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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. | |||||
WEST LOTHIAN | |||||
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26 Jul 1945 | George Mathers, later [1952] 1st Baron Mathers | 28 Feb 1886 | 26 Sep 1965 | 79 | |
25 Oct 1951 | John Taylor | 22 Jul 1902 | 1 Mar 1962 | 59 | |
14 Jun 1962 | Sir Thomas ("Tam") Dalyell, 11th baronet | 9 Aug 1932 | 26 Jan 2017 | 84 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
WESTMEATH | |||||
1801 | Gustavus Hume Rochfort (to 1824) | c 1750 | 30 Jan 1824 | ||
William Smyth | c 1744 | 30 May 1827 | |||
27 Feb 1808 | Hercules Robert Pakenham (to 1826) | 29 Sep 1781 | 7 Mar 1850 | 68 | |
5 Mar 1824 | Robert Smyth | Jan 1777 | after 1851 | ||
22 Jun 1826 | Gustavus Rochfort (to 1832) | c 1784 | 3 Feb 1848 | ||
Hugh Morgan Tuite | 1795 | 15 Aug 1868 | 73 | ||
12 Aug 1830 | Sir Montagu Lowther Chapman, 3rd baronet (to 1841) | 10 Dec 1808 | 17 May 1852 | 43 | |
20 Dec 1832 | Sir Richard Nagle, 2nd baronet | 12 Aug 1800 | 10 Nov 1850 | 50 | |
12 Jul 1841 | Hugh Morgan Tuite | 1795 | 16 Aug 1868 | 73 | |
Benjamin James Chapman | 9 Feb 1810 | 3 Nov 1888 | 78 | ||
10 Aug 1847 | William Henry Magan (to 1859) | 1820 | c Sep 1861 | 41 | |
Sir Percy Fitzgerald Nugent, 1st baronet | 29 Sep 1797 | 25 Jun 1874 | 76 | ||
22 Jul 1852 | William Pollard-Urquhart | 1815 | c May 1871 | 55 | |
3 Apr 1857 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, 7th baronet (to 1865) | 1 Nov 1811 | 28 Sep 1884 | 73 | |
10 May 1859 | William Pollard-Urquhart (to 1871) | 1815 | c May 1871 | 55 | |
20 Jul 1865 | Algernon William Fulke Greville, later [1883] 2nd Baron Greville (to 1874) | 11 Feb 1841 | 2 Dec 1910 | 69 | |
17 Jun 1871 | Patrick James Smyth (to 1880) For further information on this MP, see the note regarding John Mitchel at the foot of the page containing details of the constituency of Tipperary |
1823 | 12 Jan 1885 | 61 | |
13 Feb 1874 | Lord Robert Montagu | 24 Jan 1825 | 6 May 1902 | 77 | |
13 Apr 1880 | Timothy Daniel Sullivan (to 1885) | 29 May 1827 | 31 Mar 1914 | 86 | |
Henry Joseph Gill | 1836 | ||||
27 Feb 1883 | Timothy Charles Harrington | 1851 | 12 Mar 1910 | 58 | |
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1885, BUT RE-UNITED 1918 | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Laurence Ginnell | 8 Apr 1854 | 17 Apr 1923 | 69 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
WESTMEATH NORTH | |||||
9 Dec 1885 | James Tuite | 1849 | 6 Oct 1916 | 67 | |
11 Oct 1900 | Patrick James Kennedy | 19 Dec 1864 | 10 Mar 1947 | 82 | |
19 Jan 1906 | Laurence Ginnell | 8 Apr 1854 | 17 Apr 1923 | 69 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
WESTMEATH SOUTH | |||||
4 Dec 1885 | Donal Sullivan | 1838 | 3 Mar 1907 | 68 | |
13 Apr 1907 | Sir Walter Richard Nugent, 4th baronet | 12 Dec 1865 | 12 Nov 1955 | 89 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
WESTMINSTER (MIDDLESEX) | |||||
2 Apr 1660 | Gilbert Gerard | c 1618 | 5 Nov 1683 | ||
Sir Thomas Clarges | c 1618 | 4 Oct 1695 | |||
c Apr 1661 | Sir Philip Warwick | 24 Dec 1609 | 15 Jan 1683 | 73 | |
Sir Richard Everard, later [c 1680] 2nd baronet | c 1625 | 29 Aug 1694 | |||
27 Feb 1679 | Sir Stephen Fox | 27 Mar 1627 | 28 Oct 1716 | 89 | |
Sir William Pulteney (to 1685) | 25 Mar 1624 | 6 Sep 1691 | 67 | ||
19 Sep 1679 | Francis Wythens [his election was declared void on 15 Nov 1680 and the seat was awarded to Sir William Waller] | c 1635 | 9 May 1704 | ||
15 Nov 1680 | Sir William Waller | c 1639 | 18 Jul 1699 | ||
23 Mar 1685 | Charles Bonython | c 1653 | 30 Apr 1705 | ||
Michael Arnold | 31 Aug 1690 | ||||
21 Jan 1689 | Sir William Pulteney (to 1691) | 25 Mar 1624 | 6 Sep 1691 | 67 | |
Philip Howard | 5 Mar 1629 | Sep 1717 | 88 | ||
13 Mar 1690 | Sir Walter Clarges, 1st baronet (to 1695) | 4 Jul 1653 | Mar 1706 | 52 | |
9 Nov 1691 | Sir Stephen Fox (to 1698) | 27 Mar 1627 | 28 Oct 1716 | 89 | |
29 Oct 1695 | Charles Montagu, later [1700] 1st Baron Halifax and [1714] 1st Earl of Halifax (to Jan 1701) | 16 Apr 1661 | 19 May 1715 | 54 | |
22 Jul 1698 | James Vernon (to 1702) | 1 Apr 1646 | 31 Jan 1727 | 80 | |
21 Jan 1701 | Thomas Crosse, later [1713] 1st baronet | 29 Nov 1664 | 27 May 1738 | 73 | |
9 Dec 1701 | Sir Henry Dutton Colt, 1st baronet | c 1646 | 25 Apr 1731 | ||
6 Aug 1702 | Sir Walter Clarges, 1st baronet | 4 Jul 1653 | Mar 1706 | 52 | |
Thomas Crosse, later [1713] 1st baronet | 29 Nov 1664 | 27 May 1738 | 73 | ||
30 May 1705 | Henry Boyle, later [1714] 1st Baron Carleton (to 1710) | 12 Jul 1669 | 14 Mar 1725 | 55 | |
Sir Henry Dutton Colt, 1st baronet | c 1646 | 25 Apr 1731 | |||
7 Jul 1708 | Thomas Medlycott (to 1715) | 22 May 1662 | c Aug 1738 | 76 | |
9 Oct 1710 | Thomas Crosse, later [1713] 1st baronet (to 1722) | 29 Nov 1664 | 27 May 1738 | 73 | |
24 Jan 1715 | Edward Wortley-Montagu | 8 Feb 1678 | 22 Jan 1761 | 82 | |
27 Mar 1722 | Archibald Hutcheson | c 1659 | 12 Aug 1740 | ||
John Cotton | 22 Oct 1671 | Dec 1736 | 65 | ||
Election declared void 6 Nov 1722 | |||||
3 Dec 1722 | Charles Montagu | after 1695 | 29 May 1759 | ||
George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter [I] | 10 Feb 1657 | 10 Feb 1732 | 75 | ||
15 Aug 1727 | Lord Charles Cavendish | after 1700 | 28 Apr 1783 | ||
William Clayton, later [1735] 1st Baron Sundon [I] (to 1741) | 9 Nov 1671 | 29 Apr 1752 | 80 | ||
22 Apr 1734 | Sir Charles Wager | c 1666 | 24 May 1743 | ||
Both members (Clayton and Wager) were returned at the general election in May 1741, but their elections were declared void 22 Dec 1741 | |||||
31 Dec 1741 | John Perceval, styled Viscount Perceval, later [1748] 2nd Earl of Egmont [I] | 24 Feb 1711 | 20 Dec 1770 | 59 | |
Charles Edwin | c 1699 | 29 Jun 1756 | |||
1 Jul 1747 | Granville Leveson-Gower, styled Viscount Trentham, later [1754] 2nd Earl Gower and [1786] 1st Marquess of Stafford (to 1754) | 4 Aug 1721 | 26 Oct 1803 | 82 | |
Sir Peter Warren | c 1703 | 29 Jul 1752 | |||
16 Jan 1753 | Edward Cornwallis (to 1762) | 22 Feb 1713 | 14 Jan 1776 | 62 | |
20 Apr 1754 | Sir John Crosse, 2nd baronet | c 1700 | 12 Mar 1762 | ||
25 Mar 1761 | William Pulteney, styled Viscount Pulteney (to 1763) | 9 Jan 1731 | 11 Feb 1763 | 32 | |
27 Apr 1762 | Edwin Sandys, later [1770] 2nd Baron Sandys (to 1770) | 18 Apr 1726 | 11 Mar 1797 | 70 | |
15 Mar 1763 | Hugh Percy, styled Baron Warkworth [to 1766] then styled Earl Percy [1766‑1786], later [1786] 2nd Duke of Northumberland (to 1776) | 14 Aug 1742 | 10 Jul 1817 | 74 | |
30 Apr 1770 | Sir Robert Bernard, 5th baronet | c 1739 | 2 Jan 1789 | ||
26 Oct 1774 | Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton, styled Earl of Lincoln from 1778, later [1794] 3rd Duke of Newcastle under Lyne (to 1780) | 1 Jul 1752 | 18 May 1795 | 42 | |
17 Dec 1776 | Charles Stanhope, styled Viscount Petersham, later [1779] 3rd Earl of Harrington | 20 Mar 1753 | 15 Sep 1829 | 76 | |
20 Apr 1779 | George Capel, styled Viscount Malden, later [1799] 5th Earl of Essex | 13 Nov 1757 | 23 Apr 1839 | 81 | |
10 Oct 1780 | Sir George Brydges Rodney, later [1782] 1st Baron Rodney | 13 Feb 1719 | 24 May 1792 | 73 | |
Charles James Fox (to 1784) | 24 Jan 1749 | 13 Sep 1806 | 57 | ||
12 Jun 1782 | Sir Cecil Wray,13th baronet | 3 Sep 1734 | 10 Jan 1805 | 70 | |
17 May 1784 | Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood [I], later [1796] 1st Viscount Hood | 12 Dec 1724 | 27 Jan 1816 | 91 | |
Charles James Fox (to 1806) | 24 Jan 1749 | 13 Sep 1806 | 57 | ||
[After scrutiny, Hood and Fox were declared duly elected 4 Mar 1785] | |||||
4 Aug 1788 | Lord John Townshend | 19 Jan 1757 | 25 Feb 1833 | 76 | |
2 Jul 1790 | Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood [I], later [1796] 1st Viscount Hood | 12 Dec 1724 | 27 Jan 1816 | 91 | |
13 Jun 1796 | Alan Gardner, later [1800] 1st Baron Gardner [I] and [1806] 1st Baron Gardner [UK] (to Nov 1806) | 12 Apr 1742 | 1 Jan 1809 | 66 | |
7 Oct 1806 | Hugh Percy, styled Earl Percy, later [1817] 3rd Duke of Northumberland | 20 Apr 1785 | 11 Feb 1847 | 61 | |
19 Nov 1806 | Sir Samuel Hood | 27 Nov 1762 | 24 Dec 1814 | 52 | |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 4 Nov 1751 | 7 Jul 1816 | 64 | ||
23 May 1807 | Sir Francis Burdett, 5th baronet (to 1837) | 25 Jan 1770 | 23 Jan 1844 | 73 | |
Thomas Cochrane, styled Lord Cochrane, later [1831] 10th Earl of Dundonald [expelled 5 Jul 1814 but re-elected 16 Jul 1814] For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the Dundonald peerage |
14 Dec 1775 | 31 Oct 1860 | 84 | ||
4 Jul 1818 | Sir Samuel Romilly For further information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of the members for Queenborough |
1 Mar 1757 | 2 Nov 1818 | 61 | |
3 Mar 1819 | George Lamb | 11 Jul 1784 | 2 Jan 1834 | 49 | |
25 Mar 1820 | Sir John Cam Hobhouse, later [1851] 1st Baron Broughton | 27 Jun 1786 | 3 Jun 1869 | 82 | |
11 May 1833 | George de Lacy Evans [kt 1838] (to 1841) | 1787 | 9 Jan 1870 | 82 | |
27 Jul 1837 | John Temple Leader (to 1847) | 7 May 1810 | 1 Mar 1903 | 92 | |
1 Jul 1841 | Henry John Rous For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
23 Jan 1795 | 19 Jun 1877 | 82 | |
19 Feb 1846 | Sir George de Lacy Evans (to 1865) | 1787 | 9 Jan 1870 | 82 | |
30 Jul 1847 | Charles Lushington | 14 Apr 1785 | 23 Sep 1866 | 81 | |
9 Jul 1852 | Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th baronet | 18 Mar 1808 | 26 Jan 1867 | 58 | |
12 Jul 1865 | Robert Wellesley Grosvenor, later [1893] 2nd Baron Ebury (to 1874) | 25 Jan 1834 | 13 Nov 1918 | 84 | |
John Stuart Mill | 20 May 1806 | 8 May 1873 | 66 | ||
18 Nov 1868 | William Henry Smith (to 1885) | 24 Jun 1825 | 6 Oct 1891 | 66 | |
7 Feb 1874 | Sir Charles Russell VC, 3rd baronet For further information on this MP and VC winner, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of his baronetcy |
22 Jun 1826 | 14 Apr 1883 | 56 | |
10 Feb 1882 | Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy | 2 Oct 1851 | 28 Dec 1933 | 82 | |
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
26 Nov 1885 | William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett‑Coutts | 20 Jan 1851 | 28 Jul 1921 | 70 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
WESTMINSTER NORTH | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | John Daniel Wheeler [kt 1990] | 1 May 1940 | |||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997, BUT RE-CREATED 2010 | |||||
6 May 2010 | Karen Patricia Buck | 30 Aug 1958 | |||
WESTMORLAND | |||||
12 Apr 1660 | Sir John Lowther, 1st baronet | 20 Feb 1606 | 30 Nov 1675 | 69 | |
Sir Thomas Wharton | c 1615 | 30 Oct 1684 | |||
4 Apr 1661 | Sir Philip Musgrave (to 1678) | 21 May 1607 | 7 Feb 1678 | 70 | |
Sir Thomas Strickland | 14 Nov 1621 | 8 Jan 1694 | 72 | ||
29 Mar 1677 | Sir John Lowther, 2nd baronet, later [1696] 1st Viscount Lonsdale (to 1679) | 25 Apr 1655 | 10 Jul 1700 | 45 | |
25 Apr 1678 | Alan Bellingham (to 1689) | 12 Feb 1656 | 1693 | 37 | |
11 Sep 1679 | Christopher Philipson | 27 Sep 1646 | 25 Jan 1709 | 62 | |
24 Feb 1681 | Sir John Lowther, 2nd baronet, later [1696] 1st Viscount Lonsdale (to 1696) | 25 Apr 1655 | 10 Jul 1700 | 45 | |
14 Jan 1689 | Henry Wharton | 13 Jan 1657 | 28 Oct 1689 | 32 | |
23 Dec 1689 | Goodwin Wharton | 8 Mar 1653 | 28 Oct 1704 | 51 | |
26 Feb 1690 | Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th baronet | c 1631 | 29 Jul 1704 | ||
7 Nov 1695 | Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd baronet (to Jan 1701) | 8 Sep 1675 | 2 Apr 1723 | 47 | |
12 Nov 1696 | William Fleming, later [1705] 1st baronet | 25 Jul 1656 | 29 Aug 1736 | 80 | |
15 Jan 1701 | Henry Grahme (to 1707) | after 1676 | 7 Jan 1707 | ||
Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th baronet | c 1631 | 29 Jul 1704 | |||
16 Dec 1701 | Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd baronet | 8 Sep 1675 | 2 Apr 1723 | 47 | |
4 Aug 1702 | Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th baronet | c 1631 | 29 Jul 1704 | ||
30 Nov 1704 | William Fleming, later [1705] 1st baronet | 25 Jul 1656 | 29 Aug 1736 | 80 | |
5 Jun 1705 | Robert Lowther (to 1708) | 8 Dec 1681 | 13 Sep 1745 | 63 | |
20 Feb 1707 | Michael Fleming | 12 Jul 1668 | c May 1718 | 49 | |
27 May 1708 | James Grahme (to 1727) | 3 Apr 1650 | 26 Jan 1730 | 79 | |
Daniel Wilson | 8 Mar 1680 | 31 May 1754 | 74 | ||
3 Apr 1722 | Anthony Lowther (to 1741) | after 1694 | 24 Nov 1741 | ||
7 Sep 1727 | Daniel Wilson (to 1747) | 8 Mar 1680 | 31 May 1754 | 74 | |
28 May 1741 | Sir Philip Musgrave, 6th baronet | c 1712 | 5 Jul 1795 | ||
16 Jul 1747 | John Dalston (to 1759) | 9 Jul 1706 | 25 May 1759 | 52 | |
Edward Wilson | c 1719 | 1764 | |||
25 Apr 1754 | Sir George Dalston, 4th baronet (to 1761) | 13 Jul 1718 | 7 Mar 1765 | 46 | |
14 Jun 1759 | Robert Lowther | 1741 | 1777 | 36 | |
16 Apr 1761 | Sir James Lowther, 5th baronet, later [1784] 1st Earl of Lonsdale | 8 Aug 1736 | 24 May 1802 | 65 | |
John Upton (to 1768) | 27 Dec 1718 | after 1768 | |||
3 Mar 1763 | Robert Lowther | 1741 | 1777 | 36 | |
5 Jan 1764 | John Robinson (to 1774) | 15 Jul 1727 | 23 Dec 1802 | 75 | |
7 Apr 1768 | Thomas Fenwick | c 1729 | 3 Apr 1794 | ||
13 Oct 1774 | Sir James Lowther, 5th baronet, later [1784] 1st Earl of Lonsdale [he was also returned for Cumberland, for which he chose to sit] | 8 Aug 1736 | 24 May 1802 | 65 | |
Sir Michael le Fleming, 4th baronet (to 1806) | 10 Dec 1748 | 19 May 1806 | 57 | ||
7 Dec 1775 | James Lowther (to 1812) | 23 Feb 1753 | 1837 | 84 | |
2 Jun 1806 | John Pennington, 1st Baron Muncaster [I] (to 1813) | 22 May 1741 | 8 Oct 1813 | 72 | |
12 Oct 1812 | Henry Cecil Lowther (to 1868) | 22 Jul 1790 | 6 Dec 1867 | 77 | |
22 Nov 1813 | William Lowther, styled Viscount Lowther, later [1844] 2nd Earl of Lonsdale | 21 Jul 1787 | 4 Mar 1872 | 84 | |
11 May 1831 | Alexander Nowell | 19 Nov 1762 | 17 Nov 1842 | 79 | |
15 Dec 1832 | William Lowther, styled Viscount Lowther, later [1844] 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (to 1841) | 21 Jul 1787 | 4 Mar 1872 | 84 | |
22 Sep 1841 | William Thompson | 23 Jan 1792 | 10 Mar 1854 | 62 | |
31 Mar 1854 | Thomas Taylour, styled Earl of Bective, later [1870] 3rd Marquess of Headfort (to 1871) | 1 Nov 1822 | 22 Jul 1894 | 71 | |
8 Jan 1868 | William Lowther (to 1885) | 14 Dec 1821 | 23 Jan 1912 | 90 | |
21 Feb 1871 | Thomas Taylour, styled Earl of Bective | 11 Feb 1844 | 15 Dec 1893 | 49 | |
SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885, SEE "APPLEBY" AND "KENDAL". CONSTITUENCY RE-UNITED 1918 | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | John Wakefield Weston, later [1926] 1st baronet | 13 Jun 1852 | 19 Sep 1926 | 74 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Oliver Frederick George Stanley | 4 May 1896 | 10 Dec 1950 | 54 | |
26 Jul 1945 | William Morgan Fletcher Vane, later [1964] 1st Baron Inglewood | 12 Apr 1909 | 22 Jun 1989 | 80 | |
15 Oct 1964 | Thomas Michael Jopling, later [1997] Baron Jopling [L] | 10 Dec 1930 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "WESTMORLAND AND LONSDALE" 1983 | |||||
WESTMORLAND AND LONSDALE | |||||
9 Jun 1983 | Thomas Michael Jopling, later [1997] Baron Jopling [L] | 10 Dec 1930 | |||
1 May 1997 | Timothy William George Collins | 7 May 1964 | |||
5 May 2005 | Timothy James Farron | 27 May 1970 | |||
WESTON-SUPER-MARE (SOMERSET) | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | Sir Gilbert Alan Hamilton Wills, 2nd baronet, later [1929] 1st Baron Dulverton | 28 Mar 1880 | 1 Dec 1956 | 76 | |
15 Nov 1922 | John Francis Ashley Erskine, styled Lord Erskine | 26 Apr 1895 | 3 May 1953 | 58 | |
6 Dec 1923 | Frank Edric Joseph Murrell | 17 Mar 1874 | 1 Apr 1931 | 57 | |
29 Oct 1924 | John Francis Ashley Erskine, styled Lord Erskine | 26 Apr 1895 | 3 May 1953 | 58 | |
26 Jun 1934 | Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing [kt 1953] | 4 Jun 1893 | 27 Apr 1958 | 64 | |
12 Jun 1958 | David William Ernest Webster | 20 Oct 1923 | 7 Jan 1969 | 45 | |
27 Mar 1969 | Alfred William ["Jerry"] Wiggin [kt 1993] | 24 Feb 1937 | 12 Mar 2015 | 78 | |
1 May 1997 | Brian Joseph Cotter, later [2006] Baron Cotter [L] | 24 Aug 1936 | 14 Nov 2023 | 87 | |
5 May 2005 | John David Penrose | 22 Jun 1964 | |||
WEST TOXTETH (LIVERPOOL) | |||||
25 Nov 1885 | Thomas Bland Royden, later [1905] 1st baronet | 20 Feb 1831 | 29 Aug 1917 | 85 | |
Jul 1892 | Robert Paterson Houston, later [1922] 1st baronet | 31 May 1853 | 14 Apr 1926 | 72 | |
22 May 1924 | Joseph Gibbins | 1888 | 26 Aug 1965 | 77 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Clyde Tabor Wilson | 21 Sep 1889 | 13 Nov 1971 | 82 | |
16 Jul 1935 | Joseph Gibbins | 1888 | 26 Aug 1965 | 77 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
WEXFORD | |||||
1801 | Francis Leigh | 18 Jan 1758 | 1839 | 81 | |
20 Feb 1801 | Ponsonby Tottenham | 1746 | 13 Dec 1818 | 72 | |
9 Jul 1802 | Richard Nevill | 1743 | Jan 1822 | 78 | |
10 Nov 1806 | Sir Robert Wigram, 1st baronet | 30 Jan 1744 | 6 Nov 1830 | 86 | |
21 May 1807 | Richard Nevill | 1743 | Jan 1822 | 78 | |
3 Mar 1810 | Peter Parker | c 1785 | 30 Aug 1814 | ||
1 Jul 1811 | Richard Nevill | 1743 | Jan 1822 | 78 | |
13 Feb 1813 | John Fish | c 1758 | 10 Sep 1834 | ||
9 Aug 1814 | Richard Nevill | 1743 | Jan 1822 | 78 | |
1 Mar 1819 | Henry Evans | 13 Dec 1842 | |||
20 Mar 1820 | William Wigram | 23 Jul 1780 | 8 Jan 1858 | 77 | |
19 Jun 1826 | Henry Evans | 13 Dec 1842 | |||
3 Jun 1829 | Robert Wigram, later [1830] 2nd baronet [his name was erased from the return and that of Sir Edward Cholmondeley Dering substituted 15 Mar 1830] | 25 Sep 1773 | 17 Dec 1843 | 70 | |
15 Mar 1830 | Sir Edward Cholmondeley Dering, 8th baronet | 19 Nov 1807 | 1 Apr 1896 | 88 | |
7 Aug 1830 | William Wigram [his name was erased from the return and that of Sir Edward Cholmondeley Dering substituted 21 Feb 1831] | 23 Jul 1780 | 8 Jan 1858 | 77 | |
21 Feb 1831 | Sir Edward Cholmondeley Dering, 8th baronet | 19 Nov 1807 | 1 Apr 1896 | 88 | |
6 May 1831 | Charles Arthur Walker | c 1790 | 29 Oct 1873 | ||
12 Jul 1841 | Sir Thomas Esmonde, 9th baronet | 10 Dec 1786 | 31 Dec 1868 | 82 | |
4 Aug 1847 | John Thomas Devereux | 31 Dec 1885 | |||
3 May 1859 | John Edward Redmond | 1806 | 10 Aug 1865 | 59 | |
17 Jul 1865 | Richard Joseph Devereux [Following the general election in Nov 1868, his election was declared void 12 Jan 1869. At the subsequent by‑election held on 26 Feb 1869 he was again returned] | 1829 | |||
26 Apr 1872 | William Archer Redmond | 1825 | c Nov 1880 | 55 | |
24 Nov 1880 | Timothy Michael Healy | 17 May 1855 | 26 Mar 1931 | 75 | |
17 Jul 1883 | William Hoey Kearney Redmond | 15 Apr 1861 | 9 Jun 1917 | 56 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885 | |||||
WEXFORD COUNTY | |||||
1801 | John Loftus, styled Viscount Loftus, later [1806] 2nd Marquess of Ely | 15 Feb 1770 | 26 Sep 1845 | 75 | |
Abel Ram (to 1806) | 31 Jan 1754 | 1830 | 76 | ||
27 May 1806 | Caesar Colclough | 8 May 1766 | 23 Aug 1842 | 76 | |
17 Nov 1806 | John Colclough | 3 Dec 1767 | 30 May 1807 | 39 | |
Robert Shapland Carew | 20 Jun 1752 | 29 Mar 1829 | 76 | ||
1 Jun 1807 | Abel Ram | 31 Jan 1754 | 1830 | 76 | |
William Congreve Alcock | c 1771 | 4 Sep 1813 | |||
10 Oct 1812 | Robert Shapland Carew, later [1834] 1st Baron Carew [I] (to 1830) | 9 Mar 1787 | 2 Jun 1856 | 69 | |
Sir Frederick Flood, 1st baronet | 1739 | 1 Feb 1824 | 84 | ||
21 Jul 1818 | Caesar Colclough | 8 May 1766 | 23 Aug 1842 | 76 | |
21 Mar 1820 | James Thomas Stopford, styled Viscount Stopford, later [1835] 4th Earl of Courtown | 27 Mar 1794 | 20 Nov 1858 | 64 | |
19 Aug 1830 | Arthur Chichester, later [1831] 1st Baron Templemore (to Sep 1831) | 8 Jan 1797 | 26 Sep 1837 | 40 | |
George Arthur Annesley, styled Viscount Valentia | 20 Oct 1793 | 16 Mar 1841 | 47 | ||
18 May 1831 | Henry Lambert (to 1835) | 1 Sep 1786 | 20 Oct 1861 | 75 | |
27 Sep 1831 | Robert Shapland Carew, later [1834] 1st Baron Carew [I] | 9 Mar 1787 | 2 Jun 1856 | 69 | |
3 Jul 1834 | Cadwallader Waddy | c 1853 | |||
27 Jan 1835 | John Maher | 28 May 1860 | |||
James Power, later [1855] 2nd baronet (to 1847) | 6 Dec 1800 | 30 Sep 1877 | 76 | ||
16 Jul 1841 | Villiers Francis Hatton | 1787 | 8 Feb 1859 | 71 | |
10 Aug 1847 | James Fagan | 1800 | 12 Jan 1863 | 62 | |
Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan | 1807 | c 1867 | |||
26 Jul 1852 | Patrick McMahon (to 1865) | 1813 | 19 Dec 1875 | 62 | |
John George | 1804 | 15 Dec 1871 | 67 | ||
10 Mar 1857 | John Hatchell | 1825 | 7 Aug 1902 | 77 | |
16 May 1859 | John George (to 1866) | 1804 | 15 Dec 1871 | 67 | |
24 Jul 1865 | Sir James Power, 2nd baronet (to 1868) | 6 Dec 1800 | 30 Sep 1877 | 76 | |
15 Nov 1866 | Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh For further information on this MP, see the note at the foot of the page containing etails of the MPs for co. Carlow |
25 Mar 1831 | 25 Dec 1889 | 58 | |
24 Nov 1868 | John Talbot Power, later [1877] 3rd baronet | 2 May 1845 | 4 Dec 1901 | 56 | |
Matthew Peter D'Arcy | 1821 | 28 Nov 1889 | 68 | ||
23 Feb 1874 | Sir George Bowyer, 7th baronet | 8 Oct 1811 | 7 Jun 1883 | 71 | |
Keyes O'Clery | 1849 | 22 May 1913 | 63 | ||
14 Apr 1880 | John Barry (to 1885) | 1845 | |||
Garrett Michael Byrne For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
1829 | 3 Mar 1897 | 67 | ||
15 Jun 1883 | John Francis Small | 1853 | |||
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "NORTH" AND "SOUTH" DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
WEXFORD COUNTY NORTH | |||||
7 Dec 1885 | John Edward Redmond | 1 Sep 1856 | 6 Mar 1918 | 61 | |
11 Mar 1892 | Thomas Joseph Healy | 1854 | 1925 | 71 | |
6 Oct 1900 | Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 11th baronet | 21 Sep 1862 | 15 Sep 1935 | 72 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Roger Mary Sweetman | 15 Aug 1874 | 20 May 1954 | 79 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
WEXFORD COUNTY SOUTH | |||||
25 Nov 1885 | John Barry | 1845 | |||
30 Nov 1893 | Peter Ffrench | 1844 | 1 Nov 1929 | 85 | |
14 Dec 1918 | James Ryan | 6 Dec 1891 | 25 Sep 1970 | 78 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS (DORSET) | |||||
9 Apr 1660 | Edward Montagu, later [Jul 1660] 1st Earl of Sandwich [he was also returned for Dover, for which he chose to sit] | 27 Jul 1625 | 28 May 1672 | 46 | |
William Penn [kt Jun 1660] (to 1670) | 23 Apr 1621 | 16 Sep 1670 | 49 | ||
Henry Waltham (to 1661) | early 1668 | ||||
Peter Middleton (to 1661) | 1603 | 24 Dec 1661 | 58 | ||
Samuel Bond | |||||
Double return between Middleton and Bond. Middleton declared elected 5 May 1660 | |||||
22 Jun 1660 | Bullen Reymes (to 1673) | 28 Dec 1613 | 18 Dec 1672 | 58 | |
27 Mar 1661 | Sir John Strangways | 27 Sep 1585 | 30 Dec 1666 | 81 | |
Winston Churchill [kt 1664] (to 1679) | 18 Apr 1620 | 26 Mar 1688 | 67 | ||
25 Jan 1667 | Sir John Coventry (to 1685) | c 1636 | 14 Nov 1685 | ||
Michael Harvey | c 1634 | 19 Feb 1712 | |||
Double return. Coventry declared elected 20 Nov 1667 | |||||
7 Nov 1670 | Anthony Ashley, styled Baron Ashley, later [1683] 2nd of Shaftesbury (to Aug 1679) | 16 Jan 1652 | 2 Nov 1699 | 47 | |
31 Jan 1673 | John Man [election declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the subsequent by‑election held on 17 Feb 1673, Man was again elected] | c 1634 | 23 Aug 1689 | ||
14 Feb 1679 | Thomas Browne (to 1680) | c 1620 | 16 Sep 1680 | ||
Michael Harvey (to 1685) | c 1634 | 19 Feb 1712 | |||
22 Aug 1679 | Sir John Morton, 2nd baronet (to 1695) | c 1627 | 8 Jan 1699 | ||
11 Nov 1680 | Henry Henning (to 1695) | c 1646 | 26 Nov 1699 | ||
26 Mar 1685 | George Strangways | 19 Feb 1618 | 19 Aug 1695 | 77 | |
Francis Mohun | c 1628 | 25 Feb 1712 | |||
11 Jan 1689 | Michael Harvey (to Nov 1701) | c 1634 | 19 Feb 1712 | ||
Sir Robert Napier, 1st baronet | c 1640 | 31 Oct 1700 | |||
26 Feb 1690 | Nicholas Gould | 16 Mar 1635 | c Apr 1691 | 56 | |
22 May 1691 | Thomas Freke (to Jan 1701) | 17 Jan 1660 | 1721 | 61 | |
31 Oct 1695 | Maurice Ashley (to Aug 1698) | 14 Apr 1675 | 21 Oct 1726 | 51 | |
John Knight [expelled 1 Feb 1698] | c 1656 | 17 Sep 1708 | |||
2 Mar 1698 | Philip Taylor (to Jan 1701) | c 1652 | c Oct 1716 | ||
8 Aug 1698 | Arthur Shallett | 3 May 1650 | 4 Feb 1711 | 60 | |
3 Jan 1701 | Henry Thynne | 8 Feb 1675 | 20 Dec 1708 | 33 | |
Charles Churchill (to 1710) | 2 Feb 1656 | 29 Dec 1714 | 58 | ||
Maurice Ashley (to Feb 1702) [at the general election in Nov 1701, Ashley was also returned for Wiltshire, for which he chose to sit] | 14 Apr 1675 | 21 Oct 1726 | 51 | ||
26 Nov 1701 | George St Loe (to 1705) | 19 Apr 1655 | by Oct 1718 | 63 | |
Sir Christopher Wren (to Jul 1702) | 20 Oct 1632 | 25 Feb 1723 | 90 | ||
5 Feb 1702 | Anthony Henley (to Dec 1711) | 1667 | Aug 1711 | 44 | |
31 Jul 1702 | Henry Thynne (to 1709) | 8 Feb 1675 | 20 Dec 1708 | 33 | |
12 May 1705 | Maurice Ashley (to 1713) | 14 Apr 1675 | 21 Oct 1726 | 51 | |
24 Jan 1709 | Edward Clavell | 19 Jan 1676 | 9 Sep 1738 | 62 | |
9 Oct 1710 | James Littleton | 29 Oct 1668 | 3 Feb 1723 | 54 | |
William Betts | 14 Mar 1738 | ||||
Elections declared void 17 Mar 1711 | |||||
18 Apr 1711 | William Betts | 14 Mar 1738 | |||
James Littleton | 29 Oct 1668 | 3 Feb 1723 | 54 | ||
Both members were unseated on petition in favour of Sir Thomas Hardy and William Harvey 22 May 1711 | |||||
22 May 1711 | Sir Thomas Hardy (to 1713) | 13 Sep 1666 | 16 Aug 1732 | 65 | |
William Harvey (to 1713) | 18 Dec 1663 | 31 Oct 1731 | 67 | ||
21 Dec 1711 | Reginald Marriott | by Aug 1730 | |||
5 Sep 1713 | Daniel Harvey | c 1664 | 6 Sep 1732 | ||
John Baker | 1660 | 10 Nov 1716 | 56 | ||
William Betts | 14 Mar 1738 | ||||
James Littleton (to 1715) | 29 Oct 1668 | 3 Feb 1723 | 54 | ||
Daniel Harvey, John Baker and William Betts were unseated on petition in favour of Sir Thomas Hardy, William Harvey and Reginald Marriott 3 Jun 1714 | |||||
3 Jun 1714 | Sir Thomas Hardy | 13 Sep 1666 | 16 Aug 1732 | 65 | |
William Harvey | 18 Dec 1663 | 31 Oct 1731 | 67 | ||
Reginald Marriott | by Aug 1730 | ||||
3 Feb 1715 | Daniel Harvey (to 1722) | c 1664 | 6 Sep 1732 | ||
John Baker | 1660 | 10 Nov 1716 | 56 | ||
William Betts (to 1730) [following the general election in Aug 1727, his election was declared void 7 May 1730. He was replaced by George Dodington 20 May 1730] | 14 Mar 1738 | ||||
Thomas Littleton (to 1722) | 1722 | ||||
2 Mar 1717 | Edward Harrison | 3 Dec 1674 | 28 Nov 1732 | 57 | |
24 Mar 1722 | Sir James Thornhill (to 1734) | c 1675 | 13 May 1734 | ||
Thomas Pearse (to Jan 1727) | 3 Apr 1743 | ||||
John Ward (to 1726) [expelled 16 May 1726] | 26 Jun 1682 | 30 Jul 1755 | 73 | ||
9 Jun 1726 | John Willes (to Aug 1727) | 29 Nov 1685 | 15 Dec 1761 | 76 | |
30 Jan 1727 | Edward Tucker (to 1737) | 4 Apr 1739 | |||
26 Aug 1727 | Thomas Pearse (to 1741) | 3 Apr 1743 | |||
20 May 1730 | George Dodington (to 1741) | c 1681 | 14 Apr 1757 | ||
2 May 1734 | George Bubb Dodington, later [1761] 1st Baron Melcombe [he was also returned for Bridgwater, for which he chose to sit] | c 1691 | 28 Jul 1762 | ||
28 Feb 1735 | John Tucker (to 1747) | 9 Oct 1779 | |||
10 Mar 1737 | John Olmius, later [1762] 1st Baron Waltham [I] | 18 Jul 1711 | 5 Oct 1762 | 51 | |
11 May 1741 | Joseph Damer, later [1792] 1st Earl of Dorchester | 12 Mar 1718 | 12 Jan 1798 | 79 | |
John Raymond | c 1712 | 21 Jan 1782 | |||
James Steuart | 30 Mar 1757 | ||||
4 Jul 1747 | Welbore Ellis, later [1794] 1st Baron Mendip (to 1761) | 15 Dec 1713 | 2 Feb 1802 | 88 | |
Richard Plumer | c 1689 | 25 Nov 1750 | |||
George Dodington (to 1754) | c 1681 | 14 Apr 1757 | |||
Edmund Hungate Beaghan (to 1754) | 1703 | 15 Jul 1755 | 52 | ||
28 Jan 1751 | Lord George Augustus Cavendish | c 1727 | 2 May 1794 | ||
15 Apr 1754 | Lord John Cavendish | 22 Oct 1732 | 18 Nov 1796 | 64 | |
George Bubb Dodington, later [1761] 1st Baron Melcombe | c 1691 | 28 Jul 1762 | |||
John Tucker (to 1778) | 9 Oct 1779 | ||||
28 Mar 1761 | Sir Francis Dashwood, later [1763] 15th Lord Le Despencer (to 1763) | Dec 1708 | 11 Dec 1781 | 73 | |
John Olmius, later [1762] 1st Baron Waltham [I] | 18 Jul 1711 | 5 Oct 1762 | 51 | ||
Richard Glover (to 1768) | c 1712 | 25 Nov 1785 | |||
1 Dec 1762 | Richard Jackson (to 1768) | c 1721 | 6 May 1787 | ||
30 Apr 1763 | Charles Walcot | 22 Mar 1738 | Sep 1799 | 61 | |
18 Mar 1768 | Drigue Billers Olmius, 2nd Baron Waltham [I] | 12 Mar 1746 | 10 Feb 1787 | 41 | |
Sir Charles Davers, 6th baronet | 4 Jun 1737 | 4 Jun 1806 | 69 | ||
Jeremiah Dyson | c 1722 | 16 Sep 1776 | |||
7 Oct 1774 | Welbore Ellis, later [1794] 1st Baron Mendip (to 1790) | 15 Dec 1713 | 2 Feb 1802 | 88 | |
William Chaffin Grove (to 1781) | c 1731 | 27 Jan 1793 | |||
John Purling (to 1790) | c 1722 | 23 Aug 1800 | |||
10 Jun 1778 | Gabriel Steward | Apr 1731 | 9 Jan 1792 | 60 | |
7 Sep 1780 | Warren Lisle | c 1695 | Jul 1788 | ||
30 Nov 1780 | Gabriel Steward (to 1786) | Apr 1731 | 9 Jan 1792 | 60 | |
30 Apr 1781 | William Richard Rumbold | 1 Mar 1760 | 14 Jun 1786 | 26 | |
31 Mar 1784 | Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st baronet (to 1790) | 15 Jan 1736 | 11 Nov 1791 | 55 | |
27 Mar 1786 | George Jackson (Duckett from 1797), later [1791] 1st baronet | 24 Oct 1725 | 15 Dec 1822 | 97 | |
27 Dec 1788 | Gabriel Steward | Apr 1731 | 9 Jan 1792 | 60 | |
19 Jun 1790 | Sir James Murray (Murray‑Pulteney from 1794), 7th baronet (to 1811) | c 1755 | 26 Apr 1811 | ||
Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone (Vanden‑Bempde from 1793 and Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone from Jun 1795), later [Jul 1795] 1st baronet (to 1796) | 21 Sep 1732 | 14 Jul 1807 | 74 | ||
Andrew Stuart (to May 1801) | 1725 | 18 May 1801 | 75 | ||
Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, later [1808] 1st baronet | 1 Sep 1765 | 26 Nov 1811 | 46 | ||
17 Jun 1791 | Sir James Johnstone, 4th baronet | 23 Jan 1726 | 3 Sep 1794 | 68 | |
3 Oct 1794 | Gabriel Tucker Steward (to 1810) | c 1768 | 1836 | ||
27 May 1796 | William Garthshore (to 1806) | 28 Oct 1764 | 5 Apr 1806 | 41 | |
30 May 1801 | Charles Adams (to Oct 1812) | 2 Nov 1753 | 15 Nov 1821 | 68 | |
26 Apr 1806 | Richard Augustus Tucker Steward (to Oct 1812) | 1 Feb 1773 | 25 Mar 1842 | 69 | |
29 Jun 1810 | Sir John Lowther Johnstone, 6th baronet (to Jan 1812) | c 1783 | 24 Dec 1811 | ||
11 May 1811 | Sir John Murray, 8th baronet (to 1818) | c 1768 | 15 Oct 1827 | ||
18 Jan 1812 | Joseph Hume | 22 Jan 1777 | 20 Feb 1855 | 78 | |
27 Oct 1812 | Sir John Murray (to 1818) | c 1768 | 15 Oct 1827 | ||
Thomas Wallace, later [1828] 1st Baron Wallace | 1768 | 23 Feb 1844 | 75 | ||
John Broadhurst | c 1778 | 15 Sep 1861 | |||
Henry Trail | c 1755 | 10 Feb 1835 | |||
The elections of Wallace, Broadhurst and Trail were declared void 26 Feb 1813 | |||||
9 Jun 1813 | Masterton Ure (to 1832) | 3 Apr 1777 | 10 Mar 1863 | 85 | |
Christopher Idle (to 1818) | 3 Jun 1771 | 8 Mar 1819 | 47 | ||
James Brownlow William Cecil, styled Viscount Cranborne, later [1823] 2nd Marquess of Salisbury | 17 Apr 1791 | 12 Apr 1868 | 76 | ||
14 Feb 1817 | Adolphus John Dalrymple, later [1830] 2nd baronet | 3 Feb 1784 | 3 Mar 1866 | 82 | |
29 Jun 1818 | William Williams | 28 Mar 1774 | 8 Feb 1839 | 64 | |
Thomas Fowell Buxton, later [1840] 1st baronet (to 1837) | 7 Apr 1786 | 19 Feb 1845 | 58 | ||
Thomas Wallace, later [1828] 1st Baron Wallace (to 1828) | c 1768 | 23 Feb 1844 | |||
27 Jun 1826 | John Gordon (to 1832) | c 1776 | 16 Jul 1858 | ||
20 Feb 1828 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, later [1852] 1st Baron Saint Leonards | 12 Feb 1781 | 29 Jan 1875 | 93 | |
4 May 1831 | Richard Weyland [he was also returned for Oxfordshire, for which he chose to sit] | 25 Mar 1780 | 14 Oct 1864 | 84 | |
1 Aug 1831 | Charles Baring Wall | 1 May 1795 | 14 Oct 1853 | 58 | |
REPRESENTATION REDUCED TO TWO MEMBERS 1832 | |||||
14 Dec 1832 | Sir Frederick George Johnstone, 7th baronet | Dec 1810 | 7 May 1841 | 30 | |
10 Jan 1835 | William Wharton Burdon | Jun 1870 | |||
26 Jul 1837 | George Augustus Frederick Child‑Villiers, styled Viscount Villiers, later [1859] 6th Earl of Jersey | 4 Apr 1808 | 24 Oct 1859 | 51 | |
George William Hope | 4 Jul 1808 | 18 Oct 1863 | 55 | ||
[Following the general election in Jun 1841, both members were unseated on petition in favour of Ralph Bernal and William Dougal Christie 4 Apr 1842] | |||||
4 Apr 1842 | Ralph Bernal | 2 Oct 1783 | 26 Aug 1854 | 70 | |
William Dougal Christie (to Dec 1847) | 1816 | 27 Jul 1874 | 58 | ||
2 Aug 1847 | William Lockyer Freestun [kt 1860] (to 1859) | 1804 | 16 Apr 1862 | 57 | |
15 Dec 1847 | Frederick William Child‑Villiers | 20 Jul 1815 | 23 May 1871 | 55 | |
10 Jul 1852 | George Medd Butt | 1797 | 11 Nov 1860 | 63 | |
27 Mar 1857 | Robert James Roy Campbell | 1813 | 7 Jun 1862 | 48 | |
30 Apr 1859 | Robert Brooks (to 1868) | 5 Jun 1882 | |||
Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, styled Viscount Grey de Wilton, later [1882] 3rd Earl of Wilton | 25 Nov 1833 | 18 Jan 1885 | 51 | ||
12 Jul 1865 | Henry Gillett Gridley | 1820 | |||
11 Jun 1867 | Henry Edwards [kt 1885] (to 1885) | 1820 | 4 Feb 1897 | 76 | |
17 Nov 1868 | Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro | 2 Oct 1834 | 11 Apr 1891 | 56 | |
5 Feb 1874 | Sir Frederick John William Johnstone, 8th baronet | 5 Aug 1841 | 20 Jun 1913 | 71 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885 | |||||
WHITBY (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
13 Dec 1832 | Aaron Chapman | 13 Sep 1771 | 28 Dec 1850 | 79 | |
30 Jul 1847 | Robert Stephenson | 16 Oct 1803 | 12 Oct 1859 | 55 | |
23 Nov 1859 | Harry Stephen Thompson, later [1874] 1st baronet | 11 Aug 1809 | 17 May 1874 | 64 | |
12 Jul 1865 | Charles Bagnall | 1827 | 25 Feb 1884 | 56 | |
18 Nov 1868 | William Henry Gladstone | 3 Jun 1840 | 4 Jul 1891 | 51 | |
3 Apr 1880 | Arthur Pease | 12 Sep 1837 | 27 Aug 1898 | 60 | |
2 Dec 1885 | Ernest William Beckett, later [1905] 2nd Baron Grimthorpe | 25 Nov 1856 | 9 May 1917 | 60 | |
1 Jun 1905 | Noel Edward Buxton, later [1930] 1st Baron Noel‑Buxton | 9 Jan 1869 | 12 Sep 1948 | 79 | |
25 Jan 1906 | William Gervase Beckett, later [1921] 1st baronet | 14 Jan 1866 | 24 Aug 1937 | 71 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
WHITCHURCH (HAMPSHIRE) | |||||
23 Apr 1660 | Robert Wallop | 20 Jul 1601 | 19 Nov 1667 | 66 | |
Giles Hungerford [kt 1676] (to 1679) | 25 Sep 1614 | 7 Mar 1685 | 70 | ||
18 Jun 1660 | Henry Wallop | c 1630 | 25 Jan 1674 | ||
27 Feb 1674 | Richard Ayliffe (to 1685) | 18 Oct 1640 | 9 Sep 1682 | 41 | |
12 Feb 1679 | Henry Wallop (to 1692) | 18 May 1657 | 28 Dec 1691 | 34 | |
14 Mar 1685 | James Russell (Lord James from 1694) (to 1701) | c 1647 | 22 Jun 1712 | ||
11 Jan 1692 | Christopher Stokes | 31 Jan 1643 | c Feb 1698 | 55 | |
29 Mar 1698 | Richard Wollaston (to May 1708) [He was expelled from the House 20 Feb 1699, but was re‑elected 7 Mar 1699] | c 1669 | 13 Jul 1728 | ||
25 Nov 1701 | John Shrimpton | 24 Dec 1707 | |||
17 Jan 1708 | Frederick Tylney [he was unseated on petition in favour of Charles Wither 17 Feb 1708] | 24 Nov 1652 | 2 Oct 1725 | 72 | |
17 Feb 1708 | Charles Wither | 24 Jul 1684 | 20 Nov 1731 | 47 | |
5 May 1708 | Thomas Lewis | c 1679 | 22 Nov 1736 | ||
Frederick Tylney | 24 Nov 1652 | 2 Oct 1725 | 72 | ||
Both members were unseated on petition in favour of Richard Woolaston and George Brydges 21 Dec 1708 | |||||
21 Dec 1708 | Richard Wollaston | c 1669 | 13 Jul 1728 | ||
George Brydges | Jul 1678 | 13 May 1751 | 72 | ||
5 Oct 1710 | Frederick Tylney | 24 Nov 1652 | 2 Oct 1725 | 72 | |
Thomas Vernon (to May 1721) [expelled 8 May 1721] | 8 Mar 1666 | 22 Aug 1726 | 60 | ||
21 Jan 1715 | George Carpenter, later [1719] 1st Baron Carpenter [I] (to 1722) | 10 Feb 1657 | 10 Feb 1732 | 75 | |
25 May 1721 | Frederick Tylney [he was unseated on petition in favour of John Conduitt 26 Jun 1721] | 24 Nov 1652 | 2 Oct 1725 | 72 | |
26 Jun 1721 | John Conduitt (to 1735) [at the general election in Apr 1734, Conduitt was also returned for Southampton, for which he chose to sit] | 8 Mar 1688 | 23 May 1737 | 49 | |
22 Mar 1722 | Thomas Vernon | 8 Mar 1666 | 22 Aug 1726 | 60 | |
2 Feb 1727 | Thomas Farrington | after 1687 | 29 Jan 1758 | ||
18 Aug 1727 | John Selwyn | 20 Aug 1688 | 5 Nov 1751 | 63 | |
29 Apr 1734 | John Selwyn (to 1751) | c 1709 | 27 Jun 1751 | ||
19 Apr 1735 | John Mordaunt [kt 1749] | 1697 | 23 Oct 1780 | 83 | |
7 May 1741 | John Wallop [he was also returned for Andover, for which he chose to sit] | 3 Aug 1718 | 19 Nov 1749 | 31 | |
2 Jan 1742 | William Sloper | c 1658 | 14 Jan 1743 | ||
31 Jan 1743 | Charles Clarke | c 1702 | 17 May 1750 | ||
18 Feb 1743 | Thomas Wentworth | c 1693 | Nov 1747 | ||
30 Jun 1747 | Charles Wallop (to 1754) | 12 Dec 1722 | 11 Aug 1771 | 48 | |
21 Nov 1751 | Lord Robert Bertie | 14 Nov 1721 | 10 Mar 1782 | 60 | |
17 Apr 1754 | William Powlett | c 1693 | 28 Feb 1757 | ||
Thomas Townshend, later [1783] 1st Baron Sydney and [1789] 1st Viscount Sydney (to 1783) | 24 Feb 1733 | 30 Jun 1800 | 67 | ||
8 Mar 1757 | George Jennings | c 1721 | 9 Jun 1790 | ||
19 Mar 1768 | Henry Wallop | c 1743 | Aug 1794 | ||
10 Oct 1774 | George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton [I] (to 1796) | 1 Nov 1754 | 12 Aug 1836 | 81 | |
17 Mar 1783 | William Selwyn | 14 Jun 1732 | 21 Aug 1817 | 85 | |
19 Jun 1790 | John Thomas Townshend, later [1800] 2nd Viscount Sydney (to 1800) | 21 Feb 1764 | 20 Jan 1831 | 66 | |
25 May 1796 | William Brodrick (to 1818) | 14 Feb 1763 | 29 Apr 1819 | 56 | |
15 Jul 1800 | William Augustus Townshend | 10 Mar 1776 | 3 Jul 1816 | 40 | |
13 Aug 1816 | Horatio George Powys Townshend (to 1826) | 6 Feb 1780 | 25 May 1843 | 63 | |
19 Jun 1818 | Samuel Scott, later [1830] 2nd baronet (to 1832) | 29 Apr 1772 | 30 Sep 1849 | 77 | |
9 Jun 1826 | John Robert Townshend, later [1831] 3rd Viscount Sydney and [1874] 1st Earl Sydney | 9 Aug 1805 | 14 Feb 1890 | 84 | |
25 Feb 1831 | Horatio George Powys Townshend | 6 Feb 1780 | 25 May 1843 | 63 | |
CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832 | |||||
WHITECHAPEL | |||||
26 Nov 1885 | Sir Samuel Montagu, later [1894] 1st baronet and [1907] 1st Baron Swaythling | 21 Dec 1832 | 12 Jan 1911 | 78 | |
4 Oct 1900 | Stuart Montagu Samuel, later [1912] 1st baronet | 24 Oct 1856 | 13 May 1926 | 69 | |
28 Dec 1916 | James Daniel Kiley | 1865 | 12 Sep 1953 | 88 | |
NAME ALTERED TO "WHITECHAPEL AND ST. GEORGES" 1918 | |||||
WHITECHAPEL AND ST. GEORGES | |||||
14 Dec 1918 | James Daniel Kiley | 1865 | 12 Sep 1953 | 88 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Charles James Mathew | 24 Oct 1872 | 8 Jan 1923 | 50 | |
8 Feb 1923 | Harry Gosling | 9 Jun 1861 | 24 Oct 1930 | 69 | |
3 Dec 1930 | James Henry Hall | 24 Mar 1877 | 6 Jun 1942 | 65 | |
27 Oct 1931 | Barnett Janner [kt 1961], later [1970] Baron Janner [L] | 20 Jun 1892 | 4 May 1982 | 89 | |
14 Nov 1935 | James Henry Hall | 24 Mar 1877 | 6 Jun 1942 | 65 | |
8 Aug 1942 | Walter James Edwards | 1900 | 15 Oct 1964 | 64 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
WHITEHAVEN (CUMBERLAND) | |||||
15 Dec 1832 | Matthias Attwood | 1779 | 11 Nov 1851 | 72 | |
28 Aug 1847 | Robert Charles Hildyard | 1800 | 7 Dec 1857 | 57 | |
17 Dec 1857 | George Lyall | 1819 | 12 Oct 1881 | 62 | |
11 Jul 1865 | George Augustus Frederick Cavendish‑Bentinck | 9 Jul 1821 | 9 Apr 1891 | 69 | |
24 Apr 1891 | Sir James Bain | 1818 | 25 Apr 1898 | 79 | |
Jul 1892 | Thomas Shepherd Little | 1845 | 28 Jun 1910 | 64 | |
16 Jul 1895 | Augustus Helder [kt 1905] | 1827 | 31 Mar 1906 | 78 | |
17 Jan 1906 | William John Dalzell Burnyeat | 13 Mar 1874 | 8 May 1916 | 42 | |
18 Jan 1910 | John Arthur Jackson | 30 Nov 1862 | 25 Nov 1937 | 74 | |
Dec 1910 | Thomas Richardson | 6 Jun 1868 | 22 Oct 1928 | 60 | |
14 Dec 1918 | James Augustus Grant, later [1926] 1st baronet | 8 Mar 1867 | 29 Jul 1932 | 65 | |
15 Nov 1922 | Thomas Gavan Duffy | 25 Sep 1867 | 4 Aug 1932 | 64 | |
29 Oct 1924 | Robert Spear Hudson, later [1952] 1st Viscount Hudson | 15 Dec 1886 | 2 Feb 1957 | 71 | |
30 May 1929 | Morgan Philips Price | 29 Jan 1885 | 23 Sep 1973 | 88 | |
27 Oct 1931 | William Nunn | 20 Mar 1879 | 16 Dec 1971 | 92 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Frank Anderson | 21 Nov 1889 | 25 Apr 1959 | 69 | |
18 Jun 1959 | Joseph Bede Symonds | 17 Jan 1900 | 29 Mar 1985 | 85 | |
18 Jun 1970 | John Anderson Cunningham, later [2005] Baron Cunningham of Felling [L] | 4 Aug 1939 | |||
NAME ALTERED TO "COPELAND" 1983 | |||||
WICK DISTRICT | |||||
18 Dec 1832 | James Loch | 7 May 1780 | 28 Jun 1855 | 75 | |
26 Jul 1852 | Samuel Laing | 12 Dec 1812 | 6 Aug 1897 | 84 | |
11 Apr 1857 | Lord John Hay | 23 Aug 1827 | 4 May 1916 | 88 | |
6 Apr 1859 | Samuel Laing | 12 Dec 1812 | 6 Aug 1897 | 84 | |
1 Dec 1860 | William Coutts Keppel, styled Viscount Bury, later [1891] 7th Earl of Albemarle | 15 Apr 1832 | 28 Aug 1894 | 62 | |
18 Jul 1865 | Samuel Laing | 12 Dec 1812 | 6 Aug 1897 | 84 | |
30 Nov 1868 | George Loch | 1811 | 18 Aug 1877 | 66 | |
26 Feb 1872 | John Pender [kt 1888] | 10 Sep 1816 | 7 Jul 1896 | 79 | |
5 Dec 1885 | John Macdonald Cameron | 1847 | 3 Sep 1912 | 65 | |
Jul 1892 | Sir John Pender | 10 Sep 1816 | 7 Jul 1896 | 79 | |
2 Jun 1896 | Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick | 1850 | 6 Feb 1918 | 67 | |
15 Oct 1900 | Arthur Bignold [kt 1904] | 8 Jul 1839 | 23 Mar 1915 | 75 | |
31 Jan 1910 | Robert Munro, later [1934] 1st Baron Alness | 28 May 1868 | 6 Oct 1955 | 87 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
WICKLOW | |||||
1801 | William Hoare Hume (to Feb 1816) | 3 Feb 1772 | 5 Nov 1815 | 43 | |
The other member for this constituency remained vacant until the by‑election held in Feb 1801 | |||||
Feb 1801 | George Ponsonby | 4 Mar 1755 | 8 Jul 1817 | 62 | |
10 May 1806 | William Tighe (to Apr 1816) | 5 May 1766 | 19 Mar 1816 | 49 | |
13 Feb 1816 | Granville Leveson Proby, later [1855] 3rd Earl of Carysfort (to 1829) | 12 Nov 1782 | 3 Nov 1868 | 85 | |
19 Apr 1816 | George Ponsonby | 4 Mar 1755 | 8 Jul 1817 | 62 | |
12 Aug 1817 | William Parnell-Hayes | 17 Aug 1780 | 2 Jan 1821 | 40 | |
9 Feb 1821 | James Grattan (to 1841) | 7 Apr 1783 | 21 Oct 1854 | 71 | |
22 Jul 1829 | Ralph Howard, later [1838] 1st baronet (to 1847) | c 1802 | 15 Aug 1873 | ||
17 Jul 1841 | William Acton (to 1848) | 1789 | 10 Apr 1854 | 64 | |
7 Aug 1847 | William Thomas Spencer Wentworth‑Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton, later [1857] 6th Earl Fitzwilliam (to 1858) | 12 Oct 1815 | 20 Feb 1902 | 86 | |
27 Apr 1848 | Sir Ralph Howard, 1st baronet | c 1802 | 15 Aug 1873 | ||
17 Jul 1852 | William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Hume, later Dick (to 1880) | 28 Oct 1805 | 15 Sep 1892 | 86 | |
25 Feb 1858 | Granville Leveson Proby, styled Baron Proby, later [1868] 4th Earl of Carysfort | 14 Sep 1825 | 18 May 1872 | 46 | |
24 Nov 1868 | William Henry Wentworth‑Fitzwilliam | 26 Dec 1840 | 10 Jul 1920 | 79 | |
12 Feb 1874 | William Richard O'Byrne | 1823 | 7 Jul 1896 | 73 | |
10 Apr 1880 | William Joseph Corbet | 12 Dec 1824 | 1 Dec 1909 | 84 | |
James Carlile McCoan | 1829 | 13 Jan 1904 | 74 | ||
COUNTY SPLIT INTO "EAST" AND "WEST" DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
WICKLOW EAST | |||||
30 Nov 1885 | William Joseph Corbet | 12 Dec 1824 | 1 Dec 1909 | 84 | |
Jul 1892 | John Sweetman | 9 Aug 1844 | 8 Sep 1936 | 92 | |
26 Apr 1895 | Edward Peter O'Kelly | 4 Jul 1846 | 22 Jul 1914 | 68 | |
22 Jul 1895 | William Joseph Corbet | 12 Dec 1824 | 1 Dec 1909 | 84 | |
4 Oct 1900 | Denis Joseph Cogan | 1859 | after 1940 | ||
28 Jul 1907 | John Muldoon | 1865 | 20 Nov 1938 | 73 | |
13 Jul 1911 | Anthony John Charles Donelan | 1846 | 12 Sep 1924 | 78 | |
14 Dec 1918 | John Redmond Etchingham | 23 Apr 1923 | |||
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
WICKLOW WEST | |||||
5 Dec 1885 | Garrett Michael Byrne For information on the death of this MP, see the note at the foot of this page |
1829 | 3 Mar 1897 | 67 | |
Jul 1892 | James O'Connor | Feb 1836 | 12 Mar 1910 | 74 | |
29 Mar 1910 | Edward Peter O'Kelly | 4 Jul 1846 | 22 Jul 1914 | 68 | |
20 Aug 1914 | John Thomas Donovan | 1878 | 17 Jan 1922 | 43 | |
14 Dec 1918 | Robert Childers Barton | 1881 | 10 Aug 1975 | 94 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
WIDNES (LANCASHIRE) | |||||
3 Dec 1885 | Tom Cottingham Edwards-Moss | 7 Apr 1855 | 16 Dec 1893 | 38 | |
Jul 1892 | John Saunders Gilliat | 24 Nov 1829 | 13 Feb 1912 | 82 | |
5 Oct 1900 | William Hall Walker, later [1919] 1st Baron Wavertree | 25 Dec 1856 | 2 Feb 1933 | 76 | |
30 Aug 1919 | Arthur Henderson | 13 Sep 1863 | 20 Oct 1935 | 72 | |
15 Nov 1922 | George Christopher Clayton [kt 1933] | 11 Jul 1869 | 28 Jul 1945 | 76 | |
30 May 1929 | Alexander Gordon Cameron | 1876 | 30 May 1944 | 67 | |
27 Oct 1931 | John Roland Robinson [kt 1954], later [1964] 1st Baron Martonmere | 22 Feb 1907 | 3 May 1989 | 82 | |
14 Nov 1935 | Richard Antony Pilkington [kt 1961] | 10 May 1908 | 9 Dec 1976 | 68 | |
26 Jul 1945 | Christopher Nyholm Shawcross | 20 Jun 1905 | 18 Aug 1973 | 68 | |
23 Feb 1950 | James Eugene MacColl | 27 Jun 1908 | 17 Jun 1971 | 62 | |
23 Sep 1971 | Gordon James Oakes | 22 Jun 1931 | 14 Aug 2005 | 74 | |
CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
Henry John Rous | ||
MP for Westminster 1841‑1846 | ||
The following biography of Rous appeared in the March 1954 issue of the Australian monthly magazine Parade:- | ||
It is said that there is nothing more awkward than a sailor on horseback. There was once a sailor, however, who was such a fine horseman, magnificent judge of horseflesh and master of everything pertaining to horses that for 40 years he was acknowledged "Dictator of Racing" in England. He was Admiral Henry John Rous, R.N., who retired from the sea in 1836 to make a name for himself on the English Turf - compressing two careers into a single lifetime and winning honour and renown in both. In the navy Rous rose to the highest rank. On the turf he won distinction as owner, trainer, breeder, handicapper and Jockey Club steward, and as a "horse-lawyer" with a unique knowledge of racing laws and customs. | ||
Rous is remembered principally for his influence on the English turf, but his name is linked with early Australia, as a racing man and as an explorer in the Northern Rivers district of N.S.W. He discovered the Richmond and Brunswick Rivers, and his name is perpetuated in the small town of Rous, near Lismore, and in Rous County, in that district. Rainbow Bay, near the Tweed River, was named after H.M.S. Rainbow, which he commanded. | ||
"Rous was typical of his class and his day - a well-to-do, leisured English sporting gentleman. He was a tall, strongly-built, vigorous man who enjoyed superb health. He was no intellectual, but possessed all the "manly" virtues, and was - in the words of a contemporary journalist - English from his businesslike boots to his square, resolute brow.' He was the younger son of the first Earl of Stradbroke, who was created Baron Rous in 1796 and elevated to an earldom on the coronation of George IV in 1821. | ||
"He was admitted to Westminster School in 1804 in his ninth year. His father owned race-horses and young Henry wagered half-a-crown on a famous horse called Eagle whenever it ran at Newmarket. | ||
The menacing shadow of Napoleon was darkening Europe. Nelson's victory at Trafalgar, however, shattered the naval ambitions of 'the Little Corporal' With the name of England's most famous sailor on the lips of everyone in England it was natural that Henry John Rous, born in Suffolk within sniffing distance of the North Sea, should have elected to join the navy. | ||
After a few years at Westminster he transferred to the naval academy of Dr. [William] Burney [1762-1832] at Gosport [Hampshire]. He graduated midshipman and shipped aboard the Royal William [28 January 1808]. After serving in several ships he was appointed [in Dec 1811] to H.M.S. Bacchante, in which ship he was promoted lieutenant [in May 1814]. | ||
There never was any question of his personal courage, and it emerged when he led an attack on several enemy ships under the guns of a French-held fort on the coast of Sicily. He escaped drowning when a leaking prize-ship he was taking into port capsized, leaving him and his crew clinging to the keel. Bacchante was paid off. Thenceforward - with one or two interruptions at sea, Lieutenant Rous served ashore. | ||
He was able to indulge his passion for racing. When his elder brother left the army, the two went into partnership on the turf by buying a mare named Maeotis. Henry trained her, won three minor races with her, and sold her at a good profit. The brothers then purchased a yearling named Souvenir, which also did well, and in 1821 he and his brother were elected members of the Jockey Club. Henry's name was to remain in the membership list for 56 years, although at that time he had another 15 years of naval service ahead of him. | ||
"His fighting days were over, for the battle of Waterloo had passed into history and Napoleon was fretting his life away on St. Helena. He went to sea at the end of 1821, and in the following year was promoted Post-Captain. Three years later he was appointed to command "Rainbow" and ordered east - first to India, and then to the raw young settlement on the shores of Port Jackson, where he arrived in 1827. | ||
"The following year he took Governor Darling from Sydney to Moreton Bay (now Brisbane), where a penal settlement had been established. Darling named Stradbroke Island, at the mouth of the Brisbane River, in honour of Captain Rous' father, and years later [1890] the Brisbane racing authorities introduced the Stradbroke Handicap into their racing calendar. Rous was then sent on a marine surveying expedition along the north coast of N.S.W. In the course of this he discovered the Richmond and Brunswick Rivers. He took "Rainbow" up the Richmond for 17 miles as far as the Broadwater, the fine stretch of open water which years later was the scene of championship sculling matches. He explored the Tweed [River] from its mouth to the headwaters of navigation near the site of the present town of Byangum. | ||
Back in Sydney he lent his whole-hearted support to local racing, then only 18 years old. He imported a stallion - Rous's Emigrant - which, it has been claimed, was the best of the 20 bloodstock stallions brought to this country between 1799 and 1838. His services to Australian racing are honoured today in the calendar of the Australian Jockey Club. The Rous Handicap, a six-furlong race, is one of the events at the autumn meeting at Randwick every year. | ||
His last command in the navy was also the ship in which he performed a remarkable feat of seamanship. This was H.M.S. Pique, to which he was appointed in 1834 and which a few months later ran aground on the Labrador coast in a dense fog while on a voyage from Quebec to London. Rous did not tell the full story of how he had sailed the leaking, rudderless ship home to England until 30 years later. At a presentation dinner in his honour he told how his crew worked like beavers for ten hours to heave the ship off the rocks; of the battered vessel making 18 inches of water every hour; "for three long weeks our music was the constant clang of the pumps", the leak increasing to 23 inches and then to 27 inches per hour. On the third day out from Labrador, the rudder slipped away and disappeared and thereafter the ship had "staggered along like a drunken man", steered after a fashion with a weighted cable. | ||
At the time the stranding of the ship had been the subject of courts-martial. Rous and the master of the Pique were absolved of blame. But the only official recognition of the fine job done by him and his crew was a coldly formal letter of approbation from the lords of the Admiralty. Whether that was the last straw, or whether the attractions of the Turf had proved too strong and he had decided to devote all his time to it anyhow, is not known, but a year or so after the Pique limped into port her commander stepped ashore for the last time and resigned his commission. | ||
The senior service lost one of its best officers when he retired. Racing men complained he had wasted nearly 30 years before applying his encyclopaedic knowledge and superlative judgment to the Turf. That was in 1836, and so vigorously and enthusiastically did he throw himself into the racing game that by 1838 he had been elected a steward of the Jockey Club. He did not miss a meeting of the club and made a close study of its code and laws of racing, which he published later in his book, "The Laws and Customs of Horse Racing". He was constantly finding flaws and anomalies in the club code, to the irritation of his more complacent colleagues. | ||
Rous deplored heavy gambling and sternly opposed anything that smacked of crooked practices. He would go to extraordinary lengths to bring to book those responsible for lowering the standards of racing. Many rules he introduced went a long way towards cleaning up the sport in England during the last half of the nineteenth century. | ||
At the end of his first three-year term as steward he decided to enter politics, and was elected Tory member for Westminster. After the declaration of the poll he made a triumphal tour of his constituency, in the course of which he appeared on the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre. Members of the Guards Club cheered him as he passed along Pall Mall and earned the displeasure of the Duke of Wellington, then Commander-in-Chief, who held strongly to the view, which survived in the British army until recent years, that soldiers should not exhibit any political views. | ||
Rous retained his seat for five years. He was impatient of the formalities of Parliamentary procedure, and, although he was a forceful letter-writer, was a hesitant public speaker. He maintained an active interest in the Turf during his brief political career. In 1840 he accepted the post of Master of Horse to the Duke of Bedford. Rous received a quarter of the stake- money whenever one of the Duke's horses won. He made £1500 a year from his racing transactions. | ||
The year 1844 was a sensational one on the English Turf. In no year before or since have there been so many racing scandals or so intense an interest in racing. During the year a Select Committee of the House of Commons sat under the chairmanship of Lord Palmerston to investigate the whole field of gambling and betting. Rous was called to give evidence. His remarks are a revelation of his views on gambling and his attitude to society generally. Asked by Lord Palmerston if he considered "there is no mischief in gambling unless it is fraudulently conducted", Rous replied:- "I think that, in respect to society commercially, the great harm happens to clerks; but I think that, with respect to a rich man, it does not signify whether he loses his money as long as the money is distributed among the public … The poor should should be protected, but I would let a rich man ruin himself if he pleases …" | ||
It was in 1844, too, that the English Turf was shaken by one of the most sensational frauds in its history - the impudent "ring-in" of the Derby winner, Running Rein, which was entered in the race as a three-year-old but was actually a four-year-old registered as Maccabeus. The detection of the fraud, which, if successful, would have netted Abraham Goodman, the owner of "Running Rein", and his associates £50,000, was largely the patient work of Lord George Bentinck, who had "smelt a rat" even before the running of the Derby. | ||
Over the years Rous acquired his own stable, with which he had moderate success, but during the latter part of his life the increasing burden of his administrative duties caused him to take a correspondingly less active interest in his own horses. He was a conspicuous figure at every race-meeting at Newmarket, over which he had complete control, riding vigorously about the course before each event, keeping his binoculars fixed on the horses from the moment the barrier went up until all had passed the post. If he suspected any "pulling" - or that any particular jockey was not "flat-out" to win - he would immediately ride up to the offender and thunder accusingly at him in his formidable voice. | ||
It was appropriate that, when the end came to his active life in June, 1877, two princes - the Prince of Wales and Prince Christian [of Schleswig Holstein, brother-in-law to the Prince of Wales] - and many of Britain's high-ranking noblemen attended him to the grave. | ||
Garrett Michael Byrne | ||
MP for co. Wexford 1880‑1883 and Wicklow West 1885‑1892 | ||
Byrne died from injuries received when he was struck by a horse-drawn cab while he was crossing a street in Dublin. The following report appeared in Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser [Dublin] on 5 March 1897:- | ||
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Garrett Byrne, who has just died in Mercer's Hospital as the result of an accident. Mr. Byrne was for many years a well known and popular member of the Irish Party. Hr represented Wicklow for a considerable time. For a while he retired from public life, but re-entered Parliament as member for West Wicklow, for which constituency he sat at the time of the division in the Irish Party. Mr. Byrne supported Mr. Parnell, and did not seek re-election at the general election of 1892. He was a genial and kindly gentleman, and under all circumstances retained the good will and friendship of those who were associated with him in political life. | ||
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Kenny, City Coroner, held in inquest in Mercer's Hospital into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Garrett Byrne, at one time member of Parliament for the West Division of County Wicklow, who died in hospital the previous evening from injuries received in a street accident in Grafton street on 13th ult. | ||
Superintendant Larissy and Inspector Dickson watched the proceedings on behalf of the authorities. | ||
From the evidence of the police and other witnesses it appeared that on the morning of the 13th ult Mr. Byrne was entering Grafton street from Stephen's green, and that when opposite the house No 48 he left the footpath with the evident intention of crossing to the other side of the street. Just at that moment a hackney car, driven by a man named John O'Neill, was coming down the street. The driver noticed the danger Mr. Byrne was in, and shouted to him to get out of the way, at the same time pulling up his horse. The driver shouted again, but Mr. Byrne was struck either by the horse's head or shoulder and knocked down. The driver then pulled the horse to one side in order to prevent the car passing over the injured gentleman. At this juncture Policeman Bannon hurried forward, and, with the assistance of the driver, placed Mr. Byrne on the car and had him conveyed to the hospital immediately. | ||
Dr. John Elliot, resident surgeon at the hospital, stated that at 11 a.m. on the 13th ult the deceased was brought to the hospital. He found that he was suffering from a severe lacerated wound on the left temple exposing the bone. The wound was full of dirt, as if he had come in contact with the ground. There was also a bruise on the left arm near the elbow. Mr. Byrne was quite sensible when admitted to the hospital, and told witness he had just parted from a friend in Stephen's green, and was crossing near the top of Grafton street when a hack car and horse struck him, and knocked him down. The witness added that Mr. Byrne did not seem to blame anyone for the accident. Diffuse inflammation set in in the wound and caused septicaemia, from which he died. | ||
The jury returned the following verdict - "We find that Mr. Garrett M Byrne died in Mercer's Hospital on the 3rd inst from septicaemia arising from a wound on the left temple, received on the 13th ult in Grafton street by being accidentally knocked down by a horse and car driven by John O'Neill. We are of opinion that O'Neill did all in his power to avoid the sad accident which deprived us of so excellent a citizen and Nationalist, and offer to his family the expression of our sincere sympathy. We are of opinion that Police-Constable Bannon (203B) acted on the occasion of the accident with intelligence and promptitude." | ||
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