THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "B"
		Last updated 09/09/2012
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that
		date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections,
		or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a
		previous election result.
		Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the MP was baptised on
		that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the MP was
		buried on that date
		BEDFORD  (BEDFORDSHIRE)
10 Apr 1660		Sir Samuel Luke	27 Mar 1603	30 Aug 1670	67
		Sir Humphrey Winch,1st baronet	3 Jan 1622	Dec 1703	81
25 Mar 1661		Richard Taylor  (to 1667)	20 Mar 1620	30 Nov 1667	47
		John Kelyng	19 Jul 1607	13 May 1671	63
		Sir Samuel Luke	27 Mar 1603	30 Aug 1670	67
		Double return between John Kelyng and Sir
		Samuel Luke. Kelyng allowed to sit 16 May 1661
10 Jul 1663		Paulet St.John,later [1688] 3rd Earl of
		Bolingbroke  (to 1685)	23 Nov 1634	5 Oct 1711	76
30 Dec 1667		Sir William Beecher	24 Apr 1628	5 Dec 1694	66
12 Feb 1679		Sir William Francklyn	c 1635	7 Apr 1691
6 Mar 1685		Sir Anthony Chester,3rd baronet	c 1633	15 Feb 1698
		Thomas Christie  (to 1695)	30 Jan 1622	Jul 1697	75
9 Jan 1689		Thomas Hillersden  (to Mar 1698)	19 Oct 1653	26 Feb 1698	44
15 Mar 1690		Sir William Francklyn	c 1635	7 Apr 1691
		Double return between Thomas Christie and
		Sir William Francklyn. Christie declared elected
		12 Apr 1690
5 Nov 1695		William Farrer  (to Jul 1698)	c 1656	22 Sep 1737
18 Mar 1698		William Spencer  (to 1705)	after 1663	20 Oct 1705
20 Jul 1698		Sir Thomas Alston,3rd baronet	c 1676	Dec 1714
Jan 1701		Samuel Rolt	c 1671	4 Oct 1717
21 Nov 1701		William Farrer	c 1656	22 Sep 1737
17 Jul 1702		Edward Carteret	28 Nov 1671	15 Apr 1739	67
11 May 1705		William Farrer  (to 1713)	c 1656	22 Sep 1737
		Sir Philip Monoux,3rd baronet	25 Jan 1679	25 Nov 1707	28
15 Dec 1707		William Hillersden	24 Apr 1676	6 Apr 1725	48
6 Oct 1710		John Cater  (to 1715)	1672	16 Mar 1734	61
27 Aug 1713		Samuel Rolt	c 1671	4 Oct 1717
28 Jan 1715		William Farrer  (to 1727)	c 1656	22 Sep 1737
		John Thurlow Brace	c 1685	after 1735
21 Mar 1722		George Huxley	c 1687	19 Jul 1744
9 Jun 1725		John Thurlow Brace  (to 1728)   [he was	c 1685	after 1735
		unseated on petition in favour of James Metcalfe
		16 Apr 1728]
15 Aug 1727		John Orlebar  (to 1734)	1697	19 Dec 1765	68
16 Apr 1728		James Metcalfe		4 Dec 1730
30 Jan 1731		Sir Jeremy Vanacker Sambrooke,4th baronet	c 1703	5 Jul 1740
		(to 1740)
26 Apr 1734		Samuel Ongley  (to 1747)	2 Nov 1697	15 Jun 1747	49
14 Nov 1740		Sir Boteler Chernock,4th baronet	30 Apr 1696	4 Aug 1756	60
29 Jun 1747		Thomas Gore	c 1694	17 Mar 1777
		John Offley	c 1717	3 Apr 1784
15 Apr 1754		Francis Herne  (to 1768)	c 1702	26 Sep 1776
		Robert Henley-Ongley,later [1776] 1st
		Baron Ongley [I]	c 1721	23 Oct 1785
26 Mar 1761		Richard Vernon  (to 1774)	18 Jun 1726	16 Sep 1800	74
17 Mar 1768		Samuel Whitbread	30 Aug 1720	11 Jun 1796	75
18 Oct 1774		Sir William Wake,8th baronet  (to 1784)	1742	29 Oct 1785	43
		Robert Sparrow  [he was unseated on petition in	24 Oct 1741	8 Mar 1822	80
		favour of Samuel Whitbread 23 Mar 1775]
23 Mar 1775		Samuel Whitbread  (to 1790)	30 Aug 1720	11 Jun 1796	75
5 Apr 1784		William MacDowall Colhoun  (to 1802)		after 1802
28 Jun 1790		Samuel Whitbread  (to 1815)	18 Jan 1764	6 Jul 1815	51
6 Jul 1802		William Lee-Antonie	24 Feb 1764	11 Sep 1815	51
6 Oct 1812		Lord George William Russell  (to 1830)	8 May 1790	16 Jul 1846	56
17 Jul 1815		William Waldegrave,later [1846] 8th Earl
		Waldegrave	27 Oct 1788	24 Oct 1859	70
17 Jun 1818		William Henry Whitbread  (to 1835)	4 Jan 1795	21 Jun 1867	72
2 Aug 1830		Frederick Polhill	2 Jul 1798	20 Sep 1848	50
13 Dec 1832		Samuel Crawley  (to 1837)	16 Dec 1790	21 Dec 1852	62
8 Jan 1835		Frederick Polhill  (to 1847)	2 Jul 1798	20 Sep 1848	50
25 Jul 1837		Henry Stuart   [he was unseated on petition in		26 Oct 1854
		favour of Samuel Crawley 21 May 1838]
21 May 1838		Samuel Crawley	16 Dec 1790	21 Dec 1852	62
29 Jun 1841		Henry Stuart  (to 1854)		26 Oct 1854
3 Aug 1847		Sir Harry Verney,2nd baronet	8 Dec 1801	12 Feb 1894	92
8 Jul 1852		Samuel Whitbread  (to 1895)	6 May 1830	25 Dec 1915	85
6 Dec 1854		William Stuart	7 Mar 1825	21 Dec 1893	68
27 Mar 1857		Thomas Barnard	1830
29 Apr 1859		William Stuart	7 Mar 1825	21 Dec 1893	68
18 Nov 1868		James Howard	1821	25 Jan 1889	67
3 Feb 1874		Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner	14 Mar 1826	18 Aug 1881	55
1 Apr 1880		Charles Magniac	1827	23 Nov 1891	64
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
16 Jul 1895		Charles Guy Pym	11 Feb 1841	12 Nov 1918	77
15 Jan 1906		Percy Barlow	11 Jul 1867	18 Jun 1931	63
17 Jan 1910		Walter Annis Attenborough	27 Nov 1850	13 Jun 1932	81
Dec 1910		Frederick George Kellaway	3 Dec 1870	13 Apr 1933	62
15 Nov 1922		Sydney Richard Wells [kt 1938],later [1944]
		1st baronet	3 Aug 1879	26 Nov 1956	77
26 Jul 1945		Thomas Cecil Skeffington-Lodge	15 Jan 1905	23 Feb 1994	89
23 Feb 1950		Arthur Christopher John Soames,
		later [1978] Baron Soames [L]	12 Oct 1920	16 Sep 1987	66
31 Mar 1966		Brian Stewart Parkyn	28 Apr 1923	22 Mar 2006	82
18 Jun 1970		Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet  [kt 1986]	28 Jan 1918	14 Aug 2004	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983,BUT
		REVIVED 1997
1 May 1997		Patrick Hall	20 Oct 1951
6 May 2010		Richard Quentin Fuller	1962
		BEDFORDSHIRE
9 Apr 1660		Robert Bruce,styled Lord Bruce,later [1663] 2nd
		Earl of Elgin [S] and [1664] 1st Earl of
		Ailesbury  (to 1664)	19 Mar 1626	20 Oct 1685	59
		Samuel Browne	c 1597	11 Apr 1668
10 Apr 1661		Sir Humphrey Winch,1st baronet  (to 1679)	3 Jan 1622	Dec 1703	81
2 May 1664		Sir John Napier,4th baronet	5 Jul 1636	Aug 1711	75
18 Feb 1679		William Russell,styled Baron Russell	29 Sep 1639	21 Jul 1683	43
		Sir Humphrey Monoux,2nd baronet	10 Dec 1640	31 Jul 1685	44
10 Mar 1685		Sir Villiers Chernock,2nd baronet	c 1641	27 Oct 1694
		William Boteler	6 Aug 1634	1 Feb 1703	68
11 Jan 1689		Edward Russell (Lord Edward from 1694)	c 1642	30 Jun 1714
		(to 1705)
		William Duncombe	c 1647	13 Apr 1704
27 Feb 1690		Thomas Browne	3 Dec 1640	27 Jun 1713	72
2 Nov 1695		William Duncombe	c 1647	13 Apr 1704
20 Jul 1698		Sir William Gostwick,4th baronet  (to 1713)	21 Aug 1650	24 Jan 1720	69
23 May 1705		Sir Pynsent Chernock,3rd baronet	by 1670	2 Sep 1734
19 May 1708		Lord Edward Russell	c 1642	30 Jun 1714
2 Sep 1713		Sir Pynsent Chernock,3rd baronet	by 1670	2 Sep 1734
		John Harvey  (to Jul 1715)  [he was unseated on	c 1667	17 Nov 1721
		petition in favour of John Cater 19 Jul 1715]
16 Feb 1715		William Hillersden  (to 1722)	24 Apr 1676	6 Apr 1725	48
19 Jul 1715		John Cater	c 1673	16 Mar 1734
4 Apr 1722		Charles Leigh	28 Mar 1686	28 Jul 1749	63
		Sir Rowland Alston,4th baronet  (to 1741)	6 Sep 1679	2 Jan 1759	79
1 Sep 1727		Pattee Byng,later [1733] 2nd Viscount Torrington	25 May 1699	23 Jan 1747	47
16 Feb 1733		Charles Leigh	28 Mar 1686	28 Jul 1749	63
24 Apr 1734		John Spencer  [he was also returned for	13 May 1708	19 Jun 1746	38
		Woodstock,for which he chose to sit]
26 Feb 1735		Sir Roger Burgoyne,6th baronet  (to 1747)	23 Apr 1710	31 Dec 1780	70
18 May 1741		Sir John Chester,6th baronet	23 Apr 1693	8 Feb 1748	54
6 Jul 1747		Sir Danvers Osborn,3rd baronet	17 Nov 1715	12 Oct 1753	37
		Thomas Alston,later [1759] 5th baronet  (to 1761)	c 1724	18 Jul 1774
5 Dec 1753		John Fitzpatrick,1st Earl of Upper Ossory [I]	c 1719	23 Sep 1758
13 Dec 1758		Henry Osborn	27 Aug 1694	4 Feb 1771	76
1 Apr 1761		Francis Russell,styled Marquess of
		Tavistock	27 Sep 1739	22 Mar 1767	27
		Robert Henley-Ongley,later [1776] 1st
		Baron Ongley [I]  (to 1780)	c 1721	23 Oct 1785
7 Apr 1767		John Fitzpatrick,2nd Earl of Upper Ossory [I]
		(to 1794)	2 May 1745	1 Feb 1818	72
27 Sep 1780		St.Andrew St.John,later [1805] 14th Baron	22 Aug 1759	15 Oct 1817	58
		St.John of Bletso [following the general election
		in Apr 1784,he was unseated on petition in favour
		of Robert Henley-Ongley,Baron Ongley 1 Jul 1784]
1 Jul 1784		Robert Henley-Ongley,1st Baron Ongley [I]	c 1721	23 Oct 1785
		[he was unseated on petition in favour of
		St.Andrew St.John 19 May 1785]
19 May 1785		St.Andrew St.John,later [1805] 14th Baron
		St.John of Bletso  (to 1806)	22 Aug 1759	15 Oct 1817	58
15 Sep 1794		John Osborn,later [1818] 5th baronet  (to 1807)	3 Dec 1772	28 Aug 1848	75
5 Jul 1806		Francis Pym  (to 1818)	28 Oct 1756	4 Dec 1833	77
11 May 1807		Richard Fitzpatrick	24 Jan 1748	25 Apr 1813	65
14 Oct 1812		Francis Russell,styled Marquess of Tavistock,
		later [1839] 7th Duke of Bedford  (to 1832)	13 May 1788	14 May 1861	73
23 Jun 1818		Sir John Osborn,5th baronet	3 Dec 1772	28 Aug 1848	75
21 Mar 1820		Francis Pym	28 Oct 1756	4 Dec 1833	77
15 Jun 1826		Thomas Potter MacQueen	28 May 1792	31 Mar 1854	61
9 Aug 1830		William Stuart	31 Oct 1798	7 Jul 1874	75
5 May 1831		Sir Peter Payne, titular 3rd baronet	17 Mar 1762	23 Jan 1843	80
		For further information on this MP's claim to the
		Payne baronetcy, see the note at the foot of the
		page containing details of that title
24 Dec 1832		Lord Charles James Fox Russell
		(to 1841)	10 Feb 1807	29 Jun 1894	87
		William Stuart	31 Oct 1798	7 Jul 1874	75
13 Jan 1835		John Hume Cust (Egerton from 1849),styled
		Viscount Alford  (to 1851)	15 Oct 1812	3 Jan 1851	38
7 Jul 1841		William Thornton Astell	13 Oct 1774	7 Mar 1847	72
30 Mar 1847		Lord Charles James Fox Russell	10 Feb 1807	29 Jun 1894	87
7 Aug 1847		Francis Charles Hastings Russell,later [1872] 9th
		Duke of Bedford  (to 1872)	16 Oct 1819	14 Jan 1891	71
24 Feb 1851		Richard Thomas Gilpin,later [1876] 1st baronet	12 Jan 1801	8 Apr 1882	81
		(to 1880)
27 Jun 1872		Francis Bassett	1820	9 Jun 1899	78
28 Apr 1875		George William Francis Sackville
		Russell,styled Marquess of Tavistock,later
		[1891] 10th Duke of Bedford  (to 1885)	16 Apr 1852	23 Mar 1893	40
8 Apr 1880		James Howard	1821	25 Jan 1889	67
		SPLIT INTO TWO DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "BIGGLESWADE" AND "LUTON"
		BEDFORDSHIRE MID
14 Dec 1918		Maximilian Gowran Townley	22 Jun 1864	12 Dec 1942	78
15 Nov 1922		Frederick Caesar Linfield	1861	2 Jun 1939	77
29 Oct 1924		William Ward Warner	14 Mar 1867	21 Mar 1950	83
30 May 1929		Milner Gray	11 May 1871	10 Apr 1943	71
27 Oct 1931		Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd,later [1960] 1st
		Viscount Boyd of Merton	18 Nov 1904	8 Mar 1983	78
16 Nov 1960		Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings  [kt 1983]	4 May 1921	10 Jan 2005	83
9 Jun 1983		Nicholas Walter Lyell [kt 1987],later [2005]
		Baron Lyell of Markyate [L]	6 Dec 1938	30 Aug 2010	71
1 May 1997		Jonathan Sayeed	20 Mar 1948
5 May 2005		Nadine Vanessa Dorries	21 May 1957
		BEDFORDSHIRE NORTH
9 Jun 1983		Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet  [kt 1986]	28 Jan 1918	14 Aug 2004	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		BEDFORDSHIRE NORTH EAST
1 May 1997		Nicholas Walter Lyell,later [2005]
		Baron Lyell of Markyate [L]	6 Dec 1938	30 Aug 2010	71
7 Jun 2001		Alistair James Hendrie Burt	25 May 1955
		BEDFORDSHIRE SOUTH
23 Feb 1950		Edward Warner Moeran	27 Nov 1903	12 Dec 1997	94
25 Oct 1951		Norman John Cole	1 Jun 1909	22 Jan 1979	69
31 Mar 1966		Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts	7 Aug 1928
18 Jun 1970		William David Madel  [kt 1994]	6 Aug 1938
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BEDFORDSHIRE SOUTH WEST
9 Jun 1983		William David Madel  [kt 1994]	6 Aug 1938
7 Jun 2001		Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous	27 Apr 1962
		BEDWELLTY (MONMOUTHSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Sir Charles Edwards	19 Feb 1867	15 Jun 1954	87
23 Feb 1950		Harold Josiah Finch  [kt 1976]	2 May 1898	c Aug 1979	81
18 Jun 1970		Neil Gordon Kinnock,later [2005] Baron
		Kinnock [L]	28 Mar 1942
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BEESTON
28 Feb 1974		James Theodore Lester  [kt 1996]	23 May 1932
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BELFAST
1801		James Edward May,later [1811] 2nd baronet	5 Oct 1751	23 Jul 1814	62
16 Sep 1814		Stephen Edward May  [kt 1816]	c 1781	28 Oct 1845
3 May 1816		John Michel	10 Feb 1765	5 Apr 1844	79
8 Jul 1818		Arthur Chichester,later [1821] 1st baronet	8 Dec 1769	25 May 1847	77
16 Mar 1820		George Hamilton Chichester,styled Earl of
		Belfast,later [1844] 3rd Marquess of Donegall	10 Feb 1797	20 Oct 1883	86
6 Aug 1830		Sir Arthur Chichester,1st baronet	8 Dec 1769	25 May 1847	77
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED TO
		TWO MEMBERS 1832
21 Dec 1832		Lord Arthur Chichester	30 Sep 1808	25 Jan 1840	31
		James Emerson Tennent [kt 1845],later
		[1867] 1st baronet  (to 1837)	7 Apr 1804	6 Mar 1869	64
17 Jan 1835		John McCance	1772	11 Aug 1835	63
27 Aug 1835		George Dunbar		17 Aug 1875
5 Aug 1837		James Gibson		5 Feb 1880
		George Hamilton Chichester,styled Earl of
		Belfast,later [1844] 3rd Marquess of Donegall	10 Feb 1797	20 Oct 1883	86
		[Both members were unseated on petition in
		favour of James Emerson Tennent and George
		Dunbar 8 Mar 1838]
8 Mar 1838		James Emerson Tennent [kt 1845],later
		[1867] 1st baronet  [he was again returned at	7 Apr 1804	6 Mar 1869	64
		the general election in Jul 1841,but this election
		was declared void 1 Aug 1842]
		George Dunbar		17 Aug 1875
10 Jul 1841		William Gillilan Johnson  [kt 1849]   [this election	1808	9 Apr 1886	77
		was declared void 1 Aug 1842]
19 Aug 1842		David Robert Ross  (to 1847)	1797	27 Jul 1851	54
		James Emerson Tennent [kt 1845],later
		[1867] 1st baronet	7 Apr 1804	6 Mar 1869	64
20 Aug 1845		Lord John Ludford Chichester  (to 1852)	Nov 1811	22 Apr 1873	61
9 Aug 1847		Robert James Tennent	1803	25 May 1880	76
13 Jul 1852		Richard Davison	1796	20 Feb 1869	72
		Hugh McCalmont Cairns,later [1878] 1st Earl
		Cairns  (to 1866)	27 Dec 1819	2 Apr 1885	65
15 Jun 1860		Samuel Gibson Getty  (to 1868)	1817	15 Dec 1877	60
22 Nov 1866		Charles Lanyon  [kt 1868]	1813	31 May 1889	75
21 Nov 1868		William Johnston  (to 1878)	1829	17 Jul 1902	73
		Thomas McClure,later [1874] 1st baronet	4 Mar 1806	21 Jan 1893	86
6 Feb 1874		James Porter Corry,later [1885] 1st baronet	8 Sep 1826	28 Nov 1891	65
		(to 1885)
4 Apr 1878		William Ewart,later [1887] 1st baronet	22 Nov 1817	1 Aug 1889	71
		SPLIT INTO 4 DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "BELFAST EAST","BELFAST NORTH",
		"BELFAST SOUTH" and "BELFAST WEST"
		BELFAST EAST
27 Nov 1885		Edward Samuel Wesley de Cobain
		[expelled 26 Feb 1892]	1840	23 Sep 1908	68
		For further information on the cause of his
		expulsion, see the note at the foot of this page
9 Mar 1892		Gustav Wilhelm Wolff	14 Nov 1834	17 Apr 1913	78
Dec 1910		Robert James McMordie	31 Jan 1849	25 Mar 1914	65
7 Apr 1914		Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford	8 Sep 1853	20 Mar 1934	80
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918,
		BUT REVIVED 1922
15 Nov 1922		Herbert Dixon,later [1939] 1st Baron Glentoran	23 Jan 1880	20 Jul 1950	70
8 Feb 1940		Henry Peirson Harland	1 Sep 1876	11 Aug 1945	68
26 Jul 1945		Thomas Loftus Cole	1877	7 Mar 1961	83
23 Feb 1950		Alan John McKibbin	2 Feb 1892	2 Dec 1958	66
19 Mar 1959		Stanley Raymond McMaster	23 Sep 1926	16 Apr 1992	65
28 Feb 1974		William Craig	2 Dec 1924	25 Apr 2011	86
3 May 1979		Peter David Robinson	29 Dec 1948
6 May 2010		Naomi Rachel Long	13 Dec 1971
		BELFAST NORTH
27 Nov 1885		William Ewart,later [1887] 1st baronet	22 Nov 1817	1 Aug 1889	71
12 Aug 1889		Sir Edward James Harland,1st baronet	15 May 1831	24 Dec 1895	64
22 Jan 1896		Sir James Horner Haslett	Jan 1832	18 Aug 1905	73
14 Sep 1905		Sir Daniel Dixon,1st baronet	28 Mar 1844	10 Mar 1907	62
16 Apr 1907		George Smith Clark,later [1917] 1st baronet	8 Nov 1861	23 Mar 1935	73
20 Jan 1910		Robert Thompson	1839	3 Aug 1918	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918,
		BUT REVIVED 1922
15 Nov 1922		Thomas Edward McConnell  [kt 1937]	7 Apr 1868	22 May 1938	70
30 May 1929		Thomas Somerset  [kt 1944]	14 Dec 1870	16 Jun 1947	76
26 Jul 1945		William Frederick Neill  [kt 1948]	8 May 1889	3 Jan 1960	70
23 Feb 1950		Harford Montgomery Hyde	14 Aug 1907	10 Aug 1989	81
8 Oct 1959		William Stratton Mills	1 Jul 1932
28 Feb 1974		John Carson	1933
3 May 1979		John McQuade	Jul 1912	19 Nov 1984	72
9 Jun 1983		Alfred Cecil Walker  [kt 2002]	17 Dec 1924	3 Jan 2007	82
7 Jun 2001		Nigel Alexander Dodds	20 Aug 1958
		BELFAST SOUTH
27 Nov 1885		William Johnston	22 Feb 1829	17 Jul 1902	73
18 Aug 1902		Thomas Henry Sloan	1870	1941	71
20 Jan 1910		James Chambers	1860	11 Jun 1917	56
2 Jul 1917		William Arthur Lindsay	14 Apr 1866	21 Jun 1936	70
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918,
		BUT REVIVED 1922
15 Nov 1922		Thomas Moles	Nov 1871	3 Feb 1937	75
30 May 1929		William John Stewart	1868	14 May 1946	77
26 Jul 1945		Conolly Hugh Gage	10 Nov 1905	3 Oct 1984	78
4 Nov 1952		Sir David Callender Campbell	29 Jan 1891	12 Jun 1963	72
22 Oct 1963		Rafton John Pounder	13 May 1933	16 Apr 1991	57
28 Feb 1974		Robert Jonathan Bradford	8 Jun 1941	14 Nov 1981	40
		For further information on the death of this MP,
		see the note at the foot of this page
4 Mar 1982		William Martin Smyth	15 Jun 1931
5 May 2005		Alasdair McDonnell	1 Sep 1949
		BELFAST WEST
27 Nov 1885		James Horner Haslett  [kt 1887]	Jan 1832	18 Aug 1905	73
7 Jul 1886		Thomas Sexton	1848	1 Nov 1932	84
Jul 1892		Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster	19 Aug 1855	12 Mar 1909	53
18 Jan 1906		Joseph Devlin	13 Feb 1871	18 Jan 1934	62
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918,
		BUT REVIVED 1922
15 Nov 1922		Robert John Lynn  [kt 1924]	1873	5 Aug 1945	72
30 May 1929		William Edward David Allen	6 Jan 1901	18 Sep 1973	72
27 Oct 1931		Alexander Crawford Browne		11 Dec 1942
9 Feb 1943		John Beattie	1886	9 Mar 1960	73
23 Feb 1950		James Godfrey MacManaway	22 Apr 1898	3 Nov 1951	53
		For further information on this MP, and a
		discussion on the eligibility of clergy to sit in
		the House of Commons, see the note at the
		foot of this page
29 Nov 1950		Thomas Leslie Teevan	Jul 1927	11 Oct 1954	27
25 Oct 1951		John Beattie	1886	9 Mar 1960	73
26 May 1955		Florence Patricia Alice McLaughlin	23 Jun 1916	7 Jan 1997	80
15 Oct 1964		James Alexander Kilfedder  [kt 1992]	16 Jul 1928	20 Mar 1995	66
31 Mar 1966		Gerard Fitt,later [1983] Baron Fitt [L]	9 Apr 1926	26 Aug 2005	79
9 Jun 1983		Gerard Adams	6 Oct 1948
9 Apr 1992		Joseph Gerard Hendron	12 Nov 1932
1 May 1997		Gerard Adams	6 Oct 1948
9 Jun 2011		Paul Maskey	10 Jun 1967
		BELPER (DERBYSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		John George Hancock	15 Oct 1857	19 Jul 1940	82
6 Dec 1923		Herbert Wragg	1880	13 Feb 1956	75
30 May 1929		Jack Lees	1884	11 Aug 1940	56
27 Oct 1931		Sir Herbert Wragg	1880	13 Feb 1956	75
26 Jul 1945		George Alfred Brown,later [1970] Baron
		George-Brown [L]	2 Sep 1914	2 Jun 1985	70
18 Jun 1970		Dudley Geoffrey Stewart-Smith	28 Dec 1933	13 Mar 2004	70
28 Feb 1974		Roderick Lemond MacFarquhar	2 Dec 1930
3 May 1979		Irene Sheila Faith	3 Jun 1928
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BERE ALSTON (DEVONSHIRE)
9 Apr 1660		John Maynard	15 Aug 1638	28 May 1662	23
		George Howard  [he was also returned for	Feb 1622	17 Sep 1671	49
		Tavistock,for which he chose to sit]
		Sir Francis Drake,2nd baronet	25 Sep 1617	6 Jan 1662	44
		Double return between Howard and Drake.
		Howard seated 27 Apr 1660.
26 Jun 1660		Richard Arundell,later [1664] 1st Baron Arundell
		of Trerice	c 1616	7 Sep 1687
13 Apr 1661		Sir John Maynard  (to Mar 1679)   [at the 1679	18 Jul 1604	8 Oct 1690	86
		general election,Maynard was also returned for
		Plymouth,for which he chose to sit]
		George Howard  [he was also returned for	Feb 1622	17 Sep 1671	49
		Tavistock,for which he chose to sit]
		Elizeus Crymes
		Double return between Howard and Crymes.
		Howard seated 16 May 1661,although he later
		chose to sit for Tavistock.
29 Jan 1662		Richard Arundell,later [1664] 1st Baron Arundell
		of Trerice	c 1616	7 Sep 1687
4 Nov 1665		Joseph Maynard	15 Dec 1639	25 Oct 1689	49
15 Feb 1679		Sir William Bastard  (to 1681)	c 1636	2 Jul 1690
29 Mar 1679		Sir John Trevor	c 1637	20 May 1717
5 Mar 1681		Sir Duncombe Colchester	26 Sep 1630	25 May 1694	63
		John Elwill,later [1709] 1st baronet	24 Sep 1643	25 Apr 1717
16 Apr 1685		Sir John Maynard  (to 31 Jan 1689)  [at the	18 Jul 1604	8 Oct 1690	86
		1689 general election,he was also returned for
		Plymouth,for which he chose to sit]
		Sir Benjamin Bathurst	c 1639	27 Apr 1704
19 Jan 1689		John Elwill,later [1709] 1st baronet  (to 1690)	24 Sep 1643	25 Apr 1717	73
31 Jan 1689		Sir John Holt	30 Dec 1642	5 Mar 1710	67
21 May 1689		Sir John Trevor	c 1637	20 May 1717
11 Mar 1690		Sir Francis Drake  [he was also returned for	1 May 1647	Dec 1717	70
		Tavistock,for which he chose to sit]
		John Swinfen  (to 1694)	19 Mar 1613	12 Apr 1694	81
15 Dec 1691		John Smith  (to Nov 1695)	c 1655	2 Oct 1723
14 May 1694		Sir Henry Hobart,4th baronet  (to Dec 1695)	c 1657	21 Aug 1698
		[at the general election in Nov 1695,Hobart was
		also returned for Norfolk,for which he chose to sit]
15 Nov 1695		John Elwill,later [1709] 1st baronet  (to Jul 1698)	24 Sep 1643	25 Apr 1717	73
10 Dec 1695		Sir Rowland Gwynne  (to Dec 1698)	c 1659	24 Jan 1726
		[at the general election in Jul 1698,Gwynne was
		also returned for Breconshire,for which he chose
		to sit]
27 Jul 1698		Sir John Hawles  (to 1701)	18 Mar 1645	2 Aug 1716	71
		[he was also returned for Mitchell in 1698 and
		was apparently allowed to represent both seats]
30 Dec 1698		James Montagu  [kt 1705]	2 Feb 1666	30 Oct 1723	57
10 Jan 1701		Sir Rowland Gwynne  [he was also returned for	c 1659	24 Jan 1726
		Breconshire,for which he chose to sit]
		Sir Peter King,later [1725] 1st Baron King
		of Ockham  (to 1715)	c 1669	22 Jul 1734
7 Mar 1701		William Cowper,later [1718] 1st Earl Cowper	24 Jun 1665	10 Oct 1723	58
1 Dec 1705		Spencer Cowper	23 Feb 1669	10 Dec 1728	59
		For further information on this MP, see the note
		at the foot of this page
13 Oct 1710		Lawrence Carter  (to 1722)	30 Sep 1671	14 Mar 1744	73
2 Feb 1715		Horatio Walpole,later [1756] 1st Baron Walpole	8 Dec 1678	5 Feb 1757	78
9 Dec 1717		Edward Carteret	28 Nov 1671	15 Apr 1739	67
29 Apr 1721		Philip Cavendish  [he was unseated on petition		14 Jul 1743
		in favour of St.John Brodrick 6 Jun 1721]
6 Jun 1721		St.John Brodrick  (to 1727)	c 1685	21 Feb 1728
23 Mar 1722		Sir John Hobart,5th baronet,later [1746] 1st
		Earl of Buckinghamshire   [he was also returned	11 Oct 1693	22 Sep 1756	62
		for St.Ives,for which he chose to sit]
4 Feb 1724		Sir Robert Rich,4th baronet	3 Jul 1685	1 Feb 1768	82
23 Aug 1727		Sir John Hobart,5th baronet,later [1746] 1st
		Earl of Buckinghamshire  [he was also returned	11 Oct 1693	22 Sep 1756	62
		for Norfolk,for which he chose to sit]
		Sir Francis Henry Drake ,4th baronet  [he was	2 Mar 1694	26 Jan 1740	45
		also returned for Tavistock,for which he
		chose to sit]
2 Mar 1728		Sir Archer Croft,2nd baronet  (to May 1734)	3 Apr 1683	10 Dec 1753	70
		Henry Howard,styled [improperly] Baron Howard
		de Walden, later [1733] 10th Earl of Suffolk	1 Jan 1707	22 Apr 1745	38
5 Feb 1734		William Morden (Harbord from 1742),later [1746]
		1st baronet	c 1696	17 Feb 1770
1 May 1734		Sir Francis Henry Drake,4th baronet	2 Mar 1694	26 Jan 1740	45
		John Bristow  (to 1741)	25 Apr 1701	14 Nov 1768	67
22 Feb 1740		Samuel Heathcote  (to 1747)	11 Feb 1699	31 Mar 1775	76
9 May 1741		William Morden (Harbord from 1742),later [1746]
		1st baronet  (to 1754)	c 1696	17 Feb 1770
2 Jul 1747		Sir Francis Henry Drake,5th baronet   (to 1771)	29 Aug 1723	19 Feb 1794	70
25 Apr 1754		John Bristow	25 Apr 1701	14 Nov 1768	67
31 Mar 1761		George Hobart,later [1793] 3rd Earl of
		Buckinghamshire  (to 1780)	Oct 1731	14 Oct 1804	73
29 Jan 1771		Francis William Drake	22 Aug 1724	Dec 1787	63
8 Oct 1774		Sir Francis Henry Drake,5th baronet	29 Aug 1723	19 Feb 1794	70
9 Sep 1780		Lord Algernon Percy   [he was also returned for	21 Jan 1750	21 Oct 1830	80
		Northumberland,for which he chose to sit]
		George Macartney,1st Baron Macartney [I],
		later [1794] 1st Earl Macartney [I]  (to 1781)	3 May 1737	31 Mar 1806	68
2 Dec 1780		William Robert Feilding,styled Viscount
		Feilding  (to 1790)	15 Jun 1760	8 Aug 1799	39
14 Feb 1781		Laurence Cox  [kt 1786]		26 Aug 1792
3 Apr 1784		Richard Wesley (Wellesley from 1789),2nd Earl of
		Mornington [I] later [1799] 1st Marquess Wellesley	20 Jun 1760	26 Sep 1842	82
1 Feb 1787		Charles Rainsford	3 Feb 1728	24 May 1809	81
23 Dec 1788		John Mitford [kt 1793],later [1802]
		1st Baron Redesdale  (to 1799)	18 Aug 1748	16 Jan 1830	81
18 Jun 1790		Sir George Howland Beaumont,7th baronet	6 Nov 1753	7 Feb 1827	73
27 May 1796		William Mitford  (to 1806)	10 Feb 1744	8 Feb 1827	82
29 Jul 1799		George Percy,styled Baron Lovaine,later [1830]
		2nd Earl of Beverley and [1865] 5th Duke of
		Northumberland  (to Jan 1831)	22 Jun 1778	21 Aug 1867	89
4 Nov 1806		Josceline Percy	29 Jan 1784	19 Oct 1856	72
9 Mar 1820		Henry Percy	14 Sep 1785	15 Apr 1825	39
6 May 1825		Percy Ashburnham	22 Nov 1799	25 Jan 1881	81
31 Jul 1830		Christopher Blackett  (to 1831)	23 Oct 1787	16 Jan 1847	59
11 Jan 1831		David Lyon  (to 1832)	c 1794	8 Apr 1872
2 May 1831		Algernon George Percy,styled Baron Lovaine,
		later [1867] 6th Duke of Northumberland	20 May 1810	2 Jan 1899	88
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		BERKSHIRE
19 Apr 1660		Sir Robert Pye	c 1622	28 Dec 1701
		Richard Powle  (to 1678)	17 Jul 1628	14 Jul 1678	49
15 Apr 1661		John Lovelace,later [1670] 3rd Baron Lovelace	c 1642	27 Sep 1693
12 Dec 1670		Richard Neville	30 May 1615	7 Oct 1676	61
5 Mar 1677		Sir Humphrey Forster,2nd baronet  (to Aug 1679)	21 Dec 1650	13 Dec 1711	60
19 Aug 1678		Henry Alexander,4th Earl of Stirling [S]		11 Feb 1691
		William Barker		25 Mar 1685
		Double return
3 Mar 1679		William Barker  (to 1685)		25 Mar 1685
18 Aug 1679		Richard Southby  (to 1689)	c 1624	7 Jan 1704
23 Mar 1685		Sir Humphrey Forster,2nd baronet	21 Dec 1650	13 Dec 1711	60
14 Jan 1689		Montagu Venables-Bertie,styled Baron
		Norreys,later [1699] 2nd Earl of Abingdon	4 Feb 1673	16 Jun 1743	70
		Sir Henry Winchcombe,2nd baronet  (to 1695)	16 Jun 1659	5 Nov 1703	44
24 Feb 1690		Sir Humphrey Forster,2nd baronet  (to 1701)	21 Dec 1650	13 Dec 1711	60
23 Oct 1695		Richard Neville  (to 1710)	12 Oct 1655	1 Jul 1717	61
26 Nov 1701		Sir John Stonhouse,3rd baronet  (to 1734)	c 1672	10 Oct 1733
18 Oct 1710		Henry St.John,later [1712] 1st Viscount
		Bolingbroke	10 Oct 1678	12 Dec 1751	73
23 Jul 1712		Robert Packer	10 Feb 1678	4 Apr 1731	53
5 May 1731		Winchcomb Howard Packer  (to 1746)	20 Nov 1702	21 Aug 1746	43
6 Feb 1734		William Archer	4 Jun 1677	30 Jun 1739	62
5 Dec 1739		Peniston Powney  (to 1757)	c 1699	8 Mar 1757
26 Nov 1746		Henry Pye  (to 1766)	29 Jul 1709	2 Mar 1766	56
13 Apr 1757		Arthur Vansittart  (to 1774)	c 1727	12 Nov 1804
2 Apr 1766		Thomas Craven	c 1715	14 Dec 1772
30 Dec 1772		John Elwes  (to 1784)	7 Apr 1714	26 Nov 1789	75
		For further information on this MP, see the note
		at the foot of this page.
20 Oct 1774		Christopher Griffith	c 1721	12 Jan 1776
21 Feb 1776		Winchcombe Henry Hartley	c 1740	12 Aug 1794
7 Apr 1784		George Vansittart  (to 1812)	15 Sep 1745	31 Jan 1825	79
		Henry James Pye	10 Feb 1745	11 Aug 1813	68
24 Jun 1790		Winchcombe Henry Hartley	c 1740	12 Aug 1794
16 Sep 1794		Charles Dundas,later [1832] 1st Baron Amesbury
		(to Jun 1832)	5 Aug 1751	7 Jul 1832	80
12 Oct 1812		Richard Neville,later [1825] 3rd Baron
		Braybrooke	26 Sep 1783	13 Mar 1858	74
30 Mar 1825		Robert Palmer	31 Jan 1793	24 Nov 1872	79
9 May 1831		Robert George Throckmorton,later [1840]
		8th baronet  (to 1835)	5 Dec 1800	28 Jun 1862	61
7 Jun 1832		Robert Palmer  (to 1859)	31 Jan 1793	24 Nov 1872	79
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED TO
		THREE MEMBERS 1832
21 Dec 1832		John Walter  (to 1837)	23 Feb 1776	28 Jul 1847	71
14 Jan 1835		Philip Pusey  (to 1852)	25 Jun 1799	9 Jul 1855	56
4 Aug 1837		William Keppel Barrington,6th Viscount
		Barrington [I]  (to 1857)	1 Oct 1793	9 Feb 1867	73
15 Jul 1852		George Henry Vansittart  (to 1859)	1823	3 Nov 1885	62
6 Apr 1857		Philip Pleydell-Bouverie  (to 1865)	21 Oct 1788	27 May 1872	83
3 May 1859		Leicester Viney Vernon	1798	14 Apr 1860	61
		John Walter  (to 1865)	8 Oct 1818	4 Nov 1894	76
2 May 1860		Richard Benyon  (to 1876)	17 Nov 1811	26 Jul 1897	85
22 Jul 1865		Robert James Loyd-Lindsay VC,later [1885] 1st
		Baron Wantage  (to 1885)	16 Apr 1832	10 Jun 1901	69
		For further information on this MP and VC
		winner, see the note at the foot of the page
		containing details of his peerage
		Sir Charles Russell VC,3rd baronet	22 Jun 1826	14 Apr 1883	56
		For further information on this MP and VC
		winner, see the note at the foot of the page
		containing details of his baronetcy
28 Nov 1868		John Walter  (to 1885)	8 Oct 1818	4 Nov 1894	76
24 Feb 1876		Philip Wroughton	6 Apr 1846	7 Jun 1910	64
		SPLIT INTO 3 DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "ABINGDON","NEWBURY" and
		"WOKINGHAM"
		BERKSHIRE EAST
9 Jun 1983		Andrew James Mackay	27 Aug 1949
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		BERMONDSEY
26 Nov 1885		James Edwin Thorold Rogers	1823	14 Oct 1890	67
5 Jul 1886		Alfred Lafone	13 Feb 1821	26 Apr 1911	90
Jul 1892		Reuben Vincent Barrow  [kt 1912]	27 Apr 1838	13 Feb 1918	79
17 Jul 1895		Alfred Lafone	13 Feb 1821	26 Apr 1911	90
4 Oct 1900		Henry John Cockayne Cust	10 Oct 1861	2 Mar 1917	55
17 Jan 1906		George Joseph Cooper	1844	7 Oct 1909	65
27 Oct 1909		John Molesworth Thomas Dumphreys	24 Dec 1844	18 Dec 1925	80
18 Jan 1910		Harold James Glanville	5 Jun 1854	27 Sep 1930	76
		SPLIT INTO "ROTHERHITHE" AND
		"BERMONDSEY WEST" 1918,RE-UNITED 1950
23 Feb 1950		Robert Joseph Mellish,later [1985] Baron
		Mellish [L]	3 Mar 1913	9 May 1998	85
24 Feb 1983		Simon Henry Ward Hughes	17 May 1951
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BERMONDSEY AND OLD SOUTHWARK
6 May 2010		Simon Henry Ward Hughes	17 May 1951
		BERMONDSEY WEST
14 Dec 1918		Harold James Glanville	5 Jun 1854	27 Sep 1930	76
15 Nov 1922		Alfred Salter	1873	24 Aug 1945	72
6 Dec 1923		Roderick Morris Kedward	14 Sep 1881	5 Mar 1937	55
29 Oct 1924		Alfred Salter	1873	24 Aug 1945	72
26 Jul 1945		Richard Sargood	31 Jul 1888	27 Mar 1979	90
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		BERWICK & EAST LOTHIAN
23 Feb 1950		John James Robertson	23 May 1898	6 Oct 1955	57
25 Oct 1951		William John St.Clair Anstruther-Gray,later [1956]
		1st baronet and [1966] Baron Kilmany [L]	5 Mar 1905	6 Aug 1985	80
31 Mar 1966		John Pitcairn Mackintosh	24 Aug 1929	30 Jul 1978	48
28 Feb 1974		Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr,styled Earl of
		Ancram,later [2004] 13th Marquess of Lothian
		and [2010] Baron Kerr of Monteviot [L]	7 Jul 1945
10 Oct 1974		John Pitcairn Mackintosh	24 Aug 1929	30 Jul 1978	48
26 Oct 1978		John David Home-Robertson	5 Dec 1948
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		BERWICK & HADDINGTON
14 Dec 1918		John Deans Hope	8 May 1860	13 Dec 1949	89
15 Nov 1922		Walter Waring	11 Aug 1876	16 Nov 1930	54
6 Dec 1923		Robert Spence	1879	1 Feb 1965	85
29 Oct 1924		Chichester de Windt Crookshank	18 Oct 1868	23 Oct 1958	90
30 May 1929		George Sinkinson	25 Nov 1874	14 Jan 1939	64
27 Oct 1931		John Helias Finnie McEwen,later [1953] 1st
		baronet	21 Jun 1894	19 Apr 1962	67
26 Jul 1945		John James Robertson	23 May 1898	6 Oct 1955	57
		CHANGED TO "BERWICK &
		EAST LOTHIAN" 1950
		BERWICKSHIRE
27 May 1708		George Baillie	16 Mar 1664	6 Aug 1738	74
30 May 1734		Alexander Hume-Campbell  (to 1761)	15 Feb 1708	19 Jul 1760	52
28 May 1741		Sir John Sinclair
		Double return between Alexander Hume-Campbell
		and Sir John Sinclair. Hume-Campbell declared
		re-elected 19 Jan 1742
1 Jan 1761		James Pringle,later [1779] 4th baronet	6 Nov 1726	7 Apr 1809	82
15 Apr 1779		Sir John Paterson,3rd baronet	c 1730	14 Jan 1782
21 Sep 1780		Hugh Scott,later [1827] 6th Baron Polwarth [S]	10 Apr 1758	29 Dec 1841	83
		[Election declared void 18 Mar 1781. At the
		subsequent by-election held on 12 Apr 1781,
		Scott was again returned]
27 Apr 1784		Patrick Home	22 May 1728	2 Jun 1809	81
16 Jun 1796		George Baillie	8 Oct 1763	11 Dec 1841	78
6 Jul 1818		Sir John Marjoribanks,1st baronet	13 Jan 1763	5 Feb 1833	70
27 Jun 1826		Anthony Maitland,later [1860] 10th Earl
		of Lauderdale	10 Jun 1785	22 Mar 1863	77
24 Dec 1832		Charles Albany Marjoribanks	1794	c Dec 1833	39
13 Jan 1834		Sir Hugh Purves-Hume-Campbell,7th baronet	15 Dec 1812	30 Jan 1894	81
4 Aug 1847		Francis Scott	31 Jan 1806	9 Mar 1884	78
5 Apr 1859		David Robertson,later [1873] 1st Baron
		Marjoribanks	2 Apr 1797	19 Jun 1873	76
30 Jun 1873		William Miller,later [1874] 1st baronet	25 Mar 1809	10 Oct 1887	78
12 Feb 1874		Robert Baillie-Hamilton	8 Oct 1828	5 Sep 1891	62
8 Apr 1880		Edward Marjoribanks,later [1894] 2nd Baron
		Tweedmouth	8 Jul 1849	15 Sep 1909	60
29 Mar 1894		Harold John Tennant	1865	9 Nov 1935	70
		NAME ALTERED TO  "BERWICK &
		HADDINGTON" 1918
		BERWICKSHIRE, ROXBURGH & SELKIRK
5 May 2005		Michael Kevin Moore	3 Jun 1965
		BERWICK UPON TWEED (NORTHUMBERLAND)
4 Apr 1660		Sir Thomas Widdrington  [he was also returned	c 1600	31 May 1664
		for York,for which he chose to sit]
		John Rushworth  (to 1661)	c 1612	12 May 1690
22 Jun 1660		Edward Grey  (to 1677)	c 1611	17 Feb 1676
29 Apr 1661		Sir Thomas Widdrington	c 1600	31 May 1664
10 Jan 1665		Daniel Collingwood  (to 1679)	c 1634	3 Apr 1681
2 Mar 1677		Peregrine Osborne,styled Viscount Osborne,
		later [1712] 2nd Duke of Leeds	29 Sep 1659	25 Jun 1729	69
28 Feb 1679		Ralph Grey,later [1701] 4th Baron Grey of Werke	28 Nov 1661	20 Jun 1706	44
		John Rushworth	c 1612	12 May 1690
1 Apr 1685		Philip Bickerstaffe	28 Nov 1639	after 1714
		Ralph Widdrington	c 1640	22 Jun 1718
11 Jan 1689		Francis Blake  [kt 1689]   (to 1695)	17 Oct 1638	8 Jan 1718	79
		Philip Babington	c 1632	late 1690
25 Feb 1690		Samuel Ogle  (to 1710)	25 Mar 1659	10 Mar 1719	59
4 Nov 1695		Ralph Grey,later [1701] 4th Baron Grey of Werke	28 Nov 1661	20 Jun 1706	44
1 Aug 1698		Sir Francis Blake	17 Oct 1638	8 Jan 1718	79
15 Jan 1701		Ralph Grey,later [1701] 4th Baron Grey of Werke	28 Nov 1661	20 Jun 1706	44
2 Dec 1701		Sir Francis Blake  [he was also returned for	17 Oct 1638	8 Jan 1718	79
		Northumberland,for which he chose to sit]
9 Feb 1702		Jonathan Hutchinson  (to 1711)	c 1662	11 Jun 1711
7 Oct 1710		William Kerr  (to 1713)	by 1682	7 Jan 1741
22 Dec 1711		Richard Hampden  (to 1715)	after 1674	27 Jul 1728
4 Sep 1713		William Orde	c 1681	18 Jun 1748
1 Feb 1715		Grey Neville  (to May 1723)	23 Sep 1681	24 Apr 1723	41
		John Barrington,later [1720] 1st Viscount
		Barrington [I]  [expelled 15 Feb 1723]	1678	14 Dec 1734	56
11 Mar 1723		Henry Grey  (to 1727)	17 Aug 1683	9 Sep 1740	57
7 May 1723		William Kerr	by 1682	7 Jan 1741
25 Aug 1727		George Liddell  (to Nov 1740)	1 Aug 1678	9 Oct 1740	62
		Joseph Sabine	c 1661	24 Oct 1739
30 Apr 1734		Hugh Hume-Campbell,styled Lord Polwarth
		later [1740] 3rd Earl of Marchmont	15 Feb 1708	10 Jan 1794	85
13 Mar 1740		William Wildman Barrington,2nd Viscount
		Barrington [I]  (to 1754)	15 Jan 1717	1 Feb 1793	76
27 Nov 1740		Thomas Watson  (to Dec 1765)	c 1701	7 Jan 1766
23 Apr 1754		John Hussey Delaval,later [1761] 1st baronet,
		[1783] 1st Baron Delaval [I] and [1786] 1st
		Baron Delaval [GB]	17 Mar 1728	17 May 1808	80
27 Mar 1761		John Crauford	c 1725	2 Aug 1764
18 Jan 1765		Sir John Hussey Delaval,1st baronet,later
		[1783] 1st Baron Delaval [I] and [1786] 1st
		Baron Delaval [GB]  (to 1774)	17 Mar 1728	17 May 1808	80
24 Dec 1765		Wilmot Vaughan, later [1766] 4th Viscount
		Lisburne and [1776] 1st Earl of Lisburne [I]	c 1730	6 Jan 1800
19 Mar 1768		Robert Paris Taylor	c 1741	7 Aug 1792
12 Oct 1774		Jacob Wilkinson	c 1716	12 May 1791
		John Vaughan  [kt 1792]  (to 1795)	c 1731	30 Jun 1795
15 Sep 1780		Sir John Hussey Delaval,1st baronet,later
		[1783] 1st Baron Delaval [I] and [1786] 1st
		Baron Delaval [GB]	17 Mar 1728	17 May 1808	80
21 Sep 1786		Sir Gilbert Elliot [Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound from
		1797], 4th baronet, later [1813] 1st Earl of Minto	23 Apr 1751	21 Jun 1814	63
22 Jun 1790		Charles Carpenter  (to 1796)	3 Jan 1757	5 Sep 1803	46
28 Sep 1795		Sir John Callender,1st baronet  (to 1802)	Sep 1739	2 Apr 1812	72
7 Jun 1796		George Carpenter,2nd Earl of Tyrconnel [I]	30 Jun 1750	15 Apr 1805	54
23 Jul 1802		Thomas Hall	12 Jul 1747	10 May 1815	67
		John Fordyce	1735	1 Jul 1809	74
		Election declared void 5 Apr 1803
19 Apr 1803		Francis Sitwell	c 1776	18 Feb 1813
		Alexander Allan,later [1819] 1st baronet	c 1764	14 Sep 1820
26 Nov 1806		Sir John Callender,1st baronet	Sep 1739	2 Apr 1812	72
		Alexander Tower	by 1760	20 Feb 1813
11 May 1807		Alexander Allan,later [1819] 1st baronet	c 1764	14 Sep 1820
		(to 1820)
		Sir Alexander MacDonald Lockhart,1st baronet		22 Jun 1816
12 Oct 1812		Henry Heneage St.Paul	16 Mar 1777	1 Nov 1820	43
13 Mar 1820		Charles Augustus Bennet,styled Baron
		Ossulston,later [1822] 5th Earl of Tankerville
		(to 1823)	28 Apr 1776	25 Jun 1859	83
		Sir David Milne   [his election was declared	25 May 1763	5 May 1845	81
		void 3 Jul 1820]
13 Jul 1820		Henry Heneage St.Paul	16 Mar 1777	1 Nov 1820	43
7 Dec 1820		Sir Francis Blake,3rd baronet  (to 1826)	18 Aug 1774	3 Aug 1860	85
17 Feb 1823		Sir John Poo Beresford	1766	2 Oct 1844	78
21 Jun 1826		Marcus Beresford  (to 1832)	28 Jul 1800	16 Mar 1876	75
		John Gladstone   [his election was declared	11 Dec 1764	7 Dec 1851	86
		void 19 Mar 1827]
29 Mar 1827		Sir Francis Blake,3rd baronet  (to 1835)	18 Aug 1774	3 Aug 1860	85
13 Dec 1832		Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin  (to 1837)	1773	1 May 1841	67
8 Jan 1835		James Bradshaw		4 Mar 1847	60
26 Jul 1837		Richard Hodgson [later Huntley]  (to 1847)	1 Apr 1812	Dec 1877	65
		William Holmes	2 Apr 1779	26 Jan 1851	71
1 Jul 1841		Matthew Forster  (to 1853)	1786	2 Sep 1869	83
30 Jul 1847		John Campbell Renton	1814	25 Feb 1856	41
8 Jul 1852		John Stapleton	11 Apr 1816	25 Dec 1891	75
		Election of Stapleton and Forster declared
		void 25 Apr 1853
14 May 1853		Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks,later [1866] 1st
		baronet and [1881] 1st Baron Tweedmouth	29 Dec 1820	4 Mar 1894	73
		(to 1859)
		John Forster	1817
28 Mar 1857		John Stapleton	11 Apr 1816	25 Dec 1891	75
2 May 1859		Charles William Gordon  (to 1863)	1817	15 Jun 1863	46
		Ralph Anstruther Earle	1835	10 Jun 1879	43
20 Aug 1859		Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks,later [1866] 1st
		baronet and [1881] 1st Baron Tweedmouth	29 Dec 1820	4 Mar 1894	73
		(to 1868)
29 Jun 1863		William Walter Cargill	1813	23 May 1894	80
12 Jul 1865		Alexander Mitchell	1831	16 May 1873	41
17 Nov 1868		William Coutts Keppel,styled Viscount Bury,
		later [1891] 7th Earl of Albemarle	15 Apr 1832	28 Aug 1894	62
		John Stapleton	11 Apr 1816	25 Dec 1891	75
6 Feb 1874		Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks,1st baronet
		later [1881] 1st Baron Tweedmouth  (to 1881)	29 Dec 1820	4 Mar 1894	73
		David Milne Home	25 Sep 1838	19 Aug 1901	62
3 Apr 1880		Henry Strutt,later [Jun 1880] 2nd Baron Belper	20 May 1840	26 Jul 1914	74
19 Jul 1880		David Milne Home  (to 1885)	25 Sep 1838	19 Aug 1901	62
26 Oct 1881		Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham  [kt 1893]	18 Oct 1842	23 Apr 1914	71
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
28 Nov 1885		Sir Edward Grey,3rd baronet,later [1916]
		1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon	25 Apr 1862	7 Sep 1933	71
17 Aug 1916		Sir Francis Douglas Blake,1st baronet	27 Feb 1856	5 Feb 1940	83
15 Nov 1922		Hilton Philipson   [his election was declared	5 Nov 1892	12 Apr 1941	48
		void 2 May 1923]
31 May 1923		Mabel Philipson	1 Jan 1887	8 Jan 1951	64
30 May 1929		Alfred John Kennett Todd	13 Apr 1890	27 Aug 1970	80
14 Nov 1935		Sir Hugh Michael Seely,3rd baronet,later [1941]
		1st Baron Sherwood	2 Oct 1898	1 Apr 1970	71
18 Aug 1941		George Charles Grey	2 Dec 1918	30 Jul 1944	25
17 Oct 1944		Sir William Henry Beveridge,later [1946] 1st
		Baron Beveridge	5 Mar 1879	16 Mar 1963	84
26 Jul 1945		Robert Allen Fenwick Thorp	c Feb 1900	5 May 1966	65
25 Oct 1951		Antony Claud Frederick Lambton,Viscount
		Lambton,later [1970] 6th Earl of Durham	10 Jul 1922	30 Dec 2006	84
		(he disclaimed the title shortly after inheriting it)
		For further information on this MP, see the note
		at the foot of the page containing details of
		the Earls of Durham
8 Nov 1973		Alan James Beith  [kt 2008]	20 Apr 1943
		Edward Samuel Wesley de Cobain, MP for Belfast East 1885-1892
		In April 1891, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Edward de Cobain. According to the
		contemporary newspapers, de Cobain "is charged with the commission of unnatural offences
		in Belfast. The offences, or some of them, are alleged to have been committed as far back
		as two years ago, and they have been the subject of inquiry by the Irish police for several
		months past. On Easter Monday three informations were sworn against the hon. member,
		and a warrant for his arrest was issued on Thursday the 2nd inst. Its execution was
		entrusted to Head-Constable Hussey, who, with several Belfast detectives, started for
		London, where they kept a close watch on the hon. gentleman's lodgings. It soon became
		evident, however, that Mr. de Cobain had left the country, and on Saturday last the
		detectives returned to Belfast. The Central News learns that, as a matter of fact, Mr. de
		Cobain had timely warning of the steps which were being taken against him, and sailed
		from Goole for a continental port on the very day the warrant was issued in Belfast."
		[Glasgow Herald, 14 April 1891]
		Mr. de Cobain was apparently invited to resign his seat, but he had refused to do so, saying
		that such an action would be tantamount to admission of his guilt. Instead, he blamed the
		accusations against him on a local clique, and on the government in general. In a letter
		written to a fellow MP, he admitted that "about three years ago he met by accident a young
		man then residing with his agent in Belfast. He conversed with him at several temperance
		demonstrations, and subsequently treated him with courtesy and familiarity. Taking
		advantage of this intimacy, the young man asked for a considerable sum of money, which he
		refused." [Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 2 May 1891]
		During his absence, the House of Commons had ordered de Cobain to be present in the
		House on 23 February 1892. When he failed to do so, the House voted unanimously for his
		expulsion on 26 February 1892.
		In the meantime, de Cobain had fled to Spain where he was sighted at Bilbao. He afterwards
		was in Boulogne, from whence he sailed to New York around the end of April 1892. He lived
		for a while in New York, where he conducted revivalist meetings before returning to Belfast,
		where he was arrested in February 1893. At his subsequent trial, in March 1893, de Cobain's
		defence was that the charges were a conspiracy brought against him by a man named
		Haggie, who had failed in his attempts to blackmail him - this is presumably the young man
		whom he had met in Belfast referred to above. Notwithstanding this defence, the jury
		declined to believe him, and he was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months'
		imprisonment with hard labour.
		Robert Jonathan Bradford, MP for Belfast South 1974-1981
		The Rev. Robert Bradford was murdered by the IRA on 14 November 1981. The following
		edited report is from "The Observer' of 15 November 1981:-
		'The Government and Northern Ireland security chiefs accused the IRA of trying to start a
		civil war after the murder in Belfast yesterday of the Rev. Robert Bradford, Unionist MP for
		South Belfast.
		'The killing, the third by IRA terrorists last week, sent waves of anger through the Province's
		Protestant community.
		'A statement issued by the Secretary of State [for Northern Ireland], Mr. James Prior,
		appealed to everyone to remain calm and put their faith in the security forces. It urged
		people 'not to let justifiable anger be vented on other equally innocent people.'
		'But last night the security forces were bracing themselves for an outbreak of retaliatory
		violence, and Mr. Prior cut short his weekend in London and flew back to Belfast.
		'Mr. Bradford, aged 41 [actually 40], was assassinated as he held an advice session in the
		Finaghy Community Centre, south-west Belfast, yesterday morning. Four gunmen dressed
		in boiler suits tricked their way into the building by posing as workmen.
		'As they fired six bullets into Mr. Bradford, 60 children at a disco in an adjoining room
		screamed in terror.
		'A caretaker, Mr. Ken Campbell, was shot dead in the doorway of the building after he
		followed the terrorists, who escaped in a waiting car. The Centre lies close to the IRA
		stronghold of Andersonstown.
		'A 15-year-old boy who was in the centre said: "All the kids were screaming and shouting
		and I told them to get under the tables. It was pandemonium. The gunmen pushed the
		kids out of the way to get at Mr. Bradford and then shoved them aside again to get out.
		I threw a chair at one of them as he was running out of the hall. He looked at me but he
		didn't say anything….he just ran out."
		'Mr. Bradford, a Methodist minister, was a strong critic of the IRA and campaigned for the
		return of the death penalty for terrorists convicted of murdering members of the security
		forces. '
		James Godfrey MacManaway, MP for Belfast West Feb - Oct 1950
		MacManaway was the son of a priest of the Church of Ireland, and was himself ordained as
		a priest in 1925.  In 1947, he was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as member
		for Londonderry. Notwithstanding doubts over his eligibility to do so, MacManaway stood
		for the Westminster parliament in the general election of February 1950.
		As the law stood at that time, priests in the Churches of England and Ireland (but not
		Wales), ministers in the Church of Scotland, Roman Catholic priests and priests who had
		been ordained by a bishop, were disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons. Ministers
		who had not been episcopally ordained (i.e. Nonconformist ministers) were not disqualified,
		nor were the clergy of non-Christian faiths. This law raised some interesting questions - for
		example, was a priest who had resigned the priesthood eligible, given that ecclesiastical
		law stated that, once ordained, a priest remains in holy orders forever? Some measure of
		relief was afforded to clergy of the Church of England (but not to other churches) in 1870
		when the Clergy Disqualification Act provided a procedure which enabled Church of England
		clergy to relinquish their clerical positions, and, after a period of 6 months, be freed from
		parliamentary disqualification.
		Roman Catholics and other non-Anglicans were, between the passing of the Second Test
		Act of 1678 and the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829, effectively excluded
		from sitting in Parliament, since they were required to swear an oath repugnant to their
		beliefs. After 1829, Roman Catholics were able to sit in the House, but the Act specifically
		excluded "persons in Holy Orders in the Church of Rome", whether they were already in
		such Holy Orders or whether, at some future time, they took such Orders.
		During this same period, another Act - the House of Commons (Clergy Disqualification) Act
		1801 - had also been passed. This Act stated that "no person having been ordained to the
		office of priest or deacon or being a minister of the Church of Scotland is or shall be capable
		of being elected to serve in Parliament." The immediate impetus for this Act was the
		election in February 1801 of John Horne-Tooke to the seat of Old Sarum. He had been a
		great radical in his earlier years, and his political enemies were not keen to have him in the
		House. Because he had been ordained a priest 40 years earlier, his enemies caused the
		above Act to be passed, but, as Horne-Tooke had already taken his seat, he was allowed to
		remain in the House until he retired the following year.
		MacManaway appears to have taken some advice before standing in the general election,
		and, as a result, he resigned all his offices with the Church of Ireland before the election.
		He also received advice that, because the Church of Ireland had been disestablished in
		1869, he would not be affected.
		Once he had taken his seat, the question arose as to whether he had been validly elected,
		and the matter was referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Committee
		ruled that he was ineligible under the 1801 Act, and the Commons declared on 19 October
		1950 that he was disqualified from sitting.
		Following this case, a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to examine
		the legal ramifications, but they recommended that no changes be made. The situation
		remained unaltered until 1998, when the Home Affairs Select Committee recommended "that,
		with one exception, all restrictions on ministers of religion standing for, or serving as,
		Members of Parliament be removed: the exception would be in respect of all serving bishops
		of the Church of England who, for so long as places are reserved for the senior bishops in
		the House of Lords, should remain ineligible to serve as members of the Commons."
		In 2001, David Cairns was selected as Labour candidate for the seat of Greenock and
		Inverclyde. Cairns was a former Catholic priest, and was therefore likely to fall victim of the
		same legislation which had led to MacManaway's disqualification. In order to avoid this
		situation, the government introduced the House of Commons (Removal of Clergy
		Disqualification) Bill which was passed and received royal assent on 11 May 2001. As
		recommended by the Home Affairs Select Committee, senior bishops remain ineligible to sit
		in the Commons.
		Spencer Cowper, MP for Bere Alston 1705-1710 and Truro 1715-1727
		Cowper was the central figure in a famous trial in 1699 when he was charged, along with
		three other men, with the murder of a young Quaker girl named Sarah Stout. The case is
		considered a milestone in the field of medical jurisprudence. Whilst details of the case are
		readily available (see Chapter XXV of Macaulay's "History of England"), I have chosen to
		concentrate on the medical aspects of the case. Accordingly, the following extract is taken
		from "Elements of Medical Jurisprudence" by Beck and Dunlop [London 1825].
		'Spencer Cowper, Esq., a member of the English bar, and three other individuals, were tried
		at the Hertford Assizes, in 1699, for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout. Mr. Cowper came to
		Hertford on Monday, the 13th of March, and shortly after visited Mrs. Stout, who lived
		with her mother, of the same name. He dined with them, and stayed until four in the after-
		noon. When he went away, he promised to return and lodge there that night. Accordingly,
		at nine o'clock he arrived, ate some supper, and then engaged in conversation with Mrs.
		Stout, the daughter. They were alone in the room, when she called a servant, and desired
		her to make a fire in his chamber, and to warm his bed. The direction was attended to,
		and in about a quarter of an hour, the servant heard the door shut, as if some one was
		going out. She remained above about a quarter of an hour longer, and then came down
		into the room. Mr. Cowper and Mrs. Stout were both gone, and the next morning she was
		found dead, and floating on the water. Its depth was about five feet, and her body was
		about five or six inches under it, although some of her clothes were on its surface. Her eyes
		were open, and some little from issued from her mouth and nostrils. The body was not
		tumified [i.e. distended or bloated], nor were any bruises observed. This is the testimony
		of the individuals who took the body out of the water.
		'Mr. Dimsdale, a surgeon, was sent for by the mother to view the body. He found both sides
		of the neck swelled and black, and the skin between her breasts, up towards the collar-
		bone, was also dark-coloured. The left wrist was slightly bruised. There was, however, no
		circular mark round the neck. It is to be regretted this investigation proceeded no farther.
		'On the 28th of April, six weeks after the death of Mrs. Stout, her body was disinterred for
		the purpose of inspection. The medical witnesses stated, that they found the head and
		neck so much putrefied, that no opinion could be formed respecting their appearance. The
		stomach and intestines were, however, in a sound state, as were also the lungs. Neither
		of them was putrefied, and, on making incisions into them, no water could be discovered.
		'[Five doctors] deposed , that when a person is drowned, water will be taken into the
		stomach and lungs; and, as none was found in this case, they were of opinion that she
		came to her death by some other means.
		'The above is an abstract of the testimony on behalf of the crown. On the part of Mr.
		Cowper, it was first attempted to be shown, that the peculiar position of the body was
		owing to its laying sideways against some stakes in the river. These prevented its complete
		immersion under water; and a witness also mentioned, that, in drawing the body out of
		the water, one of the arms rubbed against the stakes, and probably produced the injury
		observed on it.
		'[A number of other doctors] appeared as witnesses for the prisoner. They were all asked
		concerning the circumstance of no water being found in the body, and whether this
		disproved the probability of drowning. Dr. Sloane considered it altogether an accidental
		appearance in the stomach, and not necessarily present in such cases. The others
		advanced similar opinions. As to the fluid in the lungs, the answers were not very definite;
		but it was insinuated by some, that the six weeks burial might have dissipated whatever
		was taken in.
		'During the trial, it was the subject of keen enquiry, whether dead bodies float or sink when
		thrown into the water. Seamen were summoned to depose on this point, and they testified
		that weights were fastened in order to produce their descent. The explanation of Dr. Garth
		is, however, perfectly satisfactory on this point. Weights are added to prevent the
		buoyancy when putrefaction commences. In answer to a question from the judge, Dr. Garth
		remarked, that the body of a strangled person might possibly float, on account of the
		included air. In this instance, however, there was no proof of such a cause of death. Dr.
		Crell insisted much on the presence of the frothy mucus about the mouth and nostrils, as a
		proof that Mrs. Stout had been drowned.
		'The coroner's jury had returned a verdict of non compos menti, and Mr. Cowper, on the
		trial, attempted to prove a previous melancholy state of mind [of Mrs. Stout]. This, of
		course, was for the purpose of rendering it probable that suicide had been committed.
		'These were the leading medico-legal facts and opinions elicited on the trial, and the jury,
		after remaining out about half an hour, brought in a verdict of not guilty.'
		Cowper's subsequent career was devoted to the law, culminating in his appointment as a
		judge of the Common Pleas in 1727. I do not imagine that many men who stood trial for
		murder would subsequently go on to become a judge.
		John Elwes, MP for Berkshire 1772-1784
		The following is extracted from "The Emperor of the United States of America and Other
		Magnificent British Eccentrics" by Catherine Caufield (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981)
		Elwes' father, Robert Meggott, a brewer in Southwark, died in 1718 when his son was less
		than four years old. His mother, Amy Elwes Meggott, who had been left almost £100,000 is
		said to have starved herself to death. At Westminster School, Elwes was a good classical
		scholar but he was never seen afterwards reading a book. He refused to educate his sons,
		on the principle that 'putting things into people's heads is the sure way to take money out
		of their pockets.' After school Elwes went to Geneva to complete his education. Here he
		became of the boldest and best riders in Europe. He was also at this time introduced to
		Voltaire, to whom he was reported to bear a remarkable resemblance. Characteristically,
		Elwes was far more impressed with the quality of the horses at his riding school than by the
		genius of Voltaire.
		Elwes did not yet display any of the miserly qualities which characterised several members
		of his family. He indulged both his voracious appetite and his fondness for gambling; one
		writer noted, 'for many years Mr Elwes was known in all the fashionable circles of the
		metropolis.' This state of affairs began to change when, after returning from Europe, Elwes
		was introduced to his maternal uncle, Sir Harvey Elwes, a very great miser.
		Although he was worth £250,000, Sir Harvey had an annual expenditure of less than £100.
		He ate little except partridges and fish that could be caught on his own property - paying
		for food was painful to him. Because he had few friends, he was not put to the expense of
		entertaining. His clothes came out of an ancient chest full of costumes belonging to his
		great-great grandfather.
		As young Elwes entertained hopes of becoming the old man's heir, he endeavoured to please.
		For instance, on visits to Sir Harvey's Suffolk estate, Stoke College, he would stop first at
		a small inn nearby and change from his fashionable clothes into the rags his uncle favoured.
		He tamed his appetite by sneaking out to dine with a neighbour before sitting down with Sir
		Harvey to a miserable meal with one small glass of wine between them. John's behaviour so
		delighted Sir Harvey that he was made sole heir and on 22 October 1763 inherited Elwes'
		name and his estate worth £250,000, including houses in Suffolk and at Marcham, in
		Berkshire.
		John Elwes combined the most miserly behaviour with high standards of honesty and
		compassion. He lost money in gambling, not only through his own bad fortune, but also
		because of his firmly held maxim that it is impossible to ask a gentleman for money, an
		attitude which led to him forfeiting large sums of money owed to him by less conscientious
		individuals.
		He often gave aid, financial and otherwise, to friends and tenants, but spared himself no
		exertions to deliver it in the cheapest possible way. On one notable occasion Elwes,
		unsolicited, lent Lord Abingdon £7,000 to enable him to place a bet at Newmarket. On the
		day of the race, Elwes journeyed on horseback from Suffolk to the racetrack with nothing
		to eat for fourteen hours save a bit of pancake which he had put into his pocket two
		months earlier and which he swore to a startled companion was 'as good as new.'
		Elwes' good nature is well illustrated by the story of his being hit during a shooting-party
		by a blast from the shotgun of an inexperienced marksman. 'I give you joy of your
		improvement!', Elwes exclaimed. 'I knew you would hit something by and by.'
		Elwes' accomplishments include the building of Portman Place, Portman Square and a large
		part of Marylebone. During his twelve years as MP for Berkshire - although he refused to
		bear any of his election expenses and finally refused to stand again because of the money
		he lost in loans to fellow-members - Elwes was very conscientious about attending debates
		and voting independently. He had a reputation for unshakable integrity and was often called
		upon to settle disputes among his constituents, who placed great faith in his impartiality.
		However, from the time when he first dressed in rags to humour his uncle, Elwes' behaviour
		became more and more remarkable. His idea of a journey was to mount one of his horses;
		take a hard-boiled egg in his pocket; choose a route with the fewest toll-gates, riding only
		on grass to save wear and tear on the horseshoes and refreshing himself and his mount by
		a stream to avoid the expense of an inn. On one occasion when he had ridden to and from
		London on an errand to help two old ladies in distress and they wanted to repay him for his
		expenses, a friend remarked 'give him sixpence and he gains twopence by the journey.'
		Elwes' personal economies included going to bed when darkness fell so as to save on
		candles; rarely lighting a fire in his home, even when he was dripping wet from having
		walked home in the rain; and never allowing his shoes to be cleaned for fear of wearing
		them out. While in London, he stayed in any of his properties that happened to be empty.
		He kept only a few sticks of furniture which he moved from house to house as one was let
		and another became vacant. He once found a beggar's cast-off wig in a hedge, picked it up
		and wore it for two weeks. He always ate whatever he had in the cupboard, including
		maggot-ridden meat, before ordering new provisions.
		Elwes' nephew, Colonel Timms, found on one visit that the ceiling of his bedroom leaked.
		He was obliged to move the bed several times in order to find a dry corner. Mentioning
		this to his uncle the next morning, Timms received the calm reply, 'Aye, I don't mind it
		myself; but to those that do, that's a nice corner in the rain.
		One of Elwes' most characteristic combinations of miserliness and extravagance was his
		keeping a fine pack of hounds and a stable of hunters thought to be the best in England.
		This expensive interest was turned to good account by Elwes employing his huntsman to
		cook and serve at table as well as to look after the hounds and horses and milk the cows.
		He thus managed to keep the expense of his fox-hunting establishment to under £300 a
		year.
		Elwes detested doctors and once, when he cut both his legs badly while walking home in
		the dark, he challenged the apothecary, 'I will take one leg and you shall take the other;
		you shall do what you please to yours, I will do nothing to mine.' To his great joy, Elwes
		won by a fortnight and the apothecary had to forfeit his fee.
		In his old age his memory worsened; his mind began to wander and he had fantasies about
		losing his money. One morning, after a sleepless night of worry, Elwes rushed to bankers to
		apologise for having overdrawn his account by writing a cheque the previous day for £20.
		The apology was unnecessary as his balance at the time was £14,700.
		Finally, Elwes went to live with one of his two natural sons, for whom he had a true fatherly
		feeling, and after his peaceful death on 26 November 1789, the property worth £800,000
		was divided between his sons and his nephew.
		The Bermondsey by-election of Oct 1909 and the Suffragettes
		Following the death of the sitting member, George Cooper, in October 1909, a by-election to
		choose a new member was held on 27 October. At this time, women had not yet been
		granted the vote, and the Suffragette movement was actively campaigning for this right.
		Part of this campaign was reflected in their actions on polling-day in this by-election, as can
		be seen from the following report in "The Times" of 29 October 1909:-
		'In the forenoon a woman was permitted, upon some pretence or other, to enter the polling-
		booth at the Boutcher Schools in Grange-road. She at once threw a bottle on one of the
		ballot boxes, and, the bottle breaking, the liquid which it contained splashed into the eyes
		of the presiding officer, Mr. George Thorley, a school teacher. A doctor who happened to be
		present declared the liquid to be of a corrosive nature, and Mr. Thorley was taken to Guy's
		Hospital, where a grave view is taken of the injury to his right eye. At the Laxon-street
		Schools, another polling station, a similar incident occurred, although fortunately in this case
		no personal injury was done. The woman at Grange-road was arrested, but the other was
		allowed to walk away. It is understood that their object was to spoil a number of voting
		papers…..'
		The two women, whose names were Alice Chapin and Alison Neilan, were tried at the Old
		Bailey on 24 November 1909, where both women pleaded not guilty. After listening to the
		evidence, Chapin was found guilty of interfering with the ballot box and guilty of common
		assault, but not guilty of attempting to destroy the ballot papers; Neilan was found guilty
		of interfering with the ballot box but not guilty of attempting to destroy the ballot papers.
		Chapin received four months' imprisonment and Neilan received three months.
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