List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds
1950 to 1999

List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

Section Title: 1950 to 1999
Table Section Text: None

Date	Member	Constituency	Party	Reason for resignation

25 October 1950	Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps	Bristol South East	Lab	Medical advice

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

8 October 1952	Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill	North Antrim	Con	Retiring

21 January 1953	Sidney Schofield	Barnsley	Lab	Personal and domestic reasons

14 February 1953	Hon. Edward Carson	Isle of Thanet	Con	Ill health

3 June 1953	Peter Bennett	Birmingham Edgbaston	Con	Created a peer

27 October 1953	William J. Field	Paddington North	Lab	Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes

15 January 1954	Richard Law	Haltemprice	Con	Resigned to become Baron Coleraine.

12 February 1954	William Cuthbert	Arundel and Shoreham	Con	Ill health

3 October 1954	Sidney Marshall	Sutton and Cheam	Con	Ill health

28 November 1954	Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton	Inverness	Con	Ill health; resigned to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise

7 May 1956	Gerald Wellington Williams	Tonbridge	Con	Ill health

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

8 November 1957	Victor Raikes	Liverpool Garston	Con	Took up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia

18 April 1958	Angus Maude	Ealing South	Con	Resigned to become Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.

1 June 1961	Hon. David Ormsby-Gore	Oswestry	Con	Appointed British Ambassador to the United States.

29 November 1961	Hilary Marquand	Middlesbrough East	Lab	Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office.

22 January 1962	George Chetwynd	Stockton-on-Tees	Lab	Appointed Director of the North East Development Council

6 June 1963	John Profumo	Stratford-on-Avon	Con	Confessed to lying to the House (the Profumo Affair)

9 March 1964	Peter Smithers	Winchester	Con	Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe

24 June 1965	Anthony Marlowe	Hove	Con	Medical advice

29 September 1967	William Roots	Kensington South	Con	Ill health

15 January 1968	Leslie Hale	Oldham West	Lab	Ill health

6 February 1969	William Teeling	Brighton Pavilion	Con	Ill health

7 March 1969	Francis Noel-Baker	Swindon	Lab	Ill health

11 January 1971	Horace King	Southampton Itchen	Lab	Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons

30 March 1972	Ray Gunter	Southwark	Ind	Had left Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an Independent having been elected as Labour

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	Lab Co-op	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

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

24 October 1979	Geoffrey Dodsworth	South West Hertfordshire	Con	Medical advice

1 November 1982	Robert Mellish	Bermondsey	Ind	Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; resigned to become Vice-Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation

17 December 1985	James Molyneaux	Lagan Valley	UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	Roy Beggs	East Antrim	UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	Harold McCusker	Armagh	UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	William Ross	Londonderry	UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	John Taylor	Strangford	UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	James Kilfedder	North Down	UPUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	Jim Nicholson	Newry and Armagh	UUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

17 December 1985	William McCrea	Mid Ulster	DUP	Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement

24 June 1986	John Golding	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lab	Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union

18 October 1988	Bruce Millan	Glasgow Govan	Lab	Appointed a European Commissioner

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

28 June 1999	Alastair Goodlad	Eddisbury	Con	Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia

Sentence(s)

On 1 June, David Ormsby-Gore was one of the Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds.

final_sentence: On 1 June, David Ormsby-Gore was one of the Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds.