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.
Resignation
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.
Key
{| class="wikitable"
!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
|-
| Labour and Co-operative Party
| Lab Co-op
|-
| Liberal Party (pre-1988)
| Lib
|-
| Liberal Democrats
| Lib Dem
|-
| Liberal Unionist Party
| LU
|-
| National Labour
| N Lab
|-
| National Liberal Party
| N Lib
|-
| Sinn Féin
| SF
|-
| Scottish National Party
| SNP
|-
| Unionist Party
| UP
|-
| Ulster Popular Unionist Party
| UPUP
|-
| Ulster Unionist Party
| UU
|-
| Whig
| Whig
|}
Up to 1849
1850 to 1899
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"
! Date
! Member
! Constituency
! colspan=2 | Party
! class="unsortable"|Reason for resignation
|-
|
| (Had previously been appointed to the Stewardship in 1829)
|-
|
|
|-
|
|
| Lambeth
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Glamorganshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
|-
|
|
| Dungannon
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Harwich
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton
|-
|
|
| Dungarvan
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Retired due to ill health and as he had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in November 1850.
|-
|
|
| Enniskillen
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Cork City
| colspan=2 | RA
| To become Commissioner of Insolvency
|-
|
|
| Isle of Wight
| style="background:" |
| 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."
|-
|
|
| Arundel
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| To protest the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851
|-
|
|
| Limerick City
| colspan=2 | RA
| To allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place
|-
|
|
| Downpatrick
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Retford
| style="background:" |
| Con
| To become Fourth Naval Lord
|-
|
|
| Kinsale
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| To become Deputy Secretary at War
|-
|
|
| East Kent
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Coleraine
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Worcester
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| North Derbyshire
| style="background:" |
| Whig
|
|-
|
|
| South Staffordshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Appointed to command a Division in Bengal
|-
|
|
| Dungarvan
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Became Mayor of Cork
|-
|
|
| West Sussex
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Hastings
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Ill health; died four days later
|-
|
|
| Aberdeenshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Marylebone
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| County Cork
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Renfrewshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Evesham
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Rochester
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Rutland
| style="background:" |
| Whig
|
|-
|
|
| New Ross
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Cheltenham
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Dorchester
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Newport
| style="background:" |
| Whig
|
|-
|
|
| East Sussex
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| City of London
| style="background:" |
| 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.
|-
|
|
| Thetford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Elgin Burghs
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Banbury
| style="background:" |
| Whig
|
|-
|
|
| Hythe
| style="background:" |
| Whig
|
|-
|
|
| Harwich
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Taunton
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton
|-
|
|
| Berwick-upon-Tweed
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies
|-
|
|
| Worcester
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Belfast
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Ludlow
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Bradford
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Retired due to ill health.
|-
|
|
| Banffshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Selkirkshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Lincoln
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Preston
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Kidderminster
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Cambridgeshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Plymouth Devonport
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Armagh
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| County Dublin
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| New Ross
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Winchester
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Tipperary
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Plymouth Devonport
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Tewkesbury
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Sandwich
| style="background:" |
| Whig
|
|-
|
|
| Aberdeenshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| North Shropshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Andover
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Suffolk
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Sutherland
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Downpatrick
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Thetford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Argyllshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Grantham
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Stirling Burghs
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Radnor
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Salisbury
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Southwark
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Bridgnorth
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Maidstone
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Nottingham
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Devon
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Ripon
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| County Galway
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Hereford
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Monmouthshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| West Cheshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Gloucestershire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Wexford Borough
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|28 June 1872
|
| Southern West Riding of Yorkshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|Retired due to ill health
|-
|
|
| Lisburn
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Cheshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Gloucester
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| County Waterford
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Dundee
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Stoke-upon-Trent
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Tipperary
| colspan=2 | Nat
|
|-
|
|
| Bedfordshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Hartlepool
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Leominster
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| West Aberdeenshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Birmingham
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| West Worcestershire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Kent
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Carmarthen
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Wilton
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Halifax
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| South Shropshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Greenock
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Oxfordshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Hereford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Tamworth
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Carmarthen
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Argyllshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Newcastle-under-Lyme
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Bristol
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Canterbury
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Barnstaple
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Kidderminster
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Derby
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Scarborough
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Edinburgh
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Sunderland
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Meath
| colspan=2 | HRL
|
|-
|
|
| West Somerset
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Halifax
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Edinburgh
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Preston
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Westmeath
| colspan=2 | HRL
|
|-
|
|
| Tipperary
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Derby
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Wexford Borough
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Meath
| colspan=2 | Nat
|-
|
|
| Rutland
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Paisley
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Northampton
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| West Norfolk
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Brighton
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Kent
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Surrey
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| South Devon
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| County Waterford
| colspan=2 | HRL
|
|-
|
|
| Scarborough
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Somerset
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Flintshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Galway Borough
| colspan=2 | Nat
|
|-
|
|
| North East Cork
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| St Austell
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Hornsey
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| North Hampshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Forest of Dean
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| South Kerry
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Dundee
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Doncaster
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Chichester
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Limerick City
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Southampton
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Dewsbury
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Burnley
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Kennington
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Rochester
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Marylebone East
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Stoke-upon-Trent
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| East Down
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Windsor
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| North Donegal
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Wisbech
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Burnley
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| North East Cork
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| South East Cork
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| Hereford
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Brighton
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Lanarkshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Sheffield Attercliffe
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Leicester
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| South Kilkenny
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Norfolk
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Croydon
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Cork City
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| West Waterford
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| North Kerry
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| Aberdeen North
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Forfar
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Romford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Glasgow Bridgeton
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Chertsey
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Cricklade
| colspan=2 | LU
|
|-
|
|
| South Norfolk
| colspan=2 | LU
|
|-
|
|
| Gravesend
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Great Grimsby
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Birmingham North
| colspan=2 | LU
|
|-
|
|
| Elland
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Osgoldcross
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| St Pancras East
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Exeter
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|}
1900 to 1949
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"
! Date
! Member
! Constituency
! colspan=2 | Party
! class="unsortable"|Reason for resignation
|-
|
|
| City of York
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Appointed second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.
|-
|
|
| North Sligo
| colspan=2 | INF
|
|-
|
|
| Brixton
| style="background:" |
| Con
| On the advice of his doctors
|-
|
|
| Blackpool
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Hampstead
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| South Down
| colspan=2 | IPP
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| South Monaghan
| colspan=2 | 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
|-
|
|
| Woolwich
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Orkney and Shetland
| colspan=2 | LU
| To stand again as an Independent Liberal.
|-
|
|
| Liverpool East Toxteth
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Found the workload of Parliament to be incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.
|-
|
|
| Dublin University
| colspan=2 | LU
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| North Fermanagh
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Cork City
| colspan=2 | AFIL
|
|-
|
|
| Isle of Wight
| style="background:" |
| Con
| To stand again as Independent Conservative
|-
|
|
| Plymouth Devonport
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Chertsey
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Bankruptcy
|-
|
|
| Liverpool Everton
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| West Down
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Leicester
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Dulwich
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Westminster St George's
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Cork
| colspan=2 | IPP
| To stand again as Independent Nationalist
|-
|
|
| Brigg
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Stepney
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Wicklow
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| South Kilkenny
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| South Longford
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Ill health following a stroke
|-
|
|
| St Austell
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Hastings
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Wolverhampton East
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton
|-
|
|
| Dundee
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee
|-
|
|
| Pembrokeshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Forfar
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Cork City
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Sheffield Attercliffe
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Cleveland
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Rotherham
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| North East Lanarkshire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Brentford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Birmingham South
| colspan=2 | LU
|
|-
|
|
| Luton
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Wellington
| colspan=2 | CU
|
|-
|
|
| East Wicklow
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Oldham
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| South East Essex
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Leominster
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Hackney South
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Manchester North West
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Bow and Bromley
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Chorley
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Wandsworth
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Cork City
| colspan=2 | AFIL
|
|-
|
|
| North Galway
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| East Worcestershire
| style="background:" |
| Con
| To contest Birmingham West
|-
|
|
| Maidstone
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Widnes
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Westminster St George's
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mile End
| colspan=2 | LU
|
|-
|
|
| City of Chester
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Hertford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Harborough
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Wimbledon
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Bodmin
| colspan=2 | LU
|
|-
|
|
| St Pancras West
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Hornsey
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Sheffield Hallam
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Inverness-shire
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| West Perthshire
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Oxford
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Edinburgh South
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Epping
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mid Armagh
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| East Tyrone
| colspan=2 | IPP
|
|-
|
|
| Clapham
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| North East Cork
| colspan=2 | AFIL
|
|-
|
|
| East Antrim
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Appointed to command the Irish Guards
|-
|
|
| Chester-le-Street
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Plymouth Sutton
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Sevenoaks
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Woolwich East
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Penistone
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Stockport
| colspan=2 | Co Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Edinburgh North
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Woodbridge
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Abertillery
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Dover
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Taunton
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Chichester
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Westminster St George's
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Camberwell North
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Inverness
| colspan=2 | Co Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Newbury
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Portsmouth South
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Mitcham
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Liverpool Edge Hill
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Kilmarnock
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Liverpool West Toxteth
| colspan=2 | Co Con
|
|-
|
|
| Carmarthen
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Ayr Burghs
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Combined English Universities
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Hammersmith North
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| North Cumberland
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Kingston upon Hull Central
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Smethwick
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Southwark North
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Brixton
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Carmarthen
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Epsom
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Preston
| style="background:" |
| Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Fulham West
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| North Norfolk
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Fareham
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Salisbury
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Scarborough and Whitby
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Liverpool Wavertree
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Richmond upon Thames
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Montrose Burghs
| colspan=2 | N Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Rotherham
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Basingstoke
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Weston-super-Mare
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Combined Scottish Universities
| colspan=2 | UP
| Following appointment as Governor General of Canada
|-
|
|
| Sevenoaks
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Peckham
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Derby
| colspan=2 | N Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Preston
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| St Pancras North
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Stalybridge and Hyde
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Glasgow Hillhead
| colspan=2 | UP
|
|-
|
|
| Bewdley
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| St Ives
| colspan=2 | N Lib
|
|-
|
|
| Hastings
| style="background:" |
| Con
|-
|
|
| Kinross and Western Perthshire
| colspan=2 | UP
| To protest the appeasement of Adolf Hitler.
|-
|
|
| Birmingham Aston
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Monmouth
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Macclesfield
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Southampton
| colspan=2 | N Lib
|
|-
|
|
| City of London
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Leeds North East
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Newcastle upon Tyne North
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Wandsworth Central
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| To provide a seat for Ernest Bevin
|-
|
|
| Wansbeck
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Queen's University of Belfast
| colspan=2 | UU
|
|-
|
|
| Aldershot
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Selborne by writ of acceleration
|-
|
|
| West Bromwich
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Berwick-upon-Tweed
| style="background:" |
| Lib
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Sherwood
|-
|
|
| Brighton
| style="background:" |
| Con
|
|-
|
|
| Grantham
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Bruntisfield
|-
|
|
| Wallasey
| style="background:" |
| 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.
|-
|
|
| Ince
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Appointed Regional Controller for the Ministry of Fuel and Power for the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Region
|-
|
|
| Midlothian and Peebles Northern
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Appointed Governor of Bombay
|-
|
|
| Peterborough
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Appointed Governor of Bermuda
|-
|
|
| Kirkcaldy Burghs
| style="background:" |
| Lab
|
|-
|
|
| Sheffield Attercliffe
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Ogmore
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia
|-
|
|
| Battersea North
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Appointed Governor of Malta
|-
|
|
| Kilmarnock
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Combined Scottish Universities
| style="background:" |
| Ind
| Concentrating on work as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
|-
|
|
| Aberdeen South
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Pressure of business
|-
|
|
| Epsom
| style="background:" |
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Brigg
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the GMWU
|-
|
|
| Glasgow Gorbals
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Appointed Chairman of the National Assistance Board
|-
|
|
| Chester-le-Street
| style="background:" |
| Lab
| Appointed vice-chairman of the National Parks Commission
|}
1950 to 1999
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"
! Date
! Member
|-
|
|
| Londonderry
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London
|-
|
|
| Westhoughton
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| North Antrim
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Retirement
|-
|
|
| Barnsley
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Personal and domestic reasons
|-
|
|
| Isle of Thanet
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Birmingham Edgbaston
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston
|-
|
|
| Paddington North
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes
|-
|
|
| Haltemprice
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Raised to the peerage as Baron Coleraine
|-
|
|
| Arundel and Shoreham
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Sutton and Cheam
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Inverness
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health; to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise
|-
|
|
| Tonbridge
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Wednesbury
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis
|-
|
|
| Edinburgh South
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Liverpool Garston
| style="background:"|
| Con
| To take up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia
|-
|
|
| Ealing South
| style="background:"|
| Con
| To become editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
|-
|
|
| Oswestry
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Appointed British Ambassador to the United States
|-
|
|
| Middlesbrough East
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office
|-
|
|
| Stockton-on-Tees
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed Director of the North East Development Council
|-
|
|
| Stratford-on-Avon
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Confessed to misleading the House (the Profumo affair)
|-
|
|
| Winchester
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe
|-
|
|
| Hove
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Medical advice
|-
|
|
| Kensington South
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Oldham West
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Brighton Pavilion
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Swindon
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Ill health
|-
|
|
| Southampton Itchen
! style="background:"|
| Speaker
| Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons
|-
|
|
| Southwark
| style="background:"|
| Ind
| Had left the Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an independent having been elected as Labour
|-
|
|
| Dundee East
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed a European Commissioner
|-
|
|
| Berwick-upon-Tweed
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Prostitution scandal
|-
|
|
| Walsall North
| style="background:"|
| Eng Nat
| Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
|-
|
|
| Cambridge
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality
|-
|
|
| Birmingham Stechford
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed President of the European Commission
|-
|
|
| Birmingham Ladywood
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World
|-
|
|
| Epsom and Ewell
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer
|-
|
|
| South West Hertfordshire
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Medical advice
|-
|
|
| Bermondsey
| style="background:"|
| Ind
| Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; to become vice-chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation
|-
|
|
| Lagan Valley
| style="background:"|
| UUP
| Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
|-
|
|
| East Antrim
| style="background:"|
| UUP
| Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
|-
|
|
| Glasgow Govan
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed a European Commissioner
|-
|
|
| Vauxhall
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute
|-
|
|
| Islwyn
| style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed a European Commissioner
|-
|
|
| Eddisbury
| style="background:"|
| Con
| Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia
|}
Since 2000
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"
! Date
! width=100|Member
|
| West Bromwich West
! style="background:"|
| Speaker
| Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons.
|-
|
|
|
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
|-
|
|
| Sedgefield
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East.
|-
|
|
|
! style="background:"|
| Con
| Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.
|-
|
|
| Norwich North
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel.
|-
|
|
| Strangford
! style="background:"|
| DUP
| Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life.
|-
|
|
| Barnsley Central
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.
|-
|
|
| Bradford West
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Ill health.
|-
|
|
| Cardiff South and Penarth
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| To contest the Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area.
|-
|
|
| Rotherham
! style="background:"|
| 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.
|-
|
|
| Eastleigh
! style="background:"|
| Lib Dem
| Pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
|-
|
|
| Newark
! style="background:"|
| Ind
| Elected as Conservative, but had quit the whip at the commencement of investigations on 31 May 2013. 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.
|-
|
|
| Rochester and Strood
! style="background:"|
| Con
| To seek re-election as a UKIP candidate.
|-
|
|
| Tooting
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Elected as Mayor of London.
|-
|
|
| Richmond Park
! style="background:"|
| Con
| Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
|-
|
|
| Stoke-on-Trent Central
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| To direct the Victoria and Albert Museum.
|-
|
|
| West Tyrone
! style="background:"|
| SF
| Became embroiled in a controversy over the Kingsmill massacre on social media.
|-
|
|
| Bassetlaw
! style="background:"|
| 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.
|-
|
|
| Hartlepool
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Pending sexual harassment tribunal.
|-
|
|
| Batley and Spen
! style="background:"|
| Lab Co-op
| Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire.
|-
|
|
| Wakefield
! style="background:"|
| 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.
|-
|
|
| City of Chester
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Independent Expert Panel parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended for "serious sexual misconduct".
|-
|
|
| West Lancashire
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| To take up the role of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
|-
|
|
| Uxbridge and South Ruislip
! style="background:"|
| Con
| Resignation after being handed draft results of investigation into allegations he misled Parliament over Partygate.
|-
|
|
| Mid Bedfordshire
! style="background:"|
| 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".
|-
|
|
|Kingswood
! style="background:"|
| Con
| Resigned over disagreements with the Government's policy on net zero.
|-
|
|
|Runcorn and Helsby
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Resigned after receiving a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a constituent.
|-
|
|
|Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
! style="background:"|
| SNP
| Resigned after being elected to the Scottish Parliament for Dundee City East, and as per the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025, individuals are banned from holding both a seat in the Scottish Parliament and the House of Commons.
|-
|
|
|Makerfield
! style="background:"|
| Lab
| Resigned to trigger a by-election in order for Andy Burnham to stand for election to the House of Commons.
|}
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
References
General
Specific