List of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

Appointment to the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds (or the Three Hundreds of Chiltern) is a procedural device to allow members of Parliament (MPs) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Since MPs are technically unable to resign their seats in the House of Commons, they must resort to a legal fiction. An appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as an MP. Although several offices were used in the past to allow MPs to resign, only the stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead are in present use.

Infobox

Appointer

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Tables

· Key

All-for-Ireland League

Party

All-for-Ireland League

Abbreviation

AFIL

Coalition Conservative

Party

Coalition Conservative

Abbreviation

Co Con

Coalition Liberal

Party

Coalition Liberal

Abbreviation

Co Lib

Conservative Party

Party

Conservative Party

Abbreviation

Con

Democratic Unionist Party

Party

Democratic Unionist Party

Abbreviation

DUP

English National Party

Party

English National Party

Abbreviation

Eng Nat

Home Rule League

Party

Home Rule League

Abbreviation

HRL

Independent

Party

Independent

Abbreviation

Ind

Irish National Federation

Party

Irish National Federation

Abbreviation

INF

Irish Parliamentary Party

Party

Irish Parliamentary Party

Abbreviation

IPP

Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party

Party

Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party

Abbreviation

Nat

Labour Party

Party

Labour Party

Abbreviation

Lab

Labour and Co-operative Party

Party

Labour and Co-operative Party

Abbreviation

Lab Co-op

Liberal Party (pre-1988)

Party

Liberal Party (pre-1988)

Abbreviation

Lib

Liberal Democrats

Party

Liberal Democrats

Abbreviation

Lib Dem

Liberal Unionist Party

Party

Liberal Unionist Party

Abbreviation

National Labour

Party

National Labour

Abbreviation

N Lab

National Liberal Party

Party

National Liberal Party

Abbreviation

N Lib

Sinn Féin

Party

Sinn Féin

Abbreviation

Scottish National Party

Party

Scottish National Party

Abbreviation

SNP

Unionist Party

Party

Unionist Party

Abbreviation

Ulster Popular Unionist Party

Party

Ulster Popular Unionist Party

Abbreviation

UPUP

Ulster Unionist Party

Party

Ulster Unionist Party

Abbreviation

Whig

Party

Whig

Abbreviation

Whig

Party	Abbreviation
All-for-Ireland League	AFIL
Coalition Conservative	Co Con
Coalition Liberal	Co Lib
Conservative Party	Con
Democratic Unionist Party	DUP
English National Party	Eng Nat
Home Rule League	HRL
Independent	Ind
Irish National Federation	INF
Irish Parliamentary Party	IPP
Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party	Nat
Labour Party	Lab
Labour and Co-operative Party	Lab Co-op
Liberal Party (pre-1988)	Lib
Liberal Democrats	Lib Dem
Liberal Unionist Party	LU
National Labour	N Lab
National Liberal Party	N Lib
Sinn Féin	SF
Scottish National Party	SNP
Unionist Party	UP
Ulster Popular Unionist Party	UPUP
Ulster Unionist Party	UU
Whig	Whig

· 1850 to 1899

9 February 1850

Date

9 February 1850

Member

Sir George Smyth

Constituency

Colchester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

"Age and infirmity" (Had previously been appointed to the Stewardship in 1829)

4 March 1850

Date

4 March 1850

Member

Lord Albert Conyngham

Constituency

Canterbury

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough

12 March 1850

Date

12 March 1850

Member

John Ffolliott

Constituency

County Sligo

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

30 April 1850

Date

30 April 1850

Member

Hon. George Keppel

Constituency

Lymington

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

Succeeded his brother as Earl of Albemarle

22 July 1850

Date

22 July 1850

Member

Sir John Jervis

Constituency

City of Chester

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

To become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

3 August 1850

Date

3 August 1850

Member

Viscount Northland

Constituency

Dungannon

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

7 August 1850

Date

7 August 1850

Member

Charles Pearson

Constituency

Lambeth

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

24 December 1850

Date

24 December 1850

Member

Viscount Adare

Constituency

Glamorganshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

3 February 1851

Date

3 February 1851

Member

Viscount Northland

Constituency

Dungannon

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

3 February 1851

Date

3 February 1851

Member

Sir John Hobhouse, Bt

Constituency

Harwich

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton

1 March 1851

Date

1 March 1851

Member

Richard Lalor Sheil

Constituency

Dungarvan

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Retired due to ill health and as he had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in November 1850.

31 March 1851

Date

31 March 1851

Member

Hon. Henry Cole

Constituency

Enniskillen

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

14 April 1851

Date

14 April 1851

Member

William Trant Fagan

Constituency

Cork City

Party

To become Commissioner of Insolvency

5 May 1851

Date

5 May 1851

Member

John Simeon

Constituency

Isle of Wight

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

After converting to Catholicism, "out of a delicate instinct of honour towards those who had elected him while he was a member of the Anglican Church — believing that he had no right to suppose them to be indifferent to the change he had made."

10 July 1851

Date

10 July 1851

Member

The Earl of Surrey

Constituency

Arundel

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

To protest the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851

23 July 1851

Date

23 July 1851

Member

John O'Connell

Constituency

Limerick City

Party

To allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place

1 August 1851

Date

1 August 1851

Member

Richard Ker

Constituency

Downpatrick

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

12 September 1851

Date

12 September 1851

Member

Hon. Arthur Duncombe

Constituency

East Retford

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

To become Fourth Naval Lord

25 October 1851

Date

25 October 1851

Member

Benjamin Hawes

Constituency

Kinsale

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

To become Deputy Secretary at War

29 January 1852

Date

29 January 1852

Member

John Plumptre

Constituency

East Kent

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

16 March 1852

Date

16 March 1852

Member

John Boyd

Constituency

Coleraine

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

20 April 1852

Date

20 April 1852

Member

Francis Rufford

Constituency

Worcester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

5 July 1853

Date

5 July 1853

Member

William Evans

Constituency

North Derbyshire

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

[?]

3 August 1853

Date

3 August 1853

Member

Hon. George Anson

Constituency

South Staffordshire

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Appointed to command a Division in Bengal

13 August 1853

Date

13 August 1853

Member

John Maguire

Constituency

Dungarvan

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Became Mayor of Cork

28 January 1854

Date

28 January 1854

Member

Richard Prime

Constituency

West Sussex

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

5 May 1854

Date

5 May 1854

Member

Musgrave Brisco

Constituency

Hastings

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health; died four days later

5 August 1854

Date

5 August 1854

Member

Hon. William Gordon

Constituency

Aberdeenshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

11 August 1854

Date

11 August 1854

Member

Lord Dudley Stuart

Constituency

Marylebone

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

30 March 1855

Date

30 March 1855

Member

Edmond Roche

Constituency

County Cork

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

2 May 1855

Date

2 May 1855

Member

William Mure

Constituency

Renfrewshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

6 July 1855

Date

6 July 1855

Member

Charles Berkeley

Constituency

Evesham

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

22 November 1855

Date

22 November 1855

Member

Hon. Francis Child Villiers

Constituency

Rochester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

25 January 1856

Date

25 January 1856

Member

Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt

Constituency

Rutland

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

[?]

3 March 1856

Date

3 March 1856

Member

Charles Gavan Duffy

Constituency

New Ross

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

2 May 1856

Date

2 May 1856

Member

Charles Berkeley

Constituency

Cheltenham

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

15 July 1856

Date

15 July 1856

Member

Henry Sturt

Constituency

Dorchester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 January 1857

Date

7 January 1857

Member

William Biggs

Constituency

Newport

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

[?]

17 February 1857

Date

17 February 1857

Member

Charles Frewen

Constituency

East Sussex

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

23 July 1857

Date

23 July 1857

Member

Lionel de Rothschild

Constituency

City of London

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Being Jewish, unable to swear his oath of allegiance on a Bible that contained the New Testament. A bill that would allow him to swear on the Old Testament was defeated.

30 November 1857

Date

30 November 1857

Member

Hon. Francis Baring

Constituency

Thetford

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

19 December 1857

Date

19 December 1857

Member

George Skene Duff

Constituency

Elgin Burghs

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

4 November 1858

Date

4 November 1858

Member

Henry Tancred

Constituency

Banbury

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

[?]

9 February 1859

Date

9 February 1859

Member

Sir John Ramsden, Bt

Constituency

Hythe

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

[?]

9 March 1859

Date

9 March 1859

Member

John Bagshaw

Constituency

Harwich

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

2 August 1859

Date

2 August 1859

Member

Henry Labouchere

Constituency

Taunton

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton

12 August 1859

Date

12 August 1859

Member

Ralph Earle

Constituency

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies

6 March 1860

Date

6 March 1860

Member

William Laslett

Constituency

Worcester

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

4 June 1860

Date

4 June 1860

Member

Richard Davison

Constituency

Belfast

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

27 August 1860

Date

27 August 1860

Member

Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert

Constituency

Ludlow

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

4 February 1861

Date

4 February 1861

Member

Titus Salt

Constituency

Bradford

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Retired due to ill health.

22 April 1861

Date

22 April 1861

Member

Lachlan Gordon-Duff

Constituency

Banffshire

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

18 July 1861

Date

18 July 1861

Member

Allen Eliott-Lockhart

Constituency

Selkirkshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

January 1862

Date

January 1862

Member

George Heneage

Constituency

Lincoln

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

26 March 1862

Date

26 March 1862

Member

R. A. Cross

Constituency

Preston

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

19 May 1862

Date

19 May 1862

Member

Alfred Rhodes Bristow

Constituency

Kidderminster

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 January 1863

Date

7 January 1863

Member

Edward Ball

Constituency

Cambridgeshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

5 February 1863

Date

5 February 1863

Member

Michael Seymour

Constituency

Plymouth Devonport

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

14 March 1863

Date

14 March 1863

Member

Maxwell Close

Constituency

Armagh

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

14 April 1863

Date

14 April 1863

Member

Ion Hamilton

Constituency

County Dublin

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

28 May 1863

Date

28 May 1863

Member

Charles Tottenham

Constituency

New Ross

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

4 February 1864

Date

4 February 1864

Member

Sir James Buller East, Bt

Constituency

Winchester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

11 February 1865

Date

11 February 1865

Member

Daniel O'Donoghue

Constituency

Tipperary

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

16 June 1865

Date

16 June 1865

Member

Arthur William Buller

Constituency

Plymouth Devonport

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

1 March 1866

Date

1 March 1866

Member

William Edward Dowdeswell

Constituency

Tewkesbury

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

28 April 1866

Date

28 April 1866

Member

Lord Clarence Paget

Constituency

Sandwich

Party

Whig

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 May 1866

Date

7 May 1866

Member

William Leslie

Constituency

Aberdeenshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

8 August 1866

Date

8 August 1866

Member

Hon. Charles Cust

Constituency

North Shropshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

5 February 1867

Date

5 February 1867

Member

William Humphery

Constituency

Andover

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

5 February 1867

Date

5 February 1867

Member

Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt

Constituency

East Suffolk

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

10 May 1867

Date

10 May 1867

Member

David Dundas

Constituency

Sutherland

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

26 July 1867

Date

26 July 1867

Member

David Stewart Ker

Constituency

Downpatrick

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

25 November 1867

Date

25 November 1867

Member

Hon. Alexander Baring

Constituency

Thetford

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

19 February 1868

Date

19 February 1868

Member

Alexander Struthers Finlay

Constituency

Argyllshire

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

14 April 1868

Date

14 April 1868

Member

William Welby-Gregory

Constituency

Grantham

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

22 April 1868

Date

22 April 1868

Member

Laurence Oliphant

Constituency

Stirling Burghs

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

17 February 1869

Date

17 February 1869

Member

Richard Green-Price

Constituency

Radnor

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

28 July 1869

Date

28 July 1869

Member

Edward Hamilton

Constituency

Salisbury

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 February 1870

Date

7 February 1870

Member

Austen Henry Layard

Constituency

Southwark

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
9 February 1850	Sir George Smyth	Colchester		Con	"Age and infirmity" (Had previously been appointed to the Stewardship in 1829)
4 March 1850	Lord Albert Conyngham	Canterbury		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough
12 March 1850	John Ffolliott	County Sligo		Con	[?]
30 April 1850	Hon. George Keppel	Lymington		Whig	Succeeded his brother as Earl of Albemarle
22 July 1850	Sir John Jervis	City of Chester		Lib	To become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
3 August 1850	Viscount Northland	Dungannon		Con	Ill health
7 August 1850	Charles Pearson	Lambeth		Lib	[?]
24 December 1850	Viscount Adare	Glamorganshire		Con	Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
3 February 1851	Viscount Northland	Dungannon		Con	[?]
3 February 1851	Sir John Hobhouse, Bt	Harwich		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton
1 March 1851	Richard Lalor Sheil	Dungarvan		Lib	Retired due to ill health and as he had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in November 1850.
31 March 1851	Hon. Henry Cole	Enniskillen		Con	[?]
14 April 1851	William Trant Fagan	Cork City	RA		To become Commissioner of Insolvency
5 May 1851	John Simeon	Isle of Wight		Lib	After converting to Catholicism, "out of a delicate instinct of honour towards those who had elected him while he was a member of the Anglican Church — believing that he had no right to suppose them to be indifferent to the change he had made."
10 July 1851	The Earl of Surrey	Arundel		Lib	To protest the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851
23 July 1851	John O'Connell	Limerick City	RA		To allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place
1 August 1851	Richard Ker	Downpatrick		Con	[?]
12 September 1851	Hon. Arthur Duncombe	East Retford		Con	To become Fourth Naval Lord
25 October 1851	Benjamin Hawes	Kinsale		Lib	To become Deputy Secretary at War
29 January 1852	John Plumptre	East Kent		Con	[?]
16 March 1852	John Boyd	Coleraine		Con	[?]
20 April 1852	Francis Rufford	Worcester		Con	[?]
5 July 1853	William Evans	North Derbyshire		Whig	[?]
3 August 1853	Hon. George Anson	South Staffordshire		Lib	Appointed to command a Division in Bengal
13 August 1853	John Maguire	Dungarvan		Lib	Became Mayor of Cork
28 January 1854	Richard Prime	West Sussex		Con	[?]
5 May 1854	Musgrave Brisco	Hastings		Con	Ill health; died four days later
5 August 1854	Hon. William Gordon	Aberdeenshire		Con	[?]
11 August 1854	Lord Dudley Stuart	Marylebone		Lib	[?]
30 March 1855	Edmond Roche	County Cork		Lib	[?]
2 May 1855	William Mure	Renfrewshire		Con	[?]
6 July 1855	Charles Berkeley	Evesham		Lib	[?]
22 November 1855	Hon. Francis Child Villiers	Rochester		Con	[?]
25 January 1856	Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt	Rutland		Whig	[?]
3 March 1856	Charles Gavan Duffy	New Ross		Lib	[?]
2 May 1856	Charles Berkeley	Cheltenham		Lib	[?]
15 July 1856	Henry Sturt	Dorchester		Con	[?]
7 January 1857	William Biggs	Newport		Whig	[?]
17 February 1857	Charles Frewen	East Sussex		Con	[?]
23 July 1857	Lionel de Rothschild	City of London		Lib	Being Jewish, unable to swear his oath of allegiance on a Bible that contained the New Testament. A bill that would allow him to swear on the Old Testament was defeated.
30 November 1857	Hon. Francis Baring	Thetford		Con	[?]
19 December 1857	George Skene Duff	Elgin Burghs		Lib	[?]
4 November 1858	Henry Tancred	Banbury		Whig	[?]
9 February 1859	Sir John Ramsden, Bt	Hythe		Whig	[?]
9 March 1859	John Bagshaw	Harwich		Lib	[?]
2 August 1859	Henry Labouchere	Taunton		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton
12 August 1859	Ralph Earle	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Con	Accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies
6 March 1860	William Laslett	Worcester		Lib	[?]
4 June 1860	Richard Davison	Belfast		Con	[?]

· 1900 to 1949

26 January 1900

Date

26 January 1900

Member

Lord Charles Beresford

Constituency

City of York

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

27 January 1900

Date

27 January 1900

Member

Bernard Collery

Constituency

North Sligo

Party

INF

Party

[?]

14 March 1900

Date

14 March 1900

Member

Evelyn Hubbard

Constituency

Brixton

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

On the advice of his doctors

11 December 1900

Date

11 December 1900

Member

Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt

Constituency

Blackpool

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

9 January 1902

Date

9 January 1902

Member

Edward Brodie Hoare

Constituency

Hampstead

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

1 February 1902

Date

1 February 1902

Member

Michael McCartan

Constituency

South Down

Party

IPP

Party

Ill health

7 February 1902

Date

7 February 1902

Member

James Daly

Constituency

South Monaghan

Party

IPP

Party

Refusal of party leaders to publish the names of those members who were receiving payment from the Parliamentary fund and those who were not

18 April 1902

Date

18 April 1902

Member

Edwin Hughes

Constituency

Woolwich

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 October 1902

Date

7 October 1902

Member

Cathcart Wason

Constituency

Orkney and Shetland

Party

To stand again as an Independent Liberal.

27 October 1902

Date

27 October 1902

Member

Augustus Frederick Warr

Constituency

Liverpool East Toxteth

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Found the workload of Parliament to be incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.

17 February 1903

Date

17 February 1903

Member

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Constituency

Dublin University

Party

Ill health

5 March 1903

Date

5 March 1903

Member

Edward Archdale

Constituency

North Fermanagh

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

1 January 1904

Date

1 January 1904

Member

William O'Brien

Constituency

Cork City

Party

AFIL

Party

[?]

22 March 1904

Date

22 March 1904

Member

J. E. B. Seely

Constituency

Isle of Wight

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

To stand again as Independent Conservative

8 June 1904

Date

8 June 1904

Member

John Lockie

Constituency

Plymouth Devonport

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

16 June 1904

Date

16 June 1904

Member

John Arthur Fyler

Constituency

Chertsey

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Bankruptcy

11 February 1905

Date

11 February 1905

Member

John Archibald Willox

Constituency

Liverpool Everton

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

28 June 1905

Date

28 June 1905

Member

Arthur Hill

Constituency

West Down

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

19 March 1906

Date

19 March 1906

Member

Henry Broadhurst

Constituency

Leicester

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 May 1906

Date

7 May 1906

Member

Frederick Rutherfoord Harris

Constituency

Dulwich

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

11 June 1906

Date

11 June 1906

Member

Heneage Legge

Constituency

Westminster St George's

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

10 December 1906

Date

10 December 1906

Member

Daniel Sheehan

Constituency

Mid Cork

Party

IPP

Party

To stand again as Independent Nationalist

12 February 1907

Date

12 February 1907

Member

Harold James Reckitt

Constituency

Brigg

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

1 May 1907

Date

1 May 1907

Member

William Evans-Gordon

Constituency

Stepney

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

10 June 1907

Date

10 June 1907

Member

Denis Joseph Cogan

Constituency

East Wicklow

Party

IPP

Party

[?]

1 July 1907

Date

1 July 1907

Member

James O'Mara

Constituency

South Kilkenny

Party

IPP

Party

[?]

15 August 1907

Date

15 August 1907

Member

Edward Blake

Constituency

South Longford

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Ill health following a stroke

22 January 1908

Date

22 January 1908

Member

William Alexander McArthur

Constituency

St Austell

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

22 February 1908

Date

22 February 1908

Member

Harvey du Cros

Constituency

Hastings

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

23 April 1908

Date

23 April 1908

Member

Henry Fowler

Constituency

Wolverhampton East

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton

28 April 1908

Date

28 April 1908

Member

Edmund Robertson

Constituency

Dundee

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee

29 June 1908

Date

29 June 1908

Member

John Philipps

Constituency

Pembrokeshire

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

10 February 1909

Date

10 February 1909

Member

John Sinclair

Constituency

Forfar

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

27 March 1909

Date

27 March 1909

Member

William O'Brien

Constituency

Cork City

Party

IPP

Party

[?]

23 April 1909

Date

23 April 1909

Member

J. Batty Langley

Constituency

Sheffield Attercliffe

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

25 June 1909

Date

25 June 1909

Member

Herbert Samuel

Constituency

Cleveland

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

22 February 1910

Date

22 February 1910

Member

Sir William Holland, Bt

Constituency

Rotherham

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

20 February 1911

Date

20 February 1911

Member

Thomas Fleming Wilson

Constituency

North East Lanarkshire

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

15 March 1911

Date

15 March 1911

Member

Lord Alwyne Compton

Constituency

Brentford

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

27 April 1911

Date

27 April 1911

Member

Viscount Morpeth

Constituency

Birmingham South

Party

[?]

28 June 1911

Date

28 June 1911

Member

Thomas Ashton

Constituency

Luton

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

4 July 1911

Date

4 July 1911

Member

Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt

Constituency

Wellington

Party

[?]

5 July 1911

Date

5 July 1911

Member

John Muldoon

Constituency

East Wicklow

Party

IPP

Party

[?]

27 October 1911

Date

27 October 1911

Member

Alfred Emmott

Constituency

Oldham

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

8 March 1912

Date

8 March 1912

Member

John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood

Constituency

South East Essex

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

13 March 1912

Date

13 March 1912

Member

Sir James Rankin, Bt

Constituency

Leominster

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

16 May 1912

Date

16 May 1912

Member

Horatio Bottomley

Constituency

Hackney South

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

30 July 1912

Date

30 July 1912

Member

George Kemp

Constituency

Manchester North West

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

14 November 1912

Date

14 November 1912

Member

George Lansbury

Constituency

Bow and Bromley

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

[?]

5 February 1913

Date

5 February 1913

Member

Lord Balniel

Constituency

Chorley

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

2 June 1913

Date

2 June 1913

Member

Sir Henry Kimber, Bt

Constituency

Wandsworth

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

19 January 1914

Date

19 January 1914

Member

William O'Brien

Constituency

Cork City

Party

AFIL

Party

[?]

26 May 1914

Date

26 May 1914

Member

Richard Hazleton

Constituency

North Galway

Party

IPP

Party

[?]

7 July 1914

Date

7 July 1914

Member

Austen Chamberlain

Constituency

East Worcestershire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

To contest Birmingham West

16 February 1915

Date

16 February 1915

Member

Viscount Castlereagh

Constituency

Maidstone

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

3 December 1915

Date

3 December 1915

Member

William Walker

Constituency

Widnes

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

6 January 1916

Date

6 January 1916

Member

Sir Alexander Henderson, Bt

Constituency

Westminster St George's

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

13 January 1916

Date

13 January 1916

Member

Hon. Harry Levy-Lawson

Constituency

Mile End

Party

[?]

22 February 1916

Date

22 February 1916

Member

Robert Yerburgh

Constituency

City of Chester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

24 February 1916

Date

24 February 1916

Member

John Rolleston

Constituency

Hertford

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

6 March 1916

Date

6 March 1916

Member

John William Logan

Constituency

Harborough

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

8 April 1916

Date

8 April 1916

Member

Henry Chaplin

Constituency

Wimbledon

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 August 1916

Date

7 August 1916

Member

Reginald Pole-Carew

Constituency

Bodmin

Party

[?]

10 October 1916

Date

10 October 1916

Member

Felix Cassel

Constituency

St Pancras West

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

27 November 1916

Date

27 November 1916

Member

The Earl of Ronaldshay

Constituency

Hornsey

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

16 December 1916

Date

16 December 1916

Member

Charles Stuart-Wortley

Constituency

Sheffield Hallam

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

21 December 1916

Date

21 December 1916

Member

Sir John Dewar, Bt

Constituency

Inverness-shire

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

10 February 1917

Date

10 February 1917

Member

The Marquess of Tullibardine

Constituency

West Perthshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

22 March 1917

Date

22 March 1917

Member

Arthur Annesley

Constituency

Oxford

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

7 May 1917

Date

7 May 1917

Member

Charles Henry Lyell

Constituency

Edinburgh South

Party

Lib

Reason for resignation

[?]

19 June 1917

Date

19 June 1917

Member

Amelius Lockwood

Constituency

Epping

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

12 January 1918

Date

12 January 1918

Member

Sir John Lonsdale, Bt

Constituency

Mid Armagh

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

14 March 1918

Date

14 March 1918

Member

William Redmond

Constituency

East Tyrone

Party

IPP

Party

[?]

12 June 1918

Date

12 June 1918

Member

Denison Faber

Constituency

Clapham

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

[?]

4 November 1918

Date

4 November 1918

Member

Timothy Michael Healy

Constituency

North East Cork

Party

AFIL

Party

[?]

21 March 1919

Date

21 March 1919

Member

Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont

Constituency

East Antrim

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed to command the Irish Guards

22 October 1919

Date

22 October 1919

Member

John Wilkinson Taylor

Constituency

Chester-le-Street

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

[?]

29 October 1919

Date

29 October 1919

Member

Hon. Waldorf Astor

Constituency

Plymouth Sutton

Party

Co Con

Party

[?]

2 December 1919

Date

2 December 1919

Member

Henry Forster

Constituency

Sevenoaks

Party

Co Con

Party

[?]

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
26 January 1900	Lord Charles Beresford	City of York		Con	Appointed second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.
27 January 1900	Bernard Collery	North Sligo	INF		[?]
14 March 1900	Evelyn Hubbard	Brixton		Con	On the advice of his doctors
11 December 1900	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt	Blackpool		Con	[?]
9 January 1902	Edward Brodie Hoare	Hampstead		Con	Ill health
1 February 1902	Michael McCartan	South Down	IPP		Ill health
7 February 1902	James Daly	South Monaghan	IPP		Refusal of party leaders to publish the names of those members who were receiving payment from the Parliamentary fund and those who were not
18 April 1902	Edwin Hughes	Woolwich		Con	[?]
7 October 1902	Cathcart Wason	Orkney and Shetland	LU		To stand again as an Independent Liberal.
27 October 1902	Augustus Frederick Warr	Liverpool East Toxteth		Con	Found the workload of Parliament to be incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.
17 February 1903	William Edward Hartpole Lecky	Dublin University	LU		Ill health
5 March 1903	Edward Archdale	North Fermanagh		Con	[?]
1 January 1904	William O'Brien	Cork City	AFIL		[?]
22 March 1904	J. E. B. Seely	Isle of Wight		Con	To stand again as Independent Conservative
8 June 1904	John Lockie	Plymouth Devonport		Con	Ill health
16 June 1904	John Arthur Fyler	Chertsey		Con	Bankruptcy
11 February 1905	John Archibald Willox	Liverpool Everton		Con	Ill health
28 June 1905	Arthur Hill	West Down		Con	[?]
19 March 1906	Henry Broadhurst	Leicester		Lib	[?]
7 May 1906	Frederick Rutherfoord Harris	Dulwich		Con	[?]
11 June 1906	Heneage Legge	Westminster St George's		Con	[?]
10 December 1906	Daniel Sheehan	Mid Cork	IPP		To stand again as Independent Nationalist
12 February 1907	Harold James Reckitt	Brigg		Lib	[?]
1 May 1907	William Evans-Gordon	Stepney		Con	[?]
10 June 1907	Denis Joseph Cogan	East Wicklow	IPP		[?]
1 July 1907	James O'Mara	South Kilkenny	IPP		[?]
15 August 1907	Edward Blake	South Longford		Lib	Ill health following a stroke
22 January 1908	William Alexander McArthur	St Austell		Lib	[?]
22 February 1908	Harvey du Cros	Hastings		Con	Ill health
23 April 1908	Henry Fowler	Wolverhampton East		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton
28 April 1908	Edmund Robertson	Dundee		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee
29 June 1908	John Philipps	Pembrokeshire		Lib	[?]
10 February 1909	John Sinclair	Forfar		Lib	[?]
27 March 1909	William O'Brien	Cork City	IPP		[?]
23 April 1909	J. Batty Langley	Sheffield Attercliffe		Lib	[?]
25 June 1909	Herbert Samuel	Cleveland		Lib	[?]
22 February 1910	Sir William Holland, Bt	Rotherham		Lib	[?]
20 February 1911	Thomas Fleming Wilson	North East Lanarkshire		Lib	[?]
15 March 1911	Lord Alwyne Compton	Brentford		Con	[?]
27 April 1911	Viscount Morpeth	Birmingham South	LU		[?]
28 June 1911	Thomas Ashton	Luton		Lib	[?]
4 July 1911	Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt	Wellington	CU		[?]
5 July 1911	John Muldoon	East Wicklow	IPP		[?]
27 October 1911	Alfred Emmott	Oldham		Lib	[?]
8 March 1912	John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood	South East Essex		Con	[?]
13 March 1912	Sir James Rankin, Bt	Leominster		Con	[?]
16 May 1912	Horatio Bottomley	Hackney South		Lib	[?]
30 July 1912	George Kemp	Manchester North West		Lib	[?]
14 November 1912	George Lansbury	Bow and Bromley		Lab	[?]

· 1950 to 1999

25 October 1950

Date

25 October 1950

Member

Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps

Constituency

Bristol South East

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Medical advice

22 March 1951

Date

22 March 1951

Member

Sir Ronald Ross, Bt

Constituency

Londonderry

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London

11 May 1951

Date

11 May 1951

Member

Rhys Davies

Constituency

Westhoughton

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Ill health

8 October 1952

Date

8 October 1952

Member

Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill

Constituency

North Antrim

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Retirement

21 January 1953

Date

21 January 1953

Member

Sidney Schofield

Constituency

Barnsley

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Personal and domestic reasons

14 February 1953

Date

14 February 1953

Member

Hon. Edward Carson

Constituency

Isle of Thanet

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

3 June 1953

Date

3 June 1953

Member

Peter Bennett

Constituency

Birmingham Edgbaston

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston

27 October 1953

Date

27 October 1953

Member

William J. Field

Constituency

Paddington North

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes

15 January 1954

Date

15 January 1954

Member

Richard Law

Constituency

Haltemprice

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Raised to the peerage as Baron Coleraine

12 February 1954

Date

12 February 1954

Member

William Cuthbert

Constituency

Arundel and Shoreham

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

3 October 1954

Date

3 October 1954

Member

Sidney Marshall

Constituency

Sutton and Cheam

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

28 November 1954

Date

28 November 1954

Member

Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton

Constituency

Inverness

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health; to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise

7 May 1956

Date

7 May 1956

Member

Gerald Wellington Williams

Constituency

Tonbridge

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

26 November 1956

Date

26 November 1956

Member

Stanley Evans

Constituency

Wednesbury

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis

2 May 1957

Date

2 May 1957

Member

William Darling

Constituency

Edinburgh South

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

8 November 1957

Date

8 November 1957

Member

Victor Raikes

Constituency

Liverpool Garston

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

To take up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia

18 April 1958

Date

18 April 1958

Member

Angus Maude

Constituency

Ealing South

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

To become editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.

1 June 1961

Date

1 June 1961

Member

Hon. David Ormsby-Gore

Constituency

Oswestry

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed British Ambassador to the United States

29 November 1961

Date

29 November 1961

Member

Hilary Marquand

Constituency

Middlesbrough East

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office

22 January 1962

Date

22 January 1962

Member

George Chetwynd

Constituency

Stockton-on-Tees

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed Director of the North East Development Council

6 June 1963

Date

6 June 1963

Member

John Profumo

Constituency

Stratford-on-Avon

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Confessed to misleading the House (the Profumo affair)

9 March 1964

Date

9 March 1964

Member

Peter Smithers

Constituency

Winchester

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe

24 June 1965

Date

24 June 1965

Member

Anthony Marlowe

Constituency

Hove

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Medical advice

29 September 1967

Date

29 September 1967

Member

William Roots

Constituency

Kensington South

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

15 January 1968

Date

15 January 1968

Member

Leslie Hale

Constituency

Oldham West

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Ill health

6 February 1969

Date

6 February 1969

Member

William Teeling

Constituency

Brighton Pavilion

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Ill health

7 March 1969

Date

7 March 1969

Member

Francis Noel-Baker

Constituency

Swindon

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Ill health

30 March 1972

Date

30 March 1972

Member

Ray Gunter

Constituency

Southwark

Party

Ind

Reason for resignation

Had left the Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an independent having been elected as Labour

29 December 1972

Date

29 December 1972

Member

George Thomson

Constituency

Dundee East

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed a European Commissioner

1 June 1973

Date

1 June 1973

Member

Antony Lambton

Constituency

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Prostitution scandal

27 August 1976

Date

27 August 1976

Member

John Stonehouse

Constituency

Walsall North

Party

Eng Nat

Reason for resignation

Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment

12 November 1976

Date

12 November 1976

Member

David Lane

Constituency

Cambridge

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality

5 January 1977

Date

5 January 1977

Member

Roy Jenkins

Constituency

Birmingham Stechford

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed President of the European Commission

16 June 1977

Date

16 June 1977

Member

Brian Walden

Constituency

Birmingham Ladywood

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World

6 April 1978

Date

6 April 1978

Member

Peter Rawlinson

Constituency

Epsom and Ewell

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer

24 October 1979

Date

24 October 1979

Member

Geoffrey Dodsworth

Constituency

South West Hertfordshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Medical advice

1 November 1982

Date

1 November 1982

Member

Robert Mellish

Constituency

Bermondsey

Party

Ind

Reason for resignation

Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; to become vice-chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

James Molyneaux

Constituency

Lagan Valley

Party

UUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

Roy Beggs

Constituency

East Antrim

Party

UUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

Harold McCusker

Constituency

Armagh

Party

UUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

William Ross

Constituency

Londonderry

Party

UUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

John Taylor

Constituency

Strangford

Party

UUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

James Kilfedder

Constituency

North Down

Party

UPUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

Jim Nicholson

Constituency

Newry and Armagh

Party

UUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985

Date

17 December 1985

Member

William McCrea

Constituency

Mid Ulster

Party

DUP

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

24 June 1986

Date

24 June 1986

Member

John Golding

Constituency

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union

18 October 1988

Date

18 October 1988

Member

Bruce Millan

Constituency

Glasgow Govan

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed a European Commissioner

18 May 1989

Date

18 May 1989

Member

Stuart Holland

Constituency

Vauxhall

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute

20 January 1995

Date

20 January 1995

Member

Neil Kinnock

Constituency

Islwyn

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed a European Commissioner

28 June 1999

Date

28 June 1999

Member

Alastair Goodlad

Constituency

Eddisbury

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
25 October 1950	Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps	Bristol South East		Lab	Medical advice
22 March 1951	Sir Ronald Ross, Bt	Londonderry		Con	Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London
11 May 1951	Rhys Davies	Westhoughton		Lab	Ill health
8 October 1952	Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill	North Antrim		Con	Retirement
21 January 1953	Sidney Schofield	Barnsley		Lab	Personal and domestic reasons
14 February 1953	Hon. Edward Carson	Isle of Thanet		Con	Ill health
3 June 1953	Peter Bennett	Birmingham Edgbaston		Con	Raised to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston
27 October 1953	William J. Field	Paddington North		Lab	Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes
15 January 1954	Richard Law	Haltemprice		Con	Raised to the peerage as Baron Coleraine
12 February 1954	William Cuthbert	Arundel and Shoreham		Con	Ill health
3 October 1954	Sidney Marshall	Sutton and Cheam		Con	Ill health
28 November 1954	Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton	Inverness		Con	Ill health; to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise
7 May 1956	Gerald Wellington Williams	Tonbridge		Con	Ill health
26 November 1956	Stanley Evans	Wednesbury		Lab	Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis
2 May 1957	William Darling	Edinburgh South		Con	Ill health
8 November 1957	Victor Raikes	Liverpool Garston		Con	To take up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia
18 April 1958	Angus Maude	Ealing South		Con	To become editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
1 June 1961	Hon. David Ormsby-Gore	Oswestry		Con	Appointed British Ambassador to the United States
29 November 1961	Hilary Marquand	Middlesbrough East		Lab	Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office
22 January 1962	George Chetwynd	Stockton-on-Tees		Lab	Appointed Director of the North East Development Council
6 June 1963	John Profumo	Stratford-on-Avon		Con	Confessed to misleading the House (the Profumo affair)
9 March 1964	Peter Smithers	Winchester		Con	Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe
24 June 1965	Anthony Marlowe	Hove		Con	Medical advice
29 September 1967	William Roots	Kensington South		Con	Ill health
15 January 1968	Leslie Hale	Oldham West		Lab	Ill health
6 February 1969	William Teeling	Brighton Pavilion		Con	Ill health
7 March 1969	Francis Noel-Baker	Swindon		Lab	Ill health
11 January 1971	Horace King	Southampton Itchen		Speaker	Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons
30 March 1972	Ray Gunter	Southwark		Ind	Had left the Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an independent having been elected as Labour
29 December 1972	George Thomson	Dundee East		Lab	Appointed a European Commissioner
1 June 1973	Antony Lambton	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Con	Prostitution scandal
27 August 1976	John Stonehouse	Walsall North		Eng Nat	Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
12 November 1976	David Lane	Cambridge		Con	Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality
5 January 1977	Roy Jenkins	Birmingham Stechford		Lab	Appointed President of the European Commission
16 June 1977	Brian Walden	Birmingham Ladywood		Lab	In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World
6 April 1978	Peter Rawlinson	Epsom and Ewell		Con	Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer
24 October 1979	Geoffrey Dodsworth	South West Hertfordshire		Con	Medical advice
1 November 1982	Robert Mellish	Bermondsey		Ind	Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; to become vice-chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation
17 December 1985	James Molyneaux	Lagan Valley		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	Roy Beggs	East Antrim		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	Harold McCusker	Armagh		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	William Ross	Londonderry		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	John Taylor	Strangford		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	James Kilfedder	North Down		UPUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	Jim Nicholson	Newry and Armagh		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
17 December 1985	William McCrea	Mid Ulster		DUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
24 June 1986	John Golding	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Lab	Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union
18 October 1988	Bruce Millan	Glasgow Govan		Lab	Appointed a European Commissioner
18 May 1989	Stuart Holland	Vauxhall		Lab	In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute

· Since 2000

22 June 2004

Date

22 June 2004

Member

Terry Davis

Constituency

Birmingham Hodge Hill

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.

27 June 2007

Date

27 June 2007

Member

Tony Blair

Constituency

Sedgefield

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East.

18 June 2008

Date

18 June 2008

Member

David Davis

Constituency

Haltemprice and Howden

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.

8 June 2009

Date

8 June 2009

Member

Ian Gibson

Constituency

Norwich North

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel.

13 January 2010

Date

13 January 2010

Member

Iris Robinson

Constituency

Strangford

Party

DUP

Reason for resignation

Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life.

8 February 2011

Date

8 February 2011

Member

Eric Illsley

Constituency

Barnsley Central

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.

2 March 2012

Date

2 March 2012

Member

Marsha Singh

Constituency

Bradford West

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Ill health.

22 October 2012

Date

22 October 2012

Member

Alun Michael

Constituency

Cardiff South and Penarth

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

To contest the Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area.

5 February 2013

Date

5 February 2013

Member

Chris Huhne

Constituency

Eastleigh

Party

Lib Dem

Reason for resignation

Pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.

30 September 2014

Date

30 September 2014

Member

Mark Reckless

Constituency

Rochester and Strood

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

To seek re-election as a UKIP candidate.

9 May 2016

Date

9 May 2016

Member

Sadiq Khan

Constituency

Tooting

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Elected as Mayor of London.

26 October 2016

Date

26 October 2016

Member

Zac Goldsmith

Constituency

Richmond Park

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

23 January 2017

Date

23 January 2017

Member

Hon. Tristram Hunt

Constituency

Stoke-on-Trent Central

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

To direct the Victoria and Albert Museum.

16 January 2018

Date

16 January 2018

Member

Barry McElduff

Constituency

West Tyrone

Party

Reason for resignation

Became embroiled in a controversy over the Kingsmill massacre on social media.

16 March 2021

Date

16 March 2021

Member

Mike Hill

Constituency

Hartlepool

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Pending sexual harassment tribunal.

10 May 2021

Date

10 May 2021

Member

Tracy Brabin

Constituency

Batley and Spen

Party

Lab Co-op

Reason for resignation

Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire.

3 May 2022

Date

3 May 2022

Member

Imran Ahmad Khan

Constituency

Wakefield

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Criminal conviction for sexual assault. Elected as Conservative in 2019, suspended from the party in June 2021 pending a trial. Expelled after he was convicted in April 2022.

21 October 2022

Date

21 October 2022

Member

Christian Matheson

Constituency

City of Chester

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Independent Expert Panel parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended for "serious sexual misconduct".

30 November 2022

Date

30 November 2022

Member

Rosie Cooper

Constituency

West Lancashire

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

To take up the role of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

12 June 2023

Date

12 June 2023

Member

Boris Johnson

Constituency

Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Resignation after being handed draft results of investigation into allegations he misled Parliament over Partygate.

29 August 2023

Date

29 August 2023

Member

Nadine Dorries

Constituency

Mid Bedfordshire

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Resigned regarding a dispute relating to not receiving a peerage in Johnson's resignation honours. The appointment came 81 days after she announced her resignation "with immediate effect".

8 January 2024

Date

8 January 2024

Member

Chris Skidmore

Constituency

Kingswood

Party

Con

Reason for resignation

Resigned over disagreements with the Government's policy on net zero.

17 March 2025

Date

17 March 2025

Member

Mike Amesbury

Constituency

Runcorn and Helsby

Party

Lab

Reason for resignation

Resigned after receiving a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a constituent.

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
23 October 2000	Betty Boothroyd	West Bromwich West		Speaker	Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons.
22 June 2004	Terry Davis	Birmingham Hodge Hill		Lab	Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
27 June 2007	Tony Blair	Sedgefield		Lab	Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East.
18 June 2008	David Davis	Haltemprice and Howden		Con	Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.
8 June 2009	Ian Gibson	Norwich North		Lab	Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel.
13 January 2010	Iris Robinson	Strangford		DUP	Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life.
8 February 2011	Eric Illsley	Barnsley Central		Lab	Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.
2 March 2012	Marsha Singh	Bradford West		Lab	Ill health.
22 October 2012	Alun Michael	Cardiff South and Penarth		Lab	To contest the Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area.
5 November 2012	Denis MacShane	Rotherham		Lab	Standards and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons recommended that he be suspended from the service of the House for six months, for knowingly submitting false invoices.
5 February 2013	Chris Huhne	Eastleigh		Lib Dem	Pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
30 April 2014	Patrick Mercer	Newark		Ind	Elected as Conservative, but had quit the whip at the commencement of investigations on 31 May 2013. The Standards Committee of the House of Commons agreed a report recommending he be suspended from the service of the House for six months for breaking the rule against paid advocacy.
30 September 2014	Mark Reckless	Rochester and Strood		Con	To seek re-election as a UKIP candidate.
9 May 2016	Sadiq Khan	Tooting		Lab	Elected as Mayor of London.
26 October 2016	Zac Goldsmith	Richmond Park		Con	Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
23 January 2017	Hon. Tristram Hunt	Stoke-on-Trent Central		Lab	To direct the Victoria and Albert Museum.
16 January 2018	Barry McElduff	West Tyrone		SF	Became embroiled in a controversy over the Kingsmill massacre on social media.
28 October 2019	John Mann	Bassetlaw		Lab	Nomination to House of Lords announced in 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. No by-election held due to the 2019 general election being called.
16 March 2021	Mike Hill	Hartlepool		Lab	Pending sexual harassment tribunal.
10 May 2021	Tracy Brabin	Batley and Spen		Lab Co-op	Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire.
3 May 2022	Imran Ahmad Khan	Wakefield		Con	Criminal conviction for sexual assault. Elected as Conservative in 2019, suspended from the party in June 2021 pending a trial. Expelled after he was convicted in April 2022.
21 October 2022	Christian Matheson	City of Chester		Lab	Independent Expert Panel parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended for "serious sexual misconduct".
30 November 2022	Rosie Cooper	West Lancashire		Lab	To take up the role of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
12 June 2023	Boris Johnson	Uxbridge and South Ruislip		Con	Resignation after being handed draft results of investigation into allegations he misled Parliament over Partygate.
29 August 2023	Nadine Dorries	Mid Bedfordshire		Con	Resigned regarding a dispute relating to not receiving a peerage in Johnson's resignation honours. The appointment came 81 days after she announced her resignation "with immediate effect".
8 January 2024	Chris Skidmore	Kingswood		Con	Resigned over disagreements with the Government's policy on net zero.
17 March 2025	Mike Amesbury	Runcorn and Helsby		Lab	Resigned after receiving a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a constituent.
14 May 2026	Stephen Gethins	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry		SNP	Resigned after being elected to the Scottish Parliament for Dundee City East, and as per the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025, individuals are banned from holding both a seat in the Scottish Parliament and the House of Commons.
18 May 2026	Josh Simons	Makerfield		Lab	Resigned to trigger a by-election in order for Andy Burnham to stand for election to the House of Commons.