This article about records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom and of England includes a variety of lists of MPs by age, period and other circumstances of service, familiar sets, ethnic or religious minorities, physical attributes, and circumstances of their deaths.
Age
Youngest
Prior to the Acts of Union, the youngest known person to have sat in the
House of Commons of England
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Devon
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in 1667, "probably without a contest", at the age of 13. He sat in the House for three years, before being elevated to the House of Lords upon his father's death. He is said to have been "moderately active during his short period of membership, sitting on seven committees".
Monck was one of many members returned underage in the late seventeenth century, with around ten underage members in each of the Parliaments of 1690 and 1695, many aristocrats. In response to this, the
Parliamentary Elections Act 1695
The Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 ( 7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 25) was an Act of the Parliament of England regulating elections to the English House of Commons.
Provisions
Section 3 of the Act required that an election to a county constituency had ...
established 21 as the minimum age, although this was not reliably enforced. Until the
Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electo ...
, underage MPs were seldom unseated. For example,
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled '' The Honourable'' from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-ri ...
became an MP aged 19 in 1768, and
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn (20 February 1816 – 12 August 1854), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Background
Born at Carlton Gardens, London, Jocelyn was the eldest son and heir apparent of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of R ...
Reform Act of 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electo ...
was William Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, elected at Malton in the 1832 general election aged 20 and 11 months. His election, whilst theoretically illegal, was unchallenged; Malton was a pocket borough controlled by his family, and the matter was viewed as academic as he would be of full age by the time Parliament assembled.
After Wentworth-FitzWilliam, the youngest MP elected was
James Dickson James or Jim Dickson may refer to:
Politicians
*James Dickson (Scottish politician) (c. 1715–1771), MP for Lanark Burghs 1768–1771
*James Dickson (New South Wales politician) (1813–1863), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
*Ja ...
, who was elected as a Liberal at a by-election for the Borough of Dungannon on 25 June 1880. He was born on 19 April 1859, and so was aged 21 years 67 days. The youngest female MP was Bernadette Devlin, elected on 17 April 1969 from Mid Ulster, aged 21 years 359 days. Until 1970, the minimum age to sit in parliament was 21. In 1970, the minimum age was lowered to 18. Both records are now jointly held by Mhairi Black, who was aged 20 years and 237 days old at the time of her election to the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South in the 2015 general election.
Oldest
The oldest serving MP whose exact dates are known was Samuel Young (1822–1918), who was MP for East Cavan from 1892 (when aged 70), until his death at the age of 96 years 63 days.
Oldest debuts
Perhaps the oldest parliamentary debut of all time was that of Warren Lisle, believed born in 1695, who was elected on 7 September 1780 during that year's general election as MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis as ''locum tenens'', aged reportedly 85. He stood down on 21 November to allow his kinsman,
Gabriel Steward
Gabriel Steward (1731–1792) was an East India Company official and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1778 and 1790.
Steward was the son of Gabriel Steward and his wife Sarah Wrangham. His family was from Scotland and lived a ...
, to stand for the seat after completing his own term as mayor of the borough (when he had been the local returning officer). He died in July 1788 aged reportedly 93.
The oldest debut where a confirmed birth date is known was made by Sir Robert Pullar (born 18 February 1828) who was elected at an unopposed by-election for Perth on 12 February 1907 aged 78 years and 359 days. He retired at the
January 1910 general election
The January 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. The government called the election in the midst of a constitutional crisis caused by the rejection of the People's Budget by the Conservative-dominat ...
.
The oldest debut at a general election to the UK Parliament was possibly by Bernard Kelly (born 1808) who was elected MP for South Donegal in
1885
Events
January–March
* January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam.
* January 4 &n ...
in the year of his 77th birthday. He died in office on 1 January 1887 aged 78.
The oldest woman at first entry to the Commons was Dr Ethel Bentham (born 5 January 1861) who was elected MP for Islington East at the 1929 general election aged 68 years and 145 days. She died in office, the first woman to do so, in 1931.
Mick Whitley
Michael Whitley (born 17 November 1951) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead since 2019. He is a member of the Labour Party.
Early life and career
Whitley was born in St Catherine's Hospital, ...
Father of the House
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(not necessarily contemporaneous with seniority)
:1 Died in office
:2 Retired
:3 Defeated when seeking re-election
Longest-lived MP
Although his alleged birth year predates parish registers and civil birth registration, William Badger, who was member for
Winchester
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in the 1597 parliament of England, is supported by a
History of Parliament
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biographer to have been a centenarian, being established to have been born 'circa 1523' and to have been buried on 18 January 1629, aged at least 105 years.BADGER, William (c.1523–1629), of Winchester, Hants. ''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
Ronald Atkins
Ronald Henry Atkins (13 June 1916 – 30 December 2020) was a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Preston North for two terms: from 1966 until 1970, and from February 1974 until 1979. His career in British ...
(13 June 1916 – 30 December 2020), member for Preston North from 1966 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1979, was the longest-lived former MP whose birth date is registered. His daughter
Charlotte Atkins
Charlotte Jean Scott Atkins (born 24 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands from 1997 until 2010.
Early life
Atkins is the daughter of Ron Atkins, the left wing f ...
also served as an MP from 1997 to 2010. On 30 August 2018, he surpassed the previous record set by
Theodore Cooke Taylor
Theodore Cooke Taylor (3 August 1850 – 19 October 1952) was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was best known for pioneering profit-sharing in his business activities and for leading a movement against the opium trade.
Taylor w ...
(3 August 1850 – 19 October 1952), member for Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth from 1900 to 1918, who had lived to be 102 years and 77 days old. Atkins died aged 104 years and 200 days old.
Other ex-MPs who have reached their centenary are Nathaniel Micklem (1853–1954), Sir Harry Brittain (1873–1974), Sir
George Ernest Schuster
Sir George Ernest Schuster (25 April 1881 – 5 June 1982) was a British barrister, financier, colonial administrator and Liberal politician.
Biography
He was the son of Ernest Schuster, a King's Counsel, and was educated at Charterhouse School ...
(1881–1982),
Manny Shinwell
Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, (18 October 1884 – 8 May 1986) was a British politician who served as a government minister under Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee. A member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament (MP) ...
Jack Oldfield
John Richard Anthony Oldfield (5 July 189911 December 1999) was a British landowner and politician.
The son of Major H.E. Oldfield of the Royal Field Artillery, his father was killed in action two days before his first birthday during the Sec ...
(1899–1999, who outlived his parliamentary service by 68 years),
Hartley Shawcross
Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War ...
Patrick Duffy
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(born 1920, and the only centenarian former MP currently living).
Frank James
Alexander Franklin James (January 10, 1843 – February 18, 1915) was a Confederate soldier and guerrilla; in the post-Civil War period, he was an outlaw. The older brother of outlaw Jesse James, Frank was also part of the James–Younger ...
, who was elected MP for
Walsall
Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield.
Walsall is th ...
at the 1892 general election, but unseated on petition in November that year, died at 102 years and 135 days old; James's record was surpassed by Atkins on 27 October 2018.
, Sir Patrick Duffy is the oldest living former MP (born 17 June 1920, age ).
Jill Knight
Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, (; 9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. ...
(9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was the longest-lived female former MP, aged 98 years, 271 days.
Elizabeth Shields
Elizabeth Lois Shields (née Teare; born 27 February 1928) is a British politician.
Shields studied at the University of York and became a teacher and lecturer. She served as a councillor on Ryedale District Council from 1980 to 2019 for Norto ...
Hertford
Hertford ( ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census.
The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, n ...
One known contender for this record for whom both birth and death dates are known, in the Parliament of England, was
James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley
James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley KB (1 March 1605 – 5 November 1624) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1624.
Life
Wriothesley was the eldest son of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and ...
, who while still a minor was MP for
Callington
Callington ( kw, Kelliwik) is a civil parish and town in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom about north of Saltash and south of Launceston.
Callington parish had a population of 4,783 in 2001, according to the 2001 census. This had ...
in 1621–1622, and for
Winchester
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from early in 1624 until his death from illness on military service in the Netherlands on 1 November 1624 aged 19 years and 251 days.
Based only on evidence from his university entrance records, Peter Legh, MP for Newton from 1640, may have been aged 19 or younger when he died after a duel on 2 February 1642, but his precise birthdate is not known.
Geoffrey Palmer, MP for Ludgershall from March 1660, died in office on 31 October 1661 aged 19 years and at least 245 days, based on his baptism registration (28 February 1642). History of Parliament article
After the setting of the youngest age of candidacy at 21, the youngest MP to die in office was George Charles Grey who was elected MP for
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census re ...
in 1941 and was killed in action on 30 July 1944 aged 25 years 240 days. Throughout this period he was the
Baby of the House
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.
The shortest-lived female MP, Lady Cynthia Mosley, MP for Stoke 1929–1931, died in 1933 aged 34. The youngest female MP to die in office was
Jo Cox
Helen Joanne Cox ( Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party.
Born in Ba ...
, MP for
Batley and Spen
Batley and Spen is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
The current MP is Kim Leadbeater, a Labour politician, elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin. The seat has returned Labour MPs since 1997.
Constit ...
since
2015
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, who was murdered on 16 June 2016, 6 days before her 42nd birthday.
Period of service
Longest
Sir Francis Knollys (also the oldest ever sitting MP) was first elected as MP for
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
in 1575 at the age of around 25 and was MP for
Reading
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For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spell ...
at the time of his death in 1648, a period spanning 73 years, although there were eight periods, amounting to 27 entire years (1590–1592, 1594–1596, 1599–1600, 1602–1603, 1605–1613, 1615–1619, 1627 and 1630–1639) in which the Parliament of England did not meet, and his period of service totalled little more than 23 years.
The longest span of service of an MP since the start of the 20th century was
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
who was first elected on 1 October 1900 and left the House of Commons on 25 September 1964, a period of 63 years 360 days. His service was not continuous, as he was not an MP for a spell in 1908 and between 1922 and 1924.
Charles Pelham Villiers was the longest continuously serving MP. He was elected in 1835 and remained an MP continuously for over 62 years until his death on 16 January 1898, aged 96 years 13 days. Since the start of the 20th century, the longest continuous service by an MP has been 51 years 80 days by
Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 191617 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath a ...
, who sat from 1950 to 2001.
The longest continuous service record for a female MP is held by
Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham, formerly Peckham, since 1982. A member of the Labour Party, she has served in various Cabi ...
, first elected in October 1982. The longest total service record for a female MP is held by Dame Margaret Beckett, who served for 4 years and 7 months between 1974 and 1979 and was then re-elected in June 1983. Beckett also holds the record for the longest span of service for a woman.
Shortest
There are cases of MPs being elected posthumously; Edward Legge (1710–1747) was elected unopposed as MP for Portsmouth on 15 December 1747, four days before news arrived that he had died 87 days previously in the
West Indies
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. In 1780 John Kirkman was elected as MP for the City of London despite dying before polls closed.
In more recent times, members have died after polling, but before the declaration of the results. In
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
, Thomas Higgins was declared elected for the seat of North Galway, even though he had died earlier that morning, after polling day. More recently, in 1945 Sir
Edward Taswell Campbell
Sir Edward Taswell Campbell, 1st Baronet, KStJ Justice of the Peace, JP (9 April 1879 – 17 July 1945) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Ancestry
He was the son of Lieutenant colonel (United Ki ...
at
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, c ...
and
Leslie Pym
Leslie Ruthven Pym (24 May 1884 – 17 July 1945) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
The son of the Right Reverend Walter Ruthven Pym, Bishop of Bombay, Pym was educated at Bedford School and Magdalene College, Cam ...
at
Monmouth
Monmouth ( , ; cy, Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is a town and community in Wales. It is situated where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border. Monmouth is northeast of Cardiff, and west of London. ...
died after polling, but nine days before the declaration of the results. Both were declared elected posthumously, and both had been MPs for a number of years.
Noel Skelton
Archibald Noel Skelton (1 July 1880 – 22 November 1935) was a Scottish Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual.
Early life
The son of Sir John Skelton KCB LLD, Skelton was born on 1 July 1880 at Hermitage of Braid in Edinburgh a ...
is another example in 1935.
The shortest non-posthumous service was that of
Alfred Dobbs
Alfred James Dobbs (18 June 1882 – 27 July 1945) was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He died in a car accident the day after he had been elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Smethwick. His one day as an MP remains ...
, who was declared elected MP for Smethwick on 26 July 1945 and was killed the following day in a car accident on the way to take his seat.
The shortest service for women MPs has been 92 days in the case of both Ruth Dalton, who was MP for
Bishop Auckland
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Much of the town's early history surr ...
Margo MacDonald
Margo Symington MacDonald (''née'' Aitken; 19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014) was a Scottish people, Scottish politician, teacher and Television presenter, broadcaster. She was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (United Kingdo ...
For a comprehensive list of MPs since 1900 with less than 365 days total service see
*
List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service
List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service is an annotated list of the Members of the United Kingdom Parliament since 1900 having total service of less than 365 days.
''Nominal service'' is the number of days elapsed between the Decla ...
Members who never took their seats
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John Finucane
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...
a, 2019–
*
Órfhlaith Begley
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a, 2018–
*
Chris Hazzard
Chris Hazzard (born 20 August 1984) is an Irish politician from Sinn Féin who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Down since the 2017 United Kingdom general election, when he defeated incumbent Margaret Ritchie of the Social D ...
a, 2017–
*
Elisha McCallion
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a, 2017–2019
*
Barry McElduff
Columba Barry McElduff
(; born 16 August 1966) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the West Tyrone UK parliament constituency. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Irelan ...
a, 2017–2018
*
Mickey Brady
Mickey Brady (born 7 October 1950) is an Irish republican politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newry and Armagh since 2015. He was previously a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland for Newry and Armagh f ...
Paul Maskey
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a, 2011–
*
Michelle Gildernew
Michelle Gildernew (born 28 March 1970) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, having been re-elected in June 2017 after previously holding ...
Conor Murphy
Conor Terence Murphy ( Irish: Conchúr Ó Murchú; born 10 July 1963) is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician who is the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland for Newry and Armagh. He served as the Member of Parliament ...
Owen Carron
Owen Gerard Carron (born 9 February 1953) is an Irish republican activist who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1981 to 1983.
Early life
Carron was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. He qualified as a teac ...
a, 1981–83
*
Bobby Sands
Robert Gerard Sands ( ga, Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member (and leader in the Maze prison) of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison M ...
Alfred Dobbs
Alfred James Dobbs (18 June 1882 – 27 July 1945) was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He died in a car accident the day after he had been elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Smethwick. His one day as an MP remains ...
c, 1945
*
Joseph Bell
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James Annand
James Annand (1843 – 6 February 1906) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor and Liberal Party politician.
Born at Longside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the eldest son of blacksmith Robert Annand and his wife Margaret Moir, James Annand b ...
c, 1906
* Thomas Higginse, 1906
* Henry Comptonf, 1905–06 (shortest serving MP – 46 days – whose tenure was not ended by his death)
*
Joseph Andrews
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f, 1905–06
Notes:
:a Abstentionist
:b In prison at time of election
:c Died before taking seat
:d Ruled ineligible
:e Elected posthumously
:f By-election win was superseded by subsequent general election, without Parliament sitting in the meantime
MPs who never won an election
On rare occasions the election winner may be disqualified, either by an
election court
In United Kingdom election law, election court is a special court convened to hear a petition against the result of a local government or parliamentary election. The court is created to hear the individual case, and ceases to exist when it ha ...
or by the House of Commons, and the seat awarded to the runner-up.
: Malcolm St. Clair: Bristol South-East, 1961–63
:
Charles Beattie
Charles Beattie (3 August 1899 – 10 March 1958) was a Northern Irish farmer and auctioneer. Active in the Ulster Farmers' Union and in Unionist associations, he achieved senior office in the Orange Order and the Royal Black Institution and s ...
: Mid-Ulster, 1955–56
MPs elected to two or more constituencies simultaneously
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Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of t ...
: elected in 1880 General election for three separate seats –
Cork City
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Richard Hazleton
Richard Hazleton (5 December 1879 – 26 January 1943) was an Irish nationalist politician of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Galway from 1906 to 1918, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the Unit ...
: from 9 December 1910 until 23 February 1911, when he was unseated on a petition from the second seat, he was MP for North Galway and North Louth.
* At the 1918 election, 4
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gr ...
candidates were each elected to two seats:
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Joseph Griffith ( ga, Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha; 31 March 1871 – 12 August 1922) was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin. He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that pro ...
(Cavan East and Tyrone North West),
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (, ; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of govern ...
(Clare East and Mayo East), Liam Mellows (Galway East and Meath North) and
Eoin MacNeill
Eoin MacNeill ( ga, Eoin Mac Néill; born John McNeill; 15 May 1867 – 15 October 1945) was an Irish scholar, Irish language enthusiast, Gaelic revivalist, nationalist and politician who served as Minister for Education from 1922 to 1925, Cea ...
(Londonderry City and National University of Ireland). However, none of them took their seat in the House of Commons, instead attending the
First Dáil
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.
MPs who have sat for three or more different constituencies
In modern times, it is unusual for an MP to represent more than one or two constituencies during their career, although before the 20th century it was quite common. MPs whose seats were altered purely by boundary changes are not listed.
:
Michael Ancram
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, Baron Kerr of Monteviot, (born 7 July 1945), commonly known as Michael Ancram, is a British politician and life peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to ...
: Berwick and East Lothian 1; Edinburgh South 1; Devizes 5
: Ralph Assheton: Rushcliffe 1; City of London 2; Blackburn West 5
: Walter Ayles: Bristol North1; Southall 4; Hayes and Harlington 3
: Kenneth Baker: Acton 1; St. Marylebone 2; Mole Valley 5
:
Arthur Balfour
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: Hertford 4; Manchester East 1; City of London 1
: Joseph Braithwaite: Hillsborough 1; Holderness 2; Bristol North West 1
: James, Lord Brudenell: Marlborough; Fowey 2; North Northamptonshire 5
:
John Calcraft (the younger)
John Calcraft the Younger (16 October 1765 – 11 September 1831), of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.
The illegitimate son and principal heir of John Calcraft the Elder, a politician w ...
: Wareham 4; Rochester 4; Dorset 10
:
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
: Oldham 4; Manchester North West 1; Dundee 1; Epping 2 Woodford 2
:
William Clark
William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Miss ...
: Nottingham South 1; East Surrey 4; Croydon South 5
: Roger Conant: Chesterfield 1; Bewdley 2; Rutland and Stamford 5
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Geoffrey de Freitas
Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas (7 April 1913 – 10 August 1982) was a British politician and diplomat. For 31 years a Labour Member of Parliament, he also served as British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later as President of ...
: Nottingham Central 4; Lincoln 3; Kettering 5
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Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation ...
George Galloway
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: Glasgow Hillhead/Kelvin 4; Bethnal Green and Bow 4; Bradford West 1
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William Ewart Gladstone
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: Newark 1; Oxford University 1; South Lancashire 2; Greenwich 4; Midlothian 5
: Thomas Graves: Okehampton 4; Windsor 4; Milborne Port 5
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Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC (18 October 1865 – 1 June 1946) was a British politician in the Conservative Party whose career was cut short by losing a string of Parliamentary elections.
Biography
Griffith-Boscawen was born ...
: Tunbridge 1; Dudley 1; Taunton 1
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Ray Gunter
Raymond Jones Gunter (30 August 1909 – 12 April 1977) was a British Labour Party politician. He was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Sala ...
: South-East Essex 2; Doncaster 1; Southwark 3
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Edward Hemmerde
Edward George Hemmerde, KC (13 November 1871 – 24 May 1948) was an English rower, barrister, politician, and Georgist.
Education, the Law and family
Hemmerde was born at Peckham, south London, the son of James Godfrey Hemmerde and his wife F ...
: East Denbighshire 4; North West Norfolk 2; Crewe 1
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Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate terms as Leader of t ...
: Barnard Castle 4; Widnes 1; Newcastle East 1; Burnley 1; Clay Cross 10
: Austin Hudson: Islington East 1; Hackney North 1; Lewisham North 10
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Roy Jenkins
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Harcourt Johnstone
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Early life and education
Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American ...
Willesden West 1; South Shields 1; Middlesbrough West 10
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William Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, (15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957) was a British Liberal Party, National Labour and then Labour Party politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.
Backgro ...
: Hartlepool 1; Preston 4; Ashton-under-Lyne 6
: Richard Kidston Law: Kingston upon Hull South West 1; Kensington South 2; Haltemprice 6
: Geoffrey Lloyd: Birmingham Ladywood 1; Birmingham King's Norton 2; Sutton Coldfield 5
: Walter Long: Wiltshire North 2; Devizes 1; Liverpool West Derby 4; Bristol South 4; Dublin County South 4; Strand 2; Westminster St George's 6
: Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes: New Romney 3; Evesham 9; Barnstaple 9, Westbury 3
: Leonard Lyle: Stratford 1; Epping 5; Bournemouth 6
: Charles MacAndrew: Kilmarnock 1; Glasgow Partick 4; Bute and North Ayrshire 5
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Ramsay MacDonald
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James Patrick Mahon
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Personal life
Mahon, the eldest of ...
: Clare 8; Ennis 1; County Carlow 10
: Lord John Manners: Newark 1; Colchester 4; North Leicestershire 4; Melton 6
: Frank Markham: Chatham 5; Nottingham South 1; Buckingham 5
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Fergus Montgomery
Sir William Fergus Montgomery (25 November 1927 – 19 March 2013) was a British Conservative member of parliament for three separate periods, each time representing a different constituency.
Early life
Born in South Shields, County Durham, Mon ...
: Newcastle East 1; Brierley Hill 2; Altrincham and Sale 2
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Hyacinth Morgan
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Nature Plants
* Hyacinth (plant), genus ''Hyacinthus''
** '' Hyacinthus orientalis'', common hyacinth
* Grape hyacinth, ''Muscari'', a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia
* Hyacinth bean, ''Lab ...
: Camberwell North West 5; Rochdale 4; Warrington 5
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John Fletcher Moulton
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton, (18 November 1844 – 9 March 1921) was an English mathematician, barrister, judge and Liberal politician. He was a Cambridge Apostle.
Early life
Moulton was born in Madeley, Shropshire, England, as ...
: Clapham 1 South Hackney 1, Launceston 5
:
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling (7 April 1883 – 17 April 1971) was a British Labour Party politician.
He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered ...
: Doncaster 1; Wentworth 2; Dearne Valley 5
: Arthur Palmer: Wimbledon 1; Cleveland 1; Bristol Central 2; Bristol North East 2
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Sir Robert Peel
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: Cashel 4; Chippenham 4; Oxford University 4; Westbury 4; Tamworth 10
: Charles Simmons: Birmingham Erdington1; Birmingham West 2; Brierley Hill 1
:
Frank Soskice
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.
Background and education
Soskice's father, was from a family of Russian Jewish merchants. David Soskice became involved in ...
: Birkenhead East 2; Sheffield Neepsend 2; Newport 5
: John Strachey: Aston 1; Dundee 2, Dundee West 10
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Earl Gower
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: St Mawes 4; Newcastle-Under-Lyme 4; Staffordshire 5
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Shirley Williams
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, (' Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from ...
: Hitchin 2; Hertford and Stevenage 1; Crosby 1
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John Wilmot
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: Fulham East 1; Kennington 4; Deptford 5
: Sir Joseph Yorke: Reigate 7; Saint Germans 3; Sandwich 4 Reigate 10
Notes:
:1 defeated
:2 seat abolished
:3 resigned
:4 sought another constituency
:5 retired
:6 inherited/raised to peerage
:7 resigned but returned to constituency at later date
:8 unseated on petition; elected at a later date, then retired
:9 unseated for bribery
:10 died
MPs who have made more than one comeback
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William Vesey-FitzGerald
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,
Lord Charles Beresford
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Beresford was the second son of ...
and
Arthur Henderson
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were exceptional in achieving it on no fewer than four occasions each: Vesey-FitzGerald over a span of 18 years through three
by-election
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s and one general election, Beresford over a span of 25 years after voluntarily resigning or retiring from the House at stages of his naval career, Henderson invariably at by-elections following serial general election defeats in previous seats, in the shorter span of 14 years. A woman has never come back more than once. Note that George Galloway transferred to a different constituency and party in 2005 but did not have any period of absence from the Commons at that time. Having left Parliament in 2010 he made a comeback at a by-election in a third constituency in 2012.
: William McCrea: 2000 b, 2005
:
Michael Ancram
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: 1979, 1992
:
Fergus Montgomery
Sir William Fergus Montgomery (25 November 1927 – 19 March 2013) was a British Conservative member of parliament for three separate periods, each time representing a different constituency.
Early life
Born in South Shields, County Durham, Mon ...
: 1967 b, October 1974
:
Tony Benn
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Alec Douglas-Home
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and being The 14th Earl of Home from 1951 till 1963, was a British Conservative politician who s ...
: 1950, 1963 b
:
Frank Soskice
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.
Background and education
Soskice's father, was from a family of Russian Jewish merchants. David Soskice became involved in ...
Cahir Healy
Cahir Healy (2 December 1877 – 8 February 1970) was an Irish politician.
Background
Born in Mountcharles in County Donegal, he became a journalist working on various local papers. He joined Sinn Féin on its foundation in 1905. He later cam ...
: 1931 b, 1950
:
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as " Supermac", ...
Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt Johnstone (19 May 18951 March 1945), nicknamed Crinks, was a British Liberal Party politician.
Early life and education
Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American ...
: 1931, 1940 b
:
Cuthbert Headlam
Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet, (27 April 1876 – 27 February 1964) was a British Conservative politician.
Career
Born in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, the third of the five sons of Francis John Headlam (1829–1908), stipendiary m ...
Somerville Hastings
Somerville Hastings, FRCS (4 March 1878 – 7 July 1967) was a British surgeon and Labour Party politician. ODNB article by John Stewart'Hastings, Somerville (1878–1967)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200 ...
: 1929, 1945
:
George Isaacs
George Alfred Isaacs JP DL (28 May 1883 – 26 April 1979) was a British politician and trades unionist who served in the government of Clement Attlee.
Isaacs was born in Finsbury to a Methodist family. He married Flora Beasley (1884–196 ...
: 1929, 1939 b
:
William Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, (15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957) was a British Liberal Party, National Labour and then Labour Party politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.
Backgro ...
: 1929, 1939 b
:
James Chuter Ede
James Chuter Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede of Epsom, (11 September 1882 – 11 November 1965), was a British teacher, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He served as Home Secretary under Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951, becom ...
: 1929, 1935
:
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British politician who held a variety of senior positions in the UK Cabinet as member of the Labour Party. During the inter-war period, he was Minis ...
Arthur Henderson
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William Wedgwood Benn
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, (10 May 1877 – 17 November 1960) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. A decorated Royal Air Force officer, he was Secretary ...
: 1928 b, 1937 b
:
Manny Shinwell
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Edward Cadogan
Sir Edward Cecil George Cadogan, KBE, CB (15 November 1880 – 13 September 1962) was a British, Conservative politician.
Cadogan was a younger son of the 5th Earl Cadogan and his wife, Beatrix, a daughter of the 2nd Earl Craven. He was e ...
: 1924, 1940 b
:
Lord Erskine
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Lords Erskine (c. 1426)
* ...
Andrew MacLaren
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: 1924, 1935
:
Alec Cunningham-Reid
Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid (20 April 1895 – 26 March 1977), known in his early life as Alec Stratford Reid, was a British First World War flying ace credited with seven aerial victories. After the war, he entered politics as a Con ...
: 1924, 1932b
:
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter
Major Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter (26 March 1873 – 27 May 1937) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Career
The fourth son of William Boyd-Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon and Canon of Westminster, Archibald Boyd-Carpenter was educ ...
Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Based on ...
, 1924, 1931
:
Park Goff
Sir Park Goff, 1st Baronet, KC (12 February 1871 – 14 April 1939) was a barrister and Conservative Party politician in England.
Goff was knighted on 26 June 1918, and at the 1918 general election he was elected as member of parliament (MP) ...
, 1924, 1931
:
Vivian Henderson
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson MC (6 October 1884 – 3 February 1965) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician who was elected to the House of Commons three times, for three different constituencies.
Hend ...
Frank Sanderson
Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, 1st Baronet (4 October 1880 – 18 July 1965) was a British Conservative Party politician and public servant.
During the First World War, Sanderson was Controller of Trench Warfare, National Shell Filling Factories a ...
Tom Kennedy Thomas or Tom Kennedy may refer to:
Politics
* Thomas Kennedy (Scottish judge) (1673–1754), joint Solicitor General for Scotland 1709–14, Lord Advocate 1714, Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs 1720–21
*Thomas Kennedy, 9th Earl of Cassilis ...
Francis Dyke Acland
Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet, (7 March 1874 – 9 June 1939) was a British Liberal politician. He notably served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Sir Edward Grey between 1911 and 1915. Ideologically, he was an a ...
John Edmund Mills
John Edmund Mills (2 September 1882 – 11 November 1951) was Labour MP for Dartford (UK Parliament constituency), Dartford for three separate periods during the 1920s.
Born in Perth in Australia, Mills grew up in Plymouth, being educated at the ...
: 1923, 1929
:
Walter Robert Smith
Walter Robert Smith (7 May 1872 – 25 February 1942) was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) who represented Wellingborough and Norwich. He was an organiser with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives.
Early career
Smith was president ...
: 1923, 1929
:
Henry Guest
Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Henry Charles Guest (15 February 1874 – 9 October 1957), usually known as Henry Guest, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Family
He was the second son of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and his w ...
: 1922, 1937 b
:
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...
: 1922, 1936 b
:
Charles Roden Buxton
Charles Roden Buxton (27 November 1875 – 16 December 1942) was an English philanthropist and radical British Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the worl ...
: 1922, 1929
:
Fred Jowett
Frederick William Jowett (31 January 1864 – 1 February 1944) was a British Labour politician.
Early life
Jowett was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on 31 January 1864. He received little formal education and at the age of eight was work ...
: 1922, 1929
:
Hastings Lees-Smith
Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC (26 January 1878 – 18 December 1941) was a British Liberal turned Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President of the Board of Education in 1931. He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and ...
: 1922, 1924, 1935
:
John Edward Sutton
John Edward Sutton (23 December 1862 – 29 November 1945) was a British trades unionist and Labour Party politician.
At the age of 14, Sutton took up employment at Bradford Colliery, Manchester. He became a check-weighman and secretary of the ...
: 1922 b, 1923
:
Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate terms as Leader of t ...
Edward Hemmerde
Edward George Hemmerde, KC (13 November 1871 – 24 May 1948) was an English rower, barrister, politician, and Georgist.
Education, the Law and family
Hemmerde was born at Peckham, south London, the son of James Godfrey Hemmerde and his wife F ...
Charles Masterman
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Frederick Guest
Frederick Edward "Freddie" Guest, (14 June 1875 – 28 April 1937) was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party, 1917–1921. He was also Secretary of State for Air betw ...
: December 1910, 1923, 1931
:
Leif Jones
Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, PC ( Leifchild Stratten Jones;
16 January 1862 – 26 September 1939), known as Leif Jones before his elevation to the peerage in 1932, was a British Temperance movement leader and Liberal pol ...
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC (18 October 1865 – 1 June 1946) was a British politician in the Conservative Party whose career was cut short by losing a string of Parliamentary elections.
Biography
Griffith-Boscawen was born ...
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
: 1908 b, 1924
:
Frederick Leverton Harris
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His role in Parliament was largely insignific ...
Havelock Wilson
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Early life
He ...
Bonar Law
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Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now ...
Charles Cripps
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: 1901 b, 1910
:
Alfred Billson Alfred Billson may refer to:
* Alfred Billson (British politician)
* Alfred Billson (Australian politician)
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He was born at Wooragee to brewer George ...
Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
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Biography
Cavendish-Bentinck was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck ...
Robert Hermon-Hodge
Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold, (23 September 1851 – 3 June 1937) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician.
Born Robert Trotter Hodge, he was the son of G W Hodge of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated a ...
John Fletcher Moulton
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Early life
Moulton was born in Madeley, Shropshire, England, as ...
Michael Davitt
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Edmund Leamy
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William O'Brien
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: 1887 b, 1900, January 1910
:
William Sproston Caine
William Sproston Caine (26 March 1842 – 17 March 1903) was a British politician and temperance advocate.
Biography
Caine was born at Seacombe, Cheshire, and was the eldest surviving son of Nathaniel Caine, a metal merchant from Cheshire, and w ...
Lord Charles Beresford
Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, (10 February 1846 – 6 September 1919), styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament.
Beresford was the second son of ...
John Aloysius Blake
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Jacob Bright
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Background
Bright was born at Green Bank near Rochdale, Lancashire. He wa ...
:1876 b, 1886
:
John Philip Nolan
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Thomas Salt
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Career
His grandfather John Stevenson Salt, (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1838), married Sarah Stevenson, the granddaughter of ...
Ralph Bernal Osborne
Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician.
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He was the eldest son of London Sephardic Spani ...
Arthur Otway
Sir Arthur John Otway, 3rd Baronet PC (8 August 1822 – 8 June 1912) was a British barrister and Liberal politician as well as a champion of administrative reform regarding India.
Background, education and early life
Otway was born in Edinbu ...
: 1865, 1878 b
:
Edward Watkin
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Lord Montagu Graham
Lord Montagu William Graham (2 February 1807 – 21 June 1878) was a British Conservative politician.
Background
Graham was a younger son of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, by his second wife Lady Caroline Maria, daughter of George Montagu, ...
: 1852, 1858 b
:
James Patrick Mahon
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Personal life
Mahon, the eldest of ...
: 1847, 1879 b, 1887 b
:
William Ewart Gladstone
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Viscount Melgund
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Frederick Tollemache
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Through the interest of his father, he was several t ...
Daniel O'Connell
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William Lascelles
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles PC (29 October 1798 – 2 July 1851) was a British Whig politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1847 to 1851.
Background
Lascelles was the third son of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harew ...
Philip John Miles
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John Nicholas Fazakerley
John Nicholas Fazakerley (7 March 1787 – 16 July 1852) was a British Whig
politician. He was Member of Parliament for Lincoln (1812–18), Great Grimsby (1818–20), Tavistock (1820), Lincoln again (1826-30) and City of Peterborough (1830– ...
: 1826, 1830 b
:
John Ashley Warre
John Ashley Warre FRS (5 October 1787 – 18 November 1860) was a British Member of Parliament.
Biography
He was born into a family of colonial merchants, the eldest son of John Henry Warre of Queen Square, Bloomsbury, Middlesex and Belmont L ...
: 1820, 1831, 1857
:
Lord John Russell
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: 1818, 1826 b, 1835 b
:
William Vesey-FitzGerald
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1818 – 28 June 1885), was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1858 and 1859 and as Governor o ...
Lord Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period ...
: 1811 b, 1831 b, 1835 b
:
Thomas Creevey
Thomas Creevey (March 17685 February 1838) was an English politician. He is best known for his insight into social conditions as revealed by his writings, which were published in 1903.
Life
Creevey was the son of William Creevey, a Liverpool me ...
In absolute terms two 17th-century members of the English Parliament had 35-year intervals outside the House of Commons:
:
Edward Mainwaring
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”.
History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...
, 35 years and 269 days from serving as MP for
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...
in the parliament that closed on 12 August 1625, to returning for the same seat at start of the
Cavalier Parliament
The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of C ...
on 8 May 1661, History of Parliament Online article on Edward Mainwaring. Dates calculated from those given in Lists of Parliaments of England.
: William Killigrew (1606–1695), Sir William Killigrew who was out of the Commons 35 years and 30 days from the close of the 1628 parliament on 10 March 1629 when he served as MP for
Penryn, Cornwall
Penryn (; kw, Pennrynn, meaning 'promontory') is a civil parish and town in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the Penryn River about northwest of Falmouth. The population was 7,166 in the 2001 census and had been reduced to ...
, until returning as MP for
Richmond, Yorkshire
Richmond is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, and the administrative centre of the district of Richmondshire. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is from the county town of Northallerton and situated on t ...
on 9 April 1664 History of Parliament Online article on Sir William Killigrew.
Note that intervals of more than a decade between service in the Commons were more commonplace in the 17th than in later centuries due to factors such as:
:-years when no parliaments were held, such as Charles I of England, Charles I'srule without parliament covering 1630–39,
:-Royalist MPs expelled during the English Civil Wars sitting again after the restoration of Charles II (1660),
:-the Cavalier Parliament of 1661–79 which met without general elections in meantime.
:-former Civil War and Commonwealth era Roundhead MPs returning to the Commons in the 1670s and 1680s under the Whig Party.
Since the establishment of regular parliamentary government at the end of the 17th century and the creation of the United Kingdom Parliament in 1801, possibly the longest gap between sitting was faced by
Henry Drummond (1786–1860)
Henry Drummond (5 December 1786 – 20 February 1860), English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church.
Life
He was born at The Grange, near Northington, Hampshire, the e ...
Charles Boscawen
Charles Boscawen (1627–1689) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1654 and 1689.
Origins
Boscawen was the son of Hugh Boscawen of Tregothnan, Cornwall by his wife Margaret Rolle, daughter of Robert Rol ...
, 29 years (1659–1689)
:
Sir Jonathan Jennings
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
, 29 years (1659–1689)
:
John Manley
John Paul Manley (born January 5, 1950) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2002 to 2003. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to ...
William John Evelyn
William John Evelyn JP DL (27 July 1822 - 26 July 1908) was a British Member of Parliament, landowner and philanthropist. He was MP for Surrey West in 1849 and again for Deptford in 1885.
Octavius Coope
Octavius Edward Coope JP DL (12 January 1814 – 27 November 1886) was an English brewing partner and Conservative Member of Parliament 1847–1848 and 1874–1886.
Coope, born 12 January 1814, was the son of John Coope of Great Cumberland Pla ...
, 26 years (1848–1874)
:
James Patrick Mahon
Charles James Patrick Mahon (17 March 1800 – 15 June 1891), known as the O'Gorman Mahon or James Patrick Mahon, was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary.
Personal life
Mahon, the eldest of ...
, 26 years (second comeback) (1852–1879)
: Robert Ferguson, 24 years (1807–1831)
: Richard Spooner, 24 years (1820–1844)
:
Charles Tottenham (1807–1886)
Charles Tottenham (14 November 1807 – 1 June 1886) was an Irish Conservative and Tory politician.
Early life and family
Tottenham was the first son of his namesake Charles Tottenham and Catherine, daughter of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet ...
, 24 years (1831–1856)
:
Philip Pleydell-Bouverie
Philip Pleydell-Bouverie (21 October 1788 – 27 May 1872), was a British Whig politician.
Background
Pleydell-Bouverie was a younger son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, by his wife the Hon. Anne, daughter of Anthony Duncombe ...
Vincent Denne
Vincent Denne ( – October 1693) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and from 1681 to 1685.
Denne was the son of Thomas Denne, of Canterbury and his wife Susan Honeywood, daughter of Arthur Honeywood of Lenham. H ...
, 23 years (1658–1681)
:
Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton
General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier. He was the son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton and brother-in-law of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland ...
Edward Southwell Ruthven
Edward Southwell Ruthven (c. 1772 – 31 March 1836) was an Irish Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament.
He was a Member for Downpatrick 1806-7 and 1830–1832, MP for Dublin City (Repealer) 1832–1835 and ( Liberal ...
John Ashley Warre
John Ashley Warre FRS (5 October 1787 – 18 November 1860) was a British Member of Parliament.
Biography
He was born into a family of colonial merchants, the eldest son of John Henry Warre of Queen Square, Bloomsbury, Middlesex and Belmont L ...
, 23 years (1834–1857)
: Sir Abel Barker, 22 years (1656–1679)
:
Sir John Chetwode
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
, 22 years (1818–1841)
:
James Wentworth Buller
James Wentworth Buller (1 October 1798 – 13 March 1865) of Downes, Crediton, Devon, was a British Whig Member of Parliament for Exeter, in Devon, from 1830 to 1835, and for North Devon from 1857 to 1865.
Origins
He was the son of James Bul ...
Thomas Gewen
Thomas Gewen (1585 – November 1660) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1660.
He was the grandson of Thomas and the son of Christopher Gewen of Werrington. He was educated at the Queen's Col ...
Edmund Wyndham
Sir Edmund Wyndham (1601 – 2 March 1681) was an Somerset landowner, and Member of Parliament on different occasions between 1625 and 1679. He supported the Parliamentary opposition to Charles I, until 1630, when his wife was appointed wet-nurs ...
Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie
Admiral The Honourable Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (28 June 1780 – 5 November 1850), was a British naval commander and Whig politician.
Pleydell-Bouverie was the second son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, and the Honourable Anne ...
Sackville Stopford-Sackville
Sackville George Stopford-Sackville DL, JP (19 March 1840 – 6 October 1926), known as Sackville Stopford until 1870, was a British Conservative politician.
Background and education
Born Sackville Stopford, Stopford-Sackville was the eldest s ...
John Frederick Cheetham
John Frederick Cheetham PC (1835 – 25 February 1916) was a cotton mill-owner in Cheshire and a Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for two five-year periods, in the 1880s and the 1900s.
Cheetham was born in Stalybridge, ...
, 19 years (1885–1905)
:
Felix Cobbold
Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841 Ipswich – 6 December 1909) was a British banker, barrister and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was a member of the Ipswich Cobbold family, Cobbold brewing family but not a brewer himsel ...
Robert Beake
Robert Beake (died 22 September 1708) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1654 and 1679. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
Beake was a Presbyterian alderman and draper of Co ...
Edward Brocklehurst Fielden
Edward Brocklehurst Fielden (10 June 1857 – 31 March 1942) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.
Family background
He was second son of Joshua Fielden, brother of Thomas Fielden, and grandson of John Fielden of ...
Sir Thomas Littleton
Sir Thomas de Littleton or de Lyttleton KB ( 140723 August 1481) was an English judge, undersheriff, Lord of Tixall Manor, and legal writer from the Lyttelton family. He was also made a Knight of the Bath by King Edward IV.
Family
Thomas d ...
James Patrick Mahon
Charles James Patrick Mahon (17 March 1800 – 15 June 1891), known as the O'Gorman Mahon or James Patrick Mahon, was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary.
Personal life
Mahon, the eldest of ...
, 16 years (first comeback) (1830–1847)
:
Hugh Lucas-Tooth
Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (13 January 1903 – 18 November 1985), born and baptised Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Warrand and known as Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet, from 1920 to 1965, was a Scottish Br ...
MPs who resigned without completing at least one full parliament (or five years service)
: Imran Ahmad Khan, 2022 (resigned after conviction for sexual assault)
:
Barry McElduff
Columba Barry McElduff
(; born 16 August 1966) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the West Tyrone UK parliament constituency. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Irelan ...
, 2018 (published a video which was seen to be a mockery of the
Kingsmill massacre
The Kingsmill massacre was a mass shooting that took place on 5 January 1976 near the village of Whitecross in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Gunmen stopped a minibus carrying eleven Protestant workmen, lined them up alongside it and ...
)
:
Mark Reckless
Mark John Reckless (born 6 December 1970) is a British politician who served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales East from 2016 until 2021, having previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2010 to ...
, 2014 (resigned to re-contest, after defecting to UKIP)
:
Louise Mensch
Louise Daphne Mensch (''née'' Bagshawe; born 28 June 1971) is a British blogger, novelist, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. In the 1990s she became known as a writer of chick lit novels under her maiden name Louise Bagshawe. She ...
, 2012 (resigned to spend more time with her family)
: Jim Nicholson, 1985 (resigned to re-contest but was defeated)
: Frank Cousins, 1966 (disagreed with Prime Minister over introducing a statutory
incomes policy
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Incomes policies have often been resorted to ...
Sidney Schofield
Sidney Schofield (22 March 1911 – 4 December 1992) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for little over a year.
Born in Pontefract, Schofield was elected MP for Barnsley at the 1951 ...
Noel Mason-Macfarlane
Lieutenant General Sir Frank Noel Mason-MacFarlane, (23 October 1889 – 12 August 1953) was a senior British Army officer, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during the Second World War.
Early life and military ca ...
, 1946 (ill health)
:
John Boyd Orr
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarde ...
, 1946 (resigned to become Director-General of the
Food and Agriculture Organization
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)
:
Clarice Shaw
Clarice Marion Shaw (née McNab; 22 October 1883 – 27 October 1946) was a Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
Early life
She was born at 10 Morton Street, Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, on 22 Octob ...
, 1946 (terminally ill)
MPs who represented multiple parties
It is relatively common for MPs to
cross the floor
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and join another party, sometimes with a period as an
independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independe ...
. MPs representing three distinct parties in the House of Commons are much less common.
*
Richard Acland
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (26 November 1906 – 24 November 1990) was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party in 1942, having previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP). He joined the Labour P ...
– Liberals (1935 to 1942),
Common Wealth Party
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(1942 to 1945), Labour (1947 to 1955)
*
Heidi Allen
Heidi Suzanne Allen (' Bancroft; born 18 January 1975) is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 2015 to 2019. Initially elected as a Conservative, she resigned from the party in Fe ...
– Conservatives (2015 to February 2019),
Change UK
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(February to June 2019), Liberal Democrats (October to December 2019)Ind
*
Carlyon Bellairs
__NOTOC__
Commander Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs (15 March 1871 – 22 August 1955) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician.
Bellairs was born at Gibraltar, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Bellairs, KCMG, and Blanche St. John Bel ...
– Liberals (1906), Liberal Unionists (1906 to 1910), Conservatives (1915 to 1931)
* Luciana Berger – Labour (2010 to February 2019), Change UK (February to June 2019), Liberal Democrats (September to December 2019)Ind
* John Cartwright – Labour (1974 to 1981), Social Democrats (1981 to 1988), continuing Social Democrats (1988 to 1990)SDP
*
Jesse Collings
Jesse Collings (2 December 1831 – 20 November 1920) was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.Ash ...
– Liberals (1885 to 1886), Liberal Unionists (1886 to 1912), Conservatives (1912 to 1918)
* Robert Finlay – Liberals (1885 to 1886), Liberal Unionists (1886 to 1892, 1895 to 1906, 1910 to 1912),
Scottish Unionists
Unionism in Scotland () is a political movement which favours the continuation of the political union between Scotland and the other countries of the United Kingdom (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), and hence is opposed to Scottish indepe ...
(1912 to 1916)
*
John Horam
John Rhodes Horam, Baron Horam (born 7 March 1939) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is the only MP since the Second World War to have sat in the House of Commons for three different political parties, latterly as the Cons ...
– Labour (1970 to 1981), Social Democrats (1981 to 1983), Conservatives (1992 to 2010)
* Frank Markham – Labour (1929 to 1931), National Labour (1931; 1935 to 1945), Conservatives (1951 to 1964)
* Francis Mildmay – Liberals (1885 to 1886), Liberal Unionists (1886 to 1912), Conservatives (1912 to 1922)
* Oswald Mosley – Conservatives (1918 to 1920), Labour (1924 to 1931), New Party (1931)
* Angela Smith – Labour (2005 to February 2019), Change UK (February to June 2019), Liberal Democrats (September to December 2019)Ind
*
David Owen
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– Labour (1977 to 1981), Social Democrats (1981 to 1988), continuing Social Democrats (1988 to 1990)SDP
*
Jim Sillars
James Sillars (born 4 October 1937) is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire from 1970 to 1976. He founded and led the pro- Scottish Home Rule Scottish Labour Par ...
– Labour (1970 to 1976),
Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour ( gd, Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, sco, Scots Labour Pairty; officially the Scottish Labour Party) is a social democratic political party in Scotland. It is an autonomous section of the UK Labour Party. From their peak of ...
(1976 to 1979),
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; sco, Scots National Pairty, gd, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba ) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from th ...
(1988 to 1992)
*
Chuka Umunna
Chuka Harrison Umunna (; born 17 October 1978) is a British retired politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to ...
– Labour (2010 to February 2019), Change UK (February to June 2019), Liberal Democrats (August to December 2019)
* Sarah Wollaston – Conservatives (2010 to February 2019), Change UK (February to June 2019), Liberal Democrats (August to December 2019)
Ind : Was also a member of The Independents, a grouping of independent MPs that was not registered as a political party
SDP : After the Social Democratic Party merged with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats, a minority of SDP members formed the continuing SDP.
Former and future Commonwealth heads of government
Several former heads of government have settled in Britain after their service and served in one of the Houses.
:Australia:
: Sir Robert Torrens,
Premier of South Australia
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Prime Minister of Australia
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(1904–05), previously
Premier of New South Wales
The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislatur ...
Premier of Western Australia
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Islington North
Islington North () is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1983 by Jeremy Corbyn. He served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition from 2015 to 2020. Cor ...
1918–23, and
Richmond upon Thames
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Joseph Martin Joseph Martin may refer to:
Military
* Joseph Martin (general) (1740–1808), American Revolutionary War general from Virginia
*Joseph Plumb Martin (1760–1850), American soldier and memoir writer
* Joseph M. Martin (born 1962), U.S. Army officer ...
,
Premier of British Columbia
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A premier will normally be a head of gov ...
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947), was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.
Bennett was born in ...
,
Prime Minister of Canada
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(1930–35); in House of Lords 1941–47
:Northern Ireland:
Several
Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland
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when it had its own parliamentary government between 1921 and 1972 while remaining in the UK came to serve in Westminster as follows:
:
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon PC PC (NI) DL (8 January 1871 – 24 November 1940), was a leading Irish unionist and a key architect of Northern Ireland as a devolved region within the United Kingdom. During the Home Rule Crisis of 1 ...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1921–40, MP for East Down 1906–18 and Mid Down 1918–21; in House of Lords 1927–40.
:
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, (9 June 1888 – 18 August 1973), styled Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Baronet between 1907 and 1952, was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician and paramilitary leader who became the third Prime Mi ...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1943–63; in House of Lords 1952–73
:
Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI) (10 September 1914 – 12 June 1990), was the fourth prime minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate unionist, who sought t ...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1963–69; in House of Lords 1970–90
:
James Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola
James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL (12 February 1923 – 17 May 2002) was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971. He was Member of the No ...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1969–71; in House of Lords 1971–2002
:
Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick
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, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1971–72; in House of Lords 1977
Several United Kingdom MPs have become a
head of government
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Premier of Victoria
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crown colony
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in 1843–1941 and 1945–1981;
Dependent Territory
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in 1981–1997):
:
John Bowring
Sir John Bowring , or Phraya Siamanukulkij Siammitrmahayot, , , group=note (17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872) was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. He was a ...
,
Governor of Hong Kong
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Bolton
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in 1841–49.
:
John Pope Hennessy
Sir John Pope Hennessy (; 8 August 1834 – 7 October 1891), was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator who served as the eighth Governor of Hong Kong and the fifteenth Governor of Mauritius.
Early life
John Pope Hennes ...
Chris Patten
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, Governor of Hong Kong (1992–97), had been MP for Bath in 1979–92.
:Irish Free State (within Commonwealth to 1948 – subsequently seceded as the Republic of Ireland):
:
W. T. Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave (5 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932, leader of the Opposition in both the Free State and Ir ...
Sinn Féin
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The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gr ...
policy of
abstentionism
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.
:
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (, ; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of govern ...
, President of the Executive Council (1932–37) and
Taoiseach
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(1937–48) while the Irish Free State was within the Commonwealth (later
Taoiseach
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in the
Government of Ireland
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The Constitution of Ireland vests executive authority in a government which is headed by the , the head of government. The govern ...
in 1951–54 and 1957–59, and
President of Ireland
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The president holds office for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms.Constitu ...
1959–73). He had been MP for East Clare 1917–22 and for East Mayo 1918–22, but he did not sit at Westminster because of the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism.
:Malta:
:
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland
Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, 1st Baron Strickland, (24 May 1861 – 22 August 1940) was a Maltese and British politician and peer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta, Governor of the ...
,
Prime Minister of Malta
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(1927–32), had been MP for Lancaster 1924–28; also sat in the House of Lords 1928–40.
:Pakistan:
:
Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar
Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar ( ur, ) is a Pakistani and former British politician who served as the 31st and 33rd Governor of Punjab, from 2013 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2022. In his first term, he represented the Pakistan Muslim League (N). I ...
Senate of Pakistan
Senate of Pakistan or Aiwān-e-Bālā Pākistān ( ur, , , literally "Pakistan upper house"), is the upper legislative chamber of the bicameral legislature of Pakistan, and together with the National Assembly makes up the Parliament of Pakist ...
2018.
Women
The first woman elected to the House of Commons was
Constance Markievicz
Constance Georgine Markievicz ( pl, Markiewicz ; ' Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the fir ...
who was elected on 14 December 1918 to the constituency of
Dublin St Patrick's
Dublin St Patrick's, a division of Dublin, was a borough constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1885 until 1922.
From the dissolution of 1922, the area was no longer rep ...
, but she refused to take her seat as she was a member of
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gr ...
.
The first woman to take her seat as an MP was Conservative
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945.
Astor's first husband was America ...
, elected 28 November 1919.
The first female MP to become a cabinet minister was
Margaret Bondfield
Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in th ...
who was appointed
Minister of Labour Minister of Labour (in British English) or Labor (in American English) is typically a cabinet-level position with portfolio responsibility for setting national labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, traini ...
in 1929.
The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...
who served as PM from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Margaret Thatcher was also the first woman to hold one of the
Great Offices of State
The Great Offices of State are senior offices in the UK government. They are the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary or, alternatively, three of those offices excluding the Prime Minister.
Current
...
.
Mother-daughter sets of MPs
These are rarer than father-son sets:
*
Edith Summerskill
Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill, (19 April 1901 – 4 February 1980) was a British physician, feminist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.
Early life
Summerskill was educated at King's ...
Warrington
Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2019 was estimat ...
1955–61, was mother of
Shirley Summerskill
Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill (born 9 September 1931) is a British Labour Party politician and former government minister, who served as the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1964 to 1983.
Early life
Summerskill was born in London, ...
, MP for Halifax 1964–83. Their consecutive service in the Commons totalled 43 years and spans 45 years.
*
Winnie Ewing
Winifred Margaret Ewing (' Woodburn; born 10 July 1929) is a Scottish politician, lawyer and figure within the independence movement who served as President of the Scottish National Party from 1987 to 2005. Ewing was a Member of the Scottish ...
, MP for
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilto ...
Annabelle Ewing
Annabelle Janet Ewing (born 20 August 1960) is a Scottish politician and lawyer who has served as Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, alongside Liam McArthur, since May 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she ...
, MP for
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
2001–05.
Sister sets
Sylvia Heal
Dame Sylvia Lloyd Heal (''née'' Fox; born 20 July 1942) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halesowen and Rowley Regis from 1997 to 2010, having previously been the MP for Mid Staffordshire from 19 ...
Ann Keen
Ann Lloyd Keen (''née'' Fox; born 26 November 1948) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Isleworth from 1997, until she was defeated by Conservative candidate Mary Macleod in 2010. ...
(née Ann Lloyd Fox), MP for Brentford and Isleworth 1997–2010. Keen additionally served with her husband,
Alan Keen
David Alan Keen (25 November 1937 – 10 November 2011) was a British Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Feltham and Heston (UK Parliament constituency), Feltham and ...
.
There are two sets of sisters since the 2019 general election:
*
Angela Eagle
Dame Angela Eagle DBE (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since 1992. Eagle was born in Yorkshire and studied PPE at the University of Oxford, before working for ...
, MP for
Wallasey
Wallasey () is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England; until 1974, it was part of the historic county of Cheshire. It is situated at the mouth of the River Mersey, at the north-eastern corner of the Wirra ...
Rachel Reeves
Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician and economist serving as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010.
Born in Lewis ...
, MP for
Leeds West
Leeds West is a borough constituency in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire which is represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (United ...
since 2010, and
Ellie Reeves
Eleanor Claire Reeves (born 11 December 1980) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales fro ...
, MP for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. Ellie Reeves additionally serves with her husband,
John Cryer
John Robert Cryer (born 11 April 1964) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010. He was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until his d ...
.
The first sister set to succeed each other, indirectly, to the same constituency have been
Jo Cox
Helen Joanne Cox ( Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party.
Born in Ba ...
and
Kim Leadbeater
Kim Michele Leadbeater (; born 1 May 1976) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen since 2021.
Early life and education
Leadbeater was born in 1976 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Engl ...
who both represented
Batley and Spen
Batley and Spen is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
The current MP is Kim Leadbeater, a Labour politician, elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin. The seat has returned Labour MPs since 1997.
Constit ...
respectively in 2015-16 and since
by-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election ( Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to ...
in 2021.
Constituency representation
Most women representing:
Halifax (in 1964–83 and since 1987) and Erewash (continuously since 1992) have both – since 2015 – been represented by a fourth woman to sit for their constituencies, as has
Birmingham Edgbaston
Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour and Co-operative MP.
The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamber ...
since
2017
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and
Batley and Spen
Batley and Spen is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
The current MP is Kim Leadbeater, a Labour politician, elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin. The seat has returned Labour MPs since 1997.
Constit ...
since
2021
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.
Longest period represented by women MPs:
Birmingham Edgbaston
Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour and Co-operative MP.
The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamber ...
has been represented by 4 women MPs in continuous succession since a by-election on 2 July 1953, a period of 69 years, apart from a vacancy interval of 63 days between the death of Dame
Edith Pitt
Dame Edith Maud Pitt, (14 October 1906 – 27 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party MP for the Birmingham Edgbaston seat. She had also sat on Birmingham City Council, and sought several Parliamentary seats before being placed in the C ...
on 27 January 1966 and the election of her successor Dame
Jill Knight
Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, (; 9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. ...
December 1910 general election
The December 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 3 to 19 December. It was the last general election to be held over several days and the last to be held before the First World War.
The election took place following the efforts o ...
until 1917 when he succeeded his father as Duke of Atholl and moved to the House of Lords. His wife
Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (''née'' Ramsay; 6 November 1874 – 21 October 1960), known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a British noblewoman and Scottish Unionist Party politician who ...
Waldorf Astor
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, DL (19 May 1879 – 30 September 1952) was an American-born English politician and newspaper proprietor. He was a member of the Astor family. He was active in minor political roles. He was devoted to charitab ...
(later 2nd Viscount Astor), who was MP for
Plymouth
Plymouth () is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to ...
December 1910 – December 1918 and
Plymouth Sutton
Plymouth, Sutton was, from 1918 until 2010, a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
History
Pl ...
December 1918 – October 1919 (on succession to hereditary peerage), and
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945.
Astor's first husband was America ...
, who succeeded him as MP for the latter seat, becoming the first woman to take her seat in the Commons, from by-election in November 1919 until July 1945.
* Concurrently – Walter Runciman, MP for Swansea West 1924–29 and Hilda Runciman, MP for St Ives 1928–29. She relinquished the latter seat at the 1929 general election, enabling him to hold the seat until 1937. (He was also, previously, MP for
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, w ...
1899–1900 and
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudd ...
1902–18.)
First widow elected to succeed deceased husband as MP
Margaret Wintringham
Margaret Wintringham (née Longbottom; 4 August 1879 – 10 March 1955) was a British Liberal Party politician. She was the second woman, and the first British-born woman, to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Early ...
who became MP for
Louth, Lincolnshire
Louth () is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map 283:Louth and Mablethorpe: (1:25 000):
Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor a ...
in 1921 at by-election following death of her husband Thomas Wintringham, who had only served since June 1920 and had died in August 1921. She lost the seat at the 1924 general election. She was the second woman to take her seat in the Commons.
Longest concurrent Commons service as married couple
Nicholas Winterton
Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton (born 31 March 1938) is a retired British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Macclesfield from 1971 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.
H ...
and
Ann Winterton
Jane Ann, Lady Winterton (''née'' Hodgson; born 6 March 1941 in Sutton Coldfield) is a retired British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Congleton from 1983 to 2010. She is married to Sir Nicholas Winter ...
– 27 years, from the latter's election in 1983 for
Congleton
Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The town is by the River Dane, south of Manchester and north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 26,482.
Topon ...
until both retired at the 2010 general election. The former had commenced serving as MP for
Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its eas ...
from 1971. They are also contenders for the record of couple with highest collective years of service in the Commons, totaling 66 years.
Longest span of couple's service in the Commons
* (Consecutive) –
Noel Buxton
Noel Edward Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton, PC (9 January 1869 – 12 September 1948) was a British Liberal and later Labour politician. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and between 1929 a ...
, MP for
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cl ...
from by-election in May 1905 to
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
, and for
Norfolk North
Norfolk North was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1904. It was located in the provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. It was created by the Br ...
1910 to 1918 and 1922 to 1930 when he was raised to peerage as Baron Noel-Buxton, following which his wife Lucy, Baroness Noel-Buxton served as MP for Norfolk North from 1930 to the
1931 general election
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – ...
, and for
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...
from 1945 to 1950, making a span of nearly 45 years.
* (Concurrent) –
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National Heal ...
was MP for
Ebbw Vale
Ebbw Vale (; cy, Glynebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr c ...
from 1929 (until his death in 1960), while his wife Jennie Lee, served from 1945 to 1970 as MP for
Cannock
Cannock () is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the nearby towns of Walsall, Burntwood, Stafford and Telford. The cities of Lichfield and Wolverh ...
, making a span of 41 years and 18 days. The latter had been MP for
North Lanarkshire
North Lanarkshire ( sco, North Lanrikshire; gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It als ...
from 1929 to 1931, prior to their marriage in 1934.
Although differing in that the husband's service preceded and outlasted the wife's, the Bevans' span has been surpassed by
Sir Peter Bottomley
Sir Peter James Bottomley (born 30 July 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1975 when elected for Woolwich West, serving until it was abolished before the 1983 general election. ...
who has served in the Commons since 26 June 1975 and his wife
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
, who sat as MP for South West Surrey from by-election on 4 May 1984 to the 2005 general election – a period of .
Representation of a constituency by a couple
The establishment of single-member seats by the 20th century as the norm for parliamentary constituencies means there have been no concurrent representations of a constituency by a couple but successive representations by one spouse after the other has died or relinquished the seat have been relatively commonplace in parliament.
Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead () is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of London, which is part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2011 census was 97,500.
Developed after the Second World War as a new ...
was represented the longest, for nearly 39 years, by John Davidson from a by-election in November 1920 until he was elevated to the House of Lords as Viscount Davidson in 1937, when the seat was represented by his wife
Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson
Frances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, Baroness Northchurch, (née Dickinson; 29 May 1894 – 25 November 1985), styled Lady Davidson between 1935 and 1937 and as Viscountess Davidson between 1937 and 1985, was a British Conservative Part ...
Louth, Lincolnshire
Louth () is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map 283:Louth and Mablethorpe: (1:25 000):
Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor a ...
was represented for the shortest time, a total of 4 years and 3 months, by Thomas Wintringham from June 1920 to his death in August 1921, then by his widow, Margaret, from the by-election in September 1921 to the general election in October 1924.
Couples who served separately as MPs before marriage but not together after
*
Campbell Stephen
Reverend Campbell Stephen (1884 – 25 October 1947) was a Scottish socialist politician.
A native of Glasgow, he was educated at Townhead Public School, Allan Glen's School and Glasgow University.
He worked first as United Free Church Minist ...
, MP for Glasgow Camlachie 1922–31 and 1935 to his death in 1947, who married in 1945
Dorothy Jewson
Dorothea Jewson (17 August 1884 – 29 February 1964), better known as Dorothy Jewson, was a British teacher, trade union organiser, Labour Party politician, and one of her party's first female Members of Parliament. Whilst at Girton College, Ca ...
, who had been MP for
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...
in 1923–24.
*
Nigel Fisher
Sir Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, MC (14 July 1913 – 9 October 1996) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Son of naval officer Sir Thomas Fisher and Aimée Constance, daughter of Walter Loveridge, of Oaken, S ...
, MP for
Hitchin
Hitchin () is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire district in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 35,842.
History
Hitchin is first noted as the central place of the Hicce people, a tribe holding ...
1950–55 and
Surbiton
Surbiton is a suburban neighbourhood in South West London, within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (RBK). It is next to the River Thames, southwest of Charing Cross. Surbiton was in the historic county of Surrey and since 1965 it ha ...
Jim Sillars
James Sillars (born 4 October 1937) is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire from 1970 to 1976. He founded and led the pro- Scottish Home Rule Scottish Labour Par ...
, MP for
South Ayrshire
South Ayrshire ( sco, Sooth Ayrshire; gd, Siorrachd Àir a Deas, ) is one of thirty-two council areas of Scotland, covering the southern part of Ayrshire. It borders onto Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire. On 30 Jun ...
1970–79 and Glasgow Govan 1988–92, who married in 1981
Margo MacDonald
Margo Symington MacDonald (''née'' Aitken; 19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014) was a Scottish people, Scottish politician, teacher and Television presenter, broadcaster. She was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (United Kingdo ...
who had been MP for Glasgow Govan in 1973–74
* Sir Alan Beith, MP for
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census re ...
1973–2015, who married in 2001
Diana Maddock
Diana Margaret Maddock, Baroness Maddock, Lady Beith (; 19 May 1945 – 26 June 2020) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Christchurch in a 1993 by-election but lost the seat at the sub ...
, who had been MP for
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon Rive ...
1993–97.
Couples who married serving as MPs
*
Andrew MacKay
Andrew James MacKay (born 27 August 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Stechford from 1977 to 1979, East Berkshire from 1983 to 1997 and for Bracknell in Berkshire fro ...
Bracknell
Bracknell () is a large town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the Borough of Bracknell Forest. It lies to the east of Reading, south of Maiden ...
1997–2010, who married in August 1997,
Julie Kirkbride
Julie Kirkbride (born 5 June 1960) is a British Conservative politician. She was the Member of Parliament for the Conservative stronghold of Bromsgrove from the 1997 to the 2010 general elections.
Early life
Kirkbride was born in Halifax, Wes ...
, MP for
Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in th ...
Joan Ruddock
Dame Joan Mary Ruddock, (née Anthony; born 28 December 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015. Ruddock was Minister of State for Energy at the Departmen ...
Duncan Hames
Duncan John Hames (born 16 June 1977) is a Director of Policy at Transparency International UK and a former Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire from 2010 to 2015. Betwe ...
, MP for
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town
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2010–15, who married in 2011
Jo Swinson
Joanne Kate Swinson (born 5 February 1980) is a former British Liberal Democrat politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 22 July to 13 December 2019. She was the first woman and the youngest person to hold the position, as well a ...
, MP for
East Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire ( sco, Aest Dunbartanshire; gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the north of Glasgow and contains many of the affluent areas to the north of the city, including Bear ...
2005–15 and 2017–19.
*
Nick Raynsford
Wyvill Richard Nicolls Raynsford (born 28 January 1945), known as Nick Raynsford, is a British politician who served as a government minister from 1997 to 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Greenwich and Wo ...
, MP for
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...
1983–87,
Greenwich
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Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
Alison Seabeck
Alison Jane Seabeck (née Ward, 20 January 1954) is a former British politician. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Devonport from 2005 until 2010 when she won the new seat of Plymouth Mo ...
Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw ...
since 2010 who married in 2012
Jenny Chapman
Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington (born 25 September 1973) is a British politician and life peer attending shadow cabinet as a Shadow Minister of State at the Cabinet Office since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she served ...
was MP for
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town.
In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...
Milton Keynes North
Milton Keynes North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2019 United Kingdom general election by Ben Everitt, a Conservative.
Constituency profile
The seat covers Central Milton Keynes and ar ...
2010–19, who married in 2014
Caroline Dinenage
Caroline Julia Dinenage, Baroness Lancaster of Kimbolton, (born 28 October 1971), also styled as Dame Caroline Dinenage, is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport since 2010. She was re- ...
, MP for
Gosport
Gosport ( ) is a town and non-metropolitan borough on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England. At the 2011 Census, its population was 82,662. Gosport is situated on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite t ...
since 2010.
*
Jack Lopresti
Giacomo "Jack" Lopresti (born 23 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Filton and Bradley Stoke since the 2010 general election.
Early life and career
Lopresti was born on 23 A ...
Andrea Jenkyns
Andrea Marie Jenkyns (born 16 June 1974) is a British politician serving as Deputy Chairwoman of the European Research Group (ERG) since 2019. She was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood in West Yorks ...
, MP for
Morley and Outwood
Morley and Outwood is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Andrea Jenk ...
since 2015.
*
Philip Davies
Philip Andrew Davies (born 5 January 1972) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley in West Yorkshire since the 2005 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, he is the most rebellious se ...
Esther McVey
Esther Louise McVey (born 24 October 1967) is a British politician and television presenter serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2017. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Minister of State for Housing and Pl ...
, MP for
Wirral West
Wirral West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Margaret Greenwood of the Labour Party since 2015.
Constituency profile
The constituency is one of four covering the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. It ...
2010-15 and for Tatton since 2017
Couples who divorced before one partner became an MP
*
Shirley Summerskill
Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill (born 9 September 1931) is a British Labour Party politician and former government minister, who served as the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1964 to 1983.
Early life
Summerskill was born in London, ...
, MP for Halifax 1964–83, who divorced in 1971 from her husband
John Ryman
John Ryman QC (7 November 1930 – 3 May 2009) was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) who sat as an independent MP for his last year in the House of Commons.
Ryman was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Pembroke Coll ...
Blyth Valley
Blyth Valley was a local government district and borough in south-east Northumberland, England, bordering the North Sea and Tyne and Wear. The two principal towns were Blyth and Cramlington. Other population centres include Seaton Delaval, and ...
Caerphilly
Caerphilly (, ; cy, Caerffili, ) is a town and community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley.
It is north of Cardiff and northwest of Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, and lies wit ...
1983–2001, who divorced in 1999 from his wife
Christina Rees
Christina Rees (born 21 February 1954) is a Member of Parliament who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2017 to 2020. She has been MP for Neath since 2015. Rees was elected as a Welsh Lab ...
, who later became MP for
Neath
Neath (; cy, Castell-nedd) is a market town and Community (Wales), community situated in the Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town had a population of 50,658 in 2011. The community of the parish of Neath had a po ...
since 2015.
Couple who divorced when one partner had ceased to be an MP
John Dunwoody
John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE (3 June 1929 – 26 January 2006) was a British Labour politician.
Dunwoody was educated at St Paul's School, then trained as a doctor at King's College London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School. A surgeon, ...
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (née Phillips; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008) was a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe (later Crewe and Nantwich) from February 1 ...
, MP for
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol.
In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
1966–70 and
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
1974–83 and
Crewe and Nantwich
Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It contained 69 civ ...
1983–2008, who divorced in 1975.
Couple who divorced while serving as MPs
Gordon Prentice
Gordon Prentice (born 28 January 1951) is a British former politician of the Labour Party who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
He was educated at the independent George Heriot's School i ...
, MP for
Pendle Pendle may refer to:
* Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England
** Pendle (UK Parliament constituency)
* Pendle Hill in Lancashire, England
** Forest of Pendle, hilly landscape surrounding the hill
* Pendle College of the University of Lancaster
* ...
1992–2010 and
Bridget Prentice
Bridget Theresa Prentice (' Corr; born 28 December 1952) is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from 1992 to 2010. She was married to the Labour MP Gordon Prentice from 1975 until their divorce in 2000. ...
, MP for
Lewisham East
Lewisham East is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the by-election on 14 June 2018 by Janet Daby of the Labour Party.
History
Lewisham East was created for the 1918 general election. ...
1992–2010, who divorced in 2000. They were married to each other when both were returned at the same 1992 general election.
Currently serving MP couples
*
John Cryer
John Robert Cryer (born 11 April 1964) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010. He was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until his d ...
, MP for
Hornchurch
Hornchurch is a suburban town in East London, England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross. It comprises a number of shopping streets and a large residential area. It historically formed ...
Ellie Reeves
Eleanor Claire Reeves (born 11 December 1980) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales fro ...
Jack Lopresti
Giacomo "Jack" Lopresti (born 23 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Filton and Bradley Stoke since the 2010 general election.
Early life and career
Lopresti was born on 23 A ...
Andrea Jenkyns
Andrea Marie Jenkyns (born 16 June 1974) is a British politician serving as Deputy Chairwoman of the European Research Group (ERG) since 2019. She was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood in West Yorks ...
, MP for
Morley and Outwood
Morley and Outwood is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Andrea Jenk ...
since 2015.
*
Philip Davies
Philip Andrew Davies (born 5 January 1972) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley in West Yorkshire since the 2005 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, he is the most rebellious se ...
, MP for Shipley since 2005, married since 2020 to
Esther McVey
Esther Louise McVey (born 24 October 1967) is a British politician and television presenter serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2017. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Minister of State for Housing and Pl ...
, MP for
Wirral West
Wirral West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Margaret Greenwood of the Labour Party since 2015.
Constituency profile
The constituency is one of four covering the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. It ...
2010-15 and for Tatton since 2017.
Couples with one spouse still serving in the Commons
*
Sir Peter Bottomley
Sir Peter James Bottomley (born 30 July 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1975 when elected for Woolwich West, serving until it was abolished before the 1983 general election. ...
Eltham
Eltham ( ) is a district of southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east-southeast of Charing Cross, and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. The three wards of Elt ...
1983–97, and
Worthing West
Worthing West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative, who is the Father of the House of Commons.
Boundaries
*Worthing wards: Castle, Central, Dur ...
Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department, Shadow Home Secretary since 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2015. She served in Gordon Brown's Brown ministry, Cabinet as ...
Ed Balls
Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British broadcaster, writer, economist, professor and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exc ...
Morley and Outwood
Morley and Outwood is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Andrea Jenk ...
2010–15
*
Caroline Dinenage
Caroline Julia Dinenage, Baroness Lancaster of Kimbolton, (born 28 October 1971), also styled as Dame Caroline Dinenage, is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport since 2010. She was re- ...
, MP for
Gosport
Gosport ( ) is a town and non-metropolitan borough on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England. At the 2011 Census, its population was 82,662. Gosport is situated on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite t ...
Milton Keynes North
Milton Keynes North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2019 United Kingdom general election by Ben Everitt, a Conservative.
Constituency profile
The seat covers Central Milton Keynes and ar ...
2010–19
*
Natalie Elphicke
Natalie Cecilia Elphicke (née Ross; born 5 November 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician and finance lawyer. At the 2019 general election, she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover, succeeding her husband Charli ...
, MP for
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
since 2019, whose husband and predecessor Charlie was MP for the same constituency 2010–19
*
Kate Griffiths
Kate Elizabeth Kniveton (previously Griffiths; born 1971) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burton in Staffordshire since 2019. She is a member of the Conservative Party. She was elected to Parliamen ...
, MP for Burton since 2019, whose husband and predecessor
Andrew
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in List of countries where English is an official language, English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is freq ...
was MP for the same constituency 2010–19
* Nick Smith, MP for
Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw ...
since 2010, whose wife
Jenny Chapman
Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington (born 25 September 1973) is a British politician and life peer attending shadow cabinet as a Shadow Minister of State at the Cabinet Office since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she served ...
was MP for
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town.
In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...
2010–19
First UK MP married to a foreign head of government
Stephen Kinnock, MP for
Aberavon
Aberavon ( cy, Aberafan) is a town and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. The town derived its name from being near the mouth of the river Afan, which also gave its name to a medieval lordship. Today it is essentially a distri ...
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Helle Thorning-Schmidt (; born 14 December 1966) is a Danish retired politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015. She is the first woman to have held each p ...
, member of the
Danish Parliament
The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands an ...
2005–16 and Prime Minister of Denmark 2011–15, resigning shortly after Kinnock's election.
Mother- and child-in-law sets
(Not as commonplace as those of fathers- and children-in-law.)
*
Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
Gwendolen Florence Mary Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (''née'' Onslow; 22 July 1881 – 16 February 1966) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and Conservative politician. She was, by marriage, a member of the Guinness brewing dynasty.
Early life
Sh ...
, MP for
Southend
Southend-on-Sea (), commonly referred to as Southend (), is a coastal city and unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex, England. It lies on the north side of the Thames Estuary, east of central London. It is bordered ...
1927–35, was mother-in-law to two sons-in-law serving as MPs in her lifetime:
:* Sir Henry Channon, MP for Southend 1935–50 and Southend West 1950–58
:*
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL (18 November 1904 – 8 March 1983), was a British Conservative politician.
Background, education and military service
Lennox-Boyd was the son of Alan Walter Lennox-Boyd by his ...
Edith Summerskill
Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill, (19 April 1901 – 4 February 1980) was a British physician, feminist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.
Early life
Summerskill was educated at King' ...
Warrington
Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2019 was estimat ...
1955–61, was mother-in-law (prior to his divorce from her daughter
Shirley
Shirley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Shirley'' (novel), an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë
* ''Shirley'' (1922 film), a British silent film
* ''Shirley'' (2020 film), an American film
* ''Shirley'' (album), a 1961 album by Shirley Bas ...
) to
John Ryman
John Ryman QC (7 November 1930 – 3 May 2009) was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) who sat as an independent MP for his last year in the House of Commons.
Ryman was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Pembroke Coll ...
Blyth Valley
Blyth Valley was a local government district and borough in south-east Northumberland, England, bordering the North Sea and Tyne and Wear. The two principal towns were Blyth and Cramlington. Other population centres include Seaton Delaval, and ...
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, south-west of central London. It grew up round Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666 CE, and gained a market charter from Henry I. A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in the ...
Winnie Ewing
Winifred Margaret Ewing (' Woodburn; born 10 July 1929) is a Scottish politician, lawyer and figure within the independence movement who served as President of the Scottish National Party from 1987 to 2005. Ewing was a Member of the Scottish ...
, MP for
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilto ...
Margaret Ewing
Margaret Anne Ewing (''née'' McAdam, formerly Bain; 1 September 1945 – 21 March 2006) was a Scottish teacher, journalist and politician. She served as a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire from 1974 to ...
, MP for
East Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire ( sco, Aest Dunbartanshire; gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the north of Glasgow and contains many of the affluent areas to the north of the city, including Bear ...
1974–79 and
Moray
Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.
Between 1975 ...
1987–2001
*
Ann Cryer
Constance Ann Cryer JP (''née'' Place; born 14 December 1939) is a British former politician who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Keighley from the 1997 general election up until she stood down at the 2010 general election ...
, MP for
Keighley
Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish
in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford.
Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of Bi ...
1997–2010, is mother-in-law to
Ellie Reeves
Eleanor Claire Reeves (born 11 December 1980) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales fro ...
, MP for
Lewisham West and Penge
Lewisham West and Penge is a constituency in Greater London created in 2010 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Ellie Reeves of the Labour Party.
History
Following the adoption of the Boundary Commissi ...
since 2017, who is the wife of her son
John Cryer
John Robert Cryer (born 11 April 1964) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010. He was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until his d ...
, also a serving MP.
Parents and children sets – unusual records
Children elected before parents
This is not as commonplace as children following parents into the Commons.
* Thomas Davis Lamb, elected in 1802, and father
Thomas Phillipps Lamb
Thomas Phillipps Lamb (1752–1819) was an English politician.
Life
Lamb was the son of Thomas Lamb, many times mayor of Rye, Sussex, and his wife Dorothy Eyles, daughter of the Rev. George Eyles, vicar of Turk Dean. He was Member of Parliamen ...
, elected in 1812.
*
Robert Williams (1767–1847)
Robert Williams (11 February 1767 – 10 March 1847) was an English banker and politician. He purchased the Bridehead estate near Dorchester, Dorset, around 1797. It comprised the manor of Littlebredy, Bridehead being a name fabricated by Willia ...
, elected in 1802, and father
Robert Williams (1735–1814)
Robert Williams (23 April 1735 – 17 January 1814) was one of the oldest MPs in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected at 71 in the 1807 general election.
Williams was member of a Dorset family who had had a business career in London, wh ...
, elected in 1807.
* William Miles, elected in 1818, and father
Philip John Miles
Philip John Miles (1773–1845) was an English landowner, slave owner, merchant, shipowner, banker and politician from Bristol. Through his banking interests he found himself on the register of owners of slaves on plantations in Jamaica though o ...
, elected in 1820.
*
Raymond Greene
Charles Raymond Greene (17 April 1901 – 6 December 1982) was a British doctor and an accomplished Mountaineering, mountaineer.
Biography
Greene was born in Berkhamsted.Sir Edward Greene, Bt, elected in 1900.
* Walter Runciman, elected in 1899, and father Sir Walter Runciman, Bt, elected in 1914.
Children serving alongside parents
It is rarer for parents and children to serve in the Commons simultaneously than consecutively (frequent cause of latter being death, retirement or promotion to House of Lords of the father). In most cases given below the children entered parliament in latter stages of the parent's service.
*
Ann Cryer
Constance Ann Cryer JP (''née'' Place; born 14 December 1939) is a British former politician who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Keighley from the 1997 general election up until she stood down at the 2010 general election ...
, MP 1997–2010, and son
John Cryer
John Robert Cryer (born 11 April 1964) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010. He was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until his d ...
, MP 1997–2005 and since 2010.
*
Sally Oppenheim-Barnes
Sarah A. "Sally" Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, PC (''née'' Viner; born 26 July 1928)
* ''See also'': is a British Conservative politician.
Early life
Born in Dublin in 1928, Viner was raised and educated in Sheffield, where ...
, MP 1970–87, and son
Phillip Oppenheim
Phillip Arthur Charles Lawrence Oppenheim (born 20 March 1956) is a British businessman and former politician.
Early life
Oppenheim was born in Lambeth in South London, in 1956. He is the son of former Conservative government minister Sally ...
, MP 1983-97 - first mother and son set to serve concurrently.
* David Mitchell, MP between 1964 and 1997, and son
Andrew Mitchell
Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. A member of the Conservative Party, Mitchell was previously the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 199 ...
, MP 1987–97 and since 2001.
*
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British politician, writer and diarist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. A member of the Labour Party, ...
, MP 1950–2001, and son
Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (born 26 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central since a by-election in 1999. He served in the Cabinet from 2003 to 2010, under both Tony Bla ...
, MP since 1999.
* Thomas Galbraith, MP between 1940 and 65, and son Tam, MP 1948–82.
*
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as " Supermac", ...
, MP 1924–64, and son
Maurice Macmillan
Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984), was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament. He was the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Min ...
, MP 1955–84.
*
Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood, (8 February 1880 – 9 June 1954) was a British politician. A prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s, Greenwood rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department f ...
, MP 1922–54, and son Tony Greenwood, MP 1946–70.
* Isaac Foot, MP 1922–35, and son Dingle Foot, Dingle, MP 1931–70.
* William Adamson, MP 1910–31, and son William Murdoch Adamson, MP 1922–45.
* Stanley Baldwin, MP 1908–37, and son Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Oliver, MP 1929–47.
* Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet, Sir Francis Acland, MP 1906–39, and son Richard Acland, Richard, MP 1935–55.
*
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...
, MP 1906–37 and son Malcolm MacDonald, MP 1929–45.
*
Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate terms as Leader of t ...
, MP 1903–35, and sons Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, Arthur, junior, MP 1923–66 and William Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson, William, MP 1923–31.
*
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
, MP 1900–64, and son Randolph Churchill, Randolph, MP 1940–45.
* Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet, MP 1900–06, and son Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet, MP 1895–1923.
* James Fitzalan Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour, John Fitazalan Hope, MP 1900–29, and son Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour, Arthur, MP 1924–39.
* Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman, Sir Walter Runciman, MP 1914–18, and son Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, Walter, MP 1899–1937.
* Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, Alexander Henderson, MP 1898–1916, and son Harold Henderson, MP 1910–16.
* Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, Wentworth Beaumont, MP 1895–1907, and brother Hubert Beaumont (Liberal politician), Hubert, MP 1906–10.
* Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley, Sir Frederick Cawley, MP 1895–1918, and son Harold Thomas Cawley, MP 1910–15.
* Alfred Hopkinson, MP 1895–98 and 1926–29, and son Austin Hopkinson, MP 1918–29 and 1931–45.
* Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, John Benn, MP 1892–1910, and son
William Wedgwood Benn
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, (10 May 1877 – 17 November 1960) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. A decorated Royal Air Force officer, he was Secretary ...
, MP 1906–42. (Latter father of Tony Benn.)
* Thomas Curran (South Sligo MP), Thomas Curran, MP 1892–1900, and son Thomas Bartholomew Curran MP 1892–1900.
* David Lloyd George, MP 1890–1945, son Gwilym Lloyd George, MP 1922–57, and daughter Megan Lloyd George, MP 1929–51 and 1957–66. First concurrent father and son and daughter set of MPs when returned at 1929 general election.
* Sir Charles Swann, 1st Baronet, MP 1886–1918, and son Duncan Swann, MP 1906–10.
* Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet, MP 1885–1910, and son Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet, MP 1906–24.
* John Redmond, MP 1881–1918, and son William Redmond (Irish politician, born 1886), William Redmond, MP 1910–22.
* Justin McCarthy (1830–1912), MP 1879–1900, and son Justin Huntly McCarthy, MP 1884–92.
* Joseph Chamberlain, MP 1876–1914, and son Austen Chamberlain, Austen, MP 1892–1937.
* William Vernon Harcourt (politician), William Vernon Harcourt, MP 1868–1904, and son Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lewis, MP 1904–17 (the latter was elected in March 1904, before his father died serving in October same year).
* Samuel Morley (MP), Samuel Morley, MP 1866–85, and son Arnold Morley, Arnold, MP 1880–95.
* Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1st Baronet, MP 1865–1903, and sons Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Baronet, MP 1885–1902, and Joseph Pease, 1st Baron Gainford, Joseph Albert Pease, MP 1892–1916.
* George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, George Goschen, MP 1863–1900, and his son George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen, George Goschen, jnr, MP 1895–1900.
* Bernhard Samuelson, Sir Bernhard Samuelson, MP 1859–95, and son Henry Samuelson, Henry, MP 1868–85.
* John Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington, John Hubbard, MP 1859–87, and son Egerton Hubbard, 2nd Baron Addington, Egerton, MP 1874–89.
* Edward Watkin, Sir Edward Watkin, MP 1857–95 and son Alfred Mellor Watkin, MP 1877–80.
* Abel Smith (1829–1898), MP 1854–98, and son Abel Henry Smith, MP 1892–1910.
* William Philip Price, MP 1852–73, and son William Edwin Price, MP 1868–80.
* Samuel Whitbread (1830–1915), Samuel Whitbread, MP 1852–95, and son Samuel Howard Whitbread, MP 1892–1910.
* Michael Thomas Bass, MP 1848–83, and sons Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton, Michael, MP 1865–86, and Hamar Alfred Bass, MP 1878–98.
* Lionel de Rothschild, MP 1847–74, and his son Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Nathan Rothschild, MP 1865–85.
* John Bright, MP 1843–89, and son William Leatham BWilliam, MP 1885–90.
* Walter Long (1793–1867), Walter Long, MP 1835–65 and son Richard Penruddocke Long, MP 1859–68.
* Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, MP 1837–86, and sons Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet, Thomas, MP 1882–92, and Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, Arthur, MP 1885–99.
* John Bagshaw, MP 1835–59, and son Robert John Bagshaw, MP 1857–59 (both represented same two-member seat of Harwich (UK Parliament constituency), Harwich).
*
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-con ...
, MP 1832–95, and sons William Henry Gladstone, William Henry, MP 1865–85, and Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, Herbert, MP 1880–1910.
*Thomas Law Hodges, MP 1830–41 and 1847–52, and son Thomas Twisden Hodges, MP 1835–37 and 1847–52.
* Thomas Langlois Lefroy, MP 1830–41, and son Anthony Lefroy (Irish politician), Anthony, MP 1830–70.
*
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...
, MP 1828–46, and sons John O'Connell (MP), John, MP 1832–57, Maurice O'Connell (MP), Maurice, MP 1832–53, and Morgan O'Connell, Morgan, MP 1832–40. (Possibly greatest number of sons returned alongside their father in 1832 general election.)
* Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 5th Baronet, MP 1820–56, and son Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 6th Baronet, MP 1852–67.
*
Philip John Miles
Philip John Miles (1773–1845) was an English landowner, slave owner, merchant, shipowner, banker and politician from Bristol. Through his banking interests he found himself on the register of owners of slaves on plantations in Jamaica though o ...
, MP 1820–37, and son William Miles, MP 1818–65.
* Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, Hussey Vivian, MP 1820–41, and son Charles Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian, Charles Vivian, MP 1835–42.
* Ralph Bernal, MP 1818–52, and son
Ralph Bernal Osborne
Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 – 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician.
Life
He was the eldest son of London Sephardic Spani ...
, MP 1841–74.
* Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly, Luke White, MP 1818–24, and son Henry White, 1st Baron Annaly, Henry White, MP 1823–61.
* George Tennyson, MP 1818–19, and son Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, MP 1818–52.
* John Maberley, MP 1816–32, and son William Leader Maberley, MP 1819–34.
* Wilbraham Egerton (MP died 1856), Wilbraham Egerton, MP 1812–31, and son William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton, William Egerton, MP 1830–58.
* Henry Lowther (politician), Henry Lowther, MP 1812–67, and son Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, Henry, jnr, MP 1847–72.
* Thomas Frankland Lewis, Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, MP 1812–55, and son George Cornewall Lewis, MP 1847–63.
* Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet, MP 1812–35, and son Sir George Philips, 2nd Baronet, MP 1818–52.
* Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, MP 1809–50, and son Frederick Peel, MP 1849–65.
* Richard Hart Davis, MP 1807–31, and his son Hart Davis, MP 1812–18.
* Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, Alexander Baring, MP 1806–35, and sons Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, Bingham Baring, MP 1826–48, and Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, Francis Baring, MP 1830–57.
* William Ormsby-Gore, MP 1806–57, and son John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, John, MP 1837–76.
* Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet, Sir John Shelley, MP 1806–31, and son Sir John Shelley, 7th Baronet, John Villiers Shelley, MP 1830–67.
* Henry Grattan, MP 1803–20, and son James Grattan (son of Henry), James, MP 1817–29.
* Robert Haldane Bradshaw, MP 1802–32, and son James Bradshaw (Brackley MP), James, MP 1825–32. (They represented the same, two-member seat, of Brackley (UK Parliament constituency), Brackley.)
* Charles Chaplin (elder), Charles Chaplin the elder, MP 1802–16, and son Charles Chaplin (younger), Charles Chaplin the younger, MP 1809–31
* John Smith (Wendover MP), John Smith, MP 1802–35, and son John Abel Smith, MP 1830–59.
* Charles Grant (British East India Company), Charles Grant, MP 1802–18, and son Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, Charles, jnr, MP 1811–35.
* Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, MP 1802–07, and son Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet, Sir Robert Wigram, 2nd Baronet, MP 1806–30.
*
Robert Williams (1735–1814)
Robert Williams (23 April 1735 – 17 January 1814) was one of the oldest MPs in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected at 71 in the 1807 general election.
Williams was member of a Dorset family who had had a business career in London, wh ...
, MP 1807–12, and his son
Robert Williams (1767–1847)
Robert Williams (11 February 1767 – 10 March 1847) was an English banker and politician. He purchased the Bridehead estate near Dorchester, Dorset, around 1797. It comprised the manor of Littlebredy, Bridehead being a name fabricated by Willia ...
, MP 1802–34.
* Henry Bankes, MP 1801–31, and sons William John Bankes, MP 1810–34, and George Bankes, MP 1816–56.
* John Blackburne (1754–1833), MP 1801–31, and son John Ireland Blackburne (1783–1874), MP 1807–47.
* John Calcraft (the younger), John Calcraft, MP 1801–31, and son John Hales Calcraft, MP 1820–59.
* John Calvert (1726–1804), MP 1801–02, and son John Calvert (died 1844), MP 1801–31.
* George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington, Lord George Cavendish, MP 1801–31, and sons William Cavendish (English politician, born 1783), William Cavendish, MP 1804–12, George Henry Compton Cavendish, MP 1806–09, Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, MP 1812–34, and Charles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham, Charles Compton Cavendish, MP 1814–57. (Largest number of sons serving during their father's service in the Commons.)
* Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet, MP 1801–20, and son Sir George Dashwood, 4th Baronet, George Dashwood, MP 1814–18.
* Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–24, and son Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet, MP 1807–57.
* John Fownes Luttrell (1752–1816), MP 1801–16, and son John Fownes Luttrell (1787–1857), MP 1812–32. (Both sat together for same two-member seat, Minehead (UK Parliament constituency), Minehead.)
* Andrew Foley (MP), Andrew Foley, MP 1801–18, and son Thomas Foley (1778–1822), Thomas, MP 1805–22.
* Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet, MP 1801–41, and son Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 5th Baronet, MP 1820–56.
* Michael Hicks-Beach (1760–1830), MP 1801–18, and son William Hicks-Beach (1783–1856), MP 1812–17.
* Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–20, and sons Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, MP 1809–50, and William Yates Peel, MP 1817–47.
* Samuel Smith (1754–1834), MP 1801–32, and son Abel Smith (1788–1859), MP 1810–47. (On two occasions they sat together for the same two-member seat, Wendover (UK Parliament constituency), Wendover, in 1812–18 and 1830–32.)
* Sir Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Baronet, Sir Matthew White Ridley, MP 1801–12, and son Nicholas Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne, Nicholas Ridley-Colborne, MP 1805–37.
* Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake, MP 1801–10, and son Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake, MP 1805–32. (Both sat for same two-member seat, Amersham (UK Parliament constituency), Amersham.)
* John Beresford (statesman), John Beresford, MP 1801–05, and son John Claudius Beresford, MP 1801–11.
* Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–18, and son Sir Mark Wood, 2nd Baronet, Mark Wood, jnr., MP 1816–18. (They sat together for same two-member seat, Gatton (UK Parliament constituency), Gatton.)
Brother sets of MPs
Largest set
Six brother sets:
* Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford, Francis Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp (later 2nd Marquess of Hertford) served 1766–94; Lord George Seymour-Conway 1784–90 and 1796–1801; Lord Henry Seymour (politician), Henry-Seymour-Conway (later Lord Henry Seymour) 1766–84; Lord Robert Seymour 1771–90 and 1794–1820; Lord William Seymour (MP), Lord William Seymour 1783–84 and 1785–96; and Lord Hugh Seymour 1784–86 and 1788 to his death in 1801. All began serving in the pre-1801 Parliament of Great Britain and their service in the Commons totalled 126 years.
* Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Henry Paget, Lord Paget (later 1st Marquess of Anglesey) served 1790–1804 and 1806–10; Arthur Paget (diplomat), Arthur Paget 1794–1807; Berkeley Paget 1807–26; Charles Paget (Royal Navy officer), Sir Charles Paget 1804–26 and 1831–33 and 1833–34; Edward Paget, Sir Edward Paget, 1796–1806 and 1810–20; and William Paget (MP), William Paget 1790 to his death in 1794. Four of the brothers began serving under the pre-1801 Parliament of Great Britain and their service in the Commons totalled 79 years.
Longest span of service in the Commons by brothers
Probably the longest (though not continuous) all time span of service by brothers in the Commons, in the Parliament of England, was 85 years from 1562, when Henry Knollys (privateer), Sir Henry Knollys was elected MP for
Reading
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, until the death in 1648 of his brother Francis Knollys (admiral), Sir Francis Knollys (above, aged reputedly 97) also representing Reading, although there were intervals of years when parliament did not meet. They were part of another set of six brothers who all sat at various times.
Since regular parliamentary government was established by the start of the UK Parliament, contenders for longest span of continuous service include the four brothers
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
(also twice Prime Minister), William Yates Peel, Jonathan Peel and Edmund Peel, with a span of 59 years from Robert's by-election return on 15 April 1809 as MP for Cashel (UK Parliament constituency), Cashel, to the retirement of Jonathan at the 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 general election as MP for Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency), Huntingdon. Their collective service totalled 115 years and all four were simultaneously in Parliament when Edmund was sitting in 1831–32 and 1835–37 for
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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. Another 59-year service span was enjoyed by two brothers, William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (when Viscount Lowther before entering the House of Lords in 1841) and Henry Cecil Lowther, from the former's election as MP for Cockermouth (UK Parliament constituency), Cockermouth in 1808 until the death of the latter as MP for Westmorland (UK Parliament constituency), Westmorland (which he had represented since 1812) and
Father of the House
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on 4 December 1867.
Thomas Hyde Villiers and his brother Charles Pelham Villiers (above) had a span of nearly 72 years service from the former's first election as MP in 1826 to the latter's death as a serving MP and Father of the House in 1898, but this was broken by an interval when the former was out of parliament in 1831, and the gap between Thomas' death on 3 December 1832 and Charles' first election in 1835 United Kingdom general election, 1835. Their consecutive service thus totalled 69 years.
Representation of same constituency by brothers
Where seats were in the patronage of territorial magnates, it was commonplace into the 19th century for brothers in (usually landowning) families to hold seats successively or (before the advent of single member seats) even concurrently, before the system of choosing candidates by local party associations became organised on a competitive selection basis.
Two brothers successively represented North Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Derbyshire for a total span of nearly 48 years. William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, Lord Cavendish of Keighley was MP from the 1832 general election until succeeding his father and going to the House of Lords as Earl of Burlington in 1834. He was succeeded by Lord George Henry Cavendish from 1834 until the latter's death on 23 September 1880.
The last set of brothers to represent the same constituency were Frederick Guest, Frederick and
Henry Guest
Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Henry Charles Guest (15 February 1874 – 9 October 1957), usually known as Henry Guest, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Family
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, who did so in connection with two successive constituencies:
* East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency), East Dorset. Frederick was first elected at the
January 1910 general election
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but was unable to take his seat due to irregularity by an election agent, causing a 1910 East Dorset by-election, by-election in June 1910 when he stepped aside in favour of Henry, who held the seat until the
December 1910 general election
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The election took place following the efforts o ...
when Henry in turn stepped aside in favour of Frederick who was elected, to hold the seat until the 1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 general election.
* Plymouth Drake (UK Parliament constituency), Plymouth Drake, of which Frederick was MP from 1931 to his death in 1937 when Henry succeeded him at the by-election and held the seat until the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 general election.
Brother sets serving after the 2019 general election
Sets with one brother still serving:
:Boris Johnson, MP for Henley (UK Parliament constituency), Henley 2001–08 and Uxbridge and South Ruislip (UK Parliament constituency), Uxbridge and South Ruislip from
2015
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, and Jo Johnson, MP for Orpington (UK Parliament constituency), Orpington 2010–19.
:David Miliband, MP for South Shields (UK Parliament constituency), South Shields 2001–13, and Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster North (UK Parliament constituency), Doncaster North from 2005.
Brother-sister sets of MPs
* Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, Gwilym Lloyd George (later 1st Viscount Tenby), MP for Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency), Pembrokeshire 1922–24 and 1929–50 and Newcastle upon Tyne North (UK Parliament constituency), Newcastle upon Tyne North 1951–57, and sister Megan Lloyd George, Lady Megan Lloyd George, MP for Anglesey (UK Parliament constituency), Anglesey 1929–51 and Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency), Carmarthen 1957–66.
* Victor Cazalet, MP for
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town
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1924–43 and his sister Thelma Cazalet-Keir, MP for Islington East 1931–45.
Brother-sister set serving after the 2019 general election
* Set with one sibling still serving – Keith Vaz, MP for Leicester East (UK Parliament constituency), Leicester East 1987–2019, and sister Valerie Vaz, MP for Walsall South (UK Parliament constituency), Walsall South from 2010.
Twins
James Grenville, 1st Baron Glastonbury, James Grenville and Richard Grenville (1742–1823), Richard Grenville sat together as MPs for Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency), Buckingham from 1774 to 1780.
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, Edward John Stanley, MP for North Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Cheshire, sat alongside his brother William Owen Stanley, MP for Anglesey (UK Parliament constituency), Anglesey, from 1837 to 1841.
Angela Eagle
Dame Angela Eagle DBE (born 17 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallasey since 1992. Eagle was born in Yorkshire and studied PPE at the University of Oxford, before working for ...
and Maria Eagle, mentioned #Sister sets, above, are the only twin sisters to have sat in the Commons together, last elected in 2019.
Ethnic minorities
LGBT members
First general election victors by religious affiliation
When the UK Parliament was established in 1801, non-Anglicans were prevented from taking their seats as MPs under the Test Act 1672. However, Methodists took communion at Anglican churches until 1795, and some continued to do so, and many Presbyterians were prepared to accept Anglican communion, thus ensuring that members of these creeds were represented in the Parliament. Some Unitarianism, Unitarians were also elected.
The first Roman Catholic general election victors in the UK Parliament were at the 1830 United Kingdom general election, 1830 general election. They included
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...
and
James Patrick Mahon
Charles James Patrick Mahon (17 March 1800 – 15 June 1891), known as the O'Gorman Mahon or James Patrick Mahon, was an Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary.
Personal life
Mahon, the eldest of ...
in Clare (UK Parliament constituency), Clare.
The first Quaker general election victor was Joseph Pease (railway pioneer), Joseph Pease at the 1832 general election.
The first Moravian Church, Moravian general election victor was Charles Hindley (politician), Charles Hindley at the 1835 United Kingdom general election, 1835 general election.
The first Jewish general election victor was Lionel de Rothschild at the 1847 United Kingdom general election, 1847 general election. He was not permitted to take his seat until 1858.
The first Catholic Apostolic Church, Catholic Apostolic general election victor was Henry Drummond (1786–1860), Henry Drummond also at the 1847 election.
The first Baptists, Baptist general election victor was George Goodman (politician), George Goodman at the 1852 United Kingdom general election, 1852 general election.
The first Congregationalist churches, Congregationalist general election victor was Samuel Morley (MP), Samuel Morley at the 1865 United Kingdom general election, 1865 general election.
The first declared atheist general election victor was Charles Bradlaugh at the 1880 United Kingdom general election, 1880 general election. He was not permitted to take the oath until January 1886, although he sat briefly in 1880–81 when permitted to affirm allegiance; a legal action later held that affirmation had no effect.
The first Parsis, Parsi general election victor was Dadabhai Naoroji at the 1892 general election.
The first Sikh general election victor was Piara Khabra at the 1992 general election.
The first The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Latter-day Saint general election victor was Terry Rooney (politician), Terry Rooney at the 1992 general election, after being initially elected for his seat at a 1990 Bradford North by-election, by-election in 1990.
The first Muslim general election victor was Mohammad Sarwar (politician), Mohammad Sarwar at the 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 general election.
The first Hinduism, Hindu general election victor was Shailesh Vara at the 2005 general election.
The first Buddhism, Buddhist general election victor was Suella Braverman, then known as Suella Fernandes, at the 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 general election.
Physical attributes
Heaviest
The heaviest MP of all time is believed to be Cyril Smith, Sir Cyril Smith, Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency), MP for Rochdale between 1972 and 1992, who weighed 189.6 kg (nearly 30 stone) at his peak in 1976.
Tallest
The tallest MP of all time is believed to be Daniel Kawczynski at in 2007, later stated to be in 2014. Article in ''Total Politics'' by Alistair Lamyman, 28 January 2014. Before Kawczynski's election for Shrewsbury and Atcham (UK Parliament constituency), Shrewsbury and Atcham in 2005, the record was held by Louis Gluckstein, MP for Nottingham East (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham East between 1931 and 1945, who measured .
Among pre-20th-century MPs, John Cheyne, Baron Cheyne, Sir John Cheyne (c. 1442–1499), known among contemporaries as the "Vigorous Knight" and MP for Wiltshire (UK Parliament constituency), Wiltshire between 1471 and 1481, has been estimated to have been tall, based on analysis of his femur (measuring 21 inches / 53 cm) found in his tomb.
The tallest female MP of all time is believed to be Antoinette Sandbach at in 2011, when she was a Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament (formerly National Assembly for Wales) member, later stated to be in 2019. She served in the House of Commons as MP for Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency), Eddisbury in 2015–2019.
Shortest
Not counting MPs who served as minors, adult contenders for this record in modern times include Sarah Teather, MP for Brent East (UK Parliament constituency), Brent East 2003–10 and Brent Central (UK Parliament constituency), Brent Central 2010–2015, who in 2014 was held to be the shortest MP then sitting, at . Hazel Blears, MP for Salford (UK Parliament constituency), Salford 1997–2010 and Salford and Eccles (UK Parliament constituency), Salford and Eccles 2010–15 was reportedly (2009) .
Physically disabled MPs
The following were all known to be disabled when serving as MPs:
Francis Bryan, Sir Francis Bryan, MP for Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Buckinghamshire in 1529, 1539, 1542 and 1545, who lost an eye in a Tournament (medieval), tournament in 1526.
William Page (MP), William Page, MP for Bridport (UK Parliament constituency), Bridport in 1559,
Oxford
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1562–67, and Saltash (UK Parliament constituency), Saltash 1571–81, who had a hand cut off in lieu of execution for distributing a political pamphlet in 1579.
John Stubbs, John Stubbs or Stubbe, MP for Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency), Great Yarmouth 1588–89, who also had right hand cut off in lieu of execution as Page was for publication of the same pamphlet in 1579.
Thomas Hutchinson (MP), Sir Thomas Hutchinson, MP for Nottinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency), Nottinghamshire 1626 and 1640–43, who lost two or three fingers in an attack by a guardian in 1613.
Hugh Bethell (died 1679), Hugh Bethell, MP for East Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency), East Riding of Yorkshire 1654–56 and Hedon (UK Parliament constituency), Hedon 1660–79, who lost an eye at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.
John Hewson (regicide), John Hewson, MP for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency), Guildford 1656–58, who lost an eye in action in Ireland in 1650.
Sir Frescheville Holles, MP for Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency), Grimsby 1667–72, who lost an arm in a sea battle in 1666.
Thomas Erle, MP for Wareham (UK Parliament constituency), Wareham 1679–98 and 1701–18, and Portsmouth (UK Parliament constituency), Portsmouth 1698–1702 and 1708, who lost his right hand (by some reports) at the Battle of Almanza in 1707.
Sackville Tufton, MP for Appleby (UK Parliament constituency), Appleby 1681–89, who lost some use of his right hand after being wounded at the Battle of Schooneveld in 1673.
Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, Sir James Lowther, MP for Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency), Carlisle 1694–1702, Appleby (UK Parliament constituency), Appleby 1723–27, and Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency), Cumberland 1708–22 and 1727–55, who had his right leg amputated due to gout in 1750.
John Richmond Webb, MP for Ludgershall 1695–98, 1699–1705, 1706–13 and 1715–24, and for Newport (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency), Newport, Isle of Wight 1713–15, who was lame after being severely wounded at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709.
John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, MP for
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town
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1701–05 and 1705–08, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.
George Clarke, MP for Winchelsea (UK Parliament constituency), Winchelsea 1702–05, East Looe (UK Parliament constituency), East Looe 1705–08, Launceston (UK Parliament constituency), Launceston 1711–13, and Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency), Oxford University 1717–36, who by 1734 lost his left eye and was losing sight in the other.
John Jennings (Royal Navy officer), Sir John Jennings, MP for Queenborough (UK Parliament constituency), Queenborough 1705–10, Portsmouth (UK Parliament constituency), Portsmouth 1710–11 and Rochester (UK Parliament constituency), Rochester 1715–34, who was becoming increasingly deaf in 1727.
Galfridus Walpole, MP for Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency), Lostwithiel 1715–21, who lost his right arm by a sea battle in 1711.
William Windham (of Earsham, senior), William Windham, MP for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury 1720–27 and Aldeburgh (UK Parliament constituency), Aldeburgh 1727–30, who lost a leg at the Battle of Blenheim.
Charles Stewart (Royal Navy officer), Charles Stewart, MP for Malmesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Malmesbury 1723–27 and Portsmouth (UK Parliament constituency), Portsmouth 1737–41, who lost his right hand in a sea battle in 1697.
William Banks (MP), William Banks, MP for Grampound (UK Parliament constituency), Grampound 1741–47, who lost use of legs after an illness in 1745.
Frederick North, Lord North, MP for Banbury (UK Parliament constituency), Banbury 1754–90, and Prime Minister 1770–82, who was increasingly blind from 1786.
Isaac Barré, MP for Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency), Wycombe 1761–74 and Calne (UK Parliament constituency), Calne 1774–90, who became blind in one eye at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Battle of Quebec in 1759 and totally blind in 1784.
Richard Burton Phillipson, MP for Eye (UK Parliament constituency), Eye 1762–68 and 1770–92, who became deaf by 1784.
John Sawbridge, MP for Hythe (UK Parliament constituency), Hythe 1768–74 and City of London (UK Parliament constituency), City of London 1774–95, who was paralysed from about 1792.
Frederick Cornewall, MP for Montgomery Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency), Montgomery Boroughs 1771–74, who lost his right arm at the Battle of Toulon (1744).
James Murray (of Strowan), James Murray, MP for Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency), Perthshire 1773–94, who was permanently disabled in 1761 by a battle wound that left him unable to lie down.
Hugh Palliser, MP for Scarborough (UK Parliament constituency), Scarborough 1774–79 and Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency), Huntingdon 1780–84, whose left leg was left permanently lame by injury from an accidental shipboard explosion in 1748.
Pinckney Wilkinson, MP for Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency), Old Sarum 1774–84, who was incapacitated by a stroke from 1782.
Sir William Middleton, 5th Baronet, Sir William Middleton, MP for Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency), Northumberland 1774–95, who was lame for life after severe wounding at Battle of Minden in 1759. History of Parliament article by Sir Lewis Namier.
Brook Watson, MP for the City of London (UK Parliament constituency), City of London 1784–93, who lost his right leg after a shark attack while swimming at Havana in 1749.
Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, Francis Mackenzie, MP for Ross-shire (UK Parliament constituency), Ross-shire 1784–90 and 1794–96, who became deaf and almost dumb from scarlet fever at about age of 12.
Sir John Call, 1st Baronet, Sir John Call, MP for
Callington
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1784–1801, who became blind in about 1794.
Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet, Sir Lawrence Palk, MP for Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency), Ashburton 1787–96 and
Devon
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1796–1812, who was severely crippled by gout by 1809.
Banastre Tarleton, MP for Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency), Liverpool 1790–1806 and 1807–12, who sustained a crippled right hand, losing two fingers, in action during the American War of Independence in 1781.
John Theophilus Rawdon, MP for Appleby (UK Parliament constituency), Appleby 1791–96, and Launceston (UK Parliament constituency), Launceston 1796–1802, who lost a leg at the Battle of Brandywine during the American War of Independence in 1777.
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, MP for Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency), Beaumaris 1794–96 and Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency), Denbighshire 1796–1840, who became deaf after contracting erysipelas in 1826, and had a large tongue which impeded speech.
Alexander Hope (British Army officer), Sir Alexander Hope, MP for Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Dumfries Burghs 1796–1800 and Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency), Linlithgowshire 1800–34, who lost an arm and was left permanently lame after being wounded in the Flanders Campaign in 1795.
Robert Abercromby of Airthrey, Sir Robert Abercromby, MP for Clackmannanshire (UK Parliament constituency), Clackmannanshire 1798–1802, who became increasingly blind in office due to an eye disease contracted in India by 1797.
John Horne Tooke, MP for Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency), Old Sarum 1801–02, who lost sight of right eye in a boyhood fight and was reportedly "lame" when he took his seat.
Robert Haldane Bradshaw, MP for Brackley (UK Parliament constituency), Brackley 1802–32, who lost use of his left limbs after a stroke in 1831.
Mervyn Archdall (junior), Mervyn Archdall, MP for Fermanagh (UK Parliament constituency), County Fermanagh 1802–34, who lost his right arm in battle in Egypt in 1801.
James Paull (MP), James Paull, MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency), Newtown (Isle of Wight) 1805–06, who was left disabled in his right arm from a duel in 1795.
Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet, of Monreith, Sir William Maxwell, MP for Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency), Wigtownshire 1805–12 and 1822–30, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Corunna and was badly wounded in the knee in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809.
James Mingay, MP for Thetford (UK Parliament constituency), Thetford 1806–07, who lost his right hand in childhood accident at a mill.
Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet, Sir Samuel Hood, MP for Westminster (UK Parliament constituency), Westminster 1806–07 and Bridport (UK Parliament constituency), Bridport 1807–12, who lost an arm in action at sea in 1806.
Sir Thomas Thompson, 1st Baronet, Thomas Thompson, MP for Rochester (UK Parliament constituency), Rochester 1807–18, who lost a leg at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801).
Fulk Greville Howard, MP for Castle Rising (UK Parliament constituency), Castle Rising 1808–32, who lost the sight of one eye during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, Helder Expedition in 1799.
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, Sir William Beresford, MP for County Waterford (UK Parliament constituency), County Waterford 1811–14, who was blinded in one eye by an accident with a musket on military service in 1786.
Samuel Shepherd, MP for Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency), Dorchester 1814–19, who was increasingly deaf since 1790.
Coningsby Waldo-Sibthorpe, MP for Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency), Lincoln 1814–22, who was left paralysed in his lower back in carriage accident in 1821.
Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, MP for Truro (UK Parliament constituency), Truro 1818–20 and 1826–29, who lost his right arm at the Battle of Waterloo.
Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, MP for Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), Worcester 1818–34 and 1837–41, who became increasingly paralysed since a carriage accident while contesting the 1835 United Kingdom general election, 1835 general election.
John Mytton, MP for Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency), Shrewsbury 1819–20, who had incipient deafness which affected his only appearance in a debate.
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, Sir Henry Hardinge, MP for Durham (UK Parliament constituency), Durham 1820–30, St Germans (UK Parliament constituency), St Germans 1830–31, Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency), Newport (Cornwall) 1831–32, and Launceston (UK Parliament constituency), Launceston 1832–44, who lost his left hand at the Battle of Ligny in 1815.
Lord John Hay (politician), Lord John Hay, MP for Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency), Haddingtonshire 1826–31 and Windsor (UK Parliament constituency), Windsor 1847–50, who lost his left arm in a sea battle in 1807.
Lord William Lennox, MP for King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency), King's Lynn 1831–34, who lost the sight of one eye in a horse riding accident in 1815.
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-con ...
, MP for Newark (UK Parliament constituency), Newark 1832–45, Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency), Oxford University 1847–65, South Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency), South Lancashire 1865–68,
Greenwich
Greenwich ( , ,) is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is situated east-southeast of Charing Cross.
Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
1868–80, and Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency), Midlothian 1880–95, four times Prime Minister between 1868 and 1894, who lost the forefinger of his left hand in a shotgun accident in 1842.
George Julius Poulett Scrope, MP for Stroud (UK Parliament constituency), Stroud 1833–67, who became increasingly blind later in office.
Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer), Admiral Sir Charles Napier, MP for Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency), Marylebone 1841–47 and Southwark (UK Parliament constituency), Southwark 1855–60, who walked with a limp and stoop due to leg and neck wounds received in the Napoleonic Wars.
Henry Fawcett, MP for Brighton (UK Parliament constituency), Brighton 1865–74 and Hackney (UK Parliament constituency), Hackney 1874–84, who was blind since a field shooting accident when he was 25.
Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, MP for County Wexford (UK Parliament constituency), County Wexford 1866–68 and County Carlow (UK Parliament constituency), County Carlow 1868–80, who was born with no arms, and no legs. Or more precisely, no arms below the lower third of his upper arm, nor legs below mid thigh. And in consequence, no hands and no feet.
Joseph Chamberlain, MP for Birmingham (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham 1876–85 and Birmingham West (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham West 1885–1914, whose sight, speech and use of right hand were impaired by a stroke in 1906.
Walter Wren, MP for Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency), Wallingford in 1880, who was crippled by spinal disease since age of 18.
Arthur Elliot (politician), Arthur Elliot, MP for Roxburghshire (UK Parliament constituency), Roxburghshire 1880–92 and City of Durham (UK Parliament constituency), City of Durham 1898–1906, who had a leg amputated at age four after a fall.
Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt (25 March 184630 May 1906) was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform. Following an eviction when he was four years old, Davitt's family migrated to England. He began his caree ...
, MP for Meath in 1882, North Meath (UK Parliament constituency), North Meath in 1892, North East Cork (UK Parliament constituency), North East Cork in 1893, and South Mayo (UK Parliament constituency), South Mayo 1895–99, who lost his right arm in an industrial accident at a textile mill in 1857 aged 11.
William Tindal Robertson, Sir William Tindal Robertson, MP for Brighton (UK Parliament constituency), Brighton 1886–89, who became blind from glaucoma in 1873.
William Archibald Macdonald, MP for Queen's County Ossory (UK Parliament constituency), Queen's County Ossory 1886–92, who was totally blind from age of 13.
Sir William Hornby, 1st Baronet, Sir William Hornby, MP for Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency), Blackburn 1886–1910, who became deaf in 1908.
George William Palmer (British politician), George William Palmer, MP for
Reading
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch.
For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spell ...
1892–95 and 1898–1904, who became increasingly deaf in office, causing his resignation.
Winston Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill, MP for
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, w ...
1900–06, Manchester North West (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester North West 1906–08, Dundee (UK Parliament constituency), Dundee 1908–22, Epping (UK Parliament constituency), Epping 1924–45 and Woodford (UK Parliament constituency), Woodford 1945–64, twice Prime Minister between 1940 and 1955, who became increasingly deaf from 1949 and a wheelchair user after a series of strokes towards the end of his service.
Joseph Nannetti, MP for Dublin College Green (UK Parliament constituency), Dublin College Green 1900–15, who was paralysed by illness from 1913.
D.D. Sheehan, Daniel Desmond Sheehan, MP for Mid Cork (UK Parliament constituency), Mid-Cork 1901–18, who became deaf due to shellfire and ill-health while serving in World War I by 1917.
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, Philip Snowden, MP for Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency), Blackburn 1906–18 and Colne Valley (UK Parliament constituency), Colne Valley 1922–31, who was paralysed by illness from waist down in 1891 and walked with aid of sticks.
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, MP for Ripon (UK Parliament constituency), Ripon 1910–25, who was born with a withered left arm and without a left hand.
Duncan Frederick Campbell, MP for North Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Ayrshire 1911–16, who lost his left arm at the First Battle of Ypres in 1914.
Aubrey Herbert, MP for South Somerset (UK Parliament constituency), South Somerset 1911–18 and Yeovil (UK Parliament constituency), Yeovil 1918–23, who was near blind from youth, becoming totally blind in his last year of life and service.
Cathal Brugha, MP for County Waterford (UK Parliament constituency), County Waterford 1918–22, who was left with a permanent limp after being wounded in the Easter Rising 1916.
Dan Irving, MP for Burnley (UK Parliament constituency), Burnley 1918–24, who had lost a leg in an industrial accident as a railway worker.
Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, Sir Oswald Mosley, MP for Harrow (UK Parliament constituency), Harrow 1918–24 and Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency), Smethwick 1926–31, who was left with a permanent limp after fracturing his right leg in a plane crash during World War I.
Jack Cohen (politician), Jack Cohen, MP for Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency), Liverpool Fairfield 1918–31, who lost both legs at the Third Battle of Ypres.
Frederick Martin (politician), Frederick Martin, MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine East (UK Parliament constituency), Aberdeen and Kincardine East 1922–24, who was blinded during military training in 1915.
Douglas Pielou, MP for Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency), Stourbridge 1922–27, who was severely disabled by wounds at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, John Jacob Astor V, MP for
Dover
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1922–45, who lost his right leg in battle in World War I in 1918.
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British politician who held a variety of senior positions in the UK Cabinet as member of the Labour Party. During the inter-war period, he was Minis ...
, MP for Hackney South (UK Parliament constituency), Hackney South 1923–24, 1929–31 and 1935–45,
Lewisham East
Lewisham East is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the by-election on 14 June 2018 by Janet Daby of the Labour Party.
History
Lewisham East was created for the 1918 general election. ...
1945–50 and Lewisham South (UK Parliament constituency), Lewisham South 1950–59, who lost sight of his right eye due to babyhood infection.
Mabel Philipson, MP for
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census re ...
1923–29, lost sight in one eye after a car crash near Brooklands racing circuit in 1911 that killed her first husband Thomas Stanley Rhodes, nephew of Cecil Rhodes.Ian Fraser, MP for St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency), St. Pancras North 1924–29, 1931–37 and for Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency), Lonsdale 1940–58, who was blinded at the Battle of the Somme.
Robert Bourne (politician), Robert Bourne, MP for
Oxford
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1924–38, who lost sight of one eye in schooldays game of rounders and sustained a crippled hand at Landings at Suvla Bay, Suvla Bay during World War I.
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as " Supermac", ...
, MP for Stockton-on-Tees (UK Parliament constituency), Stockton-on-Tees 1924–29 and 1931–45 and for
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, c ...
1945–64, Prime Minister 1957–63, who was left with a slight limp and weak right hand, affecting handwriting, by a series of wounds in World War I.
Charles Simmons (politician), Charles Simmons, MP for Birmingham Erdington (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham Erdington 1929–31, Birmingham West (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham West 1945–50 and Brierley Hill (UK Parliament constituency), Brierley Hill 1950–59, who lost a lower leg at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917.
Rab Butler, Richard Austen Butler, MP for Saffron Walden (UK Parliament constituency), Saffron Walden 1929–65, who was left with a poorly functioning right hand after a childhood riding accident.
Reginald Essenhigh, MP for Newton 1931–35, who lost a leg in action in World War I in 1917.
Joseph Leckie, MP for
Walsall
Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield.
Walsall is th ...
1931–38, who became increasingly deaf in office.
John Dugdale (Labour politician), John Dugdale, MP for West Bromwich (UK Parliament constituency), West Bromwich 1941–63, who was partly deaf from childhood.
Cecil Manning, MP for Camberwell North (UK Parliament constituency), Camberwell North 1944–50, who lost his right arm serving in World War I.
Michael Foot, MP for Plymouth Devonport 1945–55,
Ebbw Vale
Ebbw Vale (; cy, Glynebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr c ...
1960–83 and
Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north. Its main towns are Abertillery, Brynmawr, Ebbw ...
1983–92, who walked with aid of a stick since car crash injuries in 1963 and was blinded in one eye by an attack of shingles in 1976.
Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, Hervey Rhodes, MP for Ashton under Lyne (UK Parliament constituency), Ashton under Lyne 1945–64, who walked with a limp after severe wounding in World War I.
Geoffrey Stevens (British politician), Geoffrey Stevens, MP for Portsmouth Langstone (UK Parliament constituency), Portsmouth Langstone 1950–64, who became increasingly deaf from 1962.
Iain Macleod, MP for Enfield West (UK Parliament constituency), Enfield West 1950–70, who permanently limped due to a World War II wound in 1940 and later ankylosing spondylitis.
Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, Richard Frederick Wood, MP for Bridlington (UK Parliament constituency), Bridlington 1950–79, who lost both legs in battle in the Middle East in World War II (son of Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, above).
William Rees-Davies (Conservative politician), William Rees-Davies, MP for Isle of Thanet (UK Parliament constituency), Isle of Thanet 1953–74 and Thanet West (UK Parliament constituency), Thanet West 1974–83, who lost his right arm in action in World War II.
William Yates (politician), William Yates, MP for The Wrekin (UK Parliament constituency), The Wrekin 1955–66, who lost a leg at the knee in the First Battle of El Alamein.
Julian Critchley, MP for Rochester and Chatham (UK Parliament constituency), Rochester and Chatham 1959-64 and Aldershot (UK Parliament constituency), Aldershot 1970-97 who was severely impaired in mobility since before 1992 because of complications of polio suffered when a young man.
John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, John Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, MP for Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency), Edinburgh North 1960–73, who was left paralysed chest down after a fox hunting accident in 1971.
Jack Ashley, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (UK Parliament constituency), Stoke-on-Trent South 1966–92, who became profoundly deaf in 1967 after a routine operation.
Roland Boyes, MP for Houghton and Washington (UK Parliament constituency), Houghton and Washington 1983–97, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease from 1993.
Terry Dicks, MP for Hayes and Harlington (UK Parliament constituency), Hayes and Harlington 1983–97, who had cerebral palsy.
Gordon Brown MP for Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency), Dunfermline East 1983–2005 and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (UK Parliament constituency), Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath 2005–15, Prime Minister 2007–10. Blind in left eye since a rugby accident in 1967.
David Maclean, MP for Penrith and The Borders (UK Parliament constituency), Penrith and The Borders 1983–2010, who has had multiple sclerosis since 1996 (own account).
Emma Nicholson, MP for Devon West and Torridge (UK Parliament constituency), Devon West and Torridge 1987–97, who has been deaf since age 16.
David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside (UK Parliament constituency), Sheffield Brightside 1987–2010 and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency), Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 2010–15, who has been blind since birth.
Anne Begg, MP for Aberdeen South 1997–2015, who has used a wheelchair since 1984 due to a degenerative disease.
Fiona Mactaggart, MP for Slough (UK Parliament constituency), Slough 1997–2017, who suffered from multiple sclerosis as early as 2006.
Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne (UK Parliament constituency), Eastbourne 2010–15 and 2017–19, who is deaf in one ear and has partial hearing in another since measles at age of six.
Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow (UK Parliament constituency), Harlow since 2010, who has cerebral palsy.
Paul Maynard, MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (UK Parliament constituency), Blackpool North and Cleveleys since 2010, who has cerebral palsy and a congenital speech defect.
Alec Shelbrooke, MP for Elmet and Rothwell (UK Parliament constituency), Elmet and Rothwell since 2010, who is partially deaf.
Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea (UK Parliament constituency), Battersea since 2017, who is registered blind.
Jared O'Mara, MP for Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament constituency), Sheffield Hallam 2017–19, who has cerebral palsy.
Fiona Onasanya, MP for Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency), Peterborough 2017–19, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018.
Jonathan Gullis, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North (UK Parliament constituency), Stoke-on-Trent North since 2019, who is deaf in one ear.
Tom Randall (politician), Tom Randall, MP for Gedling (UK Parliament constituency), Gedling since 2019, who has had ankylosing spondylitis since age 16.
Members of Parliament who died on wartime active service
Pre-World Wars
First World War
Died after end of hostilities but listed as First World War casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sykes, Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (5th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment); born 1879: died 1919 of Spanish flu, Spanish influenza at Paris while attending peace negotiations. MP (Conservative Party) for Kingston upon Hull Central (UK Parliament constituency), Kingston upon Hull Central (1911-death).
Inter-World Wars
Second World War
Died after end of hostilities but listed as Second World Casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Roger Keyes, 1st Baronet, later 1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge (Royal Navy); born 1872; died 1945 of effects of smoke inhalation sustained in a Japanese aircraft attack when visiting during a government goodwill tour over 1944–45. MP (Conservative Party) for Portsmouth North (UK Parliament constituency), Portsmouth North (1934–43).
Members of Parliament who died as wartime civilian casualties
Members of Parliament who have been accidentally killed
Members of Parliament who have been killed in a duel
Members of Parliament who have been murdered
Members of Parliament who have died by suicide
The Irish republican
Bobby Sands
Robert Gerard Sands ( ga, Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member (and leader in the Maze prison) of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison M ...
died while on hunger strike in May 1981; he had been elected as an "Anti-H-Block" MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency), Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981, although he never took his seat as he was in prison. Although hunger strike deaths are arguably self-inflicted, they are not conventually considered "suicides."
Members of Parliament who have disappeared
Members of Parliament who were executed, died in prison or escaped justice
See also
* Parliamentary records of the United Kingdom
* United Kingdom general election records
* United Kingdom by-election records
* Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
* Oldest living Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* List of military veterans in British politics
References
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Parliamentary records of the United Kingdom, Members of Parliament