton often stopped, recalled, 'My dear mother has often told me that nothing delighted him more than to fill my little fist with silver, which was to be all my own if I cursed and swore like a trooper'. | ||
Mytton's first wife died in 1820 after two years of marriage; he remarried, but the second Mrs Mytton left her husband in 1830. He was fond of both of his wives, but was totally unfit for marriage and certainly left a great deal to be desired as a husband. At about the time of his separation from Caroline, his second wife, Mytton's financial difficulties began to get very serious. His friends had long advised him that his spending was over the mark, but Mytton could never take advice, saying, 'What the devil is the use of my having a head on my shoulders if I am obliged to make use of yours?' | ||
Mytton hardly knew what he owed since he had a habit of never opening any letters, except those on which he recognised the handwriting. All others he assumed to be bills and sent straight on to his agent. Nimrod tried to counsel Mytton, telling him that if he would only live on £6,000 a year he would be saved. Mytton's response was a blank refusal: 'I would not give a straw for life if it was to be passed on £6,000 a year'. He talked of selling Halston and when reminded by anxious relatives that it had been in the family for 500 years he said, 'The devil it has! Then it is high time it should go out of it.' | ||
Eventually Mytton made his way to Calais to escape the bailiffs. Even in exile he had a few Myttonesque tricks up his sleeve. One evening in his hotel, impatient with a persistent attack of hiccups, he picked up a lighted candle, saying, 'Damn this hiccup! I'll frighten it away!', and set fire to his nightclothes. Luckily two companions were able to tear off the flaming nightshirt, but Mytton was horribly burned. As he collapsed onto his bed he cried, 'The hiccup is gone, by God!' | ||
This foolish act of bravado, which owed something to the effects of brandy, kept Mytton in bed for four months. Of course, he found the notion of an enforced rest intolerable and the very day after the incident he insisted on dining out with a friend. A month later he announced his intention of paying a call on Nimrod. Knowing that, although he disapproved of the idea, he couldn't stop Mytton, Nimrod ordered a carriage to fetch his friend from the hotel. When Mytton, still swathed in bandages, saw a measly two-horse equipage at his door, he was furious and said he would sooner walk than settle for less than four horses. And walk he did, though it took two men to support him. | ||
At the end of 1832 he returned to England to sign some papers and was briefly confined in the King's Bench. On his release Mytton was walking across Westminster Bridge when he saw an attractive young woman. He asked where she was going. 'I don't know', was the reply.'Well, then', he said, 'come live with me and I will settle £500 a year on you'. The girl, whose name was Susan, agreed and they went off to Calais together. Mytton was quite in love and Susan proved to be a very kind and sympathetic creature. After further adventures, mainly concerned with repeated arrests and imprisonments for small debts, Mytton, who by this time was ill from over-indulgence in drink, was fetched back to England by his mother. In early 1834, he was again confined in the King's Bench Prison where he died, from delirium tremens, at the end of March 1834. | ||
Three thousand people attended Mytton's coffin to its burial in a field behind the family chapel at Halston. | ||
For further reading, see Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton by 'Nimrod' (Charles James Apperley) (1837) | ||
Edward Holmes Baldock | ||
MP for Shrewsbury 1847‑1857 | ||
The following report of the death of Baldock, including its cause, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 19 August 1875:- | ||
The melancholy and unexpected death was announced yesterday of a gentleman well known in fashionable society, Mr. H. Baldock, of Grosvenor-place, who formerly represented Shrewsbury in the House of Commons. Mr. Baldock a few weeks ago went to Kensington Palace-gardens to inspect the resident of Alexander Collie, which was then open to the public previous to its being put up for sale. Among other luxurious additions to one of the apartments was a conservatory filled with superb exotics. Mr. Baldock, advancing to the door to examine them more nearly, walked straight through a large sheet of plate-glass which filled the aperture, and of which, there being nothing to denote its existence, Mr. Baldock was of course unaware. The ill-fated gentleman severely lacerated one of his legs just about the knee, and, though the arteries escaped, it would seem the nerves and tendons were injured to an alarming extent. The best medical skill was speedily called in; but towards the end of last week erysipelas set in, which could not be reduced, and Mr. Baldock died on Sunday afternoon. He represented Shrewsbury from 1847 to 1857.' | ||
Alfred James Dobbs | ||
MP for Smethwick 1945 | ||
Apart from four members who were posthumously returned to Parliament during the twentieth century, Dobbs holds the dubious distinction of being the shortest-serving MP during that period. | ||
On 26 July 1945, Dobbs, the Labour candidate, was returned at the declaration of the poll in the constituency of Smethwick. The next day, while driving along the Great North Road near Doncaster in Yorkshire, he swerved to avoid a child and collided with a military vehicle and was killed instantly. A passenger in his car, Mrs. Elsie Marshall, was severely injured and died on 5 August. | ||
Anthony Henley | ||
MP for Southampton 1727‑1734 | ||
In 1733, while Henley was representing Southampton, he received a respectful request from his local corporation to oppose the Excise Bill. In reply, he wrote: | ||
I have received yours and am surprised at your insolence in troubling me about the excise. You know what I very well know, that I bought you. | ||
And I know what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else. | ||
And I know what you don't know, that I am buying another borough. | ||
May God's curse light on you all. | ||
May your houses be as open and as common to all excise officers as your wives and daughters were to me when I stood for your scoundrel corporation. | ||
This letter was printed in The Weekly Register of 31 March 1733. However, Henley's letter appears to have been written as a joke, since his real letter, which is described as being "short and extremely proper" was immediately published by the Mayor of Southampton. In the event, he voted against the Excise Bill as he had been requested. | ||
For further reading see Notes and Queries Series II, volume xii, page 107 (1861) | ||
James Barlow Hoy | ||
MP for Southampton 1830‑1831, 1832‑1833 and 1835‑1837 | ||
The following [edited] report appeared in the Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian of 26 August 1843:- | ||
A feeling of the most intense sorrow was communicated to the town [Southampton] on Wednesday last, by the awful announcement that James Barlow Hoy, Esq., (for many years M.P. for Southampton, and a gentleman of large property in its neighbourhood) had met with an untimely death by the "bursting" (as erroneously reported) of his gun while shooting. The melancholy intelligence of the lamented gentleman's death is, unhappily, too true, and we have taken down the following statement of the shocking occurrence from the dictation of gentleman, a friend of Mr. Barlow Hoy's, who was present at the calamitous accident:- | ||
Mr. Hoy left England a short time since on a tour, for the benefit of his lady's health, to the Bagnieres de Luchon, in the Haute Garonne [in south-west France, at the foot of the Pyrenees], and had been residing there about a month, when a shooting excursion was formed, the party consisting of Mr. Barlow Hoy, Captain Meredith R.N., and five French gentlemen: they had six Chasseurs [light cavalrymen] and three guides also in the party. It may be here stated that the shooting was arranged to be in the neighbourhood of the Hospice of Vielle (in the Pyrenees, in the province of Catalonia). | ||
The first day's shooting was on the 9th inst.; on the 12th, being the fourth day, Mrs. Hoy was at the hospice, and the gentlemen had ascended as high as 4000ft above the level of the valley, in pursuit of their game, and on their return divided into two parties, that with Mr. Hoy had perhaps descended about a 1,000ft when in crossing a ridge of rocks Mr. Hoy, in jumping from one to another, slipped his footing, and in grasping the rock to recover himself, his gun fell from his hand and at the same second went off; the muzzle as it were slid down his left arm, the contents unhappily passed through it, close to the elbow, lacerating the arm extensively and cutting the principal blood-vessels, but not breaking any bone. Captain Meredith instantly applied a tourniquet. The gallant officer having seen considerable service in the war, and having in duty in boats frequently applied such aids, could do this most effectively by the means of a knotted handkerchief twisted to the extremist tension round the arm with the knot upon the wound. | ||
Chasseurs were sent at the same moment to the adjacent villages in search of surgical assistance, and one of the French gentlemen, the Count de Nicolay, having suggested that Mons. Rue, the most celebrated of the Parisian surgeons, was at that time at Louchon, from whence the party had started. Captain Meredith requested the Count, who was a personal friend of Mons. Rue, to proceed to the Hospice and despatch a messenger for him. This was done and Mr. Hoy conveyed, in the arms and on the shoulders of the guides and chasseurs, with every care and despatch, down the route to the Hospice, a considerable distance and 3,000ft descent, under great difficulties from the troublesome nature of the ground. When arrived on the level road Mr. Hoy was sufficiently strong to ride three miles to the Hospice, where Mrs. Hoy, who was there waiting, became acquainted with the dreadful accident that had occurred. | ||
The accident happened at about ten minutes after three, but in spite of every exertion made to obtain it, surgical assistance did not arrive from Vielle till nine o'clock on the following morning; Mons. Rue only reached Vielle when his aid was too late. The wound was dressed by ten o'clock and the surgeon, apparently a most expert practitioner, declared that there was no manner of danger. He was told that there had been a great effusion of blood, but he declared that had not the discharge of so much blood occurred, he might have been compelled to take some from his patient. | ||
Mr. Hoy showed, during the time of the dressing great fortitude, strength of voice and collectedness of manner, and after it, laid down to rest. The surgeon remained in the house, and was called about two hours afterwards by the friends watching, who told him of their apprehensions lest that the tourniquets having been removed on the wound being dressed, they feared that the blood might be again flowing. An examination took place, when the surgeon again declared that there had been no flow of blood, and that everything was favourable. Mr. Hoy continued his sleep after this, but we regret to state that he only survived the first dressing between four and five hours, dying not so much from the nature of the wound, or the loss of blood, as from the shock the nervous system had received. | ||
Sir John Edmund Commerell VC | ||
MP for Southampton 1885‑1888 | ||
Entering the Navy at age 13, in September 1855 Commerell was given the command of the gun-vessel Weser based in the Sea of Azov during the Crimean War. On 11 October 1855, together with two other men, he landed and made a hazardous march inland in order to destroy a large Russian storage of forage and corn. The party reached its objective and managed to set fire to the corn stacks, but they were discovered by the guards and a hot pursuit ensued before the party reached the safety of their ship. For this exploit Commerell and one of the other members of the party, William Thomas Rickard, were awarded the Victoria Cross. | ||
Commerell unsuccessfully contested Southampton in 1880, but was returned in both of the general elections in 1885 and 1886. He devoted his time in Parliament promoting the necessity of strengthening the Navy. When he was appointed commander-in-chief at Portsmouth in 1888 he resigned his seat. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in February 1892. | ||
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