THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "C"
		Last updated 24/02/2010
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		CAMELFORD (CORNWALL)
14 Apr 1660		Peter Killigrew,later [1665] 2nd baronet	c 1634	8 Jan 1705
		Samuel Trelawny	31 Mar 1630	26 Apr 1666	36
		Thomas Vivian	10 Aug 1617	3 Sep 1691	74
		Henry Nicoll
		Double return. Killigrew and Trelawny seated
		5 May 1660,but election subsequently
		declared void 12 Jun 1660
30 Jun 1660		Thomas Vivian	10 Aug 1617	3 Sep 1691	74
		Henry Nicoll
		William Cotton	c 1608	25 Dec 1673
		Double return between Nicoll and Cotton.
		Cotton declared elected 3 Aug 1660
30 Apr 1661		Bernard Granville
		Thomas Coventry,later [1687] 5th Baron
		Coventry and [1697] 1st Earl of Coventry	1637	15 Jul 1699	62
		(to 1679)
		Charles Roscarrock	23 Jul 1616	10 Oct 1665	49
		Double return. Coventry and Roscarrock
		seated 16 May 1661
27 Oct 1665		William Godolphin	2 Feb 1635	11 Jul 1696	61
20 Feb 1679		Sir James Smyth  (to 1681)	c 1621	18 Nov 1681
		William Harbord  [he was also returned for	25 Apr 1635	31 Jul 1692	57
		Thetford,for which he chose to sit]
1 Apr 1679		Robert Russell	c 1644	27 Jul 1703
26 Feb 1681		Sir James Smyth	c 1621	18 Nov 1681
		Robert Russell	c 1644	27 Jul 1703
28 Apr 1685		Humphrey Langford	c 1636	24 Jun 1685
		Nicholas Courtney  (to 1689)	c 1630	26 Oct 1722
11 Sep 1685		Sir Charles Scarburgh	29 Dec 1615	26 Feb 1694	74
11 Jan 1689		Ambrose Manaton  (to 1696)  [at the general	17 Jan 1648	by Oct 1696	48
		election in Nov 1695,Manaton was also
		returned for Tavistock,for which he chose
		to sit]
		Henry Manaton	17 Sep 1650	c May 1716	65
11 Nov 1695		Robert Molesworth,later [1716] 1st Viscount
		Molesworth  [I]   (to 1698)	7 Sep 1656	23 May 1725	68
1 Apr 1696		Sidney Wortley Montagu	28 Jul 1650	11 Nov 1727	77
3 Aug 1698		Henry Manaton  [at the general election in	17 Sep 1650	c May 1716	65
		Jul 1702,Manaton was also returned for
		Tavistock,for which he chose to sit]
		Dennys Glynn  (to 1705)	4 Aug 1668	Apr 1705	36
17 Jan 1704		William Pole,later [1708] 4th baronet	17 Aug 1678	31 Dec 1741	63
		(to 1708)
21 May 1705		Henry Pinnell	13 Sep 1670	by Apr 1721
17 May 1708		Richard Munden	c 1680	19 Sep 1725
		John Manley	23 Mar 1655	16 Dec 1713	58
19 Oct 1710		Bernard Granville  (to 1712)	c 1670	8 Dec 1723
		Jasper Radcliffe	1 Jul 1683	1 Mar 1711	27
26 Mar 1711		Henry Manaton  [he was unseated on petition	17 Sep 1650	c May 1716	65
		in favour of Paul Orchard 8 May 1711]
8 May 1711		Paul Orchard  (to 1713)	c 1682	6 Jun 1740
20 Feb 1712		Sir Bourchier Wrey,5th baronet  (to 1715)	c 1683	12 Nov 1726
7 Sep 1713		James Nicholls	9 Mar 1684	after 1715
17 Jan 1715		James Montagu	c 1687	30 Oct 1748
		Richard Coffin	23 Jul 1684	3 Dec 1766	82
13 Apr 1722		Henry Moore,4th Earl of Drogheda [I]	7 Oct 1700	29 May 1727	26
		William Sloper	c 1658	14 Jan 1743
23 Aug 1727		Thomas Hales,later [1748] 3rd baronet	c 1694	6 Oct 1762
		John Pitt	c 1698	9 Feb 1754
2 May 1734		Sir Thomas Lyttelton,4th baronet	1686	14 Sep 1751	65
		James Cholmondeley	18 Apr 1708	13 Oct 1775	67
12 May 1741		William O'Brien,4th Earl of Inchiquin [I]	c 1700	18 Jul 1777
		Charles Montagu	after 1695	29 May 1759
1 Jul 1747		Ridgeway Pitt,3rd Earl of Londonderry [I]	1722	8 Jan 1765	42
		Samuel Martin  (to 1768)	1 Sep 1714	20 Nov 1788	74
17 Apr 1754		Sir John Lade,1st baronet	c 1731	21 Apr 1759
25 May 1759		Bartholomew Burton	c 1695	May 1770
19 Mar 1768		Charles Phillips	c 1720	16 Oct 1774
		William Wilson	c 1720	12 Dec 1796
10 Oct 1774		John Amyand  (to 1780)	6 Nov 1751	5 Jun 1780	28
		Francis Herne	c 1702	26 Sep 1776
4 Nov 1776		Sir Ralph Payne,later [1795] 1st Baron
		Lavington [I]	19 Mar 1739	3 Aug 1807	68
11 Sep 1780		John Pardoe	c 1756	26 Apr 1796
		James Macpherson  (to Mar 1796)	27 Oct 1736	17 Feb 1796	59
6 Apr 1784		Jonathan Phillips	c 1724	12 Sep 1798
5 Jul 1784		Sir Samuel Hannay	c 1742	11 Dec 1790
8 Jan 1791		William Smith  (to May 1796)	22 Sep 1756	31 May 1835	78
19 Mar 1796		Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck	14 Sep 1774	17 Jun 1839	64
30 May 1796		William Joseph Denison	May 1770	2 Aug 1849	79
		John Angerstein	c 1774	8 Apr 1858
7 Jul 1802		Robert Adair  (to 1812)	24 May 1763	3 Oct 1855	92
		John Fonblanque	1759	4 Jan 1837	77
1 Nov 1806		James Maitland,styled Viscount Maitland,
		later [183] 9th Earl of Lauderdale [S]	12 Feb 1784	22 Aug 1860	76
11 May 1807		Lord Henry Petty,later [1809] 3rd Marquess
		of Lansdowne	2 Jul 1780	31 Jan 1863	82
2 Feb 1810		Henry Peter Brougham,later [1830] 1st
		Baron Brougham and Vaux	19 Sep 1778	7 May 1868	89
10 Oct 1812		William Leader	19 Oct 1767	18 Jan 1828	60
		Samuel Scott	29 Apr 1772	30 Sep 1849	77
17 Jun 1818		Mark Milbank	2 May 1795	21 Oct 1881	86
		John Bushby-Maitland	c 1765	9 Mar 1822
		Election declared void 8 Apr 1819
17 Apr 1819		John Stewart	c 1755	21 Jul 1826
		Lewis Allsopp	after 1763	18 Jul 1835
		Election declared void 16 Jun 1819, and no new
		writ issued before the 1820 General Election
9 Mar 1820		Mark Milbank  (to 1832)	2 May 1795	21 Oct 1881	86
		Francis Charles Seymour,styled Earl of
		Yarmouth,later [1822] 3rd Marquess of Hertford	11 Mar 1777	1 Mar 1842	64
26 Jun 1822		Sheldon Cradock	27 Sep 1777	19 Feb 1852	74
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		CAMLACHIE (GLASGOW)
27 Nov 1885		Hugh Watt	1848	16 Mar 1921	72
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of this page
Jul 1892		Alexander Cross,later [1912] 1st baronet	4 Nov 1847	13 Feb 1914	66
19 Jan 1910		Halford John Mackinder  [kt 1920]	15 Feb 1861	6 Mar 1947	86
15 Nov 1922		Campbell Stephen	29 Mar 1884	25 Oct 1947	63
27 Oct 1931		James Stevenson	2 Feb 1883	3 Mar 1963	80
14 Nov 1935		Campbell Stephen	29 Mar 1884	25 Oct 1947	63
28 Jan 1948		Charles Stuart McFarlane	10 Oct 1895	4 Feb 1958	62
23 Feb 1950		William Reid	6 Nov 1889	16 Jul 1965	75
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955
		CANNOCK (STAFFORDSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		James Parker	1863	11 Feb 1948	84
15 Nov 1922		William Murdoch Adamson	12 Apr 1881	25 Oct 1945	64
27 Oct 1931		Sarah Adelaide Ward	25 Dec 1895	9 Apr 1969	73
14 Nov 1935		William Murdoch Adamson	12 Apr 1881	25 Oct 1945	64
26 Jul 1945		Jennie Lee,later [1970] Baroness Lee of
		Asheridge [L]	3 Nov 1904	16 Nov 1988	84
18 Jun 1970		Patrick Thomas Cormack	18 May 1939
28 Feb 1974		Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts	7 Aug 1928
		NAME ALTERED TO "CANNOCK &
		BURNTWOOD" 1983
		CANNOCK & BURNTWOOD
9 Jun 1983		James Gerald Douglas Howarth	12 Sep 1947
9 Apr 1992		Anthony Wayland Wright	11 Mar 1948
		NAME ALTERED TO "CANNOCK CHASE" 1997
		CANNOCK CHASE
1 May 1997		Anthony Wayland Wright	11 Mar 1948
		CANTERBURY (KENT)
Mar 1660		Sir Anthony Aucher	c 1614	31 May 1692
		Sir Heneage Finch,1st baronet,later [1681] 1st
		Earl of Nottingham	23 Dec 1621	18 Dec 1682	60
28 Mar 1661		Francis Lovelace	22 May 1594	1 Mar 1664	69
		Sir Edward Master  (to Feb 1679)	2 Aug 1610	22 Jan 1691	80
21 Apr 1664		Thomas Hardres	c 1610	18 Dec 1681
24 Feb 1679		Edward Hales  (to 1681)	28 Sep 1645	Oct 1695	50
		William Jacob	c 1623	early 1692
7 Aug 1679		Sir Thomas Hardres	c 1610	18 Dec 1681
17 Feb 1681		Lewis Watson	29 Dec 1655	1724	68
		Vincent Denne	c 1628	8 Oct 1693
12 Mar 1685		Sir William Honywood,2nd baronet  (to 1698)	c 1654	8 Jun 1748
		Henry Lee	c 1657	6 Sep 1734
14 Nov 1695		George Sayer  (to 1705)	c 1655	21 May 1718
25 Jul 1698		Henry Lee  (to 1708)	c 1657	6 Sep 1734
31 May 1705		John Hardres	2 Oct 1675	14 Jan 1758	82
6 May 1708		Edward Watson,styled Viscount Sondes
		from 1714	3 Jul 1686	20 Mar 1722	35
		Thomas D'Aeth,later [1716] 1st baronet	1670	3 Jan 1745	74
5 Oct 1710		John Hardres  (to 1722)	2 Oct 1675	14 Jan 1758	82
		Henry Lee	c 1657	6 Sep 1734
3 Feb 1715		Sir Thomas Hales,2nd baronet  (to 1734)	1 Mar 1666	7 Jan 1748	81
22 Mar 1722		Samuel Milles	c 1669	10 Dec 1727
31 Aug 1727		Sir William Hardres,4th baronet  (to 1735)	25 Jul 1686	8 Jul 1736	49
		[After the general election in May 1734,he
		was unseated on petition in favour of Sir
		Thomas Hales 11 Apr 1735]
2 May 1734		Thomas May  (to 1741)	c 1701	26 Feb 1781
11 Apr 1735		Sir Thomas Hales,2nd baronet	1 Mar 1666	7 Jan 1748	81
21 May 1741		Thomas Watson,later [1745] 3rd Earl of
		Rockingham	30 Dec 1715	26 Feb 1746	30
		Thomas Best  (to 1754)	c 1713	26 Mar 1795
23 Jan 1746		Sir Thomas Hales,2nd baronet	1 Mar 1666	7 Jan 1748
1 Jul 1747		Matthew Robinson-Morris,later [1794] 2nd	6 Apr 1713	30 Nov 1800
		Baron Rokeby  (to 1761)
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of the page containing details
		of the Rokeby barony
15 Apr 1754		Sir James Creed	c 1695	7 Feb 1762
27 Mar 1761		Richard Milles  (to 1780)	c 1735	14 Sep 1820
		Thomas Best	c 1713	26 Mar 1795
17 Mar 1768		William Lynch	c 1730	25 Aug 1785
7 Oct 1774		Sir William Mayne,later [1776] Baron
		Newhaven [I]	1722	28 May 1794	71
6 Sep 1780		George Gipps  (to 1796)	c 1728	13 Feb 1800
		Charles Robinson	c 1732	31 Mar 1807
19 Jun 1790		Sir John Honywood,4th baronet	c 1757	29 Mar 1806
28 May 1796		John Baker	c 1754	20 Jan 1831
		Samuel Elias Sawbridge	7 Jan 1769	27 May 1850	81
		Election declared void 2 Mar 1797
10 Mar 1797		John Baker	c 1754	20 Jan 1831
		Samuel Elias Sawbridge	7 Jan 1769	27 May 1850	81
		[Both members were unseated on petition in
		favour of Sir John Honywood and George
		Gipps 12 May 1797]
12 May 1797		Sir John Honywood  (to 1802)	c 1757	29 Mar 1806
		George Gipps	c 1728	13 Feb 1800
27 Feb 1800		George Watson  (to 1806)	20 Feb 1768	17 Jun 1824	56
5 Jul 1802		John Baker  (to 1818)	c 1754	20 Jan 1831
29 Oct 1806		James Simmons	22 Jan 1741	22 Jan 1807	66
2 Feb 1807		Samuel Elias Sawbridge	7 Jan 1769	27 May 1850	81
12 May 1807		Edward Taylor	24 Jun 1774	22 Jun 1843	68
9 Oct 1812		Stephen Rumbold Lushington  (to 1830)	6 May 1776	5 Aug 1868	92
19 Jun 1818		Edward Bligh,styled Baron Clifton,later [1831]
		5th Earl of Darnley [I]	25 Feb 1795	11 Feb 1835	39
31 Jul 1830		Richard Watson	6 Jan 1800	24 Jul 1852	52
		George Augustus Frederick Cowper,styled
		Viscount Fordwich,later [1837] 6th Earl Cowper	26 Jun 1806	15 Apr 1856	49
		Both members were returned at the 1832
		general election. For information on the
		unsuccessful candidate at that election, see
		the note regarding John Nichols Thom at the
		foot of this page
10 Jan 1835		Lord Albert Denison Conyngham,later [1850]
		1st Baron Londesborough  (to 1841)	21 Oct 1805	15 Jan 1860	54
		Frederick Villiers   [he was unseated on	c 1801	c 1871
		petition in favour of Stephen Rumbold
		Lushington 26 Mar 1835]
26 Mar 1835		Stephen Rumbold Lushington	May 1776	5 Aug 1868	92
26 Jul 1837		James Bradshaw  (to 1847)		4 Mar 1847
3 Feb 1841		George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney
		Smythe,later [1855] 7th Viscount Strangford
		(to 1852)	16 Apr 1818	23 Nov 1857	39
15 Mar 1847		Lord Albert Denison Conyngham,later [1850]
		1st Baron Londesborough	21 Oct 1805	15 Jan 1860	54
4 Mar 1850		Frederick Romilly	21 Mar 1810	6 Apr 1867	57
8 Jul 1852		Henry Plumptre Gipps	1813	by 1871
		Henry Butler-Johnstone	28 Aug 1809	1 Apr 1879	69
		Election declared void 21 Feb 1853. Writ
		suspended until Aug 1854
18 Aug 1854		Charles Manners Lushington	1819	27 Nov 1864	45
		Sir William Meredyth Somerville,5th baronet
		later [1863] 1st Baron Athlumney [I]  (to 1865)	1802	7 Dec 1873	71
28 Mar 1857		Henry Butler-Johnstone	28 Aug 1809	1 Apr 1879	69
6 Mar 1862		Henry Alexander Munro Butler-
		Johnstone  (to 1878)	7 Dec 1837	17 Oct 1902	64
12 Jul 1865		John Walter Huddleston  [kt 1875]	8 Sep 1815	5 Dec 1890	75
18 Nov 1868		Theodore Henry Brinckman,later [1880]
		2nd baronet	12 Sep 1830	7 May 1905	74
5 Feb 1874		Lewis Ashurst Majendie  (to 1879)	1835	22 Oct 1885	50
2 Mar 1878		Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy
		(to 1880)	27 Feb 1845	11 Nov 1918	73
8 May 1879		Robert Peter Laurie   [following the general	24 Oct 1835	29 Jul 1905	69
		election in Apr 1880, the election of both
		sitting members (Gathorne-Hardy and Laurie)
		was declared void 16 Jun 1880. The writ
		remained suspended until Nov 1885]
		REPRESENTATION SUSPENDED 1880
25 Nov 1885		John Henniker Heaton,later [1912] 1st
		baronet	18 May 1848	8 Sep 1914	66
Dec 1910		Francis Bennett-Goldney	1865	27 Jul 1918	53
23 Aug 1918		George Knox Anderson	1854	19 Mar 1941	86
14 Dec 1918		Ronald McNeill,later [1927] 1st Baron Cushenden	30 Apr 1861	12 Oct 1934	73
24 Nov 1927		Sir William Abraham Edward Wayland	1 Sep 1869	15 Jul 1950	80
26 Jul 1945		John Baker White	12 Aug 1902	10 Dec 1988	86
12 Feb 1953		Sir Leslie Montagu Thomas	24 Apr 1906	27 Nov 1971	65
31 Mar 1966		David Lance Crouch	23 Jun 1919	18 Feb 1998	78
11 Jun 1987		Julian William Hendy Brazier	24 Jul 1953
		CARDIFF (GLAMORGANSHIRE)
20 Apr 1660		Bussy Mansel	22 Nov 1623	25 May 1699	75
		Herbert Evans
		Double return. Mansel declared elected
		27 Jun 1660
Apr 1661		Sir Richard Lloyd  [he was also returned for	23 Feb 1606	6 Nov 1676	70
		Radnorshire,for which he chose to sit]
May 1661		William Bassett  [he was unseated on petition	6 Jan 1627	8 Sep 1667	40
		in favour of Robert Thomas 15 Jun 1661]
15 Jun 1661		Sir Robert Thomas,2nd baronet	c 1622	after 1684
16 Mar 1681		Bussy Mansel	22 Nov 1623	25 May 1699	75
24 Mar 1685		Francis Gwyn	c 1648	14 Jun 1734
15 Jan 1689		Thomas Mansel,later [1706] 5th baronet
		and [1712] 1st Baron Mansell	9 Nov 1667	10 Dec 1723	56
29 Jul 1698		Sir Edward Stradling,5th baronet	11 Apr 1672	5 Apr 1735	62
19 Dec 1701		Thomas Mansel	4 May 1678	7 Jan 1706	27
1 Feb 1706		Sir John Aubrey,3rd baronet	20 Jun 1680	16 Apr 1743	62
20 Oct 1710		Sir Edward Stradling,5th baronet	11 Apr 1672	5 Apr 1735	62
29 Mar 1722		Edward Stradling	30 Mar 1699	3 Oct 1726	27
31 Jan 1727		Bussy Mansell,later [1744] 4th Baron Mansell	c 1701	29 Nov 1750
10 May 1734		Herbert Windsor,later [1738] 2nd Viscount
		Windsor of Blackcastle	1 May 1703	25 Jan 1758	54
16 Feb 1739		Herbert Mackworth	7 Sep 1687	20 Aug 1765	77
2 Jan 1766		Sir Herbert Mackworth,1st baronet	1 Jan 1737	25 Oct 1791	54
19 Jun 1790		John Stuart	25 Sep 1767	22 Jan 1794	26
4 Feb 1794		Evelyn James Stuart [styled Lord Evelyn
		James Stuart from 1796]	7 May 1773	16 Aug 1842	69
10 Jul 1802		Lord William Stuart	18 Nov 1778	25 Jul 1814	35
7 Nov 1814		Lord Evelyn James Stuart	7 May 1773	16 Aug 1842	69
23 Jun 1818		Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-
		Stuart	25 Aug 1794	7 Sep 1859	65
15 Mar 1820		Wyndham Lewis	1780	21 Mar 1838	57
12 Jun 1826		Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-
		Stuart	25 Aug 1794	7 Sep 1859	65
13 Dec 1832		John Iltyd Nicholl	21 Aug 1797	27 Jan 1853	55
8 Jul 1852		Walter Coffin	1784	15 Feb 1867	82
27 Mar 1857		James Frederick Dudley Crichton-Stuart	17 Feb 1824	24 Oct 1891	67
7 Apr 1880		Sir Edward James Reed	20 Sep 1830	30 Nov 1906	76
18 Jul 1895		James Mackenzie Maclean	13 Aug 1835	22 Apr 1906	70
10 Oct 1900		Sir Edward James Reed	20 Sep 1830	30 Nov 1906	76
17 Jan 1906		Ivor Churchill Guest,later [1918] 1st Viscount
		Wimborne	16 Jan 1873	14 Jun 1939	66
19 Jan 1910		David Alfred Thomas,later [1918] 1st Viscount
		Rhondda	26 Mar 1856	3 Jul 1918	62
Dec 1910		Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart	15 May 1883	2 Oct 1915	32
12 Nov 1915		James Herbert Cory,later [1919] 1st baronet	7 Feb 1857	7 Feb 1933	76
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1918
		SEE "CARDIFF CENTRAL","CARDIFF EAST",
		AND "CARDIFF SOUTH"
		CARDIFF CENTRAL
14 Dec 1918		James Childs Gould	1882	2 Jul 1944	62
29 Oct 1924		Lewis Lougher	1 Oct 1871	28 Aug 1955	83
30 May 1929		Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett	12 Dec 1868	2 Feb 1947	78
26 Jul 1945		Thomas George Thomas,later [1983] Viscount
		Tonypandy	29 Jan 1909	22 Sep 1997	88
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 ,
		BUT REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Ian Grist	5 Dec 1938	2 Jan 2002	63
9 Apr 1992		Jonathan Owen Jones	19 Apr 1954
5 May 2005		Jennifer Willott	15 May 1974
		CARDIFF EAST
14 Dec 1918		William Henry Seager  [kt 1922]	1862	10 Mar 1941	78
15 Nov 1922		Lewis Lougher	1 Oct 1871	28 Aug 1955	83
6 Dec 1923		Sir Henry Webb,1st baronet	28 Jul 1866	29 Oct 1940	74
29 Oct 1924		Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke,1st baronet	1854	4 Sep 1944	90
30 May 1929		James Ewart Edmunds	5 May 1882	18 Jun 1962	80
27 Oct 1931		Owen Temple Morris (Temple-Morris
		from 1948)  [kt 1967]	18 Sep 1896	21 Apr 1985	88
13 Apr 1942		Sir Percy James Grigg	16 Dec 1890	5 May 1964	73
26 Jul 1945		Hilary Adair Marquand	24 Dec 1901	6 Nov 1972	70
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		CARDIFF NORTH
23 Feb 1950		David Treharne Llewellyn	17 Jan 1916	9 Aug 1992	76
8 Oct 1959		Donald Stewart Box	22 Nov 1917	12 Jul 1993	75
31 Mar 1966		Edward Rowlands,later [2004] Baron
		Rowlands [L]	23 Jan 1940
18 Jun 1970		Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts	6 May 1927	10 Feb 1983	55
28 Feb 1974		Ian Grist	5 Dec 1938	2 Jan 2002	63
9 Jun 1983		Gwilym Haydn Jones	19 Jan 1947
1 May 1997		Julie Morgan	2 Nov 1944
		CARDIFF NORTHWEST
28 Feb 1974		Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts	6 May 1927	10 Feb 1983	55
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		CARDIFF SOUTH
14 Dec 1918		Sir James Herbert Cory,1st baronet	7 Feb 1857	7 Feb 1933	76
6 Dec 1923		Arthur Henderson,later [1966] Baron Rowley [L]	27 Aug 1893	28 Aug 1968	75
29 Oct 1924		Henry Arthur Evans	24 Sep 1898	25 Sep 1958	60
30 May 1929		Arthur Henderson,later [1966] Baron Rowley [L]	27 Aug 1893	28 Aug 1968	75
27 Oct 1931		Henry Arthur Evans	24 Sep 1898	25 Sep 1958	60
26 Jul 1945		Leonard James Callaghan,later [1987] Baron
		Callaghan of Cardiff  [L]	27 Mar 1912	26 Mar 2005	92
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		CARDIFF SOUTH & PENARTH
9 Jun 1983		Leonard James Callaghan,later [1987] Baron
		Callaghan of Cardiff  [L]	27 Mar 1912	26 Mar 2005	92
11 Jun 1987		Alun Edward Michael	22 Aug 1943
		CARDIFF SOUTHEAST
23 Feb 1950		Leonard James Callaghan,later [1987] Baron
		Callaghan of Cardiff  [L]	27 Mar 1912	26 Mar 2005	92
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		CARDIFF WEST
23 Feb 1950		Thomas George Thomas,later [1983] Viscount
		Tonypandy	29 Jan 1909	22 Sep 1997	88
9 Jun 1983		Stefan Terlezki	29 Oct 1927	21 Feb 2006	78
11 Jun 1987		Hywel Rhodri Morgan	29 Sep 1939
7 Jun 2001		Kevin Brennan	16 Oct 1959
		CARDIGAN  (CARDIGANSHIRE)
c Jul 1660		James Philipps  [Philipps was re-elected at	c 1624	2 May 1674
		the general election in Apr 1661,but this
		election was declared to be void 30 Apr 1662]
6 Apr 1663		Sir Charles Cotterell	16 Apr 1615	7 Jun 1701	86
24 Feb 1679		Hector Philipps		18 Mar 1693
11 Dec 1693		John Lewis	c 1660	26 Jan 1720
3 Aug 1698		Sir Charles Lloyd,later [1708] 1st baronet	c 1662	28 Dec 1723
23 Jan 1701		John Lewis	c 1660	26 Jan 1720
15 Dec 1701		Henry Lloyd	by 1666	4 May 1721
22 May 1705		Lewis Pryse	c 1683	11 Aug 1720
22 Feb 1710		Sir Simon Harcourt,later [1721] 1st Viscount
		Harcourt	c Dec 1661	29 Jul 1727	65
23 Oct 1710		John Meyrick	c 1673	by May 1735
17 Mar 1712		Owen Brigstocke	3 Apr 1679	4 May 1746	67
9 Sep 1713		Sir George Barlow,2nd baronet	c 1680	by Mar 1726
15 Feb 1715		Stephen Parry	1675	15 Dec 1724	49
1 Apr 1725		Thomas Powell	c 1701	17 Nov 1752
7 Sep 1727		Francis Cornwallis	c 1692	19 Aug 1728
1 May 1729		Richard Lloyd	c 1703	16 Jul 1757
		Thomas Powell	c 1701	17 Nov 1752
		Double return. Lloyd declared elected
		7 May 1730
29 May 1741		Thomas Pryse	c 1716	21 May 1745
20 Mar 1746		John Symmons	12 Sep 1701	Sep 1764	63
20 Apr 1761		Sir Herbert Lloyd,1st baronet	c 1719	19 Aug 1769
24 Mar 1768		Pryse Campbell	1727	14 Dec 1768	41
13 Jan 1769		Ralph Congreve	c 1721	Dec 1775
31 Oct 1774		Sir Robert Smyth,5th baronet   [he was	10 Jan 1744	12 Apr 1802	58
		unseated on petition in favour of Thomas
		Johnes 7 Dec 1775]
7 Dec 1775		Thomas Johnes	20 Aug 1748	23 Apr 1816	67
12 Jun 1780		John Campbell,later [1796] 1st Baron Cawdor	24 Apr 1755	1 Jun 1821	66
4 Jun 1796		John Vaughan,later [1820] 3rd Earl of Lisburne [I]	3 Mar 1769	18 May 1831	62
23 Jun 1818		Pryse Pryse     (to 1849)	1 Jun 1774	4 Jan 1849	74
6 Jul 1841		Pryse Pryse	1 Jun 1774	4 Jan 1849	74
		John Scandrett Harford	1784	23 Apr 1866	81
		Following the loss of one of the poll-books,
		a double return was made. On petition the
		seat was awarded to Pryse Pryse 18 Apr 1842
12 Feb 1849		Pryse Loveden	1815	c Feb 1855	39
24 Feb 1855		John Lloyd Davies	1 Nov 1801	21 Mar 1860	58
27 Mar 1857		Edward Lewis Pryse	1817	29 May 1888	70
26 Nov 1868		Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd,1st baronet	23 May 1820	21 Jul 1877	57
4 Feb 1874		David Davies	18 Dec 1818	28 Feb 1893	74
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		CARDIGANSHIRE
11 Jul 1660		Sir Richard Pryse,2nd baronet	c 1630	c 1675
17 Apr 1661		John Vaughan	14 Sep 1603	10 Dec 1674	71
25 Aug 1669		Edward Vaughan	c 1635	15 Feb 1684
1 Apr 1685		John Lewis	c 1660	26 Jan 1720
10 Mar 1690		Sir Carbery Pryse,4th baronet		20 May 1694
19 Dec 1694		John Vaughan,later [1695] 1st Viscount
		Lisburne [I]	7 Dec 1667	20 Mar 1721	53
27 Jul 1698		John Lewis	c 1660	26 Jan 1720
5 Feb 1701		Sir Humphrey Mackworth	Jan 1657	25 Aug 1727	70
10 Dec 1701		Lewis Pryse	c 1683	11 Aug 1720
5 Aug 1702		Sir Humphrey Mackworth	Jan 1657	25 Aug 1727	70
6 Jun 1705		John Pugh	c 1675	30 Nov 1737
2 Jun 1708		Lewis Pryse	c 1683	11 Aug 1720
31 Oct 1710		Sir Humphrey Mackworth	Jan 1657	25 Aug 1727	70
16 Sep 1713		Thomas Johnes		by Sep 1734
2 Mar 1715		Lewis Pryse  [expelled 23 Mar 1716]	c 1683	11 Aug 1720
29 Jan 1717		Owen Brigstocke	3 Apr 1679	4 May 1746	67
12 Apr 1722		Francis Cornwallis	c 1692	19 Aug 1728
27 Sep 1727		John Vaughan,2nd Viscount Lisburne [I]	c 1695	15 Jan 1741
29 May 1734		Walter Lloyd   [he was unseated on petition	c 1678	Feb 1747
		in favour of Thomas Powell 22 Mar 1742]
22 Mar 1742		Thomas Powell	c 1701	17 Nov 1752
23 Jul 1747		John Lloyd	c 1717	3 Jun 1755
3 Dec 1755		Wilmot Vaughan, later [1766] 4th Viscount
		Lisburne and [1776] 1st Earl of Lisburne [I]	c 1730	6 Jan 1800
20 Apr 1761		John Pugh Pryse	1739	13 Jan 1774	34
30 Mar 1768		Wilmot Vaughan, 4th Viscount Lisburne, later
		[1776] 1st Earl of Lisburne [I]	c 1730	6 Jan 1800
8 Jun 1796		Thomas Johnes	20 Aug 1748	23 Apr 1816	67
27 May 1816		William Edward Powell	16 Feb 1788	10 Apr 1854	66
22 Feb 1854		Ernest Augustus Vaughan,4th Earl of
		Lisburne [I]	30 Oct 1800	8 Nov 1873	73
7 May 1859		William Thomas Rowland Powell	1815	May 1878	62
20 Jul 1865		Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd	23 May 1820	21 Jul 1877	57
28 Nov 1868		Evan Matthew Richards	1821	21 Aug 1880	59
13 Feb 1874		Thomas Edward Lloyd	1820
12 Apr 1880		Lewis Pugh Pugh	3 Aug 1837	6 Jan 1908	70
28 Nov 1885		David Davies	1818	28 Feb 1893	74
10 Jul 1886		William Bowen Rowlands	c Jan 1836	4 Sep 1906	70
18 Jul 1895		Matthew Lewis Vaughan-Davies,later [1921]
		1st Baron Ystwyth	17 Dec 1840	21 Aug 1935	94
18 Feb 1921		Ernest Evans	1885	18 Jan 1965	79
6 Dec 1923		Rhys Hopkin Morris	5 Sep 1888	22 Nov 1956	68
Sep 1932		David Owen Evans	5 Feb 1876	11 Jun 1945	69
26 Jul 1945		Evan Roderic Bowen	6 Aug 1913	18 Jun 2001	87
31 Mar 1966		Dafydd Elystan Morgan,later [1981] Baron
		Elystan-Morgan [L]	7 Dec 1932
28 Feb 1974		Geraint Wyn Howells,later [1992] Baron
		Geraint [L]	15 Apr 1925	17 Apr 2004	79
		NAME ALTERED TO "CEREDIGION &
		PEMBROKE NORTH" 1983
		CARLISLE (CUMBERLAND)
9 Apr 1660		William Briscoe	c 1606	25 Feb 1688
		Jeremiah Tolhurst	3 Nov 1615	c Oct 1671	55
8 Apr 1661		Sir Philip Howard	c 1631	Apr 1686
		Christopher Musgrave [kt 1671],later [1687]
		4th baronet  (to 1690)	c 1631	29 Jul 1704
28 Feb 1681		Edward Howard,styled Viscount Morpeth,later
		[1685] 2nd Earl of Carlisle	27 Nov 1646	23 Apr 1692	45
19 Mar 1685		James Grahme	Mar 1650	26 Jan 1730	79
15 Jan 1689		Jeremiah Bubb  (to 1692)		27 Feb 1692
3 Mar 1690		Christopher Musgrave  (to 1695)	2 Jul 1664	10 Sep 1718	54
23 May 1692		William Lowther	17 Jun 1668	28 Jul 1694	26
26 Nov 1694		James Lowther,later [1731] 4th baronet	5 Aug 1673	2 Jan 1755	81
		(to 1702)
4 Nov 1695		William Howard	c 1674	18 Jul 1701
24 Jan 1701		Philip Howard	1669	by May 1711
27 Jul 1702		Christopher Musgrave	2 Jul 1664	10 Sep 1718	54
		Thomas Stanwix  (to 1721)	24 Sep 1667	14 Mar 1725	57
18 May 1705		Sir James Montagu	2 Feb 1666	30 Oct 1723	57
7 Sep 1713		Sir Christopher Musgrave,5th baronet	25 Dec 1688	3 Jan 1736	47
29 Jan 1715		William Strickland,later [1724] 4th baronet	c 1686	1 Sep 1735
		(to 1722)
12 Apr 1721		Henry Aglionby  (to 1727)	May 1684	7 Aug 1759	75
27 Mar 1722		James Bateman		9 Apr 1758
28 Aug 1727		Charles Howard  (to 1761)	c 1696	26 Aug 1765
		John Hylton	27 Apr 1699	25 Sep 1746	47
13 May 1741		John Stanwix  [he was unseated on petition	19 Mar 1693	29 Oct 1766	73
		in favour of John Hylton 26 Jan 1742]
26 Jan 1742		John Hylton	27 Apr 1699	25 Sep 1746	47
26 Nov 1746		John Stanwix	19 Mar 1693	29 Oct 1766	73
31 Mar 1761		Raby Vane	2 Jan 1736	23 Oct 1769	33
		Henry Curwen	25 Nov 1728	23 Jun 1778	49
23 Mar 1768		Lord Edward Charles Bentinck	3 Mar 1744	8 Oct 1819	75
		George Musgrave	c 1740	27 Mar 1824
7 Oct 1774		Fletcher Norton	16 Nov 1744	19 Jun 1820	75
		Anthony Morris Storer  (to 1780)	12 Mar 1746	5 Jul 1799	53
31 May 1775		Walter Spencer Stanhope	4 Feb 1749	10 Apr 1822	73
18 Sep 1780		Charles Howard,styled Earl of Surrey,later
		[1786] 11th Duke of Norfolk  (to Nov 1786)	15 Mar 1746	16 Dec 1815	69
		William Lowther,later [1807] 1st Earl of
		Lonsdale	29 Dec 1757	19 Mar 1844	86
10 Apr 1784		Edward Norton	11 Mar 1750	Mar 1786	36
10 Apr 1786		John Lowther   [he was unseated on petition	1 Apr 1759	19 Mar 1844	84
		in favour of John Christian 31 May 1786]
31 May 1786		John Christian  (John Christian Curwen from
		1790)  (to 1790)	12 Jul 1756	11 Dec 1828	72
29 Nov 1786		Edward Knubley   [he was unseated on petition	after 1749	22 Apr 1815
		in favour of Rowland Stephenson 26 Feb 1787]
26 Feb 1787		Rowland Stephenson	c 1728	30 Sep 1807
3 Jul 1790		James Clarke Satterthwaite	c 1746	c 1818
		Edward Knubley	after 1749	22 Apr 1815
		[Both members were unseated on petition in
		favour of John Christian Curwen and Wilson
		Braddyll 3 Mar 1791]
3 Mar 1791		John Christian Curwen  (to 1812)	12 Jul 1756	11 Dec 1828	72
		Wilson Braddyll	24 Feb 1756	20 Nov 1818	62
27 Jun 1796		Sir Frederick Fletcher-Vane,2nd baronet	27 Feb 1760	Mar 1832	72
6 Jul 1802		Walter Spencer Stanhope	4 Feb 1749	10 Apr 1822	73
7 Oct 1812		Sir James Graham,1st baronet  (to 1825)	18 Nov 1753	21 Mar 1825	71
		Henry Fawcett	26 May 1762	15 Feb 1816	53
8 Mar 1816		John Christian Curwen	12 Jul 1756	11 Dec 1828	72
		[at the general election in Mar 1820,he was
		also returned for Cumberland,for which he
		chose to sit]
31 May 1820		William James  (to 1826)	29 Mar 1791	4 May 1861	70
2 Apr 1825		Sir Philip Musgrave,8th baronet  (to 1827)	12 Jul 1794	16 Jul 1827	33
12 Jun 1826		Sir James Robert George Graham,2nd baronet
		(to 1829)	1 Jun 1792	25 Oct 1861	69
16 Aug 1827		James Law Lushington  (to 1831)	24 Jul 1780	29 May 1859	78
18 Feb 1829		Sir William Scott,6th baronet	26 Jul 1803	12 Oct 1871	68
30 Jul 1830		Philip Henry Howard  (to 1847)	22 Apr 1801	1 Jan 1883	81
3 May 1831		William James	29 Mar 1791	4 May 1861	70
8 Jan 1835		William Marshall	26 May 1796	16 May 1872	75
30 Jul 1847		John Dixon	1785
		William Nicholson Hodgson	14 Aug 1801	2 Apr 1876	74
		Election declared void 6 Mar 1848
14 Mar 1848		Philip Henry Howard	22 Apr 1801	1 Jan 1883	81
		William Nicholson Hodgson	14 Aug 1801	2 Apr 1876	74
8 Jul 1852		Sir James Robert George Graham,2nd baronet
		(to 1861)	1 Jun 1792	25 Oct 1861	69
		Joseph Ferguson	1788	17 Feb 1863	74
27 Mar 1857		William Nicholson Hodgson	14 Aug 1801	2 Apr 1876	74
29 Apr 1859		Wilfrid Lawson,later [1867] 2nd baronet	4 Sep 1829	1 Jul 1906	76
		(to 1865)
26 Nov 1861		Edmund Potter  (to 1874)	1802	26 Oct 1883	81
12 Jul 1865		William Nicholson Hodgson	14 Aug 1801	2 Apr 1876	74
18 Nov 1868		Sir Wilfrid Lawson,2nd baronet  (to 1885)	4 Sep 1829	1 Jul 1906	76
6 Feb 1874		Robert Ferguson	1817	1 Sep 1898	81
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
2 Jul 1886		William Court Gully,later [1905] 1st Viscount
		Selby	29 Aug 1835	6 Nov 1909	74
14 Jul 1905		Frederick William Chance	26 Dec 1852	31 Aug 1932	79
17 Jan 1910		Richard Douglas Denman,later [1945] 1st
		baronet	24 Aug 1876	22 Dec 1957	81
14 Dec 1918		William Theodore Carr	30 Jul 1866	31 Jan 1931	64
15 Nov 1922		George Middleton  [kt 1935]	1876	25 Oct 1938	62
29 Oct 1924		William Watson,later [1929] Baron
		Thankerton [L]	8 Dec 1873	13 Jun 1948	74
30 May 1929		George Middleton  [kt 1935]	1876	25 Oct 1938	62
27 Oct 1931		Sir Edward Louis Spears,later [1953] 1st
		baronet	7 Aug 1886	27 Jan 1974	87
26 Jul 1945		Edgar Grierson	6 Nov 1884	1 Mar 1959	74
23 Feb 1950		Alfred Hargreaves	15 Feb 1899	c Feb 1978	79
26 May 1955		Donald McIntosh Johnson	17 Feb 1903	5 Nov 1978	75
15 Oct 1964		Ronald Howard Lewis	16 Jul 1909	18 Jun 1990	80
11 Jun 1987		Eric Anthony Martlew	3 Jan 1949
		CARLOW
1801		Henry Sadlier Prittie,later [Jan 1801] 2nd Baron
		Dunalley	3 Mar 1775	19 Oct 1854	79
21 Mar 1801		Francis Aldborough Prittie	4 Jun 1779	8 Mar 1853	73
30 Jul 1801		Charles Montagu Ormsby,later [1812] 1st
		baronet	23 Apr 1767	3 Mar 1818	50
9 Jun 1806		Michael Symes	c 1762	22 Jan 1809
13 Nov 1806		Frederick John Robinson,later [1833] 1st
		Earl of Ripon	1 Nov 1782	28 Jan 1859	76
26 May 1807		Andrew Strahan	c 1749	25 Aug 1831
24 Oct 1812		Sir Frederick John Falkiner,1st baronet	8 Apr 1768	14 Sep 1824	56
26 Jun 1818		Charles Harvey	1756	31 Aug 1843	87
15 Jun 1826		Charles William Bury,styled Baron Tullamore,
		later [1835] 2nd Earl of Charleville	29 Apr 1801	14 Jul 1851	50
15 Dec 1832		Nicholas Aylward Vigors	1786	26 Oct 1840	54
16 Jan 1835		Francis Bruen		15 Dec 1867
5 Aug 1837		William Henry Maule  [kt 1839]	25 Apr 1788	16 Jan 1858	69
27 Feb 1839		Francis Bruen   [he was unseated on petition		15 Dec 1867
		in favour of Thomas Gisborne 12 Jul 1839]
12 Jul 1839		Thomas Gisborne	c 1790	20 Jul 1852
5 Jul 1841		Brownlow Villiers Layard	14 Jul 1804	27 Dec 1853	49
5 Aug 1847		John Sadleir	1813	17 Feb 1856	42
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
20 Jan 1853		John Alexander	1802	Oct 1885	83
6 May 1859		Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton,8th
		baronet,later [1869] 1st Baron Acton	10 Jan 1834	19 Jun 1902	68
15 Jul 1865		Thomas Osborne Stock		17 Nov 1875
20 Nov 1868		William Addis Fagan	1832
3 Feb 1874		Henry Owen Lewis	1842
3 Apr 1880		Charles Dawson	1842
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		CARLOW COUNTY
1801		William Henry Burton	16 Jul 1739	7 Jan 1818	78
		Sir Richard Butler,7th baronet	14 Jul 1761	16 Jan 1817	55
26 Jul 1802		David La Touche  (to 1816)	5 May 1769	15 Mar 1816	46
		Walter Bagenal	c 1762	18 Jun 1814
30 Oct 1812		Henry Bruen  (to 1831)	3 Oct 1789	5 Nov 1852	63
18 Apr 1816		Robert Anthony Latouche	c 1781	19 Nov 1849
29 Jun 1818		Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh,later [1826] 2nd
		Baron Downes [I]	15 Aug 1788	26 Jul 1863	74
6 Apr 1826		Thomas Kavanagh	10 Mar 1767	20 Jan 1837	69
11 May 1831		Walter Blackney  (to 1835)	1 Aug 1755	14 Sep 1842	87
		Sir John Milley Doyle	1781	9 Aug 1856	75
22 Dec 1832		Thomas Wallace	c 1766
13 Jan 1835		Henry Bruen	3 Oct 1789	5 Nov 1852	63
		Thomas Kavanagh	1767	23 Jan 1837	69
		Election declared void 27 May 1835
15 Jun 1835		Nicholas Aylward Vigors	1786	26 Oct 1840	54
		Alexander Raphael		17 Nov 1850
		[Both members were unseated on petition in
		favour of Henry Bruen and Thomas
		Kavanagh 19 Aug 1835]
19 Aug 1835		Henry Bruen  (to Aug 1837)	3 Oct 1789	5 Nov 1852	63
		Thomas Kavanagh	1767	23 Jan 1837	69
18 Feb 1837		Nicholas Aylward Vigors  (to 1840)		c Oct 1840
11 Aug 1837		John Ashton Yates  (to 1841)	1782	1 Nov 1863	81
5 Dec 1840		Henry Bruen  (to 1853)	3 Oct 1789	5 Nov 1852	63
11 Jul 1841		Thomas Bunbury		28 May 1846
1 Jul 1846		William Bunbury McClintock-Bunbury	1800	2 Jun 1866	65
26 Jul 1852		John Ball  (to 1857)	20 Aug 1818	21 Oct 1889	71
25 Apr 1853		William Bunbury McClintock-Bunbury
		(to 1862)	1800	2 Jun 1866	65
4 Apr 1857		Henry Bruen  (to 1880)	16 Jun 1828	8 Mar 1912	83
7 Aug 1862		Denis William Pack Beresford	1818	28 Dec 1881	63
18 Nov 1868		Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh	25 Mar 1831	25 Dec 1889	58
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
13 Apr 1880		Edmund Dwyer Gray  (to 1886)   [at the	29 Dec 1845	27 Mar 1888	42
		general election in Dec 1885, he was also
		returned for St.Stephen's Green, for which he
		chose to sit]
		For further information on this MP,see
		the note at the foot of this page
		Donald Horne McFarlane	18 Jul 1830	2 Jun 1904	73
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
29 Jan 1886		John Aloysius Blake	1826	22 May 1887	60
24 Aug 1887		Charles James Patrick O'Gorman Mahon	17 Mar 1800	15 Jun 1891	91
7 Jul 1891		John Hammond	1842	17 Nov 1907	65
Jan 1908		Walter MacMurrough Kavanagh	Jan 1856	18 Jul 1922	66
20 Jan 1910		Michael Molloy	1850
14 Dec 1918		James Lennon		13 Jul 1958
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CARLTON (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		Sir Kenneth William Murray Pickthorn,1st
		baronet	23 Apr 1892	12 Nov 1975	83
31 Mar 1966		Philip Welsby Holland	14 Mar 1917
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		CARMARTHEN  (CARMARTHENSHIRE)
23 Apr 1660		Arthur Annesley,later [Nov 1660] 2nd Viscount
		Valentia and [1661] Earl of Anglesey	10 Jul 1614	6 Apr 1686	71
25 Mar 1661		John Vaughan,later [1687] 3rd Earl of Carbery	18 Jul 1639	16 Jan 1713	73
17 Feb 1679		Altham Vaughan	c 1642	16 Feb 1682
6 Apr 1685		Richard Vaughan	c 1655	27 Oct 1724
4 Jan 1725		James Phillips	11 Jul 1672	28 Nov 1730	58
11 Sep 1727		Arthur Bevan	c 1687	6 Mar 1742
18 May 1741		Sir John Philipps,6th baronet	8 Nov 1700	23 Jun 1764	63
3 Jul 1747		Thomas Mathews	Oct 1676	2 Oct 1751	74
22 Nov 1751		Griffith Philipps	c 1715	27 Feb 1781
2 Apr 1761		Ralph Verney,2nd Earl Verney [I]	1 Feb 1714	31 Mar 1791	77
28 Mar 1768		Griffith Philipps	c 1715	27 Feb 1781
7 Oct 1774		John Adams	c 1746	2 Jun 1817
11 Sep 1780		George Philipps	c 1742	17 Apr 1784
5 Apr 1784		John George Philipps	c 1761	Jun 1816
27 May 1796		Magens Dorrien-Magens   [he was unseated on	c 1761	30 May 1849
		petition in favour of John George Philipps
		7 Nov 1796]
7 Nov 1796		John George Philipps	c 1761	Jun 1816
27 Dec 1803		Sir William Paxton	c 1744	10 Feb 1824
3 Nov 1806		George Campbell	14 Aug 1759	23 Jan 1821	61
20 Dec 1813		John Frederick Campbell,later [1821] 2nd Baron
		Cawdor and [1827] 1st Earl Cawdor	8 Nov 1790	7 Nov 1860	69
5 Jul 1821		John Jones	15 Sep 1777	10 Nov 1842	65
14 Dec 1832		William Henry Yelverton	5 Mar 1791	28 Apr 1884	93
6 Jan 1835		David Lewis
24 Jul 1837		David Morris		30 Sep 1864
31 Oct 1864		William Morris	1811	1877	66
18 Nov 1868		Sir John Stepney Cowell-Stepney	23 Feb 1791	15 May 1877	86
9 Feb 1874		Charles William Nevill	1816	7 Jun 1888	71
14 Aug 1876		Sir Emile Algernon Arthur Keppel
		Cowell-Stepney,1st baronet	26 Dec 1834	3 Jul 1909	74
11 May 1878		Benjamin Thomas Williams	1832	21 Mar 1890	57
4 Jan 1882		Sir John Jones Jenkins,later [1906] 1st
		Baron Glantawe	10 May 1835	27 Jul 1915	80
7 Jul 1886		Sir Emile Algernon Arthur Keppel
		Cowell-Stepney,1st baronet	26 Dec 1834	3 Jul 1909	74
Jul 1892		Evan Rowland Jones	1840	16 Jan 1920	79
17 Jul 1895		Sir John Jones Jenkins,later [1906] 1st
		Baron Glantawe	10 May 1835	27 Jul 1915	80
8 Oct 1900		Alfred Davies	1848	27 Sep 1907	59
17 Jan 1906		William Llewelyn Williams	10 Mar 1867	22 Apr 1922	55
14 Dec 1918		John Hinds	26 Jul 1862	23 Jul 1928	65
6 Dec 1923		Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith,1st baronet	23 May 1860	30 Nov 1926	66
14 Aug 1924		Sir Alfred Moritz Mond,1st baronet,later [1928]
		1st Baron Melchett	23 Oct 1868	27 Dec 1930	62
28 Jun 1928		William Nathaniel Jones	20 Mar 1858	24 May 1934	76
30 May 1929		Daniel Hopkin	Jul 1886	30 Aug 1951	65
27 Oct 1931		Richard Thomas Evans	1890	20 Jul 1946	56
14 Nov 1935		Daniel Hopkin	Jul 1886	30 Aug 1951	65
26 Mar 1941		Ronw Moelwyn Hughes	6 Oct 1897	1 Nov 1955	58
26 Jul 1945		Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris	5 Sep 1888	22 Nov 1956	68
28 Feb 1957		Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd-George	22 Apr 1902	14 May 1966	64
14 Jul 1966		Gwynfor Richard Evans	1 Sep 1912	21 Apr 2005	92
18 Jun 1970		Gwynoro Glyndwr Jones	21 Nov 1942
10 Oct 1974		Gwynfor Richard Evans	1 Sep 1912	21 Apr 2005	92
3 May 1979		Roger Gareth Thomas	14 Nov 1925	1 Sep 1994	68
11 Jun 1987		Alan Wynne Williams	21 Dec 1945
		SPLIT INTO "CARMARTHEN EAST AND DINEFWR"
		AND "CARMARTHEN WEST AND SOUTH
		PEMBROKESHIRE" 1997
		Hugh Watt, MP for Camlachie 1885-1892
		Both during and after his time as a member of Parliament, Hugh Watt was no stranger to the
		Courts. In June 1888, he was busily engaged in suing his fellow MP, Charles Cameron,
		member for the College division of Glasgow and proprietor of the 'North British Daily Mail.'
		Cameron's paper had claimed that an address given by Watt regarding the Northern Territory
		of Australia had been plagiarized from a book whose author had, unknown to Watt, been
		present in the audience during the address and had recognised his words as being her own.
		In July 1892, Watt lost a libel action against him and was forced to pay damages to the
		plaintiff. In May 1896, his wife, Mrs. Julia Watt petitioned the Courts for a divorce on the
		grounds of Watt's adultery and cruelty, and in May 1901, Watt was named as co-respondent
		in a divorce action broght by Sir Reginald Proctor-Beauchamp, 5th baronet, against his wife,
		Lady Violet Proctor-Beauchamp, daughter of the 5th Earl of Roden. Watt's relationship with
		Lady Violet was to have far-reaching consequences.
		After Sir Reginald obtained his divorce, Watt's wife was also successful in obtaining a divorce
		from Watt. According to contemporary newspapers, Watt then married Lady Violet. Burke's
		Peerage gives a date of 12 December 1906 as being the date of their marriage, but the
		newspapers throughout 1905 all state that Watt and Lady Violet were already married at
		that time.
		In August 1905, Watt was arrested and charged with attempting to procure the murder of
		his first wife. According to the evidence given at his subsequent trial in December 1905, on
		10 August 1905, Watt approached a man named Herbert Augustus Marshall, an inquiry agent
		[i.e. a private detective] and gave instructions to have his ex-wife watched. A few days
		later, Marshall stated that he had called on Watt at his home. Watt had produced a bottle
		containing a liquid, which he told Marshall was chloroform. Watt had then said to Marshall;
		"You get Mrs. Watt to come here, and get her downstairs, where I have a room prepared;
		I will give her a push and chloroform her, and when it is all over, you must go to Dr. Blake
		of Putney, and he will certify death from heart disease and I will have her cremated within
		48 hours." Marshall declined Watt's suggested course of action and went straight to the
		police.
		On 21 December 1905, Watt was found guilty of attempting to procure the murder of his
		wife and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. He served only one year of the
		five, being released on 10 December 1906. This date fits in well with Burke's date for his
		marriage to Lady Violet two days after his release, notwithstanding the unanimous reports
		in contemporary papers that the two were already married. On the other hand, his death
		notice in March 1921 states that he had married Lady Violet in 1906, thus agreeing with
		the date shown in Burke.
		However, a contrary and apologist view of the whole affair was published in 'The
		Washington Post' of 18 July 1910:-
		'It was the daughter of the fifth Earl of Roden, namely, Lady Violet Jocelyn, who, after
		her divorce from Sir Reginald [Proctor-] Beachamp, underwent such extraordinary
		experiences in connection with her present and perfectly happy marriage with Hugh Watt,
		formerly member of Parliament for Glasgow [Camlachie], and head of the great mercantile
		house bearing his name in that city.
		'Watt had been named by Sir Reginald as co-respondent. Shortly afterward Mrs. Watt
		secured a divorce from her husband, on the ground of his infatuation for Lady Violet,
		but purposely abstained from taking the necessary steps to render the decree absolute
		and complete, with the object of depriving him of the liberty of wedding Lady Violet. In
		fact, Mrs. Watt, imbued with sentiments of resentment and revenge, did everything in
		her power to persecute both Lady Violet and Hugh Watt, and wound up by charging him
		with inciting certain persons to murder her. [Despite the fact that the evidence in the
		trial goes to show that Marshall had informed on Watt directly to the police, and that it
		was the police who commenced the action against Watt.]
		'Evidence was furnished by men of infamous character, who swore that they had been
		employed by Hugh Watt to murder his former wife; and although the tale which they told
		was on the face of it of the most improbable description, since no sane man could have
		proposed murder in such a casual fashion to agents so untrustworthy, and to be carried
		out by means so ludicrous, yet the story, idiotic as it appeared, seemed to appeal to the
		jury, who, composed of petty tradesmen, apparently thought that because Hugh Watt
		had been divorced by his own wife, and had figured as co-respondent in another case,
		he was capable of every other crime. They rendered a verdict against him, and the judge,
		Sir William Phillimore, who had but little experience in criminal cases, instead of attempting
		to guide them, allowed himself to be swayed by them and sentenced Watt to five years'
		penal servitude. [The judge was Sir Walter Phillimore, not Sir William - it's errors such as
		these that undermine, in my view, the force of the argument expressed by the author of
		the article.]
		'Both the conviction and the sentence were denounced by the press, and by all sensible
		people, and had the court of criminal appeal, since inaugurated, been then in existence,
		it would undoubtedly quashed the case at once. As it was, the indignation on the part of
		the public, of high and low degree, assumed such proportions with regard to the sentence
		that the secretary of state for home affairs, after a few months had elapsed, recommended
		to the crown its reduction to such an extent that Watt was immediately set at liberty.
		'It was only after this, and after Mrs. Watt had still further vented her animosity upon Lady
		Violet, by suing her for libel, and by endeavoring to bankrupt her in connection with the
		enormous legal costs of her divorce suit, that she was practically forced by popular clamor
		to consent to the final legal steps necessary to complete her divorce from Hugh Watt so
		as to permit him to wed Lady Violet.
		'It is only fair to add that since then the path of Lady Violet Watt and of her husband has
		been rendered heavier by the knowledge that not only society, but also the public at large,
		without altogether condoning their indiscretion, nevertheless regard them as having been
		the particularly cruelly treated victims of gross misdirection of justice and of feminine
		revenge, and as such worthy of sympathy and good will.'
		John Nichols Thom (or Tom) alias Sir William Percy Honywood Courtenay, candidate
		for the seat of Canterbury at the 1832 general election
		John Nichols Thom was born in the Cornish village of Columb Major on 10 November 1799.
		His father, William Thom, kept the local public house, the 'Joiner's Arms.' His mother, Charity,
		died in an insane asylum when he was a child. From her, he appears to have inherited the
		streak of insanity which shaped the remainder of his life.
		Thom left home after his mother died and took a job as a cellarman to a wine merchant in
		Truro. Within five years he had saved enough to marry and set himself up in business as a
		maltster. However, his extravagance kept him in constant debt. He built a fine house and
		business premises and liked to dress in expensive, flamboyant clothes and sport an ever-
		increasing collection of jewellery. In 1829, fire demolished part of his warehouse and netted
		him £3,000 in insurance. Rumors that he knew something of the blaze caused the under-
		writers to investigate further, but they could find no evidence and the claim had to be paid.
		Using the money received from the fire claim, Thom plunged into extensive speculation,
		which apparently was successful.
		By this time, Thom's mind was becoming unhinged. In 1832, or so he claimed - grave doubts
		have been cast upon his story - Thom travelled to Beirut to meet a woman whose exploits
		had long fired his imagination. This was Lady Hester Stanhope, daughter of Earl Stanhope,
		who had left England to settle in Syria, where she lived in oriental splendour. Lady Hester
		believed that a messiah was destined to appear before her in her desert retreat and that
		she was to become his bride. Thom seems to have thought that he would make as good a
		messiah as any, but when he presented himself at her desert retreat, she ridiculed his claims
		and refused to see him.
		Thom therefore returned to England, where he threw himself into political agitation. At that
		time, England was seething with agitation over the Reform Bill, which proposed greater
		representation of the middle class in Parliament and the abolition of 'rotten boroughs' which
		were controlled by the aristocracy. Thom descended upon Canterbury in Kent in the guise of
		Count Moses Rothschild, dressed in crimson velvet, trimmed with gold. Within a week,
		however, he changed his alias to that of Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay, airily
		explaining that Rothschild had been merely his incognito.
		He stumped the country preaching a new deal for the common people, in which they took
		over the great estates and earned wealth beyond their wildest dreams. To spread his views,
		he started a newspaper, 'The Lion.'  His popularity became so widespread that he stood as
		a candidate in the general election of 1832 in the seat of Canterbury, where, although
		unsuccessful, he gained a respectable share of the vote.
		Undeterred by his defeat, he plunged into a new fight, in which he defended a gang of
		alcohol smugglers who had been captured off the Kentish coast. He spoke so wildly that he
		was indicted for perjury and sentenced to seven years' transportation, which he escaped
		only by pleading insanity and was locked up in a lunatic asylum. Through the efforts of his
		father, he obtained a pardon and was released.
		He immediately resumed his masquerade as Sir William Courtenay, but this time with the
		added titles of Earl of Devon, Prince of Abyssinia and King of Jerusalem. Over the next five
		years, more and more followers rallied to him. After Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne
		he told his followers that he would undoubtedly enjoy considerable influence at Court. Soon,
		he was aiming even higher, when he proclaimed himself a saviour with supernatural powers
		to resist arrest. His ignorant supporters fell at his feet and worshipped him when he exhibited
		supposed stigmata proving his divinity.
		Discarding his rich Oriental costume, he rode from village to village on a white horse, dressed
		in a plain brown shirt, trousers and a broad-brimmed hat. In his belt he wore two pistols and
		he carried a long sword which he called Excalibur. A trumpet was slung over his shoulder,and
		he was preceded by two aides - one carried his standard, a white banner with blue borders
		and a red lion in the centre, while the other held aloft a long pole with a loaf of bread stuck
		on it as an emblem of the plenty he promised his followers. At his meetings, Thom climaxed
		his sermons by drawing his two pistols and firing them into the air. The pistols were loaded
		with a mixture of powder and steel filings. Firing them caused a cloud of iridescent sparks to
		shoot into the air and fall to the ground, thus fulfilling Thom's boast that he had powers to
		"make the stars fall from their spheres."
		On 28 May 1838 Thom began to gather his faithful for a grand march to London, where they
		would force the government to repeal the Poor Law and institute other reforms. Gathering
		fresh supporters along the way, he expected that by the time they reached London, he
		would head an army of thousands. He promised his followers that no human power could
		harm either him or his followers. Even if confronted by 10,000 soldiers, he could kill them all
		by hitting his left hand with his right. In the extremely unlikely event that he himself was
		killed, he would rise from the dead after three days.
		On 31 May 1838, Thom and his followers were camped in a wood near the small town of
		Bossenden. By this time, the local authorities were becoming alarmed, and a magistrate
		issued a warrant for Thom's arrest on a charge of breach of the peace. Three constables
		were sent to execute the warrant. When they arrived at the wood, Thom pulled out a
		pistol and shot Constable Nicholas Mears dead, after which he hacked at his body with his
		sword and threw the body into a ditch. A clergyman, the Rev. William Handley, tried to talk
		with Thom, but he had to flee for his life in a hail of bullets.
		Later that day 100 troops of the 45th Regiment of Foot were despatched from Canterbury to
		arrest Thom and his followers. Arriving at the camp, Lieutenant Henry Boswell Bennett
		advanced and called upon Thom to surrender. In reply, Thom shot the Lieutenant dead, thus
		making Bennett the first soldier to die on active duty during the reign of Queen Victoria. The
		shooting of their officer was the signal for a general charge by the soldiers, leading within a
		few minutes to the deaths of ten men, including Thom. The remainder of Thom's followers
		fled, but 25 were rounded up and thrown in gaol. Of these captured followers, ten were later
		sentenced to death, but all were later reprieved.
		Mindful of Thom's prediction that he would rise in three days, the coroner caused his heart
		to be removed before he was buried in an unmarked grave, over which constables stood
		guard until it became obvious that Thom was not going to be resurrected. The "Battle of
		Bossenden Wood" has now gone into history as the last battle fought on English soil.
		John Sadleir, MP for Carlow 1847-1853 and Sligo 1853-1856
		Sadlier was born in 1813 at Shrove Hill, Tipperary in Ireland, the son of Clement William
		Sadlier, who was described as having the occupation of 'Irish gentleman.' Young Sadleir
		established a legal practice in Dublin and, as his practice grew, became a director with a
		local stock company, frequently visiting England where he encouraged financiers to invest
		in Irish enterprises.
		By his early thirties, he realised that his business ambitions could never mature in Ireland,
		so he sold his practice and moved to London, where he established himself as agent for
		several Irish companies. He made a big impression on the London business world; personable
		and brimming with aggressive efficiency, he soon established himself as an important
		financier.
		In 1847, he entered Parliament as the Liberal member for Carlow in southern Ireland. With his
		reputation growing continually, he next turned his attention to railway investment.
		Unaccustomed to doing things by halves, he quickly invested in the Royal Swedish, the East
		Kent, the Swiss, the Grand Junction and the Rome Line railways. Nor did he neglect to make
		his mark in the House of Commons. His fluency of speech and grasp of economics won him
		many admirers and there were those who believed that he would one day become Chancellor
		of the Exchequer.
		His next large venture was the foundation of joint stock bank in Tipperary, which he put
		under the direction of his younger brother James (qv under Tipperary). In 1848, he reached
		the summit of acceptance in London's financial circles when he was appointed chairman of
		the London and County Bank, one of Britain's leading financial institutions.
		Meanwhile, in Parliament, despite the unpopularity of the cause in England, he was vigorously
		defending Roman Catholic interests against the onslaughts made against them. To this end,
		he co-founded, in 1851, the Catholic Defence Association. Sadleir was one of the leading
		defenders when the Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, introduced the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,
		which was aimed against the Catholic clergy in England. Sadleir was amongst those who,
		because of their vigorous opposition to the Bill, won the collective title of 'the Pope's Brass
		Band.'
		When Russell's government fell in 1852, he was offered the post of a Lord of the Treasury by
		the new Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen, who was a notorious anti-Catholic. Sadleir accepted
		this offer, which incurred the immediate animosity of the Catholic clergy, as well as his
		electoral supporters in Ireland. Realising that he would never retain his seat of Carlow after
		having aligned himself with an anti-Catholic Prime Minister, he successfully contested Sligo,
		a seat with a small Catholic population.
		Sadleir was now at the peak of his career; there was talk of an impending knighthood. Then,
		slowly, his façade of financial and political solidity began to crumble. It began when rumours
		seeped through the stock exchange which suggested that Sadleir's business methods were
		not entirely orthodox. Sadleir, at the Prime Minister's suggestion, resigned his post of Lord of
		the Treasury on 6 March 1854.
		This resignation caused uneasiness among the thousands of shareholders in his string of
		companies; nor was the staid board of the London and County Bank happy about its
		chairman's dwindling reputation. He was called before the Bank's board and asked to resign.
		There was good reason for all this fear, for, at the time, the rumours began, Sadleir had
		already cheated the investors in his businesses of hundreds of thousands of pounds. For
		years he had been issuing spurious shares, forging title deeds to estates and property and
		circulating worthless securities.
		In February 1856, the Tipperary Bank's London agents, Glyn & Co., refused to pay on
		draughts of the bank. Sadleir tried to raise money from other finance houses, but all refused
		to help him. As a last resort, he called on an old acquaintance, Josiah Wilkinson, head of a
		firm of solicitors who had often loaned money to Sadleir in the past. Sadleir begged his old
		friend to help him, but Sadleir's agitation only confirmed to Wilkinson the truth of the rumours
		he had been hearing, and Wilkinson declined to lend any more money to Sadleir.
		Around 9 o'clock on the evening of 16 February 1856 Sadleir instructed a housemaid to post
		a letter to the wife of his brother James. He also told the girl that, on the way back, she was
		to go to a chemist and buy some prussic acid. An hour or so later, after the housemaid had
		returned, he gave his butler some letters to post and then quietly left the house.
		Next morning, a Hampstead Heath donkey-driver named Joseph Bates went looking on the
		Heath for a strayed animal. There he found the body of a well-dressed man lying on the wet
		grass, an empty bottle marked 'Poison' by his side. Sadleir's butler identified the body and, at
		the subsequent inquest, the coroner found that Sadleir had committed suicide. One of the
		letters that Sadleir had written before leaving his house was to his friend Robert Keating [MP
		for co. Waterford 1847-1852 and Waterford City 1852-1857] in which he admitted having
		swindled and deceived and said that he alone was responsible for the embezzlements. The
		letter to his sister-in-law contained this passage: 'My death will prove that I am not callous
		to the agony of the people I have robbed.'
		Investigations made into Sadleir's companies showed that he had embezzled £200,000 from
		the Tipperary Bank and had issued £150,000 worth of valueless securities in one of his
		railway companies.
		For years rumours circulated that Sadleir was not dead and that the body found on
		Hampstead Heath was that of another person. It was pointed out that he would have good
		reason to fake his own death. It was also contended that, because no cab-driver could be
		found to say he had driven a man from Hyde Park to Hampstead Heath on the night in
		question, Sadleir must have walked there, yet, despite the wet conditions on that night,
		the dead man's shoes were perfectly clean. As far as I am aware, very little, if any, of the
		stolen £350,000 was ever recovered.
		See also the note regarding John Sadleir's brother, James Sadleir, at the foot of the page
		containing details of the members for Tipperary. For further reading on John Sadleir, I
		recommend 'Prince of Swindlers' by James O'Shea (Geography Publications, Dublin, 1999).
		Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, MP for co. Wexford 1866-1868
		and co. Carlow 1868-1880
		Kavanagh was the son of Thomas Kavanagh, who was on three occasions MP for co. Carlow
		before and after the passing of the Reform Bill. Arthur, who could trace his descent from the
		ancient kings of Leinster, was born with only vestigial arms and legs, but this did not
		stop him from having a successful political career. He learnt to ride in the most fearless way,
		strapped in a special saddle, and was also a yachtsman, a crack shot with a rifle, a keen
		fisherman, an artist, an author and an early amateur photographer.
		The story has it that when Arthur's mother first married Thomas Kavanagh, she insisted that
		two religious statues be removed from the family's private chapel. In this way, she wished to
		prove that she had denounced her Catholicism. The local peasant population was, however,
		not pleased with this action and, according to legend, they put a curse on the Kavanaghs
		that one day they would be led by a cripple.
		Despite his physical handicaps, Arthur was an inveterate traveller in his younger days. He
		spent a large portion of his youth in foreign travel, especially to Egypt and the Middle East.
		His major journey occurred in 1852, when, with two companions, he rode overland from
		Norway to India, via Russia and Persia.
		When his older brother Charles was killed in a fire in 1853, Arthur became head of the family,
		and proved himself to be a natural leader. In 1855, he married his cousin, Frances Mary
		Leathley, the marriage producing six children. He was a model landlord, something of a
		rarity in mid nineteenth-century Ireland. He rebuilt the villages of Borris and Ballyragget,
		using plans drawn by himself and which won the Royal Dublin Society's Medal. To provide
		timber for his tenants to build their houses, he organized a free sawmill. His wife instructed
		the villagers in floriculture and lace-making.
		He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1866, making him the first limbless man ever
		to sit in that House. Whilst a member, he travelled from his home to London in his two-
		masted schooner, which he moored directly below the Houses of Parliament, thus
		re-establishing an ancient right of members of Parliament which had fallen out of disuse over
		the centuries.
		After failing to be re-elected in 1880, Arthur was appointed Lord Lieutenant of co. Carlow
		and was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1886. He died of pneumonia on Christmas
		Day morning of 1889. It was said of him at his death that 'he did not equal any man, but few
		men equalled him.'
		Edmund Dwyer Gray, MP for co.Carlow 1880-1885 and St.Stephen's Green 1885-1888
		Gray first came to the attention of the public in 1868, when he won a bravery award from
		the Royal Humane Society following his rescue of five people off a wrecked schooner off
		the Irish coast. After completing his education, Gray in 1875 succeeded his father as the
		proprietor of a number of newspapers, including 'Freeman's Journal', the leading nationalist
		newspaper in Ireland during this period. He was also, at the time of the events outlined in
		this note, the High Sheriff of Dublin.
		In August 1882, a man named Francis Hynes was found guilty of murdering a caretaker in
		co.Clare. After his trial had concluded, the following letter appeared in the 'Freeman's
		Journal' :-
		Imperial Hotel, Dublin
		Saturday, August 12
		'Dear Sir, - I think that the public ought to be made aware of the following facts: The jury in
		the murder case of 'The Queen v. Hynes,' were last night 'locked up,' as it is termed, for the
		night, at the Imperial Hotel, where I was also staying. I was awakened from sleep shortly
		after midnight by the sounds of a drunken chorus, succeeded after a time by scuffling,
		rushing, coarse laughter, and horse play along the corridor on which my bedroom opens. A
		number of men, it seemed to me, were falling about the passage in a maudlin state of
		drunkenness, playing ribald jokes. I listened with patience for a considerable time, when the
		door of my bedroom was burst open and a man, whom I can identify (for he carried a candle
		unsteadily in his hand), staggered in, plainly under the influence of drink, hiccuping, "Hallo,
		old fellow, all alone?" My answer was of a character that induced him to bolt out of the room
		in as disordered a manner as he had entered. Having rung the bell, I ascertained that these
		disorderly persons were jurors in the case of 'The Queen v. Hynes,' and that the servants of
		the hotel had been endeavouring in vain to bring them to a sense of their misconduct. I
		thought it right to convey to them a warning that the public would hear of their proceedings.
		The disturbance then ceased. It is fair to add that no more than three or four men appeared
		to be engaged in the roaring, and in the tipsy horseplay that followed. I leave the public to
		judge the loathsomeness of such a scene upon the night when these men held the issues of
		life and death for a young man in the flower of youth when they had already heard evidence
		which, if unrebutted, they must have well known would send him to a felon's grave. The
		facts I am ready to support upon oath.
		WILLIAM O'BRIEN'
		When the letter was published, the newspaper added these words:-
		'The Freeman asks: Can the Executive refuse to act upon this evidence if proved to be
		true? It has heard of men hanging that a jury might dine; but what of a man hanging
		because jurymen have dined not wisely but too well?'
		On 16 August 1882, Gray was charged with contempt of court, as reported by the 'Aberdeen
		Weekly Journal' of 17 August 1882:-
		'At the Dublin Commission yesterday the Solicitor-General for Ireland applied to Judge Lawson
		for an attachment against Mr. Edmund Dwyer Gray, M.P., High Sheriff, and proprietor of the
		Freeman's Journal, and that he should be committed to prison forthwith for contempt of
		Court, or be punished by such other order as his lordship may think fit to make. The
		application was founded on the affidavit of Mr. Alexander Crew, solicitor. The contempt of
		Court consisted of a number of articles in the Freeman's Journal commenting on the
		proceedings of the Commission, and also of a letter from Mr. Wm. O'Brien, of the United
		Ireland, attributing misconduct to a jury who convicted a young man named Hynes, from
		Ennis, of wilful murder.
		'The Solicitor-General pointed out that comments in the newspapers on the conduct of jurors
		was a matter which could not for a moment be permitted. If the jurors misconducted
		themselves it was for the Court to reprove them. In this instance the conduct of the jurors
		was only brought before the public for the purpose of throwing discredit upon their verdict
		so as to defeat justice. Mr. Gray, as High Sheriff, was responsible for any misconduct on the
		part of the jury.
		'Mr. Gray emphatically disclaimed any imputation whatever on his lordship or the Court. It
		was, in his opinion, a question whether the articles were contempt of Court. He considered
		his duties as a journalist far higher than those of High Sheriff, and if the latter interfered
		with his profession he would relieve himself of it. He believed it part of his duty to comment
		without fear or favour on cases of public interest. The writer of the letter was ready to
		justify himself on oath as to the conduct of the jury in question. Mr. Gray concluded by
		asking for an adjournment in order that he might have benfit of legal assistance.
		'Judge Lawson said this was no case for adjournment. Each and every one of the articles
		constituted a garve contempt of Court. The earlier ones, containing atrocious allegations of
		excluding Roman Catholics from juries, were an especial contempt of Court, and were written
		for the purpose of exciting a persuasion in the minds of Roman Catholics that they were
		ostracised. Jurors of all persuasions required to be protected, and he should, therefore,
		sentence the defendant to three months' imprisonment, to pay a fine of £500; and, further,
		to find security for himself in £5,000, and two sureties in £2,500 each, or in default to
		undergo another three months' imprisonment. His lordship stated he would similarly punish
		all other offenders.
		'The sentence produced a vast amount of sensation in Court. The City Coroner at first
		refused to take the defendant into custody, but ultimately did so, and he was subsequently
		conveyed to Richmond Prison in his own carriage, accompanied by his wife, and escorted by
		a detachment of hussars.'
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		Gray had two important associations with Australia. Firstly, his wife (who while still unknown
		to him had witnessed the rescue for which he received the Royal Humane Society Medal)
		was the daughter of Caroline Chisholm, one of Australia's most famous early pioneers and the
		first woman (other than royalty) whose portrait appeared on an Australian banknote (the $5
		note between 1967 and 1988). Secondly, his son, also Edmund, was Premier of Tasmania for
		six months in 1939.
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