Global political history

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

Past Constituencies (W)

Wakefield | Wallingford | Walsall | Waterford City | Wendover | Wenlock | West Essex | West Kent | West Monmouthshire | West Sussex | Westminster | Westminster St George’s | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | Whitby | Wigtown Burghs | Willesden West | Wisbech | Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton East | Woodstock.


Wakefield

Member of Parliament for 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

Captain Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1821; d. January 28 1912.

Conservative Party

1862 – 1866


Wallingford

Member of Parliament for Wallingford
John Aubrey

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 4 1739; d. March 14 1826.

Tory Party

1768 – 1774

John Aubrey

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 4 1739; d. March 14 1826.

Tory Party

1780 – 1784

Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley

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

Tory Party

1796 – 1802


Walsall

Member of Parliament for Walsall
Captain John Neilson Gladstone

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 18 1807; d. February 7 1863.

Conservative Party

1841


Waterford City

Member of Parliament for Waterford City
Ralph Bernal Osborne

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

Liberal Party

1870 – 1874


Wendover

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

Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney

Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1671; d. September 1 1729.

Tory Party

1753 – 1761

Edmund Burke

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1729; d. July 9 1797.

Whig Party

1765 – 1774

John Barker Church

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 30 1748; d. April 27 1818.

Whig Party

1790 – 1796

Rear-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1759; d. September 11 1801.

Non-Partisan

1790 – 1796

John Hiley Addington

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1759; d. June 11 1818.

Tory Party

1796 – 1802

George Canning

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.

Tory Party

1796 – 1802

Charles Long

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

Tory Party

1802 – 1806

Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon

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

Whig Party

1806 – 1807


Wenlock

Member of Parliament for Wenlock
James Milnes Gaskell

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 19 1810; d. February 5 1873.

Tory Party (1832 – 1834); Conservative Party (1834 – 1868)

1832 – 1868


West Essex

Member of Parliament for West Essex
Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoyne-Cecil

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 24 1834; d. July 3 1921.

Conservative Party

1868 – 1885


West Kent

Member of Parliament for West Kent
William Hart Dyke

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

Conservative Party

1865 – 1868


West Monmouthshire

Member of Parliament for West Monmouthshire
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1827; d. October 1 1904.

Liberal Party

1895 – 1904


West Sussex

Member of Parliament for West Sussex
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 27 1818; d. September 27 1903.

Conservative Party

1841 – 1860

Henry Wyndham

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 31 1830; d. January 6 1901.

Conservative Party

1854 – 1869


Westminster

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

Granville Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 4 1721; d. October 26 1803.

Tory Party

1747 – 1754

Hugh Percy, Earl Percy

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 14 1742; d. July 10 1817.

Non-Partisan

1763 – 1776

Thomas Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 1 1752; d. May 18 1795.

Non-Partisan

1774 – 1780

Charles James Fox

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.

Whig Party

1780 – 1806

Lord John Townshend

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 19 1757; d. February 23 1833.

Whig Party

1788 – 1790

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 30 1751; d. July 7 1816

Whig Party

1806 – 1807

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet

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

Radicals

1807 – 1837

Sir Samuel Romilly

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 1 1757; d. November 2 1818.

Whig Party

1818

Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 2nd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 27 1786; d. June 3 1869.

Whig Party

1820 – 1833

John Stuart Mill

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 20 1806; d. May 7 1873.

Liberal Party

1865 – 1868

William Henry Smith

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 24 1825; d. October 6 1891.

Conservative Party

1868 – 1885


Westminster St George’s

Member of Parliament for St George’s, Hanover Square
George Joachim Goschen

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

Liberal Unionist Party (1887 – 1893); Conservative Party (1893 – 1900)

1887 – 1900

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


Weymouth and Melcombe Regis

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

Joseph Hume

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

Tory Party

1812

Thomas Wallace

Date of birth/date of death: b. 1768; d. February 23 1844.

Tory Party

1812 – 1813

James Brownlow William Cecil, Viscount Cranborne

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 17 1791; d. April 12 1868.

Tory Party

1813 – 1817

George Augustus Frederick Child Villiers, Viscount Villiers

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

Conservative Party

1837 – 1842

Ralph Bernal

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

Whig Party

1842 – 1847


Whitby

Member of Parliament for Whitby
William Henry Gladstone

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 3 1840; d. July 4 1891.

Liberal Party

1868 – 1880


Wigtown Burghs

Member of Parliament for Wigtown Burghs
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 12 1776; d. July 6 1846.

Tory Party

1824 – 1826

Admiral Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1821; d. January 28 1912.

Conservative Party

1880 – 1885


Willesden West

Member of Parliament for Willesden West
Laurence Anstice “Laurie” Pavitt

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 1 1914; d. December 14 1989.

Labour Party

1959 – 1974


Wisbech

Member of Parliament for Wisbech
Neil James Archibald Primrose

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 14 1882; d. November 15 1917.

Liberal Party

1910 – 1917


Wolverhampton

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

Sir Richard Bethell

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1800; d. July 20 1873.

Liberal Party

1859 – 1861

Henry Hartley Fowler

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1830; d. February 25 1911.

Liberal Party

1880 – 1885


Wolverhampton East

Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East
Sir Henry Hartley Fowler

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1830; d. February 25 1911.

Liberal Party

1885 – 1908


Woodstock

Member of Parliament for Woodstock
Lord Robert Spencer

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1747; d. June 23 1831.

Non-Partisan

1768 – 1771

William Eden

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1745; d. May 28 1814.

Non-Partisan

1774 – 1784

Lord Henry John Spencer

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1770; d. July 3 1795.

Non-Partisan

1790 – 1795

Charles Abbot

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1757; d. May 8 1829.

Tory Party

1802 – 1806

George Eden

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 25 1784; d. January 1 1849.

Whig Party

1810 – 1812

George Eden

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 25 1784; d. January 1 1849.

Whig Party

1813 – 1814

Lord Robert Spencer

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1747; d. June 23 1831.

Whig Party

1818 – 1820

John Gladstone

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

Tory Party

1820 – 1826

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1801; d. October 1 1885.

Tory Party

1826 – 1830

Frederic Thesiger

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 25 1794; d. October 5 1878.

Conservative Party

1840 – 1844