THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "G"
		Last updated 24/02/2010
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		GAINSBOROUGH (LINCOLNSHIRE)
8 Dec 1885		Joseph Bennett	1829	1 Jan 1908	78
10 Jul 1886		Henry Eyre	4 Feb 1834	24 Jun 1904	70
Jul 1892		Joseph Bennett	1829	1 Jan 1908	78
25 Jul 1895		Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge	5 Dec 1845	12 May 1911	65
12 Oct 1900		Seymour Fitzroy Ormsby-Gore	18 Jan 1863	19 Nov 1950	87
24 Jan 1906		Alexander Leslie Renton	6 Jul 1868	6 May 1947	78
27 Jan 1910		George Jackson Bentham	1 Aug 1863	31 Oct 1929	66
14 Dec 1918		John Elsdale Molson	6 Aug 1863	28 Nov 1925	62
6 Dec 1923		Sir Richard Winfrey	8 Aug 1858	18 Apr 1944	85
29 Oct 1924		Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank,
		later [1956] 1st Viscount Crookshank	27 May 1893	17 Oct 1961	68
14 Feb 1956		Marcus Richard Kimball,later [1985]
		Baron Kimball [L]	18 Oct 1928
		NAME ALTERED TO "GAINSBOROUGH &
		HORNCASTLE" 1983 BUT REVERTED TO
		"GAINSBOROUGH" 1997
1 May 1997		Edward Julian Egerton Leigh	20 Jul 1950
		GAINSBOROUGH & HORNCASTLE
9 Jun 1983		Edward Julian Egerton Leigh	20 Jul 1950
		NAME REVERTED TO "GAINSBOROUGH" 1997
		GALLOWAY
14 Dec 1918		Gilbert McMicking	24 Mar 1862	15 Nov 1942	80
15 Nov 1922		Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	7 Nov 1885	4 Nov 1970	84
29 Oct 1924		Sir Arthur John Henniker-Hughan	24 Jan 1866	4 Oct 1925	59
17 Nov 1925		Sidney Richard Streatfeild	27 Jun 1894	2 Dec 1966	72
30 May 1929		Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	7 Nov 1885	4 Nov 1970	84
27 Oct 1931		John Hamilton Mackie	8 Jan 1898	29 Dec 1958	60
9 Apr 1959		Henry John Beverley Brewis	8 Apr 1920	25 May 1989	69
10 Oct 1974		George Henry Thompson	11 Sep 1928
3 May 1979		Ian Bruce Lang,later [1997] Baron Lang of
		Monkton [L]	27 Jun 1940
		NAME ALTERED TO "GALLOWAY & UPPER
		NITHSDALE" 1983
		GALLOWAY & UPPER NITHSDALE
9 Jun 1983		Ian Bruce Lang,later [1997] Baron Lang of
		Monkton [L]	27 Jun 1940
1 May 1997		Alasdair Neil Morgan	21 Apr 1945
7 Jun 2001		Peter Duncan	10 Jul 1965
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
		GALWAY
1801		St.George Daly	1758	Dec 1829	71
10 Mar 1801		John Brabazon Ponsonby,later [1806] 2nd
		Baron Ponsonby and [1839] 1st Viscount
		Ponsonby	1770	21 Feb 1855	84
15 Jul 1802		Denis Bowes Daly	1745	17 Dec 1821	76
29 Jun 1805		James Daly	1 Apr 1782	7 Aug 1847	65
28 Mar 1811		Frederick Ponsonby  [he was returned at the	c 1775	1849
		general election in Nov 1812,but was unseated
		on petition in favour of Valentine John Blake on
		18 Jun 1813]
18 Jun 1813		Valentine John Blake,later [1834] 12th baronet	23 Jun 1780	Jan 1847	66
13 Apr 1820		Michael George Prendergast		1834
24 Jun 1826		James O'Hara	1796	23 Dec 1838	42
6 May 1831		John James Bodkin	c 1801	Jan 1882	80
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO TWO MEMBERS 1832
14 Dec 1832		Andrew Henry Lynch  (to 1841)		1847
		Lachlan MacLachlan   [he was unseated on		after 1847
		petition in favour of Martin Joseph Blake
		2 May 1833]
2 May 1833		Martin Joseph Blake  (to Apr 1857)		Mar 1861
5 Jul 1841		Sir Valentine John Blake,12th baronet	23 Jun 1780	Jan 1847	66
17 Feb 1847		James Henry Monahan		8 Dec 1878
2 Aug 1847		Anthony O'Flaherty  (to Jul 1857)	1800	1866	66
		[His election was declared void 13 Jul 1857.
		Writ suspended until Feb 1859]
2 Apr 1857		Ulick Canning de Burgh,styled Baron
		Dunkellin  (to 1865)	12 Jul 1827	16 Aug 1867	40
11 Feb 1859		John Orrell Lever	1824	4 Aug 1897	73
17 Jul 1865		Michael Morris,later [1889] Baron Morris
		of Spiddal [L]	14 Nov 1826	8 Sep 1901	74
		Sir Rowland Blennerhasset,4th baronet	5 Sep 1839	22 Mar 1909	69
		(to 1874)
1 Apr 1867		George Morris	Apr 1833	11 Sep 1912	79
21 Nov 1868		William Ulick Tristram St.Lawrence,styled
		Viscount St.Lawrence,later [1874] 4th
		Earl of Howth  (to Mar 1874)	25 Jun 1827	9 Mar 1909	81
9 Feb 1874		George Morris  (to 1880)	Apr 1833	11 Sep 1912	79
26 Mar 1874		Frank Hugh O'Cahan O'Donnell	9 Oct 1846	2 Nov 1916	70
		[his election was declared void 1 Jun 1874]
2 Jul 1874		Michael Francis Ward	1845	17 Jun 1881	35
19 Apr 1880		John Orrell Lever	1824	4 Aug 1897	73
		Thomas Power O'Connor  (to 1886)	5 Oct 1848	18 Nov 1929	81
		[at the general election in Nov 1885, he was
		also returned for the Scotland division of
		Liverpool for which he chose to sit]
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
11 Feb 1886		William Henry O'Shea	1840	22 Apr 1905	64
2 Jul 1886		John Pinkerton	1845	4 Nov 1908	63
1 Oct 1900		Martin Henry Fitzpatrick Morris,later [1901]
		2nd Baron Killanin	22 Jul 1867	11 Aug 1927	60
21 Nov 1901		Arthur Alfred Lynch    [he was convicted of	10 Aug 1861	26 Mar 1934	72
		high treason 23 Jan 1903 and his seat
		forfeited]
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
9 Mar 1903		Charles Ramsay Devlin	29 Oct 1858	1 Mar 1914	55
1 Nov 1906		Stephen Lucius Gwynn	13 Feb 1864	11 Jun 1950	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		GALWAY COUNTY
1801		Richard Trench,styled Viscount Dunlo from
		1803,later [1805] 2nd Earl of Clancarty	18 May 1767	24 Nov 1837	70
		Richard Martin  (to 1812)	Feb 1754	6 Jan 1834	79
8 Jun 1805		Denis Bowes Daly  (to 1818)	1745	17 Dec 1821	76
10 Nov 1812		James Daly  (to 1830)	1 Apr 1782	7 Aug 1847	65
25 Jul 1818		Richard Martin   [following the general	Feb 1754	6 Jan 1834	79
		election in Jul 1826,his name was erased
		from the return and that of James Staunton
		Lambert substituted 11 Apr 1827]
11 Apr 1827		James Staunton Lambert  (to 1832)	5 Mar 1789	1 Jul 1867	78
13 Aug 1830		Sir John Burke,2nd baronet	c 1782	14 Sep 1847
31 Dec 1832		Thomas Barnewall Martin  (to Apr 1847)	1784	Apr 1847	62
		James Daly	1 Apr 1782	7 Aug 1847	65
15 Jan 1835		John James Bodkin  (to Aug 1847)	c 1801	Jan 1882
17 Apr 1847		Sir Thomas John Burke,3rd baronet  (to 1865)	7 Jun 1813	9 Dec 1875	62
11 Aug 1847		Christopher St.George	1812	13 Nov 1877	65
26 Jul 1852		Thomas Arthur Bellew	1820	24 Jul 1863	43
13 Apr 1857		William Henry Gregory  (to 1872)	12 Jul 1817	6 Mar 1892	74
18 Jul 1865		Ulick Canning de Burgh,styled Baron
		Dunkellin	12 Jul 1827	16 Aug 1867	40
12 Sep 1867		Hubert George de Burgh-Canning,Viscount
		Burke,later [1874] 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde	30 Nov 1832	12 Apr 1916	83
21 Feb 1871		Mitchell Henry  (to 1885)	1826	22 Nov 1910	84
8 Feb 1872		John Philip Nolan   [he was unseated on	1838	30 Jan 1912	73
		petition in favour of William le Poer Trench
		13 Jun 1872]
13 Jun 1872		William le Poer Trench	17 Jun 1837	16 Sep 1920	83
19 Feb 1874		John Philip Nolan	1838	30 Jan 1912	73
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE BELOW
		GALWAY COUNTY EAST
7 Dec 1885		Matthew Harris	1826	14 Apr 1890	63
14 May 1890		John Roche	1848	27 Aug 1914	66
4 Dec 1914		James Cosgrave		18 Apr 1936
14 Dec 1918		William Joseph (Liam) Mellowes	25 May 1895	8 Dec 1922	27
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		GALWAY COUNTY NORTH
27 Nov 1885		John Philip Nolan	1838	30 Jan 1912	73
26 Jul 1895		Denis Kilbride	Sep 1848	Oct 1924	76
3 Oct 1900		John Philip Nolan	1838	30 Jan 1912	73
25 Jan 1906		Thomas Higgins		26 Jan 1906
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of this page
28 Feb 1906		Richard Hazleton	5 Dec 1880	26 Jan 1943	62
14 Dec 1918		Bryan Cusack	2 Aug 1882	24 May 1973	90
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		GALWAY COUNTY SOUTH
27 Nov 1885		David Sheehy	1844	17 Dec 1932	88
5 Oct 1900		William John Duffy	7 Apr 1865	1 Jan 1945	79
14 Dec 1918		Francis Patrick Fahy	12 Jan 1880	12 Jul 1953	73
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		GARSCADDEN (GLASGOW)
28 Feb 1974		William Watson Small	19 Oct 1909	18 Jan 1978	68
13 Apr 1978		Donald Campbell Dewar	21 Aug 1937	11 Oct 2000	63
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		GARSTON (LIVERPOOL)
23 Feb 1950		Sir Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon
		Raikes	Jan 1901	18 Apr 1986	85
5 Dec 1957		Richard Martin Bingham	26 Oct 1915	26 Jul 1992	76
31 Mar 1966		Trevor Victor Norman Fortescue	28 Aug 1916	29 Sep 2008	92
28 Feb 1974		Edward Loyden	3 May 1923	27 Apr 2003	79
3 May 1979		George Malcolm Thornton	3 Apr 1939
9 Jun 1983		Edward Loyden	3 May 1923	27 Apr 2003	79
1 May 1997		Maria Eagle	17 Feb 1961
		GATESHEAD (DURHAM)
12 Dec 1832		Cuthbert Rippon
29 Jun 1841		Sir William Hutt	6 Oct 1801	24 Nov 1882	81
5 Mar 1874		Walter Henry James,later [1893] 2nd Baron
		Northbourne	25 Mar 1846	27 Jan 1923	76
24 Feb 1893		Sir William Allan	1837	28 Dec 1903	66
21 Jan 1904		John Johnson	1 Oct 1850	29 Dec 1910	60
17 Jan 1910		Sir Harold Elverston	26 Dec 1866	10 Aug 1941	74
14 Dec 1918		Herbert Conyers Surtees	13 Jan 1858	18 Apr 1933	75
15 Nov 1922		John Brotherton	7 Mar 1867	8 Mar 1941	74
6 Dec 1923		John Purcell Dickie	14 Jul 1874	9 Mar 1963	88
29 Oct 1924		John Warburton Beckett	11 Oct 1894	28 Dec 1964	70
30 May 1929		Sir James Benjamin Melville	20 Apr 1885	1 May 1931	46
8 Jun 1931		Herbert Evans	1868	7 Oct 1931	63
27 Oct 1931		Thomas Magnay	14 Sep 1876	3 Nov 1949	73
26 Jul 1945		Konni Zilliacus	13 Sep 1894	6 Jul 1967	72
		SPLIT INTO EAST & WEST DIVISIONS 1950
		GATESHEAD EAST
23 Feb 1950		Arthur Seymour Moody	6 Jun 1891	12 Dec 1971	80
15 Oct 1964		Bernard Conlan	24 Oct 1923
11 Jun 1987		Joyce Gwendolen Quin,later [2006]
		Baroness Quin [L]	26 Nov 1944
		NAME ALTERED TO "GATESHEAD EAST AND
		WASHINGTON WEST" 1997
		GATESHEAD EAST AND WASHINGTON WEST
1 May 1997		Joyce Gwendolen Quin,later [2006]
		Baroness Quin [L]	26 Nov 1944
5 May 2005		Sharon Hodgson	1 Apr 1966
		GATESHEAD WEST
23 Feb 1950		John Thomas Hall	9 Nov 1896	11 Oct 1955	58
7 Dec 1955		Harry Enos Randall	31 Dec 1899	28 Aug 1976	76
18 Jun 1970		John Rhodes Horam	7 Mar 1939
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		GATTON (SURREY)
16 Apr 1660		Thomas Turgis	7 Oct 1623	11 Jun 1704	80
		William Oldfield	1 Jul 1623	c Oct 1664
		Roger James
		Robert Wood
		Double return. Election declared void
		5 May 1660
19 Jun 1660		Sir Edmund Bowyer	28 Oct 1613	27 Jan 1681	67
		Thomas Turgis  (to 1702)	7 Oct 1623	11 Jun 1704	80
2 Apr 1661		William Oldfield	1 Jul 1623	c Oct 1664
29 Nov 1664		Sir Nicholas Carew	30 Jun 1635	9 Jan 1688	52
23 Mar 1685		Sir John Thompson,1st baronet,later [1696]
		1st Baron Haversham	31 Aug 1648	1 Nov 1710	62
5 Nov 1696		George Evelyn	4 Dec 1641	19 Jun 1699	57
21 Jul 1698		Maurice Thompson  (to 1705)	1675	11 Apr 1745	69
16 Jul 1702		Thomas Onslow,later [1717] 2nd Baron Onslow	27 Nov 1679	5 Jun 1740	60
9 May 1705		Sir George Newland	c 1646	26 Mar 1714
		Paul Docminique  (to 1735)	15 Jan 1643	17 Mar 1735	92
2 Oct 1710		William Newland  (to 1738)	9 Mar 1685	4 May 1738	53
5 May 1735		Charles Docminique  (to 1745)	c 1686	16 Jun 1745
16 May 1738		George Newland  (to 1749)	c 1692	22 Oct 1749
25 Oct 1745		Paul Humphrey  (to 1751)	c 1687	18 Apr 1751
28 Nov 1749		Charles Knowles,later [1765] 1st baronet	c 1704	9 Dec 1777
		(to 1752)
27 Apr 1751		Sir James Colebrooke,1st baronet  (to 1761)	21 Jul 1722	10 May 1761	38
10 Apr 1752		William Bateman	after 1721	19 Jun 1783
16 Apr 1754		Thomas Brand  (to 1768)	c 1717	23 Aug 1770
5 Dec 1761		Edward Harvey	1 Aug 1718	27 Mar 1778	59
21 Mar 1768		John Damer	25 Jun 1744	15 Aug 1776	32
		Joseph Martin	19 Jan 1726	30 Mar 1776	50
7 Oct 1774		Sir William Mayne,later [1776] 1st Baron
		Newhaven [I]   [he was also returned for	1722	28 May 1794	71
		Canterbury,for which he chose to sit]
		Robert Scott  [he was also returned for	c 1746	6 Feb 1808
		Wootton Bassett,for which he chose to sit]
27 Dec 1774		Robert Mayne  (to 1782)	1724	5 Aug 1782	58
		William Adam	2 Aug 1752	17 Feb 1839	86
9 Sep 1780		William Mayne,1st Baron Newhaven [I]  (to 1790)	1722	28 May 1794	71
9 Sep 1782		Maurice Lloyd		May 1796
26 Feb 1787		James Fraser	c 1740	after 1790
17 Jun 1790		John Nesbitt	c 1745	15 Mar 1817
		William Currie	26 Feb 1756	3 Jun 1829	73
30 May 1796		John Petrie  (to 1800)	c 1742	5 Feb 1826
		Sir Gilbert Heathcote   [he was also returned	6 Oct 1773	26 Mar 1851	77
		for Lincolnshire,for which he chose to sit]
1 Nov 1796		John Heathcote  [he resigned in Apr 1798	14 Nov 1767	3 May 1838	70
		and no new writ was issued until April 1799]
19 Apr 1799		Sir Walter Stirling,1st baronet  (to 1802)	24 Jun 1758	25 Aug 1832	74
29 Apr 1800		James Du Pre	10 Jun 1778	13 Jun 1870	92
5 Jul 1802		Sir Mark Wood  (to 1818)	16 Mar 1750	6 Feb 1829	78
		James Dashwood	c 1758	21 Nov 1840
24 Jan 1803		Philip Dundas	c 1763	8 Apr 1807
22 Apr 1805		William Garrow	13 Apr 1760	24 Sep 1840	80
4 Nov 1806		James Athol Wood	1756	Jul 1829	73
8 May 1807		George Bellas-Greenough	18 Jan 1778	2 Apr 1855	77
5 Oct 1812		William Congreve,later [1814] 2nd baronet	20 May 1772	16 May 1828	55
15 Jun 1816		Mark Wood,later [1829] 2nd baronet	14 Dec 1794	4 Aug 1837	42
17 Jun 1818		Abel Rous Dottin	c 1769	7 Jun 1852
		John Fleming	1747	17 May 1829	81
9 Mar 1820		Jesse Watts-Russell	6 May 1786	26 Mar 1875	88
		Thomas Divett	3 Mar 1769	16 Jul 1828	59
9 Jun 1826		William Scott	23 Mar 1794	26 Nov 1835	41
		Michael George Prendergast  (to 1830)		1834
8 Mar 1830		Joseph Neeld	13 Jan 1789	24 Mar 1856	67
30 Jul 1830		John Villiers Shelley,later [1852] 7th
		baronet	18 Mar 1808	28 Jan 1867	58
		John Thomas Hope	10 Jan 1807	27 Apr 1835	28
30 Apr 1831		John Charles George Savile,styled Viscount
		Pollington,later [1860] 4th Earl of Mexborough	4 Jun 1810	17 Aug 1899	89
		He was the last surviving member of the
		unreformed House of Commons
		Anthony John Ashley-Cooper	21 Dec 1808	1 Jan 1867	58
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		GEDLING (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		Sir Philip Welsby Holland	14 Mar 1917
11 Jun 1987		Andrew John Bower Mitchell	23 Mar 1956
1 May 1997		Vernon Rodney Coaker	17 Jun 1953
		GILLINGHAM
14 Dec 1918		Sir Gerald Fitzroy Hohler	1862	30 Jan 1934	71
30 May 1929		Sir Robert Vaughan Gower	10 Nov 1880	6 Mar 1953	72
26 Jul 1945		Joseph Binns	19 Mar 1900	23 Apr 1975	75
23 Feb 1950		Frederick Frank Arthur Burden  [kt 1980]	27 Dec 1905	6 Jul 1987	81
9 Jun 1983		James Randall Couchman	11 Feb 1942
1 May 1997		Paul Gordon Clark	29 Apr 1957
		GLAMORGANSHIRE
c Apr 1660		Sir Edward Mansell,4th baronet	c Oct 1637	14 Nov 1706
20 Mar 1661		William Herbert,Baron Herbert,later [1669]
		6th Earl of Pembroke	14 Jul 1642	8 Jul 1674	31
9 Mar 1670		Sir Edward Mansell,4th baronet	c Oct 1637	14 Nov 1706
26 Feb 1679		Bussy Mansell	22 Nov 1623	May 1699	75
25 Feb 1681		Sir Edward Mansell,4th baronet	c Oct 1637	14 Nov 1706
15 Jan 1689		Bussy Mansell	22 Nov 1623	5 May 1699	75
20 Dec 1699		Thomas Mansell	4 May 1678	7 Jan 1706	27
17 Dec 1701		Thomas Mansell,later [1712] 1st Baron Mansell	9 Nov 1667	10 Dec 1723	56
30 Jan 1712		Robert Jones	c 1682	19 Dec 1715
22 Feb 1716		Sir Charles Kemys,4th baronet	27 Nov 1688	29 Jan 1735	46
23 May 1734		William Talbot,later Earl Talbot	16 May 1710	27 Apr 1782	71
9 Mar 1737		Bussy Mansell,later [1744] 4th Baron Mansell	c 1701	29 Nov 1750
2 Jan 1745		Thomas Mathews	Oct 1676	2 Oct 1751	74
15 Jul 1747		Charles Edwin	c 1699	29 Jun 1756
23 Dec 1756		Thomas William Mathews	1711	25 Jun 1768	56
15 Apr 1761		Sir Edmund Thomas,3rd baronet	9 Apr 1712	10 Oct 1767	55
16 Dec 1767		Richard Turbervill	1707	25 Jan 1771	63
6 Apr 1768		George Venables-Vernon,later [1780] 1st
		Baron Vernon	9 May 1735	18 Jun 1813	78
4 Oct 1780		Charles Edwin		16 Jun 1801
4 Sep 1789		Thomas Wyndham	c 1763	28 Nov 1814
28 Nov 1814		Benjamin Hall	29 Sep 1778	31 Jul 1817	38
6 Sep 1817		Sir Christopher Cole	10 Jun 1770	24 Aug 1836	66
29 Jun 1818		John Edwards	29 Mar 1772	16 Aug 1833	61
16 Mar 1820		Sir Christopher Cole	10 Jun 1770	24 Aug 1836	66
10 Aug 1830		Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot	10 May 1803	17 Jan 1890	86
		(to 1885)
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO TWO MEMBERS 1832
17 Dec 1832		Lewis Weston Dillwyn	21 Aug 1778	31 Aug 1855	77
7 Aug 1837		Edward Richard William Wyndham-Quin,
		styled Viscount Adare,later [1850] 3rd Earl of
		Dunraven and Mount Earl [I]	19 May 1812	6 Oct 1871	59
25 Feb 1851		Sir George Tyler	28 Dec 1792	4 Jun 1862	69
6 Apr 1857		Henry Hussey Vivian,later [1882] 1st baronet
		and [1893] 1st Baron Swansea	6 Jul 1821	28 Nov 1894	73
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "GLAMORGANSHIRE EAST",
		"GLAMORGANSHIRE MID","GLAMORGANSHIRE
		SOUTH","GOWER" AND "RHONDDA"
		GLAMORGANSHIRE EAST
3 Dec 1885		Sir Alfred Thomas,later [1912] 1st Baron
		Pontypridd	16 Sep 1840	14 Dec 1927	87
Dec 1910		Allen Clement Edwards	Jun 1869	23 Jun 1938	69
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		GLAMORGANSHIRE MID
25 Nov 1885		Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot	10 May 1803	17 Jan 1890	86
20 Feb 1890		Sir Samuel Thomas Evans	4 May 1859	13 Sep 1918	59
31 Mar 1910		Frederick William Gibbins	1861	30 Jun 1937	75
Dec 1910		John Hugh Edwards	9 Apr 1869	14 Jun 1945	76
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		GLAMORGANSHIRE SOUTH
3 Dec 1885		Arthur John Williams	14 Apr 1834	12 Sep 1911	77
19 Jul 1895		Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin,later [1926]
		5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl [I]	7 Feb 1857	23 Oct 1952	95
23 Jan 1906		William Brace	23 Sep 1865	12 Oct 1947	82
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		GLANFORD & SCUNTHORPE
9 Jun 1983		Richard Saladin Hickmet	1 Dec 1947
11 Jun 1987		Elliot Anthony Morley	6 Jul 1952
		NAME ALTERED TO "SCUNTHORPE" 1997
		GLASGOW
26 May 1708		Robert Rodger	c 1650	after 1715
27 Oct 1710		Thomas Smith		19 Jan 1716
24 Feb 1716		Daniel Campbell	1672	8 Jun 1753	80
9 Sep 1727		John Blackwood   [he was unseated on	c 1698	12 Nov 1777
		petition in favour of Daniel Campbell
		28 Mar 1728]
28 Mar 1728		Daniel Campbell	1672	8 Jun 1753	80
18 May 1734		William Campbell	c 1710	8 Sep 1787
28 May 1741		Neil Buchanan	c 1696	12 Mar 1744
26 Mar 1744		John Campbell,later [1770] 5th Duke of Argyll	Jun 1723	25 May 1806	82
20 Apr 1761		Lord Frederick Campbell	20 Jun 1729	8 Jun 1816	86
22 Oct 1780		John Craufurd	c 1742	26 May 1814
6 Apr 1784		Ilay Campbell,later [1808] 1st baronet	25 Aug 1734	28 Mar 1823	88
26 Feb 1790		John Crauford	c 1742	26 May 1814
12 Jul 1790		William McDowall	c 1749	3 Apr 1810
30 Jul 1802		Alexander Houstoun   [he was unseated on	c 1770	22 Mar 1822
		petition in favour of Boyd Alexander
		30 Mar 1803]
30 Mar 1803		Boyd Alexander	Jan 1758	15 Jul 1825	67
24 Nov 1806		Archibald Campbell	c 1763	13 Jun 1838
30 Jun 1809		Alexander Houstoun	c 1770	22 Mar 1822
30 Oct 1812		Kirkman Finlay	Apr 1773	4 Mar 1842	68
11 Jul 1818		Alexander Houstoun	c 1770	22 Mar 1822
31 Mar 1820		Archibald Campbell	c 1763	13 Jun 1838
23 May 1831		Joseph Dixon	14 Jan 1802	15 Jan 1844	42
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO TWO MEMBERS 1832
21 Dec 1832		James Ewing	1775	6 Dec 1853	78
		James Oswald  (to 1837)	1777	3 Jun 1853	75
17 Jan 1835		Colin Dunlop	1775	27 Jul 1837	62
17 Feb 1836		Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
		(to 1839)	14 Sep 1774	17 Jun 1839	64
27 May 1837		John Dennistoun  (to 1847)	1803	9 Sep 1870	67
24 Jun 1839		James Oswald	1777	3 Jun 1853	75
31 Jul 1847		John McGregor	1797	23 Apr 1857	59
		Alexander Hastie  (to Apr 1857)	1805	13 Aug 1864	59
6 Mar 1857		Walter Buchanan  (to 1865)	1797	1877	80
1 Apr 1857		Robert Dalglish  (to 1874)	1808	20 Jun 1880	71
14 Jul 1865		William Graham  (to 1874)	1817	16 Jul 1885	68
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO THREE MEMBERS 1868
18 Nov 1868		George Anderson  (to Mar 1885)	1819	4 Nov 1896	77
16 Feb 1874		Charles Cameron,later [1893] 1st baronet	18 Dec 1841	2 Oct 1924	82
		(to Nov 1885)
		Alexander Whitelaw	1823	1 Jul 1879	56
16 Jul 1879		Charles Tennant,later [1885] 1st baronet	4 Nov 1823	4 Jun 1906	82
5 Apr 1880		Robert Tweedie Middleton  (to Nov 1885)	1831	1891	60
12 Mar 1885		Thomas Russell
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "BLACKFRIARS & HUTCHESONTOWN",
		"BRIDGETON","CAMLACHIE","COLLEGE",
		"GLASGOW CENTRAL","ST.ROLLOX" AND
		"TRADESTON"
		GLASGOW CENTRAL
27 Nov 1885		Gilbert Beith	1827	5 Jul 1904	77
5 Jul 1886		John George Alexander Baird	31 May 1854	6 Apr 1917	62
18 Jan 1906		Sir Andrew Mitchell Torrance	13 Feb 1845	4 Feb 1909	63
1 Mar 1909		Charles Scott Dickson	13 Sep 1850	5 Aug 1922	71
16 Jul 1915		John Mackintosh McLeod,later [1924] 1st
		baronet	5 May 1857	6 Mar 1934	76
14 Dec 1918		Andrew Bonar Law	16 Sep 1858	30 Oct 1923	65
6 Dec 1923		Sir William Alexander	4 May 1874	29 Dec 1954	80
26 Jul 1945		James Riley Holt Hutchison,later [1956] 1st
		baronet	10 Apr 1893	24 Feb 1979	85
23 Feb 1950		James McInnes	19 May 1901	14 Apr 1974	72
31 Mar 1966		Thomas McLellan McMillan	12 Feb 1919	30 Apr 1980	61
26 Jun 1980		Robert McTaggart	2 Nov 1945	23 Mar 1989	43
15 Jun 1989		Michael Goodall Watson,later [1997] Baron
		Watson of Invergowrie [L]	1 May 1949
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		BUT REVIVED 2005
5 May 2005		Mohammed Sarwar	18 Aug 1952
		GLASGOW EAST
5 May 2005		David Marshall	7 May 1941
24 Jul 2008		John Fingland Mason	1957
		GLASGOW NORTH
5 May 2005		Ann McKechin	22 Apr 1961
		GLASGOW NORTH EAST
5 May 2005		Michael John Martin,later [2009] Baron
		Martin of Springburn [L]	3 Jul 1945
		GLASGOW NORTH WEST
5 May 2005		John Robertson	17 Apr 1952
		GLASGOW SOUTH
5 May 2005		Thomas Harris	20 Feb 1964
		GLASGOW SOUTH WEST
5 May 2005		Ian Graham Davidson	8 Sep 1950
		GLASGOW & ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES
8 Dec 1868		James Moncreiff,later [1874] 1st Baron Moncreiff	29 Nov 1811	27 Apr 1895	83
22 Nov 1869		Edward Strathearn Gordon,later [1876]
		Baron Gordon of Drumearn [L]	10 Apr 1814	21 Aug 1879	65
1 Nov 1876		William Watson,later [1880] Baron Watson [L]	25 Aug 1827	14 Sep 1899	72
Apr 1880		James Alexander Campbell	1825	9 May 1908	82
6 Feb 1906		Sir Henry Craik,later [1926] 1st baronet	18 Oct 1846	16 Mar 1927	80
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		GLENROTHES
5 May 2005		John William MacDougall	8 Dec 1947	13 Aug 2008	60
6 Nov 2008		Lindsay Allan Roy	19 Jan 1949
		GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTERSHIRE)
3 Apr 1660		Sir Edward Massey  (to 1675)	c 1619	1674
		James Stephens		9 Nov 1683
2 Apr 1661		Evan Seys  (to 1681)	c 1604	early 1685
20 Apr 1675		Henry Norwood	c 1614	14 Sep 1689
18 Feb 1679		William Cooke	c 1620	early 1703
2 Sep 1679		Sir Charles Berkeley,styled Viscount Dursley
		later [1698] 2nd Earl of Berkeley  (to 1685)	8 Apr 1649	24 Sep 1710	61
15 Feb 1681		Charles Somerset,styled Baron Herbert of
		Raglan and [from 1682] Marquess of Worcester	Dec 1660	13 Jul 1698	37
5 May 1685		John Wagstaffe	12 Mar 1618	20 Mar 1697	79
		John Powell	26 May 1645	14 Jun 1713	68
9 Jan 1689		Sir Duncombe Colchester	26 Sep 1630	25 May 1694	63
		William Cooke  (to 1695)	c 1620	early 1703
18 Feb 1690		William Trye  (to 1698)	30 Jul 1660	29 Jun 1717	56
29 Oct 1695		Robert Payne	c 1630	20 Feb 1713
2 Aug 1698		Sir William Rich,2nd baronet	c 1654	3 Jul 1711
		William Selwyn  (to Dec 1701)	c 1658	5 Apr 1702
21 Jan 1701		John Bridgeman	c 1655	3 Jun 1729
2 Dec 1701		James Berkeley,styled Viscount Dursley later
		[1710] 3rd Earl of Berkeley	1680	17 Aug 1736	56
		John Hanbury	c 1665	14 Jun 1734
22 Jul 1702		John Grobham Howe  [he was also returned for	9 Feb 1657	11 Jun 1722	65
		Bodmin,Newton,and Gloucestershire,for
		which he chose to sit]
		William Trye (to 1705)	30 Jul 1660	29 Jun 1717	56
29 Dec 1702		John Hanbury  (to 1708)	c 1665	14 Jun 1734
25 May 1705		William Cooke  (to 1709)	18 Dec 1682	Jun 1709	26
11 May 1708		Thomas Webb  (to 1713)	c 1663	26 Mar 1734
14 Dec 1709		Francis Wyndham	c 1670	23 Sep 1716
24 Oct 1710		John Blanch	c 1649	10 Jul 1725
7 Sep 1713		John Snell  (to 1726)	16 Jun 1682	13 Sep 1726	44
		Charles Coxe	c 1661	17 Oct 1728
27 Mar 1722		Charles Hyett  (to 1727)	10 Apr 1677	17 Feb 1738	60
6 Feb 1727		John Howe,later [1741] 1st Baron Chedworth	by 1690	3 Apr 1742
5 Sep 1727		Benjamin Bathurst  (to 1754)	c 1691	5 Nov 1767	55
		Thomas Chester	2 May 1696	1 Oct 1763	67
		Charles Selwyn	1689	9 Jun 1749	59
		Matthew Ducie Moreton,later [1735] 2nd
		Baron Ducie	by 1700	25 Dec 1770
		Double return. Bathurst and Selwyn
		declared elected 16 Feb 1728
7 May 1734		John Selwyn	20 Aug 1688	5 Nov 1751	63
19 Nov 1751		Sir Charles Barrow,1st baronet  (to 1789)	c 1707	10 Jan 1789
15 Apr 1754		George Augustus Selwyn	11 Aug 1719	25 Jan 1791	71
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of the page containing the
		constituency of Ludgershall.
14 Sep 1780		John Webb  (to 1795)	c 1730	4 Feb 1795
5 Feb 1789		John Pitt  (to 1805)	c 1727	14 Jul 1805
11 Feb 1795		Henry Thomas Howard [Howard-Molyneux	7 Oct 1766	17 Jun 1824	57
		from 1812 and Howard-Molyneux-Howard
		from 1817]  (to 1818)
7 Aug 1805		Robert Morris		6 Sep 1816
1 Oct 1816		Edward Webb  (to 1832)	30 Jan 1779	18 Sep 1839	60
24 Jun 1818		Robert Bransby Cooper	21 Feb 1762	10 May 1845	83
30 Jul 1830		John Phillpotts	Jul 1775	29 Jun 1849	73
2 May 1831		Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley,later
		[1861] 1st Baron Fitzhardinge  (to 1833)	3 Jan 1788	17 Oct 1867	79
11 Dec 1832		John Philpotts   (to 1835)	Jul 1775	29 Jun 1849	73
9 Apr 1833		Henry Thomas Hope  (to 1841)	30 Apr 1808	4 Dec 1862	54
7 Jan 1835		Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley,later
		[1861] 1st Baron Fitzhardinge	3 Jan 1788	17 Oct 1867	79
24 Jul 1837		John Philpotts  (to 1847)	Jul 1775
29 Jul 1841		Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley,later
		[1861] 1st Baron Fitzhardinge   (to 1857)	3 Jan 1788	17 Oct 1867	79
28 Jul 1847		Henry Thomas Hope	30 Apr 1808	4 Dec 1862	54
8 Jul 1852		William Philip Price  (to 1862)	1817	31 Mar 1891	73
28 Mar 1857		Sir Robert Walter Carden,later [1887] 1st
		baronet	7 Oct 1801	17 Jan 1888	86
30 Apr 1859		Charles James Monk   [following the general	30 Nov 1824	10 Nov 1900	75
		election in Apr 1859,the election of the two
		sitting members (Price and Monk) was
		declared void 29 Jul 1859. The writ was
		suspended until Feb 1862]
26 Feb 1862		Charles Paget Fitzhardinge Berkeley,
		later [1896] 3rd Baron Fitzhardinge	19 Apr 1830	3 Dec 1916	86
		John Joseph Powell	1816	15 Sep 1891	75
12 Jul 1865		William Philip Price	1817	31 Mar 1891	73
		Charles James Monk  (to 1881)	30 Nov 1824	10 Nov 1900	75
8 May 1873		William Killigrew Wait	1826	after 1894
1 Apr 1880		Thomas Robinson	Jan 1827	26 Oct 1897	70
		[his election was declared void 9 Jun 1880.
		The writ for the second seat remained
		suspended until Nov 1885]
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
24 Nov 1885		Thomas Robinson	Jan 1827	26 Oct 1897	70
16 Jul 1895		Charles James Monk	1824	10 Nov 1900	76
2 Oct 1900		Russell Rea	11 Dec 1846	5 Feb 1916	69
15 Jan 1910		Henry Terrell	9 May 1856	9 Sep 1944	88
14 Dec 1918		Sir James Bruton	6 Feb 1848	26 Feb 1933	85
6 Dec 1923		James Nockells Horlick,later [1958] 4th
		baronet	22 Mar 1886	31 Dec 1972	86
30 May 1929		Sir Harold Leslie Boyce,later [1952] 1st
		baronet	9 Jul 1895	30 May 1955	59
26 Jul 1945		Moss Turner-Samuels	19 Oct 1888	6 Jun 1957	68
12 Sep 1957		John Diamond,later [1970] Baron Diamond [L]	30 Apr 1907	3 Apr 2004	96
18 Jun 1970		Sally Oppenheim,later [1989] Baroness
		Oppenheim-Barnes [L]	26 Jul 1930
11 Jun 1987		Douglas Charles French	20 Mar 1944
1 May 1997		Teresa Jane Kingham	4 May 1963
7 Jun 2001		Parmjit Singh Dhanda	17 Sep 1971
		GLOUCESTERSHIRE
18 Apr 1660		Edward Stephens	23 Apr 1597	c 1661
		Matthew Hale	1 Nov 1609	25 Dec 1676	67
17 Apr 1661		John Grobham Howe  (to 1679)	25 Jan 1625	27 May 1679	54
		Sir Baynham Throckmorton	Jun 1606	28 May 1664	57
21 Dec 1664		Sir Baynham Throckmorton,3rd baronet	11 Dec 1629	31 Jul 1681	51
26 Feb 1679		Sir John Guise,1st baronet	c 1654	19 Nov 1695
		Sir Ralph Dutton,1st baronet	c 1635	by Mar 1721
18 Mar 1685		Charles Somerset,styled Marquess of
		Worcester  [at this election he was returned for	Dec 1660	13 Jul 1698	37
		no fewer than 5 seats! - Brecon, Breconshire,
		Monmouth, Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire.
		It appears that he was allowed to sit for both
		Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire]
		Sir Robert Atkyns	26 Aug 1647	29 Nov 1711	64
18 Jan 1689		Sir John Guise,1st baronet	c 1654	19 Nov 1695
		Sir Ralph Dutton,1st baronet  (to 1698)	c 1635	by Mar 1721
11 Dec 1695		Thomas Stephens	c 1639	1708
3 Aug 1698		John Grobham Howe	9 Feb 1657	11 Jun 1722	65
		Sir Richard Cocks,2nd baronet  (to 1702)	c 1659	21 Oct 1726
3 Dec 1701		Maynard Colchester  (to 1708)	4 Mar 1665	25 Jun 1715	50
6 Aug 1702		John Grobham Howe	9 Feb 1657	11 Jun 1722	65
16 May 1705		Sir John Guise,3rd baronet  (to 1710)	c 1678	16 Nov 1732
12 May 1708		Matthew Ducie Moreton,later [1720] 1st
		Baron Ducie  (to 1713)	17 Mar 1663	2 May 1735	72
25 Oct 1710		John Symes Berkeley  (to 1715)	1 Feb 1663	11 Dec 1736	73
23 Sep 1713		Thomas Stephens  (to Mar 1720)	5 Feb 1672	24 Feb 1720	48
9 Feb 1715		Matthew Ducie Moreton,later [1720] 1st
		Baron Ducie	17 Mar 1663	2 May 1735	72
30 Mar 1720		Henry Berkeley  (to 1734)	after 1682	23 May 1736
22 Jun 1720		Edmund Bray	7 Sep 1678	6 Sep 1725	46
28 Mar 1722		Kinard de la Bere	c 1666	13 Feb 1735
6 Sep 1727		Sir John Dutton	2 Jan 1684	1743	59
8 May 1734		Thomas Chester  (to Nov 1763)	2 May 1696	1 Oct 1763	67
		Benjamin Bathurst	12 Aug 1711	23 Jan 1767	55
12 May 1741		Norborne Berkeley,later [1764] 4th Baron
		Botetourt	c 1717	15 Oct 1770
27 Apr 1763		Thomas Tracy  (to 1770)	c 1716	24 Jun 1770
23 Nov 1763		Edward Southwell,later [1776] 20th Baron de
		Clifford  (to 1776)	6 Jun 1738	1 Nov 1777	39
6 Aug 1770		Sir William Guise,5th baronet  (to 1783)	26 Jul 1737	6 Apr 1783	45
6 May 1776		William Bromley-Chester	30 Jul 1738	12 Dec 1780	42
24 Jan 1781		James Dutton,later [1784] 1st Baron
		Sherborne  (to 1784)	22 Oct 1744	22 May 1820	75
28 Apr 1783		George Cranfield Berkeley  (to 1810)	10 Aug 1753	25 Feb 1818	64
12 Apr 1784		Thomas Master	1744	12 May 1823	78
2 Jun 1796		Henry Charles Somerset,styled Marquess of
		Worcester,later [1803] 6th Duke of Beaufort	22 Dec 1766	23 Nov 1835	68
14 Nov 1803		Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset
		(to 1831)	19 Dec 1776	1 Sep 1842	65
18 May 1810		William Fitzhardinge Berkeley,styled Viscount
		Dursley,later [1841] 1st Earl
		Fitzhardinge	26 Dec 1786	10 Oct 1857	70
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
7 Feb 1811		Sir Berkeley William Guise,2nd baronet	14 Jul 1775	23 Jul 1834	59
		(to 1832)
10 May 1831		Henry George Francis Moreton,later [1840] 2nd
		Earl of Ducie	8 May 1802	2 Jun 1853	51
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST
		& WEST DIVISIONS 1832
		GLOUCESTERSHIRE EAST
21 Dec 1832		Sir Berkeley William Guise,2nd baronet	14 Jul 1775	23 Jul 1834	59
		Henry George Francis Moreton,later [1840] 2nd
		Earl of Ducie  (to 1835)	8 May 1802	2 Jun 1853	51
7 Aug 1834		Sir Christopher William Codrington
		(to 1864)	12 Mar 1805	24 Jun 1864	59
10 Jan 1835		Augustus Henry Moreton	24 Jun 1804	14 Feb 1862	57
5 Jul 1841		Francis Wemyss Charteris Douglas,later [1883]
		10th Earl of Wemyss & March	4 Aug 1818	30 Jun 1914	95
27 Feb 1846		Henry Charles Fitzroy,styled Marquess of
		Worcester,later [1853] 8th Duke of Beaufort	1 Feb 1824	30 Apr 1899	75
9 Jan 1854		Sir Michael Hicks Hicks-Beach,8th baronet	25 Oct 1809	29 Nov 1854	45
19 Dec 1854		Robert Stayner Holford  (to 1872)	16 Mar 1808	22 Feb 1892	83
12 Jul 1864		Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach,9th baronet,
		later [1915] 1st 1st Earl St.Aldwyn  (to 1885)	23 Oct 1837	30 Apr 1916	78
11 Mar 1872		John Reginald Yorke	25 Jan 1836	2 Mar 1912	76
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CIRENCESTER","FOREST OF DEAN",
		"STROUD","THORNBURY" AND
		"TEWKESBURY"
		GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOUTH
23 Feb 1950		Charles Anthony Raven Crosland	29 Aug 1918	19 Feb 1977	58
26 May 1955		Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield	1 Jun 1915	25 Aug 2005	90
28 Feb 1974		John Ambrose Cope	13 May 1937
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		GLOUCESTERSHIRE WEST
24 Dec 1832		George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge
		Berkeley  (to 1852)	1800	23 Feb 1881	80
		Augustus Henry Moreton	24 Jun 1804	14 Feb 1862	57
12 Jan 1835		Henry Fitzroy,styled Marquess of Worcester,
		later [Nov 1835] 7th Duke of Beaufort	5 Feb 1792	17 Nov 1853	61
2 Jan 1836		Robert Blagden Hale  (to 1857)	1807	22 Jul 1883	76
14 Jul 1852		Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote
		(to Mar 1885)	28 Feb 1830	22 Sep 1908	78
31 Mar 1857		Sir John Rolt	5 Oct 1804	6 Jun 1871	66
25 Jul 1867		Edward Arthur Somerset	21 Feb 1817	12 Mar 1886	69
23 Nov 1868		Samuel Stephens Marling,later [1882] 1st
		baronet	10 Apr 1810	22 Oct 1883	73
11 Feb 1874		Randal Edward Sherborne Plunkett	15 Nov 1848	25 Dec 1883	35
12 Apr 1880		Henry Haughton Reynolds-Moreton,styled
		Baron Moreton (to Nov 1885)	4 Mar 1857	28 Feb 1920	62
12 Mar 1885		Benjamin St.John Ackers	6 Nov 1839	18 Apr 1915	75
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CIRENCESTER","FOREST OF DEAN",
		"STROUD","THORNBURY" AND
		"TEWKESBURY"
		CONSTITUENCY REVIVED 1950
23 Feb 1950		Morgan Philips Price	29 Jan 1885	23 Sep 1973	88
8 Oct 1959		Charles William Loughlin	16 Feb 1914	23 Sep 1993	79
10 Oct 1974		John Taylor Watkinson	25 Jan 1941	21 Sep 2004	63
3 May 1979		Paul Marland	19 Mar 1940
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		GOOLE (YORKSHIRE)
23 Feb 1950		George Jeger	19 Mar 1903	6 Jan 1971	67
27 May 1971		Edmund Ian Marshall	31 May 1940
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		William Fitzhardinge Berkeley,styled Viscount Dursley, later Earl Fitzhardinge
		MP for Gloucestershire 1810
		Berkeley was the son of the 5th Earl of Berkeley and his long-term mistress, Mary Cole.
		In 1796, the 5th Earl and Mary were finally married, but the Earl gave out that the couple
		had already been married for more than 10 years at the time of this 'second' marriage. If
		this was in fact true, then William Berkeley was legitimate; if not, he was illegitimate, and
		could not inherit the Earldom.
		In 1799, the 5th Earl attempted to establish the legitimacy of his children who had been
		born prior to 1796 by producing and laying before the House of Lords Committee of
		Privileges evidence of the alleged marriage of 1785, but the Committee found itself
		unable to judge the matter.
		When the 5th Earl died in August 1810, William Berkeley was member for Gloucestershire.
		On the death of his father, Berkeley vacated his seat in the belief that he had now
		succeeded to the earldom and that he would receive a writ calling him to the House of
		Lords. However, his claim to the peerage was referred to the Committee of Privileges
		which ruled, on 2 July 1811, that his claim had not been made out, on the basis that
		the entry in the registry at Berkeley Church which recorded the 'marriage' of 1785 had
		been forged by the 5th Earl at a later date. For a lengthy discussion on this case, see the
		note under "Berkeley" in the Peerage pages.
		Berkeley was later created Baron Seagrave in 1831 and promoted to Earl Fitzhardinge in
		1841. He appears to have earned for himself a highly unsavory reputation, beginning
		with his elopement in 1811 with Anne, Countess of Antrim in her own right and wife of
		Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd baronet. In his diaries, Greville described him as "an arrant
		blackguard" who was "notorious for his worthlessness."
		Arthur Alfred Lynch, MP for Galway 1901-1903 and Clare West 1909-1918
		A hush fell over the High Court in London on 23 January 1903 as a tall, well-built Australian,
		Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch, MP for Galway, rose in the dock to hear sentence passed on
		him for treason. Sternly, Mr. Justice Wills told Lynch that he had deserted England in her
		darkest hour to fight for the Boers in South Africa. "You sought, for gold, to dethrone Great
		Britain and make her name a byword and a reproach. You shed, or did your best to shed,
		your own countrymen's blood", the judge continued. Then, donning the traditional black cap,
		he sentenced Lynch to death.
		Fortunately for Lynch, influential friends intervened between him and the gallows. Within
		two days the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. A year later, Lynch was
		released on licence and in 1907 he was granted a free pardon. Two years later, Lynch took
		his seat in the House of Commons as the elected member for Clare West, a stark contrast
		to the death cell he once occupied.
		Lynch was born in the gold-rush town of Smythesdale, near Ballarat, the son of an Irish civil
		engineer who had fought at the Eureka Stockade and a Scottish mother. He was educated
		at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated B.A. in
		1885 and M.A. in 1887. Around 1890, he went to Berlin and studied scientific subjects and
		psychology. He then went to Paris to obtain a diploma in electrical engineering, after which
		he qualified in London as a doctor.
		In the July 1892 general election, Lynch stood for Galway, but was defeated by 51 votes.
		He then obtained a job with Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, who appointed
		him foreign correspondent in Paris.
		When war with the Boers flared in 1899, all Lynch's sympathies were with the Boers. He
		received commissions from London, Paris and New York newspapers to report the war on
		their behalf. Within days after arriving in the Boer capital of Pretoria, he formed the Second
		Irish Brigade of Volunteers to help the Boers and the Boer President Kruger appointed Lynch
		as their colonel.
		His first job was to protect the rear of the Boer force retreating after the relief of
		Ladysmith. He was then sent to the USA to win the support of the Irish immigrant
		population. While there he became friendly with Theodore Roosevelt. He returned to Paris,
		where he received word that the British, on the termination of the war, had agreed not to
		prosecute volunteers who had fought with the Boers. At the same time, he was approached
		by the Irish Nationalists to contest the seat of Galway at a by-election caused by the
		sitting member's succession to a peerage. He agreed, and was overwhelmingly elected in his
		absence. The British Government replied by issuing a warrant for Lynch's arrest the moment
		he stepped on British soil.
		On 12 June 1902, he was arrested by three Scotland Yard detectives who were waiting at
		the foot of the gangplank when he stepped ashore at Dover. He languished for seven
		months in prison until his trial for treason opened on 21 January 1903. Lynch frankly
		admitted he fought for the Boers. "I took up arms against the British for the same reason
		that my father joined the Ballarat miners at Eureka,because to both of us it was the strong
		oppressing the weak."
		The trial lasted three days and at its end, the jury took only 26 minutes to find him guilty.
		As soon as the sentence was passed, violent demonstrations flared in Ireland and America.
		Both Theodore Roosevelt and the "King of Grocers", Sir Thomas Lipton, interceded with King
		Edward VII. Within two days the sentence was commuted, and subsequently, after
		thousands had signed a petition, he was freed on licence and later granted a free pardon on
		9 July 1907.
		At a by-election in 1909 and again at the January 1910 General Election, Lynch was
		returned for Clare West which he represented until 1918. During the war years, he did good
		service for the British government. In his autobiography "My Life Story" (1924) he claimed
		that he was one of the earliest to advocate unity of command. He was given the rank of
		colonel and endeavoured to enlist men in Ireland for the Allied cause, but without success.
		After losing his seat in 1918, he concentrated on his scientific and literary pursuits. He
		published at least 28 works by the time of his death from ptomaine poisoning in 1934.
		Thomas Higgins, MP for Galway North
		On four occasions during the twentieth century, members were posthumously elected to
		Parliament. These members were Thomas Higgins (Galway North in 1906 - see below),
		Noel Skelton (Combined Scottish Universities 1935), Sir Edward Taswell Campbell
		(Bromley 1945) and Leslie Pym (Monmouth 1945). For further information on each of
		these cases, see the notes at the foot of the page which contain the various
		constituencies.
		The following report is from 'The Times' of 27 January 1906:-
		'Our Dublin correspondent telegraphs that the present position in North Galway is without
		precedent in the history of Irish Parliamentary elections. During the last Parliament, the
		sitting member, Colonel Nolan, incurred the hostility of the United Irish League by his
		independent political action, and by a series of lawsuits with some of his tenants. It was
		resolved to oppose an official candidate to Colonel Nolan at the general election, and at a
		recent convention at Tuam Mr. Thomas Higgins, president of the North Galway executive
		of the League, was selected as the candidate of the League. Both Colonel Nolan and Mr.
		Higgins were nominated in due course and the polling took place on Thursday. Feeling ran
		high in the district, and it was generally expected that there would be an exhaustive poll
		and that Mr. Higgins would be elected by a substantial majority. During the morning of
		Thursday, Mr. Higgins took an active part in bringing his supporters to the poll, and,
		shortly before noon, he drove in from Killereran at the head of a long line of cars which
		were conveying voters from that district. Immediately afterwards he entered Guy's Hotel
		and complained of feeling ill. An hour later he was obliged to take to his bed. He became
		rapidly worse, and the doctors who were called recognized that his case was hopeless.
		He was suffering from heart failure. Mr. Higgins died an hour after midnight. The news of
		his sudden illness was known to very few of his supporters, and, long after the poll had
		closed, crowds of his friends and opponents were shouting round the hotel where he was
		receiving the last rites of his Church. Last night Mr. Higgins's body was removed to the
		Roman Catholic Cathedral at Tuam and he will be buried today.
		'When the news of Mr. Higgins's death was announced in Dublin yesterday morning the
		liveliest interest was aroused with regard to its effect on the result of the election, and
		this was increased when it became known that he had been returned at the head of the
		poll. The votes were counted yesterday at the Court-house, Galway, and after the result
		of the poll had been declared, Mr. Joseph Glynn, election agent for the late Mr. Higgins,
		demanded that Mr. Higgins should be declared duly elected as member of Parliament for
		North Galway. He argued that Mr. Higgins, having been alive at ten minutes to 1 o'clock
		yesterday morning, was alive at the close of the poll; that the count which took place
		yesterday was merely a continuation of the proceeding of Thursday; and that when the
		poll closed Mr. Higgins was elected, since the postponement of the count and the
		formal declaration was merely a matter of convenience for those concerned. Colonel
		Nolan said he deeply regretted that Mr. Higgins had not lived to enjoy the fruits of his
		victory; on the legal point he remained silent, as he knew nothing about it.
		'The High Sheriff, Mr. Charles O'Farrell, acting on the advice of the Attorney-General for
		Ireland, refused to declare Mr. Higgins elected. Mr. O'Farrell afterwards informed a
		representative of the Press that his only remaining duty was to report the situation to
		the Speaker of the House of Commons.
		'The legal problem created by the death of a winning candidate between the close of the
		poll and the declaration of the result was the principal subject of conversation yesterday
		in the Law Library at the Four Courts. There seemed to be a general agreement of
		opinion among the leaders of the Bar that the death of Mr. Higgins must be followed by a
		fresh election. The grounds of the Attorney-General's advice, on which the Sheriff acted
		yesterday at Galway, are not known; neither is it known in what manner or at what time
		the Irish authorities - presumably, in this case, the returning officer - will come to a
		definite decision. It is understood that no exact provision is made in any Act of Parliament
		for such a situation as has arisen in North Galway. It seems clear, however, that Mr.
		Higgins was duly elected to be member of Parliament for the division; and it is generally
		believed that matters will now proceed in the same manner as if he had died at any time
		after the formal declaration of the poll and before the meeting of Parliament.'
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