THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "C"
		Last updated 02/01/2012
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.
		CLONMEL (TIPPERARY)
1801		Both members for Clonmel in the former
		Irish House of Commons resigned
		at the Union and no writ was issued until
		Feb 1801
13 Feb 1801		William Bagwell	Apr 1776	4 Nov 1826	50
6 Mar 1819		John Keily	c 1765	3 Dec 1843
18 Mar 1820		James Hewitt Dawson (Massy-Dawson from 1827)	13 Sep 1779	2 Oct 1834	55
22 Feb 1830		Eyre Coote	7 Sep 1806	31 May 1834	27
15 Dec 1832		Dominick Ronayne		8 Jan 1836
20 Feb 1836		Nicholas Ball	1791	19 Jan 1865	73
18 Feb 1839		David Richard Pigot	c 1803	22 Dec 1873
12 Sep 1846		Cecil John Lawless	1821	5 Nov 1853	32
21 Dec 1853		John O'Connell	24 Dec 1810	24 May 1858	47
17 Feb 1857		John Bagwell	1811	2 Mar 1883	71
11 Feb 1874		Arthur John Moore	1849	5 Jan 1904	54
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		CLONTARF (DUBLIN)
14 Dec 1918		Richard James Mulcahy	10 May 1886	16 Dec 1971	85
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CLWYD NORTH WEST
9 Jun 1983		Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer,3rd
		baronet	27 Oct 1920	24 Dec 2004	84
9 Apr 1992		Roderick Richards	12 Mar 1947
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		CLWYD SOUTH
1 May 1997		Martyn David Jones	1 Mar 1947
6 May 2010		Susan Elan Jones	1 Jun 1968
		CLWYD SOUTH WEST
9 Jun 1983		Robert Lambart Harvey	21 Aug 1953
11 Jun 1987		Martyn David Jones	1 Mar 1947
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		CLWYD WEST
1 May 1997		Gareth Thomas	25 Sep 1954
5 May 2005		David Ian Jones	22 Mar 1952
		CLYDEBANK & MILNGAVIE
9 Jun 1983		Hugh McCartney	3 Jan 1920	1 Mar 2006	86
11 Jun 1987		William Anthony Worthington	11 Oct 1941
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
		CLYDESDALE
9 Jun 1983		Judith Constance Mary Hart {Dame 1979],later
		[1988] Baroness Hart of South Lanark [L]	18 Sep 1924	8 Dec 1991	67
11 Jun 1987		James Hood	16 May 1948
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
		COATBRIDGE (LANARKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Arthur Louis Hamilton Buchanan	1866	15 Feb 1925	58
15 Nov 1922		James C Welsh	1880	4 Nov 1954	74
27 Oct 1931		William Paterson Templeton	1876	4 Jul 1938	62
14 Nov 1935		James Barr	26 Jul 1862	24 Feb 1949	86
26 Jul 1945		Jean Mann	1889	21 Mar 1964	74
		NAME ALTERED TO "COATBRIDGE
		& AIRDRIE" 1950
		COATBRIDGE & AIRDRIE (LANARKSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		Jean Mann	1889	21 Mar 1964	74
8 Oct 1959		James Dempsey	6 Feb 1917	12 May 1982	65
24 Jun 1982		Thomas Clarke	10 Jan 1941
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		COATBRIDGE & CHRYSTON
1 May 1997		Thomas Clarke	10 Jan 1941
		NAME ALTERED TO "COATBRIDGE,CHRYSTON
		& BELLSHILL" 2005
		COATBRIDGE,CHRYSTON & BELLSHILL
5 May 2005		Thomas Clarke	10 Jan 1941
		COCKERMOUTH (CUMBERLAND)
9 Apr 1660		Richard Tolson	c 1622	2 Jul 1689
		Wilfred Lawson	c 1636	after 1679
15 Apr 1661		Hugh Potter	1 Aug 1596	12 Feb 1662	65
		Sir Wilfred Lawson,later [1688] 1st
		baronet  (to 1679)	c 1610	13 Dec 1688
3 Mar 1662		Robert Scawen	16 May 1602	early 1670	67
29 Mar 1670		John Clarke		6 May 1675
8 Jun 1675		Sir Richard Graham,3rd baronet,later [1681]
		1st Viscount Preston [S]  (to 1685)	24 Sep 1648	22 Dec 1695	47
15 Feb 1679		Orlando Gee  [kt 1682]  (to 1689)	1619	1705	86
27 Mar 1685		Sir Daniel Fleming	24 Jul 1633	25 Mar 1701	67
12 Jan 1689		Sir Henry Capell,later [1692] 1st Baron
		Capell of Tewkesbury	6 Mar 1638	30 May 1696	58
		Henry Fletcher,later [1700] 3rd baronet	Apr 1661	19 May 1712	51
1 Mar 1690		Sir Orlando Gee	c 1619	May 1705
		Sir Wilfrid Lawson,2nd baronet	31 Oct 1664	Nov 1704	40
14 Nov 1695		Sir Charles Gerard,3rd baronet	16 Aug 1653	by Jul 1701	47
		Goodwin Wharton	8 Mar 1653	25 Oct 1704	51
4 Aug 1698		William Seymour  (to Jul 1702)	8 Feb 1664	10 Feb 1728	64
		George Fletcher	c 1666	c Mar 1708
6 Dec 1701		Goodwin Wharton  [he was also returned for	8 Mar 1653	25 Oct 1704	51
		Buckinghamshire,for which he chose to sit]
19 Feb 1702		Thomas Lamplugh  (to 1708)	9 Oct 1656	21 May 1737	80
25 Jul 1702		James Stanhope,later [1718] 1st Earl Stanhope	1673	5 Feb 1721	47
		(to 1713)
20 May 1708		Albemarle Bertie	c 1669	23 Jan 1742
17 Oct 1710		James Stanhope,later Earl Stanhope	1673	5 Feb 1721	47
		Stanhope's election was declared void
		7 Apr 1711. At the subsequent by-election,
		held on 15 May 1711,Stanhope was again
		returned
		Nicholas Lechmere,later [1721] 1st Baron
		Lechmere  (to Jul 1717)	5 Aug 1675	18 Jun 1727	51
9 Sep 1713		Joseph Musgrave	1676	14 Feb 1757	80
27 Jan 1715		James Stanhope,later [1718] 1st Earl Stanhope	1673	5 Feb 1721	47
29 Apr 1717		Thomas Pengelly  [kt 1719]  (to 1727)	16 May 1675	14 Apr 1730	54
8 Jul 1717		Lord Percy Seymour	3 Jun 1696	4 Jul 1721	25
		Sir Wilfred Lawson,3rd baronet	1697	13 Jul 1737	40
		Double return. Seymour declared elected
		18 Jan 1718 (Lawson was disqualified for
		being a minor)
20 Jul 1721		Anthony Lowther	after 1694	24 Nov 1741
24 Mar 1722		Sir Wilfred Lawson,3rd baronet  (to 1738)	1697	13 Jul 1737	40
31 Jan 1727		William Finch  (to 1747)	18 Jan 1691	25 Dec 1766	75
9 Feb 1738		Eldred Curwen	11 Apr 1692	Jan 1745	52
9 May 1741		John Mordaunt  [kt 1749]   (to 1768)	1697	23 Oct 1780	83
6 Jul 1747		Sir Charles Wyndham,4th baronet,later [1750]
		2nd Earl of of Egremont  [he was also returned	19 Aug 1710	21 Aug 1763	53
		for Taunton,for which he chose to sit]
11 Dec 1747		William Finch	18 Jan 1691	25 Dec 1766	75
17 Apr 1754		Percy Wyndham-O'Brien,later [1756] 1st
		Earl of Thomond [I]	c 1723	21 Jul 1774
3 Apr 1761		Charles Jenkinson,later [1796] 1st Earl of
		Liverpool	26 Apr 1729	17 Dec 1808	79
9 Jan 1767		John Elliot	Apr 1732	20 Sep 1808	76
28 Mar 1768		George Macartney,later [1776] 1st Baron
		Macartney [I] and [1794] 1st Earl
		Macartney [I]  (to 1769)	3 May 1737	31 Mar 1806	68
		Charles Jenkinson,later [1796] 1st Earl of
		Liverpool     [he was also returned for	26 Apr 1727	17 Dec 1808	81
		Appleby,for which he chose to sit]
24 May 1768		George Johnstone  (to 1775)   [at the general	1730	24 May 1787	56
		election in Oct 1774,he was also returned for
		Appleby,for which he chose to sit]
22 Mar 1769		Sir James Lowther,5th baronet,later [1784]
		1st Earl of Lonsdale	5 Aug 1736	24 May 1802	65
10 Oct 1774		Fletcher Norton	16 Nov 1744	19 Jun 1820	75
		[he was also returned for Carlisle,for
		which he chose to sit]
30 Jan 1775		Ralph Gowland	c 1722	c 1782
		James Adair	c 1743	21 Jul 1798
16 Sep 1780		John Lowther,later [1824] 1st baronet  (to 1786)	1 Apr 1759	19 Mar 1844	84
		John Baynes-Garforth	c 1722	15 Oct 1808
7 Apr 1784		James Clarke Satterthwaite  (to 1790)	c 1746	c 1818
6 Nov 1786		Humphrey Senhouse	c 1731	1814
3 Jul 1790		John Anstruther,later [1798] 1st baronet	27 Mar 1753	26 Jun 1811	58
		John Baynes-Garforth  (to 1802)	c 1722	15 Oct 1808
7 Jun 1796		Edward Burrow	21 Nov 1726	Dec 1800	74
29 Dec 1800		Walter Spencer Stanhope	4 Feb 1749	10 Apr 1822	73
8 Jul 1802		Robert Ward  (to 1806)	19 Mar 1765	13 Aug 1846	81
		James Graham,later [1808] 1st baronet	18 Nov 1753	21 Mar 1825	71
22 Jul 1805		George Stewart,styled Lord Garlies,
		later [1806] 8th Earl of Galloway	24 Mar 1768	27 Mar 1834	66
3 Nov 1806		John Lowther   [he was also returned for	1 Apr 1759	11 May 1844	85
		Cumberland,for which he chose to sit]
		James Graham,later [1808] 1st baronet	18 Nov 1753	21 Mar 1825	71
		(to 1812)
17 Jan 1807		Thomas Hamilton,styled Lord Binning,later
		[1828] 9th Earl of Haddington	21 Jun 1780	1 Dec 1858	78
16 May 1807		John Lowther   [he was also returned for	1 Apr 1759	11 May 1844	85
		Cumberland,for which he chose to sit]
21 Jul 1807		John Osborn,later [1818] 5th baronet	3 Dec 1772	28 Aug 1848	75
11 Jul 1808		William Lowther,styled Viscount Lowther,
		later [1844] 2nd Earl of Lonsdale  (to 1813)	30 Jul 1787	4 Mar 1872	84
12 Oct 1812		John Lowther   [he was also returned for	1 Apr 1759	11 May 1844	85
		Cumberland,for which he chose to sit]
23 Dec 1812		Augustus John Foster  (to 1816)	4 Dec 1780	1 Aug 1848	67
27 Nov 1813		Thomas Wallace,later [1828] 1st Baron Wallace
		(to 1818)	c 1768	23 Feb 1844
1 Mar 1816		John Henry Lowther,later [1844] 2nd baronet	23 Mar 1793	23 Jun 1868	75
		(to 1826)
20 Jun 1818		John Beckett	17 May 1775	31 May 1847	72
21 Jul 1821		William Wilson Carus Wilson  (to 1827)	24 Jul 1764	11 Feb 1851	86
10 Jun 1826		Randolph Stewart,styled Lord Garlies,later
		[1834] 9th Earl of Galloway  (to 1831)	16 Sep 1800	2 Jan 1873	72
16 Feb 1827		Lawrence Peel	28 Jun 1801	10 Dec 1888	87
2 Aug 1830		Philip Pleydell-Bouverie	21 Oct 1788	27 May 1872	83
30 Apr 1831		John Henry Lowther,later [1844] 2nd baronet	23 Mar 1793	23 Jun 1868	75
		Sir James Scarlett,later [1835] 1st Baron Abinger	13 Dec 1769	7 Apr 1844	74
12 Dec 1832		Fretchville Lawson Ballantine Dykes	12 Dec 1800	26 Nov 1866	65
		Henry Aglionby Aglionby  (to 1854)	1790	31 Jul 1854	64
15 Feb 1836		Edward Horsman	8 Feb 1807	30 Nov 1876	69
8 Jul 1852		Henry Wyndham  [kt 1859]  (to 1857)	12 May 1790	2 Aug 1860	70
9 Aug 1854		John Steel  (to Apr 1868)	1786	10 Apr 1868	81
27 Mar 1857		Richard Southwell Bourke,styled Baron Naas,
		later [1867] 6th Earl of Mayo  (to Nov 1868)	21 Feb 1822	8 Feb 1872	49
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of the page containing
		details of the Earldom of Mayo.
27 Apr 1868		Green Thompson
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1868
18 Nov 1868		Isaac Fletcher	22 Feb 1827	3 Apr 1879	52
		For information on the death of this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
18 Apr 1879		William Fletcher	1831	6 Aug 1900	69
2 Apr 1880		Edward Waugh	1816	26 Mar 1891	74
5 Dec 1885		Charles James Valentine	Sep 1837	1900	62
15 Jul 1886		Sir Wilfrid Lawson,2nd baronet	4 Sep 1829	1 Jul 1906	76
4 Oct 1900		John Scurrah Randles  [kt 1905]	25 Dec 1857	11 Feb 1945	87
26 Jan 1906		Sir Wilfrid Lawson,2nd baronet	4 Sep 1829	1 Jul 1906	76
1 Aug 1906		Sir John Scurrah Randles	25 Dec 1857	11 Feb 1945	87
Dec 1910		Sir Wilfrid Lawson,3rd baronet	21 Oct 1862	28 Aug 1937	74
1 Mar 1916		Joseph Bliss	1853	12 Dec 1939	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		COLCHESTER (ESSEX)
c Apr 1660		Sir Harbottle Grimston,2nd baronet  (to 1685)	27 Jan 1603	2 Jan 1685	81
		John Shaw	c 1617	1690
10 Feb 1679		Sir Walter Clarges,1st baronet	c 1654	Mar 1706
21 Feb 1681		Samuel Reynolds	c 1642	23 Aug 1694
26 Mar 1685		Sir Walter Clarges,1st baronet	c 1654	Mar 1706
		Nathaniel Lawrence	c 1627	5 May 1714
16 Jan 1689		Samuel Reynolds  (to 1694)	c 1642	23 Aug 1694
		Isaac Rebow	15 Jul 1655	6 Sep 1726	71
3 Mar 1690		Edward Cary	25 Apr 1656	Aug 1692	36
12 Nov 1692		Isaac Rebow  [kt 1693]  (to 1714)   [following the	15 Jul 1655	6 Sep 1726	71
		general election in Aug 1702, Rebow's election
		was declared void on 21 Nov 1702. At the
		subsequent by-election held on 14 Dec 1702,
		Rebow was again returned]
19 Nov 1694		Sir Thomas Cooke	c 1648	6 Sep 1709
22 Oct 1695		Sir John Morden,1st baronet	13 Aug 1623	6 Sep 1708	85
22 Jul 1698		Sir Thomas Cooke	c 1648	6 Sep 1709
8 May 1705		Edward Bullock	24 Jun 1663	6 Dec 1705	42
18 Dec 1705		Sir Thomas Webster,1st baronet  [he was	12 Nov 1676	30 May 1751	74
		unseated on petition in favour of William
		Gore 27 Jan 1711]
27 Jan 1711		William Gore	c 1675	22 Oct 1739
25 Aug 1713		Sir Thomas Webster,1st baronet	12 Nov 1676	30 May 1751	74
		[The two sitting members (Webster and
		Rebow) were unseated on petition in favour
		of William Gore and Nicholas Corsellis
		6 May 1714]
6 May 1714		William Gore	c 1675	22 Oct 1739
		Nicholas Corsellis	21 Sep 1661	25 Jan 1728	66
25 Jan 1715		Richard Du Cane	13 Oct 1681	3 Oct 1744	62
		Sir Isaac Rebow	15 Jul 1655	6 Sep 1726	71
22 Mar 1722		Matthew Martin		20 Jul 1749
		Sir Thomas Webster,1st baronet	12 Nov 1676	30 May 1751	74
18 Aug 1727		Stamp Brooksbank	11 Jul 1694	24 May 1756	61
		Samuel Tufnell	15 Sep 1682	28 Dec 1758	76
13 May 1734		Matthew Martin  (to 1742)		20 Jul 1749
		Isaac Lemyng Rebow	c 1705	3 Mar 1735
20 Mar 1735		Jacob Houblon	31 Jul 1710	15 Feb 1770	59
9 May 1741		John Olmius,later [1762] 1st Baron Waltham [I]	18 Jul 1711	5 Oct 1762	51
		[Both sitting members (Martin and Olmius)
		were unseated on petition in favour of
		Charles Gray and Samuel Savill 26 Feb 1742]
26 Feb 1742		Charles Gray  (to 1755)   [following the	20 Sep 1696	12 Dec 1782	86
		general election in May 1754,he was also
		unseated on petition in favour of Isaac
		Martin Rebow 13 Mar 1755]
		Samuel Savill	c 1700	2 Apr 1763
26 Jun 1747		Richard Savage Nassau	1 Jun 1723	17 May 1780	56
8 May 1754		John Olmius,later [1762] 1st Baron Waltham [I]
		(to 1761)	18 Jul 1711	5 Oct 1762	51
13 Mar 1755		Isaac Martin Rebow  (Isaac Martin Rebow
		Martin from 1777)  (to 1781)	28 Nov 1731	3 Oct 1781	49
25 Mar 1761		Charles Gray	20 Sep 1696	12 Dec 1782	86
8 Sep 1780		Sir Robert Smyth,5th baronet  (to 1784)	10 Jan 1744	12 Apr 1802	58
17 Oct 1781		Christopher Potter   [he was unseated on		18 Nov 1817
		petition in favour of Sir Edmund Affleck
		4 Mar 1782]
4 Mar 1782		Sir Edmund Affleck,1st baronet  (to 1788)	19 Apr 1725	19 Nov 1788	63
1 Apr 1784		Christopher Potter   [his election was		18 Nov 1817
		declared void 5 Jul 1784]
14 Jul 1784		Sir Robert Smyth,5th baronet    (to 1790)	10 Jan 1744	12 Apr 1802	58
15 Dec 1788		George Jackson (Duckett from 1797),
		later [1791] 1st baronet	24 Oct 1725	15 Dec 1822	97
		George Tierney	20 Mar 1761	25 Jan 1830	68
		Double return. Tierney declared elected
		6 Apr 1789
18 Jun 1790		Robert Thornton  (to 1817)	9 Jan 1759	16 Mar 1826	67
		George Jackson (Duckett from 1797),
		later [1791] 1st baronet	24 Oct 1725	15 Dec 1822	97
28 May 1796		John Pennington,1st Baron Muncaster [I]	c 1737	8 Oct 1813
5 Jul 1802		John Denison	c 1758	6 May 1820
1 Nov 1806		William Tufnell	4 May 1769	26 Apr 1809	39
6 May 1807		Richard Hart Davis	8 Jun 1766	21 Feb 1842	75
30 Jun 1812		Hart Davis  (to Feb 1818)	6 Mar 1791	17 Jun 1854	63
17 Mar 1817		Sir William Burroughs,1st baronet  (to Jun 1818)	c 1753	1 Jun 1829
19 Feb 1818		James Beckford Wildman  (to 1826)	18 Oct 1788	25 May 1867	78
22 Jun 1818		Daniel Whittle Harvey   [following the general	10 Jan 1786	24 Feb 1863	77
		election in Mar 1820,his election was declared
		void 30 Jun 1820]
14 Jul 1820		Henry Baring	18 Jan 1777	13 Apr 1848	71
9 Jun 1826		Sir George Henry Smyth,6th baronet	30 Jan 1784	11 Jul 1852	68
		Daniel Whittle Harvey  (to 1835)	10 Jan 1786	24 Feb 1863	77
20 Apr 1829		Richard Sanderson	c 1783	1857
6 Aug 1830		Andrew Spottiswoode   [his election was	19 Feb 1787	20 Feb 1866	79
		declared void Mar 1831]
9 Apr 1831		William Mayhew	c Feb 1788	26 Apr 1855	67
27 Dec 1832		Richard Sanderson  (to 1847)	c 1783	1857
17 Jan 1835		Sir George Henry Smyth,6th baronet	30 Jan 1784	11 Jul 1852	68
		(to 1850)
31 Jul 1847		Joseph Alfred Hardcastle  (to 1852)	1815	1899	84
6 Feb 1850		Lord John James Robert Manners,later [1888]
		7th Duke of Rutland  (to Feb 1857)	13 Dec 1818	4 Aug 1906	87
10 Jul 1852		William Warwick Hawkins  (to Mar 1857)	1816	c Feb 1868	51
24 Feb 1857		John Gurdon Rebow  (to 1859)	1799	Oct 1870	71
28 Mar 1857		Taverner John Miller  (to 1867)	1804	27 Mar 1867	62
30 Apr 1859		Philip Oxenden Papillon	1 Aug 1826	16 Aug 1899	73
13 Jul 1865		John Gurdon Rebow  (to 1870)	1799	Oct 1870	71
15 Feb 1867		Edward Kent Karslake	c 1820	31 May 1892
18 Nov 1868		William Brewer  (to 1874)		3 Nov 1881
3 Nov 1870		Alexander Learmonth  (to 1880)	1829	10 Mar 1887	57
3 Feb 1874		Herbert Bulkeley Mackworth-Praed,later
		[1905] 1st baronet	2 May 1841	21 Nov 1920	79
1 Apr 1880		Richard Knight Causton,later [1910] 1st
		Baron Southwark	25 Sep 1843	23 Feb 1929	85
		William Willis	29 Apr 1835	22 Aug 1911	76
24 Nov 1885		Henry John Trotter	8 Dec 1835	6 Dec 1888	52
18 Dec 1888		Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville,styled
		Baron Brooke,later [1893] 5th Earl of Warwick	9 Feb 1853	15 Jan 1924	70
Jul 1892		Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland,later
		[1895] 1st baronet	24 Jan 1864	7 May 1899	35
19 Feb 1895		Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson,1st baronet,later
		[1910] 1st Baron Cowdray and [1917] 1st
		Viscount Cowdray	15 Jul 1856	1 May 1927	70
17 Jan 1910		Laming Worthington Evans,later [1916] 1st
		baronet (Worthington-Evans from 1916)	23 Aug 1868	14 Feb 1931	62
30 May 1929		Oswald Lewis	5 Apr 1887	12 Feb 1966	78
26 Jul 1945		Charles George Percy Smith,later [1967]
		Baron Delacourt-Smith [L]	25 Apr 1917	2 Aug 1972	55
23 Feb 1950		Cuthbert James McCall Alport,later [1961]
		Baron Alport [L]	22 Mar 1912	28 Oct 1998	86
16 Mar 1961		Philip Antony Fyson Buck  [kt 1983]	19 Dec 1928	6 Oct 2003	74
		SPLIT INTO "COLCHESTER NORTH" AND
		"COLCHESTER SOUTH & MALDON" 1983
		BUT RE-UNITED 1997
1 May 1997		Robert Edward Russell  [kt 2012]	31 Mar 1946
		COLCHESTER NORTH (ESSEX)
9 Jun 1983		Sir Philip Antony Fyson Buck	19 Dec 1928	6 Oct 2003	74
9 Apr 1992		Bernard Christison Jenkin	9 Apr 1959
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		COLCHESTER SOUTH & MALDON (ESSEX)
9 Jun 1983		John Wakeham,later [1992] Baron Wakeham [L]	22 Jun 1932
9 Apr 1992		John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale	16 Oct 1959
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		COLERAINE (LONDONDERRY)
1801		Walter Jones	29 Dec 1754	1839	84
13 Dec 1806		Sir George Fitzgerald Hill  [he was also returned	1 Jun 1763	8 Mar 1839	75
		for Londonderry,for which he chose to sit]
4 Feb 1807		Walter Jones	29 Dec 1754	1839	84
26 Jun 1809		John Poer Beresford,later [1814] 1st baronet	1769	2 Oct 1844	75
17 Oct 1812		Lord George Thomas Beresford	12 Feb 1781	26 Oct 1839	58
10 Jun 1814		Sir John Poer Beresford,1st baronet	1769	2 Oct 1844	75
22 Feb 1823		Sir John William Head Brydges   [following the	c Jul 1764	4 Sep 1839	75
		general election in May 1831,his name was
		erased from the return and that of William
		Taylor Copeland substituted 4 Aug 1831]
4 Aug 1831		William Taylor Copeland	24 Mar 1797	12 Apr 1868	71
13 Dec 1832		Sir John Poer Beresford,1st baronet	1769	2 Oct 1844	75
		[he was unseated on petition in favour of
		William Taylor Copeland 17 May 1833]
17 May 1833		William Taylor Copeland	24 Mar 1797	12 Apr 1868	71
4 Aug 1837		Edward Litton	1 Dec 1787	22 Jan 1870	82
18 Feb 1843		John Boyd	1789	2 Jan 1862	72
22 Mar 1852		Richard Southwell Bourke,styled Baron Naas,
		later [1867] 6th Earl of Mayo	21 Feb 1822	8 Feb 1872	49
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of the page containing
		details of the Earldom of Mayo.
30 Mar 1857		John Boyd	1789	2 Jan 1862	72
31 Jan 1862		Sir Henry Hervey Bruce,3rd baronet	22 Sep 1820	8 Dec 1907	87
9 Feb 1874		Daniel Taylor	1825
8 Apr 1880		Sir Henry Hervey Bruce,3rd baronet	22 Sep 1820	8 Dec 1907	87
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		COLLEGE (GLASGOW)
27 Nov 1885		Charles Cameron,later [1893] 1st baronet	18 Dec 1841	2 Oct 1924	82
17 Jul 1895		Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell,10th
		baronet	6 Jun 1866	30 May 1956	89
18 Jan 1906		Henry Anderson Watt	28 Feb 1863	2 Dec 1929	66
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		COLLEGE GREEN (DUBLIN)
1 Dec 1885		Timothy Daniel Sullivan	29 May 1827	31 Mar 1914	86
Jul 1892		Joseph Edward Kenny	1845	9 Apr 1900	54
6 Apr 1896		James Laurence Carew	1853	31 Aug 1903	50
3 Oct 1900		Joseph Patrick Nannetti	1851	26 Apr 1915	63
11 Jun 1915		John Dillon Nugent	1869	1 Mar 1940	70
14 Dec 1918		Sean Thomas O'Kelly	25 Aug 1882	23 Nov 1966	84
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		COLNE VALLEY (YORKSHIRE)
3 Dec 1885		Henry Frederick Beaumont	10 Mar 1833	13 Oct 1913	80
Jul 1892		Sir James Kitson,1st baronet,later [1907]
		1st Baron Airedale	22 Sep 1835	16 Mar 1911	75
18 Jul 1907		Albert Victor Grayson	5 Sep 1881	1920 or later
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
20 Jan 1910		Charles Leach   [he was unseated under the	1 Mar 1847	24 Nov 1919	72
		provisions of the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats)
		Act 1886 in Aug 1916 - the only MP to which
		this Act was ever applied]
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
25 Aug 1916		Frederick William Mallalieu	1860	10 May 1932	71
15 Nov 1922		Philip Snowden,later [1931] 1st Viscount
		Snowden	18 Jul 1864	15 May 1937	72
27 Oct 1931		Edward Lancelot Mallalieu  [kt 1974]	14 Mar 1905	11 Nov 1979	74
14 Nov 1935		Ernest Marklew	16 Apr 1874	14 Jun 1939	65
27 Jul 1939		William George Glenvil Hall	4 Apr 1887	13 Oct 1962	75
21 Mar 1963		Albert Edward Patrick Duffy  [kt 1991]	17 Jun 1920
31 Mar 1966		Richard Scurrah Wainwright	11 Apr 1918	16 Jan 2003	84
18 Jun 1970		David George Clark,later [2001] Baron Clark
		of Windermere [L]	19 Oct 1939
28 Feb 1974		Richard Scurrah Wainwright	11 Apr 1918	16 Jan 2003	84
11 Jun 1987		Graham Edward Galloway Riddick	26 Aug 1955
1 May 1997		Kali Carol Jean Mountford	12 Jan 1954
6 May 2010		Jason Alexander McCartney	29 Jan 1968
		COMBINED ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES
14 Dec 1918		Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher	21 Mar 1865	18 Apr 1940	75
		Sir William Martin Conway,later [1931] 1st
		Baron Conway of Allington  (to 1931)	12 Apr 1856	19 Apr 1937	81
12 Mar 1926		Sir Alfred Hopkinson	28 Jun 1851	11 Nov 1939	88
30 May 1929		Eleanor Florence Rathbone  (to 1946)	12 May 1872	2 Jan 1946	73
27 Oct 1931		Sir Reginald Henry Craddock	11 Mar 1864	10 Feb 1937	72
22 Mar 1937		Thomas Edmund Harvey	4 Jan 1875	3 May 1955	80
26 Jul 1945		Kenneth Martin Lindsay  (to 1950)	16 Sep 1897	4 Mar 1991	93
18 Mar 1946		Henry George Strauss,later [1955] 1st Baron
		Conesford	24 Jun 1892	28 Aug 1974	82
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		CONGLETON (CHESHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		Jane Ann Winterton	6 Mar 1941
6 May 2010		Fiona Claire Bruce	26 Mar 1957
		CONNEMARA (GALWAY)
27 Nov 1885		Patrick James Foley	1836	28 Jun 1914	77
19 Jul 1895		William O'Malley	1853	Sep 1939	86
14 Dec 1918		Padraic O'Maille	23 Feb 1878	19 Jan 1946	67
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CONSETT (DURHAM)
14 Dec 1918		Aneurin Williams	11 Oct 1859	20 Jan 1924	64
15 Nov 1922		Herbert Dunnico  [kt 1938]	2 Dec 1876	2 Oct 1953	76
27 Oct 1931		John Purcell Dickie	14 Jul 1874	9 Mar 1963	88
14 Nov 1935		David Adams	27 Jun 1871	16 Aug 1943	72
15 Nov 1943		James Edward Glanville	1891	18 Sep 1958	67
26 May 1955		William Stones	2 Oct 1904	2 Jul 1969	64
31 Mar 1966		David John Watkins	27 Aug 1925
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		CONWAY (CARNARVONSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		William Elwyn Edwards Jones	5 Jan 1904	4 Jul 1989	85
25 Oct 1951		Peter John Mitchell Thomas,later [1987]
		Baron Thomas of Gwydir [L]	31 Jul 1920	4 Feb 2008	87
31 Mar 1966		Gwilym Ednyfed Hudson-Davies	4 Dec 1929
18 Jun 1970		Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts [kt 1990],later
		[1997] Baron Roberts of Conwy [L]	10 Jul 1930
		NAME ALTERED TO "CONWY" 1983
		CONWY (CARNARVONSHIRE)
5 Jun 1983		Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts [kt 1990],later
		[1997] Baron Roberts of Conwy [L]	10 Jul 1930
1 May 1997		Betty Helena Williams	31 Jul 1944
		NAME ALTERED TO "ABERCONWY" 2010
		COPELAND (CUMBRIA)
9 Jun 1983		John Anderson Cunningham,later [2005]
		Baron Cunningham of Felling [L]	4 Aug 1939
5 May 2005		Jamieson Ronald Reed	4 Aug 1973
		CORBY (NORTHANTS)
9 Jun 1983		William Rhys Powell	3 Aug 1948
1 May 1997		Philip Ian Hope	19 Apr 1955
6 May 2010		Louise Daphne Bagshawe	28 Jun 1971
		CORFE CASTLE (DORSET)
1659		Sir Ralph Bankes	c 1630	25 Mar 1677
		John Tregonwell  (to Sep 1679)	3 Sep 1632	Feb 1682	49
5 Apr 1677		Edward Osborne,styled Viscount Latimer	3 Apr 1654	16 Feb 1689	34
26 Feb 1679		Peregrine Osborne,Viscount Osborne [S],
		later [1712] 2nd Duke of Leeds  [unseated on	29 Sep 1659	25 Jun 1729	69
		petition in favour of Sir Nathaniel Napier
		12 Apr 1679]
12 Apr 1679		Sir Nathaniel Napier,2nd baronet  (to 1689)	c 1636	21 Jan 1709
1 Sep 1679		Nathaniel Bond	14 Jun 1634	31 Aug 1707	73
22 Feb 1681		Richard Fownes  (to 1698)	25 Aug 1652	Jul 1714	61
12 Jan 1689		William Okeden	c 1662	26 Sep 1718
3 Mar 1690		William Culliford  (to 1699)		19 Mar 1724
4 Aug 1698		William Culliford		19 Mar 1724
		[Culliford's election declared void 6 Apr 1699]
		John Bankes  (to 1715)	c 1668	1714
26 Apr 1699		Richard Fownes	25 Aug 1652	Jul 1714	61
2 Feb 1715		Denis Bond  (to 1727)	10 Dec 1676	30 Jan 1747	70
		William Okeden	c 1662	26 Sep 1718
1 Dec 1718		Joshua Churchill		27 Jan 1721
		John Bankes	after 1691	26 Jan 1772
		Double return. Churchill declared elected
		21 Jan 1719
25 Feb 1721		John Bond	5 Apr 1678	19 Jun 1744	66
26 Mar 1722		John Bankes   (to 1741)	after 1691	26 Jan 1772
19 Aug 1727		John Bond  (to 1744)	5 Apr 1678	19 Jun 1744	66
7 May 1741		Henry Bankes  (to 1762)	2 Nov 1700	23 Sep 1776	75
7 Dec 1744		Thomas Erle Drax	c 1721	Dec 1789
29 Jun 1747		John Bond	11 May 1717	30 May 1784	67
28 Mar 1761		George Cholmondeley,styled Viscount Malpas
		(to 1764)	17 Oct 1724	15 Mar 1764	39
6 Dec 1762		John Campbell  (to 1768)	1695	6 Sep 1777	82
2 Apr 1764		John Bond  (to 1780)	11 May 1717	30 May 1784	67
19 Mar 1768		John Jenkinson	c 1734	1 May 1805
9 Sep 1780		John Bond	24 Jul 1753	12 May 1824	70
		Henry Bankes  (to 1826)	19 Dec 1756	17 Dec 1834	77
25 Feb 1801		Nathaniel Bond	1 Nov 1754	8 Oct 1823	68
8 May 1807		Peter William Baker	c 1756	25 Aug 1815
13 Feb 1816		George Bankes	1 Dec 1787	8 Jul 1856	68
18 Mar 1823		John Bond  (to 1828)	1 Jan 1802	18 Mar 1844	42
13 Feb 1826		George Bankes  (to 1832)	1 Dec 1787	8 Jul 1856	68
8 Feb 1828		Nathaniel William Peach	14 Sep 1785	29 Aug 1835	49
6 Mar 1829		Philip John Miles	1 Mar 1774	24 Mar 1845	71
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		CORK CITY
1801		John Hely-Hutchinson,later [1825] 2nd
		Earl of Donoughmore	15 May 1757	29 Jun 1832	75
		Mountifort Longfield  (to 1818)	22 Aug 1746	8 Jun 1819	72
8 Jan 1802		Christopher Hely-Hutchinson	5 Apr 1767	26 Aug 1826	59
5 Nov 1812		Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst,4th baronet
		(to 1829)	Jan 1789	22 Jun 1829	40
13 Jul 1818		Christopher Hely-Hutchinson	5 Apr 1767	26 Aug 1826	59
29 Dec 1826		John Hely-Hutchinson  (to 1830)	c 1795	1842
9 Jul 1829		Gerard Callaghan   [his election was declared	c 1787	25 Feb 1833
		void 3 Mar 1830]
29 Mar 1830		Daniel Callaghan  (to Jan 1835)	7 Jun 1786	29 Sep 1849	63
11 Aug 1830		John Boyle	13 Mar 1803	6 Dec 1874	71
21 Dec 1832		Herbert Baldwin
17 Jan 1835		Joseph Leycester	1784
		James Charles Chatterton,later [1855] 3rd
		baronet	1792	5 Jan 1874	81
		[Both members were unseated on petition in
		favour of Daniel Callaghan and Herbert Baldwin
		18 Apr 1835]
18 Apr 1835		Daniel Callaghan  (to 1849)	1786	1849	63
		Herbert Baldwin
11 Aug 1837		Francis Bernard Beamish	1802	1 Feb 1868	65
5 Jul 1841		Francis Stack Murphy	1807	16 Jun 1860	52
31 Jan 1846		Alexander McCarthy
9 Aug 1847		William Trant Fagan  (to 1851)	1801	16 May 1859	57
14 Nov 1849		James Charles Chatterton,later [1855] 3rd
		baronet (to 1852)	1792	5 Jan 1874	81
23 Apr 1851		Francis Stack Murphy  (to 1853)	1807	16 Jun 1860	52
14 Jul 1852		William Trant Fagan  (to 1859)	1801	16 May 1859	57
20 Aug 1853		Francis Bernard Beamish  (to 1865)	1802	1 Feb 1868	65
29 Jun 1859		Francis Lyons	1798	1862	64
14 Feb 1862		Nicholas Daniel Murphy  (to 1880)	1811
12 Jul 1865		John Francis Maguire		1 Nov 1872
10 Dec 1872		Joseph Philip Ronayne	1822	7 May 1876	53
29 May 1876		William Goulding	15 Nov 1817	8 Dec 1884	67
10 Apr 1880		John Daly	1834	Aug 1888	54
		Charles Stewart Parnell  (to 1891)	27 Jun 1846	6 Oct 1891	45
23 Feb 1884		John Deasy	1856	24 Feb 1896	39
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of the page containing
		details of members for Mayo West
28 Nov 1885		Maurice Healy  (to 1900)	3 Jan 1859	9 Nov 1923	64
6 Nov 1891		Martin Flavin	1841	c Jan 1917	75
Jul 1892		William O'Brien	2 Oct 1852	25 Feb 1928	75
27 Jun 1895		James Francis Xavier O'Brien  (to 1905)	16 Oct 1828	28 May 1905	76
4 Oct 1900		William O'Brien  (to 1909)	2 Oct 1852	25 Feb 1928	75
14 Jun 1905		Michael Augustine Roche  (to Dec 1910)	c 1856	7 Dec 1915
1 May 1909		Maurice Healy	3 Jan 1859	9 Nov 1923	64
18 Jan 1910		William O'Brien   (to 1918)	2 Oct 1852	25 Feb 1928	75
Dec 1910		Maurice Healy	3 Jan 1859	9 Nov 1923	64
14 Dec 1918		James Joseph Walsh	20 Feb 1880	30 Nov 1948	68
		Liam de Roiste	1882	15 May 1959	76
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY
1801		Henry Boyle,styled Viscount Boyle,later [1807]
		3rd Earl of Shannon [I]  (to 1807)	8 Aug 1771	22 Apr 1842	70
		Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald	17 Mar 1751	20 Dec 1814	63
17 Nov 1806		George Ponsonby  (to 1812)	c 1773	5 Jun 1863
16 May 1807		James Bernard,styled Viscount Bernard,later
		[1830] 2nd Earl of Bandon [I]   (to 1818)	14 Jun 1785	31 Oct 1856	71
23 Oct 1812		Richard Hare,styled Viscount Ennismore from
		1822  (to 1827)	20 Mar 1773	24 Sep 1827	54
29 Jun 1818		Edward King,styled Viscount Kingsborough	16 Nov 1795	27 Feb 1837	41
21 Jun 1826		Robert Henry King,later [1839] 4th Earl of
		Kingston [I]  (to 1832)	4 Oct 1796	21 Jan 1867	70
4 Dec 1827		John Boyle	13 Mar 1803	6 Dec 1874	71
12 Aug 1830		Richard Boyle,styled Viscount Boyle,later [1842]
		4th Earl of Shannon	12 May 1809	1 Aug 1868	59
29 Dec 1832		Feargus Edward O'Connor   [he was unseated	18 Jul 1794	30 Aug 1855	61
		on petition in favour of Richard Longfield
		5 Jun 1835]
		Garrett Standish Barry  (to 1841)		26 Dec 1864
5 Jun 1835		Richard Longfield	1767
18 Aug 1837		Edmund Burke Roche,later [1855] 1st
		Baron Fermoy [I]  (to 1855)	Aug 1815	17 Sep 1874	59
15 Jul 1841		Daniel O'Connell	8 Aug 1775	15 May 1847	71
2 Jul 1847		Maurice Power	1811
22 Mar 1852		Vincent Scully  (to 1857)	1810	4 Jun 1871	60
23 Apr 1855		Rickard Deasy  (to 1861)	1812	6 May 1883	70
10 Apr 1857		Alexander McCarthy
10 May 1859		Vincent Scully  (to 1865)	1810	4 Jun 1871	60
28 Feb 1861		Nicholas Philpot Leader  (to 1868)		31 Mar 1880
29 Jul 1865		George Richard Barry	1825	31 Jan 1867	41
3 Feb 1867		Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry,later [1902] 1st
		Baron Barrymore  (to 1874)	17 Jan 1843	22 Feb 1925	82
30 Nov 1868		McCarthy Downing  (to 1879)	1814	9 Jan 1879	64
9 Feb 1874		William Shaw  (to 1885)	4 May 1823	19 Sep 1895	72
20 Feb 1879		David la Touche Colthurst	1828	19 Jan 1907	78
		SPLIT INTO 7 DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CORK COUNTY EAST","CORK COUNTY
		MID","CORK COUNTY NORTH","CORK
		COUNTY NORTH EAST", "CORK COUNTY
		SOUTH","CORK COUNTY SOUTH EAST"
		AND "CORK COUNTY WEST"
		CORK COUNTY EAST
3 Dec 1885		William John Lane	Aug 1849
Jul 1892		Anthony John Charles Donelan   [Following	1846	Sep 1924	78
		the general election in Dec 1910, he was
		unseated on petition 22 May 1911]
15 Jul 1911		John Muldoon	1865	20 Nov 1938	73
14 Dec 1918		David Rice Kent		16 Nov 1930
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY MID
3 Dec 1885		Charles Kearns Deane Tanner	20 Sep 1849	21 Apr 1901	51
17 May 1901		Daniel Desmond Sheehan	28 May 1873	28 Nov 1948	75
14 Dec 1918		Terence Joseph McSwiney	20 Mar 1879	25 Oct 1920	41
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page
25 Oct 1920		vacant
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY NORTH
8 Dec 1885		James Christopher Flynn	1852	15 Nov 1922	70
31 Jan 1910		Patrick Guiney	1862	12 Oct 1913	51
4 Nov 1913		John Guiney	1869
14 Dec 1918		Patrick O'Keeffe		20 Sep 1973
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY NORTH-EAST
28 Nov 1885		Edmund Leamy	1848	10 Dec 1904	56
16 May 1887		William O'Brien   [at the general election in	2 Oct 1852	25 Feb 1928	75
		Jul 1892, he was also returned for Cork City,
		for which he chose to sit]
8 Feb 1893		Michael Davitt	25 Mar 1846	31 May 1906	60
28 Jun 1893		William Abraham	1840	2 Aug 1915	75
27 Jan 1910		William O'Brien   [he was also returned for	2 Oct 1852	25 Feb 1928	75
		Cork City, for which he elected to sit]
2 Mar 1910		Maurice Healy	3 Jan 1859	9 Nov 1923	64
Dec 1910		Moreton Frewen	1853	2 Sep 1924	71
16 Jul 1911		Timothy Michael Healy	17 May 1855	26 Mar 1931	75
14 Dec 1918		Thomas Cornelius Hunter		11 Mar 1932
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY SOUTH
Dec 1885		Joseph Edward Kenny	1845	9 Apr 1900	54
Jul 1892		Edward Barry	1852	7 Dec 1927	75
Dec 1910		John Walsh	1856	25 Aug 1925	69
14 Dec 1918		Michael Collins	16 Oct 1890	22 Aug 1922	31
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY SOUTH-EAST
3 Dec 1885		John Hooper	1846	20 Nov 1897	51
3 Jun 1889		John Morrogh	1849	4 Oct 1901	52
28 Jun 1893		Andrew Commins	1832	7 Jan 1916	83
9 Oct 1900		Eugene Crean	1856	12 Jan 1939	82
14 Dec 1918		Diarmid Lynch	10 Jan 1878	9 Nov 1950	72
Aug 1920		vacant
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		CORK COUNTY WEST
Dec 1885		James Gilhooly	1847	16 Oct 1916	69
15 Nov 1916		Daniel O'Leary	May 1878	23 Dec 1954	76
14 Dec 1918		John Hayes		24 Jan 1928
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		Isaac Fletcher, MP for Cockermouth 1868-1879
		Fletcher committed suicide on 3 April 1879 by shooting himself. The following report of the
		subsequent inquest into his death appeared in the 'Glasgow Herald' on 7 April 1879:-
		'Mr. St. Clair Bedford, Coroner for Westminster, held an inquest on Saturday afternoon at the
		Vestry Hall, St. Martin's Lane, on the body of the late Mr. Isaac Fletcher, M.P. For
		Cockermouth, who committed suicide at Morley's Hotel on Thursday evening last. Mr. Frederick
		James, one of the proprietors of the hotel, said - On Thursday last he was summoned to Mr.
		Fletcher's room at the hotel, and found it filled with smoke and smelling strongly of powder. He
		at once sent for a doctor, and before he arrived he examined the deceased's pulse, and found
		no movement. The deceased held a pistol in his right hand. Hannah Bolton, housemaid, said
		she saw the deceased go into his room, and shortly afterwards heard the report of firearms.
		She called the porter, and they both went into the room, when thet saw the deceased lying
		on the bed with a revolver clutched in both hands. They then called up Mr. James.
		Mr. William Fletcher, of Brigham Hall, Cumberland, said the deceased was his brother. He was
		fifty-two years of age. He had not been in good health for a year or so, but was rather worse
		during the past two months. The witness believed he suffered from derangement of the liver
		and also from an affection of the heart. Latterly he appeared rather strange and absent-
		minded, and seemed as if he were in a dream and unconscious apparently of what was passing
		around him. If spoken to while in that state he would look startled. These symptons were
		occasional. In his younger days he suffered from fits of epilepsy, and his appearance lately
		very much resembled that which he used to present before being attacked with a fit. The
		witness knew nothing in his recent circumstances to cause him to take his life. He was
		perfectly happy in his domestic life, and there was not the slightest foundation for a report
		which had appeared in a newspaper that he suffered from financial embarrassments. The
		witness hoped the coroner would visit with his official censure a statement so calumnious. The
		witness added that in his younger days the deceased was sometimes subject to delusions. He
		saw him on Wednesday, when he seemed in good health and spirits. The witness asked if he
		were returning home, but he said, "No; I must stay over the Budget, tomorrow." He
		accompanied witness to Euston station, and talked all the way on political matters.
		'After a short consultation the jury found a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary
		insanity."
		At the subsequent by-election in Cockermouth, William Fletcher, the brother of the late
		member, was returned.
		Albert Victor Grayson, MP for Colne Valley 1907-1910
		Born in Liverpool of working class parents, Victor Grayson entered the House of Commons at
		a by-election in July 1907. Grayson was an uncompromising, firebrand Socialist who had
		little regard for the then-embryonic Labour Party. However, when it came to oratory, he was
		infinitely more polished that his trade union colleagues. Unfortunately, he had a weakness for
		drink, and was involved in a number of scenes in the House of Commons.
		Failing to retain his seat at the January 1910 General Election, he devoted himself to
		journalism and lecture tours, but his health broke down and he suffered poverty and
		deprivation for some years. In 1912, he married an actress, Ruth Nightingale, and
		accompanied her to New Zealand, together with his baby daughter, in 1915. The next year
		he enlisted in the New Zealand Army and served on the Western Front, where he was
		wounded and invalided out of the army. In 1918, his wife died in childbirth.
		The above is only a brief sketch of Grayson's career up to 1920. This note is more concerned
		with Grayson's disappearance in September of that year. Unfortunately, the story of
		Grayson's disappearance has been embellished with 'facts' regarding the circumstances of
		his vanishing, in much the same way that the mystery of the Mary Celeste was later overlaid
		with supposed facts, until the public believed the embellishments.
		The generally accepted date for Grayson's disappearance is late September 1920. The story
		goes that Grayson was drinking with friends in the Georgian restaurant when he informed
		them that he had to step outside and would be back in a few minutes. Differing versions of
		story place his disappearance from a hotel in The Strand, where he supposed to have left
		a half-finished glass of whiskey on a bar counter, in true Mary Celeste fashion; another
		version has him vanishing from a train between Liverpool and Hull. A further version has
		him being collected from his lodgings in Bury Street, London, by two men with whom he left
		with his suitcases, telling his landlady that he would 'be in touch.'  Whatever the circum-
		stances, Grayson was never officially seen again.
		In 1921, he was shown as having died in the previous year in an entry in his old school's
		yearbook, but the editor of the yearbook was unable to recall how he had learned of this.
		Because he had largely disappeared from the public view, no one thought to look for him,
		and it was not until 1927 that questions began to be raised by an article in the Yorkshire
		Post which brought to light some scraps of information.
		Reported sightings of Grayson continued to surface until as recently as the 1970s. In 1939,
		for example, his socialist colleague, Sidney Campion, reported that he had recognised
		Grayson on the underground. He stated that the man's female companion addressed his as
		'Vic' and that when the train pulled up at Westminster station, the man commented 'Here's
		the old firm', which Campion assumed to mean the Houses of Parliament. The obvious
		inference is that the man, whoever he was, had once been a member of the Houses of
		Parliament.
		Also in 1939, as was later revealed by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence, someone
		collected Grayson's British War Medal and Victory Medal from the New Zealand High
		Commission in London. The collection of such medals is controlled by very strict regulations
		requiring rigid proof of identity. It has therefore been argued that only Grayson himself could
		have collected the medals and that he was therefore still alive in 1939.
		In August 1924, three members of the Independent Labour Party reported that they had
		recognised Grayson at a political rally; in 1925, an old acquaintance reported that he had
		spotted Grayson from the top of a double-decker bus, but by the time he was able to
		alight, Grayson had again vanished.
		And so on and so on. According to various reports Grayson had returned to Australia, was
		running a furniture shop in London, had emigrated to Canada, was living under a false name
		at Herne Bay in Kent etc etc.
		The mystery of Grayson's disappearance was re-ignited in 1970 by the publication of a
		book by Donald McCormick entitled 'Murder by Perfection.'  This book was essentially a study
		of the honours tout Maundy Gregory, who was engaged for many years in selling honours on
		behalf of David Lloyd George. McCormick accuses Maundy of being involved in two murders;
		that of his mistress, Edith Rosse, and also of Grayson. McCormick theorizes that Grayson,
		being aware of Gregory's trade in honours, was about to spill the beans and that, as a result,
		Gregory arranged for his permanent removal. McCormick's star witness is the painter and
		naturalist George Flemwell, who stated that on 28 September 1920, he was painting some
		river scenes on the Thames opposite a bungalow at Thames Ditton when he saw two men
		land from a boat onto the jetty belonging to the bungalow. One of the men he recognised as
		Grayson. The bungalow was owned by Maundy Gregory, where he lived with his mistress
		Edith Rosse. When Flemwell visited the bungalow some hours later, Edith Rosse denied all
		knowledge of Grayson and told Flemwell that he must be mistaken.
		For further reading on Grayson, I recommend 'Victor Grayson; Labour's Lost Leader' by David
		Clark (Quartet Books, London, 1985).
		For further reading on Maundy Gregory, the following books are recommended:-
		'Honours for Sale; the Strange Story of Maundy Gregory' by Gerald Macmillan (The Richards
		Press, London, 1954)
		'A Playful Panther; the Story of J. Maundy Gregory, Con-Man' by Tom Cullen (Houghton
		Mifflin, Boston, 1975)
		'Murder by Perfection' by Donald McCormick (John Long, London, 1970).
		Charles Leach, MP for Colne Valley 1910-1916
		Charles Leach was the only MP to be removed from his seat under the provisions of
		the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886. The following report on his removal appeared in
		'The Manchester Guardian' on 18 August 1916:-
		'In the House of Commons today the Speaker said he regretted to announce that he had
		issued his warrant for the election of a member for the Colne Valley division under the
		provisions of the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act.
		'The announcement means, unhappily, that Dr. Leach's mind has, for the time being, given
		way, and it will be received with sorrow and sympathy by all who are acquainted with his
		public work, and by none more than by his old friends in Manchester who remember him as
		the pastor of Cavendish Chapel.
		'Dr. Leach was born in a Yorkshire village near Halifax in 1847. He was engaged in business for
		some time, but his thoughts gradually turned to the ministry as his life-work, and he entered
		Ranmoor Theological College at Sheffield. In 1875 he undertook the pastorate of a church at
		Birmingham, where his ministry was entirely successful. Eleven years later, at the call of the
		London Congregational Union, he accepted the charge of the newly formed church at Queen's
		Park, in the West End, and while there he founded the Queen's Park College and Institute,
		which was later taken over by the London County Council. From London he came to
		Manchester to take charge of Cavendish Chapel, and here again he met with considerable
		success. After leaving Manchester he remained a kind of ministerial "free-lance," and turning
		to poltics, he was elected in 1910, as the Liberal member for Colne Valley. He wrote a large
		number of stories and travelled about a good deal, visiting America and paying as many as
		ten visits to Palestine and Egypt.
		'Dr. Leach was a preacher of a decidedly unconventional type, and some of his methods were
		criticized as rather flamboyant. They were, however, entirely honest methods in the sense that
		they frankly exposed the man's own idea of his work and gifts, and in every sphere of labour he
		achieved a considerable measure of success. He was brimful of vivacity and initiative, and he
		brought to his pastoral work a good deal of the quality of the American hustler. Behind a rather
		boisterous manner there were, however, solid qualities of mind and character, and these were
		fully recognised by the various churches he served.
		'Dr. Leach may almost be said to have anticipated the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon movement
		[founded in 1875 by John Blackham]. During his first pastorate, at Birmingham, he started
		Sunday afternoon lectures for working people, and his breezy manner, his journalistic sense of
		the topic of the moment, and his knowledge of and genuine sympathy with the problems of
		working-class life attracted large numbers to his discourses. He introduced the same class of
		services in Manchester, and some of his titles came in for sharp criticism on the ground of
		lack of dignity.
		'With Dr. Leach's retirement from the active work of his ministry his real life-work may be said
		to have closed. He was an effective platform speaker, but his style was hardly suited to the
		House of Commons, and he was probably quite content with the modest impression that he
		made in politics.'
		Terence Joseph McSwiney, MP for Cork County Mid 1918-1920
		In 1981, Bobby Sands, MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, died following a hunger strike.
		Although his action in starving himself to death made his name famous throughout the world,
		he was not the first member of the House of Commons to resort to this method of protest.
		In 1920, the member for Cork County Mid, Terence McSwiney had set the example, and, by
		so doing, helped to hasten the treaty which established the Irish Free State in 1921.
		McSwiney was born in Cork in 1879 [some sources say 1883] and grew up a studious and
		dreamy young man who settled naturally into the accountancy profession after taking his
		degree. He wrote poems, plays and essays, and before long had established a reputation
		as an expert in Irish language and literature. At this time, few would have recognised
		McSwiney as the dedicated firebrand revolutionary that he would become.
		McSwiney's love of the ancient and deep-rooted culture of Ireland led him inexorably into the
		nationalist struggle in the years immediately prior to WWI. He became the editor of a Cork
		newspaper, joined the underground Irish Volunteers and soon rose to the rank of second
		in command of the local brigade. By 1914, he was well known to the chiefs of the movement
		and, in 1916, he was second in command for the areas of Cork and Kerry in the Easter Rising,
		but the Volunteers were stood down and dispersed. After the Rising, McSwiney was interned
		in English gaols until December 1916.
		It was not until the end of the War that the nationalists were powerful and organised enough
		to launch a mass campaign for Irish independence. In the meantime, McSwiney had been
		elected to represent Cork County Mid at the December 1918 general election for the Sinn
		Féin party.
		On the night of 19/20 March 1920, the veteran Lord Mayor of Cork, Thomas MacCurtain, was
		asleep in his bed when a band of men with blackened faces burst into the house. As he rose
		to speak with them, he was riddled with pistol bullets. A coroner's jury later brought in a
		verdict of wilful murder against the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, and certain
		unidentifiable members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Naturally, the British authorities
		refused to accept this verdict and for months afterward Cork was racked by rioting, arson
		and political murders. The Irish patriots openly proclaimed their defiance of Britain by
		electing McSwiney Lord Mayor of Cork to replace MacCurtain, but the British authorities
		were having none of this.
		On 12 August 1920, McSwiney was presiding over what was ostensibly an ordinary council
		meeting in the City Hall of Cork. In fact it was a gathering of officers from the Cork Volunteer
		Brigade, of which the British authorities were well aware through one of their paid informers.
		At noon, the Hall was invaded by soldiers and McSwiney and 11 of his comrades arrested.
		Two days later McSwiney appeared before a court martial charged with sedition and "being
		in possession of documents likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty the King." McSwiney
		refused to enter a plea on the ground that he "was being tried by an illegal court, being one
		not assembled by authority of the Republic of Ireland." He was sentenced to two years'
		penal servitude, and, as a precaution against a mass rescue attempt in Cork, the court
		ordered that the sentence be served in England. Accordingly, he was smuggled aboard a
		warship in Cork harbour, and transported to London, where he was lodged in Brixton Prison
		on 17 August.
		Immediately after he had been arrested, McSwiney and his comrades had commenced a
		hunger strike. Two of his fellow prisoners in Cork gaol starved themselves to death before
		the others abandoned their strike at the request of their fellow nationalists. McSwiney,
		however, was not to be dissuaded. News of his hunger strike leaked out within a few days
		and immediately caused a fierce controversy throughout Britain. The Times warned that, if
		McSwiney was allowed to die, "the outlook in Ireland would become desperate" and the
		country could be plunged into full-scale civil war. On the other hand, the British government
		argued that setting McSwiney free would mean utter paralysis of the law and a surrender
		to Irish anarchy.
		Although the authorities did their best to maintain a shroud of secrecy, reports about
		McSwiney's condition continued to reach the outside world. It was reported that doctors
		had refused to agree to force-feeding him because he was already too badly weakened
		by long-standing tuberculosis and his resistance might kill him. Late in September, he was
		moved into the prison hospital where nurses watched him night and day, with food always
		at the ready in case his resolution faltered.
		Meanwhile, in Ireland, huge processions in support of McSwiney surged through the streets
		of Irish cities, calling for vengeance against the British 'assassins.' Extra troops were rushed
		to Cork, which was in the grip of a relentless war between the nationalists and the Royal
		Irish Constabulary, otherwise known as the 'Black and Tans.' In England and America
		thousands signed petitions for his release.
		On 25 October 1920, after 74 days of his hunger strike, McSwiney died in his bed in the
		prison hospital. His body was taken to the Catholic cathedral in Southwark, where it was
		guarded by soldiers wearing the illegal green uniform of the Irish Volunteers. More than
		100,000 Londoners watched in silence as the coffin, draped in an Irish republican flag,
		was carried to Euston railway station. From there it was transported by rail and ship to
		Cork, where McSwiney was buried on 1 November 1920, the funeral attracting huge
		crowds.
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