THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "S"
		Last updated 14/01/2012
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that
		date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections,
		or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a
		previous election result.
		SUDBURY (SUFFOLK)
3 Apr 1660		John Gurdon	3 Jul 1595	9 Sep 1679	84
		Joseph Brand	c 1605	9 Oct 1674
		Robert Cordell,later [1660] 1st baronet	c 1616	3 Jan 1680
		Double return. Gurdon and Brand seated
		3 May 1660
22 Apr 1661		Thomas Waldegrave  (to 1677)	c 1608	17 Apr 1677
		Isaac Appleton	8 Jan 1606	Dec 1661	55
		Sir Robert Cordell,1st baronet	c 1616	3 Jan 1680
		Thomas Barnardiston,later [1663] 1st baronet	c 1618	4 Oct 1669
		Double return. Waldegrave and Appleton
		seated 17 May 1661
24 Mar 1662		Sir Robert Cordell,1st baronet  (to Sep 1679)	c 1616	3 Jan 1680
28 May 1677		Sir Gervase Elwes,1st baronet	21 Aug 1628	11 Apr 1706	77
24 Feb 1679		Gervase Elwes  (to 1685)	c 1657	c 1687
6 Sep 1679		Sir Gervase Elwes,1st baronet  [at the general	21 Aug 1628	11 Apr 1706	77
		election in 1681,he was also returned for
		Preston,but the Parliament was dissolved
		before he chose which seat to represent]
15 Apr 1685		Sir John Cordell,2nd baronet	10 Nov 1646	9 Sep 1690	43
		Sir George Wenyeve	c 1627	26 May 1706
Jan 1689		Sir John Poley	11 Jan 1637	13 Sep 1705	68
		Philip Gurdon  (to Oct 1690)	c 1630	23 Jun 1690
27 Feb 1690		John Robinson  (to 1698)	c 1655	19 Dec 1704
14 Oct 1690		Sir Thomas Barnardiston,2nd baronet  (to 1699)	c 1646	7 Oct 1698
25 Jul 1698		Samuel Kekewich  (to 1700)	31 Mar 1657	25 Jan 1700	42
6 Feb 1699		John Gurdon  (to Jan 1701)	c 1672	2 Dec 1758
16 Feb 1700		Sir Gervase Elwes,1st baronet  (to 1706)	21 Aug 1628	11 Apr 1706	77
8 Jan 1701		Sir John Cordell,3rd baronet	11 Nov 1677	8 May 1704	26
1 Dec 1701		Joseph Haskin Stiles  [after being re-elected		Dec 1714
		at the general election in Jul 1702,his
		election was declared void 19 Jan 1703. At
		the subsequent by-election held on 8 Feb
		1703,he was again returned,but he was
		unseated on petition in favour of George
		Dashwood 6 Dec 1703]
6 Dec 1703		George Dashwood	25 Nov 1669	Sep 1706	36
10 May 1705		Philip Skippon  (to 1710)	12 Jul 1675	10 Sep 1716	41
16 Dec 1706		Sir Hervey Elwes,2nd baronet	Jul 1683	22 Oct 1763	80
11 Oct 1710		John Mead	c 1662	5 Dec 1727
		Robert Echlin  (to 1715)	c 1657	by 1724
4 Sep 1713		Sir Hervey Elwes,2nd baronet  (to 1722)	Jul 1683	22 Oct 1763	80
2 Feb 1715		Thomas Western	c 1693	7 Apr 1733
21 Mar 1722		John Knight  (to Jan 1734)	c 1686	2 Oct 1733
		William Windham	c 1674	22 Apr 1730
16 Aug 1727		Carteret Leathes  (to Apr 1734)	Jul 1698	1780	81
31 Jan 1734		Richard Jackson	1688	11 Jan 1768	79
27 Apr 1734		Richard Price		after 1741
		Edward Stephenson	8 Oct 1691	7 Sep 1768	76
4 May 1741		Carteret Leathes	Jul 1698	1780	81
		Thomas Fonnereau  (to 1768)	27 Oct 1699	20 Mar 1779	79
1 Jul 1747		Richard Rigby	Feb 1722	8 Apr 1788	66
16 Apr 1754		Thomas Walpole	25 Oct 1727	21 Mar 1803	75
25 Mar 1761		John Henniker,later [1781] 2nd baronet and
		[1800] 1st Baron Henniker [I]	15 Jun 1724	18 Apr 1803	78
17 Mar 1768		Sir Patrick Blake,1st baronet	c 1742	1 Jul 1784
		Walden Hanmer,later [1774] 1st baronet	19 Mar 1717	20 Oct 1783	66
12 Oct 1774		Thomas Fonnereau	27 Oct 1699	20 Mar 1779	79
		Philip Champion Crespigny	after 1731	1 Jan 1803
		[Both members were unseated on petition
		in favour of Sir Patrick Blake and Sir Walden
		Hanmer 22 Mar 1775]
22 Mar 1775		Sir Patrick Blake,1st baronet  (to 1784)	c 1742	1 Jul 1784
		Sir Walden Hanmer,1st baronet	19 Mar 1717	20 Oct 1783	66
15 Sep 1780		Philip Champion Crespigny  [he was unseated	after 1731	1 Jan 1803
		on petition in favour of Sir James Marriott
		26 Apr 1781]
26 Apr 1781		Sir James Marriott	c 1730	21 Mar 1803
2 Apr 1784		John Langston		11 Feb 1812
		William Smith	22 Sep 1756	31 May 1835	78
19 Jun 1790		Thomas Champion Crespigny	c 1762	2 Aug 1799
		John Coxe Hippisley,later [1796] 1st baronet	c 1747	3 May 1825
25 May 1796		William Smith	22 Sep 1756	31 May 1835	78
		Sir James Marriott	c 1730	21 Mar 1803
5 Jul 1802		Sir John Coxe Hippisley,1st baronet  (to 1818)	c 1747	3 May 1825
		John Pytches	1774	15 May 1829	54
5 May 1807		Emanuel Felix Agar  [kt 1812]	c 1781	28 Aug 1866
6 Oct 1812		Charles Wyatt	c 1759	13 Mar 1819
19 Jun 1818		William Heygate,later [1831] 1st baronet	24 Jun 1782	28 Aug 1844	62
		(to 1826)
		John Broadhurst	c 1778	15 Sep 1861
7 Mar 1820		Charles Augustus Tulk	2 Jun 1786	16 Jan 1849	62
13 Jun 1826		John Wilks	c 1793	17 Jan 1846
		Bethell Walrond  (to 1831)	1801	Jun 1876	74
9 Apr 1828		John Norman Macleod	3 Aug 1788	25 Mar 1835	46
30 Jul 1830		Sir John Benn Walsh,2nd baronet,later [1868]
		1st Baron Ormathwaite  (to 1835)	9 Dec 1798	3 Feb 1881	82
30 Apr 1831		Digby Cayley Wrangham	16 Jun 1805	1863	58
11 Dec 1832		Michael Angelo Taylor	13 Jul 1757	16 Jul 1834	77
25 Jul 1834		Sir Edward Barnes	1776	19 Mar 1838	61
6 Jan 1835		John Bagshaw	1784	20 Dec 1861	77
		Benjamin Smith		12 Apr 1860
25 Jul 1837		Sir Edward Barnes  (to 1838)	1776	19 Mar 1838	61
		Sir James John Hamilton	1 Mar 1802	12 Jan 1876	73
12 Dec 1837		Joseph Bailey  (to 1841)	1812	Aug 1850	38
27 Mar 1838		Sir John Benn Walsh,2nd baronet,later [1868]
		1st Baron Ormathwaite	9 Dec 1798	3 Feb 1881	82
5 Jul 1840		George Tomline	6 Mar 1813	29 Aug 1889	76
29 Jun 1841		Frederick Villiers	24 Mar 1801	27 May 1872	71
		David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre	18 Dec 1808	1 Jul 1851	42
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of this page
		[Election declared void 14 Apr 1842. No
		writ was issued to replace him, and the
		seat was disenfranchised by an Act which
		received Royal assent 28 Jul 1844]
		CONSTITUENCY DISENFRANCHISED 1844,
		BUT REVIVED 1885
2 Dec 1885		William Cuthbert Quilter,later [1897] 1st baronet	29 Jan 1841	18 Nov 1911	70
18 Jan 1906		William Charles Heaton-Armstrong	1 Sep 1853	20 Jul 1917	63
19 Jan 1910		William Eley Cuthbert Quilter,later [1911] 2nd
		baronet	17 Jul 1873	18 Sep 1952	79
14 Dec 1918		Stephen Goodwin Howard	1867	13 Nov 1944	77
15 Nov 1922		Herbert Mercer	7 Jan 1862	8 Feb 1944	82
6 Dec 1923		John Frederick Loverseed	22 Dec 1881	14 Aug 1928	46
29 Oct 1924		Henry Walter Burton	Dec 1876	23 Nov 1947	70
26 Jul 1945		Roland Hamilton	23 Nov 1886	10 Feb 1953	66
		NAME ALTERED TO "SUDBURY &
		WOODBRIDGE" 1950
		SUDBURY & WOODBRIDGE
23 Feb 1950		John Hugh Hare,later [1963] 1st Viscount
		Blakenham	22 Jan 1911	7 Mar 1982	71
5 Dec 1963		Keith Monin Stainton	8 Nov 1921	3 Nov 2001	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1983
		SUFFOLK
9 Apr 1660		Sir Henry Felton,2nd baronet  (to 1679)	27 Jul 1619	20 Oct 1690	71
		Sir Henry North,1st baronet	c 1609	29 Aug 1671
24 Feb 1673		Sir Samuel Barnardiston,1st baronet  (to 1685)	23 Jun 1620	8 Nov 1707	87
		Lionel Tollemache,styled Lord Huntingtower,
		later [1698] 3rd Earl of Dysart	30 Jan 1649	23 Feb 1727	78
		Double return. Barnardiston declared
		elected 19 Feb 1674
17 Feb 1679		Sir Gervase Elwes,1st baronet	21 Aug 1628	11 Apr 1706	77
1 Sep 1679		Sir William Spring,2nd baronet	May 1642	30 Apr 1684	41
6 Apr 1685		Sir Robert Broke,1st baronet	23 Nov 1622	25 Feb 1694	71
		Sir Henry North,2nd baronet	c 1635	5 Jul 1695
14 Jan 1689		Sir John Cordell,2nd baronet	10 Nov 1646	9 Sep 1690	43
		Sir John Rous,2nd baronet	c 1656	8 Apr 1730
3 Mar 1690		Sir Gervase Elwes,1st baronet	21 Aug 1628	11 Apr 1706	77
		Sir Samuel Barnardiston,1st baronet  (to 1702)	23 Jun 1620	8 Nov 1707	87
10 Aug 1698		Lionel Tollemache,3rd Earl of Dysart	30 Jan 1649	23 Feb 1727	78
		(to 1707)
5 Aug 1702		Sir Dudley Cullum,3rd baronet	17 Sep 1657	16 Sep 1720	62
9 May 1705		Sir Robert Davers,2nd baronet  (to 1722)	c 1653	1 Oct 1722
3 Dec 1707		Leicester Martin	c 1662	11 Oct 1732
5 May 1708		Sir Thomas Hanmer,4th baronet  (to 1727)	24 Sep 1677	7 May 1746	68
31 Oct 1722		Sir William Barker,5th baronet  (to 1732)	c 1685	23 Jul 1731
30 Aug 1727		Sir Jermyn Davers,4th baronet  (to 1743)	c 1686	20 Feb 1743
9 Feb 1732		Sir Robert Kemp,3rd baronet	25 Jun 1667	18 Dec 1734	67
5 Mar 1735		Sir Cordell Firebrace,3rd baronet  (to 1759)	20 Feb 1712	28 Mar 1759	47
23 Mar 1743		John Affleck  (to 1761)	12 Feb 1710	17 Feb 1776	66
20 Apr 1759		Rowland Holt  (to 1768)	c 1723	12 Jul 1786
8 Apr 1761		Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury,6th baronet	May 1740	31 Mar 1821	80
		(to 1784)
30 Mar 1768		Sir John Rous,5th baronet	c 1728	31 Oct 1771
18 Dec 1771		Rowland Holt	c 1723	12 Jul 1786
27 Sep 1780		Sir John Rous,6th baronet,later [1821] 1st
		Earl of Stradbroke  (to 1796)	30 May 1750	27 Aug 1827	77
7 Apr 1784		Joshua Grigby	c 1731	26 Dec 1798
29 Jun 1790		Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury,6th baronet	May 1740	31 Mar 1821	80
		(to 1812)
3 Jun 1796		Charles Cornwallis,styled Viscount Brome, later
		[1805] 2nd Marquess Cornwallis	19 Oct 1774	9 Aug 1823	48
20 Feb 1806		Thomas Sherlock Gooch,later [1826] 5th baronet	2 Nov 1767	18 Dec 1851	84
		(to 1830)
13 Oct 1812		Sir William Rowley,2nd baronet	10 Feb 1761	20 Oct 1832	71
11 Aug 1830		Sir Henry Edward Bunbury,7th baronet	4 May 1778	13 Apr 1860	81
		Charles Tyrell	1776	2 Jan 1872	95
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST &
		WEST DIVISIONS 1832
		SUFFOLK CENTRAL
9 Jun 1983		Michael Nicholson Lord  [kt 2001],later [2010]
		Baron Framlingham [L]	17 Oct 1938
		NAME ALTERED TO "SUFFOLK CENTRAL
		AND IPSWICH NORTH" 1997
		SUFFOLK CENTRAL AND IPSWICH NORTH
1 May 1997		Michael Nicholson Lord  [kt 2001],later [2010]
		Baron Framlingham [L]	17 Oct 1938
6 May 2010		Daniel Leonard James Poulter	30 Oct 1978
		SUFFOLK COASTAL
9 Jun 1983		John Selwyn Gummer,later [2010] Baron Deben [L]	26 Nov 1939
6 May 2010		Therese Anne Coffey	18 Nov 1971
		SUFFOLK EAST
20 Dec 1832		John Henniker,4th Baron Henniker [I]  (to 1846)	3 Feb 1801	16 Apr 1870	69
		Robert Newton Shawe		21 Oct 1855
16 Jan 1835		Sir Charles Broke Vere	21 Feb 1779	1 Apr 1843	64
18 Apr 1843		William Thellusson,4th Baron Rendlesham [I]
		(to 1852)	6 Jan 1798	6 Apr 1852	54
19 Feb 1846		Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch,6th baronet	6 Jun 1802	9 Nov 1856	54
		(to 1856)
1 May 1852		Sir Fitzroy Kelly  (to 1866)	1 Oct 1796	18 Sep 1880	83
26 Dec 1856		John Henniker,4th Baron Henniker [I]	3 Feb 1801	16 Apr 1870	69
25 Jul 1866		John Major Henniker,later [1870] 5th Baron
		Henniker [I]  (to 1870)	7 Nov 1842	27 Jun 1902	59
		Sir Edward Clarence Kerrison,2nd baronet	2 Jan 1821	12 Jul 1886	65
20 Feb 1867		Frederick Snowdon Corrance  (to 1874)	1822	31 Oct 1906	84
1 Jun 1870		Arthur Philip Stanhope,styled Viscount Mahon,
		later [1875] 6th Earl Stanhope  (to 1876)	13 Sep 1838	19 Apr 1905	66
12 Feb 1874		Frederick William Brook Thellusson,
		5th Baron Rendlesham [I]  (to 1885)	9 Feb 1840	9 Nov 1911	71
24 Feb 1876		Frederick St.John Newdigate Barne	5 Sep 1842	25 Jan 1898	55
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "EYE","LOWESTOFT","STOWMARKET",
		"SUDBURY" AND "WOODBRIDGE"
		SUFFOLK SOUTH
9 Jun 1983		Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo	20 Mar 1945
		SUFFOLK WEST
24 Dec 1832		Charles Tyrell	c 1776	2 Jan 1872
		Sir Hyde Parker,8th baronet	1785	21 Mar 1856	70
22 Jan 1835		Henry Wilson	27 Aug 1797	8 Jun 1866	68
		Robert Rushbrooke  (to 1845)	1779	c Jun 1845	65
7 Aug 1837		Robert Hart Logan	c 1771	13 Apr 1838
7 May 1838		Harry Spencer Waddington  (to 1859)	c 1780	26 Feb 1864
7 Jul 1845		Philip Bennet	1795	17 Aug 1866	71
2 May 1859		Frederick William John Hervey,styled Earl
		Jermyn,later [1864] 3rd Marquess of Bristol	28 Jun 1834	7 Aug 1907	73
		William Parker  (to 1880)	1802	Feb 1892	89
8 Dec 1864		Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey	2 Aug 1837	28 May 1875	37
17 Jun 1875		Fuller Maitland Wilson	1825	4 Sep 1875	50
4 Oct 1875		Thomas Thornhill,later [1885] 1st baronet	26 Mar 1837	2 Apr 1900	63
		(to 1885)
1 Apr 1880		William Biddell	8 Aug 1825	25 Oct 1900	75
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "EYE","LOWESTOFT","STOWMARKET",
		"SUDBURY" AND "WOODBRIDGE"
		CONSTITUENCY RE-UNITED 1997
1 May 1997		Richard John Grenville Spring,later [2010]
		Baron Risby [L]	24 Sep 1946
6 May 2010		Matthew Hancock	2 Oct 1978
		SUNDERLAND (DURHAM)
14 Dec 1832		Sir William Chaytor,1st baronet  (to 1835)	29 Apr 1771	28 Jan 1847	75
		George Barrington	20 Nov 1794	2 Jan 1835	40
4 Apr 1833		William Thompson  (to Sep 1841)	c Jan 1792	10 Mar 1854	62
8 Jan 1835		David Barclay	1784	1 Jul 1861	77
27 Jul 1837		Andrew White	22 Jan 1792	3 Oct 1856	64
30 Jun 1841		David Barclay  (to 1847)	1784	1 Jul 1861	77
17 Sep 1841		Henry George Grey,styled Viscount Howick,
		later [1845] 3rd Earl Grey	28 Dec 1802	9 Oct 1894	91
15 Aug 1845		George Hudson  (to 1859)	6 Mar 1800	14 Dec 1871	71
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
22 Dec 1847		Sir Hedworth Williamson,7th baronet	1 Nov 1797	24 Apr 1861	63
8 Jul 1852		William Digby Seymour	1822	16 Mar 1895	72
2 Dec 1855		Henry Fenwick  (to 1866)	1820	16 Apr 1868	47
30 Apr 1859		William Shaw Lindsay	1816	28 Aug 1877	61
12 Jul 1865		James Hartley  (to 1868)	1811	24 May 1886	74
28 Feb 1866		John Candlish  (to 1874)	c Apr 1816	17 Mar 1874	57
18 Nov 1868		Edward Temperley Gourley  [kt 1895]  (to 1900)	8 Jun 1826	15 Apr 1902	75
7 Jul 1874		Sir Henry Marsham Havelock (Havelock-Allan
		from 1880),1st baronet	6 Aug 1830	30 Dec 1897	67
		For further information of this MP and VC
		winner, see the note at the foot of the page
		containing his baronetcy entry
11 Apr 1881		Samuel Storey	13 Jan 1840	18 Jan 1925	85
16 Jul 1895		William Theodore Doxford  [kt 1900]  (to 1906)	1 Feb 1841	1 Oct 1916	75
4 Oct 1900		John Stapylton Grey Pemberton	23 Dec 1860	22 Feb 1940	79
27 Jan 1906		James Stuart	Jan 1843	12 Oct 1913	70
		Thomas Summerbell	1861	10 Feb 1910	48
17 Jan 1910		Samuel Storey	13 Jan 1840	18 Jan 1925	85
		James Knott,later [1917] 1st baronet	31 Jan 1855	8 Jun 1934	79
Dec 1910		Hamar Greenwood,later [1915] 1st baronet and
		[1937] 1st Viscount Greenwood  (to 1922)	7 Feb 1870	10 Sep 1948	78
		Frank Walter Goldstone  [kt 1931]	7 Dec 1870	25 Dec 1955	85
14 Dec 1918		Ralph Milbanke Hudson	1849	5 Mar 1938	88
15 Nov 1922		Luke Thompson  [kt 1934]	13 Jul 1867	15 Jan 1941	73
		Walter Raine  [kt 1927]	May 1874	19 Dec 1938	64
30 May 1929		Marion Phillips  (to Oct 1931)	29 Oct 1881	23 Jan 1932	50
		Alfred Smith	1860	12 Feb 1931	70
26 Mar 1931		Luke Thompson  [kt 1934]  (to 1935)	13 Jul 1867	15 Jan 1941	73
27 Oct 1931		Samuel Storey,later [1960] 1st baronet and
		[1966] Baron Buckton [L]  (to 1945)	18 Jan 1896	17 Jan 1978	81
14 Nov 1935		Stephen Noel Furness	18 Dec 1902	14 Apr 1974	71
26 Jul 1945		Richard Ewart	15 Sep 1904	8 Mar 1953	48
		Frederick Thomas Willey	13 Nov 1910	13 Dec 1987	77
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH &
		SOUTH DIVISIONS 1950
		SUNDERLAND CENTRAL
6 May 2010		Julie Elliott	1963
		SUNDERLAND NORTH
23 Feb 1950		Frederick Thomas Willey	13 Nov 1910	13 Dec 1987	77
9 Jun 1983		Robert Alan Clay	2 Oct 1946
9 Apr 1992		William Etherington	17 Jul 1941
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010
		SUNDERLAND SOUTH
23 Feb 1950		Richard Ewart	15 Sep 1904	8 Mar 1953	48
13 May 1953		Paul Glyn Williams	14 Nov 1922	10 Sep 2008	85
15 Oct 1964		Gordon Alexander Thomas Bagier	7 Jul 1924
11 Jun 1987		Christopher John Mullin	12 Dec 1947
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 2010
		SURBITON
26 May 1955		Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher  [kt 1974]	14 Jul 1913	9 Oct 1996	83
9 Jun 1983		Richard Patrick Tracey	8 Feb 1943
		NAME CHANGED TO "KINGSTON AND
		SURBITON" 1997
		SURREY
5 Apr 1660		Francis Aungier,3rd Baron Aungier [I],later
		[1677] 1st Earl of Longford [I]	c 1632	23 Dec 1700
		Daniel Harvey	10 Nov 1631	Aug 1672	40
3 Apr 1661		Sir Adam Browne,2nd baronet	c 1626	3 Nov 1690
		Sir Edmund Bowyer	28 Oct 1613	27 Jan 1681	67
28 Feb 1679		Sir Arthur Onslow,1st baronet	23 Apr 1622	21 Jul 1688	66
		George Evelyn	18 Jun 1617	4 Oct 1699	82
8 Apr 1685		Sir Adam Browne,2nd baronet	c 1626	3 Nov 1690
		Sir Edward Evelyn,1st baronet	25 Jan 1626	3 May 1692	66
14 Jan 1689		Sir Richard Onslow,2nd baronet,later
		[1716] 1st Baron Onslow  (to 1710)	23 Jun 1654	5 Dec 1717	63
		George Evelyn	18 Jun 1617	4 Oct 1699	82
11 Mar 1690		Sir Francis Vincent,5th baronet	12 Apr 1646	10 Feb 1736	89
6 Nov 1695		Denzil Onslow	c 1642	27 Jun 1721
3 Aug 1698		John Weston	16 Jun 1651	after 1714
29 Jul 1702		Leonard Wessell	after 1660	1708
30 May 1705		Sir William Scawen	c 1644	18 Oct 1722
11 Oct 1710		Heneage Finch,styled Baron Guernsey,
		later [1719] 2nd Earl of Aylesford  (to 1719)	27 Aug 1683	29 Jun 1757	73
		Sir Francis Vincent,5th baronet	12 Apr 1646	10 Feb 1736	89
9 Sep 1713		Sir Richard Onslow,later [1716] 1st Baron
		Onslow	23 Jun 1654	5 Dec 1717	63
30 Nov 1715		Thomas Onslow,later [1717] 2nd Baron Onslow	27 Nov 1679	5 Jun 1740	60
25 Dec 1717		Denzil Onslow  (to Jul 1721)	c 1642	27 Jun 1721
15 Dec 1719		John Walter  (to Aug 1727)		12 May 1736
24 Jul 1721		Sir William Scawen	c 1647	18 Oct 1722
2 Apr 1722		Sir Nicholas Carew,1st baronet	26 Dec 1686	18 Mar 1727	40
12 Apr 1727		Thomas Scawen  (to 1741)		11 Feb 1774
30 Aug 1727		Arthur Onslow  (to 1761)	3 Sep 1691	17 Feb 1768	76
20 May 1741		Charles Calvert,5th Baron Baltimore [I]	29 Sep 1699	24 Apr 1751	51
8 May 1751		Thomas Budgen		3 Mar 1772
8 Apr 1761		George Onslow,later [1776] 4th Baron Onslow
		and [1801] 1st Earl of Onslow	13 Sep 1731	17 May 1814	82
		Sir Francis Vincent,7th baronet  (to 1775)	c 1717	22 May 1775
20 Oct 1774		James Scawen  (to 1780)	1734	7 Jan 1801	66
14 Jun 1775		Sir Joseph Mawbey,1st baronet  (to 1790)	2 Dec 1730	16 Jun 1798	67
27 Sep 1780		Augustus Keppel,later [1782] 1st Viscount Keppel	25 Apr 1725	2 Oct 1786	61
10 Apr 1782		George John Spencer,styled Viscount Althorp,
		later [1783] 2nd Earl Spencer	1 Sep 1758	10 Nov 1834	76
19 Nov 1783		Sir Robert Clayton,3rd baronet	c 1740	10 May 1799
7 Apr 1784		William Norton,later [1789] 2nd Baron Grantley	19 Feb 1742	12 Nov 1822	80
19 Jan 1789		Lord William Russell  (to 1807)	20 Aug 1767	6 May 1840	72
		For further information on the death of this MP,
		see the note at the foot of the page
		containing details of the members for Tavistock
28 Jun 1790		William Clement Finch	27 May 1753	30 Sep 1794	41
7 Nov 1794		Sir John Frederick,5th baronet	18 Mar 1750	16 Jan 1825	74
13 May 1807		Samuel Thornton	6 Nov 1754	3 Jul 1838	83
		George Holme-Sumner  (to 1826)	10 Nov 1760	26 Jun 1838	77
12 Oct 1812		Sir Thomas Sutton	c 1755	6 Nov 1813
22 Nov 1813		Samuel Thornton	6 Nov 1754	3 Jul 1838	83
23 Jun 1818		William Joseph Denison  (to 1832)	May 1770	2 Aug 1849	79
13 Jun 1826		Charles Nicholas Pallmer	11 Jun 1772	30 Sep 1848	76
5 Aug 1830		John Ivatt Briscoe	12 Oct 1791	16 Aug 1870	78
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST &
		WEST DIVISIONS 1832
		SURREY EAST
15 Dec 1832		John Ivatt Briscoe	12 Oct 1791	16 Aug 1870	78
		Aubrey William Beauclerk  (to 1837)	20 Feb 1801	1 Feb 1854	52
14 Jan 1835		Richard Alsager  (to 1841)		Jan 1841
3 Aug 1837		Henry Kemble  (to 1847)	1787	18 May 1857	69
8 Feb 1841		Edmund Antrobus,later [1870] 3rd baronet	3 Sep 1818	1 Apr 1899	80
11 Aug 1847		Peter John Locke King  (to 1874)	25 Jan 1811	12 Nov 1885	74
		Thomas Alcock	1801	22 Aug 1866	65
20 Jul 1865		Charles Buxton	18 Nov 1823	10 Aug 1871	47
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
26 Aug 1871		James Watney  (to 1885)	19 May 1832	2 Nov 1886	54
9 Feb 1874		William Grantham  [kt 1886]	23 Oct 1835	30 Nov 1911	76
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHERTSEY","EPSOM","GUILDFORD",
		"KINGSTON","REIGATE" AND "WIMBLEDON"
		CONSTITUENCY RE-UNITED 1918
14 Dec 1918		Sir Stuart Auchincloss Coats,2nd baronet	20 Mar 1868	15 Jul 1959	91
15 Nov 1922		James Francis Wallace Galbraith	1872	29 Jan 1945	72
14 Nov 1935		Charles Ernest George Campbell Emmott	12 Nov 1898	14 Apr 1953	54
26 Jul 1945		Michael Langhorne Astor	10 Apr 1916	28 Feb 1980	63
25 Oct 1951		Charles John Addison Doughty	21 Sep 1902	10 Jul 1973	70
18 Jun 1970		William Gibson Haig Clark [kt 1980],later [1992]
		Baron Clark of Kempston [L]	18 Oct 1917	6 Oct 2004	86
28 Feb 1974		Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe,later [1992]
		Baron Howe of Aberavon [L]	20 Dec 1926
9 Apr 1992		Peter Michael Ainsworth	16 Nov 1956
6 May 2010		Samuel Phillip Gyimah	10 Aug 1976
		SURREY HEATH
1 May 1997		Nicholas John Hawkins	27 Mar 1957
5 May 2005		Michael Andrew Gove	26 Aug 1967
		SURREY MID
26 Nov 1868		Henry William Peek,later [1874] 1st baronet	26 Feb 1825	26 Aug 1898	73
		(to 1884)
		William Brodrick,later [1870] 8th Viscount
		Midleton [I]	6 Jan 1830	18 Apr 1907	77
17 Oct 1870		Sir Richard Baggallay	13 May 1816	13 Nov 1888	72
24 Nov 1875		Sir James John Trevor Lawrence,2nd
		baronet  (to 1885)	30 Dec 1831	22 Dec 1913	81
20 Jun 1884		Sir John Whittaker Ellis,1st baronet	25 Jan 1829	20 Sep 1912	83
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHERTSEY","EPSOM","GUILDFORD",
		"KINGSTON","REIGATE" AND "WIMBLEDON"
		SURREY NORTH WEST
28 Feb 1974		William Michael John Grylls  [kt 1992]	21 Feb 1934	7 Feb 2001	66
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		SURREY SOUTH WEST
9 Jun 1983		Maurice Victor Macmillan,from Feb 1984 styled
		Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden	27 Jan 1921	10 Mar 1984	63
3 May 1984		Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley,later
		[2005] Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone [L]	12 Mar 1948
5 May 2005		Jeremy Hunt	1 Nov 1966
		SURREY WEST
14 Dec 1832		William Joseph Denison  (to 1849)	May 1770	2 Aug 1849	79
		John Leach
12 Jan 1835		Charles Barclay	26 Dec 1780	5 Dec 1855	74
4 Aug 1837		George James Perceval,later [1840] 3rd Baron
		Arden and [1841] 6th Earl of Egmont	14 Mar 1794	2 Aug 1874	80
31 Jul 1840		John Trotter
6 Aug 1847		Henry Drummond  (to 1860)	5 Dec 1786	20 Feb 1860	73
22 Sep 1849		William John Evelyn	27 Jul 1822	26 Jul 1908	85
6 Apr 1857		John Ivatt Briscoe  (to 1870)	1791	16 Aug 1870	79
10 Mar 1860		George Cubitt,later [1892] 1st Baron Ashcombe
		(to 1885)	4 Jun 1828	26 Feb 1917	88
8 Sep 1870		Lee Steere	1803	9 Oct 1890	87
3 Apr 1880		William St.John Fremantle Brodrick,later [1909]
		9th Viscount Midleton and [1920] 1st Earl
		of Midleton	14 Dec 1856	13 Feb 1942	85
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHERTSEY","EPSOM","GUILDFORD",
		"KINGSTON","REIGATE" AND "WIMBLEDON"
		SUSSEX
19 Apr 1660		Sir John Pelham,3rd baronet  (to 1681)	c 1623	20 Jan 1703
		Henry Goring,later [1680] 2nd baronet	1 May 1622	3 Apr 1702	79
Apr 1661		John Ashburnham	c 1603	15 Jun 1671
19 Dec 1667		Sir William Morley	21 Mar 1639	30 May 1701	62
6 Feb 1679		John Lewknor	24 Apr 1658	19 Feb 1707	48
21 Aug 1679		Sir Nicholas Pelham	c 1650	8 Nov 1739
3 Mar 1681		Sir William Thomas,1st baronet	29 Jul 1641	18 Nov 1706
		Sir John Fagg,1st baronet  [he was also	4 Oct 1627	18 Jan 1701	73
		returned for Steyning,but the Parliament was
		dissolved before he chose which seat to
		represent]
26 Mar 1685		Sir Henry Goring,2nd baronet	1 May 1622	3 Apr 1702	79
		Sir Thomas Dyke,1st baronet	c 1650	31 Oct 1706
17 Jan 1689		Sir John Pelham,3rd baronet	c 1623	20 Jan 1703
		Sir William Thomas,1st baronet  (to Jan 1701)	29 Jul 1641	18 Nov 1706	65
28 Aug 1698		Robert Orme	c 1669	Apr 1711
9 Jan 1701		Henry Lumley	c 1658	18 Oct 1722
		John Miller,later [1705] 2nd baronet	21 Nov 1665	29 Nov 1721	56
11 Dec 1701		Sir William Thomas,1st baronet	29 Jul 1641	18 Nov 1706
		Sir Henry Peachey,later [1736] 1st baronet	c 1671	23 Aug 1737
23 Jul 1702		Thomas Pelham,later [1703] 4th baronet and
		[1706] 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton	c 1653	23 Feb 1712
		Henry Lumley	c 1658	18 Oct 1722
24 May 1705		John Morley Trevor	31 Aug 1681	7 Apr 1719	37
		Sir George Parker,2nd baronet	c 1673	14 May 1727
20 May 1708		Sir Henry Peachey,later [1736] 1st baronet	c 1671	23 Aug 1737
		Peter Gott	22 May 1653	16 Apr 1712	58
5 Oct 1710		Charles Eversfield	c 1682	17 Jun 1749
		Sir George Parker,2nd baronet	c 1673	14 May 1727
3 Sep 1713		Henry Campion	c 1680	17 Apr 1761
		John Fuller	28 Jul 1680	4 Aug 1745	65
17 Feb 1715		James Butler	c 1680	17 May 1741
		Spencer Compton,later [1730] 1st Earl of
		Wilmington  (to 1728)	c 1674	2 Jul 1743
5 Apr 1722		Henry Pelham  (to 1754)	c Jan 1695	6 Mar 1754	59
22 Feb 1728		James Butler	c 1680	17 May 1741
14 Jan 1742		Charles Sackville,styled Earl of Middlesex,
		later [1765] 2nd Duke of Dorset	6 Feb 1711	6 Jan 1769	57
6 Jul 1747		John Butler  (to 1767)	19 Mar 1707	29 Dec 1766	59
2 May 1754		Thomas Pelham,later [1768] 2nd Baron Pelham
		of Stanmer and [1801] 1st Earl of Chichester	28 Feb 1728	8 Jan 1805	76
		(to 1768)
3 Feb 1767		Lord George Henry Lennox  (to 1790)	29 Nov 1737	22 Mar 1805	67
9 Dec 1768		Richard Harcourt	c 1714	2 May 1777
20 Oct 1774		Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson,6th baronet	25 Jan 1727	29 Aug 1798	71
14 Sep 1780		Thomas Pelham,later [1805] 2nd Earl of
		Chichester  (to 1801)	28 Apr 1756	4 Jul 1826	70
25 Jun 1790		Charles Lennox, later [1806] 4th Duke of
		Richmond  (to 1807)	9 Sep 1764	28 Aug 1819	54
16 Jul 1801		John Fuller  (to 1812)	c 1756	11 Apr 1834
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
29 Jan 1807		Charles William Wyndham	8 Oct 1760	1 Jul 1828	67
14 Oct 1812		Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster,5th baronet	6 Oct 1789	17 Jul 1836	46
		Walter Burrell  (to 1831)	15 Apr 1777	7 Apr 1831	53
13 Mar 1820		Edward Jeremiah Curteis	6 Jul 1762	18 Mar 1835	72
11 Aug 1830		Herbert Barrett Curteis  (to 1832)	19 Jun 1793	13 Dec 1847	54
6 May 1831		Lord John George Lennox	3 Oct 1793	10 Nov 1873	80
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO EAST &
		WEST DIVISIONS 1832
		SUSSEX EAST
18 Dec 1832		Charles Compton Cavendish,later [1858] 1st
		Baron Chesham  (to 1841)	28 Aug 1793	10 Nov 1863	70
		Herbert Barrett Curteis	19 Jun 1793	13 Dec 1847	54
1 Aug 1837		George Darby  (to 1846)		16 Nov 1872
12 Jul 1841		Augustus Eliott Fuller  (to Apr 1857)	7 May 1777	5 Aug 1857	80
3 Feb 1846		Charles Hay Frewen (formerly Turner)	25 May 1813	1 Sep 1878	65
7 Mar 1857		Henry North Holroyd,styled Viscount Pevensey,
		later [1876] 3rd Earl of Sheffield  (to 1865)	18 Jan 1832	21 Apr 1909	77
4 Apr 1857		John George Dodson,later [1884] 1st Baron
		Monk Bretton  (to 1874)	18 Oct 1825	25 May 1897	71
19 Jul 1865		Lord Edward Cavendish	28 Jan 1838	18 May 1891	53
26 Nov 1868		George Burrow Gregory  (to 1885)	29 Jan 1813	5 Mar 1893	80
11 Feb 1874		Montagu David Scott	15 Mar 1818	15 Jan 1900	81
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHICHESTER","EASTBOURNE","EAST
		GRINSTEAD","HORSHAM","LEWES"
		AND "RYE"
		SUSSEX MID
28 Feb 1974		Ronald Timothy Renton,later [1997] Baron
		Renton of Mount Harry [L]	28 May 1932
1 May 1997		Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames	12 Feb 1948
		SUSSEX WEST
17 Dec 1832		Lord John George Lennox	3 Oct 1793	10 Nov 1873	80
		Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard,styled Earl of
		Surrey,later [1842] 13th Duke of Norfolk	12 Aug 1791	18 Feb 1856	64
5 Jul 1841		Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox,styled Earl of
		March,later [1860] 6th Duke of Richmond	27 Feb 1818	27 Sep 1903	85
		(to 1860)
		Charles Wyndham	1796	16 Feb 1866	69
2 Feb 1847		Richard Prime	1 Apr 1784	7 Nov 1866	82
13 Feb 1854		Henry Wyndham,later [1869] 2nd Baron
		Leconfield  (to 1869)	31 Jul 1830	6 Jan 1901	70
27 Dec 1860		Walter Barttelot Barttelot,later [1875] 1st
		baronet  (to 1885)	10 Oct 1820	2 Feb 1893	72
17 Apr 1869		Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox,styled Earl of
		March,later [1903] 7th Duke of Richmond	27 Dec 1845	18 Jan 1928	82
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "CHICHESTER","EASTBOURNE","EAST
		GRINSTEAD","HORSHAM","LEWES"
		AND "RYE"
		SUTHERLAND
9 Jun 1708		Sir William Gordon,1st baronet		9 Jun 1742
27 Oct 1713		William Morison [he was also returned for	19 Apr 1663	1739	76
		Peebleshire,for which he chose to sit]
7 May 1714		Sir William Gordon,1st baronet		9 Jun 1742
31 Aug 1727		William Sutherland,styled Lord Strathnaver,
		later [1733] 17th Earl of Sutherland [S]	2 Oct 1708	7 Dec 1750	42
15 Feb 1734		Sir James Fergusson,2nd baronet	c 1687	20 Jan 1759
6 May 1736		James St.Clair	1688	30 Nov 1762	74
30 Jul 1747		George Mackay	c 1715	25 Jun 1782
23 Apr 1761		Alexander Mackay	1717	31 May 1789	71
14 Apr 1768		James Wemyss	23 Feb 1726	10 May 1786	60
26 Apr 1784		William Wemyss	9 Apr 1760	4 Feb 1822	61
1 Aug 1787		James Grant	1720	13 Apr 1806	85
31 Jul 1802		William Dundas	1762	14 Nov 1845	83
2 May 1808		John Randoll Mackenzie	c 1763	28 Jul 1809
29 Sep 1809		George Macpherson-Grant,later [1838] 1st
		baronet	25 Feb 1781	Nov 1846	65
28 Oct 1812		James Macdonald,later [1826] 2nd baronet	14 Feb 1784	29 Jun 1832	48
6 Mar 1816		George Macpherson-Grant,later [1838] 1st
		baronet	25 Feb 1781	Nov 1846	65
26 Jun 1826		Lord Francis Leveson-Gower,later [1846]
		1st Earl of Ellesmere	1 Jan 1800	18 Feb 1857	57
27 May 1831		Sir Hugh Innes,1st baronet	c 1764	16 Aug 1831
14 Sep 1831		Roderick Macleod	24 Nov 1786	13 Mar 1853	66
31 Jul 1837		William Howard	25 Dec 1781	25 Jan 1843	61
8 Apr 1840		Sir David Dundas	1799	30 Mar 1877	77
16 Jul 1852		George Granville William Sutherland-
		Leveson-Gower,styled Marquess of Stafford,
		later [1861] 3rd Duke of Sutherland	19 Dec 1828	22 Sep 1892	63
27 Mar 1861		Sir David Dundas	1799	30 Mar 1877	77
27 May 1867		Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-
		Gower	2 Aug 1845	9 Mar 1916	70
2 Feb 1874		Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower,
		styled Marquess of Stafford,later [1892]
		4th Duke of Sutherland	20 Jul 1851	27 Jun 1913	61
10 Jul 1886		Angus Sutherland	1848	16 Jan 1922	73
26 Oct 1894		John MacLeod	1863
10 Oct 1900		Frederick Neville Sutherland
		Leveson-Gower	31 May 1874	9 Apr 1959	84
23 Jan 1906		Alpheus Cleophas Morton  [kt 1918]	1840	26 Apr 1923	82
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		SUTTON (PLYMOUTH)
14 Dec 1918		Waldorf Astor,later [1919] 2nd Viscount Astor	19 May 1879	30 Sep 1952	73
15 Nov 1919		Nancy Witcher Astor,Viscountess Astor	19 May 1879	2 May 1964	84
		For further information on this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
26 Jul 1945		Lucy Annie Middleton	9 May 1894	20 Nov 1983	89
25 Oct 1951		John Jacob Astor	29 Aug 1918	10 Sep 2000	82
8 Oct 1959		Ian Montagu Fraser	14 Oct 1916	8 Nov 1987	71
31 Mar 1966		David Anthony Llewellyn Owen,later [1992]
		Baron Owen [L]	2 Jul 1938
28 Feb 1974		Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark	13 Apr 1928	5 Sep 1999	71
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page.
9 Apr 1992		Gary Nicholas Streeter	2 Oct 1955
1 May 1997		Linda Gilroy	19 Jul 1949
		NAME ALTERED TO "SUTTON AND
		DEVONPORT" 2010
		SUTTON COLDFIELD
26 Jul 1945		Sir John Serocold Paget Mellor,2nd baronet	6 Jul 1893	15 Jul 1986	93
26 May 1955		Geoffrey William Lloyd,later [1974] Baron
		Geoffrey-Lloyd [L]	17 Jan 1902	12 Sep 1984	82
28 Feb 1974		Peter Norman Fowler [kt 1990],later [2001]
		Baron Fowler of Sutton Coldfield [L]	2 Feb 1938
7 Jun 2001		Andrew John Bower Mitchell	23 Mar 1956
		SUTTON & CHEAM
26 Jul 1945		Sidney Horatio Marshall  [kt 1952]	17 Jul 1882	28 Mar 1973	90
4 Nov 1954		Richard Christopher Sharples  [kt 1972]	6 Aug 1916	10 Mar 1973	56
7 Dec 1972		Graham Norman Tope,later [1994] Baron
		Tope [L]	30 Nov 1943
28 Feb 1974		David Neil Macfarlane  [kt 1988]	7 May 1936
9 Apr 1992		Lady Helen Olga Maitland	23 May 1944
1 May 1997		Paul Kenneth Burstow	13 May 1962
		SUTTON & DEVONPORT (PLYMOUTH)
6 May 2010		Oliver Colville
		SWANSEA
27 Nov 1885		Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn	19 May 1814	19 Jun 1892	78
Jul 1892		Robert John Dickson Burnie	1842	6 Mar 1908	65
17 Jul 1895		Sir John Talbot Dillwyn-Llewellyn,1st baronet	26 May 1836	6 Jul 1927	91
2 Oct 1900		Sir George Newnes,1st baronet	13 Mar 1851	9 Jun 1910	59
17 Jan 1910		Sir Alfred Moritz Mond,later [Jul 1910] 1st
		baronet and [1928] 1st Baron Melchett	23 Oct 1868	27 Dec 1930	62
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO EAST &
		WEST DIVISIONS 1918
		SWANSEA EAST
14 Dec 1918		Thomas Jeremiah Williams	1872	12 Jun 1919	46
10 Jul 1919		David Matthews	1868	26 Feb 1960	91
15 Nov 1922		David Williams	8 Sep 1865	22 Jan 1941	75
5 Feb 1940		David Llewellyn Mort	25 Mar 1888	1 Jan 1963	74
28 Mar 1963		Neil McBride	13 Apr 1910	9 Sep 1974	64
10 Oct 1974		Donald Anderson,later [2005] Baron Anderson
		of Swansea [L]	17 Jun 1939
5 May 2005		Siân Catherine James	24 Jun 1959
		SWANSEA WEST
14 Dec 1918		Sir Alfred Moritz Mond,1st baronet,later [1928]
		1st Baron Melchett	23 Oct 1868	27 Dec 1930	62
6 Dec 1923		Howel Walter Samuel	1881	5 Apr 1953	71
29 Oct 1924		Walter Runciman,later [1937] 1st Viscount
		Runciman of Doxford	19 Nov 1870	14 Nov 1949	78
30 May 1929		Howel Walter Samuel	1881	5 Apr 1953	71
27 Oct 1931		Lewis Jones  [kt 1944]	13 Feb 1884	10 Dec 1968	84
26 Jul 1945		Percy Morris	6 Oct 1893	7 Mar 1967	73
8 Oct 1959		John Edward Hugh Rees	8 Jan 1928	1 Dec 2003	75
15 Oct 1964		Alan John Williams	14 Oct 1930
6 May 2010		Geraint Richard Davies	3 May 1960
		SWANSEA DISTRICT
11 Dec 1832		John Henry Vivian	1785	10 Feb 1855	69
27 Feb 1855		Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn	19 May 1814	19 Jun 1892	78
24 Nov 1885		Sir Henry Hussey Vivian,1st baronet,later
		[1893] 1st Baron Swansea	6 Jul 1821	28 Nov 1894	73
19 Jun 1893		William Williams	1840	21 Apr 1904	63
17 Jul 1895		David Brynmor Jones  [kt 1906]	1852	6 Aug 1921	69
6 Feb 1915		Thomas Jeremiah Williams	1872	12 Jun 1919	46
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		SWINDON (WILTSHIRE)
14 Dec 1918		Sir Frederick William Young	5 Jan 1876	26 Aug 1948	72
15 Nov 1922		Reginald Mitchell Banks  [kt 1928]	1880	9 Jul 1940	60
30 May 1929		Christopher Addison,later [1945] 1st Viscount
		Addison	19 Jun 1869	11 Dec 1951	82
27 Oct 1931		Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks	1880	9 Jul 1940	60
25 Oct 1934		Christopher Addison,later [1945] 1st Viscount
		Addison	19 Jun 1869	11 Dec 1951	82
14 Nov 1935		William Wavell Wakefield [kt 1944],later [1963]
		1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal	10 Mar 1898	12 Aug 1983	85
26 Jul 1945		Thomas Reid	26 Dec 1881	28 Jan 1963	81
26 May 1955		Francis Edward Noel-Baker	7 Jan 1920	25 Sep 2009	89
30 Oct 1969		Christopher John Ferguson Ward	26 Dec 1942
18 Jun 1970		David Leonard Stoddart,later [1983] Baron
		Stoddart of Swindon [L]	4 May 1926
9 Jun 1983		Simon Christopher Coombs	21 Feb 1947
		SPLIT INTO "SWINDON NORTH" AND
		"SWINDON SOUTH" 1997
		SWINDON NORTH (WILTSHIRE)
1 May 1997		Michael David Wills,later [2010] Baron Wills [L]	20 May 1952
6 May 2010		Justin Paul Tomlinson	5 Nov 1976
		SWINDON SOUTH (WILTSHIRE)
1 May 1997		Julia Kate Drown	23 Aug 1962
5 May 2005		Anne Christine Snelgrove	7 Aug 1957
6 May 2010		Robert James Buckland	22 Sep 1968
		John Fuller, MP for Southampton 1780-1784 and Sussex 1801-1812
		The following is extracted from "The Emperor of the United States of America and Other
		Magnificent British Eccentrics" by Catherine Caufield (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981)
		'Mad Jack', or 'Honest Jack', as he liked to be called, was MP from 1801 to 1812 for Rose
		Hill (now Brightling) [sic - there has never been a constituency named Rose Hill - Fuller was
		MP for the county of Sussex]. His political nature was fiery to say the least. He more than
		once caused an uproar in the House and had to be ejected forcibly when he referred to the
		Speaker as 'the insignificant little fellow in the wig'. He was a large man (twenty-two stone
		and nicknamed 'Hippo') with a bluff manner, a sense of humour and no pretensions. Declining
		Pitt's offer of a peerage, he said "I was born Jack Fuller and Jack Fuller I'll die." He loved
		Rose Hill and commissioned Turner to paint five pictures of the area. When unemployment
		was high Fuller built walls on his property just as a means of providing jobs for the local
		people.
		His memory endures, however, chiefly through his love of follies. He erected a domed
		rotunda and a 'hermit's tower' on his estate, not to mention the Brightling Needle,a 65 foot
		high obelisk which to this day remains a Sussex landmark. The Sugar Loaf Folly at Dallington
		was built as the result of a bet Fuller made with a neighbour that he could see the
		distinctive conical spire of Dallington Church from his window at Rose Hill. When he found on
		returning home that he could do no such thing, Fuller, in a joking attempt to maintain his
		credit, built a forty-foot replica of the spire on a nearby hill to give the illusion of a half
		visible church.
		His masterpiece is undoubtedly the pyramidal mausoleum he had built for himself in Brightling
		Churchyard from the designs of Sir Robert Smirke, the architect of the British Museum. The
		reason Fuller gave for declining to be buried conventionally was his fear of being eaten by
		his relatives. "The worms", he explained, "would eat me, the ducks would eat the worms and
		my relatives would eat the ducks." Inside, it is said, Fuller sits in an armchair wearing a top
		hat and holding a bottle of claret. Around him broken glass is scattered so that "when the
		devil comes to claim his own he might at least cut his feet."
		Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, MP for Plymouth Sutton 1974-1992 and Kensington
		and Chelsea 1997-1999
		Alan Clark was the son of the distinguished art historian, Kenneth, Baron Clark (1903-1983).
		He was proud to be labelled politically incorrect and whenever he was so labelled, he took
		it as a compliment. He frequently expressed admiration for Hitler, and he was very indignant
		at being called a fascist. "I am not a fascist", he insisted. "Fascists are shopkeepers, I am a
		Nazi." He liked to refer to Africa as 'Bongo Bongo land' and he kept an attack dog named
		Eva, after Hitler's mistress.
		Clark was admired in some quarters as a military historian. His first book, The Donkeys, was
		a revisionist history of World War I which greatly upset the Army establishment and has
		since been condemned for being too one-sided in its treatment of WWI generals. The book
		later formed the basis for the pacifist musical Oh What a Lovely War.
		When he was at the Ministry of Defence, he advised Matrix Churchill, a British machine tools
		manufacturer, on how to circumvent sales embargoes to Iraq. He later admitted that, at the
		trial of three of Matrix Churchill's directors, he had committed perjury - or, as he put it in his
		characteristic way "I was economic with the actualitie."
		Clark is best known for his Diaries, published in 1994 and 2000, which were dramatised by
		the BBC in 2004, starring John Hurt as Clark. The diaries include accounts of his various
		sexual adventures, including affairs with the wife of a South African judge and her two
		daughters, a trio he called 'the coven.'
		To date he is the only Member of Parliament to have been accused of being drunk at the
		dispatch box. In 1983, while a minister in the Department of Employment, he was making a
		reading of a Bill in the Commons after a wine-tasting dinner. The complexities of the Bill were
		too unclear for him to answer questions, and the opposition MP, Clare Short, stood up and,
		after acknowledging that MPs cannot formally accuse each other of being drunk in the
		House of Commons, accused him of being 'incapable', a euphemism which every member
		understood. In his diaries, Clark later admitted that he had been affected by the wine-
		tasting. He died from a brain tumour in 1999.
		George Hudson, MP for Sunderland 1845-1859
		George Hudson was a director of railway and shipping companies, coal, iron and glassmaking
		concerns, real estate, banking and newspapers. In addition, he was a thorough crook. His
		specialty was ripping off money by the hundreds of thousands from phony railway deals. In
		partnership with a gang of cronies, Hudson formed a series of nominal companies which did
		no more than raise huge sums for railway systems that were never built. Eventually,
		Hudson's companies collapsed, leaving thousands of investors penniless as the bottom fell
		out of railway shares.
		At the age of 15, Hudson was forced to flee his home village in disgrace after fathering a
		child. He moved to York, where he was apprenticed to a firm of drapers and was soon
		stepping out with Elizabeth, the daughter of James Nicholson, one of the two owners of
		the drapery. George and Elizabeth were married, and not long after, Elizabeth's father died,
		leaving George as half-owner of the business. The subsequent death of the other owner
		gave him the drapery business lock, stock and barrel.
		Hudson might have remained a successful middle-class business had he not, out of the blue,
		inherited the then huge sum of £30,000 from a wealthy uncle. Hudson had already entered
		local politics and had been elected Mayor of York on three occasions (1837, 1838 and
		1846). Looking around for somewhere to invest his windfall, Hudson was attracted to
		railways. He believed they would eventually replace canal barges and to that end he set up
		the North Midland Railway Company. In 1837, work began on the construction of the line
		south from York.
		On 29 May 1839, the line was officially opened and practically overnight the value of the
		company's shares increased substantially. Hudson was still not satisfied, and he invested
		heavily in the Great North of England Railway Company which was building its line north
		from York to Newcastle-on-Tyne. This, too, proved successful and the profits fired Hudson's
		determination to push a line right through to Edinburgh. He subscribed five times as much
		capital as any other director in the new company and guaranteed shareholders a 6%
		dividend.
		With such successes behind him, it was inevitable that Hudson's ambition should lead him
		to acquiring opposition railway lines. He masterminded the amalgamation of three competing
		lines converging on Derby and named the result the Midland Railway Company. In order to
		get rid of the remaining competition, Hudson began undercutting their fares and freight
		charges. He spent half a million pounds buying a 12,000 acre estate to stop the extension
		of a rival line.
		To suck every penny out of his railway complex, Hudson employed boys to do men's work
		and worked his engine-drivers 13 hours a day, 7 days a week for five shillings. Eventually
		the drivers demanded more pay and shorter hours. The result was that on Christmas Eve
		the lot were sacked and replaced by unemployed and half-starved men who were not
		concerned about scabbing as long as they could eat. But on 12 January 1843, a man
		working on a line at Cudworth was killed by a train under the control of a driver who had
		fallen asleep from sheer exhaustion. Following the coroner's inquiry, drivers were granted
		one day off per week and those who were obviously incompetent were replaced.
		By 1845 Hudson controlled 1000 miles of track and had been elected to the House of
		Commons. He was now a man of consequence, the owner of a London mansion, a
		friend of Prince Albert and constantly surrounded by businessmen hoping for stock exchange
		tips. Even the Duke of Wellington sought his advice when one of Wellington's female
		relatives was in financial trouble because some rail stock she had purchased had collapsed.
		Hudson came to the rescue - he used money supplied by Wellington's relative to buy shares
		in a hopeless company. Then he let the word spread that he was investing heavily in that
		concern. Overnight, share values shot sky-high and Hudson unloaded his shares.
		In 1848 Hudson's companies owned 1435 miles of track which included all the major systems
		between London and Bristol in the south, and London and Berwick in the north. The capital
		value of his companies was around £30 million. Then, slowly, the huge profits the companies
		were making began to shrink after the impact of the European revolutions of 1848 and the
		consequent trade recession. Dividends plummeted from 9% to 2%, and when share values
		fell well below par, shareholders demanded an inquiry into railway company management, and
		now the proverbial hit the fan.
		For years Hudson had been manipulating accounts, misappropriating shares and falsifying
		balance sheets. One example of his bare-faced dishonesty was shown in his purchase by
		the York and North Midland Company of a much smaller rival rail system. To get his hands on
		this system, Hudson paid £35,000, but he charged the York and North Midland Company
		quite a few thousand pounds more and pocketed the difference. It is estimated that Hudson
		made £75,000 from deals of this nature.
		In a transaction concerning the York, Newcastle and Berwick Company, the inquiry found
		that a price well above the market rate was paid for the acquisition of 3,790 shares in
		another company. Co-incidentally, Hudson owned 2,800 of these shares. Then there was
		the entry in the Western Counties Company's ledgers marked 'expenses' - a bottomless
		financial well used by Hudson to extract thousands of pounds a year.
		Another matter that came to light concerned the amalgamation of two companies. Hudson
		had increased the authorised issue of shares from 42,000 to 56,000, but did not show this in
		the company's accounts. Hudson, it was revealed, had owned 9,956 out of the 14,000
		increase, netting him a profit of £145,000. There seemed to be no limit to Hudson's
		scheming. He even used his knowledge of proposed rail routes to feather his nest. For
		instance, when he learned, by virtue of being a director of a company, where the company
		intended running its next rail system, he would buy up the land and re-sell it via dummy
		companies to his own company at huge profit. Of Hudson, it was said that 'he believed in
		feeding the donkey with bits of its own tail, a policy that served him well so long as any tail
		was left.'
		When, in August 1848, banks had demanded repayment of £400,000 lent to one of his
		companies, he simply paid the money from capital just raised from a new and separate
		company flotation.
		As a result of these disclosures, railway shareholders demanded a special meeting at which
		Hudson was thrown off the boards of the Eastern Counties, the Midland, York and North
		Midland and the York, Newcastle and Berwick companies. The good voters of Sunderland,
		however, recognised that Hudson had brought prosperity to their town and kept returning
		him to Parliament. This was greatly to Hudson's advantage, since as long as he remained in
		Parliament he was immune from arrest for debt - but only while the House was in session.
		To solve the problem of holding off creditors while the House was in recess, he made a habit
		of leaving for Paris the day before the House rose.
		In 1859 he lost his seat and fled at once to France where, according to one biographer, 'he
		wandered to and fro between Paris and the Channel Ports living in cheap hotels and steadily
		growing shabbier and poorer.' When the 1865 elections were called, he returned to
		Sunderland to try his luck once more, but was arrested for debt 48 hours before the poll,
		thus making him ineligible for election. After three months' in prison, he declared himself
		bankrupt, thus finally getting rid of his creditors. During his last years, he survived on a
		small annuity paid out of a trust that some friends had established for him, until his death
		in late 1871.
		David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, MP for Sudbury 1841-1842
		As far as I am aware, Sombre was the first member of a racial minority in England to be
		elected to the House of Commons. He was born in Sardhana in 1808, at a time when
		Sardhana was a semi-autonomous state near Meerut, about 55 miles north-east of New
		Delhi.
		His father was of mixed Scottish and Indian ancestry, while his mother was of mixed
		French and Indian ancestry. Sombre's name at birth was David Ochterlony Dyce, the
		additional name of Sombre being added in 1835.
		The ruler of Sardhana at the time was his maternal great-grandfather's second wife, Begum
		Sombre. She was the only Catholic ruler in India and therefore raised him in that religion.
		David was entrusted with the management of the state and was granted large
		amounts of cash and estates. When the Begum died at the age of 90 in 1836, the East
		India Company seized Sardhana and confiscated all the accoutrements of its army.
		Sombre left Sardhana later in 1836 and eventually reached England in June 1838. Through
		his friendship with Stapleton Cotton, Viscount Combermere, he soon entered society, where
		his wealth made him a very eligible bachelor. In 1840, he married Mary Anne Jervis,
		daughter of the 2nd Viscount St. Vincent.
		At the general election in 1841, Sombre contributed £3,000 towards the Radical-Liberal
		campaign in the seat of Sudbury and succeeded in being elected, together with Frederick
		Villiers. In April 1842, however, following a commission of inquiry, the election was declared
		to be void due to 'gross, systematic and extensive bribery.' In 1844, Sudbury became the
		first seat following the Reform Act of 1832 to be disenfranchised because of its electoral
		malpractices.
		Around this time, and perhaps because of his electoral misadventure, Sombre's behaviour
		became increasingly erratic; he made frequent challenges to duels, none of which was ever
		accepted, and also accused his wife of adultery with her friends and servants and of incest
		with her father. Eventually, in August 1843, he was found by a special jury to be of
		unsound mind. He was allowed to remain at large, accompanied by a doctor, but in
		September 1843, he fled to Paris, where a panel of French doctors declared him to be of
		perfectly sound mind. As a result, he successfully resisted English efforts to extradite him
		back to London. He began a series of legal appeals to overturn the lunacy judgment and to
		regain control over his fortune, which had been seized by the Lord Chancellor. He was
		allowed to return to England several times during the 1840s to undergo mental examination
		in an attempt to prove himself sane, but on each occasion the court-appointed doctors
		confirmed the original verdict of lunacy.
		Sombre later published "Refutation of the charge of lunacy, brought against him in the Court
		of Chancery" [Paris 1849] which runs to nearly 600 pages. In 1851, while engaged in yet
		another attempt to prove his sanity, he died. In his will, he left most of his estate to
		establish a school for Indians in Sardhana, but in January 1856, his widow successfully
		challenged the will on the grounds of his declared insanity and was granted the
		administration of the estate.
		After the East India Company had seized Sardhana and its army's accoutrements in 1836,
		Sombre had commenced a series of law suits to recover the confiscated items. This case
		dragged on and on until May 1872, when it was finally decided by the Judicial Committee of
		the Privy Council. The following [edited] report on the judgment of the Judicial Committee
		appeared in 'The Leeds Mercury' of 13 May 1872:-
		'The Dyce-Sombre Case: General Forester M.P. v The Government of India [Sombre's widow
		had remarried in 1862 George Cecil Weld-Forester, later 3rd Baron Forester - he was
		claiming on behalf of his wife].
		'There were two appeals in this case - one called the "Badshapore Suit," relating to
		property in India [i.e. the seizure of Sardhana]…...and another called the "Arms Suit," to
		recover from the Government of India the value of arms and military stores which they had
		seized…...[i.e. the accoutrements of the Sardhana army].
		'The result of the appeals is that in the Badshapore suit the title of the appellants was not
		held to have been established, and the valuable property will remain in possession of the
		Government; while, as to the "Arms suit," the value of the stores etc, with twelve per cent
		interest, is to be paid to the appellant on an agreed sum …..' [the agreed sum was around
		£60,000.]
		Charles Buxton, MP for Surrey East 1865-1871
		Buxton was the victim of an attack on his life made by a servant in April 1870. The following
		report appeared in 'Jackson's Oxford Journal' on 7 May 1870:-
		'A desperate attempt to assassinate Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P. for West Surrey [sic], was
		made on Friday morning the 29th ult., at his residence in Grosvenor-crescent, Hyde Park.
		Mr. Buxton for some years has had in his service as secretary a young man named Arthur
		White, in whom he placed the most implicit confidence. Latterly, however, White neglected
		his duties so much that Mr. Buxton felt constrained to give him three months' notice to
		leave, and subsequently he had occasion to reduce this time to one month. On Tuesday
		White attended in Grosvenor-crescent as usual, but Mr. Buxton was called away, and White
		was desired to await his return. He did not do so, however, and on Wednesday Mr. Buxton
		requested him to meet him yesterday morning at 9.30 as usual. Mr. Buxton reproved him
		slightly for not waiting his return on Tuesday, and said that at any rate he might have sent
		him the papers by post, and to this White made no reply.
		'Mr. Buxton then rquested him to procure the Army List from another apartment, and the
		man for some time remained apparently sullen, but ultimately he made an impertinent
		observation, and in consequence was told to leave the house. He then said, "You want the
		Army List, do you?" and Mr. Buxton replied, "Yes, go and get it." He then fetched the book,
		and as he went towards Mr. Buxton the latter said, "Mr. White, why do you treat me so
		insolently? I have done all that I could to get you another situation, and really I can hardly
		recommend any one to employ you." White answered, "I don't believe a word of it," and,
		leaning on the table, he scowled at Mr. Buxton.
		'Thinking that the man merely intended to assault him, Mr. Buxton remained seated, and
		said. "Why, you know I asked a gentleman to employ you, and have been looking out in
		other directions," and White then returned to his seat at a table. The conversation was
		continued for a minute or so, and then Mr. Buxton desired him to leave, as he could not
		tolerate his conduct any longer. Mr. Buxton went towards the door, and instantly he heard
		the report of a pistol. Starting round he saw the man standing before him and pointing a
		revolver at his head. Believing that a second shot was intended, the Hon. Gentleman threw
		himself down behind a table, upon which his would-be assassin observed, "Are you wounded,
		sir?" Mr. Buxton rushed at the man for the purpose of disturbing his aim, the revolver being
		still pointed towards him, when White rushed to the door and ran into the hall, followed by
		his master. Before Mr. Buxton could secure him, however, he had opened the street door,
		had entered a hansom cab, and had got clear away. On searching the study, a bullet mark
		was found embedded in the wall, immediately over the place where Mr. Buxton stood when
		he was fired at, and the bullet itself was found lying in the middle of the room.
		'It is believed that White, who is a young man of eccentric habits and suffering from a
		pulmonary complaint, is labouring under a fit of insanity. He has since been apprehended at
		the Maison Doré, in Paris, by an English detective.'
		White was subsequently charged with "feloniously and maliciously shooting at Charles
		Buxton, with intent to murder him." At his trial in June 1870, the jury found that White was
		insane, and he was ordered to be detained "during the Queen's pleasure."
		Nancy Witcher Astor,Viscountess Astor, MP for Plymouth Sutton 1919-1945
		The following biography of Viscountess Astor appeared in the Australian monthly magazine
		"Parade" in its issue for August 1966:-
		'In 1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor [sic - the correct styling would be Nancy,
		Viscountess Astor] shocked the conservatives of Britain by winning a seat in the House of
		Commons. She was the first woman to enter that august chamber, which did nothing to
		hide its antagonism. [She was the first woman to take her seat in the Commons, but not
		the first woman to be elected. That honour belongs to Constance, Countess Markievicz
		(qv), who, being elected as a Sinn Fein member, in common with all other members of that
		party, never took her seat - this is acknowledged later in the article.]
		'Winston Churchill was one who had no welcome for the tart-tongued newcomer. A woman's
		intrusion into the Commons, he said, "is as embarrassing as if she burst into my bathroom
		when I had nothing to defend myself with but a sponge." The lady was noted for her pungent
		wit. She replied sweetly: "I can assure the Honourable Member that he is not handsome
		enough to have worries of that kind."
		'The attitude of the House's male members had no effect on those who had voted Nancy Astor
		into Parliament. They put her back seven times and she was an MP for 25 years. She became
		almost an English political institution and some said that between the wars her influence was
		such that she was the most important woman in England next to the Queen.
		'She was born Nancy Langhorne in Virginia in 1879. Her father, a Southern planter, made a
		a fortune after the Civil War by building railroads. Among his assets were five daughters known
		as "the beautiful Langhornes." One of them, Irene, married the noted artist Charles Dana
		Gibson, who then used the sisters as models for his famous studies of American-type beauties
		called the Gibson Girls.
		'Nancy was a small, vivacious Southern belle who was taught how to ride, run a large house
		and be charming. She had little formal education. At 18 she married a handsome, cultivated
		Bostonian, Robert Gould Shaw, to whom she bore a son. Shaw proved an alcoholic and when
		they were divorced after six years Nancy became a vehement and lifelong campaigner for
		temperance. On a trip to England in 1905 she met Waldorf Astor, son of an American multi-
		millionaire who had settled in England and become a British subject. A year later, when Mrs.
		Shaw became Mrs. Waldorf Astor, the couple received the 300-acre Cliveden estate from
		Astor senior as a wedding present. Before long Astor and his bride, who were to have four
		sons and one daughter, were entertaining at Cliveden such notables as the politicians Lord
		Curzon and Prime Minister Asquith and literary figures like Rudyard Kipling and James Barrie.
		King Edward VII stayed with them. Nancy Astor's gift for repartee was well known. When the
		king asked her to play cards, she said she did not indulge and chided him: "I don't even know
		the difference between a king and a knave."
		'In 1910 she threw herself into a hectic election campaign with her husband when he stood as
		Conservative candidate for a slum-ridden constituency in Plymouth. Many said it was Mrs.
		Astor's breezy propoganda, as she canvassed tirelessly from door to door, that more than
		anything won the seat for her husband. At a street meeting an interjector wanted to know
		whether the Astors (whose fortune was founded in the fur trade) were as high as the
		Vanderbilts in America's millionaire hierarchy. "Let me tell you," snapped Mrs. Astor, "that the
		Astors were skinning skunks 100 years before the Vanderbilts started working their ferries."
		'Astor held the Plymouth seat until the death in 1919 of his father, who had been created a
		viscount two years earlier. As the new Lord Astor he had to leave the Commons. This gave
		Lady Nancy Astor the idea of a political career for herself.  As a Conservative candidate she
		contested the by-election for the Plymouth seat and gave as good as she got from outraged
		male voters who heckled her unmercifully at street meetings. When a male interjector swore at
		her she retaliated by turning to a group of women and saying; "I want every woman in this
		street to see that this man doesn't vote for me. I don't want the vote of any man who curses
		a woman when he is sober."
		'As she gained confidence she disdained hecklers and actually incited the audience to ask
		awkward questions. "Come along now," she would challenge. "Who'll take me on? I'm ready for
		you." Another of her tricks was to pick on the fiercest woman interjector present, have a
		yelling match with her, then go off to the woman's house for tea. The trim 40-year-old
		viscountess would come out of the house rubbing her hands and saying: "That's another
		supporter I've won."  She was ready for everyone and everything - as at the time a heckler
		tried to upset her with a raucous shout: "Say, missus, how many toes are there on a pig's
		foot?" "Take off your boot, man, and count them yourself." she shot back. With such election-
		eering Lady Astor won the contest easily and was never defeated. She held the seat until she
		retired in 1945.
		'On December 2, 1919, introduced by the Prime Minister Lloyd George and [former Prime
		Minister] A. J. Balfour, the new MP - dressed in what became her parliamentary uniform of a
		sober black dress or suit - became the first woman in the Commons. She was not the first
		woman elected to the British Parliament. The first was the Irish Countess Markievicz, who
		never took her seat because she was gaoled for Sinn Fein activities before Parliament
		assembled.
		'Despite her undertaking to be dignified in the House, Lady Astor's natural exuberance often
		got the better of her and she interrupted proceedings with raucous shouts of "Boo!" "Rubbish!"
		or "Rats!" She was a hard worker, took her duties seriously and battled for many social
		reforms. She fought for years - often against her own Tory political colleagues - for issues
		like state nursery schools to help working mothers, a higher school leaving age, shorter hours
		for women shop assistants and independence for India. All her life both in and out of
		Parliament she was a bitter and dangerous enemy of the liquot trade. The first bill she had
		passed prohibited drinking in hotels by those under 18.
		'She was a friend of the socialist­minded George Bernard Shaw. She led campaigns for the
		more humane slaughter of animals, the abolition of capital punishment and the banning of
		young boys from working in mines. Her human sympathies were so obvious that voters at a
		Plymouth election meeting roared approval when she cried mockingly after being attacked for
		her wealth: "And now, my dears, I'm going back to one of my beautiful palaces to sit down in
		my tiara and do nothing, and when I roll out in my car I will splash you all with mud and look
		the other way."
		'Members not only respected Lady Astor. They also feared her tongue. When she was
		attacking the official rum issue in the Royal Navy, a member interjected testily that she should
		confine herself to such questions as milk for babies and leave the navy alone. She replied that
		if the interjector was to drink more milk and less whisky he would be more polite to the only
		woman in the House. Her hatred of alcohol was so obsessive that when she visited Russia and
		was received by Stalin she spent the whole time with him lecturing him about the country's
		excessive vodka consumption.
		'In Parliament nothing pleased her more than a verbal duel, although she was bested in one
		such battle by Winston Churchill. It was Churchill and Lady Astor who were responsible for a
		now-famous exchange that has been attributed to many others. "If you were my husband I'd
		poison your coffee." Lady Astor snapped. "And if you were my wife I'd drink it," replied
		Churchill. She came off better when a Labor member, J. H. Thomas, who was a frequent
		guest of the Astors, declared that when his party came to power Cliveden would probably be
		nationalised. "In that case, Mr. Thomas," Lady Astor replied, "you'll have to pay board - a
		thing you've never done in the past." Another time a colleague with whom she had been
		feuding went up to her in the lobby as she was speaking to a group of Labour members. "I've
		just been defending you," she said. "These men say you are not fit to feed with pigs. I say
		you are."
		'When the Astor group, known as the Cliveden Set, was being attacked as pro-Nazi in the
		1930s, Lady Astor indignantly denied it and claimed she and her friends were interested only
		in peace. George Bernard Shaw defended her and pointed out that socialists such as hinself,
		the anti-British Mahatma Gandhi and Labour politicians could also be called members of the
		Cliveden Set. "If I wanted to use the same bad logic as the Astor's enemies," said Shaw, "I
		could prove that Cliveden is a nest of Bolshevism or indeed any other sort of bee in the world's
		bonnet."
		'The fact remained, however, that at this time some English people were not wholly opposed
		to Nazism, or Fascist concepts such as expressed by Sir Oswald Mosley, and the Cliveden Set
		was bitterly criticised. Some of this criticism was ugly. However, Lady Astor was one of the
		first Conservatives to revolt against the bumbling Neville Chamberlain and support her old
		enemy Churchill as British leader in the war with Nazi Germany.
		'During the war she spent much of her time with her husband in bomb-shattered Plymouth and
		toiling in kitchens at Cliveden, which had been turned into a military hospital. In 1945, because
		of her husband's ill­health, she did not contest her seat. The result was a sweeping victory for
		the Labor Party. Some said she had seen the writing on the wall and retired rather than be
		defeated.
		'She was certainly a shrewd political forecaster. In 1951 she bet her tiara to £5 that Churchill
		would win that year's election. She kept her tiara, won her £5 and used her electioneering skill
		to help two of her sons win seats as Conservatives. After her husband died in 1952 Lady Astor
		lived quietly out of the limelight until her death in May 1964. Earl Attlee, former British Prime
		Minister, said of her: "She made things hum."
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