THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "K"
		Last updated 05/01/2012
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that
		date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections,
		or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a
		previous election result.
		KEIGHLEY (YORKSHIRE)
30 Nov 1885		Isaac Holden,later [1893] 1st baronet	7 May 1807	13 Aug 1897	90
19 Jul 1895		John Brigg  [kt 1909]	21 Sep 1834	30 Sep 1911	77
27 Oct 1911		Sir Stanley Owen Buckmaster,later [1933] 1st
		Viscount Buckmaster	9 Jan 1861	5 Dec 1934	73
29 Jun 1915		Sir Swire Smith	4 Mar 1842	16 Mar 1918	76
26 Apr 1918		William Henry Somervell	5 Apr 1860	26 Sep 1934	74
14 Dec 1918		Robert Clough  [kt 1921]	10 Feb 1873	27 Sep 1965	92
15 Nov 1922		Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	26 Jan 1878	18 Dec 1941	63
6 Dec 1923		Robert Rivington Pilkington	8 Feb 1870	30 Jun 1942	72
29 Oct 1924		Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	26 Jan 1878	18 Dec 1941	63
27 Oct 1931		George Steven Harvie-Watt,later [1945] 1st
		baronet	23 Aug 1903	18 Dec 1989	86
14 Nov 1935		Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	26 Jan 1878	18 Dec 1941	63
13 Feb 1942		Ivor Thomas	30 Nov 1905	7 Oct 1993	87
23 Feb 1950		Charles Rider Hobson,later [1964] Baron
		Hobson [L]	18 Feb 1903	17 Feb 1966	62
8 Oct 1959		William Marcus John Worsley,later [1973]
		5th baronet	6 Apr 1925
15 Oct 1964		John Binns	8 Jun 1914	6 Aug 1986	72
18 Jun 1970		Joan Valerie Hall	31 Aug 1935
10 Oct 1974		George Robert Cryer	3 Dec 1934	12 Apr 1994	59
9 Jun 1983		Gary Peter Anthony Waller	24 Jun 1945
1 May 1997		Constance Ann Cryer	14 Dec 1939
6 May 2010		Kristan Frederick Hopkins	1963
		KELVIN (GLASGOW)
1 May 1997		George Galloway	16 Aug 1954
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
		KELVINGROVE (GLASGOW)
14 Dec 1918		John Mackintosh MacLeod,later [1924] 1st
		baronet	5 May 1857	6 Mar 1934	76
15 Nov 1922		William Hutchison	c 1870	1 May 1924
23 May 1924		Walter Elliot Elliot	19 Sep 1888	8 Jan 1958	69
		For information on the death of his first wife,
		see the note at the foot of the page containing
		details of the members for Lanark
26 Jul 1945		John Lloyd Williams	1895	31 Dec 1982	87
23 Feb 1950		Walter Elliot Elliot	19 Sep 1888	8 Jan 1958	69
		For information on the death of his first wife,
		see the note at the foot of the page containing
		details of the members for Lanark
13 Mar 1958		Mary Agnes McAlister		26 Feb 1976
8 Oct 1959		Francis James Patrick Lilley	24 Jul 1907	21 Aug 1971	64
15 Oct 1964		Maurice Solomon Miller	16 Aug 1920	30 Oct 2001	81
28 Feb 1974		Neil George Carmichael,later [1983] Baron
		Carmichael of Kelvingrove [L]	10 Oct 1921	19 Jul 2001	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		KEMPTOWN (BRIGHTON)
23 Feb 1950		Howard Sydney Johnson	25 Dec 1911	13 Sep 2000	88
8 Oct 1959		David Pelham James	25 Dec 1919	15 Dec 1986	66
15 Oct 1964		Dennis Harry Hobden	21 Jan 1920	20 Apr 1995	75
18 Jun 1970		Andrew Bowden  [kt 1994]	8 Apr 1930
1 May 1997		Desmond Stanley Turner	17 Jul 1939
6 May 2010		Simon Gerard Kirby	22 Dec 1964
		KENDAL (WESTMORLAND)
11 Dec 1832		James Brougham	16 Jan 1780	24 Dec 1833	53
17 Feb 1834		John Foster Barham	1799	22 May 1838	38
25 Jul 1837		George William Wood	1781	Oct 1843	62
9 Nov 1843		Henry Warburton	12 Nov 1784	16 Sep 1858	73
30 Jul 1847		George Carr Glyn,later [1869] 1st Baron
		Wolverton	27 Apr 1797	24 Jul 1873	76
16 Nov 1868		John Whitwell	1812	28 Nov 1880	68
16 Dec 1880		James Cropper	1823	16 Oct 1900	77
2 Dec 1885		Thomas Taylour,styled Earl of Bective	11 Feb 1844	15 Dec 1893	49
Jul 1892		Josceline FitzRoy Bagot	22 Oct 1854	1 Mar 1913	58
17 Jan 1906		Dudley Stewart-Smith  [kt 1917]	3 Feb 1857	9 May 1919	62
19 Jan 1910		Josceline FitzRoy Bagot	22 Oct 1854	1 Mar 1913	58
18 Mar 1913		John Wakefield Weston,later [1926] 1st
		baronet	13 Jun 1852	19 Sep 1926	74
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		KENILWORTH AND SOUTHAM (WARWICKSHIRE)
6 May 2010		Jeremy Paul Wright	24 Oct 1972
		KENNINGTON
26 Nov 1885		Robert Gent-Davis	1 Jul 1857	c May 1903	45
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
15 Mar 1889		Mark Hanbury Beaufoy	1854	10 Nov 1922	68
15 Jul 1895		Frederick Lucas Cook,later [1901] 2nd baronet	21 Nov 1844	21 May 1920	75
15 Jan 1906		Stephen Collins  [kt 1913]	9 Oct 1847	12 Mar 1925	77
3 Jan 1919		Henry George Purchase	1873	14 Sep 1945	72
		For further information on this election,
		see the note at the foot of this page
15 Nov 1922		Francis Capel Harrison	21 Jun 1863	10 Sep 1938	75
6 Dec 1923		Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams	1877	7 Jul 1927	50
29 Oct 1924		George Harvey  [kt 1936]	1870	27 Mar 1939	68
30 May 1929		Leonard Warburton Matters	26 Jun 1881	31 Oct 1951	70
27 Oct 1931		George Harvey  [kt 1936]	1870	27 Mar 1939	68
24 May 1939		John Charles Wilmot,later [1950] 1st Baron
		Wilmot of Selmeston	2 Apr 1895	22 Jul 1964	69
26 Jul 1945		Charles William Gibson	7 Apr 1889	22 Mar 1977	87
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		KENSINGTON
28 Feb 1974		Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys-Williams,
		2nd baronet	14 Nov 1927	18 May 1988	60
14 Jul 1988		John Dudley Fishburn	8 Jun 1946
		NAME ALTERED TO "KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA"
		1997,BUT REVERTED TO ORIGINAL NAME 2010
6 May 2010		Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind	21 Jun 1946
		KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
1 May 1997		Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark	13 Apr 1928	5 Sep 1999	71
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page which contains
		details of the Plymouth Sutton constituency.
25 Nov 1999		Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo	26 May 1953
5 May 2005		Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind	21 Jun 1946
		NAME ALTERED TO "KENSINGTON" 2010
		KENSINGTON NORTH
27 Nov 1885		Sir Roper Lethbridge	23 Dec 1840	15 Feb 1919	78
6 Jul 1892		Frederick Charlwood Frye	1845	c Jan 1914	68
17 Jul 1895		William Edward Thompson Sharpe	1834	5 Nov 1909	75
17 Jan 1906		Henry Yorke Stanger	11 Nov 1849	19 Apr 1919	69
17 Jan 1910		Alan Hughes Burgoyne  [kt 1922]	30 Sep 1880	26 Apr 1929	48
15 Nov 1922		Percy George Gates	9 Jun 1863	31 Mar 1940	76
30 May 1929		Fielding Reginald West	Nov 1892	6 Oct 1935	42
27 Oct 1931		James Alexander Lawson Duncan,later [1957]
		1st baronet	1899	30 Sep 1974	75
26 Jul 1945		George Henry Roland Rogers	9 Dec 1906	15 Feb 1983	76
18 Jun 1970		Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann	23 Jun 1927	27 Jul 2000	73
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		KENSINGTON SOUTH
27 Nov 1885		Algernon Borthwick,later [1887] 1st baronet
		and [1895] 1st Baron Glenesk	27 Dec 1830	24 Nov 1908	77
28 Nov 1895		Henry Algernon George Percy,styled Baron
		Warkworth until 1899, and subsequently
		styled Earl Percy	21 Jan 1871	30 Dec 1909	38
17 Jan 1910		Lord Claud John Hamilton	20 Feb 1843	26 Jan 1925	81
14 Dec 1918		Sir William Henry Davison,later [1945] 1st
		Baron Broughshane	1872	19 Jan 1953	80
20 Nov 1945		Richard Kidston Law,later [1954] 1st Baron
		Coleraine	27 Feb 1901	15 Nov 1980	79
23 Feb 1950		Sir William Patrick Spens,later [1959] 1st
		Baron Spens	9 Aug 1885	15 Nov 1973	88
8 Oct 1959		William Lloyd Roots	10 Sep 1911	14 Aug 1971	59
14 Mar 1968		Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys-Williams,2nd
		baronet	14 Nov 1927	18 May 1988	60
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		KENT
Apr 1660		Sir Edward Dering,2nd baronet	8 Nov 1625	24 Jun 1684	58
		Sir John Tufton  (to 1679)	c 1623	11 Oct 1685
18 Mar 1661		Sir Thomas Peyton	18 Aug 1613	11 Feb 1684	70
24 Feb 1679		Sir Vere Fane,later [1691] 4th Earl of
		Westmorland	13 Feb 1645	29 Dec 1693	48
		Edward Dering,later [1684] 3rd baronet	18 Apr 1650	15 Oct 1689	39
16 Mar 1685		Sir William Twysden,3rd baronet	11 Dec 1635	27 Nov 1697	61
		Sir John Knatchbull,2nd baronet  (to 1695)	c 1636	15 Dec 1696
12 Jan 1689		Sir Vere Fane,later [1691] 4th Earl of
		Westmorland	13 Feb 1645	29 Dec 1693	48
16 Nov 1691		Sir Thomas Roberts,4th baronet  (to 1698)	2 Dec 1658	20 Nov 1706	47
11 Nov 1695		Philip Sydney,later [1702] 5th Earl of Leicester	8 Jul 1676	24 Jul 1705	29
27 Jul 1698		Sir James Oxenden,2nd baronet	4 Apr 1641	29 Sep 1708	67
		Sir Stephen Lennard,2nd baronet	2 Mar 1637	15 Dec 1709	72
8 Jan 1701		Sir Thomas Hales,2nd baronet  (to 1705)	24 Feb 1666	7 Jan 1748	81
		Thomas Meredith	after 1666	11 Jul 1701
10 Dec 1701		William Campion	6 Feb 1640	20 Sep 1702	62
22 Jul 1702		Sir Francis Leigh	c 1651	17 Nov 1711
23 May 1705		William Villiers,styled Viscount Villiers,later
		[1711] 2nd Earl of Jersey	1682	13 Jul 1721	39
		Sir Cholmeley Dering,4th baronet	23 Jun 1679	9 May 1711	31
19 May 1708		Sir Thomas Palmer,4th baronet  (to Oct 1710)	5 Jul 1682	8 Nov 1723	41
		Sir Stephen Lennard,2nd baronet	2 Mar 1637	15 Dec 1709	72
11 Jan 1710		David Polhill	22 Apr 1674	15 Jan 1754	79
17 Oct 1710		Sir Cholmeley Dering,4th baronet	23 Jun 1679	9 May 1711	31
		Percival Hart  (to 1715)	7 May 1666	27 Oct 1738	72
13 Jun 1711		Sir William Hardres,4th baronet	25 Jul 1686	7 Jul 1736	49
2 Sep 1713		Sir Edward Knatchbull,4th baronet	c 1674	3 Apr 1730
8 Feb 1715		Mildmay Fane	31 Oct 1689	11 Sep 1715	25
		William Delaune  (to 1722)	by 1667	1739
28 Sep 1715		John Fane,later [1736] 7th Earl of Westmorland	24 Mar 1686	26 Aug 1762	76
4 Apr 1722		Sir Edward Knatchbull,4th baronet	c 1674	3 Apr 1730
		Sir Thomas Twisden,3rd baronet	10 Nov 1668	12 Sep 1728	59
6 Sep 1727		Sir Roger Meredith,5th baronet  (to 1734)	c 1677	3 Jan 1739
		Sir Robert Furnese,2nd baronet	1 Aug 1687	7 Mar 1733	45
2 Apr 1733		Sir Edward Dering,5th baronet  (to 1754)	8 Dec 1705	15 Apr 1762	56
15 May 1734		William Vane,Viscount Vane [I]	c 1680	20 May 1734
19 Feb 1735		Sir Christopher Powell,4th baronet	c 1690	5 Jul 1742
6 May 1741		Sir Roger Twisden,5th baronet	4 Apr 1705	7 Mar 1772	66
1 May 1754		Lewis Watson,later [1760] 1st Baron Sondes	28 Nov 1728	30 Mar 1795	66
		Robert Fairfax  (to 1768)	1707	15 Aug 1793	86
18 Jun 1760		Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham,6th
		baronet	16 Feb 1737	26 Sep 1763	26
30 Nov 1763		Sir Brook Bridges,3rd baronet  (to 1774)	17 Sep 1733	4 Sep 1791	57
30 Mar 1768		John Frederick Sackville,later [1769] 3rd
		Duke of Dorset	25 Mar 1745	19 Jul 1799	54
15 Feb 1769		Sir Charles Farnaby (Farnaby-Radcliffe from
		1784),3rd baronet	c 1740	20 Oct 1798
19 Oct 1774		Charles Marsham,later [1793] 3rd Baron
		Romney and [1801] 1st Earl of Romney	28 Sep 1744	1 Mar 1811	66
		(to 1790)
		Thomas Knight	15 May 1735	23 Oct 1794	59
13 Sep 1780		Filmer Honywood  (to 1796)	c 1745	2 Jun 1809
30 Jun 1790		Sir Edward Knatchbull,8th baronet  (to 1802)	22 May 1758	21 Sep 1819	61
16 Jun 1796		Sir William Geary,2nd baronet  (to 1806)	23 Sep 1756	6 Aug 1825	68
13 Jul 1802		Filmer Honywood	c 1745	2 Jun 1809
11 Nov 1806		William Honywood	c 1759	9 Feb 1818
		Sir Edward Knatchbull,8th baronet   (to 1819)	22 May 1758	21 Sep 1819	61
13 Oct 1812		Sir William Geary,2nd baronet	23 Sep 1756	6 Aug 1825	68
27 Jun 1818		William Philip Honywood  (to 1830)	15 Apr 1790	22 Apr 1831	41
16 Nov 1819		Sir Edward Knatchbull,9th baronet   (to 1831)	20 Dec 1781	24 May 1849	67
9 Aug 1830		Thomas Law Hodges  (to 1832)	3 Jun 1776	14 May 1857	80
11 May 1831		Thomas Rider	20 Aug 1785	6 Aug 1847	81
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST
		& WEST DIVISIONS 1832
		KENT EAST
17 Dec 1832		John Pemberton Plumptre  (to 1852)	3 May 1791	7 Jan 1864	72
		Sir Edward Knatchbull,9th baronet	20 Dec 1781	24 May 1849	67
3 Mar 1845		William Deedes (the elder)  (to Mar 1857)	17 Oct 1796	30 Nov 1862	66
16 Feb 1852		Sir Brook William Bridges,5th baronet,later
		[1868] Baron Fitzwalter	2 Jun 1801	6 Dec 1875	74
13 Jul 1852		Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering,8th baronet
		(to Dec 1857)	19 Nov 1807	1 Apr 1896	88
30 Mar 1857		Sir Brook William Bridges,5th baronet,later
		[1868] 1st Baron Fitzwalter of Woodham Walter	2 Jun 1801	6 Dec 1875	74
		(to May 1868)
10 Dec 1857		William Deedes (the elder)	17 Oct 1796	30 Nov 1862	66
5 Jan 1863		Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering,8th baronet
		(to Nov 1868)	19 Nov 1807	1 Apr 1896	88
2 May 1868		Edward Leigh Pemberton  [kt 1898]  (to 1885)	14 May 1823	31 Jan 1910	86
21 Nov 1868		George Watson Milles,later [1874] 5th Baron
		Sondes and [1880] 1st Earl of Sondes	2 Oct 1824	10 Sep 1894	69
27 Jan 1875		Sir Wyndham Knatchbull,12th baronet	9 Aug 1844	30 Jul 1917	72
26 Jul 1876		William Deedes (the younger)	11 Oct 1834	27 May 1887	52
10 Apr 1880		Aretas Akers-Douglas,later [1911] 1st
		Viscount Chilston	21 Oct 1851	15 Jan 1926	74
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "ASHFORD","DARTFORD","FAVERSHAM",
		"ISLE OF THANET","MEDWAY"
		"ST.AUGUSTINES","SEVENOAKS"
		AND "TUNBRIDGE"
		KENT MID
23 Nov 1868		Sir William Hart Dyke,7th baronet  (to 1885)	7 Aug 1837	3 Jul 1931	93
		William Archer Amherst,styled Viscount
		Holmesdale,later [1886] 3rd Earl Amherst	26 Mar 1836	14 Aug 1910	74
8 Apr 1880		Sir Edmund Filmer,9th baronet	11 Jul 1835	17 Dec 1886	51
14 May 1884		John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy,later [1906] 2nd
		Earl of Cranbrook	22 Mar 1839	13 Jul 1911	72
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "ASHFORD","DARTFORD","FAVERSHAM",
		"ISLE OF THANET","MEDWAY"
		"ST.AUGUSTINES","SEVENOAKS"
		AND "TUNBRIDGE"
		CONSTITUENCY REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Andrew John Bernard Rowe	11 Sep 1935	21 Nov 2008	73
		NAME ALTERED TO "FAVERSHAM
		AND MID KENT" 1997
		KENT WEST
15 Dec 1832		Thomas Law Hodges  (to 1841)	1776	14 May 1857	80
		Thomas Rider	1765	Aug 1847	82
15 Jan 1835		Sir William Richard Powlett Geary,3rd
		baronet	13 Nov 1810	19 Dec 1877	67
5 Mar 1838		Sir Edmund Filmer,8th baronet  (to Feb 1857)	14 Jun 1809	8 Jan 1857	47
6 Jul 1841		Charles Marsham,styled Viscount Marsham,
		later [1845] 3rd Earl of Romney	30 Jul 1808	3 Sep 1874	66
25 Apr 1845		Thomas Austen		23 Jul 1859
3 Aug 1847		Thomas Law Hodges	1776	14 May 1857	80
12 Jul 1852		William Masters Smith  (to Apr 1857)		31 Dec 1861
16 Feb 1857		Charles Wykeham Martin  (to 1859)	11 Sep 1801	30 Oct 1870	69
3 Apr 1857		James Whatman	1813	12 Mar 1887	73
3 May 1859		William Archer Amherst,styled Viscount
		Holmesdale,later [1886] 3rd Earl Amherst	26 Mar 1836	14 Aug 1910	74
		(to 1868)
		Sir Edmund Filmer,9th baronet	11 Jul 1835	17 Dec 1886	51
22 Jul 1865		William Hart Dyke,later [1875] 7th baronet	7 Aug 1837	3 Jul 1931	93
25 Nov 1868		Charles Henry Mills,later [1872] 2nd baronet
		and [1886] 1st Baron Hillingdon  (to 1885)	26 Apr 1830	3 Apr 1898	67
		John Gilbert Talbot	24 Feb 1835	1 Feb 1910	74
15 May 1878		William Heneage Legge,styled Viscount
		Lewisham,later [1891] 6th Earl of Dartmouth	6 May 1851	11 Mar 1936	84
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "ASHFORD","DARTFORD","FAVERSHAM",
		"ISLE OF THANET","MEDWAY"
		"ST.AUGUSTINES","SEVENOAKS"
		AND "TUNBRIDGE"
		KERRY
1801		James Crosbie	c 1760	20 Sep 1836
		Maurice Fitzgerald  (to 1831)	29 Dec 1774	7 Mar 1849	74
17 Nov 1806		Henry Arthur Herbert	c 1756	21 Jun 1821
21 Oct 1812		James Crosbie	c 1760	20 Sep 1836
24 Jun 1826		William Hare,later [1837] 2nd Earl of Listowel [I]	22 Sep 1801	4 Feb 1856	54
18 Aug 1830		William Browne	1 Nov 1791	4 Aug 1876	84
14 May 1831		Frederick William Beaufort Mullins  (to 1837)	29 Jun 1804	17 Mar 1854	49
		Daniel O'Connell	8 Aug 1775	15 May 1847	71
24 Dec 1832		Charles O'Connell		20 Jan 1877
24 Jan 1835		Morgan John O'Connell  (to 1852)	31 Oct 1804	24 May 1858	53
12 Aug 1837		Arthur Blennerhassett	1 Jan 1799	23 Jan 1843	44
13 Jul 1841		William Browne	1791	4 Aug 1876	85
9 Aug 1847		Henry Arthur Herbert  (to 1866)	1815	26 Feb 1866	50
16 Jul 1852		Valentine Browne,styled Viscount Castlerosse,
		later [1871] 4th Earl of Kenmare  (to 1872)	16 May 1825	9 Feb 1905	79
16 Mar 1866		Henry Arthur Herbert   (to 1880)	1840	14 Aug 1901	61
6 Feb 1872		Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett
		(to 1885)	22 Jul 1850	7 Apr 1913	62
3 Apr 1880		Sir Rowland Blennerhassett,4th baronet	5 Sep 1839	22 Mar 1909	69
		SPLIT INTO 4 DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE BELOW
		KERRY EAST
3 Dec 1885		Jeremiah Daniel Sheehan	1847
16 Jul 1895		Michael Davitt   [he was also returned for	25 Mar 1846	30 May 1906	60
		Mayo South, for which he chose to sit]
27 Mar 1896		James Boothby Burke Roche,later [1920] 3rd
		Baron Fermoy	28 Jul 1852	30 Oct 1920	68
1 Oct 1900		John Murphy	1870	17 Apr 1930	59
22 Jan 1910		Eugene O'Sullivan	1879	19 May 1942	62
		[he was unseated on petition in June 1910
		and no writ was issued until the general
		election]
Dec 1910		Timothy O'Sullivan	7 Jan 1879	15 Aug 1950	71
14 Dec 1918		Pierce Beasley	15 Feb 1881	22 Jun 1965	84
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		KERRY NORTH
26 Nov 1885		John Stack		5 Mar 1897
Jul 1892		Thomas Sexton	1848	1 Nov 1932	84
24 Apr 1896		Michael Joseph Flavin	1866	3 May 1944	77
14 Dec 1918		James Crowley	1880	21 Jan 1946	65
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		KERRY SOUTH
5 Dec 1885		John O'Connor	c 1835	12 Jan 1891
21 Sep 1887		Denis Kilbride   [at the general election in	Sep 1848	Oct 1924	76
		Jul 1895, he was also returned for Galway
		North, for which he chose to sit]
4 Sep 1895		Thomas Joseph Farrell	1847
3 Oct 1900		John Mary Pius Boland	16 Sep 1870	17 Mar 1958	87
14 Dec 1918		Finian Lynch	17 Mar 1889	3 Jun 1966	77
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		KERRY WEST
2 Dec 1885		Edward Harrington	c 1852
Jul 1892		Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde,11th
		baronet	21 Sep 1862	15 Sep 1935	72
8 Oct 1900		Thomas O'Donnell	1872	11 Jun 1943	70
14 Dec 1918		Austin Stack	7 Dec 1879	27 Apr 1929	49
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		KETTERING (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Alfred Edward Waterson	5 Aug 1880	25 Nov 1964	84
15 Nov 1922		Owen Parker	1860	5 Nov 1936	76
6 Dec 1923		Samuel Frederick Perry	29 Jun 1877	19 Oct 1954	77
29 Oct 1924		Sir Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller,3rd
		baronet	16 Jan 1876	22 Aug 1956	80
30 May 1929		Samuel Frederick Perry	29 Jun 1877	19 Oct 1954	77
27 Oct 1931		John Francis Eastwood	13 Oct 1887	30 Jan 1952	64
6 Mar 1940		John Dennis Profumo	30 Jan 1915	10 Mar 2006	91
26 Jul 1945		Gilbert Richard Mitchison,later [1964] Baron
		Mitchison [L]	23 Mar 1890	14 Feb 1970	79
15 Oct 1964		Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas	7 Apr 1913	10 Aug 1982	69
3 May 1979		William Dennis Homewood	17 Mar 1920	13 Jan 1989	68
9 Jun 1983		Roger Norman Freeman,later [1997] Baron
		Freeman [L]	27 May 1942
1 May 1997		Philip Andrew Sawford	26 Jun 1950
5 May 2005		Philip Thomas Hollobone	7 Nov 1964
		KIDDERMINSTER (WORCESTERSHIRE)
12 Dec 1832		Richard Godson	19 Jun 1797	1 Aug 1849	52
8 Jan 1835		George Richard Philips,later [1847] 2nd
		baronet	23 Dec 1789	22 Feb 1883	93
25 Jul 1837		Richard Godson	19 Jun 1797	1 Aug 1849	52
5 Sep 1849		John Best	1821	18 Jun 1865	43
7 Jul 1852		Robert Lowe,later [1880] 1st Viscount
		Sherbrooke	4 Dec 1811	27 Jul 1892	80
30 Apr 1859		Alfred Rhodes Bristow	1820	5 Apr 1875	54
27 May 1862		Luke White,later [1873] 2nd Baron Annaly	26 Sep 1829	17 Mar 1888	58
12 Jul 1865		Albert Grant	18 Dec 1831	30 Aug 1899	67
		For further information on this MP,see the note
		at the foot of this page
17 Nov 1868		Thomas Lea,later [1892] 1st baronet	17 Jan 1841	9 Jan 1902	60
2 Feb 1874		Albert Grant   [his election was declared	18 Dec 1831	30 Aug 1899	67
		void 17 Jul 1874]
1 Aug 1874		Sir William Augustus Fraser,4th baronet	10 Feb 1826	17 Aug 1898	72
1 Apr 1880		John Brinton	25 Jan 1827	2 Jul 1914	87
3 Jul 1886		Augustus Frederick Godson  [kt 1898]	1835	11 Oct 1906	71
13 Jan 1906		Edmund Broughton Barnard	16 Feb 1856	27 Jan 1930	73
18 Jan 1910		Eric Ayshford Knight	1863	10 Aug 1944	81
15 Nov 1922		John Sydney Wardlaw-Milne  [kt 1932]	1879	11 Jul 1967	88
26 Jul 1945		Louis Byron Tolley	1889	30 Apr 1959	69
23 Feb 1950		Gerald David Nunes Nabarro  [kt 1963]	29 Jun 1913	18 Nov 1973	60
15 Oct 1964		Sir Esme Tatton Cecil Brinton	4 Jan 1916	26 Sep 1985	69
28 Feb 1974		James Esmond Bulmer	19 May 1935
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		KILDARE
1801		Maurice Bagenal St.Leger Keating	c 1761	1835
		John Latouche	21 Aug 1732	3 Feb 1810	77
20 Jul 1802		Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald	15 Jan 1765	2 Jan 1833	67
		Robert Latouche  (to 1830)	Oct 1773	22 May 1844	70
21 May 1807		Lord Henry Fitzgerald	30 Jul 1761	8 Jul 1829	67
23 Mar 1814		Lord William Charles O'Brien Fitzgerald	4 Jan 1793	8 Dec 1864	71
		(to 1831)
18 Aug 1830		Richard More O'Ferrall  (to 1847)	1797	27 Oct 1880	83
9 May 1831		Sir Josiah William Hort,2nd baronet	6 Jul 1791	24 Aug 1876	85
21 Dec 1832		Edward Ruthven
11 Aug 1837		Robert Archbold
18 Aug 1847		Charles William Fitzgerald,styled Marquess of
		Kildare,later [1874] 4th Duke of Leinster
		(to Jul 1852)	30 Mar 1819	10 Feb 1887	67
		Richard Southwell Bourke,styled Baron Naas
		from 1849,later [1867] 6th Earl of Mayo	21 Feb 1822	8 Feb 1872	49
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of the page containing
		details of the Earldom of Mayo.
13 Mar 1852		William Henry Ford Cogan  (to 1880)	1823	28 Sep 1894	71
26 Jul 1852		David O'Connor Henchy	1810	1 Dec 1876	66
19 May 1859		Richard More O'Ferrall	1797	27 Oct 1880	83
19 Jul 1865		Lord Otho Augustus Fitzgerald	10 Oct 1827	19 Nov 1882	55
16 Feb 1874		Charles Henry Meldon  (to 1885)	1841	15 May 1892	50
7 Apr 1880		James Leahy	1822
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO NORTH
		& SOUTH DIVISIONS 1885
		KILDARE NORTH
30 Nov 1885		James Laurence Carew	1853	31 Aug 1903	50
Jul 1892		Patrick James Kennedy	19 Dec 1864	10 Mar 1947	82
20 Jul 1895		Charles John Engledow	30 Sep 1860	1933	72
10 Oct 1900		Edmund Leamy	1848	10 Dec 1904	56
14 Feb 1905		John O'Connor	10 Oct 1850	27 Oct 1928	78
14 Dec 1918		Donald Richard Buckley	3 Feb 1866	30 Oct 1963	97
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		KILDARE SOUTH
26 Nov 1885		James Leahy	1822
Jul 1892		Matthew Joseph Minch	1857	5 Jun 1921	63
22 May 1903		Denis Kilbride	Sep 1848	Oct 1924	76
14 Dec 1918		Arthur John O'Connor	1888	10 May 1950	61
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		KILKENNY
1801		William Talbot	Mar 1776	19 May 1851	75
2 Mar 1801		Richard Archdall	c 1746	8 Feb 1824
22 Jul 1802		Charles Harward Butler (Charles Harward
		Butler Clarke from 1820 and Charles Harward
		Butler Clarke Southwell Wandesford from 1830)	9 Nov 1780	7 Nov 1860	79
4 Feb 1809		Robert Williams	11 Feb 1767	10 Mar 1847	80
24 Oct 1812		Overington Blunden	14 Aug 1767	16 Dec 1837	70
27 May 1814		Charles Harward Butler (Charles Harward
		Butler Clarke from 1820 and Charles Harward
		Butler Clarke Southwell Wandesford from 1830)	9 Nov 1780	7 Nov 1860	79
27 Mar 1820		Denis Browne	c 1760	14 Aug 1828
22 Jun 1826		John Doherty	1785	8 Sep 1850	65
11 Aug 1830		Nicholas Philpot Leader	19 Jan 1773	7 Feb 1836	63
13 Dec 1832		Richard Sullivan
17 May 1836		Daniel O'Connell	8 Aug 1775	15 May 1847	71
7 Aug 1837		Joseph Hume	22 Jan 1777	20 Feb 1855	78
3 Jul 1841		John O'Connell   [at the general election in	24 Dec 1810	24 May 1858	47
		Aug 1847,he was also returned for
		Limerick,for which he chose to sit]
18 Dec 1847		Michael Sullivan		23 Dec 1878
13 Jul 1865		Sir John Gray	13 Jul 1815	9 Apr 1875
29 Apr 1875		Benjamin Whitworth	1816	24 Sep 1893	77
27 Feb 1880		John Francis Smithwick	1844	after 1912
2 Jul 1886		Thomas Quinn	1838	3 Nov 1897	59
Jul 1892		Thomas Bartholomew Curran	1870	Oct 1929	59
17 Jul 1895		Patrick O'Brien	c 1847	12 Jul 1917
10 Aug 1917		William Thomas Cosgrave	6 Jun 1880	16 Nov 1965	85
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		Robert Gent-Davis, MP for Kennington 1885-1889
		Gent-Davis came perilously close to expulsion from the House of Commons in November 1888,
		after he was committed to prison for a contempt of court.
		The following report is taken from 'The Manchester Guardian' of 28 November 1888:-
		'Mr. Justice North, in the Chancery Division yesterday, gave judgment in the application to
		commit Mr. Gent-Davis, M.P., to prison for contempt of court. Mr. Gent-Davis was present. His
		Lordship said that the application was for an attachment against Mr. Gent-Davis for
		disobedience to an order of the court directing him to pay £3,778 19s 2d. The case arose out
		of the administration of the estate of the late Mr. J.H. Gent, and in 1880 Mr. Gent-Davis was
		appointed receiver and manager of a distillery business. Difficulties arose about the accounts,
		and in June this year an order was made removing Mr. Gent-Davis from his office. He was
		directed to pay an undisputed amount of £3,778 19s 2d into court, and in September £1,500
		towards that sum was paid into court by him, the application for attachment being postponed
		in consequence. Mr. Gent-Davis had received large sums of money from the estate, and he
		now pleaded that he was without means to pay the balance, and that he claimed privilege as
		a member of Parliament. Mr. Gent-Davis was undoubtedly in a fiduciary position, and the
		object of the court was to punish him for his breach of trust. With regard to the privilege
		claimed he (the Judge) was of opinion that there was no privilege in this case. He therefore
		made the order for attachment, but if Mr. Gent-Davis applied to the Court of Appeal during the
		day the issue of the writ for his arrest would be delayed until after the hearing of the appeal.
		'Mr. Gent-Davis's counsel intimated that his client would not appeal. The writ of attachment
		was therefore issued at once.'
		Gent-Davis appeared in court the following day and offered to apologize and to refund the
		outstanding amount. The Judge, however, refused to interfere, and Gent-Davis was
		accordingly arrested and imprisoned. He was released after six weeks and shortly afterwards
		resigned, a new writ being issued for the constituency of Kennington in early March 1889.
		The Kennington election of January 1919
		In the normal course of events, the voters in the constituency of Kennington would have
		gone to the polls on 14 Dec 1918, along with the rest of the country. However, one of the
		candidates for Kennington, Colonel Francis Alfred Lucas, died on 11 December.
		This situation is covered in the Ballot Act of 1872, which states that "if after the
		adjournment of an election by the returning officer for the purpose of taking a poll one of
		the candidates nominated shall die before the poll is commenced, the returning officer
		shall, upon being satisfied of the fact of such death, countermand notice of the poll, and
		all the proceedings with reference to the election shall be commenced afresh in all respects
		as if the writ had been received by the returning officer on the day on which proof was
		given to him of such death; provided that no fresh nomination shall be necessary in the
		case of a candidate who stood nominated at the time of the countermand of the poll."
		Accordingly, a fresh election took place in early January 1919. A similar situation occurred
		in the general election in 1929 for the seat of Rugby, when the Labour candidate, Henry
		Yates, died after he had been nominated as a candidate. On this occasion, while the
		rest of the country voted on 30 May 1929, the voters in Rugby went to the poll on 13 June.
		Albert Grant, MP for Kidderminster 1865-1868 and February-July 1874
		Grant, who was also a Baron in the peerage of Italy, is best remembered for being a "company
		promoter" in the worst sense of the phrase. The vast majority of his promotions were subject
		to allegations of fraud, his specialty being to ramp up the value of the shares then selling
		these to the public before they had time to realise that their purchases were of lesser value.
		According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grant's customer base was initially
		made up of clergymen and widows. On his death in 1899, the London 'Standard' published
		the following obituary:-
		'A quarter of a century ago the death of Baron Grant, which took place yesterday morning, at
		his residence, Aldwick, near Bognor, would have created a stir throughout the social and
		the financial world. To-day his biography will be read by many to whom only the leading
		incidents of his very remarkable career are familiar. On the one hand, he will be remembered
		as the princely donor of the gardens in Leicester Square to the public; on the other, he will
		be thought of only as a notorious Company-promoter , whose numerous and daring schemes
		were the talk of London twenty-five years ago.
		'Albert Grant was born in Dublin on December 17, 1830 [this conflicts with other more recent
		sources which give December 18, 1831, which date I have used] being the son of a Jewish
		trader in that city [whose name was Bernard Gottheimer]. He received his education in London
		and Paris. At the age of thirty-five he was elected M.P. for Kidderminster, and was
		subsequently re-elected in 1874. He was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower
		Hamlets in 1868. The title of Baron was conferred upon him in 1868 by the King of Italy, Victor
		Emanuel, in recognition of his work in completing the celebrated Victor Emanuel Gallery at
		Milan. From the same quarter he received the appointment of Commander of the Order of SS.
		Maurice and Lazare of Italy. He was also a Commander of the Order of Christ of Portugal.
		Those who can recall the condition of Leicester-square thirty years ago in its dilapidated
		state, with wretched hoardings round it, can best appreciate the transformation which was
		effected in that quarter of London by Grant's munificent gift of Leicester­square. On account
		of the place being freehold, and held by numerous individuals in shares, the authorities had
		declared it was practically impossible to deal with the matter. Baron Grant, however, thought
		otherwise, and with the energy which characterised all his philanthropic as well as his
		commercial actions, he so worked and planned as to finally become the sole owner by
		purchase of the various rights to the square. Having planted the gardens, now so long familiar
		to the multitudes of tired Londoners who have rested therein, he placed the statue of
		Shakespeare where it now stands. At the opening of the gardens on the 15th of July, 1874, by
		the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, a vote of thanks was accorded to the
		generous donor, while directions were given that an inscription commemorating the gift should
		be cut and preserved on the base of the Shakespeare statue. Another occasion on which
		Baron Grant's public spirit was also shown in a highly interesting manner was the sale, at
		Christie's on May 18, 1874, of the works of the great artist Landseer; among others was a fine
		and well-known portrait of Sir Walter Scott. A great competition for this work took place, but
		it was secured by Baron Grant for 800 guineas. On the same evening, in the House of
		Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote, then Leader of the House, was asked by a memher why
		the nation had not secured so priceless a treasure, to which he replied that, whilst he
		regretted that so interesting a picture should be lost, there were no funds available for the
		outlay; thereupon Baron Grant rose and said his object in buying it was to present it to the
		National Portrait Gallery, to the Trustees of which he had already on that day sent to offer it.
		On this Sir Stafford Northcote rose and proposed a vote of thanks of the House of Commons
		to Baron Grant, which vote was passed amid great enthusiasm.
		'While thus engaged in making princely benefactions to the country, Baron Grant could certainly
		not be charged with stinting his private expenditure. The palace erected for himself, upon
		what was once a slum in Kensington, was equal in magnificence to anything which has ever
		been attempted by more recent millionaires. The marble staircase alone (now in the possession
		of Madame Tussaud's) is estimated to have cost something like seventy thousand pounds,
		while the enormous extent of the house was such that upon his bankruptcy it was found
		impossible to find a tenant with the means for keeping up such a palatial residence.
		Subsequently it was demolished, and the site is covered with small residences. The collection
		of pictures realised over one hundred thousand pounds, while the legends concerning the cost
		of his entertainments, even when taken with the proverbial allowance of salt, are fit to rank
		among the wonders of Arabian Nights fables.
		'Like many other notorious Company promoters, Baron Grant's career was of so meteoric a
		character that any attempts to trace it in detail must utterly fail. That he was possessed of
		great business genius and money-rnaking talents from his earliest years is probable enough;
		and the suggestion that the recognition of these gifts by certain of the Jewish fraternity led
		to his being at first employed by them in money-making projects is also probable. It has been
		sufficiently demonstrated, and never, perhaps, more strikingly than within very recent years,
		that, granted audacity and a measure of success, and the public is not particularly given to
		investigate too closely the details concerning the career of the capitalist who may be inviting
		their confidence in the form of subscriptions to new Company flotations, and in this direction
		the name of Albert Grant a quarter of a century back was one to conjure with.
		'But it is not only financial audacity, coupled with ability and ingenuity, that secure the
		success obtained by Baron Grant in Company-promoting; the times must also be propititious.
		Previous to 1870 numerous flotations had been made of Companies in which he was interested;
		but it was not till the period following the declaration of peace after the Franco-Prussian war
		that the great opportunity was found. The usual revival in trade and general confidence
		followed the closing of the war, and Albert Grant, capitalist, member of Parliament, and bearing
		the dignity of Baron, found then the golden chance of bringing his social distinctions and
		business abilities alike to bear in a course of Company-promoting which for extravagance and
		disastrous results to those who were unfortunate enough to subscribe to them have rarely
		been exceeded. At this distance of time little good would be served in recalling the details of
		the many projects put forward. It was the old story of the public being beguiled by high-
		sounding names behind the wildest schemes and promises. Some idea may be obtained of the
		extraordinary activity of Baron Grant's Company promoting schemes between the years 1871
		and 1874 from the following statement, reproduced from a file of the Statist. It shows
		approximately the number of Companies projected within three years, the capital involved, and
		the subsequent depreciation which resulted [the table shows that Grant promoted 37
		companies during the three year period, of which 11 had been wound up or were in liquidation.
		The remaining 26 companies had total issued capital of around £13.5 million, but their total
		market value in April 1874 was only £4 million, a loss to investors of 70%. If one includes the
		capital lost in the liquidated/wound-up companies, this loss rises to nearly 85%].
		'The flotation of the famous Emma Silver Mine is one that stands out notoriously among the
		many schemes in which the late Baron was concerned. This Company was issued with a share
		capital of £1,000,000 in shares of £20 each. Three members of Parliament [including George
		Anderson, MP for Glasgow and Edward Brydges Willyams, MP for Cornwall East] were among
		the Directors, to say nothing of a United States Minister thrown in [Robert Cumming Schenck,
		US Minister to Britain]. Possible profits of 80 per cent per annum were indicated, and the
		Shares were rushed to a premium. The mine was proved worthless, and within four years from
		the incorporation of the Company the £20 Shares were worth about a shilling.
		'The legal actions which were commenced in connection with this Company proved the
		beginning of the end of Baron Grant's career as a Company promoter of the first magnitude.
		Before the actions - which were attended by many scandalous exposures - had been decided,
		his bankruptcy occurred. The catastrophe was as remarkable as the previous successes had
		been; and although in 1886 and again ten years later, saw him in the Bankruptcy Court again,
		his career as a famous capitalist and Company promoter practically terminated with his first
		failure. While, however, no longer appearing publicly in connection with the many financial
		schemes projected in recent years his initiative genius has probably not been wholly lacking.
		As recently as Saturday last a receiving order appears to have been made against him, no
		statement, however, being made as to the liabilities.
		'It should be mentioned that among his many ventures was his brief ownership of [the news-
		paper] the Echo. It cannot be said that he has left a name for his countrymen to hold in
		honour. Yet he had many attached friends who clung to him in his adversity. If he was not
		over scrupulous in acquiring money, he was generous in giving it away.'
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