List of stewards of the Manor of Northstead

The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead functions as a procedural device to allow a member of Parliament (MP) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. As members of the House of Commons are forbidden from formally resigning, a legal fiction is used to circumvent this prohibition: appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as an MP. As such, several such positions are maintained to allow MPs to resign.^[1] Currently, the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used, and are specifically designated for this purpose under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975; several other offices have also been used historically.^[1] The appointment is traditionally made by the chancellor of the Exchequer. The position was reworked in 1861 by William Ewart Gladstone, who was worried about the honour conferred by appointment to people such as Edwin James, who had fled to the United States over £100,000 in debt. As such, the letter by the chancellor was rewritten to omit any references to honour.

Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead
Incumbent Scott Benton since 25 March 2024
Appointer	Chancellor of the Exchequer

The office was first used in this way on 20 March 1844 to allow Sir George Henry Rose, MP for Christchurch, to resign his seat. Appointees to the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated so that two MPs can resign at once (as happened on 23 January 2017 when Tristram Hunt and Jamie Reed resigned). However, every new appointment revokes the previous one, so there is no difficulty in situations in which more than two resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs when several separate appointments were made on a single day.^[1] If a resigning MP wishes to contest the following by-election, as Douglas Carswell did in 2014, they need to resign the stewardship to avoid further disqualification.^[2]

The incumbent steward of the Manor of Northstead is Scott Benton, formerly the Independent (elected Conservative) MP for Blackpool South.^[3]

Key to party abbreviations

Party Abbreviation All-for-Ireland League AFIL Coalition Conservative Co Con Coalition Liberal Co Lib Conservative Party Con Home Rule League HRL Independent Ind Irish National Federation INF

Party Abbreviation Irish Parliamentary Party IPP Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party Nat Irish Unionist Alliance IUA Labour Party (UK) Lab Liberal Party (pre-1988) Lib Liberal Nationals L Nat Liberal Unionist Party LU

Party Abbreviation National Labour N Lab Plaid Cymru PC Scottish National Party SNP Sinn Féin SF Democratic Unionist Party DUP Ulster Unionist Party UUP Unionist Party UP Whig Whig

Up to 1899

William Ewart Gladstone, who reformed the process to omit references to the position being one of honour in 1861.

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation	Ref
20 March 1844	George Henry Rose	Christchurch		Con
21 January 1846	Francis Murphy	Cork City		Whig
5 February 1846	The Lord Henniker	East Suffolk		Con	In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Hartismere	[4]
22 November 1852	James Emerson Tennent	Lisburn		Con	Appointed secretary to the Board of Trade	[5]
27 December 1852	Edward Howard	Morpeth		Whig
15 August 1853	John Charles Herries	Stamford		Con	Ill-health	[6]
27 January 1854	Robert Inglis	Oxford University		Con	Ill-health	[7]
13 February 1854	William Edward Powell	Ceredigion		Con
5 May 1854	Henry Tufnell	Plymouth Devonport		Whig	Ill-health	[8]
July 1854	Francis Charles Lawley	Beverley		Whig	Found to have been using his position as secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for insider trading	[9]
26 March 1855	William Philip Price	Gloucester		Whig	Resigned to accept a contract for supplying huts to the army in the Crimea	[10]
25 May 1855	Thomas Phinn	Bath		Whig	Appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty	[11]
22 January 1856	John Blackett	Newcastle-upon-Tyne		Whig	Ill-health	[12]
23 January 1856	Viscount Dalrymple	Wigtownshire		Whig
23 May 1856	The Lord Waterpark	Lichfield		Whig
5 January 1857	Robert Price	Hereford		Whig
23 February 1857	John MacGregor	Glasgow		Whig
27 July 1857	William Egerton	North Cheshire		Con
26 August 1857	George Byng	Tavistock		Whig	To allow him to stand for the vacant Middlesex parliamentary seat	[13]
1 December 1857	Edward Dering	East Kent		Whig	Ill-health	[14]
December 1857	Charles Compton Cavendish	Buckinghamshire		Whig	In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Chesham
2 February 1859	George Alexander Hamilton	Dublin University		Con	Appointed Assistant Secretary to the Treasury	[15]
8 February 1859	John Townsend	Greenwich		Whig	Bankruptcy	[16]
16 February 1859	Viscount Ebrington	Marylebone		Whig		[17]
25 February 1859	Samuel Warren	Midhurst		Con	Appointed a Master in Lunacy under the Lunacy Act 1845	[18]
6 August 1859	William Michell	Bodmin		Lib
12 August 1859	Ralph Grey	Liskeard		Lib
25 July 1860	John Arthur Wynne	Sligo Borough		Con
10 April 1861	Edwin James	Marylebone		Lib	Resigned and fled to the United States with massive debts	[19]
18 June 1861	Henry White	Longford		Lib
24 July 1861	Lord John Russell	City of London		Lib	In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Earl Russell	[20]
27 January 1862	Henry Butler-Johnstone	Canterbury		Con	Following an interview with his leading supporters	[21]
25 April 1862	William Johnson Fox	Oldham		Lib	Ill-health	[22]
23 January 1863	Charles Moody	West Somerset		Con
11 February 1863	Jonathan Richardson	Lisburn		Con
8 May 1863	Daniel O'Connell	Tralee		Lib
28 July 1863	Richard Monckton Milnes	Pontefract		Lib	In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Houghton	[23]
6 February 1864	William Coningham	Brighton		Lib	Ill-health
6 April 1864	William Garnett	Lancaster		Con
6 March 1865	T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt	North Wiltshire		Con	Ill-health	[24]
21 February 1866	Charles Wood	Ripon		Lib	Retired following a hunting accident	[25]
20 March 1866	James Lindsay	Wigan		Con	Due to prolonged service in Canada in the British Army	[26]
2 May 1866	Stafford Northcote	Stamford		Con	Resigned to contest North Devon	[27]
19 July 1866	Edward Kerrison	Eye		Con	To allow him to stand for election to one of the East Suffolk parliamentary seats; he resigned again in 1867 becoming a Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds	[31]
5 February 1867	Taverner Miller	Colchester		Con
8 March 1867	Meaburn Staniland	Boston		Lib
6 June 1867	Henry Gridley	Weymouth and Melcombe Regis		Lib	Ill-health	[32]
12 August 1867	George Julius Poulett Scrope	Stroud		Lib
12 February 1868	Alexander Beresford Hope	Stoke-on-Trent		Con
3 April 1868	Alexander Henry Campbell	Launceston		Con
14 April 1868	Arthur Walsh	Leominster		Con
22 April 1868	Samuel Morton Peto	Bristol		Lib	Gave up his seat after being declared bankrupt; had previously resigned from Norwich in 1854 by becoming Steward of Hempholme	[35]
9 August 1869	George Traill	Caithness		Lib
7 February 1870	Anthony Lefroy	Dublin University		Con
15 February 1870	William Scott	Roxburghshire		Lib
9 February 1871	Joshua Westhead	City of York		Lib
6 February 1872	George Loch	Wick Burghs		Lib
5 February 1875	George Elliot	Chatham		Con	Appointed Commander-in-Chief of HMNB Portsmouth	[36]
8 February 1876	Richard Fellowes Benyon	Berkshire		Con
9 February 1876	John Burgess Karslake	Huntingdon		Con
4 August 1876	Robert Meek Carter	Leeds		Lib
23 February 1877	James Henry Deakin	Launceston		Con
17 January 1878	Donald Robert Macgregor	Leith Burghs		Lib
25 February 1878	Henry Munro-Butler-Johnstone	Canterbury		Con
8 March 1878	Ralph Neville-Grenville	Mid Somerset		Con
4 May 1878	John Gilbert Talbot	West Kent		Con
20 July 1878	Henry Ferguson Davie	Haddington Burghs		Lib
3 August 1878	John Malcolm	Boston		Con
5 December 1878	George Sandford	Maldon		Con
10 March 1879	Ralph Shuttleworth Allen	East Somerset		Con
18 February 1880	Benjamin Whitworth	Kilkenny City		HRL
4 May 1880	Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen	Sandwich		Lib
18 May 1880	Alexander Martin Sullivan	County Louth		HRL
20 May 1880	Percy Bernard	Bandon		Con
24 July 1880	John George Dodson	City of Chester		Lib	Resigned to contest Scarborough, which was vacated via the Chiltern Hundreds the previous day, in anticipation of his election being declared void on petition (as happened in August 1880)	[37]
22 January 1881	Joseph Foley	New Ross		HRL
24 August 1881	Benjamin Rodwell	Cambridgeshire		Con
6 February 1882	Charles Russell	Westminster		Con
11 August 1882	David Wedderburn	Haddington Burghs		Lib
15 September 1882	James Lysaght Finegan	Ennis		HRL
16 February 1883	Ashton Wentworth Dilke	Newcastle-upon-Tyne		Lib	Ill-health	[38]
1 March 1883	William Carington	Chipping Wycombe		Lib
13 June 1883	Hampden Whalley	Peterborough		Lib
20 June 1883	Charles James Murray	Hastings		Con
14 August 1883	Samuel Ruggles-Brise	East Essex		Con
16 November 1883	Mordaunt Bisset	West Somerset		Con	Ill-health	[39]
11 February 1884	John Daly	Cork City		Nat	To concentrate on business activities	[40]
20 February 1884	William Welby-Gregory	South Lincolnshire		Con
5 June 1884	Lord Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu	South Hampshire		Con
20 June 1884	Peter Alfred Taylor	Leicester		Lib	Ill-health	[41]
6 August 1884	Alexander Matheson	Ross and Cromarty		Lib
23 October 1884	Samuel Williams	New Radnor		Lib
14 November 1884	James Stewart	Greenock		Lib
6 March 1885	George Anderson	Glasgow		Lib
24 February 1886	Octavius Vaughan Morgan	Battersea		Lib
7 August 1886	Michael Bass	Burton		Lib
31 January 1887	Lord Algernon Percy	St. George's, Hanover Square		Con
4 July 1887	Henry Eaton	Coventry		Con
12 July 1887	Ernest Baggallay	Brixton		Con
24 July 1887	Edward Russell	Glasgow Bridgeton		Lib
7 February 1888	Arthur Cohen	Southwark West		Lib
9 February 1888	Thomas Buchanan	Edinburgh West		Lib
18 February 1888	William Evelyn	Deptford		Con
7 March 1888	Charles James	Merthyr Tydvil		Lib
16 April 1888	Stephen Mason	Mid Lanarkshire		Lib
14 June 1888	Edward Joseph Kennedy	South Sligo		Nat
4 August 1888	Lord Claud Hamilton	Liverpool West Derby		Con
14 December 1888	Joseph Dodds	Stockton		Lib
25 February 1889	Courtney Stanhope Kenny	Barnsley		Lib
11 March 1889	John Hooper	South East Cork		IPP	Retirement from politics	[42]
21 June 1889	Robert Preston Bruce	West Fife		Lib
17 February 1890	Thomas Mayne	Mid Tipperary		IPP
12 March 1890	John Sinclair	Ayr Burghs		Lib
19 May 1890	Patrick O'Hea	West Donegal		IPP
24 June 1890	William Sproston Caine	Barrow-in-Furness		Lib	Resigned in protest of a scheme that gave compensation to public licence holders	[43]
22 October 1891	John Redmond	North Wexford		IPP
27 February 1893	Henri Josse	Great Grimsby		Lib	Pressure of business interests; he died a few months later in July 1893	[44]
2 June 1893	Peter McLagan	Linlithgowshire		Lib
17 July 1893	John Deasy	West Mayo		INF
30 October 1893	John Barry	South Wexford		INF
15 March 1894	Stuart Rendel	Montgomeryshire		Lib
26 April 1894	Charles Russell	Hackney South		Lib
10 August 1894	Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox	Chichester		Con
17 August 1894	James Whitehead	Leicester		Lib
2 February 1895	Herbert Naylor-Leyland	Colchester		Con
8 April 1895	John Sweetman	East Wicklow		IPP
22 May 1895	Donald MacGregor	Inverness-shire		Lib
22 June 1895	J. F. X. O'Brien	South Mayo		INF
5 February 1896	John Shiress Will	Montrose Burghs		Lib	Resigned so that John Morley could be elected	[45]
22 March 1896	J. E. Kenny	Dublin, College Green		IPP	Could no longer attend Parliament regularly due to other commitments	[46]
16 May 1896	John Pender	Wick Burghs		LU	Ill-health; he died on 9 July 1896 aged 80	[47]
16 January 1897	Edward Hulse	Salisbury		Con
20 February 1897	William Rawson Shaw	Halifax		Lib
15 March 1898	Frederick Seager Hunt	Maidstone		Con
30 April 1898	Harold Finch-Hatton	Newark		Con	Disagreement with party policy	[48]
9 July 1898	Lord Arthur Hill	West Down		IUA
10 August 1898	George Curzon	Southport		Con
9 December 1898	Edmund Vesey Knox	Londonderry City		IPP
1 February 1899	Arthur Dyke Acland	Rotherham		Lib	Ill-health	[49]
11 February 1899	Hugh McCalmont	North Antrim		IUA
16 June 1899	James Bevan Edwards	Hythe		Con
26 June 1899	James Francis Oswald	Oldham		Con
16 October 1899	Lionel Holland	Bow and Bromley		Con	Ill-health	[50]
26 October 1899	Michael Davitt	South Mayo		INF	Resigned as he opposed the government's South Africa policy

1900 to 1949

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
26 January 1900[51]	Sir John Maden	Rossendale		Lib	"... circumstances have arisen that render it impossible for me any longer to retain the trust which you have generously reposed in me ..."[52][full citation needed]
10 February 1900[53]	Sir Edward Clarke	Plymouth		Con	Requested to resign by his constituents in a disagreement over his views expressed[54][full citation needed]
23 April 1900	Walter Clough	Portsmouth		Lib	Following a judgement against him in the Law Courts[55][full citation needed]
3 July 1901	Oliver Young	Wokingham		Con
13 January 1902[56]	Mark Oldroyd	Dewsbury		Lib	To concentrate on business interests[57]
4 February 1902	Patrick McDermott	North Kilkenny		IPP
10 April 1902[58]	James Boyle	West Donegal		IPP
29 April 1902[59]	James Kenyon	Bury		Con	Ill-health[60][full citation needed]
21 October 1902[61]	Alfred Pease	Cleveland		Lib	Ill-health[62]
12 February 1903	Sir John Kinloch, Bt	East Perthshire		Lib
26 February 1903	Lord Charles Beresford	Woolwich		Con	Appointed Commander of the Channel Fleet[63]
12 May 1903	Matthew Minch	South Kildare		IPP
8 March 1904	Sir William Mather	Rossendale		Lib
1 June 1904	John William Logan	Harborough		Lib
15 June 1904	John William Mellor	Sowerby		Lib
28 July 1904	George William Palmer	Reading		Lib
11 February 1905	Richard Rigg	Appleby		Lib	Change of his political opinions different from the leadership of the Liberal Party[64][full citation needed]
14 February 1906	Hon. Alban Gibbs	City of London		Con
19 March 1906	Francis Seymour Stevenson	Eye		Lib
7 June 1906	Sir Edward Clarke	City of London		Con
13 October 1906	Charles Ramsay Devlin	Galway City		IPP	In order to travel to Canada[65]
12 February 1907	James Bryce	Aberdeen South		Lib	Appointed Ambassador to the United States[66]
27 April 1907	Charles Eric Hambro	Wimbledon		Con	To concentrate on business interests[67][full citation needed]
28 May 1907	Charles Barrington Balfour	Hornsey		Con
10 June 1907	Patrick O'Hare	North Monaghan		IPP
4 July 1907	Sir James Kitson, Bt	Colne Valley		Lib
21 August 1907	Harry Liddell	West Down		IUA
30 January 1908	Charles Dolan	North Leitrim		IPP
28 February 1908	Lord Arthur Hill	West Down		IUA
27 April 1908	John Morley	Montrose Burghs		Lib
1 June 1908	George Whiteley	Pudsey		Lib
17 November 1908	Sir Carne Rasch, Bt	South East Essex		Con	Ill-health[68][full citation needed]
11 February 1909	Sir Edward Boyle, Bt	Taunton		Con	Ill health.[69][full citation needed]
8 April 1909	Thomas Kincaid-Smith	Stratford-on-Avon		Lib	To seek the decision of his constituents on the question of the adoption of military training.[70][full citation needed]
12 May 1909	Sir Lewis McIver, Bt	Edinburgh West		LU
21 February 1910	Sir Balthazar Foster	Ilkeston		Lib	In order to allow J. E. B. Seely to return to Parliament[71]
3 February 1911	Sir John Fuller, Bt	Westbury		Lib	Appointed Governor of Victoria[72]
13 March 1911	Thomas Sandys	Bootle		Con
15 April 1911	Ernest Soares	Barnstaple		Lib
26 June 1911	Archibald Corbett	Glasgow Tradeston		Lib	On being created 1st Baron Rowallan[73][full citation needed]
28 June 1911	Aretas Akers-Douglas	St Augustine's		Con	On being created Viscount Chilston[73]
5 July 1911	Moreton Frewen	North East Cork		AFIL	Objection to the Parliament Bill[74][full citation needed]
20 July 1911	Edward Pickersgill	Bethnal Green South West		Lib	On appointment as a stipendiary magistrate[75][full citation needed]
1 March 1912	John Arkwright	Hereford		Con
8 March 1912	William Keswick	Epsom		Con
10 April 1912	James Morrison	Nottingham East		Con
4 June 1912	Henry Wilson	Holmfirth		Lib	Ill health.[76][full citation needed]
4 November 1912	Hon. William Peel	Taunton		Con	On becoming the 2nd Viscount Peel on the death of his father[77][full citation needed]
20 January 1913	The Marquess of Hamilton	Londonderry City		IUA	On becoming the 3rd Duke of Abercorn on the death of his father[78][full citation needed]
1 May 1913	John Kebty-Fletcher	Altrincham		Con	Ill health.[79][full citation needed]
17 June 1913	Eliot Crawshay-Williams	Leicester		Lib	On being divorced[80][full citation needed]
11 February 1914	Ronald Munro-Ferguson	Leith Burghs		Lib	Appointed Governor-General of Australia[81]
23 June 1914	John Gordon	Brighton		Con	Ill-health[82][full citation needed]
11 February 1915[83]	Gerald Kyffin-Taylor	Liverpool Kirkdale		Con	Military commitments in the 1st West Lancs. Brigade Royal Field Artillery[84]
13 October 1915	Sir Lancelot Sanderson	Appleby		Con	On appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta.[85][full citation needed]
3 January 1916	Cecil Norton	Newington West		Lib	On becoming the 1st Baron Rathcreedan.[86][full citation needed]
8 January 1916	Lord Charles Beresford	Portsmouth		Con	On becoming the 1st Baron Beresford.[87][full citation needed]
18 February 1916	Hon. John Lyttelton	Droitwich		LU
23 February 1916	Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt	Cockermouth		Lib
24 February 1916	Thomas Taylor	Bolton		Lib
13 March 1916	Francis Neilson	Hyde		Lib
7 July 1916	Sir Edward Grey, Bt	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Lib
21 August 1916	Hon. Harold Henderson	Abingdon		Con	Appointed military secretary to the Duke of Devonshire, who was to become Governor General of Canada in November 1916[88]
16 October 1916	Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh	North Fermanagh		IUA	Ill-health[89][full citation needed]
16 December 1916	Sir Max Aitken, Bt	Ashton-under-Lyne		LU
21 December 1916	Sir Thomas Roe	Derby		Lib	On becoming the 1st Baron Roe.[90][full citation needed]
21 December 1916	Sir Stuart Samuel, Bt	Whitechapel		Lib
14 February 1917	Francis Newdegate	Tamworth		Con	Appointed Governor of Tasmania[91]
24 March 1917	George Esslemont	Aberdeen South		Lib	Ill health[92][full citation needed]
18 June 1917	Richard Chaloner	Liverpool Abercromby		Con	On becoming Baron Gisborough.[93][full citation needed]
19 July 1917	Almeric Paget	Cambridge		Con
15 January 1918	Sir Frederick Cawley, Bt	Prestwich		Lib	On becoming Baron Cawley[94][full citation needed]
27 May 1918	Sir Gilbert Parker, Bt	Gravesend		Con	Ill-health[94]
15 October 1918	Cecil Cochrane			Lib
13 February 1919	Hugh Anderson	North Londonderry		IUA
18 August 1919	William Walker	Widnes		Co Con
28 October 1919	Sir Ian Malcolm	Croydon South		Co Con
20 November 1919	Sir Hildred Carlile, Bt	St Albans		Co Con	Ill-health[95]
2 February 1920	Archibald Weigall	Horncastle		Co Con	On appointment as Governor of South Australia[96][full citation needed]
11 February 1920	Sir Hallewell Rogers	Birmingham Moseley		Co Con
16 February 1920	Sir Henry Dalziel, Bt	Kirkcaldy		Co Lib
15 March 1920	Sir Auckland Geddes	Basingstoke		Co Con	Appointed Ambassador to the United States[97]
2 June 1920	Albert Smith	Nelson and Colne		Lab
14 July 1920	Thomas Richards	Ebbw Vale		Lab
30 November 1920	William Abraham	Rhondda, West		Lab
22 December 1920	Charles Pulley	Hereford		Co Con	"owing to the pressing demands of his own business on the Stock Exchange"[98]
13 April 1921	Laurance Lyon	Hastings		Co Con
27 April 1921	Hon. James Lowther	Penrith and Cockermouth		Co Con
24 May 1921	Albert Illingworth	Heywood and Radcliffe		Co Lib
27 May 1921	Noel Pemberton Billing	Hertford		Ind
23 February 1922	Sir Eric Campbell Geddes	Cambridge		Co Con
2 May 1922	Sir Arthur Du Cros, Bt	Wandsworth, Clapham		Co Con
12 June 1922	Sir Archibald Williamson, Bt	Moray and Nairn		Co Lib
12 February 1923	Herbert Pease	Darlington		Con
14 February 1923	Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley, Bt	Willesden, East		Con
26 July 1923	Leslie Wilson	Portsmouth, South		Con	Appointed Governor of Bombay[99]
18 January 1924	Sir Frederick Banbury, Bt	City of London		Con
18 June 1924	William Campion	Lewes		Con	Appointed Governor of Western Australia[100]
25 May 1925	Sir George Ambrose Lloyd	Eastbourne		Con
11 November 1925	Hon. E. F. L. Wood	Ripon		Con
14 April 1926	Sir Guy Gaunt	Buckrose		Con	Cited as co-respondent in the divorce case between Sir Richard Cruise and his wife[101]
29 June 1926	Sir Patrick Hastings	Wallsend		Lab
3 November 1926	Hon. Stanley Jackson	Howdenshire		Con
4 November 1926	Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett	Chelmsford		Con	Sued for divorce by his wife[102]
15 February 1927	William Wedgwood Benn	Edinburgh Leith		Lib	Leaving the Liberal Party
9 May 1927	Robert Gee	Bosworth		Con
4 November 1927	Ronald McNeill	Canterbury		Con
8 June 1928	Sir James Remnant, Bt	Holborn		Co Con
20 June 1928	John Henry Whitley	Halifax		Lib
11 November 1929	Sir Edward Iliffe	Tamworth		Con
7 May 1930	Sir Albert Bennett	Nottingham, Central		Con
16 January 1931	Hon. Henry Mond	Liverpool, East Toxteth		Con
4 February 1931	Thomas Mardy Jones	Pontypridd		Lab	Found to have allowed his wife and daughter to use House of Commons rail travel vouchers[103]
19 March 1931	Henry Snell	Woolwich, East		Lab
1 May 1931	Sir Frank Nelson	Stroud		Con	To focus on business interests[104]
25 February 1932	John Thom	Dunbartonshire		UP	On appointment as Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature of Allahabad[105][full citation needed]
11 April 1932	Sir Rennell Rodd	St. Marylebone		Con	Decided to "retire from the strenuous life of Parliament"; he was aged in his early 70s[106][full citation needed]
4 July 1932	Otho Nicholson	Westminster, Abbey		Con
9 August 1933	The Earl Castle Stewart	Harborough		Con	Ill health.[107][full citation needed]
23 April 1934	Alfred Chotzner	Upton		Con	Ill health.[108][full citation needed]
28 January 1935	Godfrey Wilson	Cambridge University		Con
17 June 1935	Edward Grenfell	City of London		Con
18 February 1936	Hon. Archibald Cochrane	Dunbartonshire		UP
11 June 1936	Sir Alfred Butt, Bt	Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting		Con
1 July 1936	Sir Henry Cautley, Bt	East Grinstead		Con
13 January 1937	William Ray	Richmond		Con
29 January 1937	Lord Hugh Cecil	Oxford University		Con
14 April 1937	Roger Lumley	York		Con	On appointment as Governor of Bombay[109][full citation needed]
27 May 1937	Sir Walter Preston	Cheltenham		Con	Ill-health[110][full citation needed]
1 June 1937	Sir J. C. C. Davidson	Hemel Hempstead		Con	Retired following the resignation of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin[111][full citation needed]
7 June 1937	George Hamilton	Ilford		Con	Ill health.[112][full citation needed]
2 May 1938	Michael Beaumont	Aylesbury		Con
8 March 1939	Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire		UP	On appointment as Governor of South Australia[113][full citation needed]
29 June 1939	Sir Herbert Cayzer, Bt	Portsmouth, South		Con	On being created Baron Rotherwick[114][full citation needed]
11 October 1939	Sir Sam Tom Rosbotham	Ormskirk		N Lab	On reaching the age of 75[115][full citation needed]
28 November 1939	Sir William Lane-Mitchell	Wandsworth, Streatham		Con	On reaching the age of 79[116][full citation needed]
26 January 1940	David Williams	Swansea East		Lab
7 February 1940	John Joseph Jones	West Ham, Silvertown		Lab	Ill health and failing eyesight.[117][full citation needed]
2 April 1940	William Sanders	Battersea, North		Lab	Ill health.[118][full citation needed]
1 June 1940	Hon. Glyn Mason	Croydon, North		Con
24 June 1940	Charles Kerr	Montrose Burghs		L Nat
12 July 1940	William Kelly	Rochdale		Lab	Ill health.[119][full citation needed]
11 November 1940	Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller, Bt	Northampton		Con
10 February 1941	Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith	Petersfield		Con	On appointment as Governor of Burma.[120][full citation needed]
9 June 1941	Sir Philip Colfox, Bt	Dorset, Western		Con
18 August 1941	Sir Paul Latham, Bt	Scarborough and Whitby		Con	On being arrested and sent for court-martial[121][full citation needed]
24 November 1941	James Guy	Edinburgh Central		Con
9 April 1942	David Margesson	Rugby		Con	On being created Viscount Margesson[122]
6 July 1942	Joseph Batey	Spennymoor		Lab	Ill-health[123]
14 January 1943	Sir Patrick Spens	Ashford		Con	On appointment as Chief Justice of India[124]
3 June 1943	John Gretton	Burton		Con	On being created Baron Gretton[125]
17 January 1944	Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson	Brighton		Con	Ill-health[126]
24 January 1944	Henry Hunloke	West Derbyshire		Con	"Too busy" serving with his Regiment to attend properly to parliamentary duties[127]
6 March 1945	George Morrison	Combined Scottish Universities		L Nat
10 May 1946	Jennie Adamson	Bexley		Lab	Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board[128]
12 September 1946	Sir Benjamin Smith	Rotherhithe		Lab	Appointed Chairman of the West Midlands Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board[129]
11 October 1946	Tom Smith	Normanton		Lab	Appointed Labour director of the North-Eastern Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board[130]
22 October 1946	Noel Mason-MacFarlane	Paddington, North		Lab	Ill health[131]
20 October 1947	Clifford Glossop	Howdenshire		Con	Ill health[132]
29 January 1948	Henry Willink	Croydon, North		Con	Appointed Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge[133]
6 April 1948	John Hanbury Martin	Southwark Central		Lab	Ill-health[134]
8 February 1949	John Belcher	Sowerby		Lab	Found to have accepted gifts from a "fixer" to influence his conduct as a minister[135]

1950 to 1999

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
20 March 1950	Harry Morris	Sheffield, Neepsend		Lab	Vacating his seat so that Solicitor-General Sir Frank Soskice could return to Parliament[136]
3 February 1951	Sir Ronald Cross, Bt	Ormskirk		Con	Appointed Governor of Tasmania[137]
30 March 1951	Norman Bower	Harrow, West		Con	Ill-health[138]
8 October 1952	Conolly Gage	Belfast South		UUP	Ill-health[139]
12 January 1953	John Baker White	Canterbury		Con	Ill-health[140]
31 January 1953	Walter Ayles	Hayes and Harlington		Lab	Ill-health[141]
3 June 1953	Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt	Abingdon		Con	Created a Baron (coronation honours list); vacating his seat to allow an early election[142]
14 October 1953	Malcolm Bullock	Crosby		Con	Ill-health[143]
8 January 1954	Viscount Cranborne	Bournemouth, West		Con	Ill-health[144]
12 February 1954	Christopher York	Harrogate		Con	Ill-health[145]
5 November 1954	Richard Harden	Armagh		UUP	Giving up a political career in order to concentrate on farming the family estate[146]
22 March 1955	Sir Richard Acland, Bt	Gravesend		Lab	Seeking re-election as a candidate opposed to British development of the hydrogen bomb[147]
16 November 1956	Anthony Nutting	Melton		Con	Opposed to Government policy on the Suez Crisis[148]
11 January 1957	Sir Anthony Eden	Warwick and Leamington		Con	Ill-health; had retired as Prime Minister[149]
29 October 1957	Charles Waterhouse	Leicester, South East		Con	Concentrating on business life involving frequent visits to Africa[150]
1 April 1958	Sir Hartley Shawcross	St. Helens		Lab	Unable to devote his full time to Parliamentary activities[151]
24 November 1958	Ian Harvey	Harrow, East		Con	Charged with gross indecency with a Coldstream guardsman in St James's Park[152]
8 June 1961	James Carmichael	Glasgow, Bridgeton		Lab	Ill-health[153]
13 December 1961	Sir Geoffrey de Freitas	Lincoln		Lab	Appointed High Commissioner to Ghana[154]
7 March 1962	Edward Wakefield	West Derbyshire		Con	Appointed High Commissioner to Malta[155]
30 July 1963	Malcolm St Clair	Bristol, South East		Con	To allow Tony Benn, who won the previous election but was disqualified due to inheriting an unwanted peerage, to regain his seat after being allowed to disclaim the peerage[156]
19 March 1965	Aubrey Jones	Birmingham, Hall Green		Con	Appointed Chairman of the Prices and Incomes Board[157]
5 December 1966	Frank Cousins	Nuneaton		Lab	Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
25 October 1967	Aidan Crawley	West Derbyshire		Con	Appointed Chairman of London Weekend Television[158]
25 July 1968	Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre	New Forest		Con	Ill-health[159]
2 April 1970	Will Owen	Morpeth		Lab	Charged under the Official Secrets Act
3 February 1971	Walter Alldritt	Liverpool, Scotland		Lab	Appointed Regional Secretary, National Union of General and Municipal Workers[160]
16 October 1972	Dick Taverne	Lincoln		Lab	Seeking re-election on leaving the Labour Party[161]
16 February 1973	Maurice Foley	West Bromwich		Lab	Appointed Deputy Director General for Development by the European Community[162]
11 February 1976	Selwyn Lloyd	Wirral		Speaker	Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[163]
12 October 1976	Edward Short	Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central		Lab	Appointed Chairman of Cable & Wireless[164]
5 January 1977	Christopher Tugendhat	City of London and Westminster South		Con	Appointed a European Commissioner[165]
5 April 1977	David Marquand	Ashfield		Lab	Appointed Chief Advisor to the President of the European Commission[166]
25 July 1977	John Cordle	Bournemouth East		Con	Found in contempt of the House (Poulson scandal)[167]
6 November 1978	John Davies	Knutsford		Con	Ill-health[168]
5 May 1982	Bruce Douglas-Mann	Mitcham and Morden		Lab	Seeking re-election on joining the Social Democratic Party[169]
19 January 1984	Eric Varley	Chesterfield		Lab	Appointed Executive Deputy Chairman of Coalite plc[170]
17 December 1985	Ian Paisley	North Antrim		DUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985	Clifford Forsythe	South Antrim		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985	Ken Maginnis	Fermanagh and South Tyrone		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985	Peter Robinson	Belfast East		DUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985	Martin Smyth	Belfast South		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985	Cecil Walker	Belfast North		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985	Enoch Powell	South Down		UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 April 1986	Matthew Parris	West Derbyshire		Con	Appointed as a presenter of Weekend World
1 October 1986	Robert Kilroy-Silk	Knowsley North		Lab	Appointed as a presenter of Day To Day
31 December 1988	Leon Brittan	Richmond		Con	Appointed a European Commissioner
16 May 1994	Bryan Gould	Dagenham		Lab	Appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato[172]
27 October 1997	Piers Merchant	Beckenham		Con	Revelations of an affair with a 17-year-old nightclub hostess[173]

Since 2000

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
10 January 2000	Cynog Dafis	Ceredigion		PC	Elected a member of the National Assembly for Wales[174]
21 November 2000	Dennis Canavan	Falkirk West		Lab	Elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament[175]
8 September 2004	Peter Mandelson	Hartlepool		Lab	Appointed a European commissioner[176]
4 June 2008	Boris Johnson	Henley		Con	Elected Mayor of London[177]
30 June 2008	David Marshall	Glasgow East		Lab	Ill health[178]
22 June 2009	Michael Martin	Glasgow North East		Speaker	Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[179]
26 January 2011	Gerry Adams	Belfast West		SF	To stand in the 2011 Irish general election[180][181][182]
1 April 2011	Peter Soulsby	Leicester South		Lab	To stand for election as Mayor of Leicester[183][184]
29 August 2012	Louise Mensch	Corby		Con	To join her family in New York[185][186]
22 October 2012[187]	Tony Lloyd	Manchester Central		Lab	To stand for election as Police and crime commissioner for the Greater Manchester Police Force Area[188]
2 January 2013[189]	Martin McGuinness	Mid Ulster		SF	To end double-jobbing as Member of Parliament and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly[190]
15 April 2013[191]	David Miliband	South Shields		Lab	To become head of the International Rescue Committee in New York
29 August 2014[192]	Douglas Carswell	Clacton		Con	Seeking re-election, having joined the UK Independence Party
23 March 2016[193]	Huw Irranca-Davies	Ogmore		Lab	To contest the 2016 Welsh Assembly election
12 September 2016[194]	David Cameron	Witney		Con	Due to concerns that remaining a backbench MP following his resignation as Prime Minister on 13 July 2016 would be "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government[195]
4 November 2016[196]	Stephen Phillips	Sleaford and North Hykeham		Con	"Significant policy differences" with the government regarding their approach to the UK leaving the European Union[197]
23 January 2017[198]	Jamie Reed	Copeland		Lab	To become Head of Development and Community Relations for Sellafield Ltd
9 May 2018[199]	Heidi Alexander	Lewisham East		Lab	To become Deputy Mayor of London for Transport[200]
4 November 2019[201]	John Bercow	Buckingham		Speaker	Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons
24 March 2021[202]	Neil Gray	Airdrie and Shotts		SNP	To seek election at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
5 November 2021[203]	Owen Paterson	North Shropshire		Con	Breaching the rules against paid advocacy
4 May 2022[204][205]	Neil Parish	Tiverton and Honiton		Con	Viewed pornography in the Palace of Westminster
10 November 2022[206]	Kate Green	Stretford and Urmston		Lab	To become Greater Manchester deputy mayor[207]
12 June 2023[208]	Nigel Adams	Selby and Ainsty		Con	Resignation in solidarity with Boris Johnson
19 June 2023[209]	David Warburton	Somerton and Frome		Con	Allegations of sexual harassment and drug abuse
7 September 2023[210]	Chris Pincher	Tamworth		Con	Allegations of sexual misconduct
25 March 2024[211]	Scott Benton	Blackpool South		Con	Filmed appearing to offer lobbying favours for payment[212]

Dual appointments

Some former MPs have held both offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and of the Chiltern Hundreds. These include:

• William Philip Price
• William Welby-Gregory
• Lord Charles Beresford
• John William Logan
• Boris Johnson — when he resigned his seat of Henley in 2008^[213][214]

See also

Office still in use

• List of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

Offices not 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