List of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

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]

Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham
Incumbent Mike Amesbury since 17 March 2025
Appointer	Chancellor of the Exchequer

Resignation

Main article: Resignation from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

See also: Chiltern Hundreds and List of stewards of the Manor of Northstead

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.^{[citation needed]}

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
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
Ulster Democratic Unionist Party	UDUP
Ulster Unionist Party	UU
Unionist Party	UP
Whig	Whig

Up to 1849

For officeholders prior to 1850, see List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds 1751-1849.

1850 to 1899

Date	Member[3]	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
9 February 1850	Sir George Smyth[3]	Colchester		Con	"Age and infirmity"[4] (Had previously been appointed to the Stewardship in 1829)
4 March 1850	Lord Albert Conyngham[3]	Canterbury		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough
12 March 1850	John Ffolliott[3]	County Sligo		Con	[?]
30 April 1850	Hon. George Keppel[3]	Lymington		Whig	Succeeded his brother as Earl of Albemarle
22 July 1850	Sir John Jervis[3]	City of Chester		Lib	To become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
3 August 1850	Viscount Northland[3]	Dungannon		Con	Ill health[5]
7 August 1850	Charles Pearson[6]	Lambeth		Lib	[?]
24 December 1850	Viscount Adare	Glamorganshire		Con	Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl[7]
3 February 1851	Viscount Northland	Dungannon		Con	[?]
3 February 1851	Sir John Hobhouse, Bt	Harwich		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton[8]
1 March 1851	Richard Lalor Sheil	Dungarvan		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]
31 March 1851	Hon. Henry Cole	Enniskillen		Con	[?]
14 April 1851	William Trant Fagan	Cork City	RA		To become Commissioner of Insolvency
5 May 1851	John Simeon	Isle of Wight		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]
10 July 1851	The Earl of Surrey	Arundel		Lib	To protest the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851[12]
23 July 1851	John O'Connell	Limerick City	RA		To allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place[13]
1 August 1851	Richard Ker	Downpatrick		Con	[?]
12 September 1851	Hon. Arthur Duncombe	East Retford		Con	To become Fourth Naval Lord
25 October 1851	Benjamin Hawes	Kinsale		Lib	To become Deputy Secretary at War
29 January 1852	John Plumptre	East Kent		Con	[?]
16 March 1852	John Boyd	Coleraine		Con	[?]
20 April 1852	Francis Rufford	Worcester		Con	[?]
5 July 1853	William Evans	North Derbyshire		Whig	[?]
3 August 1853	Hon. George Anson	South Staffordshire		Lib	Appointed to command a Division in Bengal[14]
13 August 1853	John Maguire	Dungarvan		Lib	Became Mayor of Cork[15]
28 January 1854	Richard Prime	West Sussex		Con	[?]
5 May 1854	Musgrave Brisco	Hastings		Con	Ill health; died four days later
5 August 1854	Hon. William Gordon	Aberdeenshire		Con	[?]
11 August 1854	Lord Dudley Stuart	Marylebone		Lib	[?]
30 March 1855	Edmond Roche	County Cork		Lib	[?]
2 May 1855	William Mure	Renfrewshire		Con	[?]
6 July 1855	Charles Berkeley	Evesham		Lib	[?]
22 November 1855	Hon. Francis Child Villiers	Rochester		Con	[?]
25 January 1856	Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt	Rutland		Whig	[?]
3 March 1856	Charles Gavan Duffy	New Ross		Lib	[?]
2 May 1856	Charles Berkeley	Cheltenham		Lib	[?]
15 July 1856	Henry Sturt	Dorchester		Con	[?]
7 January 1857	William Biggs	Newport		Whig	[?]
17 February 1857	Charles Frewen	East Sussex		Con	[?]
23 July 1857	Lionel de Rothschild	City of London		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]
30 November 1857	Hon. Francis Baring	Thetford		Con	[?]
19 December 1857	George Skene Duff	Elgin Burghs		Lib	[?]
4 November 1858	Henry Tancred	Banbury		Whig	[?]
9 February 1859	Sir John Ramsden, Bt	Hythe		Whig	[?]
9 March 1859	John Bagshaw	Harwich		Lib	[?]
2 August 1859	Henry Labouchere	Taunton		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton[17]
12 August 1859	Ralph Earle	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Con	Accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies[18]
6 March 1860	William Laslett	Worcester		Lib	[?]
4 June 1860	Richard Davison	Belfast		Con	[?]
27 August 1860	Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert	Ludlow		Con	[?]
4 February 1861	Titus Salt	Bradford		Lib	Retired due to ill health.
22 April 1861	Lachlan Gordon-Duff	Banffshire		Lib	[?]
18 July 1861	Allen Eliott-Lockhart	Selkirkshire		Con	[?]
January 1862	George Heneage	Lincoln		Lib	[?]
26 March 1862	R. A. Cross	Preston		Con	[?]
19 May 1862	Alfred Rhodes Bristow	Kidderminster		Lib	[?]
7 January 1863	Edward Ball	Cambridgeshire		Con	[?]
5 February 1863	Michael Seymour	Plymouth Devonport		Lib	[?]
14 March 1863	Maxwell Close	Armagh		Con	[?]
14 April 1863	Ion Hamilton	County Dublin		Con	[?]
28 May 1863	Charles Tottenham	New Ross		Con	[?]
4 February 1864	Sir James Buller East, Bt	Winchester		Con	[?]
11 February 1865	Daniel O'Donoghue	Tipperary		Lib	[?]
16 June 1865	Arthur William Buller	Plymouth Devonport		Lib	[?]
1 March 1866	William Edward Dowdeswell	Tewkesbury		Con	[?]
28 April 1866	Lord Clarence Paget	Sandwich		Whig	[?]
7 May 1866	William Leslie	Aberdeenshire		Con	[?]
8 August 1866	Hon. Charles Cust	North Shropshire		Con	[?]
5 February 1867	William Humphery	Andover		Con	[?]
5 February 1867	Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt	East Suffolk		Con	[?]
10 May 1867	David Dundas	Sutherland		Lib	[?]
26 July 1867	David Stewart Ker	Downpatrick		Con	[?]
25 November 1867	Hon. Alexander Baring	Thetford		Con	[?]
19 February 1868	Alexander Struthers Finlay	Argyllshire		Lib	[?]
14 April 1868	William Welby-Gregory	Grantham		Con	[?]
22 April 1868	Laurence Oliphant	Stirling Burghs		Lib	[?]
17 February 1869	Richard Green-Price	Radnor		Lib	[?]
28 July 1869	Edward Hamilton	Salisbury		Lib	[?]
7 February 1870	Austen Henry Layard	Southwark		Lib	[?]
9 February 1870	Henry Whitmore	Bridgnorth		Con	[?]
16 February 1870	William Lee	Maidstone		Lib	[?]
16 February 1870	Charles Ichabod Wright	Nottingham		Con	[?]
30 March 1870	Lord Courtenay	East Devon		Con	[?]
9 February 1871	Lord John Hay	Ripon		Lib	[?]
9 February 1871	Sir Thomas Burke, Bt	County Galway		Lib	[?]
22 February 1871	Edward Clive	Hereford		Lib	[?]
24 February 1871	Poulett Somerset	Monmouthshire		Con	[?]
6 February 1872	John Tollemache	West Cheshire		Con	[?]
29 February 1872	Robert Stayner Holford	East Gloucestershire		Con	[?]
17 April 1872	Richard Joseph Devereux	Wexford Borough		Lib	[?]
28 June 1872	William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam	Southern West Riding of Yorkshire		Lib	Retired due to ill health
7 February 1873	Edward Wingfield Verner	Lisburn		Con	[?]
21 February 1873	George Legh	Mid Cheshire		Con	[?]
29 April 1873	William Philip Price	Gloucester		Lib	[?]
24 June 1873	Edmond de la Poer	County Waterford		Lib	[?]
21 July 1873	George Armitstead	Dundee		Lib	[?]
5 February 1875	George Melly	Stoke-upon-Trent		Lib	[?]
6 February 1875	Charles William White	Tipperary	Nat		[?]
15 April 1875	Francis Bassett	Bedfordshire		Lib	[?]
20 July 1875	Thomas Richardson	Hartlepool		Lib	[?]
8 February 1876	Richard Arkwright	Leominster		Con	[?]
24 April 1876	William McCombie	West Aberdeenshire		Lib	[?]
21 June 1876	George Dixon	Birmingham		Lib	[?]
28 June 1876	William Edward Dowdeswell	West Worcestershire		Con	[?]
14 July 1876	Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, Bt	East Kent		Con	[?]
31 July 1876	Charles William Nevill	Carmarthen		Con	[?]
8 February 1877	Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bt	Wilton		Lib	[?]
12 February 1877	John Crossley	Halifax		Lib	[?]
7 August 1877	Edward Corbett	South Shropshire		Con	[?]
16 January 1878	James Grieve	Greenock		Lib	[?]
29 January 1878	J. W. Henley	Oxfordshire		Con	[?]
8 March 1878	Evan Pateshall	Hereford		Con	[?]
16 April 1878	Robert William Hanbury	Tamworth		Con	[?]
6 May 1878	Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, Bt	Carmarthen		Lib	[?]
3 August 1878	The Marquess of Lorne	Argyllshire		Lib	[?]
15 August 1878	Edmund Buckley	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Con	[?]
5 December 1878	Kirkman Daniel Hodgson	Bristol		Lib	[?]
1 May 1879	Lewis Majendie	Canterbury		Con	[?]
3 December 1879	Samuel Danks Waddy	Barnstaple		Lib	[?]
1 May 1880	John Brinton	Kidderminster		Lib	[?]
20 May 1880	Samuel Plimsoll	Derby		Lib	[?]
23 July 1880	Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt	Scarborough		Lib	[?]
18 January 1881	Duncan McLaren	Edinburgh		Lib	[?]
5 April 1881	Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, Bt	Sunderland		Lib	[?]
3 February 1882	Alexander Martin Sullivan	Meath	HRL		[?]
18 April 1882	Vaughan Vaughan-Lee	West Somerset		Con	[?]
15 August 1882	John Dyson Hutchinson	Halifax		Lib	[?]
19 October 1882	James Cowan	Edinburgh		Lib	[?]
16 November 1882	Henry Cecil Raikes	Preston		Con	[?]
16 February 1883	Henry Joseph Gill	Westmeath	HRL		[?]
6 March 1883	John Dillon	Tipperary	IPP		[?]
6 June 1883	Michael Thomas Bass	Derby		Lib	[?]
16 June 1883	Timothy Healy	Wexford Borough	IPP		[?]
30 July 1883	Robert Henry Metge	Meath	Nat
21 August 1883	Hon. Gerard Noel	Rutland		Con	[?]
24 January 1884	William Holms	Paisley		Lib	[?]
12 February 1884	Charles Bradlaugh	Northampton		Con	[?]
12 February 1884	George Bentinck	West Norfolk		Con	[?]
20 February 1884	William Thackeray Marriott	Brighton		Lib	[?]
7 May 1884	Edmund Filmer	Mid Kent		Con	[?]
7 May 1884	Sir Henry Peek, Bt	Mid Surrey		Con	[?]
5 August 1884	John Carpenter Garnier	South Devon		Con	[?]
8 August 1884	John Aloysius Blake	County Waterford	HRL		[?]
24 October 1884	John George Dodson	Scarborough		Lib	[?]
19 February 1885	William Gore-Langton	Mid Somerset		Con	[?]
17 February 1886	Lord Richard Grosvenor	Flintshire		Lib	[?]
8 June 1886	William O'Shea	Galway Borough	Nat		[?]
25 September 1886	Edmund Leamy	North East Cork	IPP		[?]
30 April 1887	William Copeland Borlase	St Austell		Lib	[?]
4 July 1887	Sir James McGarel-Hogg, Bt	Hornsey		Con	[?]
5 July 1887	George Sclater-Booth	North Hampshire		Con	[?]
15 July 1887	Thomas Blake	Forest of Dean		Lib	[?]
8 September 1887	John O'Connor	South Kerry	IPP		[?]
7 February 1888	Charles Lacaita	Dundee		Lib	[?]
9 February 1888	Walter Shirley Shirley	Doncaster		Lib	[?]
3 March 1888	The Earl of March	Chichester		Lib	[?]
6 April 1888	Henry Joseph Gill	Limerick City		Lib	[?]
15 May 1888	John Edmund Commerell	Southampton		Con	[?]
8 November 1888	John Simon	Dewsbury		Lib	[?]
22 February 1889	John Slagg	Burnley		Lib	[?]
27 February 1889	Robert Gent-Davis	Kennington		Con	[?]
6 April 1889	Francis Hughes-Hallett	Rochester		Con	[?]
10 July 1889	Lord Charles Beresford	Marylebone East		Con	[?]
4 March 1890	William Leatham Bright	Stoke-upon-Trent		Lib	[?]
17 March 1890	Richard Ker	East Down		Con	[?]
26 March 1890	Robert Richardson-Gardner	Windsor		Con	[?]
12 June 1890	James Edward O'Doherty	North Donegal	IPP		[?]
4 July 1891	Charles William Selwyn	Wisbech		Con	[?]
12 December 1892	Jabez Balfour	Burnley		Lib	[?]
9 May 1893	Michael Davitt	North East Cork	INF		[?]
16 June 1893	John Morrogh	South East Cork	INF		[?]
4 August 1893	William Grenfell	Hereford		Lib	[?]
8 December 1893	William Thackeray Marriott	Brighton		Con	[?]
21 March 1894	John Philipps	Mid Lanarkshire		Lib	[?]
26 June 1894	Hon. Bernard Coleridge	Sheffield Attercliffe		Lib	[?]
17 August 1894	James Allanson Picton	Leicester		Lib	[?]
21 August 1894	Patrick Chance	South Kilkenny	INF		[?]
2 April 1895	Clement Higgins	Mid Norfolk		Lib	[?]
18 May 1895	Hon. Sidney Herbert	Croydon		Con	[?]
15 June 1895	William O'Brien	Cork City	INF		[?]
24 August 1895	Alfred Webb	West Waterford	INF		[?]
19 February 1896[19]	Thomas Sexton	North Kerry	INF		[?]
24 April 1896	William Hunter	Aberdeen North		Lib	[?]
20 November 1896	Martin White	Forfar		Lib	[?]
16 January 1897	Alfred Wigram	Romford		Con	[?]
2 February 1897	Sir George Trevelyan, Bt	Glasgow Bridgeton		Lib	[?]
4 February 1897	Charles Harvey Combe	Chertsey		Con	[?]
5 February 1898	Alfred Hopkinson	Cricklade	LU		[?]
22 April 1898	Francis Taylor	South Norfolk	LU		[?]
2 July 1898	James Dampier Palmer	Gravesend		Con	[?]
21 July 1898	George Doughty	Great Grimsby		Lib	[?]
7 February 1899	William Kenrick	Birmingham North	LU		[?]
17 February 1899	Thomas Wayman	Elland		Lib	[?]
16 June 1899	Sir John Austin, Bt	Osgoldcross		Lib	[?]
1 July 1899	Robert Grant Webster	St Pancras East		Con	[?]
26 October 1899	Hon. Henry Northcote	Exeter		Con	[?]

1900 to 1949

Date	Member[20]	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
26 January 1900[21]	Lord Charles Beresford	City of York		Con	Appointed second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.
27 January 1900[22]	Bernard Collery	North Sligo	INF		[?]
14 March 1900	Evelyn Hubbard	Brixton		Con	On the advice of his doctors[23]
11 December 1900	Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt	Blackpool		Con	[?]
9 January 1902[24]	Edward Brodie Hoare	Hampstead		Con	Ill health[25]
1 February 1902[26]	Michael McCartan	South Down	IPP		Ill health
7 February 1902[27]	James Daly	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]
18 April 1902[29]	Edwin Hughes	Woolwich		Con	[?]
7 October 1902[30]	Cathcart Wason	Orkney and Shetland	LU		To stand again as an Independent Liberal.
27 October 1902	Augustus Frederick Warr	Liverpool East Toxteth		Con	Found the workload of Parliament to be incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.[31]
17 February 1903	William Edward Hartpole Lecky	Dublin University	LU		Ill health[32]
5 March 1903	Edward Archdale	North Fermanagh		Con	[?]
1 January 1904	William O'Brien	Cork City	AFIL		[?]
22 March 1904	J. E. B. Seely	Isle of Wight		Con	To stand again as Independent Conservative
8 June 1904	John Lockie	Plymouth Devonport		Con	Ill health
16 June 1904	John Arthur Fyler	Chertsey		Con	Bankruptcy
11 February 1905	John Archibald Willox	Liverpool Everton		Con	Ill health
28 June 1905	Arthur Hill	West Down		Con	[?]
19 March 1906	Henry Broadhurst	Leicester		Lib	[?]
7 May 1906	Frederick Rutherfoord Harris	Dulwich		Con	[?]
11 June 1906	Heneage Legge	Westminster St George's		Con	[?]
10 December 1906	Daniel Sheehan	Mid Cork	IPP		To stand again as Independent Nationalist
12 February 1907	Harold James Reckitt	Brigg		Lib	[?]
1 May 1907	William Evans-Gordon	Stepney		Con	[?]
10 June 1907	Denis Joseph Cogan	East Wicklow	IPP		[?]
1 July 1907	James O'Mara	South Kilkenny	IPP		[?]
15 August 1907	Edward Blake	South Longford		Lib	Ill health following a stroke
22 January 1908	William Alexander McArthur	St Austell		Lib	[?]
22 February 1908	Harvey du Cros	Hastings		Con	Ill health
23 April 1908	Henry Fowler	Wolverhampton East		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton
28 April 1908	Edmund Robertson	Dundee		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee
29 June 1908	John Philipps	Pembrokeshire		Lib	[?]
10 February 1909	John Sinclair	Forfar		Lib	[?]
27 March 1909	William O'Brien	Cork City	IPP		[?]
23 April 1909	J. Batty Langley	Sheffield Attercliffe		Lib	[?]
25 June 1909	Herbert Samuel	Cleveland		Lib	[?]
22 February 1910	Sir William Holland, Bt	Rotherham		Lib	[?]
20 February 1911	Thomas Fleming Wilson	North East Lanarkshire		Lib	[?]
15 March 1911	Lord Alwyne Compton	Brentford		Con	[?]
27 April 1911	Viscount Morpeth	Birmingham South	LU		[?]
28 June 1911	Thomas Ashton	Luton		Lib	[?]
4 July 1911	Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt	Wellington	CU		[?]
5 July 1911	John Muldoon	East Wicklow	IPP		[?]
27 October 1911	Alfred Emmott	Oldham		Lib	[?]
8 March 1912	John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood	South East Essex		Con	[?]
13 March 1912	Sir James Rankin, Bt	Leominster		Con	[?]
16 May 1912	Horatio Bottomley	Hackney South		Lib	[?]
30 July 1912	George Kemp	Manchester North West		Lib	[?]
14 November 1912	George Lansbury	Bow and Bromley		Lab	[?]
5 February 1913	Lord Balniel	Chorley		Con	[?]
2 June 1913	Sir Henry Kimber, Bt	Wandsworth		Con	[?]
19 January 1914	William O'Brien	Cork City	AFIL		[?]
26 May 1914	Richard Hazleton	North Galway	IPP		[?]
7 July 1914	Austen Chamberlain	East Worcestershire		Con	To contest Birmingham West
16 February 1915	Viscount Castlereagh	Maidstone		Con	[?]
3 December 1915	William Walker	Widnes		Con	[?]
6 January 1916	Sir Alexander Henderson, Bt	Westminster St George's		Con	[?]
13 January 1916	Hon. Harry Levy-Lawson	Mile End	LU		[?]
22 February 1916	Robert Yerburgh	City of Chester		Con	[?]
24 February 1916	John Rolleston	Hertford		Con	[?]
6 March 1916	John William Logan	Harborough		Lib	[?]
8 April 1916	Henry Chaplin	Wimbledon		Con	[?]
7 August 1916	Reginald Pole-Carew	Bodmin	LU		[?]
10 October 1916	Felix Cassel	St Pancras West		Con	[?]
27 November 1916	The Earl of Ronaldshay	Hornsey		Con	[?]
16 December 1916	Charles Stuart-Wortley	Sheffield Hallam		Con	[?]
21 December 1916	Sir John Dewar, Bt	Inverness-shire		Lib	[?]
10 February 1917	The Marquess of Tullibardine	West Perthshire		Con	[?]
22 March 1917	Arthur Annesley	Oxford		Con	[?]
7 May 1917	Charles Henry Lyell	Edinburgh South		Lib	[?]
19 June 1917	Amelius Lockwood	Epping		Con	[?]
12 January 1918	Sir John Lonsdale, Bt	Mid Armagh		Con	[?]
14 March 1918	William Redmond	East Tyrone	IPP		[?]
12 June 1918	Denison Faber	Clapham		Con	[?]
4 November 1918	Timothy Michael Healy	North East Cork	AFIL		[?]
21 March 1919	Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont	East Antrim		Con	Appointed to command the Irish Guards
22 October 1919	John Wilkinson Taylor	Chester-le-Street		Lab	[?]
29 October 1919	Hon. Waldorf Astor	Plymouth Sutton	Co Con		[?]
2 December 1919	Henry Forster	Sevenoaks	Co Con		[?]
8 February 1920	Will Crooks	Woolwich East		Lab	[?]
15 February 1920	Sydney Arnold	Penistone		Lab	[?]
9 March 1920	George Wardle	Stockport	Co Lab		[?]
25 March 1920	James Clyde	Edinburgh North	Co Con		[?]
7 July 1920	Robert Francis Peel	Woodbridge	Co Con		[?]
25 November 1920	William Brace	Abertillery		Lab	[?]
17 December 1920	Viscount Duncannon	Dover	Co Con		[?]
18 March 1921	Dennis Boles	Taunton	Co Con		[?]
15 April 1921	Lord Edmund Talbot	Chichester	Co Con		[?]
24 May 1921	Walter Long	Westminster St George's	Co Con		[?]
9 January 1922	Henry Newton Knights	Camberwell North	Co Con		[?]
27 February 1922	Thomas Brash Morison	Inverness	Co Lib		[?]
26 May 1922	Sir William Mount, Bt	Newbury	Co Con		[?]
27 November 1922	Herbert Cayzer	Portsmouth South	Co Con		[?]
13 February 1923	Thomas Worsfold	Mitcham	Co Con		[?]
15 February 1923	William Rutherford	Liverpool Edge Hill	Co Con		[?]
10 November 1923	Hon. Alexander Shaw	Kilmarnock		Lib	[?]
26 April 1924	Sir Robert Houston, Bt	Liverpool West Toxteth	Co Con		[?]
19 July 1924	Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, Bt	Carmarthen		Lib	[?]
25 May 1925	Sir John Baird, Bt	Ayr Burghs		Con	[?]
15 February 1926	Herbert Fisher	Combined English Universities		Lib	[?]
30 April 1926	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett	Hammersmith North		Con	[?]
24 August 1926	Hon. Donald Howard	North Cumberland		Con	[?]
4 November 1926	Hon. Joseph Kenworthy	Kingston upon Hull Central		Lib	[?]
30 November 1926	John Davison	Smethwick		Lab	[?]
9 March 1927	Leslie Haden-Guest	Southwark North		Lab	[?]
9 June 1927	Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt	Brixton		Con	[?]
7 June 1928	Sir Alfred Mond, Bt	Carmarthen		Con	[?]
18 June 1928	Sir Rowland Blades, Bt	Epsom		Con	[?]
12 July 1929	William Jowitt	Preston		Lib	[?]
9 April 1930	Ernest Spero	Fulham West		Lab	[?]
17 June 1930	Noel Buxton	North Norfolk		Lab	[?]
3 February 1931	John Humphrey Davidson	Fareham		Con	[?]
16 February 1931	Hugh Morrison	Salisbury		Con	[?]
20 April 1931	Sidney Herbert	Scarborough and Whitby		Con	[?]
3 June 1931	John Tinné	Liverpool Wavertree		Con	[?]
4 April 1932	Newton Moore	Richmond upon Thames		Con	[?]
7 June 1932	Sir Robert Hutchinson	Montrose Burghs	N Lib		[?]
6 February 1933	George Herbert	Rotherham		Con	[?]
16 February 1934	Viscount Lymington	Basingstoke		Con	[?]
30 May 1934	Lord Erskine	Weston-super-Mare		Con	[?]
22 May 1935	John Buchan	Combined Scottish Universities	UP		Following appointment as Governor General of Canada
9 July 1935	Hilton Young	Sevenoaks		Con	[?]
18 April 1936	Viscount Borodale	Peckham		Con	[?]
11 June 1936	James Henry Thomas	Derby	N Lab		[?]
19 October 1936	William Kirkpatrick	Preston		Con	[?]
14 January 1937	Ian Fraser	St Pancras North		Con	[?]
16 March 1937	Philip Russell Rendel Dunne	Stalybridge and Hyde		Con	[?]
25 May 1937	Robert Stevenon Horne	Glasgow Hillhead	UP		[?]
1 June 1937	Stanley Baldwin	Bewdley		Con	[?]
3 June 1937	Hon. Walter Runciman	St Ives	N Lib		[?]
26 October 1937	Lord Eustace Percy	Hastings		Con
28 November 1938	The Duchess of Atholl	Kinross and Western Perthshire	UP		To protest the appeasement of Adolf Hitler.[33]
27 March 1939	Hon. Arthur Hope	Birmingham Aston		Con	[?]
1 July 1939	John Herbert	Monmouth		Con	[?]
6 November 1939	John Remer	Macclesfield		Con	[?]
24 January 1940	Sir Charles Barrie	Southampton	N Lib		[?]
29 January 1940	Alan Garrett Anderson	City of London		Con	[?]
8 February 1940	John Birchall	Leeds North East		Con	[?]
10 April 1940	Nicholas Grattan-Doyle	Newcastle upon Tyne North		Con	[?]
18 June 1940	Harry Nathan	Wandsworth Central		Lab	To provide a seat for Ernest Bevin
12 July 1940	Bernard Cruddas	Wansbeck		Con	[?]
18 September 1940	Thomas Sinclair	Queen's University of Belfast	UU		[?]
11 November 1940	Viscount Wolmer	Aldershot		Con	Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Selborne by writ of acceleration
3 April 1941	Frederick Roberts	West Bromwich		Lab	[?]
11 July 1941	Sir Hugh Seely, Bt	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Lib	Raised to the peerage as Baron Sherwood
10 November 1941	Lord Erskine	Brighton		Con	[?]
25 February 1942	Sir Victor Warrender, Bt	Grantham		Con	Raised to the peerage as Baron Bruntisfield
9 April 1942	John Moore-Brabazon	Wallasey		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]
9 July 1942	Gordon Macdonald	Ince		Lab	Appointed Regional Controller for the Ministry of Fuel and Power for the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Region
14 January 1943	John Colville	Midlothian and Peebles Northern		Con	Appointed Governor of Bombay
20 September 1943	Lord Burghley	Peterborough		Con	Appointed Governor of Bermuda
24 January 1944	Tom Kennedy	Kirkcaldy Burghs		Lab	[?]
7 February 1944	Cecil Wilson	Sheffield Attercliffe		Lab	Ill health
26 February 1946	Ted Williams	Ogmore		Lab	Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[35]
24 May 1946	Francis Douglas	Battersea North		Lab	Appointed Governor of Malta[36]
2 October 1946	Clarice Shaw	Kilmarnock		Lab	Ill health[37]
16 October 1946	John Boyd Orr	Combined Scottish Universities		Ind	Concentrating on work as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
4 November 1946	Sir Douglas Thomson, Bt	Aberdeen South		Con	Pressure of business[38]
3 November 1947	Sir Archibald Southby, Bt	Epsom		Con	Ill health[39]
1 March 1948	Tom Williamson	Brigg		Lab	Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the GMWU
2 July 1948	George Buchanan	Glasgow Gorbals		Lab	Appointed Chairman of the National Assistance Board[40]
19 December 1949	Jack Lawson	Chester-le-Street		Lab	Appointed vice-chairman of the National Parks Commission[41]

1950 to 1999

Date	Member[20]	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
25 October 1950	Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps	Bristol South East		Lab	Medical advice[42]
22 March 1951	Sir Ronald Ross, Bt	Londonderry		Con	Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London
11 May 1951	Rhys Davies	Westhoughton		Lab	Ill health[43]
8 October 1952	Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill	North Antrim		Con	Retirement[44]
21 January 1953	Sidney Schofield	Barnsley		Lab	Personal and domestic reasons[45]
14 February 1953	Hon. Edward Carson	Isle of Thanet		Con	Ill health[46]
3 June 1953	Peter Bennett	Birmingham Edgbaston		Con	Raised to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston[47]
27 October 1953	William J. Field	Paddington North		Lab	Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes[48]
15 January 1954	Richard Law	Haltemprice		Con	Raised to the peerage as Baron Coleraine[49]
12 February 1954	William Cuthbert	Arundel and Shoreham		Con	Ill health[50]
3 October 1954	Sidney Marshall	Sutton and Cheam		Con	Ill health[51]
28 November 1954	Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton	Inverness		Con	Ill health; to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise[52]
7 May 1956	Gerald Wellington Williams	Tonbridge		Con	Ill health[53]
26 November 1956	Stanley Evans	Wednesbury		Lab	Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis
2 May 1957	William Darling	Edinburgh South		Con	Ill health[54]
8 November 1957	Victor Raikes	Liverpool Garston		Con	To take up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia[55]
18 April 1958	Angus Maude	Ealing South		Con	To become editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.[56]
1 June 1961	Hon. David Ormsby-Gore	Oswestry		Con	Appointed British Ambassador to the United States[57]
29 November 1961	Hilary Marquand	Middlesbrough East		Lab	Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office[58]
22 January 1962	George Chetwynd	Stockton-on-Tees		Lab	Appointed Director of the North East Development Council[59]
6 June 1963	John Profumo	Stratford-on-Avon		Con	Confessed to misleading the House (the Profumo affair)[60]
9 March 1964	Peter Smithers	Winchester		Con	Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe[61]
24 June 1965	Anthony Marlowe	Hove		Con	Medical advice
29 September 1967	William Roots	Kensington South		Con	Ill health[62]
15 January 1968	Leslie Hale	Oldham West		Lab	Ill health[63]
6 February 1969	William Teeling	Brighton Pavilion		Con	Ill health
7 March 1969	Francis Noel-Baker	Swindon		Lab	Ill health[64]
11 January 1971	Horace King	Southampton Itchen		Speaker	Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons
30 March 1972	Ray Gunter	Southwark		Ind	Had left the Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an independent having been elected as Labour[65]
29 December 1972	George Thomson	Dundee East		Lab	Appointed a European Commissioner
1 June 1973	Antony Lambton	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Con	Prostitution scandal
27 August 1976	John Stonehouse	Walsall North		Eng Nat	Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
12 November 1976	David Lane	Cambridge		Con	Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality[66]
5 January 1977	Roy Jenkins	Birmingham Stechford		Lab	Appointed President of the European Commission
16 June 1977	Brian Walden	Birmingham Ladywood		Lab	In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World
6 April 1978	Peter Rawlinson	Epsom and Ewell		Con	Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer[67]
24 October 1979	Geoffrey Dodsworth	South West Hertfordshire		Con	Medical advice[citation needed]
1 November 1982	Robert Mellish	Bermondsey		Ind	Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; to become vice-chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation[68]
17 December 1985	James Molyneaux	Lagan Valley		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	Roy Beggs	East Antrim		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	Harold McCusker	Armagh		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	William Ross	Londonderry		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	John Taylor	Strangford		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	James Kilfedder	North Down		UPUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	Jim Nicholson	Newry and Armagh		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
17 December 1985	William McCrea	Mid Ulster		DUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[69]
24 June 1986	John Golding	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Lab	Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union[70]
18 October 1988	Bruce Millan	Glasgow Govan		Lab	Appointed a European Commissioner[71]
18 May 1989	Stuart Holland	Vauxhall		Lab	In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute
20 January 1995	Neil Kinnock	Islwyn		Lab	Appointed a European Commissioner[72]
28 June 1999	Alastair Goodlad	Eddisbury		Con	Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[73]

Since 2000

Date	Member[20]	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
23 October 2000	Betty Boothroyd	West Bromwich West		Speaker	Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons.[74]
22 June 2004	Terry Davis	Birmingham Hodge Hill		Lab	Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
27 June 2007	Tony Blair	Sedgefield		Lab	Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East.[75]
18 June 2008	David Davis	Haltemprice and Howden		Con	Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.[76]
8 June 2009[77]	Ian Gibson	Norwich North		Lab	Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel.[78]
13 January 2010[79]	Iris Robinson	Strangford		DUP	Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life.[80]
8 February 2011	Eric Illsley	Barnsley Central		Lab	Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.[81]
2 March 2012[82]	Marsha Singh	Bradford West		Lab	Ill health.[83]
22 October 2012[84]	Alun Michael	Cardiff South and Penarth		Lab	To contest the Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area.[85]
5 November 2012[86]	Denis MacShane	Rotherham		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.
5 February 2013[87]	Chris Huhne	Eastleigh		Lib Dem	Pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
30 April 2014[88]	Patrick Mercer	Newark		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.
30 September 2014[90]	Mark Reckless	Rochester and Strood		Con	To seek re-election as a UKIP candidate.
9 May 2016[91]	Sadiq Khan	Tooting		Lab	Elected as Mayor of London.
26 October 2016[92][93]	Zac Goldsmith	Richmond Park		Con	Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
23 January 2017[94]	Hon. Tristram Hunt	Stoke-on-Trent Central		Lab	To direct the Victoria and Albert Museum.
16 January 2018[95]	Barry McElduff	West Tyrone		SF	Became embroiled in a controversy over the Kingsmill massacre on social media.
28 October 2019[96]	John Mann	Bassetlaw		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.
16 March 2021[97]	Mike Hill	Hartlepool		Lab	Pending sexual harassment tribunal.
10 May 2021[98]	Tracy Brabin	Batley and Spen		Lab Co-op	Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire.
3 May 2022[99]	Imran Ahmad Khan	Wakefield		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]
21 October 2022[102]	Christian Matheson	City of Chester		Lab	Independent Expert Panel parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended for "serious sexual misconduct".[103]
30 November 2022[104]	Rosie Cooper	West Lancashire		Lab	To take up the role of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.[105]
12 June 2023[106]	Boris Johnson	Uxbridge and South Ruislip		Con	Resignation after being handed draft results of investigation into allegations he misled Parliament over Partygate.[107]
29 August 2023[108]	Nadine Dorries	Mid Bedfordshire		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]
8 January 2024[110]	Chris Skidmore	Kingswood		Con	Resigned over disagreements with the Government's policy on net zero.[111]
17 March 2025[112]	Mike Amesbury	Runcorn and Helsby		Lab	Resigned after receiving a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a constituent.

See also

Office still in use

• List of stewards of the Manor of Northstead

Offices no longer in use

• List of Stewards of the Manor of East Hendred
• List of Stewards of the Manor of Hempholme
• List of Stewards of the Manor of Old Shoreham
• List of Stewards of the Manor of Poynings