| THE HOUSE OF COMMONS | |||||
| CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "H" | |||||
| Last updated 09/09/2012 | |||||
| Date | Name | Born | Died | Age | |
| Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that | |||||
| date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections, | |||||
| or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a | |||||
| previous election result. | |||||
| Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the MP was baptised on | |||||
| that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the MP was | |||||
| buried on that date | |||||
| HASLEMERE (SURREY) | |||||
| 19 Apr 1660 | John Westbrooke | 1 Sep 1616 | 7 Jun 1666 | 49 | |
| Richard West | 17 Jan 1636 | 27 Feb 1674 | 38 | ||
| 27 Mar 1661 | James Gresham | c 1617 | 4 Mar 1689 | ||
| Chaloner Chute | 15 Dec 1632 | 1666 | 33 | ||
| George Evelyn (to 1679) | 18 Jun 1617 | 4 Oct 1699 | 82 | ||
| Thomas Morrice | 1 Jun 1675 | ||||
| Double return. Evelyn and Morrice declared | |||||
| elected 20 May 1661 | |||||
| 7 Jun 1675 | Sir William More,2nd baronet (to 1680) | c 1644 | 24 Jul 1684 | ||
| 7 Feb 1679 | James Gresham | c 1617 | 4 Mar 1689 | ||
| 30 Aug 1679 | Sir William More,2nd baronet (to 1680) | c 1644 | 24 Jul 1684 | ||
| [he was unseated on petition in favour of | |||||
| Francis Dorrington 11 Nov 1680] | |||||
| James Gresham | c 1617 | 4 Mar 1689 | |||
| Denzil Onslow | c 1642 | 27 Jun 1721 | |||
| Double return between Gresham and Onslow. | |||||
| Onslow declared elected 11 Nov 1680 - see | |||||
| below | |||||
| 11 Nov 1680 | Denzil Onslow | c 1642 | 27 Jun 1721 | ||
| Francis Dorrington | 2 Sep 1619 | 12 Jun 1693 | 73 | ||
| 21 Feb 1681 | Sir William More,2nd baronet | c 1644 | 24 Jul 1684 | ||
| Sir George Woodroffe (to 1689) | c 1625 | 6 Dec 1688 | |||
| 18 Mar 1685 | Sir George Vernon | c 1630 | 18 Nov 1692 | ||
| 10 Jan 1689 | White Tichborne | c 1638 | 20 May 1700 | ||
| Denzil Onslow (to 1695) | c 1642 | 27 Jun 1721 | |||
| 24 Feb 1690 | George Rodney Brydges (to 1698) | after 1649 | 9 Feb 1714 | ||
| 25 Oct 1695 | George Woodroffe | 8 Aug 1659 | Mar 1713 | 53 | |
| 22 Jul 1698 | Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe (to Nov 1701) | 14 Sep 1650 | 10 Apr 1702 | 51 | |
| George Vernon | 10 Feb 1661 | 1735 | 74 | ||
| 3 Jan 1701 | George Woodroffe (to 1702) | 8 Aug 1659 | Mar 1713 | 53 | |
| 22 Nov 1701 | George Vernon (to 1705) | 10 Feb 1661 | 1735 | 74 | |
| 17 Jul 1702 | Lewis Oglethorpe | 22 Feb 1681 | 30 Oct 1704 | 23 | |
| James Tichborne | |||||
| Double return. Oglethorpe seated 10 Nov 1702 | |||||
| 22 Nov 1704 | Thomas Heath | 1 Mar 1680 | by Feb 1717 | ||
| 9 May 1705 | George Woodroffe | 8 Aug 1659 | Mar 1713 | 53 | |
| John Fulham | 19 Jun 1664 | Apr 1726 | 61 | ||
| 4 May 1708 | Thomas Onslow,later [1717] 2nd Baron Onslow | 27 Nov 1679 | 5 Jun 1740 | 60 | |
| [he was also returned for Bletchingley,for which | |||||
| he chose to sit] | |||||
| Theophilus Oglethorpe (to 1713) | 11 Mar 1684 | c 1737 | |||
| 13 Dec 1708 | Sir Nicholas Carew,later [1715] 1st baronet | 26 Dec 1686 | 18 Mar 1727 | 40 | |
| 4 Oct 1710 | Sir John Clerke,4th baronet | after 1683 | 20 Feb 1727 | ||
| 25 Aug 1713 | George Vernon (to 1715) | 10 Feb 1661 | 1735 | 74 | |
| Thomas Onslow,later [1717] 2nd Baron Onslow | 27 Nov 1679 | 5 Jun 1740 | 60 | ||
| [he was also returned for Bletchingley,for which | |||||
| he chose to sit] | |||||
| 17 Mar 1714 | Sir Nicholas Carew,1st baronet (to 1722) | 26 Dec 1686 | 18 Mar 1727 | 40 | |
| 1 Feb 1715 | Sir Montague Blundell,4th baronet,later | ||||
| [1720] 1st Viscount Blundell [I] | 19 Jun 1689 | 19 Aug 1756 | 67 | ||
| 26 Mar 1722 | James Edward Oglethorpe | 22 Dec 1696 | 1 Jul 1785 | 88 | |
| For further information on this MP,see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page | |||||
| Peter Burrell | 6 Aug 1692 | 16 Apr 1756 | 63 | ||
| 13 Apr 1754 | James More Molyneux | c 1723 | 24 Jun 1759 | ||
| Philip Carteret Webb (to 1768) | c 1700 | 21 Jun 1770 | |||
| 24 Nov 1759 | Thomas More Molyneux (to 1776) | c 1724 | 3 Oct 1776 | ||
| 19 Mar 1768 | William Burrell,later [1788] 2nd baronet | 10 Oct 1732 | 20 Jan 1796 | 63 | |
| 11 May 1774 | Sir Merrick Burrell,1st baronet (to 1780) | 3 Apr 1699 | 6 Apr 1787 | 88 | |
| 4 Nov 1776 | Peter Burrell,later [1796] 1st Baron Gwydir | 16 Jun 1754 | 29 Jun 1820 | 66 | |
| 9 Sep 1780 | Sir James Lowther,5th baronet,later [1784] | ||||
| 1st Earl of Lonsdale [he was also returned for | 5 Aug 1736 | 24 May 1802 | 65 | ||
| Cumberland,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| Edward Norton (to 1784) | 11 Mar 1750 | Mar 1786 | 36 | ||
| 12 Dec 1780 | Walter Spencer Stanhope | 4 Feb 1749 | 10 Apr 1822 | 73 | |
| 2 Apr 1784 | Thomas Postlethwaite | after 1786 | |||
| John Baynes-Garforth (to 1790) | 24 Jan 1727 | 15 Oct 1808 | 81 | ||
| 13 Jun 1786 | John Lowther,later [1824] 1st baronet | 1 Apr 1759 | 19 Mar 1844 | 84 | |
| 17 Jun 1790 | William Gerard Hamilton (to May 1796) | 28 Jan 1729 | 16 Jul 1796 | 67 | |
| James Lowther [he was also returned for | 23 Feb 1753 | c Jul 1837 | 84 | ||
| Westmorland,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 20 Dec 1790 | Richard Penn | c 1734 | 27 May 1811 | ||
| 18 Jun 1791 | James Clarke Satterthwaite (to 1802) | c 1746 | c 1818 | ||
| 25 May 1796 | James Lowther [he was also returned for | 23 Feb 1753 | c Jul 1837 | 84 | |
| Westmorland,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 5 Nov 1796 | George Wood (to 1806) | 13 Feb 1743 | 7 Jul 1824 | 81 | |
| 5 Jul 1802 | Richard Penn | c 1734 | 27 May 1811 | ||
| 31 Oct 1806 | George Stewart,styled Lord Garlies | ||||
| later [Nov 1806] 8th Earl of Galloway | 24 Mar 1768 | 27 Mar 1834 | 66 | ||
| Charles Long,later [1826] 1st Baron Farnborough | |||||
| (to 1826) | 29 Jan 1760 | 17 Jan 1838 | 77 | ||
| 10 Jan 1807 | Robert Ward | 19 Mar 1765 | 13 Aug 1846 | 81 | |
| 15 Apr 1823 | George Lowther Thompson (to 1830) | 6 Dec 1786 | 25 Dec 1841 | 55 | |
| 9 Jun 1826 | Sir John Beckett,2nd baronet (to 1832) | 17 May 1775 | 31 May 1847 | 72 | |
| 29 Jul 1830 | William Holmes | 2 Apr 1779 | 26 Jan 1851 | 71 | |
| CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832 | |||||
| HASTINGS | |||||
| c Apr 1660 | Sir Denny Ashburnham,1st baronet (to 1679) | c 1628 | 11 Dec 1697 | ||
| Nicholas Delves | 2 Dec 1618 | 3 Nov 1690 | 71 | ||
| 6 May 1661 | Edmund Waller | 3 Mar 1606 | 21 Oct 1687 | 81 | |
| 11 Feb 1679 | Sir Robert Parker,1st baronet (to 1685) | c 1655 | 30 Nov 1691 | ||
| John Ashburnham,later [1689] 1st Baron | |||||
| Ashburnham | 15 Jan 1656 | 21 Jan 1710 | 54 | ||
| 10 Mar 1681 | Thomas Mun | c 1645 | 15 Feb 1692 | ||
| 26 Mar 1685 | Sir Denny Ashburnham,1st baronet | c 1628 | 11 Dec 1697 | ||
| John Ashburnham,later [1689] 1st Baron | |||||
| Ashburnham (to Aug 1689) | 15 Jan 1656 | 21 Jan 1710 | 54 | ||
| 14 Jan 1689 | Thomas Mun (to 1690) | c 1645 | 15 Feb 1692 | ||
| 9 Aug 1689 | John Beaumont (to 1695) | c 1636 | 3 Jul 1701 | ||
| 28 Feb 1690 | Peter Gott | 22 May 1653 | 16 Apr 1712 | 58 | |
| 25 Oct 1695 | John Pulteney (to Oct 1710) | by 1668 | 2 May 1726 | ||
| Robert Austen | c 1672 | c Aug 1728 | |||
| 22 Jul 1698 | Peter Gott | 22 May 1653 | 16 Apr 1712 | 58 | |
| 24 Nov 1701 | John Mounsher | 16 Jul 1665 | by Dec 1702 | 37 | |
| 20 Jul 1702 | William Ashburnham,later [1710] 2nd Baron | ||||
| Ashburnham | 21 May 1679 | 16 Jun 1710 | 31 | ||
| 10 Feb 1710 | John Ashburnham,later [1710] 3rd Baron | ||||
| Ashburnham and [1730] 1st Earl of Ashburnham | 13 Mar 1687 | 10 Mar 1737 | 49 | ||
| 10 Oct 1710 | Sir William Ashburnham,2nd baronet | 1 Apr 1678 | 7 Nov 1755 | 77 | |
| Sir Joseph Martin (to 1715) | c 1649 | 16 Aug 1729 | |||
| 27 Aug 1713 | Archibald Hutcheson (to 1727) | c 1659 | 12 Aug 1740 | ||
| 26 Jan 1715 | Henry Pelham | c 1694 | 2 Jun 1725 | ||
| 22 Mar 1722 | Sir William Ashburnham,2nd baronet (to 1741) | 1 Apr 1678 | 7 Nov 1755 | 77 | |
| 21 Aug 1727 | Thomas Townshend [he was also returned | 2 Jun 1701 | 21 May 1780 | 78 | |
| for Cambridge University,for which he chose | |||||
| to sit] | |||||
| 22 Feb 1728 | Thomas Pelham | c 1705 | 1 Aug 1743 | ||
| 5 May 1741 | James Pelham | c 1683 | 27 Dec 1761 | ||
| Andrew Stone | 4 Feb 1703 | 17 Dec 1773 | 70 | ||
| 27 Mar 1761 | James Brudenell,later [1790] 5th Earl of Cardigan | 20 Apr 1725 | 24 Feb 1811 | 85 | |
| William Ashburnham,later [1797] 5th baronet | 5 Mar 1739 | 21 Aug 1823 | 84 | ||
| (to 1774) | |||||
| 16 Mar 1768 | Samuel Martin | 1 Sep 1714 | 20 Nov 1788 | 74 | |
| 10 Oct 1774 | Henry Temple,2nd Viscount Palmerston [I] | ||||
| (to 1784) | 4 Dec 1739 | 16 Apr 1802 | 62 | ||
| Charles Jenkinson,later [1796] 1st Earl of | |||||
| Liverpool | 26 Apr 1727 | 17 Dec 1808 | 81 | ||
| 9 Sep 1780 | John Ord | 11 Oct 1729 | 6 Jun 1814 | 84 | |
| 3 Apr 1784 | John Dawes | 23 Mar 1822 | |||
| John Stanley (to 1796) | 1740 | 1 Apr 1799 | 58 | ||
| 19 Jun 1790 | Sir Richard Pepper Arden,later [1801] 1st | ||||
| Baron Alvanley | 20 May 1744 | ^19 Mar 1804 | 59 | ||
| 9 May 1794 | Robert Dundas (Saunders-Dundas from 1796), | ||||
| later [1811] 2nd Viscount Melville | 14 Mar 1771 | 10 Jun 1851 | 80 | ||
| 25 May 1796 | Sir James Sanderson,1st baronet | 30 Dec 1741 | 21 Jun 1798 | 56 | |
| Nicholas Vansittart,later [1823] 1st Baron Bexley | |||||
| (to 1802) | 29 Apr 1766 | 8 Feb 1851 | 84 | ||
| 3 Jul 1798 | William Sturges (Sturges-Bourne from 1803) | 7 Nov 1769 | 1 Feb 1845 | 75 | |
| 6 Jul 1802 | Sylvester Douglas,1st Baron Glenbervie [I] | 24 May 1743 | 2 May 1823 | 79 | |
| George William Gunning,later [1816] 1st | |||||
| baronet | 15 Feb 1763 | 7 Apr 1823 | 60 | ||
| 1 Nov 1806 | Sir John Nicholl | 16 Mar 1759 | 26 Aug 1838 | 79 | |
| Sir William Fowle Middleton,1st baronet | 8 Nov 1748 | 26 Dec 1829 | 81 | ||
| 5 May 1807 | George Canning | 11 Apr 1770 | 8 Aug 1827 | 57 | |
| Sir Abraham Hume,2nd baronet (to 1818) | 20 Feb 1749 | 24 Mar 1838 | 89 | ||
| 6 Oct 1812 | James Dawkins (to 1826) | 1760 | 13 Mar 1843 | 82 | |
| 17 Jun 1818 | George Peter Holford | 1767 | 30 Apr 1839 | 71 | |
| 8 Mar 1820 | William Henry John Scott | 25 Feb 1795 | 6 Jul 1832 | 37 | |
| 9 Jun 1826 | Sir William Curtis | 25 Jan 1752 | 18 Jan 1829 | 76 | |
| Sir Charles Wetherell | 1770 | 17 Aug 1846 | 76 | ||
| 15 Dec 1826 | John Evelyn Denison,later [1872] 1st | ||||
| Viscount Ossington (to 1830) | 27 Jan 1800 | 7 Mar 1873 | 73 | ||
| James Law Lushington [kt 1837] | 24 Jul 1780 | 29 May 1859 | 78 | ||
| 21 Apr 1827 | Joseph Planta (to 1831) | 1 Jul 1787 | 5 Apr 1847 | 59 | |
| 30 Jul 1830 | Sir Henry Fane | 26 Nov 1778 | 21 Mar 1840 | 61 | |
| 29 Apr 1831 | John Ashley Warre | 5 Oct 1787 | 18 Nov 1860 | 73 | |
| Frederick North (to 1837) | 2 Jul 1800 | 29 Oct 1869 | 69 | ||
| 8 Jan 1835 | Howard Elphinstone,later [1846] 2nd baronet | 9 Jun 1804 | 16 Mar 1893 | 88 | |
| 26 Jul 1837 | Joseph Planta | 1 Jul 1787 | 5 Apr 1847 | 59 | |
| Robert Hollond (to 1852) | 5 Jan 1808 | 26 Dec 1887 | 79 | ||
| 30 Mar 1844 | Musgrave Brisco (to 1854) | 1791 | 9 May 1854 | 62 | |
| 9 Jul 1852 | Patrick Francis Robertson (to 1859) | 1807 | 20 Jan 1885 | 77 | |
| 10 May 1854 | Frederick North (to 1865) | 2 Jul 1800 | 29 Oct 1869 | 69 | |
| 2 May 1859 | Lord Harry George Vane,later [1864] 4th Duke | ||||
| of Cleveland | 19 Apr 1803 | 21 Aug 1891 | 88 | ||
| 6 Oct 1864 | George Waldegrave-Leslie (to 1868) | 30 Sep 1825 | 8 Jul 1904 | 78 | |
| 12 Jul 1865 | Patrick Francis Robertson | 1807 | 20 Jan 1885 | 77 | |
| 18 Nov 1868 | Thomas Brassey,later [1911] 1st Earl Brassey | ||||
| (to 1886) | 11 Feb 1836 | 23 Feb 1918 | 82 | ||
| Frederick North | 2 Jul 1800 | 29 Oct 1869 | 69 | ||
| 18 Nov 1869 | Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth,later [1877] | ||||
| 2nd baronet and [1902] 1st Baron Shuttleworth | 18 Dec 1844 | 20 Dec 1939 | 95 | ||
| 3 Apr 1880 | Charles James Murray | 1851 | 25 Sep 1929 | 78 | |
| 29 Jun 1883 | Henry Bret Ince | 1830 | 7 May 1889 | 58 | |
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
| 2 Jul 1886 | Wilson Noble | 21 Nov 1854 | 1 Nov 1917 | 62 | |
| 15 Jul 1895 | William Lucas-Shadwell | 14 Aug 1852 | 31 May 1915 | 62 | |
| 2 Oct 1900 | Freeman Freeman-Thomas,later [1936] 1st | ||||
| Marquess of Willingdon | 12 Sep 1866 | 12 Aug 1941 | 74 | ||
| 15 Jan 1906 | William Harvey du Cros,later [1916] 1st baronet | 19 Jun 1846 | 21 Dec 1918 | 72 | |
| 3 Mar 1908 | Sir Arthur Philip du Cros,1st baronet | 26 Jan 1871 | 28 Oct 1955 | 84 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Laurance Lyon | 1875 | 12 Nov 1932 | 57 | |
| 4 May 1921 | Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, | ||||
| later [1953] 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle | 21 Mar 1887 | 3 Apr 1958 | 71 | ||
| 24 Nov 1937 | Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson | 22 May 1887 | 11 Feb 1961 | 73 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key [kt 1960] | 26 Apr 1907 | 5 Jan 1981 | 73 | |
| 18 Jun 1970 | Kenneth Robin Warren [kt 1994] | 15 Aug 1926 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HASTINGS | |||||
| & RYE" 1983 | |||||
| HASTINGS & RYE | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Kenneth Robin Warren [kt 1994] | 15 Aug 1926 | |||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Jacqueline Anne Harkness Lait | 16 Dec 1947 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Michael Jabez Foster | 26 Feb 1946 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Amber Rudd | 16 Aug 1963 | |||
| HAVANT (HAMPSHIRE) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Ian Stewart Lloyd [kt 1986] | 30 May 1921 | 26 Sep 2006 | 85 | |
| 9 Apr 1992 | David Lindsay Willetts | 9 Mar 1956 | |||
| HAVANT & WATERLOO | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Ian Stewart Lloyd [kt 1986] | 30 May 1921 | 26 Sep 2006 | 85 | |
| NAME ALTERED TO "HAVANT" 1983 | |||||
| HAVERFORDWEST (PEMBROKESHIRE) | |||||
| 17 Apr 1660 | William Philipps | c 1615 | c 1689 | ||
| Election declared void 29 Jun 1660 | |||||
| 7 Aug 1660 | William Philipps | c 1615 | c 1689 | ||
| 11 Jun 1661 | Isaac Lloyd | c 1628 | 20 Apr 1675 | ||
| Election declared void 23 May 1663 | |||||
| c Jun 1663 | Sir William Morton | c 1605 | 23 Sep 1672 | ||
| c Sep 1666 | Sir Frederick Hyde | 28 Jun 1614 | 3 May 1677 | 62 | |
| 14 Aug 1677 | Sir Herbert Perrott | c 1617 | 1 Aug 1683 | ||
| c Feb 1679 | William Wogan [kt 1689] | c 1638 | 1 Dec 1708 | ||
| 9 Sep 1679 | Thomas Owen | c 1637 | 1708 | ||
| 22 Feb 1681 | Thomas Howard | c 1655 | 7 Jun 1682 | ||
| 14 Apr 1685 | William Wogan [kt 1689] | c 1638 | 4 Dec 1708 | ||
| 14 Jan 1701 | William Wheeler | 10 Mar 1708 | |||
| 28 Aug 1702 | John Laugharne | c 1666 | 15 Feb 1715 | ||
| 3 May 1715 | Sir George Barlow,2nd baronet [he was | c 1680 | by Mar 1726 | ||
| unseated on petition in favour of John | |||||
| Barlow 4 Jul 1715] | |||||
| 4 Jul 1715 | John Barlow | 30 Jan 1718 | |||
| 4 Mar 1718 | Sir John Philipps,4th baronet | c 1666 | 5 Jan 1737 | ||
| 17 Apr 1722 | Francis Edwardes | 15 Dec 1725 | |||
| 8 Feb 1726 | Erasmus Philipps,later [1737] 5th baronet | 8 Nov 1699 | 15 Oct 1743 | 43 | |
| 13 Dec 1743 | George Barlow | 6 Nov 1717 | 10 Dec 1756 | 39 | |
| 4 Jul 1747 | William Edwardes,later [1776] 1st Baron | c 1711 | 13 Dec 1801 | ||
| Kensington [I] | |||||
| 6 Apr 1784 | Richard Philipps,1st Baron Milford [I] | 1744 | 28 Nov 1823 | 79 | |
| 6 Feb 1786 | William Edwardes,1st Baron Kensington [I] | c 1711 | 13 Dec 1801 | ||
| 12 Jan 1802 | William Edwardes,2nd Baron Kensington [I] | 24 Apr 1777 | 10 Aug 1852 | 75 | |
| 18 Jun 1818 | William Henry Scourfield | 1776 | 31 Jan 1843 | 66 | |
| 13 Jun 1826 | Richard Bulkeley Philipps,later [1828] 1st | ||||
| baronet and [1847] 1st Baron Milford | 7 Jun 1801 | 3 Jan 1857 | 55 | ||
| 8 Jan 1835 | William Henry Scourfield | 1776 | 31 Jan 1843 | 66 | |
| 8 Aug 1837 | Sir Richard Bulkeley Philipps,1st baronet,later | ||||
| [1847] 1st Baron Milford | 7 Jun 1801 | 3 Jan 1857 | 55 | ||
| 30 Jul 1847 | John Evans | c 1796 | 17 Oct 1864 | ||
| 8 Jul 1852 | John Henry Scourfield,later [1876] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 30 Jan 1808 | 3 Jun 1876 | 68 | ||
| 19 Nov 1868 | William Edwardes,4th Baron Kensington [I] | 11 May 1835 | 7 Oct 1896 | 61 | |
| [Following the general election in Feb 1874, | |||||
| his election was declared void 2 Jun 1874. | |||||
| At the subsequent by-election held on | |||||
| 12 Jun 1874, he was again returned] | |||||
| NAME ALTERED TO "PEMBROKE | |||||
| & HAVERFORDWEST" 1885 | |||||
| HAWICK | |||||
| 18 Nov 1868 | George Otto Trevelyan,later [1886] 2nd | ||||
| baronet | 20 Jul 1838 | 17 Aug 1928 | 90 | ||
| 10 Jul 1886 | Alexander Laing Brown | 1851 | 1 Oct 1930 | 79 | |
| Jul 1892 | Thomas Shaw,later [1929] 1st Baron Craigmyle | 23 May 1850 | 28 Jun 1937 | 87 | |
| 4 Mar 1909 | Sir John Nicholson Barran,2nd baronet | 16 Aug 1872 | 8 Jul 1952 | 79 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| HAYES & HARLINGTON | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Walter Henry Ayles | 24 Mar 1879 | 6 Jul 1953 | 74 | |
| 1 Apr 1953 | Arthur Massey Skeffington | 4 Sep 1909 | 18 Feb 1971 | 61 | |
| 17 Jun 1971 | Neville Devonshire Sandelson | 27 Nov 1923 | 12 Jan 2002 | 78 | |
| 9 Jun 1983 | Terence Patrick Dicks | 17 Mar 1937 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | John Martin McDonnell | 8 Sep 1951 | |||
| HAZEL GROVE | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Michael Platt Winstanley,later [1976] Baron | ||||
| Winstanley [L] | 27 Aug 1918 | 18 Jul 1993 | 74 | ||
| 10 Oct 1974 | Thomas Richard Arnold [kt 1990] | 25 Jan 1947 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Robert Andrew Stunell | 24 Nov 1942 | |||
| HEDON (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 3 Apr 1660 | Hugh Bethell [kt after Sep 1660] (to 1680) | 1 Oct 1615 | 3 Oct 1679 | 64 | |
| John Cloberry [he was also returned for | c 1625 | 31 Jan 1688 | |||
| Launceston,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 30 Jul 1660 | Henry Hildyard | 26 Jan 1610 | 8 Jun 1674 | 64 | |
| 13 Apr 1661 | Sir Matthew Appleyard | c 1607 | 20 Feb 1670 | ||
| 8 Mar 1670 | Henry Guy (to Oct 1695) | 16 Jun 1631 | 23 Feb 1711 | 79 | |
| 11 Nov 1680 | William Boynton | 14 Jul 1641 | 17 Aug 1689 | 48 | |
| 11 Mar 1685 | Charles Duncombe [kt 1699] | 16 Nov 1648 | 9 Apr 1711 | 62 | |
| 10 Jan 1689 | Matthew Appleyard | c 1660 | Jun 1700 | ||
| 24 Oct 1695 | Charles Spencer,later [1702] 3rd Earl of | ||||
| Sunderland [he was also returned for | 23 Apr 1675 | 19 Apr 1722 | 46 | ||
| Tiverton,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| Sir William Trumbull [he was also returned | 8 Sep 1639 | 14 Dec 1716 | 77 | ||
| for Oxford University,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 3 Dec 1695 | Sir Thomas Frankland,2nd baronet | Sep 1665 | 30 Oct 1726 | 61 | |
| Hugh Bethell (to Jan 1701) | c 1648 | 2 Feb 1717 | |||
| 28 Jul 1698 | Anthony Duncombe (to Jul 1702) | after 1650 | 4 Apr 1708 | ||
| 10 Jan 1701 | Sir Robert Bedingfield | by Jun 1637 | 2 May 1711 | 74 | |
| 27 Dec 1701 | Sir Robert Hildyard,2nd baronet | c 1670 | 30 Nov 1729 | ||
| 23 Jul 1702 | Henry Guy (to 1705) | 16 Jun 1631 | 23 Feb 1711 | 79 | |
| Sir Charles Duncombe [he was also returned | 16 Nov 1648 | 9 Apr 1711 | 62 | ||
| for Downton,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 23 Nov 1702 | Anthony Duncombe (to 1708) | after 1650 | 4 Apr 1708 | ||
| 15 May 1705 | William Pulteney,later [1742] 1st Earl of Bath | 29 Mar 1684 | 7 Jul 1764 | 80 | |
| (to 1734) | |||||
| 10 May 1708 | Hugh Cholmley | 3 Aug 1684 | 25 May 1755 | 70 | |
| 7 Nov 1721 | Daniel Pulteney [at the general election in | c 1674 | 7 Sep 1731 | ||
| Mar 1722,he was also returned for Preston, | |||||
| for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 5 Nov 1722 | Harry Pulteney | 14 Feb 1686 | 26 Oct 1767 | 81 | |
| 27 Apr 1734 | George Berkeley (to 1741) | c 1692 | 20 Oct 1746 | ||
| Sir Francis Boynton,4th baronet | 17 Nov 1677 | 16 Sep 1739 | 61 | ||
| 24 Nov 1739 | Harry Pulteney | 14 Feb 1686 | 26 Oct 1767 | 81 | |
| 6 May 1741 | Francis Chute | c 1696 | Apr 1745 | ||
| Luke Robinson | mid 1773 | ||||
| [Both members were unseated on petition in | |||||
| favour of Algernon Coote,Earl of Mountrath | |||||
| and George Berkeley 4 Mar 1742] | |||||
| 4 Mar 1742 | Algernon Coote,6th Earl of Mountrath [I] | 6 Jun 1689 | 27 Aug 1744 | 55 | |
| George Berkeley (to 1746) | c 1692 | 20 Oct 1746 | |||
| 8 Dec 1744 | George Anson,later [1747] 1st Baron Anson | 23 Apr 1697 | 6 Jun 1762 | 65 | |
| (to Jul 1747) | |||||
| 29 Nov 1746 | Samuel Gumley [he was unseated on petition | c 1698 | c Jun 1763 | ||
| in favour of Luke Robinson 11 Feb 1747] | |||||
| 11 Feb 1747 | Luke Robinson (to 1754) | mid 1773 | |||
| 1 Jul 1747 | John Savile [kt 1749],later [1753] 1st Baron | ||||
| Pollington [I] and [1766] 1st Earl of | |||||
| Mexborough [I] | Dec 1719 | 12 Feb 1778 | 58 | ||
| 18 Apr 1754 | Charles Saunders [kt 1761] (to 1776) | c 1713 | 7 Dec 1775 | ||
| Sir Peter Denis,1st baronet | 1713 | 11 Jun 1778 | 64 | ||
| 19 Mar 1768 | Beilby Thompson (to 1780) | 17 Apr 1742 | 10 Jun 1799 | 57 | |
| 1 Jan 1776 | Lewis Thomas Watson,later [1795] 2nd | ||||
| Baron Sondes | 18 Apr 1754 | 21 Jun 1806 | 52 | ||
| 8 Sep 1780 | Christopher Atkinson (Savile from 1798) | c 1738 | 23 Apr 1819 | ||
| [expelled 4 Dec 1783] | |||||
| William Chaytor (to 1790) | 11 Jan 1732 | 15 May 1819 | 87 | ||
| 15 Dec 1783 | Stephen Lushington,later [1791] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 17 Jun 1744 | 12 Jan 1807 | 62 | ||
| 31 Mar 1784 | Sir Lionel Darell,1st baronet (to 1802) | 25 Sep 1742 | 30 Oct 1803 | 61 | |
| 18 Jun 1790 | Beilby Thompson | 17 Apr 1742 | 10 Jun 1799 | 57 | |
| 30 May 1796 | Christopher Atkinson (Savile from 1798) | c 1738 | 23 Apr 1819 | ||
| (to 1806) | |||||
| 5 Jul 1802 | George Johnstone (to 1813) | 10 Dec 1764 | 20 Nov 1813 | 48 | |
| 1 Nov 1806 | Anthony Browne (to 1818) | 2 Oct 1769 | 6 Mar 1840 | 70 | |
| 4 Dec 1813 | John Broadhurst | c 1778 | 15 Sep 1861 | ||
| 18 Jun 1818 | Edmund Turton | 27 Apr 1796 | 12 Nov 1857 | 61 | |
| Robert Farrand (to 1826) | 14 Mar 1792 | 2 Feb 1855 | 62 | ||
| 8 Mar 1820 | John Baillie (to 1830) | 1772 | 20 Apr 1833 | 60 | |
| 12 Jun 1826 | Thomas Hyde Villiers | 27 Jan 1801 | 3 Dec 1832 | 31 | |
| 30 Jul 1830 | Robert Farrand | 14 Mar 1792 | 2 Feb 1855 | 62 | |
| Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, | |||||
| 2nd baronet | 3 May 1807 | 23 Dec 1870 | 63 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832 | |||||
| HEELEY (SHEFFIELD) | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Peter Geoffrey Roberts,later [1955] 3rd baronet | 23 Jun 1912 | 22 Jul 1985 | 73 | |
| 31 Mar 1966 | Frank Oswald Hooley | 30 Nov 1923 | |||
| 18 Jun 1970 | John Deane Spence | 7 Dec 1920 | 4 Mar 1986 | 65 | |
| 28 Feb 1974 | Frank Oswald Hooley | 30 Nov 1923 | |||
| 9 Jun 1983 | William Michie | 24 Nov 1935 | |||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Margaret (Meg) Patricia Munn | 24 Aug 1959 | |||
| HELSTON (CORNWALL) | |||||
| 11/12 Apr 1660 | Anthony Rous | c 1605 | 1 May 1677 | ||
| Alexander Penhellick | c 1632 | c 1661 | |||
| Sir Peter Killigrew | c 1593 | Jul 1668 | |||
| Sir John Northcote,1st baronet | c 1600 | 24 Jun 1676 | |||
| Double return. Rous and Penhellick seated | |||||
| 5 May 1660,but election subsequently | |||||
| declared void 27 Jun 1660 | |||||
| 11 Jul 1660 | Thomas Robinson (to 1665) | 31 Dec 1608 | 12 Aug 1665 | 56 | |
| Francis Godolphin | 25 Dec 1605 | 22 Mar 1667 | 61 | ||
| Sir Peter Killigrew | c 1593 | Jul 1668 | |||
| Double return. Robinson and Godolphin | |||||
| seated 8 Aug 1660 | |||||
| 9 Apr 1661 | Sir Peter Killigrew (to 1668) | c 1593 | Jul 1668 | ||
| 30 Oct 1665 | Sir William Godolphin,1st baronet | c 1640 | 27 Aug 1710 | ||
| (to Sep 1679) | |||||
| 15 Oct 1668 | Sidney Godolphin,later [1706] 1st Earl of | ||||
| Godolphin | 15 Jun 1645 | 15 Sep 1712 | 67 | ||
| 8 Feb 1679 | Sir Vyell Vyvyan,2nd baronet (to 1681) | 20 May 1639 | 24 Feb 1697 | 57 | |
| 9 Sep 1679 | Sidney Godolphin,later [1796] 1st Earl of | ||||
| Godolphin (to 1685) | 15 Jun 1645 | 15 Sep 1712 | 67 | ||
| 21 Feb 1681 | Charles Godolphin (to 1701) | c 1650 | 10 Jul 1720 | ||
| 29 Apr 1685 | Sidney Godolphin | 12 Jan 1652 | 22 Sep 1732 | 80 | |
| 14 Jan 1689 | Sir John St.Aubyn,2nd baronet | 13 Jan 1670 | 20 Jun 1714 | 44 | |
| 29 Oct 1695 | Francis Godolphin,later [1712] 2nd Earl of | ||||
| Godolphin | 3 Sep 1678 | 17 Jan 1766 | 87 | ||
| 2 Aug 1698 | Sidney Godolphin (to 1713) | 12 Jan 1652 | 22 Sep 1732 | 80 | |
| 3 Dec 1701 | Francis Godolphin,styled Viscount Rialton from | ||||
| 1706, later [1712] 2nd Earl of Godolphin | 3 Sep 1678 | 17 Jan 1766 | 87 | ||
| [at the general election in May 1708, Rialton | |||||
| was also returned for Oxfordshire,for which he | |||||
| chose to sit] | |||||
| 15 Dec 1708 | John Evelyn,later [1713] 1st baronet | 2 Mar 1682 | 15 Jul 1763 | 81 | |
| 24 Oct 1710 | George Granville,later [1712] 1st Baron | ||||
| Lansdown [he was also returned for | 9 Mar 1666 | 29 Jan 1735 | 68 | ||
| Cornwall,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 22 Dec 1710 | Robert Child | 6 Jun 1674 | 6 Oct 1721 | 47 | |
| 9 Sep 1713 | Henry Campion [he was also returned for | c 1680 | 17 Apr 1761 | ||
| Sussex,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| Charles Coxe [he was also reurned for | c 1661 | 17 Oct 1728 | |||
| Gloucester,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 12 Apr 1714 | Thomas Tonkin | 20 Sep 1678 | 4 Jan 1742 | 63 | |
| Alexander Pendarves | 11 Nov 1662 | 8 Mar 1725 | 62 | ||
| 27 Jan 1715 | Sir Gilbert Heathcote,later [1733] 1st baronet | 2 Jan 1652 | 25 Jan 1733 | 81 | |
| Sidney Godolphin | 12 Jan 1652 | 22 Sep 1732 | 80 | ||
| 13 Apr 1722 | Sir Robert Raymond,later [1731] 1st Baron | ||||
| Raymond | 20 Dec 1673 | 19 Mar 1733 | 59 | ||
| Walter Carey (to 1727) | 17 Oct 1685 | 27 Apr 1757 | 71 | ||
| 10 Mar 1724 | Sir Clement Wearg | c 1686 | 6 Apr 1726 | ||
| 13 May 1726 | Exton Sayer | c 1691 | 21 Sep 1731 | ||
| 25 Aug 1727 | John Evelyn,later [1763] 2nd baronet | 24 Aug 1706 | 11 Jun 1767 | 60 | |
| John Harris | c 1690 | 5 Oct 1767 | |||
| 12 May 1741 | Francis Godolphin,later [1766] 2nd Baron | ||||
| Godolphin (to 1766) | 2 Nov 1706 | 25 May 1785 | 78 | ||
| Thomas Walker | c 1664 | 22 Oct 1748 | |||
| 2 Jul 1747 | John Evelyn,later [1763] 2nd baronet (to 1767) | 24 Aug 1706 | 11 Jun 1767 | 60 | |
| 4 Feb 1766 | William Windham (to 1768) | c 1705 | 4 May 1789 | ||
| 1 Jul 1767 | William Evelyn (to 1774) | 10 Feb 1723 | 15 Aug 1783 | 60 | |
| 23 Mar 1768 | James Hamilton,2nd Earl of Clanbrassill [I] | 23 Aug 1730 | 6 Feb 1798 | 67 | |
| 11 Oct 1774 | Francis Godolphin Osborne,styled Marquess of | ||||
| Carmarthen,later [1776] Baron Osborne and | |||||
| [1789] 5th Duke of Leeds | 29 Jan 1751 | 31 Jan 1799 | 48 | ||
| Francis Owen | 24 Feb 1745 | 16 Nov 1774 | 29 | ||
| Francis Cockayne-Cust | 18 Mar 1722 | 30 Nov 1791 | 69 | ||
| Philip Yorke (to Jun 1781) | 30 Jul 1743 | 19 Feb 1804 | 60 | ||
| On petition, Cust and Yorke were declared | |||||
| elected 15 Mar 1775 | |||||
| 12 Sep 1780 | Philip Yorke | 30 Jul 1743 | 19 Feb 1804 | 60 | |
| Jocelyn Deane | 19 Jul 1749 | 19 Nov 1780 | 31 | ||
| Thomas Villiers,styled Baron Hyde,later [1786] | |||||
| 2nd Earl of Clarendon | 25 Dec 1753 | 7 Mar 1824 | 70 | ||
| William Evelyn | 10 Feb 1723 | 15 Aug 1783 | 60 | ||
| Double return. Yorke and Deane | |||||
| [notwithstanding that he was dead] declared | |||||
| elected 19 Feb 1781 | |||||
| 12 Mar 1781 | Richard Barwell (to 1784) | 8 Oct 1741 | 2 Sep 1804 | 62 | |
| 30 Jun 1781 | Thomas Villiers,styled Baron Hyde,later [1786] | ||||
| 2nd Earl of Clarendon (to 1787) | 25 Dec 1753 | 7 Mar 1824 | 70 | ||
| 5 Apr 1784 | John Rogers | 15 Aug 1750 | 22 Feb 1832 | 81 | |
| 1 Apr 1786 | Roger Wilbraham (to 1790) | 1743 | Jan 1829 | 85 | |
| 27 Jan 1787 | James Bland Burges (Lamb from 1821), | ||||
| later [1795] 1st baronet | 8 Jun 1752 | 11 Oct 1824 | 72 | ||
| 21 Jun 1790 | Sir Gilbert Elliot [Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound | ||||
| from 1797], 4th baronet, later [1813] 1st | |||||
| Earl of Minto | 23 Apr 1751 | 21 Jun 1814 | 63 | ||
| Stephen Lushington,later [1791] 1st baronet | 17 Jun 1744 | 12 Jan 1807 | 62 | ||
| (to 1796) | |||||
| James Bland Burges,later [1795] 1st baronet | 8 Jun 1752 | 11 Oct 1824 | 72 | ||
| Charles Abbot,later [1817] 1st Baron Colchester | 14 Oct 1757 | 8 May 1829 | 71 | ||
| Double return. Elliot and Lushington | |||||
| declared elected 23 Dec 1790 | |||||
| 19 Jun 1795 | Charles Abbot,later [1817] 1st Baron Colchester | ||||
| (to 1802) | 14 Oct 1757 | 8 May 1829 | 71 | ||
| 27 May 1796 | Richard Richards | 5 Nov 1752 | 11 Nov 1823 | 71 | |
| 30 Mar 1799 | Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne,later [1832] | ||||
| 1st Baron Godolphin | 18 Oct 1777 | 15 Feb 1850 | 72 | ||
| 7 Jul 1802 | James Edward Harris,styled Viscount Fitzharris, | ||||
| later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury | 19 Aug 1778 | 10 Sep 1841 | 63 | ||
| John Penn (to 1805) | 22 Feb 1760 | 21 Jun 1834 | 74 | ||
| 26 May 1804 | Davies Giddy,later [1817] Gilbert (to Apr 1806) | 6 Mar 1767 | 24 Dec 1839 | 72 | |
| 10 May 1805 | Archibald John Primrose,styled Viscount | ||||
| Primrose,later [1814] 4th Earl of Rosebery | |||||
| (to Nov 1806) | 14 Oct 1783 | 4 Mar 1868 | 84 | ||
| 21 Apr 1806 | Sir John Shelley,6th baronet | 3 Mar 1772 | 28 Mar 1852 | 80 | |
| 3 Nov 1806 | Nicholas Vansittart,later [1823] 1st Baron Bexley | 29 Apr 1766 | 8 Feb 1851 | 84 | |
| [he was also returned for Old Sarum,for | |||||
| which he chose to sit] | |||||
| John Du Ponthieu (to May 1807) | 27 Apr 1765 | 26 Apr 1813 | 47 | ||
| 16 Jan 1807 | Thomas Brand,later [1819] 20th Lord Dacre | 15 Mar 1774 | 21 Mar 1851 | 77 | |
| 11 May 1807 | Sir John St.Aubyn,5th baronet (to 1812) | 17 May 1758 | 10 Aug 1839 | 81 | |
| Richard Richards | 5 Nov 1752 | 11 Nov 1823 | 71 | ||
| 29 Jul 1807 | James Stevenson Blackwood,3rd Baron | ||||
| Baron Dufferin and Claneboye [I] | 8 Jul 1755 | 8 Aug 1836 | 81 | ||
| 10 Oct 1812 | William Horne [kt 1830] | 2 Dec 1773 | 13 Jul 1860 | 86 | |
| Hugh Hammersley | c 1775 | 19 Sep 1840 | |||
| 19 Jun 1818 | Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo | ||||
| Townshend (to 1832) | 11 Sep 1785 | 28 Jun 1842 | 56 | ||
| Harrington Hudson | 11 Apr 1772 | 30 Nov 1826 | 54 | ||
| 10 Jun 1826 | Francis Godolphin D'Arcy Osborne,styled | ||||
| Marquess of Carmarthen,later [1838] 7th | |||||
| Duke of Leeds | 21 May 1798 | 4 May 1859 | 60 | ||
| 31 Jul 1830 | Sir Samuel John Brooke-Pechell,3rd | ||||
| baronet | 1 Sep 1785 | 3 Nov 1849 | 64 | ||
| 29 Apr 1831 | Sackville Walter Lane-Fox (to 1835) | 24 Mar 1797 | 18 Aug 1877 | 80 | |
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1832 | |||||
| 8 Jan 1835 | Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo | ||||
| Townshend | 11 Sep 1785 | 28 Jun 1842 | 56 | ||
| 27 Jul 1837 | George John Frederick Sackville,styled | ||||
| Viscount Cantelupe | 26 Apr 1814 | 25 Jun 1850 | 36 | ||
| 12 Mar 1840 | John Basset | ||||
| 1 Jul 1841 | Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan,8th baronet | 6 Jun 1800 | 15 Aug 1879 | 79 | |
| 27 Mar 1857 | Charles Trueman | 1814 | |||
| 30 Apr 1859 | John Hope Rogers | 16 Sep 1816 | 24 Apr 1880 | 63 | |
| 12 Jul 1865 | Adolphus William Young [his election was | 1814 | 4 Nov 1885 | 71 | |
| declared void 18 Apr 1866] | |||||
| 1 May 1866 | Robert Campbell [he was unseated on | ||||
| petition in favour of William Baliol Brett | |||||
| 5 Jul 1866] | |||||
| 5 Jul 1866 | Sir William Baliol Brett,later [1897] 1st | ||||
| Viscount Esher | 13 Aug 1815 | 24 May 1899 | 83 | ||
| 17 Nov 1868 | Adolphus William Young | 1814 | 4 Nov 1885 | 71 | |
| 5 Apr 1880 | William Napleton Molesworth-St.Aubyn | 18 Oct 1838 | 29 Jun 1895 | 56 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885 | |||||
| HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HERTFORDSHIRE) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Gustavus Arthur Chetwynd Talbot | 24 Dec 1848 | 16 Oct 1920 | 71 | |
| 9 Nov 1920 | John Colin Campbell Davidson,later [1937] 1st | ||||
| Viscount Davidson | 23 Feb 1889 | 11 Dec 1970 | 81 | ||
| 6 Dec 1923 | John Freeman Dunn | 12 Apr 1874 | 7 Dec 1954 | 80 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | John Colin Campbell Davidson,later [1937] 1st | ||||
| Viscount Davidson | 23 Feb 1889 | 11 Dec 1970 | 81 | ||
| 22 Jun 1937 | Frances Joan Davidson,later [1964] Baroness | ||||
| Northchurch [L] | 29 May 1894 | 25 Nov 1985 | 91 | ||
| 8 Oct 1959 | James Harry Allason | 6 Sep 1912 | 16 Jun 2011 | 98 | |
| 10 Oct 1974 | Robin Corbett,later [2001] Baron Corbett | ||||
| of Castle Vale [L] | 22 Dec 1933 | 19 Feb 2012 | 78 | ||
| 3 May 1979 | Nicholas Walter Lyell [kt 1987],later [2005] | ||||
| Baron Lyell of Markyate [L] | 6 Dec 1938 | 30 Aug 2010 | 71 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| BUT REVIVED 1997 | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Anthony McWalter | 20 Mar 1945 | |||
| 5 May 2005 | Michael Alan Penning | 28 Sep 1957 | |||
| HEMSWORTH (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | John Guest | 1867 | 6 Oct 1931 | 64 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Gabriel Price | 19 Apr 1879 | 24 Mar 1934 | 54 | |
| For further information on the death of this MP, | |||||
| see the note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 17 May 1934 | George Arthur Griffiths | 7 May 1880 | 15 Dec 1945 | 65 | |
| 22 Feb 1946 | Horace Edwin Holmes [kt 1966] | 30 Mar 1888 | 9 Sep 1971 | 83 | |
| This by-election has the distinction of being | |||||
| the last occasion when a candidate at a by- | |||||
| election was returned unopposed | |||||
| 8 Oct 1959 | Alan Beaney | 3 Mar 1905 | 3 Mar 1985 | 80 | |
| 28 Feb 1974 | Alec Woodall | 20 Sep 1918 | 3 Jan 2011 | 92 | |
| 11 Jun 1987 | George James Buckley | 6 Apr 1935 | 14 Sep 1991 | 56 | |
| 7 Nov 1991 | Derek Anthony Enright | 2 Aug 1935 | 31 Oct 1995 | 60 | |
| 1 Feb 1996 | Jon Hedley Trickett | 2 Jul 1950 | |||
| HENDON (MIDDLESEX) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Philip Lloyd-Greame (later Cunliffe- | ||||
| Lister),later [1955] 1st Earl of Swinton | 1 May 1884 | 27 Jul 1972 | 88 | ||
| 14 Nov 1935 | Sir Reginald Blair,later [1945] 1st baronet | 8 Nov 1881 | 18 Sep 1962 | 80 | |
| CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH & SOUTH | |||||
| DIVISIONS 1945 BUT RE-UNITED 1997 | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Andrew Hartley Dismore | 2 Sep 1954 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Matthew James Offord | 3 Sep 1969 | |||
| HENDON NORTH | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Barbara Bodichon Ayrton Gould | c 1888 | 14 Oct 1950 | ||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Charles Ian Orr-Ewing,later [1963] 1st | ||||
| baronet and [1971] Baron Orr-Ewing [L] | 10 Feb 1912 | 19 Aug 1999 | 87 | ||
| 18 Jun 1970 | John Michael Gorst [kt 1994] | 28 Jun 1928 | 31 Jul 2010 | 82 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
| HENDON SOUTH | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth (Munro- | ||||
| Lucas-Tooth from 1965),1st baronet | 13 Jan 1903 | 18 Nov 1985 | 82 | ||
| 18 Jun 1970 | Peter John Mitchell Thomas,later [1987] | ||||
| Baron Thomas of Gwydir [L] | 31 Jul 1920 | 4 Feb 2008 | 87 | ||
| 11 Jun 1987 | John Leslie Marshall | 19 Aug 1940 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997 | |||||
| HENLEY (OXFORDSHIRE) | |||||
| 2 Dec 1885 | Edward William Harcourt | 1825 | 19 Dec 1891 | 66 | |
| 15 Jul 1886 | Francis Parker | 15 Aug 1851 | 22 Oct 1931 | 80 | |
| 24 Jul 1895 | Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge,later [1902] 1st | ||||
| baronet and [1919] 1st Baron Wyfold | 23 Sep 1851 | 3 Jun 1937 | 85 | ||
| 22 Jan 1906 | Philip Edward Morrell | 4 Jun 1870 | 5 Feb 1943 | 72 | |
| 19 Jan 1910 | Valentine Fleming | 17 Feb 1882 | 20 May 1917 | 35 | |
| 20 Jun 1917 | Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge,1st baronet, | ||||
| later [1919] 1st Baron Wyfold | 23 Sep 1851 | 3 Jun 1937 | 85 | ||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Thomas Antonio Reginald Terrell [kt 1959] | 18 Jan 1889 | 5 Feb 1979 | 90 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Robert Ronald Henderson | 1876 | 16 Jan 1932 | 55 | |
| 25 Feb 1932 | Sir Gifford Wheaton Grey Fox,2nd baronet | 2 Feb 1903 | 11 Feb 1959 | 56 | |
| 23 Feb 1950 | John Albert Hay | 24 Nov 1919 | 27 Jan 1998 | 78 | |
| 28 Feb 1974 | Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine,later [2001] | ||||
| Baron Heseltine [L] | 21 Mar 1933 | ||||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson | 19 Jun 1964 | |||
| 26 Jun 2008 | John Michael Howell | 27 Jul 1955 | |||
| HEREFORD (HEREFORDSHIRE) | |||||
| 10 Apr 1660 | Herbert Westfaling (to Apr 1661) | 3 Jan 1630 | 1705 | 75 | |
| Roger Bosworth | c 1607 | 1660 | |||
| 20 Nov 1660 | Sir Henry Lingen (to 1662) | 23 Oct 1612 | 22 Jan 1662 | 49 | |
| 9 Apr 1661 | Sir Henry Lingen (to 1662) | 23 Oct 1612 | 22 Jan 1662 | 49 | |
| Sir Edward Hopton | c 1603 | 1 Apr 1668 | |||
| Herbert Westfaling (to 1679) | 3 Jan 1630 | 1705 | 75 | ||
| Double return between Hopton and Westfaling. | |||||
| Hopton was seated 16 May 1661,but the | |||||
| election was declared void 23 Jul 1661 | |||||
| 24 Sep 1661 | Sir Henry Lingen | 23 Oct 1612 | 22 Jan 1662 | 49 | |
| Herbert Westfaling (to 1679) | 3 Jan 1630 | 1705 | 75 | ||
| 11 Feb 1662 | Roger Vaughan | c 1641 | 28 May 1672 | ||
| 18 Feb 1673 | John Scudamore,2nd Viscount Scudamore [I] | c 1650 | 22 Jul 1697 | ||
| 18 Feb 1679 | Bridstock Harford | 30 Sep 1634 | 10 Apr 1683 | 48 | |
| Paul Foley (to 1685) | c 1645 | 13 Nov 1699 | |||
| 15 Feb 1681 | Herbert Aubrey (to 1689) | c 1635 | 9 Nov 1691 | ||
| 24 Mar 1685 | Thomas Geers | c 1643 | Nov 1700 | ||
| 11 Jan 1689 | Sir William Gregory | 1 Mar 1625 | 28 May 1696 | 71 | |
| Paul Foley (to 1699) | c 1645 | 13 Nov 1699 | |||
| 11 Jun 1689 | Henry Cornewall | c 1654 | 22 Feb 1717 | ||
| 22 Oct 1695 | James Morgan | c 1660 | 9 Nov 1717 | ||
| 29 Jul 1698 | James Brydges,later [1714] 9th Baron Chandos | ||||
| and [1719] 1st Duke of Chandos (to 1715) | 6 Jan 1673 | 9 Aug 1744 | 71 | ||
| 8 Dec 1699 | Samuel Pytts | c 1674 | 15 Jan 1729 | ||
| 6 Jan 1701 | Thomas Foley (to 1722) | c 1670 | 10 Dec 1737 | ||
| 3 Feb 1715 | James Scudamore,3rd Viscount Scudamore [I] | 15 Jul 1684 | 2 Dec 1716 | 32 | |
| 12 Mar 1717 | Herbert Rudhale Westfaling (to 1727) | c 1671 | Nov 1743 | ||
| 27 Mar 1722 | William Mayo | after 1665 | 14 Mar 1723 | ||
| 2 Apr 1723 | James Wallwyn | c 1689 | 29 Jun 1766 | ||
| 22 Aug 1727 | Henry Brydges,styled Marquess of Carnarvon, | ||||
| later [1744] 2nd Duke of Chandos | 17 Jan 1708 | 28 Nov 1771 | 63 | ||
| Thomas Geers (Winford from 1731) | c 1697 | 23 May 1753 | |||
| 1 May 1734 | Thomas Foley | c 1695 | 3 Apr 1749 | ||
| Sir John Morgan,4th baronet | 11 Jul 1710 | 29 Apr 1767 | 56 | ||
| 11 May 1741 | Edward Cope Hopton | 9 Feb 1708 | 24 Apr 1754 | 46 | |
| Thomas Winford (formerly Geers) | c 1697 | 23 May 1753 | |||
| 3 Jul 1747 | Henry Cornewall | 1685 | 4 Jun 1756 | 70 | |
| Daniel Leighton | 21 Jun 1694 | Jan 1765 | 70 | ||
| 16 Apr 1754 | Charles Fitzroy-Scudamore (to 1768) | c 1713 | 22 Aug 1782 | ||
| John Symons | 1708 | 30 Dec 1763 | 55 | ||
| 23 Jan 1764 | John Scudamore (to 1796) | 30 Oct 1727 | 4 Jul 1796 | 68 | |
| 19 Mar 1768 | Richard Symons,later [1774] 1st baronet | c 1743 | 4 Jul 1796 | ||
| 5 Apr 1784 | Charles Howard,styled Earl of Surrey,later | ||||
| [1786] 11th Duke of Norfolk [he was also | 15 Mar 1746 | 16 Dec 1815 | 69 | ||
| returned for Carlisle,for which he chose to sit] | |||||
| 12 Jul 1784 | Robert Philipps | 22 Jun 1749 | 1 Feb 1822 | 72 | |
| 11 Apr 1785 | James Walwyn (to 1800) | 4 Oct 1744 | 2 Oct 1800 | 55 | |
| 26 Oct 1796 | John Scudamore (to 1805) | 11 Jun 1757 | 12 Apr 1805 | 47 | |
| 4 Nov 1800 | Thomas Powell Symonds (to 1819) | 1762 | 19 Aug 1819 | 57 | |
| 1 May 1805 | Richard Philip Scudamore | 30 Jun 1762 | 5 Mar 1831 | 68 | |
| 24 Jun 1818 | John Somers Cocks,styled Viscount Eastnor | ||||
| from 1821, later [1841] 2nd Earl Somers | 19 Mar 1788 | 5 Oct 1852 | 64 | ||
| (to 1832) | |||||
| 21 Sep 1819 | Richard Philip Scudamore | 30 Jun 1762 | 5 Mar 1831 | 68 | |
| 20 Jun 1826 | Edward Bolton Clive (to 1845) | 1765 | 22 Jul 1845 | 80 | |
| 12 Dec 1832 | Robert Biddulph | 3 Mar 1801 | 28 Feb 1864 | 62 | |
| 25 Jul 1837 | Daniel Higford Davall Burr | 24 Mar 1811 | 29 Nov 1885 | 74 | |
| 1 Jul 1841 | Henry William Hobhouse | 8 Aug 1791 | 22 May 1868 | 76 | |
| 5 Oct 1841 | Robert Pulsford (to 1847) | 1814 | Jun 1888 | 73 | |
| 31 Jul 1845 | Sir Robert Price,2nd baronet (to 1857) | 3 Aug 1786 | 5 Nov 1857 | 71 | |
| 31 Jul 1847 | Henry Morgan-Clifford (to 1865) | 1806 | 12 Feb 1884 | 77 | |
| 14 Feb 1857 | George Clive (to 1869) | Oct 1805 | 8 Jun 1880 | 74 | |
| 14 Jul 1865 | Richard Baggallay [kt 1868] | 13 May 1816 | 13 Nov 1888 | 72 | |
| 17 Nov 1868 | John William Shaw Wylie | 1835 | 15 May 1870 | 34 | |
| [following the general election in Nov 1868 | |||||
| both sitting members (Clive and Wylie) were | |||||
| unseated on petition 15 Mar 1869] | |||||
| 30 Mar 1869 | Edward Henry Clive | 23 Sep 1837 | 1 Mar 1916 | 78 | |
| Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (to 1874) | 15 Feb 1812 | 28 Nov 1876 | 64 | ||
| 28 Feb 1871 | George Arbuthnot | 9 Jan 1836 | 26 Dec 1912 | 76 | |
| 3 Feb 1874 | Evan Pateshall | 1817 | 9 Apr 1885 | 67 | |
| George Clive (to 1880) | Oct 1805 | 8 Jun 1880 | 74 | ||
| 14 Mar 1878 | George Arbuthnot | 9 Jan 1836 | 26 Dec 1912 | 76 | |
| 2 Apr 1880 | Joseph Pulley,later [1893] 1st baronet | 8 Sep 1822 | 5 Aug 1901 | 78 | |
| (to 1886) | |||||
| Robert Threshie Reid [kt 1884],later [1906] 1st | |||||
| Baron Loreburn and [1911] 1st Earl Loreburn | 3 Apr 1846 | 30 Nov 1923 | 77 | ||
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1885 | |||||
| 2 Jul 1886 | Sir Joseph Russell Bailey,2nd baronet,later | ||||
| [1899] 1st Baron Glanusk | 7 Apr 1840 | 6 Jan 1906 | 65 | ||
| Jul 1892 | William Henry Grenfell,later [1905] 1st | ||||
| Baron Desborough | 30 Oct 1855 | 9 Jan 1945 | 89 | ||
| 15 Aug 1893 | Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke | 1841 | 26 May 1911 | 69 | |
| 29 Sep 1900 | John Stanhope Arkwright [kt 1934] | 1872 | 19 Sep 1954 | 82 | |
| 8 Mar 1912 | William Alfred Samuel Hewins | 11 May 1865 | 17 Nov 1931 | 66 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Charles Thornton Pulley [kt 1922] | 24 Jul 1864 | 5 Apr 1947 | 82 | |
| 11 Jan 1921 | Sir Samuel Roberts | 2 Sep 1882 | 13 Dec 1955 | 73 | |
| 30 May 1929 | Humphrey Frank Owen | 27 Sep 1905 | 23 Jan 1979 | 73 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | James Purdon Lewes Thomas,later [1956] 1st | ||||
| Viscount Cilcennin | 13 Oct 1903 | 13 Jul 1960 | 56 | ||
| 14 Feb 1956 | James David Gibson-Watt,later [1979] Baron | ||||
| Gibson-Watt [L] | 11 Sep 1918 | 7 Feb 2002 | 83 | ||
| 10 Oct 1974 | Colin Ryley Shepherd [kt 1996] | 13 Jan 1938 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Paul Stuart Keetch | 21 May 1961 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HEREFORD AND | |||||
| HEREFORDSHIRE SOUTH" 2010 | |||||
| HEREFORD & HEREFORDSHIRE SOUTH | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | Alexander Jesse Norman | 23 Jun 1962 | |||
| HEREFORDSHIRE | |||||
| 18 Apr 1660 | Edward Harley [kt 1661] | 21 Oct 1624 | 8 Dec 1700 | 76 | |
| Sir William Powell,1st baronet | c 1624 | 2 Dec 1680 | |||
| 20 Mar 1661 | James Scudamore | 26 Jun 1624 | 18 Jun 1668 | 43 | |
| Thomas Prise (to Feb 1679) | 25 Dec 1634 | c 1699 | |||
| 23 Sep 1668 | Sir John Kyrle,2nd baronet | c 1617 | 4 Jan 1680 | ||
| 26 Feb 1679 | John Scudamore,2nd Viscount Scudamore [I] | c 1650 | 22 Jul 1697 | ||
| (to 1685) | |||||
| Sir Herbert Croft,1st baronet | c 1652 | 30 Nov 1720 | |||
| 10 Sep 1679 | Sir Edward Harley | 21 Oct 1624 | 8 Dec 1700 | 76 | |
| 18 Mar 1685 | Sir John Morgan,2nd baronet (to 1693) | c 1650 | 8 Jan 1693 | ||
| Sir John Hoskyns,2nd baronet | 23 Jul 1634 | 12 Sep 1705 | 71 | ||
| 15 Jan 1689 | Sir Edward Harley | 21 Oct 1624 | 8 Dec 1700 | 76 | |
| 12 Mar 1690 | Sir Herbert Croft,1st baronet (to 1698) | c 1652 | 3 Nov 1720 | ||
| 8 Feb 1693 | Sir Edward Harley | 21 Oct 1624 | 8 Dec 1700 | 76 | |
| 3 Aug 1698 | Henry Cornewall | c 1654 | 22 Feb 1717 | ||
| Henry Gorges (to 1708) | c 1665 | 14 Mar 1718 | |||
| 16 Jan 1701 | Sir John Williams,later [1712] 2nd baronet | 24 Nov 1653 | 28 Apr 1723 | 69 | |
| 16 May 1705 | James Scudamore,3rd Viscount Scudamore [I] | 15 Jul 1684 | 2 Dec 1716 | 32 | |
| (to 1715) | |||||
| 12 May 1708 | John Prise | c 1674 | 27 Feb 1738 | ||
| 30 Jul 1712 | Sir Thomas Morgan,3rd baronet (to 1716) | 28 Aug 1684 | 14 Dec 1716 | 32 | |
| 9 Feb 1715 | Richard Hopton (to 1722) | 1685 | 21 Feb 1764 | 78 | |
| 6 Mar 1717 | Sir Hungerford Hoskyns,4th baronet | c 1677 | 21 Dec 1767 | ||
| 28 Mar 1722 | Velters Cornewall (to 1768) | c 1697 | 3 Apr 1768 | ||
| Sir Edward Goodere,1st baronet | 1657 | 29 Mar 1739 | 81 | ||
| 6 Sep 1727 | Edward Harley,later [1741] 3rd Earl of Oxford | c 1699 | 11 Apr 1755 | ||
| 6 Jan 1742 | Thomas Foley | c 1695 | 3 Apr 1749 | ||
| 15 Jul 1747 | Edward Harley,Baron Harley,later [1755] 4th | ||||
| Earl of Oxford | 2 Sep 1726 | 8 Oct 1790 | 64 | ||
| 5 May 1755 | Sir John Morgan,4th baronet | 11 Jul 1710 | 29 Apr 1767 | 56 | |
| 18 May 1767 | Thomas Foley,later [1777] 2nd Baron Foley | 24 Jun 1742 | 2 Jul 1793 | 51 | |
| (to 1774) | |||||
| 6 Apr 1768 | Thomas Foley,later [1776] 1st Baron Foley | ||||
| (to 1776) | 8 Aug 1716 | 18 Nov 1777 | 61 | ||
| 12 Oct 1774 | Sir George Cornewall,2nd baronet (to 1796) | 5 Nov 1748 | 26 Sep 1819 | 70 | |
| 22 May 1776 | Thomas Harley (to 1802) | 24 Aug 1730 | 1 Dec 1804 | 74 | |
| 8 Jun 1796 | Robert Biddulph (Myddelton-Biddulph 29 Dec 1801) | Mar 1761 | 30 Aug 1814 | 53 | |
| 14 Jul 1802 | Sir George Cornewall,2nd baronet (to 1807) | 5 Nov 1748 | 26 Sep 1819 | 70 | |
| Sir John Geers Cotterell,later [1805] 1st | |||||
| baronet [his election was declared | 21 Sep 1757 | 26 Jan 1845 | 87 | ||
| void 15 Mar 1803] | |||||
| 31 Mar 1803 | John Matthews | 30 Oct 1755 | 15 Jan 1826 | 70 | |
| 8 Nov 1806 | Sir John Geers Cotterell,1st baronet (to 1831) | 21 Sep 1757 | 26 Jan 1845 | 87 | |
| 13 May 1807 | Thomas Foley | 19 Jul 1778 | 11 Jan 1822 | 43 | |
| 29 Jun 1818 | Robert Price,later [1829] 2nd baronet (to 1841) | 3 Aug 1786 | 5 Nov 1857 | 71 | |
| 7 May 1831 | Kedgwin Hoskins (to 1847) | 26 May 1777 | 24 Dec 1852 | 75 | |
| REPRESENTATION INCREASED | |||||
| TO THREE MEMBERS 1832 | |||||
| 15 Dec 1832 | Edward Thomas Foley | 21 Dec 1791 | 30 Mar 1846 | 54 | |
| 5 Jul 1841 | Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville | 9 Apr 1790 | 9 Sep 1864 | 74 | |
| Joseph Bailey (to 1850) | 1812 | Aug 1850 | 38 | ||
| 4 Aug 1847 | Francis Richard Haggitt (Wegg-Prosser | ||||
| from 1849) (to 1852) | 19 Jun 1824 | 16 Aug 1911 | 87 | ||
| George Cornewall Lewis,later [1855] 2nd | |||||
| baronet (to 1852) | 21 Apr 1806 | 13 Apr 1863 | 56 | ||
| 18 Sep 1850 | Thomas William Booker-Blakemore | ||||
| (to 1858) | 28 Sep 1801 | 7 Nov 1858 | 57 | ||
| 19 Jul 1852 | James King King (to 1868) | 6 Nov 1806 | 17 Jun 1881 | 74 | |
| Charles Spencer Bateman-Hanbury (Bateman- | |||||
| Hanbury-Kincaid-Lennox from 1862) | 1827 | 22 Mar 1912 | 84 | ||
| 4 Apr 1857 | Sir Geers Henry Cotterell,2nd baronet | 22 Aug 1834 | 17 Mar 1900 | 65 | |
| (to 1859) | |||||
| 18 Dec 1858 | Lord Montagu William Graham (to 1865) | 2 Feb 1807 | 21 Jun 1878 | 71 | |
| 2 May 1859 | Humphrey Francis Mildmay | 25 Dec 1825 | 29 Nov 1866 | 40 | |
| 19 Jul 1865 | Sir Joseph Russell Bailey,2nd baronet,later | ||||
| [1899] 1st Baron Glanusk (to 1885) | 7 Apr 1840 | 6 Jan 1906 | 65 | ||
| Michael Biddulph,later [1903] 1st Baron Biddulph | |||||
| (to 1885) | 17 Feb 1834 | 6 Apr 1923 | 89 | ||
| 23 Nov 1868 | Sir Herbert George Denman Croft,9th baronet | 25 Jul 1838 | 11 Feb 1902 | 63 | |
| 3 Feb 1874 | Daniel Peploe Peploe | 1829 | 4 Nov 1887 | 58 | |
| 6 Apr 1880 | Thomas Duckham | 26 Sep 1816 | 2 Mar 1902 | 85 | |
| SPLIT INTO TWO DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| SEE "LEOMINSTER" AND "ROSS" | |||||
| HEREFORDSHIRE NORTH | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | William David Wiggin | 4 Jun 1966 | |||
| James Edward Oglethorpe, MP for Haslemere 1722-1754 | |||||
| Oglethorpe is best remembered in history as the founder of the American state of Georgia. | |||||
| The following biography is taken from the February 1955 issue of the Australian monthly | |||||
| magazine "Parade." Some of the descriptions of life in 18th century debtors' prisons are | |||||
| quite graphic in nature. | |||||
| 'London sweltered in a heatwave in the summer of 1729 when the iron gates of the Fleet | |||||
| Debtors' Prison clanged shut behind a knot of ashen-faced M.P.s who, gasping and stumbling, | |||||
| emerged into the ill-paved street with kerchiefs to their noses. They were so shocked by the | |||||
| horrors they had encountered in the tour of the stinking, disease-ridden warren that three | |||||
| were violently ill, while another collapsed to the cobbles in a fainting fit. One alone was calm. | |||||
| He was James Edward Oglethorpe, gentleman, soldier of fortune, rake turned reformer. He was | |||||
| already planning a sizzling report which he determined should sweep away the atrocities he | |||||
| had just witnessed and which he had been fighting for years. | |||||
| 'In the resultant popular outcry, rapacious gaolers who had battened cruelly on their victims | |||||
| were sacked and stripped of their loot. Sadistic tortures, including the weights and the thumb- | |||||
| screws, were banned. The merciless money laws, from which even small debtors had no | |||||
| appeal, were overhauled. Reform, however, came all too slowly for the crusading Oglethorpe, | |||||
| who chafed at Parliament's cumbersome delays. Britain's 30,000 debtors were still dying like | |||||
| flies from starvation and disease, so he founded a new colony in America and sent freed | |||||
| debtors there in shiploads to start a new and happier life. This fired the imagination even of | |||||
| Britain's stuffy Hanoverian monarch, George II, who gave his name and blessing to the | |||||
| fantastic debtors' Utopia, which is now the prosperous American State of Georgia. | |||||
| 'James Edward Oglethorpe, the man who at one sweep effected wide prison reforms and | |||||
| founded a flourishing colony, came from a line of champions of forlorn causes. His earliest | |||||
| known ancestor, Ligulfe, Thane of Oglethorpe, was one of the last English chieftain to match | |||||
| his strength against the invading William of Normandy. His father, Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, | |||||
| was equerry and crony of James II, and helped the half-crazed king to escape to France as | |||||
| "Mr. Jones" when William of Orange landed to dethrone the Stuarts. When Whitehall Palace | |||||
| caught fire in 1691 and the nightgowned Queen Mary, William of Orange's spouse, fled alone | |||||
| into St.James' Park, Sir Theophilus and a friend, says a contemporary report, tried to shove | |||||
| her back into the flames. | |||||
| 'Oglethorpe's early years are shrouded in mystery. Two dates are given for his birth. 1696 is | |||||
| officially recognised. The other, 1688, is linked with a legend which declares he was actually | |||||
| a son of James II, substituted for her own dying child by Lady Oglethorpe, who thus protected | |||||
| him during the rebellion. Another legend avers that young Oglethorpe concealed the Old | |||||
| Pretender for years at Westbrook, the Oglethorpe family home in Surrey, where the Pretender's | |||||
| ghost is said still to stalk the battlements on stormy nights. | |||||
| 'Whatever his antecedents, Eton and Oxford knew young Oglethorpe as an inveterate haunter | |||||
| of gaming-rooms, cockpits and taverns. Tired of student brawling, he joined the army and | |||||
| served under Marlborough in Flanders, becoming captain-lieutenant in the Queen's Guards. He | |||||
| spent a riotous year among the ladies and at the gaming-tables in Paris, plotting wildly with | |||||
| the Old Pretender to tumble Anne off the throne and set the Stuarts back. | |||||
| 'Finally he joined the hunchbacked military genius, Prince Eugene of Savoy, for his Turkish | |||||
| campaign. He won the hunchback's lasting friendship at a banquet given by the boorish Duke | |||||
| of Wurttemberg who, losing his temper in an argument, rudely flipped wine from his beaker | |||||
| into the cocksparrow young Briton's face. Grinning engagingly, Oglethorpe sloshed a whole | |||||
| glassful into the duke's pock-marked visage, remarking, "That was a good joke, but we do it | |||||
| much better in England." It was a tribute to his skill as a swordsman that no one dared to | |||||
| challenge him. He fought with distinction at Belgrade, where Eugene's 40,000 mercenaries | |||||
| saved Christendom by smashing 150,000 Turkish warriors [16 August 1717]. Eugene offered | |||||
| him a marshal's baton, which he refused. | |||||
| 'It was, therefore, a lusty young firebrand who arrived home to manage the Oglethorpe | |||||
| estates. Spoiling for a fight, he flung himself into the shady game of politics, then notorious | |||||
| for graft and intrigue. In 1722 he won his father's old Commons seat of Haslemere. For some | |||||
| months he chafed against the inactivity of a backbencher. Then he found what he was looking | |||||
| for - a crusade. | |||||
| 'An impractical artist friend, Robert Castell, was gaoled in the Fleet debtors' prison for debt [in | |||||
| 1729]. Too proud to seek aid, Castell was fleeced of his last few pounds by the rascally gaol | |||||
| governor, Bambridge, whose practice was to allow prisoners to redeem themselves from foetid, | |||||
| lice-infested cells by cash payments. When Castell could disgorge no more, he was man- | |||||
| handled to a filthy "sponging-house" where scores of smallpox and typhus victims lay dead or | |||||
| dying. Castell caught one of the plagues and died in torment. | |||||
| 'Oglethorpe was unable to control his rage when he went to claim his friend's corpse. He gave | |||||
| the villainous Bambridge a thrashing in his own lair, and promised dire retribution to his whole | |||||
| rapacious crew. So persistent were his anti-prison tirades in the House that a committee of | |||||
| 14, headed by Oglethorpe, was appointed to investigate the three debtors' gaols - the Fleet, | |||||
| Marshalsea and King's Bench. | |||||
| 'Horrors beyond the imagination of the ordinary citizen were dragged to light. Though the now- | |||||
| fawning Bambridge tried to steer his unwelcome visitors through a few hastily-scoured cells | |||||
| and corridors, Oglethorpe defied him and prodded his unwilling aides into every nook and | |||||
| cranny of the reeking hell-hole. Hearing groans from a locked cell, Oglethorpe found a half- | |||||
| crazed, emaciated wreck who had been held for eight months after he should have been | |||||
| released for the few coppers they could squeeze from his relatives. When they received the | |||||
| the order for release, his gaolers merely gave him a savage whipping and bundled him unto a | |||||
| dripping underground vault among a heap of fever victims awaiting the death-cart. | |||||
| 'The dying wretch thought the investigation committee were his torturers returning, and his | |||||
| heart "raced so madly from panic" that blood rushed from mouth and nose. Oglethorpe found | |||||
| 52 cases of illegal detention in the Fleet prison alone. In another cell he discovered one of his | |||||
| own corporals who, falsely accused of theft and cleared by the jury, had been seized and | |||||
| gaoled as a debtor by Bambridge for gaol fees incurred during detention. | |||||
| 'Refusing to pay the governor's blood-money, he was manacled with too-small fetters. The | |||||
| irons cut deep into his flesh and his legs and arms were gangrenous from suppurating wounds. | |||||
| A broken-down and singularly ill-named baronet, Sir William Rich, was found prostrate in a | |||||
| double set of irons and encrusted sores and ulcers. Although Oglethorpe struck his fetters | |||||
| and ordered his release, Rich was again secretly detained and treated to the "iron collar," | |||||
| a fiendish instrument designed to squeeze the neck. The ring was tightened until his eyes | |||||
| started from his head and blood poured from ears and nose. | |||||
| 'Scores who refused to pay the illegal levies demanded by Bambridge were left manacled for | |||||
| weeks in reeking, airless dungeons over a filthy sewer where bodies were tossed for the | |||||
| coroner's cursory inspection. Most of the prison rations were seized and sold by Bambridge | |||||
| and his pirates, with the result that hundreds of prisoners were pitiful skeletons. Ill or | |||||
| pregnant women were left untended to die of neglect and despair. Many had lost their | |||||
| memory. Others were raving lunatics. Vice and perversion flourished unchecked. | |||||
| 'The great Dr. Johnson computed that "in 1759 there were still 20,000 imprisoned debtors and | |||||
| that one in four died every year" from the iniquitous treatment they received. Vacant gaol | |||||
| governorships, Oglethorpe revealed, were hawked for sale to the highest bidder. Lord | |||||
| Clarendon "sold" the Fleet to a rogue named John Huggins for £5000. Bambridge got it for the | |||||
| same sum. Salary and "perks" were liberal and in addition the luckless debtors were fleeced | |||||
| of all they owned. | |||||
| 'The revelations almost led to riots in the streets of London. The immortal caricaturist and | |||||
| engraver Hogarth added fuel to the flames with his sketches of squalid life in prisons and | |||||
| madhouses. Parliament was forced to act, but owing to the opposition of Oglethorpe's enemies | |||||
| and the automatic reactions of the diehards to all reform, particularly where it affected money, | |||||
| legislation was slow. It was then that the impetuous Oglethorpe whisked a shipload of | |||||
| unfortunates off to found the colony of Georgia. | |||||
| 'Parliament belatedly voted him £10,000 to help create the colony, which was also to act as a | |||||
| buffer state between English settlements and French and Spanish colonies in America. Wealthy | |||||
| philanthropists and investors contributed substantial sums to what they considered a promising | |||||
| experiment. Oglethorpe went with the first shipload as Governor. Unwilling to entrust funds or | |||||
| material to men and women who, through recklessness, shiftlessness or weakness, had landed | |||||
| in a debtors' gaol, he organised the farms on the collective principle under his own control, and | |||||
| the new colony began to prosper. | |||||
| 'Not only English debtors but political and religious refugees from all over Europe flocked there. | |||||
| Oglethorpe had his colony so well organised that when the Spanish attacked from Florida he | |||||
| was able to repulse them with brilliant success. Oglethorpe's enemies continued to attack him | |||||
| in his absence. He was branded as a rabble-rouser and accused of squandering the trust | |||||
| money. Returning indignantly to England, he was mobbed by thousands of cheering indigents. | |||||
| 'When the Georgia charter ran out, Oglethorpe surrendered it to the Crown as an English | |||||
| province and accepted the rank of general in the English army. Unfortunately, Bonny Prince | |||||
| Charlie, last of the Stuarts, to whom Oglethorpe was still vaguely loyal, chose that time to | |||||
| land in Scotland and invade England. Oglethorpe's forces met him at Clifton in 1745 and took a | |||||
| trouncing. His enemies claimed Oglethorpe had not tried to defeat the prince and the veteran | |||||
| colonial administrator was hauled before fore a court-martial and tried for treason. He was | |||||
| acquitted. | |||||
| 'In his later years he turned to literature. He was one of the first to realise the rising genius of | |||||
| the great Dr. Johnson, whom he helped. He was the crony of Oliver Goldsmith, the first of the | |||||
| novelists. and Edmund Burke, a statesman, orator, and one of the earliest champions for the | |||||
| emancipation of slaves. Oglethorpe died peacefully in 1785.' | |||||
| Gabriel Price, MP for Hemsworth 1931-1934 | |||||
| The following report is taken from the 'Manchester Guardian' of 26 March 1934:- | |||||
| 'Mr. Gabriel Price, Labour M.P. for the Hemsworth Division of Yorkshire, was drowned in the | |||||
| River Calder at Mirfield on Saturday. Mr. Price, who had been in ill-health for a long time, was | |||||
| walking with his wife towards the railway station when a train came through a cutting. Mr. | |||||
| Price immediately began to run, shouting to his wife to extend her holiday and saying that he | |||||
| would return later. His wife followed him down the hill but by the time she had reached the | |||||
| junction of the road and the river Mr. Price had apparently jumped over a fence and was | |||||
| struggling in the water. Attempts at rescue failed, but later the body was recovered by Police | |||||
| Constable Cooper, of Mirfield. | |||||
| 'Mr. James Price, the son with whom Mr. Gabriel Price had been staying at Mirfield, told a | |||||
| reporter yesterday that his father had refused to take the advice of a specialist and go for a | |||||
| holiday. "My father left me at a quarter past eight," he said, "with my mother. I had asked him | |||||
| to wait for me to accompany them but he said he had to return to South Elmsall to answer | |||||
| his letters and record his vote in the parish council election. He said he would be pleased to | |||||
| meet my brother and a friend later at Wakefield to go to a Rugby League football match." | |||||
| 'Mr. Sidney Price, the other son, said: "My father died because he refused to think of himself | |||||
| and sacrificed himself on the altar of duty. Last October he addressed a number of meetings | |||||
| in Cumberland and caught a chill. He returned here and apparently recovered, but for some | |||||
| time past he has been suffering from neurasthenia and insomnia. A specialist had urged him to | |||||
| take a rest or go for a cruise but he refused as he had too many public engagements to fulfil." | |||||
| 'Mrs. Price said yesterday: "My husband had been attended by doctors for some time as he | |||||
| suffered very badly from neurasthenia and insomnia. We had persuaded him to go to the Isle of | |||||
| Wight for a rest next week and we left my son's house soon after eight o'clock to go to South | |||||
| Elmsall. As we were coming down a hill a train rushed through the cutting. My husband began | |||||
| to run, shouting to me to go back and stay a little longer and that he would come back later. | |||||
| He disappeared round the corner and when I arrived he was in the water, shouting for | |||||
| someone to pull him out. I could not reach him and so ran for help." | |||||
| 'Mrs. Price's cries attracted the attention of Mr. Smithson, of Ravensthorpe, and other | |||||
| persons, who ran to the bank, but the Calder was running swiftly and they were unable to | |||||
| render any assistance. Mr. Price had drifted out towards the centre of the river and was | |||||
| sinking. | |||||
| 'Mr. Price, who was born in 1879, was a checkweighman at the Frickley Colliery, and his whole | |||||
| life had been devoted to the service of the miners. He was the son of a miner and at the age | |||||
| of twelve started work in the pit himself at Hemsworth Colliery. He represented his branch on | |||||
| the council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association and was a member of the West Riding County | |||||
| Council and the West Riding Education Committee. He was also an alderman and a county | |||||
| magistrate.' | |||||
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