THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "P"
		Last updated 13/05/2013
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
		PADDINGTON
28 Feb 1974		Arthur Charles Latham	14 Aug 1930
3 May 1979		John Daniel Wheeler  [kt 1990]	1 May 1940
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		PADDINGTON NORTH
25 Nov 1885		Lionel Louis Cohen	1832	26 Jun 1887	54
8 Jul 1887		John Aird,later [1901] 1st baronet	3 Dec 1833	6 Jan 1911	77
17 Jan 1906		Leo George Chiozza Money  [kt 1915]	13 Jun 1870	25 Sep 1944	74
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
17 Jan 1910		Arthur Strauss	28 Apr 1847	30 Nov 1920	73
14 Dec 1918		William George Perring  [kt 1926]	17 Mar 1866	24 Aug 1937	71
30 May 1929		Brendan Bracken,later [1952] 1st
		Viscount Bracken	15 Feb 1901	8 Aug 1958	57
26 Jul 1945		Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane	23 Oct 1889	12 Aug 1953	63
20 Nov 1946		William James Field	22 May 1909	11 Oct 2002	93
3 Dec 1953		Benjamin Theaker Parkin	21 Apr 1906	3 Jun 1969	63
30 Oct 1969		Arthur Charles Latham	14 Aug 1930
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		PADDINGTON SOUTH
25 Nov 1885		Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill	13 Feb 1849	24 Jan 1895	45
10 Feb 1895		Thomas George Fardell  [kt 1897]	26 Oct 1833	12 Mar 1917	83
17 Jan 1910		Henry Percy Harris  [kt 1917]	8 Sep 1856	23 Aug 1941	84
15 Nov 1922		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 this page
30 Oct 1930		Ernest Augustus Taylor  [kt 1952]	17 Apr 1876	11 Mar 1971	94
23 Feb 1950		Somerset Struben de Chair	22 Aug 1911	3 Jan 1995	83
25 Oct 1951		Robert Alexander Allan,later [1973] Baron
		Allan of Kilmahew [L]	11 Jul 1914	4 Apr 1979	64
31 Mar 1966		Nicholas Paul Scott  [kt 1995]	5 Aug 1933	6 Jan 2005	71
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		PAISLEY
21 Dec 1832		Sir John Maxwell,7th baronet	31 Oct 1768	30 Jul 1844	75
24 Mar 1834		Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford	3 Feb 1798	4 Feb 1838	40
19 Jan 1835		Alexander Graham Speirs		24 Dec 1847
17 Mar 1836		Archibald Hastie	1791	9 Nov 1857	66
11 Dec 1857		Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing	16 Jul 1802	3 Jul 1887	84
7 Feb 1874		William Holms	1827	8 Oct 1903	76
15 Feb 1884		Stewart Clark	1830	21 Nov 1907	77
25 Nov 1885		William Boyle Barbour	1828	13 May 1891	62
1 Jun 1891		William Dunn,later [1895] 1st baronet	22 Sep 1833	31 Mar 1912	78
15 Jan 1906		John Mills McCallum  [kt 1912]	1847	10 Jan 1920	72
12 Feb 1920		Herbert Henry Asquith,later [1925] 1st Earl of
		Oxford and Asquith	12 Sep 1852	15 Feb 1928	75
29 Oct 1924		Edward Rosslyn Mitchell	16 May 1879	31 Oct 1965	86
30 May 1929		James Welsh	29 Jan 1881	16 Dec 1969	88
27 Oct 1931		Joseph Paton Maclay [kt 1946],later [1951]
		2nd Baron Maclay	31 May 1899	7 Nov 1969	70
26 Jul 1945		Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin,styled Viscount Corvedale,
		later [1947] 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley	1 Mar 1899	10 Aug 1958	59
18 Feb 1948		Douglas Harold Johnston	1 Feb 1907	18 Feb 1985	78
20 Apr 1961		John Robertson	3 Feb 1913	16 May 1987	74
3 May 1979		Allender Steele Adams	16 Feb 1946	5 Sep 1990	44
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH
		& SOUTH DIVISIONS 1983
		PAISLEY NORTH
9 Jun 1983		Allender Steele Adams	16 Feb 1946	5 Sep 1990	44
29 Nov 1990		Katherine Patricia Irene Adams,later [2005]
		Baroness Adams of Craigielea [L]	27 Dec 1947
		NAME ALTERED TO "PAISLEY &
		RENFREWSHIRE NORTH" 2005
		PAISLEY SOUTH
9 Jun 1983		Norman Findlay Buchan	27 Oct 1922	23 Oct 1990	67
29 Nov 1990		Gordon James McMaster	13 Feb 1960	25 Jul 1997	37
6 Nov 1997		Douglas Garven Alexander	26 Oct 1967
		NAME ALTERED TO "PAISLEY &
		RENFREWSHIRE SOUTH" 2005
		PAISLEY & RENFREWSHIRE NORTH
5 May 2005		James Sheridan	24 Nov 1952
		PAISLEY & RENFREWSHIRE SOUTH
5 May 2005		Douglas Garven Alexander	26 Oct 1967
		PARK (SHEFFIELD)
14 Dec 1918		Henry Kenyon Stephenson,later [1936]
		1st baronet	16 Aug 1865	20 Sep 1947	82
6 Dec 1923		Richard Storry Deans	1868	31 Aug 1938	70
30 May 1929		George Lathan	5 Aug 1875	14 Jun 1942	66
27 Oct 1931		Sir Arthur Shirley Benn,1st baronet,later
		[1936] 1st Baron Glenravel	20 Dec 1858	13 Jun 1937	78
14 Nov 1935		George Lathan	5 Aug 1875	14 Jun 1942	66
27 Aug 1942		Thomas William Burden,later [1950] 1st Baron
		Burden	29 Jan 1885	27 May 1970	85
23 Feb 1950		Frederick William Mulley,later [1984]
		Baron Mulley [L]	3 Jun 1918	15 Mar 1995	76
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		PARTICK (GLASGOW)
4 Dec 1885		Alexander Craig Sellar	1835	16 Jan 1890	54
11 Feb 1890		James Parker Smith	30 Aug 1854	30 Apr 1929	74
25 Jan 1906		Robert Balfour,later [1911] 1st baronet	6 Mar 1844	4 Nov 1929	85
15 Nov 1922		Sir Robert John Collie	15 Aug 1860	4 Apr 1935	74
6 Dec 1923		Andrew Young	6 Nov 1858	9 Feb 1943	84
29 Oct 1924		George Humphrey Maurice Broun-Lindsay	23 Oct 1888	23 Jun 1964	75
30 May 1929		Adam Storey McKinlay	1887	17 Mar 1950	62
27 Nov 1931		Charles Glen MacAndrew [kt 1935],later [1959]
		1st Baron MacAndrew	13 Jan 1888	11 Jan 1979	90
14 Nov 1935		Sir Arthur Stewart Leslie Young,1st
		baronet	10 Oct 1889	14 Aug 1950	60
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		PAVILION (BRIGHTON)
23 Feb 1950		Luke William Burke Teeling  [kt 1962]	5 Feb 1903	26 Oct 1975	72
27 Mar 1969		Harold Julian Amery,later [1992] Baron Amery
		of Lustleigh [L]	27 Mar 1919	3 Sep 1996	77
9 Apr 1992		Sir Derek Harold Spencer	31 Mar 1936
1 May 1997		David Lepper	15 Sep 1945
6 May 2010		Caroline Patricia Lucas	9 Dec 1960
		PECKHAM
28 Nov 1885		Arthur Anthony Baumann	9 Jan 1856	20 Jun 1936	80
Jul 1892		Frederick George Banbury,later [1903] 1st
		baronet and [1924] 1st Baron Banbury
		of Southam	2 Dec 1850	13 Aug 1936	85
17 Jan 1906		Charles Goddard Clarke	10 May 1849	7 Mar 1908	58
23 Mar 1908		Henry Cubitt Gooch  [kt 1928]	7 Dec 1871	15 Jan 1959	87
Dec 1910		Albion Henry Herbert Richardson  [kt 1919]	2 Oct 1874	7 Jul 1950	75
15 Nov 1922		Collingwood James Hughes	31 Jan 1872	25 Mar 1963	91
29 Oct 1924		Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton,later [1960]
		Baron Dalton [L]	26 Aug 1887	13 Feb 1962	74
30 May 1929		John Warburton Beckett	11 Oct 1894	28 Dec 1964	70
		For further information on this MP,see the note
		at the foot of the page containing details of
		the members for Gateshead
27 Oct 1931		David Field Beatty,styled Viscount Borodale,
		later [1936] 2nd Earl Beatty	22 Feb 1905	10 Jun 1972	67
6 May 1936		Lewis Silkin,later [1950] 1st Baron Silkin	14 Nov 1889	11 May 1972	82
23 Feb 1950		Freda Kunzlen Corbet	15 Nov 1900	1 Nov 1993	92
28 Feb 1974		Harry George Lamborn	1 May 1915	21 Aug 1982	67
28 Oct 1982		Harriet Harman	30 Jul 1950
		NAME ALTERED TO "CAMBERWELL AND
		PECKHAM" 1997
		PEEBLES
8 Jun 1708		William Morison	19 Apr 1663	1739	76
3 Nov 1710		Alexander Murray,later [1729] 3rd baronet	after 1684	18 May 1743
9 Oct 1713		William Morison	19 Apr 1663	1739	76
8 Feb 1715		Alexander Murray	c 1686	Sep 1755
26 Apr 1722		John Douglas	c 1698	16 Mar 1732
28 Apr 1732		Sir James Naesmyth,2nd baronet  (to 1741)	c 1704	4 Feb 1779
25 May 1734		Sir Alexander Murray
		Double return between Sir James Nasmyth
		and Sir Alexander Murray. Nasmyth declared
		elected 7 Feb 1735
4 Jun 1741		Alexander Murray	c 1686	Sep 1755
23 Jul 1747		John Dickson	c 1707	2 Dec 1767
31 Dec 1767		Adam Hay		15 Nov 1775
31 Mar 1768		James Montgomery,later [1801] 1st baronet	Oct 1721	2 Apr 1803	81
17 Jun 1775		Adam Hay		15 Nov 1775
14 Dec 1775		Sir Robert Murray-Keith	30 Sep 1730	21 Jun 1795	64
28 Sep 1780		Alexander Murray	11 May 1736	16 Mar 1795	58
20 Mar 1783		Alexander Murray	24 Apr 1747	24 Sep 1820	73
3 May 1784		David Murray	10 May 1748	7 May 1794	45
5 Jul 1790		William Montgomery	25 Jan 1765	25 Oct 1800	35
23 Dec 1800		James Montgomery,later [1803] 2nd baronet	9 Oct 1766	27 May 1839	72
4 Mar 1831		Sir George Montgomery,2nd baronet	1765	10 Jul 1831	66
9 Aug 1831		Sir John Hay,6th baronet	3 Aug 1788	1 Nov 1838	50
4 Aug 1837		William Forbes Mackenzie	18 Apr 1807	24 Sep 1860	53
16 Jul 1852		Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery,3rd
		baronet	9 Jul 1823	2 Jun 1901	77
		UNITED WITH SELKIRK 1868
		PEEBLES & SELKIRK
25 Nov 1868		Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery,3rd
		baronet	9 Jul 1823	2 Jun 1901	77
9 Apr 1880		Charles Tennant,later [1885] 1st baronet	4 Nov 1823	4 Jun 1906	82
14 Jul 1886		Walter Thorburn  [kt 1900]	22 Nov 1842	10 Nov 1908	65
19 Jan 1906		Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray,
		later [1912] 1st  Baron Murray of Elibank	12 Apr 1870	13 Sep 1920	50
20 Jan 1910		William Younger,later [1911] 1st baronet	28 Jun 1862	28 Jul 1937	75
Dec 1910		Donald Maclean  [kt 1917]	9 Jan 1864	15 Jun 1932	68
		NAME ALTERED TO "PEEBLES
		& SOUTHERN" 1918
		PEEBLES & SOUTHERN
14 Dec 1918		Sir Donald Maclean	9 Jan 1864	15 Jun 1932	68
15 Nov 1922		Joseph Westwood	11 Feb 1884	17 Jul 1948	64
27 Oct 1931		Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay	4 May 1894	11 Mar 1955	60
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of this page
26 Jul 1945		David Johnstone Pryde	3 Mar 1890	2 Aug 1959	69
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		PEMBROKE (DUBLIN COUNTY)
14 Dec 1918		Thomas Desmond Fitzgerald	13 Feb 1888	9 Apr 1947	59
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		PEMBROKE (PEMBROKESHIRE)
c Apr 1660		Sir Hugh Owen,1st baronet	4 May 1604	c Oct 1670	66
22 Apr 1661		Rowland Laugharne	c 1607	16 Nov 1675
2 Oct 1676		Sir Hugh Owen,2nd baronet	c 1645	13 Jan 1699
3 Mar 1679		Arthur Owen	18 Jul 1647	c Jun 1705	57
30 Dec 1695		John Philipps.later [1697] 4th baronet	c 1666	5 Jan 1737
24 Jul 1702		John Meyrick	c 1673	by May 1735
17 May 1708		Sir Arthur Owen,3rd baronet	c 1674	6 Jun 1753
23 Feb 1712		Lewis Wogan	by 1676	28 Nov 1714
14 Feb 1715		Thomas Ferrers	c 1665	22 Oct 1722
27 Nov 1722		William Owen,later [1753] 4th baronet	c 1697	7 May 1781
		[At the general election in Jul 1747,he was
		also returned for Pembrokeshire,for which
		he chose to sit]
21 Dec 1747		Hugh Barlow		29 Nov 1763
2 Apr 1761		Sir William Owen,4th baronet	c 1697	7 May 1781
14 Oct 1774		Hugh Owen,later Barlow	1729	23 Jan 1809	79
9 Feb 1809		Sir Hugh Owen,6th baronet	12 Sep 1782	8 Aug 1809	26
13 Sep 1809		John Owen,later [1813] 1st baronet   [at the	1776	6 Feb 1861	84
		general election in Oct 1812,he was also returned
		for Pembrokeshire,for which he chose to sit]
19 Mar 1813		Sir Thomas Picton	24 Aug 1758	18 Jun 1815	56
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
3 Jul 1815		John Jones	15 Sep 1777	10 Nov 1842	65
19 Jun 1818		John Hensleigh Allen	29 Aug 1769	12 Apr 1843	73
13 Jun 1826		Hugh Owen Owen,later [1861] 2nd baronet	25 Dec 1803	5 Sep 1891	87
20 Feb 1838		Sir James Robert George Graham,2nd
		baronet	1 Jun 1792	25 Oct 1861	69
3 Jul 1841		Sir John Owen,1st baronet	1776	6 Feb 1861	84
22 Feb 1861		Sir Hugh Owen Owen,2nd baronet	25 Dec 1803	5 Sep 1891	87
18 Nov 1868		Thomas Meyrick,later [1880] 1st baronet	14 Mar 1837	30 Jul 1921	84
12 Feb 1874		Edward James Reed  [kt 1880]	20 Sep 1830	30 Nov 1906	76
7 Apr 1880		Henry George Allen	29 Jul 1815	20 Nov 1908	93
		NAME ALTERED TO "PEMBROKE
		& HAVERFORDWEST" 1885
		PEMBROKE & HAVERFORDWEST
30 Nov 1885		Henry George Allen	29 Jul 1815	20 Nov 1908	93
8 Jul 1886		Richard Charles Mayne	1835	29 May 1892	56
Jul 1892		Charles Francis Egerton Allen	14 Oct 1847	31 Dec 1927	80
17 Jul 1895		John Wimburn Laurie	1 Oct 1835	20 May 1912	76
18 Jan 1906		Sir Owen Cosby Philipps,later [1923] 1st
		Baron Kylsant	25 Mar 1863	5 Jun 1937	73
Dec 1910		Christian Henry Charles Guest	15 Feb 1874	9 Oct 1957	83
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		PEMBROKESHIRE
c Apr 1660		Arthur Owen	c 1608	8 Sep 1678
19 Nov 1678		John Owen	c 1645	1696
11 Feb 1679		Sir Hugh Owen,2nd baronet	c 1645	13 Jan 1699
8 Mar 1681		William Wogan  [kt 1689]	c 1638	1 Dec 1708
28 Apr 1685		William Barlow	c 1655	1733
16 Jan 1689		Sir Hugh Owen,2nd baronet	c 1645	13 Jan 1699
31 Dec 1695		Arthur Owen,later [1699] 3rd baronet	c 1674	6 Jun 1753
5 Jun 1705		Wirriot Owen	c 1681	1713
17 Oct 1710		John Barlow	c 1682	29 Oct 1739
1 Mar 1715		Sir Arthur Owen,3rd baronet	c 1674	6 Jun 1753
5 Sep 1727		John Campbell	1695	6 Sep 1777	82
21 Jul 1747		William Owen,later [1753] 4th baronet	c 1697	7 May 1781
7 Apr 1761		Sir John Philipps,6th baronet	c 1701	23 Jun 1764
12 Feb 1765		Sir Richard Philipps,7th baronet,later [1776]
		1st Baron Milford [I]   [his election declared void	1744	28 Nov 1823	79
		6 Mar 1770]
20 Mar 1770		Hugh Owen,later [1781] 5th baronet	c 1731	16 Jan 1786
9 Feb 1786		Richard Philipps,1st Baron Milford [I]	1744	28 Nov 1823	79
30 Oct 1812		John Owen,later [1813] 1st baronet   [following	1776	6 Feb 1861	84
		the general election in May 1831,his election was
		declared void 30 Sep 1831. At the subsequent
		by-election held on 24 Oct 1831,he was again
		returned]
6 Jul 1841		John Frederick Vaughan,styled Viscount
		Emlyn,later [1860] 2nd Earl Cawdor	11 Jun 1817	29 Mar 1898	80
19 Jan 1861		George Lort Phillips	1811	30 Oct 1866	55
26 Nov 1866		James Bevan Bowen	1828	14 Nov 1905	77
21 Nov 1868		Sir John Henry Scourfield,1st baronet	30 Jan 1808	3 Jun 1876	68
28 Jun 1876		James Bevan Bowen	1828	14 Nov 1905	77
5 Apr 1880		William Davies  [kt 1893]	1821	23 Nov 1895	74
Jul 1892		William Rees Morgan Davies  [kt 1913]	May 1863	14 Apr 1939	75
15 Feb 1898		John Wynford Philipps,later [1908] 1st Baron
		St.Davids and [1918] 1st Viscount St.Davids	30 May 1860	28 Mar 1938	77
15 Jul 1908		Walter Francis Roch	20 Jan 1880	3 May 1965	85
14 Dec 1918		Sir Evan Davies Jones,1st baronet	18 Apr 1859	20 Apr 1949	90
15 Nov 1922		Gwilym Lloyd-George,later ]1957] 1st
		Viscount Tenby	4 Dec 1894	14 Feb 1967	72
29 Oct 1924		Charles William Mackay Price  [kt 1932]	22 Nov 1872	6 Jul 1954	81
30 May 1929		Gwilym Lloyd-George,later ]1957] 1st
		Viscount Tenby	4 Dec 1894	14 Feb 1967	72
23 Feb 1950		Desmond Louis Donnelly	16 Oct 1920	4 Apr 1974	53
18 Jun 1970		Roger Nicholas Edwards,later [1987]
		Baron Crickhowell [L]	25 Feb 1934
11 Jun 1987		Nicholas Jerome Bennett	7 May 1949
9 Apr 1992		Nicholas Richard Ainger	24 Oct 1949
		NAME ALTERED TO "PRESELI
		PEMBROKESHIRE" 1997
		PENDLE (LANCASHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		John Robert Louis Lee,later [2006] Baron Lee
		of Trafford [L]	21 Jun 1942
9 Apr 1992		Gordon Prentice	28 Jan 1951
6 May 2010		Andrew Stephenson	17 Feb 1981
		PENISTONE (YORKSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Sydney Arnold,later [1924] 1st Baron Arnold	13 Jan 1878	3 Aug 1945	67
5 Mar 1921		William Gillis	10 Nov 1859	18 Sep 1929	69
15 Nov 1922		William Mather Rutherford Pringle	22 Jan 1874	1 Apr 1928	54
29 Oct 1924		Rennie Smith	14 Apr 1888	25 May 1962	74
27 Oct 1931		Clifford William Hudson Glossop	30 Jun 1901	4 Jul 1975	74
14 Nov 1935		Henry George McGhee	3 Jul 1898	6 Feb 1959	60
11 Jun 1959		John Jakob Mendelson	6 Jul 1917	20 May 1978	60
13 Jul 1978		Allen McKay	5 Feb 1927	2 May 2013	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		PENISTONE & STOCKSBRIDGE
6 May 2010		Angela Christine Smith	16 Aug 1961
		PENRITH (CUMBERLAND)
3 Dec 1885		Henry Charles Howard	17 Sep 1850	4 Aug 1914	63
10 Jul 1886		James William Lowther,later [1921] 1st
		Viscount Ullswater	1 Apr 1855	27 Mar 1949	93
		NAME ALTERED TO "PENRITH
		& COCKERMOUTH" 1918
		PENRITH & COCKERMOUTH (CUMBERLAND)
14 Dec 1918		James William Lowther,later [1921] 1st
		Viscount Ullswater	1 Apr 1855	27 Mar 1949	93
13 May 1921		Sir Henry Cecil Lowther	1 Jan 1869	1 Nov 1940	71
15 Nov 1922		Levi Collison	1875	22 Oct 1965	90
6 Dec 1923		Arthur Carlyne Niven Dixey	1889	25 May 1954	64
14 Nov 1935		Alan Vincent Gander Dower	28 Mar 1898	6 May 1980	82
		NAME ALTERED TO "PENRITH
		& THE BORDER" 1950
		PENRITH & THE BORDER
23 Feb 1950		Robert Donald Scott  [kt 1955]	13 Nov 1901	18 Jun 1974	72
26 May 1955		William Stephen Ian Whitelaw,later [1983] 1st
		Viscount Whitelaw	28 Jun 1918	1 Jul 1999	81
28 Jul 1983		David John Maclean,later [2011] Baron
		Blencathra [L]	16 May 1953
6 May 2010		Roderick James Nugent Stewart	3 Jan 1973
		PENRYN (CORNWALL)
13 Apr 1660		Samuel Enys	11 Oct 1611	8 Nov 1697	86
		James Robyns	by 1625	after 1682
16 Apr 1661		William Pendarves	20 Jul 1600	4 Jun 1671	70
		John Birch  (to 1679)	7 Sep 1615	10 May 1691	75
3 Feb 1673		Sir Robert Southwell  (to Sep 1679)	31 Dec 1635	11 Sep 1702	66
		This election was declared void 6 Feb 1673.
		At the subsequent by-election held on 13
		Feb 1673,Southwell was again elected
14 Feb 1679		Francis Trefusis	8 Jul 1650	5 Nov 1680	30
17 Sep 1679		Sir Nicholas Slanning,1st baronet  (to 1689)	Jun 1643	Apr 1691	47
		Charles Smythe	10 Mar 1628	Feb 1683	54
9 May 1685		Henry Fanshawe	8 Jun 1634	31 Aug 1685	51
12 Jan 1689		Anthony Rowe	after 1641	9 Sep 1704
		Alexander Pendarves  (to 1698)	11 Nov 1662	8 Mar 1725	62
1 Mar 1690		Samuel Rolle  [he was also returned for	5 Nov 1646	5 Nov 1719	73
		Devon,for which he chose to sit]
30 Apr 1690		Sidney Godolphin	12 Jan 1652	23 Sep 1732	80
30 Oct 1695		James Vernon  (to 1699)  [at the general	1 Apr 1646	31 Jan 1727	80
		election of 1698 he was also returned for
		Westminster,for which he chose to sit]
1 Aug 1698		Samuel Trefusis  (to 1713)	6 Oct 1676	4 Apr 1724	47
16 Jan 1699		Alexander Pendarves	11 Nov 1662	8 Mar 1725	62
19 May 1705		James Vernon	1 Apr 1646	31 Jan 1727	80
21 Oct 1710		Alexander Pendarves  (to 1714)	11 Nov 1662	8 Mar 1725	62
7 Sep 1713		Hugh Boscawen,later [1720] 1st Viscount
		Falmouth  (to 1720)	c 1680	25 Oct 1734
15 Mar 1714		Samuel Trefusis  (to 1722)	6 Oct 1676	4 Apr 1724	47
24 Jun 1720		William Godolphin,styled Viscount Rialton 1712-
		1722 and Marquess of Blandford 1722-1731	c 1699	24 Aug 1731
12 Apr 1722		Sidney Meadows	c 1699	15 Nov 1792
		Edward Vernon  (to 1734)	12 Nov 1684	30 Oct 1757	72
26 Aug 1727		Sir Cecil Bishopp,6th baronet		15 Jun 1778
3 May 1734		Sir Richard Mill,5th baronet	c 1689	16 May 1760
		John Clavering	19 Jul 1698	23 May 1762	63
12 May 1741		John Evelyn,later [1763] 2nd baronet	24 Aug 1706	11 Jun 1767	60
		(to 1747)
		Edward Vernon  [he was also returned for	12 Nov 1684	30 Oct 1757	72
		Ipswich,for which he chose to sit]
22 Feb 1743		George Boscawen  (to 1761)	1 Dec 1712	3 May 1775	62
1 Jul 1747		Henry Seymour Conway	12 Aug 1719	9 Jul 1795	75
18 Apr 1754		Richard Edgcumbe,later [1758] 2nd
		Baron Edgcumbe	2 Aug 1716	10 May 1761	44
2 Dec 1758		John Plumptre	10 Feb 1711	23 Feb 1791	80
4 Apr 1761		Sir Edward Turner,2nd baronet	18 Apr 1719	31 Oct 1766	47
		George Brydges Rodney,later [1782] 1st Baron
		Rodney  (to 1768)	13 Feb 1719	24 May 1792	73
19 Nov 1766		Francis Basset  (to 1770)	1715	17 Nov 1769	54
21 Mar 1768		Hugh Pigot  (to 1774)	28 May 1722	15 Dec 1792	70
17 Jan 1770		William Lemon,later [1774] 1st baronet	11 Oct 1748	11 Dec 1824	76
12 Oct 1774		Sir George Osborn,4th baronet	10 May 1742	29 Jun 1818	76
		William Chaytor	11 Jan 1732	15 May 1819	87
11 Sep 1780		Sir Francis Basset,1st baronet,later [1796]
		1st Baron de Dunstanville  (to 1796)	9 Aug 1757	14 Feb 1835	77
		John Rogers	15 Aug 1750	22 Feb 1832	81
13 Dec 1782		Reginald Pole-Carew	28 Jul 1753	3 Jan 1835	81
3 Apr 1784		Sir John St.Aubyn,5th baronet	17 May 1758	10 Aug 1839	81
19 Jun 1790		Richard Glover	c 1750	20 Aug 1822
27 May 1796		Thomas Wallace,later [1828] 1st Baron Wallace	c 1768	23 Feb 1844
		William Meeke	3 Jan 1758	15 Jul 1830	72
10 Jul 1802		Sir Stephen Lushington,1st baronet	17 Jun 1744	12 Jan 1807	62
		Sir John Nicholl	16 Mar 1759	26 Aug 1838	79
1 Nov 1806		Henry Swann  (to 1819)	15 Nov 1763	24 Apr 1824	60
		Sir Christopher Hawkins   [he was unseated	May 1758	6 Apr 1829	70
		on petition in favour of John Bettesworth-
		Trevanion 4 Feb 1807]
4 Feb 1807		John Trevanion Purnell Bettesworth-
		Trevanion	1780	8 Mar 1840	59
9 May 1807		Charles Lemon,later [1824] 2nd baronet	30 Sep 1784	13 Feb 1868	83
10 Oct 1812		Philip Gell	Jul 1775	25 Jan 1842	66
19 Jun 1818		Sir Christopher Hawkins,1st baronet  (to 1820)	29 May 1758	6 Apr 1829	70
26 Feb 1819		Henry Swann declared not elected on
		petition, and no writ issued until the next
		general election
9 Mar 1820		Pascoe Grenfell  (to 1826)	3 Sep 1761	23 Jan 1838	76
		Henry Swann	15 Nov 1763	24 Apr 1824	60
10 May 1824		Robert Stanton	4 Jan 1793	3 May 1833	40
12 Jun 1826		David Barclay	29 Sep 1784	1 Jul 1861	76
		William Manning	1 Dec 1763	17 Apr 1835	71
2 Aug 1830		Sir Charles Lemon,2nd baronet	30 Sep 1784	13 Feb 1868	83
		James William Freshfield  (to 1832)	8 Apr 1774	27 Jun 1864	90
2 May 1831		Charles Stewart	30 Sep 1801	30 Jun 1891	89
		NAME ALTERED TO "PENRYN
		& FALMOUTH" 1832
		PENRYN & FALMOUTH (CORNWALL)
11 Dec 1832		Robert Monsey Rolfe [kt 1835],later [1850] 1st
		Baron Cranworth  (to 1840)	18 Dec 1790	26 Jul 1868	77
		Charles William Bury,styled Baron Tullamore,
		later [1835] 2nd Earl of Charleville	29 Apr 1801	14 Jul 1851	50
6 Jan 1835		James William Freshfield  (to 1841)	8 Apr 1774	27 Jun 1864	90
23 Jan 1840		Edward John Hutchins	1809	11 Feb 1876	66
30 Jun 1841		John Cranch Walker Vivian	18 Apr 1818	22 Jan 1879	60
		James Hanway Plumridge  [kt 1855]	c 1788	29 Nov 1863
30 Jul 1847		Howel Gwyn  (to 1857)	24 Jun 1806	25 Jan 1888	81
		Francis Mowatt	1803	12 Feb 1891	87
8 Jul 1852		James William Freshfield	8 Apr 1774	27 Jun 1864	90
27 Mar 1857		Thomas George Baring,later [1866] 2nd Baron
		Northbrook and [1876] 1st Earl of Northbrook	22 Jan 1826	15 Nov 1904	78
		Samuel Gurney  (to 1868)	1816	4 Apr 1882	65
15 Oct 1865		Jervoise Smith	1828	21 Jul 1884	56
17 Nov 1868		Robert Nicholas Fowler,later [1885] 1st
		baronet	12 Sep 1828	22 May 1891	62
		Edward Backhouse Eastwick	1814	16 Jul 1883	69
6 Feb 1874		David James Jenkins  (to 1886)	1824	26 Feb 1891	66
		Henry Thomas Cole	1816	5 Jan 1885	68
2 Apr 1880		Reginald Baliol Brett,later [1899] 2nd
		Viscount Esher	30 Jun 1852	22 Jan 1930	77
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
2 Jul 1886		William George Cavendish-Bentinck	1854	22 Aug 1909	55
16 Jul 1895		Frederick John Horniman	8 Oct 1835	5 Mar 1906	70
15 Jan 1906		John Barker,later [1908] 1st baronet	6 Apr 1840	16 Dec 1914	74
15 Jan 1910		Charles Sydney Goldman	1868	7 Apr 1958	89
14 Dec 1918		Sir Edward Nicholl	17 Jun 1862	30 Mar 1939	76
15 Nov 1922		Denis Ewart Bernard Kingston Shipwright	20 May 1898	13 Sep 1984	86
6 Dec 1923		Sir Courtenay Cecil Mansel,13th baronet	25 Feb 1880	4 Jan 1933	52
29 Oct 1924		George Pilcher	26 Feb 1882	8 Dec 1962	80
30 May 1929		Sir John Tudor Walters	1868	16 Jul 1933	65
27 Oct 1931		Maurice Petherick	5 Oct 1894	4 Aug 1985	90
26 Jul 1945		Evelyn Mansfield King	30 May 1907	14 Apr 1994	86
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		PENTLANDS (EDINBURGH)
23 Feb 1950		Lord John Adrian Hope,later [1864] 1st Baron
		Glendevon	7 Apr 1912	18 Jan 1996	83
15 Oct 1964		Norman Russell Wylie,later [1974] Lord Wylie
		(Scottish Lord of Session)	26 Oct 1923	7 Sep 2005	81
28 Feb 1974		Malcolm Leslie Rifkind  [kt 1997]	21 Jun 1946
1 May 1997		Lynda Margaret Clark,later [2005] Baroness
		Clark of Calton [L]	26 Feb 1949
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2005
		PERRY BARR (BIRMINGHAM)
23 Feb 1950		Cecil Charles Poole	1902	2 Feb 1956	53
26 May 1955		Charles Alfred Howell	22 Oct 1905	26 Oct 1974	69
15 Oct 1964		Wyndham Roy Davies	3 Jun 1926	4 Dec 1984	58
31 Mar 1966		Christopher Price	26 Jan 1932
18 Jun 1970		Joseph Ronald Kinsey	28 Aug 1921	7 Jul 1983	61
28 Feb 1974		Jeffrey William Rooker,later [2001]
		Baron Rooker [L]	5 Jun 1941
7 Jun 2001		Khalid Mahmood	13 Jul 1961
		PERTH (PERTHSHIRE)
26 May 1708		Joseph Austin		8 Nov 1735
28 Oct 1710		George Yeaman		by Feb 1733
6 Feb 1715		Patrick Haldane	c 1683	10 Jan 1769
28 Apr 1722		William Erskine	19 Mar 1691	2 May 1754	62
		Charles Leslie
		Double return. Erskine declared elected
		27 Oct 1722
9 Sep 1727		John Drummond	1676	20 Dec 1742	66
20 Jan 1743		Thomas Leslie	c 1701	17 Mar 1772
20 Apr 1761		George Dempster	8 Dec 1732	13 Feb 1818	85
13 Apr 1768		William Pulteney   [he was also returned for	19 Oct 1729	30 May 1805	75
		Cromartyshire,for which he chose to sit]
4 Apr 1769		George Dempster	8 Dec 1732	13 Feb 1818	85
12 Jul 1790		George Murray	22 Aug 1741	17 Oct 1797	56
4 Apr 1796		David Scott	27 Feb 1746	4 Oct 1805	59
27 Nov 1805		Sir David Wedderburn,1st baronet	10 Mar 1775	7 Apr 1858	83
11 Jul 1818		Archibald Campbell	c 1763	13 Jun 1838
1 Apr 1820		Hugh Primrose Lindsay	31 Oct 1765	22 Apr 1844	78
23 Aug 1830		John Stuart-Wortley (Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie
		from 1845),later [1845] 2nd Baron Wharncliffe	20 Apr 1801	22 Oct 1855	54
13 Jan 1831		Francis Jeffrey   [his name was erased from	23 Oct 1773	26 Jan 1850	76
		the return and that of William Ogilvy
		substituted 28 Mar 1831]
28 Mar 1831		William Ogilvy	19 Sep 1793	10 Apr 1871	77
23 May 1831		Francis Jeffrey	23 Oct 1773	26 Jan 1850	76
26 Dec 1832		Laurence Oliphant	22 Jun 1791	29 May 1862	70
29 Jul 1837		Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird,later [1878] 10th
		Lord Kinnaird [S]	8 Jul 1814	26 Apr 1887	72
19 Aug 1839		David Greig
2 Jul 1841		Fox Maule,later [1860] 11th Earl of Dalhousie	22 Apr 1801	6 Jul 1874	73
15 May 1852		Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird,later [1878] 10th
		Lord Kinnaird [S]	8 Jul 1814	26 Apr 1887	72
29 Jan 1878		Charles Stuart Parker	1 Jun 1829	18 Jun 1910	81
Jul 1892		William Whitelaw	15 Mar 1868	19 Jan 1946	77
13 Jul 1895		Robert Wallace  [kt 1916]	1850	19 Mar 1939	88
12 Feb 1907		Sir Robert Pullar	18 Feb 1828	9 Sep 1912	84
17 Jan 1910		Alexander Frederick Whyte  [kt 1922]	30 Sep 1883	30 Jul 1970	86
14 Dec 1918		William Young	5 Feb 1863	7 Jun 1942	79
15 Nov 1922		Archibald Noel Skelton	1 Jul 1880	22 Nov 1935	55
6 Dec 1923		Robert Macgregor Mitchell	1875	25 Apr 1938	62
29 Oct 1924		Archibald Noel Skelton	1 Jul 1880	22 Nov 1935	55
27 Oct 1931		Mungo David Malcolm Murray,styled Baron Scone,
		later [1935] 8th Earl of Mansfield	9 Aug 1900	2 Sep 1971	71
16 Apr 1935		Francis Norie-Miller,later [1936] 1st baronet	11 Mar 1859	4 Jul 1947	88
14 Nov 1935		Thomas Hunter  [kt 1944]	2 Oct 1872	19 Mar 1953	80
26 Jul 1945		Alan Gomme Gomme-Duncan  [kt 1956]	5 Jul 1893	13 Dec 1963	70
		NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH & EAST
		PERTHSHIRE" 1950 BUT REVERTED 1997
1 May 1997		Roseanna Cunningham	27 Jul 1951
7 Jun 2001		Annabelle Janet Ewing	20 Aug 1960
		NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH &
		PERTHSHIRE NORTH" 2005
		PERTH & EAST PERTHSHIRE
23 Feb 1950		Alan Gomme Gomme-Duncan  [kt 1956]	5 Jul 1893	13 Dec 1963	70
8 Oct 1959		Ian MacArthur	17 May 1925	30 Nov 2007	82
10 Oct 1974		George Douglas Crawford	1 Nov 1939	17 Apr 2002	62
3 May 1979		William Connoll Walker	20 Feb 1929
		NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH
		& KINROSS" 1983
		PERTH & KINROSS
9 Jun 1983		Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn  [kt 1988]	24 Dec 1933	19 Feb 1995	61
25 May 1995		Roseanna Cunningham	27 Jul 1951
		NAME ALTERED TO "PERTH" 1997
		PERTH & PERTHSHIRE NORTH
5 May 2005		Peter Wishart	9 Mar 1962
		PERTHSHIRE
15 Jun 1708		Dougal Stewart  [he was also returned for	after 1658	16 Jun 1712
		Buteshire at the general election in 1708 and
		appears to have been permitted to sit for both
		seats until his appointment as a Lord of
		Session on 7 Jun 1709. No writ for a fresh
		election appears to have been issued before
		the general election in 1710]
25 Oct 1710		Lord James Murray	8 May 1663	30 Dec 1719	56
10 Feb 1715		Lord James Murray,later [1724] 2nd Duke
		of Atholl	28 Aug 1690	8 Jan 1764	73
31 Dec 1724		David Graeme	c 1676	14 Mar 1726
28 Apr 1726		Mungo Haldane	c 1682	1 Jun 1755
12 Oct 1727		John Drummond		1752
9 May 1734		Lord John Murray	14 Apr 1711	26 May 1787	76
21 Apr 1761		John Murray,later [1764] 3rd Duke of Atholl	25 Apr 1729	5 Nov 1774	45
23 Mar 1764		David Graeme	2 Feb 1716	19 Jan 1797	80
11 Jun 1773		James Murray	19 Mar 1734	19 Mar 1794	60
11 Apr 1794		Thomas Graham	19 Oct 1748	19 Dec 1843	95
19 May 1807		Lord James Murray,later [1821] 1st Baron
		Glenlyon	29 May 1782	12 Oct 1837	55
19 Mar 1812		James Andrew John Lawrence Charles
		Drummond	24 Mar 1767	14 May 1851	84
6 Apr 1824		Sir George Murray	6 Feb 1772	28 Jul 1846	74
29 Dec 1832		John Campbell,styled Earl of Ormelie,later
		[1834] 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane	26 Oct 1796	8 Nov 1862	66
5 May 1834		Sir George Murray	6 Feb 1772	28 Jul 1846	74
17 Jan 1835		Fox Maule,later [1860] 11th Earl of Dalhousie	22 Apr 1801	6 Jul 1874	73
4 Aug 1837		William David Murray,styled Viscount Stormont,
		later [1840] 4th Earl of Mansfield	20 Feb 1806	2 Aug 1898	92
9 Mar 1840		Henry Home-Drummond	1783	12 Sep 1867	84
16 Jul 1852		Sir William Stirling (Stirling-Maxwell from
		Mar 1866),9th baronet	8 Mar 1818	15 Jan 1878	59
23 Nov 1868		Charles Stuart Parker	1 Jun 1829	18 Jun 1910	81
12 Feb 1874		Sir William Stirling-Maxwell,9th baronet	8 Mar 1818	15 Jan 1878	59
4 Feb 1878		Henry Edward Home-Drummond-Moray
		[later Henry Edward Stirling-Home-Drummond]	15 Sep 1846	16 May 1911	64
5 Apr 1880		Sir Donald Currie	17 Sep 1825	13 Apr 1909	83
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST
		& WEST DIVISIONS 1885
		PERTHSHIRE EAST
1 Dec 1885		Robert Stewart Menzies	1856	25 Jan 1889	32
19 Feb 1889		Sir John George Smyth Kinloch,2nd baronet	8 Jan 1849	20 May 1910	61
26 Feb 1903		Thomas Ryburn Buchanan	1846	7 Apr 1911	64
25 Jan 1910		William Young	5 Feb 1863	7 Jun 1942	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		PERTHSHIRE WEST
28 Nov 1885		Sir Donald Currie	17 Sep 1825	13 Apr 1909	83
6 Oct 1900		John Stroyan	1856	5 Dec 1941	85
18 Jan 1906		David Charles Erskine	1866	26 May 1922	55
20 Jan 1910		John George Stewart-Murray,styled Marquess
		of Tullibardine,later [1917] 8th Duke of Atholl	15 Dec 1871	15 Mar 1942	70
21 Feb 1917		Archibald Stirling	1867	18 Feb 1931	63
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		PETERBOROUGH (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)
c Mar 1660		Humphrey Orme  (to 1671)	12 Oct 1620	2 Mar 1671	50
		Charles Fane,styled Lord Le Despencer,later
		[1666] 3rd Earl of Westmorland	6 Jan 1635	18 Sep 1691	56
		Francis St.John	c 1634	29 Jul 1705
		Double return between Lord le Despencer
		and St.John. Lord le Despencer declared
		elected 26 May 1660
12 Apr 1666		Edward Palmer  [he was unseated on petition	26 Aug 1644	14 Aug 1667	22
		in favour of William Fitzwilliam,Baron
		Fitzwilliam 8 Nov 1667]
8 Nov 1667		William Fitzwilliam,3rd Baron Fitzwilliam [I[,
		later [1716] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam [I]  (to Aug 1679)	29 Apr 1643	28 Dec 1719	76
22 Mar 1671		Sir Vere Fane,later [1691] 4th Earl of
		Westmorland	13 Feb 1645	29 Dec 1693	48
24 Feb 1679		Francis St.John  (to 1685)	c 1634	29 Jul 1705
28 Aug 1679		Charles Orme	c 1654	25 Sep 1691
15 Feb 1681		William Fitzwilliam,3rd Baron Fitzwilliam [I[,
		later [1716] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam [I]	29 Apr 1643	28 Dec 1719	76
16 Mar 1685		Charles Fitzwilliam  (to Dec 1689)	c 1646	Sep 1689
		Charles Orme	c 1654	25 Sep 1691
8 Jan 1689		Gilbert Dolben,later [1704] 1st baronet	c 1659	22 Oct 1722
		(to 1698)
28 Dec 1689		William Brownlow,later [1697] 4th baronet	5 Nov 1665	6 Mar 1701	35
23 Jul 1698		Sidney Wortley-Montagu  (to 1710)	28 Jul 1650	11 Nov 1727	77
		Francis St.John	c 1634	29 Jul 1705
3 Jan 1701		Sir Gilbert Dolben,1st baronet	c 1659	22 Oct 1722
6 Oct 1710		John Fitzwilliam,styled Viscount Milton from
		1716,later [1719] 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam [I]	c 1681	28 Aug 1728
		(to 1729)
		Charles Parker	1663	1730	67
22 Mar 1722		Sidney Wortley-Montagu	28 Jul 1650	9 Nov 1727	77
18 Aug 1727		John Fitzwilliam,styled Viscount Milton from
		1716,later [1719] 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam [I]	c 1681	28 Aug 1728
		Sir Edward O'Brien,2nd baronet	7 Apr 1705	26 Nov 1765	60
		Sidney Wortley-Montagu	28 Jul 1650	9 Nov 1727	77
		[Two returns - one naming Fitzwilliam and O'Brien
		and the other naming Fitzwilliam and Wortley.
		O'Brien was unseated on petition 9 Apr 1728.
		Wortley-Montagu was declared to have been duly
		elected 13 May 1728,even though he had died six
		months earlier]
13 May 1728		Sidney Wortley-Montagu	28 Jul 1650	9 Nov 1727	77
22 May 1728		Joseph Banks  (to Apr 1734)	21 Jun 1695	31 Mar 1741	45
29 Jan 1729		Charles Gounter-Nicoll	7 Oct 1704	24 Nov 1733	29
29 Jan 1734		Armstead Parker  (to 1741)	c 1699	5 Feb 1777
26 Apr 1734		Edward Wortley-Montagu  (to 1761)	8 Feb 1678	22 Jan 1761	82
4 May 1741		William Fitzwilliam,3rd Earl Fitzwilliam [I] and
		later [1746] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam [E]	15 Jan 1719	10 Aug 1756	37
3 May 1742		Armstead Parker	c 1699	5 Feb 1777
26 Jun 1747		Matthew Lamb,later [1755] 1st baronet	c 1705	6 Nov 1768
		(to Nov 1768)
27 Mar 1761		Armstead Parker	c 1699	5 Feb 1777
16 Mar 1768		Matthew Wyldbore  (to 1780)	c 1716	15 Mar 1781
29 Nov 1768		Henry Belasyse,styled Viscount Belasyse,
		later [1774] 2nd Earl Fauconberg	13 Apr 1743	23 Mar 1802	58
16 Feb 1774		Richard Benyon  (to 1796)	28 Jun 1746	22 Aug 1796	50
9 Sep 1780		James Farrel Phipps	24 Jul 1744	6 Feb 1786	41
28 Feb 1786		Lionel Damer  (to 1802)	16 Sep 1748	28 May 1807	58
26 Oct 1796		French Laurence  (to 1809)	3 Apr 1757	27 Feb 1809	51
5 Jul 1802		William Elliot  (to Feb 1819)	12 Mar 1766	26 Oct 1818	52
14 Mar 1809		Francis Russell,styled Marquess of Tavistock,
		later [1839] 7th Duke of Bedford	13 May 1788	14 May 1861	73
8 Oct 1812		George Ponsonby	4 Mar 1755	8 Jul 1817	62
16 Apr 1816		William Lamb,later [1828] 2nd Viscount
		Melbourne  (to Nov 1819)	15 Mar 1779	24 Nov 1848	69
10 Feb 1819		Sir James Scarlett,later [1835] 1st Baron
		Abinger  (to 1830)	13 Dec 1769	7 Apr 1844	74
30 Nov 1819		Sir Robert Heron,2nd baronet  (to 1847)	27 Nov 1765	29 May 1854	88
2 Aug 1830		Charles William Fitzwilliam,styled Viscount
		Milton,later [1833] 5th Earl Fitzwilliam	4 May 1786	4 Oct 1857	71
24 Nov 1830		John Nicholas Fazakerley	7 Mar 1787	16 Jul 1852	65
29 Jun 1841		George Wentworth Fitzwilliam  (to 1859)	3 May 1817	4 Mar 1874	56
30 Jul 1847		William George Cavendish,later [1863] 2nd
		Baron Chesham	29 Oct 1815	26 Jun 1882	66
7 Jul 1852		Richard Watson	6 Jan 1800	24 Jul 1852	52
6 Dec 1852		George Hampden Whalley	22 Jan 1813	7 Oct 1878	65
		[His election was declared void 8 Jun 1853.
		At the subsequent by-election held on
		25 Jun 1853,he was again returned,but
		his election was again declared void
		15 Aug 1853]
15 Aug 1853		Thomson Hankey  (to 1868)	1805	13 Jan 1893	87
30 Apr 1859		George Hampden Whalley  (to 1878)	22 Jan 1813	7 Oct 1878	65
18 Nov 1868		William Wells	15 Mar 1818	1 May 1889	71
3 Feb 1874		Thomson Hankey  (to 1880)	1805	13 Jan 1893	87
29 Oct 1878		William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam  (to 1889)	7 Aug 1852	11 Sep 1889	37
		For further information on the death of this MP,
		see the note at the foot of this page
1 Apr 1880		George Hammond Whalley	1851
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of this page
23 Jun 1883		Sydney Charles Buxton,later [1920] 1st
		Earl Buxton	25 Oct 1853	15 Oct 1934	80
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
7 Oct 1889		Alpheus Cleophas Morton  [kt 1918]	1840	26 Apr 1923	82
15 Jul 1895		Robert Purvis  [kt 1905]	1844	23 Jun 1920	75
15 Jan 1906		Granville George Greenwood  [kt 1916]	3 Jan 1850	27 Oct 1928	78
14 Dec 1918		Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey,later [1922]
		1st baronet and [1938] 1st Baron Brassey
		of Apethorpe	7 Mar 1870	22 Oct 1958	88
30 May 1929		James Francis Horrabin	1 Nov 1884	2 Mar 1962	77
27 Oct 1931		David George Brownlow Cecil,styled Baron
		Burghley,later [1956] 6th Marquess of Exeter	9 Feb 1905	21 Oct 1981	76
15 Oct 1943		John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson,
		styled Viscount Suirdale,later [1948] 7th
		Earl of Donoughmore	12 Sep 1902	12 Aug 1981	78
26 Jul 1945		Stanley Tiffany	11 Jun 1908	19 Mar 1971	62
23 Feb 1950		Harmar Nicholls,later [1960] 1st baronet and
		[1975] Baron Harmar-Nicholls [L]	1 Nov 1912	15 Sep 2000	87
10 Oct 1974		Michael John Ward	7 Apr 1931	25 Mar 2009	77
3 May 1979		Brian Stanley Mawhinney [kt 1997],later [2005]
		Baron Mawhinney [L]	26 Jul 1940
1 May 1997		Helen Rosemary Brinton (later Clark)	23 Dec 1954
5 May 2005		Stewart James Jackson	31 Jan 1965
		PETERSFIELD (HAMPSHIRE)
9 Apr 1660		Thomas Cole	15 Jan 1622	4 Mar 1681	59
		Arthur Bold  (to 1677)	c 1604	22 May 1677
15 Apr 1661		Sir Humphrey Bennet	c 1605	Dec 1667
14 Feb 1668		Thomas Neale  (to 1679)	3 Oct 1641	17 Dec 1699	58
28 May 1677		Leonard Bilson  (to 1685)	5 Dec 1616	10 Dec 1695	79
18 Feb 1679		Sir John Norton,3rd baronet  (to 1689)	7 Dec 1619	9 Jan 1687	67
19 Mar 1685		Thomas Bilson  (to 1690)	c 1655	11 Jan 1692
11 Jan 1689		Robert Michell  (to 1701)	11 Apr 1653	1 Aug 1729	76
		Thomas Bilson  (to 1690)	c 1655	11 Jan 1692
		Richard Norton
		Double return between Michell and Norton.
		Michell declared elected 23 Feb 1689
28 Feb 1690		Richard Holt	c 1635	14 Apr 1710
21 Jul 1698		Peter Bettesworth	21 Nov 1676	13 Feb 1738	61
6 Jan 1701		Ralph Bucknall		c Jan 1711
		Richard Markes  (to 1704)	3 Aug 1671	Jan 1704	32
28 Nov 1701		Robert Michell  (to 1705)	11 Apr 1653	1 Aug 1729	76
13 Jan 1704		Leonard Bilson  (to Nov 1715)	25 Sep 1681	28 Jun 1715	33
11 May 1705		Norton Powlett  (to 1734)	27 Sep 1680	18 Jun 1741	60
7 Nov 1715		Samuel Pargiter-Fuller	c 1690	21 Nov 1722
21 Mar 1722		Edmund Miller	c 1669	21 May 1730
28 Jan 1727		Joseph Taylor   [he was unseated on petition	c 1679	19 May 1759
		in favour of Edmund Miller 4 May 1727]
4 May 1727		Edmund Miller	c 1669	21 May 1730
21 Aug 1727		Joseph Taylor	c 1679	19 May 1759
27 Apr 1734		Sir William Jolliffe	1660	7 Mar 1750	89
		Edward Gibbon	Oct 1707	10 Nov 1770	63
27 May 1741		John Jolliffe  (to 1754)	c 1697	31 Jan 1771
		Francis Fane	c 1698	27 May 1757
2 Jul 1747		William James Conolly	by Dec 1706	2 Jan 1754
9 Feb 1754		William Gerard Hamilton  (to 1761)	28 Jan 1729	16 Jul 1796	67
19 Apr 1754		William Beckford   [he was also returned	19 Dec 1709	21 Jun 1770	60
		for London,for which he chose to sit]
9 Dec 1754		Sir John Philipps,6th baronet	c 1701	23 Jun 1764
1 Apr 1761		John Jolliffe  (to 1768)	c 1697	31 Jan 1771
		Richard Pennant,later [1783] 1st Baron
		Penrhyn [I]	c 1736	21 Jan 1808
17 Dec 1767		Richard Croftes	c 1740	5 Jul 1783
22 Mar 1768		William Jolliffe  (to Mar 1802)	16 Apr 1745	20 Feb 1802	56
		Welbore Ellis,later [1794] 1st Baron Mendip	15 Dec 1713	2 Feb 1802	88
7 Oct 1774		Sir Abraham Hume,2nd baronet	20 Feb 1749	24 Mar 1838	89
6 Sep 1780		Thomas Samuel Jolliffe	22 Jun 1746	6 Jun 1824	77
9 Feb 1787		John Christopher Burton Dawnay,
		5th Viscount Downe [I]	15 Nov 1764	18 Feb 1832	67
16 Jun 1790		George Augustus North,styled Baron North
		from Aug 1790,later [1792] 3rd Earl of Guilford	11 Sep 1757	20 Apr 1802	44
29 Dec 1790		William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-
		Bentinck,styled Marquess of Titchfield,later
		[1809] 4th Duke of Portland	24 Jun 1768	27 Mar 1854	85
29 Apr 1791		Welbore Ellis,later [1794] 1st Baron Mendip	15 Dec 1713	2 Feb 1802	88
12 Jan 1795		Charles Greville	2 Nov 1762	26 Aug 1832	69
26 May 1796		Hylton Jolliffe	28 Feb 1773	13 Jan 1843	69
7 Jan 1797		Sir John Sinclair,1st baronet	10 May 1754	21 Dec 1835	81
29 Mar 1802		Hylton Jolliffe  (to 1830)	28 Feb 1773	13 Jan 1843	69
6 Jul 1802		William Draper Best,later [1829] 1st Baron
		Wynford	13 Dec 1767	3 Mar 1845	77
31 Oct 1806		John William Ward,later [1827] 1st Earl
		of Dudley	9 Aug 1781	6 Mar 1833	51
6 May 1807		Booth Grey	12 Feb 1783	13 Apr 1850	67
9 Oct 1812		George Canning   [he was also returned for	11 Apr 1770	8 Aug 1827	57
		Liverpool,for which he chose to sit]
24 Dec 1812		George Canning, later [1818] 1st Baron
		Garvagh [I]	15 Nov 1778	20 Aug 1840	61
9 Mar 1820		Beaumont Hotham,3rd Baron Hotham [I]	9 Aug 1794	12 Dec 1870	76
		[he was also returned for Leominster,for
		which he chose to sit]
27 Jun 1820		Sir Philip Musgrave,8th baronet	12 Jul 1794	16 Jul 1827	33
2 Apr 1825		James Law Lushington  [kt 1837]	24 Jul 1780	29 May 1859	78
10 Jun 1826		William Marshall	26 May 1796	16 May 1872	75
2 Aug 1830		Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe,1st baronet,
		later [1866] 1st Baron Hylton  (to 1832)	7 Dec 1800	1 Jun 1876	75
		Gilbert East Jolliffe	13 Jan 1802	17 Dec 1833	31
2 May 1831		Hylton Jolliffe	28 Feb 1773	13 Jan 1843	69
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1832
14 Dec 1832		John George Shaw-Lefevre   [he was	24 Jan 1797	20 Aug 1879	82
		unseated on petition in favour of Sir William
		George Hylton Jolliffe 5 Mar 1833]
5 Mar 1833		Hylton Jolliffe	28 Feb 1773	13 Jan 1843	69
7 Jan 1835		Cornthwaite John Hector	1773	19 Feb 1842	68
25 Aug 1837		Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe,1st baronet,
		later [1866] 1st Baron Hylton   [he was	7 Dec 1800	1 Jun 1876	75
		unseated on petition in favour of Cornthwaite
		John Hector 14 Feb 1838]
14 Feb 1838		Cornthwaite John Hector	1773	19 Feb 1842	68
29 Jun 1841		Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe,1st baronet,
		later [1866] 1st Baron Hylton	7 Dec 1800	1 Jun 1876	75
23 Jul 1866		William Nicholson	1824
5 Feb 1874		William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe	27 Sep 1841	19 Jan 1912	70
2 Apr 1880		William Nicholson	1824
3 Dec 1885		William Waldegrave Palmer,styled Viscount
		Wolmer,later [1895] 2nd Earl of Selborne	17 Oct 1859	26 Feb 1942	82
Jul 1892		William Wickham	10 Jul 1831	16 May 1897	65
8 Jun 1897		William Graham Nicholson	11 Mar 1862	29 Jul 1942	80
14 Nov 1935		Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith  [kt 1937]	10 Mar 1899	20 Mar 1977	77
22 Feb 1941		Sir George Darell Jeffreys,later [1952] 1st
		Baron Jeffreys	8 Mar 1878	19 Dec 1960	82
25 Oct 1951		Peter Richard Legh,later [1960] 4th Baron Newton	6 Apr 1915	16 Jun 1992	77
16 Nov 1960		Joan Mary Quennell	23 Dec 1923	2 Jul 2006	82
10 Oct 1974		Michael John Mates	9 Jun 1934
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		PLAISTOW (WEST HAM)
14 Dec 1918		William James Thorne	8 Oct 1857	2 Jan 1946	88
26 Jul 1945		Frederick Elwyn Jones [kt 1964],later [1974]
		Baron Elwyn-Jones [L]	24 Oct 1909	4 Dec 1989	80
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		PLATTING (MANCHESTER)
14 Dec 1918		John Robert Clynes	27 Mar 1869	23 Oct 1949	80
27 Oct 1931		Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton	24 Feb 1874	6 Oct 1946	72
14 Nov 1935		John Robert Clynes	27 Mar 1869	23 Oct 1949	80
26 Jul 1945		Hugh James Delargy	26 Sep 1908	4 May 1976	67
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		Sir Leo George Chiozza Money. MP for Paddington North 1906-1910
		and Northamptonshire East 1910-1918
		On 23 April 1928, Sir Leo and 22-year-old Irene Savage (or Savidge) were arrested in Hyde
		Park and later charged with 'being concerned together in behaving in a manner reasonably
		likely to offend against public decency.' When arrested, Sir Leo protested that 'I am not the
		usual riff-raff. I am a man of substance. For God's sake, let me go.'
		At the police station Sir Leo was allowed to phone his friend, the Home Secretary, Sir
		William Joynson-Hicks (later Viscount Brentford). When the case came before the magistrate
		Sir Leo denied that the incident had taken place and the charges were dismissed, and £10
		costs were awarded against the police.
		The divisional superintendent of police sensed a conspiracy between social equals and
		demanded a re-trial, although this was against the judicial principle of autrefois acquit
		which states that an accused cannot be tried for a crime of which he has already been
		acquitted.
		On 17 May 1928, Thomas Johnston, MP for Dundee, accused the police of examining Miss
		Savage using third degree methods and sending her home in a state of collapse. Joynson-
		Hicks decided to have the case investigated by Chief Inspector Collins, a policeman with
		an impeccable record. Sir Leo, however, refused to co-operate. Eventually, the Director of
		Public Prosecutions warned Sir Leo that he persisted in his refusal to co-operate, more
		serious steps would be taken.
		By this stage, the matter had become serious enough for Joynson-Hicks to establish a
		public inquiry, chaired by Sir John Eldon Banks, a retired judge. Miss Savage accused
		Collins of distorting her testimony by putting words into her mouth. She insisted that, with
		regard to a statement that Sir Leo's hand had been on her knee, Collins had made this
		suggestion and that she let it go as she was 'fed up' by this time and would have 'signed
		anything to get away.' The inquiry's eventual decision was to acquit Collins of any
		improper conduct.
		Sir Leo, however, appears not have learnt his lesson. In September 1933, he was back in
		court, charged with assaulting Miss Ivy Ruxton, a 30-year-old shop assistant by kissing her.
		on a train carriage on the Southern Railway. He was convicted and fined 40 shillings.
		Henry Douglas King, MP for Norfolk North 1918-1922 and Paddington South 1922-1930
		King, together with five other persons, was drowned when the motor yacht on which he was
		a passenger was smashed onto rocks near Fowey in Cornwall during a gale on 20 August 1930.
		The following (edited) report appeared in the 'Chicago Daily Tribune' on 22 August 1930:-
		'Eight [actually six] persons, including Commodore Henry Douglas King, a Conservative member
		of parliament, drowned last night as the 22-ton motor yacht Islander was swept on jagged
		rocks during a violent gale off Lantivet Bay, Cornwall.
		'Commodore King had chartered the yacht for a three week's cruise off the Cornish coast......
		'The vessel was pounded on the rocks and the helpless occupants hurled into the raging sea
		as a coast guard boat and hundreds standing on the cliff held an impotent watch over the
		disaster. None of the bodies was recovered today.
		'There is uncertainty regarding the actual number of victims owing to the statement of one
		witness that he saw two women floating on an inflated lifebuoy and further assertions that at
		least one child lost its life.
		'The witness, who saw the two women in the sea, said, "I believe they were dead. Neither
		struggled nor shouted. But a man who was near them was still struggling and holding up an
		arm as if to arrest attention. All three, however, were soon buried in the mountainous seas
		and I saw them no more."
		'The vessel was first known to be in distress early last night when flares were seen from the
		yacht by watchers on the coast. Those aboard the yacht had, it is reported, made the flares
		by stripping themselves of their clothing and setting it alight.
		'The Fowey coast guard boat immediately put off in an attempt to rescue the boat. At the
		same time watchers made a perilous descent down the face of a steep cliff in order to get
		near the ship which the waves were hurling ever nearer to the rocks. They stood only a short
		distance from the craft but were helpless to aid. A mountainous wave finally turned over and
		shattered the craft to bits.
		'Witnesses to the tragedy tell a ghastly story of how they could hear the screams of the
		victims through the roaring of the gale. They threw a rope to the Islander and those aboard
		managed to tie it to the mast, but the tossing of the vessel snapped it off. One of the men
		on the yacht then threw a heavier line from the Islander, and this was held by those on the
		shore while attempted to pull himself to safety. But heaving of the yacht caused the rescuer
		to be dragged in the water and nearly drowned. Seeing this, the man who thrown the rope
		clambered back into the yacht and this moment the waves turned it turtle. One of the victims
		was at one time less than three yards away, but it suicide to attempt to pull him out.
		'The coast guard boat also shot a lifeline to the Islander, which, at the time, was dragging its
		anchor in an effort to escape going on the rocks. No one aboard the craft, however, seized
		the line, and a huge wave so changed the position of the ship that it was impossible to get
		near it.
		'Commodore King had had a distinguished career as a sailor, soldier and politician. He was a
		sailor until 1899, when he went into law and politics. He saw active service during the world
		war both in France and at Gallipoli, was wounded, and decorated for gallantry. He became
		aide-de-camp to King George, Conservative whip in the House of Commons in 1921, [and] was
		Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1922 to 1924.'
		Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, MP for Peebles and Southern 1931-1945
		Ramsay was the only MP to be interned during the Second World War.
		He was descended from the aristocratic family of the Earls of Dalhousie, and married into
		another aristocratic family, his wife being the daughter of Viscount Gormanston and widow
		of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, 2nd son of the 3rd Marquess of Bute. Lord Ninian was MP for
		Cardiff between December 1910 and his death in action in 1915.
		Ramsay enlisted at the outbreak of the Great War and served for two years in France before
		being wounded and invalided out of the services.  During the next ten years he became
		active in the Conservative Party and was elected for Peebles and Southern at the 1931
		general election. Until 1938, he appears to have had an unremarkable career on the back-
		benches, although he openly supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War. After 1938,
		however, he became a rabid anti-semite and was convinced that most, if not all, of the
		revolutionary causes throughout history, including the English Civil War and the French and
		Russian Revolutions had been brought about by the actions of Jews. These views were
		shared by his wife, who claimed that the British press was largely under Jewish control.
		Given Ramsay's prejudices, it is not surprising that he believed that the Conservative Party
		was also under Jewish control. In order to combat this threat, he established 'The Right
		Club' in May 1939. The club included a wide range of anti-semitic men and women, including
		William Joyce, later to become infamous as 'Lord Haw-Haw.' Details of the membership of
		the club were maintained by Ramsay in the so-called 'Red Book.'
		During the next year, Ramsay became increasingly strident in his denunciation of all things
		Jewish. He made a grave mistake, however, when he entrusted the care of the 'Red Book'
		to Tyler Kent, a cipher clerk at the American Embassy in London. Kent was suspected of
		stealing documents from the Embassy which he then passed on to pro-German agents.
		After the Americans had waived Kent's diplomatic immunity, his flat was raided and he was
		arrested. The police also found in his possession the 'Red Book.' This discovery caused deep
		concern for the authorities, since, if Kent had chosen to pass the stolen documents to
		Ramsay, who as an MP enjoyed Parliamentary privilege, there was nothing to stop Ramsay
		from publishing such documents.
		On 23 May 1940, Ramsay was arrested under Section 18B of the Emergency Powers Act
		(1939) and lodged in Brixton prison. The Emergency Powers Act allowed for the internment
		of people suspected of being Nazi sympathisers and it suspended the rights of individuals
		to the doctrine of habeas corpus, in much the same way as has happened in recent years
		with regard to suspected terrorists.
		As an MP, Ramsay argued that his detention was a breach of Parliamentary privilege. As a
		result, his case was referred to the Committee for Privileges in October 1940, but the
		Committee ruled that this was not the case. In 1941, Ramsay's constituency complained
		that his internment had deprived them of parliamentary representation and he was pressed
		to resign, but refused to do so.
		In 1941, Ramsay sued the 'New York Times' for libel. That paper had printed an article on
		25 August 1940 under the heading "Britain's Fifth Column." The article read as follows:-
		"A car from Brixton Prison drew up last week at the British House of Commons. Waiting was
		the Sergeant-at-Arms……He took from the police custody of Captain Archibald Henry Maule
		Ramsay, M.P., World War veteran of the Coldstream Guards. The captain, arrested last May
		under the Defence Regulations, had been brought to Westminster to argue that the
		detention violated his traditional Parliamentary rights of immunity…….Before the war he was
		strongly anti-Communist, anti-semitic and pro-Hitler. Although no specific charges were
		made against him on his arrest - Defence Regulations allow that - informed American
		sources said that he had sent to the German Legation in Dublin treasonable information
		given him by Tyler Kent, clerk in the American Embassy in London."
		Ramsay complained that the article's words meant that he had committed high treason.
		When the court reached its decision, it found that Ramsay had indeed been libelled, but
		it awarded him derisory damages of one farthing and ordered that he pay the defendant's
		costs.
		Ramsay was released from internment on 26 September 1944 and immediately returned to
		Westminster to resume his seat in the House of Commons. His final action in Parliament, in
		June 1945, was to table a motion calling on the government to reintroduce the Statute of
		Jewry of 1275, which placed a number of heavy restrictions on the Jewish population in
		England at that time. A number of fellow MPs complained about this motion, but the
		Speaker ruled that he was the protector of minority opinions in the House, whether he
		agreed with them or not.
		At the July 1945 general election, Ramsay did not defend his seat. In 1952, he published
		his autobiography 'The Nameless War' which sought to justify his actions.
		Sir Thomas Picton, MP for Pembroke 1813-1815
		The following biography of Sir Thomas Picton appeared in the monthly Australian magazine
		"Parade" in its issue for June 1955:-
		'It is a curious fact that some of the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be
		the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of
		the courageous and able sailor William Bligh, who, as Governor, proved himself to be an
		autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short while before Bligh was ousted from New South
		Wales by the Rum Rebellion, another British dominion was undergoing a similar lesson at the
		hands of an equally redoubtable warrior, a British Army officer, Brigadier-General [later Major
		General Sir] Thomas Picton.  There are some strange parallels matching the character of the
		soldier, Picton, with that of the sailor, Bligh - probably because both men were the product of
		a brutal code of discipline, when rankers were savagely flogged, tortured and even hanged for
		misdemeanours that would bring a few days stopped shore leave today.
		'Picton, who had been a professional soldier since the age of 15, first went to the West Indies
		with Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition against the Spanish colonies in 1794. He took part in
		the capture of the islands of St. Vincent and St. Lucia, and was promoted Lieutenant-
		Colonel for his part in the latter operation. When Trinidad fell to the British in 1797 Abercromby
		appointed Picton, who was then 39, Governor of the island, and ordered him to continue to
		administer the Spanish law until he received instructions from the British government.
		'But apparently the absolute nature of his power went to Picton's already autocratic head and
		by October, 1801 - in which month he was gazetted Brigadier-General - there was a growing
		list of abuses of power of which he had been guilty, which in several instances had resulted in
		acts of shocking cruelty. Rumours of his rigorous and despotic rule spread to England and
		resulted in a demand by humanitarians that he be removed from office.
		'The demands swelled into a public outcry and the British Government decided to send a
		commission of inquiry to Trinidad to investigate the allegations at first hand. The commission,
		led by Colonel William Fullarton [1754-1808, MP for Plympton Erle 1779-1780, Haddington 1787-
		1790, Horsham 1793-1796 and Ayrshire 1796-1803], arrived at the island in January, 1803.
		'Among the stories of brutality which were placed before the commission was that of Goliah, a
		negro slave owned by a planter named Dawson who was arrested one Sunday on his way from
		church despite the fact that he was able to produce his "ticket of protection" or "leave pass."
		As soon as he heard of the arrest Dawson called at the Governor's residence and asked that
		the slave be freed. He even offered to pay the gaol fees, but Picton angrily refused to release
		the negro and shouted at Dawson: "You give your slaves too much freedom, sir. I'll humble
		them!" Dawson returned to his plantation, and next day was shocked to discover Goliah lying
		near the gates, soaked in blood and near to death, his back cut to pieces by a merciless
		flogging. Before he died the slave was able to gasp: "Me go dead. The Governor kill me."
		'On the military side of the record, the injustice meted out to Private Hugh Gallagher was
		indefensible even in those days of inhuman military administration. Gallagher was confined to
		the guard-room at the barracks for some alleged offence by order of the Governor. He was
		given no trial, but despite that and the fact that he stoutly protested his innocence Picton
		Picton ordered him to be hanged. The unhappy soldier was taken to the gallows and while
		preparations for the execution were under way Picton arrived and furiously harangued and
		abused the condemned man. When he paused for breath the object of his venom cried out
		that he swore before God that he was innocent. The assertion seemed to make Picton
		momentarily insane. "By God," he screamed, ''you are going to hell with a lie in your mouth!"
		And before Gallagher could make another protestation of his innocence the Governor signalled
		to the execution squad and the doomed man was swung up to his death.
		The presence of the Commission made Picton's position untenable, so he resigned and took
		ship to England, only to be arrested on his arrival in December 1803. Legal complications - and
		doubtless, the Government's reluctance to prosecute such a distinguished soldier - caused
		the proceedings to drag on for more than two years before Picton was brought to trial.
		'When the trial at last began on February 24, 1806, before Lord Ellenborough, the only charge
		brought against Picton was one relating to the application of torture to a Creole girl, Liusa
		Calderon, in December, 1801. Evidence was given that the Creole girl, though less than 15
		years old, was at that time living with a man named Pedro Rouis and at the same time having
		an affair with one Carlos Gonzales. It was established that Gonzales had broken into Rouis'
		house and stolen 2000 dollars from a trunk. He was arrested, and both Luisa and her mother
		were also taken into custody and charged, in effect, with having been accessories to the
		crime.
		'Interrogated by the alcalde, or Spanish magistrate, the girl had denied that she had assisted
		Gonzales in the commission of the theft, and the alcalde, one Hilariot Begorrat, had then
		written to Picton asking the Governor's permission to inflict "a slight torture" on Luisa with the
		object of making her confess. Begorrat's evidence in this respect seems to indicate that
		torture was not unknown during the Spanish regime in Trinidad, but other witnesses swore
		that it had not been employed since 1786.
		'In reply to the alcalde's request Picton had written and signed a note which read: "Inflict the
		torture on Luisa Calderon." Before the torture was applied Luisa had been warned, and to
		frighten her, three negresses who had been tortured for "witch-craft" were brought into the
		cell. Still she had protested her innocence, and the torture known as "picketing" was applied
		to her. Her left wrist was tied by a long rope, passed through a pulley fastened to the ceiling;
		her right wrist and left foot were lashed together behind her back, and she was then
		suspended in such a way that her right foot, with practically the whole weight of her body
		above it, came down upon a sharp stick in the floor of the cell.
		'Luisa herself, a graceful figure clad in a white muslin gown and white turban, was called as a
		witness at the trial, having been brought to England by Colonel Fullarton. She said that she
		had endured the agony of the torture for 45 minutes on the first occasion. At the end of that
		period it had proved too much for her, and she had screamed out that she was guilty. On
		being released she had fainted, but on recovering consciousness she had retracted her
		"confession" and had been strung up again, for 20 minutes,
		'She had been held in prison for eight months, and during the whole period, she said, her wrists
		had been bound and her ankles fettered in an instrument called the "grillo" - a long piece of
		fastened to the wall of the cell at one end with two holes at the other through which her feet
		were thrust. She had not been permitted to see either a doctor or a lawyer.
		'In his address to the jury, Mr. [later Sir William] Garrow [1760-1840], counsel for the Crown,
		subjected Picton to a verbal flaying. The ex-Governor, he said, had "abused his situation and
		discredited the country to which he belongs by inflicting what in England few people have ever
		heard of, and have only read of with detestation and horror - the torture of one of His
		Majesty's subjects without the least pretence of law, the least justification."
		'Counsel for the defence, a Mr. Dallas [Sir Robert Dallas 1756-1824], argued, principally, that
		the Spanish law provided for the employment of torture, and that Picton had been bound to
		administer that law; that therefore there had been no malice towards Luisa Calderon in his
		order to the magistrate; that if it were shown that torture was unlawful in Trinidad, then
		Picton had been guilty merely of having made a mistake. But the jury found that there was no
		such law in Trinidad, and returned a verdict of guilty.
		'Mr. Dallas immediately moved for a new trial, and Picton was released on the enormous bail of
		£40,000. Another two years passed before the retrial was heard, again before Lord
		Ellenborough. It resulted in a "special verdict" which amounted to an acquittal, and it is
		reasonable to assume that there  was a collective sigh of relief both at Whitehall and at
		the War Office at the result.
		'So, while technically the principle of equal justice for all had been upheld, in fact the Creole
		girl obtained no satisfaction for the physical and mental anguish she had suffered, and the
		reputation and military value of the general - very important at that time, with England at
		grips with the great Napoleon - suffered no impairment.
		'In July, 1809, Picton returned to active soldiering when he was appointed to command a
		brigade in the attack on the French and their allies at Walcheren, a large island off the coast
		of Holland. In the following year he was given command of the famous 3rd Division, which he
		led ably and bravely during the Peninsula War in Spain and Portugal under Sir Arthur Wellesley
		(later the Duke of Wellington). He was wounded and returned to England, but recovered and
		resumed command of the 3rd Division in time to lead it at the battle of Vittoria in the Pyrenees
		campaign [21 June 1813], and at Orthez [27 February 1814] and Toulouse [10-12 April 1814].
		'In 1813 he was elected to Parliament, received, for the seventh time, the thanks of the House
		of Commons for his military services to the country and was knighted with the Grand Cross of
		the Order of the Bath.
		'The ruthless and despotic ex-governor of Trinidad died a hero's death, shot through the head
		while leading a charge at the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. It was doubly a hero's
		death because he had been severely wounded at Quatre Bas two days previously but had
		concealed his wound. And so, perhaps, Picton worked out his own redemption for the cruelty
		of which he had been guilty in the island of Trinidad.'
		Edward Vernon, MP for Penryn 1722-1734, Portsmouth 1741 and Ipswich 1741-1757
		The following sketch of the life of Edward Vernon appeared in the November 1964 issue of
		the Australian monthly magazine "Parade":-
		'Captain Jenkins, formerly master of the sloop Rebecca, appeared before a committee of the
		House of Commons in 1738 with a trophy which he had carried for seven years in a wooden
		box. It was his right ear, sliced off by Spanish privateers who had captured his ship in 1731.
		The ear was magnificent propaganda for His Majesty's Opposition, which was anxious to
		declare war on Spain. It served its purpose. The ensuing conflict, known to historians as the
		"War of Jenkins' Ear." added a new expression to the language and conferred unexpected
		greatness on a sailor, Edward Vernon, whose hopes of fame had faded. But for the cutlass
		stroke which removed Captain Jenkins' ear, Edward Vernon would have remained a forgotten
		man, and the word 'grog' would never have been heard of.
		'When Jenkins displayed his ear to the House of Commons, Captain Edward Vernon RN MP was
		54 years old and had been off the navy's active list for a decade. An odd mixture of kindness
		and bluster, brag and sound common sense, the veteran seadog had become a critic of Prime
		Minister Robert Walpole and a vigorous advocate of naval reform. In 1738, when Spanish
		attacks on British merchant shipping in the West Indies became a burning topic, Vernon's
		oratory reached new heights. Because he had spent much of his career on the Spanish Main,
		he was listened to as an authority. He told the House that the first step towards reducing
		Spanish depredations was to destroy bases like Porto Bello, on the Isthmus of Panama. A
		government supporter interjected that he was talking nonsense, as everybody knew that
		Port Bello was impregnable, and could be taken only after a long land and sea siege. [This
		makes it appear that Vernon was a member of the House of Commons at that time, but he
		most certainly was not].
		'The captain offered to capture Porto Bello himself with half a dozen ships. Forthwith he was
		promoted to vice­admiral and commander-in-chief of a squadron which was to leave at once
		for the West Indies. Whether this was Walpole's way of calling the veteran's bluff was not
		known. If so, it failed.  Admiral Vernon did exactly what he had set out to do. He destroyed
		Porto Bello with six ships.
		'Born in London in 1684, Edward Vernon entered the navy at 16. He had attended Westminster
		school, specialised in classics and history and developed a very pugnacious style of self-
		expression. Promotion came rapidly. He was a lieutenant at 18, a captain at 21. His first
		command was nearly his last, for he was in the fleet commanded by Sir Clowdesley Shovell
		which was caught in the terrific blizzard of 1707 and wrecked on the Scilly Isles. Shovell's
		flagship and three others went down with all hands, and several more were badly damaged.
		But the 23-year-old Vernon brought his ship safely home. He saw service in the Mediterranean,
		but most of his experience was gained in the West Indies. As a result of his superior educat-
		ional background, he acquired a more extensive knowledge of the military, naval and political
		history and geographical layout of the Caribbean Sea than any other officer in the service.
		'Then came an interval of comparative peace. Bored with inaction and seeing no chance of
		further promotion, Vernon went on half-pay and did his fighting in the House of Commons.
		Although he had not been to sea for 10 years when Walpole appointed him admiral, he moved
		fast. Receiving his instructions on July 19, he sailed from Portsmouth four days later in his flag-
		ship, the 70-gun Burford, which led eight other ships. But Vernon was disgusted with his
		crews, which consisted largely of pressed men. Few had ever sailed in a ship of war. Many,
		indeed, had never been to sea.
		'As soon as the fleet left Portsmouth, training began for the attack on Porto Bello. Seasick
		men who had never handled guns were taught the complicated drill required to load, lay and
		fire the ponderous muzzle-loading smoothbores. When they were ready to drop with weariness,
		they were persuaded not to by the liberal use of the boatswain's cane. On the other hand
		Vernon's officers delighted him. To show his approval, he issued orders that when the fleet
		went into action captains were to use their own initiative if necessity arose. This was a radical
		innovation. Hitherto officers had been bound by orders issued before battle and were liable to
		court martial if they deviated from them.
		'Despite his demands on them, the men of Vernon's squadron liked their commander-in-chief.
		He might have been brusque and dogmatic but he was competent, and, like most popular
		officers, was soon given a nickname. From his wardrobe of earlier days he had salvaged an
		ancient boat-cloak made of grogram, a coarse material woven from a mixture of mohair and
		silk, then water-proofed with gum. When the weather looked bad, he appeared wrapped in this
		garment, sometimes adding breeches made from the same fabric. As a result, the seamen
		dubbed him Old Grog, the nickname under which he eventually took his place in history.
		'The word "grog" was to acquire a much wider significance. In Vernon's day, rum was regarded
		as the white man's only hope of survival in the West Indies, where disease was rampant. The
		men of Vernon's fleet were issued with a daily half-pint, measured by the generous standards
		of the 18th century. The effect of half a gallon of raw spirit a week on the young Englishmen
		was disastrous. Vernon ordered the rum issue in his squadron to be watered down four to one.
		The men soon became accustomed to the mixture, which they called "grog" after its originator.
		'Having unconsciously added another word to the English language, the admiral proceeded with
		his plan to capture Porto Bello. The first part of it was to leave three of his nine ships at
		Jamaica in case of a surprise counter-attack on that island. The belief in Porto Bello's
		impregnability had grown mainly because the narrow entrance to the harbour was defended by
		a huge fort called the Iron Castle. Two mother forts at the head of the bay protected the
		town. Vernon believed that the element of surprise was in his favour, and that the Spanish
		garrison, enervated by long service in a malaria-ridden death-trap, would not resist strongly.
		'Old Grog's judgment was sound. Most of the guns in the formidable Iron Castle had fallen off
		their rotting carriages and the morale of the garrison was in similar shape. The governor of
		Porto Bello, Don Francisco Javier Martinez de la Vega y Retes, was described by one of his
		own officers as being "of cowardly disposition, outward physical signs being the only evidence
		that he was a man at all."
		'Although Vernon did not know the circumstances were so much in his favour, he soon realised
		that all was not well in Porto Bello. Anchoring his three biggest ships within pistol shot of the
		Iron Castle, he pounded it with 500 cannon balls each hour. When the roof fell in, most of the
		Spaniards fled, although one battery held out gamely and refused to surrender until all hope
		was lost. The commander handed his sword to Vernon, who, with typical generosity, passed it
		over to his second-in-command, Commodore [Charles] Brown, commander of the ship that had
		done the most damage. By now the two town forts had wasted all their powder firing fruitlessly
		at the fleet, and the crews of the Spanish privateers in port were ransacking the place. As a
		result, the governor surrendered before his own countrymen burned the town. After blowing
		up the forts, thus ruining Port Bello as a base, Vernon returned to Jamaica.
		'When news reached England that he had done as he promised, he became a public hero.
		Bonfires blazed, cities were illuminated and hundreds of inns changed their signs overnight,
		becoming the "Admiral Vernon" instead of the popular "Green Man" or "Red Lion." Old Grog
		himself was not particularly elated. He had merely proved that he was right.
		'After he had demolished another privateer base at Chagre [also in Panama], the government
		decided to  follow up his victories with an all-out amphibious war against the Spanish
		possessions in the Caribbean. For this purpose, Vernon's fleet was heavily reinforced, and an
		army sent under [the 8th] Lord Cathcart to take Cuba, Cartagena and possibly Panama. But
		Vernon had seen too many abortive military operations in the West Indies to believe that this
		scheme of territorial expansion could succeed. He denounced the plan in vain.
		'Any chance the British had was lost when Lord Cathcart died of dysentery [in December 1740]
		and the incompetent General [Thomas] Wentworth assumed command. While Wentworth
		delayed and changed his plans from day to day his soldiers died like flies. Meanwhile, Vernon
		believed that if the campaign was accelerated the invasion might succeed. Many backed him.
		On the other hand, the admiral's suggestions were not stated diplomatically. If Wentworth was
		the dullest general in the army, Old Grog was by long odds the rudest man in the navy. The
		runner-up was his second-in-command, Admiral [Sir Chaloner] Ogle.
		'Finally Vernon and Wentworth were recalled. But if the government thought to make a
		scapegoat of Old Grog it was mistaken. To the public he was still the hero of Porto Bello. Back
		in the House of Commons, he attacked the government strongly and, when he was not
		promoted to the rank of full admiral, accused the administration of telling the King he was
		dead. He spent much of his time and energy trying to obtain better conditions for the men of
		the navy. In speeches and pamphlets he demanded more humane treatment, higher pay,
		pensions and the abolition of the press gang.
		'Temporarily shelved, the irascible old sailor staged a brilliant comeback during the war against
		France in 1744. With invasion threatened, the people demanded [Vernon's] reinstatement.
		Promoted to admiral at last, he took command of the naval forces in the Channel. He certainly
		harried the French, but he harried the Admiralty even more as he demanded more suitable
		ships, better trained crews, and more efficient organisation. In the end the French invasion
		plans fell through, owing, naval experts agree, to Old Grog, whose untiring enthusiasm and
		and unorthodox tactics checked them at every move.
		'By the time the war was over, Admiral Vernon had insulted the cabinet so often that they had
		had enough of him. He was struck off the list of flag officers. Walpole patronisingly referred
		to him as a simpleton, but the common people loved the kindly, if truculent, old sea-dog who
		stood up for his men. through thick and thin. Dying in 1757, at the age of 73, he was buried
		at Nacton, Suffolk, "without any unnecessary pomp or vain pageantry" as he had instructed
		in his will. Six years afterwards a marble monument was raised to his memory in Westminster
		Abbey.
		'Vernon's victory at Porto Bello is commemorated in the town of Porto Bello in Scotland, and in
		famous Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London. But his most notable memorial stands on the
		banks of the Potomac River, Virginia. Here, in 1743, Captain Lawrence Washington, who had
		served in the ill-fated army in the West Indies. built a mansion which he called Mount Vernon
		after the admiral he admired. It became the home and burial place of George Washington.'
		William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, MP for Peterborough 1878-1889
		Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the fifth son of the 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, died as a result of a
		riding accident. The "Leeds Mercury" of 11 September 1889 reported:-
		'On Monday evening [9 September 1889] the Hon. W.J. Wentworth-Fitzwilliam met with a
		serious accident whilst riding in Wentworth Park, the seat of Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G. Mr.
		Fitzwilliam had been to the village of Hoober, about a mile from the house, where he had
		a farm. He remained there until close upon seven o'clock, and upon his return he travelled
		by what is known as Sheepcoat Hill. The Park constable and two workmen on the estate
		report that soon after seven o'clock they saw a horseman ride at a gentle trot in front
		of Wentworth Woodhouse, and directly afterwards they heard a noise from that direction.
		The men hurried to the spot and found the hon. gentleman in an insensible condition.
		He was stretched out on the ground with his face downwards. A messenger was despatched
		to the house, and Mrs. Cape, the housekeeper, and Mr. Romaine, the house steward,
		together with a number of other servants, were speedily in attendance. Mr. Fitzwilliam was
		carried directly to his bedroom, and Dr. Clarke, of Wentworth, was called in. He ascertained
		that the unfortunate gentleman was still unconscious, and suffering from concussion of the
		brain. A bruise was noticeable above the left eye. Dr. Favell, of Sheffield, was summoned by
		telegraph, and arrived about 11.50 the same night. Yesterday, Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, of
		London, and [the delightfully named] Mr. Pridgin Teale, of Leeds, saw Mr. Fitzwilliam, and
		no signs then appeared of returning consciousness, and it is feared there is very little hope
		for his recovery.'
		And so it proved, as Wentworth-Fitzwilliam died early in the morning of 11 September, the
		immediate cause of death being a fractured skull.
		George Hammond Whalley, MP for Peterborough 1880-1883
		George Hampden Whalley was the son of George Hammond Whalley, MP for Peterborough
		1852-1853 and 1859-1878. After a career in the Army, during which he saw action during
		the Zulu War in 1879, he too was elected to represent Peterborough in 1880, and sat until
		he resigned in 1883.
		Shortly after he left the House he was made bankrupt, but was soon in deeper trouble. The
		following report appeared in the "Birmingham Daily Post" of 27 October 1884:-
		'At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday - before the Recorder - George Hampden Whalley
		(33), late M.P. for Peterborough, and Thomas Herbert (19) were indicted for stealing a
		brooch and other articles, valued at £200, the goods of Mrs. Mary Gamble.
		'In opening the case for the prosecution, Mr. Poland said the prosecutrix was a lady residing
		in the Colherne Road, Kensington, who, desiring to let her house furnished, came into
		communication with the prisoner Whalley. Enquiries were made by her agent, and the
		prisoner Whalley was accepted as tenant. He should have paid the rent in advance, but
		instead of doing so gave a bill at sight for £45, drawn on someone in Coleman Street. The
		transaction was commenced with fraud, because the bill turned out to be worthless paper.
		When possession was obtained he, his wife, the prisoner Herbert, a young man who had
		been brought up to the sea, and a man named Frazer, who had been brought up as a
		gentleman, lived in the house. The agreement having been broken legal proceedings were
		taken to recover possession. This was obtained in August last, and it was then discovered
		that a room in which the prosecutrix had locked up a quantity of valuable property had been
		broken open and the whole of the property removed. The drawers and boxes, which had
		been sealed as well as locked, had been forced, and the contents removed. The two
		prisoners both absconded to Boulogne, and when Herbert, happening to return, was
		arrested, he said he had pledged the property for Whalley, who told him that it would be all
		right Whalley, he said, had also informed him that he hoped to redeem the property. Frazer
		was also concerned in the robbery. When the cellars of the house came to be examined it
		was found that the whole of the wine had been stolen. Whalley, when arrested, asked the
		officer what imprisonment he thought he should get if the case went against him.
		'Evidence was then given to prove the contents of the house, and it was also stated that
		at the request of Whalley, Messrs. Bear and Co. acted as his agents in the matter.
		'Henry Briant, clerk to Messrs. Bear and Co., said that when possession was recovered the
		room, which had been left locked up, was found open, and in great disorder - Cross-
		examined: Whalley, he believed, was elected M.P. for Peterborough in 1880.
		'Mrs. Gamble deposed to letting the house to the prisoner Whalley, and she described the
		property she left in the room which was locked up. In August last, from what she heard, she
		went to the house and found that the room had been forced open, the seals on the drawers
		broken, and a quantity of valuable property, including the wine from the cellars missing. She
		had since seen some of her property in the hands of the pawnbrokers.
		'A locksmith stated that in July he repaired the lock of the door of the room in question at
		the request of Herbert. He saw Whalley there. Anyone could see that the lock had been
		forced open.
		'Emily Cole, domestic servant to the Whalleys, said that when she entered the service the
		room door was open. She had seen the prisoner and Mrs. Whalley in the room, and heard
		them moving things about. Whalley broke open the seals of the wine bin, and took some of
		the wine out. On the 28th August the prisoner Herbert left, and between one and two
		o'clock in the morning Whalley and his wife, Captain Nicholson, and a lady left. She did not
		know they were going until about eleven o'clock. Whalley said he should be back on the
		Monday, but he never returned. They did not pay her any wages, but Captain Nicholson
		had given her 10s - Cross-examined: When Whalley was taking the wine his wife told him
		not to take it.
		'Mr. Grain, in defence of Whalley, denied that there was any proof in the first instance
		contemplating acting fraudulently. His client bore an honourable name, and had
		occupied the position of member of Parliament for the borough of Peterborough, and at the
		time he took possession of the house there could be no doubt that he intended to have
		carried out the engagement he had entered into. Mr. Whalley regretted very much indeed
		that the prosecutrix had been put to so much inconvenience. As to the bill for £45, there
		was no evidence to show that he did not believe that it was a valuable instrument. There
		was no doubt the property had been pawned, but from first to last it did not appear that
		he had pawned it. The whole of the case upon this point rested upon the statement of
		Herbert, which ought to have no weight against his client.
		'The jury found the prisoners guilty, and Herbert was recommended to mercy by the
		prosecutrix.
		'Mr. Grain said that Whalley was the son of a late M.P., also for Peterborough, but owing
		to an accident he was unable to pass his examinations in the navy. He then joined the
		Militia and served in the Zulu War with Lonsdale's Horse. Coming into a sum of money by his
		father's death, he had given way to intemperance, and fell into the hands of the man
		Frazer, who had been convicted of fraud.
		'The Recorder said it was with great pain that he was now called upon to pass sentence
		upon the son of a gentleman whom he had known so well in the House of Commons. He
		sentenced Whalley to nine months' hard labour, and Herbert to three months.'
		According to one source, Whalley later changed his surname to White and emigrated to
		Australia, where all trace of him was lost.
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