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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "E"

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�� Last updated 13/06/2017

Date

Name

Born

Died

�Age

Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that

date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections,

or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a�

previous election result.

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

� ELGINSHIRE

17 Jun 1708

Robert Urquhart

Jan 1741

30 Oct 1710

Alexander Grant

after 1673

19 Aug 1719

�5 Jan 1720

James Brodie

�� 1695

�2 Oct 1720

29 Dec 1720

Alexander Brodie

17 Aug 1697

�9 Mar 1754

25 May 1741

Ludovick Grant,later [1747] 7th baronet

13 Jan 1707

18 Mar 1773

16 Apr 1761

James Grant,later [1773] 8th baronet

19 May 1738

18 Feb 1811

21 Apr 1768

Francis Grant

10 Aug 1717

30 Dec 1781

�2 Nov 1774

Arthur Duff

�� 1743

�2 Jun 1805

�9 Apr 1779

Lord William Gordon

15 Aug 1744

�1 May 1823

15 Apr 1784

James Duff,Earl Fife [I]

28 Sep 1729

24 Jan 1809

�5 Jul 1790

Lewis Alexander Grant (Grant-Ogilvy from

1811),later [Feb 1811] 9th baronet and�

[Oct 1811] 5th Earl of Seafield

22 Mar 1767

26 Oct 1840

16 Jun 1796

James Brodie

31 Aug 1744

17 Jan 1824

26 May 1807

Francis William Grant,later [1840] 6th Earl

of Seafield

�6 Mar 1778

30 Jul 1853

�NAME ALTERED TO " ELGIN�

& NAIRNSHIRE" 1832

� ELGIN & NAIRN

22 Dec 1832

Francis William Grant,later [1840] 6th Earl

of Seafield

�6 Mar 1778

30 Jul 1853

25 Apr 1840

Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce

20 Feb 1790

�1 Jan 1875

20 Nov 1868

James Ogilvie Grant,later [1884] 9th Earl

of Seafield

27 Dec 1817

�5 Jun 1888

13 Feb 1874

Alexander William George Duff,styled Viscount

Macduff,later [1879] 5th Earl Fife and [1889]

1st Duke of Fife

10 Nov 1849

29 Jan 1912

18 Sep 1879

Sir George MacPherson-Grant,3rd baronet

12 Aug 1839

�5 Dec 1907

�7 Jul 1886

Charles Henry Anderson

�� 1838

25 Aug 1889

�8 Oct 1889

John Seymour Keay

30 Mar 1839

27 Jun 1909

23 Jul 1895

John Edward Gordon

�5 Feb 1850

19 Feb 1915

17 Jan 1906

Archibald Williamson,later [1909] 1st baronet

and [1922] 1st Baron Forres

13 Sep 1860

29 Oct 1931

�

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918�

� ELLAND (YORKSHIRE)

�3 Dec 1885

Thomas Wayman

26 Oct 1833

�8 Feb 1901

�8 Mar 1899

Charles Philips Trevelyan,later [1928] 3rd

baronet

28 Oct 1870

24 Jan 1958

14 Dec 1918

George Taylor Ramsden

�6 Apr 1879

�9 Oct 1936

15 Nov 1922

William Cornforth Robinson

12 Jul 1861

11 Jun 1931

�6 Dec 1923

Sir Robert Newbold Kay

�6 Aug 1869

24 Feb 1947

29 Oct 1924

William Cornforth Robinson

12 Jul 1861

11 Jun 1931

30 May 1929

Charles Roden Buxton

27 Nov 1875

16 Dec 1942

27 Oct 1931

Thomas Levy

�� 1874

14 Feb 1953

26 Jul 1945

Frederick Arthur Cobb

11 Feb 1901

27 Mar 1950

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950�

ELLESMORE PORT & NESTON (CHESHIRE)

�9 Jun 1983

Michael Woodcock

10 Apr 1943

9 Apr 1992

Andrew Peter Miller

23 Mar 1949

7 May 2015

Justin Piers Richard Madders

22 Nov 1972

ELMET (WEST YORKSHIRE)

9 Jun 1983

Spencer Lee Batiste

5 Jun 1945

1 May 1997

Colin Burgon

22 Apr 1948

NAME ALTERED TO "ELMET AND ROTHWELL" 2010

ELMET AND ROTHWELL (WEST YORKSHIRE)

6 May 2010

Alec Shelbrooke

10 Jan 1976

ELTHAM (GREATER LONDON)

�9 Jun 1983

Peter James Bottomley�[kt 2011]

30 Jul 1944

1 May 1997

Clive Stanley Efford

10 Jul 1958

� ENFIELD (MIDDLESEX)

27 Nov 1885

William Pleydell-Bouverie,styled Viscount

Folkestone,later [1889] 5th Earl of Radnor

19 Jun 1841

�3 Jun 1900

30 Mar 1889

Henry Ferryman Bowles,later [1926] 1st

baronet

19 Dec 1858

14 Oct 1943

19 Jan 1906

James Branch

27 Feb 1845

16 Nov 1918

21 Jan 1910

John Robert Bramston Pretyman

Newman� [kt 1924]

22 Aug 1871

12 Mar 1947

14 Dec 1918

Henry Ferryman Bowles,later [1926] 1st

baronet

19 Dec 1858

14 Oct 1943

15 Nov 1922

Thomas Fermor-Hesketh,later [1924] 8th�

baronet and [1935] 1st Baron Hesketh

17 Nov 1881

20 Jul 1944

�6 Dec 1923

William Watson Henderson,later [1945] 1st

Baron Henderson

�8 Aug 1891

4 Apr 1984

29 Oct 1924

Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin

11 Apr 1869

�3 Apr 1957

30 May 1929

William Watson Henderson,later [1945] 1st

Baron Henderson

�8 Aug 1891

4 Apr 1984

27 Oct 1931

Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin

11 Apr 1869

�3 Apr 1957

14 Nov 1935

Bartle Brennan Bull

�1 Apr 1902

17 Oct 1950

26 Jul 1945

Ernest Albert John Davies

18 May 1902

16 Sep 1991

�SPLIT INTO "ENFIELD EAST"

AND "ENFIELD WEST" 1950

� ENFIELD EAST

23 Feb 1950

Ernest Albert John Davies

18 May 1902

16 Sep 1991

�8 Oct 1959

John Mackie,later [1981] Baron John-Mackie [L]

24 Nov 1909

25 May 1994

�

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974�

� ENFIELD NORTH

28 Feb 1974

Bryan Davies,later [1997] Baron Davies�

of Oldham [L]

�9 Nov 1939

�3 May 1979

Timothy John Crommelin Eggar

19 Dec 1951

1 May 1997

Joan Marie Ryan

8 Sep 1955

6 May 2010

Geoffrey Nicholas de Bois

23 Feb 1959

7 May 2015

Joan Marie Ryan

8 Sep 1955

ENFIELD SOUTHGATE

28 Feb 1974

Anthony George Berry�[kt 1983]

12 Feb 1925

12 Oct 1984

13 Dec 1984

Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo

26 May 1953

1 May 1997

Stephen Twigg

25 Dec 1966

5 May 2005

David John Barrington Burrowes

12 Jun 1969

8 Jun 2017

Bambos Charalambous

2 Dec 1967

� ENFIELD WEST

23 Feb 1950

Iain Norman Macleod

11 Nov 1913

20 Jul 1970

19 Nov 1970

Cecil Edward Parkinson,later [1992] Baron

Parkinson [L]

�1 Sep 1931

22 Jan 2016

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974�

� ENNIS (CLARE)

�� 1801

John Ormsby Vandeleur

c Nov 1765

28 Nov 1828

22 Jul 1802

James Fitzgerald

�� c 1742

22 Jan 1835

25 Feb 1808

William Fitzgerald (Vesey-Fitzgerald from 1815),

later [1832] 2nd Baron Fitzgerald and Vesey

�� c 1782

11 May 1843

�

24 Oct 1812

James Fitzgerald

�� c 1742

22 Jan 1835

�4 Jan 1813

William Fitzgerald (Vesey-Fitzgerald from 1815),

later [1832] 2nd Baron Fitzgerald and Vesey

�� c 1782

11 May 1843

26 Jun 1818

Spencer Perceval

11 Sep 1795

16 Sep 1859

18 Mar 1820

Sir Ross Mahon,1st baronet

1763

10 Aug 1835

29 Jun 1820

Richard Wellesley

22 Apr 1787

�1 Mar 1831

16 Jun 1826

Thomas Frankland Lewis,later [1846] 1st�

baronet

14 May 1780

22 Jan 1855

23 Apr 1828

William Smith O'Brien

17 Oct 1803

18 Jun 1864

For further information on this MP,see the

note at the foot of this page

11 May 1831

William Vesey-Fitzgerald,later [1832]�

�

2nd Baron Fitzgerald and Vesey

c 1782

11 May 1843

�

28 Feb 1832

Augustine Fitzgerald

c 1765

4 Dec 1834

20 Dec 1832

Francis Macnamara

27 Jun 1873

14 Jan 1835

Hewitt Bridgman

c 1782

after 1852

�3 Aug 1847

Charles James Patrick O'Gorman Mahon

17 Mar 1800

15 Jun 1891

13 Jul 1852

John David Fitzgerald,later [1882] Baron

Fitzgerald of Kilmarnock [L]

1 May 1816

16 Oct 1889

20 Feb 1860

William Stacpoole

�� 1830

10 Jul 1879

26 Jul 1879

James Lysaght Finigan

c 1844

Sep 1900

14 Nov 1882

Matthew Joseph Kenny

�� 1861

�8 Dec 1942

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885�

� ENNISKILLEN (FERMANAGH)

�� 1801

Arthur Cole-Hamilton

�8 Aug 1750

�� 1810

31 Jul 1802

John Beresford�� [he was also returned for

14 Mar 1738

�5 Nov 1805

co.Waterford,for which he chose to sit]

24 Dec 1802

William Burroughs,later [1804] 1st baronet

�� c 1753

�1 Jun 1829

14 Mar 1806

John King

�� 1759

�� Mar 1830

31 Jul 1806

William Henry Fremantle

28 Dec 1766

19 Oct 1850

20 Nov 1806

Nathaniel Sneyd�� [he was also returned for

�� c 1767

31 Jul 1833

co.Cavan,for which he chose to sit]

14 Jan 1807

Richard Alexander Henry Bennet

�� c 1771

11 Oct 1818

14 May 1807

Charles William Pochin

30 May 1777

13 Jun 1817

26 Oct 1812

Richard Magenis

1763

�6 Mar 1831

11 Feb 1828

Arthur Henry Cole

28 Jun 1780

16 Jun 1844

18 Jun 1844

Henry Arthur Cole

14 Feb 1809

�2 Jul 1890

12 Apr 1851

James Whiteside

12 Aug 1804

25 Nov 1876

21 Feb 1859

John Lowry Cole

�8 Jun 1813

29 Nov 1882

18 Nov 1868

John Henry Crichton,styled Viscount Crichton,

later [1885] 4th Earl of Erne

16 Oct 1839

�2 Dec 1914

6 Apr 1880

Lowry Egerton Cole,styled Viscount Cole,

later [1886] 4th Earl of Enniskillen

21 Dec 1845

28 Apr 1924

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885�

� EPPING (ESSEX)

�2 Dec 1885

Sir Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson,7th baronet,

later [1892] 1st Baron Rookwood

26 Sep 1826

15 Jan 1902

�� Jul 1892

Amelius Richard Mark Lockwood,later [1917]

1st Baron Lambourne

17 Aug 1847

26 Dec 1928

28 Jun 1917

Richard Beale Colvin

�4 Aug 1856

17 Jan 1936

�6 Dec 1923

Sir Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle,later [1932] 1st�

baronet and [1945] 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne

22 Jul 1882

�6 Mar 1954

29 Oct 1924

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill� [KG 1953]

30 Nov 1874

24 Jan 1965

26 Jul 1945

Elizabeth Leah Manning

14 Apr 1886

15 Sep 1977

23 Feb 1950

Claude Nigel Byam Davies

�2 Sep 1920

25 Sep 2004

25 Oct 1951

Graeme Bell Finlay,later [1964] 1st baronet

29 Oct 1917

21 Jan 1987

15 Oct 1964

Arthur Stanley Newens

�4 Feb 1930

18 Jun 1970

Norman Beresford Tebbit,later� [1992]

Baron Tebbit [L]

29 Mar 1931

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974�

� EPPING FOREST (ESSEX)

28 Feb 1974

John Alec Biggs-Davison�[kt 1981]

�7 Jun 1918

17 Sep 1988

15 Dec 1988

Steven John Norris

24 May 1945

1 May 1997

Eleanor Fulton Laing

1 Feb 1958

� EPSOM (SURREY)

30 Nov 1885

George Cubitt,later [1892] 1st Baron Ashcombe

�4 Jun 1828

26 Feb 1917

�� Jul 1892

Thomas Townsend Bucknill�[kt 1899]

18 Apr 1845

�4 Oct 1915

23 Jan 1899

William Keswick

1 Jan 1835

�9 Mar 1912

21 Mar 1912

Henry Keswick

20 Oct 1870

29 Nov 1928

14 Dec 1918

George Rowland Blades,later [1922] 1st

baronet and [1928] 1st Baron Ebbisham

15 Apr 1868

24 May 1953

�4 Jul 1928

Archibald Richard James Southby,later [1937]

1st baronet

�8 Jul 1886

30 Oct 1969

�4 Dec 1947

Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale,later [1955]

1st Baron McCorquodale

29 Mar 1901

25 Sep 1971

26 May 1955

Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson [kt 1962],

later [1978] Baron Rawlinson of Ewell [L]

26 Jun 1919

28 Jun 2006

NAME ALTERED TO "EPSOM�

& EWELL" FEB 1974

� EPSOM & EWELL (ESSEX)

28 Feb 1974

Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson,

later [1978] Baron Rawlinson of Ewell [L]

26 Jun 1919

28 Jun 2006

27 Apr 1978

Archibald Gavin Hamilton kt 1994],later [2005]

Baron Hamilton of Epsom [L]

30 Dec 1941

7 Jun 2001

Christopher Stephen Grayling

1 Apr 1962

� ERDINGTON (BIRMINGHAM)

14 Dec 1918

Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay

Steel-Maitland,1st baronet

�5 Jul 1876

30 Mar 1935

30 May 1929

Charles James Simmons

�9 Apr 1893

11 Aug 1975

27 Oct 1931

John Frederick Eales

19 Jan 1881

�6 Aug 1936

20 Oct 1936

John Allan Cecil Wright

28 Aug 1886

14 Jul 1982

26 Jul 1945

Julius Silverman

�8 Dec 1905

21 Sep 1996

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955,

BUT REVIVED 1974

28 Feb 1974

Julius Silverman

�8 Dec 1905

21 Sep 1996

�9 Jun 1983

Robin Corbett,later [2001] Baron Corbett of

Castle Vale [L]

22 Dec 1933

19 Feb 2012

7 Jun 2001

Sion Llewelyn Simon

23 Dec 1968

6 May 2010

John Eugene Joseph [Jack] Dromey

29 Sep 1948

EREWASH (DERBYSHIRE)

�9 Jun 1983

Peter Lewis Rost

19 Sep 1930

9 Apr 1992

Angela Ann Knight

31 Oct 1950

1 May 1997

Elizabeth Marion Blackman

26 Sep 1949

6 May 2010

Jessica Katherine Lee

7 Apr 1976

7 May 2015

Margaret Ann Throup

27 Jan 1957

� ERITH & CRAYFORD

26 May 1955

Norman Noel Dodds

25 Dec 1903

22 Aug 1965

11 Nov 1965

Alfred James Wellbeloved

29 Jul 1926

10 Sep 2012

�9 Jun 1983

David Anthony Evennett

3 Jun 1949

NAME ALTERED "TO ERITH &

THAMESMEAD" 1997

� ERITH & THAMESMEAD

1 May 1997

John Eric Austin

21 Aug 1944

6 May 2010

Teresa Pearce

1 Feb 1955

ESHER� (SURREY)

23 Feb 1950

William Robson-Brown�[kt 1957]

1 Sep 1900

25 Feb 1975

18 Jun 1970

David Carol Macdonnell Mather� [kt 1987]

�3 Jan 1919

3 Jul 2006

11 Jun 1987

Ian Colin Taylor

18 Apr 1945

NAME ALTERED TO "ESHER AND WALTON" 1997

ESHER AND WALTON (SURREY)

1 May 1997

Ian Colin Taylor

18 Apr 1945

6 May 2010

Dominic Rennie Raab

25 Feb 1974

� ESKDALE (CUMBERLAND)

�2 Dec 1885

Robert Andrew Allison�[kt 1910]

3 Mar 1838

15 Jan 1926

11 Oct 1900

Claude William Henry Lowther

�� 1872

17 Jun 1929

19 Jan 1906

Geoffrey William Algernon Howard

12 Feb 1877

20 Jun 1935

�� Dec 1910

Claude William Henry Lowther

�� 1872

17 Jun 1929

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918�

� ESSEX

17 Apr 1660

John Bramston� [kt 1661]� (to 1679)

11 Sep 1611

�4 Feb 1700

Edward Turnor

�� c 1617

�4 Mar 1676

19 Mar 1661

Sir Benjamin Ayloffe,2nd baronet

29 Aug 1592

�� Mar 1662

17 Mar 1663

Banastre Maynard,later [1699] 3rd�

Baron Maynard

�� c 1642

�3 Mar 1718

25 Feb 1679

Sir Eliab Harvey

�3 Jun 1635

20 Feb 1699

Henry Mildmay� (to 1685)

25 Nov 1619

13 Dec 1692

12 Aug 1679

John Lamotte Honywood

21 May 1647

16 Jan 1694

14 Apr 1685

Sir William Maynard,1st baronet

�6 Oct 1641

�7 Nov 1685

Sir Thomas Fanshawe

�8 Jun 1628

29 Mar 1705

15 Jan 1689

Henry Mildmay� (to 1693)

25 Nov 1619

13 Dec 1692

John Wroth

�� c 1646

�6 Mar 1708

11 Mar 1690

Sir Francis Masham,3rd baronet� (to 1698)

c 1646

7 Feb 1723

10 Jan 1693

John Lamotte Honywood

21 May 1647

16 Jan 1694

23 Feb 1694

Sir Charles Barrington,5th baronet� (to 1705)

c 1671

29 Jan 1715

29 Jul 1698

Edward Bullock

24 Jun 1663

6 Dec 1705

14 Jan 1701

Sir Francis Masham,3rd baronet� (to 1710)

c 1646

7 Feb 1723

15 May 1705

Henry Howard,styled Baron Howard de Walden,

later [1706] 1st Earl of Bindon and [1709]

6th Earl of Suffolk

1670

19 Sep 1718

21 Jan 1707

Thomas Middleton�(to 1713)

12 Sep 1676

29 Apr 1715

24 Oct 1710

Sir Richard Child,3rd baronet,later [1718] 1st

Viscount Castlemaine [I] and [1731] 1st Earl�

Tylney of Castlemaine [I]�(to 1722)

�5 Feb 1680

�� Mar 1750

25 Aug 1713

Sir Charles Barrington,5th baronet

c 1671

29 Jan 1715

�8 Feb 1715

Thomas Middleton

12 Sep 1676

29 Apr 1715

31 May 1715

William Harvey�� [he was unseated on petition

18 Dec 1663

31 Oct 1731

in favour of Robert Honywood 18 May 1716]

18 May 1716

Robert Honywood�(to 1727)

by 1676

�� Jan 1735

27 Mar 1722

William Harvey

18 Dec 1663

31 Oct 1731

�5 Sep 1727

Richard Child,1st Viscount Castlemaine [I] later

[1731] 1st Earl Tylney of Castlemaine [I]

�5 Feb 1680

�� Mar 1750

Sir Robert Abdy,3rd baronet� (to 1748)

�8 Apr 1688

27 Aug 1748

�8 May 1734

Thomas Bramston

�� c 1690

14 Nov 1765

14 Jul 1747

William Harvey� (to 1763)

�9 Jun 1714

11 Jun 1763

13 Dec 1748

Sir John Abdy,4th baronet

�� c 1714

�1 Apr 1759

�8 May 1759

Sir William Maynard,4th baronet� (to 1772)

19 Apr 1722

18 Jan 1772

13 Dec 1763

John Luther� (to 1784)

�� c 1739

13 Jan 1786

25 Feb 1772

John Conyers

13 Dec 1717

�8 Sep 1775

28 Nov 1775

William Harvey

10 Sep 1754

24 Apr 1779

11 May 1779

Thomas Berney Bramston�(to 1802)

�7 Dec 1733

12 Mar 1813

�6 Apr 1784

John Bullock� (to 1810)

31 Dec 1731

28 Dec 1809

12 Jul 1802

Eliab Harvey� (to 1812)

�5 Dec 1758

20 Feb 1830

16 Feb 1810

John Archer-Houblon�(to 1820)

�1 Dec 1773

31 May 1831

19 Oct 1812

Charles Callis Western,later [1833] 1st Baron

Western� (to 1832)

�9 Aug 1767

�4 Nov 1844

13 Mar 1820

Sir Eliab Harvey

�5 Dec 1758

20 Feb 1830

11 Mar 1830

Thomas Gardiner Bramston

24 Jul 1770

3 Feb 1831

23 Aug 1830

John Tyssen Tyrell,later [1832] 2nd baronet

21 Dec 1795

19 Sep 1877

11 May 1831

William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley,later

[1845] 4th Earl of Mornington

22 May 1788

�1 Jul 1857

COUNTY SPLIT INTO NORTH�

& SOUTH DIVISIONS 1832

� ESSEX EAST

28 Nov 1868

James Round� (to 1885)

6 Apr 1842

25 Dec 1916

Samuel Brise Ruggles Brise� [kt 1897]

29 Dec 1825

28 May 1899

25 Aug 1883

Charles Hedley Strutt

18 Apr 1849

19 Dec 1926

SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885�

SEE "CHELMSFORD","EPPING","ESSEX SOUTH-

EAST","HARWICH","MALDON","ROMFORD",

"SAFFRON WALDEN" AND�

"WALTHAMSTOW"

� ESSEX NORTH

24 Dec 1832

Sir John Tyssen Tyrell,2nd baronet� (to 1857)

�� 1795

19 Sep 1877

Alexander Baring,later [1835] 1st Baron�

Ashburton

27 Oct 1774

12 May 1848

�4 May 1835

John Payne Elwes

13 May 1798

26 Aug 1849

29 Jul 1837

Charles Gray Round

28 Jan 1797

�1 Dec 1867

12 Aug 1847

William Beresford�(to 1865)

17 Apr 1797

�6 Oct 1883

31 Mar 1857

Charles du Cane�[kt 1875]�� (to 1868)

�5 Dec 1825

25 Feb 1889

24 Jul 1865

Sir Thomas Burch Western,1st baronet

22 Aug 1795

30 May 1873

�SPLIT INTO EAST & WEST DIVISIONS 1868�

BUT REVIVED 1997

1 May 1997

Bernard Christison Jenkin

9 Apr 1959

NAME ALTERED TO "HARWICH AND NORTH

ESSEX" 2010

� ESSEX SOUTH

20 Dec 1832

Robert Westley Hall Dare�(to 1836)

20 May 1836

Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard,1st baronet

�6 Jan 1762

25 Jun 1857

19 Jan 1835

Thomas William Bramston�(to 1865)

�� 1796

21 May 1871

�9 Jun 1836

George Palmer

c 1771

12 May 1853

�9 Aug 1847

Sir Edward North Buxton,2nd baronet

16 Sep 1812

11 Jun 1858

19 Jul 1852

Sir William Bowyer-Smijth,11th baronet

22 Apr 1814

20 Nov 1883

�4 Apr 1857

Richard Baker Wingfield Baker

�� 1801

15 Mar 1880

�7 May 1859

John Watlington Perry Watlington

�� 1823

24 Feb 1882

22 Jul 1865

Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson,later [1869] 7th

baronet and [1892] 1st Baron Rookwood

26 Sep 1826

15 Jan 1902

Lord Eustace Henry Brownlow

Gascoyne-Cecil

24 Apr 1834

�3 Jul 1921

16 Nov 1868

Richard Baker Wingfield Baker

�� 1801

15 Mar 1880

Andrew Johnston

�� 1835

1895

10 Feb 1874

Thomas Charles Baring�

16 May 1831

�2 Apr 1891

William Thomas Makins,later [1903]

1st baronet

16 Mar 1840

�2 Feb 1906

SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885�

SEE "CHELMSFORD","EPPING","ESSEX SOUTH-

EAST","HARWICH","MALDON","ROMFORD",

"SAFFRON WALDEN" AND�

"WALTHAMSTOW"

� ESSEX SOUTH-EAST

�5 Dec 1885

William Thomas Makins,later [1903]

1st baronet

16 Mar 1840

�2 Feb 1906

15 Jul 1886

Frederic Carne Rasch,later [1903] 1st

baronet

9 Nov 1847

26 Sep 1914

10 Oct 1900

Edward Tufnell

13 Jun 1848

15 Aug 1909

22 Jan 1906

Rowland Edward Whitehead

�1 Sep 1863

�9 Oct 1942

21 Jan 1910

John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood

11 May 1877

�7 Feb 1924

16 Mar 1912

Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness,styled

Viscount Elveden,later [1927] 2nd Earl of Iveagh

29 Mar 1874

14 Sep 1967

14 Dec 1918

Frank Hilder

�3 Oct 1864

23 Apr 1951

�6 Dec 1923

Philip Christopher Hoffman

26 Jun 1878

20 Apr 1959

29 Oct 1924

Herbert William Looker

�2 Dec 1871

13 Dec 1951

30 May 1929

John Richard Anthony Oldfield

5 Jul 1899

11 Dec 1999

100

27 Oct 1931

Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes� [kt 1953]

19 Jan 1901

18 Apr 1986

26 Jul 1945

Raymond Jones Gunter

30 Aug 1909

12 Apr 1977

�

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950,

BUT REVIVED 1955

26 May 1955

Bernard Richard Braine [kt 1972],later [1992]

Baron Braine of Wheatley [L]

24 Jun 1914

5 Jan 2000

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

� ESSEX WEST

19 Nov 1868

Lord Eustace Henry Brownlow

Gascoyne-Cecil

24 Apr 1834

�3 Jul 1921

Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson,later [1869] 7th

baronet and [1892] 1st Baron Rookwood

26 Sep 1826

15 Jan 1902

SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885�

SEE "CHELMSFORD","EPPING","ESSEX SOUTH-

EAST","HARWICH","MALDON","ROMFORD",

"SAFFRON WALDEN" AND�

"WALTHAMSTOW"

� ETON & SLOUGH (BUCKINGHAMSHIRE)

26 Jul 1945

Benn Wolfe Levy

�7 Mar 1900

�7 Dec 1973

23 Feb 1950

Archibald Fenner Brockway,later [1964]

Baron Brockway [L]

�1 Nov 1888

28 Apr 1988

15 Oct 1964

Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer,3rd

baronet

27 Oct 1920

24 Dec 2004

31 Mar 1966

Joan Lestor,later [1997] Baroness Lestor

of Eccles [L]

13 Nov 1931

27 Mar 1998

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

� EVERTON (LIVERPOOL)

25 Nov 1885

Edward Whitley

�� 1825

14 Jan 1892

15 Feb 1892

John Archibald Willox�[kt 1897]

�� 1842

�9 Jun 1905

22 Feb 1905

John Sutherland Harmood-Banner [kt 1913],

later [1924] 1st baronet

�8 Sep 1847

24 Feb 1927

29 Oct 1924

Herbert Charles Woodcock

�2 Jun 1871

18 Jan 1950

30 May 1929

Derwent Hall-Caine [kt 1933],later [1937]

1st baronet

12 Sep 1891

�2 Dec 1971

27 Oct 1931

Frank Hornby

15 May 1863

21 Sep 1936

14 Nov 1935

Bertie Victor Kirby

�2 May 1887

�1 Sep 1953

�

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950

� EVESHAM (WORCESTERSHIRE)

�4 Apr 1660

John Egioke

�� c 1616

22 Dec 1663

Sir Thomas Rous,1st baronet

27 Mar 1608

27 May 1676

11 Apr 1661

William Sandys� (to 1670)

�� c 1607

�� Dec 1669

Sir Abraham Cullen.1st baronet

�� c 1624

28 Aug 1668

29 Oct 1669

Sir John Hanmer,later [1678] 3rd baronet��

c 1627

12 Aug 1701

(to 1679) �Election declared void 22 Nov 1669.�

At the subsequent by-election held on 7 Dec

1669,Hanmer was again elected

22 Feb 1670

Sir James Rushout,1st baronet� (to 1685)

22 Mar 1644

16 Feb 1698

�4 Feb 1679

Henry Parker,later [1697] 2nd baronet

25 Jul 1638

25 Oct 1713

17 Feb 1681

Edward Rudge

22 May 1630

�� Oct 1696

17 Mar 1685

Henry Parker,later [1697] 2nd baronet

25 Jul 1638

25 Oct 1713

Sir John Matthewes

�� c 1630

28 Mar 1694

27 Feb 1690

Sir James Rushout,1st baronet� (to 1698)

22 Mar 1644

16 Feb 1698

Edward Rudge

22 May 1630

Oct 1696

2 Nov 1695

Sir Henry Parker,2nd baronet� (to Jan 1701)�

25 Jul 1638

25 Oct 1713

11 Mar 1698

John Rudge�� (to Nov 1701)

15 Oct 1669

22 Mar 1740

16 Jan 1701

Sir James Rushout,2nd baronet� (to 1702)

c 1676

11 Dec 1705

26 Nov 1701

Hugh Parker� (to 1708)

16 Dec 1673

2 Jan 1713

22 Jul 1702

John Rudge� (to 1734)

15 Oct 1669

22 Mar 1740

11 May 1708

Sir Edward Goodere,1st baronet� (to 1715)

1657

29 Mar 1739

26 Jan 1715

John Deacle

�� c 1664

25 Oct 1723

24 Mar 1722

Sir John Rushout,4th baronet� (to 1768)

�6 Feb 1685

�2 Feb 1775

30 Apr 1734

William Taylor

�� c 1697

17 Apr 1741

�7 May 1741

Edward Rudge

22 Oct 1703

�6 Jun 1763

15 Apr 1754

John Porter

�� c 1711

11 Apr 1756

23 Apr 1756

Edward Rudge

22 Oct 1703

�6 Jun 1763

�2 Apr 1761

John Rushout,later [1775] 5th baronet and

[1797] 1st Baron Northwick� (to 1796)

23 Jul 1738

20 Oct 1800

21 Mar 1768

George Durant

20 Nov 1731

�4 Aug 1780

18 Oct 1774

Henry Seymour

21 Oct 1729

14 Apr 1807

23 Sep 1780

Charles William Boughton Rouse (Rouse Boughton

from 1794),later [1794] 9th baronet

16 Dec 1747

26 Feb 1821

�3 Jul 1790

Thomas Thompson�(to 1802)

�� 1767

29 Jul 1818

�6 Jun 1796

Charles Thellusson�(to 1806)

�2 Feb 1770

�2 Nov 1815

12 Jul 1802

Patrick Crauford Bruce

24 Jan 1748

30 Mar 1820

�3 Nov 1806

William Manning�(to 1818)

�1 Dec 1763

17 Apr 1835

Humphrey Howorth

�9 Nov 1749

14 Sep 1827

13 May 1807

Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes,1st baronet

27 Jan 1755

26 Mar 1831

[he was unseated on petition in favour of

Humphrey Howorth 22 Feb 1808]

22 Feb 1808

Humphrey Howorth�(to 1820)

�9 Nov 1749

14 Sep 1827

�2 Jul 1818

William Edward Rouse-Boughton,later [1821]

10th baronet�� [he was unseated on petition

14 Sep 1788

22 May 1856

in favour of Sir Charles Cockerell 23 Feb 1819]

23 Feb 1819

Sir Charles Cockerell,1st baronet� (to Dec 1830)

18 Feb 1755

�6 Jan 1837

6 Mar 1820

Sir William Edward Rouse-Boughton,10th

baronet

14 Sep 1788

22 May 1856

16 Jun 1826

Edward Davis (Davis-Protheroe from 1845)

1798

18 Aug 1852

4 Aug 1830

Archibald Kennedy,styled Lord Kennedy

�4 Jun 1794

12 Aug 1832

[Both sitting members (Cockerell and�

�

Kennedy) were unseated on petition 22 Dec

1830. Writ suspended until May 1831]

6 May 1831

Sir Charles Cockerell,1st baronet�� (to 1837)

18 Feb 1755

�6 Jan 1837

Thomas Hudson�

18 Oct 1772

14 Apr 1852

�6 Jan 1835

Peter Borthwick�(to 1838)�� [following the

13 Sep 1805

18 Dec 1852

general election in Jul 1837,he was unseated

on petition in favour of Lord Arthur Marcus

Cecil Hill 20 Mar 1838]

�4 Feb 1837

George Rushout-Bowles,later [1859] 3rd

Baron Northwick�(to 1841)

30 Aug 1811

18 Nov 1887

20 Mar 1838

Lord Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill,

later [1860] 3rd Baron Sandys� (to 1852)

28 Jan 1798

10 Apr 1863

30 Jun 1841

Peter Borthwick

13 Sep 1805

18 Dec 1852

29 Jul 1847

Sir Henry Pollard Willoughby,3rd baronet�

17 Nov 1796

23 Mar 1865

(to 1865)

�7 Jul 1852

Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley

30 Mar 1806

25 Sep 1896

11 Jul 1855

Edward Holland� (to 1868)

12 Feb 1806

�5 Jan 1875

�4 Apr 1865

James Bourne,later [1880] 1st baronet

�8 Oct 1812

14 Mar 1882

(to 1880)

REPRESENTATION REDUCED

TO ONE MEMBER 1868

1 Apr 1880

Daniel Rawlinson Ratcliff�� [his election was

�� 1839

declared void 8 Jun 1880]

�9 Jul 1880

Augustus Frederick Lehmann�� [he was

22 Aug 1891

unseated on petition in favour of Frederick

Dixon Dixon-Hartland 6 Jan 1881]

6 Jan 1881

Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland,later [1892]

1st baronet

�1 May 1832

15 Nov 1909

�3 Dec 1885

Sir Richard Temple,1st baronet

�8 Mar 1826

15 Mar 1902

�� Jul 1892

Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere,3rd

baronet

�8 Dec 1826

18 Dec 1894

22 Jan 1895

Charles Wigram Long

�� 1842

13 Dec 1911

25 Jan 1910

Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell,later [1935]

1st Viscount Monsell

22 Feb 1881

21 Mar 1969

14 Nov 1935

Rupert de la Bere [kt 1952],later [1953]

1st baronet

16 Jun 1893

25 Feb 1978

�

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950�

� EXCHANGE (LIVERPOOL)

25 Nov 1885

Laurence Richardson Baily

9 Jul 1815

18 Apr 1887

�2 Jul 1886

David Duncan

�� 1831

30 Dec 1886

26 Jan 1887

Ralph Neville� [kt 1906]

�� 1848

13 Oct 1918

18 Jul 1895

John Charles Bigham,later [1916] 1st Viscount

Mersey

�3 Aug 1840

�3 Sep 1929

10 Nov 1897

Charles McArthur

May 1844

�3 Jul 1910

16 Jan 1906

Richard Robert Cherry

19 Mar 1859

10 Feb 1923

18 Jan 1910

Max Muspratt,later [1922] 1st baronet

3 Feb 1872

20 Apr 1934

�� Dec 1910

Leslie Frederic Scott�[kt 1922]

29 Oct 1869

19 May 1950

30 May 1929

Sir James Philip Reynolds,1st baronet

17 Feb 1865

12 Dec 1932

19 Jan 1933

John Joseph Shute�[kt 1935]

�� 1873

13 Sep 1948

26 Jul 1945

Elizabeth Margaret Braddock

24 Sep 1899

13 Nov 1970

For further information on this MP, see the

note at the foot of this page

18 Jun 1970

Robert Parry

8 Jan 1933

9 Mar 2000

NAME ALTERED TO�"SCOTLAND

EXCHANGE" FEB 1974

� EXCHANGE (MANCHESTER)

14 Dec 1918

Sir John Scurrah Randles

25 Dec 1857

11 Feb 1945

15 Nov 1922

Sir Edwin Forsyth Stockton

18 Mar 1873

�4 Dec 1939

�6 Dec 1923

Robert Noton Barclay�[kt 1936]

11 May 1872

24 Nov 1957

29 Oct 1924

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden

10 Jun 1857

31 Mar 1942

14 Nov 1935

Peter Thorp Eckersley

�2 Jul 1904

13 Aug 1940

21 Sep 1940

Thomas Henry Hewlett

23 Nov 1882

25 May 1956

26 Jul 1945

Norman Harold Lever,later [1979] Baron Lever

of Manchester [L]

15 Jan 1914

6 Aug 1995

23 Feb 1950

William Griffiths

�7 Apr 1912

14 Apr 1973

27 Jun 1973

Frank Hatton

25 Sep 1921

16 May 1978

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974�

� EXETER (DEVON)

Apr 1660

John Maynard

18 Jul 1604

�8 Oct 1690

Thomas Bampfield

�� c 1623

�8 Oct 1693

Richard Ford

Double return between Maynard and Ford.

Maynard declared elected 4 Jun 1660

16 Apr 1661

Robert Walker

�� c 1597

23 Aug 1673

Sir James Smyth�(to 1679)

�� c 1621

18 Nov 1681

20 Nov 1673

Thomas Walker

�� c 1632

24 Nov 1682

25 Feb 1679

William Glyde

20 Aug 1710

Malachi Pyne

�� c 1683

22 Feb 1681

Sir Thomas Carew

19 Jul 1624

25 Jul 1681

Thomas Walker

�� c 1632

24 Nov 1682

17 Mar 1685

James Walker

�� c 1635

16 Jan 1692

Sir Edward Seymour,4th baronet� (to 1695)

�� 1633

17 Feb 1708

14 Jan 1689

Henry Pollexfen

�� c 1632

15 Jun 1691

�6 Jun 1689

Christopher Bale

by Dec 1708

12 Nov 1695

Edward Seyward

28 Oct 1634

1 Mar 1704

Joseph Tily� [kt 1696]

c 1654

Jan 1708

16 Aug 1698

Sir Edward Seymour,4th baronet�

�� 1633

17 Feb 1708

(to Apr 1708)

Sir Bartholomew Shower

14 Dec 1658

4 Dec 1701

27 Jan 1702

John Snell� (to May 1708)

c 1638

26 Aug 1717

13 Apr 1708

John Harris� (to 1710)

c 1675

1714

11 May 1708

Nicholas Wood

1742

24 Oct 1710

Sir Coplestone Warwick Bampfylde,3rd baronet

c 1689

7 Oct 1727

John Snell

c 1638

26 Aug 1717

4 Sep 1713

John Rolle

8 Dec 1679

6 May 1730

Francis Drewe� (to 1734)

�� c 1674

13 Sep 1734

�8 Feb 1715

John Bampfylde

�8 Apr 1691

17 Sep 1750

27 Mar 1722

John Rolle

�8 Dec 1679

�6 May 1730

�5 Sep 1727

Samuel Molyneux

16 Jul 1689

13 Apr 1728

25 May 1728

John Belfield

21 Dec 1669

19 Oct 1751

�7 May 1734

John King,later [1734] 2nd Baron King of Ockham

13 Jan 1706

10 Feb 1740

Thomas Balle� (to 1741)

28 Jun 1671

11 Jun 1749

11 Mar 1735

Sir Henry Northcote,5th baronet� (to 1743)

�� 1710

24 May 1743

26 May 1741

Humphrey Sydenham�(to 1754)

24 Oct 1694

12 Aug 1757

20 Dec 1743

Sir Richard Warwick Bampfylde,4th baronet

21 Nov 1722

15 Jul 1776

�1 Jul 1747

John Tuckfield� (to 1767)

�� c 1719

�6 Dec 1767

19 Apr 1754

John Rolle Walter�(to 1776)

�� c 1714

30 Nov 1779

19 Dec 1767

William Spicer

�� c 1735

21 Oct 1788

17 Mar 1768

John Buller

28 Feb 1745

26 Nov 1793

�7 Oct 1774

Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde,5th baronet

23 Jan 1753

19 Apr 1823

(to 1790)

�9 Nov 1776

John Baring� (to 1802)

�5 Oct 1730

29 Jan 1816

17 Jun 1790

James Buller

14 May 1766

18 Aug 1827

27 May 1796

Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde,5th baronet

23 Jan 1753

19 Apr 1823

(to 1812)

�5 Jul 1802

James Buller� (to 1818)

14 May 1766

18 Aug 1827

�6 Oct 1812

William Courtenay�(to Feb 1826)

19 Jun 1777

19 Mar 1859

20 Jun 1818

Robert William Newman,later [1836] 1st��

baronet� (to Jun 1826)

18 Aug 1776

24 Jan 1848

9 Feb 1826

Samuel Trehawke Kekewich�(to 1830)

31 Oct 1796

1 Jun 1873

10 Jun 1826

Lewis William Buck�(to 1832)

25 Apr 1784

25 Apr 1858

29 Jul 1830

James Wentworth Buller�(to 1835)

�1 Oct 1798

13 Mar 1865

12 Dec 1832

Edward Divett� (to 1864)

25 Jul 1864

�8 Jan 1835

Sir William Webb Follett

�2 Feb 1798

28 Jun 1845

�7 Jul 1845

Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth,2nd

baronet

17 Mar 1809

29 Nov 1887

27 Mar 1857

Richard Sommers Gard�(to 1865)

�� 1797

16 Dec 1868

�4 Aug 1864

Edward Baldwin Courtenay,styled Viscount

Courtenay,later [1888] 12th Earl of Devon

�7 May 1836

15 Jan 1891

(to 1868)

11 Jul 1865

John Duke Coleridge [kt 1868],later [1874]

1st Baron Coleridge�(to 1873)

�3 Dec 1821

14 Jun 1894

16 Nov 1868

Edgar Alfred Bowring�(to 1874)

�� 1826

�8 Aug 1911

11 Dec 1873

Arthur Mills� (to 1880)

20 Jul 1816

12 Oct 1898

�5 Feb 1874

John George Johnson

�� 1829

2 Apr 1880

Edward Johnson

�� 1833

�2 Nov 1894

Henry Stafford Northcote,later [1887] 1st

baronet and [1900] 1st Baron Northcote�

18 Nov 1846

29 Sep 1911

(to 1899)

REPRESENTATION REDUCED

TO ONE MEMBER 1885

�6 Nov 1899

Sir Edgar Vincent,later [1926] 1st Viscount

D'Abernon

19 Aug 1857

�1 Nov 1941

17 Jan 1906

Sir George William Kekewich

�1 Apr 1841

�5 Jul 1921

17 Jan 1910

Henry Edward Duke,later [1925] 1st Baron

Merrivale

�5 Nov 1855

20 May 1939

�� Dec 1910

Richard Harold St.Maur

�� 1869

5 Apr 1927

For further information on this MP, see the�

note at the foot of the page which contains

details of the Dukes of Somerset. For further

information about this election,see the note

at the foot of this page

11 Apr 1911

Henry Edward Duke,later [1925] 1st Baron

Merrivale

�5 Nov 1855

20 May 1939

7 May 1918

Sir Robert Hunt Stapylton Dudley Lydston

Newman,4th baronet,later [1931] 1st

Baron Mamhead of Exeter

27 Oct 1871

�2 Nov 1945

27 Oct 1931

Arthur Conrad Reed�[kt 1945]

�� 1881

15 Jan 1961

26 Jul 1945

John Cyril Maude

�3 Apr 1901

16 Aug 1986

25 Oct 1951

Rolf Dudley Dudley-Williams (Williams until 1964),

later [1964] 1st baronet

17 Jun 1908

8 Oct 1987

31 Mar 1966

Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody

12 Dec 1930

17 Apr 2008

18 Jun 1970

John Gordon Hannam�[kt 1992]

�2 Aug 1929

1 May 1997

Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw

30 Aug 1960

� EYE (SUFFOLK)

�5 Apr 1660

Charles Cornwallis,later [1662] 2nd Baron

Cornwallis

19 Apr 1632

13 Apr 1673

Sir George Reeve,later [1663] 1st baronet��

�� c 1618

c Oct 1678

(to 1678)

20 Jan 1662

Charles Cornwallis

�� c 1619

28 Aug 1675

�3 Nov 1675

Robert Reeve,later [1678] 2nd baronet� (to 1679)

29 Jun 1652

19 Aug 1688

�8 Nov 1678

Sir Charles Gawdy,1st baronet

�� c 1635

15 Sep 1707

22 Aug 1679

Charles Fox

�2 Jan 1660

21 Sep 1713

George Walsh

�� c 1621

12 Nov 1692

Sir Charles Gawdy,1st baronet

�� c 1635

15 Sep 1707

Sir Robert Reeve,2nd baronet

29 Jun 1652

19 Aug 1688

Double return. Fox and Walsh declared

elected 8 Dec 1680

26 Feb 1681

Sir Charles Gawdy,1st baronet� (to 1689)

�� c 1635

15 Sep 1707

Sir Robert Reeve,2nd baronet

29 Jun 1652

19 Aug 1688

21 Mar 1685

Sir John Rous,2nd baronet

�� c 1656

�8 Apr 1730

10 Jan 1689

Thomas Knyvett

�� Feb 1656

28 Sep 1693

Henry Poley� (to 1695)

5 Jan 1654

�7 Aug 1707

8 Mar 1690

Thomas Davenant�(to 1697)

25 Jul 1697

7 Nov 1695

Charles Cornwallis,later [1698] 4th Baron

�

Cornwallis� (to 1698)

c 1675

20 Jan 1722

14 Dec 1697

Sir Joseph Jekyll�(to 1713)

3 Oct 1662

19 Aug 1738

3 Jun 1698

Spencer Compton,later [1730] 1st Earl

of Wilmington

�� c 1674

�2 Jul 1743

�

10 Oct 1710

Thomas Maynard� (to 1715)

c 1686

6 Sep 1742

1 Sep 1713

Edward Hopkins� (to 1727)

5 Jan 1675

17 Jan 1736

�1 Feb 1715

Thomas Smith

1686

�3 Aug 1728

24 Mar 1722

Spencer Compton,later [1730] 1st Earl�

�� c 1674

�2 Jul 1743

of Wilmington� [he was also returned for Sussex,

for which he chose to sit]

�3 Nov 1722

James Cornwallis

16 Sep 1701

28 May 1727

18 Aug 1727

Stephen Cornwallis�

23 Dec 1703

12 May 1743

John Cornwallis�(to 1747)

23 Dec 1706

�9 Jun 1768

�9 Dec 1743

Edward Cornwallis�(to 1749)

22 Feb 1713

14 Jan 1776

19 Jun 1747

Roger Townshend

�5 Jun 1708

�7 Aug 1760

15 Feb 1748

Nicholas Hardinge�(to 1758)

�7 Feb 1699

�9 Apr 1758

�5 May 1749

Sir Courthorpe Clayton�(to Mar 1761)

�� c 1706

22 Mar 1762

25 Apr 1758

Henry Townshend

26 Sep 1736

24 Jun 1762

25 Jan 1760

Charles Cornwallis,styled Viscount Brome,

later [1792] 1st Marquess Cornwallis� (to 1762)

31 Dec 1738

�5 Oct 1805

30 Mar 1761

Henry Cornwallis

10 Sep 1740

�� Apr 1761

�4 Dec 1761

Henry Townshend

26 Sep 1736

24 Jun 1762

�1 Dec 1762

Joshua Allen,5th Viscount Allen [I]�� (to 1770)

26 Apr 1728

�1 Feb 1816

Richard Burton (Phillipson from 1766)

�� c 1723

18 Aug 1792

18 Mar 1768

William Cornwallis�(to Mar 1774)

20 Feb 1744

�5 Jul 1819

14 Apr 1770

Richard Phillipson�(to 1792)

�� c 1723

18 Aug 1792

22 Mar 1774

Francis Godolphin Osborne,styled Marquess of

Carmarthen,later [1776] Baron Osborne and

[1789] 5th Duke of Leeds

29 Jan 1751

31 Jan 1799

10 Oct 1774

John St.John

�� c 1746

�8 Oct 1793

�8 Sep 1780

Arnoldus Jones-Skelton

�� c 1750

23 Mar 1793

�3 Apr 1782

William Cornwallis�

20 Feb 1744

�5 Jul 1819

�2 Apr 1784

Peter Bathurst

�8 Jan 1723

20 Dec 1801

19 Jun 1790

William Cornwallis�(to Jan 1807)

20 Feb 1744

�5 Jul 1819

11 Sep 1792

Peter Bathurst

�8 Jan 1723

20 Dec 1801

�6 Nov 1795

Charles Cornwallis,styled Viscount Brome,

later [1805] 2nd Marquess Cornwallis

19 Oct 1774

�9 Aug 1823

27 May 1796

Mark Singleton

�� 1762

17 Jul 1840

30 Oct 1799

James Cornwallis,later [1824] 5th Earl Cornwallis

20 Sep 1778

21 May 1852

�3 Nov 1806

George Gordon, styled Marquess of Huntly,

later [1827] 5th Duke of Gordon� (to Apr 1807)

�2 Feb 1770

28 May 1836

12 Jan 1807

James Cornwallis,later [1824] 5th Earl Cornwallis

(to May 1807)

20 Sep 1778

21 May 1852

20 Apr 1807

Henry Wellesley,later [1828] 1st Baron Cowley�

(to 1809)

20 Jan 1773

27 Apr 1847

�7 May 1807

Mark Singleton� (to 1820)

�� 1762

17 Jul 1840

18 Apr 1809

Charles Arbuthnot

14 Mar 1767

18 Aug 1850

�6 Oct 1812

Sir William Garrow

13 Apr 1760

24 Sep 1840

16 May 1817

Sir Robert Gifford,later [1824] 1st Baron Gifford

(to 1824)

24 Feb 1779

�4 Sep 1826

8 Mar 1820

Sir Miles Nightingall�(to 1829)

25 Dec 1768

12 Sep 1829

13 Feb 1824

Sir Edward Kerrison,1st baronet� (to 1852)

30 Jul 1776

�9 Mar 1853

19 Oct 1829

Sir Philip Charles Sidney,later [1835] 1st

Baron de L'Isle and Dudley

11 Mar 1800

4 Mar 1851

14 Mar 1831

William Burge

c 1786

12 Nov 1849

REPRESENTATION REDUCED

TO ONE MEMBER 1832

�8 Jul 1852

Edward Clarence Kerrison,later [1853] 2nd

baronet

�2 Jan 1821

12 Jul 1886

27 Jul 1866

George William Barrington,later [1867] 7th�

Viscount Barrington

14 Feb 1824

�7 Nov 1886

1 Apr 1880

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett�[kt 1892]

20 Aug 1848

18 Jan 1902

�4 Dec 1885

Francis Seymour Stevenson

24 Nov 1862

�9 Apr 1938

�3 Apr 1906

Weetman Harold Miller Pearson,later [1927]

2nd Viscount Cowdray

18 Apr 1882

�5 Oct 1933

14 Dec 1918

Alexander Lyle-Samuel

10 Aug 1883

19 Nov 1942

�6 Dec 1923

William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck,

5th Baron Huntingfield [I]

�3 Jan 1883

20 Nov 1969

30 May 1929

Edgar Louis Granville,later [1967] Baron

Granville of Eye [L]

12 Feb 1898

14 Feb 1998

100

25 Oct 1951

James Harwood Harrison,later [1961] 1st baronet

�6 Jun 1907

11 Sep 1980

�3 May 1979

John Selwyn Gummer,later [2010] Baron Deben [L]

26 Nov 1939

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

William Smith O'Brien, MP for Ennis 1828-1831 and Limerick County 1835-1848

The following biography is taken from the Australian monthly magazine "Parade" in its issue

for February, 1961. The article, not surprisingly, focuses on Smith O'Brien's period as a convict

in Australia. It should also be noted that, while the article consistently refers to "Tasmania,"

the correct name of the colony at that time was Van Diemen's Land - it did not become

Tasmania until 1 January 1856.

'On August 2, 1850, the schooner Victoria rode at anchor off Maria Island, on the south-east�

coast of Tasmania. From the ship a small boat pulled rapidly towards the beach, where a man

was scrambling over rocks and seaweed to meet it. Suddenly a musket shot echoed in the�

quiet bay. A party of soldiers emerged on to the beach, waded into the water and seized the�

waiting man. From within a few yards of rescue and freedom, William Smith O'Brien, Irish�

patriot and convicted rebel, was dragged back to his solitary prison and four more years of

exile.�

'Smith O'Brien was the most celebrated and colourful of all the band of Irish revolutionaries

shipped to Australia after the bloody but abortive insurrection of July, 1848. Reprieved from

the gallows, he was sentenced to transportation for life, but was freed after five years, his

health broken and his political hopes crushed. O'Brien was the subject of ruthless persecution

by the Tasmanian Governor. After his own escape attempt failed he was the central figure in

plots to smuggle his comrades from under the nose of authority. He lived to quit Australia a

hero, feasted by his Irish fellow-countrymen, and having added a notable name to the long�

list of political felons whom fate threw on our shores.

�

'William Smith O'Brien, younger son of a landowning baronet [Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th baronet],

was born in County Clare on October 17, 1803. He was always inordinately proud of his

descent from one of the oldest Irish families. Educated in England at Harrow and Cambridge,

young O'Brien grew up a staunch conservative, favouring Catholic emancipation but strongly

opposed to the wilder demands of the Irish nationalists. He fought a duel with a lieutenant of�

the great "Liberator" Daniel O'Connell. When he entered Parliament in 1828, O'Brien bitterly

attacked O'Connell's campaign for political separation from Britain.

'Gradually, however, the deepening economic misery of Ireland burnt itself into the aristocratic

mind of O'Brien. The onset of the Hungry Forties completed his conversion to the patriotic�

cause. When O'Connell was arrested for sedition in 1843, O'Brien was one of the founders of�

the Repeal Association. Soon he was second only to the old "Liberator" on the black list of

Dublin Castle officialdom. As the spectres of famine and disease stalked hand in hand across

Ireland, O'Brien became more violent. To the Young Ireland movement, even O'Connell was a

weak and shilly-shallying compromiser.

The split came in 1846. O'Brien, young Gavan Duffy [qv] (editor of the Young Ireland journal

The Nation), Thomas Meagher, John Mitchel [qv] and others formed the Irish Confederation

and broke with O'Connell. A year later the disillusioned Liberator was dead. Civil war, which he

he had fought to avert, threatened to engulf Ireland. By 1848 the powder train of rebellion�

was ready for firing. While their disease-blighted potatoes rotted in the fields, thousands of

Irish peasants lay down to die of starvation in their mud cabins. Countless numbers more fled

in great waves of emigration.�

�

'On March 15, 1848, at a mass meeting in Dublin, O'Brien called on the Confederation to arm

against the English tyrants. A few weeks later he led a delegation to Paris, where revolution

had just hurled King Louis Philippe from the throne, and appealed to the French Republicans

for aid in throwing off the British yoke. The new French rulers cautiously refused. On April 10,

O'Brien vented his disappointment in his last and most firebrand speech in the House of�

Commons. Amid a bedlam of shouts and groans, he swore that the Confederation would�

proclaim an Irish Republic within a year unless its claims were met. Openly he called on

Irishmen to arm themselves for the struggle.

'In British eyes O'Brien was now a self-confessed traitor. He was arrested as soon as he

returned to Dublin, but the case collapsed when the jury disagreed. Undaunted by this escape,

O'Brien hastened on plans for the rebellion. In Dublin, the Confederation set up a military�

council of five members. Early August was the date fixed for a rising all over Ireland. Lord

Clarendon, the British Lord Lieutenant, replied by suspending the Habeas Corpus Act. Only a

handful of the Confederate chiefs escaped the net when troops swooped on their Dublin head-

quarters.

'Meeting the survivors at Ballynakill, O'Brien decided on immediate action, but already the�

rebels were divided and disorganised. Failing to raise Kilkenny or Cashel, O'Brien fell back on

the rural districts. By July 25, at Mullinahone, he had mustered an "army" of peasants armed

only with pikes, clubs and a few ancient muskets. Four days later, while church bells pealed

to rouse the countryside to support, O'Brien led his pitiful rabble against 50 troops barricaded

in a house outside Ballingarry. The "battle of Widow McCormack's cabbage garden" was a

bloody fiasco. The peasants fled in panic from the soldier's volleys. In other districts the�

rising petered out into sporadic murders and reprisals. With a price of �500 on his head�

O'Brien eluded capture for only a week. On August 5 he was seized by a railway official on

Thurles station and sent to Clonmel to stand trial for high treason.

'His conviction was certain. On October 9, he was sentenced to death. Half a dozen of his

leading supporters were ordered to transportation to Tasmania for terms of up to 14 years.

O'Brien's sentence was commuted to transportation for life, though he declared that he

would sooner die and begged in vain that the execution be carried out.

�

'On July 29, 1849, with his comrades Mitchel, Meagher, McManus O'Donohue and O'Doherty,

the "most notorious traitor" Smith O'Brien sailed from Dublin Bay in the convict transport

Swift. When the ship reached Hobart, O'Brien, unlike his compatriots, refused to apply for a

ticket-of-leave by giving his parole to the Governor, Sir William Denison [1804-1871,�

Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1847-1855 and later Governor of New South Wales

and Madras]. As a result, while the others were allowed to live in comparative liberty, O'Brien

was sent to the dreary, rock-bound penal settlement on Maria Island off the south-east coast

of Tasmania. O'Brien was confined in a tiny two-roomed hut. When he was allowed to walk for

exercise the free settlers were forbidden to speak to him on pain of being deported from their�

farms. Night and day he was watched by the sentry who cooked his coarse convict rations - a

brutal ruffian who had served a long term on Norfolk Island for murder. Governor Denison�

refused to allow him books or papers and even, with petty malice, prevented his sympathisers

from sending him extra food, wine and cigars from Hobart.

'Before long, O'Brien's friends, led by a Catholic priest, a doctor and several other Hobart

residents were actively planning for his escape. They smuggled news of their preparations to�

the prisoner.�By late July, 1850, all was ready. Captain Ellis, skipper of the schooner Victoria�

bound for California, was paid �400 to anchor off Maria Island and send a boat ashore to pick�

up O'Brien from the beach. O'Brien, after watching anxiously for several days, at last saw the�

sail on August 2. But unfortunately his watch-dog, Corporal Hamilton, had seen it too. As the�

schooner's boat pulled towards the shore, O'Brien dashed for the beach to meet it with�

Hamilton and the soldiers hot on his heels. Entangled in clinging seaweed among the rocks,�

O'Brien floundered helplessly till a musket shot over his head told him the attempt had failed.

Pursued by the redcoats' curses, the boat withdrew out of range.

�

'O'Brien was hauled back to his prison. Governor Denison, alarmed by the incident, soon

transferred him to the greater security of the main convict establishment at Port Arthur. By�

now, O'Brien was "rapidly sinking in health and haunted by the ghosts of buried hopes." His

fellow exiles sent him a petition begging him to join them in accepting a ticket-of-leave. At

last the fiery rebel swallowed his pride and consented. On November 18, 1850, he stepped

ashore in Hobart Town to the cheers of a rapturous welcome from his Irish sympathisers, free

and exiled.

�

Denison, however, was determined to exclude him from the society of Hobart. He ordered

O'Brien to live in the New Norfolk district on the upper Derwent River [20 miles north-west of

Hobart]. Here, in lodgings at Elwin's Inn, amid the peaceful surroundings of orchards, hop-

gardens and farms, O'Brien settled down to reading, writing and talking Irish politics. His

relatives in Ireland told him that if he was prepared to "make some kind of submission" to the

British Government he would probably receive a free pardon. O'Brien ignored the hints.

�

'Instead, he was soon mixed up in plots to smuggle some of his comrades out of Tasmania

with Patrick Smyth, one of the 1848 rebels who had escaped to America after the collapse

of the rising. Smyth made several visits to Australia in 1852 and 1853 to organise an escape

route through American ships, and Thomas Meagher made a successful getaway to New York.

In January, 1853, Smyth was back in Tasmania, secretly conferring with O'Brien, Mitchel and

O'Donohue in Mitchel's farmhouse at Bothwell. O'Brien, a sick man, refused to stir. But by his

aid, Mitchel made his way across country disguised as a priest and escaped from Hobart in

the American brig Emma in the following July. [For further information, see the note regarding

Mitchel under the constituency of Tipperary]

'Early in 1854 Smyth turned up again in Melbourne, determined to rescue O'Brien himself. By

then, however, O'Brien and the remaining exiles had been told that conditional pardons were

on their way. In June, 1854, the pardons arrived - conditional upon the convicts agreeing�

never to return to Ireland. The Government was taking no chances with O'Brien's turbulent

tongue.�

�

'The Irish community in Australia hailed O'Brien's freedom with an outburst of rejoicing,�

beginning with the presentation of an address in Launceston. When he crossed to Melbourne,

the United Irishmen of Victoria - mostly miners from the gold diggings - feasted him at a

sumptuous dinner and gave him a vase of solid gold made from Ballarat nuggets. A month

later O'Brien sailed for Europe and settled with his family in Brussels. Enfeebled by sickness

and the rigors of his confinement on Maria Island, he took little interest in Irish affairs.

�

'In July, 1856, he was permitted to return to his homeland. After living in retirement for

another eight years he died on June 18, 1864 while on holiday at a small inn at Bangor in�

Wales. The arrival of his body in Dublin was the scene of a huge patriotic demonstration.

Weeping crowds followed the cortege to the church graveyard at Rathronan in County

Limerick.'

Elizabeth 'Bessie' Margaret Braddock, MP for Liverpool Exchange 1945-1970

Elizabeth Margaret Bamber, who was always known as Bessie, was born in Liverpool in 1899.

Her mother, Mary Bamber, was a lifelong radical and champion of underpaid working women.

Bessie later said that her earliest memories were of watching her mother ladling out free

soup to Liverpool strikers and seeing the expressions of despair on hungry faces still in the

queue when the supply ran out.

At 15, Bessie Bamber went off to her first job as a shop assistant. As she left the house her

mother shouted after her: "And don't come home until you've joined the union."

In 1922 she married Jack Braddock, who was then head of the Liverpool unemployment

committee, and later leader of the Labour Party group in the Liverpool City Council. Both

Bessie and Jack were members of the Communist Party, and the wedding date had been�

decided by the Party, on the basis that "if Jack gets stuck in prison again, contact with him

will be easier if the pair of you are married."

However, in 1924, the Braddocks resigned from the Party. Bessie later became one of the

Communist Party's most vociferous critics because, she said, she was a rebel who refused�

to blindly follow orders without the right of any prior discussion. In 1930, she joined her�

husband as a Labour member of the Liverpool City Council and soon made her presence felt.

On one occasion, she yelled at her opponents on the Council that she wished she had a

machine-gun to turn on them. She told the Council that "we have a council rat-catcher,

but he goes after the wrong sort of rats." In order to get a proper hearing before the�

Council, she would take a bell with her to the meetings and ring it loudly. Later she would

appear with a megaphone through which she bellowed to gain attention. Several times, she

was escorted from the Council chamber by police.

Despite such antics, Bessie worked tirelessly to improve the conditions of the people she

represented. At that time, Liverpool's infant mortality rate was the highest in England, and

only declined after Bessie pushed through the building of modern baby clinics. Once she

got a council flat scheme started by holding up a dead rat at a Council meeting, telling her

fellow councillors that the rat had been found crawling over a child in a slum house.

Following a stint as an ambulance driver during WW2, Bessie was returned for the Exchange

division of Liverpool in the 1945 general election. Here she continued her uncompromising

ways. In her maiden speech, she stated that "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-

ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hell-holes. I will agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these�

evils."

Bessie was a very large woman, weighing about 16 stones, although she was only around�

5 feet, 2 inches tall, and was described as having a 50-40-50 figure. She irritated and�

amused other MPs with her pugnacious tactics and stubborn refusal to see any side of a

question but her own. She had difficulty with the courtesies of Parliament, often referring

to her opponents as "the honourable old man over there."

Her weight and outsize figure made her the butt of jokes both inside and outside the House

of Commons. On one occasion, Bessie accused a 10-stone Tory member of punching her on

the shoulder during an argument in the House lobby. She added that, had this offence taken

place outside the House, "the honourable member would not have been on his feet for two

seconds." In 1953, she received a letter from the crew of the British submarine 'Scythian'�

requesting a pin-up picture of her. Her sailor admirers were delighted with the pictures she�

sent, one of the sailors telling a reporter that Bessie's picture had replaced those of�

Marilyn Monroe and other screen sex symbols and that the sailors would rather have photos

of 'our Bessie.'

Throughout her parliamentary career, Bessie was returned at election after election, with

huge majorities. There were, however, some bumps along the road. In 1952, she became�

the first female MP to be suspended from the House. In 1954, she was the only member

who refused to sign an 80th birthday presentation book honouring Sir Winston Churchill -�

her reasons were that, in his early career, Churchill had been involved in attacks on the

working-class, particularly in strike-breaking incidents.�

Bessie retired at the 1970 general election and died five months later. Harold Wilson summed

her up when he said that "she was as uncompromising as a steamroller."

The Exeter election of December 1910

At the declaration of the poll following voting in this election, the returning officer declared the

number of votes for each candidate as St.Maur (Liberal) - 4,786 and Duke (Unionist) - 4,782,�

giving St.Maur a majority of 4

On 29 December, Duke's solicitors filed a petition on his behalf which claimed that their client�

had received a majority of lawful votes, and alleging that some dead men whose names were�

still on the electoral roll had been impersonated by Liberal supporters.

The petition was heard during April 1911, and during the hearing the number of votes for each�

of the candidates was adjusted on several occasions, until finally the votes were tied at 4,777�

each.

A final decision in the matter was reached on 11 April 1911, as reported in 'The Times' the

following day:-

'The hearing of the Exeter Election Petition....was ended yesterday and Mr. Justice Ridley and

Mr. Justice Channell announced their intention of reporting that Mr. Duke, the Unionist ex-

member, who was declared by the returning officer at the General Election to have been

defeated by Mr. St.Maur, the Liberal candidate, had been duly elected. The proceedings were

resumed amid much suppressed excitement with the votes of each candidate standing at a

total of 4,777. Various votes were challenged by St.Maur's side without success. Then with

the figures still unaltered the case for the respondent [St.Maur] was closed. Counsel for Mr.

Duke, the petitioner, immediately challenged the vote of a man who was said to have received

payment for acting as tally clerk and had voted for Mr. St.Maur. Their Lordships disallowed this

vote and the final figures were:-

Mr. H. E. Duke (U.)�� ..��..�� ..�� ..��..�� ..�� 4,777

�� Mr. H. St.Maur (L.) ..�� ..�� ..��..�� ..�� ..��4,776

��Liberal majority of four converted into a Unionist majority of one'