Global political history

Global political history from 3000 BC to the 21st century – political leaders, elections, and more.

Past Constituencies (L)

Lancaster | Launceston | Leeds | Leeds Central | Leeds West | Leith | Leominster | Liskeard | Liverpool | Liverpool East Toxteth | London University | Lostwithiel | Ludgershall.


Lancaster

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

Richard Penn, Jr.

Date of birth/date of death: b. 1735; d. May 27 1811.

Non-Partisan

1796 – 1802

John Gladstone

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 11 1764; d. December 7 1851.

Tory Party

1818 – 1820


Launceston

Member of Parliament for Launceston
Henry Vane

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1705; d. March 6 1758.

Whig Party

1726 – 1727

Sir William Irby, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1705; d. March 6 1758.

Non-Partisan

1735 – 1747

Charles George Perceval

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1756; d. July 5 1840.

Tory Party

1780 – 1790

Commodore Sir John Jervis

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 9 1735; d. March 13 1823.

Whig Party

1783 – 1784

George Rose

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 17 1744; d. January 13 1818.

Tory Party

1784 – 1788

General Sir Henry Clinton

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1730; d. December 23 1795.

Tory Party

1790 – 1795

Hugh Percy, Earl Percy

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 20 1785; d. February 11 1847.

Tory Party

1806 – 1807

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hardinge

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 30 1785; d. September 24 1856.

Tory Party (1832 – 1834); Conservative Party (1834 – 1844)

1832 – 1844

Sir Hardinge Stanley Gifford

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1823; d. December 11 1921.

Conservative Party

1877 – 1885

Sir Richard Everard Webster

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1842; d. December 15 1915.

Conservative Party

1885


Leeds

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

Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 23 1810; d. October 22 1855.

Radicals

1837 – 1841

Matthew Talbot Baines

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 17 1799; d. January 22 1860.

Whig Party

1852 – 1859

Sir Edward Baines

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1800; d. March 2 1890.

Liberal Party

1859 – 1874

Herbert John Gladstone

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1854; d. March 6 1930.

Liberal Party

1880 – 1885

William Lawies Jackson

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1840; d. April 4 1917.

Conservative Party

1880 – 1885


Leeds Central

Member of Parliament for Leeds Central
Gerald William Balfour

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1853; d. January 14 1945.

Conservative Party

1885 – 1906


Leeds North

Member of Parliament for Leeds North
William Lawies Jackson

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1840; d. April 4 1917.

Conservative Party

1885 – 1902


Leeds West

Member of Parliament for Leeds West
Herbert John Gladstone

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1854; d. March 6 1930.

Liberal Party

1885 – 1910

Rachel Jane Reeves

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 13 1979.

Labour Party

2010 – 2024


Leith

Member of Parliament for Leith
William Wedgwood Benn

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 10 1877; d. November 17 1960.

Liberal Party

1918 – 1927


Leominster

Member of Parliament for Leominster
Edward Willes

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 6 1723; d. January 14 1787.

Non-Partisan

1767 – 1768

Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 20 1744; d. February 24 1816.

Tory Party

1802 – 1812

Henry Bonham

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 31 1765; d. April 9 1830.

Tory Party

1806 – 1812

Henry William Lamb

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1779; d. November 24 1848.

Whig Party

1806

Frederick Peel

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 26 1823; d. June 6 1906.

Conservative Party

1849 – 1852

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1814; d. October 30 1906.

Conservative Party

1856 – 1865

William David “Bill” Wiggin

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 4 1966.

Conservative Party

2001 – 2010


Liskeard

Member of Parliament for Liskeard
Edward Craggs-Eliot

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1727; d. February 17 1804.

Whig Party

1768 – 1774

Edward James Eliot

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 24 1758; d. September 20 1797.

Non-Partisan

1784 – 1797

William Huskisson

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1770; d. September 15 1830.

Tory Party

1804 – 1807

James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 7 1786; d. May 27 1814.

Tory Party

1807 – 1812

Charles Philip Yorke

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1764; d. March 13 1834.

Tory Party

1812 – 1818

Ralph Bernal Osborne

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1808; January 4 1882.

Liberal Party

1859 – 1865


Liverpool

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 Isaac Gascoyne

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 21 1763; d. August 26 1841.

Tory Party

1796 – 1831

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

William Huskisson

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1770; d. September 15 1830.

Tory Party

1823 – 1830

William Ewart

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1798; d. January 23 1869.

Whig Party

1830 – 1837

Dudley Ryder, Viscount Sandon

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1798; d. November 19 1882.

Tory Party (1831 – 1834); Conservative Party (1834 – 1847)

1831 – 1847

Edward Cardwell

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.

Peelite Conservative

1847 – 1852

Charles Turner

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 13 1803; d. October 15 1875.

Conservative Party

1852 – 1853

Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1831; d. March 26 1900.

Conservative Party

1868 – 1882

Lord John William Maule Ramsay

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1847; d. November 25 1887.

Liberal Party

1880


Liverpool East Toxteth

Member of Parliament for Liverpool East Toxteth
Baron Henry de Worms

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1840; d. January 9 1903.

Conservative Party

1885 – 1895


London University

Member of Parliament for London University
Robert Lowe

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1811; d. July 27 1892.

Liberal Party

1868 – 1880

Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1834; d. May 28 1913.

Liberal Party (1880 – 1886); Liberal Unionist Party (1886 – 1900)

1880 – 1900


Lostwithiel

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

Sir Alexander Cray Grant, 8th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1782; d. November 29 1854.

Tory Party

1818 – 1826

Sir Edward Cust

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 17 1794; d. January 14 1878.

Tory Party

1826 – 1832

William Vesey-FitzGerald

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1783; d. May 11 1843.

Tory Party

1830


Ludgershall

Member of Parliament for Ludgershall
Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1745; d. July 22 1828.

Non-Partisan

1768 – 1784

Lord George Gordon

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 26 1751; d. November 1 1793.

Non-Partisan

1774 – 1780

Charles Winn-Allanson, 2nd Baron Headley

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1784; d. April 9 1840.

Tory Party

1811 – 1812