List of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

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Appointment to the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds (or the Three Hundreds of Chiltern) is a procedural device to allow members of Parliament (MPs) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Since MPs are technically unable to resign their seats in the House of Commons, they must resort to a legal fiction. An appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as an MP. Although several offices were used in the past to allow MPs to resign, only the stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead are in present use.[1]

Resignation

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On 2 March 1624, a resolution was passed by the House of Commons making it illegal for an MP to quit or wilfully give up their seat. Believing that officers of the Crown could not remain impartial, the House passed a resolution on 30 December 1680 stating that an MP who "shall accept any Office, or Place of Profit, from the Crown, without the Leave of this House ... shall be expelled [from] this House." However, MPs were able to hold Crown Stewardships until 1740, when Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was deemed to have vacated his Commons seat after becoming Steward of the Lordship and Manor of Bromfield and Yale.[1] The practice of leaving the house when appointed as a minister of crown would result in a ministerial by-election until the early 20th century when this requirement was removed for most substantive offices.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The Chiltern Hundreds last needed a Crown Steward in the 18th century. When John Pitt wished to vacate his seat for Wareham in order to stand for Dorchester, the Crown Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds was available for this purpose. Pitt was appointed Crown Steward on 25 January 1751.[1]

A number of other offices were subsequently used for resignation, but only the Chiltern Hundreds and the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead are still in use.[1] Appointees to the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated with the Manor of Northstead, allowing two MPs to resign at once. When more than two MPs resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs, appointees are dismissed after a few hours to allow other resigning MPs to take their place.[1] The Parliamentary Information Office has produced a list of those appointed to the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds since 1850.[2]

Key

Party Abbreviation
All-for-Ireland League AFIL
Coalition Conservative Co Con
Coalition Liberal Co Lib
Conservative Party Con
Democratic Unionist Party DUP
English National Party Eng Nat
Home Rule League HRL
Independent Ind
Irish National Federation INF
Irish Parliamentary Party IPP
Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party Nat
Labour Party Lab
Liberal Party (pre-1988) Lib
Liberal Democrats Lib Dem
Liberal Unionist Party LU
National Labour N Lab
National Liberal Party N Lib
Unionist Party UP
Ulster Popular Unionist Party UPUP
Ulster Unionist Party UU
Whig Whig

Up to 1849

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1850 to 1899

Date Member[3] Constituency Party Reason for resignation
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[3] Colchester style="background:Template:Party color" | Con "Age and infirmity"[4] (Had previously been appointed to the Stewardship in 1829)
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[3] Canterbury style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[3] County Sligo style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[3] Lymington style="background:Template:Party color" | Whig Succeeded his brother as Earl of Albemarle
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[3] City of Chester style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib To become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[3] Dungannon style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health[5]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort".[6] Lambeth style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Glamorganshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl[7]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dungannon style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Harwich style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton[8]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dungarvan style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Retired due to ill health and as he had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in November 1850.[9][10]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Enniskillen style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Cork City RA To become Commissioner of Insolvency
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Isle of Wight style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib After converting to Catholicism, "out of a delicate instinct of honour towards those who had elected him while he was a member of the Anglican Church — believing that he had no right to suppose them to be indifferent to the change he had made."[11]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Arundel style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib To protest the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851[12]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Limerick City RA To allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place[13]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Downpatrick style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Retford style="background:Template:Party color" | Con To become Fourth Naval Lord
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Kinsale style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib To become Deputy Secretary at War
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Kent style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Coleraine style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Worcester style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". North Derbyshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Whig Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". South Staffordshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Appointed to command a Division in Bengal[14]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dungarvan style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Became Mayor of Cork[15]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". West Sussex style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Hastings style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health; died four days later
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Aberdeenshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Marylebone style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". County Cork style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Renfrewshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Rutland style="background:Template:Party color" | Whig Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Cheltenham style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dorchester style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Newport style="background:Template:Party color" | Whig Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Sussex style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". City of London style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Being Jewish, unable to swear his oath of allegiance on a Bible that contained the New Testament. A bill that would allow him to swear on the Old Testament was defeated.[16]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Thetford style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Banbury style="background:Template:Party color" | Whig Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Harwich style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Taunton style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton[17]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Berwick-upon-Tweed style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies[18]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Worcester style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Belfast style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Ludlow style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Bradford style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Retired due to ill health.
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Plymouth Devonport style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Armagh style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Plymouth Devonport style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sandwich style="background:Template:Party color" | Whig Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Aberdeenshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". North Shropshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sutherland style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Downpatrick style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Grantham style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Stirling Burghs style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Bridgnorth style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Maidstone style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Nottingham style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wexford Borough style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
28 June 1872 Script error: No such module "Sort". Southern West Riding of Yorkshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Retired due to ill health
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Lisburn style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Cheshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". West Aberdeenshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Oxfordshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Newcastle-under-Lyme style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Canterbury style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sunderland style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". West Somerset style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Preston style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Westmeath HRL Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Derby style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Rutland style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Kent style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Somerset style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Windsor style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Lanarkshire style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Aberdeen North style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Glasgow Bridgeton style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Cricklade LU Template:Data missing
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1900 to 1949

Date Member[20] Constituency Party Reason for resignation
Template:Dts[21] Script error: No such module "Sort". City of York style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Appointed second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.
Template:Dts[22] Script error: No such module "Sort". North Sligo INF Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Brixton style="background:Template:Party color" | Con On the advice of his doctors[23]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Blackpool style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts[24] Script error: No such module "Sort". Hampstead style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health[25]
Template:Dts[26] Script error: No such module "Sort". South Down IPP Ill health
Template:Dts[27] Script error: No such module "Sort". South Monaghan IPP Refusal of party leaders to publish the names of those members who were receiving payment from the Parliamentary fund and those who were not[28]
Template:Dts[29] Script error: No such module "Sort". Woolwich style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts[30] Script error: No such module "Sort". Orkney and Shetland LU To stand again as an Independent Liberal.
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Liverpool East Toxteth style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Found the workload of Parliament to be incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.[31]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dublin University LU Ill health[32]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". North Fermanagh style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Cork City AFIL Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Isle of Wight style="background:Template:Party color" | Con To stand again as Independent Conservative
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Plymouth Devonport style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Chertsey style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Bankruptcy
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Liverpool Everton style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". West Down style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Leicester style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dulwich style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Westminster St George's style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Cork IPP To stand again as Independent Nationalist
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Brigg style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Stepney style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Wicklow IPP Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". South Longford style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Ill health following a stroke
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Hastings style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wolverhampton East style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dundee style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wellington CU Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Worcestershire style="background:Template:Party color" | Con To contest Birmingham West
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Antrim style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Appointed to command the Irish Guards
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Ayr Burghs style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Combined English Universities style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Hammersmith North style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Smethwick style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Richmond upon Thames style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Montrose Burghs N Lib Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Basingstoke style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Weston-super-Mare style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Combined Scottish Universities UP Following appointment as Governor General of Canada
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sevenoaks style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Derby N Lab Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". St Ives N Lib Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Hastings style="background:Template:Party color" | Con
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Kinross and Western Perthshire UP To protest the appeasement of Adolf Hitler.[33]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Birmingham Aston style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Monmouth style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
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Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Leeds North East style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Newcastle upon Tyne North style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wandsworth Central style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab To provide a seat for Ernest Bevin
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wansbeck style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Queen's University of Belfast UU Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Aldershot style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Selborne by writ of acceleration
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". West Bromwich style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Berwick-upon-Tweed style="background:Template:Party color" | Lib Raised to the peerage as Baron Sherwood
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Brighton style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Grantham style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Raised to the peerage as Baron Bruntisfield
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wallasey style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Publicly expressed the hope that Germany and Britain's ally the Soviet Union, then engaged in the Battle of Stalingrad, would destroy each other.[34]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Ince style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Appointed Regional Controller for the Ministry of Fuel and Power for the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Region
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Midlothian and Peebles Northern style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Appointed Governor of Bombay
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Peterborough style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Appointed Governor of Bermuda
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Kirkcaldy Burghs style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Template:Data missing
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sheffield Attercliffe style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Ill health
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Ogmore style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[35]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Battersea North style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Appointed Governor of Malta[36]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Kilmarnock style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Ill health[37]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Combined Scottish Universities style="background:Template:Party color" | Ind Concentrating on work as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Aberdeen South style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Pressure of business[38]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Epsom style="background:Template:Party color" | Con Ill health[39]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Brigg style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the GMWU
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Glasgow Gorbals style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Appointed Chairman of the National Assistance Board[40]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Chester-le-Street style="background:Template:Party color" | Lab Appointed vice-chairman of the National Parks Commission[41]

1950 to 1999

Date Member[20] Constituency Party Reason for resignation
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Bristol South East style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Medical advice[42]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Londonderry style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Westhoughton style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Ill health[43]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". North Antrim style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Retirement[44]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Barnsley style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Personal and domestic reasons[45]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Isle of Thanet style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health[46]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Birmingham Edgbaston style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Raised to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston[47]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Paddington North style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes[48]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Haltemprice style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Raised to the peerage as Baron Coleraine[49]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Arundel and Shoreham style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health[50]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sutton and Cheam style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health[51]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Inverness style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health; to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise[52]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Tonbridge style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health[53]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Wednesbury style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Edinburgh South style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health[54]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Liverpool Garston style="background:Template:Party color"| Con To take up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia[55]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Ealing South style="background:Template:Party color"| Con To become editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.[56]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Oswestry style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Appointed British Ambassador to the United States[57]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Middlesbrough East style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office[58]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Stockton-on-Tees style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed Director of the North East Development Council[59]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Stratford-on-Avon style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Confessed to misleading the House (the Profumo affair)[60]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Winchester style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe[61]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Hove style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Medical advice
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Kensington South style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health[62]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Oldham West style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Ill health[63]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Brighton Pavilion style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Ill health
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Swindon style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Ill health[64]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Southampton Itchen style="background:Template:Party color"| Speaker Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Southwark style="background:Template:Party color"| Ind Had left the Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an independent having been elected as Labour[65]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Dundee East style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed a European Commissioner
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Berwick-upon-Tweed style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Prostitution scandal
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Walsall North style="background:Template:Party color"| Eng Nat Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Cambridge style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality[66]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Birmingham Stechford style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed President of the European Commission
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Birmingham Ladywood style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Epsom and Ewell style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer[67]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". South West Hertfordshire style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Medical adviceScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Bermondsey style="background:Template:Party color"| Ind Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; to become vice-chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation[68]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Lagan Valley style="background:Template:Party color"| UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". East Antrim style="background:Template:Party color"| UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Armagh style="background:Template:Party color"| UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Londonderry style="background:Template:Party color"| UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Strangford style="background:Template:Party color"| UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". North Down style="background:Template:Party color"| UPUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Newry and Armagh style="background:Template:Party color"| UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Ulster style="background:Template:Party color"| DUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Newcastle-under-Lyme style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union[70]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Glasgow Govan style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed a European Commissioner[71]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Vauxhall style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Islwyn style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed a European Commissioner[72]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Eddisbury style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[73]

Since 2000

Date Member[20] Constituency Party Reason for resignation
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". West Bromwich West style="background:Template:Party color"| Speaker Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons.[74]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Birmingham Hodge Hill style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Sedgefield style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East.[75]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Haltemprice and Howden style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.[76]
Template:Dts[77] Script error: No such module "Sort". Norwich North style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel.[78]
Template:Dts[79] Script error: No such module "Sort". Strangford style="background:Template:Party color"| DUP Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life.[80]
Template:Dts Script error: No such module "Sort". Barnsley Central style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.[81]
Template:Dts[82] Script error: No such module "Sort". Bradford West style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Ill health.[83]
Template:Dts[84] Script error: No such module "Sort". Cardiff South and Penarth style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab To contest the Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area.[85]
Template:Dts[86] Script error: No such module "Sort". Rotherham style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Standards and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons recommended that he be suspended from the service of the House for six months, for knowingly submitting false invoices.
Template:Dts[87] Script error: No such module "Sort". Eastleigh style="background:Template:Party color"| Lib Dem Pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
Template:Dts[88] Script error: No such module "Sort". Newark style="background:Template:Party color"| Ind Elected as Conservative, but had quit the whip at the commencement of investigations on 31 May 2013.[89] The Standards Committee of the House of Commons agreed a report recommending he be suspended from the service of the House for six months for breaking the rule against paid advocacy.
Template:Dts[90] Script error: No such module "Sort". Rochester and Strood style="background:Template:Party color"| Con To seek re-election as a UKIP candidate.
Template:Dts[91] Script error: No such module "Sort". Tooting style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Elected as Mayor of London.
Template:Dts[92][93] Script error: No such module "Sort". Richmond Park style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
Template:Dts[94] Script error: No such module "Sort". Stoke-on-Trent Central style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab To direct the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Template:Dts[95] Script error: No such module "Sort". West Tyrone style="background:Template:Party color"| SF Became embroiled in a controversy over the Kingsmill massacre on social media.
Template:Dts[96] Script error: No such module "Sort". Bassetlaw style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Nomination to House of Lords announced in 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. No by-election held due to the 2019 general election being called.
Template:Dts[97] Script error: No such module "Sort". Hartlepool style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Pending sexual harassment tribunal.
Template:Dts[98] Script error: No such module "Sort". Batley and Spen style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Co-op Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire.
Template:Dts[99] Script error: No such module "Sort". Wakefield style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Criminal conviction for sexual assault. Elected as Conservative in 2019, suspended from the party in June 2021 pending a trial. Expelled after he was convicted in April 2022.[100][101]
Template:Dts[102] Script error: No such module "Sort". City of Chester style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Independent Expert Panel parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended for "serious sexual misconduct".[103]
Template:Dts[104] Script error: No such module "Sort". West Lancashire style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab To take up the role of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.[105]
Template:Dts[106] Script error: No such module "Sort". Uxbridge and South Ruislip style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Resignation after being handed draft results of investigation into allegations he misled Parliament over Partygate.[107]
Template:Dts[108] Script error: No such module "Sort". Mid Bedfordshire style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Resigned regarding a dispute relating to not receiving a peerage in Johnson's resignation honours. The appointment came 81 days after she announced her resignation "with immediate effect".[109]
Template:Dts[110] Script error: No such module "Sort". Kingswood style="background:Template:Party color"| Con Resigned over disagreements with the Government's policy on net zero.[111]
Template:Dts[112] Script error: No such module "Sort". Runcorn and Helsby style="background:Template:Party color"| Lab Resigned after receiving a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a constituent.

See also

Office still in use

Offices no longer in use

References

General

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  11. "The Last Days of Sir John Simeon", The Month: A Magazine and Review new series, vol. II (XIII), July to December 1870, pp. 481–484.
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  19. In the House of Commons Information Office publication Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 Template:Webarchive, Thomas Sexton is recorded as having taken the Chiltern Hundreds on 19 February 1895. However, this appears to be an error. The London Gazette lists him as having been returned for North Kerry at the general election in August 1895 (see London Gazette, Issue 26651 published on 9 August 1895 Template:Webarchive, and the writ for the by-election was moved in April 1896 (see House of Commons Debates 14 April 1896 vol 39 c882 Template:Webarchive). The date of his resignation is therefore listed here as 19 February 1896, rather than 1895.
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  34. Arnold-Baker, Charles (1996, 2001): The Companion to British History. Routledge, London. Template:ISBN
  35. "High Commissioner in Australia", The Times, 27 February 1946, p. 4.
  36. "New Governor of Malta", The Times, 25 May 1946, p. 4.
  37. "Four by-elections", The Times, 5 October 1946, p. 4.
  38. "Two M.P.s to Resign", The Times, 11 October 1946, p. 8.
  39. "Resignation of Sir A. Southby", The Times, 3 November 1947, p. 4.
  40. "Minister of Pensions Vacating Office", The Times, 2 July 1948, p. 4.
  41. "Mr. Lawson, M.P., Resigns", The Times, 21 December 1949, p. 4.
  42. "Sir Stafford Cripps Resigns", The Times, 20 October 1950, p. 4.
  43. "M.P. not to seek re-election", The Times, 10 April 1951, p. 7.
  44. Template:"'Father' of Commons to Retire", The Times, 5 July 1952, p. 6.
  45. "Two M.P.s to Resign", The Times, 13 January 1953, p. 3.
  46. "Mr. Edward Carson", The Times, 18 February 1953, p. 4.
  47. "Two by-elections", The Times, 6 June 1953, p. 4.
  48. "Mr. W. J. Field, M.P., To Resign", The Times, 14 October 1953, p. 5."
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  50. "Conservative M.P.s' Resignations", The Times, 17 February 1954, p. 8.
  51. "Chiltern Hundreds for Sir Sidney Marshall", The Times, 6 October 1954, p. 6.
  52. "M.P. for Inverness to Resign", The Times, 3 December 1954, p. 8.
  53. "Conservative M.P. To Resign", The Times, 28 April 1956, p. 6.
  54. "Sir William Darling Resigns Seat", The Times, 4 May 1957, p 4.
  55. "Sir Victor Raikes Resigns Seat", The Times, 9 November 1957, p. 3.
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  59. "Chiltern Hundreds for Mr. Chetwynd", The Times, 23 January 1962, p. 10.
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  62. "Conservative MP to resign", The Times, 30 September 1967, p. 1.
  63. "Ill-health causes MP to resign", The Times, 16 January 1968, p. 1.
  64. "Swindon MP resigns his seat", The Times, 8 March 1969, p. 1.
  65. "Mr Gunter resigning: 'Improper to stayTemplate:'", The Times, 4 March 1972, p. 1
  66. David Leigh, "Ex-Tory junior minister to head race body", The Times, 30 July 1976, p. 4.
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