| THE HOUSE OF COMMONS | |||||
| CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "C" | |||||
| Last updated 20/12/2012 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| CARMARTHEN EAST AND DINEFWR | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Alan Wynne Williams | 21 Dec 1945 | |||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Adam Price | 23 Sep 1968 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | David Jonathan Edwards | 26 Apr 1976 | |||
| CARMARTHEN WEST AND | |||||
| PEMBROKESHIRE SOUTH | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Nicholas Richard Ainger | 24 Oct 1949 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Simon Anthony Hart | 15 Aug 1963 | |||
| CARMARTHENSHIRE | |||||
| 16 Apr 1660 | John Lloyd,later [1662] 1st baronet | c 1617 | 1 Jan 1664 | ||
| 28 Mar 1661 | Francis Vaughan,styled Baron Vaughan | 14 Mar 1638 | 7 Mar 1667 | 28 | |
| 9 Jan 1668 | Sir Henry Vaughan | c 1613 | 26 Dec 1676 | ||
| 22 Feb 1677 | Altham Vaughan | c 1642 | 16 Feb 1682 | ||
| 21 Feb 1679 | John Vaughan,styled Baron Vaughan,later | ||||
| [1687] 3rd Earl of Carbery [I] | 18 Jul 1639 | 16 Jan 1713 | 73 | ||
| 17 Jan 1689 | Sir Rice Rudd,2nd baronet | c 1643 | Jul 1701 | ||
| 18 Dec 1701 | Griffith Rice | c 1664 | 26 Sep 1729 | ||
| 12 Oct 1710 | Sir Thomas Powell,1st baronet | c 1665 | 22 Aug 1720 | ||
| 17 Feb 1715 | Charles Powlett,styled Marquess of Winchester | ||||
| later [1722] 3rd Duke of Bolton | 3 Sep 1685 | 26 Aug 1754 | 68 | ||
| 23 May 1717 | Sir Thomas Stepney,5th baronet | c 1668 | 19 Jan 1745 | ||
| 19 Apr 1722 | Edward Rice [he was unseated on petition | 3 Apr 1727 | |||
| in favour of Sir Nicholas Williams 18 Dec 1724] | |||||
| 18 Dec 1724 | Sir Nicholas Williams,1st baronet | 1681 | 19 Jul 1745 | 64 | |
| 21 Nov 1745 | John Vaughan | 1693 | 27 Jan 1765 | 71 | |
| 25 Apr 1754 | George Rice | c 1724 | 2 Aug 1779 | ||
| 2 Sep 1779 | John Vaughan | c 1752 | 19 Jan 1804 | ||
| 8 Apr 1784 | Sir William Mansel,9th baronet | 1 Mar 1739 | 3 Jan 1804 | 64 | |
| 28 Jun 1790 | George Talbot Rice,later [1793] 3rd Baron | ||||
| Dynevor | 8 Oct 1765 | 9 Apr 1852 | 86 | ||
| 9 Apr 1793 | James Hamlyn,later [1795] 1st baronet | Oct 1735 | 28 May 1811 | 75 | |
| 16 Jul 1802 | James Hamlyn Williams,later [1811] 2nd | ||||
| baronet | 25 Oct 1765 | 3 Dec 1829 | 64 | ||
| 22 Nov 1806 | Sir William Paxton | c 1744 | 10 Feb 1824 | ||
| 13 May 1807 | Lord Robert Seymour-Conway | 20 Dec 1748 | 23 Nov 1831 | 82 | |
| 16 Mar 1820 | George Rice [Rice-Trevor from 1824],later | ||||
| [1852] 4th Baron Dynevor | 5 Aug 1795 | 7 Oct 1869 | 74 | ||
| 9 May 1831 | Sir James Hamlyn-Williams,3rd baronet | 25 Nov 1790 | 10 Oct 1861 | 70 | |
| REPRESENTATION INCREASED | |||||
| TO TWO MEMBERS 1832 | |||||
| 24 Dec 1832 | George Rice-Trevor,later Baron [1852] 4th | ||||
| Baron Dynevor (to 1852) | 5 Aug 1795 | 7 Oct 1869 | 74 | ||
| Edward Hamlyn Adams | |||||
| 22 Jan 1835 | Sir James Hamlyn Williams,3rd baronet | 1791 | 10 Oct 1861 | 70 | |
| 10 Aug 1837 | John Jones | 15 Sep 1777 | 10 Nov 1842 | 65 | |
| 27 Dec 1842 | David Arthur Saunders Davies (to 1857) | 9 Jun 1792 | 22 May 1857 | 64 | |
| 13 May 1852 | David Jones (to 1868) | 1 Nov 1810 | 1 Jul 1869 | 58 | |
| 12 Jun 1857 | David Pugh | 1806 | 12 Jul 1890 | 84 | |
| 26 Nov 1868 | Edward John Sartoris | 1814 | 23 Nov 1888 | 74 | |
| John Jones (to 1880) | 1815 | ||||
| 14 Feb 1874 | Frederick Archibald Vaughan,styled Viscount | ||||
| Emlyn,later [1898] 3rd Earl Cawdor (to 1885) | 13 Feb 1847 | 8 Feb 1911 | 63 | ||
| 9 Apr 1880 | Walter Rice Howell Powell | 1819 | 26 Jun 1889 | 69 | |
| CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO EAST | |||||
| & WEST DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| CARMARTHENSHIRE EAST | |||||
| 5 Dec 1885 | David Pugh | 1806 | 12 Jul 1890 | 84 | |
| 8 Aug 1890 | Abel Thomas | 1848 | 23 Jul 1912 | 64 | |
| 22 Aug 1912 | Josiah Towyn Jones | 28 Dec 1858 | 16 Nov 1925 | 66 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| CARMARTHENSHIRE WEST | |||||
| 3 Dec 1885 | Walter Rice Howell Powell | 1819 | 26 Jun 1889 | 69 | |
| 17 Jul 1889 | John Lloyd Morgan | 13 Feb 1861 | 17 May 1944 | 83 | |
| Dec 1910 | John Hinds | 26 Jul 1862 | 23 Jul 1928 | 65 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| CARRICK,CUMNOCK & DOON VALLEY | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | George Foulkes,later [2005] Baron Foulkes | ||||
| of Cumnock [L] | 21 Jan 1942 | ||||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005 | |||||
| CARRICKFERGUS (ANTRIM) | |||||
| 1801 | Noah Dalway | 24 Jul 1747 | 17 Jul 1820 | 72 | |
| 30 Jul 1802 | Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester | 20 Apr 1775 | 22 Feb 1819 | 43 | |
| 31 Mar 1807 | James Craig | after 1822 | |||
| 5 Nov 1812 | Arthur Chichester,later [1821] 1st baronet | c 1769 | 25 May 1847 | ||
| 1 Jul 1818 | George Hamilton Chichester,styled Earl of | ||||
| Belfast,later [1844] 3rd Marquess of Donegall | 10 Feb 1797 | 20 Oct 1883 | 86 | ||
| 16 Mar 1820 | Arthur Chichester,later [1821] 1st baronet | c 1769 | 25 May 1847 | ||
| 10 Aug 1830 | Lord George Augusta Hill | 9 Dec 1801 | 5 Apr 1879 | 77 | |
| 19 Dec 1832 | Conway Richard Dobbs [his election was | 1796 | 28 Feb 1886 | 89 | |
| declared void 10 Apr 1833. Writ suspended | |||||
| until Jan 1835] | |||||
| 10 Jan 1835 | Peter Kirk | 1800 | 1 Nov 1856 | 56 | |
| 3 Aug 1847 | Wellington Henry Stapleton Cotton,later | ||||
| [1865] 2nd Viscount Combermere | 24 Nov 1818 | 1 Dec 1891 | 73 | ||
| 2 Apr 1857 | William Cary Dobbs | 1806 | 17 Apr 1869 | 62 | |
| 6 May 1859 | Robert Torrens | 23 Dec 1874 | |||
| 21 Nov 1868 | Marriott Robert Dalway | 1832 | 10 Jan 1914 | 81 | |
| 6 Apr 1880 | Thomas Greer | 1837 | 19 Feb 1928 | 90 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885 | |||||
| CARSHALTON (SURREY) | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Antony Henry Head,later [1960] 1st | ||||
| Viscount Head | 19 Dec 1906 | 29 Mar 1983 | 76 | ||
| 16 Nov 1960 | Walter Elliot | 17 Feb 1910 | 8 Sep 1988 | 78 | |
| 28 Feb 1974 | Leonard Robert Carr,later [1976] Baron | ||||
| Carr of Hadley [L] | 11 Nov 1916 | 17 Feb 2012 | 95 | ||
| 11 Mar 1976 | Francis Nigel Forman | 25 Mar 1943 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "CARSHALTON | |||||
| & WALLINGTON" 1983 | |||||
| CARSHALTON & WALLINGTON | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Francis Nigel Forman | 25 Mar 1943 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Thomas Anthony Brake | 6 May 1962 | |||
| CASHEL (TIPPERARY) | |||||
| 1801 | Richard Bagwell | by Mar 1778 | Apr 1826 | ||
| 9 Dec 1801 | John Bagwell | c 1780 | 4 Mar 1806 | ||
| For information on the death of this MP,see | |||||
| the note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 27 Jul 1802 | William Wickham | 11 Nov 1761 | 22 Oct 1840 | 78 | |
| 17 Nov 1806 | Archibald John Primrose,styled Viscount | ||||
| Primrose,later [1814] 4th Earl of Rosebery | 14 Oct 1783 | 4 Mar 1868 | 84 | ||
| 25 May 1807 | Quintin Dick | 7 Feb 1777 | 26 Mar 1858 | 81 | |
| 15 Apr 1809 | Robert Peel,later [1830] 2nd baronet | 5 Feb 1788 | 2 Jul 1850 | 62 | |
| 26 Oct 1812 | Sir Charles Saxton,2nd baronet | 2 Oct 1773 | 24 Jan 1838 | 64 | |
| 9 Jun 1818 | Richard Pennefather | 1756 | 16 May 1831 | 74 | |
| 4 Mar 1819 | Ebenezer John Collett | 22 May 1755 | 31 Oct 1833 | 78 | |
| 5 Aug 1830 | Matthew Pennefather | c 1784 | 1858 | ||
| 16 Jul 1831 | Philip Pusey | 25 Jun 1799 | 9 Jul 1855 | 56 | |
| 14 Dec 1832 | James Roe | ||||
| 14 Jan 1835 | Louis Perrin | 15 Feb 1782 | 7 Dec 1864 | 82 | |
| 4 Sep 1835 | Stephen Woulfe | 1787 | 2 Jul 1840 | 53 | |
| 14 Jul 1838 | Joseph Stock | ||||
| 5 Feb 1846 | Timothy O'Brien,later [1849] 1st baronet | 1787 | 4 Dec 1862 | 75 | |
| 6 May 1859 | John Lanigan | ||||
| 15 Jul 1865 | James Lyster O'Beirne [his election was | 1820 | after 1885 | ||
| declared void 22 Feb 1869. No writ was | |||||
| issued to replace him and the seat was | |||||
| disenfranchised by an Act which received | |||||
| Royal assent on 1 Aug 1870] | |||||
| CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1870 | |||||
| CASTLE POINT (ESSEX) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Sir Bernard Richard Braine,later [1992] | ||||
| Baron Braine of Wheatley [L] | 24 Jun 1914 | 5 Jan 2000 | 85 | ||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Robert Michael Spink | 1 Aug 1948 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Christine Margaret Butler | 14 Dec 1943 | |||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Robert Michael Spink | 1 Aug 1948 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Rebecca Elizabeth Harris | 22 Dec 1967 | |||
| CASTLE RISING (NORFOLK) | |||||
| c Apr 1660 | Sir John Holland | Oct 1603 | 19 Jan 1701 | 97 | |
| John Spelman | 12 Sep 1606 | 31 Jan 1663 | 56 | ||
| 21 Mar 1661 | Robert Paston,later [1663] 2nd baronet and | ||||
| [1679] 1st Earl of Yarmouth (to Nov 1673) | 29 May 1631 | 8 Mar 1683 | 51 | ||
| Robert Steward | 6 Apr 1617 | 10 Jul 1672 | 55 | ||
| 10 Feb 1673 | Sir John Trevor (to 1679) | c 1637 | 20 May 1717 | ||
| 4 Nov 1673 | Samuel Pepys | 23 Feb 1633 | 26 May 1703 | 70 | |
| 4 Feb 1679 | Sir Robert Howard | 19 Jan 1626 | 3 Sep 1698 | 72 | |
| James Hoste | 11 Aug 1633 | 30 Jul 1699 | 65 | ||
| 26 Mar 1685 | Sir Nicholas L'Estrange,4th baronet | 2 Dec 1661 | 18 Dec 1724 | 63 | |
| Thomas Howard | 21 Feb 1651 | 4 Apr 1701 | 50 | ||
| 12 Jan 1689 | Sir Robert Howard | 19 Jan 1626 | 3 Sep 1698 | 72 | |
| Robert Walpole (to Jan 1701) | 18 Nov 1650 | 18 Nov 1700 | 50 | ||
| 28 Jul 1698 | Thomas Howard (to Apr 1701) | 21 Feb 1651 | 4 Apr 1701 | 50 | |
| 11 Jan 1701 | Robert Walpole,later [1742] 1st Earl of Orford | 26 Aug 1676 | 18 Mar 1745 | 68 | |
| (to Jul 1702) | |||||
| 30 Apr 1701 | Robert Cecil | 6 Nov 1670 | 23 Feb 1716 | 45 | |
| 1 Dec 1701 | Richard Jones,1st Earl of Ranelagh [I] [he was | 8 Feb 1641 | 5 Jan 1712 | 70 | |
| also returned for West Looe,for which he chose | |||||
| to sit] | |||||
| 2 Feb 1702 | William Cavendish,styled Marquess of Hartington | ||||
| later [1707] 2nd Duke of Devonshire | 1672 | 4 Jun 1729 | 56 | ||
| 24 Jul 1702 | Sir Thomas Littleton,3rd baronet | 3 Apr 1647 | 31 Dec 1709 | 62 | |
| Horatio Walpole (to 1710) | 11 Jul 1663 | 17 Nov 1717 | 54 | ||
| 14 May 1705 | Sir Robert Clayton [he was also returned for | 29 Sep 1629 | 16 Jul 1707 | 77 | |
| London,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 29 Nov 1705 | William Feilding (to 1724) | 1669 | 21 Sep 1723 | 54 | |
| 9 Oct 1710 | Robert Walpole,later [1742] 1st Earl of Orford | 26 Aug 1676 | 18 Mar 1745 | 68 | |
| [he was also returned for King's Lynn,for which | |||||
| he chose to sit] | |||||
| 11 Dec 1710 | Horatio Walpole | 11 Jul 1663 | 17 Nov 1717 | 54 | |
| 2 Sep 1713 | Horatio Walpole,later [1756] 1st Baron Walpole | 8 Dec 1678 | 5 Feb 1757 | 78 | |
| 29 Jan 1715 | Charles Churchill (to 1745) | c 1679 | 14 May 1745 | ||
| 22 Jan 1724 | Algernon Coote,6th Earl of Mountrath [I] | 6 Jun 1689 | 27 Aug 1744 | 55 | |
| 7 May 1734 | Thomas Hanmer | c 1702 | 1 Apr 1737 | ||
| 16 Apr 1737 | William Howard,styled Viscount Andover | ||||
| (to 1747) | 23 Dec 1714 | 15 Jul 1756 | 41 | ||
| 24 Oct 1745 | Richard Rigby | Feb 1722 | 8 Apr 1788 | 66 | |
| 29 Jun 1747 | Robert Knight,1st Baron Luxborough [I],later | ||||
| [1763] 1st Earl of Catherlough [I] | 17 Dec 1702 | 30 Mar 1772 | 69 | ||
| Thomas Howard,later [1779] 14th Earl of Suffolk | |||||
| and 7th Earl of Berkshire (to 1768) | 11 Jun 1721 | 3 Feb 1783 | 61 | ||
| 20 Apr 1754 | Horatio Walpole,later [1791] 4th Earl of Orford | 5 Oct 1717 | 2 Mar 1797 | 79 | |
| 25 Feb 1757 | Charles Boone | c 1729 | 3 Mar 1819 | ||
| 21 Mar 1768 | Thomas Whately (to 1772) | c 1728 | 26 May 1772 | ||
| Jenison Shafto | c 1728 | 13 May 1771 | |||
| 8 Jun 1771 | Crisp Molineux (to 1774) | 7 Sep 1730 | 4 Dec 1792 | 62 | |
| 10 Jun 1772 | Heneage Finch,styled Baron Guernsey,later | ||||
| [1777] 4th Earl of Aylesford | 4 Jul 1751 | 21 Oct 1812 | 61 | ||
| 8 Oct 1774 | Alexander Wedderburn,later [1801] 1st Earl of | ||||
| Rosslyn [he was also returned for | 13 Feb 1733 | 2 Jan 1805 | 71 | ||
| Okehampton,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| Robert Mackreth [kt 1795] (to 1784) | c 1725 | c Mar 1819 | |||
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| 2 Jan 1775 | Charles Finch | 4 Jun 1752 | 17 Dec 1819 | 67 | |
| 24 May 1777 | John Chetwynd Talbot,later [1782] 3rd Baron | ||||
| Talbot of Hensol and [1784] 1st Earl Talbot | 25 Feb 1749 | 19 May 1793 | 44 | ||
| 25 May 1782 | Sir James Erskine (St.Clair-Erskine from 1789), | ||||
| 6th baronet,later [1805] 2nd Earl of Rosslyn | 6 Feb 1762 | 18 Jan 1837 | 74 | ||
| 3 Apr 1784 | Charles Boone (to 1796) | c 1729 | 3 Mar 1819 | ||
| Walter Sneyd | 11 Feb 1752 | 23 Jun 1829 | |||
| 21 Jun 1790 | Henry Drummond | 13 Jan 1762 | 4 Jul 1794 | 32 | |
| 14 Jul 1794 | Charles Bagot-Chester (to 1807) | 25 Oct 1770 | 11 Jun 1838 | 67 | |
| 27 May 1796 | Horatio Churchill | 28 Feb 1759 | 22 Sep 1817 | 58 | |
| 6 Jul 1802 | Peter Isaac Thellusson,later [1806] 1st Baron | ||||
| Rendlesham [I] | 13 Oct 1761 | 16 Sep 1808 | 46 | ||
| 5 Nov 1806 | Richard Sharp (to 1812) | 1759 | 30 Mar 1835 | 75 | |
| 7 May 1807 | Charles Bagot | 23 Sep 1781 | 19 May 1843 | 61 | |
| 29 Jan 1808 | Fulk Greville Howard (to 1832) | 3 Apr 1773 | 4 Mar 1846 | 72 | |
| 7 Oct 1812 | Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw | 17 Feb 1768 | 11 Nov 1832 | 64 | |
| 21 Feb 1817 | George Horatio Cholmondeley,styled Earl of | ||||
| Rocksavage,later [1822] 2nd Marquess of | |||||
| Cholmondeley | 16 Jan 1792 | 8 May 1870 | 78 | ||
| 1 Feb 1822 | Lord William Henry Hugh Cholmondeley, later | ||||
| [1870] 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley | 31 Mar 1800 | 16 Dec 1884 | 84 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832 | |||||
| CATHCART (GLASGOW) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | John William Pratt [kt 1922] | 9 Sep 1873 | 27 Oct 1952 | 79 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | John Primrose Hay | 4 Apr 1878 | 5 Dec 1949 | 71 | |
| 6 Dec 1923 | Robert MacDonald | 1875 | 18 Jan 1949 | 73 | |
| 30 May 1929 | John Train [kt 1936] | 8 May 1873 | 18 Mar 1942 | 68 | |
| 29 Apr 1942 | Francis Beattie | 26 Oct 1885 | 28 Dec 1945 | 60 | |
| For information on the death of this MP,see | |||||
| the note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 12 Feb 1946 | John Henderson [kt 1964] | 12 Jul 1888 | 28 May 1975 | 86 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Edward Macmillan Taylor [kt 1991] | 18 Apr 1937 | |||
| 3 May 1979 | John Alston Maxton,later [2004] | ||||
| Baron Maxton [L] | 5 May 1936 | ||||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Thomas Harris | 20 Feb 1964 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005 | |||||
| CAVAN | |||||
| 1801 | Francis Saunderson | 15 Sep 1754 | 1827 | 72 | |
| Nathaniel Sneyd (to 1826) | c 1767 | 31 Jul 1833 | |||
| For further information on this MP, see | |||||
| the note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 17 Nov 1806 | John Maxwell-Barry,later [1823] 5th Baron | ||||
| Farnham [I] | 18 Jan 1767 | 20 Sep 1838 | 71 | ||
| 24 Feb 1824 | Henry Maxwell,later [1839] 7th Baron | 9 Aug 1799 | 20 Aug 1868 | 69 | |
| Farnham [I] (to 1839) | |||||
| 28 Jun 1826 | Alexander Saunderson | 22 Jul 1783 | 28 Nov 1857 | 74 | |
| 19 May 1831 | John Young,later [1848] 2nd baronet and | ||||
| [1870] 1st Baron Lisgar (to 1855) | 31 Aug 1807 | 6 Oct 1876 | 69 | ||
| 18 Feb 1839 | Somerset Richard Maxwell,later [1868] 8th | ||||
| Baron Farnham [I] | 18 Oct 1803 | 4 Jun 1884 | 80 | ||
| 12 Aug 1840 | Henry John Clements | 16 Jul 1781 | 12 Jan 1843 | 61 | |
| 17 Feb 1843 | James Pierce Maxwell,later [1884] 9th Baron | ||||
| Farnham [I] (to 1865) | 1813 | 26 Oct 1896 | 83 | ||
| 13 Apr 1855 | Robert Burrowes | 1810 | 30 Nov 1881 | 71 | |
| 13 Apr 1857 | Hugh Annesley,later [1874] 5th Earl Annesley [I] | ||||
| (to 1874) | 26 Jan 1831 | 15 Dec 1908 | 77 | ||
| 17 Jul 1865 | Edward James Saunderson | 1 Oct 1837 | 21 Oct 1906 | 69 | |
| 19 Feb 1874 | Charles Joseph Fay | 1842 | 20 Sep 1895 | 53 | |
| Joseph Gillis Biggar | 1 Aug 1828 | 19 Feb 1890 | 61 | ||
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO | |||||
| EAST & WEST DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| CAVAN EAST | |||||
| Dec 1885 | Thomas O'Hanlon | c 1837 | 7 May 1897 | ||
| Jul 1892 | Samuel Young | 14 Feb 1822 | 18 Apr 1918 | 96 | |
| He was the oldest sitting MP in modern times | |||||
| 20 Jun 1918 | Arthur Griffith | 31 Mar 1872 | 12 Aug 1922 | 50 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
| CAVAN WEST | |||||
| 9 Dec 1885 | Joseph Gillis Biggar | 1 Aug 1828 | 19 Feb 1890 | 61 | |
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page. | |||||
| 26 Mar 1890 | Edmund Francis Vesey Knox [at the general | 23 Jan 1865 | 15 May 1921 | 56 | |
| election in Jul 1895, he was also returned for | |||||
| Londonderry, for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 22 Aug 1895 | James Patrick Farrell | 13 May 1865 | 11 Dec 1921 | 56 | |
| 5 Oct 1900 | Thomas McGovern | 1851 | 6 Apr 1904 | 52 | |
| 10 Jun 1904 | Vincent Paul Kennedy | 15 Feb 1876 | 18 Nov 1943 | 67 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Peter Paul Galligan | 20 Jun 1888 | 15 Dec 1966 | 78 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922 | |||||
| CEREDIGION | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Cynog Glyndwr Dafis | 1 Apr 1938 | |||
| 3 Feb 2000 | Simon Thomas | 28 Dec 1963 | |||
| 5 May 2005 | Mark Fraser Williams | 24 Mar 1966 | |||
| CEREDIGION & PEMBROKE NORTH | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Geraint Wyn Howells,later [1992] Baron | ||||
| Geraint [L] | 15 Apr 1925 | 17 Apr 2004 | 79 | ||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Cynog Glyndwr Dafis | 1 Apr 1938 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "CEREDIGION" 1997 | |||||
| CHARNWOOD (LEICESTERSHIRE) | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Stephen James Dorrell | 25 Mar 1952 | |||
| CHATHAM (KENT) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1832 | William Leader Maberly | 7 May 1798 | 6 Feb 1885 | 86 | |
| 26 Jun 1834 | George Stevens Byng,later [1860] 2nd Earl of | ||||
| Strafford | 8 Jun 1806 | 29 Oct 1886 | 80 | ||
| 8 Jan 1835 | Sir John Poer Beresford,1st baronet | 1769 | 2 Oct 1844 | 75 | |
| 25 Jul 1837 | George Stevens Byng,styled Viscount Enfield | ||||
| from 1847,later [1860] 2nd Earl of Strafford | 8 Jun 1806 | 29 Oct 1886 | 80 | ||
| 9 Jul 1852 | Sir John Mark Frederick Smith | 11 Jan 1790 | 20 Nov 1874 | 84 | |
| [His election was declared void 7 Mar 1853] | |||||
| 23 Jun 1853 | Leicester Viney Vernon | 1798 | 14 Apr 1860 | 61 | |
| 30 Mar 1857 | Sir John Mark Frederick Smith | 11 Jan 1790 | 20 Nov 1874 | 84 | |
| 12 Jul 1865 | Arthur John Otway,later [1881] 3rd baronet | 8 Aug 1822 | 8 Jun 1912 | 89 | |
| 3 Feb 1874 | George Augustus Elliot [kt 1877] | 25 Sep 1813 | 13 Dec 1901 | 88 | |
| 16 Feb 1875 | John Eldon Gorst [kt 1885] | 24 May 1835 | 4 Apr 1916 | 79 | |
| Jul 1892 | Lewis Vivian Loyd | 1852 | 21 Sep 1908 | 56 | |
| 13 Jul 1895 | Horatio David Davies [kt 1898] | 1842 | 18 Sep 1912 | 70 | |
| 15 Jan 1906 | John Hagan Jenkins | 1852 | c Nov 1930 | 78 | |
| 17 Jan 1910 | Gerald Fitzroy Hohler [kt 1924] | 1862 | 30 Jan 1934 | 71 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, | ||||
| later [1942] 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara | 8 Feb 1884 | 17 May 1964 | 80 | ||
| 30 May 1929 | Sydney Frank Markham [kt 1953] | 19 Oct 1897 | 13 Oct 1975 | 77 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Sir Park Goff,later [1936] 1st baronet | 12 Feb 1871 | 14 Apr 1939 | 68 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | Leonard Frank Plugge | 21 Sep 1889 | 19 Feb 1981 | 91 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Arthur George Bottomley,later [1984] Baron | ||||
| Bottomley [L] | 7 Feb 1907 | 3 Nov 1995 | 88 | ||
| NAME ALTERED TO "ROCHESTER | |||||
| & CHATHAM" 1950 | |||||
| CHATHAM AND AYLESFORD (KENT) | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Jonathan Rowland Shaw | 3 Jun 1966 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch | 24 Jul 1975 | |||
| CHEADLE (CHESHIRE) | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | William Stanley Shepherd | 12 Mar 1910 | 11 Oct 2002 | 92 | |
| 31 Mar 1966 | Michael Platt Winstanley,later [1976] Baron | ||||
| Winstanley [L] | 27 Aug 1918 | 18 Jul 1993 | 74 | ||
| 18 Jun 1970 | Thomas Normanton [kt 1987] | 12 Mar 1917 | 6 Aug 1997 | 80 | |
| 11 Jun 1987 | Stephen Richard Day | 30 Oct 1948 | |||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Patricia Calton | 19 Sep 1948 | 29 May 2005 | 56 | |
| 14 Jul 2005 | Mark James Hunter | 25 Jul 1957 | |||
| CHEETHAM (MANCHESTER) | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Norman Harold Lever,later [1979] Baron | ||||
| Lever of Manchester [L] | 15 Jan 1914 | 6 Aug 1995 | 81 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974 | |||||
| CHELMSFORD (ESSEX) | |||||
| 1 Dec 1885 | William James Beadel | 1828 | 5 Apr 1892 | 63 | |
| 30 Apr 1892 | Thomas Usborne | 30 May 1840 | 7 Jun 1915 | 75 | |
| 6 Oct 1900 | Frederic Carne Rasch,later [1903] 1st baronet | 9 Nov 1847 | 26 Sep 1914 | 66 | |
| 1 Dec 1908 | Ernest George Pretyman | 13 Nov 1860 | 26 Nov 1931 | 71 | |
| 6 Dec 1923 | Sydney Walter Robinson [kt 1934] | 1876 | 17 Nov 1950 | 74 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett | 31 Jul 1879 | 2 Nov 1936 | 57 | |
| 30 Nov 1926 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury | 15 Aug 1883 | 20 Sep 1963 | 80 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson | 6 Oct 1884 | 3 Feb 1965 | 80 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | John Robert Jermain Macnamara | 11 Oct 1905 | 22 Dec 1944 | 39 | |
| 26 Apr 1945 | Ernest Rogers Millington | 15 Feb 1916 | 9 May 2009 | 93 | |
| 23 Feb 1950 | Hubert Ashton [kt 1959] | 13 Feb 1898 | 17 Jun 1979 | 81 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Norman Antony Francis St.John-Stevas, | ||||
| later [1987] Baron St.John of Fawsley [L] | 18 May 1929 | 2 Mar 2012 | 82 | ||
| 11 Jun 1987 | Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns | 6 Sep 1952 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
| BUT RE-CREATED 2010 | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns | 6 Sep 1952 | |||
| CHELMSFORD WEST (ESSEX) | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns | 6 Sep 1952 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010 | |||||
| CHELSEA | |||||
| 17 Nov 1868 | Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke,2nd baronet | 4 Sep 1843 | 26 Jan 1911 | 67 | |
| (to 1886) | |||||
| For further information on this MP, see the | |||||
| note at the foot of the page containing details | |||||
| of the Dilke baronetcy. | |||||
| Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare,5th baronet | 14 Apr 1824 | 7 Jul 1894 | 70 | ||
| 10 Feb 1874 | William Gordon | 1818 | 9 Jun 1894 | 75 | |
| 12 Apr 1880 | Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth | 1842 | 3 Sep 1889 | 47 | |
| For further information on this MP,see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page | |||||
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
| 5 Jul 1886 | Charles Algernon Whitmore | 1851 | 10 Sep 1908 | 57 | |
| 16 Jan 1906 | Emslie John Horniman | 1863 | 11 Jul 1932 | 69 | |
| 18 Jan 1910 | Samuel John Gurney Hoare,later [1915] 2nd | ||||
| baronet and [1944] 1st Viscount Templewood | 24 Feb 1880 | 7 May 1959 | 79 | ||
| 11 Oct 1944 | William Philip Sidney VC,later [1945] 6th Baron | ||||
| de L'isle and Dudley and [1956] 1st Viscount | 23 May 1909 | 5 Apr 1991 | 81 | ||
| de L'isle | |||||
| For further information on this peer and VC | |||||
| winner, see the note at the foot of the page | |||||
| containing details of his peerages | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Allan Herbert Percy Noble [kt 1959] | 2 May 1908 | 17 Nov 1982 | 74 | |
| 8 Oct 1959 | John Shirley Sandys Litchfield | 27 Aug 1903 | 31 May 1993 | 89 | |
| 31 Mar 1966 | William Marcus John Worsley,later [1973] | ||||
| 5th baronet | 6 Apr 1925 | 18 Dec 2012 | 87 | ||
| 10 Oct 1974 | Nicholas Paul Scott [kt 1995] | 5 Aug 1933 | 6 Jan 2005 | 71 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
| CHELSEA AND FULHAM | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | Gregory William Hands | 14 Nov 1965 | |||
| CHELTENHAM (GLOUCESTERSHIRE) | |||||
| 10 Dec 1832 | Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley | May 1805 | 1 Jul 1855 | 50 | |
| 29 Jul 1847 | Sir Willoughby Jones,3rd baronet [his election | 24 Nov 1820 | 21 Aug 1884 | 63 | |
| was declared void 29 May 1848] | |||||
| 28 Jun 1848 | Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley | May 1805 | 1 Jul 1855 | 50 | |
| [his election was declared void 24 Aug 1848] | |||||
| 2 Sep 1848 | Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley | 30 Mar 1806 | 25 Sep 1896 | 90 | |
| 8 Jul 1852 | Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley | May 1805 | 1 Jul 1855 | 50 | |
| 14 Jul 1855 | Charles Lennox Granville Berkeley | 30 Mar 1806 | 25 Sep 1896 | 90 | |
| 8 May 1856 | Francis William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, | ||||
| later [1867] 2nd Baron Fitzhardinge | 16 Nov 1826 | 29 Jan 1896 | 69 | ||
| 12 Jul 1865 | Charles Schreiber | 10 May 1826 | 31 Mar 1884 | 58 | |
| 17 Nov 1868 | Henry Bernhard Samuelson,later [1905] | ||||
| 2nd baronet | 30 Sep 1845 | 14 Mar 1937 | 91 | ||
| 4 Feb 1874 | James Tynte Agg-Gardner [kt 1916] | 25 Nov 1846 | 9 Aug 1928 | 81 | |
| 1 Apr 1880 | Charles Conrad Adolphus du Bois | ||||
| de Ferrieres [Baron de Ferrieres in the | 2 Oct 1823 | 18 Mar 1908 | 84 | ||
| Dutch peerage] | |||||
| 24 Nov 1885 | James Tynte Agg-Gardner [kt 1916] | 25 Nov 1846 | 9 Aug 1928 | 81 | |
| 15 Jul 1895 | Francis Shirley Russell | 13 Dec 1840 | 18 Mar 1912 | 71 | |
| 29 Sep 1900 | James Tynte Agg-Gardner [kt 1916] | 25 Nov 1846 | 9 Aug 1928 | 81 | |
| 16 Jan 1906 | John Edward Sears | 28 Nov 1857 | 20 Jan 1941 | 83 | |
| 17 Jan 1910 | Vere Brabazon Ponsonby,styled Viscount | ||||
| Duncannon,later [1920] 9th Earl of Bessborough | |||||
| [I] and [1937] 1st Earl of Bessborough [UK} | 27 Oct 1880 | 10 Mar 1956 | 75 | ||
| Dec 1910 | Richard Mathias [kt 1913],later [1917] 1st | ||||
| baronet [His election was declared void | 1 Jun 1863 | 26 Oct 1942 | 79 | ||
| 31 Mar 1911] | |||||
| 28 Apr 1911 | James Tynte Agg-Gardner [kt 1916] | 25 Nov 1846 | 9 Aug 1928 | 81 | |
| 26 Sep 1928 | Sir Walter Reuben Preston | 20 Sep 1875 | 6 Jul 1946 | 70 | |
| 22 Jun 1937 | Daniel Leopold Lipson | 26 Mar 1886 | 14 Apr 1963 | 77 | |
| 23 Feb 1950 | William Whitehead Hicks Beach | 23 Mar 1907 | 1 Jan 1975 | 67 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Arthur Douglas Dodds-Parker [kt 1973] | 5 Jul 1909 | 13 Sep 2006 | 97 | |
| 10 Oct 1974 | Charles Graham Irving [kt 1990] | 4 May 1924 | 30 Mar 1995 | 70 | |
| 9 Apr 1992 | Nigel David Jones,later [2005] Baron Jones | ||||
| of Cheltenham [L] | 30 Mar 1948 | ||||
| For information on an attempt to kill this MP, | |||||
| see the note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 5 May 2005 | Martin Charles Horwood | 12 Oct 1962 | |||
| CHERTSEY (SURREY) | |||||
| 7 Dec 1885 | Frederick Alers Hankey | 1833 | 15 Feb 1892 | 58 | |
| 3 Mar 1892 | Charles Harvey Combe | 18 Feb 1863 | 14 Aug 1935 | 72 | |
| 18 Feb 1897 | Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett | 25 Jul 1852 | 7 Mar 1903 | 50 | |
| 27 Mar 1903 | John Arthur Fyler | 2 Dec 1855 | 17 Mar 1929 | 73 | |
| 6 Jul 1904 | George Charles Bingham,styled Baron Bingham, | ||||
| later [1914] 5th Earl of Lucan | 13 Dec 1860 | 20 Apr 1949 | 88 | ||
| 18 Jan 1906 | Francis John Marnham | 1853 | 18 Jan 1941 | 87 | |
| 26 Jan 1910 | Donald Macmaster,later [1921] 1st baronet | 3 Sep 1846 | 3 Mar 1922 | 75 | |
| 24 Mar 1922 | Sir Philip Wigham Richardson,later [1929] | ||||
| 1st baronet | 26 Jan 1865 | 23 Nov 1953 | 88 | ||
| 27 Oct 1931 | Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter | 26 Mar 1873 | 27 May 1937 | 64 | |
| 2 Jul 1937 | Arthur Marsden | 1883 | 26 Nov 1960 | 77 | |
| 23 Feb 1950 | Lionel Frederick Heald [kt 1951] | 7 Aug 1897 | 7 Nov 1981 | 84 | |
| 18 Jun 1970 | William Michael John Grylls [kt 1992] | 21 Feb 1934 | 7 Feb 2001 | 66 | |
| NAME ALTERED TO "CHERTSEY | |||||
| & WALTON" FEB 1974 | |||||
| CHERTSEY & WALTON (SURREY) | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Geoffrey Edwin Pattie [kt 1987] | 17 Jan 1936 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
| CHESHAM & AMERSHAM | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour,later | ||||
| [1977] 3rd baronet and [1992] Baron | |||||
| Gilmour of Craigmillar [L] | 8 Jul 1926 | 21 Sep 2007 | 81 | ||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan | 21 Apr 1952 | |||
| CHESHIRE | |||||
| Apr 1660 | Sir George Booth,2nd baronet,later [1661] | ||||
| 1st Baron Delamer | 18 Dec 1622 | 8 Aug 1684 | 61 | ||
| Sir Thomas Mainwaring,1st baronet | 7 Apr 1623 | 28 Jun 1689 | 66 | ||
| 25 Mar 1661 | William Brereton,2nd Baron Brereton of Leighlin [I] | 28 Feb 1611 | 21 Apr 1664 | 53 | |
| Peter Venables (to 1670) | 22 Apr 1604 | 13 Feb 1669 | 64 | ||
| 16 May 1664 | Sir Fulk Lucy (to 1678) | c 1623 | 26 Aug 1677 | ||
| 17 Jan 1670 | Thomas Cholmondeley (to Feb 1679) | 15 Sep 1627 | 26 Feb 1702 | 74 | |
| 4 Mar 1678 | Henry Booth,later [1684] 2nd Baron Delamer | ||||
| and [1690] 1st Earl of Warrington (to 1685) | 13 Jan 1652 | 2 Jan 1694 | 41 | ||
| 3 Feb 1679 | Sir Philip Egerton | 15 Aug 1698 | |||
| 15 Sep 1679 | Sir Robert Cotton,1st baronet | c 1635 | 18 Dec 1712 | ||
| 23 Mar 1685 | Sir Philip Egerton | 15 Aug 1698 | |||
| Thomas Cholmondeley | 15 Sep 1627 | 26 Feb 1702 | 74 | ||
| 15 Jan 1689 | Sir Robert Cotton,1st baronet | c 1635 | 18 Dec 1712 | ||
| Sir John Mainwaring,2nd baronet | 8 May 1656 | 4 Nov 1702 | 46 | ||
| 5 Aug 1702 | Sir George Warburton,3rd baronet | 1 Jun 1675 | 23 Jun 1743 | 68 | |
| Sir Roger Mostyn,3rd baronet | 31 Jul 1673 | 5 May 1739 | 65 | ||
| 23 May 1705 | Langham Booth | 8 Jun 1684 | 7 May 1724 | 39 | |
| John Offley (Crewe from 1709) | 20 Sep 1681 | 25 Aug 1749 | 67 | ||
| 24 Oct 1710 | Sir George Warburton,3rd baronet (to 1722) | 1 Jun 1675 | 23 Jun 1743 | 68 | |
| Charles Cholmondeley | 12 Jan 1685 | 30 Mar 1756 | 71 | ||
| 16 Feb 1715 | Langham Booth | 8 Jun 1684 | 7 May 1724 | 39 | |
| 4 Apr 1722 | Charles Cholmondeley (to 1756) | 12 Jan 1685 | 30 Mar 1756 | 71 | |
| John Crewe (formerly Offley) | 20 Sep 1681 | 25 Aug 1749 | 67 | ||
| 30 Aug 1727 | Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton,3rd baronet | 2 Jan 1695 | 27 Aug 1748 | 53 | |
| 15 May 1734 | John Crewe | 1709 | 18 Sep 1752 | 43 | |
| 7 Feb 1753 | Charles Crewe | 1710 | after 1754 | ||
| 1 May 1754 | Samuel Egerton (to Mar 1780) | 28 Dec 1711 | 10 Feb 1780 | 68 | |
| 28 Apr 1756 | Thomas Cholmondeley | 24 Jun 1726 | 2 Jun 1779 | 52 | |
| 29 Mar 1768 | John Crewe (to 1802) | 27 Sep 1742 | 28 Apr 1829 | 86 | |
| 1 Mar 1780 | Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton,5th baronet | c 1739 | 24 Aug 1809 | ||
| 11 Jun 1796 | Thomas Cholmondeley,later [1821] 1st Baron | ||||
| Delamere (to 1812) | 9 Aug 1767 | 30 Oct 1855 | 88 | ||
| 16 Jul 1802 | William Egerton | 9 May 1749 | 21 Apr 1806 | 56 | |
| 22 May 1806 | Davies Davenport (to 1830) | 29 Aug 1757 | 5 Feb 1837 | 79 | |
| 20 Oct 1812 | Wilbraham Egerton (to 1831) | 1 Sep 1781 | 25 Apr 1856 | 74 | |
| 9 Aug 1830 | Richard Grosvenor,styled Viscount Belgrave to | ||||
| 1831, then Earl Grosvenor 1831-1845, later | |||||
| [1845] 2nd Marquess of Westminster (to 1832) | 27 Jan 1795 | 31 Oct 1869 | 74 | ||
| 13 May 1831 | George Wilbraham | 8 Mar 1779 | 24 Jan 1852 | 72 | |
| CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH & | |||||
| & SOUTH DIVISIONS 1832 | |||||
| CHESHIRE EAST | |||||
| 19 Nov 1868 | Edward Christopher Egerton | 27 Jul 1816 | 27 Aug 1869 | 53 | |
| William John Legh,later [1892] 1st Baron | |||||
| Newton (to 1885) | 19 Dec 1828 | 15 Dec 1898 | 70 | ||
| 6 Oct 1869 | William Cunliffe Brooks,later [1886] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 30 Sep 1819 | 9 Jun 1900 | 80 | ||
| COUNTY SPLIT INTO 8 DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| SEE "ALTRINCHAM","CREWE","EDDISBURY", | |||||
| "HYDE","KNUTSFORD","MACCLESFIELD" | |||||
| "NORTHWICH" AND "WIRRAL" | |||||
| CHESHIRE MID | |||||
| 21 Nov 1868 | Wilbraham Egerton,later [1883] 2nd Baron | ||||
| Egerton of Tatton and [1897] 1st Earl | |||||
| Egerton of Tatton (to 1883) | 17 Jan 1832 | 16 Mar 1909 | 77 | ||
| George Cornwall Legh | 30 Aug 1804 | 16 Jun 1877 | 72 | ||
| 10 Mar 1873 | Egerton Leigh | 1815 | 1 Jul 1876 | 61 | |
| 18 Jul 1876 | Piers Egerton-Warburton (to 1885) | 22 May 1839 | 24 Mar 1914 | 74 | |
| 16 Mar 1883 | Alan de Tatton Egerton,later [1909] 3rd Baron | ||||
| Egerton of Tatton | 19 Mar 1845 | 9 Sep 1920 | 75 | ||
| COUNTY SPLIT INTO 8 DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| SEE "ALTRINCHAM","CREWE","EDDISBURY", | |||||
| "HYDE","KNUTSFORD","MACCLESFIELD" | |||||
| "NORTHWICH" AND "WIRRAL" | |||||
| CHESHIRE NORTH | |||||
| 17 Dec 1832 | Edward John Stanley,later [1848] 1st Baron | ||||
| Eddisbury and [1850] 2nd Baron Stanley | |||||
| of Alderley | 13 Nov 1802 | 16 Jun 1869 | 66 | ||
| William Tatton Egerton,later [1859] 1st Baron | |||||
| Egerton of Tatton (to 1858) | 30 Dec 1806 | 21 Feb 1883 | 76 | ||
| 12 Jul 1841 | George Cornwall Legh | 30 Aug 1804 | 16 Jun 1877 | 72 | |
| 4 Aug 1847 | Edward John Stanley,later [1848] 1st Baron | ||||
| Eddisbury and [1850] 2nd Baron Stanley | |||||
| of Alderley | 13 Nov 1802 | 16 Jun 1869 | 66 | ||
| 2 Jun 1848 | George Cornwall Legh (to 1868) | 30 Aug 1804 | 16 Jun 1877 | 72 | |
| 7 Aug 1858 | Wilbraham Egerton,later [1883] 2nd Baron | ||||
| Egerton of Tatton and [1897] 1st Earl | |||||
| Egerton of Tatton | 17 Jan 1832 | 16 Mar 1909 | 77 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1868 | |||||
| CHESHIRE SOUTH | |||||
| 15 Dec 1832 | George Wilbraham (to 1841) | 8 Mar 1779 | 24 Jan 1852 | 72 | |
| Richard Grosvenor, styled Earl Grosvenor, | |||||
| later [1845] 2nd Marquess of Westminster | 27 Jan 1795 | 31 Oct 1869 | 74 | ||
| 16 Jan 1835 | Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton,10th | ||||
| baronet (to 1868) | 13 Nov 1806 | 5 Apr 1881 | 75 | ||
| 16 Jul 1841 | John Tollemache,later [1876] 1st Baron | ||||
| Tollemache | 5 Dec 1805 | 9 Dec 1890 | 85 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1868 | |||||
| CHESHIRE WEST | |||||
| 20 Nov 1868 | Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton,10th | ||||
| baronet (to 1881) | 13 Nov 1806 | 5 Apr 1881 | 75 | ||
| John Tollemache,later [1876] 1st Baron | |||||
| Tollemache | 5 Dec 1805 | 9 Dec 1890 | 85 | ||
| 17 Feb 1872 | Wilbraham Frederick Tollemache,later [1890] | ||||
| 2nd Baron Tollemache (to 1885) | 4 Jul 1832 | 17 Dec 1904 | 72 | ||
| 22 Apr 1881 | Henry James Tollemache | 1846 | 2 Apr 1939 | 92 | |
| COUNTY SPLIT INTO 8 DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| SEE "ALTRINCHAM","CREWE","EDDISBURY", | |||||
| "HYDE","KNUTSFORD","MACCLESFIELD" | |||||
| "NORTHWICH" AND "WIRRAL" | |||||
| CHESTER (CHESHIRE) | |||||
| 9 Apr 1660 | John Ratcliffe (to 1673) | c 1611 | 13 Jan 1673 | ||
| William Ince | 27 Jan 1679 | ||||
| 8 Apr 1661 | Sir Thomas Smith,1st baronet (to 1675) | c 1622 | 22 May 1675 | ||
| 10 Feb 1673 | Robert Werden (to 1679) | c 1622 | 23 Jan 1690 | ||
| 14 Jun 1675 | William Williams,later [1688] 1st baronet | c 1634 | 10 Jul 1700 | ||
| (to 1685) | |||||
| 17 Feb 1679 | Sir Thomas Grosvenor,3rd baronet | 20 Nov 1655 | 2 Jul 1700 | 44 | |
| 14 Feb 1681 | Roger Whitley | c 1618 | 17 Jul 1697 | ||
| 9 Mar 1685 | Sir Thomas Grosvenor,3rd baronet | 20 Nov 1655 | 2 Jul 1700 | 44 | |
| Robert Werden | c 1622 | 23 Jan 1690 | |||
| 11 Jan 1689 | Roger Whitley | c 1618 | 17 Jul 1697 | ||
| George Mainwaring | 10 Dec 1642 | 14 Aug 1695 | 52 | ||
| 17 Mar 1690 | Sir Thomas Grosvenor,3rd baronet (to 1701) | 20 Nov 1655 | 27 Jun 1700 | 44 | |
| Sir Richard Levinge,later [1704] 1st baronet | 2 May 1656 | 13 Jul 1724 | 68 | ||
| 18 Nov 1695 | Roger Whitley | c 1618 | 17 Jul 1697 | ||
| 12 Jan 1698 | Thomas Cowper | 3 Nov 1670 | 13 Aug 1718 | 47 | |
| 27 Jul 1698 | Peter Shakerley (to 1715) | c 1650 | 24 Jun 1726 | ||
| 8 Jan 1701 | Sir Henry Bunbury,3rd baronet (to 1727) | 29 Nov 1676 | 12 Feb 1733 | 56 | |
| 16 Feb 1715 | Sir Richard Grosvenor,4th baronet | 26 Jun 1689 | 12 Jul 1732 | 43 | |
| (to Jan 1733) | |||||
| 24 Aug 1727 | Thomas Grosvenor,later [1732] 5th baronet | 7 Dec 1693 | 31 Jan 1733 | 39 | |
| (to Mar 1733) | |||||
| 24 Jan 1733 | Sir Robert Grosvenor,6th baronet (to 1755) | 7 May 1695 | 1 Aug 1755 | 60 | |
| 21 Mar 1733 | Sir Charles Bunbury,4th baronet | 9 Feb 1708 | 10 Apr 1742 | 34 | |
| 5 May 1742 | Philip Henry-Warburton | 3 May 1700 | 16 Aug 1760 | 60 | |
| 1 May 1754 | Richard Grosvenor,later [1755] 7th baronet | ||||
| and [1784] 1st Earl Grosvenor (to 1761) | 18 Jun 1731 | 5 Aug 1802 | 71 | ||
| 10 Dec 1755 | Thomas Grosvenor (to 1795) | Mar 1734 | 12 Feb 1795 | 60 | |
| 8 Apr 1761 | Richard Wilbraham-Bootle | 20 Sep 1725 | 13 Mar 1796 | 70 | |
| 18 Jun 1790 | Robert Grosvenor,styled Viscount Belgrave, | ||||
| later [1831] 1st Marquess of Westminster | 22 Mar 1767 | 17 Feb 1845 | 77 | ||
| (to 1802) | |||||
| 20 Feb 1795 | Thomas Grosvenor (to 1826) | 30 May 1764 | 20 Jan 1851 | 86 | |
| 15 Dec 1802 | Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor | 5 Oct 1762 | 8 Feb 1819 | 56 | |
| 6 May 1807 | John Grey-Egerton,later [1814] 8th baronet | 11 Jul 1766 | 24 May 1825 | 58 | |
| 26 Jun 1818 | Richard Grosvenor, styled Viscount Belgrave, | ||||
| later [1845] 2nd Marquess of Westminster | 27 Jan 1795 | 31 Oct 1869 | 74 | ||
| (to 1830) | |||||
| 22 Jun 1826 | Robert Grosvenor,[styled Lord Robert | ||||
| Grosvenor from 1831],later [1857] 1st Baron | |||||
| Ebury (to 1847) | 24 Apr 1801 | 18 Nov 1893 | 92 | ||
| 30 Jul 1830 | Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton,10th | ||||
| baronet | 13 Nov 1806 | 5 Apr 1881 | 74 | ||
| 6 May 1831 | Foster Cunliffe-Offley | 17 Aug 1782 | 19 Apr 1832 | 49 | |
| 18 May 1832 | John Finchett-Maddock | c 1775 | 24 Jan 1858 | ||
| 12 Dec 1832 | John Jervis [kt 1846] (to 1850) | 12 Jan 1802 | 1 Nov 1856 | 54 | |
| 30 Jan 1847 | Hugh Lupus Grosvenor,styled Earl Grosvenor, | ||||
| later [1869] 3rd Marquess of Westminster | 13 Oct 1825 | 22 Dec 1899 | 74 | ||
| and [1874] 1st Duke of Westminster (to 1869) | |||||
| 22 Jul 1850 | William Owen Stanley | 13 Nov 1802 | 24 Feb 1884 | 81 | |
| 28 Mar 1857 | Enoch Gibbon Salisbury | 1819 | 27 Oct 1890 | 71 | |
| 30 Apr 1859 | Philip Stapleton Humberston | 1812 | 16 Jan 1891 | 78 | |
| 12 Jul 1865 | William Henry Gladstone | 3 Jun 1840 | 4 Jul 1891 | 51 | |
| 16 Nov 1868 | Henry Cecil Raikes (to 1880) | 25 Nov 1838 | 24 Aug 1891 | 52 | |
| 4 Dec 1869 | Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor | 22 Apr 1845 | 21 Nov 1898 | 53 | |
| 5 Feb 1874 | John George Dodson,later [1884] 1st Baron | ||||
| Monk Bretton (to 1880) | 18 Oct 1825 | 25 May 1897 | 71 | ||
| 2 Apr 1880 | Beilby Lawley,later [1880] 3rd Baron Wenlock | 12 May 1849 | 15 Jan 1912 | 62 | |
| [Following the general election in Apr 1880, | |||||
| this election was declared void 17 Jul 1880. | |||||
| Writ suspended until Nov 1885] | |||||
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
| 26 Nov 1885 | Balthazar Walter Foster [kt 1886],later [1910] | ||||
| 1st Baron Ilkeston | 17 Jul 1840 | 31 Jan 1913 | 72 | ||
| 6 Jul 1886 | Robert Armstrong Yerburgh | 17 Jan 1853 | 18 Dec 1916 | 63 | |
| 17 Jan 1906 | Alfred Moritz Mond,later [1910] 1st baronet | ||||
| and [1928] 1st Baron Melchett | 23 Oct 1868 | 27 Dec 1930 | 62 | ||
| 17 Jan 1910 | Robert Armstrong Yerburgh | 17 Jan 1853 | 18 Dec 1916 | 63 | |
| 28 Feb 1916 | Sir Owen Cosby Philipps,later [1923] 1st Baron | ||||
| Kylsant | 25 Mar 1863 | 5 Jun 1937 | 74 | ||
| 15 Nov 1922 | Sir Charles William Cayzer,3rd baronet | 6 Jan 1896 | 18 Feb 1940 | 44 | |
| For further information on the death of this MP, | |||||
| see the note at the foot of the page | |||||
| containing details of his baronetcy | |||||
| 7 Mar 1940 | Basil Edward Nield [kt 1957] | 7 May 1903 | 4 Dec 1996 | 93 | |
| 15 Nov 1956 | John Meredith Temple | 9 Jun 1910 | 10 Dec 1994 | 84 | |
| 28 Feb 1974 | Peter Hugh Morrison [kt 1990] | 2 Jun 1944 | 13 Jul 1995 | 51 | |
| 9 Apr 1992 | Gyles Daubeney Brandreth | 8 Mar 1948 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Christine Margaret Russell | 25 Mar 1945 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Stephen James Mosley | 22 Jun 1972 | |||
| CHESTERFIELD (DERBYSHIRE) | |||||
| 3 Dec 1885 | Alfred Barnes | 1823 | 28 Nov 1901 | 78 | |
| Jul 1892 | Thomas Bayley | 3 Jun 1846 | 11 Mar 1906 | 59 | |
| 24 Jan 1906 | James Haslam | 1 Apr 1842 | 31 Jul 1913 | 71 | |
| 20 Aug 1913 | Barnet Kenyon | 11 Aug 1850 | 20 Feb 1930 | 79 | |
| 30 May 1929 | George Benson [kt 1958] | 3 May 1889 | 17 Aug 1973 | 84 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Roger John Edward Conant,later [1954] 1st | 28 May 1899 | 30 Mar 1973 | 73 | |
| baronet | |||||
| 14 Nov 1935 | George Benson [kt 1958] | 3 May 1889 | 17 Aug 1973 | 84 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Eric Graham Varley,later [1990] Baron | ||||
| Varley [L] | 11 Aug 1932 | 29 Jul 2008 | 75 | ||
| 1 Mar 1984 | Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn | 3 Apr 1925 | |||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Paul Robert Holmes | 16 Jan 1957 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Matthew Toby Perkins | 12 Aug 1970 | |||
| CHESTER-LE-STREET (DURHAM) | |||||
| 28 Nov 1885 | James Joicey,later [1893] 1st baronet and | ||||
| [1906] 1st Baron Joicey | 4 Apr 1846 | 21 Nov 1936 | 90 | ||
| 26 Jan 1906 | John Wilkinson Taylor | 11 Aug 1855 | 26 Jun 1934 | 78 | |
| 13 Nov 1919 | John James Lawson,later [1950] 1st | ||||
| Baron Lawson | 16 Oct 1881 | 3 Aug 1965 | 83 | ||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Patrick Bartley | 24 Mar 1909 | 25 Jun 1956 | 47 | |
| 27 Sep 1956 | Norman Pentland | 9 Sep 1912 | 28 Oct 1972 | 60 | |
| 1 Mar 1973 | Giles Heneage Radice,later [2001] | ||||
| Baron Radice [L] | 4 Oct 1936 | ||||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| CHESTERTON (CAMBRIDGESHIRE) | |||||
| 2 Dec 1885 | Charles Hall [kt 1890] | 3 Aug 1843 | 9 Mar 1900 | 56 | |
| Jul 1892 | Hugh Edward Hoare | 26 Mar 1854 | 15 Jul 1929 | 75 | |
| 22 Jul 1895 | Walter Raymond Greene,later [1920] 2nd | ||||
| baronet | 4 Aug 1869 | 24 Aug 1947 | 78 | ||
| 25 Jan 1906 | Edwin Samuel Montagu | 6 Feb 1879 | 15 Nov 1924 | 45 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| John Bagwell, MP for Cashel 1801-1802 | |||||
| "The Morning Post" of 8 March 1806:- | |||||
| 'It is with great concern we state the following account received from Exeter by Wednesday's | |||||
| post: On Tuesday afternoon, a melancholy incident happened on the road between this city | |||||
| [i.e. Exeter] and Exmouth, at that part where the road from Clyst and Newcourt join that | |||||
| between Topsham and Topsham Bridge. As Lieut. Col. Bagwell, of the 6th Dragoons, was riding | |||||
| on a party of pleasure, with some other officers of his acquaintance, his horse suddenly took | |||||
| fright, and after galloping off with great fury, threw his rider with such force, that it fractured | |||||
| his skull most dreadfully, and killed him on the spot. Medical assistance was procured in a few | |||||
| minutes, but it was too late to be of service. The body was removed to Topsham, where the | |||||
| Coroner held an Inquest, with returned a verdict of Accidental Death. The Lieutenant-Colonel | |||||
| was in the prime of life, and universally beloved and esteemed by the whole regiment, as well | |||||
| as by all who knew him. He is the son of John Bagwell Esq., Member of Parliament for the | |||||
| county of Tipperary, and brother to the Representative in Parliament for the borough of | |||||
| Clonmell, in Ireland.' | |||||
| Robert Mackreth. MP for Castle Rising 1774-1784 and for | |||||
| Ashburton 1784-1802 | |||||
| Mackreth became an MP in most unusual circumstances. The right to vote in the | |||||
| constituency of Castle Rising was vested in the holders of 'burgage tenements', most of | |||||
| which were owned by the Earls of Orford. | |||||
| In 1774, Orford, who had just recovered from a bout of insanity, was asked whom he wished | |||||
| to nominate as the potential member for Castle Rising. He nominated Robert Mackreth, who | |||||
| was a waiter and billiard marker at his club. However, since he had not been able to supply | |||||
| his candidate's Christian name, the election was declared void. But Orford persisted in his | |||||
| nomination, and with Mackreth being able to supply his own Christian name, a fresh election | |||||
| was held and Mackreth prevailed. | |||||
| By 1781, Mackreth had used his position as an MP to build a considerable fortune as a | |||||
| money-lender used by aristocratic spendthrifts. A problem arose in 1786 when James Fox | |||||
| Lane pleaded before the Master of the Rolls that Mackreth had defrauded him of his | |||||
| inheritance, worth £1300 a year, while he was still a minor. Mackreth was ordered to pay | |||||
| £20,000, a judgment confirmed on appeal to the House of Lords, which further imposed on | |||||
| Mackreth the highest costs ever awarded in such a case. | |||||
| Six years later, Mackreth ran into Sir John Scott (later the Earl of Eldon) who had been Fox | |||||
| Lane's counsel. Mackreth called him 'a liar and a scoundrel' and challenged him to a | |||||
| duel. Scott refused to accommodate him, instead preferring to obtain an indictment against | |||||
| Mackreth, who was fined £100 and imprisoned for six weeks. | |||||
| These occasional accidents failed to impede Mackreth's parliamentary career. In 1784 he | |||||
| was elected for Ashburton which he served with distinction until 1802, having been knighted | |||||
| in 1795. | |||||
| Francis Beattie, MP for Cathcart 1942-1945 | |||||
| Beattie was killed in a car accident in December 1945. The following report of his death | |||||
| appeared in 'The Irish Times' of 29 December 1945:- | |||||
| Mr. Francis Beattie, M.P. for Cathcart, Glasgow, was killed yesterday, when his car skidded | |||||
| into a ditch and burst into flames on the ice-bound Kilmarnock to Glasgow road. | |||||
| 'The accident occurred on a lonely part of the road over the Fenwick Moor, between | |||||
| Loganswell and the Stewarton road junction. The car was travelling from Mr. Beattie's home at | |||||
| Dundonald towards the city when it skidded. It went right across the road, and was hit by a | |||||
| heavy lorry travelling in the opposite direction. The woman driver of the car, Miss Jemima | |||||
| Hastie, of Troon, is in a critical condition in the Victoria Infirmary. Both occupants of the car | |||||
| were thrown clear, but Mr. Beattie was dead when picked up. The body showed no signs of | |||||
| burns. The fire brigade were called to extinguish the flames which enveloped the car when the | |||||
| petrol tank exploded. The rear part of the car was completely burned out.' | |||||
| Nathaniel Sneyd, MP for Cavan 1801-1826 | |||||
| Before his service in the House of Commons in London, Sneyd had already represented | |||||
| Carrick and Cavan County in the Irish House of Commons. He made a career as a wine | |||||
| merchant, and "Sneyd Claret" was famous throughout Ireland during his lifetime. After retiring | |||||
| from the combined House of Commons, having represented Cavan County for 25 years, he | |||||
| was assassinated in a Dublin street in 1833 by a homicidal maniac named John Mason. | |||||
| The following report of the assassination is taken from the "Aberdeen Journal" of 7 August | |||||
| 1833:- | |||||
| 'Horrible Occurrence | |||||
| 'Dublin, July 30 - One of the most horrible outrages which has ever occurred in this city was | |||||
| perpetrated yesterday, between two and three o'clock, on the person of Nathaniel Sneyd, | |||||
| Esq., of the highly respectable firm of Sneyd, French and Barton, wine merchants. Mr. Sneyd | |||||
| was accompanying some ladies to the Bank of Ireland, to shew them the interior of that | |||||
| establishment, a privilege which none but a Bank Director possesses, when he was met, | |||||
| near the East India Tea Warehouse, in Westmoreland Street, by a person named Mason, who | |||||
| immediately placed a pistol close to his forehead, and discharged it. The ball grazed the left | |||||
| side of Mr. Sneyd's forehead, and with the violence of the concussion, he fell on the | |||||
| flagway. Mason looked for a second or two on his fallen victim, and then stooping, placed | |||||
| the pistol, which was four-barrelled, to the upper part of his head, and discharged the | |||||
| contents of the second barrel, which most unfortunately took effect. A vast quantity of | |||||
| blood flowed from the wound. Mason threw the pistol from him, exclaiming at the same time, | |||||
| "Ah! I have done for you." The wretched man was instantly secured, and dragged off to | |||||
| Fleet Street watch-house. A crowd of persons immediately rushed to the spot, many of | |||||
| whom recognized Mr. Sneyd, and conveyed him to Messrs. Hoy and Kinslagh's medical | |||||
| establishment, Westmoreland Street, when the assistance of the first medical gentlemen | |||||
| in Dublin was procured immediately. Mr. Sneyd never spoke from the time he received the | |||||
| first fire of the assassin, but the agonized motion of his limbs showed but too plainly the | |||||
| sufferings he was undergoing; and he died next morning. Mr. Sneyd was for a number of | |||||
| years representative for the county of Cavan, on conservative principles - Mason appeared | |||||
| to be a low sized young man, about 28 years of age, with dark hair and whiskers, pale | |||||
| complexion, with an incoherent expression about his eyes. His demeanour was that of a | |||||
| man fixed in his purpose, and who was prepared to meet all the consequences of any act | |||||
| he might have committed.' | |||||
| The "Newcastle Courant" of 7 September 1833 contains this report of Mason's trial:- | |||||
| 'In Dublin on Tuesday week [i.e. 27 August], John Mason was placed at the bar, charged | |||||
| with the murder of Mr. Sneyd, and pleaded guilty. His counsel, however, suggested that his | |||||
| plea could not be received, on the ground of insanity, and that the jury were to try whether | |||||
| the prisoner was or was not of sound mind. Several witnesses, some of them medical men, | |||||
| who had known the prisoner, said he had been in a deranged state of mind since 1821, in | |||||
| the spring of which year it appeared he was seized with a violent epileptic fit one night | |||||
| whilst at his prayers on going to bed, and his mind had not been in a proper state since | |||||
| that period; that he had been in a weak state of mind from his infancy; and that he had | |||||
| been twice confined in a lunatic asylum. His brother, the Rev.T.Mason, also deposed that | |||||
| about 5 weeks before the assassination of Mr. Sneyd he saw his brother with a four- | |||||
| barrelled pistol, when he used threatening language against some parties, in consequence | |||||
| of which he applied to a magistrate to have his brother confined, but the magistrate | |||||
| refused to interfere. Judge Burton charged the jury at length, and at seven o'clock the | |||||
| issue was sent up, when they immediately found that "John Mason was not sound of | |||||
| mind when he pleaded guilty." ' | |||||
| Mason was later imprisoned for life in the Richmond Lunatic Asylum. | |||||
| Joseph Gillis Biggar, MP for Cavan 1874-1885 and Cavan West 1885-1890 | |||||
| In March 1883, Biggar found himself in court defending an action for breach of promise | |||||
| brought against him by a Miss Fanny Hyland. A full report of the trial can be found in The | |||||
| Times of 9 March 1883. | |||||
| Although no reference is made to it in the report of the trial, the story goes that, when | |||||
| Biggar had made the alleged proposal to Miss Hyland, he sealed it with the gift of a parrot. | |||||
| When he subsequently broke off the alleged engagement, he sued Miss Hyland for the return | |||||
| of the parrot. At the trial, Miss Hyland had been awarded £400, but she declared that she | |||||
| would rather have kept the parrot. | |||||
| A further story, for which I have no corroborative evidence, is that, on another occasion, | |||||
| Biggar spoke in court of a number of impediments which stood in the way of a proposed | |||||
| marriage to a cabaret dancer, Fay Sinclair. When asked what these impediments were, Biggar | |||||
| replied 'Four illegitimate children.' 'Is the mother still alive?' asked the judge, to which Biggar | |||||
| responded 'Yes, m'lud. All four are.' | |||||
| Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth, MP for Chelsea 1880-1885 and Dundee 1888-1889 | |||||
| Firth died of sunstroke whilst on holidays in Switzerland. Initially, I thought that dying from | |||||
| sunstroke in Switzerland was about as likely as being drowned in a flash flood in the Atacama | |||||
| Desert, but when I checked on Swiss weather records, I was somewhat surprised to find | |||||
| that the record high temperature in Switzerland is | 41.5° C | ||||
| The following (edited) report of his death is taken from the [Middlesbrough] 'North-Eastern | |||||
| Daily Gazette' of 5 September 1889:- | |||||
| 'Sir George Morrison, Town Clerk of Leeds and brother-in-law to Mr. J.P. Bottomley Firth, | |||||
| M.P. for Dundee.....received a telegram yesterday afternoon giving the melancholy intelligence | |||||
| that Mr. Firth had died suddenly whilst spending his holidays in Switzerland, the cause of | |||||
| death being sunstroke.....Enquiries at the London residence of Mr. Firth elicited information | |||||
| that, in company with Mrs. Firth and their two children, he left London about three weeks ago | |||||
| on his annual holiday. At the outset a visit was paid to Leeds, where Mrs, Firth's father.... | |||||
| resides. Here the children were left with another relative, and Mr. and Mrs. Firth paid a brief | |||||
| visit to Dundee, leaving there to proceed to Switzerland. Nothing further was known of the | |||||
| hon. member's movements. For some time Mr. Firth had complained of feeling unwell, and his | |||||
| health had been somewhat shaken by anxieties attendant on his official position on the London | |||||
| County Council, and the journey to Switzerland was undertaken in the hope that the change | |||||
| would restore him to his usual health......' | |||||
| Nigel David Jones, later [2005] Baron Jones of Cheltenham, MP for Cheltenham | |||||
| 1992-2005 | |||||
| Jones was injured, and one of his assistants killed, when attacked by a man wielding a samurai | |||||
| sword in his constituency office in January 2000. The following report appeared in 'The Times' | |||||
| of 29 January 2000:- | |||||
| 'A man wielding a samurai sword killed an MP's assistant who was trying to defend Nigel Jones, | |||||
| the Liberal Democrat member for Cheltenham, in an attack during a constituency surgery | |||||
| yesterday. | |||||
| 'Mr. Jones, 51, was recovering in Cheltenham General Hospital last night from severe cuts to | |||||
| his hands, inflicted as he tried to fend off the 6ft tall attacker. His condition was said to be | |||||
| satisfactory but he was being kept in overnight for observation. | |||||
| 'The attack took place as Mr. Jones met constituents at the Liberal Democrats' office in a | |||||
| side street off Cheltenham's busy High Street. Witnesses described how Mr. Jones fled his | |||||
| terraced office with blood pouring from his wounds and took shelter in a nearby guitar shop, | |||||
| where he was given first aid. The manager of another shop then tried to help the MP's | |||||
| assistant, Andrew Pennington, a councillor in his mid-40s, who had at least ten wounds, | |||||
| including a stab wound to his stomach. He died as David Copson cradled him in his arms. | |||||
| Graham North, 35, a lorry driver, said his friend Mr. Copson had tried to help the MP's | |||||
| assistant as he bled to death: "I saw David dash into the MP's office seconds after Nigel Jones | |||||
| ran out clutching his hands and screaming for help. He was in there a little while, but then he | |||||
| came out as white as a ghost." | |||||
| "He said: 'I couldn't do anything for him. He died in my arms. He had a gaping wound in his | |||||
| lower stomach and there was a lot of blood.' He was distraught." | |||||
| 'Within ten minutes of the attack police arrested a 49-year-old local man in a shopping | |||||
| street a short distance away. Witnesses said he was blood-stained and carrying a Japanese | |||||
| sword under his black overcoat.' | |||||
| The killer was a former civil engineer named Robert Ashman, who, in February 2001, was | |||||
| found to be unfit to stand trial and was committed to the Broadmoor secure mental hospital. | |||||
| In September 2002 Ashman was deemed to have sufficiently recovered to enable him to be | |||||
| tried. At that trial, which took place in April 2003, Ashman admitted, on the ground of | |||||
| diminished responsibility, the manslaughter of Andrew Pennington, and was returned to the | |||||
| mental facility, from which he can be freed only on the orders of the Home Secretary or a | |||||
| tribunal chaired by a senior judge. | |||||
| Andrew Pennington was posthumously awarded the George Medal in 2001. The George Medal | |||||
| recognises the highest acts of courage performed by civilians in the United Kingdom and the | |||||
| Commonwealth, thus making it the civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross. | |||||
| The citation of Pennington's George Medal reads: | |||||
| "For his actions in saving the life of a man who had been attacked by another man armed with | |||||
| a samurai sword. On 28 January, 2000, a Member of Parliament was holding a surgery for his | |||||
| constituents at his office in Cheltenham. Mr. Andrew Pennington was assisting him when the | |||||
| receptionist showed a man into the office. The MP invited the man, who was wearing a full- | |||||
| length overcoat buttoned up to the neck, to sit down but the man declined and stood in | |||||
| front of the MP while he read a letter on which he had been asked to advise. A short | |||||
| conversation took place between them, whilst Mr. Pennington looked on, but then the man | |||||
| began to talk nonsensically and without warning reached into his coat and drew out a long | |||||
| curved sword. He stood with the sword raised above his head in both hands, and as the MP | |||||
| stood up, lowered it, pointing the sword tip at the MP's midriff. At this point, Mr. Pennington | |||||
| ran to the door of the office and called to the receptionist to get help. | |||||
| "Suddenly the man lunged forward and thrust the sword at the MP who managed to deflect | |||||
| it with his left arm before grabbing the blade with both hands. The man tried to pull the sword | |||||
| from the MP's grip and he fell face down onto the sofa with the sword beneath him. The man | |||||
| fell on top of him and struggled to wrestle the sword free without success. Mr. Pennington | |||||
| then hit the man from behind and dragged him off the MP, telling the MP to get away. The | |||||
| MP managed to escape and ran out of the office to summon help, but the man got hold of | |||||
| the sword again. A violent struggle then took place in which Mr. Pennington tried to restrain | |||||
| the man but was stabbed repeatedly with the sword and was fatally wounded. Mr. Pennington | |||||
| died shortly afterwards from his injuries and the man was later arrested." | |||||
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