THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
		CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "W"
		Last updated 22/10/2012
Date		Name	Born	Died	Age
		Dates in italics in the first column denote that the election held on that
		date was a by-election. Dates shown in normal type were general elections,
		or, in some instances, the date of a successful petition against a
		previous election result.
		Dates in italics in the "Born" column indicate that the MP was baptised on
		that date; dates in italics in the "Died" column indicate that the MP was
		buried on that date
		WAKEFIELD (YORKSHIRE)
12 Dec 1832		Daniel Gaskell	11 Sep 1782	20 Dec 1875	93
27 Jul 1837		William Saunders Sebright Lascelles	29 Oct 1798	2 Jul 1851	52
3 Jul 1841		Joseph Holdsworth   [he was unseated on	6 Dec 1789	18 Apr 1857	67
		petition in favour of William Saunders
		Sebright Lascelles 21 Apr 1842]
21 Apr 1842		William Saunders Sebright Lascelles	29 Oct 1798	2 Jul 1851	52
30 Jul 1847		George Sandars	2 Oct 1805	14 May 1879	73
27 Mar 1857		John Charlesworth Dodgson-Charlesworth	1816	21 Mar 1880	63
2 May 1859		William Henry Leatham  [his election was	6 Jul 1815	14 Nov 1889	74
		declared void 27 Jul 1859. Writ suspended
		until Feb 1862]
28 Feb 1862		Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay,3rd baronet	11 Feb 1821	28 Jan 1912	90
13 Jul 1865		William Henry Leatham	6 Jul 1815	14 Nov 1889	74
19 Nov 1868		Somerset Archibald Beaumont	6 Feb 1836	8 Dec 1921	85
2 Feb 1874		Edward Green,later [1886] 1st baronet	4 Mar 1831	30 Mar 1923	92
		[His election was declared void 27 Apr 1874]
6 May 1874		Thomas Kemp Sanderson	1821	24 Dec 1897	76
2 Apr 1880		Robert Bownas Mackie	1820	18 Jun 1885	64
4 Jul 1885		Edward Green,later [1886] 1st baronet	4 Mar 1831	30 Mar 1923	92
Jul 1892		Albany Hawkes Charlesworth	5 Feb 1854	12 Sep 1914	60
16 Jul 1895		Wentworth Charles de Meuron Wentworth-
		Fitzwilliam,styled Viscount Milton,later [1902]
		7th Earl Fitzwilliam	25 Jul 1872	15 Feb 1943	70
25 Mar 1902		Edward Allen Brotherton,later [1918] 1st
		baronet and [1929] 1st Baron Brotherton	1 Apr 1856	21 Oct 1930	74
Dec 1910		Arthur Harold Marshall  [kt 1918]	2 Aug 1870	18 Jan 1956	85
14 Dec 1918		Edward Allen Brotherton,1st baronet,
		later [1929] 1st Baron Brotherton	1 Apr 1856	21 Oct 1930	74
15 Nov 1922		Robert Geoffrey Ellis,later [1932] 1st baronet	4 Sep 1874	28 Jul 1956	81
6 Dec 1923		George Henry Sherwood	1878	10 Oct 1935	57
29 Oct 1924		Robert Geoffrey Ellis,later [1932] 1st baronet	4 Sep 1874	28 Jul 1956	81
30 May 1929		George Henry Sherwood	1878	10 Oct 1935	57
27 Oct 1931		George Brown Hillman	1867	19 Mar 1932	64
21 Apr 1932		Arthur Greenwood	8 Feb 1880	9 Jun 1954	74
21 Oct 1954		Arthur Creech Jones	15 May 1891	23 Oct 1964	73
15 Oct 1964		Walter Harrison	2 Jan 1921	19 Oct 2012	91
11 Jun 1987		David Martin Hinchliffe	14 Oct 1948
5 May 2005		Mary Helen Creagh	2 Dec 1967
		WALLASEY
14 Dec 1918		Bouverie Francis Primrose McDonald	13 Apr 1861	8 Jul 1931	70
15 Nov 1922		Sir Robert Burton Chadwick,later [1935]
		1st baronet	20 Jun 1869	21 May 1951	81
27 Oct 1931		John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon,
		later [1942] 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara	8 Feb 1884	17 May 1964	80
29 Apr 1942		George Leonard Reakes	31 Jul 1889	15 Apr 1961	71
26 Jul 1945		Alfred Ernest Marples,later [1974] Baron
		Marples [L]	9 Dec 1907	6 Jul 1978	70
28 Feb 1974		Lynda Chalker,later [1992] Baroness Chalker
		of Wallasey [L]	29 Apr 1942
9 Apr 1992		Angela Eagle	17 Feb 1961
		WALLINGFORD (BERKSHIRE)
Apr 1660		Robert Packer  (to 1679)	12 Sep 1614	25 Feb 1682	67
		Hungerford Dunch  [Dunch was also returned	20 Jan 1639	9 Nov 1680	41
		for Cricklade, for which he chose to sit]
16 Jun 1660		Thomas Saunders	5 Dec 1626	c 1670
1 Apr 1661		George Fane	c 1616	25 Apr 1663
6 May 1663		Sir John Bennet	5 Jul 1616	11 Feb 1695	78
8 Feb 1679		John Stone	c 1627	10 Oct 1704
		Scorey Barker  (to 1685)	c 1652	22 Aug 1713
14 Aug 1679		William Lenthall		early 1702
10 Feb 1681		Taverner Harris	c 1656	11 Jul 1685
20 Apr 1685		John Stone	c 1627	10 Oct 1704
		John Holloway	4 Oct 1661	13 Feb 1721	59
8 Jan 1689		Thomas Tipping,later [1698] 1st baronet	20 Apr 1653	1 Jul 1718	65
		William Jennens  (to 1698)	c 1666	6 Feb 1709
		John Dormer
		Double return between Jennens and Dormer.
		Jennens declared elected 21 Feb 1689
22 Feb 1690		John Wallis	26 Dec 1650	14 Mar 1717	66
21 Oct 1695		Sir Thomas Tipping,1st baronet  (to 1701)	20 Apr 1653	1 Jul 1718	65
21 Jul 1698		Richard Pye	after 1660	Jun 1703
4 Jan 1701		William Jennens  (to 1709)	c 1666	6 Feb 1709
		Thomas Renda	c 1660	15 Mar 1723
7 May 1705		Clement Kent	18 Apr 1683	25 Dec 1746	63
4 May 1708		Grey Neville  (to 1710)	23 Sep 1681	24 Apr 1723	41
22 Feb 1709		Thomas Renda  (to 1713)	c 1660	15 Mar 1723
5 Oct 1710		Simon Harcourt  (to 1714)   [at the general	9 Oct 1684	1 Jul 1720	35
		election in Aug 1713,Harcourt was also
		returned for Abingdon,for which he chose
		to sit]
24 Aug 1713		Richard Bigg  (to 1715)	c 1675	1731
15 Mar 1714		Thomas Renda	c 1660	15 Mar 1723
27 Jan 1715		Edmund Dunch	14 Dec 1677	31 May 1719	41
		William Hucks  (to 1740)	22 Oct 1672	28 Nov 1740	68
1 Dec 1719		Henry Grey	17 Aug 1683	9 Sep 1740	57
21 Mar 1722		George Parker,styled Viscount Parker,later
		[1732] 2nd Earl of Macclesfield	c 1697	17 Mar 1764
15 Aug 1727		George Lewen		1 Apr 1743
23 Apr 1734		Thomas Tower  (to 1741)	c 1698	2 Sep 1778
22 Dec 1740		Joseph Townsend	c 1704	8 Jul 1763
6 May 1741		John Bance		23 Feb 1755
		John Rush	c 1704	12 May 1767
26 Jun 1747		Joseph Townsend	c 1704	8 Jul 1763
		Richard Tonson		9 Oct 1772
15 Apr 1754		John Hervey  (to 1765)	25 Jun 1696	30 Jul 1764	68
		Richard Neville Aldworth (Neville from 1762)	3 Sep 1717	17 Jul 1793	75
25 Mar 1761		Sir John Gibbons,2nd baronet  (to 1768)	c 1717	9 Jul 1776
15 Jan 1765		Sir George Pigot,1st Baron Pigot [I]	4 May 1719	11 May 1777	58
16 Mar 1768		John Aubrey,later [1786] 6th baronet  (to 1774)	4 Jun 1739	14 Mar 1826	86
		Robert Pigot,later [1777] 2nd baronet	1720	2 Aug 1796	76
27 Jan 1772		John Cator  (to 1780)	12 Mar 1728	21 Feb 1806	77
8 Oct 1774		Sir Robert Barker,later [1781] 1st baronet	c 1732	14 Sep 1789
8 Sep 1780		John Aubrey,later [1786] 6th baronet	4 Jun 1739	14 Mar 1826	86
		Chaloner Arcedeckne	c 1743	20 Dec 1809
31 Mar 1784		Sir Francis Sykes,1st baronet  (to 1804)	22 May 1730	11 Jan 1804	73
		Thomas Aubrey	c 1740	15 Jan 1814
16 Jun 1790		Nathaniel William Wraxall	8 Apr 1751	7 Nov 1831	80
12 Mar 1794		Francis William Sykes,later [1804] 2nd
		baronet	12 Nov 1767	7 Mar 1804	36
25 May 1796		Sampson Eardley,1st Baron Eardley [I]	10 Oct 1745	25 Dec 1824	79
5 Jul 1802		William Lewis Hughes,later [1831] 1st Baron
		Dinorben  (to 1831)	10 Nov 1767	10 Feb 1852	84
8 Feb 1804		George Galway Mills	22 Oct 1765	14 Feb 1828	62
		For information on the death of this MP,see the
		note at the foot of this page
29 Oct 1806		Richard Benyon	28 Apr 1770	22 Mar 1854	83
8 Oct 1812		Ebenezer Fuller-Maitland	23 Apr 1780	1 Nov 1858	78
6 Mar 1820		George James Robarts	c 1782	16 Oct 1829
16 Dec 1826		Robert Knight  (to 1832)	3 Mar 1768	5 Jan 1855	86
21 Sep 1831		Thomas Charles Leigh,later [1858] 2nd
		Baron Sudeley	5 Feb 1801	19 Feb 1863	62
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1832
11 Dec 1832		William Seymour Blackstone	1809	6 Jan 1881	71
7 Jul 1852		Richard Malins  [kt 1867]	9 Mar 1805	15 Jan 1882	76
13 Jul 1865		Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke,1st baronet	18 Feb 1810	11 May 1869	59
17 Nov 1868		Stanley Vickers	1837	24 Feb 1872	34
9 Mar 1872		Edward Wells	1821	Feb 1910	88
1 Apr 1880		Walter Wren   [his election was declared	28 Dec 1833	5 Aug 1898	64
		void 19 Jun 1880]
1 Jul 1880		Pandeli Ralli	28 May 1845	21 Aug 1928	83
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		WALLSEND
14 Dec 1918		Matthew Turnbull Simm	4 Jan 1869	8 Oct 1928	59
15 Nov 1922		Patrick Gardiner Hastings  [kt 1924]	17 Mar 1880	26 Feb 1952	71
21 Jul 1926		Margaret Grace Bondfield	17 Mar 1873	16 Jun 1953	80
27 Oct 1931		Irene Mary Bewick Ward [Dame 1955],later
		[1975] Baroness Ward of North Tyneside [L]	23 Feb 1895	26 Apr 1980	85
26 Jul 1945		John McKay	1885	4 Oct 1964	79
15 Oct 1964		William Edward Garrett	21 Mar 1920	30 May 1993	73
9 Apr 1992		Stephen John Byers	13 Apr 1953
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		WALSALL (STAFFORDSHIRE)
13 Dec 1832		Charles Smith Forster	1784	17 Nov 1850	66
25 Jul 1837		Francis Finch		1874
2 Feb 1841		John Neilson Gladstone	18 Jan 1807	7 Feb 1863	56
30 Jun 1841		Robert Wellbeloved Scott	15 Jul 1803	21 Feb 1856	52
29 Jul 1847		Edward Richard Littleton,later [1863] 2nd
		Baron Hatherton	31 Dec 1815	3 Apr 1888	72
8 Jul 1852		Charles Forster,later [1874] 1st baronet	3 Aug 1815	26 Jul 1891	75
12 Aug 1891		Edward Thomas Holden  [kt 1907]	10 Sep 1831	13 Nov 1926	95
Jul 1892		Frank James   [he was unseated on petition	8 Nov 1821	23 Mar 1924	102
		16 Nov 1892]
9 Feb 1893		Sir Arthur Divett Hayter,2nd baronet,later
		[1906] 1st Baron Haversham	9 Aug 1835	1 May 1917	81
17 Jul 1895		Sydney Gedge	16 Oct 1829	6 Apr 1923	93
3 Oct 1900		Sir Arthur Divett Hayter,2nd baronet,later
		[1906] 1st Baron Haversham	9 Aug 1835	1 May 1917	81
17 Jan 1906		Edward Marten Dunne	27 Aug 1864	23 Feb 1944	79
17 Jan 1910		Richard Ashmole Cooper,later [1913] 2nd
		baronet	11 Aug 1874	5 Mar 1946	71
15 Nov 1922		Patrick Collins	5 Apr 1859	8 Dec 1943	84
29 Oct 1924		William Preston  [his election was declared	1874	22 Nov 1941	67
		void February 1925. At the subsequent by-
		election held on 27 February 1925, he was
		again returned]
30 May 1929		John James McShane	1 Oct 1882	26 May 1972	89
27 Oct 1931		Joseph Alexander Leckie	24 May 1866	9 Aug 1938	72
16 Nov 1938		Sir George Ernest Schuster	25 Apr 1881	5 Jun 1982	101
26 Jul 1945		William Thomas Wells	10 Aug 1908	3 Jan 1990	81
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH &
		SOUTH DIVISIONS 1955
		WALSALL NORTH
26 May 1955		William Thomas Wells	10 Aug 1908	3 Jan 1990	81
28 Feb 1974		John Thomson Stonehouse	28 Jul 1925	15 Apr 1988	62
4 Nov 1976		Robin Granville Hodgson,later [2000] Baron
		Hodgson of Astley Abbotts [L]	25 Apr 1942
3 May 1979		David Julian Winnick	26 Jun 1933
		WALSALL SOUTH
26 May 1955		Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid,2nd
		baronet	10 Jun 1909	11 Dec 1976	67
28 Feb 1974		Bruce Thomas George	1 Jun 1942
6 May 2010		Valerie Carol Marian Vaz	7 Dec 1954
		WALTHAMSTOW (ESSEX)
5 Dec 1885		Edward North Buxton	1 Sep 1840	9 Jan 1924	83
13 Jul 1886		William Thomas Makins,later [1903]
		1st baronet	16 Mar 1840	2 Feb 1906	65
Jul 1892		Edmund Widdrington Byrne  [kt 1897]	30 Jun 1844	4 Apr 1904	59
3 Feb 1897		Samuel Woods	10 May 1846	23 Nov 1915	69
11 Oct 1900		David John Morgan	1844	28 Feb 1918	73
24 Jan 1906		John Allsebrook Simon [kt 1910],later [1940] 1st
		Viscount Simon	28 Feb 1873	11 Jan 1954	80
		SPLIT INTO EAST & WEST DIVISIONS 1918,
		BUT RE-UNITED 1974
28 Feb 1974		Eric Petro Deakins	7 Oct 1932
11 Jun 1987		Hugo Hawksley Fitzthomas Summerson	21 Jul 1950
9 Apr 1992		Neil Francis Gerrard	3 Jul 1942
6 May 2010		Stella Judith Creasy	1977
		WALTHAMSTOW EAST
14 Dec 1918		Louis Stanley Johnson  [kt 1920]	11 Oct 1869	30 Nov 1937	68
29 Oct 1924		Sir Hamar Greenwood,1st baronet,later
		[1937] 1st Viscount Greenwood	7 Feb 1870	10 Sep 1948	78
30 May 1929		Harry Wright Wallace	11 Sep 1885	30 Apr 1973	87
27 Oct 1931		Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp	5 May 1897	25 Aug 1976	79
26 Jul 1945		Harry Wright Wallace	11 Sep 1885	30 Apr 1973	87
26 May 1955		John Edgar Harvey	24 Apr 1920	13 Jan 2008	87
31 Mar 1966		William Oscar James Robinson	20 Mar 1909	18 Oct 1968	59
27 Mar 1969		Robert Michael Conal McNair-Wilson  [kt 1988]	12 Oct 1930	28 Mar 1993	62
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		WALTHAMSTOW WEST
14 Dec 1918		Charles Jesson	1 Jun 1862	21 Sep 1926	64
15 Nov 1922		Valentine la Touche McEntee,later [1951] 1st
		Baron McEntee	16 Jan 1871	11 Feb 1953	82
29 Oct 1924		Horace Evelyn Crawfurd	13 Jan 1881	14 Mar 1958	77
30 May 1929		Valentine la Touche McEntee,later [1951] 1st
		Baron McEntee	16 Jan 1871	11 Feb 1953	82
23 Feb 1950		Clement Richard Attlee,later [1955] 1st Earl
		Attlee	3 Jan 1883	8 Oct 1967	84
1 Mar 1956		Edward Charles Redhead	8 Apr 1902	15 Apr 1967	65
21 Sep 1967		Frederick John Silvester	20 Sep 1933
18 Jun 1970		Eric Petro Deakins	7 Oct 1932
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		WALTON (LIVERPOOL)
25 Nov 1885		John George Gibson	13 Feb 1846	28 Jun 1923	77
3 Feb 1888		Miles Walker Mattinson  [kt 1922]	26 Dec 1854	29 Feb 1944	89
Jul 1892		James Henry Stock	17 Dec 1855	14 Jun 1907	51
16 Jan 1906		Frederick Edwin Smith,later [1918] 1st baronet
		and [1922] 1st Earl of Birkenhead	12 Jul 1872	30 Sep 1930	58
14 Dec 1918		Harry Warden Stanley Chilcott  [kt 1922]	11 Mar 1871	8 Mar 1942	70
30 May 1929		Reginald Purbrick	2 Feb 1877	6 Nov 1950	73
26 Jul 1945		James Haworth	10 Nov 1896	16 Dec 1976	80
23 Feb 1950		Kenneth Pugh Thompson,later [1963]
		1st baronet	24 Dec 1909	4 Jan 1984	74
15 Oct 1964		Eric Samuel Heffer	12 Jan 1922	27 May 1991	69
4 Jul 1991		Peter Kilfoyle	9 Jun 1946
6 May 2010		Steven Philip Rotheram	4 Nov 1961
		WALWORTH
28 Nov 1885		Lewis Henry Isaacs	3 Jan 1830	17 Oct 1908	78
		For further information on this MP,see
		the note at the foot of this page
Jul 1892		William Saunders	1823	1 May 1895	71
14 May 1895		James Bailey  [kt 1905]	10 Nov 1840	12 Oct 1910	69
13 Jan 1906		Charles James O'Cahan O'Donnell	28 May 1850	3 Dec 1934	84
15 Jan 1910		James Arthur Dawes	16 Jun 1866	14 Nov 1921	55
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		WANDSWORTH
25 Nov 1885		Henry Kimber,later [1904] 1st baronet	Jul 1834	18 Dec 1923	89
12 Jun 1913		Samuel Samuel	7 Apr 1855	23 Oct 1934	79
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1918
		SEE "BALHAM & TOOTING","CLAPHAM",
		"PUTNEY","STREATHAM" AND
		"WANDSWORTH CENTRAL"
		WANDSWORTH CENTRAL
14 Dec 1918		Sir John Norton Norton-Griffiths,later [1922]
		1st baronet	13 Jul 1871	27 Sep 1930	59
		For further information on this MP,see the note
		attached to the page containing details of his
		baronetcy
29 Oct 1924		Sir Henry Jackson,later [1935] 1st baronet	22 Aug 1875	23 Feb 1937	61
30 May 1929		Archibald George Church	7 Sep 1886	23 Aug 1954	67
27 Oct 1931		Sir Henry Jackson,1st baronet	22 Aug 1875	23 Feb 1937	61
29 Apr 1937		Harry Louis Nathan,later [1940] 1st
		Baron Nathan	2 Feb 1889	23 Oct 1963	74
22 Jun 1940		Ernest Bevin	9 Mar 1881	14 Apr 1951	69
23 Feb 1950		Harold Richard Adams	8 Oct 1912	25 Jun 1978	65
26 May 1955		Michael Henry Colin Hughes-Young,later
		[1964] 1st Baron St.Helens	28 Oct 1912	27 Dec 1980	68
15 Oct 1964		David Leigh Kerr	25 Mar 1923	12 Jan 2009	85
18 Jun 1970		Thomas Michael Cox	19 Jan 1930
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED FEB 1974
		WANSBECK (NORTHUMBERLAND)
9 Dec 1885		Charles Fenwick	5 May 1850	20 Apr 1918	67
29 May 1918		Robert Mason	17 Dec 1857	1 Aug 1927	69
15 Nov 1922		George Henry Warne	15 Dec 1881	24 Dec 1928	47
13 Feb 1929		George William Shield	24 Mar 1876	1 Dec 1935	59
27 Oct 1931		Bernard Cruddas	1 Jan 1882	23 Dec 1959	77
29 Jul 1940		Robert Donald Scott  [kt 1955]	13 Nov 1901	18 Jun 1974	72
26 Jul 1945		Alfred Robens,later [1961] Baron Robens
		of Woldingham [L]	18 Dec 1910	27 Jun 1999	88
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1950
		BUT REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983		John Thompson	27 Aug 1928	Jul 2011	82
1 May 1997		Denis Murphy	2 Nov 1948
6 May 2010		Ian Lavery	6 Jan 1963
		WANSDYKE (AVON)
9 Jun 1983		Jack Heywood Aspinwall	5 Feb 1933
1 May 1997		Dan Norris	28 Jan 1960
		NAME ALTERED TO "SOMERSET
		NORTH EAST" 2010
		WANSTEAD & WOODFORD
28 Feb 1974		Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin,later [1987]
		Baron Jenkin of Roding [L]	7 Sep 1926
11 Jun 1987		James Norwich Arbuthnot	4 Aug 1952
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1997
		WANTAGE (OXFORDSHIRE)
9 Jun 1983		Robert Victor Jackson	24 Sep 1946
5 May 2005		Edward Henry Butler Vaizey	5 Jun 1968
		WAREHAM (DORSET)
17 Apr 1660		George Pitt  (to 1679)	9 May 1625	27 Jul 1694	69
		Robert Culliford  (to 1679)	22 Feb 1617	10 Feb 1698	80
4 Apr 1661		George Pitt  (to 1679)	9 May 1625	27 Jul 1694	69
		Robert Culliford  (to 1679)	22 Feb 1617	10 Feb 1698	80
		Robert Lawrence
		Double return between Culliford and Lawrence.
		Culliford seated 16 May 1661
18 Feb 1679		Thomas Erle  (to 1698)	c 1650	23 Jul 1720
		George Savage	17 Apr 1636	c Sep 1683	47
17 Mar 1685		George Ryves	18 Oct 1627	18 Mar 1689	61
2 May 1689		Thomas Skinner	10 Mar 1662	21 Oct 1732	70
20 Feb 1690		William Okeden	c 1662	26 Sep 1718
25 Oct 1695		Thomas Trenchard  (to Jan 1701)	14 Feb 1672	16 Jan 1703	30
2 Aug 1698		George Pitt  (to Nov 1702)  [at the general	18 Jun 1663	28 Feb 1735
		election in Jul 1702,Pitt was also returned
		for Hampshire,for which he chose to sit]
10 Jan 1701		Thomas Erle  [he was also returned for	c 1650	23 Jul 1720
		Portsmouth,for which he chose to sit]
5 Mar 1701		Sir Edward Ernle,3rd baronet	c 1673	31 Jan 1729
26 Nov 1701		Thomas Erle  (to 1718)	c 1650	23 Jul 1720
24 Nov 1702		Sir Josiah Child,2nd baronet	c 1668	20 Jan 1704
22 Feb 1704		Sir Edward Ernle,3rd baronet	c 1673	31 Jan 1729
15 May 1705		George Pitt   [at the general election in	18 Jun 1663	28 Feb 1735
		Oct 1710,Pitt was also returned for
		Hampshire,for which he chose to sit]
13 Dec 1710		Sir Edward Ernle,3rd baronet	c 1673	31 Jan 1729
1 Sep 1713		George Pitt   [at the general election in	18 Jun 1663	28 Feb 1735
		Feb 1715,Pitt was also returned for Hampshire,
		for which he chose to sit]
18 Apr 1715		George Pitt  (to 1722)	after 1691	Oct 1745
28 Mar 1718		Henry Drax	c 1693	24 May 1755
31 Mar 1722		Sir Edward Ernle,3rd baronet  (to 26 Feb 1729)	c 1673	31 Jan 1729
		Joseph Gascoigne		1 Sep 1728
12 Feb 1729		Nathaniel Gould  (to 1734)	c 1697	30 Mar 1738
26 Feb 1729		Thomas Tower	c 1698	2 Sep 1778
4 May 1734		Henry Drax  (to 1748)	c 1693	24 May 1755
		John Pitt	c 1706	Feb 1787
2 Jul 1747		Thomas Erle Drax	c 1721	Dec 1789
		[Both sitting members (Henry Drax and Thomas
		Erle Drax) were unseated on petition in
		favour of John Pitt and Robert Banks
		Hodgkinson 26 Jan 1748]
26 Jan 1748		John Pitt	c 1706	Feb 1787
		Robert Banks Hodgkinson  (to 1754)	c 1721	11 Nov 1792
25 Jan 1751		Henry Drax	c 1693	24 May 1755
19 Apr 1754		John Pitt	c 1706	Feb 1787
		William Augustus Pitt   (to 1761)	c 1728	29 Dec 1809
		Henry Drax	c 1693	24 May 1755
		Thomas Erle Drax	c 1721	Dec 1789
		Double return. Henry Drax and William
		Augustus Pitt declared elected 30 Dec 1754
24 Nov 1755		Edward Drax	c 1726	Apr 1791
27 Mar 1761		Thomas Erle Drax	c 1721	Dec 1789
		John Pitt	c 1706	Feb 1787
18 Mar 1768		Ralph Burton		29 Sep 1768
		Robert Palk,later [1782] 1st baronet	16 Dec 1717	29 Apr 1798	80
		(to Oct 1774)
16 Nov 1768		Whitshed Keene	c 1731	27 Feb 1822
28 Jan 1774		Thomas de Grey,later [1781] 2nd Baron
		Walsingham	14 Jul 1748	16 Jan 1818	69
8 Oct 1774		William Gerard Hamilton	28 Jan 1729	16 Jul 1796	67
		Christopher D'Oyly	c 1717	19 Jan 1795
9 Sep 1780		John Boyd,later [1800] 2nd baronet	27 Oct 1750	20 May 1815	64
		Thomas Farrer  (to 1790)	4 Feb 1744	12 Mar 1797	53
1 Apr 1784		Charles Lefebure		after 1817
15 Jul 1786		John Calcraft	16 Oct 1765	11 Sep 1831	65
		For further information on the death of this
		MP, see the note at the foot of this page
21 Jun 1790		Lord Robert Spencer  (to 1799)	8 May 1747	23 Jun 1831	84
		Richard Smith	15 May 1734	3 Jul 1803	69
27 May 1796		Charles Rose Ellis,later [1826] 1st Baron Seaford	19 Dec 1771	1 Jul 1845	73
		[he was also returned for Seaford,for
		which he chose to sit]
1 Nov 1796		Sir Godfrey Webster,4th baronet  (to 1800)	25 Dec 1747	3 Jun 1800	52
1 Mar 1799		Joseph Chaplin Hankey  (to 1802)	c 1754	7 Apr 1803
16 Jun 1800		John Calcraft  (to 1806)	16 Oct 1765	11 Sep 1831	65
6 Jul 1802		Andrew Strahan  (to 1807)	c 1749	25 Aug 1831
3 Nov 1806		Jonathan Raine	21 Jan 1763	14 May 1831	68
7 May 1807		Sir Granby Thomas Calcraft	c 1767	20 Aug 1820
		John William Ward,later [1827] 1st Earl
		of Dudley  (to 1812)	9 Aug 1781	6 Mar 1833	51
20 Apr 1808		Sir Samuel Romilly	1 Mar 1757	2 Nov 1818	61
10 Oct 1812		Robert Gordon	1786	16 May 1864	77
		Theodore Henry Broadhead	3 Dec 1767	12 Dec 1820	53
17 Jun 1818		John Calcraft  (to 1831)	16 Oct 1765	11 Sep 1831	65
		Thomas Denman,later [1834] 1st Baron Denman	23 Feb 1779	22 Sep 1854	75
7 Mar 1820		John Hales Calcraft	23 Sep 1796	13 Mar 1880	83
9 Jun 1826		Charles Baring Wall	1 May 1795	14 Oct 1853	58
31 Jul 1830		James Ewing	11 Jan 1784	18 Dec 1853	69
2 May 1831		Granby Hales Calcraft	18 Jan 1800	16 Jan 1855	54
		Charles Wood [kt 1856],later [1866] 1st
		Viscount Halifax	20 Dec 1800	8 Aug 1885	84
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1832
12 Dec 1832		John Hales Calcraft	23 Sep 1796	13 Mar 1880	83
30 Jun 1841		John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax	6 Oct 1800	7 Jan 1887	86
28 Mar 1857		John Hales Calcraft	23 Sep 1796	13 Mar 1880	83
29 Apr 1859		John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax	6 Oct 1800	7 Jan 1887	86
13 Jul 1865		John Hales Montagu Calcraft	4 May 1831	1 Dec 1868	37
23 Dec 1868		John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax	6 Oct 1800	7 Jan 1887	86
5 Apr 1880		Montague John Guest	29 Mar 1839	9 Nov 1909	70
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1885
		WARLEY
1 May 1997		John Francis Spellar	5 Aug 1947
		WARLEY EAST
28 Feb 1974		Andrew Matthew William Faulds	1 Mar 1923	31 May 2000	77
		COMBINED WITH "WARLEY WEST"
		TO FORM "WARLEY" 1997
		WARLEY WEST
28 Feb 1974		Peter Kingsley Archer,later [1992] Baron
		Archer of Sandwell [L]	20 Nov 1926	14 Jun 2012	85
9 Apr 1992		John Francis Spellar	5 Aug 1947
		COMBINED WITH "WARLEY EAST"
		TO FORM "WARLEY" 1997
		WARRINGTON (LANCASHIRE)
13 Dec 1832		Edmund George Hornby	16 Nov 1799	27 Feb 1865	65
7 Jan 1835		John Ireland Blackburne	26 May 1783	27 Jan 1874	90
29 Jul 1847		Gilbert Greenall,later [1876] 1st baronet	May 1806	10 Jul 1894	88
18 Nov 1868		Peter Rylands	18 Jan 1820	8 Feb 1887	67
5 Feb 1874		Sir Gilbert Greenall,1st baronet	May 1806	10 Jul 1894	88
3 Apr 1880		John Gordon McMinnies	17 May 1817	1 Feb 1890	72
24 Nov 1885		Sir Gilbert Greenall,1st baronet	May 1806	10 Jul 1894	88
Jul 1892		Robert Pierpont	8 Jun 1845	22 Jan 1932	86
15 Jan 1906		Arthur Henry Crosfield,later [1915] 1st
		baronet	5 Apr 1865	22 Sep 1938	73
		For further information on this MP,see the note
		at the foot of the page which contains details
		of his baronetcy
Dec 1910		Harold Smith  [kt 1921]	18 Apr 1876	10 Sep 1924	48
15 Nov 1922		Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid	20 Apr 1895	26 Mar 1977	81
6 Dec 1923		Charles Dukes,later [1947] 1st Baron Dukeston	28 Oct 1881	14 May 1948	66
29 Oct 1924		Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid	20 Apr 1895	26 Mar 1977	81
30 May 1929		Charles Dukes,later [1947] 1st Baron Dukeston	28 Oct 1881	14 May 1948	66
27 Oct 1931		Noel Barre Goldie  [kt 1945]	26 Dec 1882	4 Jun 1964	81
26 Jul 1945		Edward Porter	28 Jul 1880	31 Aug 1960	80
23 Feb 1950		Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan	11 Sep 1885	7 May 1956	70
26 May 1955		Edith Clara Summerskill,later [1961]
		Baroness Summerskill [L]	19 Apr 1901	4 Feb 1980	78
20 Apr 1961		William Thomas Williams  [kt 1976]	22 Sep 1915	28 Feb 1986	70
16 Jul 1981		Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle,later [1997]
		Baron Hoyle [L]	17 Feb 1930
		CONSTITUENCY SPLIT INTO NORTH &
		SOUTH DIVISIONS 1983
		WARRINGTON NORTH
9 Jun 1983		Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle,later [1997]
		Baron Hoyle [L]	17 Feb 1930
1 May 1997		Helen Mary Jones	24 Dec 1954
		WARRINGTON SOUTH
9 Jun 1983		Mark Carlisle,later [1987] Baron Carlisle
		of Bucklow [L]	7 Jul 1929	14 Jul 2005	76
11 Jun 1987		Christopher John Butler	12 Aug 1950
9 Apr 1992		Michael Thomas Hall	20 Sep 1952
1 May 1997		Helen Mary Southworth	13 Nov 1956
6 May 2010		David John Mowat	20 Feb 1957
		WARWICK (WARWICKSHIRE)
30 Mar 1660		Sir Clement Throckmorton  (to 1664)	c 1630	10 Nov 1663
		John Rous	c 1618	2 Nov 1680
26 Mar 1661		Henry Puckering	c 1638	by Mar 1664
28 Mar 1664		Fulke Greville,later [1677] 5th Baron Brooke	1643	22 Oct 1710	67
		Sir Francis Compton  (to 1679)	c 1629	20 Dec 1716
30 May 1677		Robert Digby,3rd Baron Digby [I]	30 Apr 1654	29 Dec 1677	23
4 Feb 1678		Sir John Bowyer,2nd baronet	25 Apr 1653	18 Jul 1691	38
6 Feb 1679		Sir Henry Puckering	13 Apr 1618	22 Jan 1701	82
		Sir John Clopton	14 Oct 1638	13 Apr 1719	80
29 Aug 1679		Thomas Lucy  (to 1685)	c 1655	1 Nov 1684
		Richard Booth	c 1620	22 Nov 1692
11 Feb 1681		Thomas Coventry,later [1687] 5th Baron
		Coventry and [1697] 1st Earl of Coventry	1637	15 Jul 1699	62
		(to 1689)
14 Mar 1685		Simon Digby,4th Baron Digby [I]	18 Jul 1657	19 Jan 1686	28
10 Jan 1689		William Colemore	c 1649	16 Jul 1723
		William Digby,5th Baron Digby [I]   (to 1698)	20 Feb 1661	27 Nov 1752	91
29 Oct 1695		Francis Greville	1 Jul 1667	11 Oct 1710	43
25 Jul 1698		Robert Greville	19 Apr 1674	6 Jul 1699	25
		Sir Thomas Wagstaffe  (to Nov 1701)	1633	22 Jan 1709	75
4 Dec 1699		Algernon Greville	c 1677	28 Apr 1720
16 Jan 1701		Francis Greville  (to 1710)	1 Jul 1667	11 Oct 1710	43
24 Nov 1701		Algernon Greville	c 1677	28 Apr 1720
9 May 1705		Dodington Greville  (to 1727)	1679	11 Mar 1738	58
13 Dec 1710		Charles Leigh	28 Mar 1686	28 Jul 1749	63
27 Aug 1713		William Colemore  (to 1722)	24 Jan 1682	1 Nov 1722	40
22 Nov 1722		Sir William Keyt,3rd baronet  (to 1735)	8 Jul 1688	Sep 1741	53
18 Aug 1727		William Bromley	c 1701	12 Mar 1737
		[Following the general election in Apr 1734,
		both members (Keyt and Bromley) were
		unseated on petition in favour of Thomas
		Archer and Henry Archer 25 Feb 1735]
25 Feb 1735		Thomas Archer,later [1747] 1st Baron Archer	21 Jul 1695	19 Oct 1768	73
		Henry Archer  (to May 1768)	18 Nov 1700	16 Mar 1768	67
		[At the general election held on 16 Mar 1768,
		he was again returned but died the same day]
5 May 1741		Wills Hill,later [1742] 2nd Viscount Hillsborough [I],
		[1751] 1st Earl of Hillsborough [I] and [1789] 1st
		Marquess of Downshire [I]	30 May 1718	7 Oct 1793	75
9 Dec 1756		John Spencer,later [1765] 1st Earl Spencer	19 Dec 1734	31 Oct 1783	48
27 Mar 1761		Hamilton Boyle,styled Viscount Dungarvan,
		later [1762] 6th Earl of Cork and 6th Earl of
		Orrery	3 Feb 1730	17 Jan 1764	33
13 Dec 1762		Paul Methuen	16 May 1723	22 Jan 1795	71
16 Mar 1768		George Greville,styled Baron Greville,later
		[1773] 2nd Earl of Warwick  (to Jan 1774)	16 Sep 1746	2 May 1816	69
20 May 1768		Paul Methuen  (to Oct 1774)	16 May 1723	22 Jan 1795	71
21 Jan 1774		Charles Francis Greville  (to 1790)	12 May 1749	23 May 1809	60
7 Oct 1774		Robert Fulke Greville	3 Feb 1751	27 Apr 1824	73
12 Sep 1780		Robert Ladbroke	c 1739	1 Jul 1814
17 Jun 1790		Charles George Perceval,later [1784] 1st Baron
		Arden [I] and [1802] 1st Baron Arden  (to 1796)	1 Oct 1756	5 Jul 1840	83
		Henry Gage	4 Mar 1761	29 Jan 1808	46
18 Jan 1792		George Villiers  (to 1802)	23 Nov 1759	21 Mar 1827	67
27 May 1796		Samuel Robert Gaussen	27 Feb 1759	14 Aug 1812	53
6 Jul 1802		Charles Mills  (to 1826)	13 Jul 1755	29 Jan 1826	70
		Henry Richard Greville,styled Baron Brooke,
		later [1816] 3rd Earl of Warwick and 3rd Earl
		Brooke	29 Mar 1779	10 Aug 1853	74
17 May 1816		Sir Charles John Greville  (to 1831)	5 Apr 1780	2 Dec 1836	56
11 Feb 1826		John Tomes  (to 1832)	28 Mar 1760	31 Jan 1844	83
4 May 1831		Edward Bolton King  (to Jul 1837)	15 Jul 1800	23 Mar 1878	77
12 Dec 1832		Sir Charles John Greville    [His election was	1780	c Nov 1836	56
		declared void 15 May 1833. The writ for the
		second seat was suspended until Jan 1835]
7 Jan 1835		Sir Charles John Greville	1780	c Nov 1836	56
23 Aug 1836		Charles John Canning,later [1859] 1st Earl
		Canning	14 Dec 1812	17 Jun 1862	49
28 Mar 1837		William Collins  (to 1852)
25 Jul 1837		Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas	1806	21 Feb 1887	80
7 Jul 1852		George William John Repton  (to 1868)	1818	30 Aug 1906	88
		Edward Greaves	21 Sep 1803	6 Jul 1879	75
13 Jul 1865		Arthur Wellesley Peel,later [1895] 1st
		Viscount Peel  (to 1885)	3 Aug 1829	24 Oct 1912	83
17 Nov 1868		Edward Greaves	21 Sep 1803	6 Jul 1879	75
3 Feb 1874		George William John Repton	1818	30 Aug 1906	88
		NAME ALTERED TO "WARWICK &
		LEAMINGTON" 1885
		WARWICK & LEAMINGTON
24 Nov 1885		Arthur Wellesley Peel,later [1895] 1st
		Viscount Peel	3 Aug 1829	24 Oct 1912	83
23 May 1895		Alfred Lyttelton	7 Feb 1857	5 Jul 1913	56
16 Jan 1906		Thomas Henry Devereux Berridge  [kt 1912]	6 Jul 1857	24 Oct 1924	67
18 Jan 1910		Ernest Murray Pollock [kt 1917],later [1922] 1st
		baronet and [1936] 1st Viscount Hanworth	25 Nov 1861	22 Oct 1936	74
6 Dec 1923		Robert Anthony Eden [KG 1954],later [1961]
		1st Earl of Avon	12 Jun 1897	14 Jan 1977	79
7 Mar 1957		John Gardiner Sumner Hobson  [kt 1962]	1912	4 Dec 1967	55
28 Mar 1968		Dudley Gordon Smith  [kt 1983]	14 Nov 1926
1 May 1997		James Andrew Plaskitt	23 Jun 1954
6 May 2010		Christopher White	11 Apr 1972
		WARWICKSHIRE
23 Apr 1660		Thomas Archer	14 Jan 1619	25 Oct 1685	66
		George Browne	c 1615	early 1661
c Apr 1661		Sir Robert Holte,2nd baronet	c 1625	3 Oct 1679
		Sir Henry Puckering	13 Apr 1618	22 Jan 1701	82
27 Feb 1679		Sir Edward Boughton,2nd baronet	22 Sep 1628	2 Feb 1681	52
		Robert Burdett,later [1696] 3rd baronet	11 Jan 1640	18 Jan 1716	76
28 Feb 1681		Sir Richard Newdigate,2nd baronet	4 May 1644	4 Jan 1710	65
		Thomas Mariet	24 Feb 1631	Apr 1691	60
23 Mar 1685		Sir Charles Holte,3rd baronet	22 Mar 1649	20 Jun 1722	73
		Sir Richard Verney  (to 1690)	28 Jan 1622	18 Jul 1711	89
14 Jan 1689		Sir Richard Newdigate,2nd baronet	4 May 1644	4 Jan 1710	65
24 Feb 1690		Andrew Archer	2 Aug 1659	31 Dec 1741	82
		William Bromley	31 Aug 1663	13 Feb 1732	68
3 Aug 1698		Sir John Mordaunt,5th baronet  (to 1715)	by 1649	6 Sep 1721
		Sir Charles Shuckburgh,2nd baronet	Nov 1659	2 Sep 1705	45
28 Nov 1705		Andrew Archer	2 Aug 1659	31 Dec 1741	82
25 Oct 1710		James Compton,styled Baron Compton later
		[1727] 5th Earl of Northampton	2 May 1687	3 Oct 1754	67
31 Jan 1712		Sir William Boughton,4th baronet	15 May 1663	22 Jul 1716	53
9 Sep 1713		Andrew Archer  (to 1722)	2 Aug 1659	31 Dec 1741	82
9 Feb 1715		William Peyto  (to 1734)	by 1698	11 Jan 1734
28 Mar 1722		Robert Digby	c 1692	19 Apr 1726
11 May 1726		Edward Digby  (to 1746)	c 1693	2 Oct 1746
6 Feb 1734		Sir Charles Mordaunt,6th baronet  (to 1774)	c 1697	11 Mar 1778
24 Dec 1746		William Craven,later [1764] 5th Baron Craven	19 Sep 1705	17 Mar 1769	63
6 Feb 1765		William Throckmorton Bromley	c 1726	3 Mar 1769
29 Mar 1769		Sir Thomas George Skipwith,4th baronet	c 1735	28 Jan 1790
		(to 1780)
20 Oct 1774		Sir Charles Holte,6th baronet	c 1721	13 Mar 1782
27 Sep 1780		Sir Robert Lawley,5th baronet	22 Mar 1736	11 Mar 1793	56
		Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh
		(Shuckburgh-Evelyn from 1793),6th baronet	23 Aug 1751	11 Aug 1804	52
		(to 1804)
30 Mar 1793		Sir John Mordaunt,7th baronet	9 May 1734	18 Nov 1806	72
12 Jul 1802		Dugdale Stratford Dugdale  (to 1831)	c 1773	5 Nov 1836
1 Oct 1804		Charles Mordaunt,later [1806] 8th baronet	5 Jan 1771	30 May 1823	52
7 Nov 1820		Francis Lawley,later [1834] 7th baronet	13 Sep 1782	30 Jan 1851	68
		(to 1832)
10 May 1831		Sir Grey Skipwith,8th baronet	17 Sep 1771	13 May 1852	80
		COUNTY SPLIT INTO NORTH &
		SOUTH DIVISIONS 1832
		WARWICKSHIRE NORTH
26 Dec 1832		Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot,1st baronet	21 Feb 1783	3 Feb 1847	63
		William Stratford Dugdale  (to 1847)	1 Apr 1801	15 Sep 1871	70
10 Mar 1843		Charles Newdigate Newdegate  (to 1885)	14 Jul 1816	9 Apr 1887	70
26 Jul 1847		Richard Spooner	28 Jul 1783	24 Nov 1864	81
13 Dec 1864		William Bromley Davenport	20 Aug 1821	15 Jun 1884	62
1 Jul 1884		Philip Albert Muntz,later [1902] 1st
		baronet	5 Jan 1839	21 Dec 1908	69
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "NUNEATON","RUGBY"
		"STRATFORD-ON-AVON" AND "TAMWORTH"
		CONSTITUENCY REVIVED 1983
9 Jun 1983		Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude	4 Jul 1953
9 Apr 1992		Michael O'Brien	19 Jun 1954
6 May 2010		Daniel Alan Byles	24 Jun 1974
		WARWICKSHIRE SOUTH
20 Dec 1832		Sir Grey Skipwith,8th baronet	17 Sep 1771	13 May 1852	80
		Sir George Philips,1st baronet	24 Mar 1766	3 Oct 1847	81
14 Jan 1835		Sir John Mordaunt,9th baronet  (to 1845)	24 Aug 1808	27 Sep 1845	37
		Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon	1786	Jun 1836	49
1 Jul 1836		Evelyn John Shirley  (to 1849)	26 Apr 1788	31 Dec 1856	68
5 Nov 1845		George Guy Brooke,styled Baron Brooke,
		later [1853] 4th Earl of Warwick  (to 1853)	28 Mar 1818	2 Dec 1893	75
7 Jun 1849		Heneage Finch,styled Baron Guernsey,later
		[1859] 6th Earl of Aylesford  (to 1857)	24 Dec 1824	10 Jan 1871	46
3 Dec 1853		Evelyn Philip Shirley  (to 1865)	22 Jan 1812	19 Sep 1882	70
3 Apr 1857		Edward Bolton King	15 Jul 1800	23 Mar 1878	77
3 May 1859		Sir Charles Mordaunt,10th baronet  (to 1868)	28 Apr 1836	15 Oct 1897	61
24 Jul 1865		Henry Christopher Wise  (to 1874)	7 Oct 1806	15 Jan 1883	76
21 Nov 1868		John Hardy,later [1876] 1st baronet	23 Feb 1809	9 Jul 1888	79
14 Feb 1874		Hugh de Grey Seymour,styled Earl of
		Yarmouth,later [1884] 6th Marquess of
		Hertford	22 Oct 1843	23 Mar 1912	68
		Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot,2nd baronet
		(to 1885)	16 Nov 1810	1 Feb 1892	81
8 Apr 1880		Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh	1 Sep 1851	Sep 1884	33
		For further information on the death of this MP,
		see the note at the foot of this page
10 Nov 1884		Sampson Samuel Lloyd	10 Nov 1820	3 Mar 1889	68
		SPLIT INTO VARIOUS DIVISIONS 1885
		SEE "NUNEATON","RUGBY"
		"STRATFORD-ON-AVON" AND "TAMWORTH"
		WASHINGTON AND SUNDERLAND WEST
6 May 2010		Sharon Hodgson	1 Apr 1966
		WATERFORD
1801		William Congreve Alcock	c 1771	4 Sep 1813
24 Jul 1803		Sir Simon John Newport,1st baronet	24 Oct 1756	9 Feb 1843	86
		REPRESENTATION INCREASED
		TO TWO MEMBERS 1832
21 Dec 1832		Henry Winston Barron,later [1841] 1st baronet	15 Oct 1795	19 Apr 1872	76
		(to 1841)
		William Christmas		22 Mar 1867
17 Jan 1835		Thomas Wyse	9 Dec 1791	15 Apr 1862	70
12 Jul 1841		William Christmas		22 Mar 1867
		William Morris Reade	1787	Apr 1847
		[Both members were unseated on petition
		in favour of Sir Henry Winston Barron and
		Thomas Wyse 13 Jun 1842]
13 Jun 1842		Sir Henry Winston Barron ,1st baronet	15 Oct 1795	19 Apr 1872	76
		Thomas Wyse	9 Dec 1791	15 Apr 1862	70
4 Aug 1847		Thomas Meagher  (to 1857)
		Daniel O'Connell		14 Jun 1897
1 Mar 1848		Sir Henry Winston Barron ,1st baronet	15 Oct 1795	19 Apr 1872	76
15 Jul 1852		Robert Keating
2 Apr 1857		John Aloysius Blake  (to 1869)	1826	22 May 1887	60
		Michael Dobbyn Hassard	1817	7 Apr 1869	51
13 Jul 1865		Sir Henry Winston Barron,1st baronet	15 Oct 1795	19 Apr 1872	76
20 Nov 1868		James Delahunty  (to 1874)	1808	15 Jun 1885	76
22 Nov 1869		Sir Henry Winston Barron,1st baronet	15 Oct 1795	19 Apr 1872	76
		[His election was declared void 31 Jan 1870]
25 Feb 1870		Ralph Bernal Osborne	26 Mar 1808	4 Jan 1882	73
6 Feb 1874		Richard Power  (to 1891)	1851	29 Nov 1891	40
		Purcell O'Gorman	c 1819	24 Nov 1888
Apr 1880		Edmund Leamy	1848	10 Dec 1904	56
		REPRESENTATION REDUCED
		TO ONE MEMBER 1885
17 Dec 1891		John Edward Redmond	1 Sep 1856	6 Mar 1918	61
22 Mar 1918		William Archer Redmond	1886	17 Apr 1932	45
		CONSTITUENCY  ABOLISHED 1922
		WATERFORD COUNTY
1801		John Beresford  (to 1805)	14 Mar 1738	5 Nov 1805	67
		Richard Power	c 1747	18 Mar 1814
21 Jul 1802		Edward Lee  (to Nov 1806)	1761	Sep 1837	76
6 Jan 1806		John Claudius Beresford  (to 1811)	23 Oct 1766	20 Jul 1846	79
18 Nov 1806		Richard Power  (to 1814)	c 1747	Mar 1814
28 Jun 1811		Sir William Carr Beresford,later [1823] 1st
		Viscount Beresford  (to May 1814)	2 Oct 1768	8 Jan 1854	85
25 Apr 1814		Richard Power  (to 1830)	c 1775	12 Mar 1834
25 May 1814		Lord George Thomas Beresford	12 Feb 1781	26 Oct 1839	58
1 Jul 1826		Henry Villiers-Stuart,later [1839] 1st
		Baron Stuart de Decies	8 Jun 1803	23 Jan 1874	70
2 Mar 1830		Lord George Thomas Beresford  (to 1831)	12 Feb 1781	26 Oct 1839	58
13 Aug 1830		Daniel O'Connell	8 Aug 1775	15 May 1847	71
11 May 1831		Sir Richard Musgrave,3rd baronet	6 Jan 1790	7 Jul 1859	69
		Robert Power	c 1793	30 Nov 1842
26 Dec 1832		John Matthew Galwey	c 1790	1842
		Sir Richard Keane,2nd baronet	Mar 1780	16 Feb 1855	74
19 Jan 1835		Sir Richard Musgrave,3rd baronet  (to 1837)	6 Jan 1790	7 Jul 1859	69
		Patrick Power		c Sep 1835
21 Sep 1835		William Villiers Stuart  (to 1847)	21 Aug 1804	7 Nov 1873	69
9 Aug 1837		John Power	4 Feb 1816
24 Aug 1840		Robert Shapland Carew,later [1856] 2nd Baron
		Carew	28 Jan 1818	8 Sep 1881	63
11 Aug 1847		Nicholas Mahon Power  (to 1859)	1787	1873	86
		Robert Keating
26 Jul 1852		Sir John Esmonde,10th baronet  (to 1877)	16 May 1826	9 Dec 1876	50
12 May 1859		Walter Cecil Talbot	27 Mar 1834	13 May 1904	70
18 Jul 1865		John Henry de la Poer Beresford,styled Earl of
		Tyrone,later [1866] 5th Marquess of Waterford	21 May 1844	23 Oct 1895	51
31 Dec 1866		Edmond de la Poer	6 Mar 1841	30 Aug 1915	74
5 Jul 1873		Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart	13 Sep 1827	12 Oct 1895	68
		For further information on this MP, see the
		note at the foot of this page
10 Feb 1874		Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresfird,
		later [1916] 1st Baron Beresford  (to 1880)	10 Feb 1846	6 Sep 1919	73
24 Jan 1877		James Delahunty	1808	15 Jun 1885	76
9 Apr 1880		Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart  (to 1885)	13 Sep 1827	12 Oct 1895	68
		John Aloysius Blake	1826	22 May 1887	60
25 Aug 1884		Patrick Joseph Power	17 Nov 1850	8 Jan 1913	62
		SPLIT INTO EAST & WEST DIVISIONS 1885,
		BUT RE-UNITED 1918
14 Dec 1918		Charles William St.John Burgess	8 Jul 1874	7 Jul 1922	47
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1922
		WATERFORD COUNTY EAST
5 Dec 1885		Patrick Joseph Power	17 Nov 1850	8 Jan 1913	62
15 Feb 1913		Martin Joseph Murphy	1862	4 Sep 1919	57
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		WATERFORD COUNTY WEST
2 Dec 1885		Jasper Douglas Pyne	1847	14 Nov 1888	41
		For further information on this MP, see
		the note at the foot of this page
14 Nov 1888		Vacant
24 Feb 1890		Alfred John Webb	1834	30 Jul 1908	74
11 Sep 1895		James John O'Shee	3 Nov 1866	1 Jan 1946	79
		CONSTITUENCY ABOLISHED 1918
		George Galway Mills, MP for Wallingford 1804-1806, Mitchell 1807-1808 and
		Winchelsea 1818-1820
		Mills was a member of a family which had long settled on the island of St.Kitts in the West
		Indies, although he spent much of his time in England. Having attempted and failed to find
		a seat in the House of Commons during the 1790s, he went back to St.Kitts, returning to
		England in 1804, when he was able to secure a return for Wallingford.
		During this period, the decline in trade with the West Indies left Mills deeply in debt. In order
		to redeem his situation, he obtained a promise that he should be included in a mission to
		Russia, where his language skills could be used to advantage, but the promise was never
		fulfilled. He was subsequently offered a post in the West Indies, but before he could take it
		up he had been arrested for debt.
		At the general election in 1807 Mills was returned for the seat of Mitchell, but he resigned
		it shortly afterward, and went abroad to Prussia as English agent. He remained there for
		some years, during which period he was ordered by the King of Prussia to investigate the
		disappearance of the British envoy, Benjamin Bathurst (one of the greatest unsolved
		mysteries in history). After leaving Prussia, he spent some time in Switzerland and France
		before he was again returned to Parliament for Winchelsea in 1818. After failing to be re-
		elected in 1820, he eventually obtained the appointment of Registrar of the Supreme Court
		of New South Wales and accordingly migrated to Sydney where he spent the remainder of
		his life.
		On 14 February 1828, apparently driven insane by the prospect of having to pay a debt
		for which he was the guarantor, he committed suicide in Sydney. The following report of
		the subsequent inquest appeared in the 'Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser'
		on 15 February 1828:-
		'Shortly after 12 o'clock, yesterday, the Coroner received the melancholy intelligence that
		George Galway Mills, Esq., J.P. and Registrar of the Supreme Court, had put an end to his
		existence, by shooting himself through the head. An Inquest was immediately convened at
		the Bricklayers' Arms public-house, Market-street, when the following circumstances were
		detailed in evidence:-
		'Doctor Bland stated, that from the manner of the deceased, he had some strong suspicions
		of his intentions, and expressed his fears on the subject to Mr. John Blaxland; that he met the
		deceased this morning in the street, when he appeared more calm and collected than when he
		last saw him; has considered him in a deranged state at intervals for some time past,
		particularly for the last fortnight; witness called upon the deceased last night, and found him
		more composed, and left him inclined to sleep, but the circumstance by which he was most
		forcibly struck with the deceased's intention to make an attempt upon his life, was a wish that
		he expressed to take a quantity of laudanum, from which witness dissuaded him; the ball
		passed through his head.
		'Mr. Iredale, of George-street, stated that the deceased called at his shop yesterday morning;
		he appeared very pleasant, and enquired it witness had any fire-arms; witness told him he had
		not, and the deceased went away.
		Mr. Mackaness deposed, that about a month ago, shortly after the deceased resigned his
		situation as Secretary to the Turf Club, he observed him a good deal depressed; he found a
		bottle of laudanum in his writing desk this morning; witness considered him for some time past
		to have had considerable aberration of mind, but to have been much as usual in his manner;
		the deceased received a letter about a month ago which operated much upon his mind. He
		seemed anxious to destroy himself.
		'Charles Hawthorne stated, that he was servant to the deceased; about nine o'clock this
		morning, witness laid the deceased's breakfast as usual; Dr. Bland called soon after; the
		deceased went out soon after breakfast, saying that he should return shortly, and desired the
		bed not to be made, as he should lie down when he came back; he came home in about an
		hour, and a few minutes before twelve o'clock witness heard the report of a pistol, but
		thought at the time it was a boy firing a popgun with powder; Mrs. Moore ran in saying, "My
		God, Charles! What is that?" Witness replied, he thought it came from Mrs. Moore's yard;
		witness then went into the deceased's room, and found him lying on his face, with a pistol in
		his hand, and the blood gushing from him; he did not appear well for some time past; he
		seemed very uneasy yesterday morning. The pistol was here produced. Witness could not
		swear it was the pistol with which he shot himself' there were two; the deceased told
		witness yesterday morning, that he security for a considerable sum, four thousand pounds,
		which he was afraid he would have to pay; witness thinks this circumstance preyed upon
		his mind; thinks he bought the pistols this morning; it was impossible that any one could
		have got away from the premises from the time he heard the report till he discovered the
		deceased dead' Dr. Cook was the first who saw him; about four days ago deceased told
		witness of the money transaction.
		'Bernard Fitzpatrick, a constable, stated that he saw the deceased yesterday in the street; he
		appeared in a state of evident derangement, so much so, that witness could not help taking
		notice of it; about four o'clock yesterday, as witness was coming from the Supreme Court, he
		saw the deceased near Park-street, and was quite surprised at his haggard appearance; he
		had an umbrella in his hand, which he swung about with considerable violence, and was talking
		very loudly to himself; witness heard him say, as he passed, "that must be it;" he saluted
		witness in his usual way, but he seemed gnawing the handle of the umbrella as he went by.
		'Dr. Cook stated, that shortly after twelve o'clock yesterday, a man came for Dr. Bland, who
		was not at home; witness went with the man, and on being shewn into the room where the
		deceased lay, found him on his face, with a pistol in his right hand; a profusion of blood flowed
		from him; the pistol was loaded with ball; the deceased had his spectacles on, and was quite
		dead when witness saw him.
		Mr. M'Donald, gunsmith, of George-street, stated that the deceased came to his shop
		yesterday, in the morning, and purchased a pair of pistols; witness wanted him to have a
		better pair, but he said they were for his servant, as he was going into the country; he asked
		for balls, but took some buck shot.
		Dr. Bland, being again examined, stated that, since Monday last, there was so much agitation
		of the mind, that it verged on insanity; since that period, the deceased appeared more and
		more depressed; witness was fearful the deceased would commit suicide; his mind was very
		much agitated yesterday; the fits of insanity or morbid state of the brain were very constant,
		and witness has no doubt that deceased was insane; his purchasing the pistols was what a
		physician would call monomania, or rational on one point.
		'The Jury found a Verdict, that the deceased had come by his death from the discharge of a
		pistol in a fit of insanity.'
		Lewis Henry Isaacs, MP for Walworth 1885-1892
		In the late 1870s Isaacs, at that time a married man, employed a young girl named Elizabeth
		Vincent as governess to his children. After a couple of years, Elizabeth left his employment
		and went to Germany. Isaacs' wife died in 1882 and he re-established contact with
		Elizabeth and she ultimately had a child by him in April 1887. However, in March 1890,
		Elizabeth Vincent was charged with the attempted murder of Lewis Isaacs.
		The following edited account of the trial is taken from "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" of 16
		March 1890:-
		'Elizabeth Vincent, 27, …… was indicted at the Old Bailey, on Tuesday, for feloniously
		shooting at Mr. Lewis Henry Isaacs, M.P., with intent to murder him, and, on a second
		count, with an intent to do him grievous bodily harm……
		'The prisoner, whose real name was Fanny Elizabeth Cornish, was 27 years of age….and
		when she was about 15 years of age she entered the service of the prosecutor….as nursery
		governess to his son and daughter. Prosecutor had been a widower since January, 1882.
		The prisoner left his service in October, 1881, and owing to the kindness of a lady she was
		sent to Germany so that she might improve herself there. She returned from Germany about
		April, 1884. There was no doubt that after her return to England the prosecutor met her on
		various occasions, and ultimately an improper intercourse took place between them, and in
		April, 1887, she was delivered of a female child.
		'Lewis Henry Isaacs then went into the witness box and deposed: I went down to the
		house at Richmond on Oct. 8, between half-past four and five. I knocked at the front door,
		which was opened by the prisoner. She closed the door after I entered, and I went into the
		dining-room. She followed me. When she got in she locked the door, took the key out, went
		to the cabinet, and deposited the key in it. She then produced a revolver, and said, "You
		and I are alone in this house, and if you wish to leave it alive you must sign that paper"
		(pointing to the paper on the table). I read the paper, and in reference to one part of it I
		said: "I would rather suffer a thousand deaths than sign it." That was the opening
		paragraph, alleging that I had seduced her with violence. I tore it off immediately…..After
		that she asked me to sign a declaration that I had seduced her, and I said: "I cannot see
		what benefit that would be to you, but if you wish it you shall have it," and I thereupon
		complied with her request on a separate piece of paper, and I signed the piece of paper
		demanding the £20,000. She then brought three pieces of paper out of the drawer, and on
		each sheet was a penny stamp. She said, "If you wish to see your daughter alive, and care
		for the prestige of your name, you must fill in the cheques." I then saw the character of
		the plot, and I felt there was nothing left for me to do except to close with her, and take
		the pistol from her, and get out of the house.
		'I got up and moved towards her. She moved as I came near her. My leg somehow hit
		against the table, and it caught and pinned her, so to speak, between the table and the
		sideboard. I then noticed the pistol on a line with my head. I was standing about five feet
		from the pistol……The pistol was discharged, and I received the bullet in my arm, a little
		below the wrist. I reached her, and took hold of her with my left hand, and exclaimed,
		"I am shot."  She said, "Where?" I showed her my wound, from which blood was oozing
		freely, and then she commenced to scream and was very hysterical. At that moment there
		was a violent kicking at the door, and a demand on the part of someone to open. Prisoner
		fetched the key, and unlocked the door, and a young man then entered the room and
		demanded to know who I was, and what I was doing. I replied that he had better ask the
		lady. Then I began to feel a little faint from loss of blood, and I asked for some brandy-and-
		water. Prisoner gave me some, and I then left. The young man accompanied me to the
		railway station. On the way….I called on the surgeon….and showed him the injury……'
		In his summing up, the Lord Chief Justice remarked that there was nothing to show whether
		the pistol went off accidentally or not. The jury took the hint and, after only 20 minutes,
		returned a verdict of 'not guilty.' When the verdict was announced, some of the spectators
		burst into applause, which prompted the Lord Chief Justice to remark that anyone who
		applauded  would have reason to repent it for a week or a fortnight.
		John Calcraft, MP for Wareham 1786-1790, 1800-1806 and 1818-1831,
		Rochester 1806-1818 and Dorset 1831
		Calcraft was the son of another John Calcraft, who sat for Calne 1766-1768 and
		Rochester 1768-1772.
		The following account of the inquest caused by Calcraft's suicide is taken from the "Leeds
		Mercury" of 17 September 1831:-
		'On Monday night, at eight o'clock, Mr. H. Gale and a highly respectable Jury assembled at
		the dwelling-house of John Calcraft, Esq., M.P., to investigate the cause of the death of
		that gentleman, who put a period to his existence under the circumstances detailed in the
		following evidence. The lamentable event involved the family of the deceased in the utmost
		despair and agitation, and the Jury, at the suggestion of the Coroner, viewed the body two
		at a time.
		'George Rennison being sworn, stated, I am footman to the deceased. Had been in his
		employ nine years. The deceased had only been three months in the house, No. 17,
		Whitehall-place. On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, I was in the kitchen, when Miss
		Arabella Calcraft, the daughter of the deceased, came home from church, and went, as I
		thought, to the drawing room, but not finding the deceased there, she called me, and
		asked, "Where is my father?" I replied, "I suppose he is in his bedroom." She then inquired
		"how long it was since I had seen him?" I replied, "three quarters of an hour." She then
		proceeded to his bed-room door on the same landing-place, and knocked, but it was fast,
		and she received no answer.  She then proceeded to his dressing room, which adjoins his
		sleeping room. I followed her, and we removed some things which were placed near the
		bed-room door, which enabled us to enter it. On going into the room Miss Calcraft shrieked
		out "George, George," and we advanced about two paces into the room. I then saw the
		deceased lying on the floor, with his face downward, in a complete pool of blood. Miss
		Calcraft threw herself on the body of the deceased, and cried out "Father, Father," five or
		six times. She then directed me to run with all possible despatch and fetch somebody. I
		went instantly, leaving her kneeling by her father. When I left the house there was no one
		below but the footman, the porter having just gone out. As I went down stairs, I met the
		footman coming up, but did not speak to him, and proceeded out in search of assistance,
		and in the course of a few minutes, Mr. Freeman, a medical gentleman, arrived; but prior to
		his arrival, I had returned and got into the house, having taken the precaution not to shut
		the doors. I went instantly into the bed room of the deceased, and found Miss Calcraft still
		kneeling over the remains of the deceased, screaming and crying. She requested me to lift
		the body on the bed, which I was unable to do. I think I was absent about two minutes,
		and when I returned the footman was in the hall. As soon as Mr. Freeman arrived, he
		proceeded upstairs to the deceased's bed room. Miss Calcraft was still there, and it was
		with extreme difficulty that Mr. Freeman prevailed upon her to retire. Mr. Freeman then
		examined the body, and said, that the deceased was quite dead, and consequently he
		could do nothing for him. Whilst the examination was going on, Miss Calcraft again entered
		the apartment, and reluctantly quitted it again; as soon as she had gone out, I and Mr.
		Freeman lifted the body on the bed. On lifting him up, I saw a dreadful gash in his throat,
		and he had a bloody razor firmly grasped in his right hand. The deceased was attired in his
		dressing jacket, black waistcoat, and pantaloons, stockings and shoes. His cravat was on
		the bed, and his watch lying on a small dressing table. It is my own conviction that he
		committed the act himself.
		'CORONER - Have you observed any difference in his behaviour lately?
		'Witness - I have seen a great difference within the last three or four months; he appeared
		low and dejected, which I observed to my fellow servants.
		CORONER - Did the loss of his situation, as Paymaster of the forces, appear to affect him?
		'Witness - I cannot say.
		'Alexander Philip Wilson Philip, M.D. of Cavendish-square, examined - I have been in
		attendance upon Miss Calcraft for some months past, when, during my visits, I had an
		opportunity of seeing the deceased, who appeared low-spirited, which increased to such a
		degree that about three weeks ago he was confined in his bed with slow nervous fever and
		aberration of mind. I prescribed for him, and in a short time the fever left him, and the
		aberration of mind settled down into a deep melancholy, when I cautioned Miss Arabella
		Calcraft to look well after him, lest she should do some mischief. - The last time I saw the
		deceased was on Friday, and we was then certainly labouring under great depression of
		spirits, and this great depression of spirits, when compared to his late aberration of mind,
		leads me to the conclusion that at the time he committed the act he laboured under a
		momentary return of that aberration of intellect, and that in fact he was at the time of an
		unsound mind. I feel convinced that the deceased committed the act himself, though in
		conversation with me he frequently assured me that he never should commit such an act.
		'JUROR - Did he ever feel disappointment at not being elevated to the peerage?
		'Witness - I believe he never had any expectation of being raised to the peerage. He had
		latterly fancied that he was continually watched by a man sitting on the top of a house.
		The deceased was a thorough believer in religion.
		'The Coroner having summed up the evidence, the Jury, at twelve o'clock, returned a
		verdict - "That the deceased committed the act himself, he being at the time in a state of
		temporary mental derangement." '
		Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh, MP for Warwickshire South 1880-1884
		Gilbert Leigh was killed when he fell into a canyon while staying on a ranch in Wyoming.
		The following report appeared in "The Birmingham Daily Post" on 25 September 1884:-
		'A telegram from New York announces that the Hon. Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh, M.P. for
		South Warwickshire, who has been on a visit to the United States on a hunting expedition,
		has been killed in Wyoming. He had gone out to the Big Horn Mountains in search of game.
		and had been missing for ten days. Search parties were organised to scour the locality, and
		on Monday last the remains of the unfortunate gentleman were found at the foot of a
		precipice, death having undoubtedly resulted from injuries inflicted by the fall. It is
		conjectured that he missed his footing while following game.
		'...........Mr. Leigh was at Stoneleigh Abbey [the family seat of his father, Lord Leigh] down
		to the 8th of last month [August], when he took part in a cricket match which was played
		on the lawn in front of the abbey by two teams, one representing the Warwickshire clergy
		and the other the laity. On the 12th he sailed from Liverpool.....for the United States, on
		a visit to his brother, the Hon. Dudley Leigh, who is the proprietor of a somewhat extensive
		ranch there. Beyond the fact that he arrived safely at his destination, nothing more appears
		to have been heard of him till yesterday, when the melancholy news arrived of his sudden
		death. It appears that Mr. Leigh had paid several visits to his brother since his settlement
		in Wyoming, and was highly delighted with the country. The district is noted for its
		mountainous character, Fremont's Peak rising to a height of 13,570 feet and Laramie Peak
		to 10,000 feet, as well as for its remarkably narrow gorges, which are locally described as
		"canons." The sides of these rise almost perpendicularly, sometimes several thousand feet.
		As one telegram speaks of Mr. Leigh's mangled remains, it is thought that he had fallen down
		one of these gorges, in which case death would certainly be instantaneous.'
		The place where Gilbert Leigh died is 15 miles east of the town of Ten Sleep, which is
		located in the Big Horn Basin. At the confluence of Leigh Creek (named after Gilbert Leigh)
		and Ten Sleep Creek there is a promontory called the Leigh Creek Vee. About 200 feet
		below the rim of the canyon, and about 1000 feet from the canyon's floor is a stone
		monument topped with a cross which was erected in 1889 in memory of Gilbert Leigh.
		Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, MP for co. Waterford 1873-1874 and 1880-1885
		Villiers-Stuart claimed to be the legitimate son of Henry Villiers-Stuart, Baron Stuart de
		Decies. After the death of his alleged father in January 1874, Villiers-Stuart set about
		attempting to prove his claim.
		His claim was heard by the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords in August 1876.
		His case was that he was the son of Henry Villiers-Stuart and Theresia Pauline de Ott, a
		native of Vienna, whom he alleged had been married in 1826, not once, but three times -
		firstly in the Roman Catholic chapel in Spanish Place, in London; secondly, in Scotland, and,
		thirdly, by a Protestant minister in Dublin. No documentary proof of such marriages was
		available, and Villiers-Stuart therefore had to rely upon the evidence of 'habit and repute.'
		Although such evidence was abundant after 1839, little, if any, existed before that time.
		Villiers-Stuart's stepsister, Baroness Leopoldine Prochazka, gave lengthy evidence
		concerning the re-marriage of her mother to Henry Villiers-Stuart and the subsequent birth
		of a step-brother.
		Another witness, the claimant's sister, by now Lady Wheeler-Cuffe, wife of Sir Charles
		Wheeler-Cuffe, 2nd baronet, confirmed the evidence of 'habit and repute.' I have been
		unable to find any further reports dealing with the eventual conclusion to this claim, other
		than that mentioned in the report of Villiers-Stuart's death, which is attached below.
		The following notice of Villiers-Stuart's death appeared in 'The Pall Mall Gazette' of
		14 October 1895:-
		We regret to announce the death by drowning of the Hon. Henry Villiers-Stuart, of
		Dromana, which occurred last evening in the Blackwater, near Villierstown [in co. Waterford
		in Ireland]. Mr. Villiers-Stuart left Youghal, at the mouth of the river, in his steam launch at
		three o'clock, arriving at Villierstown about dusk. There the launch was anchored in mid-
		stream and a boat lowered for him to land. Just as he stepped on the gunwale the boat
		capsized, and he was thrown into the water, together with two men who were in the boat.
		Mr. Villiers-Stuart, who was wearing a heavy coat, sank at once, but the two men managed
		to get ashore. The deceased was the only son of Henry, first Lord Stuart de Decies, and on
		the death of his father he claimed succession to the barony, but owing to the death of
		necessary witnesses sufficient evidence could not be obtained to substantiate it………'
		Jasper Douglas Pyne, MP for Waterford County West 1885-1888
		Pyne was the Nationalist candidate for the seat of Waterford West when, in October 1885,
		he was called to court to show cause why he should not give security to keep the peace.
		The reason for this action on the part of the authorities was that he had made a recent
		speech in which he had said that "there are two ways of treating a land-grabber - one was
		to shoot him, and the other, which he believed was the best, was to treat him with all
		charity and the cold of silence." The local magistrates, however, refused to consider the
		authorities' application and set Pyne at liberty. Needless to say, such a charge did not
		diminish Pyne's popularity with the local electors, and he won the subsequent election,
		receiving over 90% of the votes cast.
		In November 1887, Pyne was charged with "unlawfully inciting certain persons to wilfully
		resist and obstruct certain sheriffs, constables, bailiffs and other ministers of the law while
		in the execution of their duty." He did not attend the hearing, but shut himself up in an
		old ruin near his house, named Lisfinney Castle, where he was besieged by the authorities,
		since he refused to come out and be arrested. Eventually, he escaped to London, where he
		was arrested on 10 February 1888, as he was entering the House of Commons. On 14
		February, he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, which was later reduced to six
		weeks.
		On 14 November 1888, Pyne disappeared off a boat between Holyhead and Dublin. The
		following account appeared in the "Glasgow Herald" of 15 November 1888:-
		'Early yesterday morning Captain Helvennes, of the London and North-Western Company's
		steamer Shamrock, running between Dublin and Holyhead, reported on his arrival in Dublin
		that a first-class saloon passenger named Pyne, believed to be Mr. Douglas Pyne, M.P.
		for Waterford, fell overboard about midway between Holyhead and Dublin, and was drowned.
		The body has not been recovered. During the day the name of the unfortunate gentleman
		was not definitely known, but from certain facts that have been ascertained there can be
		little doubt of his being the member of Parliament. Amongst other papers supposed to belong
		to the deceased were several passes of admission to the House of Commons. A gentleman
		who travelled from London states that he was sitting during a portion of the time beside a
		passenger who answers to the description of Mr. Pyne. He did not know Mr. Pyne personally,
		but he subsequently remarked to a friend that he was speaking and acting in a very
		remarkable fashion. The occurrence may have been accidental, but it is not considered
		probable that he would fall by chance overboard, as the sea was not very rough. It is
		stated that Mr. Pyne was seen in the House of Commons a couple of days ago. He has not
		been in the Imperial Hotel, where it was customary for him to stop while in Dublin, for some
		time. A member of the Irish party, who came to Dublin by the mail steamer yesterday,
		states that Mr. Pyne was not in his place in the House of Commons on Tuesday, and it
		appears that Mr. Pyne has not been seen in London since Sunday, when he dined with a
		friend in Commercial Road East. No luggage belonging to Mr. Pyne was on the Shamrock.
		The hon. member for West Waterford was the hero of the celebrated Lisfinney Castle
		episode. After being sentenced to a term of imprisonment for intimidation he shut himself in
		an old ruin called Lisfinney Castle, which is close to his residence, near Lismore. Here he
		remained for some weeks, and defied the police to arrest him. He then escaped to London,
		but was subsequently arrested and sent to jail to serve the term of imprisonment to which
		he had been sentenced, his appeal to the County Court judge having been rejected. '
		After Pyne's disappearance, the seat of Waterford West remained vacant for 15 months,
		until a new writ for a by-election was finally issued on 14 February 1890.
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