THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "D"
		Last updated 07/11/2011
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.
		DAGENHAM
26 Jul 1945		Herbert John Harvey Parker	15 Jul 1906	24 Nov 1987	81
9 Jun 1983		Bryan Charles Gould	11 Feb 1939
9 Jun 1994		Judith Ann Church	19 Sep 1953
7 Jun 2001		Jonathan Cruddas	7 Apr 1962
		NAME ALTERED TO "DAGENHAM AND
		RAINHAM" 2010
		DAGENHAM AND RAINHAM
6 May 2010		Jonathan Cruddas	7 Apr 1962
		DARLINGTON
18 Nov 1868		Edmund Backhouse	1824	7 Jun 1906	81
3 Apr 1880		Theodore Fry,later [1894] 1st baronet	1 May 1836	5 Feb 1912	75
13 Jul 1895		Arthur Pease	12 Sep 1837	27 Aug 1898	60
17 Sep 1898		Herbert Pike Pease,later [1923] 1st Baron
		Daryngton	7 May 1867	10 May 1949	82
15 Jan 1910		Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln	4 Apr 1879	6 Oct 1943	64
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
Dec 1910		Herbert Pike Pease,later [1923] 1st Baron
		Daryngton	7 May 1867	10 May 1949	82
28 Feb 1923		William Edwin Pease	3 Jun 1865	23 Jan 1926	60
17 Feb 1926		Arthur Lewis Shepherd	7 Feb 1884	14 Apr 1951	67
27 Oct 1931		Charles Urie Peat	28 Feb 1892	27 Oct 1979	87
26 Jul 1945		David Rennie Hardman	18 Oct 1901	6 Dec 1989	88
25 Oct 1951		Sir Frederick Fergus Graham,5th baronet	10 Mar 1893	1 Aug 1978	85
8 Oct 1959		Anthony Temple Bourne-Arton	1 Mar 1913	28 May 1996	83
15 Oct 1964		Edward Joseph Fletcher	25 Feb 1911	13 Feb 1983	71
24 Mar 1983		Oswald O'Brien	6 Apr 1928	10 Mar 1997	68
9 Jun 1983		Michael Cathal Fallon	14 May 1952
9 Apr 1992		Alan Milburn	27 Jan 1958
6 May 2010		Jennifer Chapman	25 Sep 1973
		DARTFORD (KENT)
4 Dec 1885		Sir William Hart Dyke,7th baronet	7 Aug 1837	3 Jul 1931	94
19 Jan 1906		James Rowlands	1 Oct 1851	1 Mar 1920	68
26 Jan 1910		William Foot Mitchell  [kt 1929]	26 Jun 1859	31 Jul 1947	88
Dec 1910		James Rowlands	1 Oct 1851	1 Mar 1920	68
27 Mar 1920		John Edmund Mills	2 Sep 1882	11 Nov 1951	69
15 Nov 1922		George William Symonds Jarrett	1880	6 Dec 1960	80
6 Dec 1923		John Edmund Mills	2 Sep 1882	11 Nov 1951	69
29 Oct 1924		Angus McDonnell	7 Jun 1881	22 Apr 1966	84
30 May 1929		John Edmund Mills	2 Sep 1882	11 Nov 1951	69
27 Oct 1931		Frank Edward Clarke	21 Nov 1886	12 Jul 1938	51
7 Nov 1938		Janet Laurel Adamson	9 May 1882	25 Apr 1962	79
26 Jul 1945		Norman Noel Dodds	25 Dec 1903	22 Aug 1965	61
26 May 1955		Sydney Irving,later [1979] Baron Irving
		of Dartford [L]	1 Jul 1918	18 Dec 1989	71
18 Jun 1970		Peter John Edward Trew	30 Apr 1932
28 Feb 1974		Sydney Irving,later [1979] Baron Irving
		of Dartford [L]	1 Jul 1918	18 Dec 1989	71
3 May 1979		Robert John Dunn	14 Jul 1946	24 Apr 2003	56
1 May 1997		Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate	14 Apr 1954
6 May 2010		Gareth Alan Johnson	12 Oct 1969
		DARTMOUTH (DEVONSHIRE)
31 Mar 1660		Sir John Frederick	25 Oct 1601	19 Mar 1685	83
		John Hale	19 Mar 1614	Sep 1691	77
11 Apr 1661		William Harbord  (to Feb 1679)	25 Apr 1635	31 Jul 1692	57
		Thomas Southcote	c 1622	c Apr 1664
27 Apr 1664		Thomas Kendall	13 Aug 1609	Dec 1666	57
22 Jan 1667		Sir Walter Yonge,2nd baronet	c 1626	21 Nov 1670
22 Dec 1670		William Gould	31 Mar 1640	24 Oct 1671	31
1 Feb 1673		Josiah Child,later [1678] 1st baronet	c 1630	22 Jun 1699
		This election was declared void 6 Feb 1673.
		At the subsequent by-election held on
		15 Feb 1673,Child was again elected
20 Feb 1679		Sir Nathaniel Herne	c 1629	10 Aug 1679
		John Upton  (to 1685)	15 Aug 1639	7 Sep 1687	48
22 Aug 1679		Edward Yarde	22 Apr 1638	11 Aug 1703	65
9 Apr 1685		Roger Pomeroy	20 Sep 1629	23 Jul 1708	78
		Arthur Farwell	c 1642	3 May 1687
14 Jan 1689		Charles Boone	18 Apr 1652	12 Aug 1689	37
		William Hayne  (to 1698)	c 1665	Jul 1698
19 Sep 1689		George Booth  [unseated on petition in favour	c 1655	11 Jun 1726
		of Sir Joseph Herne 28 Nov 1689]
28 Nov 1689		Joseph Herne  [kt 1690]  (to 1699)	17 Apr 1639	26 Feb 1699	59
27 Jul 1698		Frederick Herne  (to 1714)	3 Mar 1667	15 Mar 1714	47
16 Dec 1699		Rowland Holt
		Nathaniel Herne	5 Mar 1668	2 Jun 1722	54
		Double return. Election declared void
		12 Feb 1700
11 Jan 1701		Nathaniel Herne	5 Mar 1668	2 Jun 1722	54
2 Sep 1713		Sir William Drake,4th baronet  (to 1715)	12 Jul 1658	28 Feb 1716	57
		[at the general election of 1713,he was also
		returned for Honiton,and appears to have
		been allowed to sit for both seats]
20 Mar 1714		John Fownes  (to 1722)	c 1661	4 Oct 1731
4 Feb 1715		Joseph Herne	after 1682	19 Dec 1723
24 Mar 1722		George Treby	29 Oct 1685	8 Mar 1742	56
		Thomas Martyn	c 1689	17 May 1750
21 Aug 1727		Walter Carey  (to 1757)	17 Oct 1685	27 Apr 1757	71
		George Treby	c 1685	after 1727
27 Mar 1742		Lord Archibald Hamilton	17 Feb 1673	5 Apr 1754	81
2 Jul 1747		John Jeffreys  (to 1766)	1706	30 Jan 1766	59
23 May 1757		Richard Howe,later [1758] 4th Viscount Howe
		[I] and [1788] 1st Earl Howe  (to 1782)	19 Mar 1726	5 Aug 1799	73
7 Feb 1766		Richard Hopkins	c 1728	19 Mar 1799
12 Sep 1780		Arthur Holdsworth  (to 1787)	c 1757	21 Aug 1787
16 Apr 1782		Charles Brett	c 1715	10 Feb 1799
5 Apr 1784		Richard Hopkins  (to 1790)	c 1728	19 Mar 1799
5 Oct 1787		Edmund Bastard  (to 1812)	7 Feb 1758	Jun 1816	58
19 Jun 1790		John Charles Villiers,later [1824] 3rd Earl
		of Clarendon	14 Nov 1757	22 Dec 1838	81
7 Jul 1802		Arthur Howe Holdsworth  (to 1820)	26 Nov 1780	13 May 1860	79
9 Oct 1812		Edmund Pollexfen Bastard	12 Jul 1784	8 Jun 1838	53
9 May 1816		John Bastard  (to 1832)	c 1787	11 Jan 1835
4 Jan 1820		Charles Milner Ricketts	21 Apr 1776	7 Sep 1867	91
8 Apr 1822		James Hamilton Stanhope	7 Sep 1788	5 Mar 1825	36
24 Mar 1825		John Hutton Cooper,later [1828] 1st baronet	7 Dec 1765	24 Dec 1828	63
26 Jan 1829		Arthur Howe Holdsworth	26 Nov 1780	14 May 1860	79
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1832
11 Dec 1832		John Henry Seale,later [1838] 1st baronet	25 Dec 1780	29 Nov 1844	63
27 Dec 1844		Joseph Somes		27 Jun 1845
3 Jul 1845		George Moffatt	1807	20 Feb 1878	70
13 Jul 1852		Sir Thomas Herbert	1793	4 Aug 1861	68
28 Mar 1857		James Caird  [kt 1882]	1816	9 Feb 1892	75
30 Apr 1859		Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley	1799	31 Jan 1878	78
		[his election was declared void 27 Jul 1859]
8 Aug 1859		John Dunn	1820	10 Sep 1860	40
3 Nov 1860		John Hardy,later [1876] 1st baronet	23 Feb 1809	9 Jul 1888	79
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1868
		DARWEN (LANCASHIRE)
3 Dec 1885		James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil,styled
		Viscount Cranborne,later [1903] 4th Marquess
		of Salisbury	23 Oct 1861	4 Apr 1947	85
Jul 1892		Charles Philip Huntington,later [1906] 1st
		baronet	1833	23 Dec 1906	73
23 Jul 1895		John Rutherford,later [1916] 1st
		baronet	16 Sep 1854	26 Feb 1932	77
25 Jan 1910		Frederick George Hindle	15 Jan 1848	1 Mar 1925	77
Dec 1910		Sir John Rutherford,1st baronet	16 Sep 1854	26 Feb 1932	77
15 Nov 1922		Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson,1st baronet	4 Oct 1880	18 Jul 1965	84
6 Dec 1923		Frederick Hindle  [kt 1943]	28 Jul 1877	23 Apr 1953	75
29 Oct 1924		Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson,1st baronet	4 Oct 1880	18 Jul 1965	84
30 May 1929		Herbert Louis Samuel,later [1937] 1st
		Viscount Samuel	6 Nov 1870	5 Feb 1963	92
14 Nov 1935		Stuart Hugh Minto Russell	18 Jan 1909	30 Oct 1943	34
12 Dec 1943		William Robert Stanley Prescott	25 Apr 1912	6 Jun 1962	50
25 Oct 1951		Charles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke  [kt 1981]	5 May 1914	24 Feb 2001	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		DAVENTRY (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Edward Algernon Fitzroy	24 Jul 1869	3 Mar 1943	73
20 Apr 1943		Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller [kt 1951],
		later [1956] 4th baronet and [1964] 1st
		Viscount Dilhorne	1 Aug 1905	7 Sep 1980	75
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950,
		BUT REVIVED 1974
28 Feb 1974		Albert Arthur Jones	23 Oct 1915	6 Dec 1991	76
3 May 1979		Reginald Ernest Prentice [kt 1987],later [1992]
		Baron Prentice [L]	16 Jul 1923	18 Jan 2001	77
11 Jun 1987		Timothy Eric Boswell,later [2010] Baron
		Boswell of Aynho [L]	2 Dec 1942
6 May 2010		Christopher Heaton-Harris	28 Nov 1967
		DAVYHULME (MANCHESTER)
9 Jun 1983		Winston Spencer Churchill	10 Oct 1940	2 Mar 2010	69
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		DEARNE VALLEY (YORKSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		Wilfred Paling	7 Apr 1883	17 Apr 1971	88
8 Oct 1959		Edwin Wainwright	12 Aug 1908	22 Jan 1998	89
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		DELYN (CLWYD)
9 Jun 1983		Keith William Twort Raffan	21 Jun 1949
9 Apr 1992		David George Hanson	5 Jul 1957
		DENBIGH (DENBIGHSHIRE)
6 Apr 1660		John Carter [kt Jun 1660]	c 1619	28 Nov 1676
10 Apr 1661		Sir John Salusbury,4th baronet	c 1640	23 May 1684
10 Apr 1685		Sir John Trevor	c 1637	20 May 1717
16 Jan 1689		Edward Brereton	c 1642	10 Jan 1725
18 May 1705		William Robinson	c 1668	15 Nov 1717
14 May 1708		Sir William Williams,2nd baronet	c 1665	20 Oct 1740
20 Oct 1710		John Roberts	after 1672	4 Sep 1731
11 Sep 1713		John Wynne	6 Feb 1689	29 May 1718	29
9 Feb 1715		John Roberts	after 1672	4 Sep 1731
31 Mar 1722		Robert Myddelton	14 Jun 1678	5 Apr 1733	54
27 Apr 1733		John Myddelton	21 Oct 1685	9 Apr 1747	61
18 May 1741		John Wynn,later [1749] 2nd baronet	Sep 1701	14 Feb 1773	71
3 Jul 1747		Richard Myddelton	26 Mar 1726	2 Apr 1795	69
20 May 1788		Richard Myddelton	c 1764	20 Dec 1796
12 Jan 1797		Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones,later [1808] 1st
		baronet	1 Sep 1765	26 Nov 1811	46
12 Jul 1802		Frederick West	1767	22 Mar 1852	84
3 Nov 1806		Robert Myddelton-Biddulph	Mar 1761	30 Aug 1814	53
15 Oct 1812		John Hamilton Fitzmaurice,styled Viscount
		Kirkwall	9 Oct 1778	23 Nov 1820	42
20 Jun 1818		John Wynne Griffith	1 Apr 1763	20 Jun 1834	71
24 Jun 1826		Frederick Richard West	6 Feb 1799	1 May 1862	63
		Joseph Ablett
		Double return. West declared elected
		29 Mar 1827
31 Jul 1830		Robert Myddleton-Biddulph	20 Jun 1805	21 Mar 1872	66
10 Dec 1832		John Madocks	c 1787	20 Nov 1837
8 Jan 1835		Wilson Jones	3 Jul 1795	1864	68
3 Jul 1841		Townshend Mainwaring	16 Mar 1807	25 Dec 1883	76
29 Jul 1847		Frederick Richard West	6 Feb 1799	1 May 1862	63
31 Mar 1857		Townshend Mainwaring	16 Mar 1807	25 Dec 1883	76
19 Nov 1868		Charles James Watkin Williams	1828	17 Jul 1884	56
8 Apr 1880		Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe,5th baronet	17 Jan 1839	18 Jun 1905	66
28 Nov 1885		George Thomas Kenyon	28 Dec 1840	26 Jan 1908	67
19 Jul 1895		William Tudor Howell	1862	c Oct 1911	49
5 Oct 1900		George Thomas Kenyon	28 Dec 1840	26 Jan 1908	67
19 Jan 1906		Allen Clement Edwards	Jun 1869	23 Jun 1938	69
19 Jan 1910		William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore,later
		[1938] 4th Baron Harlech	11 Apr 1885	14 Feb 1964	78
14 Dec 1918		Sir David Sanders Davies	11 May 1852	28 Feb 1934	81
15 Nov 1922		John Cledwyn Davies	1869	31 Dec 1952	83
6 Dec 1923		Ellis William Davies	12 Apr 1871	28 Apr 1939	68
30 May 1929		John Henry Morris-Jones  [kt 1937]	2 Nov 1884	9 Jul 1972	87
23 Feb 1950		Emlyn Hugh Garner Evans	3 Sep 1911	11 Oct 1963	53
8 Oct 1959		William Geraint Oliver Morgan	2 Nov 1920	2 Jul 1995	74
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		DENBIGHSHIRE
c Apr 1660		Sir Thomas Myddelton	c Jul 1586	11 Dec 1666	80
10 Apr 1661		Sir Thomas Myddelton,1st baronet	2 Nov 1624	13 Jul 1663	38
4 May 1664		John Wynne	c 1630	25 Feb 1689
19 Feb 1679		Sir Thomas Myddelton,2nd baronet	c 1651	5 Feb 1684
14 Feb 1681		Sir John Trevor	c 1637	20 May 1717
8 Apr 1685		Sir Richard Myddelton,3rd baronet	23 Mar 1655	29 Apr 1716	61
30 Jun 1716		Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn,3rd baronet	c 1693	20 Sep 1749
26 May 1741		John Myddelton  [he was unseated on petition	21 Oct 1685	9 Apr 1747	61
		in favour of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn
		23 Feb 1742]
23 Feb 1742		Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn,3rd baronet	c 1693	20 Sep 1749
5 Dec 1749		Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton,4th baronet	c 1705	14 Aug 1775
19 Oct 1774		Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn,4th baronet	8 May 1748	29 Jul 1789	41
28 Aug 1789		Robert Watkin Wynne	c 1754	2 Mar 1806
10 Jun 1796		Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn,5th baronet	26 Oct 1772	6 Jan 1840	67
		(to 1840)
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO TWO MEMBERS 1832
17 Dec 1832		Robert Myddleton-Biddulph	20 Jun 1805	21 Mar 1872	66
19 Jan 1835		William Bagot,later [1856] 3rd Baron Bagot
		(to 1852)	27 Mar 1811	19 Jan 1887	75
30 Jan 1840		Hugh Cholmondeley,later [1855] 2nd Baron
		Delamere	3 Oct 1812	1 Aug 1887	74
7 Jul 1841		Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn,6th baronet	22 May 1820	9 May 1885	64
		(to May 1885)
22 Jul 1852		Robert Myddleton-Biddulph	20 Jun 1805	21 Mar 1872	66
24 Nov 1868		George Osborne Morgan,later [1892] 1st
		baronet  (to Nov 1885)	8 May 1826	25 Aug 1897	71
21 May 1885		Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn,
		7th baronet	6 Jun 1860	24 May 1944	83
		SPLIT INTO EAST & WEST DIVISIONS 1885
		DENBIGHSHIRE EAST
5 Dec 1885		George Osborne Morgan,later [1892] 1st baronet	8 May 1826	25 Aug 1897	71
28 Sep 1897		Samuel Moss	1858	14 May 1918	59
14 Aug 1906		Edward George Hemmerde	13 Nov 1871	24 May 1948	76
Dec 1910		Edward Thomas John	14 Mar 1857	16 Feb 1931	73
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		DENBIGHSHIRE WEST
9 Dec 1885		William Cornwallis West	20 Mar 1835	4 Jul 1917	82
Jul 1892		John Herbert Roberts,later [1908] 1st baronet
		and [1919] 1st Baron Clwyd	8 Aug 1863	19 Dec 1955	92
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		DENTON & REDDISH (MANCHESTER)
9 Jun 1983		Andrew Francis Bennett	9 Mar 1939
5 May 2005		Andrew John Gwynne	4 Jun 1974
		DEPTFORD
25 Nov 1885		William John Evelyn	27 Jul 1822	26 Jul 1908	85
29 Feb 1888		Charles John Darling,later [1924] 1st Baron
		Darling	6 Dec 1849	29 May 1936	86
15 Nov 1897		Arthur Henry Aylmer Morton	1836	15 Jun 1913	76
15 Jan 1906		Charles William Bowerman	22 Jan 1851	11 Jun 1947	96
27 Oct 1931		Denis Augustine Hanley	26 Jul 1903	10 Jun 1980	76
14 Nov 1935		Walter Henry Green	Mar 1878	13 Apr 1958	80
26 Jul 1945		John Charles Wilmot,later [1950] 1st
		Baron Wilmot of Selmeston	2 Apr 1895	22 Jul 1964	69
23 Feb 1950		John Cooper,later [1966] Baron Cooper of
		Stockton Heath [L]	7 Jun 1908	2 Sep 1988	80
25 Oct 1951		Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer	2 Jun 1901	15 Apr 1963	61
4 Jul 1963		John Ernest Silkin	18 Mar 1923	26 Apr 1987	64
		NAME CHANGED TO "LEWISHAM DEPTFORD"
		FEB 1974
		DERBY (DERBYSHIRE)
2 Apr 1660		Roger Allestry	c 1620	1 Feb 1665
		John Dalton  (to 1679)	c 1610	30 Aug 1679
16 Feb 1665		Anchitell Grey  (to 1685)	c 1624	8 Jul 1702
8 Feb 1679		George Vernon	1635	13 Jul 1702	67
10 Mar 1685		John Coke  (to 1690)	c 1653	1692
		William Allestry	c 1642	c 1700
12 Jan 1689		Anchitell Grey  (to 1695)	c 1624	8 Jul 1702
3 Mar 1690		Robert Wilmot	1641	1722	81
30 Oct 1695		Lord Henry Cavendish  (to Jan 1701)	1673	10 May 1700	26
		John Bagnold
26 Jul 1698		George Vernon	1635	13 Jul 1702	67
7 Jan 1701		Sir Charles Pye,2nd baronet	20 Dec 1651	12 Feb 1721	69
		Lord James Cavendish   (to 1702)	c 1678	14 Dec 1751
27 Nov 1701		John Harpur  (to 1705)		9 Apr 1713
18 Jul 1702		Thomas Stanhope	c 1679	10 Apr 1730
12 May 1705		Lord James Cavendish  (to Oct 1710)	c 1678	14 Dec 1751
		Sir Thomas Parker,later [1721] 1st Earl of
		Macclesfield	23 Jul 1667	28 Apr 1732	64
27 Mar 1710		Richard Pye,later [1721] 3rd baronet	2 Feb 1689	22 Nov 1724	35
9 Oct 1710		Sir Richard Levinge,1st baronet	2 May 1656	13 Jul 1724	68
		John Harpur  (to 1713)		9 Apr 1713
27 Dec 1711		Edward Mundy  (to 1715)	16 Sep 1667	18 Dec 1716	49
25 Apr 1713		Nathaniel Curzon,later [1719] 3rd baronet	c 1676	18 Nov 1758
1 Feb 1715		Lord James Cavendish  (to 1742)	c 1678	14 Dec 1751
		William Stanhope,later [1742] 1st Earl of
		Harrington	1690	8 Dec 1756	66
26 Mar 1722		Thomas Bayley	c 1679	24 Oct 1734
19 Aug 1727		William Stanhope,later [1742] 1st Earl of
		Harrington	1690	8 Dec 1756	66
3 Feb 1730		Charles Stanhope	6 Sep 1708	20 Feb 1736	27
13 Mar 1736		John Stanhope  (to 1748)	5 Jan 1705	4 Dec 1748	43
8 Mar 1742		William Ponsonby,styled Viscount Duncannon,
		later [1758] 2nd Earl of Bessborough  (to 1754)	by Nov 1704	11 Mar 1793
20 Dec 1748		Thomas Rivett	c 1713	6 Apr 1763
20 Apr 1754		Lord Frederick Cavendish  (to 1780)	Aug 1729	21 Oct 1803	74
		George Venables-Vernon,later [1762] 1st
		Baron Vernon	9 Feb 1709	21 Aug 1780	71
5 May 1762		William Fitzherbert	1712	2 Jan 1772	59
31 Jan 1772		Wenman Coke   [at the general election in	c 1717	11 Apr 1776
		Oct 1774,he was also returned for Norfolk,
		for which he chose to sit]
30 Jan 1775		John Gisborne   [he was unseated on petition	c 1717	13 Feb 1779
		in favour of Daniel Parker Coke 8 Feb 1776]
8 Feb 1776		Daniel Parker Coke	17 Jul 1745	4 Dec 1825	80
11 Sep 1780		Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish,
		later [1831] 1st Earl of Burlington	21 Mar 1754	4 May 1834	80
		Edward Coke  (to 1807)	1758	1837	79
2 Jan 1797		George Walpole	20 Jun 1758	May 1835	76
1 Nov 1806		William Cavendish  (to 1812)	10 Jan 1783	14 Jan 1812	29
26 Feb 1807		Thomas William Coke,later [1837] 1st Earl of
		Leicester of Holkham	6 May 1754	30 Jun 1842	88
5 May 1807		Edward Coke  (to 1818)	1758	1837	79
8 Feb 1812		Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish
		(to 1835)	5 Nov 1789	5 Apr 1873	83
17 Jun 1818		Thomas William Coke	30 Jan 1793	21 May 1867	74
10 Jun 1826		Samuel Crompton,later [1838] 1st baronet	8 Jul 1785	27 Dec 1848	63
31 Jul 1830		Edward Strutt,later [1856] 1st Baron Belper
		(to 1848)	26 Oct 1801	30 Jun 1880	78
8 Jan 1835		John George Brabazon Ponsonby,later [1847]
		5th Earl of Bessborough	14 Oct 1809	28 Jan 1880	70
16 Jun 1847		Edward Frederic Leveson-Gower	3 May 1819	30 May 1907	88
		[Following the general election in Jul 1847,
		the election of both sitting members (Strutt
		and Leveson-Gower) was declared void
		22 Mar 1848. No new writ was issued until
		Aug 1848]
2 Sep 1848		Michael Thomas Bass  (to 1883)	6 Jul 1799	29 Apr 1884	84
		Laurence Heyworth	1786	17 Apr 1872	85
8 Jul 1852		Thomas Berry Horsfall   [he was unseated	20 Aug 1805	22 Dec 1878	73
		on petition in favour of Laurence Heyworth
		9 Mar 1853]
9 Mar 1853		Laurence Heyworth	1786	17 Apr 1872	85
28 Mar 1857		Samuel Beale	1803	11 Sep 1874	71
12 Jul 1865		William Thomas Cox	1809	18 Mar 1877	67
18 Nov 1868		Samuel Plimsoll	10 Feb 1824	3 Jun 1898	74
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
25 May 1880		Sir William George Granville Venables
		Vernon-Harcourt  (to 1895)	14 Oct 1827	30 Sep 1904	76
11 Jun 1883		Thomas Roe,later [1917] 1st Baron Roe	13 Jul 1832	7 Jun 1923	90
13 Jul 1895		Henry Howe Bemrose  [kt 1897]	19 Nov 1827	4 May 1911	83
		Geoffrey Drage	17 Aug 1860	7 Mar 1955	94
3 Oct 1900		Thomas Roe,later [1917] 1st Baron Roe	13 Jul 1832	7 Jun 1923	90
		(to 1916)
		Richard Bell	1859	1 May 1930	70
15 Jan 1910		James Henry Thomas  (to 1936)	3 Oct 1874	21 Jan 1949	74
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
29 Dec 1916		Sir William Job Collins	9 May 1859	12 Dec 1946	87
14 Dec 1918		Albert Green	3 Nov 1874	25 Sep 1941	66
15 Nov 1922		Charles Henry Roberts	22 Aug 1865	25 Jun 1959	93
6 Dec 1923		William Robert Raynes	26 Jan 1871	30 Jan 1966	95
29 Oct 1924		Sir Richard Harman Luce	13 Jul 1867	21 Feb 1952	84
30 May 1929		William Robert Raynes	26 Jan 1871	30 Jan 1966	95
27 Oct 1931		William Allan Reid  (to 1945)	11 Oct 1865	17 Mar 1952	86
9 Jul 1936		Philip John Noel-Baker,later [1977] Baron
		Noel-Baker [L]    (to 1950)	1 Nov 1889	8 Oct 1982	92
26 Jul 1945		Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock	28 Apr 1898	14 Jan 1962	63
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH
		& SOUTH DIVISIONS 1950
		DERBY NORTH
23 Feb 1950		Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock	28 Apr 1898	14 Jan 1962	63
17 Apr 1962		Niall MacDermot	10 Sep 1916	22 Feb 1996	79
18 Jun 1970		Phillip Whitehead	30 May 1937	31 Dec 2005	68
9 Jun 1983		Gregory Knight	4 Apr 1949
1 May 1997		Robert Laxton	7 Sep 1944
6 May 2010		Christopher Williamson	16 Sep 1956
		DERBY SOUTH
23 Feb 1950		Philip John Noel-Baker,later [1977] Baron
		Noel-Baker  [L]	1 Nov 1889	8 Oct 1982	92
18 Jun 1970		Walter Hamlet Johnson	21 Nov 1917	12 Apr 2003	85
9 Jun 1983		Margaret Mary Beckett	15 Jan 1943
		DERBYSHIRE
26 Apr 1660		Henry Cavendish,styled Viscount Mansfield,
		later [1676] 2nd Duke of Newcastle	24 Jun 1630	26 Jul 1691	61
		John Ferrers	26 Jul 1629	14 Aug 1680	51
28 Mar 1661		William Cavendish,styled Baron Cavendish,
		later [1684] 4th Earl of Devonshire and
		[1694] 1st Duke of Devonshire  (to 1685)	25 Jan 1641	18 Aug 1707	66
		John Frescheville,later [1665] 1st Baron
		Frescheville	4 Dec 1607	31 Mar 1682	74
2 Nov 1665		John Milward	28 Oct 1599	14 Sep 1670	70
24 Nov 1670		William Sacheverell	c 1638	9 Oct 1691
26 Mar 1685		Sir Robert Coke,2nd baronet	29 Apr 1645	15 Jan 1688	42
		Sir Gilbert Clarke  (to 1698)	c 1645	30 May 1701
Jan 1689		Sir John Gell,2nd baronet	7 Oct 1612	8 Feb 1689	76
18 Apr 1689		Sir Philip Gell,3rd baronet	6 Jul 1651	15 Jul 1719	68
20 Feb 1690		Henry Gilbert	by 1636	1716
24 Oct 1695		William Cavendish,styled Marquess of
		Hartington later [1707] 2nd Duke of
		Devonshire  (to Dec 1701)	1672	4 Jun 1729	56
28 Jul 1698		Thomas Coke	19 Feb 1674	17 May 1727	53
9 Jan 1701		John Manners,styled Baron Roos until 1703,then
		Marquess of Granby,later [1711] 2nd Duke of
		Rutland	18 Sep 1676	22 Feb 1721	44
11 Dec 1701		Thomas Coke	19 Feb 1674	17 May 1727	53
		John Curzon,later [1719] 3rd baronet  (to 1727)	c 1674	7 Aug 1727
16 Oct 1710		Godfrey Clarke  (to 1734)	c 1678	25 Mar 1734
28 Aug 1727		Sir Nathaniel Curzon,4th baronet  (to 1754)	c 1676	18 Nov 1758
16 May 1734		Lord Charles Cavendish	after 1700	28 Apr 1783
19 May 1741		William Cavendish,styled Marquess of
		Hartington later [1755] 4th Duke of Devonshire	1720	2 Oct 1764	44
27 Jun 1751		Lord Frederick Cavendish	Aug 1729	21 Oct 1803	74
25 Apr 1754		Lord George Augustus Cavendish
		(to 1780)	c 1727	2 May 1794
		Nathaniel Curzon,later [1758] 5th baronet
		and [1761] 1st Baron Scarsdale	19 Jan 1727	5 Dec 1804	77
2 Apr 1761		Sir Henry Harpur,6th baronet	c 1739	10 Feb 1789
29 Mar 1768		Godfrey Bagnall Clarke	c 1742	26 Dec 1774
4 Feb 1775		Nathaniel Curzon,later [1804] 2nd
		Baron Scarsdale  (to 1784)	16 Sep 1751	27 Jan 1837	85
23 Sep 1780		Lord Richard Cavendish	19 Jun 1752	7 Sep 1781	29
29 Nov 1781		Lord George Augustus Cavendish
		(to 1794)	c 1727	2 May 1794
15 Apr 1784		Edward Miller Mundy  (to 1822)	18 Oct 1750	18 Oct 1822	72
22 May 1794		Lord John Cavendish	22 Oct 1732	18 Nov 1796	64
12 Jan 1797		Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish,later
		[1831] 1st Earl of Burlington  (to Sep 1831)	21 Mar 1754	4 May 1834	80
25 Nov 1822		Francis Mundy	29 Aug 1771	6 May 1837	65
7 May 1831		George John Venables-Vernon,later [1835]
		5th Baron Vernon  (to 1832)	22 Jun 1803	31 May 1866	62
22 Sep 1831		William Cavendish,styled Baron Cavendish,later
		[1834] 2nd Earl of Burlington and [1858]
		7th Duke of Devonshire	27 Apr 1808	21 Dec 1891	83
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO NORTH
		& SOUTH DIVISIONS 1832
		DERBYSHIRE DALES
6 May 2010		Patrick Allen McLoughlin	30 Nov 1957
		DERBYSHIRE EAST
23 Nov 1868		Francis Egerton  (to 1885)	15 Sep 1824	15 Dec 1895	71
		Henry Strutt,later [1880] 2nd Baron Belper	20 May 1840	26 Jul 1914	74
16 Feb 1874		Francis Arkwright	17 Mar 1846	Mar 1915	69
15 Apr 1880		Alfred Barnes	1823	28 Nov 1901	78
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHESTERFIELD","DERBYSHIRE MID",
		"DERBYSHIRE NORTH-EAST","DERBYSHIRE
		SOUTH"."DERBYSHIRE WEST","HIGH PEAK"
		AND ILKESTON"
		DERBYSHIRE MID
5 Dec 1885		James Alfred Jacoby  [kt 1906]	1852	23 Jun 1909	56
14 Jul 1909		John George Hancock	15 Oct 1857	19 Jul 1940	82
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		BUT RE-CREATED 2010
6 May 2010		Pauline Elizabeth Latham	4 Feb 1948
		DERBYSHIRE NORTH
24 Dec 1832		William Cavendish,styled Baron Cavendish,later
		[1834] 2nd Earl of Burlington and [1858]
		7th Duke of Devonshire	27 Apr 1808	21 Dec 1891	83
		Thomas Gisborne  (to 1837)	c 1790	20 Jul 1852
27 May 1834		Lord George Henry Cavendish  (to 1880)	19 Aug 1810	23 Sep 1880	70
10 Aug 1837		William Evans	17 Jan 1788	8 Apr 1856	68
22 Jul 1853		William Pole Thornhill	1806	12 Feb 1876	69
14 Jul 1865		William Jackson,later [1869] 1st baronet	28 Apr 1805	31 Jan 1876	70
30 Nov 1868		Augustus Peter Arkwright	2 Mar 1821	6 Oct 1887	66
15 Apr 1880		Lord Edward Cavendish	28 Jan 1838	18 May 1891	53
		John Frederick Cheetham	1835	25 Feb 1916	80
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHESTERFIELD","DERBYSHIRE MID",
		"DERBYSHIRE NORTH-EAST","DERBYSHIRE
		SOUTH"."DERBYSHIRE WEST","HIGH PEAK"
		AND ILKESTON"
		DERBYSHIRE NORTH-EAST
28 Nov 1885		Francis Egerton	15 Sep 1824	15 Dec 1895	71
17 Jul 1886		Thomas Dolling Bolton	1841	6 Dec 1906	65
29 Jan 1907		William Edwin Harvey	5 Sep 1852	28 Apr 1914	61
20 May 1914		George Robert Harland Bowden	1873	10 Oct 1927	54
14 Dec 1918		Joseph Stanley Holmes [kt 1945],later [1954]
		1st Baron Dovercourt	31 Oct 1878	22 Apr 1961	82
15 Nov 1922		Frank Lee	1867	21 Dec 1941	74
27 Oct 1931		Jardine Bell Whyte	5 Mar 1880	8 Jul 1954	74
14 Nov 1935		Frank Lee	1867	21 Dec 1941	74
2 Mar 1942		Henry White	5 Aug 1890	4 Feb 1964	73
8 Oct 1959		Thomas Henry Swain	29 Oct 1911	2 Mar 1979	67
3 May 1979		Raymond Joseph Ellis	17 Dec 1923	20 Apr 1994	70
11 Jun 1987		Harold Barnes	22 Jul 1936
5 May 2005		Natascha Engel	9 Apr 1967
		DERBYSHIRE SOUTH
21 Dec 1832		George John Venables-Vernon,later [1835]
		5th Baron Vernon	22 Jun 1803	31 May 1866	62
		Henry Manners Cavendish,3rd Baron
		Waterpark [I]	8 Nov 1793	31 Mar 1863	69
23 Jan 1835		Sir George Harpur Crewe,8th baronet	1 Feb 1795	1 Jan 1844	48
		(to 1841)
		Sir Roger Gresley,8th baronet	27 Dec 1799	12 Oct 1837	37
29 Jul 1837		Francis Hurt	1780	22 Mar 1854	73
16 Jul 1841		Edward Miller Mundy	10 Nov 1800	29 Jan 1849	48
		Charles Robert Colvile  (to 1859)	30 Mar 1815	10 Mar 1886	70
23 Mar 1849		William Mundy	14 Sep 1801	10 Apr 1877	75
4 Apr 1857		Thomas William Evans,later [1887] 1st
		baronet  (to 1868)	15 Apr 1821	4 Oct 1892	71
9 May 1859		William Mundy	14 Sep 1801	10 Apr 1877	75
19 Jul 1865		Charles Robert Colvile	30 Mar 1815	10 Mar 1886	70
21 Nov 1868		Rowland Smith  (to 1874)	6 Dec 1826	24 Feb 1901	74
		Sir Thomas Gresley,10th baronet	17 Jan 1832	18 Dec 1868	36
16 Jan 1869		Sir Henry Sacheverell Wilmot VC,5th baronet	3 Feb 1831	6 Apr 1901	70
		(to 1885)
		For further information on this MP and VC
		winner,see the note at the foot of this page
		containing details of his baronetcy
16 Feb 1874		Thomas William Evans,later [1887] 1st	15 Apr 1821	4 Oct 1892	71
		baronet
28 Nov 1885		Henry Wardle	1832	16 Feb 1892	59
4 Mar 1892		Harrington Evans Broad	1844	8 Dec 1927	83
17 Jul 1895		John Gretton,later [1944] 1st Baron Gretton	1 Sep 1867	2 Jun 1947	79
		For further information on this MP,
		see the note at the foot of this page
20 Jan 1906		Herbert Henry Raphael,later [1911] 1st baronet	23 Dec 1859	24 Sep 1924	64
14 Dec 1918		Henry Holman Gregory  [kt 1935]	30 Jun 1864	9 May 1947	82
15 Nov 1922		Henry Dubs Lorimer	1879	8 Feb 1933	53
29 Oct 1924		James Augustus Grant,later [1926] 1st baronet	8 Mar 1867	29 Jul 1932	65
30 May 1929		David Graham Pole	11 Dec 1877	26 Nov 1952	74
27 Oct 1931		Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans	1 Apr 1894	26 Oct 1967	73
26 Jul 1945		Arthur Joseph Champion,later [1962] Baron
		Champion [L]	26 Jul 1897	2 Mar 1985	87
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950,
		BUT REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Edwina Currie	13 Oct 1946
1 May 1997		Mark Wainwright Todd	29 Dec 1954
6 May 2010		Heather Kay Wheeler	14 May 1959
		DERBYSHIRE SOUTHEAST
23 Feb 1950		Arthur Joseph Champion,later [1962]
		Baron Champion [L]	26 Jul 1897	2 Mar 1985	87
8 Oct 1959		Frank Lawson John Jackson	12 Jun 1919	29 Mar 1976	56
15 Oct 1964		Joseph Trevor Park	12 Dec 1927	6 Apr 1995	67
18 Jun 1970		Peter Lewis Rost	19 Sep 1930
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		DERBYSHIRE WEST
9 Dec 1885		Lord Edward Cavendish	28 Jan 1838	18 May 1891	53
2 Jun 1891		Victor Christian William Cavendish,
		later [1908] 9th Duke of Devonshire	31 May 1868	6 May 1938	69
15 Apr 1908		Henry William Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice,
		styled Earl of Kerry,later [1927] 6th Marquess
		of Lansdowne	14 Jan 1872	5 Mar 1936	64
14 Dec 1918		Charles Frederick White	11 Mar 1863	4 Dec 1923	60
		[he died after the nominations for the general
		election to be held on 6 Dec 1923 had closed
		and the election in this seat was therefore
		postponed until 20 Dec 1923]
20 Dec 1923		Edward William Spencer Cavendish,styled
		Marquess of Hartington,later [1938] 10th
		Duke of Devonshire	6 May 1895	26 Nov 1950	55
2 Jun 1938		Henry Philip Hunloke	27 Dec 1906	13 Jan 1978	71
17 Feb 1944		Charles Frederick White	23 Jan 1891	27 Nov 1956	65
23 Feb 1950		Edward Birkbeck Wakefield,later [1962]
		1st baronet	24 Jul 1903	14 Jan 1969	65
6 Jun 1962		Aidan Merivale Crawley	10 Apr 1908	3 Nov 1993	85
23 Nov 1967		James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins	29 Nov 1921	11 Mar 1995	73
3 May 1979		Matthew Francis Parris	7 Aug 1949
8 May 1986		Patrick Allen McLoughlin	30 Nov 1957
		NAME ALTERED TO "DERBYSHIRE DALES" 2010
		DERITEND (BIRMINGHAM)
14 Dec 1918		John William Dennis	16 May 1865	4 Aug 1949	84
15 Nov 1922		John Smedley Crooke  [kt 1938]	1861	13 Oct 1951	90
30 May 1929		Fred Longden	23 Feb 1894	5 Oct 1952	58
27 Oct 1931		John Smedley Crooke  [kt 1938]	1861	13 Oct 1951	90
26 Jul 1945		Fred Longden	23 Feb 1894	5 Oct 1952	58
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln, MP for Darlington January-December 1910
		Even Hollywood would draw the line at filming the life of Trebitsch Lincoln, since it would be
		unlikely to be believed as being a true story.
		Lincoln was born Ignacz Trebitsch at Paks, a small town on the Danube, south of Budapest
		in Hungary. His father was a prosperous Jewish merchant who owned a fleet of barges
		which plied along the Danube. As a youth, Lincoln appears to have been a conscientious
		student of religion, but in 1897, at the age of 18, he was accused of stealing a gold watch.
		He escaped to Hamburg, where he renounced his Jewish faith and adopted Christianity,
		joining a mission as a theological student and awarding himself some additional names.
		The mission authorities shipped him off to Canada where, in 1901, he married Margarethe
		Kahlor. Finding working on a farm for the mission too great an effort, he undertook a
		theological diploma and was ordained as a minister of the Church of England by the
		Archbishop of Montreal in 1902. Shortly after he left Canada for Germany, and finally settled
		in Britain as the curate of Appledore in Kent in 1903.
		After three years in this post, life in a Kentish village failed to challenge Lincoln's intellect
		and he resigned his ministry to become private secretary to Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree,
		famous as the leading manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa products of the day. With the
		support of Rowntree and, having become a naturalised British subject, he talked himself into
		being adopted as the Liberal Party candidate for the supposedly safe Conservative seat of
		Darlington. He emerged as a passionate Free Trader and patriot and, dazzled by his
		persuasive appeals for Free Trade delivered in a thick Hungarian accent, the Darlington
		voters returned Lincoln to the House of Commons, by a mere 29 votes over his opponent,
		Herbert Pike Pease (later Baron Daryngton). His election was described by his biographer as
		'one of the oddest aberrations of British political history,'
		During his time as Rowntree's secretary, one of his duties was to assist Rowntree's
		sociological researches. As part of this role, Lincoln spent a lot of time in Europe, where he
		apparently became a German double-agent, while at the same time defrauding Rowntree. At
		length, the Austrians informed the British authorities of Lincoln's juvenile career as a petty
		thief. Under both financial and political pressure he did not stand iin the general election of
		December 1910.
		During the next four years, he promoted a string of oil companies, all of which failed. He now
		launched himself into a full career as a spy. In December 1914, he approached the War
		Office with the suggestion that the British send certain minor units to specified positions
		in the North Sea. Lincoln would then inform the Germans who would investigate, verify
		his information as correct, and bag one or two of the Royal Navy's unimportant ships. This
		was to happen three times, in order to secure German confidence in Lincoln's information.
		Finally the entire strength of the British fleet was be to turned out and Lincoln was to
		mislead the Germans into sending out the cream of their High Seas Fleet, which would be
		destroyed by the British, thus securing for them a dominant naval position.
		In his memoirs, however, Lincoln reveals that his real aim was to reverse this situation by
		assisting the Germans to destroy a large section of the British Fleet. Unfortunately for
		Lincoln, he appears to lived in a 'Boy's Own Paper' world, and the Admiralty began to make
		discreet inquiries into his background. On 27 January 1915, Lincoln was ordered to report
		to the Director of Intelligence and told to bring his passport. Realising that he was
		suspected, Lincoln fled to New York.
		There he foisted himself on his brother Harry while writing for 'The World' newspaper an
		article titled 'Revelations of I.T.T. Lincoln, former Member of Parliament who became a
		German spy.' Harry escaped his brother by enlisting in the US Army, but because of his
		relationship with Lincoln, he was secretly watched - eventually he was court-martialled
		for sodomy and sent to prison on Alcatraz. Lincoln seems to have had the knack of ruining
		every life he touched.
		Stung into action by Lincoln's newspaper article, the British government issued a warrant
		seeking his extradition. He was arrested in August 1915, pending extradition, which was
		delayed until January 1916. On the 18th of that month, while being moved from his cell to
		the Federal Court Buildings in New York, he and his guard entered a café for a meal. The
		gullible guard agreed to Lincoln's suggestion that he be allowed to wash his hands before
		eating and within minutes Lincoln had disappeared into the crowded streets of New York.
		Lincoln's inordinate vanity drove him to write to the New York press, mocking the British
		and his guards, and claiming that he was now going to Central Asia to arouse the Muslims
		into a jihad against the Allies. But before he could so, he was recaptured on 19 February
		1916, after a month of freedom and this time was successfully extradited to London, where
		he was lodged in the Bow Street gaol on 5 June 1916.
		Curiously, Lincoln was charged with forging the name of his benefactor, Seebohm Rowntree,
		to a loan document - no mention was made of his spying activities, about which he had
		already bragged to the entire world. Lincoln admitted the forgery charge, but maintained
		throughout his trial, probably with justification, that the authorities were eager to have him
		imprisoned to curtail his spying activities. The jury found him guilty without leaving the box
		and he was sentenced to three years' hard labour.
		On his release in 1918, Lincoln went to Germany where he joined forces with Wolfgang Kapp
		who became the figurehead of the Kapp Putsch in March 1920 when the 'Friekorps'
		attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic in Germany. The putsch failed after five days
		and Lincoln was forced to flee to Vienna and then Budapest. Eventually, in 1922, he left for
		China to become chief adviser to Wu-pei-fu, a retired Chinese army commander. While in
		China, Lincoln was converted to Buddhism.
		On 23 December 1925 Lincoln's son Ignatius (who went by the name of John) had broken
		into a house and, when discovered, had shot dead a man who lived in the house. For this
		he was sentenced to death. Learning of the impending execution of his son for this crime,
		Lincoln pleaded to be allowed to visit his son. It was decided that he would be allowed to
		do so, provided he could reach an English port in time before the execution. It was made
		clear that the execution would not be delayed and that if Lincoln arrived too late, he
		would not be allowed to enter England. This proved to be the case, Lincoln having reached
		only as far as Holland when his son was executed.
		Returning to China, Lincoln changed his name to Abbot Chao Kung. He established his own
		monastery in Shanghai. When the Japanese invaded China, he changed his loyalties yet
		again, producing anti-British propaganda for the Japanese. At the outbreak of WW2, he
		contacted the Germans, offering to raise Buddhist influence against the British in the East.
		Lincoln's death, in a Shanghai hospital in October 1943, was announced as being due to a
		intestinal complaint, although it has also been suggested that he was poisoned.
		For further reading, I recommend 'The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln' by Bernard
		Wasserstein (Yale University Press, 1988).
		Samuel Plimsoll, MP for Derby 1868-1880
		Plimsoll was responsible for a great improvement in maritime safety following his long fight
		against overloaded and unsafe ships. The story of his fight appeared in the Australian monthly
		magazine "Parade" in its issue for March 1965:-
		'On a winter day in 1872 a small British steamer loaded with iron rails for South America left
		the port of Cardiff and butted out into the Atlantic. She was never seen again. One more
		casualty was recorded at Lloyd's and her owners pocketed a substantial sum in insurance.
		There was nothing unusual about the fate of this steamship, the Wimbledon. In that year
		more than 2500 British sailors vanished into the hungry maw of the sea.
		'When she sailed, the Wimbledon was loaded down to within two feet of her gunwales. Her
		original crew had been gaoled for 10 weeks for refusing to sail in her. Nor was there anything
		unusual about these facts either. At the end of 1872 at least 1000 sailors were in prison for
		refusing to go to sea in rotten, undermanned, overloaded and over-insured coffin ships which
		disgraced the British merchant marine. But there was one man who had declared war on
		unscrupulous shipowners, the "murderous, bloodsucking, speculative scoundrels" who
		condemned thousands of mariners to almost certain death every year.
		'His name was Samuel Plimsoll. Only a few months before the Wimbledon went down he had
		published a book, 'Our Seamen,' that sent a thrill of horror and amazement through Britain.
		Hitherto Plimsoll had battled almost single-handed to win justice for the sailors. He was
		denounced as a crank, a crazy visionary and a traitor who would ruin the country's vast
		shipping industry. Prime Minister Disraeli called him "half rogue, half enthusiast." The Times
		contemptuously dismissed his "unrivalled capacity for becoming fervidly indignant on hearsay
		evidence."
		'But 'Our Seamen' could not be ignored. Callousness, greed and stupidity were laid bare on
		every page. With mass support behind him Plimsoll at last succeeded in forcing through
		Parliament legislation to protect seamen from the worst abuses of the coffin ships. Today
		every ocean-going ship in the world bears on its hull a painted circle with a line drawn through
		it to mark the depth to which the ship may be loaded. Officially it is called the Load Line. But
		to seamen of every nationality it is simply the Plimsoll Line. It remains as mute testimony to
		the greatest victory of the Sailors' Friend.
		'Samuel Plimsoll was born in the seaport of Bristol in 1824. He never went to sea and his
		biographers disagree about what eventually inspired him to take up the sailors' cause. He was
		a solicitor's clerk, them manager of a brewery in Yorkshire, and in 1854 set up as a coal
		merchant in London. The venture failed and for some time he was destitute. He lived in the
		cheapest lodging houses and there met many seamen eking out a miserable existence while
		they searched for berths. He shared their tobacco and bread and chesse and listened to their
		stories. He did not forget them in the years that followed while he re-established himself as a
		successful businessman.
		'By 1868 Plimsoll was a wealthy coal-merchant with a house in Parl Lane and a seat in
		Parliament as Liberal member for Derby. Gladstone had just become Prime Minister and a long-
		promised era of reforms was beginning. Two years later Plimsoll rose from his back bench to
		fire the first shot in the campaign for the seamen. He had a grim tale to tell and he told it with
		emotional fervor. Every week ships were sailing from Britih ports to certain destruction. Many
		were so old and rotten that they foundered in the first storm. They carried insufficient life-
		boats and the crews lived in conditions of foul squalor.
		'Even worse was the suicidal overloading. Ships were sent into the Atlantic in mid-winter, with
		barely two feet of freeboard. Decks were heaped with extra cargo and sacks of coal for the
		engines. Greedy shipowners could patch and repair vessels until they almost fell to pieces.
		They could work ancient engines until the boilers exploded. They could tear out bulkheads to
		make room for a grain cargo that would burst the hull like paper if it swelled. If a coffin ship
		went down, its proprietor considered himself a lucky man. Though rates were high he had
		made sure that both ship and cargo were heavily over-insured.
		'Plimsoll demanded legislation to enforce regular Board of Trade surveys of every ship and
		restrictions on loading. The more reputable shipowners agreed that something should be done,
		and in 1871 Gladstone introduced a new Merchant Shipping Bill. Plimsoll thought it a half-
		hearted measure. He was infuriated to find that the shipowners' friends in Parliament intended
		to fight it tooth and nail.
		'In 1871 Britain owned more than half of the world's ocean-going tonnage. She was far ahead
		in the great changeover from sail to steam and her revenue from shipping was enormous. A
		torrent of abuse poured down on Plimsoll's head. He was denounced as a meddlesome fanatic
		who would drive British ships from the seas, bankrupt their owners and throw thousands of
		sailors out of work. The mercantile marine would no longer be the nursery of the Royal Navy.
		Britannia would cease to rule the waves. Foreigners would insult the Union Jack with impunity
		and the Empire would be lost.
		'Plimsoll's enemies were divided in their opinions about the sailors themselves. Some believed
		they would scorn Plimsoll's grandmotherly concern for their comfort and safety. One speaker
		branded the sailors as "drunken, ignorant rascals" who caused most of the shipping disasters
		by their own stupidity while the unfortunate owners bore the blame.
		'Eventually Gladstone's Bill was shelved. Frustrated in Parliament, Plimsoll turned with fierce
		determination to shock the public into action. He collected evidence. He went round the ports
		of Britain talking to seamen and captains, inspecting ships, interviewing the survivors of
		wrecks, endlessly asking questions and filling notebooks with facts and figures. Sometimes he
		was marched down the gangplank and threatened with arrest for trespass. Occasionally he
		was hooted and jeered, but the grim dossier grew.
		'He found ships whose thin rusted plates were held together only by iron trusses within the
		hull. He found sailing ships with timbers so spongy that the crew dared not drive a nail into
		them.  He discovered one Liverpool shipowner who had lost 18 ships, some with all hands,
		in the previous 10 years. Another coffin ship proprietor shamelessly declared he had made a
		profit of £80,000 in insurances on his wrecked vessels. Conditions in the crews' quarters
		provided a further indictment. Often Plimsoll recoiled in sickened horror as he inspected the
		reeking forecastles where the men lived like beasts in flith and airless gloom.
		'He produced his book, 'Our Seamen,' in a white heat of rage. "Oh mMy God, my God! What can
		I say to make people set right these terrible wrongs?" he wrote. "Why must thousands of
		brave men be sent to death each year, their wives made widows and their children left father-
		less, so that greedy scoundrels fearing neither God nor man may reap their unholy gains?" His
		book, with its mixture of cold statistics and heart-rending personal stories, struck the British
		public's conscience. Almost overnight he became the most notorious man in the country. He
		addressed huge public meetings in London with the famous reformer, Lord Shaftesbury.
		Cheering crowds followed him through the streets of the ports. Mining, engineering and other
		trade unions levied their members to raise a fund of £5,000 for the seamen's cause.
		'But the battle was far from won. In 1873 a Royal Commission rejected Plimsoll's demand for a
		compulsory load line although it urged the Board of Trade to police more rigidly the existing
		safety and loading regulations. Plimsoll knew the regulations were farcical. Before long his
		furious protests had involved him in 12 libel actions, most of which were dropped because the
		shipowners hesitated to have their affairs dragged through the courts.
		'In 1874 Disraeli replaced Gladstone as Prime Minister and Plimsoll at once introduced a new
		Bill, backed by the signatures of 93 members, to make a clean sweep of the old Merchant
		Shipping Act. He was persuaded to withdraw it in favor of a government bill which Disraeli
		promised to introduce in the following year. Once more, however, powerful influences went to
		work behind the scenes. On July 22, 1875, Disraeli announced "with unfeigned regret" that
		pressure of business had forced him to shelve the bill. Livid with wrath, Plimsoll leapt to his
		feet, pointed a funger at some fellow members and shouted: "I will unmask those villains
		representing the murderous shipowners who send sailors to their deaths!" Amid the resulting
		uproar he stamped to the bar, shook his fist in the Speaker's face and then stalked from the
		chamber.
		'The Times called Plimsoll's behaviour "Scandalous." But the public was on his side and the
		storm of indignation soom forced the Government's hand. Within a few months legislation
		covering Plimsoll's main demands was forced through Parliament. The "Seamen's Charter" had
		been won at last and the Plimsoll Line marked the vicitory of its heroic and uncrushable
		champion.
		'To the day of his death in 1898 Samuel Plimsoll went on finding targets in his campaign to
		clean up the merchant marine. Perhaps the most remarkable tribute to his work was paid by the
		shipping company that named its finest new vessel the Samuel Plimsoll and even gave it a
		bearded and top-hatted figurehead representing the Sailor's Friend.'
		James Henry Thomas, MP for Derby 1910-1936
		Thomas was the son of a labourer in Newport, Monmouthshire. At the age of nine, he went
		to work as an errand-boy for 4 shillings a week. He was later apprenticed to the Great
		Western Railway, where he worked in the 'company town' of Swindon.
		By 1910, Thomas had reached the upper levels of the railway workers' trade union and was
		elected as MP for Derby. He refused a place in Lloyd George's WWI coalition government, on
		the basis that, as a committed socialist, he could not work with the Liberals or Tories.
		In Ramsay Macdonald's short-lived Labour government of 1924, he was Colonial Secretary.
		When Macdonald returned to power in 1929, he was made Lord Privy Seal, with special
		responsibility for employment. Between 1930 and 1935, he was Dominions Secretary. When
		the Labour government fell in 1931, to be replaced by a Nationalist government, Thomas
		followed his leader Macdonald into an all-party coalition. This action brought vilification
		from his old Labour comrades, who accused him of selling-out his principles.
		In 1935, he again became Colonial Secretary, this time in the government of Stanley
		Baldwin. He was still very popular with most of the British public, who knew him as a
		kindly and friendly man, a friend of King George V, fond of a flutter on the horses and who
		laced with speeches with homely working class humour. Even his enemies would never have
		accused him of corruption.
		On the afternoon of 21 April 1936, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain,
		brought down the Budget in the House of Commons. This Budget included  a rise of 3d in
		the rate of income tax and also increased duties on tea.
		Two days later, scandal erupted. Conservative MP Sir Assheton Pownall (Lewisham East
		1918-1945) asked in the Commons whether there had been a leakage of Budget secrets
		before the Chancellor's speech. He producing damning evidence that some individuals had
		made large profits from such information. His question was prompted by a mass of rumour
		that had been buzzing around the City, especially in the insurance market of Lloyd's of
		London. It was customary for businesses to insure against a rise in the tax rates, but the
		speculation before the 1936 Budget had been extraordinary. Soon it also transpired that
		some individuals had been successfully gambling on a rise in tea duties as well.
		On 4 May 1936 it was announced that a legal tribunal had been established to conduct a
		full public enquiry. The tribunal, consisting of Mr Justice Porter and two eminent K.C.s,
		began its sittings on 11 May. For eight days the tribunal heard evidence that rocked the
		country and blasted forever the political career of Jimmy Thomas.
		Lloyd's brokers told of the astonishing last-minute rush for insurance just before the Budget
		was announced. The Secretary to the Cabinet, Sir Maurice (later Lord) Hankey told the
		hearings that the leakage could only have come from someone in the cabinet. Attention
		was focused on two men who appeared to have been very fortunate in predicting the
		contents of the Budget. Both of these men were close friends of Jimmy Thomas.
		The first of these was Mr Alfred Bates, owner of two sporting newspapers devoted to racing
		and the football pools. Bates strongly denied receiving the slightest information from
		Thomas. He admitted that he had sold large parcels of gilt-edged securities before the
		Budget and that he had insured against a tax increase. Other evidence showed that he had
		bought Thomas a £15,000 house on the Sussex coast, but Bates said that this was an
		advance against the literary rights of Thomas' autobiography.
		The other friend was Sir Alfred Butt, Bt and MP for Balham and Tooting 1922-1936. He, too,
		denied receiving any information about the Budget. He had called on Thomas on the morning
		of the Budget day, but only to chat about prospects for the Derby. Later that day he had
		insured himself against tax increases, but only because his son, a member of a broking firm,
		had told him of the unusual activity at Lloyd's.
		Thomas himself entered the witness box on May 14 and denied that he had leaked any
		Budget information. Nevertheless, on 22 May 1936, Thomas resigned from the Cabinet. The
		tribunal's report, published on 2 June, found that there had been unauthorised disclosure of
		Budget information made by Thomas to Bates and Butt. On 10 June 1936, Thomas told a
		solemn House of Commons that, although he had never consciously betrayed a Cabinet
		secret, he intended to resign his seat. A few minutes later, Sir Alfred Butt announced the
		same intention. Thomas continued to deny the accusation until the day of his death in
		1949.
		John Gretton, MP for Derbyshire South 1895-1906, Rutland 1907-1918 and Burton
		1918-1943
		Gretton holds the distinction of being the only sitting MP to have won an Olympic Gold
		Medal, a feat he achieved at the 1900 Paris Olympics, when he won two gold medals in
		sailing, being part of the crew of the 'Scotia' which won both the half to one ton race
		and the open class race. Sebastian Coe won his gold medals before entering Parliament.
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