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| CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "H" | |||||
| Last updated 10/09/2011 | |||||
| Date | Name | Born | Died | Age | |
| Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that | |||||
| date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections, | |||||
| or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a | |||||
| previous election result. | |||||
| HORNCASTLE (LINCOLNSHIRE) | |||||
| 5 Dec 1885 | Edward Stanhope | 24 Sep 1840 | 21 Dec 1893 | 53 | |
| 11 Jan 1894 | Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, | ||||
| styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby,later [1910] | |||||
| 2nd Earl of Ancaster | 29 Jul 1867 | 29 Sep 1951 | 84 | ||
| 16 Feb 1911 | William Ernest George Archibald Weigall | ||||
| [kt 1920],later [1938] 1st baronet | 8 Dec 1874 | 3 Jun 1952 | 77 | ||
| 25 Feb 1920 | Stafford Vere Hotchkin | 1876 | 8 Aug 1953 | 77 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Samuel Pattinson | 17 Dec 1870 | 15 Nov 1942 | 71 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Henry Cobden Haslam | 1870 | 7 Feb 1948 | 77 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Sir John Francis Whitaker Maitland | 24 Mar 1903 | 17 Nov 1977 | 74 | |
| 31 Mar 1966 | Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell [kt 1985] | 1 Feb 1930 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| HORNCHURCH | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing | 24 Jul 1909 | 24 Apr 1977 | 67 | |
| 26 May 1955 | Godfrey William Lagden | 12 Apr 1906 | 31 Aug 1989 | 83 | |
| 31 Mar 1966 | Alan Lee Williams | 29 Nov 1930 | |||
| 18 Jun 1970 | John Warren Loveridge [kt 1988] | 9 Sep 1925 | 13 Nov 2007 | 82 | |
| 28 Feb 1974 | Alan Lee Williams | 29 Nov 1930 | |||
| 3 May 1979 | Robin Clifford Squire | 12 Jul 1944 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | John Robert Cryer | 11 Apr 1964 | |||
| 5 May 2005 | James Peter Brokenshire | 7 Jan 1968 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HORNCHURCH AND | |||||
| UPMINSTER" 2010 | |||||
| HORNCHURCH AND UPMINSTER | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | Angela Eileen Watkinson | 18 Nov 1941 | |||
| HORNSEY (MIDDLESEX) | |||||
| 1 Dec 1885 | Sir James Macnaghten McGarel-Hogg,2nd | ||||
| baronet,later [1887] 1st Baron Magheramorne | 3 May 1823 | 27 Jun 1890 | 67 | ||
| 19 Jul 1887 | Henry Charles Stephens | 1841 | Jul 1918 | 77 | |
| 2 Oct 1900 | Charles Barrington Balfour | 20 Feb 1862 | 31 Aug 1921 | 59 | |
| 5 Jun 1907 | Lawrence John Lumley Dundas,styled Earl of | ||||
| Ronaldshay,later [1929] 2nd Marquess of Zetland | 11 Jun 1876 | 6 Feb 1961 | 84 | ||
| 6 Dec 1916 | William Kennedy Jones | 4 May 1865 | 20 Oct 1921 | 56 | |
| 10 Nov 1921 | William Humble Eric Ward,styled Viscount | ||||
| Ednam,later [1932] 3rd Earl of Dudley | 30 Jan 1894 | 26 Dec 1969 | 75 | ||
| 29 Oct 1924 | David Euan Wallace | 20 Apr 1892 | 9 Feb 1941 | 48 | |
| 28 May 1941 | Leonard David Gammans,later [1955] 1st baronet | 10 Nov 1895 | 8 Feb 1957 | 61 | |
| 30 May 1957 | Ann Muriel Gammans | 6 Mar 1898 | 28 Dec 1989 | 91 | |
| 31 Mar 1966 | Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi [kt 1983] | 21 Jun 1927 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HORNSEY & | |||||
| WOOD GREEN" 1983 | |||||
| HORNSEY & WOOD GREEN (LONDON) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Sir Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi | 21 Jun 1927 | |||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Barbara Maureen Roche | 13 Apr 1954 | |||
| 5 May 2005 | Lynne Choona Featherstone | 20 Dec 1951 | |||
| HORSHAM (SUSSEX) | |||||
| c Apr 1660 | Thomas Middleton | 1 Mar 1589 | c 1662 | ||
| Hall Ravenscroft | c 1600 | after 1673 | |||
| 28 Mar 1661 | Sir John Covert,1st baronet (to 1679) | 3 Jun 1620 | 11 Mar 1679 | 58 | |
| Henry Chowne | c 1613 | 22 Oct 1668 | |||
| 25 Oct 1669 | Orlando Bridgeman,later [1673] 1st baronet | 9 Dec 1649 | 20 Apr 1701 | 51 | |
| 17 Feb 1679 | Anthony Eversfield | c 1621 | 24 Oct 1695 | ||
| John Michell (to 1685) | 13 Aug 1644 | 26 Dec 1706 | 62 | ||
| 1 Mar 1681 | John Machell (to Jan 1701) | 1 May 1637 | 24 Jun 1704 | 67 | |
| 12 Mar 1685 | Anthony Eversfield | c 1621 | 24 Oct 1695 | ||
| 3 Mar 1690 | Thomas White | 2 May 1667 | 20 Jul 1719 | 52 | |
| 1 Nov 1695 | Henry Yates (to 1702) | 6 Sep 1659 | 10 May 1716 | 56 | |
| 6 Jan 1701 | Henry Cowper | 30 Oct 1668 | 22 Mar 1707 | 38 | |
| 22 Nov 1701 | John Wicker (to 1705) | 5 Aug 1658 | May 1720 | 61 | |
| 16 Jul 1702 | Henry Cowper (to 1707) | 30 Oct 1668 | 22 Mar 1707 | 38 | |
| 10 May 1705 | Charles Eversfield (to 1710) [at the | 15 Sep 1683 | 17 Jan 1749 | 65 | |
| general election in Oct 1710,Eversfield was | |||||
| also returned for Sussex,for which he | |||||
| chose to sit] | |||||
| 4 Apr 1707 | Henry Goring,later [1714] 4th baronet | 16 Sep 1679 | 12 Nov 1731 | 52 | |
| 3 May 1708 | John Wicker (to 1713) | 5 Aug 1658 | May 1720 | 61 | |
| 5 Dec 1710 | John Middleton (to Jan 1715) | 5 Oct 1671 | 9 Nov 1745 | 74 | |
| 28 Sep 1713 | Charles Eversfield (to Jun 1715) | 15 Sep 1683 | 17 Jan 1749 | 65 | |
| 29 Jan 1715 | Sir Henry Goring,4th baronet | 16 Sep 1679 | 12 Nov 1731 | 52 | |
| [Both sitting members (Eversfield and Goring) | |||||
| were unseated on petition in favour of the | |||||
| two Arthur Ingrams 16 Jun 1715] | |||||
| 16 Jun 1715 | Arthur Ingram,later [1721] 6th Viscount Irvine [S] | 21 Dec 1689 | 26 May 1736 | 46 | |
| Arthur Ingram (to 1722) | 17 Jun 1742 | ||||
| 12 Jun 1721 | Charles Eversfield (to 1741) | 15 Sep 1683 | 17 Jan 1749 | 65 | |
| 21 Mar 1722 | Henry Ingram,later [1736] 7th Viscount Irvine [S] | 30 Apr 1691 | 4 Apr 1761 | 69 | |
| 7 Feb 1737 | Charles Ingram (to 1748) | 27 Mar 1696 | 28 Nov 1748 | 52 | |
| 4 May 1741 | Sir Richard Mill,5th baronet | c 1689 | 16 May 1760 | ||
| 30 Jun 1747 | Charles Ingram (to 1763) | 19 Mar 1727 | 19 Jun 1778 | 51 | |
| 17 Dec 1748 | Sir Lionel Pilkington,5th baronet (to 1768) | 20 Jan 1707 | 11 Aug 1778 | 71 | |
| 22 Nov 1763 | Robert Pratt (to 1774) | Mar 1726 | 21 Jul 1775 | 49 | |
| 18 Mar 1768 | James Grenville | 12 Feb 1715 | 14 Sep 1783 | 68 | |
| 18 Apr 1770 | James Wallace (to 1783) | 12 Mar 1729 | 16 Nov 1783 | 54 | |
| 8 Oct 1774 | Jeremiah Dyson | c 1722 | 16 Sep 1776 | ||
| 28 Oct 1776 | Charles Moore,6th Earl of Drogheda [I], | ||||
| later [1791] 1st Marquess of Drogheda [I] | 29 Jun 1730 | 22 Dec 1822 | 92 | ||
| 9 Sep 1780 | George Legge,styledViscount Lewisham,later | ||||
| [1801] 3rd later Earl of Dartmouth [he was | 3 Oct 1755 | 10 Nov 1810 | 55 | ||
| also returned for Staffordshire,for which he | |||||
| chose to sit] | |||||
| 30 Nov 1780 | Sir George Osborn,4th baronet (to 1784) | 10 May 1742 | 29 Jun 1818 | 76 | |
| 28 Nov 1783 | James Crauford | c 1744 | 22 Mar 1811 | ||
| 1 Apr 1784 | Jeremiah Crutchley | 20 Dec 1745 | 28 Dec 1805 | 60 | |
| Philip Metcalfe | 29 Aug 1733 | 10 Aug 1818 | 84 | ||
| 19 Jun 1790 | Timothy Shelley | 7 Sep 1753 | 24 Apr 1844 | 90 | |
| Wilson Braddyll | 10 Feb 1756 | 20 Nov 1818 | 62 | ||
| [Both sitting members were unseated on | |||||
| petition in favour of Lord William Gordon and | |||||
| James Baillie 10 Mar 1792] | |||||
| 10 Mar 1792 | Lord William Gordon (to 1796) | 15 Aug 1744 | 1 May 1823 | 78 | |
| James Baillie | c 1737 | 7 Sep 1793 | |||
| 24 Oct 1793 | William Fullarton | 12 Jan 1754 | 13 Feb 1808 | 54 | |
| 30 May 1796 | Sir John Macpherson,1st baronet | c 1745 | 12 Jan 1821 | ||
| James Fox-Lane | Aug 1756 | 7 Apr 1821 | 64 | ||
| 8 Jul 1802 | Edward Hilliard (to 1806) | c 1754 | 18 Dec 1815 | ||
| Patrick Ross | c 1740 | 24 Aug 1804 | |||
| 10 Oct 1804 | James Edward Harris,styled Viscount | ||||
| FitzHarris,later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury | 19 Aug 1778 | 10 Sep 1841 | 63 | ||
| 4 Nov 1806 | Francis John Wilder | c 1775 | 23 Jan 1824 | ||
| Love Parry Jones-Parry (to 1808) | 28 Nov 1781 | 23 Jan 1853 | 71 | ||
| James Edward Harris,styled Viscount | |||||
| FitzHarris,later [1820] 2nd Earl of Malmesbury | 19 Aug 1778 | 10 Sep 1841 | 63 | ||
| Henry John Temple,3rd Viscount Palmerston | 20 Oct 1784 | 18 Oct 1865 | 80 | ||
| Double return. Wilder and Jones-Parry | |||||
| declared elected 20 Jan 1807 | |||||
| 12 May 1807 | Sir Samuel Romilly | 1 Mar 1757 | 2 Nov 1818 | 61 | |
| [Both sitting members (Jones-Parry and | |||||
| Romilly) unseated on petition in favour of | |||||
| Joseph Marryat and Henry Goulburn | |||||
| 26 Feb 1808] | |||||
| 26 Feb 1808 | Joseph Marryat | 8 Oct 1757 | 12 Jan 1824 | 66 | |
| Henry Goulburn | 19 Mar 1784 | 12 Jan 1856 | 71 | ||
| 9 Oct 1812 | Sir Arthur Leary Piggott | 19 Oct 1749 | 6 Sep 1819 | 69 | |
| Robert Hurst (to 1829) | 19 Sep 1750 | 13 Apr 1843 | 92 | ||
| 15 Jun 1818 | George Richard Philips,later [1847] 2nd baronet | 23 Dec 1789 | 22 Feb 1883 | 93 | |
| 9 Mar 1820 | Sir John Aubrey,6th baronet | 4 Jul 1739 | 14 Mar 1826 | 86 | |
| 17 Mar 1826 | Henry Edward Fox,later [1840] 4th Baron Holland | 7 Mar 1802 | 18 Dec 1859 | 57 | |
| 14 Feb 1827 | Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne,later [1839] | ||||
| 1st Baron Colborne (to 1832) | 14 Apr 1779 | 3 May 1854 | 75 | ||
| 4 May 1829 | Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard,styled Earl of | ||||
| Surrey,later [1842] 13th Duke of Norfolk | 12 Aug 1791 | 18 Feb 1856 | 64 | ||
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1832 | |||||
| 11 Dec 1832 | Robert Henry Hurst (the elder) | by May 1859 | |||
| 28 Jun 1841 | Robert Campbell Scarlett,later [1844] 2nd | ||||
| Baron Abinger | 5 Sep 1794 | 24 Jun 1861 | 66 | ||
| 1 May 1844 | Robert Henry Hurst (the elder) | by May 1859 | |||
| 28 Jul 1847 | John Jervis [his election was declared | 1826 | |||
| void 23 Mar 1848] | |||||
| 28 Jun 1848 | William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald | 1818 | 28 Jun 1885 | 67 | |
| [kt 1867] [He was unseated on petition in favour | |||||
| of Lord Edward George Fitzalan-Howard | |||||
| 4 Sep 1848] | |||||
| 4 Sep 1848 | Lord Edward George Fitzalan-Howard, | ||||
| later [1869] 1st Baron Howard of Glossop | 20 Jun 1818 | 1 Dec 1883 | 65 | ||
| 6 Jul 1852 | William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald | 1818 | 28 Jun 1885 | 67 | |
| [kt 1867] | |||||
| 12 Jul 1865 | Robert Henry Hurst (the younger) | 1817 | 12 Feb 1905 | 87 | |
| 18 Nov 1868 | Robert Henry Hurst (the younger) | 1817 | 12 Feb 1905 | 87 | |
| John Aldridge | 4 Jan 1832 | 23 Feb 1888 | 56 | ||
| Double return,Hurst and Aldridge receiving an | |||||
| equal number of votes. Aldridge declined to | |||||
| pursue his claim, with the result that Hurst | |||||
| was declared elected 3 May 1869 | |||||
| 4 Feb 1874 | Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey | ||||
| Fitzgerald | 1818 | 28 Jun 1885 | 67 | ||
| 17 Dec 1875 | Robert Henry Hurst (the younger) [his election | 1817 | 12 Feb 1905 | 87 | |
| was declared void 16 Feb 1876] | |||||
| 29 Feb 1876 | James Clifton Brown | 13 Feb 1841 | 15 Jan 1917 | 75 | |
| 1 Apr 1880 | Sir Henry Fletcher (Aubrey-Fletcher from 1903), | ||||
| 4th baronet | 24 Sep 1835 | 19 May 1910 | 74 | ||
| 2 Dec 1885 | Sir Walter Barttelot Barttelot,1st baronet | 10 Oct 1820 | 2 Feb 1893 | 72 | |
| 24 Feb 1893 | John Heywood Johnstone | 18 May 1850 | 10 Oct 1904 | 54 | |
| 12 Nov 1904 | Edward Turnour,styled Viscount Turnour, | 4 Apr 1883 | 27 Aug 1962 | 79 | |
| later [1907] 6th Earl Winterton [I] | |||||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM | |||||
| & WORTHING" 1918,BUT REVERTED 1945 | |||||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Edward Turnour,6th Earl Winterton [I] | 4 Apr 1883 | 27 Aug 1962 | 79 | |
| 25 Oct 1951 | Charles Frederick Howard Gough | 16 Sep 1901 | 19 Sep 1977 | 76 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Peter Maudslay Hordern [kt 1985] | 18 Apr 1929 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM & | |||||
| CRAWLEY" 1974,BUT REVERTED 1983 | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Peter Maudslay Hordern [kt 1985] | 18 Apr 1929 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude | 4 Jul 1953 | |||
| HORSHAM & CRAWLEY | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Peter Maudslay Hordern [kt 1985] | 18 Apr 1929 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM" 1983 | |||||
| HORSHAM & WORTHING (SUSSEX) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Edward Turnour,6th Earl Winterton [I] | 4 Apr 1883 | 27 Aug 1962 | 79 | |
| NAME ALTERED TO "HORSHAM" 1945 | |||||
| HOUGHTON & SUNDERLAND SOUTH | |||||
| 6 May 2010 | Bridget Maeve Phillipson | 19 Dec 1983 | |||
| HOUGHTON & WASHINGTON (TYNE & WEAR) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Roland Boyes | 12 Feb 1937 | 16 Jun 2006 | 69 | |
| NAME ALTERED TO "HOUGHTON AND | |||||
| WASHINGTON EAST" 1997 | |||||
| HOUGHTON & WASHINGTON EAST | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Fraser Kemp | 1 Sep 1958 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HOUGHTON AND | |||||
| SUNDERLAND SOUTH" 2010 | |||||
| HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING (DURHAM) | |||||
| 28 Nov 1885 | John Wilson | 1837 | 24 Mar 1915 | 77 | |
| 14 Jul 1886 | Nicholas Wood | 1832 | 24 Dec 1892 | 60 | |
| Jul 1892 | Henry Thomas Fenwick | 20 Dec 1863 | 30 Aug 1939 | 75 | |
| 22 Jul 1895 | Robert Cameron | 1825 | 13 Feb 1913 | 87 | |
| 18 Mar 1913 | Thomas Edward Wing | 12 Aug 1853 | 12 May 1935 | 81 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Robert Richardson | 1 Feb 1862 | 28 Dec 1943 | 81 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Robert Chapman,later [1958] 1st baronet | 3 Mar 1880 | 31 Jul 1963 | 83 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | William Joseph Stewart | c 1878 | 5 Mar 1960 | ||
| 26 Jul 1945 | William Reid Blyton,later [1964] Baron Blyton [L] | 2 May 1899 | 25 Oct 1987 | 88 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Thomas William Urwin | 9 Jun 1912 | 14 Dec 1985 | 73 | |
| ALTERED TO "HOUGHTON & | |||||
| WASHINGTON" 1983 | |||||
| HOVE | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe | 25 Oct 1904 | 8 Sep 1965 | 60 | |
| 22 Jul 1965 | William Francis Martin Maddan | 4 Oct 1920 | 22 Aug 1973 | 52 | |
| 8 Nov 1973 | Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury [kt 1995] | 11 Jun 1932 | |||
| 1 May 1997 | Ivor Keith Caplin | 8 Nov 1958 | |||
| 5 May 2005 | Celia Anne Barlow | 28 Sep 1955 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Michael Richard Weatherley | 2 Jul 1957 | |||
| HOWDEN (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 26 May 1955 | Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan [kt 1972] | 3 Aug 1913 | 11 Oct 2004 | 91 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| HOWDENSHIRE (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 28 Nov 1885 | Arthur Duncombe | 11 Feb 1840 | 12 Jun 1911 | 71 | |
| Jul 1892 | William Henry Wilson-Todd,later [1903] | ||||
| 1st baronet | 1828 | 10 Apr 1910 | 81 | ||
| 26 Jan 1906 | Henry Broadley Harrison-Broadley | 12 Mar 1853 | 29 Dec 1914 | 61 | |
| 10 Feb 1915 | Francis Stanley Jackson [kt 1927] | 21 Nov 1870 | 9 Mar 1947 | 76 | |
| 25 Nov 1926 | William Henton Carver | 27 May 1868 | 28 Jan 1961 | 92 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Clifford William Hudson Glossop | 30 Jun 1901 | 4 Jul 1975 | 74 | |
| 27 Nov 1947 | George William Odey | 21 Apr 1900 | 16 Oct 1985 | 85 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
| HOXTON | |||||
| 25 Nov 1885 | James Stuart | Jan 1843 | 12 Oct 1913 | 70 | |
| 4 Oct 1900 | Claude George Drummond Hay | 24 Jun 1862 | 24 Oct 1920 | 58 | |
| 17 Jan 1910 | Christopher Addison,later [1945] Viscount | ||||
| Addison | 19 Jun 1869 | 11 Dec 1951 | 82 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| HUDDERSFIELD (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1832 | Lewis Fenton | 27 Nov 1833 | |||
| 9 Jan 1834 | John Blackburne | 1787 | 21 Apr 1837 | 49 | |
| 8 May 1837 | Edward Ellice | 19 Aug 1810 | 2 Aug 1880 | 70 | |
| 29 Jul 1837 | William Rookes Crompton Stansfield | 1790 | after 1858 | ||
| [following the general election in Jul 1852, | |||||
| he was unseated 15 Mar 1853] | |||||
| 22 Apr 1853 | George Frederick Samuel Robinson,styled | ||||
| Viscount Goderich,later [1871] 1st Marquess | |||||
| of Ripon | 24 Oct 1827 | 9 Jul 1909 | 81 | ||
| 30 Mar 1857 | Edward Akroyd | 1810 | 19 Nov 1887 | 77 | |
| 2 May 1859 | Edward Aldam Leatham | 2 Aug 1828 | 6 Feb 1900 | 71 | |
| 14 Jul 1865 | Thomas Pearson Crosland | 1815 | 8 Mar 1868 | 52 | |
| 20 Mar 1868 | Edward Aldam Leatham | 2 Aug 1828 | 6 Feb 1900 | 71 | |
| 3 Jul 1886 | William Summers | 1853 | 1 Jan 1893 | 39 | |
| 4 Feb 1893 | Sir Joseph Crosland | 1826 | 27 Aug 1904 | 78 | |
| 15 Jul 1895 | Sir James Thomas Woodhouse,later [1918] 1st | ||||
| Baron Terrington | 16 Jul 1852 | 8 Feb 1921 | 68 | ||
| 27 Nov 1906 | Arthur James Sherwell | 11 Apr 1863 | 13 Jan 1942 | 78 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Charles Sykes,later [1921] 1st baronet | 31 Dec 1867 | 16 Nov 1950 | 82 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Sir Arthur Harold Marshall | 2 Aug 1870 | 18 Jan 1956 | 85 | |
| 6 Dec 1923 | James Hindle Hudson | 27 Sep 1881 | 10 Jan 1962 | 80 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | William Mabane,later [1962] 1st Baron Mabane | 12 Jan 1895 | 16 Nov 1969 | 74 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Joseph Percival William Mallalieu | 18 Jun 1908 | 13 Mar 1980 | 71 | |
| CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO EAST & WEST | |||||
| DIVISIONS 1950,BUT RE-UNITED 1983 | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Barry John Sheerman | 17 Aug 1940 | |||
| HUDDERSFIELD EAST | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Joseph Percival William Mallalieu | 18 Jun 1908 | 13 Mar 1980 | 71 | |
| 3 May 1979 | Barry John Sheerman | 17 Aug 1940 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| HUDDERSFIELD WEST | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Donald William Wade,later [1964] Baron | ||||
| Wade [L] | 16 Jun 1904 | 6 Nov 1988 | 84 | ||
| 15 Oct 1964 | Kenneth Lomas | 16 Nov 1922 | 15 Jul 2000 | 77 | |
| 3 May 1979 | Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens | 26 Aug 1931 | 17 May 1995 | 63 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| (KINGSTON UPON) HULL (YORKSHIRE) | |||||
| 2 Apr 1660 | John Ramsden | c 1612 | c 1665 | ||
| Andrew Marvell (to 1678) | 31 Mar 1621 | 16 Aug 1678 | 57 | ||
| 1 Apr 1661 | Anthony Gilby (to Feb 1679) | 27 Apr 1682 | |||
| 25 Nov 1678 | William Ramsden (to Sep 1679) | c 1618 | 2 Sep 1680 | ||
| 24 Feb 1679 | Lemuel Kingdon | c 1654 | 19 Feb 1686 | ||
| 1 Sep 1679 | Sir Michael Warton | c 1648 | 25 Mar 1725 | ||
| William Gee | c 1648 | 15 Oct 1718 | |||
| 16 Mar 1685 | John Ramsden (to 1695) | c 1657 | 26 Mar 1718 | ||
| Sir Willoughby Hickman,3rd baronet | 20 Aug 1659 | 28 Oct 1720 | 61 | ||
| 10 Jan 1689 | William Gee | c 1648 | 15 Oct 1718 | ||
| 13 Mar 1690 | Charles Osborne (to 1701) | c 1633 | 7 Aug 1719 | ||
| 23 Oct 1695 | Sir William St.Quintin,3rd baronet (to 1724) | c 1662 | 30 Jun 1723 | ||
| 11 Jan 1701 | William Maister (to 1717) | after 1660 | 27 Oct 1716 | ||
| 13 Mar 1717 | Nathaniel Rogers (to 1727) | after 1727 | |||
| 23 Jan 1724 | George Crowle (to 1747) | 11 May 1696 | 18 Jul 1754 | 58 | |
| 23 Aug 1727 | Joseph Micklethwaite,1st Viscount | ||||
| Micklethwaite [I] | c 1680 | 16 Jan 1734 | |||
| 6 Feb 1734 | Henry Maister | 1 Feb 1699 | 15 Dec 1744 | 45 | |
| 7 May 1741 | William Carter | c 1681 | 2 Apr 1744 | ||
| 2 May 1744 | Harry Pulteney | 14 Feb 1686 | 26 Oct 1767 | 81 | |
| 29 Jun 1747 | Lord Robert Manners (to 1782) | c 1717 | 31 May 1782 | ||
| Thomas Carter | c 1714 | 3 Jun 1767 | |||
| 18 Apr 1754 | Richard Crowle | 15 Jul 1699 | 21 Jun 1757 | 57 | |
| 4 Jul 1757 | Sir George Montgomery Metham | 6 Feb 1716 | 2 Mar 1793 | 77 | |
| 15 Mar 1766 | William Weddell | 13 May 1736 | 30 Apr 1792 | 55 | |
| 12 Oct 1774 | David Hartley | c 1730 | 19 Dec 1813 | ||
| 11 Sep 1780 | William Wilberforce (to Jun 1784) [at the | 24 Aug 1759 | 29 Jul 1833 | 73 | |
| general election in Mar 1784,he was also | |||||
| returned for Yorkshire,for which he chose | |||||
| to sit] | |||||
| 6 Jun 1782 | David Hartley | c 1730 | 19 Dec 1813 | ||
| 31 Mar 1784 | Samuel Thornton (to 1806) | 6 Nov 1754 | 3 Jul 1838 | 83 | |
| 14 Jun 1784 | Walter Spencer Stanhope | 4 Feb 1749 | 10 Apr 1822 | 72 | |
| 21 Jun 1790 | Aubrey Beauclerk,styled Earl of Burford, | ||||
| later [1802] 6th Duke of St.Albans | 21 Aug 1765 | 12 Aug 1815 | 49 | ||
| 27 May 1796 | Sir Charles Turner,2nd baronet | 28 Jan 1773 | 1 Feb 1810 | 37 | |
| 6 Jul 1802 | John Staniforth (to 1818) | 30 Mar 1830 | |||
| 31 Oct 1806 | William Joseph Denison | May 1770 | 2 Aug 1849 | 79 | |
| 5 May 1807 | Philip Henry Stanhope,styled Viscount | ||||
| Mahon,later [1816] 4th Earl Stanhope | 7 Dec 1781 | 2 Mar 1855 | 73 | ||
| 6 Oct 1812 | Sir George William Denys,1st baronet | 20 May 1788 | 26 Apr 1857 | 68 | |
| 14 Jul 1818 | John Mitchell (to 1826) | c 1781 | 29 Aug 1859 | ||
| James Robert George Graham,later [1824] | |||||
| 2nd baronet | 1 Jun 1792 | 25 Oct 1861 | 69 | ||
| 7 Mar 1820 | Daniel Sykes (to 1830) | 1766 | 24 Jan 1832 | 65 | |
| 10 Jun 1826 | Augustus John Henry O'Neill | 23 Jun 1792 | after 1853 | ||
| 30 Jul 1830 | George Schonswar | 15 Jul 1775 | 19 Jan 1859 | 83 | |
| William Battie-Wrightson | 6 Oct 1789 | 10 Feb 1879 | 89 | ||
| 13 Dec 1832 | Matthew Davenport Hill | 6 Aug 1792 | 7 Jun 1872 | 79 | |
| William Hutt [kt 1865] (to 1837) | 6 Oct 1801 | 24 Nov 1882 | 81 | ||
| 8 Jan 1835 | David Carruthers | Jun 1835 | |||
| 20 Jun 1835 | Thomas Perronet Thompson | 15 Mar 1783 | 6 Sep 1869 | 86 | |
| 24 Jul 1837 | William Wilberforce [he was unseated on | 1798 | 26 May 1879 | 80 | |
| petition in favour of William Hutt 7 May 1838] | |||||
| Sir Walter Charles James,2nd baronet,later | |||||
| [1884] 1st Baron Northbourne (to 1847) | 3 Jun 1816 | 4 Feb 1893 | 76 | ||
| 7 May 1838 | William Hutt [kt 1865] | 6 Oct 1801 | 24 Nov 1882 | 81 | |
| 30 Jun 1841 | Sir John Hanmer,3rd baronet,later [1872] | ||||
| 1st Baron Hanmer | 22 Dec 1809 | 8 Mar 1881 | 71 | ||
| 29 Jul 1847 | Matthew Talbot Baines | 17 Feb 1799 | 22 Jan 1860 | 60 | |
| James Clay (to 1854) | 20 Dec 1804 | 26 Sep 1873 | 69 | ||
| 8 Jul 1852 | George Frederick Samuel Robinson,styled | ||||
| Viscount Goderich,later [1871] 1st Marquess | |||||
| of Ripon | 24 Oct 1827 | 9 Jul 1909 | 81 | ||
| Election declared void 7 Mar 1853. Writ | |||||
| suspended until Aug 1854 | |||||
| 18 Aug 1854 | William Digby Seymour (to Mar 1857) | 1805 | 1872 | 67 | |
| William Henry Watson | 1796 | 13 Mar 1860 | 63 | ||
| 11 Feb 1857 | James Clay (to 1873) | 20 Dec 1804 | 26 Sep 1873 | 69 | |
| 28 Mar 1857 | Anthony Ashley-Cooper,styled Baron Ashley, | ||||
| later [1885] 8th Earl of Shaftesbury | 27 Jun 1831 | 13 Apr 1886 | 54 | ||
| 30 Apr 1859 | Joseph Hoare [he was unseated on | 21 Mar 1814 | 21 Jan 1886 | 71 | |
| petition 12 Aug 1859] | |||||
| 20 Aug 1859 | Joseph Somes | 1819 | 29 May 1871 | 52 | |
| 13 Jul 1865 | Charles Morgan Norwood (to 1885) | 1825 | 24 Apr 1891 | 65 | |
| 24 Oct 1873 | Joseph Walker Pease | 1820 | 22 Nov 1882 | 62 | |
| 7 Feb 1874 | Charles Henry Wilson,later [1906] 1st Baron | ||||
| Nunburnholme | 22 Apr 1833 | 27 Oct 1907 | 74 | ||
| SPLIT INTO 3 DIVISIONS 1885 | |||||
| SEE "HULL CENTRAL","HULL EAST" AND | |||||
| "HULL WEST" | |||||
| HULL CENTRAL | |||||
| 25 Nov 1885 | Henry Seymour King [kt 1892],later [1932] 1st | ||||
| baronet [following the general election | 4 Jan 1852 | 14 Nov 1933 | 81 | ||
| in Dec 1910, he was unseated on petition | |||||
| 1 Jun 1911] | |||||
| 5 Jul 1911 | Mark Sykes,later [1913] 6th baronet | 16 Mar 1879 | 16 Feb 1919 | 39 | |
| 29 Mar 1919 | Joseph Montague Kenworthy,later [1934] 10th | ||||
| Baron Strabolgi | 7 Mar 1886 | 8 Oct 1953 | 67 | ||
| 27 Oct 1931 | Basil Kelsey Barton | 1879 | 2 Jul 1958 | 79 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | Walter Windsor | 18 Jul 1884 | 29 Jun 1945 | 60 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Mark Hewitson | 15 Dec 1897 | 27 Feb 1973 | 75 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1955, | |||||
| BUT REVIVED FEB 1974 | |||||
| 28 Feb 1974 | Joseph Kevin McNamara | 5 Sep 1934 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| HULL EAST | |||||
| 25 Nov 1885 | William Saunders | 1823 | 1 May 1895 | 71 | |
| 5 Jul 1886 | Frederick Brent Grotrian | 1838 | 8 Apr 1905 | 66 | |
| Jul 1892 | Clarence Smith [kt 1895] | 16 Jun 1849 | 10 Jun 1941 | 91 | |
| 17 Jul 1895 | Joseph Thomas Firbank [kt 1902] | 1850 | 7 Oct 1910 | 60 | |
| 18 Jan 1906 | Thomas Robinson Ferens | 4 May 1847 | 9 May 1930 | 83 | |
| 14 Dec 1918 | Charles Kenneth Murchison [kt 1927] | 22 Sep 1872 | 17 Dec 1952 | 80 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Lawrence Roger Lumley,later [1945] 11th | ||||
| Earl of Scarbrough | 27 Jul 1896 | 29 Jun 1969 | 72 | ||
| 30 May 1929 | George Muff,later [1945] 1st Baron Calverley | 10 Feb 1877 | 20 Sep 1955 | 78 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | John James Henry Nation | 5 Dec 1874 | 5 Nov 1946 | 71 | |
| 14 Nov 1935 | George Muff,later [1945] 1st Baron Calverley | 10 Feb 1877 | 20 Sep 1955 | 78 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Harry Pursey | 24 Aug 1891 | 13 Dec 1980 | 89 | |
| 18 Jun 1970 | John Leslie Prescott,later [2010] Baron | ||||
| Prescott [L] | 31 May 1938 | ||||
| 6 May 2010 | Karl Turner | 15 Apr 1971 | |||
| HULL NORTH | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | Walter Richard Austen Hudson | 8 Dec 1894 | 21 Aug 1970 | 75 | |
| 8 Oct 1959 | James Michael Coulson | 23 Nov 1927 | 18 Jun 2002 | 74 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | Henry Solomons | 7 Nov 1902 | 7 Nov 1965 | 63 | |
| 27 Jan 1966 | Joseph Kevin McNamara | 5 Sep 1934 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974, | |||||
| BUT REVIVED 1983 | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Joseph Kevin McNamara | 5 Sep 1934 | |||
| 5 May 2005 | Diana Ruth Johnson | 25 Jul 1966 | |||
| HULL NORTH-WEST | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Albert Lambert Ward,later [1929] 1st baronet | 7 Nov 1875 | 21 Oct 1956 | 80 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Ronald William Gordon Mackay | 3 Sep 1902 | 15 Jan 1960 | 57 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
| HULL SOUTH-WEST | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Cyril Fullard Entwistle [kt 1937] | 23 Sep 1887 | 9 Jul 1974 | 86 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Herbert Brent Grotrian,later [1934] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 29 Mar 1870 | 28 Oct 1951 | 81 | ||
| 30 May 1929 | John Arnott | 21 Dec 1871 | 20 Feb 1942 | 70 | |
| 27 Oct 1931 | Richard Kidston Law,later [1954] 1st Baron | ||||
| Coleraine | 27 Feb 1901 | 15 Nov 1980 | 79 | ||
| 26 Jul 1945 | Sydney Herbert Smith | 27 Apr 1885 | 12 Jun 1984 | 99 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
| HULL WEST | |||||
| 25 Nov 1885 | Charles Henry Wilson,later [1906] 1st Baron | ||||
| Nunburnholme | 22 Apr 1833 | 27 Oct 1907 | 74 | ||
| 18 Jan 1906 | Charles Henry Wellesley Wilson,later [1907] | ||||
| 2nd Baron Nunburnholme | 24 Jan 1875 | 15 Aug 1924 | 49 | ||
| 28 Nov 1907 | Guy Greville Wilson | 19 May 1877 | 1 Feb 1943 | 65 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918, | |||||
| BUT REVIVED 1955 | |||||
| 26 May 1955 | Mark Hewitson | 15 Dec 1897 | 27 Feb 1973 | 75 | |
| 15 Oct 1964 | James Johnson | 16 Sep 1908 | 31 Jan 1995 | 86 | |
| 9 Jun 1983 | Stuart Randall,later [1997] Baron Randall [L] | 22 Jun 1938 | |||
| NAME ALTERED TO "HULL WEST AND | |||||
| HESSLE" 1997 | |||||
| HULL WEST AND HESSLE | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | Alan Arthur Johnson | 17 May 1950 | |||
| HULME (MANCHESTER) | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Sir Joseph Nall,later [1954] 1st baronet | 24 Aug 1887 | 2 May 1958 | 70 | |
| 30 May 1929 | Andrew McElwee | 18 Jun 1968 | |||
| 27 Oct 1931 | Sir Joseph Nall,later [1954] 1st baronet | 24 Aug 1887 | 2 May 1958 | 70 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Frederick Lee,later [1974] Baron | ||||
| Lee of Newton [L] | 3 Aug 1906 | 4 Feb 1984 | 77 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950 | |||||
| HUNTINGDON (HUNTINGDONSHIRE) | |||||
| 27 Mar 1660 | John Bernard,later [1666] 2nd baronet | Nov 1630 | 25 Jun 1679 | 48 | |
| Nicholas Pedley [kt 1672] | 17 Sep 1615 | 6 Jul 1685 | 69 | ||
| 12 Apr 1661 | Sir John Cotton,3rd baronet | 9 Mar 1621 | 12 Sep 1702 | 81 | |
| Lionel Walden [kt 1673] | 19 Dec 1620 | 23 Mar 1698 | 77 | ||
| 25 Feb 1679 | Sidney Wortley-Montagu (to 1685) | 28 Jul 1650 | 11 Nov 1727 | 77 | |
| Sir Nicholas Pedley | 17 Sep 1615 | 6 Jul 1685 | 69 | ||
| 19 Aug 1679 | Lionel Walden (to 1689) | 19 Dec 1620 | 23 Mar 1698 | 77 | |
| 10 Mar 1685 | Oliver Montagu | c 1655 | 25 Dec 1689 | ||
| 9 Jan 1689 | Sidney Wortley Montagu (to 1695) | 28 Jul 1650 | 11 Nov 1727 | 77 | |
| John Bigg | 5 Jul 1652 | c 1710 | |||
| 25 Feb 1690 | Richard Montagu (to 1697) | c 1670 | 19 Apr 1697 | ||
| 22 Oct 1695 | John Pocklington (to 1698) | c 1658 | 22 Oct 1731 | ||
| 14 Dec 1697 | Francis Wortley Montagu (to 1702) | c 1676 | Sep 1702 | ||
| 23 Jul 1698 | Edward Carteret | 28 Nov 1671 | 15 Apr 1739 | 67 | |
| 6 Jan 1701 | Charles Boyle,later [1703] 4th Earl of Orrery [I] | 28 Jul 1674 | 28 Aug 1731 | 57 | |
| (to 1705) | |||||
| 20 Jul 1702 | Anthony Hammond | 1 Sep 1668 | 1738 | 69 | |
| 15 May 1705 | Sir John Cotton,4th baronet [he was | c 1680 | 5 Feb 1731 | ||
| unseated on petition in favour of John | |||||
| Pedley 22 Jan 1706] | |||||
| Edward Wortley-Montagu (to 1713) | 8 Feb 1678 | 22 Jan 1761 | 82 | ||
| 22 Jan 1706 | John Pedley | c 1666 | 1722 | ||
| 6 May 1708 | Francis Page | c 1661 | 19 Dec 1741 | ||
| 28 Aug 1713 | Edward Richard Montagu,styled Viscount | ||||
| Hinchingbrooke | 7 Jul 1692 | 3 Oct 1722 | 30 | ||
| Sidney Wortley Montagu | 28 Jul 1650 | 11 Nov 1727 | 77 | ||
| 22 Mar 1722 | Edward Wortley-Montagu | 8 Feb 1678 | 22 Jan 1761 | 82 | |
| Roger Handasyde (to 1741) | c 1684 | 4 Jan 1763 | |||
| 25 Apr 1734 | Edward Montagu (to 1768) | 13 Nov 1692 | 20 May 1775 | 82 | |
| 8 May 1741 | Wills Hill,later [1742] 2nd Viscount Hillsborough | ||||
| and [1789] 1st Marquess Downshire [I] | 30 May 1718 | 7 Oct 1793 | 75 | ||
| [he was also returned for Warwick,for which | |||||
| he chose to sit] | |||||
| 29 Dec 1741 | Albert Nesbitt | 12 Jan 1753 | |||
| 29 Jun 1747 | Kelland Courtenay | c 1707 | 8 Mar 1748 | ||
| 10 Mar 1748 | John Montagu | 1719 | Sep 1795 | 76 | |
| 15 Apr 1754 | Robert Jones (to Feb 1774) | 17 Feb 1774 | |||
| 18 Mar 1768 | Henry Seymour (to Oct 1774) | 21 Oct 1729 | 14 Apr 1807 | 77 | |
| 28 Feb 1774 | William Augustus Montagu (to 1776) | 12 Feb 1752 | 14 Jan 1776 | 23 | |
| 7 Oct 1774 | George Wombwell,later [1778] 1st baronet | 11 Jun 1734 | 2 Nov 1780 | 46 | |
| (to 1780) | |||||
| 31 Jan 1776 | Constantine John Phipps,2nd Baron | ||||
| Mulgrave [I] (to 1784) | 30 May 1744 | 10 Oct 1792 | 48 | ||
| 28 Nov 1780 | Sir Hugh Palliser,1st baronet | 26 Feb 1723 | 19 Mar 1796 | 73 | |
| 31 Mar 1784 | Sir Walter Rawlinson (to 1790) | 1734 | 13 Mar 1805 | 70 | |
| Lancelot Brown | 13 Jan 1748 | 28 Feb 1802 | 54 | ||
| 9 May 1787 | John Willett Payne (to 1796) | 23 Apr 1752 | 17 Nov 1803 | 51 | |
| 21 Jun 1790 | John George Montagu | 3 Apr 1767 | 29 Nov 1790 | 23 | |
| 22 Dec 1790 | Henry Speed | 25 Jul 1766 | 1820 | 53 | |
| 26 May 1796 | William Henry Fellowes | 15 Jul 1769 | 23 Aug 1837 | 68 | |
| John Calvert (to 1831) | c 1758 | 2 Jun 1844 | |||
| 6 May 1807 | William Meeke Farmer | c 1777 | Oct 1836 | ||
| 3 Apr 1809 | Samuel Farmer | c 1748 | 14 May 1839 | ||
| 16 Jun 1818 | William Augustus Montagu | c 1785 | 6 Mar 1852 | ||
| 7 Mar 1820 | John William Robert Kerr,styled Earl of Ancrum, | ||||
| later [1824] 7th Marquess of Lothian | 1 Feb 1794 | 14 Nov 1841 | 47 | ||
| 14 May 1824 | James Stuart | c Jul 1774 | 6 Apr 1833 | 58 | |
| 2 May 1831 | Jonathan Peel (to 1868) | 12 Oct 1799 | 13 Feb 1879 | 79 | |
| Jonathan Frederick Pollock [kt 1834],later | |||||
| [1866] 1st baronet | 23 Sep 1783 | 23 Aug 1870 | 86 | ||
| 22 Apr 1844 | Thomas Baring (to 1873) | 7 Sep 1799 | 18 Nov 1873 | 74 | |
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1868 | |||||
| 20 Dec 1873 | Sir John Burgess Karslake | 1821 | 4 Oct 1881 | 60 | |
| 16 Feb 1876 | Edward George Henry Montagu,styled Viscount | ||||
| Hinchingbrooke,later [1884] 8th Earl of Sandwich | 13 Jul 1839 | 26 Jun 1916 | 76 | ||
| 21 Mar 1884 | Sir Robert Peel,3rd baronet | 4 May 1822 | 9 May 1895 | 73 | |
| 28 Nov 1885 | Thomas Coote | 1850 | |||
| 14 Jul 1886 | Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry,later [1902] 1st | ||||
| Baron Barrymore | 17 Jan 1843 | 22 Feb 1925 | 82 | ||
| 4 Oct 1900 | George Charles Montagu,later [1916] 9th | ||||
| Earl of Sandwich | 29 Dec 1874 | 15 Jun 1962 | 87 | ||
| 19 Jan 1906 | Samuel Howard Whitbread | 8 Jan 1858 | 29 Jul 1944 | 86 | |
| 20 Jan 1910 | John Cator | 24 Sep 1862 | 27 Apr 1944 | 81 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| BUT REVIVED 1983 | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | John Roy Major [KG 2005] | 29 Mar 1943 | |||
| 7 Jun 2001 | Jonathan Simon Djanogly | 3 Jun 1965 | |||
| HUNTINGDONSHIRE | |||||
| Apr 1660 | Robert Montagu,styled Viscount Mandeville, | ||||
| later [1671] 3rd Earl of Manchester | 25 Apr 1634 | 14 Mar 1683 | 48 | ||
| Henry Cromwell (later Williams) | |||||
| (to Nov 1673) | 22 Jun 1625 | 3 Aug 1673 | 48 | ||
| 15 Feb 1673 | Sir Nicholas Pedley (to Feb 1679) | 17 Sep 1615 | 6 Jul 1685 | 69 | |
| 22 Nov 1673 | Robert Apreece (to Aug 1679) | c Dec 1638 | 1723 | 84 | |
| 8 Feb 1679 | Ralph Montagu,later [1683] 3rd Baron Montagu | ||||
| and [1705] 1st Duke of Montagu | 24 Dec 1638 | 9 Mar 1709 | 70 | ||
| 23 Aug 1679 | Sir Thomas Proby,1st baronet | 18 Oct 1632 | 22 Apr 1689 | 56 | |
| Silius Titus | c 1623 | Dec 1704 | |||
| 28 Mar 1685 | Sir John Cotton,3rd baronet | 9 Mar 1621 | 12 Sep 1702 | 81 | |
| Sir Lionel Walden | 19 Dec 1620 | 23 Mar 1698 | 77 | ||
| 14 Jan 1689 | Robert Montagu (to 1693) | c 1667 | 4 Dec 1693 | ||
| Sir Robert Bernard,3rd baronet | by 1670 | 26 Jul 1703 | |||
| 22 Feb 1690 | John Dryden (to 1695) | c 1641 | 3 Jan 1708 | ||
| 23 Dec 1693 | John Proby | 16 Jan 1639 | 14 Nov 1710 | 71 | |
| 26 Oct 1695 | Heneage Montagu | 13 Nov 1675 | c Apr 1698 | 22 | |
| Anthony Hammond (to Jul 1698) | 1 Sep 1668 | 1738 | 69 | ||
| 4 Jun 1698 | Robert Apreece | c Dec 1638 | 1723 | 84 | |
| 30 Jul 1698 | John Proby (to 1702) | 16 Jan 1639 | 14 Nov 1710 | 71 | |
| Robert Throckmorton | c 1662 | 9 Mar 1699 | |||
| 8 Apr 1699 | John Dryden (to Jan 1708) | c 1641 | 3 Jan 1708 | ||
| 25 Jul 1702 | William Naylor | c Oct 1713 | |||
| 26 May 1705 | John Pocklington (to 1713) | c 1658 | 22 Oct 1731 | ||
| 31 Jan 1708 | John Proby | 16 Jan 1639 | 14 Nov 1710 | 71 | |
| 30 Dec 1710 | Sir John Cotton,4th baronet | c 1680 | 5 Feb 1731 | ||
| 5 Sep 1713 | Sir Matthew Dudley,2nd baronet | 1 Oct 1661 | 14 Apr 1721 | 59 | |
| Robert Pigott (to 1722) | 24 Oct 1665 | Dec 1746 | 81 | ||
| 22 Jan 1715 | John Bigg (to 1734) | 24 Mar 1748 | |||
| 13 Apr 1722 | Edward Richard Montagu,styled Viscount | ||||
| Hinchingbrooke | 7 Jul 1692 | 3 Oct 1722 | 30 | ||
| 27 Oct 1722 | John Proby | c 1698 | 15 Mar 1762 | ||
| 26 Aug 1727 | William Cavendish,styled Marquess of | ||||
| Hartington,later [1729] 3rd Duke of Devonshire | 1698 | 5 Dec 1755 | 57 | ||
| 7 Feb 1730 | Robert Pigott (to 1741) | 24 Oct 1665 | Dec 1746 | 81 | |
| 27 Apr 1734 | Lord Robert Montagu,later [1739] 3rd | ||||
| Duke of Manchester | c 1710 | 10 May 1762 | |||
| 27 Nov 1739 | Charles Clarke | c 1702 | 17 May 1750 | ||
| 2 May 1741 | William Mitchell | c 1703 | 15 Sep 1745 | ||
| Coulson Fellowes (to 1761) | 12 Oct 1696 | 23 Feb 1769 | 72 | ||
| 9 Nov 1745 | William Montagu | c 1720 | 10 Feb 1757 | ||
| 18 Jul 1747 | Edward Wortley-Montagu | 16 May 1713 | 29 Apr 1776 | 62 | |
| For further information on this MP,see the | |||||
| note at the foot of this page | |||||
| 4 May 1754 | John Proby,Baron Carysfort [I] (to 1768) | 25 Nov 1720 | 18 Oct 1772 | 51 | |
| 28 Mar 1761 | George Montagu,styled Viscount Mandeville, | ||||
| later [1762] 4th Duke of Manchester | 6 Apr 1737 | 2 Sep 1788 | 51 | ||
| 5 Jun 1762 | Lord Charles Greville Montagu | 29 May 1741 | 4 Feb 1784 | 42 | |
| 28 Dec 1765 | Robert Bernard,later [1766] 5th baronet | c 1739 | 2 Jan 1789 | ||
| 1 Apr 1768 | John Montagu,styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke, | ||||
| later [1792] 5th Earl of Sandwich | 26 Jan 1744 | 6 Jun 1814 | 70 | ||
| Peter Ludlow,Earl Ludlow [I] (to 1796) | 21 Apr 1730 | 26 Oct 1803 | 73 | ||
| 15 May 1792 | Lancelot Brown | 13 Jan 1748 | 28 Feb 1802 | 54 | |
| 3 Jun 1794 | George John Montagu,styled Viscount | ||||
| Hinchingbrooke,later [1814] 6th Earl of Sandwich | |||||
| (to 1814) | 4 Feb 1773 | 21 May 1818 | 45 | ||
| 31 May 1796 | Lord Frederick Montagu | 8 Nov 1774 | 4 Oct 1827 | 52 | |
| 5 Nov 1806 | John Proby,styled Viscount Proby,later [1828] | ||||
| 2nd Earl of Carysfort [I] | 1780 | 11 Jun 1855 | 74 | ||
| 13 May 1807 | William Henry Fellowes (to 1830) | 15 Jul 1769 | 23 Aug 1837 | 68 | |
| 22 Jun 1814 | John Proby,styled Viscount Proby,later [1828] | ||||
| 2nd Earl of Carysfort [I] | 1780 | 11 Jun 1855 | 74 | ||
| 30 Jun 1818 | Lord Frederick Montagu | 8 Nov 1774 | 4 Oct 1827 | 52 | |
| 16 Mar 1820 | Lord John Russell,later [1861] 1st Earl Russell | 18 Aug 1792 | 28 May 1878 | 85 | |
| 20 Jun 1826 | George Montagu,styled Viscount Mandeville, | ||||
| later [1843] 6th Duke of Manchester (to 1837) | 9 Jul 1799 | 18 Aug 1855 | 56 | ||
| 10 Aug 1830 | Charles Gordon,styled Lord Strathavon,later | ||||
| [1853] 10th Marquess of Huntly | 4 Jan 1792 | 18 Sep 1863 | 71 | ||
| 9 May 1831 | John Bonfoy Rooper | 8 Aug 1778 | 11 Mar 1855 | 76 | |
| 10 Aug 1837 | Edward Fellowes,later [1887] 1st Baron | ||||
| de Ramsay (to 1880) | 14 May 1809 | 9 Aug 1887 | 78 | ||
| George Thornhill | 12 Jun 1783 | 19 May 1852 | 68 | ||
| 11 Jun 1852 | William Drogo Montagu,styled Viscount | ||||
| Mandeville,later [1855] 7th Duke of Manchester | 15 Oct 1823 | 22 Mar 1890 | 66 | ||
| 2 Oct 1855 | James Rust (to 1859) | 1798 | 24 Jul 1875 | 77 | |
| 4 Apr 1857 | James Rust | 1798 | 24 Jul 1875 | 77 | |
| Edward Fellowes,later [1887] 1st Baron | |||||
| de Ramsay | 14 May 1809 | 9 Aug 1887 | 78 | ||
| John Moyer Heathcote | 27 Mar 1892 | ||||
| Treble return. Fellowes and Heathcote | |||||
| received an equal number of votes. On | |||||
| scrutiny,Heathcote's votes were reduced by 2 | |||||
| and he was declared unduly elected 31 | |||||
| Jul 1857 | |||||
| 7 May 1859 | Lord Robert Montagu | 24 Jan 1825 | 6 May 1902 | 77 | |
| 15 Feb 1874 | Sir Henry Carstairs Pelly,3rd baronet | 23 Apr 1844 | 4 Jun 1877 | 33 | |
| 30 Jun 1877 | George Victor Drogo Montagu,styled Viscount | ||||
| Mandeville,later [1890] 8th Duke of Manchester | 17 Jun 1853 | 18 Aug 1892 | 39 | ||
| 9 Apr 1880 | William Henry Fellowes,later [1887] 2nd Baron | ||||
| de Ramsey | 16 May 1848 | 8 May 1925 | 76 | ||
| Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon | 11 Oct 1851 | 4 Aug 1888 | 36 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO 2 DIVISIONS | |||||
| 1885. SEE "HUNTINGDON" AND "RAMSEY" | |||||
| RE-UNITED 1918 | |||||
| 14 Dec 1918 | Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson | 1880 | 8 Oct 1954 | 74 | |
| 15 Nov 1922 | Charles Kenneth Murchison [kt 1927] | 22 Sep 1872 | 17 Dec 1952 | 80 | |
| 6 Dec 1923 | Leonard Wilfred James Costello [kt 1935] | 25 Aug 1881 | 2 Dec 1972 | 91 | |
| 29 Oct 1924 | Charles Kenneth Murchison [kt 1927] | 22 Sep 1872 | 17 Dec 1952 | 80 | |
| 30 May 1929 | Sidney John Peters | 2 Dec 1885 | 9 Jan 1976 | 90 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | David Lockhart Mure Renton [kt 1964],later | ||||
| [1979] Baron Renton [L] | 12 Aug 1908 | 24 May 2007 | 98 | ||
| 3 May 1979 | John Roy Major [KG 2005] | 29 Mar 1943 | |||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| HUYTON | |||||
| 23 Feb 1950 | James Harold Wilson [KG 1976],later [1983] | ||||
| Baron Wilson of Rievaulx [L] | 11 Mar 1916 | 24 May 1995 | 79 | ||
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983 | |||||
| HYDE (CHESHIRE) | |||||
| 5 Dec 1885 | Thomas Gair Ashton,later [1911] 1st Baron | ||||
| Ashton of Hyde | 5 Feb 1855 | 1 May 1933 | 78 | ||
| 10 Jul 1886 | Joseph Watson Sidebotham | 29 Apr 1857 | 10 Jun 1925 | 68 | |
| 10 Oct 1900 | Edward Chapman | 1839 | 26 Jul 1906 | 67 | |
| 24 Jan 1906 | Charles Duncan Schwann (Swann from 1913), | 27 Jan 1879 | 10 Mar 1962 | 83 | |
| later [1929] 2nd baronet | |||||
| 20 Jan 1910 | Francis Neilson | 26 Jan 1867 | 13 Apr 1961 | 94 | |
| 30 Mar 1916 | Thomas Owen Jacobsen | 1864 | 15 Jun 1941 | 76 | |
| CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918 | |||||
| HYNDBURN (LANCASHIRE) | |||||
| 9 Jun 1983 | Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves | 1 Mar 1939 | |||
| 9 Apr 1992 | Gregory James Pope | 29 Aug 1960 | |||
| 6 May 2010 | Graham Peter Jones | 3 Mar 1966 | |||
| HYTHE | |||||
| c Apr 1660 | Philip Smythe,2nd Viscount Strangford [I] | 23 Mar 1634 | 8 Aug 1708 | 74 | |
| Phineas Andrews (to Nov 1661) | c 1600 | 23 Sep 1661 | |||
| 6 May 1661 | John Hervey (to Feb 1679) | 18 Aug 1616 | 18 Jan 1680 | 63 | |
| 15 Nov 1661 | Sir Henry Wood,1st baronet | 17 Oct 1597 | 15 May 1671 | 73 | |
| 2 Feb 1673 | Sir Leoline Jenkins | c 1625 | 1 Sep 1685 | ||
| Election declared void 6 Feb 1673. At the | |||||
| subsequent by-election held on 11 Feb 1673, | |||||
| Jenkins was again elected | |||||
| 14 Feb 1679 | Sir Edward Dering,2nd baronet (to 1685) | 8 Nov 1625 | 24 Jun 1684 | 58 | |
| Julius Deedes | 6 Sep 1635 | 9 Mar 1692 | 56 | ||
| 8 Aug 1679 | Edward Hales | 18 Apr 1630 | 9 Aug 1696 | 66 | |
| 3 Apr 1685 | Heneage Finch,later [1712] 5th Earl of | ||||
| Winchilsea (to 1689) | 3 Jan 1657 | 30 Sep 1726 | 69 | ||
| Julius Deedes [his election was declared to be | 6 Sep 1635 | 9 Mar 1692 | 56 | ||
| void and he was replaced by William Shaw - | |||||
| see below] | |||||
| 12 Jun 1685 | William Shaw | c 1644 | 20 Jan 1697 | ||
| 11 Jan 1689 | Edward Hales | 18 Apr 1630 | 9 Aug 1696 | 66 | |
| Julius Deedes | 6 Sep 1635 | 9 Mar 1692 | 56 | ||
| 8 Mar 1690 | Sir Philip Boteler,3rd baronet (to 1708) | c 1667 | Jun 1719 | ||
| William Brockman | 2 Sep 1658 | by Apr 1742 | |||
| 30 Oct 1695 | Jacob des Bouverie | 1659 | 2 Sep 1722 | 63 | |
| 4 Jan 1701 | John Boteler (to 1710) | after 1668 | by Feb 1746 | ||
| 4 May 1708 | John Fane,later [1736] 7th Earl of Westmorland | 24 Mar 1686 | 26 Aug 1762 | 76 | |
| (to 1711) | |||||
| 9 Oct 1710 | Richard Boyle,2nd Viscount Shannon [I] | c 1675 | 20 Dec 1740 | ||
| [The two sitting members (Fane and Shannon) | |||||
| were unseated on petition in favour of | |||||
| John Boteler and William Berners 27 Jan 1711] | |||||
| 27 Jan 1711 | John Boteler (to 1715) | after 1668 | by Feb 1746 | ||
| William Berners | 25 Aug 1679 | 19 Jun 1712 | 32 | ||
| 25 Jul 1712 | Richard Boyle,2nd Viscount Shannon [I] | c 1675 | 20 Dec 1740 | ||
| 25 Aug 1713 | Jacob des Bouverie (to 1722) | 1659 | 2 Sep 1722 | 63 | |
| 28 Jan 1715 | Sir Samuel Lennard,3rd baronet (to 1728) | 2 Oct 1672 | 8 Oct 1727 | 55 | |
| 26 Mar 1722 | Hercules Baker (to 1744) | 15 Aug 1683 | 1 Nov 1744 | 61 | |
| 22 Feb 1728 | William Glanville (to 1766) | c 1686 | 19 Oct 1766 | ||
| 3 Dec 1744 | Sir Thomas Hales,3rd baronet | c 1694 | 6 Oct 1762 | ||
| 25 Mar 1761 | Lord George Sackville,later [1782] 1st Viscount | ||||
| Sackville (to 1768) | 26 Jan 1716 | 26 Aug 1785 | 69 | ||
| 17 Nov 1766 | William Amherst | 5 Feb 1732 | 13 May 1781 | 49 | |
| 16 Mar 1768 | John Sawbridge | 1732 | 21 Feb 1795 | 62 | |
| William Evelyn (to 1802) | c 1734 | 3 Nov 1813 | |||
| 7 Oct 1774 | Sir Charles Farnaby,3rd baronet [Farnaby- | ||||
| Radcliffe from 1784] | c 1740 | 20 Oct 1798 | |||
| 27 Nov 1798 | Charles Marsham,styled Viscount Marsham | ||||
| from 1801,later [1811] 2nd Earl of Romney | 22 Nov 1777 | 29 Mar 1845 | 67 | ||
| 5 Jul 1802 | Matthew White | c 1766 | 11 Mar 1840 | ||
| Thomas Godfrey (to 1810) | 27 Aug 1751 | 7 Mar 1810 | 58 | ||
| 31 Oct 1806 | Charles Marsham,styled Viscount Marsham, | ||||
| later [1811] 2nd Earl of Romney | 22 Nov 1777 | 29 Mar 1845 | 67 | ||
| 7 May 1807 | William Deedes (to 1812) | Jun 1761 | 19 Apr 1834 | 72 | |
| 19 Mar 1810 | Sir John Perring,1st baronet (to 1820) | 26 Apr 1765 | 30 Jan 1831 | 65 | |
| 7 Oct 1812 | Matthew White | c 1766 | 11 Mar 1840 | ||
| 19 Jun 1818 | John Bladen Taylor | 2 Jul 1764 | 4 Aug 1820 | 56 | |
| 20 May 1819 | Samuel Jones Loyd (to 1826) | 25 Sep 1796 | 17 Nov 1883 | 87 | |
| 8 Mar 1820 | Stewart Marjoribanks (to 1837) | 1774 | 31 Aug 1863 | 89 | |
| 9 Jun 1826 | Sir Robert Townsend Townsend-Farquhar, | ||||
| 1st baronet | 14 Oct 1776 | 16 Mar 1830 | 53 | ||
| 26 Mar 1830 | John Loch | 8 Sep 1781 | 19 Feb 1868 | 86 | |
| REPRESENTATION REDUCED | |||||
| TO ONE MEMBER 1832 | |||||
| 16 May 1837 | William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,styled | ||||
| Viscount Melgund,later [1859] 3rd Earl of Minto | 19 Mar 1814 | 17 Mar 1891 | 76 | ||
| 29 Jun 1841 | Stewart Marjoribanks | 1774 | 31 Aug 1863 | 89 | |
| 31 Jul 1847 | Edward Drake Brockman | 7 Nov 1858 | |||
| 28 Mar 1857 | Sir John William Ramsden,5th baronet | 14 Sep 1831 | 15 Apr 1914 | 82 | |
| 29 Apr 1859 | Baron Mayer de Rothschild | 29 Jun 1818 | 6 Feb 1874 | 55 | |
| 5 Feb 1874 | Sir Edward William Watkin,1st baronet | 26 Sep 1819 | 14 Apr 1901 | 71 | |
| 18 Jul 1895 | Sir James Bevan Edwards | 5 Nov 1834 | 8 Jul 1922 | 87 | |
| 1 Mar 1899 | Sir Edward Albert Sassoon,2nd baronet | 20 Jun 1856 | 24 May 1912 | 55 | |
| 11 Jun 1912 | Sir Philip Albert Gustave David | ||||
| Sassoon,3rd baronet | 4 Dec 1888 | 3 Jun 1939 | 50 | ||
| 20 Jul 1939 | Rupert Arnold Brabner | 29 Oct 1911 | 27 Mar 1945 | 33 | |
| 26 Jul 1945 | Harry Ripley Mackeson,later [1954] 1st | ||||
| baronet | 25 May 1905 | 25 Jan 1964 | 58 | ||
| NAME ALTERED TO "FOLKESTONE | |||||
| & HYTHE" 1950 | |||||
| Edward Wortley-Montagu, MP for Huntingdonshire 1747-1754 and Bossiney 1754-1768 | |||||
| Edward Wortley Montagu was the son of Edward and Mary Wortley Montagu, daughter of the | |||||
| 5th Earl of Kingston upon Hull. His father appears to have been intellectually overshadowed by | |||||
| Lady Mary, who was one of the foremost female literary figures of the eighteenth century, and | |||||
| from whom her son appears to have inherited his eccentricities. | |||||
| The following sketch of the life of Edward Wortley-Montagu appeared in the Australian monthly | |||||
| magazine, "Parade," in its issue for April 1955:- | |||||
| 'One hot summer day in 1773, an aged man, his skin darkened by the Mediterranean sun, sat | |||||
| on a tiled floor in a Venetian mansion surrounded by all the luxuries of oriental splendour. On | |||||
| his head he wore the turban of a Mussulman; his beard touched his waist. At his side an | |||||
| Arabian youth knelt, took the wrinkled hand, kissed it and pressed it to his chek. The old man | |||||
| bent and perfumed his beard with exotic incense rising from a smoking bowl. The man was | |||||
| Edward Wortley Montagu, rogue, charlatan, seducer and Englishman of the nobility. | |||||
| 'Montagu's mother was the famous Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a woman of outstanding ability | |||||
| and wit. His father, Edward, lacked his wife's keen brain, but at his death left £1,340,000 to | |||||
| be fought over by his family. | |||||
| 'Edward the younger in his time was fishmonger, army officer, scholar, gambler, member of the | |||||
| House of Commons and Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also, as the need arose, | |||||
| Protestant, Catholic and Mohammedan. He was the father of black, brown, brindle and white | |||||
| illegitimate children scattered from Turkey through Egypt, Italy and France to England. There | |||||
| were also a few about Holland, where he spent his military days. | |||||
| 'Edward's first and practically only innocent bleat escaped his lips shortly after he was born in | |||||
| May of 1713. He was a troublesome baby and at the age of 14 months was still toothless. | |||||
| When the child was four, his father was appointed His Britannic Majesty's ambassador to the | |||||
| Ottoman Empire. In Constantinople Lady Mary had her son immunized against smallpox, an | |||||
| action that caused an outcry in England. The child's veins were crudely opened, and a | |||||
| "nutshell" of smallpox pus rubbed into the wounds. It was then, Edward said later, he first took | |||||
| the blood of the Turk into his body. | |||||
| 'Unfortunately, Edward Snr was a failureas a diplomat and he was recalled to England. Back in | |||||
| London it became apparent quickly that Edward had acquired a taste for luxury and soon | |||||
| alarmed a succession of tutors with his ability to curse them heartily in French, Greek and | |||||
| Turkish. His linguistic ability was not appreciated and he was sent to school at Westminster to | |||||
| learn figures, Edward spent most of his time escaping from the school, only to be returned by | |||||
| his furious parents. In July, 1726, when in was 13, he decided to do things properly, and after | |||||
| leaving the school by the back door enrolled himself at Oxford University for a course in | |||||
| Oriental languages. He took great care planning not only his lecture hours but his time for | |||||
| leisure. Soon Edward was found to be living with his delectable young landlady, a girl of 20. | |||||
| It was much against his will that his parents interrupted his premature essays into love and | |||||
| linguistics and again reduced him to the status of a schoolboy. | |||||
| 'For the next four years Edward was sent abroad to collect himself and straighten his twisted | |||||
| character, but in 1730 he was back in London keeping good health and bad company and in | |||||
| the process of acquiring a wife. The first Mrs. Edward Wortley Montagu was variously | |||||
| described as a laundress or washerwoman. Her name was Sally and Edward married her in a | |||||
| frolic. Thus he was easily persuaded to part with her. | |||||
| 'Little is known of his life for the next eight years except "he visited Italy, kept bad company | |||||
| in Venice, irritated Mr. Horace Mann in Florence, and borrowed money from Mr. Birtles in | |||||
| Genoa." Edward failed at all his enterprises (except the conquest of the ladies) and his | |||||
| desparing father had him appointed a cornet [second-lieutenant] in the 7th Hussars in Holland. | |||||
| He spent most of his military career begging his father for an increased allowance. Two years | |||||
| later, as a result of effective "string-pulling," Edward was appointed Capt.-Lieut. in the Royal | |||||
| Scots. But there was still one fly in his ointment. He could not return to England, for a host of | |||||
| creditors was waiting to pounce on him there. | |||||
| 'His problem was solved when, with a little more stretching of the string, he was appointed to | |||||
| Parliament, thus getting immunity from creditors. Political life - he never got around to making | |||||
| a maiden speech or visiting his constituency - appealed to Edward and he resigned from the | |||||
| Army. | |||||
| 'In April, 1748, he was appointed a British secretary to the congress at Aix-la-Chapelle. The | |||||
| pickings were good, and Edward returned to London to show himself in the streets in satin | |||||
| suits with diamond buttons and buckles. The most curious part of his dress was an iron wig, | |||||
| remarkably lifelike [One of his biographies, by Jonathan Curling, is entitled "Edward Wortley | |||||
| Montagu: The Man in the Iron Wig."] But despite his satin and diamonds Edward had not lost | |||||
| his high delight in low company. | |||||
| 'In fact he met his next "wife" while visiting the cell of a friend, a highwayman waiting to have | |||||
| his neck stretched. Elizabeth Ashe, a short, plump beauty of dubious morals, was also a friend | |||||
| of the unhappy knight of the road. With two male friends to add to the revelry, Edward and | |||||
| Elizabeth spent their "honeymoon" in Paris. The joys of "marital" bliss were interrupted only by | |||||
| Edward's arrest and imprisonment for cheating a friend of 120 louis d'or with loaded dice. Later | |||||
| Edward was cleared of the charge, but meanwhile Elizabeth could find no use for a penniless | |||||
| "husband" and he returned alone to London. | |||||
| 'During the next seven years Edward did little except father, as far as history records, three | |||||
| natural children whose maternity is obscure, and divide his time between his house in London | |||||
| and another at Boreham Wood, in each of which he maintained a mistress. | |||||
| 'At 83 Edward's father acceded to his son's persistent and secret wishes. In January, 1761, he | |||||
| lay on his bed and died. Old Wortley Montagu left £1,340,000, practically all to his daughter, | |||||
| the Countess of Bute. Edward and Lady Mary were not so lucky, for Edward received but an | |||||
| annuity of £1,600 and his mother £1,200. Edward, the affectionate son as ever, threatened to | |||||
| circulate a story that he was the son of a union bey=tween his mother and the Sultan Mustafa | |||||
| unless he was given a greater part of the estate. His story was that his mother, disguised as | |||||
| a eunuch, gained access to the sultan's seraglio and, being recognised, was admitted to his | |||||
| bed. The fact that he was three when his mother was in Constantinople was forgotten by that | |||||
| time. His purpose failed and Edward decided to leave England forever. He farmed out his four | |||||
| illegitimate sons, but decided to take his daughter Mary to Venice with him. | |||||
| 'It was in this city of canals that Edward's "Turkish blood" welled in his veins. He adopted a | |||||
| turban, grew an impressive beard and clothed himself in splendid robes. He was not very | |||||
| surprised when news reached him that his mother had died, leaving him "one golden guinea." | |||||
| 'Mary was an encumbrance to Edward, so he entered her in a convent and sailed for Egypt, | |||||
| where his amorous inclinations soon got him into trouble. At Alexandria the aging roue became | |||||
| acquainted with the Danish Consul, Herr Feroe, whose wife, Caroline, unfortunately for the | |||||
| consul, was a particularly lovely and charming young woman. Edward quickly decided Catherine | |||||
| would be a worthy successor to his other conquests and engaged Feroe to go to Holland on | |||||
| business for him. When the consul had been absent for an appropriate time, Edward produced | |||||
| a forged letter, telling of the consul's untimely death by drowning. Caroline, just 22, drowned | |||||
| her grief as quickly as Edward had drowned her husband and agreed to marry the 51-years-old | |||||
| rogue if he became a Catholic. The marraige was duly solemnised, in a fashion, and Edward | |||||
| carried Caroline off to Cairo. His departure was hastened by news that the consul had been | |||||
| resuscitated and was on his way back to Egypt. The couple crossed Egypt to Suez and began | |||||
| a tour of the Holy Land in pursuit of Edward's "archeological studies." At her own request | |||||
| Edward left Caroline in a convent in Syria until the annulment of her marriage to Herr Feroe, | |||||
| who was a Protestant, was proclaimed, and left hurriedly for Italy. There he stayed, afraid to | |||||
| return, while the consul continued to utter violent threats against his person. | |||||
| 'In the summer of 1766 Edward heard of Feroe's return to Europe, and he sailed for Alexandria | |||||
| to rejoin Caroline. Later that year Edward again decided to visit Turkey, and was perhaps the | |||||
| first Englishman to enter Constantinople bearded, turbaned and talking fluent Turkish. He | |||||
| hobnobbed with the Kapitan Pasha and was treated to all the Turkish luxuries he so richly | |||||
| enjoyed. | |||||
| 'Back in Egypt his passion for the Turkish way of life became an obsession and the Montagu | |||||
| household was divided into separate quarters for men and women. Anu infringement of the | |||||
| segregation angered him. But Edward was tiring of Caroline. The end came after the arrival | |||||
| of Ayesha, an Arabian beauty as black as ink whom Edward had maintained in another house- | |||||
| hold in Egypt. Ayesha brought with her Massoud, her son, whose skin was lighter than his | |||||
| mother's and whose features, in some respects, bore a striking resemblance to the lord of | |||||
| the menage. Caroline tried hard to ignore Ayesha, but it was no longer possible when in May, | |||||
| 1772, Edward added the black beauty and Massoud to his household, making the boy his heir. | |||||
| 'Giving full play to his twisted character, Edward forced Caroline from his household, and to | |||||
| complete the change-over accepted the Muhammedan faith. Ayesha's black loveliness soon | |||||
| lost its attraction and, taking Massoud, Edward abandoned her as he had Sally, Elizabeth | |||||
| Ashe, Caroline Feroe and countless other unnamed women. | |||||
| 'He intended to take Massoud to Mecca for the ceremony of circumcision - Edward had | |||||
| intended to be initiated with the boy - but because of political unrest in Arabia, went to Italy | |||||
| instead. In Venice in 1775 he set up his "little piece of Turkey," and until his death became one | |||||
| of the sights of the city. When Edward received visitors he met them at the stair head and led | |||||
| them through a series of apartments furnished in the Venetian style. A pair of black double | |||||
| doors were then thrown open by unseen hands, disclosing an inner room decorated with tiled | |||||
| walls, a painted wooden ceiling, a banquette [an upholstered bench] running the length of the | |||||
| wide recessed window and a small fountain playing in the middle of the floor. There were no | |||||
| chairs, but the guests sat on a sofa while Edward placed himself on a cushion on the carpet | |||||
| and crossed his legs in the Turkish fashion. He served the visitors with sickly-sweet coffee | |||||
| while a handsome young negro, magnificently garbed and turbaned in turquoise satin, handed | |||||
| them dried figs and little cubes of Turkish delight. | |||||
| 'Before his death Edward decided to visit Padua, and there his final illness struck him. He died | |||||
| in an inn, saying to a monk who was mildly interested under which God he intended to die, "I | |||||
| die, I hope, a good Mussulman." | |||||
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