THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "B"
		Last updated 24/02/2010
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		BAILLIESTON (GLASGOW)
1 May 1997		James Wray	28 Apr 1938
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
		BALHAM & TOOTING
14 Dec 1918		John Cuthbert Denison Denison-Pender,
		later [1937] 1st Baron Pender	11 May 1882	4 Dec 1949	67
15 Nov 1922		Sir Alfred Butt,1st baronet	20 Mar 1878	8 Dec 1962	84
23 Jul 1936		George Frederick Doland	1 May 1872	26 Nov 1946	74
26 Jul 1945		Harold Richard Adams	8 Oct 1912	25 Jun 1978	65
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		BANBURY (OXFORDSHIRE)
Apr 1660		Sir Anthony Cope,4th baronet	16 Nov 1632	11 Jun 1675	42
1 Apr 1661		Sir John Holman,1st baronet	c 1633	22 May 1700
9 Mar 1685		Sir Dudley North	16 May 1641	31 Dec 1691	50
4 Jan 1689		Sir Robert Dashwood,1st baronet	6 Nov 1662	14 Jul 1734	71
23 Jul 1698		James Isaacson  [expelled 10 Feb 1699]	3 Sep 1660	16 Apr 1724	63
23 Feb 1699		Sir John Cope,5th baronet	19 Nov 1634	11 Jan 1721	86
6 Jan 1701		Charles North	c 1677	9 Dec 1714
		John Dormer
		Double return. North seated 13 Mar 1701
25 Aug 1713		Sir Jonathan Cope,1st baronet	c 1692	28 Mar 1765
24 Mar 1722		Monoux Cope,later [1749] 7th baronet	c 1696	29 Jun 1763
19 Aug 1727		Francis North,later [1752] 1st Earl of Guilford	13 Apr 1704	4 Aug 1790	86
21 Jan 1730		Toby Chauncy	2 Feb 1674	27 Mar 1733
9 Apr 1733		William Knollys,styled Viscount Wallingford	15 Oct 1694	6 Jun 1740	45
25 Nov 1740		William Moore	4 Jun 1699	26 Oct 1746	47
26 Nov 1746		John Willes	c 1721	24 Nov 1784
15 Apr 1754		Frederick North,styled Baron North,later [1790]
		2nd Earl of Guilford	13 Apr 1732	5 Aug 1792	60
21 Dec 1790		George Augustus North,styled Baron North
		later [1792] 3rd Earl of Guilford	11 Sep 1757	20 Apr 1802	44
21 Sep 1792		Frederick North,later [1817] 5th Earl of Guilford	7 Feb 1766	14 Oct 1827	61
5 Mar 1794		William Holbech	1748	6 Jul 1812	64
30 May 1796		Dudley North (Long-North from 1812)	14 Mar 1748	21 Feb 1829	80
1 Nov 1806		William Praed	24 Jun 1747	9 Oct 1833	86
5 May 1807		William Praed	24 Jun 1747	9 Oct 1833	86
		Dudley North	14 Mar 1748	21 Feb 1829	80
		Double return. Election declared void
		9 Feb 1808
16 Feb 1808		Dudley North (Long-North from 1812)	14 Mar 1748	21 Feb 1829	80
5 Oct 1812		Frederick Sylvester North Douglas	8 Feb 1791	21 Oct 1819	28
22 Nov 1819		Heneage Legge	29 Feb 1788	12 Dec 1844	56
10 Feb 1826		Arthur Charles Legge	25 Jul 1800	18 May 1890	89
30 Jul 1830		Henry Villiers-Stuart,later [1839] 1st
		Baron Stuart de Decies	8 Jun 1803	23 Jan 1874	70
2 May 1831		John Easthope,later [1841] 1st baronet	29 Oct 1784	11 Dec 1865	81
24 Dec 1832		Henry William Tancred	1781	20 Aug 1860	79
9 Feb 1859		Bernhard Samuelson,later [1884] 1st baronet	22 Nov 1820	10 May 1905	84
30 Apr 1859		Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas	1806	21 Feb 1887	80
12 Jul 1865		Bernhard Samuelson,later [1884] 1st baronet	22 Nov 1820	10 May 1905	84
		For further information on this MP and the petition
		to unseat him following the 1865 election,see the
		note at the foot of this page
22 Jul 1895		Albert Brassey	22 Feb 1844	7 Jan 1918	73
17 Jan 1906		Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-
		Fiennes,later [1916] 1st baronet	29 Feb 1864	9 Feb 1943	78
24 Jan 1910		Robert Bingham Brassey	18 Oct 1875	14 Nov 1946	71
Dec 1910		Sir Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-
		Fiennes,1st baronet	29 Feb 1864	9 Feb 1943	78
24 Sep 1918		Sir Rhys Williams [later Rhys-Williams],1st
		baronet	20 Oct 1865	29 Jan 1955	89
15 Nov 1922		Sir Albert James Edmondson,later [1945] 1st
		Baron Sandford	29 Jun 1887	16 May 1959	71
26 Jul 1945		Arthur Douglas Dodds-Parker  [kt 1973]	5 Jul 1909	13 Sep 2006	97
8 Oct 1959		Harry Neil Marten	3 Dec 1916	22 Dec 1985	69
9 Jun 1983		Anthony Brian Baldry	10 Jul 1950
		BANDON BRIDGE (CORK)
1801		Sir Broderick Chinnery,1st baronet	13 Feb 1742	May 1808	66
15 Nov 1806		Courtenay Boyle	3 Sep 1770	21 May 1844	73
15 May 1807		Henry Boyle,styled Viscount Boyle,later [1807]
		3rd Earl of Shannon	8 Aug 1771	22 Apr 1842	70
3 Aug 1807		George Tierney	20 Mar 1761	25 Jan 1830	68
16 Oct 1812		Richard Boyle Bernard	4 Sep 1787	2 Mar 1850	62
24 Mar 1815		William Sturges-Bourne	7 Nov 1769	1 Feb 1845	75
27 Jun 1818		Augustus William James Clifford,later [1838]
		1st baronet	26 May 1788	9 Feb 1877	88
13 Mar 1820		James Bernard,styled Viscount Bernard,later
		[1830] 2nd Earl of Bandon	14 Jun 1785	31 Oct 1856	71
17 Jun 1826		John William Ponsonby,styled Viscount
		Duncannon,later [1844] 4th Earl of Bessborough	31 Aug 1781	16 May 1847	65
		[he was also returned for co.Kilkenny,for
		which he chose to sit]
19 Dec 1826		Lord John Russell,later [1861] 1st Earl Russell	18 Aug 1792	28 May 1878	85
7 Aug 1830		James Bernard,styled Viscount Bernard,later
		[1830] 2nd Earl of Bandon	14 Jun 1785	31 Oct 1856	71
6 Jan 1831		Francis Bernard,styled Viscount Bernard,later
		[1856] 3rd Earl of Bandon	3 Jan 1810	17 Feb 1877	67
22 Jul 1831		Sir Augustus William James Clifford,later [1838]
		1st baronet	26 May 1788	9 Feb 1877	88
15 Dec 1832		William Smyth Bernard	13 Sep 1792	6 Feb 1863	70
14 Jan 1835		Joseph Devonsher Jackson	23 Jun 1783	19 Dec 1857	74
14 Feb 1842		Francis Bernard,styled Viscount Bernard,later
		[1856] 3rd Earl of Bandon	3 Jan 1810	17 Feb 1877	67
14 Feb 1857		William Smyth Bernard	13 Sep 1792	6 Feb 1863	70
27 Feb 1863		Henry Boyle Bernard	6 Feb 1812	14 Mar 1895	83
21 Nov 1868		William Shaw	4 May 1823	19 Sep 1895	72
9 Feb 1874		Alexander Swanston	1808	24 Jun 1882	73
13 Apr 1880		Percy Broderick Bernard	17 Sep 1844	18 Jul 1912	67
30 Jun 1880		Richard Lane Allman	1813
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		BANFF & BUCHAN
9 Jun 1983		Albert McQuarrie	1 Jan 1918
11 Jun 1987		Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond	31 Dec 1954
		BANFFSHIRE
25 May 1708		Alexander Abercromby	5 Nov 1678	23 Dec 1728	50
14 Sep 1727		William Duff,later [1759] 1st Earl Fife [I]	1697	30 Sep 1763	66
20 May 1734		James Abercromby	c 1706	3 Apr 1781
10 May 1754		James Duff,2nd Earl Fife [I]	28 Sep 1729	24 Jan 1809	79
8 Apr 1784		Sir James Duff	1753	5 Dec 1839	86
22 Jan 1789		James Ferguson	25 May 1735	6 Sep 1820	85
2 Jul 1790		Sir James Grant,8th baronet	19 May 1738	18 Feb 1811	72
24 Jul 1795		David McDowall-Grant	c 1760	27 Jun 1841
6 Jun 1796		Sir William Grant	13 Oct 1752	23 May 1832	79
2 Nov 1812		Robert Abercromby,later [1831] 5th baronet	4 Feb 1784	6 Jul 1855	71
6 Jul 1818		John Duff,4th Earl Fife [I]   [following the	6 Oct 1776	9 Mar 1857	80
		general election in Jun 1826,his name was
		erased from the return and that of John
		Morison substituted 2 Apr 1827]
2 Apr 1827		John Morison	c 1757	12 Feb 1835
21 Dec 1832		George Ferguson		15 Mar 1867
10 Aug 1837		James Duff,later [1857] 5th Earl Fife	6 Jul 1814	7 Aug 1879	65
30 Jun 1857		Lachlan Duff Gordon-Duff	1 Jun 1817	10 Jan 1892	74
1 May 1861		Robert William Duff  [kt 1893]	8 May 1835	18 Mar 1895	59
15 Mar 1893		Sir William Wedderburn,4th baronet	25 Mar 1838	25 Jan 1918	79
6 Oct 1900		Alexander William Black	28 Feb 1859	29 Dec 1906	47
15 Feb 1907		Walter Waring	11 Aug 1876	16 Nov 1930	54
14 Dec 1918		Charles Coupar Barrie,later [1940] 1st
		Baron Abertay	1875	6 Dec 1940	65
29 Oct 1924		William Paterson Templeton	1876	4 Jul 1938	62
30 May 1929		Sir Murdoch McKenzie Wood	1881	11 Oct 1949	68
14 Nov 1935		Sir John Edmund Ritchie Findlay,2nd baronet	14 Jun 1902	6 Sep 1962	60
26 Jul 1945		Sir William Smith Duthie	22 May 1892	17 Dec 1980	88
15 Oct 1964		Wilfred Harold Kerton Baker	6 Jan 1920	9 Nov 2000	80
28 Feb 1974		Hamish Watt	27 Dec 1925
3 May 1979		David Fairlie Myles	30 May 1925
		ALTERED TO "BANFF & BUCHAN" 1983
		BARKING
26 Jul 1945		Somerville Hastings	4 Mar 1878	7 Jul 1967	89
8 Oct 1959		Thomas Edward Neil Driberg,later [1976]
		Baron Bradwell [L]	22 May 1905	12 Aug 1976	71
28 Feb 1974		Josephine Richardson	28 Aug 1923	1 Feb 1994	70
9 Jun 1994		Margaret Eve Hodge	8 Sep 1944
		BARKSTON ASH (YORKSHIRE)
28 Nov 1885		Robert Gunter,later [1901] 1st baronet	2 Nov 1831	17 Sep 1905	73
14 Oct 1905		Joseph Ormonde Andrews	1873	26 Jan 1909	35
19 Jan 1906		George Richard Lane-Fox,later [1933] 1st
		Baron Bingley	15 Dec 1870	11 Dec 1947	76
27 Oct 1931		Leonard Ropner,later [1952] 1st baronet	26 Feb 1895	12 Oct 1977	82
15 Oct 1964		Michael James Hugh Alison	27 Jun 1926	28 May 2004	77
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BARNARD CASTLE (DURHAM)
2 Dec 1885		Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease,1st baronet	23 Jun 1828	26 Jun 1903	75
25 Jul 1903		Arthur Henderson	13 Sep 1863	20 Oct 1935	72
14 Dec 1918		John Edmund Swan	1877	9 Feb 1956	78
15 Nov 1922		John Edwin Rogerson	8 Jan 1865	23 Mar 1925	60
6 Dec 1923		Moss Turner-Samuels	19 Oct 1888	6 Jun 1957	68
29 Oct 1924		Cuthbert Morley Headlam,later [1935] 1st
		baronet	27 Apr 1876	27 Feb 1964	87
30 May 1929		William Lawther	20 May 1889	1 Feb 1976	86
27 Oct 1931		Cuthbert Morley Headlam,later [1935] 1st
		baronet	27 Apr 1876	27 Feb 1964	87
14 Nov 1935		Thomas Miles Sexton	1879	11 Jul 1946	67
26 Jul 1945		Sydney Charles Robert Lavers	4 Jun 1890	9 Apr 1972	81
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		BARNET (HERTFORDSHIRE)
26 Jul 1945		Stephen James Lake Taylor,later [1958]
		Baron Taylor [L]	30 Dec 1910	1 Feb 1988	77
23 Feb 1950		Reginald Maudling	7 Mar 1917	14 Feb 1979	61
		ALTERED TO "CHIPPING BARNET"
		FEB 1974
		BARNSLEY  (YORKSHIRE)
1 Dec 1885		Courtney Stanhope Kenny	18 Mar 1847	18 Mar 1930	83
11 Mar 1889		William George Spencer Scott-Compton,
		styled Earl Compton,later [1897] 5th Marquess
		of Northampton	23 Apr 1851	16 Jun 1913	62
28 Oct 1897		Sir Joseph Walton,1st baronet	19 Mar 1849	8 Feb 1923	73
15 Nov 1922		John Samuel Potts	12 Aug 1861	28 Apr 1938	76
27 Oct 1931		Richard John Soper	13 Jun 1878	23 Jan 1954	75
14 Nov 1935		John Samuel Potts	12 Aug 1861	28 Apr 1938	76
16 Jun 1938		Frank Collindridge	1891	16 Oct 1951	60
8 Nov 1951		Sidney Schofield	22 Mar 1911	Dec 1992	81
31 Mar 1953		Roy Mason,later [1987] Baron Mason
		of Barnsley [L]	18 Apr 1924
		SPLIT INTO 3 DIVISIONS 1983
		SEE "BARNSLEY CENTRAL","BARNSLEY
		EAST" AND "BARNSLEY WEST & PENISTONE"
		BARNSLEY CENTRAL (YORKSHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		Roy Mason,later [1987] Baron Mason
		of Barnsley [L]	18 Apr 1924
11 Jun 1987		Eric Evlyn Illsley	9 Apr 1955
		BARNSLEY EAST
9 Jun 1983		Terry Patchett	11 Jul 1940	11 Oct 1996	56
12 Dec 1996		Jeffrey Ennis	13 Nov 1952
		ALTERED TO "BARNSLEY EAST &
		MEXBOROUGH" 1997
		BARNSLEY EAST AND MEXBOROUGH
1 May 1997		Jeffrey Ennis	13 Nov 1952
		BARNSLEY WEST & PENISTONE
9 Jun 1983		Allen McKay	5 Feb 1927
9 Apr 1992		Michael Clapham	15 May 1943
		BARNSTAPLE (DEVONSHIRE)
7 Apr 1660		John Rolle	23 Sep 1626	1 May 1706	79
		Nicholas Dennys  (to Feb 1679)	13 Nov 1616	31 May 1692	75
Apr 1661		Sir John Chichester,1st baronet	23 Apr 1623	2 Nov 1667	44
23 Dec 1667		Sir John Northcote,1st baronet	c 1600	24 Jun 1676
14 Mar 1677		John Basset  (to 1689)	c 1652	13 May 1686
20 Feb 1679		Sir Hugh Acland,5th baronet	c 1639	9 Mar 1714
4 Oct 1679		Arthur Acland  [unseated on petition 24 Dec 1680]	24 Mar 1616	21 Jan 1691	74
24 Dec 1680		Richard Lee	20 Aug 1625	late 1704	79
20 Apr 1685		Sir Arthur Chichester,3rd baronet  (to 1690)	c 1662	3 Feb 1718
14 Jan 1689		Richard Lee	20 Aug 1625	late 1704	79
13 Mar 1690		Sir George Hutchins	16 Aug 1640	6 Jul 1705	64
		Arthur Champneys  (to 1705)	c 1658	2 Apr 1724
26 Oct 1695		Sir Nicholas Hooper  (to 1715)	24 Oct 1654	13 May 1731	76
17 May 1705		Samuel Rolle	5 Mar 1669	28 Feb 1735	65
12 May 1708		Richard Acland	22 Jan 1679	16 Oct 1729	50
5 Sep 1713		Sir Arthur Chichester,3rd baronet  (to 1718)	c 1662	3 Feb 1718
3 Feb 1715		John Rolle  (to 1722)	8 Dec 1679	6 May 1730	50
22 Feb 1718		John Basset	1683	5 Nov 1721	38
22 Nov 1721		Sir Hugh Acland,6th baronet  (to 1727)	26 Jan 1697	29 Jul 1728	31
24 Mar 1722		Thomas Whetham	c 1665	28 Apr 1741
21 Aug 1727		Richard Coffin	23 Jul 1684	late 1766	82
		Theophilus Fortescue  (to 1741)	1707	13 Mar 1746	38
27 Apr 1734		Sir John Chichester,4th baronet	2 Jan 1689	2 Sep 1740	51
1 Dec 1740		John Basset	c 1714	29 Sep 1757
7 May 1741		Henry Rolle,later [1748] 1st Baron Rolle
		(to 1748)	7 Nov 1708	17 Aug 1750	41
		John Harris	6 Sep 1703	Feb 1768	64
2 Jul 1747		Thomas Benson  (to 1754)	13 Feb 1708	1772	64
20 Jan 1748		Sir Bourchier Wrey,6th baronet	c 1715	13 Apr 1784
20 Apr 1754		John Harris	6 Sep 1703	Feb 1768	64
		Sir George Amyand,1st baronet  (to 1766)	26 Sep 1720	16 Aug 1766	45
27 Mar 1761		Denys Rolle  (to 1774)	c 1725	Jun 1797
19 Nov 1766		John Clevland  (to 1802)	1734	Jun 1817	82
8 Oct 1774		William Devaynes	c 1730	29 Nov 1809
11 Sep 1780		Francis Basset	c 1740	Nov 1802
5 Apr 1784		William Devaynes	c 1730	29 Nov 1809
28 May 1796		Richard Wilson	c 1755	1815
7 Jul 1802		William Devaynes  (to 1806)	c 1730	29 Nov 1809
		Sir Edward Pellew,later [1816] 1st Viscount
		Exmouth	19 Apr 1757	23 Jan 1833	75
4 Aug 1804		Hugh Fortescue,styled Viscount Ebrington,
		later [1841] 2nd Earl Fortescue  (to 1807)	13 Feb 1783	14 Sep 1861	78
1 Nov 1806		William Taylor  (to Oct 1812)	29 May 1782	after 1834
9 May 1807		George Woodford Thellusson	2 Mar 1764	30 Dec 1811	47
16 Jan 1812		William Busk	1769	19 Feb 1849	79
8 Oct 1812		Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes,1st baronet	27 Jan 1755	26 Mar 1831	76
		(to 1819)
		Sir Eyre Coote	20 May 1759	10 Dec 1823	64
18 Jun 1818		Francis Molyneux Ommanney  (to 1826)	4 Oct 1774	7 Nov 1840	66
9 Mar 1819		Sir Manasseh Lopes's election declared void,
		and no writ issued until the next general election
8 Mar 1820		Michael Nolan	c 1765	26 Dec 1827
8 Mar 1824		Frederick Hodgson  (to 1830)	c 1795	30 Mar 1854	57
10 Jun 1826		Henry Alexander	c Apr 1787	14 Jan 1861	73
2 Aug 1830		Stephens Lyne-Stephens	c 1801	28 Feb 1860
		George Tudor	1792	24 Dec 1857	65
3 May 1831		Frederick Hodgson	1796	30 Mar 1854	57
		John Palmer Bruce Chichester,later [1840]
		1st baronet  (to 1841)	c 1794	20 Dec 1851
12 Dec 1832		Charles St.John Fancourt	1804	1875	71
25 Jul 1837		Frederick Hodgson  (to 1847)	1796	30 Mar 1854	57
30 Jun 1841		Montague Gore	1811	5 Oct 1864	53
29 Jul 1847		Richard Bremridge  (to Apr 1853)	1803	15 Jun 1878	74
		John William Fortescue	14 Jul 1819	25 Sep 1859	40
8 Jul 1852		Sir William Augustus Fraser,4th baronet	10 Feb 1826	17 Aug 1898	72
		[following the general election in Jul 1852,this
		election was declared void 21 Apr 1853. The
		writ was then suspended until Aug 1854]
25 Aug 1854		John Laurie   [his election was declared	1797	2 Aug 1864	67
		void 2 Mar 1855]
		Richard Samuel Guiness  (to 1857)	1797	28 Aug 1857	60
10 Mar 1855		George Stucley Buck (Stucley from 1858),later
		[1859] 1st baronet	17 Aug 1812	13 Mar 1900	87
30 Mar 1857		Sir William Augustus Fraser,4th baronet	10 Feb 1826	17 Aug 1898	72
		John Laurie	1797	2 Aug 1864	67
30 Apr 1859		John Davie Ferguson-Davie,later [1885] 2nd
		baronet  (to 1865)	27 Oct 1830	16 Jun 1907	76
		George Potts	1807	20 Sep 1863	56
20 Oct 1863		Thomas Lloyd   [he was unseated on petition	1814	23 Jan 1890	75
		in favour of Richard Bremridge 15 Apr 1864]
15 Apr 1864		Richard Bremridge	1803	15 Jun 1878	74
12 Jul 1865		Sir George Stucley Stucley	17 Aug 1812	13 Mar 1900	87
		Thomas Cave  (to Apr 1880)	1825	2 Nov 1894	69
18 Nov 1868		Charles Henry Williams	16 Nov 1834	1 Feb 1908	73
3 Feb 1874		Samuel Danks Waddy	1830	30 Dec 1902	72
12 Feb 1880		Newton Wallop,styled Viscount Lymington,later
		[1891] 6th Earl of Portsmouth  (to 1885)	19 Jan 1856	4 Dec 1917	61
2 Apr 1880		Sir Robert Walter Carden,later [1887] 1st
		baronet	7 Oct 1801	17 Jan 1888	86
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
5 Dec 1885		George Pitt-Lewis	13 Dec 1845	30 Dec 1906	61
Jul 1892		Alfred Billson	18 Apr 1839	9 Jul 1907	68
19 Jul 1895		Sir William Cameron Gull,2nd baronet	6 Jan 1860	15 Dec 1922	62
9 Oct 1900		Ernest Joseph Soares  [kt 1911]	20 Oct 1864	15 Mar 1926	61
6 May 1911		Sir Godfrey Baring,1st baronet	18 Apr 1871	24 Nov 1957	86
14 Dec 1918		John Thomas Tudor Rees	1880	27 Feb 1956	75
15 Nov 1922		Basil Edward Peto,later [1927] 1st baronet	13 Aug 1862	28 Jan 1945	82
6 Dec 1923		John Thomas Tudor Rees	1880	27 Feb 1956	75
29 Oct 1924		Basil Edward Peto,later [1927] 1st baronet	13 Aug 1862	28 Jan 1945	82
14 Nov 1935		Richard Thomas Dyke-Acland,later [1939]
		15th baronet	26 Nov 1906	24 Nov 1990	83
26 Jul 1945		Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto,later [1971]
		3rd baronet	19 Feb 1897	19 May 1980	83
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		BARONS COURT
26 May 1955		William Thomas Williams	22 Sep 1915	28 Feb 1986	70
8 Oct 1959		William Compton Carr	10 Jul 1918	Dec 2000	82
15 Oct 1964		Ivor Seward Richard,later [1990]
		Baron Richard [L]	30 May 1932
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		BARROW & FURNESS
9 Jun 1983		Cecil Simon Franks	1 Jul 1935
9 Apr 1992		John Matthew Patrick Hutton	6 May 1955
		BARROW-IN-FURNESS
24 Nov 1885		David Duncan   [he was unseated on petition	1831	30 Dec 1886	55
		23 Mar 1886]
6 Apr 1886		William Sproston Caine	26 Mar 1842	17 Mar 1903	60
2 Jul 1890		James Archibald Duncan	1858	13 Feb 1911	52
Jul 1892		Charles William Cayzer,later [1904] 1st baronet	15 Jul 1843	28 Sep 1916	73
16 Jan 1906		Charles Duncan	8 Jun 1865	6 Jul 1933	68
14 Dec 1918		Sir Robert Burton Chadwick (Burton-Chadwick
		from 1936),later [1935] 1st baronet	20 Jun 1869	21 May 1951	81
15 Nov 1922		Daniel Gerald Somerville	26 Oct 1879	1 Jul 1938	58
29 Oct 1924		John Bromley	1876	7 Sep 1945	69
27 Oct 1931		Sir Jonah Walker Walker-Smith	22 Nov 1874	23 Feb 1964	89
26 Jul 1945		Walter Monslow,later [1966] Baron Monslow [L]	26 Jan 1895	12 Oct 1966	71
31 Mar 1966		Albert Edward Booth	28 May 1928	6 Feb 2010	81
		ALTERED TO "BARROW & FURNESS" 1983
		BARRY (GLAMORGANSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		Dorothy Mary Rees  [Dame 1975]	29 Jul 1898	Aug 1987	89
25 Oct 1951		Sir Herbert Raymond Gower	15 Aug 1916	22 Feb 1989	72
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BASILDON
28 Feb 1974		Eric Moonman	29 Apr 1929
3 May 1979		Keith Harvey Proctor	16 Jan 1947
9 Jun 1983		David Anthony Andrew Amess	26 Mar 1952
1 May 1997		Angela Evans Smith	7 Jan 1959
		BASINGSTOKE (HAMPSHIRE)
28 Nov 1885		George Sclater-Booth,later [1887] 1st Baron
		Basing	19 May 1826	22 Oct 1894	68
18 Jul 1887		Arthur Frederick Jeffreys	7 Apr 1848	14 Feb 1906	57
12 Mar 1906		Arthur Clavell Salter  [kt 1917]	30 Oct 1859	30 Nov 1928	69
25 Oct 1917		Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes,later [1942] 1st
		Baron Geddes	21 Jun 1879	8 Jan 1954	74
31 Mar 1920		Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook	28 Apr 1850	24 Dec 1946	96
6 Dec 1923		Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher,later [1942]
		1st Baron Winster	27 Mar 1885	7 Jun 1961	76
29 Oct 1924		Sir Arthur Richard Holbrook	28 Apr 1850	24 Dec 1946	96
30 May 1929		Gerard Vernon Wallop,styled Viscount
		Lymington,later [1943] 9th Earl of Portsmouth	16 May 1898	28 Sep 1984	86
19 Apr 1934		Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond-Wolff	16 Jul 1899	8 Feb 1982	82
14 Nov 1935		Patrick William Donner  [kt 1953]	4 Dec 1904	19 Aug 1988	83
26 May 1955		Denzil Kingston Freeth	10 Jul 1924
15 Oct 1964		David Bower Mitchell	18 Jun 1928
9 Jun 1983		Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter	8 Jan 1943
5 May 2005		Maria Frances Lewis Miller	26 Mar 1964
		BASSETLAW (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE)
5 Dec 1885		William Beckett-Denison	10 Sep 1826	23 Nov 1890	64
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
15 Dec 1890		Sir Frederick George Milner,7th baronet	7 Nov 1849	8 Jun 1931	81
19 Jan 1906		Frank Hillyard Newnes	28 Sep 1876	10 Jul 1955	78
Jan 1910		Sir William Ellis Hume-Williams,1st baronet	19 Aug 1863	4 Feb 1947	83
30 May 1929		Malcolm John Macdonald	17 Aug 1901	11 Jan 1981	79
14 Nov 1935		Frederick John Bellenger	23 Jul 1894	11 May 1968	73
31 Oct 1968		Joseph William Ashton	9 Oct 1933
7 Jun 2001		John Mann	10 Jan 1960
		BATH (SOMERSET)
31 Mar 1660		Alexander Popham  (to 27 Nov 1669)	c 1605	Dec 1669
		William Prynne	c 1602	24 Oct 1669
12 Apr 1661		Alexander Popham  (to 27 Nov 1669)	c 1605	Dec 1669
		William Prynne	c 1602	24 Oct 1669
		Sir Charles Berkeley,later [1665] 2nd Viscount
		Fitzhardinge [I]	14 Dec 1599	12 Jun 1668	68
		Sir Thomas Bridges
		Double return. Popham and Prynne seated
		16 May 1661
15 Nov 1669		Sir Francis Popham  (to 1675)	19 Mar 1646	28 Aug 1674	28
27 Nov 1669		Sir William Bassett  (to 1679)	17 Apr 1628	25 Sep 1693	65
20 Apr 1675		Sir George Speke  (to 1681)	1 Oct 1653	14 Jan 1683	29
18 Aug 1679		Sir Walter Long,2nd baronet	c 1626	21 May 1710
21 Feb 1681		Maurice Berkeley,3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge [I]	15 Dec 1628	13 Jun 1690	61
		Sir William Bassett  (to 1693)	17 Apr 1628	25 Sep 1693	65
10 Oct 1690		Joseph Langton  (to 1695)	c 1637	17 Mar 1720
20 Nov 1693		William Blathwayt  (to 1710)	2 Mar 1649	16 Aug 1717	68
29 Oct 1695		Sir Thomas Estcourt	c 1645	1702
26 Jul 1698		Alexander Popham	c 1670	16 Jun 1705
20 Feb 1707		Samuel Trotman  (to 1720)	23 Feb 1650	6 Feb 1720	69
14 Oct 1710		John Codrington  (to 1727)	10 Jan 1677	17 Apr 1754	77
22 Feb 1720		Robert Gay	c 1676	31 Oct 1738
24 Mar 1722		George Wade  (to 1748)	c 1673	14 Mar 1748
22 Aug 1727		Robert Gay	c 1676	31 Oct 1738
30 Apr 1734		John Codrington	10 Jan 1677	17 Apr 1754	77
15 May 1741		Philip Bennet		8 Dec 1761
1 Jul 1747		Robert Henley,later [1764] 1st Earl of
		Northington  (to 1757)	1708	14 Jan 1772	63
25 Mar 1748		Sir John Louis Ligonier,later [1766] 1st
		Earl Ligonier  (to 1763)	7 Nov 1680	28 Apr 1770	89
9 Jul 1757		William Pitt,later [1766] 1st Earl of Chatham
		(to 1766)	15 Nov 1708	11 May 1778	69
28 Apr 1763		Sir John Sebright,6th baronet  (to 1774)	19 Oct 1725	23 Feb 1794	68
19 Nov 1766		John Smith  (to 1775)	c 1727	12 Nov 1775
10 Oct 1774		Abel Moysey  (to 1790)	23 Aug 1743	3 Jul 1831	87
24 Nov 1775		Sir John Sebright,6th baronet	19 Oct 1725	23 Feb 1794	68
11 Sep 1780		John Jeffreys Pratt,later [1794] 2nd Earl Camden
		and [1812] 1st Marquess Camden  (to 1794)	11 Feb 1759	8 Oct 1840	81
21 Jun 1790		Thomas Thynne,styled Viscount Weymouth,
		later [1796] 2nd Marquess of Bath  (to 1796)	25 Jan 1765	27 Mar 1837	72
3 May 1794		Sir Richard Pepper Arden,later [1801] 1st
		Baron Alvanley  (to 1801)	20 May 1744	19 Mar 1804	59
8 Dec 1796		Lord John Thynne,later [1838] 3rd Baron
		Carteret  (to 1832)	28 Dec 1772	10 Mar 1849	76
1 Jun 1801		John Palmer	1742	16 Aug 1818
2 Feb 1808		Charles Palmer	6 May 1777	17 Apr 1851	73
9 Jun 1826		George Charles Pratt,styled Earl of Brecknock,
		later [1840] 2nd Marquess Camden   (to 1830)	2 May 1799	6 Aug 1866	67
13 Feb 1829		George Charles Pratt,styled Earl of Brecknock,
		later [1840] 2nd Marquess Camden   (to 1830)	2 May 1799	6 Aug 1866	67
		Charles Palmer	6 May 1777	17 Apr 1851	73
		Double return. At the subsequent by-election
		held on 11 Mar 1829,Brecknock was returned
31 Jul 1830		Charles Palmer  (to 1837)	6 May 1777	17 Apr 1851	73
14 Dec 1832		John Arthur Roebuck	28 Dec 1802	30 Nov 1879	76
26 Jul 1837		Richard Wingfield,6th Viscount Powerscourt [I]	18 Jan 1815	11 Aug 1844	29
		William Heald Ludlow Bruges	1796	25 Sep 1855	59
30 Jun 1841		Adam Duncan-Haldane,styled Viscount Duncan,
		later [1859] 2nd Earl of Camperdown  (to 1852)	25 Mar 1812	30 Jan 1867	54
		John Arthur Roebuck	28 Dec 1802	30 Nov 1879	76
30 Jul 1847		Anthony Ashley-Cooper,styled Baron Ashley,
		later [1851] 7th Earl of Shaftesbury	28 Apr 1801	1 Oct 1885	84
25 Jun 1851		George Treweeke Scobell  (to 1857)	16 Dec 1785	11 May 1869	83
10 Jul 1852		Thomas Phinn	1814	31 Oct 1866	52
5 Jun 1855		Sir William Tite  (to May 1873)	Feb 1798	20 Apr 1873	75
28 Mar 1857		Sir Arthur Hallam Elton,7th baronet	19 Apr 1818	14 Oct 1883	65
2 May 1859		Arthur Edwin Way	1813	19 Sep 1870	57
11 Jul 1865		James McGarel-Hogg,later [1876] 2nd baronet
		and [1887] 1st Baron Magheramorne  (to 1885)	3 May 1823	27 Jun 1890	67
18 Nov 1868		Donald Dalrymple  (to Oct 1873)	1814	19 Sep 1873	59
7 May 1873		George Henry Cadogan,styled Viscount Chelsea,
		later [Jun 1873] 5th Earl Cadogan	12 May 1840	6 Mar 1915	74
28 Jun 1873		Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton,styled
		Viscount Grey de Wilton,later [1882] 3rd Earl
		of Wilton  (to 1874)	25 Nov 1833	18 Jan 1885	51
9 Oct 1873		Arthur Divett Hayter,later [1878] 2nd baronet
		and [1906] 1st Baron Haversham  (to 1885)	19 Aug 1835	1 May 1917	81
4 Feb 1874		Nathaniel George Philips Bousfield	1829	21 May 1883	53
2 Apr 1880		Edmond Robert Wodehouse  (to 1906)	3 Jun 1835	14 Dec 1914	79
24 Nov 1885		Robert Stickney Blaine	30 Jan 1816	15 Dec 1897	81
2 Jul 1886		Robert Peter Laurie	24 Oct 1835	29 Jul 1905	69
Jul 1892		Sir Charles Wyndham Murray	22 Feb 1844	1 Nov 1928	84
15 Jan 1906		Donald Maclean	9 Jan 1864	15 Jun 1932	68
		George Peabody Gooch	21 Oct 1873	31 Aug 1968	94
15 Jan 1910		Lord Alexander George Thynne	17 Feb 1873	16 Sep 1918	45
		Sir Charles Roderick Hunter,3rd baronet
		(to Dec 1918)	6 Jul 1858	24 Jun 1924	65
Oct 1918		Charles Talbot Foxcroft  (to 1923)	1868	11 Feb 1929	60
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1918
6 Dec 1923		Frank Walter Raffety	1875	8 Sep 1946	71
29 Oct 1924		Charles Talbot Foxcroft	1868	11 Feb 1929	60
21 Mar 1929		Charles William Baillie-Hamilton	22 May 1900	24 Apr 1939	38
27 Oct 1931		Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness	9 Jun 1906	31 Dec 1988	82
26 Jul 1945		Sir Isaac James Pitman	14 Aug 1901	1 Sep 1985	84
15 Oct 1964		Sir Edward Joseph Brown	15 Apr 1913	27 Aug 1991	78
3 May 1979		Christopher Francis Patten,later [2005] Baron
		Patten of Barnes [L]	12 May 1944
9 Apr 1992		Donald Michael Ellison Foster	31 Mar 1947
		BATLEY & MORLEY
14 Nov 1918		Gerald Ashburner France	4 Aug 1870	11 Feb 1935	64
15 Nov 1922		Ben Turner	25 Aug 1863	30 Sep 1942	79
29 Oct 1924		Walter Forrest  [kt 1935]	28 Jul 1869	18 Jul 1939	69
30 May 1929		Sir Ben Turner	25 Aug 1863	30 Sep 1942	79
27 Oct 1931		Wilfrid Dewhurst Wills	15 Oct 1898	20 Apr 1954	55
14 Nov 1935		Willie Brooke	18 Dec 1896	21 Jan 1939	42
9 Mar 1939		Hubert Beaumont	1883	2 Dec 1948	65
17 Feb 1949		Alfred Davies Devonsher Broughton  [kt 1969]	18 Oct 1902	2 Apr 1979	76
3 May 1979		Kenneth John Woolmer,later [1999] Baron
		Woolmer of Leeds [L]	25 Apr 1940
		ALTERED TO "BATLEY & SPEN" 1983
		BATLEY & SPEN (WEST YORKSHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		Elizabeth Joan Peacock	4 Sep 1937
1 May 1997		Michael Roy Wood	3 Mar 1946
		BATTERSEA
27 Nov 1885		Octavius Vaughan Morgan	1837	26 Feb 1896	58
Jul 1892		John Elliot Burns	20 Oct 1858	24 Jan 1943	84
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO "BATTERSEA NORTH"
		& "BATTERSEA SOUTH" 1918,RE-UNITED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Alfred Dubs,later [1994] Baron Dubs [L]	5 Dec 1932
11 Jun 1987		John Crocket Bowis	2 Aug 1945
1 May 1997		John Martin Linton	11 Aug 1944
		BATTERSEA NORTH
14 Dec 1918		Richard Morris	1869	26 Sep 1956	87
15 Nov 1922		Shapurji Saklatvala	28 Mar 1874	16 Jan 1936	61
6 Dec 1923		Henry Cairn Hogbin	16 Nov 1880	13 Jun 1966	85
29 Oct 1924		Shapurji Saklatvala	28 Mar 1874	16 Jan 1936	61
30 May 1929		William Stephen Sanders	2 Jan 1871	6 Feb 1941	70
27 Oct 1931		Arthur Marsden	1883	26 Nov 1960	77
14 Nov 1935		William Stephen Sanders	2 Jan 1871	6 Feb 1941	70
17 Apr 1940		Francis Campbell Ross Douglas,later [1950] 1st
		Baron Douglas of Barloch	21 Oct 1889	31 Mar 1980	90
25 Jul 1946		Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay,later [1987]
		Baron Jay [L]	23 Mar 1907	6 Mar 1996	88
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BATTERSEA SOUTH
14 Dec 1918		Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon,styled
		Viscount Curzon,later [1929] 5th Earl Howe	1 May 1884	26 Jul 1964	80
7 Feb 1929		William Bennett	7 Apr 1873	4 Nov 1937	64
27 Oct 1931		Sir Harry Ralph Selley	9 Dec 1871	24 Feb 1960	88
26 Jul 1945		Caroline Selina Ganley	16 Sep 1879	31 Aug 1966	86
25 Oct 1951		Ernest Partridge	10 Aug 1895	20 Apr 1974	78
15 Oct 1964		Ernest George Perry	25 Apr 1908	28 Dec 1998	90
3 May 1979		Alfred Dubs,later [1994] Baron Dubs [L]	Dec 1932
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BEACONSFIELD
28 Feb 1974		Ronald McMillan Bell  [kt 1980]	14 Apr 1914	27 Feb 1982	67
27 May 1982		Timothy John Smith	5 Oct 1947
1 May 1997		Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve	24 May 1956
		BEAUMARIS (ANGLESEY)
13 Jan 1659		Griffith Bodurda	c 1621	1677
4 Apr 1661		Sir Heneage Finch,1st baronet,later [1681] 1st
		Earl of Nottingham  [he was also returned for	23 Dec 1621	18 Dec 1682	60
		Oxford University,for which he chose to sit]
18 Jul 1661		John Robinson	c 1617	15 Mar 1681
17 Feb 1679		Richard Bulkeley,later [1688] 3rd Viscount
		Bulkeley [I]	c 1658	9 Aug 1704
20 Aug 1679		Henry Bulkeley	c 1641	1698
15 Jan 1689		Sir William Williams,1st baronet	c 1634	11 Jul 1700
13 Mar 1690		Thomas Bulkeley	c 1633	23 Mar 1708
7 Nov 1695		Sir William Williams	c 1634	11 Jul 1700
8 Aug 1698		Owen Hughes		c Apr 1708
14 Jan 1701		Coningsby Williams	c 1639	26 Feb 1708
3 Dec 1701		Robert Bulkeley	c 1662	23 Dec 1702
29 Nov 1703		Coningsby Williams	c 1639	26 Feb 1708
21 May 1705		Henry Bertie	4 May 1675	18 Dec 1735	60
26 Aug 1727		Watkin Williams Wynn   [he was also returned	c 1693	20 Sep 1749
		for Denbighshire,for which he chose to sit]
25 Mar 1730		Richard Bulkeley,5th Viscount Bulkeley [I]	8 Apr 1707	15 Mar 1739	31
20 Apr 1739		James Bulkeley,6th Viscount Bulkeley [I]	17 Feb 1717	23 Apr 1752	35
29 Jan 1753		John Owen	c 1702	20 Feb 1754
22 Apr 1754		Richard Thelwall Price	May 1720	25 Mar 1775	54
25 Mar 1768		Sir Hugh Williams,8th baronet	1718	19 Aug 1794	76
16 Sep 1780		Sir George Warren	7 Feb 1735	31 Aug 1801	66
17 Apr 1784		Hugh Fortescue,later [1785] 3rd Baron
		Fortescue and [1789] 1st Earl Fortescue	12 Mar 1753	16 Jun 1841	88
25 Jul 1785		Sir Hugh Williams	1718	19 Aug 1794	76
20 Oct 1794		Sir Watkin Williams Wynn	26 Oct 1772	6 Jan 1840	67
14 Jun 1796		Thomas Wynn,1st Baron Newborough [I]	1736	12 Oct 1807	71
10 Dec 1807		Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd,2nd baronet,later
		[1831] 1st Baron Mostyn	17 Sep 1768	3 Apr 1854	85
10 Oct 1812		Thomas Frankland Lewis,later [1846] 1st baronet	14 May 1780	22 Jan 1855	74
13 Jun 1826		Sir Robert Williams,9th baronet	20 Jul 1764	1 Dec 1830	66
8 Feb 1831		Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley,10th
		baronet	23 Sep 1801	28 Aug 1875	73
10 Dec 1832		Frederick Paget	9 Mar 1807	4 Jan 1866	58
31 Jul 1847		Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget	16 Mar 1818	30 Jun 1880	62
28 Mar 1857		William Owen Stanley	13 Nov 1802	24 Feb 1884	81
9 Feb 1874		Morgan Lloyd	1822	5 Sep 1893	71
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		BEBINGTON
23 Feb 1950		Hendrie Dudley Oakshott,later [1959] 1st
		baronet and [1964] Baron Oakshott [L]	8 Nov 1904	1 Feb 1975	70
15 Oct 1964		Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe,later [1992]
		Baron Howe of Aberavon [L]	20 Dec 1926
31 Mar 1966		Edwin Brooks	1 Dec 1929
18 Jun 1970		Eric Paul Cockeram	4 Jul 1924
		ALTERED TO "BEBINGTON &
		ELLESMERE PORT" 1974
		BEBINGTON & ELLESMERE PORT
28 Feb 1974		Alfred Bates	8 Jun 1944
3 May 1979		George Barrington Porter	11 Jun 1939	3 Nov 1996	57
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BECKENHAM
23 Feb 1950		Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn,
		later [1957] 1st Baron Hailes	2 Apr 1901	5 Nov 1974	73
21 Mar 1957		Sir Philip Carter Goodhart	3 Nov 1925
9 Apr 1992		Piers Rolf Garfield Merchant	2 Jan 1951	21 Sep 2009	58
20 Nov 1997		Jacqui Lait	16 Dec 1947
		Bernhard Samuelson, MP for Banbury Feb-Apr 1859 and 1865-1895
		After sitting for a short period as member for Banbury in 1859, Samuelson was re-elected
		at the general election held in July 1865. His defeated opponent at that election, Charles
		Bell, subsequently petitioned against Samuelson's return, such petition being heard by a
		Select Committee of the House of Commons on 28 April 1866.
		One of the provisions of the Act of Settlement of 1701 was that "no person born out of the
		Kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions belonging (although he be
		naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable
		to be of the Privy Council or a member of either House of Parliament, or to enjoy any
		office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or
		hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him."
		It was later recognised that this provision needed to be relaxed in certain circumstances
		and as a result the British Nationality Act of 1772 was passed. This Act included the
		following words:-
		'Whereas divers natural-born Subjects of Great Britain, who profess and exercise the
		Protestant Religion through various lawful Causes, especially for the better carrying on of
		commerce, have been, or are, obliged to reside in several trading Cities and other Foreign
		Places, where they have contracted Marriages, and brought up Families: And whereas it
		is equally just and expedient that the Kingdom should not be deprived of such Subjects,
		nor lose the Benefit of the Wealth that they have acquired; and therefore that not only
		the Children of such natural-born Subjects, but their Children also, should continue under
		the Allegiance of His Majesty, and be intituled to come into this Kingdom, and to bring
		hither and realize, or otherwise employ, their Capital……'
		The following edited report of the hearing of Charles Bell's petition appeared in 'The Times'
		of 30 April 1866:-
		'The Select Committee appointed to try the petition against the return of Mr. Bernhard
		Samuelson as member for Banbury met on Saturday. The petitioner was Mr. Charles Bell,
		an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of Banbury at the last election, and he
		prayed that the election of Mr. Samuelson might be declared null and void on the ground
		that he was an alien, and therefore incapacitated from occupying a seat in the House of
		Commons.
		'The case resolved itself into a long legal argument, occupying upwards of five hours, upon
		the question as to what constituted an alien. The petitioner prayed that the last election
		for Banbury should be declared void on the ground that Mr. Bernhard Samuelson was "wholly
		incapacitated and disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons by reason of his being
		an alien, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the natural born subjects
		of the Crown within the meaning of the statutes." A certificate of birth was put in from the
		registry of births in the German Israelite community of Hamburg, which set forth that, "in
		the year 1820, on the 22d of November, at three of the clock in the morning, in this place,
		a male child was born to Samuel Hermann Samuelson, a native of Petersburg, in Virginia,
		and Sarah Hertz, his wife." That child, afterwards named Bernhard Samuelson, was the
		present sitting member for Banbury. A certificate of the marriage of the sitting member's
		father and mother was also put in, together with the return of the Banbury election, poll-
		books, etc.
		'Mr. Rodwell [counsel for the petitioner] then contended that the onus of proof rested upon
		the sitting member to show that he was entitled either by statute or by any other mode to
		sit in Parliament. Mr. Samuelson had stated in an address to his constituents that he had
		complied with the various Acts of Parliament passed for the naturalization of aliens, and he
		relied principally upon the 13th of George III., cap 21 [i.e. the British Nationality Act of
		1772 quoted above], which naturalized the son or grandson of a British born subject, on
		condition that he took the sacrament in a Protestant place of worship, and that he also
		took the oath of allegiance. With both these conditions Mr. Samuelson said he had complied.
		It would be for him, however, to prove that those conditions were sufficient for the purpose
		of naturalizing an alien.
		'Mr. Phinn [counsel for Samuelson] urged, on the other hand, that no case had been made
		out, and asked for a nonsuit. Assuming that Mr. Samuelson and his father were both born
		abroad, that was not sufficient to constitute him an alien, as the law declared that the
		grandson of a natural born subject of the Crown inherited all the privileges of a natural born
		son himself. The onus of proof rested with the petitioner to show that Mr. Samuelson was
		not the grandson of a natural born subject, and as no proof had been tendered on that
		point, he contended that no case had been made out against his client.
		'Mr. Rodwell contended that it must be assumed that every man owed allegiance to the
		country in which he was born. It was proved that Mr. Samuelson was born at Hamburg, and
		that his father was born in Virginia, and in the absence of proof as to where the grandfather
		was born, the assumption was that they were both of them aliens. Under these
		circumstances, the proof as to where the grandfather was born rested on the sitting
		member.
		'Mr. Phinn said in that case it was to be assumed that Mr. Samuelson's father was a British
		subject, as, if he had been before the year 1784, the date of the treaty of Versailles, he
		must necessarily have been born a British subject.
		'After some discussion, the Committee decided that a sufficient case had been made out to
		call for a defence on the part of the sitting member.
		'Proof was then tendered by Mr. Phinn that Mr. Samuelson was the son of Mr. Samuel
		Hermann Samuels, or Samuelson, who was born in Petersburg, in Virginia, in the year 1789,
		married in 1815, and died in 1863. Mr. Samuel Hermann Samuels, it was also proved, was the
		son of Mr. Hyman Samuels, who was born in London, on the 4th of April, 1764, married at
		Hamburg on the 29th of August, 1787, and died in 1813. A family Bible with a record of
		dates was put in to prove these facts but [the petitioner's counsel] objected to its
		production on the ground that this was not a question of pedigree but a question of birth.
		There was no question as to who was Mr. Samuelson's grandfather; the question was where
		his grandfather was born.
		'[After considering the evidence] the Chairman said the Committee had unanimously resolved
		that Bernhard Samuelson, Esq., was not disqualified to be elected a member of Parliament
		by reason of his being an alien, and that he was duly elected a burgess to serve in the
		present Parliament for the borough of Banbury.'
		William Beckett-Denison, MP for East Retford 1876-1880 and Bassetlaw 1885-1890
		Beckett was the third son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th baronet, and younger brother of the
		1st Baron Grimthorpe. He sat in the House of Commons for East Retford between 1876 and
		1880 and for Bassetlaw between 1885 and the time of his death.
		The following account of Beckett's death is taken from 'The Manchester Times' of 28
		November 1890:-
		'Mr W. Beckett, M.P. for the Bassetlaw Division of Nottinghamshire, met with a sad death
		at Wimborne on Sunday [23 November 1890], being knocked down and cut to pieces by a
		train. Mr Beckett arrived at Wimborne by a train which goes on to Weymouth, and alighted
		from a first-class carriage. He then asked a porter named Richard Harvey when there was a
		train for Bournemouth. Harvey replied that there was one immediately, and another at four
		o'clock. Mr Beckett said, "the four o'clock one will do for me." and left the station to cross
		the line by the subway. He then walked away, and Harvey, who had to take some luggage
		to the bank in the town of Wimborne, saw him in the square there. This was half an hour
		after he had left the station. Later he was seen in the Canford Drive, which passes under
		the railway, and the next seen of him was on the railway bridge crossing the river Stour.
		Levi Amans, the signalman, says that he had signalled in the 3.30 p.m. train from
		Bournemouth, and after it had passed his box he looked after it, and saw deceased walking
		on the up side of the line that the train was on. The wind was blowing very hard, and as
		the train came up to the deceased his hat blew off, and almost immediately deceased fell
		under the train. He was struck by the second or third carriage, and the body was rolled
		along under the wheels and was carried along the bridge for 56 feet, rolling out from
		under the last carriage. The deceased had on a dress coat with a waterproof over it. Police-
		sergeant Burden had the mangled remains placed on a stretcher and conveyed to the inn.'
		In May and June of 1900, Beckett's executors were sued by a Mrs Gertrude Beatrice
		Brinkworth, in order to recover a sum of £1,136 which she alleged was owing to her. Her
		story was that, in 1882, aged 17 and having just left school, she became the mistress of
		the late William Beckett. She was represented by Beckett to be a Mrs Wheatley, his adopted
		daughter. She further alleged that, in order to protect her future welfare, Beckett had, in
		1889, purchased a house for her in Bournemouth, and that his reason for being near
		Bournemouth on the day of his death was that he was visiting her.
		Mrs Brinkworth further alleged that Beckett was extremely anxious that she should have
		children. As a result, three children were advertised for and adopted, and passed off as
		her own. An allowance of £200 per child was paid for two years after Beckett's death, but
		payments then ceased, since the executors had discovered that the children were not
		fathered by Beckett. Before the evidence in the case had been completed, the jury stepped
		in, declaring the whole of Mrs Brinkworth's case to be a 'swindle' and rejected her claims.
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