document_title: Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

question_text: who is the longest serving mp in the uk

question_tokens: who is the longest serving mp in the uk

text: Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

text: Age[edit]

text: Youngest[edit]

text: Prior to the Acts of Union, the youngest known person to have sat in the House of Commons of England was Christopher Monck, elected MP for Devon 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".[1]

text: The Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 established 21 as the minimum age,[2] but until the Reform Act 1832 underage MPs were seldom unseated. For example, Charles James Fox became an MP aged 19 in 1768,[3] and Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn became an MP aged 18 in 1806.[4][5]

text: Before the general election of 2015, the youngest MP since the Reform Act of 1832[6] was James Dickson 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. 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.

text: Oldest[edit]

text: 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.[7]

text: The oldest ever serving female MP is Ann Clwyd, born 21 March 1937, MP for Cynon Valley, who is 80.

text: Following the death of John Freeman on 20 December 2014, the oldest former MP still living is Ronald Atkins, born 13 June 1916 and currently the only centenarian.[8] The oldest former female MP, following the death of Mildred Gordon on 8 April 2016, is Mary Holt, born 31 July 1924. The latter was ironically MP for Preston North between 1970–74, between defeating and then being defeated by Atkins at successive general elections for the same seat.

text: Oldest debuts[edit]

text: 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, 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.[9]

text: Since compulsory birth registration, 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.

text: 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 so to do, in 1931.

text: List of oldest sitting MPs since 1945[edit]

text:
Name
Born
Became oldest MP
Left House
Age on leaving
Died
Political Party
Highest Office Held

Sir Murdoch Macdonald
6 May 1866
1945
1950
83 2
24 April 1957
Liberal Party

David Logan
22 November 1871
1950
Feb 1964
92 1
25 February 1964
Labour Party

Sir Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD PC FRS F
30 November 1874
Feb 1964
Sep 1964
89 2
24 January 1965
Conservative
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

S. O. Davies
probably 9 November 1879
1970
1972
92 1[10]
25 February 1972
Labour Party

Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
18 October 1884
Sep 1964
1970
85 2
8 May 1986
Labour Party
Minister of Defence

John Rankin
1 February 1890
1972
1973
83 1
8 October 1973
Labour Party

Irene Ward, Baroness Ward of North Tyneside CH, DBE
23 February 1895
1973
Feb 1974
79 2
26 April 1980
Conservative

David Weitzman
18 June 1898
Feb 1974
1979
80 2
6 May 1987
Labour Party

Robert Edwards
16 January 1905
1979
1987
82 2
4 June 1990
Labour Party

Michael Foot
23 July 1913
1987
1992
78 2
3 March 2010
Labour Party
Leader of the Opposition

Sir Edward Heath KG MBE TD F
9 July 1916
1992
2001
84 2
17 July 2005
Conservative
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Piara Khabra
20 November 1921
2001
2007
85 1
21 June 2007
Labour Party

Ian Paisley, Baron Bannside
6 April 1926
2007
2010
84 2
12 September 2014
Democratic Unionist Party
First Minister of Northern Ireland

Sir Peter Tapsell F
1 February 1930
2010
2015
85 2
living
Conservative

Sir Gerald Kaufman F
21 June 1930
2015
2017
86 1
26 February 2017
Labour Party
Shadow Foreign Secretary

Dennis Skinner
11 February 1932
2017
Present
Incumbent
living
Labour Party

text: Notes:

text: Longest-lived ex-MP[edit]

text: The longest-lived former-MP was Theodore Cooke Taylor, member for Radcliffe cum Farnworth between 1900 and 1918, who lived to be 102.[7] Other ex-MPs who have reached their centenary are Bert Hazell, Manny Shinwell, Hartley Shawcross, Sir George Ernest Schuster, Sir Harry Brittain, John Oldfield (who outlived his parliamentary service by 68 years), Nathaniel Micklem, Edgar Granville and Ronald Atkins (born 13 June 1916) who is the only centenarian ex MP currently living.[8]

text: Frank James, who was elected MP for Walsall at the 1892 general election, but unseated on petition in November that year, achieved a slightly greater age than Theodore Cooke Taylor, at 102 years 135 days.[11]

text: The longest-lived female MP was Norah Runge who died aged 93 in 1978.

text: James Ramsden (born 1 November 1923), who was elected MP for Harrogate in a 1954 by-election is the earliest elected former MP still living.[12]

text: Shortest-lived MPs[edit]

text: 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, who while still a minor was MP for Callington in 1621–22, and for Winchester 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.

text: Based only on evidence from his university entrance records,[13] 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.

text: 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).[14]

text: Since the setting of the youngest election age at 21, the youngest MP to die in office was George Charles Grey who was elected MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 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.

text: The shortest-lived female MP, Lady Cynthia Mosley, MP for Stoke 1929–31, died in 1933 aged 34. The youngest female MP to die in office was Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen since 2015, who was murdered on 16 June 2016, 6 days before her 42nd birthday.

text: Period of service[edit]

text: Longest[edit]

text: Sir Francis Knollys (also the oldest ever sitting MP) was first elected as MP for Oxford in 1575 at the age of around 25 and was MP for Reading at the time of his death in 1648, a period spanning 73 years,[7] although there were eight periods, amounting to 27 entire years (1590–92, 1594–96, 1599-1600, 1602–03, 1605–13, 1615–19, 1627 and 1630–39) in which the Parliament of England did not meet, and his period of service totalled little more than 23 years.[15]

text: The longest span of service of an MP since the start of the 20th century was Winston Churchill 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.

text: The longest continuous service and longest total service records for a female MP was held by Gwyneth Dunwoody, at over 34 years and 38 years respectively until Harriet Harman and Dame Margaret Beckett broke those records. The longest span of service for a woman was 42 years and 4 months for Irene Ward, first elected in 1931 and an MP until 1974 although she did not hold a seat between 1945 and 1950.

text: Shortest[edit]

text: There are cases of MPs being elected posthumously; Edward Legge (1710–47) 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. In 1780 John Kirkman was elected as MP for the City of London despite passing away before polls closed.[7]

text: In more recent times, members have died after polling, but before the declaration of the results. In 1906, 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 at Bromley and Leslie Pym at Monmouth 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 is another example in 1935.

text: The shortest non-posthumous service was that of Alfred Dobbs, 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.[16]

text: The shortest service for women MPs has been 92 days in the case of both Ruth Dalton, who was MP for Bishop Auckland from by-election on 7 February 1929 to dissolution of Parliament on 10 May 1929 prior to that year's general election, and Margo MacDonald, who was MP for Glasgow Govan from by-election on 8 November 1973 until the dissolution of Parliament on 8 February 1974 prior to the coming general election.

text: Shortest total service since 1900[edit]

text: For a comprehensive list of MPs since 1900 with less than 365 days total service See

text: List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service

text: Members who never took their seats[edit]

text:
Chris Hazzard a, 2017-
Elisha McCallion a, 2017-
Barry McElduff a, 2017-
Mickey Brady a, 2015-
Francie Molloy a, 2013-
Paul Maskey a, 2011–
Michelle Gildernew a, 2001–2015, 2017-
Pat Doherty a, 2001–2017
Conor Murphy a, 2005–2015
Martin McGuinness a, 1997–2013
Gerry Adams a, 1983–92, 1997–2011
Owen Carron a, 1981–83
Bobby Sands bc, 1981
Philip Clarke abd, 1955
Tom Mitchell abd, 1955
Alfred Dobbs c, 1945
Joseph Bell c, 1922
Harry Wrightson c, 1918–19
69 Sinn Féin Members elected at the 1918 General Election (including 6 first elected in by-elections 1917–18) a
James Annand c, 1906
Thomas Higgins e, 1906
Henry Compton f, 1905-6 (shortest serving MP - 46 days - whose tenure was not ended by his death)
Joseph Andrews f, 1905-6

text: Notes:

text: MPs who never won an election[edit]

text: On rare occasions the election winner may be disqualified, either by an election court or by the House of Commons, and the seat awarded to the runner-up.

text: MPs elected to two or more constituencies simultaneously[edit]

text: MPs who have sat for three or more different constituencies[edit]

text: 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.

text: Notes:

text: MPs who have made more than one comeback[edit]

text: In modern times, it is unusual for an MP who has been defeated (or retired e.g. due to their seat being abolished) to achieve more than one comeback to the House of Commons after a period of absence. In the UK Parliament, William Vesey-FitzGerald, Lord Charles Beresford and Arthur Henderson were exceptional in achieving it on no fewer than four occasions each: Vesey-FitzGerald over a span of 18 years through three by-elections 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.

text: 1813 b, 1829 b, 1830 b, 1831

text: Notes:

text: Longest delay before making a comeback[edit]

text: In absolute terms two 17th-century members of the English Parliament had 35-year intervals outside the House of Commons:

text: 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:

text: 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), of nearly 35 years between the dissolution of his first parliament on 29 September 1812 and returning to his next at the General Election held in July–August 1847.

text: Others:

text: The longest interval between parliamentary service for women MPs was 13 years in the case of Jennie Lee, Leah Manning and Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton who lost their first seats at the General Election of October 1931 then gained their second at that of July 1945.

text: MPs who resigned without completing at least one full parliament (or five years service)[edit]

text: Former and future Commonwealth heads of government[edit]

text: Several former heads of government have settled in Britain after their service and served in one of the Houses.

text: Several Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland when it had its own parliamentary government between 1921 and 1972 while remaining in the UK came to serve in Westminster as follows:

text: Several United Kingdom MPs have become a prime minister in another part of the Commonwealth:

text: Women[edit]

text: The first woman elected to the House of Commons was Constance Markievicz who was elected on 14 December 1918 to the constituency of Dublin St Patrick's, but she refused to take her seat as she was a member of Sinn Féin.

text: The first woman to take her seat as an MP was Conservative Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, elected 28 November 1919.[21]

text: The first female MP to become a cabinet minister was Margaret Bondfield who was appointed Minister of Labour in 1929.

text: The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was Margaret Thatcher 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.

text: Mother-daughter sets of MPs[edit]

text: These are rarer than father-son sets:

text:
Edith Summerskill, MP for Fulham West 1938–55 and Warrington 1955–61, was mother of Shirley Summerskill, MP for Halifax 1964–83. Their consecutive service in the Commons totaled 43 years and spans 45 years.
Winnie Ewing, MP for Hamilton 1967–70 and Moray and Nairn 1974–79 was mother of Annabelle Ewing, MP for Perth 2001–05.

text: Sister sets[edit]

text: Sylvia Heal (née Sylvia Lloyd Fox), MP for Mid Staffordshire 1990–92 and Halesowen and Rowley Regis 1997–2010 and Ann Keen (née Ann Lloyd Fox), MP for Brentford and Isleworth 1997–2010. Keen additionally served with her husband, Alan Keen.

text: There are two sets of sisters since the 2017 general election:

text:
Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey since 1992, and Maria Eagle, MP for Liverpool Garston 1997–2010 and Garston and Halewood since 2010.
Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West since 2010, and Ellie Reeves, MP for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. Ellie Reeves additionally serves with her husband, John Cryer.

text: Constituency representation[edit]

text: Most women representing:

text: 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, so has Birmingham Edgbaston since 2017.

text: Longest period represented by women MPs:

text: Birmingham Edgbaston has been represented by 4 women MPs in continuous succession since a by-election on 2 July 1953, a period of more than 63 years, apart from a vacancy interval of 63 days between the death of Dame Edith Pitt on 27 January 1966 and the election of her successor Dame Jill Knight at the general election that year.

text: Husband-wife sets of MPs[edit]

text: First couples to serve as MPs

text:
Indirectly successively - John Stewart-Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine was MP for West Perthshire from the December 1910 general election 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, was MP for Kinross and West Perthshire from 1923 to 1938.
Directly successively - Waldorf Astor (later 2nd Viscount Astor), who was MP for Plymouth December 1910-December 1918 and Plymouth Sutton December 1918-October 1919 (on succession to hereditary peerage), and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, 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 1899–1900 and Dewsbury 1902–18.)

text: First widow elected to succeed deceased husband as MP

text: Margaret Wintringham who became MP for Louth, Lincolnshire 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.

text: Longest concurrent Commons service as married couple

text: Nicholas Winterton and Ann Winterton - 27 years, from the latter's election in 1983 for Congleton until both retired at the 2010 general election. The former had commenced serving as MP for Macclesfield from 1971. They are also contenders for the record of couple with highest collective years of service in the Commons, totaling 66 years.

text: Longest span of couple's service in the Commons

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(Consecutive) - Noel Buxton, MP for Whitby from by-election in May 1905 to 1906, and for Norfolk North 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, and for Norwich from 1945 to 1950, making a span of nearly 45 years.
(Concurrent) -Aneurin Bevan was MP for Ebbw Vale from 1929 (until his death in 1960), while his wife Jennie Lee, served from 1945 to 1970 as MP for Cannock, making a span of 41 years and 18 days. The latter had been MP for North Lanarkshire from 1929 to 1931, prior to their marriage in 1934.

text: Although differing in that the husband's service preceded and outlasted the wife's, the Bevans' span has been surpassed by Sir Peter Bottomley who has served in the Commons since 26 June 1975 and his wife Virginia, who sat as MP for South West Surrey from by-election on 4 May 1984 to the 2005 General Election - a period of 7004154330000000000♠42 years, 92 days.

text: Representation of a constituency by a couple

text: 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.

text: Hemel Hempstead 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 from the subsequent by-election until her retirement at the October 1959 general election.

text: Louth, Lincolnshire 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.

text: Couples who served separately as MPs before marriage but not together after

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Campbell Stephen, MP for Glasgow Camlachie 1922–31 and 1935 to his death in 1947, who married in 1945 Dorothy Jewson, who had been MP for Norwich in 1923–24.
Nigel Fisher, MP for Hitchin 1950–55 and Surbiton 1955–83, who married in 1956 Patricia Ford who had been MP for North Down 1953-55.
Jim Sillars, MP for South Ayrshire 1970–79 and Glasgow Govan 1988–92, who married in 1981 Margo MacDonald who had been MP for Glasgow Govan in 1973–74
Sir Alan Beith, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1973–2015, who married in 2001 Diana Maddock, who had been MP for Christchurch 1993-97.

text: Couples who married serving as MPs

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Andrew MacKay, MP for Birmingham Stechford 1977–79, East Berkshire 1983–97 and Bracknell 1997–2010, who married in August 1997, Julie Kirkbride, MP for Bromsgrove 1997–2010, when both had been returned in the general election in May 1997.
Frank Doran, MP for Aberdeen South 1987–92, Aberdeen Central 1997–2005, and Aberdeen North 2005–15, who married in 2010 Dame Joan Ruddock, MP for Lewisham Deptford 1987–2015.
Duncan Hames, MP for Chippenham 2010–15, who married in 2011 Jo Swinson, MP for East Dunbartonshire 2005–15 and 2017–.
Nick Raynsford, MP for Fulham 1983–87, Greenwich 1992–97 and Greenwich & Woolwich 1997–2015, who married in 2012 Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Devonport 2005–10 and Plymouth Moor View 2010–15.
Mark Lancaster, MP for North East Milton Keynes 2005–10 and Milton Keynes North since 2010, who married in 2014 Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport since 2010.

text: Couple who divorced before one partner became an MP

text: Shirley Summerskill, MP for Halifax 1964–83, who divorced in 1971 from her husband John Ryman, who later became MP for Blyth 1974–83, and Blyth Valley 1983–87.

text: Couple who divorced when one partner had ceased to be an MP

text: John Dunwoody, MP for Falmouth and Camborne 1966–70, and Gwyneth Dunwoody, MP for Exeter 1966–70 and Crewe 1974–83 and Crewe and Nantwich 1983–2008, who divorced in 1975.

text: Couple who divorced while serving as MPs

text: Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle 1992–2010 and Bridget Prentice, MP for Lewisham East 1992–2010, who divorced in 2000. They were married to each other when both were returned at the same 1992 general election.

text: Currently serving MP couples

text:
Harriet Harman, MP for Peckham 1982–97 and Camberwell and Peckham since 1997, married since 1982 to Jack Dromey, MP for Birmingham Erdington since 2010.
Mark Lancaster, MP for North East Milton Keynes 2005–10 and Milton Keynes North since 2010, married since 2014 to Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport since 2010.
Nick Smith, MP for Blaenau Gwent since 2015, married since 2014 to Jenny Chapman, MP for Darlington since 2010.
John Cryer, MP for Hornchurch 1997–2005 and Leyton and Wanstead since 2010, married since 2012 to Ellie Reeves, MP for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017.

text: Couples with one spouse still serving in the Commons

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Sir Peter Bottomley, MP for Woolwich West 1975–83, Eltham 1983–97, and Worthing West since 1997, whose wife Virginia (now Baroness Bottomley) was MP for South West Surrey 1984–2005
Yvette Cooper, MP for Pontefract and Castleford 1997–2010, and for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, whose husband Ed Balls was MP for Normanton 2005–10 and Morley and Outwood 2010–15
Jo Swinson, MP for East Dunbartonshire 2005–15 and 2017–, whose husband Duncan Hames was MP for Chippenham 2010–15.

text: First UK MP married to a foreign head of government

text: Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon since May 2015, is married to Helle Thorning-Schmidt, member of the Danish Parliament since 2005 and Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 until 2015 (resigning shortly after Kinnock's election).

text: Mother- and child-in-law sets[edit]

text: (Not as commonplace as those of fathers- and children-in-law.)

text: Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, MP for Southend 1927–35, was mother-in-law to two sons-in-law serving as MPs in her lifetime:

text:
Sir Henry Channon, MP for Southend 1935–50 and Southend West 1950–58
Alan Lennox-Boyd, MP for Mid Bedfordshire 1931–60

text:
Edith Summerskill, MP for Fulham West 1938–55 and Warrington 1955–61, was mother-in-law (prior to his divorce from her daughter Shirley) to John Ryman, MP for Blyth 1974–83 and Blyth Valley 1983–87
Patricia Ford, MP for North Down 1953–55, was mother-in-law to Sir Michael Grylls, MP for Chertsey 1970–74 and North West Surrey 1974–97
Winnie Ewing, MP for Hamilton 1967–70 and Moray and Nairn 1974–79, was mother-in-law to Margaret Ewing, MP for East Dunbartonshire 1974–79 and Moray 1987–2001

text: Parents and children sets - unusual records[edit]

text: Children elected before parents[edit]

text: This is not as commonplace as children following parents into the Commons.

text:
Thomas Davis Lamb, elected in 1802, and father Thomas Phillipps Lamb, elected in 1812.
Robert Williams (1767-1847), elected in 1802, and father Robert Williams (1735-1814), elected in 1807.
William Miles, elected in 1818, and father Philip John Miles, elected in 1820.
Raymond Greene, elected in 1895, and father Sir Edward Greene, Bt, elected in 1900.
Walter Runciman, elected in 1899, and father Sir Walter Runciman, Bt, elected in 1914.

text: Children serving alongside parents[edit]

text: 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 sons entered parliament in latter stages of the father's service.

text:
David Mitchell, MP between 1964 and 1997, and son Andrew Mitchell, MP 1987–97 and since 2001.
Tony Benn, MP 1950–2001, and son Hilary Benn, MP since 1999.
Thomas Galbraith, MP between 1940 and 65, and son Tam, MP 1948–82.
Harold Macmillan, MP 1924–64, and son Maurice Macmillan, MP 1955–83.
Arthur Greenwood, MP 1922–54, and son Tony Greenwood, MP 1946–70.
Isaac Foot, MP 1922–35, and son 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, MP 1929–47.
Sir Francis Acland, MP 1906–39, and son Richard, MP 1935–55.
Ramsay MacDonald, MP 1906–37 and son Malcolm MacDonald, MP 1929–45.
Arthur Henderson, MP 1903–35, and sons Arthur, junior, MP 1923–66 and William, MP 1923–31.
Winston Churchill, MP 1900–64, and son Randolph, MP 1940–45.
Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet, MP 1900–06, and son Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet, MP 1895–1923.
John Fitazalan Hope, MP 1900-29, and son Arthur, MP 1924-39.
Sir Walter Runciman, MP 1914–18, and son Walter, MP 1899–1937.
Alexander Henderson, MP 1898-1916, and son Harold Henderson, MP 1910-16.
Wentworth Beaumont, MP 1895–1907, and son Hubert, MP 1906–10.
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.
John Benn, MP 1892–1910, and son William Wedgwood Benn, MP 1906–42. (Latter father of Tony Benn.)
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 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, 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, MP 1892–1937.
William Vernon Harcourt, MP 1868–1904, and son Lewis, MP 1904–17 (the latter was elected in March 1904, before his father died serving in October same year).
Samuel Morley, MP 1866-85, and son 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 Albert Pease, MP 1892–1916.
George Goschen, MP 1863–1900, and his son George Goschen, jnr, MP 1895–1900.
Sir Bernhard Samuelson, MP 1859–95, and son Henry, MP 1868–85.
John Hubbard, MP 1859-87, and son Egerton, MP 1874-89.
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.
Samuel Whitbread, MP 1852–95, and son Samuel Howard Whitbread, MP 1892–1910.
Michael Thomas Bass, MP 1848–83, and sons Michael, MP 1865–86, and Hamar Alfred Bass, MP 1878–98.
John Bright, MP 1843–89, and son William, MP 1885–90.
Walter Long, MP 1835–65 and son Richard, MP 1859–68.
Lionel de Rothschild, MP 1847–74, and his son Nathan Rothschild, MP 1865–85.
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, MP 1837-86, and sons Thomas, MP 1882-92, and Anthony, MP 1885-99.
William Ewart Gladstone, MP 1832–95, and sons William Henry, MP 1865–85, and Herbert, MP 1880–1910.
Thomas Langlois Lefroy, MP 1830–41, and son Anthony, MP 1830–70.
Daniel O'Connell, MP 1828–46, and sons John, MP 1832–57, Maurice, MP 1832–53, and Morgan, MP 1832–40. (Possibly greatest number of sons returned alongside their father in 1832 General Election.)
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 5th Baronet, MP 1820–56, and son Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 6th Baronet, MP 1852–67.
Philip John Miles, MP 1820-37, and son William Miles, MP 1818-65.
Hussey Vivian, MP 1820–41, and son Charles Vivian, MP 1835–42.
Ralph Bernal, MP 1818–52, and son Ralph Bernal Osborne, MP 1841–74.
Luke White, MP 1818-24, and son 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 1812-31, and son William Egerton, MP 1830-58.
Henry Lowther, MP 1812–67, and son Henry, jnr, MP 1847–72.
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, MP 1806-35, and sons Bingham Baring, MP 1826-48, and Francis Baring, MP 1830-57.
William Ormsby-Gore, MP 1806–57, and son John, MP 1837–76.
Sir John Shelley, MP 1806-31, and son John Villiers Shelley, MP 1830-67.
Henry Grattan, MP 1803–20, and son James, MP 1817–29.
Robert Haldane Bradshaw, MP 1802–32, and son James, MP 1825–32. (They represented the same, two-member seat, of Brackley.)
Charles Chaplin the elder, MP 1802-16, and son Charles Chaplin the younger, MP 1809-31
John Smith, MP 1802–35, and son John Abel Smith, MP 1830–59.
Charles Grant, MP 1802–18, and son Charles, jnr, MP 1811–35.
Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, MP 1802-07, and son Sir Robert Wigram, 2nd Baronet, MP 1806-30.
Robert Williams (1735-1814), MP 1807-12, and his son Robert Williams (1767-1847),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, 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.
Lord George Cavendish, MP 1801-31, and sons William Cavendish, MP 1804-12, George Henry Compton Cavendish, MP 1806-09, Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, MP 1812-34, and 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 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.)
Andrew Foley, MP 1801–18, and son Thomas, MP 1805–22.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet, MP 1801–41, and son 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, in 1812–18 and 1830–32.)
Sir Matthew White Ridley, MP 1801-12, and son 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.)
John Beresford, MP 1801–05, and son John Claudius Beresford, MP 1801–11.
Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet, MP 1801-18, and son Mark Wood, jnr., MP 1816-18. (They sat together for same two-member seat, Gatton.)

text: Brother sets of MPs[edit]

text: Largest set[edit]

text: Six brother sets:

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Francis Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp (later 2nd Marquess of Hertford) served 1766–94; Lord George Seymour-Conway 1784–90 and 1796–1801; Henry-Seymour-Conway (later Lord Henry Seymour) 1766–84; Lord Robert Seymour 1771–90 and 1794–1820; 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 totaled 126 years.
Henry Paget, Lord Paget (later 1st Marquess of Anglesey) served 1790–1804 and 1806–10; Arthur Paget 1794–1807; Berkeley Paget 1807–26; Sir Charles Paget 1804–26 and 1831–33 and 1833–34; Sir Edward Paget, 1796–1806 and 1810–20; and 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 totaled 79 years.

text: Longest span of service in the Commons by brothers[edit]

text: 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 Sir Henry Knollys was elected MP for Reading, until the death in 1648 of his brother 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.

text: 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 (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, to the retirement of Jonathan at the 1868 general election as MP for Huntingdon. Their collective service totaled 115 years and all four were simultaneously in Parliament when Edmund was sitting in 1831–32 and 1835–37 for Newcastle-under-Lyme. 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 in 1808 until the death of the latter as MP for Westmorland (which he had represented since 1812) and Father of the House on 4 December 1867.

text: 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. Their consecutive service thus totaled 69 years.

text: Representation of same constituency by brothers[edit]

text: 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 for a total span of nearly 48 years. 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.

text: The last set of brothers to represent the same constituency were Frederick and Henry Guest, who did so in connection with two successive constituencies:

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East Dorset. Frederick was first elected at the January 1910 General Election but was unable to take his seat due to irregularity by an election agent, causing a by-election in June 1910 when he stepped aside in favour of Henry, who held the seat until the December 1910 General Election when Henry in turn stepped aside in favour of Frederick who was elected, to hold the seat until the 1922 General Election.
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 General Election.

text: Brother sets serving after the 2017 general election[edit]

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Complete set - Boris Johnson, MP for Henley 2001–08 and Uxbridge and South Ruislip from May 2015, and Jo Johnson, MP for Orpington from 2010.
Set with one brother still serving - David Miliband, MP for South Shields 2001–13, and Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster North from 2005.

text: Brother-sister sets of MPs[edit]

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Gwilym Lloyd George (later 1st Viscount Tenby), MP for Pembrokeshire 1922–24 and 1929–50 and Newcastle upon Tyne North 1951–57, and sister Lady Megan Lloyd George, MP for Anglesey 1929–51 and Carmarthen 1957–66.
Victor Cazalet, MP for Chippenham 1924–43 and his sister Thelma Cazalet-Keir, MP for Islington East 1931–45.

text: Brother-sister set serving after the 2017 general election[edit]

text: Keith Vaz, MP for Leicester East from 1987, and sister Valerie Vaz, MP for Walsall South from 2010.

text: Twins[edit]

text: James Grenville and Richard Grenville sat together as MPs for Buckingham from 1774 to 1780.

text: Edward John Stanley, MP for North Cheshire, sat alongside his brother William Owen Stanley, MP for Anglesey, from 1837 to 1841.

text: Angela Eagle and Maria Eagle, mentioned above, are the only twin sisters to have sat in the Commons together, last elected in 2017.

text: Ethnic minorities[edit]

text: First general election victors by religious affiliation[edit]

text: 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.[22] Some Unitarians were also elected.

text: The first Roman Catholic general election victors in the UK Parliament were at the 1830 general election. They included Daniel O'Connell and James Patrick Mahon in Clare.

text: The first Quaker general election victor was Joseph Pease, at the 1832 general election.

text: The first Moravian general election victor was Charles Hindley, at the 1835 general election.

text: Lionel de Rothschild was the first Jewish general election victor, at the 1847 general election. He was not permitted to take his seat until 1858.

text: The first declared atheist to win a general election was Charles Bradlaugh at the 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.

text: Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Parsi general election victor at the 1892 general election.

text: Piara Khabra became the first Sikh general election victor, at the 1992 general election.

text: Terry Rooney became the first Mormon general election victor at the 1992 general election, after being initially elected for his seat at a by-election in 1990.

text: The first Muslim general election victor was Mohammad Sarwar at the 1997 general election.

text: The first Hindu general election victor was Shailesh Vara at the 2005 general election.

text: Physical attributes[edit]

text: Heaviest[edit]

text: The heaviest MP of all time is believed to be Sir Cyril Smith, MP for Rochdale between 1972 and 1992, who weighed 189.6 kg (nearly 30 stone) at his peak in 1976.

text: Tallest[edit]

text: The tallest MP of all time is believed to be Daniel Kawczynski at 6 feet 8 1⁄2 inches (204.5 cm) in 2007,[23] later stated to be 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) in 2014.[24] Before Kawczynski's election for Shrewsbury and Atcham in 2005, the record was held by Louis Gluckstein, MP for Nottingham East between 1931 and 1945, who measured 2.02 metres (6 feet 8 inches).

text: Among pre-20th-century MPs, Sir John Cheyne (c. 1442 – 1499), known among contemporaries as the "Vigorous Knight" and MP for Wiltshire between 1471 and 1481, has been estimated to have been 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) tall, based on analysis of his femur (measuring 21 inches / 53 cm) found in his tomb.[25]

text: Shortest[edit]

text: Not counting MPs who served as minors, adult contenders for this record in modern times include Sarah Teather, MP for Brent East 2003–10 and Brent Central 2010–2015, who in 2014 was held to be the shortest MP then sitting, at 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 m).[24] Hazel Blears, MP for Salford 1997–2010 and Salford and Eccles 2010–15 was also reportedly (2014) the same height.[26]

text: Physically disabled MPs[edit]

text: The following were all known to be disabled when serving as MPs:

text: Sir Francis Bryan, MP for Buckinghamshire in 1529, 1539, 1542 and 1545, who lost an eye in a tournament in 1526.

text: William Page, MP for Bridport in 1559, Oxford 1562–67, and Saltash 1571–81, who had a hand cut off in lieu of execution for distributing a political pamphlet in 1579.

text: John Stubbs or Stubbe, MP for Great Yarmouth 1588–89, who also had right hand cut off in lieu of execution for publication of the same pamphlet as Page in 1579.

text: Hugh Bethell, MP for East Riding of Yorkshire 1654–56 and Hedon 1660–79, who lost an eye at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

text: John Hewson, MP for Guildford 1656–58, who lost an eye in action in Ireland in 1650.

text: Sir Frescheville Holles, MP for Grimsby 1667–72, who lost an arm in a sea battle in 1666.

text: Thomas Erle, MP for Wareham 1679–98 and 1701–18, and Portsmouth 1698–1702 and 1708, who lost his right hand (by some reports) at the Battle of Almanza in 1707.

text: Sackville Tufton, MP for Appleby 1681–89, who lost some use of his right hand after being wounded at the Battle of Schooneveld in 1673.

text: Sir James Lowther, MP for Carlisle 1694–1702, Appleby 1723–27, and Cumberland 1708–22 and 1727–55, who had his right leg amputated due to gout in 1750.

text: John Richmond Webb, MP for Ludgershall 1695–98, 1699–1705, 1706–13 and 1715–24, and for Newport, Isle of Wight 1713–15, who was lame after being severely wounded at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709.

text: John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, MP for Chippenham 1701–05 and 1705–08, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

text: George Clarke, MP for Winchelsea 1702–05, East Looe 1705–08, Launceston 1711–13, and Oxford University 1717–36, who by 1734 lost his left eye and was losing sight in the other.

text: Galfridus Walpole, MP for Lostwithiel 1715–21, who lost his right arm by a sea battle in 1711.

text: William Windham, MP for Sudbury 1720–27 and Aldeburgh 1727–30, who lost a leg at the Battle of Blenheim.

text: Charles Stewart, MP for Malmesbury 1723–27 and Portsmouth 1737–41, who lost his right hand in a sea battle in 1697.

text: Frederick North, Lord North, MP for Banbury 1754–90, and Prime Minister 1770–82, who was increasingly blind from 1786.

text: Isaac Barré, MP for Wycombe 1761–74 and Calne 1774–90, who became blind in one eye at the Battle of Quebec in 1759 and totally blind in 1784.

text: John Sawbridge, MP for Hythe 1768–74 and City of London 1774–95, who was paralysed from about 1792.

text: James Murray, MP for Perthshire 1773–94, who was permanently disabled in 1761 by a battle wound that left him unable to lie down.

text: Pinckney Wilkinson, MP for Old Sarum 1774–84, who was incapacitated by a stroke from 1782.

text: Sir William Middleton, MP for Northumberland 1774–95, who was lame for life after severe wounding at Battle of Minden in 1759.[27]

text: Brook Watson, MP for the City of London 1784–93, who lost his right leg after a shark attack while swimming at Havana in 1749.

text: Francis Mackenzie, MP for Ross-shire 1784–90 and 1794–96, who became deaf and almost dumb from scarlet fever at about age of 12.

text: Sir John Call, MP for Callington 1784–1801, who became blind in about 1794.

text: Sir Lawrence Palk, MP for Ashburton 1787-96 and Devon 1796-1812, who was severely crippled by gout by 1809.

text: Banastre Tarleton, MP for 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.

text: John Theophilus Rawdon, MP for Appleby 1791–96, and Launceston 1796–1802, who lost a leg at the Battle of Brandywine during the American War of Independence in 1777.

text: Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, MP for Beaumaris 1794–96 and Denbighshire 1796–1840, who became deaf after contracting erysipelas in 1826, and had a large tongue which impeded speech.[28]

text: Alexander Hope, MP for Dumfries Burghs 1796–1800 and Linlithgowshire 1800–34, who lost an arm and was left permanently lame after being wounded in the Flanders Campaign in 1795.

text: Sir Robert Abercromby, MP for Clackmannanshire 1798–1802, who became increasingly blind in office due to an eye disease contracted in India by 1797.

text: John Horne Tooke, MP for Old Sarum 1801–02, who lost sight of right eye in a boyhood fight and was reportedly "lame" when he took his seat.

text: Robert Haldane Bradshaw, MP for Brackley 1802–32, who lost use of his left limbs after a stroke in 1831.

text: Mervyn Archdall, MP for County Fermanagh 1802–34, who lost his right arm in battle in Egypt in 1801.

text: James Paull, MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight) 1805–06, who was left disabled in his right arm from a duel in 1795.

text: Sir William Maxwell, MP for 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.

text: James Mingay, MP for Thetford 1806–07, who lost his right hand in childhood accident at a mill.

text: Sir Samuel Hood, MP for Westminster 1806–07 and Bridport 1807–12, who lost an arm in action at sea in 1806.

text: Thomas Thompson, MP for Rochester 1807–18, who lost a leg at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801).

text: Fulk Greville Howard, MP for Castle Rising 1808–32, who lost the sight of one eye during the Helder Expedition in 1799.

text: William Beresford, MP for County Waterford 1811–14, who was blinded in one eye by an accident with a musket on military service in 1786.

text: Coningsby Waldo-Sibthorpe, MP for Lincoln 1814–22, who was left paralysed in his lower back in carriage accident in 1821.

text: Lord Fitzroy Somerset, MP for Truro 1818–20 and 1826–29, who lost his right arm at the Battle of Waterloo.

text: Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, MP for Worcester 1818–34 and 1837–41, who became increasingly paralysed since a carriage accident while contesting the 1835 general election.

text: Sir Henry Hardinge, MP for Durham 1820–30, St Germans 1830–31, Newport (Cornwall) 1831–32, and Launceston 1832–44, who lost his left hand at the Battle of Ligny in 1815.

text: Lord John Hay, MP for Haddingtonshire 1826–31 and Windsor 1847–50, who lost his left arm in a sea battle in 1807.

text: Lord William Lennox, MP for King's Lynn 1831–34, who lost the sight of one eye in a horse riding accident in 1815.

text: William Ewart Gladstone, MP for Newark 1832–45, Oxford University 1847–65, South Lancashire 1865–68, Greenwich 1868–80, and 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.

text: George Julius Poulett Scrope, MP for Stroud 1833–67, who became increasingly blind later in office.

text: Admiral Sir Charles Napier, MP for Marylebone 1841–47 and Southwark 1855–60, who walked with a limp and stoop due to leg and neck wounds received in the Napoleonic Wars.

text: Henry Fawcett, MP for Brighton 1865–74 and Hackney 1874–84, who was blind since a field shooting accident when he was 25.

text: Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, MP for County Wexford 1866-68 and 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.[29]

text: Joseph Chamberlain, MP for Birmingham 1876–85 and Birmingham West 1885–1914, whose sight, speech and use of right hand were impaired by a stroke in 1906.

text: Walter Wren, MP for Wallingford in 1880, who was crippled by spinal disease since age of 18.

text: Arthur Elliot, MP for Roxburghshire 1880–92 and City of Durham 1898–1906, who had a leg amputated at age four after a fall.

text: Michael Davitt, MP for Meath in 1882, North Meath in 1892, North East Cork in 1893, and South Mayo 1895–99, who lost his right arm in an industrial accident at a textile mill in 1857 aged 11.

text: Sir William Tindal Robertson, MP for Brighton 1886–89, who became blind from glaucoma in 1873.

text: William Archibald Macdonald, MP for Queen's County Ossory 1886–92, who was totally blind from age of 13.

text: Sir William Hornby, MP for Blackburn 1886–1910, who became deaf in 1908.

text: George William Palmer, MP for Reading 1892-95 and 1898-1904, who became increasingly deaf in office, causing his resignation.

text: Sir Winston Churchill, MP for Oldham 1900–06, Manchester North West 1906–08, Dundee 1908–22, Epping 1924–45 and 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.

text: Joseph Patrick Nannetti, MP for Dublin College Green 1900–15, who was paralysed by illness from 1913.

text: Daniel Desmond Sheehan, MP for Mid-Cork 1901–18, who became deaf due to shellfire and ill-health while serving in World War I by 1917.

text: Philip Snowden, MP for Blackburn 1906–18 and Colne Valley 1922–31, who was paralysed by illness from waist down in 1891 and walked with aid of sticks.

text: Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, MP for Ripon 1910–25, who was born with a withered left arm and without a left hand.

text: Duncan Frederick Campbell, MP for North Ayrshire 1911–16, who lost his left arm at the First Battle of Ypres in 1914.

text: Aubrey Herbert, MP for South Somerset 1911–18 and Yeovil 1918–23, who was near blind from youth, becoming totally blind in his last year of life and service.

text: Cathal Brugha, MP for County Waterford 1918–22, who was left with a permanent limp after being wounded in the Easter Rising 1916.

text: Dan Irving, MP for Burnley 1918–24, who had lost a leg in an industrial accident as a railway worker.

text: Sir Oswald Mosley, MP for Harrow 1918–24 and Smethwick 1926–31, who was left with a permanent limp after fracturing his right leg in a plane crash during World War I.

text: Jack Cohen, MP for Liverpool Fairfield 1918–31, who lost both legs at the Third Battle of Ypres.

text: Frederick Martin, MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine East 1922–24, who was blinded during military training in 1915.

text: Douglas Pielou, MP for Stourbridge 1922–27, who was severely disabled by wounds at the Battle of Loos in 1915.

text: John Jacob Astor V, MP for Dover 1922–45, who lost his right leg in battle in World War I in 1918.

text: Herbert Morrison, MP for Hackney South 1923–24, 1929–31 and 1935–45, Lewisham East 1945–50 and Lewisham South 1950–59, who lost sight of his right eye due to babyhood infection.

text: Ian Fraser, MP for St. Pancras North 1924–29, 1931–37 and for Lonsdale 1940–58, who was blinded at the Battle of the Somme.

text: Robert Bourne, MP for Oxford 1924–38, who lost sight of one eye in schooldays game of rounders and sustained a crippled hand at Suvla Bay during World War I.

text: Harold Macmillan, MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924–29 and 1931–45 and for Bromley 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.

text: Charles Simmons, MP for Birmingham Erdington 1929–31, Birmingham West 1945–50 and Brierley Hill 1950–59, who lost a leg at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917.

text: Richard Austen Butler, MP for Saffron Walden 1929–65, who was left with a poorly functioning right hand after a childhood riding accident.

text: Joseph Leckie, MP for Walsall 1931–38, who became increasingly deaf in office.

text: Cecil Manning, MP for Camberwell North 1944–50, who lost his right arm serving in World War I.

text: Michael Foot, MP for Plymouth Devonport 1945–55, Ebbw Vale 1960–83 and Blaenau Gwent 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.

text: Geoffrey Stevens, MP for Portsmouth Langstone 1950–64, who became increasingly deaf from 1962.

text: Iain Macleod, MP for Enfield West 1950–70, who permanently limped due to a Second World War wound in 1940 and later ankylosing spondylitis.

text: Richard Frederick Wood, MP for Bridlington 1950–79, who lost both legs in battle in the Middle East in World War II (son of Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, above).

text: William Rupert Rees-Davies, MP for Isle of Thanet 1953–74 and Thanet West 1974–83, who lost his right arm in action in World War II.

text: William Yates, MP for The Wrekin 1955–66, who lost a leg at the knee in the First Battle of El Alamein.

text: John Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, MP for Edinburgh North 1960–73, who was left paralysed chest down after a fox hunting accident in 1971.

text: Jack Ashley, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South 1966–92, who became profoundly deaf in 1967 after a routine operation.

text: Roland Boyes, MP for Houghton and Washington 1983-97, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease from 1993.

text: Terry Dicks, MP for Hayes and Harlington 1983–97, who has cerebral palsy.

text: Gordon Brown MP for Dunfermline East 1983–2005 and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath 2005–15, Prime Minister 2007–10. Blind in left eye since a rugby accident in 1967.

text: David Maclean, MP for Penrith and The Borders 1983–2010, who has had multiple sclerosis since 1996 (own account).[30]

text: Emma Nicholson, MP for Devon West and Torridge 1987–97, who has been deaf since age 16.

text: David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987–2010 and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 2010–15, who has been blind since birth.

text: Anne Begg, MP for Aberdeen South 1997–2015, who has used a wheelchair since 1984 due to a degenerative disease.

text: Fiona Mactaggart, MP for Slough 1997-2017, who suffered from multiple sclerosis as early as 2006.

text: Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne 2010–15 and since 2017, who is deaf in one ear and has partial hearing in another since measles at age of six.

text: Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow since 2010, who has cerebral palsy.

text: Paul Maynard, MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys since 2010, who has cerebral palsy and a congenital speech defect.

text: Alec Shelbrooke, MP for Elmet and Rothwell since 2010, who is partially deaf.

text: Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea since 2017, who is registered blind.

text: Jared O'Mara, MP for Sheffield Hallam since 2017, who has cerebral palsy.

text: Members of Parliament who died on wartime active service[edit]

text: Pre-World Wars[edit]

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Rank and title
Name
Born
Killed/Died
Where/How
Political Party
MP's Seat
Other

Sir
Peter de Montfort
1215
1265
Killed at the Battle of Evesham
Baronial Forces
Unknown
1st Speaker of the House of Commons

Sir
Richard de Caverswall
c. 1255
1297
Believed killed at Battle of Falkirk[31]

Staffordshire (1295)

Sir
Robert de Mauveysin
c. 1295
1346/47
Died during Siege of Calais in the Hundred Years War[32]

Staffordshire (1336)

Sir
Robert de Swynnerton
c. 1355
1386
Died during attack on Brest during Hundred Years War[33]

Staffordshire (1378)

Sir
Thomas Blenkinsop
c. 1336
By April 1388
Died a war prisoner in Scotland

Cumberland (1383), Westmorland (February 1388-death)

Sir
Robert Whitney

1402
Killed at Battle of Bryn Glas during Glyndŵr Rising

Herefordshire (1377–80, 1391)
High Sheriff of Herefordshire (1377)

Sir
Kynard de la Bere

1402
Killed at Battle of Bryn Glas

Herefordshire (1384, 1386, 1390, 1399)
High Sheriff of Herefordshire (1387, 1396 and 1401)

Sir
Walter Devereux
c. 1361
1402
Mortally wounded at Battle of Bryn Glas

Herefordshire 1401
High Sheriff of Herefordshire (1401)

Royal Standard Bearer of England Sir
Walter Blount

1403
Killed on royal side at the Battle of Shrewsbury

Derbyshire (1399–1400)

Sir
Nicholas Burdon

1403
Killed on royal side at Battle of Shrewsbury

Nottinghamshire (1395)

Sir
John Calveley

1403
Killed on royal side at Battle of Shrewsbury

Rutland (1383, 1390), Leicestershire (1385, 1397)
Sheriff of Rutland (1384 and 1389); Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire (1389 and 1402)

Sir
John Clifton

1403
Killed on royal side at Battle of Shrewsbury

Nottinghamshire (1402)
Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, (1402-death)

Sir
Hugh Shirley
c. 1362
1403
Killed on royal side at Battle of Shrewsbury

Leicestershire (1393)

Sir
Thomas Wensley
c. 1343
1403
Killed on royal side at Battle of Shrewsbury
Lancastrian
Derbyshire (1382, 1384, 1386, 1390, 1394)

Sir
Hugh Browe
1346
1403
Believed to have died fighting on rebel Henry Percy (Hotspur)'s side at the Battle of Shrewsbury[34]

Rutland (1388 and 1390)

Sir
Reynold Braybrooke
c. 1356
1405
Died of wound during expedition to Flanders

Kent (1404-death)

Sir
William Boteler

1415
Died during Siege of Harfleur in Hundred Years War

Lancashire (1406)

Sir
Thomas Clinton

1415
Died of disease during Siege of Harfleur

Warwickshire (1397), Kent (1404, 1406 and 1414)

Sir
Nicholas Longford
before 1373
1415
Killed or died of disease during theSiege of Harfleur

Derbyshire (1404)
Sheriff of Lancashire (1414)

Sir
John Phelip

1415
Died of fever during the Siege of Harfleur

Worcestershire (1413)
English Ambassador to France (1414–death)

Nicholas Broomford
c. 1362
1415
Died after invaliding home after the Siege of Harfleur

Cornwall (1406), Barnstaple (1411)
Coroner of Cornwall (1411)

Sir
William Brokesby

1416
Believed to have died of effects of service Agincourt-Harfleur campaign

Leicestershire (1404)
Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire (1404 and 1409)

Sir
Richard Arches

1417
Died on service in Normandy during Hundred Years War

Buckinghamshire (1402)

Ralph Green
c. 1379
1417
Believed to have died on service in Normandy during Hundred Years War

Northamptonshire (1404, 1410)
Sheriff of Northamptonshire (1404, 1407 and 1414); Sheriff of Wiltshire (1406); son of Sir Henry Green (also executed).

Sir
John Greyndore
c. 1356
1417
Believed to have died at Harfleur during Hundred Years War

Herefordshire (1401, 1404)
Sheriff of Glamorganshire (1404, 1405 and 1411)

Marshal Sir
James Haryngton

1417
Killed in siege of Caen in Hundred Years War

Lancashire (1404)
Constable of Liverpool Castle (1404-death) and Ambassador in Scotland (1415)

Sir
Brian Stapleton

1417
Killed in advance on Alençon in Hundred Years War

Yorkshire (1416)

Sir
Edmund Thorpe

1418
Died at siege of Louviers in the Hundred Years War

Norfolk (1397, 1407)
Mayor of Bordeaux (1400–1402)

Sir
Robert Plumpton
1383
1421
Believed killed at the Siege of Meaux in Hundred Years War

Yorkshire (1411 and 1416), Nottinghamshire (1414)

Sir
Robert Poynings
c. 1419
1461
Killed during Second Battle of St Albans
Yorkist
Sussex (1450, 1451)

Sir
William Bonville, later 1st Baron Bonville
c. 1392/93
1461
Beheaded after capture in the Second Battle of St Albans
Yorkist
Somerset (1421), Devon (1422, 1425, 1427)
High Sheriff of Devon (1423)

Sir
John Wenlock, later 1st Baron Wenlock

1471
Killed during Battle of Tewkesbury
Lancastrian
Bedfordshire (1433–55)| Speaker of the House of Commons (1459)

Sir
Gervase Clifton

1471
Beheaded after capture in Battle of Tewkesbury
Lancastrian
Kent (1455)
Treasurer of the Household and Treasurer of Calais (1450–60) and High Sheriff of Kent (1439, 1450 and 1458)

Sir
John Delves
c. 1418
1471
Beheaded after capture in Battle of Tewkesbury
Lancastrian[35]
Staffordshire (1467–68)
Joint Warden of the Mint (1471)

Sir
Thomas Tresham

1471
Beheaded after capture at Battle of Barnet
Lancastrian
Buckinghamshire (1447–49), Huntingdonshire (1449), Northamptonshire (1453–59)
Speaker of the House of Commons (1455)

Walter Devereux, later 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
c. 1431
1485
Killed at the Battle of Bosworth
Yorkist
Herefordshire (1450–55)

John Howard, later 1st Duke of Norfolk
c.1425
1485
Killed at the Battle of Bosworth
Yorkist
Suffolk (1449–67)
Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1461, Treasurer of the Royal Household (1468–70), Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England (1483-death)

Sir
William Catesby
1450
1485
Beheaded after capture at Battle of Bosworth
Yorkist
Northamptonshire (1484-death)
Speaker of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1483-1484)

Sir
Edward Bayntun
1480
1544
Died of wounds in France during the Italian War of 1542–46

Wiltshire (1529, 1539–42), Wilton (1542-death)

Sir
Ralph Eure
by 1510
1545
Killed at Battle of Ancrum Moor in War of the Rough Wooing

Scarborough (1542–44)
Warden of the Middle Marches (1542-death)

Vice-Admiral Sir
George Carew
c. 1504
1545
Lost in sinking of the Mary Rose off Spithead during the Italian War

Devon 1529

Marshal of the Army in France Sir
Ralph Ellerker

1546
Killed in battle at Boulogne during Italian War

Yorkshire (1542–45)

Vice-Admiral Sir
John Clere
c. 1511
1557
Drowned in sea battle in command of English naval expedition against the Scots in Orkney Islands[36]

Bramber (1542–44, 1545–47), Thetford (1553), Norfolk (1555)

Sir
William Courtenay
1529/30
1557
Died of disease after Siege of St Quentin, France

Plympton Erle (1555)

Captain
Francis Somerset
By 1532
1571
Killed in attack on Le Havre

Monmouthshire (1558)
Younger son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester hence 'The Honourable'

Captain
William Norreys
c. 1545
1579
Died of fever on arrival in Ireland

Berkshire (1576-death)
Younger son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys hence 'The Honourable' and brother of Sir John Norreys and Sir Henry Norreys

Henry Knollys
c. 1542
1582
Died of wounds or disease in Netherlands during Eighty Years' War

Reading (1562–72), Oxfordshire (1572-death)

William Thomas
1551
1586
Killed at Battle of Zutphen during Eighty Years' War

Caernarvonshire (1572-death)
High Sheriff of Anglesey (1578) and Caernarvonshire (1580)

General Sir
Philip Sidney
1554
1586
Died from wound received at Battle of Zutphen

Shrewsbury (1572–84), Kent (1584–85)
Master-General of the Ordnance (1585-death)

Admiral Sir
Richard Grenville
1542
1591
Died of wounds received in Battle of Flores during Anglo–Spanish War

Cornwall (1585-1586)

Admiral Sir
John Hawkins
1532
1595
Died of sickness off Puerto Rico during Anglo–Spanish War

Plymouth (1571–84)
Treasurer of the Navy (1578-death)

Vice-Admiral Sir
Francis Drake
c. 1540
1596
Died of dysentery at sea off Panama, on same expedition as Hawkins.

Bossiney (1584–85), Plymouth (1593)

Colonel Sir
John Wingfield

1596
Killed in attack on Cadiz during Anglo-Spanish War

Lichfield (1593-death)

Colonel-General Sir
Thomas Baskerville

1597
Died of fever on expedition in Picardy

Carmarthen Boroughs (1593)

General Sir
John Norreys
c. 1547
1597
Died of wounds received in Ireland

Oxfordshire (1589)
Eldest son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys hence 'The Honourable' and brother of William Norreys and Sir Henry Norreys

Marshal of the Army in Ireland Sir
Henry Bagenal
c. 1556
1598
Killed at the Battle of the Yellow Ford

Anglesey (1586–88)

Sergeant-Major-General Sir
Conyers Clifford

1599
Killed in Battle of Curlew Pass

Pembroke (1593–97)
President of Connaught (1597-death)

Colonel-General Sir
Henry Norreys
c. 1554
1599
Mortally wounded at Finniterstown in Ireland

Berkshire (1589 and 1597–98)
Younger son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys hence 'The Honourable' and brother of William Norreys and Sir John Norreys

Captain
James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley
1605
5 November 1624
Died of fever in Netherlands during Eighty Years' War

Callington (1621–22), Winchester (February 1624-death)
Eldest son of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, hence Lord Wriothesley

Colonel Sir
John Ratcliffe
1582
1627
Killed in France in Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Tewkesbury (1614), Lancashire (1621–26), Tavistock (1626)

Robert Pooley
c. 1600
1627
Killed in France in Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Queenborough (1624–25 and 1626-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Edward Vere
1581
1629
Died of wounds at siege of 's-Hertogenbosch during Thirty Years War

Newcastle-under-Lyme (February–April 1624)

Sir
Arthur Tyringham
c. 1585
1642
Died of disease or wounds received commanding defence of Lisburn during Irish rebellion

Brackley (1614)
Custos Rotulorum of Anglesey (1640-death)

Royal Standard-Bearer of England Sir
Edmund Verney
1590/1596
1642
Killed during the Battle of Edgehill during the Civil War
Royalist
Buckingham (1624–25), New Romney (1625–26), Aylesbury (1629), Wycombe (1640-death)
Knight Marshal (1623-1642)

Lieutenant Colonel
William Herbert

1642
Killed during the Battle of Edgehill
Royalist
Cardiff (1640-death)

Colonel Sir
Oliver St John, later 5th Baron St John of Bletso
1603
1642
Died of wounds after Battle of Edgehill
Civil War Roundhead
Bedfordshire (1624–29)

Sir
Richard Buller
1578
1642
Died after retreat from Launceston in Civil War
Roundhead
St Germans (1621), Saltash (1625–29), Cornwall (1640), Fowey (1640-death)
High Sheriff of Cornwall (1637)

Colonel
Thomas Smith or Smyth
1609
1642
Died while serving with Royalist army at Cardiff
Royalist
Bridgwater (1628–29 and 1640-August 1642), Somerset (1640)

General
Robert Greville, later 2nd Baron Brooke
1607
1643
Killed by a sniper in Lichfield during the Civil War
Roundhead
Warwick (1628)

General
Spencer Compton, Lord Compton, later 2nd Earl of Northampton
1601
1643
Killed during Battle of Hopton Heath during the Civil War
Royalist
Ludlow (1621–29)
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire and Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (1630-death)

Lieutenant-General Sir
Robert Pierrepont, later 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull
1584
1643
Captured by Roundheads at Gainsborough, then killed by friendly fire when boat transporting him to Hull was fired on by Royalist artillery
Civil War Royalist
Nottinghamshire (1601–04)
High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire (1613)

Colonel
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
1610
1643
Killed during the First Battle of Newbury during the Civil War along with The Earl of Carnarvon and the Earl of Sunderland
Parliamentarian, then Royalist from 1642
Newport (Isle of Wight) (1640–42)
Scottish peer so could sit in English Commons; Secretary of State (1642-death)

Colonel
William Brooke, later 12th Baron Cobham
1601
1643
Died of wounds received on Roundhead side at First Battle of Newbury

Rochester (1628–29)

Colonel
Ferdinando Stanhope

1643
Killed at Bridgeford during the Civil War
Royalist
Tamworth (1640-death)

Colonel Sir
Bevil Grenville
1596
1643
Killed during the Battle of Lansdowne during the Civil War
Royalist
Cornwall (1621–25 and 1640–42), Launceston (1625–29 and 1640)

Colonel
Nicholas Kendall
c. 1577
1643
Killed at siege of Bristol during the Civil War.
Royalist
Lostwithiel (1625 and 1640)

Colonel Sir
Nicholas Slanning
1606
1643
Killed at siege of Bristol
Royalist
Plympton Erle (1640), Penryn (1640–42)

John Trevanion
1613
1643
Killed at siege of Bristol
Royalist
Grampound (1640), Lostwithiel (1640-death)

Trooper
Sidney Godolphin
1610
1643
Killed at Chagford during Civil War
Royalist
Helston (1628–29 and 1640-death)

Colonel
John Hampden
c. 1595
1643
Killed at Battle of Chalgrove Field during Civil War
Roundhead
Grampound (1621), Wendover (1624–29), Buckinghamshire (1640-death)

Colonel
Henry Bulstrode
1578
1643
Died serving in Roundhead army in Civil War

Helston (1614), Buckinghamshire (1625)

Colonel
Arthur Goodwin
c. 1593/94
1643
Died of 'camp fever' after campaign in Buckinghamshire in Civil War
Roundhead
High Wycombe (1621–24), Aylesbury (1626), Buckinghamshire (1640-death)

Colonel Sir
William Pennyman, 1st Baronet
1607
1643
Died of plague in Oxford during Civil War
Royalis]
Richmond, Yorkshire (1640–42)

Sir
Edward Noel, later 2nd Viscount Campden
1582
1643
Died in the Royalist garrison at Oxford during Civil War
Civil War Royalist
Rutland (1601)

Colonel
John Fenwick

1644
Killed during Battle of Marston Moor during the Civil War
Royalist
Morpeth (1640–1644)

Colonel Sir
John Mill
c. 1608
1644
Died after capture by Roundhead forces at Christchurch, Hampshire
Civil War Royalist
Lymington (1625)

Sir
William Savile, 3rd Baronet
1612
1644
Killed in action near York during Civil War
Royalist
Yorkshire 1640, Old Sarum 1641–42

Michael Warton
1593
1645
Killed during Great Siege of Scarborough Castle during the Civil War
Royalist
Beverley (1640–1644)

Colonel Sir
Richard Hutton
1594
1645
Killed as Royalist in battle at Sherburn-in-Elmet during the Civil War

Knaresborough (1626–29)

Sir
Richard Cave
c. 1593
1645
Killed at Battle of Naseby during Civil War
Royalist
Lichfield (1641–42)

Colonel Sir
Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet
1600
1645
Struck on head attempting to escape Roundhead captivity in Stafford and died of fever it and other wounds caused in the Civil War
Royalist
Cheshire (1640)
High Sheriff of Cheshire (1635)

Colonel
Thomas Lowther
1602
1645
Died of tuberculosis at Newark during the Civil War
Civil War Royalist
Berwick-upon-Tweed (1626–28), Appleby (1628–29)

Thomas Leedes

1645
Killed at Oxford during the Civil War
Royalist
Steyning (1640–1642)

Sir
William Croft
c. 1595
1645
Killed after attempted raid on Stokesay Castle in Civil War
Civil War Royalist
Launceston (1614), Malmesbury (1626–29)

Colonel Sir
Marmaduke Roydon
1583
1646
Died of illness in command in Berkshire during the Civil War
Civil War Royalist
Aldeburgh (1628–29)

Colonel
John Ramsden
1594
1646
Killed at the Siege of Newark in the Civil War
Royalist
Pontefract (1628, 1640)

Colonel
Nicholas Kemeys, later Sir Nicholas, 1st Baronet
by 1593
1648
Killed leading defence of Chepstow Castle in Civil War
Civil War Royalist
Monmouthshire (1628–29)
High Sheriff of Monmouthshire (1631) and High Sheriff of Glamorganshire (1638)

Colonel Sir
Francis Thornhagh
1617
1648
Killed near Chorley after Battle of Preston (1648) during the Civil War
Roundhead
East Retford (1646–death)

Colonel
Thomas Rainsborough
1610
1648
Killed at siege of Pontefract during Civil War
Roundhead
Droitwich (1647-death)

Colonel
Ralph Sneyd

1650
Shot while fighting on the Isle of Man during Civil War
Royalist
Stafford (1640–1642)

Colonel
John Moore
1599
1650
Died of fever in Ireland during Irish Confederate Wars
Roundhead
Liverpool (1640-death)

Lieutenant-General
William Hamilton, Earl of Lanark, later 2nd Duke of Hamilton
1616
1651
Died of wounds at Battle of Worcester
Royalist
Portsmouth, 1640
Scottish Peer so could sit in English House of Commons; Secretary of State, Scotland (1641–49)

General
Henry Ireton
1611
1651
Died of fever after Siege of Limerick
Roundhead
Appleby (1645-death)
Lord Deputy of Ireland (1651-death)

General at Sea
Edward Popham
1610
1651
Died of fever in naval command at Dover during Civil War
Roundhead
Minehead (1645–48)

General at Sea
Robert Blake
1598
1657
Died at sea from wounds received in Anglo-Spanish War en route to Plymouth
Roundhead
Bridgwater (1640, 1645, 1654) Taunton (1656-death)
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1656-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis White

1657
Lost at sea on Goodwin Sands returning from Flanders
Roundhead
Tewkesbury (1656-death)

Captain
Charles Berkeley, 1st Viscount Fitzhardinge, later 1st Earl of Falmouth
1630
1665
Killed during the Battle of Lowestoft along with Earl of Marlborough and the Earl of Portland when a chain shot decapitated them
Royalist
New Romney (1661–1664)
Sat in Commons while Irish peer until created Earl of Falmouth; Keeper of the Privy Purse (1662-death)

Captain-Lieutenant
Edward Montagu
c. 1636
1665
Died at Bergen, Norway in Battle of Vågen
Royalist
Sandwich (1661-death)
Eldest son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton, hence 'The Honourable'

Vice-Admiral
Edward Montagu, later 1st Earl of Sandwich
1625
1672
Battle of Solebay
Roundhead to 1660, then Royalist
Huntingdonshire (1645–60), Dover (1660)
English Ambassador to Spain (1666), Custos Rotulorum of Huntingdonshire (1660-death) & Master of the Great Wardrobe (1660-death)

Captain Sir
Frescheville Holles
1642
1672
Battle of Solebay
Royalist
Grimsby (1667-death)

Admiral Sir
Edward Spragge
1629
August 1673
Fourth Battle of Texel
Royalist
Dover (February 1673-death)

Captain
John Trelawny
c. 1646
1680
Killed in Tangier

West Looe (1677-death)

Wadham Strangways
1646
1685
Killed by rebel musketeer on duty with West Dorset Militia in Bridport during the Monmouth Rebellion

Bridport (1677–79)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles FitzWilliam
c. 1646
September 1689
Died during Williamite War in Ireland
Whig
Peterborough (1685–87 and 1689-death)
Younger son of William FitzWilliam, 2nd Baron FitzWilliam, hence 'The Honourable'

Colonel
Philip Babington
c. 1632
1690
Died of fever during Williamite War in Ireland

Berwick-upon-Tweed (1689)

Colonel Sir
Francis Edwardes, 1st Baronet
1643
1690
Died during Williamite War in Ireland

Shrewsbury (1685–87 and 1689-death)

Lieutenant-General
Percy Kirke
c. 1646
1691
Died at Brussels on service during War of the Grand Alliance
Tory
West Looe (1689–90)
Keeper of Whitehall Palace (1687-death)

Lieutenant-General
Thomas Tollemache
c. 1651
1694
Died at Plymouth of wounds received in attack on Brest during War of the Grand Alliance

Malmesbury (1689–90), Chippenham (1692-death)
Governor of Portsmouth (1690-death)

Captain
William Bokenham

1702
Died at sea after Battle of Vigo Bay during War of the Spanish Succession
Whig
Rochester (1701–02)

Lewis Oglethorpe
1681
1704
Died of wounds received at Battle of Schellenberg

Haslemere (1702-death)

Colonel
Thomas Stringer
1660
1706
Died in Flanders during War of the Spanish Succession

Clitheroe (1698-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
George Dashwood
1669
1706
Died aboard ship at Torbay embarking with his regiment to Spain during War of the Spanish Succession
Tory
Sudbury (1703–05)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir
Cloudesley Shovell
1650
1707
Died at sea in Scilly naval disaster of 1707 returning from the Mediterranean during War of the Spanish Succession (drowned or murdered by civilian robber onshore)

Rochester (1695–1701 and 1705-death)

Brigadier-General
William Nassau de Zuylestein, Viscount Tunbridge, later 2nd Earl of Rochford
1682
1710
Killed at Battle of Almenara in War of the Spanish Succession
Whig
Steyning (1708–09)
Also Member of the Parliament of Ireland

Colonel Lord
James Cavendish
1701
November 1741
Died in West Indies during War of Jenkins's Ear.
Whig
Malton (May 1741-death)
Younger son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, hence 'Lord'.

Captain Lord
Augustus FitzRoy
1716
1741
Died in West Indies during War of Jenkins's Ear
Whig
Thetford (1739-death)
Younger son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, hence 'Lord'.

Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Campbell
c. 1695
1741
Died in Jamaica during War of Jenkins's Ear.

Argyllshire (1736-death)

Captain
James Cornewall
1698
1744
Killed at Battle of Toulon during War of the Austrian Succession

Weobley (1732–34, 1737–41)

Lieutenant-General Sir
James Campbell
c. 1680
1745
Died of wounds received at Battle of Fontenoy in War of the Austrian Succession
Whig
Ayrshire (1727–41)

Colonel
Robert Douglas
c. 1703
1745
Killed at Battle of Fontenoy
Whig
Orkney and Shetland (1730-death)
Younger son of George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton, hence 'The Honourable'

Captain
Charles Ross
1721
1745
Killed at Battle of Fontenoy

Ross-shire (1741-death)

Colonel Sir
Robert Munro, 6th Baronet
1684
1746
Killed at Battle of Falkirk during Jacobite Rebellion
Whig
Tain Burghs (1710–41)

Captain Lord
George Graham
1715
1747
Died of illness contracted at sea during War of the Austrian Succession
Whig
Stirlingshire (1741-death)
Younger son of James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, hence 'Lord'

Captain
Thomas Grenville
1719
1747
Mortally wounded in First Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) during War of the Austrian Succession
Whig
Bridport (1746-death)

Brigadier-General
William Douglas
1688
1747
Died in Flanders during War of the Austrian Succession
Whig
Kinross-shire (1715–22)

Brigadier-General
George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
1725
1758
Battle of Carillon
Tory
Nottingham (1747–death)
Irish peer so could sit in the Commons

Major
John Rutherfurd
1712
1758
Killed serving with Royal Americans at Battle of Carillon

Roxburghshire (1734–42)

Colonel
Sir John Armytage, 2nd Baronet
1732
1758
Battle of Saint Cast
Tory
York (1754–death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe
1727
1760
Wounds received at Battle of Campen
Tory
Yorkshire (1750–death)
Irish peer so could sit in the Commons

Rear-Admiral
Charles Holmes
1711
1761
Died in command at Jamaica during Seven Years' War

Newport (Isle of Wight) (1758-death)

Captain Sir
William Peere Williams, 2nd Baronet
c. 1730
1761
Killed in Capture of Belle Île

New Shoreham (1758-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Townshend
1736
1762
Killed at Battle of Wilhelmsthal

Eye (1758–60, 1760-death)

Captain Lord
William Campbell
1731
1778
Died from effects of wound received in attack on Fort Moultrie in American War of Independence

Argyllshire (1764–66)
Governor of Nova Scotia (1766–73) & Governor of South Carolina (1775); Younger son of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, hence 'Lord'

Lieutenant-Colonel
John Maitland
1732
1779
Died of fever after Siege of Savannah in American War of Independence

Haddington Burghs (1774-death)
Younger son of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale, hence 'The Honourable'

Colonel
James Dundas
1721
1780
Died of fever en route to Jamaica

Linlithgowshire (1770–74)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet
1741
3 October 1780
Died in Jamaica commanding expedition against Nicaragua

Tregony (1774-June 1780)

Major-General
William Phillips
1731
1781
Died of disease in Virginia during American War of Independence

Boroughbridge (1775–80)

Rear-Admiral Lord
Robert Manners
1758
1782
Battle of the Saintes
Tory
Cambridgeshire (1780-death)
Younger son of John Manners, Marquess of Granby, hence 'Lord'

Lieutenant-General Sir
Eyre Coote
1726
1783
Died of illness at Madras in command during Second Anglo-Mysore War

Leicester (1768–74), Poole (1774–80)
Commander-in-Chief, India (1779-death)

Captain
Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore
1769
1793
Accidentally killed with own gun when escorting French prisoners of war to Dover during French Revolutionary Wars

Heytesbury (1791-death)
Irish peer, so could sit in the Commons.

Major-General
Thomas Dundas
1750
1794
Died of Yellow Fever after capture of Guadeloupe in French Revolutionary Wars

Orkney and Shetland (1771–80)
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1793) & Governor of Guadeloupe (1794-death)

Captain
William Paget
1769
1794
Died at sea of reopened wound during French Revolutionary Wars
Whig
Anglesey (1790-death)
Younger son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, hence 'The Honourable'

Brigadier-General
Stephens Howe
1758
1796
Died of Yellow Fever in Jamaica in French Revolutionary Wars

Great Yarmouth (1795-death)

Major
Alexander Telfer Smollett
c. 1764
1799
Killed at Battle of Alkmaar in French Revolutionary Wars

Dunbartonshire (1797-death)

Lieutenant-General Sir
Ralph Abercromby
1734
1801
Died of wounds after Battle of Alexandria in French Revolutionary Wars

Clackmannanshire left Commons 1786
Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire (1797-death)

Vice-Admiral Lord
Hugh Seymour
1759
1801
Died of yellow fever off Jamaica during French Revolutionary Wars.

Newport (Isle of Wight) (1784–86), Tregony (1788–90), Wendover (1790–96), Portsmouth (1796-death)
Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station (1800-death); Younger son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, hence 'Lord'

Rear-Admiral
John Willett Payne
1752
1803
Died in Greenwich naval hospital of illness sustained at sea during French Revolutionary Wars

Huntingdon (1787–96)

Captain
William Proby, Lord Proby
1779
1804
Died of yellow fever at Suriname during Napoleonic Wars
Whig
Buckingham (1802-death)
Eldest son of John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort hence Lord Proby.

Rear-Admiral Sir
Thomas Troubridge
c. 1758
1807
Lost in sinking of HMS Blenheim in cyclone off Madagascar during Napoleonic War

Great Yarmouth left Commons 1806
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station (1805-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Honyman
c. 1781
1808
Died of Yellow Fever in Jamaica during Napoleonic War

Orkney and Shetland (1806–07)

Major-General
John Randall Mackenzie
c. 1763
1809
Killed at Battle of Talavera during the Peninsular War

Tain Burghs (1806–08), Sutherland (1808-death)

Lieutenant-General
Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser
1758
1809
Died in London of fever contracted in Walcheren Campaign

Cromartyshire (1802–06), Ross-shire (1806-death)

Lieutenant-General Sir
John Moore
1761
1809
Fatally wounded at the Battle of Corunna during the Peninsular War
Tory
Lanark Burghs (1784–1790)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Michael Symes
1761
1809
Died on homeward voyage after Battle of Corunna

Carlow Borough (1806), Heytesbury (1807)

Major
George Henry Compton Cavendish
1784
1809
Lost in sinking of transport ship in storm off Cornwall on return from Corunna
Whig
Aylesbury (1806-death)

Major-General
Robert Craufurd
1764
1812
Mortally wounded at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo and died four days later
Tory
East Retford (1802–1806)

Major
Edward Charles Cocks
1786
1812
Killed at Siege of Burgos in Peninsular War

Reigate (1806-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Cecil Bisshopp
1783
1813
Died of wounds received in Raid on Black Rock during Anglo-American War

Newport (Isle of Wight) (1811–12)

Vice-Admiral Sir
Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet
1762
1814
Died at Madras in command of East Indies Station during Napoleonic War

Westminster (1806–07), Bridport (1807–12)
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station (1811-death)

Captain Sir
Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet
1785
1814
Killed at Battle of Caulk's Field during Anglo-American War
Tory
Wexford Borough (1810–11)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
Henry Sullivan, 2nd Baronet
1785
1814
Killed at Battle of Toulouse
Tory
Lincoln (1812-death)

Lieutenant-General Sir
Thomas Picton
1758
1815
Killed at the Battle of Waterloo

Pembroke (1813-death)
Governor of Trinidad (1797–1802) & Governor of Tobago (1803)

Major-General Sir
William Ponsonby
1772
1815
Killed at the Battle of Waterloo
Tory
Londonderry (1812–death)
Younger son of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, hence 'The Honourable'

Admiral of the Fleet Sir
Henry Byam Martin
1773
1854
Died in command at Portsmouth during Crimean War

Plymouth (1818–32)
Comptroller of the Navy (1816–31)

Colonel
Robert Edward Boyle
1809
1854
Died at Varna of sickness during Crimean War
Liberal
Frome (1847-death)
Younger son of Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork, hence 'The Honourable'

Lieutenant-Colonel
Lauderdale Maule
1807
1854
Died at Constantinople of cholera contracted in Crimean War

Forfarshire (1852-death)
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance (1853-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Edward William Pakenham
1819
1854
Killed Battle of Inkerman in Crimean War
Conservative
Antrim (1852-death)

Field-Marshal Lord
FitzRoy Somerset, later 1st Baron Raglan
1788
1855
Died of dysentery during the Crimean War
Tory
Truro left Commons 1829
Master-General of the Ordnance (1852-death); Younger son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, hence 'Lord'

Major-General
James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt
1803
1855
Died of cholera in the Crimea

Devizes (1848–52)

Major-General
George Anson
1797
1857
Died of cholera during Siege of Delhi
Conservative
Great Yarmouth (1818–35), Stoke-on-Trent (1836–37), Staffordshire South (left Commons 1853)
Commander-in-Chief, India (1856-death); Younger son of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson hence 'The Honourable'

Lieutenant-General Sir
Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet
1830
1897
Killed at Khyber Pass, Afghanistan
Liberal Unionist
Sunderland (1874–81), South East Durham (1885–92 and 1895–death)

text: First World War[edit]

text:
Rank and title
Name
Born
Killed/Died
Where/How
Political Party
MP's Seat
Other

Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Duncome, Visount Hemsley, later 2nd Earl of Feversham
1879
1916
Killed during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette
Conservative
Thirsk and Malton (1906–1915)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Guy Victor Baring
1873
1916
Killed during the Battle of the Somme
Conservative
Winchester
Younger son of Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton so styled 'The Honourable'

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord
Ninian Crichton-Stuart
1883
1915
Killed while leading the 6th Welsh in a night attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, near La Bassée
Liberal Unionist Party
Cardiff
Second son of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute so styled 'Lord'

Lieutenant-Colonel
Percy Clive
1873
1918
Killed in action when attached to the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers, 5 April 1918 at Bucquoy
Liberal Unionist Party
Ross
DSO

Lieutenant-Colonel
Duncan Frederick Campbell
1876
1916
Wounded by a mine on the Western Front and died of his wounds at Southwold
Unionist
North Ayrshire
DSO

Major
Charles Henry Lyell
1875
1918
Died of pneumonia while serving as Assistant Military Attaché to the US
Liberal
East Dorset (1904–10), Edinburgh South (1910–17)
The only son and heir of Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell so styled 'The Honourable'

Major Lord
Alexander Thynne
1873
1918
Killed in action in France
Conservative
Bath
DSO; younger son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath so styled 'Lord'

Major
Valentine Fleming
1882
1917
Killed by German bombing in Gillemont Farm area, Picardy, France
Conservative
Henley
DSO

Major
Philip Glazebrook
1880
1918
Killed in action on 7 March 1918 at Bireh, near Jerusalem
Conservative
Manchester South
DSO

Major
Francis Bennett-Goldney
1865
1918
Died in US hospital in Brest after car accident in France
Independent Unionist
Canterbury

Captain
William Hoey Kearney Redmond
1861
1917
Died from wounds at the Battle of Messines
Irish Parliamentary Party
Clare East

Captain
John Joseph Esmonde
1862
1915
Died of pneumonia and heart failure consequent on the strain of overwork
Irish Parliamentary Party
North Tipperary

Captain
Thomas Agar-Robartes
1880
1915
Wounded in the Battle of Loos on 28 September and killed by a sniper
Liberal
St Austell Division
Eldest son and heir of Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden so styled 'The Honourable'

Captain
Harold Thomas Cawley
1878
1915
Killed in the Battle of Gallipoli
Liberal
Heywood
The second son of Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley and brother of Oswald Cawley, below.

Captain
Oswald Cawley
1882
1918
Killed in action near Merville
Liberal
Prestwich
The fourth and youngest son of Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley so styled 'The Honourable'

Captain
Arthur O'Neill
1876
1914
Killed in action at Klein Zillebeke ridge
Ulster Unionist Party
Mid Antrim
Second but eldest surviving son and heir of Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill so styled 'The Honourable'

Captain
Neil James Archibald Primrose
1882
1917
Killed in Gezer during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign while leading his squadron against Turkish positions on the Abu Shusheh ridge during the Third Battle of Gaza
Liberal
Wisbech
PC MC; second son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery so styled 'The Honourable' however was created a Privy Counsellor so styled

Captain
Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington
1877
1916
Died as a result of wounds received at Katia, Egypt
Conservative
Tewkesbury
Eldest son of Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn so held the courtesy title of Viscount Quenington which was a subsidiary title held by his father

Lieutenant
Francis Walter Stafford McLaren
1886
1917
Died following a flying accident during training at RAF Montrose
Liberal
Spalding
Younger son of Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway so styled 'The Honourable'

Lieutenant
Charles Thomas Mills
1887
1915
Killed in action 6 October 1915 at Hulluch
Conservative
Uxbridge Division
Eldest son and heir of Charles William Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon so styled 'The Honourable'

Lieutenant
William Walrond
1876
1915
Died from wounds
Conservative
Tiverton
Eldest Son and heir of William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran so styled 'The Honourable'

Lieutenant
Thomas Michael Kettle
1880
1916
Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme
Conservative
East Tyrone (1906–10)

Lieutenant
William Glynne Charles Gladstone
1885
1915
Killed in action in France
Liberal Party
Kilmarnock Burghs

Lieutenant
Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot
1872
1916
Killed in action in France
Conservative
Burnley (1910–1910)

text: Died after end of hostilities but listed as First World War casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission:[37]

text: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (5th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment); born 1879: died 1919 of Spanish influenza at Paris while attending peace negotiations. MP (Conservative Party) for Hull Central (1911-death).

text: Inter-World Wars[edit]

text:
Rank in Military
Name
Born
Killed/Died
Where/How
Political Party
MP's Seat
Honours

General
Michael Collins
1890
1922
Killed in ambush of convoy by IRA opponents during Irish Civil War
Sinn Féin
Cork South (1918–21) (but did not sit)
Commander-in-Chief, Irish National Army; Chairman of Provisional Government (January 1922-death) and Minister of Finance (1919-death) Irish Free State; Teachta Dála 1921-death

text: Second World War[edit]

text:
Rank and title
Name
Born
Killed/Died
Where/How
Political Party
MP's Seat
Honours

Brigadier
John Whiteley
1898
1943
Killed in plane crash in Gibraltar while escorting General Sikorski
Conservative Party
Buckingham
OBE

Colonel
Lionel Beaumont Thomas
1893
1942
Lost at sea during gale after torpedoeing of MV Henry Stanley off the Azores while on mission travel
Conservative
Birmingham King's Norton (1929–35)
MC

Colonel
Victor Cazalet
1896
1943
Killed in plane crash in Gibraltar while escorting General Sikorski
Conservative Party
Chippenham
MC

Colonel
Edward Orlando Kellett
1902/03[38]
1943
Killed in action fighting in North Africa
Conservative Party
Birmingham Aston
DSO

Colonel
John Macnamara
1905
1944
Killed in action fighting in Italy
Conservative Party
Chelmsford

Colonel
James Baldwin-Webb
1894
1940
Drowned when the SS City of Benares was torpedoed
Conservative Party
The Wrekin
TD

Lieutenant-Colonel
Frank Heilgers
1892
1944
Killed in the Ilford rail crash
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds

Lieutenant-Colonel
Somerset Arthur Maxwell
1905
1942
Died of wounds received at the Battle of El Alamein
Conservative Party
King's Lynn
Eldest son and heir of Arthur Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham so styled 'The Honourable'

Commander
Rupert Brabner
1911
1945
Killed in a plane crash near the Azores, while leading a delegation to Canada
Conservative Party
Hythe
DSO DSC; Under-Secretary of State for Air (1944-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
James Despencer-Robertson
1886
1942
Died suddenly, apparently from overwork as military secretary at Southern Command Headquarters
Conservative Party
Salisbury
OBE

Lieutenant-Colonel
Anthony Muirhead
1890
1939
Committed suicide owing to his fear that a leg-injury might prevent his service in the war
Conservative Party
Wells
MC & Bar TD; Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India and Burma (1938-death)

Major Lord
Apsley
1895
1942
Killed in action in a plane crash in the Middle-East
Conservative Party
Bristol Central
DSO MC TD; eldest son and heir of Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst so styled Lord Apsley

Major
Ronald Cartland
1907
1940
Killed in action during the retreat to Dunkirk
Conservative Party
Birmingham King's Norton

Captain
Richard Porritt
1910
1940
Killed in action fighting in Belgium
Conservative Party
Heywood and Radcliffe

Captain
Stuart Russell
1909
1943
Died of fever on active service in Egypt
Conservative Party
Darwen

Captain
Hubert Duggan
1904
1943
Died of tuberculosis contracted on active service
Conservative Party
Acton

Captain
George Charles Grey
1918
1944
Killed in action fighting in Normandy
Liberal Party
Berwick-upon-Tweed

Captain
John Dermot Campbell
1898
1945
Killed in a plane crash in Italy during a fact-finding mission
Ulster Unionist
Antrim

Lieutenant
Dudley Joel
1904
1941
Killed in action while serving with the Royal Navy
Conservative Party
Dudley

Flight Lieutenant
John Rathbone
1910
1940
Killed in action on bombing operations over Germany
Conservative Party
Bodmin

Lieutenant
Peter Eckersley
1904
1940
Accidentally killed in a plane crash near Eastleigh while serving with the Fleet Air Arm
Conservative Party
Manchester Exchange

Lieutenant
Robert Bernays
1902
1945
Killed in a plane crash in Italy during a fact-finding mission
Liberal Party
Bristol North

Pilot Officer
Sir Arnold Wilson
1884
1940
Killed in action over northern France while a gunner in RAF Bomber Command
Conservative Party
Hitchin
KCIE CSI CMG DSO

Private
Patrick Munro
1883
1942
Died while taking part in an exercise for the Home Guard at Westminster
Conservative Party
Llandaff and Barry

text: Died after end of hostilities but listed as Second World Casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission:[39]

text: Admiral of the Fleet SirRoger 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 USS Appalachian during a government goodwill tour over 1944–45. MP (Conservative Party) for Portsmouth North (1934–43).

text: Members of Parliament who died as wartime civilian casualties[edit]

text:
Title
Name known by while in Commons
Born
Killed/Died
When/How
Political Party
MP's Seat
Honours

Matthew Wren
1629
1672
Died at Greenwich from wounds sustained as accompanying Secretary to the Duke of York at Solebay during Third Anglo-Dutch War
Royalist
Mitchell (1661-death)
Secretary to the Duke of York (1667-death)

The Hon
Coulson Wallop
1774
1807
Died in enemy captivity at Verdun during Napoleonic War
Whig
Andover (1796–1802)
Younger son of John Wallop, 2nd Earl of Portsmouth, hence 'The Honourable'

Alfred Baldwin Raper
1889
1941
Drowned when SS Nerissa was torpedoed in Second World War
Conservative Party
Islington East (1918–22)

Rt Hon The Earl of Kimberley
John Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse
1883
1941
Killed in air raid on London, Second World War
Liberal Party
Mid Norfolk (1906–10)

Sir
Percy Alden
1865
1944
Killed by German V1 flying bomb attack on London, Second World War
Liberal, after 1918 Labour
Tottenham (1906–18), Tottenham South (1923–24)

text: Members of Parliament who have been accidentally killed[edit]

text:
Title/Rank
Name known by while in Commons
Born
Killed
Political Party
MP's Seat
Offices Held

Sir
Ralph Carminowe
before 1339
1386 (pulled over cliff by hounds when hunting)

Cornwall (1383, 1384, and 1386 but died before taking seat)
High Sheriff of Cornwall 1378

Sir
Thomas Rempston

1406 (drowned in River Thames near London Bridge)

Nottinghamshire (1381–86, 1393–94, 1395–99)
KG PC; Sheriff of Nottinghamshire 1393, Constable of the Tower 1399-death

Edward Burnebury

1432 (drowned in well)

Launceston (1410–11, 1413, 1414, 1417, 1419, 1422)
Coroner of Cornwall 1423

Francis Yaxley

1565 (lost in shipwreck in North Sea)

Stamford (1555–58), Saltash (1558)

Sir
Humphrey Gilbert
c. 1539
1583 (lost in storm on HMS Squirrel returning from Newfoundland)

Plymouth (1571–72), Queenborough (1580-death)

Sir
John Glanville
1542
1600 (fall from horse while travelling on judicial circuit)

Launceston (1584–85), Tavistock (1586–87), St Germans (1593)
Recorder of Launceston 1590, Justice of the Common Pleas 1598-death.

Thomas Warre
c. 1576
1617 (drowned in River Severn)

Bridgwater (1614)
Recorder of Bridgwater 1610-death

Sir
Robert Knollys
1547
1619 (after fall)

Reading (1572–86), Breconshire (1589–1611)
KB

John Whitson
c. 1558
1629 (fall from horse)

Bristol (1605–21 and 1625–28)
High Sheriff of Bristol 1589, Mayor of Bristol 1616

Sir
Miles Hobart
1595
1632 (carriage accident)

Marlow 1628–29

Sir
Walter Long
c. 1594
1637 (fall from horse when drunk)[40]

Westbury (1621–24 and 1625–28)

John Hoskins
1566
1638 (crushed toe which caused gangrene)[41]

Hereford (1604, 1614 and 1628)
Judge of South Wales circuit (1623-death)

Sir
Thomas Lucy
1583/86
8 December 1640 (fall from horse)

Warwickshire (1614–28 and 1640), Warwick (November 1640-death)

Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Ferdinando Fairfax to 1640)
1584
1648 (accident unspecified causing gangrene in leg)
Roundhead
Boroughbridge (1614–29, 1640), Yorkshire (1640-death)
Scottish peer so able to sit in English parliament. Governor of Hull (1643–44), Governor of York (1644)

Sir
Richard Onslow
1601
1664 (allegedly struck by lightning)[42]
Roundhead before 1660, Royalist since
Surrey (1628–29, 1640–48, 1654, 1656–57), Guildford (1660-death)

Thomas Robinson
1608
1665 (gored by pet bull)
Royalist
Helston (1660-death)

Sir
Robert Brooke
1637
1669 (drowned bathing in the Rhone in Avignon, France)

Aldeburgh (1660-death)

Sir
Henry Marten
1602
1680 (choked on supper in prison)
Roundhead
Berkshire (1640–43, 1646–53)

Edmund Waring
c. 1620
1682 (drowned in pond after drinking)[43]
Roundhead
Bridgnorth (1656, 1658)
High Sheriff of Shropshire (1657–59), Governor of Shrewsbury (1659–60)

The Marquess of Worcester
Charles Somerset, styled Lord Herbert of Raglan to 1682, Marquess of Worcester from 1682
1660
1698 (coach accident)

Monmouth (1679–80). Gloucester (1681–85), Monmouthshire (1685–87 and 1689–95), Gloucestershire (1685–89)
Eldest son of Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, hence titled Lord Herbert of Raglan, until 1682 when his father was created Duke of Beaufort, when the Marquessate of Worcester became courtesy title of eldest son.

Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet
c. 1650
1700 (fall from horse)

Brackley (1698-death)
High Sheriff of Glamorganshire 1685

Legh Banks
1666
1703 (drowned crossing River Dee near Chester)

Newton (1695–98)

Sir John Cordell, 3rd Baronet
1677
1704 (fall from horse)

Sudbury (1701)

Irby Montagu
c. 1656
1704 (fall from horse riding in Enfield Chase)
Whig
Maldon (1695–1701)

Sir
David Ramsay, 4th Baronet
After 1673
1710 (fall from horse)
Tory
Kincardineshire (1708-death)
Previously MP Parliament of Scotland

James Herbert

1721 (drowned falling off footbridge into River Thames at Thame)
Tory
Queenborough (1710–13), Amersham (1714–15) and Oxfordshire (1715-death)

Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet
1665
1724 (fall from hunting horse)
Whig
Malton (1689–98, 1701–08, 1722-death), Yorkshire (1708–10), Old Sarum (1716–22)

Sir
John Curzon, 3rd Baronet
1672
1727 (fall from horse hunting)
Tory
Derbyshire (1701-death)

Lord
William Powlett
1666
1729 (fall from horse)
Whig
Winchester (1689–1710 and 1715-death), Lymington (1710–15)
Son of 1st Duke of Bolton, hence 'Lord'; Mayor of Lymington 1701–03, 1724, 1728; Recorder of Grimsby 1699-death

Exton Sayer
c. 1691
1731 (riding accident)
Whig
Helston (1726–27), Totnes (1727-death)
Judge Advocate, Court of Admiralty (1726-death)

Sir
Mr John Stapylton
c. 1683
1733 (fall from horse)

Boroughbridge (1705–08)

Sir William Keyt, 3rd Baronet
1688
1741 (house fire caused by himself when insane)
Tory
Warwick (1722–35)

Sir
Erasmus Philipps
c. 1700
1743 (drowned in River Avon near Bath)

Haverfordwest (1726-death)

Sir
Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet
1692
1749 (fall from hunting horse)
Tory
Denbighshire (1716–41 and 1742-death), Montgomeryshire (1741–42)

William Howard, Viscount Andover
1714
1756 (fall from carriage)
Anti-Walpole Whig
Castle Rising (1737–47)
Son of Earl of Suffolk, hence Viscount Andover

Sir
John Lade, 1st Baronet
c. 1731
1759 (unsuccessful amputation after fall from hunting horse)[44]

Camelford (1755-death)

Lieutenant-General
John Stanwix
1690
1766 (lost in sinking of The Eagle crossing Irish Sea)
Whig
Carlisle (1741–42 and 1746–61), Appleby (1761-death)
Lieutenant-Governor Isle of Wight

Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
1739
1767 (fall from hunting horse)
Whig
Bedfordshire (1761-to death)
Eldest son of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford so titled Marquess of Tavistock.

The Lord Sandys
Mr Samuel Sandys
1695
1770 (overturning of post-chaise)|Whig
Worcester (1718–43)
PC; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1742–43), Speaker of the House of Lords (1756)

Lord
William Manners
1697
1772 (fall from horse)
Tory
Leicestershire (1719–34), Newark left Commons 1754

Francis Owen
1745
16 November 1774 (collapse of bridge over which he was riding)

Helston (11 October 1774-death)

Lauchlan Macleane
c. 1727
1778 (lost as passenger in foundering of HMS Swallow (1769) en route home from India)

Arundel (1768–71)
Governor of St Vincent (1766), Under Secretary of State (1766–68)

The Earl Temple
Richard Grenville, Viscount Cobham
1711
1779 (fall from phaeton)
Whig
Buckingham (1734–41 and 1747–52), Buckinghamshire (1741–47)
KG PC; First Lord of the Admiralty (1756–57), Lord Privy Seal (1757–61), Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1758–63)

Captain
Robert Boyle-Walsingham
1736
1780 (lost in sinking of HMS Thunderer in hurricane off Jamaica)

Knaresborough (1758–60 and 1768-death), Fowey (1761–68)
Son of Earl of Shannon, hence 'Honourable'; FRS

Henry Howorth
c. 1746
1783 (drowned in boating accident when yachting)

Abingdon (1782-death)
KC; Recorder of Abingdon 1780

Sir Herbert Mackworth, 1st Baronet
1737
1791 (blood poisoning from pricked finger)

Cardiff (left Commons 1790)

Colonel
George Onslow
1731
1792 (after carriage accident)
Tory
Guildford (1760–84)

Lord
Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore
1769
1793 (accidentally shot himself while escorting French prisoners of war)

Heytesbury (1791–death)

The Hon
John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
1767
1794 (after fall from horse)
Tory
Cardiff (1790-death)
Son of Marquess of Bute, hence Lord Mount Stuart; Lord Lieutenant of Glamorganshire (1793-death)

Thomas Whitmore
c. 1743
1795 (drowned in well in own garden)[45]
Tory
Bridgnorth (1771-death)

Thomas Francis Wenman
1745
1796 (drowned in River Cherwell)

Westbury left Commons 1780

James Bruce
1769
1798 (drowned crossing River Don, South Yorkshire on horseback)

Marlborough (1796–97)
Son of 5th Earl of Elgin, hence 'Honourable'

William Jolliffe
1745
1802 (fall into home cellar)

Petersfield (1768-death)
Lord of Trade 1772–79 and of Admiralty 1783

John Bagwell
c. 1780
1806 (fall from horse)

Cashel (1801–02)

Sir
Lionel Copley, 2nd Baronet
1767
1806 (leg fracture from fall from ladder in home)
Whig
Tregony (1796–1802)

The Marquess of Thomond
Rt Hon The Earl of Inchiquin
1726
1808 (fall from horse)

Richmond, Yorkshire (1784–96), Liskeard (1796–1800)
Irish peer so could sit in English House of Commons. KP PC (Ire)

Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston
1784
1808 (lost in sinking of Agatha of Lubeck off Memel)

Reigate (1806-death)
Son of Earl of Hardwicke hence Viscount Royston

George Knapp
1754
1809 (fall from gig)
Whig
Abingdon (1807-death)
Mayor of Abingdon 1792, 1797, 1799, 1807

William Eden
1782
1810 (found drowned in River Thames, London)

Woodstock (1806-death)

General
Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 7th Baronet
c. 1755
1811 (mortally wounded by exploding gunpowder flask)
Tory
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (1790-death)
PC, Secretary at War (1807–09)

William Cavendish
1783
1812 (fall from curricle)
Whig
Knaresborough (1804), Aylesbury (1804–06), Derby (1806-death)

Richard Fleming Worsley Holmes
1792
1814 (drowned in capsize of rowing boat in River Hamble)
Tory
Newport (Isle of Wight) (1812-death)

Ayscoghe Boucherett
1755
1815 (carriage accident)

Great Grimsby (1796–1803)
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1796

The Earl of Buckinghamshire
Robert Hobart, Baron Hobart
1760
1816 (fall from horse)
Tory
Bramber (1788–90), Lincoln (1790–96)
PC, also MP Parliament of Ireland; Governor of Madras 1793–97; Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1801–04; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1805, 1812; Postmaster General 1806–07; President of the Board of Control 1812-death

Sir
Alexander Macdonald Lockhart, 1st Baronet
c. 1776
1816 (carriage accident)

Berwick-upon-Tweed (1807–12)

Richard Meyler
1791
1818 (fall from horse when hunting)

Winchester (1812-death)

The Duke of Richmond and Gordon
Mr Charles Lennox
1764
1819 (died of rabies from fox bite)
Conservative
Sussex (1790–1806)
PC KG Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1807–13), Lord Lieutenant of Sussex (1816-death), Governor General of British North America (1818-death)

William Shipley
1778
1820 (accidentally shot when hunting)
Whig
St Mawes (1807 and 1812–13), Flint Boroughs (1807–12)

John Attersoll
c. 1784
1822 (fall from horse)
Whig
Wootton Bassett (1812–13)

William Shepherd Kinnersley
1780
1823 (fall from horse)

Newcastle-under-Lyme (1818-death)
Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1810

Sir
John Stewart
c. 1758
1825 (carriage accident)
Tory
County Tyrone (1802–06 and 1812-death)
PC (Ire), KC (Ireland); Solicitor General of Ireland (1798–1800), Attorney General of Ireland (1800–03); former Member of Parliament of Ireland.

William Huskisson
1770
1830 (killed by train)
Tory
Morpeth (1796–1802), Liskeard (1804–07), Harwich (1807–12), Chichester (1812–23), Liverpool (1823–death)
PC; President of the Board of Trade (1823–1827) Secretary of State for War (1827–1828)

John Pringle
1796
1831 (thrown out of carriage)

Lanark Burghs (1819–20)

Admiral
Sir Joseph Yorke
1768
1831 (drowned in yacht capsize)

Reigate (1790–1806 and 1818-death), Saint Germans (1806–10), Sandwich (1812–18)
KCB

Sir
James Mackintosh
1765
1832 (effects of choking on chicken bone)
Whig
Nairn (1813–18), Knaresborough (1818-death)

The Earl of Darnley
Edward Bligh, Lord Clifton
1795
1835 (tetanus from axe injury when felling timber)
Whig
Canterbury (1818–30)
Son of 4th Earl of Darnley, hence Lord Clifton; FRS, Lord Lieutenant of County Meath (1831-death)

The Baron Suffield
Edward Harbord
1781
1835 (fall from horse)
Radical
Great Yarmouth (1806–12), Shaftesbury (1820–21)

Thomas Courtenay
1782
1841 (drowned while sea bathing)
Tory
Totnes (1811–32)
PC; Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1828–30

The Baron Sydenham
Mr Charles Thomson
1799
1841 (fall from horse)
Whig
Dover (1826–32), Manchester (1832–39)
PC GCB; President of the Board of Trade (1834, 1835–39), Governor-General of Canada (1839-death)

James Barlow-Hoy
c. 1794
1843 (died of tetanus after accidentally shooting himself in Pyrenees)
Conservative
Southampton (1830–31, 1832–33, 1835–37)

Paulet St John-Mildmay
1791
1845 (died of tetanus after breaking leg in altercation with horse)
Liberal
Winchester (1818–34 and 1837–41)

The Earl of Powis
Edward, Viscount Clive
1785
1848 (accidentally shot on hunt)
Conservative
Ludlow left Commons 1839
KG, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire (1830-death)

Sir
Sir Robert Peel, Baronet
1788
1850 (fall from horse)
Conservative
Cashel (1809–12), Chippenham (1812–17), Oxford University (1817–29), Westbury (1829–30), Tamworth (1830-death)
Prime Minister (1834–35 and 1841–46), Leader of the Conservative Party (1834–46),
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–35), Home Secretary (1822–27 and 1828–30), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1812–17)

Thomas Plumer Halsey
1815
1854 (drowned in sinking of Ercolano in Gulf of Genoa

Hertfordshire (1846-death)

The Earl of Harewood
Henry Lascelles
1797
1857 (hunting accident)
Tory
Northallerton (1826–31)
Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire West Riding (1846-death)

Henry Porcher
1795
1857 (fall from horse)
Tory
Clitheroe (1822–26)
Director of the Bank of England 1825–42

The Marquess of Queensberry
Viscount Drumlanrig
1818
1858 (explosion of shotgun)
Conservative
Dumfriesshire left Commons 1857
PC, Lord Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire (1850-death)

Herbert Ingram
1811
1860 (drowned in sinking of the Lady Elgin after collision in Lake Michigan).
Liberal
Boston (1856-death)

Robert Aglionby Slaney
1791
1862 (effects of fall at London International Exhibition)
Liberal, ex Whig
Shrewsbury (1826–35, 1837–41, 1847–51, 1857-death)
High Sheriff of Shropshire 1854

Dr
Thomas Wakley
1795
1862 (after fall while ill with TB)
Liberal
Finsbury (1835–52)

George Hay, Earl of Gifford
1822
1862 (injured by falling tree)[46]
Liberal
Totnes (1855-death)
Son of George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, hence Earl of Gifford

Sir
Cresswell Cresswell
1794
1863 (fall from horse)
Conservative
Liverpool (1837–42)
PC KC

Lieutenant-General
William Augustus Johnson
1777
1863 (following fall at home)
Conservative
Boston (1821–26), Oldham (1837–47)
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1830

Sir
Culling Eardley Smith, later Eardley, 3rd Baronet
1805
1863 (adverse reaction to smallpox vaccination)
Whig
Pontefract (1830–31)
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1858

The Marquess Townshend
Mr John Townshend
1798
1863 (fall from horse)
Liberal
Tamworth (1847–55)

Sir
Mr Alexander Bannerman
1788
1864 (downstairs fall at home when ill)
Whig
Aberdeen (1832–47)
Provost of Aberdeen 1837, Governor of the Bahamas (1854–57), Governor of Newfoundland (1857–64)

John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart
1818
1865 (fall during attack of paralysis)
Conservative
Ipswich (1842)
Irish peer so could sit in the Commons; Under Secretary for War and the Colonies (1852)

William Williams
1788
1865 (fall from horse)
Radical
Coventry (1835–47), Lambeth (1850-death)

Lieutenant-General The Earl of Cardigan
James, Lord Brudenell
1797
1868 (fall from horse)
Conservative
Marlborough (1818–29), Fowey (1830–32), North Northamptonshire left Commons 1837
KCB

The Lord Farnham
Hon Henry Maxwell
1799
1868 (petroleum fire in Abergele rail disaster)
Conservative
County Cavan left Commons 1838
KP

Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet
1799
1869 (hunting accident)
Whig to 1836, Conservative 1836–57, Liberal from 1857
Yorkshire (1830–32), Scarborough (1837–41, 1841-death)

Sir
George Burrard, 4th Baronet
1805
1870 (drowned bathing at Lyme Regis)

Lymington (1828–32)

Sir
James Colquhoun, 4th Baronet
1804
1873 (drowned in Loch Lomond)[47]

Dunbartonshire (1837–41)
Lord Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire (1837)

the Lord Marjoribanks
Mr David Robertson
1797
1873 (knocked down by horse drawn cab)
Liberal
Berwickshire (1859–73)[48]
Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (1860-death)

John Cunliffe Pickersgill-Cunliffe
1819
1873 (struck by train)
Conservative
Bewdley (March–April 1869)

John Laird
1805
1874 (fall from horse)
Conservative
Birkenhead (1861-death)

Reginald Greville-Nugent
1848
1878 (fall off horse in steeplechase)
Liberal
Longford (1869–70)
Son of 1st Baron Greville, hence Honourable

Sir
William Hayter, 1st Baronet
1792
1878 (found drowned in lake at home)
Liberal Party
Wells (1837–65)
Judge Advocate General (1847-49), Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1849–50) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (1853-58)

Richard Wingfield-Baker
1802
1880 (hunting accident)
Liberal
South Essex (1857–59, 1868–74)

Sir
William Payne-Gallwey
1807
1881 (fall on turnip while shooting)
Conservative
Thirsk left Commons 1880

Gilbert Leigh
1851
1884 (hunting accident)
Liberal
Warwickshire South (1880-death)
Son of 2nd Baron Leigh, hence Honourable

Guy Cuthbert Dawnay
1848
1889 (killed by buffalo in East Africa)
Conservative
North Riding of Yorkshire (1882–85)
Son of 7th Viscount Downe so styled Honourable.

John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
1852
1889 (thrown off horse)
Liberal
Peterborough (1878-death)

William Beckett-Denison
1826
1890 (fell under train)
Conservative
East Retford (1876–80), Bassetlaw (1885-death)

Sir
Edward Grogan, 1st Baronet
1802
1891 (fall from house window)
Irish Conservative Party
Dublin City (1845–65)

The Viscount Combermere
The Hon Wellington Stapleton-Cotton
1818
1891 (run over by horsedrawn cab)
Conservative
Carrickfergus left Commons 1847

Alexander Brogden
1825
1892 (burns from fall into hearth)
Liberal
Wednesbury (1868–85)

William McCullagh Torrens
1813
1894 (knocked down by hansom cab)
Liberal
Dundalk (1848–52), Finsbury (1865–85)

Charles Joseph Fay
1842
1895 (drowned in the River Annalee)
Home Rule League
Cavan (1874–1885)

Henry Byron Reed
1855
1896 (killed in overturned pony trap)
Conservative
Bradford East (1886–92 and 1895-death)

Garrett Byrne
1829
1897 (run over by Hackney carriage)
Irish Parliamentary Party
Wexford County (1880–83), West Wicklow (1885–92)

The Lord Herschell
Mr Farrer Herschell
1837
1899 (fall in street in Washington D.C.)
Liberal
City of Durham (1874–85)
GCB PC QC FRS; Solicitor General for England and Wales (1880–85), Lord Chancellor (1886 and 1892–95)

John Edmund Severne
1826
1899 (knocked down by van horse)
Conservative
Ludlow (1865–68) and South Shropshire left Commons 1885

William Wither Beach
1826
1901 (run over by cab)
Conservative
North Hampshire (1857–85), Andover (1885-death)
PC

The Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
1830
1903 (fall from chair)
Conservative
Stamford (1853–68)
KG GCVO PC FRS; Secretary of State for India (1866–67 & 1874–78), Foreign Secretary (1885–86, 1887–92 & 1895–1900), Prime Minister (1885–86, 1886–92 & 1895–1902)

Alexander William Black
1859
1906 (Elliot Junction rail accident)
Liberal
Banffshire (1900-death)

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet
1832
1907 (killed in earthquake in Jamaica)
Conservative
Ayrshire (1854–57, 1859–68), Manchester North East left Commons 1906
PC GCSI Under-Secretary of State for India (1866–67), Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (1867–68), Governor of South Australia (1868–73), Governor of New Zealand (1873–74), Governor of Bombay (1880–85), Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1886–91), Postmaster-General (1891–92)

James Tomkinson
1840
1910 (fall from horse in House of Commons Steeplechase)
Liberal
Crewe (1900-death)
PC

Edward Brodie Hoare
1841
1911 (car crash)
Conservative
Hampstead left Commons 1902

Sir
Henry Seton-Karr
1853
1914 (drowned in sinking of Empress of Ireland, Canada)
Conservative
St Helens left Commons 1906
CMG

Percy Illingworth
1869
1915 (food poisoning by bad oyster)
Liberal
Shipley (1906-death)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Liberal Chief Whip 1912-death

Lieutenant
The Hon Francis McLaren
1886
1917 (fatally injured in Royal Flying Corps training flight in Scotland)
Liberal
Spalding (1910-death)

Major
Francis Bennett-Goldney
1865
1918 (car accident in France)
Independent Unionist
Canterbury (1910-death)
Athlone Pursuivant of the Order of St Patrick

Sir
Alfred Bird
1849
1922 (run over by motor car)
Conservative
Wolverhampton West (1910-death)

Frank Lawless
1870
1922 (injured in upset pony trap)
Sinn Féin
Dublin North (1918-death but did not sit)
Later Irish Teachta Dála

Baron Cozens-Hardy
William Cozens-Hardy
1869
1924 (killed in car accident in Germany)
Liberal Party
South Norfolk (1918–20)

Commodore
Douglas King
1877
1930 (drowned in yacht capsize off Cornwall).
Conservative
North Norfolk (1918–22), Paddington South (1922-death)
CB OBE DSO VD PC Financial Secretary to the War Office (1924–28), Secretary for Mines (1928–29)

John Joseph Clancy
c. 1891/92
1932 (drowned in River Shannon at Limerick)
Sinn Féin
Sligo North (1918–22 but did not sit)
Later Irish Teachta Dála

Viscount
Antony Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth
1903
1933 (plane crash while rehearsing for air show while serving in Auxiliary Air Force)
Conservative
Hitchin (1931–death)

Sir
Sir Frank Meyer
1886
1935 (hunting accident)
Conservative
Great Yarmouth (1924–29)

Sir
Mr Arthur Crosfield
1865
1938 (fell out of railway carriage)
Liberal
Warrington (1906–10)
GBE

Anthony Crossley
1903
1939 (plane crash)
Conservative
Stretford (1935–death)

The Lord Tweedsmuir
Mr John Buchan
1875
1940 (head injury in fall during stroke)
Unionist Party (Scotland)
Combined Scottish Universities left Commons 1935
PC GCMG GCVO CH Governor-General of Canada (1935-death)

Herbert Fisher
1865
1940 (knocked down by lorry)
Liberal
Sheffield Hallam (1916–18), Combined English Universities (1918–26)
OM PC FRS; President of the Board of Education (1916–22)

Lieutenant
Peter Eckersley
1904
1940 (killed in plane crash in England while serving with Fleet Air Arm)
Conservative
Manchester Exchange (1935-death)

Luke Thompson
1867
1941 (killed by winch)
Conservative
Sunderland (1931–1935)

Sir
Harold Hales
1868
1942 (drowned in River Thames)
Conservative
Hanley (1931–35)

John Jagger
1872
1942 (motorcycle accident)
Labour
Manchester Clayton (1935–death)

Emil Pickering
1882
1942 (thrown from horse)
Conservative
Dewsbury (1918–22)
DSO TD

Brigadier
John Whiteley
1898
1943 (killed in aircraft crash in Gibraltar)[49]
Conservative
Buckingham (1937-death)
OBE

Colonel
Victor Cazalet
1896
1943 (killed in same aircraft crash as Whiteley)[49]
Conservative
Chippenham (1924-death)
MC

Lieut-Col
Frank Heilgers
1892
1944 (train crash)
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds (1931–death)

Alfred Dobbs
1882
1945 (car accident - killed day after election)
Labour
Smethwick (1945-death)
Chairman of Labour Party (1943–1943)

Lord
Cecil Manners
1868
1945 (hit by train)
Conservative
Melton left Commons 1906
Son of Duke of Rutland, hence 'Lord'

Francis Beattie
1885
1945 (Car accident)
Unionist Party (Scotland)
Glasgow Cathcart (1942–death)

James Walker
1883
1945 (road accident)
Labour
Motherwell (1935–death)

Sir
William Allen
1866
1947 (Hit by motor van)
Ulster Unionist Party
North Armagh (1917–22), Armagh (1922–death)
KBE DSO

Doctor
Richard Clitherow
1902
1947 (accidental barbiturate overdose)
Labour
Liverpool Edge Hill (1945-death)

Sir
Stanley Jackson
1870
1947 (effects of road accident)
Conservative
Howdenshire (1915–26)
PC; GCSI GCIE; Financial Secretary to the War Office 1922–23, Governor of Bengal, 1927–32

Evan Durbin
1906
1948 (drowned)
Labour
Edmonton (1945–death)
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, 1947–1948

Joseph Westwood
1884
1948 (car accident)
Labour
Stirling and Falkirk (1935–death)
Secretary of State for Scotland 1945–1947

Sir
Norman Lamont, 2nd Baronet
1869
1949 (gored by bull kept on Trinidad estate)
Liberal
Buteshire (1905–10)

Reverend
James Godfrey MacManaway
1898
1951 (fall)
Ulster Unionist
Belfast West (February–October 1950)
MBE

Vyvyan Adams
1900
1951 (drowned swimming on Cornwall coast)
Conservative
Leeds West left Commons 1945

John Emlyn-Jones
1889
1952 (plane crash)
Liberal
Dorset North (1922–24)

Thomas Cook
1908
1952 (car crash)
Labour
Dundee (1945–50), Dundee East (1950-death)

Hilaire Belloc
1870
1953 (burns after falling into fireplace)
Liberal
Salford South (1910–18)

Lieutenant-General
Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane
1889
1953 (effects of fall)
Labour
Paddington North (1945–46)
KCB DSO MC & 2 Bars

Sir
Walter Smiles
1883
1953 (lost in sinking of MV Princess Victoria off Larne Lough in the Great Storm)
Conservative 1931–45, Ulster Unionist from 1945
Blackburn (1931–45), County Down (1945–50), North Down (1950-death)
CIE DSO

John Peto
1900
1954 (accidentally shot himself)
Conservative
Birmingham King's Norton (1941–45)

Sir
Mr Leslie Orme Wilson
1876
1955 (hit by truck)
Conservative
Reading (1913–22), Portsmouth South left Commons 1923
GCSI GCMG GCIE PC Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Shipping (1919–21), Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (1921–22, 1922–23), Governor of Bombay (1923–28), Governor of Queensland (1932–46)

Sir
Richard Stokes
1897
1957 (heart attack following car overturn)
Labour
Ipswich (1938-death)
MC and bar; Minister of Materials 1951

Sidney Dye
1900
1958 (car crash)
Labour
South West Norfolk (1945–51 and 1955-death)

Wilfred Fienburgh
1919
1958 (car crash)
Labour
Islington North (1951-death)
MBE

Richard Fort
1907
1959 (car accident)
Conservative
Clitheroe (1950-death)

Sir
Peter Macdonald
1895
1961 (following riding accident)
Conservative
Isle of Wight (1924–59)
KBE

John Henry (Jack) Jones
1894
1962 (road accident)
Labour
Bolton (1945–50), Rotherham (1950-death)

Lord
Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
1909
1964 (aircraft crash operating chartered flight in Cameroon)
Unionist
Inverness (1950–54)
Son of 13th Duke of Hamilton, hence 'Lord': OBE DFC

David Webster
1923
1969 (skiing accident in Austria)
Conservative
Weston-Super-Mare (1958-death)

The Baron Reith
Sir John Reith
1889
1971 (following fall)
National Government
Southampton (February–November 1940)
KT GCVO GBE CB TD PC Director General of the BBC 1927–38, Minister of Information and Minister of Transport 1940, First Commissioner of Works 1940–42

The Lord Grant
Mr William Grant
1909
1972 (road accident)
Conservative
Glasgow Woodside left Commons 1962
PC Solicitor General for Scotland (1955–60), Lord Advocate (1960–62)

Sir
Dingle Foot
1905
1978 (choked on chicken bone in sandwich)
Liberal to 1956, then Labour
Dundee (1931–45), Ipswich (1957–70)
PC QC

Thomas Henry Swain
1911
1979 (road accident)
Labour
Chesterfield (1959-death)

Thomas McMillan
1919
1980 (fall from bus)
Labour
Glasgow Central (1966-death)

Keith Wickenden
1932
July 1983 (killed in air crash)
Conservative
Dorking (1979-June 1983)

Viscount Boyd of Merton
Alan Lennox-Boyd
1903
1983 (knocked down by car)
Conservative
Mid-Bedfordshire left Commons 1959
PC CH, Minister of Transport 1952–54, Colonial Secretary 1954–59

Lord Maelor
Thomas William Jones
1898
1984 (house fire)
Labour
Meirionnydd left Commons 1966

Baron Harlech
David Ormsby-Gore
1918
1985 (car crash)
Conservative
Oswestry left Commons 1961
PC KCMG, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1956–57), Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1957–61), British Ambassador to the United States (1961–65)

David Penhaligon
1944
1986 (car accident)
Liberal
Truro (1974-death)
President of Liberal Party, 1985-death

Robert Maxwell
1923
1991 (drowned falling off yacht off Canary Islands)
Labour
Buckingham (1964–70)
MC

Stephen Milligan
1948
1994 (autoerotic asphyxiation)
Conservative
Eastleigh (1992-death)

Bob Cryer
1934
1994 (car accident)
Labour
Bradford South (1987-death)

Gordon Matthews
1908
2000 (following fall)
Conservative
Meriden (1959–64)
CBE

Michael Colvin
1932
2000 (house fire)
Conservative
Bristol North West (1979–83), Romsey and Waterside (1983–97), Romsey (1997-death)

Donald Dewar
1937
2000 (following fall)
Labour
Aberdeen South (1966–70), Glasgow Garscadden (1978–97), Glasgow Anniesland (1997-death)
Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland (1983–92), Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security (1992–95), Opposition Chief Whip (1995–97), Secretary of State for Scotland (1997–99), inaugural First Minister of Scotland (1999-death)

Lord Merlyn-Rees
Merlyn Rees
1920
2006 (effects of falls)
Labour
Leeds South (1963–83), Morley & Leeds South left Commons 1992
PC, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–76), Home Secretary (1976–79), Shadow Home Secretary (1979–80), Shadow Secretary of State for Energy (1980–82)

James Dobbin
1937
2014 (choked through alcohol poisoning after meal)
Labour Co-operative
Heywood and Middleton (1997-death)

Brian Sedgemore
1937
2015 (after fall when in hospital)
Labour
Luton West (1974–79), Hackney South and Shoreditch (1983-2005)

text: Members of Parliament who have been killed in a duel[edit]

text:
Title/Rank
Name known by while in Commons
Born
Killed
Political Party
MP's Seat
Offices Held, Honours

Sir
Sir William Drury
1550
1590

Suffolk (1584)
Governor of Bergen-op-Zoom (1588)

Sir
Sir Matthew Browne
1553
1603

Gatton (1601–death)

Sir
Sir John Townsend
1564
1603

Orford (1601–death)

George Wharton
1583
1609

Westmorland (1601–1604)

Peter Legh
c. 1622/23
1642

Newton (1640–death)

Charles Price

1645
Royalist
Radnor (1621–1629)
Radnorshire (1640–1642)

Sir
Henry Belasyse
c. 1639
1667
Royalist
Grimsby (1666-death)
KB

Walter Norbonne
1655
1684

Calne (1679, 1681–1684)

Sharington Talbot
1656
1685

Chippenham (March 1685-death)

Sir
Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet
1653
1696

Liskeard (1678–79 and 1689-death), Devon (1685–87)

Sir
Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet
c. 1657
1698
Whig
King's Lynn (1681), Beeralston (1694–95), Norfolk (1689–90 and 1695–death)
Vice-admiral of Norfolk (1691–after 1696)

Sir
John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet

1701

Flint (1685–1690)

Thomas Dodson
c. 1666
1707
Tory
Liskeard (1701-death)

Owen Buckingham
1674
1720
Whig
Reading (1708–13, 1716-death)

Sir
Cholmeley Dering, 4th Baronet
1679
1711
Tory
Kent (1705-death)

Charles Aldworth
1677
1714
Tory
New Windsor (1712-death)

George Lockhart
1673
1731
Tory
Wigtown Burghs (May–December 1708)

John Colclough
1767
1807

County Wexford (1806–07)[50]

Sir
Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet
1775
1822
Tory
Plympton Erle (1816–21)

text: Members of Parliament who have been murdered[edit]

text:
Title/Rank
Name known by while in Commons
Born
Murdered
Political Party
MP's Seat
Offices Held
Honours
Perpetrator(s)

Philip de Lutley
c. 1300
1352[51]

Staffordshire (1332)

Hugh Snel
c. 1315
1380[52]

Stafford (1337–38, 1354, 1360, 1362–63, 1365–66, 1368–69, 1371, 1373, 1376–77)
Bailiff of Stafford 1337

Sir
Richard Lyons

1381

Essex (1380)
Sheriff of London 1375, Warden of the Mint
PC
Wat Tyler′s rebels

Sir
John Ipstones
c. 1345
1394[53]

Staffordshire (1388, 1394-death)

Roger Swynnerton

William Soulby

1394

Appleby (1382, 1385, 1388, 1391)

Gang led by Sir Thomas Rokeby

Thomas Solas

1396

Southwark (1393)

Unknown[54]

Sir
Thomas Colville

1405

Yorkshire (1402)

John Tregoose

1406

Helston (1379), Truro (1383, 1385–86), Bodmin (1395), Liskeard (1397)
Coroner of Cornwall 1400-death

Armed gang led by Ralph Trenewith

Thomas Moyle

1413

Lostwithiel (1388)

Some Lostwithiel men when at Bodmin

Robert Crackenthorpe

1438

Westmorland (1413, 1416, 1419, 1427), Appleby (1427)

Rowland Thornburgh and supporters

Sir
William Tresham
1404
1450

Northamptonshire (1423-till death)
Speaker of the House of Commons (1449 till death)

People involved in a property dispute

Nicholas Radford

1455

Lyme Regis (1421), Devon (1435)
Recorder of Exeter, 1442-death

Armed band led by Sir Thomas Courtenay

Sir
Thomas Thorpe

1461

Northamptonshire (1449–50), Essex (1453–55)
Speaker of the House of Commons (1453–1454)

Lynched by a mob

William Chetwynd
c. 1450
1494[55]

Staffordshire (1491–92)

Robert Pakington
c. 1489
1536

City of London (1533-death)

Unknown (shot)

William Trewynnard
By 1495
1549

Helston (1542)

Catholic rebels

Thomas Ardern
By 1516
1551

Sandwich (1547)

Thomas Morsby and 'Black Will of Calais'

Lewis ap Owen
by 1522
1555

Merioneth (1547–53, 1554-death)
Chamberlain of North Wales, High Sheriff of Merionethshire 1545 and 1554, custos rotulorum of Merioneth (1553-death)

Red Bandits of Mawddwy

Francis Russell, Baron Russell
c. 1554
1585

Northumberland (1572–84)
Son of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, hence Baron Russell

Unknown (shot)

Edward Aglionby

1599

Carlisle (1584–85, 1593)
Mayor of Carlisle several times

Several members of rival families

Lord Brooke
Sir Fulke Greville
1554
1628

Southampton (1581), Warwickshire (1592–1621)
Treasurer of the Navy (1596–1604) Chancellor of the Exchequer (1614–1621)
KB PC
Ralph Heywood

Sir
John Lisle
1610
1664
Roundhead
Winchester (1640, 1659–60), Southampton (1654, 1656)

Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter

Thomas Thynne
1648
1682

Wiltshire (1670 till death)

Three men, hired by Count von Königsmark

Sir
William Estcourt, 3rd Baronet
1654
1684

Malmesbury (1679–81)

Henry St John and Edmund Webb

Henry Goring
1646
1685

New Shoreham (1673–1678)
Bramber (1679–1685) Steyning (1685-death)
High Sheriff of Sussex 1681–82

Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet or his son Charles Dering

Ferdinand Foster
1670
1701
Tory
Northumberland (January 1701-till death)

John Fenwick

John Stewart

1726
Whig
Kirkcudbright Stewartry (1708–15)

Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs

Lord
Charles Townshend
1769
1796

Great Yarmouth (1796 – 2 days)
Son of 1st Marquess Townshend, hence Lord.

Lord Frederick Townshend

Spencer Perceval
1762
1812
Tory
Northampton (1796-death)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1809 till death), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1807 till death), Leader of the House of Commons (1807 till death) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1807 till death)
KC
John Bellingham

Sir
Charles Bampfylde, 5th Baronet
1753
1823

Exeter (1774–90 and 1796–1812)
High Sheriff of Somerset 1820

An ex-servant

Nathaniel Sneyd
c. 1767
1833
Tory
Cavan (1801–24)
High Sheriff of Cavan 1795
Previously Member of Parliament of Ireland
John Mason

Lord
William Russell
1767
1840
Whig
Surrey (1789–1807), Tavistock (1807–1819 and 1826–1831)
Lord of the Admiralty (1806–07)
Son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, hence Lord
François Benjamin Courvoisier

The Earl of Mayo
Richard, Lord Naas
1822
1872
Conservative Party
Cockermouth (1857–1868)
Viceroy of India (1869 till death)
KP, GMSI, PC
Sher Ali Afridi

The Earl of Leitrim
William, Viscount Clements
1806
1878
Liberal
County Leitrim left Commons 1847

Disputed - Thomas and Patrick McGranahan or Michael McElwee and Neil Sheils

James Sadleir
c. 1815
1881
Liberal
Tipperary (1852–57)

Watch thief in Switzerland

Lord
Frederick Cavendish
1836
1882
Liberal
West Riding of Yorkshire North (1865 till death)
Chief Secretary for Ireland (1882 till death)
PC
Irish National Invincibles

Field Marshal Sir
Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet
1864
1922
Conservative Party
North Down (February 1922 till death)
Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1918–22)
GCB, DSO
IRA

Kevin O'Higgins
1892
1927
Sinn Féin
Queen's County (1918–22, though did not sit)
Later Minister for Justice and Equality in Irish Free State government 1927

IRA

Lord Moyne
Walter Guinness
1880
1944
Conservative Party
Bury St Edmunds (1907–1931)
Leader of the House of Lords (1941–1942), Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords (1941–1942) and Secretary of State for the Colonies (1941–1942)
DSO & Bar PC
Lehi

Sir
Richard Sharples
1916
1973
Conservative Party
Sutton and Cheam (1954–1972)
Governor of Bermuda (1972 till death)
KCMG OBE MC
Black Beret Cadre

Captain
Walter Scott-Elliot
1895
1977
Labour Party
Accrington (1945–1950)
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Financial Secretaries to the War Office (1945-1947)

Archibald Hall

Airey Neave
1916
1979
Conservative Party
Abingdon (1953-death)
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974 till death)
DSO OBE MC TD
INLA

Reverend
Robert Bradford
1941
1981
Ulster Unionist Party
South Belfast (1974 till death)

PIRA

Sir
Anthony Berry
1925
1984
Conservative Party
Enfield Southgate (1983 till death)
Treasurer of the Household (1983 till death)

PIRA

Ian Gow
1937
1990
Conservative Party
Eastbourne (1974 till death)
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher the Prime Minister (1988 till death)
TD
PIRA

Baron Kaberry of Adel
Sir Donald Kaberry, 1st Baronet
1907
1991
Conservative Party
Leeds North West (1950–83)

MC TD
PIRA

Mrs
Jo Cox
1974
2016
Labour Party
Batley and Spen (2015 till death)

Thomas Mair

text: Members of Parliament who have committed suicide[edit]

text:
Title/Rank
Name known by while in Commons
Born
Died
Political Party
MP's Seat
Offices Held

John Darras
c. 1355
1408

Shropshire (1393, 1404–06)
High Sheriff of Shropshire 1401

Thomas Rymour

1408

Bath (1406)

The Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy
1532
1585

Morpeth 1554–55, Northumberland left Commons 1572

William Dodington

1600

Penryn (1571), Boston (1572)

Baron Clifton
Gervase Clifton
c. 1579
1618

Huntingdonshire (1597–98, 1601)

Sir
George Southcote
1572
1638

Plympton Erle (1597)
High Sheriff of Devon 1616

Sir
John Suckling
1609
1641?[56]
Royalist
Bramber (30 April-5 May 1640)

Thomas Hoyle
1587
1650
Roundhead
City of York (1628–29 and 1640-death)
Lord Mayor of York 1632 and 1644

Sir
Henry Vane
1589
1655[57]
Roundhead from 1641
Lostwithiel (1614), Carlisle (1621–26), Wilton (1640–53), Kent (1654-death)
PC, Treasurer of the Household (1639–41), Secretary of State (1640–41), Lord Lieutenant of Durham (1642)

Sir
William Morley
c. 1586
1658
Royalist
Chichester (1640–42)

Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
Sir Thomas Clifford
1630
1673
Unknown
Totnes (1660–72)
Comptroller of the Household (1666–1668), Treasurer of the Household (1668–1672), Lord High Treasurer (1672-till death) and PC

Thomas Wyndham
c. 1647
1689
Tory
Wells (1685-death)

John Lamotte Honywood
1647
1694

Essex (1679–85 and 1693-death)
Gentleman of the Privy Chamber

Viscount Teviot
Robert Spencer
1629
1694

Great Bedwyn (1660), Brackley (1661–79)

John Hampden
1653
1696

Buckinghamshire (1679–81), Wendover (1681–85 and 1689–90)

Sir
John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet
1659
1697
Tory
Grantham (1689-death)
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1688

Earl of Bath
Charles Granville, Lord Lansdown
1661
1701
Unknown
Cornwall left Commons 1686
Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and Devon (1691–1693), Lord of the Bedchamber (1692), also Count of the Holy Roman Empire

Charles Bonython
c. 1653
1705
Tory
Westminster (1685–86)

Thomas Price
1680
1706[58]
Tory
Weobley (1702–05)

Peter Gott
1653
1712

Hastings (1690–95 and 1698–1701), Sussex (1708–10), Lewes (1710-death)

Sir
George Newland
c. 1646
1714
Tory
City of London (1710-death)

James Milner
After 1658
1721

Minehead (1717-death)

Humphry Morice
c. 1671
1731[59]

Newport (Cornwall) (1713–22), Grampound (1722-death)
Governor of the Bank of England (1727–29)

Abraham Blackmore
c. 1677
1732
Tory
Mitchell (1710–13), Newton (1713–15)

Baron Herbert of Chirbury
Henry Herbert
c. 1678
1738
Whig
Bewdley left Commons 1709

Earl of Scarbrough
Richard Lumley, Viscount Lumley
1686
1740
Unknown
Arundel left Commons 1715
Colonel of the Coldstream Guards (1722 until death), Vice-Admiral of Durham (1710 until death), Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (1722 until death), Custos Rotulorum of Northumberland (1722 until death) and KG, PC

Sir
Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet
1715
1753

Bedfordshire (1747-June 1753)
Governor of Province of New York (June 1753-death)

Sir
John Bland, 6th Baronet
1722
1755

Ludgershall (1754-death)

Baron Montfort
Mr Henry Bromley
1705
1755

Cambridgeshire (1727–41)
Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (1729–42)

The Duke of Bolton
Charles Powlett, Marquess of Winchester
1718
1765
Whig
Hampshire left Commons 1759
Lieutenant of the Tower of London 1754–1760, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1758–1763 and Vice-Admiral of Dorset and Hampshire (1759 until death) and KCB, PC

Sir
Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet
c. 1719
1769

Cardigan Boroughs (1761–68)

Peter Delmé
1710
1770

Ludgershall (1734–41), Southampton left Commons 1754

Charles Yorke
1722
1770
Whig
Reigate (1747–68), University of Cambridge (1768-death)
Lord Chancellor (1770), also PC

Jenison Shafto
c. 1728
1771

Leominster (1761–68) and Castle Rising (1768-death)

William Fitzherbert
1712
1772

Derby (1762-death)

The Duke of Atholl
Mr John Murray
1729
1774
Tory
Perthshire left Commons 1764
KT PC

Baron Clive of Plassey
1725
1774
Tory
Mitchell (1754–55), Shrewsbury (1762-death)
Irish peer so could sit in Commons; KB FRS; Commander-in-Chief, India (1756–60, 1765–67), Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (1772-death)

John Damer
1744
1776

Gatton (1768–74)
Son of 1st Baron Milton, hence Honourable

Sir
George Hay
1715
1778

Stockbridge (1754–56), Calne (1757–61), Sandwich (1761–68), Newcastle-under-Lyme (1768-death)
Lord of Admiralty (1756–57, 1757–65), Judge of High Court of Admiralty (1774-death)

Hans Stanley
1721
1780

Southampton (1754-death)
Governor of the Isle of Wight (1764–1766) and (1770–1780) Vice-Admiral of the Isle of Wight (1765–1767) and (1771–1780) PC

Robert Mayne
1724
1782

Gatton (1774-death)

William Skrine
1721?
1783

Callington (1771–80)

John Pardoe
c. 1756
1796

Camelford (1780–84), Plympton Erle (1784–90), West Looe (1790-death)

Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell
c. 1735
1797

Aldborough (1790-death)
High Sheriff of Essex 1776

Colonel
William Crosbie
c. 1740
1798

Newark (1790–96)
Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth 1798

Sir
Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet (surnamed Vassall 1795–97)
1747
1800

Seaford (1786–90), Wareham (1796-death)

Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
1753
1801

Lostwithiel (1774–1780), Malmesbury (1780–83)
PC, FRS; Irish peer so could sit in House of Commons, also member Parliament of Ireland; High Sheriff of County Down 1785

James Paull
1770
1808

Newtown (Isle of Wight) (1805–06)

Major-General Sir
William Erskine, 2nd Baronet
1770
1813

Fife (1796–1800 and 1801–06)

Samuel Whitbread
1764
1815
Whig
Bedford (1790–1800, 1801-death)

Sir
Samuel Romilly
1757
1818
Whig
Horsham (1807–08), Wareham (1808–12), Arundel (1812–18), Westminster (July 1818-death)
KC, Solicitor General 1806–07

Admiral Sir
George Campbell
1759
1821

Carmarthen borough (1806–13)
GCB Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth 1818-death

The Marquess of Londonderry
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
1769
1822
Tory
Tregony (1794–96), Orford (1796–97 and 1821-death), Down (1801–05 and 1812–21), Boroughbridge (1806), Plympton Erle (1806–12) and Clitheroe (1812)
Irish Peer so could sit in House of Commons; Foreign Secretary (1812-death), Leader of the House of Commons (1812-death) and KG, GCH, PC, PC (Ire); previously Member of Parliament of Ireland

Viscount Newcomen
Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen
1776
1825

County Longford (1802–06)
Son of 1st Viscount Newcomen, hence Honourable; High Sheriff of Longford 1801

Colonel
James Hamilton Stanhope
1788
1825

Buckingham (1817–18), Fowey (1818–19), Dartmouth (1822-death)
Son of 3rd Earl Stanhope, hence Honourable.

Baron Graves
Thomas, Baron Graves
1775
1830
Tory
Okehampton (1812–18), Windsor (1819–20), Milborne Port (1820–27)
Irish Peer so could sit in Commons.

John Calcraft
1765
1831
Whig, but Tory 1828–30
Wareham (1786–90, 1800–06, 1818–31), Rochester (1806–18), Dorset (June 1831-death)
PC, Clerk of the Ordnance (1806–07), Paymaster of the Forces (1828–30)

James Bradshaw
1786
1833
Tory
Brackley (1825–32)

General Sir
Rufane Shaw Donkin
1773
1841
Whig
Berwick-upon-Tweed (1832–37), Sandwich (1839-death)
GCH KCB

Baron Congleton
Henry Brooke Parnell
1776
1842
Whig
Queen's County (1802 and 1806–32), Portarlington (1802), Dundee (1832–41)
PC; Secretary at War (1831–33), Paymaster-General (1836–41)

Sir
Augustus Foster, 1st Baronet
1780
1848

Cockermouth (1812–13)
GCH PC; British Minister to the United States (1811–12), Minister to Denmark (1814–24), Minister at Turin (1824–40)

Sir
Henry St John Carew St John-Mildmay, 4th Baronet
1787
1848

Winchester (1807–18)

George Spence
1787
1850
Tory
Reading (1826–27), Ripon (1829–32)
KC

Charles Russell
1786
1856

Reading (1830–37 and 1841–47)

John Sadleir
1813
1856
Independent Irish Party
Carlow (1847–53), Sligo Borough (1853-death)
Junior Lord of the Treasury (1853–54)

George Douglas Warburton
1816
1857
Independent Liberal
Harwich (March 1857-death)

Vice-Admiral
Robert Fitzroy
1805
1865
Conservative
Durham left Commons 1843
Governor of New Zealand (1843–45)

The Lord Glenalmond
George Patton
1803
1869
Conservative
Bridgwater (1865–66)
PC, Solicitor-General for Scotland 1859, Lord Advocate of Scotland 1866

Sir
Robert Harvey, 1st Baronet
1817
1870
Conservative
Thetford (1865–68)

Lord
Arthur Clinton
1840
1870
Liberal
Newark left Commons 1868

Isaac Fletcher
1827
1879
Liberal
Cockermouth (1868-death)
FRS

Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley
1831
1886
Liberal
Cricklade left Commons in 1865

John Kynaston Cross
1832
1887
Liberal
Bolton left Commons 1885
Under-Secretary of State for India (1883–85)

Sir
William Tindal Robertson
1825
1889
Conservative
Brighton (1886-death)

The Duke of Bedford
Francis Russell
1820
1891
Liberal
Bedfordshire left Commons in 1872
KG

James Lloyd Ashbury
1834
1895
Conservative
Brighton (1874–80)

The Marquess of Waterford
John Beresford, Earl of Tyrone
1844
1895
Conservative
County Waterford (1865–66)
KP, PC (GB and Ire);Lord Lieutenant of Waterford 1874-death

Sir
Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet
1859
1903
Conservative
Salisbury (1886–97)

Reginald Jaffray Lucas
1865
1914
Conservative
Portsmouth (1906–10)

Viscount Harcourt
Lewis Harcourt
1863
1922
Liberal
Rossendale left Commons in 1916
Secretary of State for the Colonies (1910–1915) and PC

Sir
John Norton-Griffiths, 1st Baronet
1871
1930[60]
Conservative
Wednesbury (1910–18), Wandsworth Central (1918–24)
KCB DSO

Edward Marjoribanks
1900
1932
Conservative
Eastbourne (1929-death)

Lieutenant-Colonel
Anthony Muirhead
1890
1939
Conservative Party
Wells (1929-death)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India and Burma (1938-till death) and MC & Bar TD

Sir
Charles Cayzer
1896
1940
Conservative Party
City of Chester (1922–death)

John Edmondson Whittaker
1897
1945
Labour Party
Heywood and Radcliffe (1945–death)

Mr (later Reverend)
George Maitland Lloyd Davies
1880
1949
Independent Christian Pacifist
University of Wales (January–October 1924)

Thomas William Stamford
1882
1949
Labour Party
Leeds West (1923–31) (1945–death)

Sir
Albert Braithwaite
1893
1959
Conservative Party
Buckrose (1926–45), Harrow West (1951-death)
DSO

Arthur, The Earl Castle Stewart
1889
1961
Conservative
Harborough (1929–33)
MC

Bernard Floud
1915
1967
Labour Party
Acton (1964-death)
Not in office but was classified as a traitor to the UK for being a secret KGB Russian Spy

Alan Grahame Brown
1913
1972
Labour Party, had joined the Conservative Party by time of death
Tottenham left Commons in 1964

Desmond Donnelly
1920
1974
Labour Party, had joined the Conservative Party by time of death
Pembrokeshire left Commons in 1970

Jocelyn Cadbury
1946
1982
Conservative Party
Birmingham Northfield (1979-death)

John Heddle
1943
1989
Conservative Party
Lichfield and Tamworth (1979–83), Mid Staffordshire (1983-death)

Gordon McMaster
1960
1997
Labour Party
Paisley South (1990-death)

Sir
Peter Smithers
1913
2006
Conservative Party
Winchester (1950–64)
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office (1962–64); Secretary General of the Council of Europe (1964–69)

text: Members of Parliament who have disappeared[edit]

text:
Title/Rank
Name known by while in Commons
Born
Disappeared
Political Party
MP's Seat
Offices Held
Honours

George Robinson
before 1727
1732[61]

Great Marlow (1731–32)

Sir
Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
1678
1738 (about 5 months[62]) - died 1746
Whig
Dunwich (1734–38)
Commissioner of the Board of Trade, Governor of Barbados (1737–38)

Henry Vansittart
1732
1769[63]

Reading (1768-death)
Governor of Bengal (1759–64)

Sir
Montagu Chapman, 3rd Baronet
1808
1852
Whig Party
Westmeath (1832–41)
High Sheriff of Westmeath 1844

Walter Powell
1842
1881
Conservative Party
Malmesbury (1868–death)

Victor Grayson
1881
1920
Independent Labour
Colne Valley (1907–1910)

Henry Newton Knights
1872
1921 (some 2 weeks[64]) - died 1959
Conservative Party
Camberwell North (1918–21)
Mayor of Camberwell 1913, Sheriff of the City of London 1920
MBE

John Stonehouse
1925
1974 (34 days) - died 1988
Labour Party
Walsall North (1974–1976)
Postmaster-General (1968–1969)

text: Members of Parliament who were executed, died in prison or escaped justice[edit]

text:
Title/Rank
Name
Born
Executed/Died
Crime accused of
MP's Seat
Offices Held, Honours/Political Party

Sir
Andrew Harclay
c. 1270
1323 (Hanged, drawn and quartered)
High Treason in making treaty with Scotland
Cumberland (1312)
Sheriff of Cumberland 1311 and 1319, Lord Warden of the West Marches 1322

Adam de Peshall
c. 1300
1346 (Killed resisting arrest, having escaped from prison in Stafford)[65]
Cause of imprisonment unspecified
Staffordshire 1341
Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire 1341

Sir
James Berners
1361
1388 (Beheaded)
Put to death by Merciless Parliament for 'exploiting' Richard II
Surrey (1386)

Sir
Nicholas Brembre

1388 (Hanged)
High Treason, corruption and executions without trial
City of London (1383)
Sheriff of London 1372, Lord Mayor of London 1377 and 1383

Sir
Robert Tresilian

1388 (Hanged)
High Treason, corruption, misuses of judicial office (under Merciless Parliament)
Cornwall (1369)
Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1381–87

Sir
Roger Perwych

October 1388 (prosecuted but died before judgement brought)
Armed assault
Leicestershire (1379, 1382, 1383, September 1388-death)
Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire (1377)

Sir
John Bussy

1399 (Beheaded at Bristol)
High Treason (under Henry IV having supported Richard II)
Lincolnshire (1383–85, 1388–97), Rutland (1391–93)
Speaker of the House of Commons (1394–98), High Sheriff of Lincolnshire (1383, 1385, 1390)

Sir
Henry Green
c. 1347
1399 (Beheaded, with Bussy)
High Treason (same cause as Bussy)
Huntingdonshire (1390), Northamptonshire (1394–97), Wiltshire (1397-death)

Sir
Thomas Blount

1400 (Hanged, drawn and quartered at Oxford)
Participation in Epiphany Rising against Henry IV
Oxfordshire (1381–82)

Sir
Thomas Shelley

1400 (Hanged at Tyburn)
Treason, implicated in Epiphany Rising
Buckinghamshire (1397)

Thomas Wintershall
c. 1364
1400 (beheaded)
Treason, joined in Epiphany Rising
Surrey (1397)

Roger Cheyne
1362
1414 (Died in the Tower)
Lollard Oldcastle Rising
Buckinghamshire (1404)

Sir
John Cornwall
c. 1366
1414 (indicted but died before trial)
Harbouring murderer
Shropshire (1402, 1407)
High Sheriff of Shropshire 1399, 1403, 1405

Sir
John Oldcastle

1417 (Hanged and burnt)
Heresy as Lollard rebel
Herefordshire (1404)
High Sheriff of Herefordshire 1406

John Ninezergh

1420 (Died in exile in France having abjured the English realm)
Homicide in 1414
Appleby 1406

Sir
William Tresham
1404
1450 (Indicted but murdered before trial)
High Treason concerning Jack Cade rebellion
Northamptonshire (1423-death)
Speaker of the House of Commons (1449-death)

Sir
Thomas Browne
1402
1460 (Hanged)
High treason
Dover (1439–1444), Kent (1445–1446), Wallingford 1449–1450
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1440–1450), High Sheriff for Kent in 1443-4 and JP for Surrey from 20 July 1454 till death

Sir
William Bonville
c. 1392/93
1461 (Beheaded after capture in Second Battle of St Albans)

Somerset (1421), Devon (1422, 1425, 1427)
KG, High Sheriff of Devon (1423)

Sir
Thomas Kyriell
c. 1396
1461 (Beheaded after capture in Second Battle of St Albans)

Somerset (1421-1425)

Sir
Thomas Tuddenham
1401
1462 (Beheaded at the Tower)
High Treason implicated in plot to murder Edward IV
Suffolk (1431–32), Norfolk (1432, 1435, 1442)
Lancastrian; High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1432, Master of the Great Wardrobe (1446–50), Treasurer of the Household (1458–60)

Sir
Thomas Tresham

1471 (Beheaded)
High treason
Northamptonshire
Speaker of the House of Commons (1459) & PC

Sir
Gervase Clifton

1471 (Beheaded)
High Treason
Kent (1455)
Treasurer of the Household and Treasurer of Calais (1450–60), High Sheriff of Kent 1439, 1450, 1458

Sir
John Delves
c. 1418
1471 (Beheaded)
High Treason
Staffordshire (1467–68)
Warden of the Mint 1471

Sir
Thomas Vaughan
c. 1410
1483 (Executed at Pontefract)
Put to death in Richard III's coup
Cornwall (1478–83)
High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1464, Master of the King's Jewels 1465

Sir
George Browne
1440
1483 (Beheaded at the Tower)
High Treason for part in Buckingham's rising against Richard III
Guildford (1472), Surrey (1478), Canterbury (1483-death)
Son of Sir Thomas Browne and stepson of Sir Thomas Vaughan (above); Yorkist to 1483, then Lancastrian; High Sheriff of Kent 1480

Sir
William Catesby
1450
1485 (Beheaded after capture in Battle of Bosworth)
Put to death after Lancastrian victory over Richard III
Northamptonshire (1484-death)
Yorkist; also Speaker of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Sir
James Tyrrell
c. 1455
1502 (Executed)
High Treason
Cornwall (1483)
Yorkist in parliament. Governor of Guînes 1486–1501

Sir
Richard Empson
c1450
1510 (Beheaded)
High treason
Northamptonshire
Speaker of the House of Commons (1510) & PC

Sir
Edmund Dudley
1462
1510 (Beheaded)
High treason
Sussex
Speaker of the House of Commons (1503) & PC

Sir
Robert Sheffield
Before 1462
1518 (Died in the Tower)
Complaints against Cardinal Wolsey and falsely obtaining pardon
City of London (1495, 1497, 1504), Lincolnshire (1512–15)
Speaker of the House of Commons 1512; Recorder of the City of London 1495–1508

Saint Sir
Thomas More
1478
1535 (Beheaded)
High treason
Middlesex
Speaker of the House of Commons (1523), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1525–1529), Lord Chancellor (1529–1532) and Master of Requests (1517) & PC

John Rastell
c. 1475
1536 (Died in gaol)
Anti-church statements
Launceston

Sir
Francis Bigod
1507
1537 (Hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn)
High Treason, led Catholic rising against Henry VIII
Seats unknown (1529 and 1536)

The Lord Hussey of Sleaford
John Hussey
1465/66
1536/37 (Beheaded at Lincoln)
Conspiracy, implicated in Pilgrimage of Grace
Lincolnshire (1515–29)
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1493, custos rotulorum of Lincolnshire by 1513

Sir
Richard Tempest
c. 1480
1537 (died awaiting trial at Fleet Prison
Implicated in Pilgrimage of Grace)
Appleby (1529–36)
High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1516

Thomas Moigne
c. 1509
1537 (Hanged, drawn and quartered at Lincoln)
High Treason, involved in Lincolnshire Rising
Lincoln (1536–death)

Sir
Nicholas Carew
c. 1496
1539 (Beheaded at the Tower)
High Treason, implicated in Exeter Conspiracy
Surrey (1529–1536)
KG, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1519, Master of the Horse (1522-death)

The Earl of Essex
Thomas Cromwell
c. 1485
1540 (Beheaded at the Tower)
High Treason and heresy
Unknown English seat (1523), Taunton (1529–36)
KG PC; Secretary of State (1533–36), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1533–40), Master of the Rolls (1534–36), Lord Privy Seal (1536–40), Lord Great Chamberlain 1540

Giles Heron
by 1504
1540 (Hanged at Tyburn)
High Treason
Thetford (1529)

The Lord Seymour of Sudeley
Thomas Seymour
c. 1509
1547 (Executed at the Tower)
High Treason
Wiltshire (left Commons 1547)
KG, Master General of the Ordnance (1544–47), Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1545), Lord High Admiral of England (1547–49)

Sir
Thomas Arundell
c. 1502
1552 (Beheaded)
High Treason
Dorset (1545 and 1547)
KB, Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall, High Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset (1531)

Sir
Michael Stanhope
by 1508
1552 (Beheaded)
Conspiracy to murder in same plot as Arundell
Nottinghamshire (1545-death)

Sir
Ralph Vane
By 1510
1552 (hanged)
High Treason, conspiracy to murder
Unknown seat (recorded 1549)

The Duke of Northumberland
John Dudley
c. 1504
1553 (Beheaded)
High treason in placing Jane Grey on throne and attempted arrest of Mary Tudor
Kent (1534–36), Staffordshire (1542)
KG, PC; Lord High Admiral (1543–47), Lord Great Chamberlain (1547–50), Lord President of the Council, Warden General of the Scottish Marches and Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire (1550–53)

Sir
John Gates
by 1504
1553 (Beheaded)
High treason
Essex (1547–death)
KB, PC; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Sir
Thomas Wyatt
1521
1554 (Hanged, drawn and quartered)
High Treason, rebellion against Mary I
Kent (1547–53)

William Thomas
by 1524
1554 (Hanged, drawn and quartered)
High Treason, accused of plotting assassination of Mary I
Old Sarum (1547), Downton (1553)
Clerk of the Privy Council to 1553

Sir
Anthony Kingston
c. 1508
1556 (Arrested but died before justice could be brought)
Conspiracy to place Princess Elizabeth on throne.
Gloucestershire (1539–53, 1555-death)
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1533 and 1550, Constable of the Tower of London 1546, Provost Marshal 1549, Knight Marshal of Parliament 1555

Edward Lewkenor
1516/17
1556 (died in the Tower pending execution)
Treason in plotting to murder Queen Mary Tudor
Horsham (1553)

Henry Peckham
by 1526
1556 (Hanged)
High Treason for plotting rising against Queen Mary Tudor
Wycombe (1553–55)

Sir
Edward Waldegrave
c. 1516
1561 (died in the Tower)
Allowing Mass celebration at home
Wiltshire (1553), Somerset (1554), Essex (1558–59)
PC, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1554–58), Master of the Great Wardrobe to 1558

The Blessed
John Story
c. 1504
1571 (hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn)
High Treason for complicity in Rising of the North
Salisbury (1545–47), Hindon (1547–49), East Grinstead (1553–54), Bramber (April–November 1554), Bath (1554–55), Ludgershall (1555–58), Downton (1559–62)
Commissioner of heresy 1558

The BlessedThe 7th Earl of Northumberland
Thomas Percy
1528
1571 (Beheaded in York)
High Treason for complicity in Rising of the North
Westmorland (1554–55)
KG

Leonard Dacre
by 1533
1573 (died in exile at Brussels)
Evaded arrest for part in the Rising of the North
Cumberland (1558–70)

The 8th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy
1532
1585 (died in the Tower-possible suicide)
High Treason
Morpeth (1554–55), Northumberland (left Commons 1572)
Brother of 7th Earl of Northumberland, above

William Parry

1585 (expelled from Parliament and beheaded)
High Treason for considering assassination of Elizabeth I
Queenborough (1584–85)

Brian Fowler
c. 1520
1587 (died at home on parole)
Recusancy
Staffordshire (1558)

Sir
Thomas Fitzherbert
1518
1591 (died in the Tower)
Recusancy
Staffordshire (1545–47)
High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1544 and 1555

Sir
John Perrot
1528
1592 (died in the Tower)
Treason
Carmarthenshire (1547), Sandwich (1553, 1555), Wareham (1559), Pembrokeshire (1563), Haverfordwest (1588-death)
PC, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1584–88)

Sir
Francis Englefield
c. 1522
1596 (died in exile in Spain)
Outlawed in absence for Treason over Catholic plot against Elizabeth I in 1578
Berkshire (1553–58)
PC, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire 1547, Master of the Court of Wards

Sir
Peter Wentworth
1524
1597 (Died in the Tower)
For claiming Parliamentary privileges
Northampton (1586–1597)

Sir
Gelly Meyrick
c. 1556
1601 (hanged at Tyburn)
Participation in Earl of Essex's rising
Carmarthen borough (1588–93), Pembrokeshire (1597–98)

Sir
Christopher Blount
c. 1556
1601 (Beheaded)
High treason (Essex rising)
Staffordshire (1593–98)

Sir
Charles Danvers
1568
1601 (Beheaded)
High treason (Essex rising)
Cirencester (1586–1593)

John Lyttelton
1561
1601 (Reprieved from execution but died in the Queen's Bench Prison)
High treason (Essex rising)
Worcestershire (1584, 1586, 1597)

Sir
Walter Leveson
1550
1602 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor (arising from piracy lawsuits)
Shropshire (1584, 1586–87, 1588–89), Newcastle-under-Lyme (1597–98)

Thomas Ryvett
1553
1610 (Died in King's Bench Prison)
Debtor
Orford (1597), Aldeburgh (1604-death)

Sir
Walter Raleigh
c. 1554
1618 (Beheaded)
High treason (participation in Main Plot against King James I)
Devonshire (1584–87), Mitchell (1593–97), Dorset (1597–98), Cornwall (1601)
Warden of the Stannaries (1585), Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1585), Vice-admiral of Devon and Cornwall, (1585)

The Lord Clifton
Gervase Clifton
c. 1579
1618 (committed suicide in Fleet Prison)
Threatening Attorney-General Sir Francis Bacon over survey of his estates.
Huntingdonshire left Commons 1604

The Earl of Castlehaven
Mervyn Tuchet
c. 1588
1631 (beheaded on Tower Hill)
Sodomy and rape
Dorset (1614)

Sir
John Eliot
1592
1632 (Died in the Tower)
For claiming parliamentary privileges against the King's order and King's Bench Court
St Germans 1614, Newport (Isle of Wight) 1628–29
Vice-Admiral of Devon (1618)

The Earl of Strafford
Thomas Wentworth
1593
1641 (Beheaded)
High treason
Yorkshire
Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire (1628 until death), Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1630 until death) and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1640 until death), KG, PC

Sir
John Suckling
1609
1641? (committed suicide in exile in Paris)
High Treason, implicated in First Army Plot, found guilty in absence
Bramber (30 Apr-5 May 1640)

Nathaniel Tomkins
1584
1643 (Hanged)
Joining Royalist "Waller Plot" against Parliament
Carlisle (1614–21), Christchurch (1621–29)

Henry Benson
c. 1578/79
1643 (died in prison)
Debtor
Knaresborough (1626–29 and 1640–41)
Royalist

The Lord Montagu of Boughton
Edward Montagu
1563
1644 (Died prisoner of Parliament at Savoy Hospital)
For being a Royalist
Bere Alston (1584–86), Tavistock (1597–1601), Brackley (1601–04), Northamptonshire (1604–21)
KB

Sir
Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet
1609
1644 (Beheaded)
For being a Royalist
Cornwall (1640–43)
Brother of regicide John Carew

Sir
John Bankes
1589
1644 (Died before impeachment by Parliament)
High Treason
Wootton Bassett (1624), Morpeth (1626–29)
PC, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1640-death)

Sir
John Hotham, 1st Baronet the Elder
c. 1589
1645 (Beheaded)
For betraying the Parliamentarians to the Royalists
Beverley

Sir
John Hotham the Younger
1610
1645 (Beheaded)
For betraying the Parliamentarians to the Royalists
Scarborough

Sir
Alexander Denton
1596
1645 (died in Tower of London)
Royalist in Civil war
Wendover (1624–25), Buckingham (1625–26, 1640–44)

Sir
Richard Baker
c. 1568
1645 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Arundel (1593–97), East Grinstead (1597–1601)
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1620

Edward Bridgeman
after 1588
1646 (died prisoner of Parliament while being escorted to London)
Being a Royalist
Wigan (1625 and 1628–29), Liverpool (1626)

Sir
Philip Stapleton
1603
1647 (Died in exile at Calais evaded impeachment by Parliament)
High Treason
Hedon (1640), Boroughbridge (1640–47)

Sir
Robert Heath
1575
1649 (Died in exile at Calais evaded impeachment by Parliament)
High Treason
City of London (1621–22), East Grinstead (1624–25)
Solicitor General (1621–25), Attorney General (1625–31), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1631–34), Lord Chief Justice (1642–45)

The Earl of Holland
Henry Rich
1590
1649 (Beheaded at Tower of London)
High treason in leading rising against Parliament
Leicester (1610–14)
KG KB PC

John Blakiston
1603
1649 (Died before justice could be brought - Estate confiscated)
Regicide of Charles I
Newcastle upon Tyne (1640-death)
Mayor of Newcastle

Sir
Peregrine Pelham

1650 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Hull
Mayor of Hull 1649

Colonel
John Moore
1599
1650 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Liverpool (1640-death)
Parliamentary Governor of Liverpool 1645, Governor of Dublin 1649-death

John Venn
1586
1650 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
City of London (1640-death)
Governor of Windsor Castle 1642–45

The Earl of Derby
James Stanley
1607
1651 (Beheaded in Bolton)
High Treason for being a Royalist
Liverpool (1625)
KG KB

Clement Walker

1651 (died in Tower without trial)
High Treason (dissident Parliamentarian)
Wells (1645–48)

Colonel
John Alured
1607
1651 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Hedon

General
Henry Ireton
1611
1651 (posthumous execution of hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Appleby
Lord Deputy of Ireland (1650 until death)

Sir
Gregory Norton, 1st Baronet
1603
1652 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Midhurst

Robert Jones
c. 1596
1653 (last recorded as prisoner in the Marshalsea)
debtor
Caernarvon Boroughs (1625–26) and Flintshire (1628–29)
Sheriff of Caernarvonshire 1643, Royalist Governor of Caernarvon Castle 1643–46

Sir
William Constable, 1st Baronet
1590
1655 (Died before justice could be brought; body exhumed from Westminster Abbey and reburied in a communal burial pit after the Restoration)
Regicide of Charles I
Scarborough

Sir
Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet
1599
1655 (Died before justice could be brought, though his son fought for the Royalists and was allowed to keep the Baronetcy)
Regicide of Charles I
Boroughbridge
JP

Colonel
Anthony Stapley
1590
1655 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Sussex
Governor of Chichester and Vice-Admiral of Sussex

Sir
John Danvers
1588
1655 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Malmesbury
Brother of Sir Charles Danvers (executed 1601)

The Lord Grey of Groby
Thomas Grey
1623
1657 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Leicester

John Fry
1609
1657 (Died before justice could be brought - estate confiscated)
Regicide of Charles I but did not sign death warrant
Shaftesbury (1647–51)

Lord General
Oliver Cromwell
1599
1658 (Posthumous execution of hanged and beheaded)
Regicide of Charles I
Huntingdon (1628–29), Cambridge (1640–49), Cambridgeshire (1653)
Roundhead; Lord Protector (1653-death); great-great nephew of Thomas Cromwell, father-in-law of Henry Ireton above.

Francis Allen
c. 1583
1658 (Died before justice could be brought - Estate confiscated)
Regicide of Charles I but did not sign death warrant
Cockermouth (1642–53)

Humphrey Edwards
1582
1658 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Shropshire
Chief Usher of the Exchequer (1650) and Commissioner of South Wales (1651)

Sir
Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet
1602
1658 (Beheaded)
For being a Royalist
Knaresborough

John Bradshaw
1602
1659 (posthumous execution of hanged and beheaded)
Regicide of Charles I
Stafford (1654 but did not sit), Cheshire (1654 - but did not sit - and 1659)
Roundhead; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1649–54 and 1658–59)

William Purefoy
1580
1659 (Died before justice could be brought – Estate confiscated)
Regicide of Charles I
Warwick

Sir
John Bourchier
c. 1595
1660 (Too ill to be tried and died soon after the Restoration in 1660)
Regicide of Charles I
Ripon (1647–53)
JP

Major-General
Thomas Harrison
1606
1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Wendover

Colonel
Francis Hacker

1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Leicestershire (1658–59)

John Carew
1622
1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I, also brother of Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet
Tregony

Gregory Clement
1594
1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Fowey

Thomas Scot

1660 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Wycombe

James Chaloner
1602
1660 (Died before justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Aldborough (1648–53)
Governor of the Isle of Man (1655-death)

Colonel
John Jones
c. 1597
1661 (Hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Merionethshire (1647–53 and 1656–59)
Brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell

Isaac Penington
1584
1661 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
City of London

Valentine Walton
1594
1661 (Escaped to Germany)
Regicide of Charles I
Huntingdon

Simon Mayne
1612
1661 (Died in the Tower of London)
Regicide of Charles I
Aylesbury

Sir
Henry Vane the Younger
1613
1662 (Beheaded at the Tower)
Regicide of Charles I, High Treason against Charles II
Hull (1640–53, 1659–60)
Roundhead; Governor of Massachusetts 1636–37; son of Henry Vane the Elder (suicide)

Major-General Sir
John Barkstead

1662 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Middlesex
Governor of Reading and Steward of Cromwell's Household

Colonel
John Okey
1606
1662 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Bedfordshire

Miles Corbet
1595
1662 (hanged, drawn and quartered)
Regicide of Charles I
Great Yarmouth
Clerk of the Court of Wards

Peter Temple
c. 1599
1663 (died in the Tower)
Regicide of Charles I
Leicester (1645–53)

Sir
John Hutchinson
1615
1664 (Imprisoned in Sandown Castle, Kent where he died on 11 September 1664)
Regicide of Charles I, implication in Yorkshire Plot
Nottingham

Sir
John Lisle
1610
1664 (Escaped but then murdered)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Southampton

Augustine Garland
1603
Last reported 1664 (Confiscation and imprisonment, later sentenced to transportation)[66])
Regicide of Charles I
Queenborough (1648–53, 1654–56, 1659)

Sir
Henry Mildmay
1593
1664 (Stripped of knighthood and died whilst being transported to Tangier)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Maldon
Master of the Kings Jewel House (1620)

Colonel
Robert Lilburne
1613
1665 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I
East Riding of Yorkshire
Governor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Sir
Michael Livesay, 1st Baronet
1614
Unknown - last reported 1665 (Fled to Netherlands before Justice could be brought)
Regicide of Charles I
Queenborough
High Sheriff of Kent (1643, 1655 & 1656)

Colonel
John Downes
1609
1666 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I
Arundel

Colonel
Thomas Wogan
1620
Last reported 1666 (Escaped to the Netherlands)
Regicide of Charles I
Cardigan
Governor of Aberystwyth Castle

Gilbert Millington
c. 1598
1666 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I
Nottingham

William Say
1604
1666 (Escaped to Switzerland)
Regicide of Charles I
Camelford

Robert Wallop
1601
1667 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Andover

Francis Lascelles
1612
1667 (Forbidden to hold office again)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Northallerton

William Cawley
1602
1667 (Escaped to Switzerland)
Regicide of Charles I
Midhurst

Sir
Gilbert Pickering, 1st Baronet
1611
1668 (Banned from holding offices for life)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Northamptonshire
Lord Chamberlain to Oliver Cromwell (1657)

Thomas Lister (Regicide)
1597
1668 (Forbidden from holding office again)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Lincolnshire

Colonel]
Thomas Waite

1668 (Life Imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I
Rutland
Governor of Burley-on-the-Hill High Sheriff of Rutland

Daniel Blagrave
1603
1668 (Escaped to Germany)
Regicide of Charles I
Reading
Recorder of Reading from 1645 to 1656 and again from 1658

Lord
John Hewson
1620
1668 (Escaped to Amsterdam)
Regicide of Charles I
Guildford (1656–58)

Henry Smith
1620
Last recorded 1668 (Died in prison on Jersey)
Regicide of Charles I
Leicestershire (1640–53)

Augustine Skinner
c. 1594
1672 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Kent (1642–59)

Major-General Sir
George Fleetwood
1623
1672 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I
Buckingham

The Viscount Monson
William Monson

c. 1672 (Believed died in Fleet Prison; Stripped of all honours and titles)
Regicide of Charles I though did not actually sign
Reigate

Colonel
Edmund Harvey
c. 1601
1673 (Life imprisonment, died in Pendennis Castle)
Regicide of Charles I but did not sign, High Treason
Great Bedwyn (1646–48, 1659), Middlesex (1654–55)

William Heveningham
1604
1678 (Imprisoned)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Stockbridge

Sir
Solomon Swale, 1st Baronet
1610
November 1678 (Died in King's Bench Prison)
Debtor
Aldborough (1660-June 1678)

Major-General
William Goffe
c. 1605
c. 1679 (escaped to New England where he died)
Regicide of Charles I
Great Yarmouth 1654, Hampshire 1656

Colonel
James Temple
1606
1680 (Life imprisonment)
Regicide of Charles I
Bramber

Sir
James Harrington, 3rd Baronet
1607
1680 (Exiled and stripped of Baronetcy for life)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Middlesex

Sir
Henry Marten
1602
1680 (Died prisoner in Chepstow Castle)
Regicide of Charles I
Berkshire (1640–43 and 1646–53)

Nicholas Love
1608
1682 (Escaped to Switzerland)
Regicide of Charles I though did not sign
Winchester

Sir
Robert Tichborne
c. 1604
1682 (Died in the Tower of London)
Regicide of Charles I
City of London (1653)
Roundhead; Sheriff of London 1650, Lord Mayor of London 1656

The Lord Russell
William Russell, Lord Russell
1639
1683 (Beheaded)
High treason and the Rye House Plot
Bedfordshire
PC, forerunner of the Whig Party

Colonel
Algernon Sidney
1623
1683 (Beheaded)
High treason and the Rye House Plot
Cardiff (1645–53)
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1648–51)

George Bowerman
c. 1646
1683 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Bridport (1677–79)

Sir
Thomas Armstrong
1633
1684 (Beheaded)
High treason and the Rye House Plot
Stafford (1679–81)

Major-General
John Lambert
1619
1684 (died in prison on Drake's Island)
High treason as Roundhead leader
West Yorkshire (1654, 1656), Pontefract (1659)

Sir
George Pudsey

1688 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Oxford (1685-death)
Tory; Recorder of Oxford 1683-death

John Dixwell
1607
1689 (Escaped to America)
Regicide of Charles I
Dover

Admiral of the Fleet The Baron Dartmouth
George Legge
c. 1647
1691 (died in the Tower)
Detained as Jacobite loyal to King James II
Ludgershall (1673–79), Portsmouth (1679–85)
PC, Governor of Portsmouth (1673–82), Master-General of the Ordnance (1682–88), Governor of Tangier (1683–84), Constable of the Tower of London (1685–88)

Lieutenant-General
Edmund Ludlow
1617
1692 (Surrendered then escaped - died in exile in Switzerland)
Regicide of Charles I
Wiltshire
Lord Deputy of Ireland (1659–1660)

John Friend
c. 1641
1696 (Hanged at Tyburn)
High treason, implicated in Jacobite assassination plot against William III
Great Yarmouth (1685)

Sir
John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet
1645
1697 (Beheaded)
High treason and for being a Jacobite
Northumberland

John Bennet
c. 1656
1712 (died in gaol)
debtor
Newton (1691–95)

Edmund Dummer
1651
1713 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Arundel (left Commons 1708)
Surveyor of the Navy (1692–99)

Sir
Alexander Rigby
c. 1663
1717 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Wigan (1701–02)
High Sheriff of Lancashire 1690

Sir
Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet
1653
1718 (died in prison in Southwark)
debtor
Oxfordshire (1685), Wallingford (1689–90 and 1695–1701)|Whig to 1713, Tory since

John Essington
1689
1729 (died at Newgate Prison)
debtor
New Romney (1727-death)|Whig; High Sheriff of Surrey 1724

Sir
Henry Goring, 4th Baronet
1679
1731 (died in exile in France)
Conspiracy in Atterbury Plot 1722
Horsham (1707–08 and January–June 1715) and Steyning (1709–15)
Tory

Abraham Blackmore
c. 1677
1732 (committed suicide in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Mitchell (1710–13), Newton (1713–15)
Tory

George Robinson
before 1727
after 1732 (absconded, and expelled from Parliament)
fraud
Great Marlow (1731–32)

Matthew Jenison
1654
1734 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Newark (1701–1705)

William Beaw
c. 1676
1738 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Mitchell (February–November 1701)

Anthony Hammond
1668
1738 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Huntingdonshire (1695–98), Cambridge University (1698–1702), Huntingdon borough (1702–08), New Shoreham (1708)
Deputy Paymaster of the Forces 1711

Sir
Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
1678
1746 (died in Gloucester gaol)
Debtor
Coventry (1707–10), Calne (1715–22), Lostwithiel (1724–27), Bletchingley (1727–34), Dunwich (1734–38)
Governor of Barbados (1737–38), Whig

Admiral
John Byng
1704
1757 (shot, after court martial, aboard HMS Monarch)
Cowardice and disaffection, in failing to prevent capture of Menorca by the French.
Rochester (1751-death)
Son of Viscount Torrington, hence Honourable; Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1742)

George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot
1718
1777 (died in detention near Fort St George, India)
Misconduct in office, corruption
Wallingford (1765–68), Bridgnorth (1768-death)
Irish peer so could sit in Westminster; Governor of Madras (1775-death)

Robert Paris Taylor
c. 1741
1792 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Berwick-upon-Tweed (1768–74)|Whig; Deputy Paymaster in Germany (1759–63)

Lord
George Gordon
1751
1793 (died in Newgate Prison)
defamation
Ludgershall (1774–80)
Son of Duke of Gordon hence Lord

Sir
William Congreve
1772
1828 (died in exile in France)
avoiding prosecution for business fraud (found guilty)
Gatton (1812–18), Plymouth (1818-death)
KCH FRS: Tory

Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone
1767
1833 (died in exile in France)
fled prosecution for Stock Exchange fraud
Stirling Burghs (1791–97), Grampound (1807–08 and 1812–14)
Tory; Governor of Dominica 1797–1803

John Mytton
1796
1834 (died in King's Bench Prison)
debtor
Shrewsbury (1819–20)
Tory; Sheriff of Merionethshire 1821, Sheriff of Shropshire 1823, Mayor of Oswestry 1824

Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough
1795
1837 (died of typhus in Sheriff's Prison, Dublin)
debtor
County Cork (1818–26)
Son of 3rd Earl of Kingston, hence Viscount Kingsborough; Whig

John Wharton
1765
1843 (died in Fleet Prison)
debtor
Beverley (1790–96 and 1802–26)|Whig

Frederick William Mullins (from 1841 De Moleyns)
1804
1854 (died in Fleet Prison)
Forgery of signature with intent to defraud bank
Kerry (1831–37)|Whig, later Liberal

William John Bankes
1786
1855 (died in exile Venice)
avoiding prosecution for sodomy[67] in 1841.
Truro (1810), Cambridge University (1822–26), Marlborough (1829–32), Dorset (1832–35)
Conservative; FRS

William Smith O'Brien
1803
1864 (Sentenced to death but exiled and later pardoned)
High Treason for promoting Irish rebellion in 1848
County Limerick (1835–1848)

Pierce McCan
1882
1919 (Died of Spanish influenza in Gloucester Prison)
Uncharged but implicated in so-called "German Plot"
East Tipperary (1918-death but did not sit)
Sinn Féin; also Irish Teachta Dála but unable to sit.

Terence Joseph McSwiney
1879
1920 (Died after hunger strike in Brixton Prison)
Possession of seditious articles and documents (in Irish republican cause)
Mid Cork (1918-death, though did not sit)
Sinn Féin; Lord Mayor of Cork 1920

Harry Boland
1887
1922 (Died in hospital after wounding when arrested by Irish Free State Army)
Anti-Anglo-Irish Treaty IRA member
South Roscommon (1918-death but did not sit)
Sinn Féin; later Irish Teachta Dála

Liam Mellows
1895
1922 (Executed by firing squad at Mountjoy Prison)
Reprisal during Irish Civil War[68]
Galway East (1918–22 but did not sit)
Sinn Féin; later Irish Teachta Dála

Joseph MacDonagh
1883
1922 (Died after hunger strike in prison under Irish Free State)
Political - opponent of Anglo-Irish Treaty
Tipperary North (1918–22 but did not sit)
Sinn Féin; also Irish Teachta Dála

Seán Etchingham
1868
1923 (Died of sickness in prison under Irish Free State)
Political detainee during Irish Civil War
Wicklow East (1918–22 but did not sit)
Sinn Féin; also Irish Teachta Dála and Secretary for Fisheries in Free State government.

Bobby Sands
1954
5 May 1981 (Died after hunger strike in Maze Prison)
Unlawful possession of arms, membership of PIRA
Fermanagh and South Tyrone (9 April 1981-death, but unable to sit)
Anti H-Block