THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "O"
		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
		OCHIL
1 May 1997		Martin John O'Neill,later [2005] Baron O'Neill
		of Clackmannan [L]	6 Jan 1945
		NAME ALTERED TO "OCHIL &
		PERTHSHIRE SOUTH" 2005
		OCHIL & SOUTH PERTHSHIRE
5 May 2005		Gordon Raymond Banks	14 Jun 1955
		OGMORE (GLAMORGANSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Vernon Hartshorn	16 Mar 1872	13 Mar 1931	58
19 May 1931		Edward John Williams  [kt 1952]	1 Jul 1890	16 May 1963	72
4 Jun 1946		John Evans	10 Sep 1875	18 Apr 1961	85
23 Feb 1950		Walter Ernest Padley	24 Jul 1916	15 Apr 1984	67
3 May 1979		Raymond Powell  [kt 1996]	19 Jun 1928	7 Dec 2001	73
14 Feb 2002		Huw Irranca-Davies	22 Jan 1963
		OKEHAMPTON (DEVON)
4 Apr 1660		Edward Wise  (to 1677)	19 Sep 1632	17 Nov 1675	43
		Josias Calmady	10 Oct 1619	Mar 1683	63
		Robert Reynolds
		Double return. Wise and Calmady seated
		27 Apr 1660
3 Apr 1661		Sir Thomas Hele,1st baronet	c 1595	7 Nov 1670
2 Jan 1671		Arthur Harris,later [1673] 1st baronet  (to 1685)	c 1650	20 Feb 1686
14 Mar 1677		Henry Northleigh	4 Mar 1643	31 Jan 1694	50
24 Feb 1679		Josias Calmady	c 1652	c Nov 1714
25 Feb 1681		Sir George Cary	c 1653	6 Jan 1685
18 Mar 1685		Sir Simon Leach	c 1652	30 Jun 1708
		William Cary  (to 1695)	c 1661	by Oct 1710
11 Jan 1689		Henry Northleigh	4 Mar 1643	31 Jan 1694	50
23 Feb 1694		John Burrington  (to 1698)	1 May 1634	by Mar 1708
1 Nov 1695		Thomas Northmore  (to 1708)	c 1643	25 Jul 1713
28 Jul 1698		William Harris	c 1652	17 Oct 1709
27 Jul 1702		Sir Simon Leach	c 1652	30 Jun 1708
15 May 1705		Thomas Northmore  (to 1708)	c 1643	25 Jul 1713
		John Dibble  (to 1713)		26 Jan 1728
		Sir Simon Leach	c 1652	30 Jun 1708
		Double return. Northmore and Dibble declared
		elected 20 Dec 1705
12 May 1708		William Harris	c 1652	17 Oct 1709
1 Dec 1709		Christopher Harris  (to 1722)	c 1687	4 Jul 1718
3 Sep 1713		William Northmore	1 Jul 1690	17 Mar 1735	44
26 Mar 1722		Robert Pitt	c 1680	21 May 1727
		John Crowley	3 Nov 1689	2 Jan 1728	38
21 Aug 1727		William Northmore	1 Jul 1690	17 Mar 1735	44
		Thomas Pitt  (to 1754)	c 1705	17 Jul 1761
28 Mar 1735		George Lyttelton,later [1751] 5th baronet
		and [1756] 1st Baron Lyttelton  (to 1756)	17 Jan 1709	22 Aug 1773	64
17 Apr 1754		Robert Vyner  (to 1761)	27 Jun 1717	19 Jul 1799	82
11 Dec 1756		William Pitt,later [1766] 1st Earl of Chatham	15 Nov 1708	11 May 1778	69
13 Jul 1757		Thomas Potter	c 1718	17 Jun 1759
24 Nov 1759		George Brydges Rodney,later [1764] 1st baronet
		and [1782] 1st Baron Rodney	13 Feb 1719	24 May 1792	73
27 Mar 1761		Alexander Forrester	c 1711	2 Jul 1787
		Wenman Coke	7 Jan 1717	11 Apr 1776	59
19 Mar 1768		Thomas Pitt,later [1784] 1st Baron Camelford	3 Mar 1737	19 Jan 1793	55
		(to 1774)
		Thomas Brand	c 1717	22 Aug 1770
20 Oct 1770		Richard Fitzpatrick	24 Jan 1748	25 Apr 1813	65
7 Oct 1774		Richard Vernon  (to 1784)	18 Jun 1726	16 Sep 1800	74
		Alexander Wedderburn,later [1801] 1st
		Earl of Rosslyn	13 Feb 1733	2 Jan 1805	71
11 Jun 1778		Humphrey Minchin	c 1727	26 Mar 1796
6 Apr 1784		John Luxmoore	11 Jul 1726	30 Jan 1788	61
		Thomas Wiggens		18 Jan 1785
		[Both members were unseated on petition in
		favour of Viscount Malden and Humphrey
		Minchin 27 Apr 1785]
27 Apr 1785		George Capel-Coningsby,styled Viscount Malden,
		later [1799] 5th Earl of Essex	13 Nov 1757	23 Apr 1839	81
		Humphrey Minchin	c 1727	26 Mar 1796
22 Jun 1790		John Hayes St.Leger	22 Jul 1756	1799	43
		Robert Ladbroke	c 1739	1 Jul 1814
		John Townson	c 1725	3 Mar 1797
		John William Anderson	Oct 1735	21 May 1813	77
		Double return. St.Leger and Ladbroke declared
		elected 28 Feb 1791
28 May 1796		Thomas Tyrwhitt [kt 1812]	12 Aug 1762	24 Feb 1833	70
		Richard Bateman-Robson	1753	10 Mar 1827	73
10 Jul 1802		Henry Holland  (to 1806)	c 1775	20 Jan 1855
		James Charles Stuart Strange	8 Aug 1753	6 Oct 1840	87
27 Apr 1804		John Charles Spencer,styled Viscount Althorp,
		later [1834] 3rd Earl Spencer	30 May 1782	1 Oct 1845	63
1 Nov 1806		Richard Bateman-Robson	1753	10 Mar 1827	73
		Joseph Foster-Barham	1 Jan 1759	28 Sep 1832	73
9 May 1807		Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle	c 1761	30 Nov 1833
		Albany Savile  (to Jun 1820)	c 1783	26 Jan 1831
7 Oct 1812		Thomas North Graves,2nd Baron Graves [I]	28 May 1775	7 Feb 1830	54
17 Jun 1818		Christopher Atkinson Savile	c 1738	23 Apr 1819
11 May 1819		Henry Sadlier Prittie,2nd Baron Dunalley [I]
		(to 1824)	3 Mar 1775	19 Oct 1854	79
16 Jun 1820		John Campbell,styled Lord Glenorchy,later
		[1834] 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane  (to 1826)	26 Oct 1796	8 Nov 1862	66
2 Jun 1824		William Henry Trant	Feb 1781	1 Oct 1859	78
10 Jun 1826		Sir Compton Pocklington Domvile,1st baronet	c 1775	23 Feb 1857
		Joseph Holden Strutt	21 Nov 1758	18 Feb 1845	86
30 Jul 1830		Edward Adolphus Seymour,styled Baron Seymour,
		later [1855] 12th Duke of Somerset  (to 1855)	20 Dec 1804	28 Nov 1885	80
		George James Welbore Agar-Ellis,later
		[1831] 1st Baron Dover	17 Jan 1797	10 Jul 1833	36
30 Apr 1831		William Henry Trant	Feb 1781	1 Oct 1859	78
		John Thomas Hope  (to 1832)	10 Jan 1807	17 Apr 1835	28
14 Jul 1831		Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan,8th baronet	6 Jun 1800	15 Aug 1879	79
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		OLD BEXLEY & SIDCUP (LONDON)
9 Jun 1983		Edward Richard George Heath  [KG 1992]	9 Jul 1916	17 Jul 2005	89
7 Jun 2001		Derek Leslie Conway	15 Feb 1953
6 May 2010		James Peter Brokenshire	7 Jan 1968
		OLDBURY & HALESOWEN
23 Feb 1950		Arthur Moyle,later [1966] Baron Moyle [L]	25 Sep 1894	23 Dec 1974	80
15 Oct 1964		Frederick John Horner	5 Nov 1911	11 Feb 1997	85
18 Jun 1970		John Heydon Romaine Stokes  [kt 1988]	23 Jul 1917	27 Jun 2003	85
		NAME ALTERED TO "HALESOWEN
		& STOURBRIDGE" FEB 1974
		OLDHAM (LANCASHIRE)
14 Dec 1832		William Cobbett	9 Mar 1762	18 Jun 1835	73
		John Fielden  (to 1847)	17 Jan 1784	29 May 1849	65
8 Jul 1835		John Frederick Lees	1809	18 Sep 1867	58
28 Jul 1837		William Augustus Johnson	1777	26 Oct 1863	86
31 Jul 1847		William Johnson Fox	1786	3 Jun 1864	77
		John Duncuft  (to Dec 1852)		27 Jul 1852
9 Jul 1852		John Morgan Cobbett  (to 1865)	1800	13 Feb 1877	76
3 Dec 1852		William Johnson Fox	1786	3 Jun 1864	77
31 Mar 1857		James Platt	1823	27 Aug 1857	34
19 Oct 1857		William Johnson Fox	1786	3 Jun 1864	77
6 May 1862		John Tomlinson Hibbert  [kt 1893]  (to 1874)	5 Jan 1824	7 Nov 1908	84
13 Jul 1865		John Platt	16 Sep 1817	18 May 1872	54
5 Jun 1872		John Morgan Cobbett  (to 1877)	1800	13 Feb 1877	76
		This was the last election in which a public
		ballot (as opposed to a secret ballot) was used.
		The first election to use a secret ballot was
		held in Pontefract on 15 Aug 1872, at which
		Hugh Childers was re-elected following his
		appointment to a ministerial post
6 Feb 1874		Frederick Lowten Spinks  (to 1880)	27 Dec 1816	27 Dec 1899	83
1 Mar 1877		John Tomlinson Hibbert  [kt 1893]  (to 1886)	5 Jan 1824	7 Nov 1908	84
2 Apr 1880		Edward Lyulph Stanley,later [1903] 4th Baron
		Stanley of Alderley	16 May 1839	5 Nov 1925	86
25 Nov 1885		James Mackenzie Maclean  (to 1892)	13 Aug 1835	22 Apr 1906	70
3 Jul 1886		Elliott Lees,later [1897] 1st baronet	23 Oct 1860	16 Oct 1908	47
Jul 1892		Joshua Milne Cheetham	1835	27 Nov 1902	67
		John Tomlinson Hibbert  [kt 1893]	5 Jan 1824	7 Nov 1908	84
15 Jul 1895		Robert Ascroft	1847	19 Jun 1899	51
		James Francis Oswald	21 Nov 1838	14 Sep 1908	69
6 Jul 1899		Alfred Emmott,later [1911] 1st Baron Emmott
		(to 1911)	8 May 1858	13 Dec 1926	68
		Walter Runciman,later [1937] 1st Viscount
		Runciman of Doxford	19 Nov 1870	13 Nov 1949	78
1 Oct 1900		Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill  [KG 1953]	30 Nov 1874	25 Jan 1965	90
15 Jan 1906		John Albert Bright	1848	11 Nov 1924	76
17 Jan 1910		Andrew William Barton  [kt 1917]  (to 1922)	5 Aug 1862	9 Jul 1957	94
13 Nov 1911		Edward Robert Bartley Denniss  [kt 1922]
		(later Bartley-Denniss)	9 Apr 1854	20 Mar 1931	76
15 Nov 1922		William John Tout	1870	24 Feb 1946	75
		Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg,later [1945] 1st
		Baron Altrincham  (to 1925)	8 Sep 1879	1 Dec 1955	76
29 Oct 1924		Alfred Duff Cooper,later [1952] 1st Viscount
		Norwich  (to 1929)	22 Feb 1890	1 Jan 1954	63
24 Jun 1925		William Martin Wiggins	4 Aug 1870	4 Oct 1950	80
30 May 1929		James Wilson	24 Aug 1879	15 Aug 1943	63
		Gordon Lang	25 Feb 1893	20 Jun 1981	88
27 Oct 1931		Anthony Crommelin Crossley	13 Aug 1903	15 Aug 1939	36
		Hamilton William Kerr,later [1957] 1st
		baronet  (to 1945)	1 Aug 1903	26 Dec 1974	71
14 Nov 1935		John Samuel Dodd  [kt 1947]	13 Oct 1904	3 Sep 1973	68
26 Jul 1945		Charles Leslie Hale,later [1972] Baron Hale [L]	13 Jul 1902	9 May 1985	82
		Frank Fairhurst	1892	30 Aug 1953	61
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO EAST
		& WEST DIVISIONS 1950
		OLDHAM CENTRAL & ROYTON
9 Jun 1983		James Alexander Lamond	29 Nov 1928	20 Nov 2007	78
9 Apr 1992		Bryan Davies,later [1997] Baron Davies
		of Oldham [L]	9 Nov 1939
		NAME ALTERED TO "OLDHAM WEST
		AND ROYTON" 1997
		OLDHAM EAST
23 Feb 1950		Frank Fairhurst	1892	30 Aug 1953	61
25 Oct 1951		Ian Macdonald Horobin  [kt 1955]	16 Nov 1899	5 Jun 1976	76
8 Oct 1959		Charles Mapp	1903	3 May 1978	74
18 Jun 1970		James Alexander Lamond	29 Nov 1928	20 Nov 2007	78
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		OLDHAM EAST AND SADDLEWORTH
1 May 1997		Philip James Woolas	11 Dec 1959
		Following the May 2010 General Election,one
		of Woolas's opponents (Elwyn Watkins) in that
		election challenged the result under the
		Represenation of the People Act 1983,accusing
		Wollas of making false statements in relation to
		Watkins's character and conduct. On 5 Nov 2010
		Woolas was found to have breached the Act,
		with the result that his election was declared
		void,and that as a result he lost his seat. He
		was also barred from holding public office for
		3 years.
13 Jan 2011		Deborah Angela Elspeth Abrahams	15 Sep 1960
		OLDHAM WEST
23 Feb 1950		Charles Leslie Hale,later [1972] Baron Hale [L]	13 Jul 1902	9 May 1985	82
13 Jun 1968		Keith Bruce Campbell	25 Oct 1916	27 Sep 1990	73
18 Jun 1970		Michael Hugh Meacher	4 Nov 1939
		NAME ALTERED TO "OLDHAM WEST
		AND ROYTON" 1997
		OLDHAM WEST AND ROYTON
1 May 1997		Michael Hugh Meacher	4 Nov 1939
		OLD SARUM (WILTSHIRE)
14 Apr 1660		Seymour Bowman	c 1621	6 May 1704
		John Norden	c 1612	c Jun 1669
		Algernon Cecil
		Double return. Bowman and Norden seated
		27 Apr 1660
29 Apr 1661		Edward Nicholas  (to 1679)	6 Mar 1625	21 May 1696	71
		John Denham	1615	20 Mar 1669	53
c Oct 1669		Sir Eliab Harvey	3 Jun 1635	20 Feb 1699	63
17 Feb 1679		Eliab Harvey	2 Nov 1659	3 Jun 1681	21
		John Young	c 1639	1 Feb 1710
27 Aug 1679		Henry Hare,2nd Baron Coleraine [I]	21 Apr 1636	15 Jul 1708	72
		Sir Eliab Harvey  (to Jan 1689)	3 Jun 1635	20 Feb 1699	63
17 Feb 1681		Sir Thomas Mompesson	4 Jan 1630	11 Jun 1701	71
16 Jan 1689		John Young	c 1639	1 Feb 1710
		Thomas Pitt	5 Jul 1653	28 Apr 1726	72
		Election declared void 14 Mar 1689
25 Mar 1689		William Harvey  (to 1705)	18 Dec 1663	31 Oct 1731	67
		John Hawles  [kt 1695]	18 Mar 1645	2 Aug 1716	71
27 Feb 1690		Sir Thomas Mompesson	4 Jan 1630	11 Jun 1701	71
28 Oct 1695		Thomas Pitt	5 Jul 1653	28 Apr 1726	72
27 Jul 1698		Charles Mompesson  (to 1708)	26 Jan 1670	12 Jul 1714	44
10 May 1705		Robert Pitt  (to 1710)	c 1680	21 May 1727
		Charles Mompesson	26 Jan 1670	12 Jul 1714	44
		John Fitzgerald Villiers,5th Viscount Grandison [I]	c 1682	14 May 1766
		Double return between Mompesson and
		Villiers. Mompesson declared elected
		11 Dec 1705
4 May 1708		William Harvey	18 Dec 1663	31 Oct 1731	67
6 Oct 1710		Thomas Pitt  (to 1716)	5 Jul 1653	28 Apr 1726	72
		William Harvey	20 Apr 1689	24 Dec 1742	53
28 Aug 1713		Robert Pitt  (to 1722)	c 1680	21 May 1727
3 Aug 1716		Sir William Strickland,3rd baronet	Mar 1665	12 May 1724	59
21 Mar 1722		Thomas Pitt  (to 1726)	5 Jul 1653	28 Apr 1726	72
		Robert Pitt    [he was also returned for	c 1680	21 May 1727
		Okehampton,for which he chose to sit]
3 Nov 1722		George Morton Pitt	1693	9 Feb 1756	62
20 Jan 1724		John Pitt  (to 1727)	c 1698	9 Feb 1754
30 May 1726		George Pitt	c 1663	28 Feb 1735
16 Aug 1727		Thomas Pitt   [he was also returned for	c 1705	17 Jul 1761
		Okehampton,for which he chose to sit]
		Thomas Pitt,1st Earl of Londonderry [I]
		(to May 1728)	c 1688	12 Sep 1729
1 Mar 1728		Matthew Chitty St.Quintin  (to 1734)	c 1701	8 May 1783
30 May 1728		Thomas Harrison	24 Apr 1681	by 1755
26 Apr 1734		Thomas Pitt   [he was also returned for	c 1705	17 Jul 1761
		Okehampton,for which he chose to sit]
		Robert Nedham  (to 1741)	1704	13 Aug 1762	58
18 Feb 1735		William Pitt,later [1766] 1st Earl of Chatham
		(to Jul 1747)	15 Nov 1708	11 May 1778	69
8 May 1741		George Lyttelton,later [1756] 1st Baron Lyttelton	17 Jan 1709	22 Aug 1773	64
		[he was also returned for Okehampton,for
		which he chose to sit]
5 Jan 1742		James Grenville	12 Feb 1715	14 Sep 1783	68
28 May 1747		Edward Willes	6 Nov 1723	14 Jan 1787	63
3 Jul 1747		Thomas Pitt   [he was also returned for	c 1705	17 Jul 1761
		Okehampton,for which he chose to sit]
		Sir William Irby,2nd baronet,later [1761] 1st
		Baron Boston  [he was also returned for	8 Mar 1707	30 Mar 1775	68
		Bodmin,for which he chose to sit]
17 Dec 1747		Charles Sackville,styled Earl of Middlesex,
		later [1765] 2nd Duke of Dorset  (to 1754)	6 Feb 1711	6 Jan 1769	57
		Arthur Mohun St.Leger,3rd Viscount
		Doneraile [I]	7 Aug 1718	Aug 1750	32
25 Jan 1751		Paul Jodrell	c 1715	30 Jun 1751
22 Nov 1751		Simon Fanshawe	4 Mar 1716	1 Jan 1777	60
19 Apr 1754		William Pulteney,styled Viscount Pulteney
		(to 1761)	9 Jan 1731	11 Feb 1763	32
		Thomas Pitt	c 1705	17 Jul 1761
18 Mar 1755		Sir William Calvert	c 1703	3 May 1761
30 Mar 1761		Thomas Pitt	c 1705	17 Jul 1761
		Howell Gwynne  (to 1768)	16 Apr 1718	1780	62
17 Dec 1761		Thomas Pitt,later [1784] 1st Baron Camelford	3 Mar 1737	19 Jan 1793	55
16 Mar 1768		William Gerard Hamilton	28 Jan 1729	16 Jul 1796	67
		John Crauford	c 1742	26 May 1814
11 Oct 1774		Pinckney Wilkinson  (to Mar 1784)	c 1693	26 Feb 1784
		Thomas Pitt,later [1784] 1st Baron Camelford	3 Mar 1737	19 Jan 1793	55
6 Jan 1784		John Charles Villiers,later [1824] 3rd Earl
		of Clarendon  (to 1790)	14 Nov 1757	22 Dec 1838	81
11 Mar 1784		George Hardinge  (to 1802)	22 Jun 1743	26 Apr 1816	72
19 Jun 1790		John Sullivan	7 Apr 1749	1 Nov 1839	90
30 May 1796		Richard Colley Wellesley,2nd Earl of Mornington
		[I],later [1799] 1st Marquess Wellesley	20 Jun 1760	26 Sep 1842	82
29 Jul 1797		Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn	9 Oct 1775	2 Sep 1750	74
20 Mar 1799		Sir George Yonge	Mar 1733	25 Sep 1812	79
14 Feb 1801		John Horne-Tooke	25 Jun 1736	18 Mar 1812	75
12 Jul 1802		Nicholas Vansittart,later [1823] 1st Baron Bexley
		(to 1812)	29 Apr 1766	8 Feb 1851	84
		Henry Alexander	1763	6 May 1818	54
1 Nov 1806		Thomas Andrew Blayney,11th Baron Blayney [I]	30 Nov 1770	8 Apr 1834	63
9 May 1807		Josias du Pre Porcher  (to 1818)	c 1761	4 May 1820
30 May 1812		James Alexander  (to 1832)	1769	12 Sep 1848	79
17 Jun 1818		Arthur Johnston Crawford	1786	13 Oct 1826	40
17 Jul 1820		Josias du Pre Alexander	1771	20 Aug 1839	68
2 Apr 1828		Stratford Canning,later [1852] 1st Viscount
		Stratford de Redcliffe	4 Nov 1786	14 Aug 1880	93
31 Jul 1830		Josias du Pre Alexander	1771	20 Aug 1839	68
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		OPENSHAW (MANCHESTER)
26 May 1955		William Richard Williams	7 Mar 1895	11 Sep 1963	68
5 Dec 1963		Charles Richard Morris	14 Dec 1926	8 Jan 2012	85
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		ORFORD (SUFFOLK)
13 Apr 1660		Walter Devereux	c 1621	Dec 1683
		Sir Allen Brodrick	28 Jul 1623	25 Nov 1680	57
24 Feb 1679		Lionel Tollemache,styled Lord Huntingtower,
		later [1698] 3rd Earl of Dysart	30 Jan 1649	23 Feb 1727	78
		Sir John Duke,2nd baronet  (to 1685)	3 Jan 1633	24 Jul 1705	72
5 Sep 1679		Henry Parker	c 1608	Feb 1681
23 Feb 1681		Thomas Glemham  (to 1695)	c 1647	24 Sep 1704
17 Mar 1685		Lionel Tollemache,styled Lord Huntingtower,
		later [1698] 3rd Earl of Dysart	30 Jan 1649	23 Feb 1727	78
11 Jan 1689		Sir John Duke,2nd baronet	3 Jan 1633	24 Jul 1705	72
26 Feb 1690		Thomas Felton,later [1697] 4th baronet  (to 1700)	12 Oct 1649	3 Mar 1709	59
2 Nov 1695		Sir Adam Felton,3rd baronet	after 1637	9 Feb 1697
4 Mar 1697		Sir John Duke,2nd baronet	3 Jan 1633	24 Jul 1705	72
28 Jul 1698		Sir Charles Hedges	30 Jan 1650	10 Jun 1714	64
		[Both sitting members (Sir Thomas Felton and
		Sir Charles Hedges) were unseated on petition
		in favour of Sir Edmund Bacon and William
		Johnson 10 Feb 1700]
10 Feb 1700		Sir Edmund Bacon,4th baronet  (to 1708)	6 Apr 1672	10 Jul 1721	49
		William Johnson	c 1660	Nov 1718
10 Jan 1701		Sir Edward Turnor  (to 1709)  [he was unseated	c 1646	3 Dec 1721
		on petition in favour of William Thompson
		29 Jan 1709]
4 May 1708		Clement Corrance  (to 1722)	c 1684	30 Mar 1724
29 Jan 1709		William Thompson	c 1676	27 Oct 1739
10 Oct 1710		Sir Edward Turnor	c 1646	3 Dec 1721
29 Dec 1721		Sir Edward Duke,3rd baronet	c 1694	25 Aug 1732
21 Mar 1722		Dudley North  (to 1730)	c 1686	4 Feb 1730
		William Acton	c 1684	23 Jan 1744
17 Aug 1727		Price Devereux,later [1740] 10th Viscount
		Hereford  [he was also returned for Montgomery-	9 Jun 1694	29 Jul 1748	54
		shire,for which he chose to sit]
31 Jan 1729		William Acton  (to 1734)	c 1684	23 Jan 1744
23 Feb 1730		Robert Kemp,later [1734] 4th baronet	9 Nov 1699	15 Feb 1752	52
29 Apr 1734		Richard Powys  (to 1741)	c 1707	10 Sep 1743
		Lewis Barlow		22 Oct 1737
1 Feb 1738		John Cope	1690	28 Jul 1760	70
9 May 1741		John Campbell,styled Lord Glenorchy,
		later [1752] 3rd Earl of Breadalbane	10 Mar 1696	26 Jan 1782	85
		Henry Legge (Bilson-Legge from 1754)   (to 1759)	29 May 1708	23 Aug 1764	56
31 Jan 1746		John Bateman,2nd Viscount Bateman [I]	Apr 1721	2 Mar 1802	80
30 Jun 1747		John Waldegrave,later [1763] 3rd
		Earl Waldegrave	28 Apr 1718	22 Oct 1784	66
15 Apr 1754		John Offley  (to 1768)	c 1717	3 Apr 1784
20 Dec 1759		Charles Fitzroy,later [1780] 1st Baron
		Southampton	25 Jun 1737	21 Mar 1797	59
28 Mar 1761		Thomas Worsley	22 Nov 1710	13 Dec 1778	68
22 Mar 1768		Francis Seymour-Conway (Seymour-Ingram
		from Dec 1807),styled Viscount Beauchamp,
		later [1794] 2nd Marquess of Hertford  (to 1794)	12 Feb 1743	17 Jun 1822	79
		Edward Colman	c 1734	29 Jul 1815
15 May 1771		Robert Seymour-Conway	20 Dec 1748	23 Nov 1831	82
2 Apr 1784		George Seymour-Conway	21 Jul 1763	10 Mar 1848	84
21 Jun 1790		William Seymour-Conway (styled Lord William
		Seymour-Conway from 1793)  (to 1796)	3 Oct 1760	31 Jan 1837	76
7 Jul 1794		Lord Robert Seymour-Conway  (to 1807)   [at the	20 Dec 1748	23 Nov 1831	82
		general election in May 1807,he was also
		returned for Carmarthenshire,for which he
		chose to sit]
26 May 1796		Robert Stewart,styled Viscount Castlereagh from
		Aug 1796,later [1821] 2nd Marquess of
		Londonderry	18 Jun 1769	12 Aug 1822	53
31 Jul 1797		Francis Charles Seymour-Conway,styled Earl
		of Yarmouth,later [1822] 3rd Marquess of Hertford	11 Mar 1777	1 Mar 1842	64
7 Jul 1802		James Trail	19 Dec 1745	16 Aug 1808	62
1 Nov 1806		Lord Henry Seymour Moore  (to 1812)	15 Mar 1784	Aug 1825	41
27 Jul 1807		William Sloane	1781	11 Apr 1860	78
7 Oct 1812		Charles Arbuthnot	14 Mar 1767	18 Aug 1850	83
		Edmund Alexander Macnaghten  (to 1820)	2 Aug 1762	15 Mar 1832	69
18 Jun 1818		John Douglas  (to 1821)	1 Feb 1774	6 Aug 1838	64
9 Mar 1820		Horace Beauchamp Seymour  [he was also	22 Nov 1791	21 Nov 1851	59
		returned for Lisburn,for which he chose to sit]
23 May 1820		Edmund Alexander Macnaghten  (to 1826)	2 Aug 1762	15 Mar 1832	69
28 Apr 1821		Robert Stewart,2nd Marquess of Londonderry [I]	18 Jun 1769	12 Aug 1822	53
1 Oct 1822		Charles Ross	6 Jul 1799	21 Mar 1860	60
10 Jun 1826		Sir Henry Frederick Cooke  (to 1832)	13 Apr 1783	10 Mar 1837	53
		Horace Beauchamp Seymour   [he was also	22 Nov 1791	21 Nov 1851	59
		returned for Bodmin,for which he chose to sit]
26 Dec 1826		Quintin Dick	7 Feb 1777	26 Mar 1858	81
3 Aug 1830		Spencer Horsey Kilderbee  (de Horsey from 1832)	c Aug 1790	20 May 1860	69
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1832
		ORKNEY & SHETLAND
15 Jun 1708		Sir Alexander Douglas		Jan 1718
23 Oct 1713		George Douglas,later [1730] 13th Earl of Morton	1662	4 Jan 1738	75
2 Mar 1715		James Moodie		4 Feb 1724
24 Apr 1722		George Douglas,later [1730] 13th Earl of Morton	1662	4 Jan 1738	75
7 May 1730		Robert Douglas	c 1703	30 Apr 1745
19 Feb 1747		John Halyburton		10 May 1765
15 May 1754		Sir James Douglas,later [1786] 1st baronet	1703	2 Nov 1787	84
6 May 1768		Thomas Dundas	c 1708	16 Apr 1786
31 Jan 1771		Thomas Dundas	30 Jun 1750	3 Jun 1794	43
10 Oct 1780		Robert Baikie   [he was unseated on petition in		4 Apr 1817
		favour of Charles Dundas 23 Feb 1781]
23 Feb 1781		Charles Dundas,later [1832] 1st Baron Amesbury	5 Aug 1751	30 Jun 1832	80
4 May 1784		Thomas Dundas	30 Jun 1750	3 Jun 1794	43
28 Jul 1790		John Balfour	6 Nov 1750	15 Oct 1842	91
29 Jun 1796		Robert Honyman
1 Dec 1806		Robert Honyman	c 1781	20 Nov 1808
9 Jun 1807		Malcolm Laing	1762	6 Nov 1818	56
6 Nov 1812		Richard Bempde Johnstone Honyman,later [1825]
		2nd baronet	4 May 1787	23 Feb 1842	54
18 Jul 1818		George Heneage Lawrence Dundas	8 Sep 1778	7 Oct 1834	56
8 Apr 1820		John Balfour	6 Nov 1750	15 Oct 1842	91
12 Jul 1826		George Heneage Lawrence Dundas	8 Sep 1778	7 Oct 1834	56
1 Sep 1830		George Traill	5 Nov 1787	29 Sep 1871	83
9 Feb 1835		Thomas Balfour	2 Apr 1810	1838	28
4 Aug 1837		Frederick Dundas	14 Jun 1802	26 Oct 1872	70
1 Sep 1847		Arthur Anderson	1792	28 Feb 1868	75
3 Aug 1852		Frederick Dundas	14 Jun 1802	26 Oct 1872	70
11 Jan 1873		Samuel Laing	12 Dec 1812	6 Aug 1897	84
Dec 1885		Leonard Lyell,later [1894] 1st baronet and
		[1914] 1st Baron Lyell	21 Oct 1850	18 Sep 1926	75
23 Oct 1900		John Cathcart Wason	17 Nov 1848	19 Apr 1921	72
17 May 1921		Sir Malcolm Smith	1 Dec 1856	12 Mar 1935	78
15 Nov 1922		Sir Robert William Hamilton	26 Aug 1867	15 Jul 1944	76
14 Nov 1935		Sir Basil Hamilton Hebden Neven-Spence	12 Jun 1888	13 Sep 1974	86
23 Feb 1950		Joseph Grimond,later [1983] Baron Grimond [L]	29 Jul 1913	24 Oct 1993	80
9 Jun 1983		James Robert Wallace,later [2007] Baron
		Wallace of Tankerness [L]	25 Aug 1954
7 Jun 2001		Alexander (Alistair) Morrison Carmichael	15 Jul 1965
		ORMEAU (BELFAST)
14 Dec 1918		Thomas Moles	Nov 1871	3 Feb 1937	65
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		ORMSKIRK (LANCASHIRE)
1 Dec 1885		Arthur Bower Forwood,later [1895] 1st baronet	23 Jun 1836	27 Sep 1898	62
20 Oct 1898		Arthur Stanley  [kt 1944]	28 Jan 1871	4 Nov 1947	76
14 Dec 1918		James Bell	1872	28 Dec 1955	83
15 Nov 1922		Francis Nicholas Blundell	16 Oct 1880	28 Oct 1936	56
30 May 1929		Samuel Thomas Rosbotham  [kt 1933]	26 Jun 1864	12 Mar 1950	85
27 Oct 1939		William Stephen Richard King-Hall [kt 1954],
		later [1966] Baron King-Hall [L]	21 Jan 1893	2 Jun 1966	73
26 Jul 1945		James Harold Wilson [KG 1976],later [1983]
		Baron Wilson of Rievaulx [L]	11 Mar 1916	24 May 1995	79
23 Feb 1950		Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross,1st baronet	9 May 1896	3 Jun 1968	72
5 Apr 1951		Sir James Arthur Salter,later [1953] 1st
		Baron Salter	15 Mar 1881	27 Jun 1975	94
12 Nov 1953		Douglas Glover  [kt 1960]	13 Feb 1908	15 Jan 1982	73
18 Jun 1970		Harold Benjamin Soref	18 Dec 1916	14 Mar 1993	76
28 Feb 1974		Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk	19 May 1942
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		ORPINGTON
26 Jul 1945		Sir Waldron Smithers	5 Oct 1880	9 Dec 1954	74
20 Jan 1955		William Donald Massey Sumner	13 Aug 1913	12 May 1990	76
14 Mar 1962		Eric Reginald Lubbock,later [1971] 4th Baron
		Avebury	29 Sep 1928
18 Jun 1970		Ivor Robert Stanbrook	13 Jan 1924	18 Feb 2004	80
9 Apr 1992		John Rhodes Horam	7 Mar 1939
6 May 2010		Joseph Edmund Johnson	23 Dec 1971
		OSGOLDCROSS (YORKSHIRE)
5 Dec 1885		Sir John William Ramsden,5th baronet	14 Sep 1831	15 Apr 1914	82
10 Jul 1886		John Austin,later [1894] 1st baronet	9 Mar 1824	30 Mar 1906	81
26 Jan 1906		Joseph Compton Compton-Rickett  [kt 1907]	13 Feb 1847	30 Jul 1919	72
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		OSSORY (QUEEN'S COUNTY)
5 Dec 1885		Arthur O'Connor   [he was also returned for	1 Oct 1844	30 Mar 1923	78
		Donegal East, for which he chose to sit]
12 Feb 1886		Stephen O'Mara
9 Jul 1886		William Archibald Macdonald	1841	Oct 1911	70
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
Jul 1892		Eugene Crean	1854	12 Jan 1939	84
5 Oct 1900		William P Delany	1855	7 Mar 1916	60
28 Apr 1916		John Lalor Fitzpatrick	1875	Jan 1952	76
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		OSWESTRY (SHROPSHIRE)
1 Dec 1885		Stanley Leighton	1837	4 May 1901	63
24 May 1901		George Ralph Ormsby-Gore,later [1904]
		3rd Baron Harlech	21 Jan 1855	8 May 1938	83
27 Jul 1904		Allan Heywood Bright	24 May 1862	3 Aug 1941	79
19 Jan 1906		William Clive Bridgeman,later [1929] 1st
		Viscount Bridgeman	31 Dec 1864	14 Aug 1935	70
30 May 1929		Bertie Edward Parker Leighton	26 Nov 1875	15 Feb 1952	76
26 Jul 1945		Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole,later [1958] 1st
		Baron Poole	11 Aug 1911	28 Jan 1993	81
23 Feb 1950		William David Ormsby-Gore,later [1964] 5th
		Baron Harlech	20 May 1918	26 Jan 1985	66
8 Nov 1961		William John Biffen,later [1997] Baron Biffen [L]	3 Nov 1930	14 Aug 2007	76
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		OTLEY (YORKSHIRE)
3 Dec 1885		Sir Andrew Fairbairn	5 Mar 1828	30 May 1901	73
14 Jul 1886		John Barran,later [1895] 1st baronet	3 Aug 1821	3 May 1905	83
24 Jul 1895		Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill	5 Mar 1849	23 Sep 1918	69
10 Oct 1900		Sir James Hastings Duncan	Mar 1855	31 Jul 1928	73
		NAME ALTERED TO "PUDSEY & OTLEY" 1918
		OXFORD (OXFORDSHIRE)
5 Apr 1660		Henry Cary,4th Viscount Falkland [S]	21 Nov 1634	2 Apr 1663	28
		James Huxley	6 Nov 1614	c 1672
16 Apr 1661		Richard Croke	c 1625	14 Sep 1683
		Brome Whorwood  (to 1685)	10 Oct 1615	12 Apr 1684	68
12 Feb 1679		William Wright	29 Jun 1619	26 Oct 1693	74
9 Mar 1685		Henry Bertie  (to 1695)	c 1656	4 Dec 1734
		Sir George Pudsey		Jun 1688
11 Jan 1689		Sir Edward Norreys  (to 1701)	28 Aug 1634	5 Oct 1712	78
24 Oct 1695		Thomas Rowney  (to Mar 1722)	Apr 1668	31 Aug 1727	59
6 Jan 1701		Francis Norreys	23 May 1666	6 Jun 1706	40
11 Dec 1706		Sir John Walter,3rd baronet  (to Oct 1722)	c 1674	11 Jun 1722
20 Mar 1722		Thomas Rowney  (to 1759)	c 1693	27 Oct 1759
24 Oct 1722		Francis Knollys	c 1697	24 Jun 1754
23 Apr 1734		Matthew Skinner	22 Oct 1689	21 Oct 1749	59
8 Feb 1739		James Herbert	c 1713	21 Nov 1740
3 Dec 1740		Philip Herbert	c 1716	22 Jul 1749
21 Nov 1749		Philip Wenman,6th (or 3rd) Viscount Wenman [I]	23 Nov 1719	16 Aug 1760	40
15 Apr 1754		Robert Lee  (to 1768)	3 Jul 1706	3 Nov 1776	70
19 Nov 1759		Sir Thomas Stapleton,5th baronet	27 Feb 1727	1 Jan 1781	53
17 Mar 1768		George Nares	1716	20 Jul 1786	70
		William Harcourt,later [1809] 3rd Earl Harcourt
		(to 1774)	20 Mar 1743	17 Jun 1830	87
31 Jan 1771		Lord Robert Spencer  (to Jun 1790)	8 May 1747	23 Jun 1831	84
5 Oct 1774		Peregrine Francis Bertie  (to Dec 1790)	13 Mar 1741	20 Aug 1790	49
16 Jun 1790		Francis Burton  (to 1812)	c 1744	28 Nov 1832
21 Dec 1790		Arthur Annesley	16 Aug 1760	20 Jan 1841	80
27 May 1796		Henry Peters	c 1763	21 Dec 1827
9 Jul 1802		John Atkyns-Wright	c 1760	5 Mar 1822
4 May 1807		John Ingram Lockhart  (to 1818)	5 Sep 1765	13 Aug 1835	69
17 Oct 1812		John Atkyns-Wright  (to 1820)	c 1760	5 Mar 1822
22 Jun 1818		Frederick St.John	20 Dec 1765	19 Nov 1844	78
10 Mar 1820		Charles Wetherell  [kt 1824]	1770	17 Aug 1846	76
		John Ingram Lockhart   (to 1830)	5 Sep 1765	13 Aug 1835	69
16 Jun 1826		James Haughton Langston  (to 1835)	c 1797	19 Oct 1863
4 Aug 1830		William Hughes-Hughes	2 Sep 1792	10 Oct 1874	82
13 Dec 1832		Thomas Stonor,later [1839] 3rd Lord Camoys	22 Oct 1797	18 Jan 1881	83
		[his election was declared void 8 Mar 1833]
18 Mar 1833		William Hughes-Hughes  (to 1837)	2 Sep 1792	10 Oct 1874	82
10 Jan 1835		Donald Maclean  (to 1847)	1800	21 Mar 1874	73
26 Jul 1837		William Erle	1 Oct 1793	28 Jan 1880	86
30 Jun 1841		James Haughton Langston  (to 1863)	c 1797	19 Oct 1863
29 Jul 1847		William Page Wood [kt 1851],later [1868] 1st
		Baron Hatherley	29 Nov 1801	10 Jul 1881	79
4 Jan 1853		Edward Cardwell,later [1874] 1st
		Viscount Cardwell	24 Jul 1813	15 Feb 1886	72
31 Mar 1857		Charles Neate   [his election was declared	1806	7 Feb 1879	72
		void 8 Jul 1857]
21 Jul 1857		Edward Cardwell,later [1874] 1st
		Viscount Cardwell  (to 1874)	24 Jul 1813	15 Feb 1886	72
7 Nov 1863		Charles Neate	1806	7 Feb 1879	72
8 Nov 1868		Sir William George Granville Venables
		Vernon-Harcourt  (to May 1880)	14 Oct 1827	30 Sep 1904	76
16 Mar 1874		Alexander William Hall	20 Jun 1838	29 Apr 1919	80
3 Apr 1880		Joseph William Chitty   [kt 1881]  (to 1881)	28 May 1828	15 Feb 1899	70
		[he was appointed a judge in Sep 1881 and no
		new writ was issued until Nov 1885]
10 May 1880		Alexander William Hall   [his election was	20 Jun 1838	29 Apr 1919	80
		declared void 4 Aug 1880. No writ was issued
		until Nov 1885]
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
26 Nov 1885		Alexander William Hall	20 Jun 1838	29 Apr 1919	80
Jul 1892		Sir George Tomkyns Chesney	30 Apr 1830	31 Mar 1895	64
20 Apr 1895		Arthur Annesley,11th Viscount Valentia [I]	23 Aug 1843	20 Jan 1927	83
22 Mar 1917		John Arthur Ransome Marriott  [kt 1924]	17 Aug 1859	6 Jun 1945	85
15 Nov 1922		Frank Gray   [following the general election in	31 Aug 1880	2 Mar 1935	54
		Dec 1923, his election was declared void
		14 May 1924]
		For further information on this MP,see the note
		at the foot of this page
5 Jun 1924		Robert Croft Bourne	15 Jul 1888	7 Aug 1938	50
27 Oct 1938		Quintin McGarel Hogg,later [1950] 2nd Viscount
		Hailsham and [1970] Baron Hailsham of
		St.Marylebone [L]	9 Oct 1907	12 Oct 2001	94
2 Nov 1950		Henry Frederic Lawrence Turner	30 Dec 1908	17 Dec 1977	68
8 Oct 1959		Christopher Montague Woodhouse,later [1998]
		5th Baron Terrington	11 May 1917	13 Feb 2001	83
31 Mar 1966		David Evan Trant Luard	31 Oct 1926	8 Feb 1991	64
18 Jun 1970		Christopher Montague Woodhouse,later [1998]
		5th Baron Terrington	11 May 1917	13 Feb 2001	83
10 Oct 1974		David Evan Trant Luard	31 Oct 1926	8 Feb 1991	64
3 May 1979		John Haggitt Charles Patten,later [1997]
		Baron Patten [L]	17 Jul 1945
		SPLIT INTO "OXFORD EAST" & "OXFORD
		WEST AND ABINGDON" 1983
		OXFORD EAST
9 Jun 1983		Steven John Norris	24 May 1945
11 Jun 1987		Andrew David Smith	1 Feb 1952
		OXFORD WEST & ABINGDON
9 Jun 1983		John Haggitt Charles Patten,later [1997]	17 Jul 1945
		Baron Patten [L]
1 May 1997		Evan Leslie Harris	21 Oct 1965
6 May 2010		Nicola Claire Blackwood	1979
		OXFORDSHIRE
c Apr 1660		Thomas Wenman,3rd Viscount Wenman [I]	c 1596	24 Jan 1665
		James Fiennes,later [1662] 2nd Viscount
		Saye and Sele	c 1602	15 Mar 1674
20 Mar 1661		Henry Cary,4th Viscount Falkland [S]	21 Nov 1634	2 Apr 1663	28
		Sir Anthony Cope,4th baronet  (to 1675)	16 Nov 1632	11 Jun 1675	42
c May 1663		William Knollys	c 1620	4 Sep 1664
21 Dec 1664		Sir Francis Wenman,1st baronet  (to Feb 1679)	c 1630	2 Sep 1680
10 Nov 1675		Sir Edward Norreys  (to Aug 1679)	28 Aug 1634	5 Oct 1712	78
26 Feb 1679		Sir John Cope,5th baronet  (to 1681)	19 Nov 1634	11 Jan 1721	86
13 Aug 1679		Thomas Horde  (to 1685)	26 Jul 1625	6 Nov 1715	90
23 Feb 1681		Sir Philip Harcourt	15 Dec 1638	30 Mar 1688	49
18 Mar 1685		Anthony Cary,5th Viscount Falkland [S]	15 Feb 1656	24 May 1694	38
		Thomas Tipping,later [1698] 1st baronet	20 Apr 1653	1 Jul 1718	65
14 Jan 1689		Sir Robert Jenkinson,2nd baronet  (to Feb 1710)	c 1654	30 Jan 1710
		Sir John Cope,5th baronet	19 Nov 1634	11 Jan 1721	86
5 Mar 1690		Montagu Venables-Bertie,styled Baron
		Norreys,later [1699] 2nd Earl of Abingdon	4 Feb 1673	16 Jun 1743	70
29 Nov 1699		Sir Robert Dashwood,1st baronet	6 Nov 1662	14 Jul 1734	71
22 Jan 1701		Sir Edward Norreys	28 Aug 1634	5 Oct 1712	78
5 May 1708		Francis Godolphin,styled Viscount Rialton	3 Sep 1678	17 Jan 1766	87
		later [1712] 2nd Earl of Godolphin  (to Oct 1710)
22 Feb 1710		Sir Robert Jenkinson,3rd baronet  (to 1717)	23 Nov 1685	29 Oct 1717	31
10 Oct 1710		Francis Clerke	c 1655	2 May 1715
25 May 1715		James Herbert  (to 1721)	28 Oct 1688	25 Apr 1721	32
4 Dec 1717		Sir Robert Bankes Jenkinson,4th baronet	24 Jan 1687	2 Jul 1738	51
		(to 1727)
17 May 1721		Henry Perrot  (to Feb 1740)	29 Sep 1689	6 Jan 1740	50
30 Aug 1727		Sir William Stapleton,4th baronet	c 1698	12 Jan 1740
30 Jan 1740		Sir James Dashwood,2nd baronet  (to 1754)	7 Aug 1715	10 May 1779	63
27 Feb 1740		George Henry Lee,styled Viscount Quarendon,
		later [1743] 3rd Earl of Lichfield	21 May 1718	19 Sep 1772	54
23 Mar 1743		Norreys Bertie	c 1718	25 Oct 1766
17 Apr 1754		Thomas Parker,styled Viscount Parker,later
		[1764] 3rd Earl of Macclesfield	12 Oct 1723	9 Feb 1795	71
		Sir Edward Turner,2nd baronet	18 Apr 1719	31 Oct 1766	47
		Philip Wenman,6th (or 3rd) Viscount Wenman [I]	23 Nov 1719	16 Aug 1760	40
		Sir James Dashwood,2nd baronet	7 Aug 1715	10 May 1779	63
		Double return. Parker and Turner declared
		elected 23 Apr 1755
8 Apr 1761		Lord Charles Spencer  (to 1790)	31 Mar 1740	16 Jun 1820	80
		Sir James Dashwood,2nd baronet	7 Aug 1715	10 May 1779	63
30 Mar 1768		Philip Wenman,7th (or 4th) Viscount Wenman [I]	18 Apr 1742	26 Mar 1800	57
		(to 1796)
24 Jun 1790		George Spencer, styled Marquess of Blandford,
		later [1817] 5th Duke of Marlborough	6 Mar 1766	5 Mar 1840	73
3 Jun 1796		John Fane  (to 1824)	6 Jan 1751	8 Feb 1824	73
		Lord Charles Spencer	31 Mar 1740	16 Jun 1820	80
6 Mar 1801		Lord Francis Almeric Spencer	26 Dec 1779	10 Mar 1845	65
12 Oct 1815		William Henry Ashhurst  (to 1830)	19 Oct 1778	3 Jun 1846	67
8 Mar 1824		John Fane  (to 1831)	9 Jul 1775	4 Oct 1850	75
5 Aug 1830		Montagu Bertie,styled Baron Norreys,later
		[1854] 6th Earl of Abingdon	19 Jun 1808	8 Feb 1884	75
9 May 1831		George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt
		(to 1862)	6 Aug 1785	19 Dec 1861	76
		Richard Weyland  (to 1837)	25 Mar 1780	14 Oct 1864	84
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO THREE MEMBERS 1832
17 Dec 1832		Montagu Bertie,styled Baron Norreys,later
		[1854] 6th Earl of Abingdon  (to 1852)	19 Jun 1808	8 Feb 1884	75
29 Jul 1837		Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker	17 Mar 1811	24 Jul 1896	85
5 Jul 1841		Joseph Warner Henley  (to 1878)	3 Mar 1793	9 Dec 1884	91
12 Jul 1852		John Sidney North  (to 1885)	1804	11 Oct 1894	90
3 Feb 1862		John William Fane	1 Sep 1804	19 Nov 1875	71
18 Nov 1868		William Cornwallis Cartwright  (to 1885)	24 Nov 1826	8 Nov 1915	88
5 Feb 1878		Edward William Harcourt	1825	19 Dec 1891	66
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "BANBURY","HENLEY"
		AND "WOODSTOCK"
		OXFORDSHIRE MID
28 Feb 1974		Douglas Richard Hurd,later [1997] Baron
		Hurd of Westwell [L]	8 Mar 1930
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		OXFORD UNIVERSITY
12 Apr 1660		Thomas Clayton	c 1612	4 Oct 1693
		John Mylles	c 1604	Mar 1676
1 Apr 1661		Laurence Hyde,later [1682] 1st Earl of Rochester
		(to 1679)	15 Mar 1642	2 May 1711	69
		Sir Heneage Finch,1st baronet,later [1681] 1st
		Earl of Nottingham	23 Dec 1621	18 Dec 1682	60
16 Jan 1674		Thomas Thynne,later [1680] 2nd baronet
		and [1682] 1st Viscount Weymouth	8 Sep 1640	28 Jul 1714	73
27 Feb 1679		Heneage Finch,later [1703] 1st Baron Guernsey
		and [1714] 1st Earl of Aylesford	c 1649	22 Jul 1719
		John Eddisbury	c 1646	16 May 1713
19 Aug 1679		Sir Leoline Jenkins	c 1625	1 Sep 1685
		Charles Perrot  (to 1689)	29 Nov 1642	10 Jun 1686	43
23 Nov 1685		George Clarke	7 May 1661	22 Oct 1736	75
7 Jan 1689		Heneage Finch,later [1714] 1st Earl of Aylesford	c 1649	22 Jul 1719
		(to 1698)
		Sir Thomas Clarges	c 1618	4 Oct 1695
21 Oct 1695		Sir William Trumbull	12 Aug 1639	14 Dec 1716	77
23 Jul 1698		Sir Christopher Musgrave,4th baronet	c 1631	29 Jul 1704
		(to Mar 1701)  [at the general election in Mar
		1701,Musgrave was also returned for Westmorland,
		for which he chose to sit]
		Sir William Glynne,2nd baronet	17 May 1663	3 Sep 1721	58
3 Jan 1701		Heneage Finch,later [1703] 1st Baron Guernsey
		and [1714] 1st Earl of Aylesford  (to 1703)	c 1649	22 Jul 1719
21 Mar 1701		William Bromley  (to 1732)	31 Aug 1663	13 Feb 1732	68
22 Nov 1703		Sir William Whitlock	27 Dec 1636	22 Nov 1717	80
4 Dec 1717		George Clarke  (to 1737)	7 May 1661	22 Oct 1736	75
26 Feb 1732		Henry Hyde,styled Viscount Cornbury,later [1751]
		Baron Hyde of Hindon  (to 1751)	28 Nov 1710	26 Apr 1753	42
9 Feb 1737		William Bromley	c 1701	12 Mar 1737
31 Mar 1737		Edward Butler	c 1686	29 Oct 1745
12 Nov 1745		Peregrine Palmer  (to 1762)	c 1703	30 Nov 1762
31 Jan 1751		Sir Roger Newdigate,5th baronet  (to 1780)	20 May 1719	23 Nov 1806	87
16 Dec 1762		Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot,5th baronet	3 Aug 1702	20 Jan 1768	65
3 Feb 1768		Sir William Dolben,3rd baronet	12 Jan 1727	20 Mar 1814	87
23 Mar 1768		Francis Page  (to 1801)	c 1726	24 Nov 1803
11 Sep 1780		Sir William Dolben,3rd baronet  (to 1806)	12 Jan 1727	20 Mar 1814	87
23 Mar 1801		Sir William Scott,later [1821] 1st Baron
		Stowell  (to 1821)	17 Oct 1745	28 Jan 1836	90
6 Nov 1806		Charles Abbot,later [1817] 1st Baron Colchester	14 Oct 1757	7 May 1829	71
10 Jun 1817		Robert Peel,later [1830] 2nd baronet  (to 1829)	5 Feb 1788	2 Jul 1850	62
24 Aug 1821		Richard Heber	5 Jan 1774	4 Oct 1833	59
22 Feb 1826		Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt
		(to 1847)	3 Aug 1775	26 Jul 1853	77
28 Feb 1829		Sir Robert Harry Inglis,2nd baronet  (to 1854)	12 Jan 1786	5 May 1855	69
3 Aug 1847		William Ewart Gladstone  (to 1865)	29 Dec 1809	19 May 1898	88
7 Feb 1854		Sir William Heathcote,5th baronet  (to 1868)	17 May 1801	18 Aug 1881	80
18 Jul 1865		Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy,later [1878] 1st
		Viscount Cranbrook and [1892] 1st Earl of
		Cranbrook  (to 1878)	1 Oct 1814	30 Oct 1906	92
18 Nov 1868		John Robert Mowbray,later [1880] 1st baronet	3 Jun 1815	22 Apr 1899	83
		(to 1899)
17 May 1878		John Gilbert Talbot  (to 1910)	24 Feb 1835	1 Feb 1910	74
11 May 1899		Sir William Reynell Anson,3rd baronet  (to 1914)	14 Nov 1843	4 Jun 1914	70
15 Jan 1910		Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil,later [1941]
		1st Baron Quickswood  (to 1937)	14 Oct 1869	10 Dec 1956	87
30 Jun 1914		Rowland Edmund Prothero,later [1919] 1st
		Baron Ernle	6 Sep 1851	1 Jul 1937	85
19 Mar 1919		Charles William Chadwick Oman  [kt 1920]	12 Jan 1860	23 Jun 1946	86
14 Nov 1935		Alan Patrick Herbert  [kt 1945]  (to 1950)	24 Sep 1890	11 Nov 1971	81
		For further information on this MP,see the note
		at the foot of this page
27 Feb 1937		Sir James Arthur Salter,later [1953] 1st
		Baron Salter	15 Mar 1881	27 Jun 1973	92
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		William Archibald Macdonald, MP for Ossory 1886-1892
		Macdonald's obituary in 'The Weekly Irish Times' of 14 October 1911 reads as follows:-
		'One of the strangest figures in Irish politics of the last quarter of a century has passed away
		in the person of Mr. William Archibald Macdonald, ex-M.P. for the Ossory Division of Queen's
		County. Mr. Macdonald was very greatly handicapped in the political arena by the fact that
		he was blind, but this defect did not interfere with his determination to take part in the affairs
		of the day in Ireland. In 1886 he was returned unopposed for the Ossory Division, which he
		represented continuously until the General Election of 1892, when he knew that he had no
		chance, as a Parnellite, of being returned for the division. He had taken Mr. Parnell's side at
		the time of the split, and stuck to "The Chief" and to his memory. After he lost his seat Mr.
		Macdonald used to make most vigorous and long-winded speeches at the meetings of the
		National League. Blind as he was, he became almost insuppressible. Finally he retired from
		public life and settled down in England. His death took place suddenly at Chalfont St. Peters,
		Bucks. Mr. Macdonald was for many years quite a familiar figure in the streets of Dublin, as
		he was led along by his wife or little son.'
		Frank Gray, MP for Oxford 1922-1924
		Gray, together with Charles Ainsworth, MP for Bury 1918-1935, were involved in a challenge
		issued by Gray in August 1923. Gray had issued a sporting challenge that he would walk,
		carrying the full equipment of an infantryman, against anyone of his own age from Oxford to
		Banbury, or vice versa, a distance of 23 miles. The challenge was taken up by his fellow MP,
		Charles Ainsworth, and the match was held on 27 August 1923. The following report of the
		outcome of the challenge appeared in 'The Irish Times' on the following day:-
		'Dramatic scenes marked the finish of yesterday's walking match between Mr. Frank Gray,
		Liberal M.P. for Oxford City, the challenger, and Captain Charles Ainsworth, Conservative M.P.
		for Bury. The men, aged respectively 42 and 48, were in full marching order, with rifle, and the
		course, twenty-three miles, was from Banbury Cross to Oxford.
		'The last few miles provided tense scenes, both walkers collapsing in turn almost within sight
		of each other. One and a half miles from home Captain Ainsworth was unable to continue. Mr.
		Gray just managed to complete the distance, to collapse in a faint after touching the winning-
		post.
		'It was three miles from the winning-post that the walking match became unexpectedly
		dramatic. Captain Ainsworth had made up the ground that he had lost by a halt soon after
		the half-way mark, and went ahead, walking well. The Oxford City member, on the other hand,
		was now showing the effects of his exertions. His face was strained and drawn and he
		staggered as he walked. On the Banbury side of the level crossing he collapsed. His friends
		removed his pack and bathed his face and massaged his limbs. After a few minutes' rest he
		staggered to his feet and resumed the walk, but sank to the roadside in a faint.
		'Mrs. Gray, who was following in a car, stood by her husband, and a doctor was summoned.
		Spectators advised Mrs. Gray to hide his pack and rifle. She refused, however, saying that if
		Mr. Gray was fit to carry on she would not be the one to oppose him.
		'Within a few minutes Mr. Gray had recovered and once again he took the road. By this time
		Captain Ainsworth had gained a very substantial lead. About two miles from Oxford, however,
		he, too, began to show obvious signs of distress. His right leg, which had been terribly
		wounded in the war, failed him. As he was staggering along he was overtaken by Mr. Gray.
		'When he had staggered a few hundred yards further Captain Ainsworth sank back onto one
		of his supporters. A doctor felt his pulse and strongly advised that he should retire. Captain
		Glover, who was accompanying the M.P., recognised that his man could go no further and
		insisted on taking off the pack and relieving him of the rifle. Captain Ainsworth resisted feebly,
		but was carried into the car in which Mrs. Ainsworth had covered the course and was driven
		to an hotel, having covered in all twenty-one miles in five and a half hours.
		'Mr. Gray had forged steadily ahead. His condition was pitiable, but refused to give in. His
		head was craned forward and his sweat-lined cheeks were sunken and drawn. Only by a
		supreme effort did he manage to reach the winning-post. He stretched out his hand, touched
		the railings surrounding the memorial [the Martyrs' Memorial in St. Giles Church] and fainted
		dead away. Mr. Gray was then carried to a private motor car and driven home. He had finished
		the walk in just under six hours.'
		Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, MP for Oxford University 1935-1950
		The following biographical sketch of Sir A.P. Herbert appeared in the Australian monthly
		magazine "Parade" in its issue for June 1972:-
		'From 1916 the English humorist A.P. Herbert lived in a rambling house on the bank of the
		Thames at Hammersmith. And here, in succeeding years, as his fame grew, he virtually
		became one of the sights of London while sitting in the garden writing. As a pleasure boat
		laden with tourists went chugging by, the voice of the guide pointing out the sights over the
		loudspeaker floated up to Herbert. "We are now passing the ancient Doves public 'ouse. The
		island ahead is Chiswick Eyot. Between them the gent in bathing trunks is A.P. Herbert, the
		well-known 'umorist."
		'A. P. Herbert, or Sir Alan Herbert as he became, was much more that a humorist. Indeed, he
		could be described as a phenomenon of literary versatility. He was essayist, novelist, versifier,
		playwright, librettist, lawyer, social reformer, sailor, politician-and for years the acknowledged
		champion writer of letters to The Times. Author of more than 60 books and 17 plays, he was
		also Britain's leading divorce reformer, and, as an independent MP in 1937, pushed through the
		first changes in Britain's antiquated divorce laws for 80 years.
		'A.P.H., as he was known in Punch for more than half a century, was both jester and crusader.
		In an attack in the House of Commons on the high tax on whisky and gin he once demanded
		that the Chancellor of the Exchequer put a similar tax on tea. "If this country is going to go
		down the drain," thundered A. P. Herbert, "it won't be on tiny nips of whisky, but in a cataract
		of tea. All day long workmen are interrupted by tea and so are offices, factories, docks and
		ships. I honestly think that tea has become a national peril." Understandably, that remained
		one of Herbert's failures as a reformer - like his campaign to stop small boys spitting from
		London's bridges on boatmen passing beneath.
		'Born in 1890 Alan Patrick Herbert began writing in childhood. :I can remember having measles
		and producing a limerick," he once said. While still at Winchester Public School he achieved
		publication of a book of comic verse and by 20 he was appearing regularly in Punch. Herbert
		went up to New College, Oxford, to read law and in 1914, after graduating with first class
		honours, he enlisted as a private in the Royal Naval Division. After demobilisation he was called
		to the Bar in 1919, but never practised because, he said, "I really couldn't afford to because
		by that time I had to support a wife and four children - well, three and a half." So he took the
		security of a salaried job as secretary to Sir Leslie Scott, a distinguished lawyer and MP [for
		the Exchange division of Liverpool 1910-1929] and in his spare time poured out articles, verses
		and an acclaimed war novel The Secret Battle. After a couple of years the success of his
		novel, said A.P. Herbert years later, "inflamed me to leave my nice employer and become a
		struggling freelance, which I have been ever since." It was not really such a struggle for the
		talented A.P.H. He made money with novels such as Water Gypsies and became one of the
		mainstays of Punch.
		'By the 1930s the crusader, social reformer and debunker that lurked inside A.P.H. the writer
		was beginning to blossom. Thus in 1934 he became excited about English drinking laws and
		hotel closing hours, especially when he discovered that in the bars of the House of Commons
		MPs could get a drink at any time. So A.P.H. went to court with a complaint that liquor was
		being sold in the House of Commons without a licence. Parliamentarians choked over their
		whisky, said he was either a lunatic or a Bolshevik and ordered the Attorney-General to fight
		the case. In due course, Mr. Justice Avory decided that the MPs did have the right to drink
		liquor 24 hours a day without a licence, but he refused to grant costs against A.P. Herbert.
		'Undaunted, Herbert took up another crusade - to publicise the "nonsense" in the law relating
		to banks and cheques. He began writing his cheques on eggs, bottle labels and table napkins.
		His bank calmly passed them and on one occasion even returned to him a full bottle of brandy
		after it had been through the clearing house. [For an example of one of Herbert's cheques
		written in verse, see below].
		'In 1935 Herbert turned to reform the divorce laws and wrote a popular novel, Holy Deadlock,
		satirising the fact that adultery was the only legal ground for divorce in Britain. The novel
		made money, but the law remained unchanged, so A.P.H. set out to win the Oxford University
		seat in the House of Commons and fight his battle there. As an Independent, Herbert was
		triumphantly returned at the head of the poll and with his back-bench seat only two days
		warm he bounced up to deliver his maiden speech. Brandishing a draft bill "to reform the
		indecent, hypocritical, cruel and unjust marriage laws of this country," he vowed: I swear it
		shall be passed before this Parliament is over." Meeting Herbert outside later, his old friend
		Winston Churchill chuckled: "Call that a maiden speech? It was a brazen hussy of a speech.
		Never did such a painted lady of a speech parade itself before a modest Parliament."
		'Undeterred, Herbert set about the herculean task of drawing up what became the Matrimonial
		Causes Act and added desertion, cruelty and incurable insanity to adultery as grounds for
		divorce. Herbert's work involved the scrutiny of all existing marriage laws, lobbying for support,
		conferences with law officers and preparation of speeches on each phase of the Bill. Yet he
		stuck at it, neglected his own writing and lived on his meagre parliamentary salary (less than
		£400 a year then) until the day of triumph in 1938 when his Bill was finally passed and
		members of all parties rushed across the floor to congratulate him.
		'As an Independent MP untrammelled by party ties, A.P. Herbert continued to fight for his pet
		beliefs, but generally they were lost causes. Thus he got nowhere with his Public Refreshments
		Bill in which he wanted Parliament to adopt holus bolus the liquor and refreshment laws of
		France. This meant in effect an open go for everyone, at any time of the day and night, and
		prompted tee-totaller Lady Astor to attack him as "the playboy of the drink world." Snapped
		back A.P.H.: "A little alcoholic indulgence would be extremely good for the noble lady and
		would make her less restive." Similarly, A.P.Herbert got nowhere with an indignant attack upon
		a government Bill that permitted census-takers trying to fathom the reason for the falling
		birth-rate to ask searching questions of British families. Herbert, the father of four children,
		described the Bill as "an insult to the nation's women" and declared: "I think that I have
		ceased to breed. But nobody is going to ask me about that, even if you pass their Nosey
		Parker Bill."
		'During World War II A. P. Herbert divided his time between the House of Commons and
		command of his own motor cruiser, Water Gypsy, as a member of the Naval Auxiliary Patrol in
		in the Thames.  His job was simply to watch for mine-laying German planes and therefore his
		vessel was supposed to be unarmed, but in fact, the Water Gypsy mounted on deck a Lewis
		gun obtained from one of her skipper's friends in "a certain Ministry." There came a night at the
		height of the Blitz when Nazi planes took to skimming low over the cruiser and A.P.H. and his
		crew blazed away happily at them for several hours. They did bag any enemy bombers, but
		next day Herbert had to explain to the Air Ministry how one of their barrage balloons had been
		shot down.
		'In one of his last acts before his government was voted out in 1945, Winston Churchill
		recommended Herbert for a knighthood. Over the next five years Sir Alan Herbert MP combined
		with his parliamentary duties the writing for .P. Cochran of the smash hit musical comedies
		Bless The Bride, Big Ben and Tough at the Top.
		'That he was still one of the sights of London was also proved one hot summer afternoon in
		those years when he decided to swim the half-mile up the Thames from Waterloo Bridge to
		Westminster Bridge. After only 100 yards a canoeist paddled up and asked: "Aren't you A.P.
		Herbert the famous humorist?" Herbert said he was and stroked on steadily under Charing
		Cross Bridge - where a small boy spat at him but missed. He was 50 yards from Westminster
		Bridge when the usual tourist boat passed and from its deck came the megaphone voice of
		the guide: "On our left are the Houses of Parliament, on our right the County Hall, and in the
		water A. P. Herbert, the well-known humorist."
		'Sir Alan's Parliamentary career came to an end in 1950 when England's Labour Government
		abolished the university seats. Thereafter he had to fight for his pet causes with letters to
		The Times, books and public speeches. From frequent observation of the night sky on his
		wartime patrols he had become an enthusiastic amateur astronomer. The result was a book
		urging the renaming of the stars. Tired of such labels as Betelgeuse he wanted to dot the
		the heavens with stars called Nelson, Drake and Cook. Herbert sent his book to the Royal
		Astronomical Society which replied noncommittally: "Your suggestion was received with
		appreciation."
		'Another A.P.H. hobby horse was campaigning against jargon and officialese. He pointed out
		that Nelson's famous signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty," today would
		probably be changed by some shipboard bureaucrat to read: "England anticipates that, with
		regard to the current emergency, personnel will duly implement their obligations in accordance
		with the functions allocated to their respective age groups."
		'On a visit to Australia in 1955 Sir Alan Herbert said he wanted to celebrate the 40th
		anniversary of his marriage in a country with a lower divorce rate than Britain's.'
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		On one occasion, Herbert received a demand for payment from the Inland Revenue for surtax
		of £85. He took a sheet of his own notepaper, affixed a 2d duty stamp, and then wrote the
		cheque as follows (words in capitals were in red):-
		Dear Bankers, PAY the undermentioned hounds
		The shameful sum of FIVE-AND-EIGHTY POUNDS
		By 'hounds', of course, by custom, one refers
		To SPECIAL INCOME TAX COMMISSIONERS
		And these progenitors of woe and worry
		You'll find at LYNWOOD ROAD, THAMES DITTON, SURREY.
		This is the second lot of tax, you know,
		On money that I earned two years ago.
		(The shark, they say, by no means Nature's knight,
		Will rest contented with a single bite:
		The barracuda who's a fish more fell
		Comes back and takes the other leg as well.)
		Two years ago. But things have changed since then.
		My earnings dwindle; and the kindly State
		Gives me a tiny pension - with my mate.
		You'd think the State would generously roar
		At least he shan't pay SURTAX any more.
		Instead, by this un-Christian attack
		They get two-thirds of my poor pension back.
		Oh very well. No doubt it's for the best;
		At all events, pay do as I request;
		And let the good old custom be enforced
		Don't cash this cheque, unless it is endorsed.
		To his amazement, the tax authorities, displaying a sense of humour not normally found in
		such an organisation, replied:-
		Dear Sir,
		It is with pleasure that I thank
		You for your letter and the order to your bank
		To pay the sum of five and eighty pounds
		To those here whom you designate as hounds.
		Their appetite is satisfied, In fact,
		You paid too much and I am forced to act,
		Though such a course is easy, it would seem.
		Your liability for later years
		Is giving your accountants many tears:
		And till such time as they and we can come
		To amicable settlement on the sum
		That represents your tax bill to the State
		I'll leave the overpayment to its fate.
		I do not think this step will make you frown:
		The sum involved is only half a crown.
		Knowing when he was beaten, Herbert replied
		I thank you, Sir, but am afraid
		Of such a rival in my trade:
		One never should encourage those -
		In future I shall pay in prose.
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