House of Lords Leadership
Leader of the House of Lords
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1693; d. November 17 1768.
Whig Party
1748 – 1756
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1720; d. October 2 1764.
Whig Party
1756 – 1757
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1693; d. November 17 1768.
Whig Party
1757 – 1762
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 19 1710; d. August 21 1763.
Tory Party
1762 – 1763
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 6 1716; d. June 8 1771.
Tory Party
1763 – 1765
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 13 1730; d. July 1 1782.
Whig Party
1765 – 1766
Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1735; d. March 14 1811.
Whig Party
1766 – 1770
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
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 14 1738; d. October 30 1809.
Whig Party
1783
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1715; d. April 13 1763.
Whig Party
1783
Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1751; d. January 31 1799.
Tory Party
1789 – 1790
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
Tory Party
1790 – 1801
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
Whig Party
1806 – 1807
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
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1906; d. February 25 1995
Conservative Party
1994 – 1997
Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1941; d. September 20 2003.
Labour Party
2001 – 2003
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1954.
Labour Party
2003 – 2007
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1941; d. September 20 2003.
Labour Party
1998 – 2001
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
Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1906; d. February 25 1995
Conservative Party
1997 – 1998
House of Commons Leadership
Speaker of the House of Commons
Robert Harley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1661; d. May 21 1724.
Non-Partisan
1701 – 1705
Sir Spencer Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. July 2 1743.
Non-Partisan
1715 – 1727
Arthur Onslow
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1691; d. February 17 1768.
Non-Partisan
1728 – 1761
William Wyndham Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
Non-Partisan
1789
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
Sir Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
Whig Party
1721 – 1742
Henry Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1694; d. March 6 1754.
Whig Party
1743 – 1754
Sir Thomas Robinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
Whig Party
1754 – 1755
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
Whig Party
1755 – 1756
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
Whig Party
1756 – 1761
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1712; d. November 13 1770.
Whig Party
1761 – 1762
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
Whig Party
1762 – 1763
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1712; d. November 13 1770.
Whig Party
1763 – 1765
Lieutenant-General Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
Whig Party
1765 – 1767
Frederick North, Lord North
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1732; d. August 5 1792.
Whig Party (1767 – 1770); Tory Party (1770 – 1782)
1767 – 1782
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
1782
Frederick North, Lord North
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1732; d. August 5 1792.
Tory Party
1783
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
1783
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 James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
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
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1822 – 1827
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
David William St John Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 16 1954.
Liberal Democrats
2010 – 2012
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
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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 Airdrie and Shotts
Helen Lawrie Liddell
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 6 1950.
Labour Party
1997 – 2005
Member of Parliament for Aldershot
Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1947.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2017
Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale West
Sir Graham Stuart Brady
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 20 1967.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2024
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
John Wilkes
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1725; d. December 26 1797.
Radicals
1757 – 1764
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
Member of Parliament for Banbury
Frederick North, Lord North
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1732; d. August 5 1792.
Whig Party (1754 – 1770); Tory Party (1770 – 1790)
1754 – 1790
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 Bath
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
Whig Party
1757 – 1766
Member of Parliament for Berwickshire, Roxburgh, and Selkirk
Michael Kevin Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 3 1965.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – 2015
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
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
Conservative Party
1918 – 1929
Wallace Leslie Lawler
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1912; d. September 28 1972.
Liberal Party
1969 – 1970
Clare Short
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 15 1946.
Labour Party
1983 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley
Estelle Morris
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 17 1952.
Labour Party
1992 – 2005
John Alexander Melvin Hemming
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 16 1960.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – 2015
Jessica Rose “Jess” Phillips
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1981.
Labour Party
2015 – present
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 Braintree
Sir James Spencer Cleverly
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 4 1969.
Conservative Party
2015 – present
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 Brent South
Paul Yaw Boateng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 14 1951.
Labour Party
1987 – 2005
Member of Parliament for Bridgwater
George Bubb Dodington
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1691; d. July 28 1762.
Whig Party
1722 – 1754
Sir Charles Wyndham, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 19 1710; d. August 21 1763.
Tory Party
1735 – 1741
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24/25 1711; d. December 4 1770.
Tory Party
1754 – 1762
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
Member of Parliament for Broxbourne
Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1967.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Burnley
Peter Leslie Pike
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 26 1937; December 27 2021.
Labour Party
1983 – 2005
Katharine Anne “Kitty” Ussher
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1971.
Labour Party
2005 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Bury North
Alistair James Hendrie Burt
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1955.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Cambridge
Charles Sloane Cadogan
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1728; d. April 3 1807.
Whig Party
1749 – 1754
Charles Sloane Cadogan
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1728; d. April 3 1807.
Whig Party
1755 – 1776
Member of Parliament for Carlisle
Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1746; d. December 16 1815.
Tory Party
1780 – 1786
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 Chesham and Amersham
Sir Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1926; d. September 21 2007.
Conservative Party
1974 – 1992
Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1952; d. April 4 2021.
Conservative Party
1992 – 2021
Sarah Louise Green
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 25 1982.
Liberal Democrats
2021 – present
Member of Parliament for Chichester
Augustus Keppel
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 25 1725; d. October 2 1786.
Whig Party
1755 – 1761
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 Christchurch
Sir Thomas Robinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
Whig Party
1748 – 1761
Sir Christopher Robert Chope
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1947.
Conservative 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 Dagenham and Rainham
Jonathan “Jon” Cruddas
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 7 1962.
Labour Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Daventry
Timothy Eric “Tim” Boswell
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 2 1942.
Conservative Party
1987 – 2010
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 Doncaster North
Edward Samuel “Ed” Miliband
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1969.
Labour Party
2005 – present
Member of Parliament for Dover
Lieutenant-General George Germain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Tory Party
1741 – 1761
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
Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith
Mark Lazarowicz
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 8 1953.
Labour Party
2001 – 2015
Member of Parliament for 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
John Andrew Barrett
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1954.
Liberal Democrats
2001 – 2010
Michael Bruce “Mike” Crockart
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1966.
Liberal Democrats
2010 – 2015
Michelle Rhonda Thomson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1965.
Scottish National Party
2015 – 2017
Member of Parliament for Glasgow South West
Ian Graham Davidson
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1950.
Labour Party
2005 – 2015
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 Great Yarmouth
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
Whig Party
1722 – 1734
Sir Edward Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1706; d. January 12 1784.
Whig Party
1734 – 1768
Member of Parliament for Guildford
Arthur Onslow
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1691; d. February 17 1768.
Whig Party
1720 – 1728
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
Member of Parliament for Horsham
Henry Ingram
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1691; d. April 4 1761.
Non-Partisan
1721 – 1736
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1715; d. September 14 1783.
Non-Partisan
1768 – 1770
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
Edward Wortley Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1678; d. January 22 1761.
Whig Party
1705 – 1713
Edward Wortley Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1678; d. January 22 1761.
Whig Party
1722 – 1734
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 Ipswich
Admiral Edward Vernon
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1684; d. October 30 1757.
Tory Party
1741 – 1757
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
Member of Parliament for Kettering
Roger Norman Freeman
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 27 1942.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Kingston and Surbiton
Edward Jonathan “Ed” Davey
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1965.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2015
Sir Edward Jonathan “Ed” Davey
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1965.
Liberal Democrats
2017 – present
Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Wyre
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 8 1949; d. July 31 2018.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Leeds West and Pudsey
Rachel Jane Reeves
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 13 1979.
Labour Party
2024 – present
Member of Parliament for Lewes
Thomas Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1653; d. February 23 1712.
Whig Party
1679 – 1702
Sir Philip Yorke
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1 1690; d. March 6 1764.
Whig Party
1719 – 1722
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 Lichfield
Daniel Finch
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
Tory Party
1679 – 1682
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 Maldon
Charles Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1661; d. May 19 1715.
Whig Party
1689 – 1695
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
Member of Parliament for Newark
Conyers Darcy
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1685; d. December 1 1758.
Whig Party
1715 – 1722
General Sir Henry Clinton
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1730; d. December 23 1795.
Tory Party
1774 – 1784
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 Devon
John Jeremy Thorpe
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1929; d. December 4 2014.
Liberal Party
1959 – 1979
Member of Parliament for North Dorset
Simon James Hoare
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 28 1969.
Conservative Party
2015 – present
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
Member of Parliament for North East Fife
Sir Walter Menzies Campbell
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1941.
Liberal Party (1987 – 1988); Liberal Democrats (1988 – 2015)
1987 – 2015
Member of Parliament for North Herefordshire
Sir William David “Bill” Wiggin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 4 1966.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
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 North Somerset
Sir Liam Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1961.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
Member of Parliament for North West Essex
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1980.
Conservative Party
2024 – present
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
Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland
Alexander Morrison “Alistair” Carmichael
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 15 1965.
Liberal Democrats
2001 – present
Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Mhairi Black
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1994.
Scottish National Party
2015 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Peterborough
Edward Wortley Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1678; d. January 22 1761.
Whig Party
1734 – 1761
Henry Belasyse, Lord Belasyse
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1742; d. March 23 1802.
Whig Party
1768 – 1774
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
Member of Parliament for Pontypridd
Kim Scott Howells
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 27 1946.
Labour Party
1989 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Poole
Charles Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 1753; d. May 25 1801.
Non-Partisan
1790
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 1753; d. May 25 1801.
Non-Partisan
1796 – 1801
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
General John Burgoyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1722; d. August 4 1792.
Whig Party
1768 – 1792
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 Putney
Justine Greening
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1969.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2019
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 Romford
Andrew Richard Rosindell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 17 1966.
Conservative Party
2001 – present
Member of Parliament for Rotherham
Denis MacShane
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 21 1948.
Labour Party
1994 – 2012
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
Member of Parliament for Shipley
Philip Andrew Davies
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 5 1972.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1725; d. November 22 1774.
Tory Party
1761 – 1774
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 Derbyshire
Edwina Currie
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1946.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1997
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
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1906; d. February 25 1995
Conservative Party
1979 – 1987
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 Leicestershire
Andrew Robert George Robathan
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1935; d. October 9 2014.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2015
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
Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen
Christopher Robert Chope
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1947.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1992
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
Member of Parliament for Tamworth
Edward Thurlow
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 9 1731; d. September 12 1806.
Tory Party
1765 – 1778
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 Tatton
George Gideon Oliver Osborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 23 1971.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2017
Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury
William Dowdeswell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1721; d. February 6 1775.
Whig Party
1747 – 1754
Laurence Anthony Robertson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1958.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Thurrock
Andrew Stuart MacKinlay
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1949.
Labour Party
1992 – 2010
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
Member of Parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale
Timothy James “Tim” Farron
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 27 1970.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – present
Member of Parliament for Wigan
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 13/24 1752; d. June 15 1822.
Tory Party
1780 – 1784
Member of Parliament for Winchester
Mark Oaten
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1964.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Windsor
George Cholmondeley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1703; d. June 10 1770.
Whig Party
1727 – 1733
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
Whig Party
1741 – 1761
Admiral Augustus Keppel
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 25 1725; d. October 2 1786.
Whig Party
1761 – 1780
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
Member of Parliament for Worthing West
Sir Peter James Bottomley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 30 1944.
Conservative Party
1997 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Wrexham
Sarah Elizabeth Atherton
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1967.
Conservative Party
2019 – 2024
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
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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
Member of Parliament for Aldborough
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
Whig Party
1715
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
Whig Party
1754 – 1756
Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh
Thomas Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1755; d. December 17 1846.
Whig Party
1790 – 1796
Member of Parliament for Appleby
George Bubb Dodington
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1691; d. July 28 1762.
Whig Party
1741
Sir Charles Wyndham, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 19 1710; d. August 21 1763.
Tory Party
1742 – 1747
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
Member of Parliament for Arundel
Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1746; d. December 16 1815.
Tory Party
1784
Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs
James Archibald Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 19 1747; d. March 1 1818.
Non-Partisan
1768 – 1774
Sir George Macartney
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 14 1737; d. May 31 1806.
Non-Partisan
1774 – 1776
Frederick Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1751; d. May 17 1802.
Non-Partisan
1776 – 1780
Charles Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 1753; d. May 25 1801.
Non-Partisan
1790 – 1794
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 Banff and Buchan
Alexander Elliot Anderson “Alex” Salmond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1954; d. October 12 2024.
Scottish National Party
1987 – 2010
Eilidh Whiteford
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1969.
Scottish National Party
2010 – 2017
David James Duguid
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 8 1970.
Conservative Party
2017 – 2024
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 Beaumaris
Hugh Fortescue
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1753; d. June 16 1841.
Non-Partisan
1784 – 1785
Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire
William Russell, Lord Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1639; d. July 21 1683.
Non-Partisan
1679 – 1683
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
Member of Parliament for Bere Alston
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
Whig Party
1715 – 1717
George Macartney, 1st Baron Macartney
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 14 1737; d. May 31 1806.
Non-Partisan
1780 – 1781
Member of Parliament for Berkshire
Henry St John
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1678; d. December 12 1751.
Tory Party
1710 – 1712
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
Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.
Whig Party
1740 – 1754
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); Liberal Party (1859 – 1868)
1853 – 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
Member of Parliament for Bishop’s Castle
Henry Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1717; d. April 22 1784.
Non-Partisan
1759 – 1761
Member of Parliament for Blaby
Andrew Robert George Robathan
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1935; d. October 9 2014.
Conservative Party
1992 – 2010
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 Boroughbridge
Sir Richard Steele
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1671; d. September 1 1729.
Whig Party
1715 – 1722
Conyers Darcy
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1685; d. December 1 1758.
Whig Party
1722
William Murray
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1671; d. September 1 1729.
Non-Partisan
1742 – 1756
Lewis Watson
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 28 1728; d. March 30 1795.
Whig Party
1750 – 1754
Augustus Henry FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1735; d. March 14 1811.
Whig Party
1756 – 1757
Major-General Henry Clinton
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1730; d. December 23 1795.
Non-Partisan
1772 – 1774
Member of Parliament for Bossiney
John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1744; d. November 16 1814.
Tory Party
1766 – 1776
Charles Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 1753; d. May 25 1801.
Non-Partisan
1776 – 1790
James Archibald Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 19 1747; d. March 1 1818.
Non-Partisan
1790 – 1796
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 Bramber
Francis Seymour-Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1679; d. February 3 1732.
Tory Party
1701 – 1703
William Wilberforce
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 24 1759; d. July 29 1833.
Independent
1812 – 1825
Member of Parliament for Bridport
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1715; d. September 14 1783.
Non-Partisan
1747 – 1754
Member of Parliament for Bristol
Edmund Burke
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1729; d. July 9 1797.
Whig Party
1774 – 1780
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
Member of Parliament for Buckingham
Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1675; d. September 14 1749.
Whig Party
1697 – 1702
Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1675; d. September 14 1749.
Whig Party
1705
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1675; d. September 14 1749.
Whig Party
1708 – 1713
Sir Richard Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1678; d. February 17 1727.
Non-Partisan
1722 – 1727
George Chamberlayne
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1703; d. May 14 1757.
Non-Partisan
1728 – 1747
Richard Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1711; d. September 12 1779.
Non-Partisan
1734 – 1741
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1712; d. November 13 1770.
Whig Party
1741 – 1770
Richard Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1711; d. September 12 1779.
Non-Partisan
1747 – 1752
Temple West
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1713; d. August 9 1757.
Non-Partisan
1753 – 1754
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1715; d. September 14 1783.
Non-Partisan
1754 – 1768
Henry Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1717; d. April 22 1784.
Non-Partisan
1768 – 1774
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
Non-Partisan
1770 – 1790
Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 3 1750; d. February 28 1825.
Non-Partisan
1780 – 1782
William Wyndham Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
Tory Party
1782 – 1784
Thomas Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1755; d. December 17 1846.
Whig Party
1796 – 1810
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Marquess of Chandos
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 10 1823; d. March 26 1889.
Conservative Party
1846 – 1857
Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire
John Hampden
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. June 1595; d. June 24 1643.
Non-Partisan
1640 – 1643
Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1675; d. September 14 1749.
Whig Party
1704 – 1708
Richard Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1711; d. September 12 1779.
Non-Partisan
1741 – 1747
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1715; d. April 13 1763.
Whig Party
1774 – 1779
Thomas Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1755; d. December 17 1846.
Whig Party
1779 – 1784
William Wyndham Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
Tory Party
1784 – 1790
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
Non-Partisan
1790 – 1797
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Earl Temple
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 20 1776; d. January 17 1839.
Tory Party
1797 – 1813
Thomas Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1755; d. December 17 1846.
Whig Party
1813 – 1818
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
Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds
Augustus Henry FitzRoy, Earl of Euston
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1735; d. March 14 1811.
Whig Party
1756 – 1757
General Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
Whig Party
1775 – 1784
Member of Parliament for Buteshire
James Archibald Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 19 1747; d. March 1 1818.
Non-Partisan
1774 – 1780
James Archibald Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 19 1747; d. March 1 1818.
Non-Partisan
1784 – 1790
Frederick Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1751; d. May 17 1802.
Non-Partisan
1796 – 1802
James Archibald Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 19 1747; d. March 1 1818.
Non-Partisan
1806 – 1807
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
Member of Parliament for Callington
Horatio “Horace” Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1717; d. March 2 1797.
Whig Party
1741 – 1754
Member of Parliament for Calne
John Dunning
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 18 1731; d. August 18 1783.
Whig Party
1768 – 1782
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1800; d. December 28 1859.
Whig Party
1830 – 1832
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
Member of Parliament for Cambridge University
Edward Finch-Hatton
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1697; d. May 16 1771.
Whig Party
1727 – 1768
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
Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire
Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1721; d. October 18 1770.
Non-Partisan
1754 – 1770
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
Member of Parliament for Cannock and Burntwood
James Gerald Douglas Howarth
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1947.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1992
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
Member of Parliament for Castle Rising
Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1650; d. November 18 1700.
Whig Party
1689 – 1700
Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
Whig Party
1701 – 1702
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
Whig Party
1713 – 1715
Horatio “Horace” Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1717; d. March 2 1797.
Whig Party
1754 – 1757
Member of Parliament for Central Norfolk
Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1926; d. September 21 2007.
Conservative Party
1962 – 1974
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
Member of Parliament for Clackmannan
Martin John O’Neill
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 6 1945; d. August 26 2020.
Labour Party
1983 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Martin John O’Neill
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 6 1945; d. August 26 2020.
Labour Party
1979 – 1983
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
Member of Parliament for Clwyd West
David Ian Jones
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 22 1952.
Conservative Party
2005 – 2024
Member of Parliament for Cockermouth
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
Whig Party
1702 – 1713
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
Whig Party
1715 – 1717
George Macartney
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 14 1737; d. May 31 1806.
Non-Partisan
1768 – 1769
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1769 – 1774
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 Cumberland
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1757 – 1761
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1762 – 1768
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1774 – 1784
Member of Parliament for Dagenham
Jonathan “Jon” Cruddas
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 7 1962.
Labour Party
2001 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Dartmouth
Vice-Admiral Richard Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1726; d. August 5 1799.
Non-Partisan
1757 – 1782
Member of Parliament for Denbighshire
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 23 1749; d. July 24 1789.
Non-Partisan
1774 – 1789
Member of Parliament for Derby
William Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1683; d. December 8 1756.
Whig Party
1715 – 1722
William Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1683; d. December 8 1756.
Whig Party
1727 – 1730
Lord George Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 31 1754; d. May 9 1834.
Whig Party
1780 – 1797
Member of Parliament for Derbyshire
John Manners, Lord Roos
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 18 1676; d. February 22 1721.
Whig Party
1701
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1720; d. October 2 1764.
Whig Party
1741 – 1751
Lord Richard Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 19 1752; d. September 7 1781.
Non-Partisan
1780 – 1781
Lord John Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 22 1732; d. December 18 1796.
Non-Partisan
1794 – 1796
Lord George Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 31 1754; d. May 9 1834.
Whig Party
1797 – 1831
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
Shahid Rafique Malik
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 24 1967.
Labour Party
2005 – 2010
Simon Justin Reevell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1966.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Downton
Charles Pratt
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 21 1714; d. April 18 1794.
Non-Partisan
1757 – 1761
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 Dundee East
Robert Gordon Wilson
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1938; d. June 25 2017.
Scottish National Party
1974 – 1987
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
Member of Parliament for Dunwich
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
Whig Party
1761 – 1763
Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire
Douglas Henderson
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 16 1935; d. September 15 2006.
Scottish National Party
1974 – 1979
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
Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1643; d. January 29 1706.
Non-Partisan
1661 – 1675
Thomas Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1653; d. February 23 1712.
Whig Party
1678 – 1679
Spencer Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. July 2 1743.
Whig Party
1713 – 1715
Spencer Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. July 2 1743.
Whig Party
1722
Lieutenant-General George Germain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Tory Party
1761
Lieutenant-General George Germain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
Tory Party
1767 – 1782
Member of Parliament for East Kilbride
Adam Paterson Ingram
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 1 1947.
Labour Party
1987 – 2005
Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow
Adam Paterson Ingram
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 1 1947.
Labour Party
2005 – 2010
Member of Parliament for East Looe
Francis Godolphin
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1678; d. January 17 1766.
Tory Party
1701
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
Whig Party
1718 – 1722
George Cholmondeley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1703; d. June 10 1770.
Whig Party
1724 – 1727
Henry Bilson-Legge
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1708; d. August 23 1764.
Whig Party
1740 – 1741
John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1751; d. April 7 1828.
Whig Party
1790
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1826 – 1830
Member of Parliament for East Retford
Evelyn Pierrepont
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1665; d. March 5 1726.
Non-Partisan
1689 – 1690
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
Member of Parliament for Edinburgh
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1800; d. December 28 1859.
Whig Party
1839 – 1847
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1800; d. December 28 1859.
Whig Party
1852 – 1856
Member of Parliament for Eltham
Peter James Bottomley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 30 1944.
Conservative Party
1983 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1953.
Conservative Party
1984 – 1997
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
Member of Parliament for Eye
Charles Cornwallis
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1675; d. January 20 1721.
Whig Party
1695 – 1698
Spencer Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. July 2 1743.
Whig Party
1698 – 1710
Charles Cornwallis, Earl Cornwallis
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1738; d. October 5 1805.
Whig Party
1760 – 1762
Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1751; d. January 31 1799.
Tory Party
1774
Member of Parliament for 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
Sir Peter Robert Cable Lloyd
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1937.
Conservative Party
1979 – 2001
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 Baillieston
James Aloysius Joseph Patrick Gabriel “Jimmy” Wray
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1935; d. May 25 2013.
Labour Party
1997 – 2005
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 Govan
John Rankin
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 1 1889; d. October 8 1973.
Labour Party
1955 – 1973
Margo Symington MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 19 1943; d. April 4 2014.
Scottish National Party
1973 – 1974
Harry Selby
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 18 1913; d. January 8 1984.
Labour Party
1974 – 1979
James “Jim” Sillars
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 4 1937.
Scottish National Party
1988 – 1992
Ian Graham Davidson
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1950.
Labour Party
1992 – 1997
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
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollok
Ian Graham Davidson
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1950.
Labour Party
1997 – 2005
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Provan
James Aloysius Joseph Patrick Gabriel “Jimmy” Wray
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1935; d. May 25 2013.
Labour Party
1987 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Tradeston
John Rankin
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 1 1889; d. October 8 1973.
Labour Party
1945 – 1955
Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire
Norborne Berkeley
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1717; d. October 15 1770.
Tory Party
1741 – 1763
Member of Parliament for Gordon
Alexander Elliot Anderson “Alex” Salmond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1954; d. October 12 2024.
Scottish National Party
2015 – 2017
Member of Parliament for Grampound
John Hampden
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. June 1595; d. June 24 1643.
Non-Partisan
1621 – 1622
James Craggs the Elder
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1657; d. March 16 1721.
Whig Party
1702 – 1713
William Cavendish, Lord Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1698; d. December 5 1755.
Whig Party
1722 – 1727
Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 3 1750; d. February 28 1825.
Non-Partisan
1774 – 1780
Member of Parliament for Grantham
John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 18 1676; d. February 22 1721.
Whig Party
1705 – 1707
John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1721; d. October 18 1770.
Non-Partisan
1741 – 1754
Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn
Daniel Finch
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
Tory Party
1673 – 1679
Member of Parliament for Great Marlow
Charles Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1720; d. 1812.
Non-Partisan
1754 – 1761
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 Hampshire
Henry Bilson-Legge
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1708; d. August 23 1764.
Whig Party
1759 – 1761
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
Member of Parliament for Harwich
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1823 – 1826
Member of Parliament for Haslemere
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1780
Member of Parliament for Hastings
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1807 – 1812
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
William Pulteney
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 22 1684; d. July 7 1764.
Whig Party
1705 – 1734
Vice-Admiral of the Blue George Anson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 22 1684; d. July 7 1764.
Non-Partisan
1744 – 1747
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 Helston
Sidney Godolphin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 15 1645; d. September 15 1712.
Tory Party
1665 – 1679
Sidney Godolphin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 15 1645; d. September 15 1712.
Tory Party
1679 – 1685
Francis Godolphin
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1678; d. January 17 1766.
Tory Party
1695 – 1698
Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1678; d. January 17 1766.
Tory Party
1701 – 1708
Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1751; d. January 31 1799.
Tory Party
1774 – 1775
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
Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers
Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
Whig Party
1741 – 1747
Member of Parliament for Hindon
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
Whig Party
1735 – 1741
William Blackstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 10 1723; d. February 14 1780.
Tory Party
1761 – 1768
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 Hornsey and Wood Green
Lynne Choona Featherstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1951.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire
William Cavendish, Lord Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1698; d. December 5 1755.
Whig Party
1727 – 1729
George Montagu, Lord Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 6 1737; d. September 2 1788.
Whig Party
1761 – 1762
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
Member of Parliament for Ilchester
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24/25 1711; d. December 4 1770.
Tory Party
1761
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
Member of Parliament for Kensington and Chelsea
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1953.
Conservative Party
1999 – 2005
Member of Parliament for Kent
Lewis Watson
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 28 1728; d. March 30 1795.
Whig Party
1754 – 1760
Member of Parliament for King’s Lynn
Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
Whig Party
1702 – 1712
Sir Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
Whig Party
1713 – 1742
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1723; d. February 24 1809.
Whig Party
1747 – 1757
Horatio “Horace” Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1717; d. March 2 1797.
Whig Party
1757 – 1768
Horatio Walpole, Lord Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 13/24 1752; d. June 15 1822.
Tory Party
1784 – 1809
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
Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull
William Wilberforce
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 24 1759; d. July 29 1833.
Independent
1780 – 1784
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
Member of Parliament for Kinross-shire
Robert Adam
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 3 1728; d. March 3 1792.
Non-Partisan
1768 – 1774
Member of Parliament for Knaresborough
Lord John Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 22 1732; d. December 18 1796.
Non-Partisan
1761 – 1768
Lord George Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 31 1754; d. May 9 1834.
Non-Partisan
1775 – 1780
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 Lancaster
Lord Richard Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 19 1752; d. September 7 1781.
Non-Partisan
1773 – 1780
Member of Parliament for Launceston
General Sir Henry Clinton
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1730; d. December 23 1795.
Tory Party
1790 – 1795
Sir Richard Everard Webster
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1842; d. December 15 1915.
Conservative Party
1885
Member of Parliament for Leeds
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1800; d. December 28 1859.
Whig Party
1832 – 1834
Member of Parliament for Leeds West
Rachel Jane Reeves
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 13 1979.
Labour Party
2010 – 2024
Leicester
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
Labour Party
1906 – 1918
Member of Parliament for Leicestershire
John Manners, Lord Roos
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 18 1676; d. February 22 1721.
Whig Party
1701 – 1702
John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 18 1676; d. February 22 1721.
Whig Party
1710 – 1711
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 Leominster
William David “Bill” Wiggin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 4 1966.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2010
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
Member of Parliament for Liverpool
Lieutenant-General Banastre Tarleton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 21 1754; d. January 15 1833.
Tory Party
1790 – 1806
Lieutenant-General Banastre Tarleton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 21 1754; d. January 15 1833.
Tory Party
1807 – 1812
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1812 – 1823
Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
Whig Party
1710
William Cavendish, Lord Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1698; d. December 5 1755.
Whig Party
1721 – 1724
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1694; d. March 24 1773.
Whig Party
1722 – 1724
Edward Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1706; d. January 12 1784.
Whig Party
1730 – 1734
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
Member of Parliament for Malmesbury
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
1774 – 1780
Member of Parliament for Malton
Sir Thomas Watson-Wentworth
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1693; d. December 14 1750.
Non-Partisan
1715 – 1727
Edmund Burke
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1729; d. July 9 1797.
Whig Party
1774
Edmund Burke
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1729; d. July 9 1797.
Whig Party
1780 – 1794
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
Member of Parliament for Middlesex
William Pulteney
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 22 1684; d. July 7 1764.
Whig Party
1734 – 1742
John Wilkes
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1725; d. December 26 1797.
Radicals
1768 – 1769
John Wilkes
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1725; d. December 26 1797.
Radicals
1774 – 1790
Member of Parliament for Midhurst
John Burgoyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1722; d. August 4 1792.
Non-Partisan
1761 – 1768
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
1768 – 1774
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
Member of Parliament for Mitchell
Robert Clive
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1725; d. November 22 1774.
Tory Party
1754 – 1755
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 Monklands East
Helen Lawrie Liddell
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 6 1950.
Labour Party
1994 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire
Lembit Öpik
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1965.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2010
Edward Glyn Davies
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1944.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2019
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
Member of Parliament for Moray
Angus Struan Carolus Robertson
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1969.
Scottish National Party
2001 – 2017
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
Member of Parliament for New Romney
Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1708; d. December 11 1781.
Tory Party
1741 – 1761
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
Member of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight)
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
Whig Party
1702
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
Whig Party
1717
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
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1826 – 1827
Member of Parliament for Newtown
John Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1650; d. June 16 1722.
Non-Partisan
1679
Daniel Finch
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
Tory Party
1681 – 1682
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1793 – 1796
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1806 – 1807
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
Member of Parliament for North Tayside
John Ramsay Swinney
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1964.
Scottish National Party
1997 – 2001
Member of Parliament for Northallerton
John Aislabie
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1670; d. June 18 1742.
Whig Party
1702 – 1705
William Saunders Sebright Lascelles
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1798; d. July 2 1851
Whig Party
1831 – 1832
Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire
Alistair James Hendrie Burt
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1955.
Conservative Party
2001 – 2019
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
Member of Parliament for Norwich
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
Whig Party
1734 – 1756
Member of Parliament for Nottingham
Major-General William Howe
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1729; d. July 12 1814.
Whig Party
1758 – 1780
Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire
Gilbert Holles, Lord Haughton
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1633; d. January 16 1689.
Non-Partisan
1660 – 1661
Member of Parliament for Ochil
Martin John O’Neill
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 6 1945; d. August 26 2020.
Labour Party
1997 – 2005
Member of Parliament for Okehampton
Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1709; d. August 22 1773.
Whig Party
1735 – 1756
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
Whig Party
1756 – 1757
Member of Parliament for Old Sarum
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
Whig Party
1735 – 1747
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1715; d. September 14 1783.
Non-Partisan
1742 – 1747
John Horne Tooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1736; d. March 18 1812.
Radicals
1801 – 1802
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 Orford
Henry Bilson-Legge
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1708; d. August 23 1764.
Whig Party
1741 – 1759
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
Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire
Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1678; d. January 17 1766.
Whig Party
1708 – 1710
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
Member of Parliament for Penryn
Commodore Edward Vernon
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1684; d. October 30 1757.
Tory Party
1722 – 1734
Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
Whig Party
1747 – 1754
Member of Parliament for Petersfield
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1812
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
Member of Parliament for Plymouth
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.
Whig Party
1754 – 1778
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
Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle
James Archibald Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 19 1747; d. March 1 1818.
Non-Partisan
1780 – 1784
Member of Parliament for Pontefract
Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1593; d. May 12 1641.
Non-Partisan
1624
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Edward Vernon
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1684; d. October 30 1757.
Tory Party
1741
David Montagu Erskine
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1776; d. March 19 1855.
Non-Partisan
1806
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
Member of Parliament for Radnor
Robert Harley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1661; d. May 21 1724.
Whig Party
1690 – 1711
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 Reading
Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 3 1750; d. February 28 1825.
Non-Partisan
1782 – 1797
Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorkshire)
Sir Conyers Darcy
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1685; d. December 1 1758.
Whig Party
1722 – 1727
Sir Conyers Darcy
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1685; d. December 1 1758.
Whig Party
1728 – 1747
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
Member of Parliament for Ripon
John Aislabie
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1670; d. June 18 1742.
Whig Party
1695 – 1702
John Aislabie
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1670; d. June 18 1742.
Whig Party
1705 – 1721
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
Member of Parliament for Rochester
Admiral John Byng
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 29 1704; d. March 14 1757.
Non-Partisan
1751 – 1757
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
Member of Parliament for Ross, Cromarty, and Skye
Charles Peter Kennedy
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 25 1959; d. June 1 2015.
Social Democratic Party (1983 – 1988); Liberal Democrats (1988 – 1997)
1983 – 1997
Member of Parliament for Ross, Skye, and Inverness West
Charles Peter Kennedy
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 25 1959; d. June 1 2015.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2005
Member of Parliament for Ross, Skye, and Lochaber
Charles Peter Kennedy
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 25 1959; d. June 1 2015.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – 2015
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
Member of Parliament for Rutland
Baptist Noel
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1611; d. October 29 1682.
Royalists
1640 – 1643
Daniel Finch, Lord Finch
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1689; d. August 2 1769.
Non-Partisan
1710 – 1730
Member of Parliament for Rye
Thomas Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 28 1728; d. January 8 1805.
Whig Party
1749 – 1754
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
Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1980.
Conservative Party
2017 – 2024
Member of Parliament for St Germans
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1694; d. March 24 1773.
Whig Party
1715 – 1722
Member of Parliament for St Mawes
Lieutenant-General Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
Whig Party
1754 – 1761
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
Member of Parliament for Seaford
Henry Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1694; d. March 6 1754.
Whig Party
1717 – 1722
Sir Philip Yorke
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1 1690; d. March 6 1764.
Whig Party
1722 – 1733
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
Whig Party
1747 – 1754
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1827
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 Shropshire
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 23 1749; d. July 24 1789.
Non-Partisan
1772 – 1774
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
Member of Parliament for Solihull
Lorely Jane Burt
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 10 1954.
Liberal Democrats
2005 – 2015
Member of Parliament for Somerset
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1688; d. June 17 1740.
Tory Party
1710 – 1740
Member of Parliament for Somerton and Frome
David William St John Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 16 1954.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2015
Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire
James “Jim” Sillars
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 4 1937.
Labour Party (1970 – 1976); Scottish Labour Party (1976 – 1979)
1970 – 1979
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
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1948.
Conservative Party
1984 – 2005
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
Member of Parliament for Stamford
John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1751; d. April 7 1828.
Whig Party
1790 – 1801
Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Conservative Party
1853 – 1868
Member of Parliament for Steyning
William Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1683; d. December 8 1756.
Whig Party
1727
Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs
Alexander Inglis Cochrane
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1758; d. January 26 1832.
Non-Partisan
1800 – 1806
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
Member of Parliament for Stockbridge
Richard Steele
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1671; d. September 1 1729.
Whig Party
1713 – 1714
Charles Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1720; d. 1812.
Non-Partisan
1741 – 1747
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
Member of Parliament for Sunderland South
Christopher John “Chris” Mullin
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 12 1947.
Labour Party
1987 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Surrey
Arthur Onslow
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1691; d. February 17 1768.
Whig Party
1727 – 1761
Admiral Augustus Keppel
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 25 1725; d. October 2 1786.
Whig Party
1780 – 1782
Member of Parliament for Sussex
Thomas Pelham, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1653; d. February 23 1712.
Whig Party
1702 – 1705
Sir Spencer Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. July 2 1743.
Whig Party
1715 – 1728
Henry Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1694; d. March 6 1754.
Whig Party
1722 – 1754
Thomas Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 28 1728; d. January 8 1805.
Whig Party
1754 – 1768
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
Member of Parliament for Tain Burghs
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
1784 – 1786
Member of Parliament for Taunton
Sir Charles Wyndham, 4th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 19 1710; d. August 21 1763.
Tory Party
1747 – 1750
Member of Parliament for Tavistock
William Russell, Lord Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1639; d. July 21 1683.
Non-Partisan
1660 – 1661
William Russell, Lord Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 29 1639; d. July 21 1683.
Non-Partisan
1661 – 1679
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
Member of Parliament for Thetford
General Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
Whig Party
1761 – 1774
Member of Parliament for Thirsk
Thomas Robinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
Whig Party
1727 – 1734
James Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
Non-Partisan
1765 – 1768
Member of Parliament for Tiverton
Charles Spencer, Lord Spencer
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1675; d. April 19 1722.
Whig Party
1695 – 1702
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 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
Member of Parliament for Tralee
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1802 – 1806
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 Tregony
Robert Harley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1661; d. May 21 1724.
Whig Party
1689 – 1690
Philip Meadowes
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1672; d. 1757.
Non-Partisan
1698
Sir Philip Meadowes
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1672; d. 1757.
Non-Partisan
1705
Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1678; d. January 17 1766.
Whig Party
1710 – 1713
James Craggs the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1686; d. February 16 1721.
Whig Party
1713 – 1721
Member of Parliament for Truro
Sir Philip Meadowes
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1672; d. 1757.
Non-Partisan
1702
Member of Parliament for Tweeddale, Ettrick, and Lauderdale
Michael Kevin Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 3 1965.
Liberal Democrats
1997 – 2005
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 “Kate” 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 Warwickshire
James Compton, Lord Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 19 1622; d. December 15 1681.
Royalist
1640 – 1642
James Compton, Lord Compton
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1687; d. October 3 1754.
Non-Partisan
1710 – 1711
Member of Parliament for Wendover
John Hampden
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. June 1595; d. June 24 1643.
Non-Partisan
1624 – 1629
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
Whig Party
1714 – 1715
Sir Richard Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1678; d. February 17 1727.
Non-Partisan
1715 – 1722
Sir Richard Steele
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1671; d. September 1 1729.
Whig Party
1722 – 1727
Edmund Burke
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1729; d. July 9 1797.
Whig Party
1765 – 1774
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
Tory Party
1796 – 1802
Member of Parliament for Weobley
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24/25 1711; d. December 4 1770.
Tory Party
1747 – 1754
Lord William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 14 1738; d. October 30 1809.
Whig Party
1761 – 1762
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
William Blackstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 10 1723; d. February 14 1780.
Tory Party
1768 – 1770
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.
Non-Partisan
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
David James Christian Faber
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1961.
Conservative Party
1992 – 2001
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
Member of Parliament for Westminster
Charles Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1661; d. May 19 1715.
Whig Party
1695 – 1701
Edward Wortley Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1678; d. January 22 1761.
Whig Party
1715 – 1722
John Perceval
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24/25 1711; d. December 4 1770.
Tory Party
1741 – 1747
Hugh Percy, Earl Percy
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 14 1742; d. July 10 1817.
Non-Partisan
1763 – 1776
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
Whig Party
1780 – 1806
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
Member of Parliament for Westmorland
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1761 – 1763
Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 5 1736; d. May 24 1802.
Non-Partisan
1774 – 1775
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
Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
General Charles Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 2 1656; d. December 29 1714.
Non-Partisan
1701 – 1710
George Bubb Dodington
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1691; d. July 28 1762.
Whig Party
1734 – 1735
Lord John Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 22 1732; d. December 18 1796.
Non-Partisan
1754 – 1761
George Bubb Dodington
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1691; d. July 28 1762.
Whig Party
1754 – 1761
Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1708; d. December 11 1781.
Tory Party
1761 – 1763
Willesden East
Sir George Frederick Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1872; d. July 1 1938
Conservative Party
1924 – 1929
Member of Parliament for Winchelsea
George Bubb Dodington
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1691; d. July 28 1762.
Whig Party
1715 – 1722
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 Woodspring
Liam Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1961.
Conservative Party
1992 – 2010
Member of Parliament for Woolwich West
Peter James Bottomley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 30 1944.
Conservative Party
1975 – 1983
Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett
Henry St John
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1678; d. December 12 1751.
Tory Party
1701 – 1708
Henry St John
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1678; d. December 12 1751.
Tory Party
1710
Thomas Hyde Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1801; d. December 3 1832.
Whig Party
1830 – 1831
Member of Parliament for Worcestershire
William Dowdeswell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1721; d. February 6 1775.
Whig Party
1761 – 1775
Member of Parliament for Wyre and Preston North
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 8 1949; d. July 31 2018.
Conservative Party
2010 – 2024
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
Member of Parliament for York
Lord John Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 22 1732; d. December 18 1796.
Non-Partisan
1768 – 1784
Member of Parliament for Yorkshire
Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1593; d. May 12 1641.
Non-Partisan
1614 – 1622
Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1593; d. May 12 1641.
Non-Partisan
1625
Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1593; d. May 12 1641.
Non-Partisan
1628
Conyers Darcy
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1685; d. December 1 1758.
Whig Party
1707 – 1708
Sir Thomas Watson-Wentworth
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1693; d. December 14 1750.
Non-Partisan
1727 – 1728
Sir Conyers Darcy
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1685; d. December 1 1758.
Whig Party
1747 – 1758
William Wilberforce
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 24 1759; d. July 29 1833.
Independent
1784 – 1812
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