Global political history

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

Past Constituencies (R)

Reading | Richmond (Yorks) | Ripon | Rochester | Rochester and Chatham | Rossendale.


Reading

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

Charles Shaw Lefevre

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 20 1759; d. April 27 1823.

Whig Party

1802 – 1820

George John Shaw Lefevre

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1831; d. April 19 1928.

Liberal Party

1863 – 1885


Richmond (Yorks)

Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorks)
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

Alexander Wedderburn

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1733; d. January 2 1805.

Non-Partisan

1768 – 1769

James Graham, Marquess of Graham

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1755; d. December 30 1836.

Non-Partisan

1780 – 1784

Dudley Long North

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1748; d. February 21 1829.

Whig Party

1812 – 1818

Leon Brittan

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1939; d. January 21 2015.

Conservative Party

1983 – 1988

William Jefferson Hague

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1961.

Conservative Party

1989 – 2015

Rishi Sunak

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 12 1980.

Conservative Party

2015 – 2024


Ripon

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

Henry Vane

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

Whig Party

1741 – 1747

Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 1761; d. April 13 1824.

Tory Party

1798 – 1807

Charles Winn-Allanson, 2nd Baron Headley

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

Tory Party

1806 – 1807

George Gipps

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1783; d. April 26 1869.

Tory Party

1807 – 1826

Frederick John Robinson

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.

Tory Party

1807 – 1827

Lancelot Shadwell

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 3 1779; d. August 10 1850.

Tory Party

1826 – 1827

Louis Hayes Petit

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 9 1774; d. November 13 1849.

Tory Party (1827 – 1831); Whig Party (1831 – 1832)

1827 – 1832

Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1786; d. May 5 1855.

Tory Party

1828 – 1829

Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 1 1792; d. October 25 1861.

Peelite Conservative

1847 – 1852

Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1800; d. August 8 1885.

Liberal Party

1865 – 1866

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Knight Storks

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 5 1811; d. September 6 1874.

Liberal Party

1871 – 1874

George Joachim Goschen

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1831; d. February 7 1907.

Liberal Party

1880 – 1885

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


Rochester

Member of Parliament for Rochester
Captain Sir Charles Middleton

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1726; d. June 17 1813.

Whig Party

1784 – 1790

John Calcraft the Younger

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1765; d. September 11 1831.

Whig Party

1806 – 1818

Ralph Bernal

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 2 1783; d. August 26 1854.

Whig Party

1820 – 1841

George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, Viscount Villiers

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1808; d. October 24 1859.

Tory Party

1830 – 1831

Ralph Bernal

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 2 1783; d. August 26 1854.

Whig Party

1847 – 1852

James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 23 1861; d. April 4 1947.

Conservative Party

1893 – 1903


Rochester and Chatham

Member of Parliament for Rochester and Chatham
Julian Michael Gordon Critchley

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1930; d. September 9 2000.

Conservative Party

1959 – 1964


Rossendale

Member of Parliament for 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

Lewis Vernon Harcourt

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 31 1863; d. February 24 1922.

Liberal Party

1904 – 1917