THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "N"
		Last updated 09/09/2012
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that
		date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections,
		or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a
		previous election result.
		Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the MP was baptised on
		that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the MP was
		buried on that date
		NEW ROMNEY
19 Apr 1660		Sir Norton Knatchbull,1st baronet  (to 1679)	26 Dec 1602	3 Feb 1685	82
		John Knatchbull,later [1685] 2nd baronet	c 1636	15 Dec 1696
6 May 1661		Sir Charles Berkeley,later [1663] 1st
		Viscount Fitzhardinge [I] and [1664] 1st
		Earl of Falmouth	11 Jan 1630	3 Jun 1665	35
24 Oct 1665		Henry Brouncker  [expelled 21 Apr 1668]	c 1627	4 Jan 1688
8 May 1668		Sir Charles Sedley,5th baronet  (to 1685)	30 Mar 1639	20 Aug 1701	62
10 Feb 1679		Paul Barret	24 Mar 1633	9 May 1685	52
2 Apr 1685		Sir William Goulston	c 1641	23 Dec 1687
		Sir Benjamin Bathurst  [he was also returned	3 Oct 1638	27 Apr 1704	65
		for Bere Alston,for which he chose to sit]
30 May 1685		Thomas Chudleigh	c 1649	after 1688
16 Jan 1689		John Brewer  (to 1710)	9 Jan 1654	2 Jun 1724	70
		James Chadwick	c 1660	19 May 1697
7 Mar 1690		Sir Charles Sedley,5th baronet	30 Mar 1639	20 Aug 1701	62
26 Oct 1695		Sir William Twisden  [he was also returned	11 Dec 1635	27 Nov 1697	61
		for Appleby,for which he chose to sit]
27 Nov 1696		Sir Charles Sedley,5th baronet	30 Mar 1639	20 Aug 1701	62
24 Nov 1701		Edward Goulston	c 1666	1720
28 Jul 1702		Sir Benjamin Bathurst	3 Oct 1638	27 Apr 1704	65
4 Nov 1704		Walter Whitfield  (to 1713)	27 Dec 1635	1712
10 Oct 1710		Sir Robert Furnese,2nd baronet  (to 1727)	1 Aug 1687	14 Mar 1733	45
20 Apr 1713		Edward Watson,styled Viscount Sondes
		from 1714	3 Jul 1686	20 Mar 1722	35
23 Mar 1722		David Papillon  (to 1728)	1691	26 Feb 1762	70
17 Aug 1727		John Essington	8 Dec 1689	8 Apr 1729	39
		[Both sitting members (Papillon and Essington)
		were unseated on petition in favour of Sir
		Robert Austen and Sir Robert Furnese
		29 Apr 1728]
29 Apr 1728		Sir Robert Austen,4th baronet  (to 1734)	6 Oct 1697	7 Oct 1743	46
		Sir Robert Furnese    [he was also returned	1 Aug 1687	7 Mar 1733	45
		for Kent,for which he chose to sit]
13 May 1728		David Papillon   (to 1736)   [at the general	1691	26 Feb 1762	70
		election in Apr 1734,he was also returned for
		Dover,for which he chose to sit]
23 Apr 1734		Stephen Bisse  (to 1741)	23 Jan 1672	9 Sep 1746	74
10 Feb 1736		Sir Robert Austen,4th baronet	6 Oct 1697	7 Oct 1743	46
5 May 1741		Henry Furnese	after 1688	30 Aug 1756
		Sir Francis Dashwood,later [1763] 15th Lord
		Le Despencer  (to 1761)	Dec 1708	11 Dec 1781	73
8 Dec 1756		Rose Fuller	c 1708	7 May 1777
27 Mar 1761		Sir Edward Dering,6th baronet  (to 1770)	28 Sep 1732	8 Dec 1798	66
		Thomas Knight	15 May 1735	23 Oct 1794	59
18 Mar 1768		Richard Jackson  (to 1784)	c 1721	6 May 1787
5 Mar 1770		John Morton	c 1714	25 Jul 1780
7 Oct 1774		Sir Edward Dering,6th baronet  (to 1787)	28 Sep 1732	8 Dec 1798	66
12 Apr 1784		John Smith		13 Mar 1797
14 Jun 1784		Richard Atkinson	6 Mar 1738	28 May 1785	47
7 Jun 1785		John Henniker,later [1803] 2nd Baron Henniker [I]
		(to 1790)	19 Apr 1752	4 Dec 1821	69
29 Jan 1787		Richard Joseph Sulivan  (to 1796)	10 Dec 1752	17 Jul 1806	53
19 Jun 1790		Sir Elijah Impey	13 Jun 1732	1 Oct 1809	77
27 May 1796		John Fordyce	1735	1 Jul 1809	74
		John Willett Willett  (to 1806)	1 Jan 1745	26 Sep 1815	70
9 Jul 1802		Manasseh Lopes (Manasseh Masseh Lopes
		from 1805),later [1805] 1st baronet	27 Jan 1755	26 Mar 1831	76
4 Nov 1806		William Windham	3 May 1750	4 Jun 1810	60
		John Perring,later [1808] 1st baronet	26 Apr 1765	30 Jan 1831	65
7 May 1807		Thomas Scott,2nd Earl of Clonmell [I]	15 Aug 1783	18 Jan 1838	54
		George Ashburnham	9 Oct 1785	7 Jun 1813	27
8 Oct 1812		Sir John Thomas Duckworth,later [1813]
		1st baronet	28 Feb 1748	31 Aug 1817	69
		William Mitford  (to 1818)	10 Feb 1744	8 Feb 1827	82
5 Nov 1817		Cholmeley Dering	25 Oct 1766	7 Nov 1836	70
18 Jun 1818		Andrew Strahan  (to 1820)	c 1749	25 Aug 1831
		Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor	5 Oct 1762	8 Feb 1819	56
22 Feb 1819		Richard Edward Erle-Drax-Grosvenor	10 Mar 1797	18 Aug 1828	31
		(to 1826)
8 Mar 1820		George Hay Dawkins-Pennant  (to 1830)	20 Feb 1764	17 Dec 1840	76
9 Jun 1826		George William Tapps,later [1835] 2nd
		baronet	24 May 1795	26 Oct 1842	47
30 Jul 1830		Arthur Hill-Trevor,later [1837] 3rd Viscount
		Dungannon [I]	9 Nov 1798	11 Aug 1862	63
		William Miles,later [1859] 1st baronet  (to 1832)	13 May 1797	17 Jun 1878	81
19 Mar 1831		Sir Roger Gresley,8th baronet	27 Dec 1799	12 Oct 1837	37
29 Apr 1831		Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering,8th baronet	19 Nov 1807	1 Apr 1896	88
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		NEW ROSS (WEXFORD)
1801		Robert Leigh	c 1760	20 Apr 1836
10 Jul 1802		Charles Tottenham	1 Mar 1768	6 Jul 1843	75
26 Jul 1805		Ponsonby Tottenham	1746	13 Dec 1818	72
10 Nov 1806		Charles Leigh	c 1760	20 Apr 1836
21 May 1807		William Wigram	23 Jul 1780	8 Jan 1858	77
16 Oct 1812		Charles Leigh	c 1760	20 Apr 1836
26 Jun 1818		John Carroll	c 1790	4 Jun 1875
9 Feb 1821		Francis Leigh	18 Jan 1758	1839	81
5 Mar 1824		John Doherty	1785	8 Sep 1850	65
29 Jun 1826		William Wigram	23 Jul 1780	8 Jan 1858	77
6 Aug 1830		Charles Powell Leslie	c 1767	15 Nov 1831
7 May 1831		Charles Tottenham	14 Nov 1807	1 Jun 1886	78
15 Aug 1831		William Wigram	23 Jul 1780	8 Jan 1858	77
10 Dec 1832		John Hyacinth Talbot	1794	30 Apr 1868	73
6 Jul 1841		Robert Gore	1810	4 Aug 1854	44
7 Aug 1847		John Hyacinth Talbot	1794	30 Apr 1868	73
15 Jul 1852		Charles Gavan Duffy  [kt 1873]	12 Apr 1816	9 Feb 1903	86
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
18 Mar 1856		Charles Tottenham	1807	1 Jun 1886	78
8 Jun 1863		Charles George Tottenham	1838	23 Apr 1918	79
18 Nov 1868		Patrick McMahon	1813	19 Dec 1875	62
9 Feb 1874		John Dunbar	1827	3 Dec 1878	51
17 Dec 1878		Charles George Tottenham	1838	23 Apr 1918	79
6 Apr 1880		Joseph William Foley	1821	Jan 1881	59
2 Feb 1881		John Edward Redmond	1 Sep 1856	6 Mar 1918	61
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		NEWRY (DOWN)
1801		John Moore	1756	21 May 1834	77
13 Jul 1802		Isaac Corry	15 May 1752	15 May 1813	61
15 Nov 1806		Francis Needham,later [1818] 12th Viscount
		Kilmorey [I] and [1822] 1st Earl of Kilmorey [I]	5 Apr 1748	21 Nov 1832	84
6 Mar 1819		Francis Jack Needham,later [1832] 2nd
		Earl of Kilmorey	12 Dec 1787	20 Jun 1880	92
14 Jun 1826		John Henry Knox	26 Jul 1788	27 Aug 1872	84
27 Dec 1832		Lord Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill,later [1860] 3rd
		Baron Sandys	28 Jan 1798	10 Apr 1863	65
21 Jan 1835		Denis Caulfield Brady		30 Nov 1886
4 Aug 1837		John Ellis	21 Nov 1812
8 Jul 1841		Francis Jack Needham,styled Viscount Newry	2 Feb 1815	6 May 1851	36
30 May 1851		Edmund Gilling Hallewell	1796	5 Nov 1881	85
19 Jul 1852		William Kirk	1795	20 Dec 1870	75
5 May 1859		Peter Quinn	1814
15 Jul 1865		Arthur Charles Innes	1834	1902	68
18 Nov 1868		William Kirk	1795	20 Dec 1870	75
23 Jan 1871		Francis Charles Needham,styled Viscount Newry,
		later [1880] 3rd Earl of Kilmorey	2 Aug 1842	28 Jul 1915	72
5 Feb 1874		William Whitworth	1814	31 Dec 1886	72
5 Apr 1880		Henry Thomson	1840	30 Dec 1916	76
24 Nov 1885		Justin Huntly McCarthy	1859	20 Mar 1936	76
Jul 1892		Patrick George Hamilton Carvill	1839	10 Jan 1924	84
17 Jan 1906		John Joseph Mooney	1874	12 Apr 1934	59
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		NEWRY & ARMAGH
9 Jun 1983		James Frederick Nicholson	29 Jan 1945
23 Jan 1986		Seamus Mallon	17 Aug 1936
5 May 2005		Conor Terence Murphy	10 Jul 1963
		NEW SHOREHAM (SUSSEX)
11 Apr 1660		Herbert Springet,later [1661] 1st baronet	c 1613	5 Jan 1662
		Edward Blaker  (to 1678)	10 Jan 1630	13 Sep 1678	48
20 Jan 1662		William Quatremaine	c 1618	11 Jun 1667
24 Oct 1667		John Fagg	c 1646	31 Jul 1672
11 Feb 1673		Henry Goring  (to 1679)	6 Apr 1646	10 Jun 1685	39
24 Oct 1678		Sir Anthony Deane	3 Dec 1633	11 Jun 1721	87
11 Feb 1679		Robert Fagg,later [1701] 2nd baronet	c 1649	22 Aug 1715
		John Cheale  (to 1681)		28 Aug 1685
15 Aug 1679		John Hales  (to 1685)	2 Mar 1648	8 Oct 1723	75
18 Feb 1681		Robert Fagg	c 1649	22 Aug 1715
11 Mar 1685		Sir Edward Hungerford  (to 1695)	20 Oct 1632	8 Jul 1711	78
		Sir Richard Haddock	c 1629	26 Jan 1715
9 Jan 1689		John Monke	c 1659	13 Nov 1701
18 Mar 1690		John Perry  (to 1701)	c 1639	29 Mar 1732
2 Nov 1695		Henry Priestman	c 1647	20 Aug 1712
26 Jul 1698		Charles Sergison  (to 1702)	11 Jan 1655	26 Nov 1732	77
7 Jan 1701		Nathaniel Gould  [kt 1721]  (to May 1708)	3 Dec 1661	21 Jul 1728	66
18 Jul 1702		John Perry	c 1639	29 Mar 1732
11 May 1705		John Wicker	5 Aug 1658	May 1720	61
5 May 1708		Anthony Hammond	1 Sep 1668	1738	69
		Richard Lloyd  (to 1710)	c 1661	1714
18 Dec 1708		Sir Gregory Page,later [1714] 1st
		baronet  (to 1713)	c 1669	25 May 1720
6 Oct 1710		Nathaniel Gould  [kt 1721]  (to 1729)	3 Dec 1661	21 Jul 1728	66
20 Aug 1713		Francis Chamberlayne	after 1667	26 Sep 1728
29 Jan 1715		Sir Gregory Page,1st baronet	c 1668	25 May 1720
11 Jun 1720		Francis Chamberlayne	after 1667	26 Sep 1728
29 Jan 1729		Samuel Ongley	2 Nov 1697	15 Jun 1747	49
		John Gould	c 1695	25 Aug 1740
24 Apr 1734		Thomas Frederick	26 Oct 1707	21 Aug 1740	32
		John Phillipson  (to 1741)	28 Apr 1698	27 Nov 1756	58
24 Nov 1740		John Frederick,later [1770] 4th baronet	28 Nov 1708	9 Apr 1783	74
2 May 1741		Charles Frederick  [kt 1761]  (to 1754)	21 Dec 1709	18 Dec 1785	75
		Thomas Brand	c 1717	23 Aug 1770
26 Jun 1747		Robert Bristow  (to 1761)	1712	9 Dec 1776	64
16 Apr 1754		Richard Stratton	c 1705	18 Dec 1758
27 Dec 1758		Sir William Peere Williams,2nd baronet
		(to Dec 1761)	c 1730	27 Apr 1761
25 Mar 1761		George Brodrick,3rd Viscount Midleton [I]
		(to 1765)	3 Oct 1730	22 Aug 1765	34
4 Dec 1761		John Savile,1st Baron Pollington [I],later [1766]
		1st Earl of Mexborough  (to 1768)	Dec 1719	12 Feb 1778	58
23 Dec 1765		Samuel Cornish,later [1766] 1st baronet	c 1715	30 Oct 1770
		(to 1770)
16 Mar 1768		Peregrine Cust  (to 1774)	19 May 1723	2 Jan 1785	61
26 Nov 1770		John Purling   [he was unseated on petition	c 1722	23 Aug 1800
		in favour of Thomas Rumbold 17 Dec 1770]
17 Dec 1770		Thomas Rumbold,later [1779] 1st baronet	15 Jan 1736	11 Nov 1791	55
15 Oct 1774		Charles Goring	1743	3 Dec 1829	86
		Sir John Shelley	c 1730	11 Sep 1783
14 Sep 1780		Sir Cecil Bisshopp,8th baronet,later [1815]
		12th Lord Zouche	29 Dec 1753	11 Nov 1828	74
		John Peachey	16 Mar 1749	27 Jun 1816	67
28 Jun 1790		Sir Harry Goring,6th baronet  (to 1796)	26 Apr 1739	1 Dec 1824	85
		John Clater Aldridge	c 1737	16 May 1795
30 May 1795		Charles William Wyndham  (to 1802)	8 Oct 1760	1 Jul 1828	67
1 Jun 1796		Sir Cecil Bisshopp,8th baronet,later [1815]
		12th Lord Zouche  (to 1806)	29 Dec 1753	11 Nov 1828	74
12 Jul 1802		Timothy Shelley  (to 1818)	7 Sep 1753	24 Apr 1844	90
4 Nov 1806		Sir Charles Merrik Burrell,3rd baronet  (to 1862)	24 May 1774	4 Jan 1862	87
23 Jun 1818		James Martin Lloyd	21 May 1762	24 Oct 1844	82
16 Jun 1826		Henry Howard	25 Jul 1802	7 Jan 1875	72
15 Dec 1832		Harry Dent Goring,later [1844] 8th baronet	30 Dec 1801	19 Apr 1859	57
3 Jul 1841		Charles Goring	14 Jul 1817	19 Apr 1849	31
28 Dec 1849		Lord Alexander Francis Charles Gordon-
		Lennox	14 Jun 1825	22 Jan 1892	66
29 Apr 1859		Stephen Cave  (to 1880)	28 Dec 1820	6 Jun 1880	59
5 Feb 1862		Sir Percy Burrell,4th baronet	10 Feb 1812	19 Jul 1876	64
5 Aug 1876		Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell,5th baronet	26 Oct 1814	24 Jan 1886	71
		(to 1885)
5 Apr 1880		Robert Loder,later [1887] 1st baronet	7 Aug 1823	27 May 1888	64
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		NEWTON (LANCASHIRE)
Apr 1660		Richard Legh  (to 1679)	7 May 1634	31 Aug 1687	53
		William Banks	c 1636	6 Jul 1676
23 Apr 1661		John Vaughan  [he was also returned for	14 Sep 1603	10 Dec 1674	71
		Cardiganshire,for which he chose to sit]
24 Jun 1661		Sir Philip Mainwaring	c 1589	2 Aug 1661
24 Oct 1661		Richard Gorges,2nd Baron Gorges of Dundalk [I]	c 1619	27 Sep 1712
28 Feb 1679		Sir John Chicheley  (to 1691)	c 1640	20 Mar 1691
		Andrew Fountaine	c 1637	7 Feb 1707
23 Apr 1685		Peter Legh  [aged only 15!!]	22 Aug 1669	16 Jan 1744	74
11 Jan 1689		Francis Cholmondeley	10 Jan 1636	3 Jul 1713	77
11 Mar 1690		George Cholmondeley,later [1725] 2nd Earl of
		Cholmondeley  (to 1695)	1666	7 May 1733	66
18 Dec 1691		John Bennet	c 1656	1712
31 Oct 1695		Legh Banks	30 Aug 1666	Oct 1703	37
		Thomas Brotherton  (to 1701)	c 1656	11 Jan 1702
5 Aug 1698		Thomas Legh  (to 1702)		Mar 1703
1 Dec 1701		Thomas Legh  (to 1713)	13 Jun 1675	9 Nov 1717	42
27 Jul 1702		John Grobham Howe  [he was also returned for	9 Feb 1657	11 Jun 1722	65
		Bodmin, Gloucester and Gloucestershire,for
		which he chose to sit]
31 Dec 1702		Thomas Legh		Mar 1703
7 Dec 1703		John Ward  (to 1715)	13 Jun 1670	17 Mar 1749	78
8 Sep 1713		Abraham Blackmore	c 1677	18 May 1732
7 Feb 1715		Sir Francis Leicester,3rd baronet	30 Jul 1674	5 Aug 1742	68
		William Shippen  (to 1743)	30 Jul 1673	1 May 1743	69
22 Aug 1727		Legh Master  (to 1747)	c 1694	2 Apr 1750
15 Dec 1743		Peter Legh  (to 1774)	7 Jan 1707	20 May 1792	85
1 Jul 1747		Sir Thomas Grey Egerton,6th baronet	c 1721	7 Aug 1756
17 Apr 1754		Randle Wilbraham	1694	3 Dec 1770	76
19 Mar 1768		Anthony James Keck  (to 1780)	c 1740	18 Feb 1782
11 Oct 1774		Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym	c 1741	9 Jul 1783
12 Sep 1780		Thomas Peter Legh  (to 1797)	c 1754	7 Aug 1797
		Thomas Davenport [kt 1783]	14 Jan 1734	25 Mar 1786	52
10 Apr 1786		Thomas Brooke  (to 1807)	1755	20 Jun 1820	64
15 Sep 1797		Thomas Langford Brooke   [he was unseated	c 1769	21 Dec 1815
		on petition in favour of Peter Patten
		13 Dec 1797]
13 Dec 1797		Peter Patten (Patten-Bold from 1813)	1764	17 Oct 1819	55
3 Nov 1806		Peter Heron  (to 1814)	19 May 1770	15 Nov 1848	78
8 May 1807		John Ireland Blackburne  (to 1818)	26 May 1783	27 Jan 1874	90
16 Apr 1814		Thomas Legh  (to 1832)	c 1793	8 May 1857
18 Jun 1818		Thomas Claughton	23 Aug 1773	8 Mar 1842	68
11 Feb 1825		Sir Robert Townsend Townsend-Farquhar,
		1st baronet	14 Oct 1776	16 Mar 1830	53
9 Jun 1826		Thomas Alcock	19 Aug 1801	22 Aug 1866	65
31 Jul 1830		Thomas Houldsworth	13 Sep 1771	1 Sep 1852	80
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832,
		BUT REVIVED 1885
30 Nov 1885		Sir Richard Assheton Cross,later [1886] 1st
		Viscount Cross	30 May 1823	8 Jan 1914	90
16 Aug 1886		Thomas Wodehouse Legh,later [1898] 2nd
		Baron Newton	18 Mar 1857	21 Mar 1942	85
16 Jan 1899		Richard Pilkington	17 Jan 1841	12 Mar 1908	67
23 Jan 1906		James Andrew Seddon	7 May 1868	31 May 1939	71
Dec 1910		Roundell Cecil Palmer,styled Viscount Wolmer,
		later [1942] 3rd Earl of Selborne	15 Apr 1887	3 Sep 1971	84
14 Dec 1918		Robert Young [kt 1931]	26 Jan 1872	13 Jul 1957	85
27 Oct 1931		Reginald Clare Essenhigh	7 Sep 1890	1 Nov 1955	65
14 Nov 1935		Sir Robert Young	26 Jan 1872	13 Jul 1957	85
23 Feb 1950		Frederick Lee,later [1974] Baron Lee
		of Newton [L]	3 Aug 1906	4 Feb 1984	77
28 Feb 1974		John Evans,later [1997] Baron Evans
		of Parkside [L]	19 Oct 1930
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		NEWTON ABBOT (DEVON)
6 May 2010		Anne-Marie Morris
		NEWTOWN (ISLE OF WIGHT)
20 Apr 1660		Sir John Barrington,3rd baronet  (to Feb 1679)	c 1615	24 Mar 1683
		Sir Henry Worsley,2nd baronet	31 May 1613	11 Sep 1666	53
8 Nov 1666		Sir Robert Worsley,3rd baronet	c 1643	Dec 1675
17 Feb 1677		Sir John Holmes  (to 1685)	c 1640	28 May 1683
11 Feb 1679		John Churchill,later [1702] 1st Duke of
		Marlborough	24 Jun 1650	16 Jun 1722	71
14 Aug 1679		Lemuel Kingdon	c 1654	19 Feb 1686
14 Feb 1681		Daniel Finch,later [1682] 2nd Earl of Nottingham
		and [1729] 7th Earl of Winchilsea	2 Jul 1647	1 Jan 1730	82
		[He was also returned for Lichfield,but the
		Parliament was dissolved before he could
		choose which seat to represent]
3 Apr 1685		Thomas Done  (to 1698)	c 1651	Jan 1703
		William Blathwayt	2 Mar 1649	16 Aug 1717	68
12 Jan 1689		Richard Jones,1st Earl of Ranelagh [I]	8 Feb 1641	5 Jan 1712	70
31 Oct 1695		James Worsley,later [1747] 5th baronet	28 May 1672	12 Jun 1756	84
		(to 1701)
26 Jul 1698		Thomas Hopson  (to 1705)	5 Apr 1643	12 Oct 1717	74
29 Nov 1701		Joseph Dudley	23 Sep 1647	2 Apr 1720	72
20 Jul 1702		John Leigh	c 1670	Apr 1743
12 May 1705		James Worsley,later [1747] 5th baronet	28 May 1672	12 Jun 1756	84
		(to 1722)
		Henry Worsley	26 Feb 1672	15 Mar 1740	68
28 Jan 1715		Sir Robert Worsley,4th baronet	c 1669	29 Jul 1747
24 Mar 1722		William Stephens	28 Jan 1671	Aug 1753	82
		Charles Worsley	after 1671	28 Aug 1739
23 Aug 1727		James Worsley,later [1747] 5th baronet	28 May 1672	12 Jun 1756	84
		Thomas Holmes,later [1760] 1st Baron Holmes [I]	2 Nov 1699	21 Jul 1764	64
		[Both sitting members were unseated on
		petition in favour of Charles Armand Powlett
		and Sir John Barrington 25 Apr 1729]
25 Apr 1729		Charles Armand Powlett	c 1694	14 Nov 1751
		Sir John Barrington,7th baronet	by 1707	4 May 1776
24 Apr 1734		James Worsley,later [1747] 5th baronet	28 May 1672	12 Jun 1756	84
		Thomas Holmes,later [1760] 1st Baron Holmes [I]	2 Nov 1699	21 Jul 1764	64
6 May 1741		Sir John Barrington,7th baronet  (to Dec 1775)	by 1707	4 May 1776
		Henry Holmes	28 Feb 1703	11 Aug 1762	59
29 Jun 1747		Maurice Bocland	c 1695	15 Aug 1765
20 Apr 1754		Harcourt Powell	1718	26 Feb 1782	63
24 Apr 1775		Charles Ambler  (to 1780)	19 Apr 1721	28 Feb 1794	72
4 Dec 1775		Edward Meux Worsley  (to 1782)	1747	31 Jul 1782	35
9 Sep 1780		John Barrington,later [1792] 9th baronet	8 Dec 1752	5 Aug 1818	65
		(to 1796)
16 Sep 1782		Henry Dundas,later [1802] 1st Viscount Melville	28 Apr 1742	2 May 1811	69
17 Jan 1783		Richard Pepper Arden,later [1801] 1st Baron
		Alvanley	20 May 1744	19 Mar 1804	59
5 Apr 1784		James Worsley	10 Apr 1725	10 Apr 1787	62
30 Aug 1784		Mark Gregory		1 May 1793
18 Jun 1790		Sir Richard Worsley,7th baronet	5 Mar 1751	8 Aug 1805	54
28 Jun 1793		George Canning	11 Apr 1770	8 Aug 1827	57
27 May 1796		Sir Richard Worsley,7th baronet	5 Mar 1751	8 Aug 1805	54
		Charles Shaw Lefevre (to Jul 1802)
25 Feb 1801		Sir Edward Law,later [1802] 1st Baron
		Ellenborough	16 Nov 1750	13 Dec 1818	68
5 May 1802		Ewan Law	30 Oct 1747	24 Apr 1829	81
7 Jul 1802		Sir Robert Barclay,8th baronet  (to 1807)	13 Sep 1755	14 Aug 1839	83
		Charles Chapman	23 Nov 1752	19 Mar 1809	56
5 Jun 1805		James Paull	1770	15 Apr 1808	37
		For further information on the death of this
		MP, see the note at the foot of this page
3 Nov 1806		George Canning	11 Apr 1770	8 Aug 1827	57
7 May 1807		Barrington Pope Blachford  (to 1816)	c 1784	14 May 1816
		Dudley North (Long-North from 1812)	14 Mar 1748	21 Feb 1829	80
23 Feb 1808		George Anderson-Pelham  (to 1820)	15 Sep 1785	14 Jun 1835	49
3 Jun 1816		Hudson Gurney  (to 1832)	19 Jan 1775	9 Nov 1864	89
10 Mar 1820		Dudley Long-North	14 Mar 1748	21 Feb 1829	80
9 Feb 1821		Charles Compton Cavendish,later [1858] 1st
		Baron Chesham	28 Aug 1793	12 Nov 1863	70
3 Aug 1830		Charles Anderson Worsley Anderson-
		Pelham,later [1846] 2nd Earl of Yarborough	12 Apr 1809	7 Jan 1862	52
30 Apr 1831		Sir William Horne	2 Dec 1773	13 Jul 1860	86
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		NORFOLK
2 Apr 1660		Thomas Richardson,2nd Lord Cramond [S]
		(to 1675)	19 Jun 1627	16 May 1674	46
		Sir Horatio Townshend,later [1682] 1st
		Viscount Townshend	16 Dec 1630	10 Dec 1687	56
1 Apr 1661		Sir Ralph Hare,1st baronet	24 Mar 1623	28 Feb 1672	48
17 Feb 1673		Sir John Hobart,3rd baronet  (to Feb 1679)	20 Mar 1628	22 Aug 1683	55
10 May 1675		Sir Robert Kemp,2nd baronet	2 Feb 1628	26 Jun 1710	82
10 Feb 1679		Sir Christopher Calthorpe	c 1645	7 Feb 1718
		Sir Neville Catelyn	3 Mar 1634	Jul 1702	68
		Election declared void 21 Apr 1679
5 May 1679		Sir John Hobart,3rd baronet  (to 1685)	20 Mar 1628	22 Aug 1683	55
		Sir Neville Catelyn	3 Mar 1634	Jul 1702	68
25 Aug 1679		Sir Peter Gleane,1st baronet	1619	7 Feb 1695	76
30 Mar 1685		Sir Thomas Hare,2nd baronet	c 1658	1 Jan 1693
		Sir Jacob Astley,1st baronet	1640	17 Aug 1729	89
14 Jan 1689		Sir William Cook,2nd baronet  (to 1695)	c 1630	Jan 1708
		Sir Henry Hobart,4th baronet	c 1657	21 Aug 1698
24 Feb 1690		Sir Jacob Astley,1st baronet  (to Dec 1701)	1640	17 Aug 1729	89
28 Oct 1695		Sir Henry Hobart,4th baronet	c 1657	21 Aug 1698
3 Aug 1698		Sir William Cook,2nd baronet	c 1630	Jan 1708
15 Jan 1701		Roger Townshend  (to 1702)	after 1675	22 May 1709
17 Dec 1701		Sir John Holland,2nd baronet  (to 1710)	c 1669	by Jul 1724
29 Jul 1702		Sir Jacob Astley,1st baronet	1640	17 Aug 1729	89
30 May 1705		Roger Townshend	after 1675	22 May 1709
26 May 1708		Ashe Windham	17 Feb 1673	4 Apr 1749	76
11 Oct 1710		Sir John Wodehouse,4th baronet	23 Mar 1669	9 Oct 1754	85
		Sir Jacob Astley,1st baronet  (to 1722)	1640	17 Aug 1729	89
9 Sep 1713		Sir Edmund Bacon,6th baronet	c 1680	30 Apr 1755
18 Feb 1715		Thomas de Grey  (to 1727)	13 Aug 1680	18 Dec 1765	85
11 Apr 1722		Thomas Coke,later [1744] 1st Earl of Leicester
		(to 1728)	17 Jun 1697	20 Apr 1759	61
23 Aug 1727		Sir John Hobart,5th baronet,later [1746] 1st
		Earl of Buckinghamshire	11 Oct 1693	22 Sep 1756	62
26 Jun 1728		Harbord Harbord	c 1675	28 Jan 1742
		Sir Edmund Bacon,6th baronet  (to 1741)	c 1680	30 Apr 1755
22 May 1734		William Wodehouse	c 1706	13 Mar 1737
23 Mar 1737		Armine Wodehouse,later [1754] 5th baronet	c 1714	21 May 1777
		(to 1768)
13 May 1741		Edward Coke,styled Viscount Coke from 1744	2 Feb 1719	31 Aug 1753	34
1 Jul 1747		George Townshend,later [1764] 4th Viscount
		Townshend and [1787] 1st Marquess Townshend	28 Feb 1724	14 Sep 1807	83
11 Apr 1764		Thomas de Grey  (to 1774)	29 Sep 1717	23 Jun 1781	63
23 Mar 1768		Sir Edward Astley,4th baronet  (to 1790)	26 Dec 1729	27 Mar 1802	72
26 Oct 1774		Wenman Coke	7 Jan 1717	11 Apr 1776	59
8 May 1776		Thomas William Coke,later [1837] 1st Earl of
		Leicester of Holkham	6 May 1754	30 Jun 1842	88
14 Apr 1784		Sir John Wodehouse,6th baronet,later [1797]
		1st Baron Wodehouse of Kimberley  (to 1797)	15 Apr 1741	29 May 1834	83
24 Jun 1790		Thomas William Coke,later [1837] 1st Earl of
		Leicester of Holkham  (to Mar 1807)	6 May 1754	30 Jun 1842	88
15 Nov 1797		Sir Jacob Henry Astley,5th baronet	12 Sep 1756	28 Apr 1817	60
20 Nov 1806		Thomas William Coke,later [1837] 1st Earl of
		Leicester of Holkham  (to Mar 1807)	6 May 1754	30 Jun 1842	88
		William Windham	3 May 1750	4 Jun 1810	60
		Election declared void 19 Feb 1807
4 Mar 1807		Edward Coke	1758	1837	79
		Sir Jacob Henry Astley,5th baronet  (to 1817)	12 Sep 1756	28 Apr 1817	60
12 May 1807		Thomas William Coke,later [1837] 1st Earl of
		Leicester of Holkham  (to 1832)	6 May 1754	30 Jun 1842	88
24 May 1817		Edmund Wodehouse	26 Jul 1784	21 Aug 1855	71
6 Aug 1830		Sir William John Henry Browne Ffolkes,2nd	30 Aug 1786	24 Mar 1860	73
		baronet
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST
		& WEST DIVISIONS 1832
		NORFOLK CENTRAL
23 Feb 1950		Frank Medlicott  [kt 1955]	10 Nov 1903	9 Jan 1972	68
8 Oct 1959		Richard Charles Marler Collard	25 Aug 1911	9 Aug 1962	50
22 Nov 1962		Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour,later [1977]
		3rd baronet and [1992] Baron Gilmour of	8 Jul 1926	21 Sep 2007	81
		Craigmillar [L]
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		NORFOLK EAST
24 Dec 1832		William Howe Windham		22 Dec 1854
		George Thomas Keppel,later [1851] 6th
		Earl of Albemarle	13 Jun 1799	21 Feb 1891	91
23 Jan 1835		Edmond Wodehouse  (to 1855)	26 Jun 1784	21 Aug 1855	71
		Horatio William Walpole,styled Baron Walpole,
		later [1858] 4th Earl of Orford	18 Apr 1813	7 Dec 1894	81
11 Aug 1837		Henry Negus Burroughes  (to 1857)	8 Feb 1791	22 Mar 1872	81
17 Jul 1855		Sir Henry Josias Stracey,5th baronet	31 Jul 1802	7 Aug 1885	83
6 Apr 1857		Charles Ashe Windham  (to 1859)	8 Oct 1810	4 Feb 1870	59
		Sir Edward North Buxton,2nd baronet	16 Sep 1812	11 Jun 1858	45
1 Jul 1858		Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke  (to 1865)	13 Jul 1828	10 Jan 1907	78
2 May 1859		Edward Howes  (to 1868)	7 Jul 1813	26 Mar 1871	57
20 Jul 1865		Clare Sewell Read	1826	22 Aug 1905	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1868
		BUT REVIVED IN 1885
1 Dec 1885		Edward Birkbeck,later [1886] 1st baronet	11 Oct 1838	2 Sep 1907	68
Jul 1892		Robert John Price  [kt 1908]	26 Apr 1854	18 Apr 1926	71
14 Dec 1918		Michael Falcon	21 Jul 1888	27 Feb 1976	87
6 Dec 1923		Hugh Michael Seely,later [1926] 3rd baronet
		and [1941] 1st Baron Sherwood	2 Oct 1898	1 Apr 1970	71
29 Oct 1924		Reginald James Neville Neville,later [1927]
		1st baronet	22 Feb 1863	28 Apr 1950	87
30 May 1929		William Lygon,styled Viscount Elmley,later
		[1938] 8th Earl Beauchamp	3 Jul 1903	3 Jan 1979	75
26 Jan 1939		Frank Medlicott  [kt 1955]	10 Nov 1903	9 Jan 1972	68
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		NORFOLK MID
4 Dec 1885		Robert Thornhagh Gurdon,later [1899] 1st
		Baron Cranworth	18 Jun 1829	13 Oct 1902	73
Jul 1892		Clement Higgins	10 Jan 1844	4 Dec 1916	72
24 Apr 1895		Robert Thornhagh Gurdon,later [1899] 1st
		Baron Cranworth	18 Jun 1829	13 Oct 1902	73
24 Jul 1895		Frederick William Wilson  [kt 1907]	26 Mar 1844	26 May 1924	80
25 Jan 1906		John Wodehouse,styled Baron Wodehouse,later
		[1932] 3rd Earl of Kimberley	11 Nov 1883	16 Apr 1941	57
19 Jan 1910		William Lewis Boyle	27 May 1859	2 Oct 1918	59
23 Oct 1918		Neville Paul Jodrell  [kt 1922]	27 May 1858	20 May 1932	73
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918,
		BUT REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Richard Andrew Ryder,later [1997] Baron Ryder
		of Wensum [L]	4 Feb 1949
1 May 1997		Keith Robert Simpson	29 Mar 1949
6 May 2010		George William Freeman	12 Jul 1967
		NORFOLK NORTH
23 Nov 1868		Frederick Walpole	18 Sep 1822	1 Apr 1876	53
		Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon,3rd
		baronet  (to 1885)	14 Aug 1807	2 Dec 1888	81
24 Apr 1876		James Duff	1831	22 Dec 1878	47
23 Jan 1879		Edward Birkbeck,later [1886] 1st baronet	11 Oct 1838	2 Sep 1907	68
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
2 Dec 1885		Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy,later [1914] 1st
		Baron Cozens-Hardy	22 Nov 1838	18 Jun 1920	81
16 Mar 1899		Sir William Brampton Gurdon	5 Sep 1840	31 May 1911	70
25 Jan 1910		Noel Edward Buxton,later [1930] 1st Baron
		Noel-Buxton	9 Jan 1869	12 Sep 1948	79
14 Dec 1918		Henry Douglas King	1 Jun 1877	20 Aug 1930	53
		for information on the death of this MP,see the
		note at the foot of the page containing details
		of the members for Paddington South
15 Nov 1922		Noel Edward Buxton,later [1930] 1st Baron
		Noel-Buxton	9 Jan 1869	12 Sep 1948	79
9 Jul 1930		Lucy Edith Pelham Noel-Buxton	1888	9 Dec 1960	72
27 Oct 1931		Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook  [kt 1937]	12 Jun 1902	12 Aug 1970	68
26 Jul 1945		Edwin George Gooch	15 Jan 1889	2 Aug 1964	75
15 Oct 1964		Bertie Hazell	18 Apr 1907	11 Jan 2009	101
18 Jun 1970		Ralph Frederick Howell  [kt 1993]	25 May 1923	14 Feb 2008	84
1 May 1997		David Gifford Leathes Prior	3 Dec 1954
7 Jun 2001		Norman Peter Lamb	16 Sep 1957
		NORFOLK NORTH WEST
9 Dec 1885		Joseph Arch	10 Nov 1826	12 Feb 1919	92
10 Jul 1886		Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck	28 May 1863	6 Oct 1931	68
Jul 1892		Joseph Arch	10 Nov 1826	12 Feb 1919	92
11 Oct 1900		George White  [kt 1907]	1840	11 May 1912	71
31 May 1912		Edward George Hemmerde	13 Nov 1871	24 May 1948	76
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918,
		BUT REVIVED FEB 1974
28 Feb 1974		Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler	13 Jan 1934
9 Jun 1983		Henry Campbell Bellingham	29 Mar 1955
1 May 1997		George Turner	9 Aug 1940
7 Jun 2001		Henry Campbell Bellingham	29 Mar 1955
		NORFOLK SOUTH
21 Nov 1868		Clare Sewell Read  (to 1880)	1826	22 Aug 1905	79
		Edward Howes	7 Jul 1813	26 Mar 1871	57
17 Apr 1871		Sir Robert Jacob Buxton,3rd baronet  (to 1885)	13 Mar 1829	20 Jan 1888	58
8 Apr 1880		Robert Thornhagh Gurdon,later [1899] 1st
		Baron Cranworth	18 Jun 1829	13 Oct 1902	73
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
28 Nov 1885		Francis Taylor	1845	1 Sep 1915	70
12 May 1898		Arthur Wellesley Soames	30 Nov 1852	2 Nov 1934	81
14 Dec 1918		William Hepburn Cozens-Hardy,later [1920] 2nd
		Baron Cozens-Hardy	25 Mar 1868	25 May 1924	56
27 Jul 1920		George Edwards  [kt 1930]	5 Oct 1850	6 Dec 1933	83
15 Nov 1922		Thomas William Hay	25 Aug 1882	10 Jul 1956	73
6 Dec 1923		George Edwards  [kt 1930]	5 Oct 1850	6 Dec 1933	83
29 Oct 1924		James Archibald Christie	1873	16 Oct 1958	85
26 Jul 1945		Christopher Paget Mayhew,later [1981]
		Baron Mayhew [L]	12 Jun 1915	7 Jan 1997	81
23 Feb 1950		Peter Arthur David Baker [expelled 16 Dec 1954]	20 Apr 1921	14 Nov 1966	45
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
13 Jan 1955		John Edward Bernard Hill	13 Nov 1912	6 Dec 2007	95
28 Feb 1974		John Roddick Russell MacGregor,later [2001]
		Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market [L]	14 Feb 1937
7 Jun 2001		Richard Michael Bacon	3 Dec 1962
		NORFOLK SOUTH WEST
5 Dec 1885		William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst,later [1892]
		1st Baron Amherst of Hackney	25 Apr 1835	16 Jan 1909	73
Jul 1892		Thomas Leigh Hare,later [1905] 1st baronet	4 Apr 1859	22 Feb 1941	81
18 Jan 1906		Richard Winfrey  [kt 1914]	8 Aug 1858	18 Apr 1944	85
6 Dec 1923		Alan McLean  [kt 1933]	5 Jul 1875	9 May 1959	83
30 May 1929		William Benjamin Taylor	22 May 1875	29 Jul 1932	57
27 Oct 1931		Alan McLean  [kt 1933]	5 Jul 1875	9 May 1959	83
14 Nov 1935		Somerset Struben de Chair	22 Aug 1911	3 Jan 1995	83
26 Jul 1945		Sidney Dye	1900	9 Dec 1958	58
25 Oct 1951		Denys Gradwell Bullard	15 Aug 1912	2 Nov 1994	82
26 May 1955		Sidney Dye	1900	9 Dec 1958	58
25 Mar 1959		Albert Victor Hilton,later [1965] Baron Hilton
		of Upton [L]	14 Feb 1908	3 May 1977	69
15 Oct 1964		Paul Lancelot Hawkins  [kt 1982]	7 Aug 1912	29 Dec 2002	90
11 Jun 1987		Gillian Patricia Shephard,later [2005] Baroness
		Shephard of Northwold [L]	22 Jan 1940
5 May 2005		Christopher James Fraser	25 Oct 1962
6 May 2010		Elizabeth Mary Truss	26 Jul 1975
		NORFOLK WEST
15 Dec 1832		Sir William John Henry Browne Ffolkes,2nd
		baronet	30 Aug 1786	24 Mar 1860	73
		Sir Jacob Astley,later [1841] 16th
		Lord Hastings	13 Nov 1797	27 Dec 1859	62
29 Jul 1837		William Bagge,later [1867] 1st baronet	17 Jun 1810	12 Feb 1880	69
		(to 1857)
		William Lyde Wiggett Chute	16 Jan 1800	6 Jul 1879	79
16 Aug 1847		Edward Keppel Wentworth Coke	20 Aug 1824	26 May 1889	64
23 Jul 1852		George William Pierrepont Bentinck
		(to 1865)	17 Jul 1803	20 Feb 1886	82
30 Mar 1857		John Brampton Gurdon	25 Sep 1797	28 Apr 1881	83
24 Jul 1865		Sir William Bagge,1st baronet  (to 1880)	17 Jun 1810	12 Feb 1880	69
		Thomas de Grey,later [1870] 6th Baron
		Walsingham	29 Jul 1843	3 Dec 1919	76
8 Feb 1871		George William Pierrepont Bentinck
		(to 1884)	17 Jul 1803	20 Feb 1886	82
8 Mar 1880		William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst,later [1892]
		1st Baron Amherst of Hackney  (to 1885)	25 Apr 1835	16 Jan 1909	73
20 Feb 1884		Clare Sewell Read	1826	22 Aug 1905	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		NORMANTON (YORKSHIRE)
1 Dec 1885		Benjamin Pickard	28 Feb 1842	3 Feb 1904	61
1 Mar 1904		William Parrott	18 Dec 1843	9 Nov 1905	61
27 Nov 1905		Frederick Hall	1855	18 Apr 1933	77
8 May 1933		Tom Smith	24 Apr 1886	27 Feb 1953	66
11 Feb 1947		George Oscar Sylvester	14 Sep 1898	26 Oct 1961	63
23 Feb 1950		Thomas Judson Brooks	7 Jul 1880	15 Feb 1958	77
25 Oct 1951		Albert Roberts	14 May 1908	11 May 2000	91
9 Jun 1983		William O'Brien  [kt 2010]	25 Jan 1929
5 May 2005		Edward Michael Balls	25 Feb 1967
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010
		NORMANTON,PONTEFRACT &
		CASTLEFORD (WEST YORKSHIRE)
6 May 2010		Yvette Cooper	20 Mar 1969
		NORTHALLERTON (YORKSHIRE)
c Apr 1660		Francis Lascelles	23 Aug 1612	28 Nov 1667	55
		Thomas Lascelles  (to 1661)	5 Aug 1624	4 Nov 1697	73
6 Jul 1660		Sir George Marwood,1st baronet	28 Apr 1601	19 Feb 1680	78
		Sir Francis Holles,1st baronet,later [1680]
		2nd Baron Holles	19 Aug 1627	1 Mar 1690	62
		Double return
8 Apr 1661		Gilbert Gerard,later [1666] 1st baronet  (to 1685)		24 Sep 1687
		Roger Talbot	c 1619	2 Oct 1680
14 Feb 1679		Sir Henry Calverley	c 1641	14 Jun 1684
27 Mar 1685		Sir David Foulis,3rd baronet	14 Mar 1633	13 Mar 1695	61
		Sir Henry Marwood,2nd baronet	c 1635	1 Nov 1725
10 Jan 1689		Sir William Robinson,1st baronet	19 Nov 1655	22 Dec 1736	81
		Thomas Lascelles  (to 1697)	5 Aug 1624	4 Nov 1697	73
30 Oct 1695		Sir William Hustler  (to Nov 1702)  [at the	c 1658	20 Aug 1730
		general election in Jul 1702,Hustler was also
		returned for Ripon,for which he chose to sit]
28 Dec 1697		Ralph Milbancke	c 1670	Oct 1701
25 Nov 1701		Robert Dormer  [he was also returned for	30 May 1650	18 Sep 1726	76
		Buckinghamshire,for which he chose to sit]
3 Feb 1702		Daniel Lascelles	6 Nov 1655	5 Sep 1734	78
24 Jul 1702		John Aislabie  (to May 1705)	4 Dec 1670	18 Jun 1742	71
23 Nov 1702		Robert Dormer  (to Dec 1705)  [at the	30 May 1650	18 Sep 1726	76
		general election in May 1705,Dormer was
		also returned for Buckinghamshire,for
		which he chose to sit]
15 May 1705		Sir William Hustler    (to 1710)	c 1658	20 Aug 1730
3 Dec 1705		Roger Gale  (to 1713)	1672	25 Jun 1744	71
10 Oct 1710		Robert Raikes	1 Nov 1683	20 Jun 1753	69
2 Sep 1713		Henry Peirse	25 Feb 1692	2 Oct 1759	67
		Leonard Smelt  (to 1740)	c 1683	30 May 1740
3 Feb 1715		Cholmley Turner	20 Jul 1685	9 May 1757	71
30 Mar 1722		Henry Peirse  (to 1754)	25 Feb 1692	2 Oct 1759	67
1 Dec 1740		William Smelt	10 Jan 1690	14 Sep 1755	65
16 May 1745		Henry Lascelles	20 Dec 1690	16 Oct 1753	62
3 Apr 1752		Daniel Lascelles  (to 1780)	20 May 1714	24 May 1784	70
16 Apr 1754		Edwin Lascelles,later [1790] 1st Baron
		Harewood	5 Feb 1713	25 Jan 1795	81
30 Mar 1761		Edward Lascelles,later [1796] 1st Baron Harewood
		and [1812] 1st Earl of Harewood	7 Jan 1740	3 Apr 1820	80
10 Oct 1774		Henry Peirse  (to 1824)	2 Jun 1754	14 May 1824	69
9 Dec 1780		Edwin Lascelles,later [1790] 1st Baron
		Harewood	5 Feb 1713	25 Jan 1795	81
18 Jun 1790		Edward Lascelles,later [1796] 1st Baron Harewood
		and [1812] 1st Earl of Harewood	7 Jan 1740	3 Apr 1820	80
27 May 1796		Edward Lascelles,styled Viscount Lascelles
		from 1812	10 Jan 1764	3 Jun 1814	50
24 Jun 1814		John Bacon Sawrey Morritt	1771	12 Jul 1843	72
20 Jun 1818		Henry Lascelles,styled Viscount Lascelles,
		later [1820] 2nd Earl of Harewood	25 Dec 1767	24 Nov 1841	73
9 Mar 1820		William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
		(to 1826)	29 Oct 1798	2 Jul 1851	52
28 May 1824		Marcus Beresford	28 Jul 1800	16 Mar 1876	75
9 Jun 1826		Henry Lascelles,later [1841] 3rd Earl
		of Harewood	11 Jun 1797	22 Feb 1857	59
		Sir John Poer Beresford,1st baronet  (to 1832)	1766	2 Oct 1844	78
3 May 1831		William Saunders Sebright Lascelles	29 Oct 1798	2 Jul 1851	52
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1832
10 Dec 1832		John George Boss
8 Jan 1835		William Battie-Wrightson	1789	10 Feb 1879	89
13 Jul 1865		Charles Henry Mills,later [1872] 2nd baronet
		and [1886] 1st Baron Hillingdon	26 Apr 1830	3 Apr 1898	67
		[his election was declared void 30 Apr 1866]
11 May 1866		Egremont William Lascelles	26 Jul 1825	27 Oct 1892	67
17 Nov 1868		John Hutton	10 Jan 1847	19 Dec 1921	74
5 Feb 1874		George William Elliot,later [1893] 2nd baronet	13 May 1844	15 Nov 1895	51
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		NORTHAMPTON (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)
29 Mar 1660		Richard Rainsford  (to Apr 1661)	c 1605	17 Feb 1680
		Francis Harvey   [unseated on petition in	20 Dec 1611	30 Apr 1703	91
		favour of Sir John Norwich 21 Jun 1660]
21 Jun 1660		Sir John Norwich,1st baronet	19 Sep 1613	9 Oct 1661	48
29 Apr 1661		Sir James Langham,later [1671] 2nd baronet	c 1621	22 Aug 1699
		Francis Harvey	20 Dec 1611	30 Apr 1703	91
		Sir John Norwich,1st baronet	19 Sep 1613	9 Oct 1661	48
		Double return between Harvey and Norwich.
		Harvey seated 22 May 1661,but election
		declared void 13 Jun 1661
4 Nov 1661		Sir Charles Compton	c 1624	30 Nov 1661
		Richard Rainsford  (to 1664)	c 1605	17 Feb 1680
21 Feb 1662		Sir James Langham,later [1671] 2nd baronet	c 1621	22 Aug 1699
		Election declared void 26 Apr 1662
9 Mar 1663		Sir William Dudley  [he was unseated on	c 1607	18 Sep 1670
		petition in favour of Christopher Hatton on
		9 Apr 1663]
9 Apr 1663		Christopher Hatton,later [1670] 2nd Baron
		Hatton and [1683] 1st Viscount Hatton  (to 1670)	6 Nov 1632	24 Sep 1706	73
31 Mar 1664		Sir John Bernard  [he was unseated on	23 Aug 1604	5 Mar 1674	69
		petition in favour of Sir Henry Yelverton
		26 Apr 1664]
26 Apr 1664		Sir Henry Yelverton,2nd baronet	6 Jul 1633	3 Oct 1670	37
31 Oct 1670		Sir William Fermor,2nd baronet later [1692]
		1st Baron Leominster  (to Aug 1679)	3 Aug 1648	7 Dec 1711	63
		Henry O'Brien,styled Baron Ibrackan [I]	c 1642	1 Sep 1678
31 Oct 1678		Ralph Montagu,later [1683] 3rd Baron Montagu
		and [1705] 1st Duke of Montagu	24 Dec 1638	9 Mar 1709	70
		Sir William Temple,1st baronet	25 Apr 1628	27 Jan 1699	70
		Double return. Montagu declared
		elected 10 Nov 1678
10 Feb 1679		Sir Hugh Cholmley,4th baronet	21 Jul 1632	9 Jan 1689	56
21 Aug 1679		Ralph Montagu,later [1683] 3rd Baron Montagu
		and [1705] 1st Duke of Montagu	24 Dec 1638	9 Mar 1709	70
		Sir William Langham,later [1699] 3rd baronet	c 1625	29 Sep 1700
9 Mar 1685		Sir Justinian Isham,4th baronet  (to 1690)	11 Aug 1658	13 May 1730	71
		Richard Rainsford	c 1641	15 Mar 1703
10 Jan 1689		Sir William Langham,later [1699] 3rd baronet	c 1625	29 Sep 1700
		(to 1695)
20 Feb 1690		Sir Thomas Samwell,1st baronet	c 1654	23 Feb 1694
9 Mar 1694		Sir Justinian Isham,4th baronet  (to 1698)	11 Aug 1658	13 May 1730	71
21 Oct 1695		Christopher Montagu  (to 1702)	c 1655	27 Sep 1735
20 Jul 1698		William Thursby	18 Apr 1630	4 Feb 1701	70
21 Feb 1701		Thomas Andrew	c 1645	19 Oct 1722
17 Jul 1702		Sir Matthew Dudley,2nd baronet  (to 1705)	1 Oct 1661	14 Apr 1721	59
		Bartholomew Tate	1666	6 Jul 1704	38
2 Nov 1704		Francis Arundell  (to 1710)	3 May 1676	5 Dec 1712	36
8 May 1705		George Montagu,later [1715] 1st Earl of Halifax	c 1684	9 May 1739
		(to 1715)
6 Oct 1710		William Wykes  (to 1722)	5 May 1686	5 May 1742	56
7 Jun 1715		William Wilmer  (to 1727)	c 1692	3 Apr 1744
22 Mar 1722		Edward Montagu  (to 1734)	after 1684	2 Aug 1738
18 Aug 1727		George Compton,later [1754] 6th Earl of
		Northampton  (to Dec 1754)	1692	6 Dec 1758	66
27 Apr 1734		William Wilmer	c 1692	3 Apr 1744
13 Apr 1744		George Montagu	c 1713	9 May 1780
15 Apr 1754		Charles Montagu  (to 1759)	after 1695	29 May 1759
9 Dec 1754		Charles Compton	30 Jan 1698	20 Nov 1755	57
9 Dec 1755		Richard Backwell  (to 1761)	c 1695	12 Feb 1765
6 Jun 1759		Frederick Montagu  (to 1768)	Jul 1733	30 Jul 1800	67
26 Mar 1761		Spencer Compton,later [1763] 8th Earl of
		Northampton	16 Aug 1738	7 Apr 1796	57
21 Nov 1763		Lucy Knightley	23 Feb 1742	28 Jan 1791	48
1 Apr 1768		Sir George Brydges Rodney,later [1782] 1st
		Baron Rodney  (to 1774)	13 Feb 1719	24 May 1792	73
		Sir George Osborn,4th baronet  [he was	10 May 1742	29 Jun 1818	76
		unseated on petition in favour of Thomas
		Howe 14 Feb 1769]
14 Feb 1769		Thomas Howe	c 1728	14 Nov 1771
13 Dec 1771		Wilbraham Tollemache,later [1799] 6th Earl of
		Dysart  (to 1780)	23 Oct 1739	9 Mar 1821	81
10 Oct 1774		Sir George Robinson,5th baronet	27 May 1730	10 Oct 1815	85
9 Sep 1780		George John Spencer,styled Viscount Althorp,
		later [1783] 2nd Earl Spencer	1 Sep 1758	10 Nov 1834	76
		George Rodney,later [1792] 2nd Baron Rodney
		(to 1784)	25 Dec 1753	2 Jan 1802	48
26 Apr 1782		Charles Bingham,1st Baron Lucan [I],later
		[1795] 1st Earl of Lucan [I]	22 Sep 1735	29 Mar 1799	63
7 Apr 1784		Charles Compton,styled Baron Compton,later
		[1796] 9th Earl of Northampton and [1812] 1st
		Marquess of Northampton  (to 1796)	21 Mar 1760	24 May 1828	68
		Fiennes Trotman	c 1752	19 Jun 1824
21 Jun 1790		Edward Bouverie  (to 1810)	5 Sep 1738	3 Sep 1810	71
9 May 1796		Spencer Perceval  (to 1812)	1 Nov 1762	11 May 1812	49
		For further information about an alleged dream
		which predicted Perceval's assassination,see
		the note at the foot of this page
8 Oct 1810		William Hanbury,later [1837] 1st Baron Bateman
		(to 1818)	24 Jun 1780	22 Jul 1845	65
26 May 1812		Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton,styled Earl
		Compton from Sep 1812,later [1828] 2nd
		Marquess of Northampton  (to 1820)	2 Jan 1790	17 Jan 1851	61
30 Jun 1818		Sir Edward Kerrison,later [1821] 1st baronet	30 Jul 1776	9 Mar 1853	76
11 Mar 1820		Sir George Robinson,6th baronet  (to 1832)	12 Jan 1766	23 Nov 1833	67
		William Leader Maberly	7 May 1798	6 Feb 1885	86
4 Aug 1830		Sir Robert Henry Gunning,3rd baronet	26 Dec 1795	22 Sep 1862	66
31 May 1831		Robert Vernon Smith,later [1859] 1st
		Baron Lyveden  (to 1859)	23 Feb 1800	10 Nov 1873	73
13 Dec 1832		Charles Ross	c 1800	21 Mar 1860
26 Jul 1837		Raikes Currie	1801	16 Oct 1881	80
30 Mar 1857		Charles Gilpin  (to Oct 1874)	1815	8 Sep 1874	59
5 Jul 1859		Anthony Henley,3rd Baron Henley [I]	12 Apr 1825	27 Nov 1898	73
7 Feb 1874		Pickering Phipps  (to 1880)	1827	14 Sep 1890	63
7 Oct 1874		Charles George Merewether	1823	26 Jun 1884	60
5 Apr 1880		Henry Du Pré Labouchère  (to 1906)	1831	15 Jan 1912	80
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
		Charles Bradlaugh   [His seat was declared	26 Sep 1833	30 Jan 1891	57
		vacant and a new election was ordered to be
		held. At this election, held on 9 Apr 1881, he
		was again returned. He was then expelled
		from the House on 22 Feb 1882. At the
		subsequent by-election held on 4 Mar 1882,
		he was returned once again]
		For information on this MP,see the note at
		the foot of this page
13 Feb 1891		Moses Philip Manfield  [kt 1894]	26 Jul 1819	31 Jul 1899	80
16 Jul 1895		Charles Gustavus Adolphus Drucker	1 May 1868	10 Dec 1903	35
		For information on this MP,see the note at
		the foot of this page
4 Oct 1900		John Greenwood Shipman  (to 1910)	1848	20 Oct 1918	70
15 Jan 1906		Herbert Woodfield Paul	16 Jan 1853	4 Aug 1935	82
18 Jan 1910		Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	26 Jan 1878	18 Dec 1941	63
		Charles Albert McCurdy  (to 1923)	13 Mar 1870	10 Nov 1941	71
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1918
6 Dec 1923		Margaret Grace Bondfield	17 Mar 1873	16 Jun 1953	80
29 Oct 1924		Sir Arthur Edward Aveling Holland	13 Apr 1862	7 Dec 1927	65
9 Jan 1928		Cecil John L'Estrange Malone	7 Sep 1890	25 Feb 1965	74
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of the page containing
		details of the members for Leyton East
27 Oct 1931		Sir Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller,3rd
		baronet	16 Jan 1876	22 Aug 1956	80
6 Dec 1940		Gerard Spencer Summers  [kt 1956]	27 Oct 1902	19 Jan 1976	73
26 Jul 1945		Reginald Thomas Paget,later [1975] Baron
		Paget of Northampton [L]	2 Sep 1908	2 Jun 1990	81
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH
		& SOUTH DIVISIONS FEB 1974
		James Paull, MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight) 1805-1806
		After commencing his career as an employee of a Scottish lawyer, Paull went out to India
		while still a teenager. He became a trader at Lucknow, where he made a fortune, returning
		to England in 1801. Here he soon lost his fortune in bad speculations, and the next year he
		returned to India to recoup his losses. Back in Lucknow, he quarrelled with the Governor-
		General of India, the Marquess Wellesley, and Paull's grievance against Wellesley consumed
		the remainder of his life.
		Paull arrived back in England in early 1805 and shortly after entered the House of Commons
		as a result of purchasing the seat of Newtown (Isle of Wight). In the House he devoted
		himself to his vendetta against Wellesley, charging him with misconduct towards the Indian
		princes (particularly the Nawab of Oudh in whose territory Lucknow was situated), and also
		with 'profuse expenditure.' He was unable to find a seat at the 1806 general election.
		The charges against Wellesley were dismissed by the House on 15 March 1808. By this time,
		Paull was almost certainly deranged, and the failure of his action against Wellesley, together
		with gambling losses, and his inability to find a wealthy wife, appears to have tipped him
		over the edge.
		The following report of Paull's death is taken from "Jackson's Oxford Journal" of 23 April
		1808:-
		'We have to add to the late melancholy list of suicides, that of James Paull, Esq., whose
		celebrity in public affairs, and particularly in election contests, will not be shortly forgotten.
		The dreadful act appears to have been meditated for some time, and was effected between
		four and five on Friday afternoon [i.e. 15 April 1808]. Mr. Paull possessed great pride, an
		ardent mind, and his temper was considerably soured by serious disappointments, both in
		public and private life. His expectations appear to have been all disappointed, and his
		circumstances were, from losses at play, and a liberality approaching to profusion,
		altogether irreparable, when he rushed into the presence of his Creator.
		Saturday evening an inquest was held on the body, before the Coroner of the county of
		Middlesex, at No. 2, Charles-street, St.James-square, the house of Mr. Paull. The first
		witness called was the butler, Mr. Paull's confidential servant. He stated, that a very
		considerable alteration had taken place for several months in the conduct of his master.
		His orders were frequently contradictory - he was irresolute, fluctuating and depressed.
		The change was so great as to be perceived by every one who was acquainted with his
		master, and he was convinced that he was very much deranged. About half after four
		on Friday, knowing that Mr. Paull was engaged to dine out, he went up to his bed room,
		knocked at the door, and reminded him of the engagement. The answer was, that he
		should be rung for shortly. Having remained below for some time, he was alarmed by the
		screams of the servant maid, who had attended Mr. Paull in his long illness. He instantly
		returned to the bed room, which he entered, and found his master weltering in his blood,
		reclining upon the bed, with his throat severed from ear to ear, a vein opened in his
		right arm, and another wound in the upper part of the arm. He said Mr. Paull was left
		handed. He found near the bed a basin on his dressing table, nearly two thirds full of
		blood, a razor, and a lancet, both of which were bloody. He lost no time in sending for
		Surgeon Brodie, who had attended his master during his late illness.
		'Surgeon Brodie deposed, that, having attended Mr. Paull during his long illness, he had
		many opportunities of observing, both then and from that time, the alteration which had
		taken place in his mind. He was perfectly convinced that his intellects had undergone a
		material derangement, and stated, that his death was occasioned by the wounds which
		had been inflicted on Friday.
		'The testimony of Mr. Brodie, as to the derangement of Mr. Paull's mind was fully confirmed
		by Mr. Paull's friends, Mr. Sloper and Mr. Butler. The servant maid, who discovered Mr.
		Paull in the dreadful situation described, was next called. She said, that knowing her master
		was to dine out, she went to call him between four and five. She knocked at the door, and
		was answered by him in a very faint voice, that he would ring presently. She here described
		herself as much affected by the tone in which he spoke, and recollected his late alteration
		in conduct, and more particularly what he had said to her some days before, when
		expressing his concern for the great trouble he had given her, he added, "an end will be
		shortly put to it all." She acquainted the butler with her fears, and determined to go into
		the bed chamber by a side door, which opened from a dressing closet. She accordingly went
		up again, and having entered that way, she found her master in the situation described by
		the butler, whom she called up by her shrieks and screams.
		'It appeared that Mr. Sloper and Mr. Butler found a will made by Mr. Paull, which they sealed
		up, and deposited in his secretaire, until the arrival of his relatives in town.
		Juror's verdict, Lunacy.'
		Peter Arthur David Baker, MP for Norfolk South 1950-1954
		Baker holds the dubious distinction of being the last MP expelled from the House of
		Commons, although, to be fair, a number of other MPs who came after him would have
		been expelled had they not resigned before the axe fell - for example, John Stonehouse.
		Baker was the son of an army officer and, following his father's footsteps, he joined the
		Royal Artillery, later transferring to the Intelligence Corps. During World War II, working for
		the Dutch resistance he was captured, escaped twice but was re-captured on both
		occasions. For his exploits he was awarded the Military Cross and promoted to Captain.
		After the war had finished, he founded a publishing company.
		When he was elected in 1950, Baker, then aged 28, was the "baby of the House" - i.e. its
		youngest member. Despite his age, he was already running numerous businesses, including
		four publishing houses, a wine merchant, an aircraft company, a whisky company, and
		television, radio, investment and property companies, employing more than 500 staff in
		total. At one stage, a then-unknown Muriel Spark was his secretary.
		By 1953, Baker was facing a major liquidity crisis and his business conduct began to turn
		seriously fraudulent. He forged twelve bills of exchange worth a total of £13,200, which
		were accompanied by a letter supposedly written by Sir John Mann, which Baker simply
		dictated to his typist and then forged Sir John's signature thereto. This letter authorised
		Baker to use the bills as he chose and helped to secure an £8,500 loan from the Edgware
		Trust. Between December 1953 and May 1954, six of the bills of exchange matured and
		were paid. However, an alert cashier noticed irregularities in the seventh bill, which as a
		result was not honoured.
		Baker then borrowed £3,000 from the Bank of America, secured by forged guarantees. Next
		came a loan for £49,000 from Barclays, again secured on three forged signatures.
		While all this was going on, Baker's mental health appeared to be going downhill rapidly.
		Baker later admitted that "there were whole weeks in 1953 and 1954 that I cannot
		remember. Often I had to check up in Hansard to make sure I had attended the Commons
		and voted." On one occasion, he was approached in House of Commons Smoking Room by
		the Deputy Speaker Sir Charles McAndrew, who prided himself  on knowing every MP. He
		was puzzled that he couldn't recall Baker. "Please don't apologize," said Baker, "I have no
		idea who you are either."
		On 28 May 1954, Baker was confronted by Sir John Mann and another businessman whose
		signature Baker had forged. Baker broke down; "I have been ill for a long time", he cried.
		He checked into Holloway Sanatorium, where he was arrested shortly thereafter. At his trial
		at the Old Bailey he confessed to six charges of forgery and was sentenced to seven years
		in prison. When Baker was ushered away, the prison escort whispered: "Seems like a long
		time to me," to which Baker responded: "Sounds a bloody sight longer to me."
		Charles Gavan Duffy, MP for New Ross 1852-1856
		Duffy was born at Monaghan, the son of John Duffy, a prosperous shopkeeper; his mother
		was a daughter of Patrick Gavan, a gentleman farmer. Monaghan was a city divided by
		religious feuds between Catholics and Protestants. One of Duffy's earliest recollections
		was witnessing the murder of a Catholic by an Orangeman in the street outside his home.
		When Charles was 10 his father died and the family's prosperity decayed. Some years later
		he made a political enemy of the local squire, Lord Rossmore, who retaliated by refusing to
		renew Mrs Duffy's lease on income-producing properties, thus confirming in young Duffy a
		revolutionary brand of politics.
		As a boy he was deeply religious, but this was eventually displaced by nationalism. He
		attended Belfast Grammar School, the only Catholic in a sea of Protestants. His experience
		there gave him a wider and more humane attitude to the bitter sectarian feuds of his
		country and prepared him for the part he was to play in later life in Ireland.
		Punished by his headmaster for an offence he did not commit, Duffy left Belfast Grammar
		School at 16 and continued his studies at home. At 18, he obtained a job on 'The Northern
		Herald', a non-sectarian nationalist journal. This was followed by appointment as a sub-
		editor on the Dublin 'Morning Register' and, by the time he was 26, he had become a
		journalist of national repute as founder, part-owner and editor of 'The Nation', a journal
		devoted to a united and independent Ireland.
		In 1844, Duffy was arrested for sedition, on the grounds that he had incited the stoppage
		of troop trains. He was imprisoned, but allowed to write and publish articles for his paper.
		At his trial he was released on a technicality. In 1848, Duffy was accused of treasonable
		felony and, although arraigned four times in 1848 and 1849, he was never convicted, as
		the juries could never agree.
		He was elected to the House of Commons in 1852 as a member of the Irish Independence
		Party, but sectarian differences caused this party to disintegrate. Despairing of the
		prospects for Irish independence, he migrated to Australia with his family. Duffy's reputation
		had preceded him and he received a warm welcome in Melbourne. Within a very short time
		he was elected to the Victorian Parliament where he quickly became a cabinet minister on
		a number of occasions, culminating in his becoming Premier of Victoria between June 1871
		and June 1872.
		Duffy was knighted in 1873 and promoted to KCMG in 1877. Between 1876 and 1880 he was
		Speaker of the Victorian Assembly, following which he left Australia and settled in the south
		of France, where he wrote a series of books on Irish and colonial history and politics and
		an autobiography. He died at Nice in 1903 and was buried in Ireland.
		Duffy was married three times; firstly in 1842 to Emily McLaughlin, by whom he had a son,
		John. Emily died in 1845 and he married, as his second wife, Susan Hughes, by whom he
		had his second and third sons, Frank and Charles. Susan died in 1878 and in 1881, he
		married, as his third wife, Louise Hall who died in 1890, by whom another son, George,
		was born.
		Of his sons, all attained high office. The eldest, John (1844-1917), sat in the Victorian
		Parliament between 1874 and 1904 and was several times a cabinet minister. Frank (1852-
		1936) became Chief Justice of Australia between 1930 and 1936 and was knighted.
		Frank's son Charles also became a Supreme Court judge. Duffy's third son, Charles, was
		Clerk of the Australian Senate. His youngest son, George (1882-1951), was briefly Minister
		for Foreign Affairs in the Irish cabinet, before becoming President of the High Court of
		Ireland.
		Spencer Perceval, MP for Northampton 1796-1812
		Spencer Perceval became the only English Prime Minister to be assassinated when he was
		shot in the lobby of the House of Commons on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, who had
		an imagined grievance against the Government.  Bellingham had been imprisoned in Russia
		for a number of years and, after his eventual release, he petitioned the UK government for
		compensation but was refused. Accordingly, he took matters into his own hands. It is not
		the purpose of this note to describe the assassination, since details of it are readily
		available on, for example, Wikipedia - rather, this note is aimed at providing information
		in relation to an extraordinary dream which predicted the assassination.
		The following story is taken from "The Book of Days" edited by Robert Chambers and which
		was published in 1869. Throughout the story the name of Perceval is incorrectly shown as
		Percival.
		'It has often been stated that Mr. John Williams of Scorrier House, near Redruth, in
		Cornwall - a man noted through a long life for his vigorous practical talents as a miner and
		mining speculator - had a dream representing the assassination of Mr. Percival on the night
		after its occurrence, when the fact could not be known to him by any ordinary means, and
		mentioned the fact to many persons during the interval between the dream and his
		receiving notice of its fulfilment. In a book of old world matters, it may be allowable to give
		such particulars of this alleged affair as can be gathered, more particularly as it is seldom
		that such occurrences can be stated on evidence so difficult to be dealt with by incredulity.
		It may be remarked that, unlike many persons who are supposed or alleged to have had
		such revelations, Mr. Williams never made any secret of his story, but freely related every
		particular, even to individuals who meant to advert to it in print. Thus a minute account of
		it found its way into the Times of 28th August 1828 [either this date is incorrect or the
		account never appeared at all], and another was furnished to Dr. Abercrombie, and inserted
		by him in his Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers; being directly drawn, he tells us,
		by an eminent medical friend of his own, from 'the gentleman to whom the dream occurred.'
		This latter account has been republished in a work by Dr. Clement Carlyon, formerly a Fellow
		of Pembroke College, who states that he had more than once heard the particulars from Mr.
		Williams's own lips. Finally, Mr. Hill, a barrister, and grandson of Mr. Williams, communicated
		to Dr. Carlyon a narrative which he drew up from the words of his grand-father, agreeing in
		all essential respects with the other recitals.
		According to Dr. Abercrombie's account, which Dr. Carlyon mainly follows:
		"Mr. Williams dreamt that he was in the lobby of the House of Commons, and saw a small
		man enter, dressed in a blue coat, and white waistcoat. Immediately after, he saw a
		man dressed in a brown coat with yellow basket buttons draw a pistol from under his
		coat and discharge it at the former, who instantly fell, the blood issuing from a wound
		a little below the left breast."
		'According to Mr. Hill's account, 'he heard the report of the pistol, saw the blood fly out
		and stain the waistcoat, and saw the colour of the face change,'
		'Dr. Abercrombie's recital goes on to say:
		"he saw the murderer seized by some gentlemen who were present, and observed his
		countenance, and on asking who the gentleman was  who had been shot, he was told
		it was the Chancellor (Mr. Percival was at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer.) He
		then awoke, and mentioned the dream to his wife, who made light of it."
		'We now pursue the more detailed narrative of the Times:
		"Mrs. Williams very naturally told him it was only a dream, and recommended him to be
		composed, and go to sleep as soon as he could. He did so, and shortly after, again
		awoke her, and said that he had the second time had the same dream; whereupon she
		observed he had been so much agitated by his former dream, that she supposed it had
		dwelt on his mind, and begged of him to try to compose himself and go to sleep, which
		he did. A third time the vision was repeated; on which, notwithstanding her entreaties
		that he would be quiet, and endeavour to forget it, he arose, it then being between
		one and two o'clock, and dressed himself. At breakfast, the dreams were the sole
		subject of conversation; and in the forenoon Mr. Williams went to Falmouth, where he
		related the particulars of them to all of his acquaintance that he met. On the following
		day, Mr. Tucker, of Tremanton Castle, accompanied by his wife, a daughter of Mr.
		Williams, went to Scorrier House about dusk.
		"Immediately after the first salutations, on their entering the parlour, where were Mr.,
		Mrs. and Miss Williams, Mr. Williams began to relate to Mr. Tucker the circumstances of
		his dream: and Mrs. Williams observed to her daughter, Mrs. Tucker, laughingly, that her
		father could not even suffer Mr. Tucker to be seated before he told him of his nocturnal
		visitation: on the statement of which Mr. Tucker observed that it would do very well for
		a dream to have the Chancellor in the lobby of the House of Commons, but he could not
		be found there in reality [Tucker obviously meaning the Lord Chancellor]; and Mr. Tucker
		then asked what sort of man he appeared to be, when Mr. Williams minutely described
		him; to which Mr. Tucker replied, "Your description is not that of the Chancellor, but it is
		certainly that of Mr. Percival, the Chancellor of the Exchequer: and although he has been
		to me the greatest enemy I ever met with through life, for a supposed cause which had
		no foundation in truth (or words to that effect), I should be exceedingly sorry, indeed, to
		hear of his being assassinated, or of injury of the kind happening to him."
		"Mr. Tucker then inquired of Mr. Williams if he had ever seen Mr. Percival, and was told
		that he had never seen him; nor had ever even written to him, either on public or private
		business; in short, that he never had anything to do with him, nor had he ever been in
		the lobby of the House of Commons in his life. Whilst Mr. Williams and Mr. Tucker were
		still standing, they heard a horse gallop to the door of the house, and immediately after
		Mr. Michael Williams, of Treviner (son of Mr. Williams, of Scorrier), entered the room, and
		said that he had galloped out from Truro (from which Scorrier is distant seven miles),
		having seen a gentleman there who had come by that evening's mail from London, who
		said that he had been in the lobby of the House of Commons on the evening of the 11th,
		when a man called Bellingham had shot Mr. Percival; and that, as it might occasion some
		great ministerial changes, and might affect Mr. Tucker's political friends, he had come as
		fast as he could to make him acquainted with it, having heard at Truro that he had
		passed through that place on his way to Scorrier. After the astonishment which this
		intelligence created had a little subsided, Mr. Williams described most particularly the
		appearance and dress of the man that he saw in his dream fire the pistol, as he had
		before done of Mr. Percival.
		"About six weeks after, Mr. Williams, having some business in town, went, accompanied
		by a friend, to the House of Commons, where, as he has already been observed, he had
		never before been. Immediately that he came to the steps at the entrance of the lobby,
		he said, "This place is as distinctly within my recollection in my dream as any in my
		house," and he made the same observation when he entered the lobby. He then pointed
		out the exact spot where Bellingham stood when he fired, and which Mr. Percival had
		reached when he was struck by the ball, and when and how he fell. The dress both of
		Mr. Percival and Bellingham agreed with the description given by Mr. Williams, even to
		the most minute particulars.'
		It is worthy of remark that Mr. Williams died in April 1841, after the publication of the two
		accounts of his dream which are here quoted, and no contradiction of the narrative, or of
		any particular of it, ever appeared. He is described in the obituary of the Gentleman's
		Magazine, as a man in the highest degree estimable. "His integrity," says this record, "was
		proof against all temptation and above all reproach."
		Henry du Pré Labouchère, MP for Windsor 1865-1866, Middlesex 1867-1868 and
		Northampton 1880-1905
		The following biography of Henry Labouchère appeared in the May 1953 issue of the Australian
		monthly magazine "Parade." It contains a number of factual errors, which I have done my best
		to correct. The article concentrates largely on Labouchère's life before entering politics and,
		consequently, merely touches upon his political career. It makes no reference, for example, to
		his virulent anti-Semitism and homophobia, nor to the "Labouchère Amendment" (also known
		as the "Blackmailer's Charter") which criminalised sexual activity between men and allowed the
		prosecution of Oscar Wilde ten years later.
		'In turn diplomat, theatre owner, war correspondent, editor, newspaper proprietor and
		politician, Henry du Pre Labouchère, fighting founder of London's newspaper, "Truth," "Lobby"
		to his friends, was one of the most versatile and colourful figures on the English scene during
		the 19th century. In his youth he kept a diary for a time, and the last entry - made when he
		was 22 years old, records his intention of making love affairs his chief hobby. For 13 years he
		put his resolution enthusiastically into practice in various corners of the globe. Then he fell
		genuinely in love with a beautiful London actress, Henrietta Hodson [1841-1910].
		'She was already married, though estranged from her husband, but social conventions never
		worried Labouchère. He persuaded her to live with him until he was able to marry her in a
		registry office two years later. A rich man, he was always frugal in money matters and to a
		friend he expressed great delight that he was, as he put it, able to make an honest woman of
		Henrietta for only 2s 6d - the registry fee. [This chronology is totally incorrect - they were
		not married until 1887- see below].
		'The eldest of a family of 12, Labouchère was born in London on November 9, 1831. After
		completing his schooling at Eton he put in two years at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he
		quickly distinguished himself as an inveterate gambler. During his stay at the University he
		never missed a meeting at Newmarket racecourse, located only 12 miles away. To add variety
		to the risks, he frequently made overnight visits to London and hazarded his money on games
		even more chancy than racing.
		'On one of these surreptitious visits to the city he had the bad luck to run into his father in
		the Strand. Asked to explain his presence, Labouchère looked coldly at his angry parent and
		pretended not to know him. Expressing surprise and annoyance at being questioned by a
		stranger, he walked away and boarded the next train for Cambridge. Hurrying back to Trinity
		College, he had barely time to change his clothes and appear to be deep in study before his
		father arrived. Labouchère senior had not believed in the existence of a "double," and was
		taken aback to find his son working diligently. Anxious to make amends for his unworthy
		suspicions, he took Henry out to dinner.
		'This capacity for quick thinking was to save Labouchère many embarrassments later in life.
		While at the University he amassed debts totalling £6,000, and these his long-suffering parent
		paid. Following a dispute with the [University] authorities [who accused him of cheating and
		threatened to withhold his degree], Labouchère returned home, ran up more debts, and led a
		fast life that shocked his deeply-religious family. For some months he was a familiar figure at
		taverns and casinos both reputable and disreputable, and indulged freely in most of the
		commoner vices. Alcohol was not one of his failings, however, and he retained a dislike for it
		all his life. In despair his father provided a tutor and sent Henry off to the Continent.
		'The tour did nothing to steady him. His tutor was weak and Labouchère found the casinos
		at Wiesbaden and the ladies of Paris as alluring as their London equivalents. Funds rapidly ran
		out and he had to return home. At the end of 1852 he was packed off to Mexico, where his
		father had substantial business connections. Labouchère made no use of these, but for nearly
		a year travelled about Mexico, gambling and making love. After throwing in his lot with a bandit
		chieftain, he joined a circus as an acrobat to improve his chances of wooing a glamorous
		horsewoman. Next he acted as a self-appointed arbitrator between two warring tribes and
		nearly lost his life in the negotiations.
		'The lure of gold drew him northwards to California at the end of 1853. In the rough life of a
		mining boom town he added to his experience by becoming a member of one of the improvised
		juries that sentenced a man to be lynched, but he left without making his fortune. Travelling
		across the United States, he fell in with a band of Chippewa Indians and lived with them for
		several weeks on the shores of Lake Superior. He won rapid favour with the chief's daughter,
		who did his cooking for him and generally ministered to his needs.
		'He tired of the peaceful life in the woods and after crossing the lake in a canoe, headed for
		New York. There he found plenty to occupy his time, and afterwards wrote: "I have a great
		weakness for the American girl. She always puts her heart into what she is about. When she
		flirts she does it conscientiously."
		'From New York he wrote a long-deferred letter to his father, who seems to have been far
		from delighted at the prospect of his return to England. The old man used his influence to
		have his prodigal son appointed to the British Diplomatic Service as attaché at Washington
		and Labouchère took up his new duties in July, 1854.
		'Always critical of formality and humbug, he began an uneasy ten years in the public service.
		After only 18 months in Washington, Labouchère was transferred to Munich. There he had
		daily conversations with old ex-King Ludwig I, who had lost his throne through devotion to his
		pretty mistress, Lola Montez. Stationed next at Stockholm, he distinguished himself by
		challenging the Austrian Charge d"Affaires to a duel. Fortunately neither combatant was
		injured. In the following year he went to Frankfurt, which he found exceedingly dull. By dividing
		his liberal spare time between women in ill-repute and the gambling houses at Wiesbaden and
		Homburg, he soon brought himself into disfavour with the British colony, and he was hastily
		transferred to the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg.
		'He packed up, but went only so far as Homburg, where he had recently developed an
		interesting intrigue with a lady of the town. After some months the Ambassador at St.
		Petersburg complained that he was an attaché short and the Foreign Office traced Labouchère
		to Homburg. Asked to explain his presence there, he answered that as no travelling expenses
		were given him he had assumed he was expected to walk to Russia, and at Homburg his feet
		had become too sore to continue. He hoped to be able to proceed on foot, he said, after a
		few more weeks' rest.
		'The firm tone of the Foreign Office's reply made him decide his feet were not so sore after all,
		and he hurried to the Russian capital. He found it much more to his liking than he expected. In
		court circles they gambled freely for high stakes and there was ample scope for love-making.
		He established a very close liaison with his laundress, a beautiful, lithe, dark-haired lass whose
		husband worked in the government printing office. By increasing his payments to her he was
		able to arrange that she bring him advance copies of the minutes of Cabinet meetings.
		Consequently the British were well informed as to Russian intentions.
		'Appointments at Dresden and Constantinople followed, but between the two jobs Labouchère
		had nearly a year's unauthorised holiday on full pay in Florence. Due to some error he had
		been appointed Secretary to the Legation of Parana, a remote South American republic that
		had ceased to exist some years before [it was located in southern Brazil]. The idyll came to
		an end when, tiring of Italy, he visited London and met Sir Edward [sic - Edmund] Hammond in
		Pall Mall. Sir Edward [later 1st Baron Hammond], a permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign
		Office [between 1854 and 1873], was known for his severity and reputed to be totally lacking
		in humour. He immediately demanded to know what Labouchère was doing in England. On
		learning the facts, he asked why Labouchère hadn't directed the attention of the Foreign
		Office to the error. "I thought it was just one of your little jokes, sir," the young diplomat
		undiplomatically explained. He was promptly sent to Constantinople, and during his stay there
		his father died in 1863.
		'Less than a year later, Labouchère was promoted Second Secretary at Buenos Aires, but
		refused to go. He had inherited a tidy sum from his father and welcomed an opportunity of
		leaving the diplomatic service, of which he had no high opinion. A free agent once more, he
		turned his attention to politics and was elected one of the two members for Windsor at the
		British general election in 1865. He treated politics with characteristic cynicism and openly
		boasted in his club of the bribery and corruption employed by his agents. Word soon spread,
		and in a few months a Select Committee declared the election of Labouchère and his colleague
		invalid.
		'About this time he became interested in the theatre and was captivated by the youthful
		loveliness of an actress, Henrietta Hodson. He found she was the wife of a Bristol solicitor, but
		that their marriage was on the rocks. Labouchère fell passionately in love with her and she
		reciprocated his affection. They lived together as man and wife, and after Labouchère had
		been returned to Parliament at a Middlesex by-election in 1867, visited Europe on a short
		"honeymoon." On their return to England, Labouchère bought a partnership in the Queen's
		Theatre. Many famous actors and actresses a[[eared there, but the venture was not a
		financial success.
		'1868 was big year for Labouchère. Henrietta's husband divorced her, and she and Labouchère
		were free to embark on a marriage that was to continue in supreme happiness for 42 years.
		[This is incorrect - they married after the death of Henrietta's husband in 1887]. He bought a
		quarter share in the Daily News - first Liberal newspaper in England; and he lost his seat in the
		House of Commons.
		'The death of his uncle, Lord Taunton, in the following year made Labouchère heir both to the
		title [this is not correct - the peerage became extinct] and a fortune of £250,000. Critical of
		artificial  distinctions, he refused to succeed to the baronetcy [it was a barony, not a
		baronetcy]. But he had no scruples about accepting the money. This sudden access to great
		wealth made little difference to Labouchère, since he loved to spend as little as possible. A
		chain smoker to the end, he always purchased only the cheapest cigarettes costing a penny
		for a packet of ten. Even at the age of 75 when he was virtually a millionaire, he boasted that
		meals in London cost him only ten pence a day.
		'The Franco-Prussian War found him in France, and he remained in Paris during the famous four
		months' siege of 1870-71. Food grew scarce and almost anything edible found its way to the
		table. Labouchère records is his letters that while he thought horseflesh tolerable, cat was
		excellent, and donkey better still. Throughout his stay in the beleaguered city, Labouchère
		wrote daily despatches for the Daily News. These he smuggled out of the city in unusual ways.
		Some went by balloon, some by pigeon, and some were sewn in the bootsoles of peasants who
		stole through enemy lines.
		'Soon after his return to England he was appointed city editor of the World, a Radical
		newspaper designed to attack social abuses. Labouchère set about the task with gusto, but
		soon felt that he wanted "a pair of boots of his own to kick with." Rebelling against the
		conservative, restrained reporting of his day, he decided to found a paper of his own, to be
		written in a racy, readable style, to expose dishonesty and shams and to tell the truth
		fearlessly about contemporary people and events. And so, in 1877, his famous weekly, "Truth,"
		was launched. Labouchère was cynically doubtful whether truth and modern society were
		compatible, and it was with difficulty that friends prevailed on him not to name his new paper
		the Lyre. Labouchère edited it himself until he re-entered Parliament in 1880, and he continued
		to contribute articles almost up to the time of his death. His frank, fearless statements of fact
		involved him in many libel suits, most of which he defended successfully.
		'On his retirement from politics in 1905 after 25 years in continuous membership of Parliament,
		he was created a Privy Counsellor. With his wife and daughter he went to live in a magnificent
		villa near Florence. His wife died in 1910 and was buried at San Miniato in a grave he was soon
		to share. Death came to him on January 15, 1912.'
		Charles Bradlaugh, MP for Northampton 1880-1891
		The following biography of Charles Bradlaugh appeared in the Australian monthly magazine
		"Parade" in its August 1965 issue. While it almost certainly sensationalises some aspects of
		his career, particularly his attempts to take the oath, it provides an interesting view of his
		life.
		Unprecedented uproar convulsed England's House of Commons one February afternoon in 1882.
		As the weary session was drawing to a close, a tall, thick-set man suddenly ran down nimbly
		to the centre of the floor. Whipping from his pockets in swift succession a Bible, a piece of
		paper and a pencil stub, he gabbled some inaudible words and announced to the astonished
		House that he had just taken his parliamentary oath. Highlight of a monumental life-long
		struggle, this incident was one of many bitter clashes in [Charles] Bradlaugh's turbulent
		campaign to defend his right to hold unpopular principles.
		Charles Bradlaugh was born in London on September 26, 1833, eldest of a family of seven
		children. His father was a £2-a-week solicitor's clerk, his mother an Irish nursemaid. At 14 he
		became a coal merchant's clerk. Already his young mind responded eagerly to the finer issues
		of the fight for political and social betterment being fought by the ill-fated Chartists. Every
		Sunday afternoon he hung about Bonner's Fields listening avidly to open-air tub-thumpers.
		Soon he was making vigorous speeches of his own. When he confided serious religious doubts
		to his family's minister, the worthy cleric hot-footed it to inform his employers. Horror-stricken,
		they gave the irreligious upstart three days to alter his views or get out. On the third day he
		packed his things and left home and job.
		Years of grinding poverty followed. Between studying French and Hebrew, Bradlaugh fell briefly
		in love with pale-faced Hypatia Carlile, daughter of a deceased freethinker. One freezing
		December day in 1850 he slipped secretly away and joined the 7th Dragoon Guards as private.
		His next three years were spent in Dublin. While voyaging to Ireland, Bradlaugh's fellow recruits
		greeted the gaunt newcomer by playing football with his hat and making missiles of his Greek
		and Arabic dictionaries. When he aggressively stoop up to the crafty ship's captain who was
		trying to cheat the seasick soldiers out of money promised them for helping shift cargo, they
		immediately lionised the young man. Once in barracks he consolidated his popularity by licking
		the regimental bully in a fierce hand-to-hand scrap. Always an ardent teetotaller, he met an
		offer of a glass of port from his quartermaster's daughter with an impassioned temperance
		harangue.
		When a dead great-aunt's legacy enabled him to purchase his army discharge, Bradlaugh threw
		himself whole-heartedly into free-thought agitation. From about 1857 he stumped up and down
		the countryside preaching atheism. Before long, mining villages, factory towns and London
		suburbs thundered to his full-blooded oratory. At Wigan, windows were broken, lime and water
		poured down the ventilators of his lecture hall. On a subsequent visit he narrowly escaped
		injury from flying brickbats. At Norwich he was hooted and stoned; at Burnley swept from the
		platform by an enraged mob.
		London was more severe. Here his association with the vehement Parliamentary Reform League
		exploded in several street free-for-alls. Spectacular end to his Reform League activities came
		in July, 1866, when, prohibited by police from holding a public meeting in Hyde Park, his
		followers stormed the railings and smashed them down. Soldiers had to restore order. Each
		week he tossed off inflammatory articles for his paper, the National Reformer, under the pen-
		name Iconoclast - "destroyer of idols." Soon this pseudonym became notorious.
		Never one to shirk a legal fight, Bradlaugh initiated scores of actions that made him one of the
		busiest litigants in England. His dispute with a crusty old judge who refused to hear an
		atheist's evidence led to passing of the Evidence Amendment Act in 1869, by which non-
		believers were permitted to make an affirmation in court instead of an oath.
		Although earning £1000 annually by his lectures, England's foremost controversialist lived in
		squalid three-and­sixpenny East End lodgings, while his wife and two daughters stayed in the
		country. Mrs. Bradlaugh was never seen in public. Throughout their 15 years' marriage her
		famous husband guarded a terrible secret - she was a hopeless dipsomaniac. Susannah
		Bradlaugh died, a pitiable alcoholic wreck, in 1870. To the very end no one outside the family
		knew of her abject condition. Charles Bradlaugh drowned his sorrow by plunging anew into
		his whirlwind life of speechmaking, pamphleteering, litigation and fisticuffs.
		He collected 100 guineas on behalf Garibaldi's Italian rebels, and earned warm gratitude of
		leading Frenchmen for his courageous championship of France in the Franco-German War of
		1870. In a visit to Spain in 1873 he was feted and honoured at a magnificent Madrid dinner
		by swarthy Senor Castelar [Emilio Castelar y Ripoll 1832-1899], head of the short-lived
		Spanish Republic.
		Back in England, he held an open-air protest meeting against the Tory Government's pro-
		Turkish policy. He had hardly finished speaking before a hired posse fell upon his party wielding
		metal bludgeons. Murderous blows rained own on his upraised arm which was seriously injured.
		Jumping to his feet, Bradlaugh struck five successive blows with his good arm which sent five
		men to St. George's Hospital. When a well-intentioned friend attempted to seize his baton he
		received a broken head for his pains. One day in 1876 Bradlaugh had just conducted a lecture
		Hoxton's dingy Hall of Science when a pugnacious, vibrant woman strode up and introduced
		herself. For the next nine years she played a leading part in his movement. Her name was Mrs.
		Annie Besant [1847-1933, later famous as head of the Theosophy movement].
		On his return six months later from a wildly successful American tour, he found that in his
		absence the determined Annie had shot to the top by sheer force of personality. Together
		they made an invincible team. Their first tussle with authority became a 19th century cause
		celebre. Deliberately flouting police bans, they re-published a popular pamphlet called "Fruits
		of Philosophy." Constables' eyes popped when they read brazen advertisements announcing
		the day and hour when this suppressed "obscenity" would be on sale. Haled before a judge,
		Bradlaugh and Besant defended themselves with such eloquence that they were acquitted on
		the spot [This is not correct - they were both fined heavily and sentenced to six months' in
		prison, but these sentences were overturned on a legal technicality in the Court of Appeal].
		In 1880, 12 years after his first attempt, Bradlaugh was at last elected to Parliament as junior
		member for Northampton in the Liberal Government of doughty, weatherbeaten Prime Minister
		William Gladstone. Chief obstacle to Bradlaugh's acceptance was the fact that, as a professing
		atheist, he could not conscientiously take the oath. Two successive Select Committees
		appointed to consider his case flatly contradicted each other. During their deliberations
		Bradlaugh stood with blanched face pressed at Parliament's glass portals, peering in at the
		proceedings in which he was not allowed to take part.
		The day after the House, amid heated exchanges, had voted to exclude him, Bradlaugh,
		goaded beyond endurance, marched firmly up to the table and demanded to be sworn. As
		excitement mounted, the burly sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Gosset, advanced hand on sword and
		with his other hand pushed Bradlaugh out of the chamber into the clock tower, where he
		languished under custody for 24 hours. On his release he was cheered to the echo by 4000
		rough-and-ready supporters, who, at a word from Annie Besant, would have stormed Whitehall
		itself to rescue their hero.
		Re-elected next year, the stubborn, would-be MP once more attempted to take his seat, but
		was removed, kicking furiously, by five guards who half-pushed, half-dragged him out by arms
		and coat-tails. The following day the Testament was purposely hidden to prevent Bradlaugh's
		making an oath by surprise. But he darted out from behind a crowd of onlookers and had to be
		tossed out yet again.
		Farcical climax occurred on February 21, 1882, when, armed with his own Bible, Bradlaugh
		rushed forward and administered the oath to himself. He barely had time to kiss the book
		and scribble his signature on a piece of blue paper before, half-fainting, his clothes almost
		torn off, he was flung into the street to console himself with Annie Besant.
		After his fourth re-election in 1885 he was finally permitted to sit unmolested on the benches.
		Three years later an Act was passed enabling freethinkers to substitute an affirmation for an
		oath in parliament.
		On January 27, 1891, parliament in a generous tribute to the man whose sterling qualities of
		character evoked universal admiration, expunged from its journals all record of his numerous
		expulsions. Three days later Bradlaugh died.
		Charles Gustavus Adolphus Drucker, MP for Northampton 1895-1900
		Drucker died in apparent mysterious circumstances in New York in December 1903. Attached
		below are several contemporary newspaper reports in relation to his death:-
		Chicago Daily Tribune 13 December 1903
		'Mysterious features in connection with the death of Adolphus Drucker, a former member of
		the British Parliament, in the alcoholic ward of Bellevue Hospital [New York], Thursday, will
		be investigated by the police. Friends of the dead man believe he was the victim of thugs,
		who drugged and robbed him. He was found wandering in the street near Grand Central
		Station. News of Drucker's death brings to light the fact that he was heavily insured.
		Companies holding policies will investigate. One of the heaviest holders of insurance on
		Drucker's life is Ernest Terah Hooley, the promoter, who is said to have a $100,000 policy.
		[For more information on Hooley, see below]. Attorney Eugene Robinson said:
		"Drucker had not a penny when he was taken to the hospital, although he had plenty of
		money when he arrived here, and I am sure he was drugged and robbed."
		'The circumstances of Drucker's death may result in payment on the policies on his life being
		held up until the mystery is cleared. When he [Drucker] confessed bankruptcy in December
		1901 owing to the collapse of his promotion on connection with British Columbia mines and
		ranch lands, he gave his unsecured liabilities at $1,750,000.'
		Washington Post 16 December 1903
		'Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death at Bellevue Hospital last week of
		Adolphus Drucker, a former member of the British Parliament, has been commenced by the
		police.
		'Drucker, who was a wealthy mine owner of British Columbia, was placed in the prison ward
		of the hospital, while suffering from alcoholism and died there. The inquiry was brought about
		by a letter written to Attorney Eugene  N. Robinson, Drucker's lawyer, by James Murphy, now
		a prisoner in the Tombs, but who occupied a cot next to Drucker in the hospital. Murphy
		charges that the attendants dosed Drucker with frequent and heavy hypodermic injections
		of morphine, besides an internal dose of a narcotic known as "snipe," and also beat him
		about the head frequently and unnecessarily.
		'When Drucker died Murphy declared the body was hastily taken to the morgue and it is
		charged the hour of death was misstated. Another charge is that though friends of Drucker
		had several times telephoned to the hospital asking if Drucker was there, the answer was
		always that no such person was among the patients. It is also averred that when he was
		brought to Bellevue he had valuable jewellery about him and that this has disappeared.'
		The Irish Times 6 January 1904
		One of the executors of the late Mr. Adolphus Drucker, formerly M.P. for Northampton, who
		called the attention of the Foreign Office to the circumstances surrounding Mr. Drucker's
		death, and asked that as a former member of Parliament the Consul-General at New York
		should be instructed to watch the inquiry, has received a reply from Lord Lansdowne through
		the Hon. F.S. Villiers. That states that the Consul-General reports that the accusation of
		murder and robbery was brought against the attendants in the Bellevue Hospital by a certain
		James Murphy, who was in the hospital pending his trial for robbery and intoxication. The
		letter continues: - "It appears that in September last Murphy was in the same hospital and
		had an altercation with one of the medical staff, at the close of which declared that he would
		'get even' with him some-day. The case was investigated by the district attorney and the
		police, and the charges made by Murphy were found to be utterly without foundation. Mr.
		Drucker was delirious when brought to hospital, and had to be strapped to his cot in
		consequence, but the result of the investigation was to prove that he received the best
		treatment possible, while there was ample evidence to show that he had little or no money or
		jewellery in his possession at the time of his admission into hospital.'
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		Ernest Terah Hooley [1859-1947] was a financier and property developer who went through
		the 'boom and bust' cycle often experienced by such men. His obituary published in 'The
		Times' of 13 February 1947 illustrates his ups and downs:-
		'The son of a small lace manufacturer, he realised before he was 30 that there was no future
		for him in the family business, and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham. Beginning with no
		technical knowledge of the subject but with a gift for figures, he was soon turning over large
		sums of money. He realised early the potentialities of the bicycle trade, and promoted many of
		the pioneer companies. He then moved to London, and by 1897 was reputed to have promoted
		undertakings worth £30,000,000. He was also interested in the estate market, and at one time
		only just failed to become a member of Parliament for a Derbyshire constituency [Ilkeston]. His
		bankruptcy in 1898 checked, but did not halt, his career, and thereafter he began to tread
		more devious ways, and in the autumn of 1910 was charged with fraud and convicted. When
		he came out of gaol he carried on in the estate market, but was bankrupt again in 1921, and
		the next year was again tried for fraud and sentenced to three years' penal servitude. Now
		an old man he refused to give up, but his business dealings again brought him to the
		bankruptcy court in 1939. At the age of 85 he was still running a modest business as a
		property dealer.'
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