Global political history

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

Past Constituencies (M)

Maidstone | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mallow | Manchester Ardwick | Manchester East | Manchester Gorton | Marylebone East | Meath | Melton | Mid Kent | Mid Lincolnshire | Middlesex | Midhurst | Midlothian | Morecambe and Lonsdale | Motherwell North.


Maidstone

Member of Parliament for Maidstone
Abraham Wildey Robarts

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1779; d. April 2 1858.

Whig Party

1818 – 1837

Wyndham Lewis

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 7 1780; d. March 14 1838.

Conservative Party

1835 – 1838

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

John Minet Fector

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1812; d. February 24 1868.

Conservative Party

1838 – 1841

George Dodd

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1800; d. December 12 1864.

Conservative Party

1841 – 1853

Alexander James Beresford Hope

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 25 1820; d. October 20 1887.

Conservative Party

1841 – 1852

Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 25 1820; d. October 20 1887.

Conservative Party

1857 – 1859

Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet

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

Liberal Party

1870 – 1880

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


Maldon and East Chelmsford

Member of Parliament for Maldon and East Chelmsford
John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1959.

Conservative Party

1997 – 2010


Mallow

Member of Parliament for Mallow
William O’Brien

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 2 1852; d. February 25 1928.

Home Rule League

1883 – 1885


Manchester Ardwick

Member of Parliament for Manchester Ardwick
Gerald Bernard Kaufman

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 21 1930; d. February 26 2017.

Labour Party

1970 – 1983


Manchester East

Member of Parliament for 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

Sir Thomas Gardner Horridge

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1857; d. July 25 1938.

Liberal Party

1906 – 1910


Manchester Gorton

Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton
William Wedgwood Benn

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

Labour Party

1937 – 1942

Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 21 1930; d. February 26 2017.

Labour Party

1983 – 2017


Marylebone East

Member of Parliament for Marylebone East
Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1864; d. November 24 1958.

Noble titles: Marquess of Londonderry (1915 – 1949)

Conservative Party

1906 – 1910


Meath

Member of Parliament for 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

Charles Stewart Parnell

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 27 1846; d. October 6 1891.

Home Rule League

1875 – 1880


Melton

Member of Parliament for Melton
Lord John James Robert Manners

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898

Conservative Party

1885 – 1888


Mid Kent

Member of Parliament for Mid Kent
Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 7 1837; d. July 3 1931.

Conservative Party

1868 – 1885


Mid Lincolnshire

Member of Parliament for Mid Lincolnshire
Edward Stanhope

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1840; d. December 21 1893.

Conservative Party

1874 – 1885


Middlesex

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

George Cooke

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1705; d. 1768.

Tory Party

1750 – 1768

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

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 25 1770; d. January 23 1844.

Radicals

1802 – 1804

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 25 1770; d. January 23 1844.

Radicals

1805 – 1806

Joseph Hume

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1777; d. February 20 1855.

Radicals

1830 – 1837

Ralph Bernal Osborne

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

Radicals

1847 – 1857

Lord George Francis Hamilton

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 17 1845; September 22 1927.

Conservative Party

1868 – 1885


Midhurst

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

Sir Sampson Gideon, 1st Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 10 1744; d. December 25 1824.

Tory Party

1780 – 1784

Sylvester Douglas

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1717; d. October 15 1770.

Tory Party

1796 – 1800

Charles Long

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1760; d. January 17 1838.

Tory Party

1796 – 1801

Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 7 1781; d. March 2 1855.

Whig Party

1812 – 1816

Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 27 1785; d. May 24 1871.

Whig Party

1817 – 1818

John Smith

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 6 1767; d. January 20 1842.

Tory Party

1818 – 1830

Spencer Horatio Walpole

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1806; d. May 22 1898.

Conservative Party

1846 – 1856


Midlothian

Member of Parliament for Midlothian
Henry Dundas

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1742; d. May 28 1811.

Tory Party

1774 – 1790

Robert Dundas

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1771; d. June 10 1851.

Tory Party

1801 – 1811

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

Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 11th Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1859; d. January 16 1926.

Liberal Party

1895 – 1900

Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1859; d. January 16 1926.

Liberal Party

1906 – 1910


Morecambe and Lonsdale

Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lonsdale
Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 21 1924; d. November 20 1979.

Conservative Party

1964 – 1979

Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 4 1943; d. July 24 2025.

Conservative Party

1979 – 1983


Motherwell North

Member of Parliament for Motherwell North
John Reid

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1947.

Labour Party

1987 – 2005