List of stewards of the Manor of Hempholme
This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of Hempholme, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was used to resign from the House of Commons.[1] The last steward vacated the post in 1866 after being re-elected to the House of Commons.
Stewards
Date | Member | Party | Constituency | Reason | |
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21 February 1845 | Charles Scott-Murray | Conservative | Buckinghamshire | ||
10 February 1846 | Lord Arthur Lennox | Conservative | Chichester | Resigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws. | |
29 January 1852 | James Whitley Deans Dundas | Liberal | Greenwich | Appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. | |
24 March 1852 | Reginald James Blewitt | Liberal | Monmouth Boroughs | ||
19 April 1852 | Sir John S Trelawny | Liberal | Tavistock | ||
29 April 1852 | Sir Fitzroy Kelly | Conservative | Harwich | Resigned to contest East Suffolk | |
19 May 1852 | Charles Pascoe Grenfell | Liberal | Preston | ||
30 January 1854 | Robert Henry Clive | Conservative | Shropshire South | ||
20 October 1854 | Samuel Morton Peto | Liberal | Norwich | Resigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway. Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead.[2] | |
9 February 1855 | Lord Charles Wellesley | Conservative | Windsor | ||
9 July 1855 | Edmond Wodehouse | Conservative | Norfolk East | ||
7 January 1856 | Peter Rolt | Conservative | Greenwich | ||
22 January 1856 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Liberal | Edinburgh | ill health | |
28 February 1856 | Gilbert Henry Heathcote | Liberal | Boston | Resigned to contest Rutland | |
3 July 1856 | Earl of Shelburne | Liberal | Calne | Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe. | |
25 July 1856 | Edward Strutt | Liberal | Nottingham | Raised to the peerage. | |
11 February 1857 | Thomas Bateson | Conservative | Londonderry | ||
16 February 1857 | Lord John Manners | Conservative | Colchester | Resigned to contest North Leicestershire.[3] | |
10 June 1857 | James Duff | Liberal | Banffshire | Became Earl Fife on the death of his uncle. | |
25 August 1857 | Lord Robert Grosvenor | Liberal | Middlesex | Raised to the peerage. | |
1 December 1857 | Earl of Mulgrave | Liberal | Scarborough | Became Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father. | |
28 April 1858 | Hugh Lyons-Montgomery | Conservative | Leitrim | ||
27 July 1858 | Sir John Buller-Yarde-Buller | Conservative | Devonshire South | Raised to the peerage. | |
8 February 1859 | James Whiteside | Conservative | Enniskillen | Resigned to contest Dublin University | |
23 June 1859 | Edward Arthur Somerset | Conservative | Monmouthshire | ||
11 August 1859 | James Wilson | Liberal | Devonport | Resigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India. | |
13 December 1859 | William Overend | Conservative | Pontefract | ||
16 May 1860 | Sir John Rivett-Carnac | Conservative | Lymington | ||
27 July 1860 | John Ayshford Wise | Liberal | Stafford | ||
4 February 1861 | Joseph Crook | Liberal | Bolton | ||
15 April 1861 | Hugh Taylor | Conservative | Tynemouth and North Shields | ||
3 July 1861 | Henry Rich | Liberal | Richmond | ||
23 July 1861 | William Cubitt | Conservative | Andover | Resign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost. | |
11 February 1862 | John Biggs | Liberal | Leicester | ||
20 April 1862 | William Roupell | Liberal | Lambeth | see Roupell case. | |
18 July 1862 | Robert Munro-Ferguson | Liberal | Kirkcaldy Burghs | ||
24 July 1862 | William McClintock-Bunbury | Conservative | County Carlow | ||
26 January 1863 | Andrew Steuart | Conservative | Cambridge | ||
16 February 1863 | Humphrey William Freeland | Liberal | Chichester | ||
28 May 1863 | Sir John Arnott | Liberal | Kinsale | ||
9 October 1863 | Hon. Frederick Lygon | Conservative | Tewkesbury | Resigned to contest West Worcestershire.[3] | |
17 February 1864 | Henry Ker Seymer | Conservative | Dorset | ||
1 February 1865 | Francis Lyons | Liberal | Cork City | ||
15 June 1865 | Ralph Bernal Osborne | Liberal | Liskeard | Resigned to contest Nottingham.[3] |
See also
- List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds
- List of Stewards of the Manor of East Hendred
- List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead
- List of Stewards of the Manor of Old Shoreham
- List of Stewards of the Manor of Poynings
References
- Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ Faith, Nicholas The world the railways made The Bodley Head, London, 1990 ISBN 0-370-31299-6 p. 106
- ^ a b c Inferred from the dates.