House of Lords Leadership
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Leader of the House of Lords
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1737; d. May 7 1805
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1761 – 1805); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784 – 1805)
Whig Party
1782 – 1783
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Tory Party
1828 – 1830
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1764; d. July 17 1845
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Whig Party
1830 – 1834
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Conservative Party
1834 – 1835
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Conservative Party
1841 – 1846
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Conservative Party
1852
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Conservative Party
1858 – 1859
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Conservative Party
1866 – 1868
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1876 – 1880
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
Conservative Party
1885 – 1886
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
Conservative Party
1886 – 1892
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 7 1847; d. May 21 1929
Noble titles: Earl of Rosebery in the Peerage of Scotland (1868 – 1929); Baron Rosebery in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1929); Earl of Midlothian in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1911 – 1929)
Liberal Party
1894 – 1895
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
Conservative Party
1895 – 1902
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
Conservative Party
1902 – 1903
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 14 1845; d. June 3 1927
Noble titles: Marquess of Lansdowne (1866 – 1927)
Conservative Party
1903 – 1905
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
Liberal Party
1905 – 1908
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 13 1878; d. February 10 1949
Noble titles: Marquess of Londonderry (1915 – 1949)
Conservative Party
1935
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
Conservative Party
1935 – 1938
Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1876; d. October 11 1947
Titles of nobility: Viscount Caldecote in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1939 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1940
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
Conservative Party
1940
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
Conservative Party
1942 – 1945
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
Conservative Party
1951 – 1957
Chief Whip of the Government in the House of Lords
Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 31 1868; d. May 6 1938
Titles of nobility: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1938)
Conservative Party
1915 – 1916
George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan, 1st Baron Bingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1860; d. April 20 1949
Titles of nobility: Earl of Lucan in the Peerage of Ireland (1914 – 1949); Baron Bingham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1949).
Conservative Party
1929
George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan, 1st Baron Bingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1860; d. April 20 1949
Titles of nobility: Earl of Lucan in the Peerage of Ireland (1914 – 1949); Baron Bingham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1949).
Conservative Party
1931 – 1940
House of Commons Leadership
Speaker of the House of Commons
Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1814; d. March 14 1892
Noble titles: Viscount Hampden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1884 – 1892); Baron Dacre in the Peerage of England (1890 – 1892).
Non-Partisan
1872 – 1884
Betty Boothroyd
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 8 1929; d. February 26 2023.
Non-Partisan
1992 – 2000
Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 10 1957.
Non-Partisan
2019 – present
Leader of the House of Commons
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Tory Party
1783 – 1801
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Tory Party
1804 – 1806
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1764; d. July 17 1845
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Whig Party
1806 – 1807
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Tory Party
1828 – 1830
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1834
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Conservative Party
1834 – 1835
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1835 – 1841
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Conservative Party
1841 – 1846
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1846 – 1852
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1852
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1852 – 1855
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
Note: Lord Palmerston was a member of the Irish peerage, and therefore was eligible to sit in the House of Commons.
Whig Party
1855 – 1858
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1858 – 1859
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
Note: Lord Palmerston was a member of the Irish peerage, and therefore was eligible to sit in the House of Commons.
Liberal Party
1859 – 1865
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1865 – 1866
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1866 – 1868
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1874 – 1876
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1880 – 1885
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1886
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
Conservative Party
1891 – 1892
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1892 – 1894
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
Conservative Party
1895 – 1905
Herbert Henry Asquith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1852; d. February 15 1928
Titles of nobility: Earl of Oxford and Asquith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1928)
Liberal Party
1908 – 1916
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
Conservative Party
1916 – 1921
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
Conservative Party
1922 – 1923
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1923 – 1924
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
Labour Party
1924
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1924 – 1929
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
Labour Party (1929 – 1931); National Labour Party (1931 – 1935)
1929 – 1935
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1935 – 1937
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
Conservative Party
1937 – 1940
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
Conservative Party
1940 – 1942
Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
Conservative Party
1942 – 1945
Winifred Ann Taylor
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1947.
Labour Party
1997 – 1998
William Jefferson Hague
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1961.
Conservative Party
2014 – 2015
David Roy Lidington
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1956.
Conservative Party
2016 – 2017
Jacob William Rees-Mogg
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1969.
Conservative Party
2019 – 2022
Penelope Mary “Penny” Mordaunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
Conservative Party
2022 – 2024
Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
Thérèse Anne Coffey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1971.
Conservative Party
2015 – 2016
Chief Whip of the Government in the House of Commons
Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
Conservative Party
1955 – 1959
Winifred Ann Taylor
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1947.
Labour Party
1998 – 2001
Gavin Alexander Williamson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1976.
Conservative Party
2016 – 2017
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Rosalie “Rosie” Winterton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1958.
Labour Party
2010
Shadow Chief Whip of the House of Commons
Rosalie “Rosie” Winterton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1958.
Labour Party
2010 – 2016
Current Constituencies
Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South
Stephen Mark Flynn
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1988.
Scottish National Party
2019 – present
Member of Parliament for Ashford
Damian Howard Green
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1956.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne
William Maxwell Aitken
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1879; d. June 9 1964
Titles of nobility: Baron Beaverbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1917 – 1964).
Conservative Party
1910 – 1916
Angela Rayner
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1980.
Labour Party
2015 – present
Member of Parliament for Aylesbury
Charles Compton Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1793; d. November 12 1863
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1858 – 1863).
Whig Party
1814 – 1818
David Roy Lidington
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1956.
Conservative Party
1992 – 2019
Bassetlaw
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
Labour Party (1929 – 1931); National Labour Party (1931 – 1935)
1929 – 1935
Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle
Charles Frederick Wardle
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 23 1939.
Conservative Party
1983 – 2001
Gregory Leonard George “Greg” Barker
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1966.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2015
Birmingham Edgbaston
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
Conservative Party
1929 – 1940
Birmingham Ladywood
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
Conservative Party
1918 – 1929
Member of Parliament for Blackburn
Philip Snowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 18 1864; d. May 15 1937.
Labour Party
1906 – 1918
Member of Parliament for Bolton West
Winifred Ann Taylor
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1947.
Labour Party
1974 – 1983
Bootle
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
Conservative Party
1911 – 1918
Member of Parliament for Brent East
Kenneth Robert “Ken” Livingstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 17 1945.
Labour Party
1987 – 2001
Member of Parliament for Bristol Central
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1876; d. October 11 1947
Titles of nobility: Viscount Caldecote in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1939 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1918 – 1929
Carla Suzanne Denyer
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1985.
Green Party of England and Wales
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Cheltenham
Sir Willoughby Jones, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 24 1820; d. August 21 1884
Conservative Party
1847 – 1848
Vere Brabazon Ponsonby
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1880; d. March 10 1956
Titles of nobility: Earl of Bessborough in the Peerage of Ireland (1920 – 1956); Viscount Duncannon in the Peerarge of Ireland (1920 – 1956); Baron Bessborough in the Peerage of Ireland (1920 – 1956); Baron Duncannon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1920 – 1956); Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby in the Peerage of Great Britain (1920 – 1956); Earl of Bessborough in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1956)
Conservative Party
1910
Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green
Sir George Iain Duncan Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1954.
Conservative Party
1997 – present
Chippenham
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Tory Party
1812 – 1817
Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet
Sir Sydney Brookes Chapman
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1935; d. October 9 2014.
Conservative Party
1979 – 2005
Theresa Anne Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1968.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2024
Daniel Mark “Dan” Tomlinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 1992.
Labour Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Chorley
Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 10 1957.
Labour Party
1997 – present
Member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster
Peter Leonard Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1934; d. May 13 2023.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2001
City of Durham
Sir Arthur Edward Middleton, 7th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1838; d. April 1 1933
Liberal Party
1874 – 1880
Member of Parliament for Clacton
Nigel Paul Farage
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1964.
Reform UK
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Colne Valley
Philip Snowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 18 1864; d. May 15 1937.
Labour Party
1922 – 1931
Combined English Universities
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 21 1865; d. April 18 1940
Liberal Party
1918 – 1926
Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central
Rosalie “Rosie” Winterton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1958.
Labour Party
1997 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Dover
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Titles of nobility: Baron Skelmersdale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1828 – 1853)
Note: He changed his last name from Wilbraham-Bootle to Bootle-Wilbraham in 1814.
Tory Party
1820 – 1828
Vere Brabazon Ponsonby
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1880; d. March 10 1956
Titles of nobility: Earl of Bessborough in the Peerage of Ireland (1920 – 1956); Viscount Duncannon in the Peerarge of Ireland (1920 – 1956); Baron Bessborough in the Peerage of Ireland (1920 – 1956); Baron Duncannon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1920 – 1956); Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby in the Peerage of Great Britain (1920 – 1956); Earl of Bessborough in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1956)
Conservative Party
1913 – 1920
John Jacob Astor V
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 20 1886; d. July 19 1971
Titles of nobility: Baron Astor of Hever in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1956 – 1971)
Conservative Party
1922 – 1945
Charles Brett Anthony “Charlie” Elphicke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1971.
Conservative Party (2010 – 2017); Independent (2017 – 2018); Conservative Party (2018 – 2019); Independent (2019)
2010 – 2019
Edinburgh West
William Waldegrave Palmer, Viscount Wolmer
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1859; d. February 26 1942
Titles of nobility: Earl of Selborne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1895 – 1942)
Liberal Unionist Party
1892 – 1895
Member of Parliament for Glenrothes and Mid Fife
Richard James Baker
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1974.
Labour Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Godalming and Ash
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
Conservative Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Guildford
David Arthur Russell Howell
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 18 1936.
Conservative Party
1966 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye
Amber Augusta Rudd
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1963.
Conservative Party (2010 – 2019); Independent (2019)
2010 – 2019
Member of Parliament for Havant
David Linsay Willetts
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 9 1956.
Conservative Party
1992 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Hendon
Matthew James Offord
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1969.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Hertsmere
Sir Oliver James Dowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1978.
Conservative Party
2015 – present
Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 2 1962.
Labour Party
2015 – present
Huddersfield
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Viscount Goderich
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
Whig Party
1853 – 1857
Member of Parliament for Huntingdon
William Henry Fellowes
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 15 1769; d. August 23 1837
Tory Party
1796 – 1807
John Major
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1943.
Conservative Party
1983 – 2001
Member of Parliament for Islington North
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1949.
Labour Party (1983 – 2024); Independent (2024 – present)
1983 – present
Lewes
Henry Bouverie William Brand
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1814; d. March 14 1892
Noble titles: Viscount Hampden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1884 – 1892); Baron Dacre in the Peerage of England (1890 – 1892).
Whig Party (1852 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1868)
1852 – 1868
Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead
John Robert Cryer
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1964.
Labour Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Macclesfield
David Henry Rutley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1961.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Juan Timothy Charles “Tim” Roca
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 14 1985.
Labour Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Maidenhead
Theresa Mary May
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1956.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington
Keith John Charles Bradley
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 17 1950.
Labour Party
1987 – 2005
John Sampson Macfarlane Leech
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1971.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – 2015
Newark
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Tory Party (1832 – 1834); Conservative Party (1834 – 1845)
1832 – 1845
Member of Parliament for Newbury
Sir Anthony Richard Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1901; d. February 12 1966.
Conservative Party
1945 – 1964
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Edward Wilbraham-Bootle
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Titles of nobility: Baron Skelmersdale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1828 – 1853)
Note: He changed his last name from Wilbraham-Bootle to Bootle-Wilbraham in 1814.
None
1796 – 1812
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 8 1786; d. February 27 1861
Noble titles: Baron Gower in the Peerage of England (1826 – 1861); Duke of Sutherland in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1833 – 1861); Earl of Sutherland in the Peerage of Scotland (1839 – 1861)
Whig Party
1812 – 1815
Member of Parliament for North Down
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 5 1864; d. June 22 1922
Military ranks: Promoted to major-general, 1913. Promoted to lieutenant-general, 1917. Promoted to general, 1918. Promoted to field marshal, 1919.
Ulster Unionist Party
1922
Sylvia Eileen, Lady Hermon
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 11 1955.
Ulster Unionist Party (2001 – 2010); Independent (2010 – 2019)
2001 – 2019
North Northumberland
Henry George Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1802; d. October 9 1984
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1845 – 1894)
Whig Party
1832 – 1841
Member of Parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup
Sir Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
Conservative Party
1983 – 2001
James Peter Brokenshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 8 1968; d. October 7 2021.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2021
Peterborough
William George Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1815; d. June 26 1882
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1863 – 1882).
Whig Party
1847 – 1852
Member of Parliament for Plymouth Moor View
John Luther “Johnny” Mercer
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1981.
Conservative Party
2015 – 2024
Poole
Lieutenant-General Sir John Byng
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1772; d. June 3 1860
Titles of nobility: Baron Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1835 – 1853); Earl of Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1847 – 1860).
Military ranks: Promoted to major-general, 1813. Promoted to lieutenant-general, 1825. Promoted to general, 1841. Promoted to field marshal, 1855.
Whig Party
1831 – 1835
George Stevens Byng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 8 1806; d. October 29 1886
Titles of nobility: Baron Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1853 – 1874); Earl of Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1860 – 1886).
Whig Party
1835 – 1837
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North
Sarah Louise McCarthy-Fry
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 4 1955.
Labour Party
2005 – 2010
Penelope Mary “Penny” Mordaunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Amanda Martin
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 23 ??.
Labour Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Preston
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Whig Party
1826 – 1830
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
Conservative Party
1865 – 1868
Sir George Frederick Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1872; d. July 1 1938
Conservative Party
1910 – 1922
Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1911; d. June 6 1968.
Conservative Party
1940 – 1945
Member of Parliament for Richmond and Northallerton
Rishi Sunak
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 12 1980.
Conservative Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge
Philip Hammond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1955.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2019
Member of Parliament for St Albans
Kerry Patrick Pollard
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 27 1944.
Labour Party
1997 – 2005
Daisy Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1981.
Liberal Democrats
2019 – present
Sheffield Hallam
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 21 1865; d. April 18 1940
Liberal Party
1916 – 1918
Shrewsbury
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1841 – 1847
Member of Parliament for South Dorset
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
Conservative Party
1929 – 1941
Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1906; d. February 25 1995
Titles of nobility: Earl of Sandwich in the Peerage of England (1962 – 1964).
Conservative Party
1941 – 1962
James Philip “Jim” Knight
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 6 1965.
Labour Party
2001 – 2010
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1958.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for South West Wiltshire
Andrew William Murrison
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1961.
Conservative Party
2010 – present
Stafford
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 30 1751; d. July 7 1816
Whig Party
1780 – 1806
Member of Parliament for Staffordshire Moorlands
Dame Karen Anne Bradley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1970.
Conservative Party
2010 – present
Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde
James Mark Dakin Purnell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1970.
Labour Party
2001 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Stone, Great Wyrley, and Penkridge
Sir Gavin Alexander Williamson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1976.
Conservative Party
2024 – present
Stroud
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1835 – 1841
Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal
Thérèse Anne Coffey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1971.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Tamworth
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel (1815 – 1830)
Tory Party (1830 – 1834); Conservative Party (1834 – 1846); Peelites (1846 – 1850)
1830 – 1850
Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 19 1964.
Conservative Party
2015 – 2023
Warwick and Leamington
Sir Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
Conservative Party
1923 – 1957
Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield
Grant Shapps
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1968.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2024
Member of Parliament for West Bromwich
Betty Boothroyd
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 8 1929; d. February 26 2023.
Labour Party
1973 – 1974
Windsor
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Member of Parliament for Witham
Dame Priti Sushil Patel
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1972.
Conservative Party
2010 – present
Member of Parliament for Witney
Douglas Richard Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1930.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1997
David William Donald Cameron
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1966.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2016
Wycombe
William Petty Fitzmaurice
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1737; d. May 7 1805
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1761 – 1805); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784 – 1805)
Whig Party
1760 – 1761
Charles Grey
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1804; d. March 31 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1761 – 1805); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784 – 1805)
Whig Party
1832 – 1837
Yeovil
Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1880; d. September 26 1923
Conservative Party
1918 – 1923
Defunct Constituencies
Aberavon
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
Labour Party
1922 – 1929
Aberdeenshire
George John James Hamilton-Gordon, Lord Haddo
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1816; d. March 22 1864
Titles of nobility: Earl of Aberdeen in the Peerage of Scotland (1860 – 1864)
Peelites (1854 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1860)
1854 – 1860
Appleby
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Tory Party
1781 – 1784
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1764; d. July 17 1845
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Whig Party
1807
Argyllshire
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 6 1845; d. May 2 1914
Noble titles: Duke of Argyll (1900 – 1914)
Liberal Party
1868 – 1878
Bandon
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1826 – 1830
Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen
Helen Joanne “Jo” Cox
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 22 1974; d. June 16 2016.
Labour Party
2015 – 2016
Member of Parliament for Bedwellty
Neil Gordon Kinnock
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1942.
Labour Party
1970 – 1983
Member of Parliament for Belper
George Alfred George-Brown
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 2 1914; d. June 2 1985.
Labour Party
1945 – 1970
Berkshire
Robert James Lloyd-Lindsay
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 17 1832; d. June 10 1901
Titles of nobility: Baron Wantage in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1885 – 1901)
Conservative Party
1865 – 1885
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1820; d. March 4 1894
Titles of nobility: Baron Tweedmouth in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1881 – 1894)
Whig Party
1853 – 1859
Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1820; d. March 4 1894
Titles of nobility: Baron Tweedmouth in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1881 – 1894)
Liberal Party
1859 – 1868
Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1820; d. March 4 1894
Titles of nobility: Baron Tweedmouth in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1881 – 1894)
Liberal Party
1874 – 1881
Bewdley
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1908 – 1937
Member of Parliament for Bexley
Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
Conservative Party
1950 – 1974
Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1836; d. July 2 1914
Liberal Party
1876 – 1885
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Handsworth
Sydney Brookes Chapman
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1935; d. October 9 2014.
Conservative Party
1970 – 1974
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Stechford
Roy Harris Jenkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
Labour Party
1950 – 1977
Birmingham West
Joseph Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1836; d. July 2 1914
Liberal Party (1885 – 1886); Liberal Unionist Party (1886 – 1912); Conservative Party (1912 – 1914)
1885 – 1914
Blackpool
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
Conservative Party
1885 – 1886
Member of Parliament for Bletchingley
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865.
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Thomas Hyde Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1801; d. December 3 1832.
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Bodmin
Freeman Freeman-Thomas
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1866; d. August 12 1941
Titles of nobility: Baron Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1910 – 1941); Viscount Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1924 – 1941); Earl of Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1931 – 1941); Marquess of Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1936 – 1941)
Liberal Party
1906 – 1910
Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley
George Lansbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1859; d. May 7 1940.
Labour Party
1910 – 1912
George Lansbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1859; d. May 7 1940.
Labour Party
1922 – 1940
Member of Parliament for Bristol West
William Arthur Waldegrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1946.
Conservative Party
1979 – 1997
Bromley
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
Conservative Party
1945 – 1964
Buckinghamshire
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1847 – 1876
Charles Compton Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1793; d. November 12 1863
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1858 – 1863).
Whig Party
1847 – 1857
William George Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1815; d. June 26 1882
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1863 – 1882).
Whig Party (1857 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1863)
1857 – 1863
Caernarvon Boroughs
David Lloyd George
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1863; d. March 26 1945
Titles of nobility: Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1945)
Liberal Party (1890 – 1916); Coalition Liberals (1916 – 1922); National Liberal Party (1922 – 1923); Liberal Party (1923 – 1945)
1890 – 1945
Calne
Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Shelburne
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1816; d. July 5 1866
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1836 – 1866); Baron Wycombe in the Peerage of Great Britain (1856 – 1866); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1863 – 1866)
Whig Party
1837 – 1856
Cambridge University
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Tory Party
1784 – 1806
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
Note: Lord Palmerston was a member of the Irish peerage, and therefore was eligible to sit in the House of Commons.
Whig Party
1811 – 1831
William Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 27 1808; d. December 21 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Burlington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1834 – 1891); Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1858 – 1891)
Whig Party
1829 – 1831
Cambridgeshire
Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1814; d. March 14 1892
Noble titles: Viscount Hampden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1884 – 1892); Baron Dacre in the Peerage of England (1890 – 1892).
Liberal Party
1868 – 1884
Cardiff
Ivor Churchill Guest
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1873; d. June 14 1939
Noble titles: Baron Ashby St Ledgers (1910 – 1939); Baron Wimborne (1914 – 1939); Viscount Wimborne (1918 – 1939)
Liberal Party
1906 – 1910
Cashel
Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Sir Robert Peel (1815 – 1830); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Tory Party
1809 – 1812
Chatham
George Stevens Byng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 8 1806; d. October 29 1886
Titles of nobility: Baron Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1853 – 1874); Earl of Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1860 – 1886).
Whig Party
1834 – 1835
George Stevens Byng, Viscount Enfield
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 8 1806; d. October 29 1886
Titles of nobility: Baron Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1853 – 1874); Earl of Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1860 – 1886).
Whig Party
1837 – 1852
Chertsey
George Charles Bingham, Lord Bingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1860; d. April 20 1949
Titles of nobility: Earl of Lucan in the Peerage of Ireland (1914 – 1949); Baron Bingham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1949).
Conservative Party
1904 – 1906
Member of Parliament for Chingford
George Iain Duncan Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1954.
Conservative Party
1992 – 1997
City of Chester
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1825; d. December 22 1899
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Westminster in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1869 – 1899); Duke of Westminster (1874 – 1899)
Whig Party (1847 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1869)
1847 – 1869
Norman de l’Aigle Grosvenor
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1845; d. November 21 1898
Liberal Party
1869 – 1874
City of London
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party (1841 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1861)
1841 – 1861
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 22 1808; d. June 3 1879
Note: The title of baron was a noble title from the Austrian Empire (Freiherr) that he was permitted to use by Queen Victoria. Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/19628/page/1413.
Whig Party (1847 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1868)
1847 – 1868
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 22 1808; d. June 3 1879
Note: The title of baron was a noble title from the Austrian Empire (Freiherr) that he was permitted to use by Queen Victoria. Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/19628/page/1413.
Liberal Party
1869 – 1874
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
Conservative Party
1906 – 1922
Member of Parliament for City of London and Westminster South
Peter Leonard Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1934; d. May 13 2023.
Conservative Party
1977 – 1997
Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire
William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1814; d. March 17 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Minto in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1859 – 1891)
Whig Party
1857 – 1859
Clitheroe
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Titles of nobility: Baron Skelmersdale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1828 – 1853)
Note: He changed his last name from Wilbraham-Bootle to Bootle-Wilbraham in 1814.
Tory Party
1812 – 1818
Combined Scottish Universities
John Buchan
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1875; d. February 11 1940
Titles of nobility: Baron Tweedsmuir in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1935 – 1940).
Unionist Party
1927 – 1935
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
National Labour Party
1936 – 1937
County Cavan
Sir John Young, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 31 1807; d. October 6 1876
Also known as: John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (1870 – 1876)
Other notable offices held: Governor General of Canada (1869 – 1872); Governor of New South Wales (1861 – 1867); Chief Secretary for Ireland (1853 – 1855)
Tory Party (1831 – 1834); Conservative Party (1834 – 1846); Peelites (1846 – 1855)
1831 – 1855
Member of Parliament for County Durham
John George Lambton
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 12 1792; d. July 28 1840.
Whig Party
1812 – 1828
County Fermanagh
John Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1839; d. December 2 1914
Titles of nobility: Earl Erne in the Peerage of Ireland (1885 – 1914); Viscount Erne in the Peerage of Ireland (1885 – 1914); Baron Erne in the Peerage of Ireland (1885 – 1914); Baron Fermanagh in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1885 – 1914)
Conservative Party
1880 – 1885
Member of Parliament for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
James Gordon Brown
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 20 1951.
Labour Party
2005 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Devizes
Sir Percy Angier Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 18 1864; d. June 5 1950.
Conservative Party
1924 – 1945
Devon
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Devonport
Thomas Brassey
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1836; d. February 23 1918
Noble titles: Baron Brassey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1918); Earl Brassey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1911 – 1918).
Liberal Party
1865
Devonshire South
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1832 – 1835
Member of Parliament for Dewsbury
Winifred Ann Taylor
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1947.
Labour Party
1987 – 2005
Simon Justin Reevell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1966.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Dudley South
Ian Phares Pearson
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 5 1959.
Labour Party
1997 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Dudley West
Ian Phares Pearson
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 5 1959.
Labour Party
1994 – 1997
Dulwich
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
Conservative Party
1906 – 1910
Dunbartonshire
George Keith Elphinstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1746; d. March 10 1823
Noble titles: Baron Keith in the Peerage of Ireland (1797 – 1823); Baron Keith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1801 – 1823); Viscount Keith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1823)
None
1781 – 1790
John Sinclair
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1860; d. January 11 1925
Noble titles: Baron Pentland in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1909 – 1925)
Liberal Party
1892 – 1895
Member of Parliament for Dunfermline East
James Gordon Brown
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 20 1951.
Labour Party
1983 – 2005
Dundee
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
Liberal Party
1908 – 1922
East Cumberland
George James Howard
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1843; d. April 16 1911
Noble titles: Earl of Carlisle in the peerage of England (1889 – 1911)
Liberal Party
1879 – 1880
George James Howard
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1843; d. April 16 1911
Noble titles: Earl of Carlisle in the peerage of England (1889 – 1911)
Liberal Party
1881 – 1885
East Fife
Herbert Henry Asquith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1852; d. February 15 1928
Titles of nobility: Earl of Oxford and Asquith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1928)
Liberal Party
1886 – 1918
East Gloucestershire
Robert Stayner Holford
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1808; d. 1892
Conservative Party
1854 – 1872
East Looe
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1826 – 1830
East Sussex
Charles Compton Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1793; d. November 12 1863
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1858 – 1863).
Whig Party
1832 – 1841
Lord Edward Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1838; d. May 18 1891
Liberal Party
1865 – 1868
Member of Parliament for Eccles
Ian Stewart
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1950.
Labour Party
1997 – 2010
Enniskillen
John Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1839; d. December 2 1914
Titles of nobility: Earl Erne in the Peerage of Ireland (1885 – 1914); Viscount Erne in the Peerage of Ireland (1885 – 1914); Baron Erne in the Peerage of Ireland (1885 – 1914); Baron Fermanagh in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1885 – 1914)
Conservative Party
1868 – 1880
Epping
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
Conservative Party
1924 – 1945
Fareham
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1876; d. October 11 1947
Titles of nobility: Viscount Caldecote in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1939 – 1947).
Conservative Party
1931 – 1939
Member of Parliament for Finchley
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1925; d. April 8 2013.
Conservative Party
1959 – 1992
Forfarshire
John Sinclair
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1860; d. January 11 1925
Noble titles: Baron Pentland in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1909 – 1925)
Liberal Party
1897 – 1909
Member of Parliament for Frome
Percy Angier Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 18 1864; d. June 5 1950.
Conservative Party
1918 – 1923
Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
Conservative Party
1900 – 1906
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
Unionist Party
1918 – 1923
Anas Sarwar
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1983.
Labour Party
2010 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead
Roy Harris Jenkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
Social Democratic Party
1982 – 1987
Greenock
William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1814; d. March 17 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Minto in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1859 – 1891)
Whig Party
1847 – 1852
Greenwich
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1868 – 1880
Member of Parliament for Hampstead
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
Conservative Party
1950 – 1966
Hastings
Sir Thomas Brassey
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1836; d. February 23 1918
Noble titles: Baron Brassey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1918); Earl Brassey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1911 – 1918).
Liberal Party
1868 – 1886
Freeman Freeman-Thomas
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1866; d. August 12 1941
Titles of nobility: Baron Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1910 – 1941); Viscount Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1924 – 1941); Earl of Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1931 – 1941); Marquess of Willingdon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1936 – 1941)
Liberal Party
1900 – 1906
Member of Parliament for Hedon
Thomas Hyde Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1801; d. December 3 1832.
Whig Party
1826 – 1830
Member of Parliament for Henley
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 19 1964.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2008
Hertford
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
Conservative Party
1874 – 1885
Honiton
Josiah John Guest
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 2 1785; d. November 26 1852
Whig Party
1826 – 1831
Member of Parliament for Hornchurch
John Robert Cryer
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1964.
Labour Party
1997 – 2005
James Peter Brokenshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 8 1968; d. October 7 2021.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire
William Henry Fellowes
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 15 1769; d. August 23 1837
Tory Party
1807 – 1830
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1820 – 1826
John Major
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1943.
Conservative Party
1979 – 1983
Member of Parliament for Huyton
Sir James Harold Wilson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1916; d. May 23 1995.
Labour Party
1950 – 1983
Hythe
William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1814; d. March 17 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Minto in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1859 – 1891)
Whig Party
1837 – 1841
Ilchester
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 30 1751; d. July 7 1816
Whig Party
1807 – 1812
Member of Parliament for Isle of Wight
Sir Richard Everard Webster
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1842; d. December 15 1915.
Conservative Party
1885 – 1900
Member of Parliament for Islwyn
Neil Gordon Kinnock
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1942.
Labour Party
1983 – 1995
King’s Lynn
Lord Edward Henry Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
Conservative Party
1848 – 1869
Kingston upon Hull
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Viscount Goderich
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
Whig Party
1852 – 1853
Knaresborough
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1847 – 1851
Member of Parliament for Launceston
Sir Richard Everard Webster
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1842; d. December 15 1915.
Conservative Party
1885
Leicester
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
Labour Party
1906 – 1918
Leith Burghs
Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 6 1860; d. March 30 1934
Also known as: Viscount Novar (1920 – 1934)
Liberal Party
1886 – 1914
Member of Parliament for Lewisham West
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
Conservative Party
1938 – 1945
Ludlow
Christopher John Holland-Martin
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 16 1910; d. April 5 1960
Conservative Party
1951 – 1960
Maidstone
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
Conservative Party
1837 – 1841
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 13 1878; d. February 10 1949
Noble titles: Marquess of Londonderry (1915 – 1949)
Conservative Party
1906 – 1915
Malton
William Cavendish, Lord Cavendish of Keighley
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 27 1808; d. December 21 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Burlington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1834 – 1891); Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1858 – 1891)
Whig Party
1831
Manchester East
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
Conservative Party
1885 – 1906
Manchester North West
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
Liberal Party
1906 – 1908
Manchester South
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 6 1845; d. May 2 1914
Noble titles: Duke of Argyll (1900 – 1914)
Liberal Unionist Party
1895 – 1900
Meath
Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 4 1787; d. December 6 1870
Also known as: Thomas Taylour, Viscount Headfort (1795 – 1800); Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (1800 – 1829)
Whig Party
1812 – 1830
Merthyr Tydfil
Josiah John Guest
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 2 1785; d. November 26 1852
Whig Party
1832 – 1852
Member of Parliament for Mid Oxfordshire
Douglas Richard Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1930.
Conservative Party
1974 – 1983
Midlothian
William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 9 1831; d. November 5 1914
Conservative Party
1853 – 1868
William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 9 1831; d. November 5 1914
Conservative Party
1874 – 1880
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1880 – 1895
Milborne Port
George Stevens Byng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 8 1806; d. October 29 1886
Titles of nobility: Baron Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1853 – 1874); Earl of Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1860 – 1886).
Whig Party
1830 – 1831
George Stevens Byng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 8 1806; d. October 29 1886
Titles of nobility: Baron Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1853 – 1874); Earl of Strafford in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1860 – 1886).
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Mitchell
Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Tory Party
1807
Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
Lembit Öpik
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1965.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2010
Montrose Burghs
John Morley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1838; d. September 23 1923
Titles of nobility: Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1908 – 1923)
Liberal Party
1896 – 1908
Moray and Nairn
James Gray Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 9 1897; d. February 20 1971
Titles of nobility: Viscount Stuart of Findhorn in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1959 – 1971)
Unionist Party
1923 – 1959
Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood
Edward Michael “Ed” Balls
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 25 1967.
Labour Party
2010 – 2015
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
John Morley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1838; d. September 23 1923
Titles of nobility: Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1908 – 1923)
Liberal Party
1883 – 1895
Newport, Isle of Wight
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
Whig Party
1807 – 1811
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Tory Party
1807 – 1809
Newtown
Charles Compton Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1793; d. November 12 1863
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1858 – 1863).
Whig Party
1821 – 1830
Member of Parliament for Normanton
Edward Michael “Ed” Balls
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 25 1967.
Labour Party
2005 – 2010
North Derbyshire
William Cavendish, Lord Cavendish of Keighley
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 27 1808; d. December 21 1891
Titles of nobility: Earl of Burlington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1834 – 1891); Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1858 – 1891)
Whig Party
1832 – 1834
Lord Edward Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1838; d. May 18 1891
Liberal Party
1880 – 1885
North East Lancashire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
Liberal Party
1880 – 1885
Member of Parliament for North East Somerset
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1969.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
North Lancashire
Lord Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Whig Party (1832 – 1841); Conservative Party (1841 – 1844)
1832 – 1844
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
Whig Party (1857 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1868)
1857 – 1868
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
Conservative Party
1868 – 1885
North Lonsdale
Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 31 1871; d. January 7 1946
Liberal Unionist Party (1895 – 1904); Liberal Party (1904 – 1906)
1895 – 1906
Northallerton
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Northern West Riding of Yorkshire
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1836; d. May 6 1882
Liberal Party
1865 – 1882
Northumberland
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1764; d. July 17 1845
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Whig Party
1786 – 1807
Henry George Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1802; d. October 9 1984
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1845 – 1894)
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Oldham
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
Conservative Party (1900 – 1904); Liberal Party (1904 – 1906)
1900 – 1906
Alfred Duff Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1890; d. January 1 1954
Titles of nobility: Viscount Norwich in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1954).
Conservative Party
1924 – 1929
Member of Parliament for Ormskirk
James Harold Wilson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1916; d. May 23 1995.
Labour Party
1945 – 1950
Ormskirk
Sir Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1869; d. November 4 1947
Conservative Party
1898 – 1918
Oxford University
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Tory Party
1817 – 1829
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Peelites (1847 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1865)
1847 – 1865
Paisley
Herbert Henry Asquith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1852; d. February 15 1928
Titles of nobility: Earl of Oxford and Asquith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1928)
Liberal Party
1920 – 1924
Petersfield
William Waldegrave Palmer, Viscount Wolmer
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1859; d. February 26 1942
Titles of nobility: Earl of Selborne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1895 – 1942)
Liberal Party (1885 – 1886); Liberal Unionist Party (1886 – 1892)
1885 – 1892
Plymouth
Ivor Churchill Guest
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1873; d. June 14 1939
Noble titles: Baron Ashby St Ledgers (1910 – 1939); Baron Wimborne (1914 – 1939); Viscount Wimborne (1918 – 1939)
Conservative Party (1900 – 1904); Liberal Party (1904 – 1906)
1900 – 1906
Waldorf Astor
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1879; d. September 30 1952
Titles of nobility: Viscount Astor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1919 – 1952).
Conservative Party
1910 – 1918
Plymouth Sutton
Waldorf Astor
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1879; d. September 30 1952
Titles of nobility: Viscount Astor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1919 – 1952).
Conservative Party
1918 – 1919
Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1879; d. May 2 1964
Conservative Party
1919 – 1945
Portsmouth
Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 10 1819; d. November 29 1894
Other offices held: Governor General of the Province of Canada (1861 – 1867); Governor General of Canada (1867 – 1868)
Note: As a member of the Irish peerage, Viscount Monck was eligible to sit in the House of Commons.
Whig Party
1852 – 1857
Radnor
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
Liberal Party
1869 – 1880
Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire)
William Jefferson Hague
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1961.
Conservative Party
1989 – 2015
Rishi Sunak
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 12 1980.
Conservative Party
2015 – 2024
Ripon
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
Conservative Party
1910 – 1925
Ross and Cromarty
Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 6 1860; d. March 30 1934
Also known as: Viscount Novar (1920 – 1934)
Liberal Party
1884 – 1885
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
National Labour Party
1936 – 1945
Rossendale
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
Liberal Party (1885 – 1886); Liberal Unionist Party (1886 – 1891)
1885 – 1891
Rye
Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Tory Party
1806
St Mawes
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 8 1786; d. February 27 1861
Noble titles: Baron Gower in the Peerage of England (1826 – 1861); Duke of Sutherland in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1833 – 1861); Earl of Sutherland in the Peerage of Scotland (1839 – 1861)
Whig Party
1808 – 1812
Member of Parliament for Scarborough
George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1819; d. April 3 1890.
Whig Party
1847 – 1851
George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1819; d. April 3 1890.
Whig Party
1852 – 1857
Seaham
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
Labour Party (1929 – 1931); National Labour Party (1931 – 1935)
1929 – 1935
Member of Parliament for Sedgefield
Anthony Charles Lynton “Tony” Blair
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 6 1953.
Labour Party
1983 – 2007
Member of Parliament for Sidcup
Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
Conservative Party
1974 – 1983
South Hampshire
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
Other offices held: Secretary at War (1809 – 1828); Foreign Secretary (1830 – 1834; 1835 – 1841; 1846 – 1851); Home Secretary (1852 – 1855); Leader of the Whig/Liberal Party (1855 – 1865); Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1861 – 1865); Leader of the House of Commons (1855 – 1858; 1859 – 1865); Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855 – 1858; 1859 – 1865)
Whig Party
1832 – 1835
South Lancashire
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
Liberal Party
1865 – 1868
Member of Parliament for South Longford
Dominick Edward Blake
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1833; d. March 1 1912.
Irish Parliamentary Party
1892 – 1906
South Northumberland
Edward Ridley
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 20 1843; d. October 14 1928
Conservative Party
1878 – 1880
Albert Henry George Grey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 28 1851; d. August 29 1917
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1894 – 1917)
Liberal Party
1880 – 1885
South Somerset
Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1880; d. September 26 1923
Conservative Party
1911 – 1918
Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire
Sir Gavin Alexander Williamson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1976.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for South West Surrey
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2024
Southampton
James Bruce, Lord Elgin
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1811; d. November 20 1863.
Titles of nobility: Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland (1841 – 1863); Earl of Kincardine in the Peerage of Scotland (1841 – 1863); Baron Elgin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1849 – 1863).
Conservative Party
1841 – 1842
Member of Parliament for Southwark Central
Roy Harris Jenkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
Labour Party
1948 – 1950
Staffordshire
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 8 1786; d. February 27 1861
Noble titles: Baron Gower in the Peerage of England (1826 – 1861); Duke of Sutherland in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1833 – 1861); Earl of Sutherland in the Peerage of Scotland (1839 – 1861)
Whig Party
1815 – 1820
Stamford
Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Conservative Party
1853 – 1868
Stirlingshire
Rear-Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Baron Keith
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1746; d. March 10 1823
Noble titles: Baron Keith in the Peerage of Ireland (1797 – 1823); Baron Keith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1801 – 1823); Viscount Keith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1823)
None
1796 – 1802
Stockbridge
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
Whig Party
1822 – 1826
Stockton-on-Tees
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
Conservative Party
1924 – 1929
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
Conservative Party
1931 – 1945
Sunderland
Henry George Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1802; d. October 9 1984
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1845 – 1894)
Whig Party
1841 – 1845
Sutherland
Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 2 1845; d. March 9 1916
Liberal Party
1867 – 1874
Tavistock
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 6 1766; d. October 20 1839
Titles of nobility: Duke of Bedford in the Peerage of England (1802 – 1839)
Whig Party
1788 – 1790
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 6 1766; d. October 20 1839
Titles of nobility: Duke of Bedford in the Peerage of England (1802 – 1839)
Whig Party
1790 – 1802
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1764; d. July 17 1845
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
Whig Party
1807
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1813 – 1817
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1818 – 1820
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
Whig Party
1830 – 1831
Tiverton
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
Other offices held: Secretary at War (1809 – 1828); Foreign Secretary (1830 – 1834; 1835 – 1841; 1846 – 1851); Home Secretary (1852 – 1855); Leader of the Whig/Liberal Party (1855 – 1865); Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1861 – 1865); Leader of the House of Commons (1855 – 1858; 1859 – 1865); Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855 – 1858; 1859 – 1865)
Whig Party (1835 – 1859) / Liberal Party (1859 – 1865)
1835 – 1865
Totnes
George Hay
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 26 1822; d. December 22 1862
Titles of nobility: Earl of Gifford (Note: It is unclear to me if this is an actual noble title; presumably not, as he sat in the House of Commons?) Source: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/earl-gifford
Whig Party (1855 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1862)
1855 – 1862
Tralee
Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
Tory Party
1807
Tyneside
Albert Henry George Grey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 28 1851; d. August 29 1917
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1894 – 1917)
Liberal Party
1885 – 1886
Member of Parliament for Vauxhall
Catharine Letitia Hoey
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 21 1946.
Labour Party
1989 – 2019
Wakefield
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1837 – 1841
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1842 – 1847
Member of Parliament for West Bromwich West
Betty Boothroyd
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 8 1929; d. February 26 2023.
Labour Party (1974 – 1992); Independent (1992 – 2000)
1974 – 2000
West Derbyshire
Lord Edward Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1838; d. May 18 1891
Liberal Party (1885 – 1886); Liberal Unionist Party (1886 – 1891)
1885 – 1891
Victor Christian William Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 31 1868; d. May 6 1938
Titles of nobility: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1938)
Liberal Unionist Party
1891 – 1908
Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 14 1872; d. March 5 1936
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1927 – 1936)
Liberal Unionist Party (1908 – 1912); Conservative Party (1912 – 1918)
1908 – 1918
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 6 1895; d. November 26 1950
Titles of nobility: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1938 – 1950); Earl of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1938 – 1950); Baron Cavendish in the Peerage of England (1938 – 1950); Earl of Burlington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1938 – 1950); Baron Cavendish of Keighley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1938 – 1950)
Conservative Party
1923 – 1938
Henry Philip Hunloke
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 27 1906; d. January 13 1978
Conservative Party
1938 – 1944
West Riding of Yorkshire
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Viscount Goderich
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
Whig Party
1857 – 1859
Member of Parliament for Westbury
Edward Wilbraham-Bootle
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Titles of nobility: Baron Skelmersdale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1828 – 1853)
Note: He changed his last name from Wilbraham-Bootle to Bootle-Wilbraham in 1814.
None
1795 – 1796
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
Tory Party
1829 – 1830
Andrew William Murrison
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1961.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2010
Westhoughton
Lord Edward George Villiers Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1865; d. February 4 1948
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1948)
Conservative Party
1892 – 1906
Westminster
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 30 1751; d. July 7 1816
Whig Party
1806 – 1807
Westminster St. George’s
Alfred Duff Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1890; d. January 1 1954
Titles of nobility: Viscount Norwich in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1954).
Conservative Party
1931 – 1945
Westmorland
Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1822; d. July 22 1894
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Headfort in the Peerage of Ireland (1870 – 1894); Baron Kenlis in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1870 – 1894)
Conservative Party
1854 – 1870
Willesden East
Sir George Frederick Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1872; d. July 1 1938
Conservative Party
1924 – 1929
Winchelsea
Henry George Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1802; d. October 9 1984
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1845 – 1894)
Whig Party
1826 – 1830
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton
Thomas Hyde Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 3 1802; d. January 16 1898.
Whig Party (1835 – 1859); Liberal Party (1859 – 1885)
1835 – 1885
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South
Thomas Hyde Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 3 1802; d. January 16 1898.
Liberal Party (1885 – 1886); Liberal Unionist Party (1886 – 1898)
1885 – 1898
Woodford
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
Conservative Party
1945 – 1964
Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett
Thomas Hyde Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1801; d. December 3 1832.
Whig Party
1830 – 1831
Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)
Charles Compton Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1793; d. November 12 1863
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1858 – 1863).
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Youghal
Charles Compton Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 28 1793; d. November 12 1863
Titles of nobility: Baron Chesham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1858 – 1863).
Whig Party
1841 – 1847