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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "H"

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�� Last updated 23/06/2018

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

� HERTFORD (HERTFORDSHIRE)

4 Apr 1660

James Cowper

8 Dec 1622

8 Aug 1683

Arthur Sparke

�5 Jun 1628

�� mid 1677

25 Mar 1661

Sir Edward Turnor

�� c 1617

�4 Mar 1676

Thomas Fanshawe�(to 1675)

17 Jun 1632

19 May 1674

�3 Feb 1673

Sir Thomas Byde�(to 1690)

�3 Mar 1628

23 Jan 1704

Election declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the

subsequent by-election held on 11 Feb 1673,

Byde was again elected

28 Apr 1675

Edmund Feilde

11 Sep 1620

�3 Jun 1676

28 Feb 1677

Sir John Gore

17 Apr 1621

14 Sep 1697

�5 Feb 1679

Sir Charles Caesar

22 Feb 1653

13 Aug 1694

�1 Sep 1679

Sir William Cowper,2nd baronet

14 Dec 1639

26 Nov 1706

23 Mar 1685

Sir Francis Boteler

�� c 1612

�9 Oct 1690

�9 Jan 1689

Sir William Cowper,2nd baronet� (to 1701)

14 Dec 1639

26 Nov 1706

20 Feb 1690

Sir William Leman,2nd baronet

19 Dec 1637

18 Jul 1701

30 Oct 1695

William Cowper,later [1718] 1st Earl Cowper

24 Jun 1665

10 Oct 1723

3 Jan 1701

Charles Caesar� (to 1708)

21 Nov 1673

�2 Apr 1741

Thomas Filmer

c 1660

22 Jan 1701

21 Feb 1701

Richard Goulston� [following the general

15 Apr 1669

18 Mar 1731

election in May 1705,Goulston was unseated

on petition in favour of Thomas Clarke�

6 Dec 1705]

6 Dec 1705

Thomas Clarke� [kt 1706]� (to 1710)

c 1672

26 Oct 1754

4 May 1708

William Monson,later [1718] 4th baronet

c 1653

7 Mar 1727

4 Oct 1710

Charles Caesar

21 Nov 1673

�2 Apr 1741

Richard Goulston

15 Apr 1669

18 Mar 1731

[Both members were unseated on petition in

favour of Sir Thomas Clarke and John Boteler

24 May 1715]

24 May 1715

Sir Thomas Clarke

�� c 1672

26 Oct 1754

John Boteler

�� 1684

17 Jul 1774

20 Mar 1722

Edward Harrison�(to 1727)

�3 Dec 1674

28 Nov 1732

Charles Caesar�� [he was unseated on petition

21 Nov 1673

�2 Apr 1741

in favour of Sir Thomas Clarke 22 Jan 1723]

22 Jan 1723

Sir Thomas Clarke�(to 1741)

�� c 1672

26 Oct 1754

23 Jan 1727

George Harrison

10 Feb 1680

�2 Dec 1759

24 Apr 1734

Nathaniel Brassey�(to 1761)

�� c 1697

29 Sep 1765

�4 May 1741

George Harrison

10 Feb 1680

�2 Dec 1759

13 Dec 1759

George Nassau Clavering Cowper,styled�

Viscount Fordwich,later [1764] 3rd�

Earl Cowper

26 Aug 1738

22 Dec 1789

26 Mar 1761

John Calvert� (to 1780)

�6 May 1726

22 Feb 1804

Timothy Caswall

�� c 1733

24 Aug 1802

17 Mar 1768

William Cowper

�� 1721

27 Aug 1769

15 Jan 1770

Paul Feilde

�6 Oct 1711

�2 Feb 1783

�7 Sep 1780

Thomas Dimsdale�(to 1790)

29 May 1712

30 Dec 1800

William Baker

�3 Oct 1743

20 Jan 1824

30 Mar 1784

John Calvert� (to 1802)

�6 May 1726

22 Feb 1804

16 Jun 1790

Nathaniel Dimsdale

11 Apr 1748

�3 Jul 1811

�6 Jul 1802

Edward Spencer Cowper

16 Jul 1779

�1 Feb 1823

Nicolson Calvert�(to 1826)

15 May 1764

13 Apr 1841

�6 Feb 1817

James Brownlow William Cecil,styled Viscount

Cranborne,later [1823] 2nd Marquess

of Salisbury

17 Apr 1791

12 Apr 1868

27 Jun 1823

Thomas Byron� (to 1830)

4 Nov 1772

8 Apr 1845

15 Jun 1826

Thomas Slingsby Duncombe�(to 1832)

1796

13 Nov 1861

9 Aug 1830

Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot,styled Viscount

Ingestrie,later [1856] 18th Earl of Shrewsbury

�8 Nov 1803

�4 Jun 1868

7 May 1831

John Currie

28 May 1797

19 May 1873

12 Dec 1832

Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot,styled Viscount

Ingestrie,later [1856] 18th Earl of Shrewsbury

�8 Nov 1803

�4 Jun 1868

Philip Henry Stanhope,styled Viscount Mahon,

later [1855] 5th Earl Stanhope��

31 Jan 1805

24 Dec 1875

[Election declared void 3 Apr 1833. Writ

suspended until Jan 1835]

�7 Jan 1835

Philip Henry Stanhope,styled Viscount Mahon,

later [1855] 5th Earl Stanhope��

31 Jan 1805

24 Dec 1875

William Francis Cowper-Temple,later [1880]

1st Baron Mount Temple�(to 1868)

13 Dec 1811

16 Oct 1888

�7 Jul 1852

Thomas Chambers�[kt 1872]

�� 1814

24 Dec 1891

27 Mar 1857

Sir Walter Minto Townshend-Farquhar,

2nd baronet

26 Oct 1809

18 Jun 1866

30 Jun 1866

Robert Dimsdale

1 Jul 1828

�2 May 1898

REPRESENTATION REDUCED

TO ONE MEMBER 1868

30 Jan 1874

Arthur James Balfour,later [1922] 1st

Earl of Balfour

25 Jul 1848

19 Mar 1930

28 Nov 1885

Abel Smith

30 Dec 1829

31 May 1898

22 Jun 1898

Evelyn Cecil,later [1934] 1st Baron Rockley

30 May 1865

�1 Apr 1941

�1 Oct 1900

Abel Henry Smith

6 Dec 1862

10 Nov 1930

19 Jan 1910

Sir John Fowle Lancelot Rolleston

26 Mar 1848

�9 Apr 1919

10 Mar 1916

Noel Pemberton Billing

�� 1880

11 Nov 1948

For further information on this MP, see the

note at the foot of this page.

16 Jun 1921

Murray Fraser Sueter [kt 1934]

6 Sep 1872

�3 Feb 1960

26 Jul 1945

Derek Colclough Walker-Smith,later [1960]

1st baronet and [1983] Baron Broxbourne [L]

13 Apr 1910

22 Jan 1992

26 May 1955

Robert Alexander Lindsay,styled Lord Balniel,

later [1974] Baron Balniel [L] and [Dec 1975]�

29th Earl of Crawford & 12th Earl of Balcarres

�5 Mar 1927

NAME ALTERED TO "HERTFORD�

& STEVENAGE" FEB 1974

� HERTFORD & STEVENAGE

28 Feb 1974

Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams,

�

later [1993] Baroness Williams of Crosby [L]

27 Jul 1930

�3 May 1979

Petrie Bowen Wells

�4 Aug 1935

ALTERED TO "HERTFORD &

STORTFORD" 1983

HERTFORD & STORTFORD�

�9 Jun 1983

Petrie Bowen Wells

�4 Aug 1935

7 Jun 2001

Mark Michael Prisk

12 Jun 1962

� HERTFORDSHIRE

12 Apr 1660

Sir Henry Caesar

�2 Oct 1630

�6 Jan 1668

Rowland Lytton

c 1615

1 Nov 1674

11 Apr 1661

Sir Richard Franklin,1st baronet�� (to Feb 1679)

20 Jul 1630

16 Sep 1685

Sir Thomas Fanshawe,later [5 Sep 1661] 1st

Viscount Fanshawe [I]

c 1596

30 Mar 1665

�

�3 Apr 1666

Sir Henry Caesar

�2 Oct 1630

�6 Jan 1668

�4 Apr 1668

James Cecil,styled Viscount Cranborne,later

[Dec 1668] 3rd Earl of Salisbury

1648

Jun 1683

11 Nov 1669

William Hale� (to Aug 1679)

�� c 1632

25 May 1688

19 Feb 1679

Silius Titus

�� c 1623

�� Dec 1704

28 Aug 1679

Sir Jonathan Keate,1st baronet

14 Feb 1633

17 Sep 1700

Sir Charles Caesar�(to 1685)

22 Feb 1653

13 Aug 1694

17 Feb 1681

William Hale

�� c 1632

25 May 1688

27 Mar 1685

Ralph Freman

29 May 1627

17 Nov 1714

Thomas Halsey

12 Mar 1655

15 May 1715

14 Jan 1689

Sir Thomas Pope Blount,1st baronet� (to 1697)

12 Sep 1649

30 Jun 1697

Sir Charles Caesar

22 Feb 1653

13 Aug 1694

6 Mar 1690

Sir Thomas Pope Blount,1st baronet� (to 1697)

12 Sep 1649

30 Jun 1697

Ralph Freman

29 May 1627

17 Nov 1714

�

Sir Charles Caesar�

22 Feb 1653

13 Aug 1694

Double return between Freman and Caesar.

Freman declared elected 30 Apr 1690

7 Nov 1695

Thomas Halsey� (to 1705)

12 Mar 1655

15 May 1715

30 Dec 1697

Ralph Freman� (to 1727)

10 Jun 1666

8 Jun 1742

10 May 1705

Sir John Spencer,4th baronet

c 1650

16 Nov 1712

6 May 1708

Thomas Halsey

12 Mar 1655

15 May 1715

�3 Feb 1715

Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright,4th baronet�

11 May 1692

12 Apr 1736

(to 1736)

�7 Sep 1727

Charles Caesar

21 Nov 1673

�2 Apr 1741

�2 May 1734

William Plumer� (to 1741)

�� c 1686

12 Dec 1767

22 Apr 1736

Charles Caesar

21 Nov 1673

�2 Apr 1741

21 May 1741

Jacob Houblon

31 Jul 1710

15 Feb 1770

Charles Gore� (to 1761)

�� c 1711

15 Feb 1768

�6 Jul 1747

Paggen Hale

�� c 1715

�3 Apr 1755

�1 May 1755

William Plumer

�� c 1686

12 Dec 1767

�6 Apr 1761

Thomas Plumer Byde

�� c 1720

26 May 1789

Jacob Houblon

31 Jul 1710

15 Feb 1770

28 Mar 1768

William Plumer� (to 1807)

24 May 1736

17 Jan 1822

Thomas Halsey

�� c 1731

�9 Oct 1788

22 Apr 1784

James Bucknall Grimston,3rd Viscount

Grimston [I]

�9 May 1747

30 Dec 1808

23 Jun 1790

William Baker

�3 Oct 1743

20 Jan 1824

10 Jul 1802

Peniston Lamb

�3 May 1770

24 Jan 1805

11 Feb 1805

William Baker

�3 Oct 1743

20 Jan 1824

11 May 1807

Thomas Brand,later [1819] 20th Lord Dacre

15 Mar 1774

21 Mar 1851

Sir John Saunders Sebright,7th baronet

23 May 1767

15 Apr 1846

(to 1835)

29 Nov 1819

William Lamb,later [1828] 2nd Viscount�

Melbourne

15 Mar 1779

24 Nov 1848

16 Jun 1826

Nicolson Calvert�(to 1835)

15 May 1764

13 Apr 1841

REPRESENTATION INCREASED

TO THREE MEMBERS 1832

17 Dec 1832

James Walter Grimston,styled Viscount Grimston,

later [1845] 2nd Earl of Verulam� (to 1846)

22 Feb 1809

27 Jul 1895

14 Jan 1835

Abel Smith� (to 1847)

17 Jul 1788

23 Feb 1859

Rowland Alston

�7 Jun 1782

21 Nov 1865

�5 Jul 1841

Granville Dudley Ryder�(to 1847)

26 Nov 1799

24 Nov 1879

�8 Jan 1846

Thomas Plumer Halsey�(to 1854)

26 Jan 1815

24 Apr 1854

For further information on the death of this

MP,see the note at the foot of this page

�3 Aug 1847

Sir Henry Meux,2nd baronet� (to 1859)

28 Dec 1817

�1 Jan 1883

Thomas Trevor,later [1853] 22nd Lord Dacre

�5 Dec 1808

26 Feb 1890

15 Jul 1852

Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-

Lytton,1st baronet,later [1866] 1st Baron�

Lytton� (to 1866)

25 May 1806

18 Jan 1873

24 May 1854

Abel Smith

30 Dec 1829

31 May 1898

31 Mar 1857

Christopher William Puller� (to 1864)

�� 1807

c Feb 1864

�2 May 1859

Abel Smith� (to 1865)

30 Dec 1829

31 May 1898

14 Mar 1864

Henry Edward Surtees�(to 1868)

�9 May 1819

31 Jul 1895

24 Jul 1865

Henry Frederick Cowper�(to 1885)

18 Apr 1836

10 Nov 1887

23 Jul 1866

Abel Smith� (to 1885)

30 Dec 1829

31 May 1898

21 Nov 1868

Henry Robert Brand,later [1892] 2nd Viscount

Hampden

�2 May 1841

22 Nov 1906

11 Feb 1874

Thomas Frederick Halsey,later [1920] 1st

baronet

9 Dec 1839

12 Feb 1927

�SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885�

SEE "HERTFORD","HITCHIN"

"ST.ALBANS" AND "WATFORD"

� HERTFORDSHIRE EAST

26 May 1955

Derek Colclough Walker-Smith,later [1960]

1st baronet and [1983] Baron Broxbourne [L]

13 Apr 1910

22 Jan 1992

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

HERTFORDSHIRE NORTH

�9 Jun 1983

Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart [kt 1991],

later [1992] Baron Stewartby [L]

10 Aug 1935

3 Mar 2018

9 Apr 1992

Oliver Heald� [kt 2014]

15 Dec 1954

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997

HERTFORDSHIRE NORTH EAST

1 May 1997

Oliver Heald� [kt 2014]

15 Dec 1954

� HERTFORDSHIRE SOUTH

28 Feb 1974

Cecil Edward Parkinson,later [1992] Baron

Parkinson [L]

�1 Sep 1931

22 Jan 2016

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

� HERTFORDSHIRE SOUTH WEST

23 Feb 1950

Gilbert James Morley Longden� [kt 1972]

16 Apr 1902

16 Oct 1997

28 Feb 1974

Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth

�7 Jun 1928

29 Mar 2018

13 Dec 1979

Richard Lewis Page

22 Feb 1941

5 May 2005

David Michael Gauke

8 Oct 1971

HERTFORDSHIRE WEST

�9 Jun 1983

Robert Brannock Jones

26 Sep 1950

16 Apr 2007

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997

HERTSMERE (HERTFORDSHIRE)

�9 Jun 1983

Cecil Edward Parkinson,later [1992] Baron

Parkinson [L]

�1 Sep 1931

22 Jan 2016

9 Apr 1992

William James Clappison

14 Sep 1956

7 May 2015

Oliver James Dowden

1 Aug 1978

� HESTON & ISLEWORTH

26 Jul 1945

William Richard Williams

�7 Mar 1895

11 Sep 1963

23 Feb 1950

Richard Reader Harris

�4 Jun 1913

7 Jul 2009

18 Jun 1970

Bernard John Hayhoe [kt 1987],later [1992]�

Baron Hayhoe [L]

�8 Aug 1925

7 Sep 2013

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974

� HEXHAM (NORTHUMBERLAND)

�3 Dec 1885

Miles MacInnes

21 Feb 1830

28 Sep 1909

�� Jul 1892

Nathaniel George Clayton

�� 1833

�5 Sep 1895

[His election was declared void 29 Nov 1892]

18 Feb 1893

Miles MacInnes

21 Feb 1830

28 Sep 1909

26 Jul 1895

Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont,later

[1907] 2nd Baron Allendale and [1911] 1st

Viscount Allendale

�2 Dec 1860

12 Dec 1923

24 Mar 1907

Richard Durning Holt,later [1935] 1st baronet

13 Nov 1868

22 Mar 1941

14 Dec 1918

Douglas Clifton-Brown,later [1951] 1st Viscount

Ruffside

16 Aug 1879

�5 May 1958

�6 Dec 1923

Victor Harold Finney

13 Jul 1897

10 Apr 1970

29 Oct 1924

Douglas Clifton-Brown,later [1951] 1st Viscount

Ruffside

16 Aug 1879

�5 May 1958

25 Oct 1951

Rupert Malise Speir�[kt 1964]

10 Sep 1910

16 Sep 1998

31 Mar 1966

Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon,later [1987]

Baron Rippon of Hexham [L]

28 May 1924

28 Jan 1997

11 Jun 1987

Alan Thomas Amos

10 Nov 1952

9 Apr 1992

Peter Landreth Atkinson

19 Jan 1943

6 May 2010

Guy Thomas Opperman

18 May 1965

� HEYTESBURY (WILTSHIRE)

30 Mar 1660

Thomas Moore

14 Apr 1618

6 Aug 1695

John Jolliffe�

29 Aug 1613

2 Jan 1680

4 Apr 1661

Sir Joseph Ashe,1st baronet

1618

15 Apr 1686

John Jolliffe�

29 Aug 1613

2 Jan 1680

Sir Charles Berkeley,later [1665] 2nd Viscount

Fitzhardinge [I]

14 Dec 1599

12 Jun 1668

Henry Coker

Double return. Election declared void�

17 May 1661

24 May 1661

Sir Charles Berkeley,later [1665] 2nd Viscount

Fitzhardinge [I]

14 Dec 1599

12 Jun 1668

John Jolliffe� (to 1679)

29 Aug 1613

2 Jan 1680

�8 Oct 1668

William Ashe� (to Dec 1701)

17 Nov 1647

22 Oct 1713

�6 Feb 1679

Edward Ashe

4 May 1654

7 Dec 1731

14 Jan 1689

William Sacheverell

c 1638

9 Oct 1691

8 Mar 1690

William Trenchard

c 1643

22 Aug 1713

1 Nov 1695

Edward Ashe� (to 1747)

�� c 1673

22 May 1748

26 Nov 1701

Sir Edward Ernle,3rd baronet

c 1673

31 Jan 1729

17 Jul 1702

William Monson,later [1718] 4th baronet

c 1653

7 Mar 1727

7 May 1708

William Ashe

�� c 1675

by Jan 1732

31 Aug 1713

Pierce A'Court

�� c 1677

7 Mar 1725

24 Jan 1715

William Ashe

�� c 1675

by Jan 1732

22 Mar 1722

Pierce A'Court

�� c 1677

7 Mar 1725

13 Apr 1725

Lord Charles Cavendish

�after 1700

28 Apr 1783

16 Aug 1727

Horatio Townshend

�� c 1683

�4 Oct 1751

29 Apr 1734

Pierce A'Court (A'Court-Ashe from 1750)

�� c 1707

�6 Sep 1768

(to 1768)

26 Jun 1747

William Ashe

�� c 1714

11 Aug 1750

25 Jan 1751

William A'Court-Ashe�(to 1781)

�� c 1708

�2 Aug 1781

16 Mar 1768

Charles Fitzroy-Scudamore

�� c 1713

22 Aug 1782

�8 Oct 1774

William Gordon

�� 1736

25 May 1816

�9 Sep 1780

William Eden,later [1789] Baron Auckland [I]

and [1793] 1st Baron Auckland� [he was

�3 Apr 1744

28 May 1814

also returned for Woodstock,for which he

chose to sit]

4 Dec 1780

Francis Burton� (to 1784)

c 1744

28 Nov 1832

�3 Sep 1781

William Pierce Ashe A'Court,later [1795] 1st

baronet� (to 1790)

�� 1747

22 Jul 1817

31 Mar 1784

William Eden,later [1789] Baron Auckland [I]

and [1793] 1st Baron Auckland� (to May 1793)

�3 Apr 1744

28 May 1814

22 Dec 1790

Michael Angelo Taylor�[he was also returned

13 Jul 1757

16 Jul 1834

for Poole,for which he chose to sit]

�8 Mar 1791

Richard Barry,7th Earl of Barrymore [I]

14 Aug 1769

�6 Mar 1793

For further information on this MP, see the

note at the foot of the page containing

details of the Barrymore earldom.

22 Mar 1793

Charles Rose Ellis,later [1826] 1st Baron Seaford

19 Dec 1771

1 Jul 1845

(to 1796)

28 May 1793

Henry Welbore Agar (Agar-Ellis from 4 Feb

1804),2nd Viscount Clifden [I]� (to Feb 1802)

22 Jan 1761

13 Jul 1836

30 May 1796

Sir John Fleming Leicester,5th baronet,later

[1826] 1st Baron de Tabley

4 Apr 1762

18 Jun 1827

22 Feb 1802

William Wickham

11 Nov 1761

22 Oct 1840

�5 Jul 1802

John Hamilton Fitzmaurice,styled Viscount

Kirkwall� (to 1806)

9 Oct 1778

23 Nov 1820

Charles Abbot,later Baron Colchester

14 Oct 1757

�7 May 1829

[he was also returned for Woodstock,for

which he chose to sit]

14 Dec 1802

Charles Moore

23 Dec 1771

14 Dec 1826

�4 Nov 1806

Charles Abbot,later [1817] 1st Baron Colchester

14 Oct 1757

�7 May 1829

[he was also returned for Oxford University,

for which he chose to sit]

Sir William Pierce Ashe A'Court,1st baronet

�� 1747

27 Jul 1817

27 Jan 1807

Charles Moore� (to 1812)

23 Dec 1771

14 Dec 1826

Michael Symes

�� c 1762

22 Jan 1809

�8 May 1807

James Edward Harris,styled Viscount

FitzHarris,later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury

19 Aug 1778

10 Sep 1841

�7 Oct 1812

Samuel Hood,later [1814] 2nd Baron�

Bridport [I]

7 Dec 1788

6 Jan 1868

Charles Duncombe,later [1826] 1st Baron

Feversham

5 Dec 1764

16 Jul 1841

19 Jun 1818

George James Welbore Agar-Ellis,

later [1831] 1st Baron Dover

17 Jan 1797

10 Jul 1833

William Henry John Scott

25 Feb 1795

6 Jul 1832

8 Mar 1820

Edward Henry A'Court�(to 1832)

10 Dec 1783

22 Sep 1855

Charles Ashe A'Court

17 Jun 1785

19 Apr 1861

3 Aug 1820

Henry Handley

17 Mar 1797

29 Jun 1846

9 Jun 1826

Henry Stafford Northcote

18 Mar 1792

�6 Feb 1878

2 Aug 1830

Sir George Thomas Staunton,2nd baronet

26 May 1781

10 Aug 1859

�CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832�

� HEYWOOD (LANCASHIRE)

30 Nov 1885

Isaac Hoyle

�� 1828

�2 Sep 1911

�� Jul 1892

Thomas Snape

�� 1835

�9 Aug 1912

22 Jul 1895

George Kemp [kt 1909],later [1913] 1st

Baron Rochdale

�9 Jun 1866

24 Mar 1945

23 Jan 1906

Edward Hopkinson Holden,later [1909] 1st baronet

11 May 1848

23 Jul 1919

24 Jan 1910

Harold Thomas Cawley

12 Jun 1878

23 Sep 1915

10 Nov 1915

Albert Holden Illingworth,later [1921] 1st

Baron Illingworth

25 May 1865

23 Jan 1942

�

NAME ALTERED TO "HEYWOOD

& RADCLIFFE" 1918

HEYWOOD & MIDDLETON (MANCHESTER)

�9 Jun 1983

James Callaghan

28 Jan 1927

29 Mar 2018

1 Feb 1997

James Dobbin

26 May 1941

6 Sep 2014

9 Oct 2014

Elizabeth Anne McInnes

30 Mar 1959

� HEYWOOD & RADCLIFFE (LANCASHIRE)

14 Dec 1918

Albert Holden Illingworth,later [1921] 1st

Baron Illingworth

25 May 1865

23 Jan 1942

�8 Jun 1921

Walter Halls

16 Jun 1871

20 Oct 1953

15 Nov 1922

Abraham England

�3 Jan 1867

�4 Jan 1949

27 Oct 1931

Joseph Cooksey Jackson

12 Jan 1879

26 Apr 1938

14 Nov 1935

Richard Whitaker Porritt

�4 Sep 1910

26 May 1940

28 Aug 1940

James Henry Wootton-Davies

1884

21 Dec 1964

26 Jul 1945

John Edmondson Whittaker

�� 1897

�9 Dec 1945

For information on the death of this MP,

see the note at the foot of this page

21 Feb 1946

Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood,later

[1970] Baron Greenwood of Rossendale [L]

14 Sep 1911

12 Apr 1982

NAME ALTERED TO "HEYWOOD�

& ROYTON" 1950

� HEYWOOD & ROYTON

23 Feb 1950

Harold Sutcliffe�[kt 1953]

11 Dec 1897

20 Jan 1958

26 May 1955

John Anthony Leavey

�3 Mar 1915

9 Jul 1999

15 Oct 1964

Joel Barnett,later [1983] Baron Barnett [L]

14 Oct 1923

1 Nov 2014

ALTERED TO "HEYWOOD &

MIDDLETON" 1983

� HIGHAM FERRERS (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)

c Apr 1660

Sir Thomas Dacres

19 Oct 1587

26 Dec 1668

Edward Harby

Double return. Dacres declared elected

16 May 1660

28 Mar 1661

Lewis Palmer,later [1679] 2nd baronet

21 Sep 1630

10 Apr 1713

17 Feb 1679

Sir Rice Rudd,2nd baronet

c 1643

Jul 1701

31 Mar 1685

Sir Lewis Palmer,2nd baronet

21 Sep 1630

10 Apr 1713

10 Jan 1689

Sir Rice Rudd,2nd baronet�[he was also

c 1643

Jul 1701

returned for Carmarthenshire,for which he

chose to sit]

�8 Feb 1689

Lewis Watson,later [1689] 3rd Baron Rockingham

and [1714] 1st Earl of Rockingham

29 Dec 1655

19 Mar 1724

15 Jul 1689

Thomas Andrew

c 1645

19 Oct 1722

22 Jul 1698

Thomas Ekins

c 1650

25 Mar 1702

13 Apr 1702

Thomas Pemberton

30 Mar 1667

8 May 1703

22 Nov 1703

Thomas Watson Wentworth�[he was also

17 Jun 1665

6 Oct 1723

returned for Malton,for which he chose

to sit]

12 Mar 1714

Charles Leigh

28 Mar 1686

28 Jul 1749

24 Mar 1722

Thomas Watson-Wentworth

17 Jun 1665

�6 Oct 1723

�

20 Jan 1724

John Finch

�� c 1692

12 Feb 1763

�4 May 1741

Henry Finch�� [he was also returned for�

�� c 1694

26 Apr 1761

Malton,for which he chose to sit]

28 Dec 1741

Henry Seymour Conway

12 Aug 1719

�9 Jul 1795

26 Jun 1747

John Hill

�� c 1690

�3 Jul 1753

21 Nov 1753

John Yorke

27 Aug 1728

�4 Sep 1801

18 Mar 1768

Frederick Montagu

�� Jul 1733

30 Jul 1800

16 Jun 1790

Frederick Ponsonby,styled Viscount Duncannon,

later [1793] 3rd Earl of Bessborough�� [he was�

24 Jan 1758

�3 Feb 1844

also returned for Knaresborough,for which he

chose to sit]

31 Dec 1790

John Lee

26 Mar 1733

�5 Aug 1793

13 Sep 1793

James Adair

�� c 1743

21 Jul 1798

�4 Sep 1798

Stephen Thurston Adey

�after 1753

28 Oct 1801

13 Nov 1801

Francis Ferrand Foljambe

17 Jan 1750

13 Nov 1814

�8 May 1807

William Windham

�3 May 1750

�4 Jun 1810

15 Jun 1810

John William Ponsonby,styled Viscount

Duncannon,later [1844] 4th Earl of Bessborough

31 Aug 1781

16 May 1847

�9 Oct 1812

William Plumer

24 May 1736

17 Jan 1822

11 Feb 1822

Constantine Henry Phipps,styled Viscount

Normanby,later [1838] 1st Marquess of Normanby

15 May 1797

28 Jul 1863

20 Jun 1826

Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

�6 Jul 1783

11 Jan 1837

3 Aug 1830

Henry Grey,styled Viscount Howick,later

[1845] 3rd Earl Grey

28 Dec 1802

�9 Oct 1894

30 Apr 1831

Charles William Fitzwilliam,styled Viscount

Milton,later [1833] 5th Earl Fitzwilliam� [he was�

�4 May 1786

�4 Oct 1857

also returned for Northamptonshire,for which

he chose to sit]

14 Jul 1831

Charles Christopher Pepys [kt 1834],later [1836]�

1st Baron Cottenham and [1850] 1st Earl of�

Cottenham

29 Apr 1781

29 Apr 1851

6 Oct 1831

John George Brabazon Ponsonby,later [1847]

5th Earl of Bessborough

14 Oct 1809

28 Jan 1880

�CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832�

� HIGH PEAK (DERBYSHIRE)

�4 Dec 1885

William Sidebottom

�� 1841

�3 Jan 1933

�8 Oct 1900

Oswald Partington,later [1925] 2nd Baron

Doverdale

�4 May 1872

23 Mar 1935

�� Dec 1910

Samuel Hill Hill-Wood,later [1921] 1st baronet

12 Mar 1872

�4 Jan 1949

30 May 1929

Sir Alfred Joseph Law

31 May 1860

18 Jul 1939

�7 Oct 1939

Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson,later [1961]

Baron Molson [L]

29 Jun 1903

13 Oct 1991

16 Mar 1961

Alan David Walder

13 Nov 1928

26 Oct 1978

31 Mar 1966

Peter Michael Jackson

14 Oct 1928

18 Jun 1970

Spencer Le Marchant�[kt 1984]

15 Jan 1931

7 Sep 1986

�9 Jun 1983

Christopher James Hawkins

26 Nov 1937

9 Apr 1992

Charles Hendry

6 May 1959

1 May 1997

Tom Levitt

10 Apr 1954

6 May 2010

Andrew Russell Bingham

23 Jun 1962

8 Jun 2017

Ruth Stephanie Nicole George

� HILLHEAD (GLASGOW)

14 Dec 1918

Sir Robert Stevenson Horne,later [1937]

Viscount Horne of Slammanan

28 Feb 1871

�3 Sep 1940

10 Jun 1937

James Scott Cumberland Reid,later [1948]

Baron Reid [L]

30 Jul 1890

29 Mar 1975

25 Nov 1948

Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith� [kt 1982]

10 Mar 1917

2 Jan 1982

25 Mar 1982

Roy Harris Jenkins,later [1987] Baron

Jenkins of Hillhead [L]

11 Nov 1920

5 Jan 2003

11 Jun 1987

George Galloway

16 Aug 1954

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997

� HILLSBOROUGH (SHEFFIELD)

14 Dec 1918

Arthur Neal

23 Sep 1862

29 Jan 1933

15 Nov 1922

Albert Victor Alexander,later [1963] 1st Earl

Alexander of Hillsborough

�1 May 1885

11 Jan 1965

27 Oct 1931

Joseph Gurney Braithwaite,later [1954] 1st

baronet

24 May 1895

25 Jun 1958

14 Nov 1935

Albert Victor Alexander,later [1963] 1st Earl

Alexander of Hillsborough

�1 May 1885

11 Jan 1965

23 Feb 1950

George Darling,later [1974] Baron Darling

of Hillsborough [L]

20 Jul 1905

18 Oct 1985

28 Feb 1974

Martin Henry Flannery

2 Mar 1918

16 Oct 2006

9 Apr 1992

Helen Margaret Jackson

19 May 1939

5 May 2005

Angela Christine Smith

16 Aug 1961

COMBINED WITH "SHEFFIELD BRIGHTSIDE" TO

FORM NEW CONSTITUENCY OF "SHEFFIELD

BRIGHTSIDE & HILLSBOROUGH" 2010

� HINDON (WILTSHIRE)

�4 Apr 1660

Sir George Grobham Howe,1st baronet

c 1627

26 Sep 1676

(to 1677)

Edmund Ludlow

Sir Thomas Thynne

c 1610

late 1669

Double return between Ludlow and Thynne.

Thynne declared elected 18 May 1660

5 Apr 1661

Sir Charles Harbord�[he was also returned

�2 Jul 1596

25 May 1679

for Launceston,for which he chose to sit]

11 Apr 1661

Edward Seymour,later [1688] 4th baronet

1633

17 Feb 1708

(to 1679)

23 Feb 1677

Robert Hyde

10 Oct 1650

20 Apr 1722

12 Feb 1679

Richard Howe� (to 1681)

c 1652

3 Jul 1730

Thomas Lambert

c 1638

1692

23 Aug 1679

Sir Richard Grobham Howe,2nd baronet

28 Aug 1621

3 May 1703

(to 1685)

18 Feb 1681

John Thynne

c 1640

16 Mar 1699

16 Mar 1685

Robert Hyde� (to 1698)

10 Oct 1650

27 Apr 1722

Thomas Lambert

c 1638

1692

12 Jan 1689

John Milner

c 1657

26 Jun 1712

22 Feb 1690

Thomas Chafin

15 Jul 1650

17 Jan 1691

20 Apr 1691

John Berkeley,4th Viscount Fitzhardinge [I]

18 Apr 1650

19 Dec 1712

26 Oct 1695

Charles Morley� [kt 1696]

c 1653

23 Aug 1697

22 Dec 1697

Henry Lee

c 1657

6 Sep 1734

25 Jul 1698

Sir James Howe,2nd baronet� (to Nov 1701)

c 1669

19 Jan 1736

Reynolds Calthorpe�[he was unseated on

12 Aug 1655

12 Apr 1720

petition in favour of George Morley

13 May 1701]

13 May 1701

George Morley� (to Nov 1702)

14 Jul 1664

c May 1711

[following the general election in Jul 1702,

Morley's election was declared void�

27 Nov 1702]

24 Nov 1701

Reynolds Calthorpe

12 Aug 1655

12 Apr 1720

18 Jul 1702

Sir James Howe,2nd baronet�� (to 1705)

c 1669

19 Jan 1736

7 Nov 1704

Thomas Jervoise

6 Sep 1667

10 May 1743

11 May 1705

George Morley�

14 Jul 1664

c May 1711

Reynolds Calthorpe

12 Aug 1655

12 Apr 1720

7 May 1708

Sir James Howe,2nd baronet� [he was

c 1669

19 Jan 1736

unseated on petition in favour of Reynolds

Calthorpe 12 Feb 1709]

Edmund Lambert� (to 1713)

26 Jul 1666

29 Jan 1734

12 Feb 1709

Reynolds Calthorpe

12 Aug 1655

12 Apr 1720

7 Oct 1710

Edmund Lambert� (to 1713)

26 Jul 1666

29 Jan 1734

Reynolds Calthorpe

12 Aug 1655

12 Apr 1720

George Morley

14 Jul 1664

c May 1711

Double return between Calthorpe and Morley.

Morley declared elected 2 Dec 1710

15 May 1711

Henry Lee Warner

23 Jul 1688

13 Dec 1760

29 Aug 1713

Reynolds Calthorpe

6 Nov 1689

10 Apr 1714

Richard Lockwood

c 1676

30 Aug 1756

�

25 Jan 1715

George Wade� (to 1722)

�� 1673

14 Mar 1748

Reynolds Calthorpe

12 Aug 1655

12 Apr 1720

�6 May 1720

John Pitt

�� c 1698

�9 Feb 1754

24 Mar 1722

Henry Ludlow Coker

�� 1683

�� c 1734

Robert Gray

�after 1727

16 Aug 1727

George Heathcote

�7 Dec 1700

�7 Jun 1768

Townsend Andrews

20 Nov 1702

�6 May 1737

27 Apr 1734

Stephen Fox,later [1756] 1st Earl of�

Ilchester �[he was also returned for Shaftesbury,

12 Sep 1704

29 Sep 1776

for which he chose to sit]

George Fox,later [1762] 1st Baron Bingley�

(to 1741)

�� c 1696

22 Feb 1773

28 Feb 1735

Henry Fox,later [1763] 1st Baron Holland

28 Sep 1705

�1 Jul 1774

�4 May 1741

Henry Calthorpe

�� c 1717

14 Apr 1788

William Steele

c Jul 1748

27 Jun 1747

Valens Comyn

by 1700

27 Apr 1751

Bisse Richards� (to 1756)

�� c 1715

29 Dec 1755

�4 May 1751

Francis Blake Delaval

16 Mar 1727

�7 Aug 1771

15 Apr 1754

James Dawkins� (to 1758)

�� 1722

�� Dec 1757

19 Jan 1756

William Mabbott�(to 1761)

�� c 1692

14 Nov 1764

21 Jan 1758

James Calthorpe

25 Mar 1699

11 Mar 1784

27 Mar 1761

William Blackstone

10 Jul 1723

14 Feb 1780

Edward Morant

10 Dec 1730

27 Jul 1791

16 Mar 1768

John St.Leger Douglas

�� c 1732

23 May 1783

William Hussey

�1 Jan 1725

26 Jan 1813

10 Oct 1774

Richard Smith� (to 1777)

15 May 1734

�3 Jul 1803

Thomas Brand-Hollis

�� c 1719

�2 Sep 1804

Election declared void 14 Feb 1775

16 May 1776

Henry Dawkins� (to 1780)

24 May 1728

19 Jun 1814

Richard Smith�� [his election was declared

15 May 1734

�3 Jul 1803

void 29 Jan 1777]

�5 Feb 1777

Archibald Macdonald [kt 1788],later [1813]�

1st baronet

13 Jul 1747

18 May 1826

�9 Sep 1780

Lloyd Kenyon,later [1788] 1st Baron Kenyon

�5 Oct 1732

�4 Apr 1802

Nathaniel William Wraxall

�8 Apr 1751

�7 Nov 1831

�2 Apr 1784

William Egerton

�9 May 1749

21 Apr 1806

Edward Bearcroft

30 Apr 1737

20 Nov 1796

19 Jun 1790

William Beckford

29 Sep 1760

�2 May 1844

James Adams� (to 1796)

�5 Jun 1752

14 Sep 1816

�5 Jan 1795

Thomas Wildman

�� 1740

21 Dec 1795

12 Feb 1796

James Wildman� (to 1802)

20 Mar 1747

23 Mar 1816

28 May 1796

Matthew Gregory Lewis

9 Jul 1775

14 May 1818

For further information on this MP, see

the note at the foot of this page

�6 Jul 1802

Thomas Wallace,later [1828] 1st Baron Wallace

c 1768

23 Feb 1844

�

John Pedley

�� c 1762

22 Jul 1838

�3 Nov 1806

William Beckford�(to 1820)

29 Sep 1760

�2 May 1844

Benjamin Hobhouse

29 Mar 1757

14 Aug 1831

17 Jun 1818

Frederick Gough-Calthorpe,later [1851] 4th�

Baron Calthorpe�(to 1826)

14 Jun 1790

2 May 1868

7 Mar 1820

John Plummer

11 Jul 1780

1 Oct 1839

9 Jun 1826

George Matthew Fortescue�(to 1831)

21 May 1791

24 Jan 1877

Arthur Gough-Calthorpe

14 Nov 1796

5 Mar 1836

31 Jul 1830

John Weyland� (to 1832)

4 Dec 1774

8 May 1854

29 Apr 1831

Edward John Stanley,later [1848] 1st Baron

Eddisbury and [1850] 2nd Baron Stanley�

of Alderley

13 Nov 1802

16 Jun 1869

�CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832�

� HITCHIN (HERTFORDSHIRE)

�3 Dec 1885

Robert Dimsdale

1 Jul 1828

�2 May 1898

�� Jul 1892

George Bickersteth Hudson

16 Mar 1845

29 Feb 1912

25 Jan 1906

Julius Bertram

�8 Nov 1866

�5 Nov 1944

21 Jan 1910

Alfred Peter Hillier

�� 1858

24 Oct 1911

For information on the death of this MP,see

the note at the foot of this page

23 Nov 1911

Lord Robert Cecil,later [1923] 1st Viscount

Cecil of Chelwood

14 Sep 1864

24 Nov 1958

�6 Dec 1923

Guy Molesworth Kindersley

28 Feb 1877

30 Nov 1956

27 Oct 1931

Edward Anthony James Lytton,styled Viscount

Knebworth

13 May 1903

�1 May 1933

For information on the death of this MP,see

the note at the foot of this page

�8 Jun 1933

Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson

18 Jul 1884

31 May 1940

10 Mar 1941

John Seymour Berry,later [1954] 2nd Viscount

Camrose

12 Jul 1909

15 Feb 1995

26 Jul 1945

Philip Asterley Jones

21 Jun 1914

23 Oct 1978

23 Feb 1950

Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher� [kt 1974]

14 Jul 1913

9� Oct 1996

26 May 1955

William Francis Martin Maddan

�4 Oct 1920

22 Aug 1973

15 Oct 1964

Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams,

�

later [1993] Baroness Williams of Crosby [L]

27 Jul 1930

28 Feb 1974

Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart [kt 1991],

later [1992] Baron Stewartby [L]

10 Aug 1935

3 Mar 2018

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

�HITCHIN AND HARPENDEN (HERTFORDSHIRE)

1 May 1997

Peter Bruce Lilley, later [2018] Baron Lilley [L]

23 Aug 1943

8 Jun 2017

Bim Afolami

� HODGE HILL (BIRMINGHAM)

�9 Jun 1983

Terence Anthony Gordon Davis

�5 Jan 1938

15 Jul 2004

Liam Dominic Byrne

2 Oct 1970

� HOLBORN

26 Nov 1885

Francis Duncan

�� 1836

16 Nov 1888

29 Nov 1888

Gainsford Bruce�[kt 1892]

�� 1834

24 Feb 1912

12 Aug 1892

Sir Charles Hall

3 Aug 1843

�9 Mar 1900

23 Mar 1900

James Farquharson Remnant,later [1917] 1st

baronet and [1928] 1st Baron Remnant

13 Feb 1863

30 Jan 1933

28 Jun 1928

Stuart James Bevan

31 Mar 1872

25 Oct 1935

14 Nov 1935

Sir Robert Inigo Tasker

�� 1868

28 Feb 1959

26 Jul 1945

John William Maxwell Aitken

15 Feb 1910

30 Apr 1985

NAME ALTERED TO "HOLBORN�

& ST.PANCRAS SOUTH" 1950

HOLBORN & ST.PANCRAS (LONDON)

�9 Jun 1983

Frank Gordon Dobson

15 Mar 1940

7 May 2015

Sir Keir Starmer

2 Sep 1962

� HOLBORN & ST.PANCRAS SOUTH

23 Feb 1950

Santo Wayburn Jeger

20 May 1898

24 Sep 1953

19 Nov 1953

Lena May Jeger,later [1979] Baroness Jeger [L]

19 Nov 1915

26 Feb 2007

�8 Oct 1959

Geoffrey Johnson-Smith�[kt 1982]

16 Apr 1924

11 Aug 2010

15 Oct 1964

Lena May Jeger,later [1979] Baroness Jeger [L]

19 Nov 1915

26 Feb 2007

�3 May 1979

Frank Gordon Dobson

15 Mar 1940

CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983

� HOLDERNESS (YORKSHIRE)

�4 Dec 1885

George Richard Bethell

�� Mar 1849

�3 Dec 1919

10 Oct 1900

Arthur Stanley Wilson

30 Jul 1868

12 Apr 1938

15 Nov 1922

William Audley Bowdler

�7 Sep 1884

20 Feb 1969

�6 Dec 1923

Samuel Servington Savery�[kt 1937]

Mar 1861

27 Dec 1938

15 Feb 1939

Joseph Gurney Braithwaite,later [1954] 1st

baronet

24 May 1895

25 Jun 1958

�

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950�

� HOLLAND (LINCOLNSHIRE)

��SEE "SPALDING"

� HOLLAND WITH BOSTON (LINCOLNSHIRE)

14 Dec 1918

William Stapleton Royce

13 Dec 1858

23 Jun 1924

31 Jul 1924

Arthur Wellesley Dean

27 Aug 1857

�7 Feb 1929

21 Mar 1929

James Blindell� [kt 1936]

�� 1884

10 May 1937

For information on the death of this MP,see

the note at the foot of this page

24 Jun 1937

Herbert Walter Butcher,later [1960] 1st baronet

12 Jun 1901

11 May 1966

31 Mar 1966

Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body� [kt 1986]

18 May 1927

26 Feb 2018

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997

� HOLMFIRTH (YORKSHIRE)

�5 Dec 1885

Henry Joseph Wilson

14 Apr 1833

29 Jun 1914

20 Jun 1912

Sydney Arnold,later [1924] 1st Baron Arnold

13 Jan 1878

�3 Aug 1945

�

�CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918�

� HONITON (DEVON)

�9 Apr 1660

Sir John Yonge

�2 Oct 1603

26 Aug 1663

Samuel Serle

16 Jul 1620

�2 Feb 1683

�6 Apr 1661

Sir Courtenay Pole,2nd baronet

17 Feb 1619

13 Apr 1695

Peter Prideaux,later [1682] 3rd baronet

13 Jul 1626

22 Nov 1705

17 Feb 1679

Sir Walter Yonge,3rd baronet

�8 Sep 1653

18 Jul 1731

Sir Thomas Putt,1st baronet� (to 1689)

19 Jul 1644

25 Jun 1686

16 Apr 1685

Edmund Walrond� (to 1690)

18 Jul 1655

24 Feb 1708

Sir Thomas Putt,1st baronet�

19 Jul 1644

25 Jun 1686

[Putt's election was declared void 15 Jun 1685

although he was again returned at the

subsequent by-election held on 3 Oct 1685]

11 Jan 1689

Richard Courtenay

�� c 1655

�� Jan 1696

3 Mar 1690

Sir William Drake,4th baronet� (to 1715)

12 Jul 1658

28 Feb 1716

Sir Walter Yonge,3rd baronet

8 Sep 1653

18 Jul 1731

23 Oct 1710

Sir William Drake,4th baronet� (to 1715)

12 Jul 1658

28 Feb 1716

[at the general election of 1713,he was also

returned for Dartmouth,and appears to have

been allowed to sit for both seats]

Sir Walter Yonge,3rd baronet

8 Sep 1653

18 Jul 1731

James Sheppard

c 1681

10 Apr 1730

Double return between Yonge and Sheppard.

Sheppard declared elected 17 Feb 1711

�4 Feb 1715

Sir William Courtenay�[he was also returned

11 Mar 1676

�6 Oct 1735

for Devon,for which he chose to sit]

Sir William Yonge,4th baronet� (to 1754)

�� c 1693

10 Aug 1755

17 Mar 1716

Sir William Pole,4th baronet

17 Aug 1678

31 Dec 1741

21 Aug 1727

James Sheppard��

�� c 1681

10 Apr 1730

15 Mar 1731

Sir William Pole,4th baronet�� [following the

17 Aug 1678

31 Dec 1741

death of James Sheppard, Pole appears to

have been seated on petition, without any

by-election appearing to have occurred]

26 Apr 1734

William Courtenay,later [1762] 1st Viscount

11 Feb 1710

16 May 1762

Courtenay

�5 May 1741

Henry Reginald Courtenay

�8 Jun 1714

30 Apr 1763

�2 Jul 1747

John Heath,later Duke

�� c 1717

�3 Nov 1775

16 Apr 1754

Henry Reginald Courtenay�(to 1763)

�8 Jun 1714

30 Apr 1763

George Yonge,later [1755] 5th baronet

�� Mar 1733

25 Sep 1812

27 Mar 1761

John Duke� (to 1768)

�� c 1717

�3 Nov 1775

22 Nov 1763

Sir George Yonge,5th baronet� (to 1796)

�� Mar 1733

25 Sep 1812

17 Mar 1768

Brass Crosby

�8 May 1725

14 Feb 1793

�7 Oct 1774

Laurence Cox� [kt 1786]

26 Aug 1792

�8 Sep 1780

Alexander Macleod��[his election was�

�� c 1715

�7 Jan 1790

declared void]

�5 Apr 1781

Jacob Wilkinson

�� c 1716

12 May 1791

�2 Apr 1784

Sir George Collier

11 May 1738

�6 Apr 1795

25 Jun 1790

George Templer

�� c 1755

20 Jul 1819

30 May 1796

George Chambers

�� 1766

�after 1826

George Shum� (to 1805)

c Nov 1751

28 Feb 1805

23 Jul 1802

Sir John Honywood,4th baronet� (to Apr 1806)

�� c 1757

29 Mar 1806

13 Mar 1805

Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw� (to 1812)

17 Feb 1768

11 Nov 1832

11 Apr 1806

Richard Bateman-Robson

�� 1753

10 Mar 1827

31 Oct 1806

Thomas Cochrane,styled Lord Cochrane,later

[1831] 10th Earl of Dundonald

14 Dec 1775

31 Oct 1860

�6 May 1807

Sir Charles Hamilton,2nd baronet

25 May 1767

14 Sep 1849

�7 Oct 1812

Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse

25 Jul 1784

�8 Jun 1853

George Abercrombie Robinson,later [1823]

1st baronet

29 Mar 1758

13 Feb 1832

23 Jun 1818

Peregrine Francis Cust

13 Aug 1791

15 Sep 1873

Samuel Crawley

16 Dec 1790

21 Dec 1852

16 Jun 1826

Josiah John Guest,later [1838] 1st�

baronet� (to 1831)

�2 Feb 1785

26 Nov 1852

Henry Baines Lott

9 Oct 1781

20 Jun 1833

30 Jul 1830

Sir George Warrender,4th baronet� (to 1832)

�5 Dec 1782

21 Feb 1849

5 May 1831

Henry Baines Lott

9 Oct 1781

20 Jun 1833

13 Dec 1832

George Augustus Frederick Child-Villiers,

styled Viscount Villiers,later [1859] 6th Earl

of Jersey

�4 Apr 1808

24 Oct 1859

James Ruddell-Todd

�8 Jan 1835

Hugh Duncan Baillie�(to 1847)

�� 1777

21 Jun 1866

Arthur Chichester

25 Aug 1837

James Stewart

17 Aug 1805

26 Sep 1860

29 Jun 1841

Forster Alleyne McGeachy

�� 1809

20 Mar 1887

28 Jul 1847

Joseph Locke� (to 1860)

9 Aug 1805

18 Sep 1860

Sir James Weir Hogg,1st baronet

�7 Sep 1790

27 May 1876

31 Mar 1857

Archibald Henry Plantagenet Stuart-

Wortley

26 Jul 1832

30 Apr 1890

29 Apr 1859

Alexander Dundas Wishart Ross Baillie-

Cochrane,later [1880] 1st Baron Lamington�

(to 1868)

24 Nov 1816

15 Feb 1890

22 Oct 1860

George Moffatt

1807

20 Feb 1878

12 Jul 1865

Frederick David Goldsmid

31 Jan 1812

18 Mar 1866

�4 Apr 1866

Julian Goldsmid,later [1878] 3rd baronet

�8 Oct 1838

�7 Jan 1896

CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1868,

BUT REVIVED 1885

�1 Dec 1885

Sir John Henry Kennaway,3rd baronet

6 Jun 1837

�6 Sep 1919

28 Jan 1910

Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell,later [1923] 1st baronet

19 Apr 1871

16 Apr 1956

27 Oct 1931

Cedric Drewe� [kt 1953]

26 May 1896

21 Jan 1971

26 May 1955

Robert Mathew

�9 May 1911

�8 Dec 1966

16 Mar 1967

Peter Frank Hannibal Emery� [kt 1982]

27 Feb 1926

9 Dec 2004

NAME ALTERED TO "TIVERTON

AND HONITON" 1997

Noel Pemberton Billing, MP for Hertford 1916-1921

Billing, as much as any other man, left his mark on British aviation. Unfortunately for him,

he was probably born 50 years ahead of his time.�

He ran away from school at the age of 13, when he stowed away on a freighter bound for

South Africa. When the ship was well out to sea, he gave himself up and the captain�

signed him on as a cabin boy. Four years later he left the sea and became a trooper in the

Natal Mounted Police. He fought in the Boer War, before returning to England to marry.�

Married life did not tie him down, and in 1906 he roamed around America. There the

achievements of the Wright Brothers fired his imagination and he decided to make aviation

his career.��

To this end, he opened an aerodrome at Fambridge in Essex, but aviation at the time was

considered to be a fad and his venture failed. Undaunted he turned to the design and

manufacture of aircraft. One of his planes had the first tricycle undercarriage. In 1908, he

formed a scheme to create the world's first air force, but the War Office dismissed him as

a lunatic. When World War I broke out, he joined the Royal Naval Air Service and organised

the first air raid of WWI, a raid on the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen. He later returned

to England to form Britain's first anti-aircraft unit, consisting of 12 Rolls Royce cars,�

armoured and equipped with guns and searchlights. Its mission was to protect Windsor

Castle.�

In 1916 he resigned his commission and entered the House of Commons as member for

Hertford.�Once in the House, all of his pent-up frustration bubbled up. He thundered for

a more vigorous war effort with greater concentration on air power. He charged Britain's

war leaders with inefficiency, mismanagement and bungling on a grand scale and won so

many supporters that he was able to demand the Air Inquiry of 1916, out of which grew

the Air Board (later the Air Ministry). Around this time, he founded a newspaper named

'The Imperialist'.

Billing had long professed disgust at what he claimed was the degenerate element in the�

British upper crust. On 26 January 1918, 'The Imperialist' carried a leading article which�

shocked the country. It was headed 'As I See It - The First 47,000.'

The subject of the article was a book - known as the 'Black Book' - which supposedly

listed 47,000 British citizens who were allegedly being blackmailed by the Germans because

of their sexual indiscretions. According to Billing, the book had been compiled from reports

of German agents who had infested Britain for the past 20 years. The book, said Billing,

contained the names of Privy Counsellors, dancing girls, youths of the chorus, Cabinet

Ministers and their wives, while poets, diplomats, bankers, editors, newspaper proprietors

and members of His Majesty's Household follow each other with no order of precedence. He

then described in lurid detail the methods used by German agents to trap and demoralise

their victims. He claimed it was part of a fiendish Hun plot to undermine the moral fibre of�

the British race and thus exterminate it. Incredible as the charges seemed, thousands�

believed the story.

In February 1918, Billing changed the name of 'The Imperialist' to 'The Vigilante.' That same�

month, J T Grein's Independent Theatre Society announced a series of performances of

Oscar Wilde's play "Salome.'� This play, which was often performed on the Continent, had�

been banned from public performance in Britain. Grein got around this ban by limiting

performances to members of his society, membership of which was open to anyone paying

a five guinea fee. A classical dancer, Maud Allan, was billed to perform the Dance of the�

Seven Veils.

Such an action infuriated Billing, then on the crest of a moral wave. On 16 February 1918, in

the first issue of his re-named paper, there was a paragraph headed 'The Cult of the Clitoris,'

which included that 'to be a member of Maud Allan's private performance in Oscar Wilde's

'Salome' one has to apply to a Miss Valetta, 9 Duke Street, Adelphi. If Scotland Yard were to

seize the list of these members, I have no doubt they would secure the names of several

thousands of the first 47,000.'

Maud Allan took this to be a suggestion that she was a lesbian and, together with Grein,

issued a writ for criminal libel against Billing, who was arrested pending a hearing at the Old

Bailey.

The trial opened on 29 May 1918. [Sir] Travers Humphreys headed the prosecution while

Billing conducted his own defence. Billing opened with an attack upon the judge, Mr Justice

Darling (later Baron Darling). He claimed that he had criticised Darling in the House of�

Commons on several occasions and that, as a result, the judge would be prejudiced against

him, an assertion which the judge rejected. Billing then launched an attack on Wilde and his

play, insisting that the London presentation of the play would attract many of the '47,000.'

His first witness was a slim, attractive brunette named Eleanor Villiers-Stuart, who claimed

to have seen the 'Black Book.' Pressed by Billing, she reeled off a list of names alleged to be

in it. Then Billing asked, 'Is Mr Justice Darling's name in it?' Her answer was drowned in a

storm of booing, shouting, cheering and clapping. Asked to repeat her answer, she said

'Yes' loudly.

Travers Humphreys protested violently, but Justice Darling declined to take any action,

saying that he cared nothing for any charges Billing might make against him. As the trial

continued, Billing successfully switched the attention of the Court from the main issue of

libel, converting the trial into an attack on Wilde's play. Another of his witnesses was Lord

Alfred Douglas, former lover of Oscar Wilde, who was by now bent on revenge against Wilde.

Despite the judge's repeated warnings that the play had nothing to do with the case, the

jury returned after an absence of 90 minutes with a verdict of 'not guilty,' at which cheering

broke out in the courtroom.

After the trial, Billing's health failed and he resigned his Commons seat in 1921. He continued

to be interested in aviation and it was his company which eventually produced the Spitfire

fighter plane which did so much to aid the British in WWII.

Thomas Plumer Halsey, MP for Hertfordshire 1846-1854

Halsey, together with his wife and infant son, was drowned following the wreck of the�

steamer 'Ercolano' (the modern Italian name for 'Herculaneam') in the Gulf of Genoa on 24�

April 1854.

The following harrowing account, written by a French passenger, appeared in the 'Daily�

News' of 3 May 1854:-

'We left Genoa on the 24th, at 20 minuted to 3 o'clock.� The weather was moderate, and

the sea became calmer as we quitted the Gulf.

'At ten minutes before midnight we were struck by the steamer Sicilia on the larboard side,

between the paddlebox and the stern. The blow came with such force that the Herculaneum

was nearly cut in two, the water entered in torrents, the fires of the engines were instantly

extinguished, and the vessel enveloped in steam. All this was the work of a few seconds.

'At that awful moment I was smoking a cigar below. I rushed on the deck, and saw the�

vessel rapidly going down by the stern. To describe the scene that then followed is

impossible; women and children screaming - fathers seeking their children - husbands

making desperate efforts to save their wives. Oh! I shall never forget the awful heart-

breaking scenes I witnessed.

'The water gained and gained upon us, and at last we all went down! Fortunately, I am a

good swimmer, and after keeping myself above water for about ten minutes, I got hold of a

plank, part of the paddlebox, and ultimately was taken on board the Sicilia, but not before

I had been upwards of an hour in the most perilous of positions.

'Sir Robert Peel [son of the late Prime Minister]� was saved owing to his bravery and sang

froid. The instant the accident happened he rushed to the forecastle, stripped himself,

threw himself into the sea, and swam until taken up by a boat from the Sicilia.

'Whilst swimming I saw some females rise to the surface of the water, and then sink. One

of them, before going down, cried out, "Charles, Charles, my dearest Charles, save me!"

This was twice or thrice repeated - and the unhappy being was launched into eternity.

'An English gentleman of the name of Knight made the most supreme efforts to save his

family, but without success; and his wife, three young children, and their servant, perished

in his very sight. Mr. Knight, I am told, was himself badly wounded, but succeeded in�

escaping a watery grave.

'I cannot give you the names of the passengers, but I am assured amongst those who�

perished was a Mr. Hayer, his wife and servant, Mr. Thomas Halsey, his wife, his son, and

two servants, the Princess Napolitan Cattaneo, and three of her suite.

'Amongst those saved were Mr. Samson, Mr. Rankin, Mr. George Wilkinson, Mr. Edward

Dawnley, Mr. Edward Knight, and Sir Robert Peel. The only female who escaped was a�

servant girl named Marie Ambrusano.

'I declare most solemnly, and in the presence of that God whom I implored when I thought

my earthly career terminated, that the horrible misfortune which has plunged so many

families into mourning, is owing to the criminal negligence of the two captains, neither of

them being on deck at the moment of the accident; all the officers were below, and the

Herculaneum was left to the care of the steersman only.

'I further declare that if the usual precautions had been taken - a simple look-out - the

accident would not have happened; both vessels having their signal lanterns alight, the

sea was not running high, and the night was clear and starlight.'

Halsey's� other son, who could not accompany them because he was at school, later sat�

for Hertfordshire between 1874 and 1885, and Watford between 1885 and 1906. He was

created a baronet in 1920.

John Edmondson Whittaker, MP for Heywood and Radcliffe Jul-Dec 1945

Whittaker committed suicide in December 1945, only a little over four months after being�

elected to Parliament. The report below of the subsequent inquest appeared in the�

'Manchester Guardian' of 12 December 1945:-

'Medical evidence that he was overworked and physically and mentally exhausted was given

at the inquest held at Padiham, near Burnley, yesterday, on Mr. John Edmonson Whittaker,

the Labour M.P. for the Heywood and Radcliffe Division, who was found dead on a lonely�

moor near his Burnley home on Sunday.

'The East Lancashire Coroner, Mr. P. Rowland, returned a verdict that he took his own life

when not of sound mind. Mr. Thomas Whittaker told how his brother had done a tremendous

amount of work for the A.T.C. [Air Transport Command?] in which he was an officer, and the

N.U.T. [National Union of Teachers], in addition to duties as headmaster before being elected

to Parliament. He said that Mr. Whittaker had set off to resume his Parliamentary work in

London last Monday after having had influenza and had got as far as Manchester when he�

collapsed and had to return home.

'The widow said her husband refused to take medical advice to rest. The only troubles he

had were other people's, for he took a tremendous personal interest in his constituency and

answered all letters himself. Evidence was also given that when Mr. Whittaker left home on

Friday for a walk and did not return, unsuccessful search was made until some boys found his

body on the moor on Sunday morning. There were two razors in his pockets. One was blood-

stained and he had injuries to the throat.

'The Coroner said it was a tragedy of ill-health. Mr. Whittaker had worked so hard that he

became a physical and mental wreck. The fear that he could not serve his constituents�

efficiently seemed to have been the last straw.'

Matthew Gregory Lewis, MP for Hindon 1796-1802

The publishing, in 1764, of Horace Walpole's novel "The Castle of Otranto" ushered in a new

genre of literature, known as "Gothic Horror." In his brilliant book "Boys Will be Boys," [I�

cannot recommend this book highly enough] E.S.Turner describes popular fiction

of the early nineteenth century as "steeped in darkness and diablerie. Spectres gliding in a

green phosphorescence, hags picking over the bones of charnel houses, death's-heads in

closets, heirs to great estates chained in dungeons, forests stuffed with robbers and�

werewolves, graves creaking open in the moonlight to let the vampires out - these were�

the stock-in-trade of the Gothic novelist��..in rising spate came romances set in clammy�

castles in the German forests or in convents ruled by degenerate nuns who wielded the

knout upon their novices. The atmosphere of all of them was oppressive. Neither indoors�

nor outdoors was there a stirring of fresh air. In the turrets of castles censers smoked�

before unholy altars; no one opened a window, unless to jump from it. Out of doors the air

was foul with the reek of gibbets."

Perhaps the most lurid of all Gothic tales is "Ambrosio; or the Monk" written by Matthew�

Gregory Lewis and published in March 1796, when its author was still only 20 years old. The�

book is generally referred to as "The Monk" and Lewis was for the rest of his life known as

"Monk" Lewis.

Briefly, the plot of the book is that the main protagonist is a monk named Ambrosio, whose

past and parentage are mysteries. He occupies the position of abbot in a Capuchin�

monastery in medieval Madrid. He is approached by a young novice named Rosario, who�

reveals that he is really a woman named Matilda. She explains that due to her love for him

she has disguised herself as a novice to be closer to him. The two soon begin a sexual

relationship, although Ambrosio is filled with self-loathing for his actions. Later, while

visiting a nearby convent, Ambrosio discovers that one of the nuns, Agnes, plans to elope

with her lover. Ambrosio informs on her, and the prioress of the convent punishes Agnes

by imprisoning her in a dungeon beneath the convent. Ambrosio now falls in love with�

Antonia, daughter of Donna Elvira. With the help of Matilda, who is conversant with black

magic, Ambrosio summons a demon to help him in his plan to debauch Antonia. Ambrosio

kills Donna Elvira and abducts Antonia. Back at the convent, Lorenzo, Agnes' brother,

accuses the prioress of murdering his sister. Hearing this accusation, an angry mob storms

the convent, slaughtering the prioress and many innocent nuns. During this attack,

Lorenzo searches for his sister and finds her, close to death, clutching the decomposing

body of her dead child. Lorenzo hears a girl screaming nearby and finds the body of

Antonia, who has been ravished and stabbed - he also sees Ambrosio fleeing the scene.

Lorenzo informs on Ambrosio to the Inquisition, and Ambrosio is sentenced to be burned

at the stake, but Ambrosio sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for his freedom. The

Devil saves him from the flames, but then reveals to Ambrosio his true identity and those

of Donna Elvira and Antonia. Yes, you've guessed it - in killing Donna Elvira and raping

Antonia he has killed his mother and committed incest with his sister. Finally, Ambrosio

is cast into Hell.

Lewis was the son of a government official who owned large sugar plantations in Jamaica.

Reared in luxury, he was sent to Weimar to study European politics and the German

language, in anticipation of a career in the diplomatic service. Here he was surrounded

by the cream of German literature, including Goethe, Schiller and Wieland. On his return

to England, Lewis' head was filled with romantic legends of haunted castles, robber barons,

dungeons and maidens in distress. He ransacked the family library for books on witchcraft

and demons. In May 1794, he was sent to The Hague as a junior attach� at the British

Embassy, and, while there, aged only 19, he wrote 'The Monk.'

When the book was published in March 1796, it caused a furore. Although this was a

period of barbarous sports and swaggering bucks, the story was still a heady brew.�

There was a public outcry against the violence and sexual content of the book, and in

particular its perceived blasphemy. Naturally, everyone wanted to read it and the book

ran through many editions - it has been described as the first 'bestseller' in English�

literature.

In May 1796, Lewis was returned to Parliament as MP for Hindon. This seat was largely

under the control of a previous member, William Beckford, who had resigned it after

gossip accused him of seducing William Courtenay, later the 9th Earl of Devon. This is

somewhat ironic, as there seems little doubt that Lewis, too, was homosexual.

Debate over the book raged. The Critical Review warned parents they 'might well turn

pale' if they saw the book in the hands of their children. It was, they said, 'poison for

youth and provocation to debauchery.' Another literary journal stated that 'obscenity

corrupts the entire narrative�..the book reeks with maddening orgies and panders

to lust and licensed blasphemy.' When Lewis took his seat in the House of Commons,

one outraged member asked how 'the portrayer of lewd and systematic seduction'�

dared show his face within the House.

About a year after the book's publication, Lewis was forced to revise it by eliminating

some passages. By then, Lewis had many powerful friends and supporters, including�

Mrs. Jordan, actress and mistress of the Duke of Clarence. For her, Lewis wrote

'The Castle Spectre,' a drama replete with ghosts, murders and a missing heiress.

Another of his plays, 'The Captive, or the Private Mad-House,' was written, according

to Lewis, to expose the atrocious conditions in private lunatic asylums of the time.�

When it opened in March 1803, the audience was reported as becoming 'hysterical�

with horror.' According to a contemporary account, a number of people were

'carried screaming from the theatre.'

Some time around 1804, Lewis became infatuated with a youth named Kelly. He

adopted him and found him a government post, but Kelly repaid Lewis by forging his

signature on a bank draft, with the result that Kelly was thrown into prison.�

In 1811, Lewis produced his last work, 'Timour the Tartar,' a play filled with glittering

pageantry, cavalry charges, gold helmets, jewelled turbans and harem scenes in

which scores of scantily-clad girls appeared. The play was a huge success, leading

to a number of parodies such as 'Timour, Cream of the Tartars.'

After his father died in 1812 leaving a huge fortune to his already wealthy son, Lewis

travelled throughout Europe, visiting Byron and Shelley, and being feted by the

English colonies throughout Europe. In 1816, he paid his first visit to the Jamaican

sugar plantations that formed the basis of the family wealth. Here he was horrified

at the wretched condition of the slaves on his plantations and instituted a number

of humane reforms, such as the abolition of flogging. Early in 1818, he again visited

Jamaica. When he boarded ship to sail home to England, however, yellow fever had

broken out aboard the ship. On 14 May 1818, Lewis died from its effects and was

buried at sea. In a final twist which would no doubt have appealed to Lewis' sense

of the macabre, it is reported that the chains wrapped around his coffin to ensure that�

it sank slipped off, with the result that the coffin rose to the surface and was last seen

drifting back towards Jamaica.

Alfred Peter Hillier, MP for Hitchin 1910-1911

Hillier spent a large portion of his life in South Africa, where he served as a trooper during the�

Kaffir War of 1877-1879, and was subsequently involved in the famous Jameson Raid in 1895.

After failing to be elected for Stockport in 1900 and for Luton in 1906, he was successful in

Hitchin in January 1910. Hillier committed suicide in October 1911. The following report of the�

subsequent inquest appeared in 'The Scotsman' on 27 October 1911:-

'An inquest was held at Westminster yesterday on the death of Dr Alfred Peter Hillier. Member

of Parliament for the Hitchin Division of Herts, who was found dead with his throat cut in the

bathroom of his residence, 20 Eccleston Square, S.W., on Tuesday.

'Mr. Sidney Hillier, brother of the deceased, a doctor in practice at Stowmarket, Suffolk, said

that when he last saw the deceased three weeks ago he looked jaded. He constantly did the

work of two men.

'The widow said that Dr Hillier had lately been worried by the illness of a son, and his�

Parliamentary work had over-strained him completely. On Tuesday he appeared as usual in the�

morning, though very tired. He had lately suffered from sleeplessness. About midday he said

men working outside the house were jeering at him, which was pure delusion. He went to the

dressing-room, and was found there dead.

'Other evidence showed that Dr Hillier was found lying partly dressed in the bath with a razor

beside him. Appearances suggested that he had cut his throat deeply while standing before

the mirror, and had lain down in the bath.

'A verdict of "Suicide while temporarily insane" was returned.'

Edward Anthony James Lytton, styled Viscount Knebworth, MP for Hitchin 1931-1933

Viscount Knebworth, son and heir of the 2nd Earl of Lytton, was killed in a plane crash in

1933. The following report appeared in 'The Times' on 2 May 1933:-

'Lord Knebworth, son and heir of Lord Lytton, and Leading Aircraftman R. Harrison, were

killed in an aeroplane accident at Hendon last night, while practising for the Auxiliary Air Force

display to be given next Sunday.

'The accident was announced by the Air Ministry in the following statement:-

"The Air Ministry regret to announce that Pilot Officer Viscount Knebworth, M.P., Auxiliary

Air Force, the pilot, and No. 801246 Leading Aircraftman Ralph Harrison lost their lives in an�

accident which occurred at Hendon tonight to a Hart aircraft of No. 601 Squadron, Hendon."

'Our Hendon Correspondent telegraphed last night:- "The machine belonged to one of two

squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force - the other being No. 600 (City of London) (Bomber)

Squadron, which also has its aerodrome at Hendon - which since Easter have been making�

practice flights in preparation for their display, which is to be given next Sunday. They were

practising as usual to-night, and the accident happened on the last flight of the evening.

"A woman who was watching said: 'I was waiting for a friend when I noticed nine aeroplanes

coming over the aerodrome. They all dipped as though they were saluting, and one of them

seemed to be lower than the others. It suddenly dived and hit the earth. There was a�

slight explosion and the next moment the machine was in flames.'

"The aerodrome fire brigade and ambulance rushed to the machine but could do nothing to

save the occupants. The bodies were taken to the Hendon mortuary. A roll call of the

members of the squadron was held before the men left the aerodrome, but no statement on

the accident was made."

'Another account states that chemical extinguishers had to be used before the firemen could

get close enough to drag Lord Knebworth and his companion from the wreckage.

'Lady Lytton was at the Opera when the news of her son's death was broken to her. She

left immediately with Lord Lytton.'

Sir James Blindell, MP for Holland with Boston 1929-1937

Blindell was killed in a car accident in May 1937. The following report appeared in 'The Times'

on 12 May 1937:-

'The skidding of a car when its driver attempted to avoid killing two dogs in the road was�

stated at the inquest at Stickford, Lincs, yesterday, to have led to the death of Sir James

Blindell, M.P., Junior Lord of the Treasury, who was killed when the car overturned on Monday.

�

The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and exonerated the driver.

'William Weston, a farmer, said that the car was proceeding at 30 to 35 miles an hour. Two

dogs were on the road, and the driver pulled to his offside. The car swerved into the grass,

overturned, and slid along on its side.

'The driver, Marshall John Woodall, 19, of Grimsby, said that he sounded his hooter, but the

dogs would not move. Not wishing to kill them, he braked. The car swung over to the right,

skidded, and rolled over once. Sir James Blindell was sitting by his side. The condition of the�

road was bad as there was a camber, but his brakes were good.

'A police officer stated that the condition of the tyres was good and the road surface was of

nonskid material.

'The Coroner, Dr. F.J. Walker, said that the action of the driver in endeavouring to avoid�

running over the dogs was understandable.'