# List of stewards of the Manor of Hempholme

This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of Hempholme, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was used to resign from the House of Commons. The last steward vacated the post in 1866 after being re-elected to the House of Commons.

## Stewards

| Date | Member | Party | Constituency | Reason |
| 21 February 1845 | Charles Scott-Murray | Conservative | Buckinghamshire | |
| 10 February 1846 | Lord Arthur Lennox | Conservative | Chichester | Resigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws. |
| 29 January 1852 | James Whitley Deans Dundas | Liberal | Greenwich | Appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. |
| 24 March 1852 | Reginald James Blewitt | Liberal | Monmouth Boroughs | |
| 19 April 1852 | Sir John S Trelawny | Liberal | Tavistock | |
| 29 April 1852 | Sir Fitzroy Kelly | Conservative | Harwich | Resigned to contest East Suffolk |
| 19 May 1852 | Charles Pascoe Grenfell | Liberal | Preston | |
| 30 January 1854 | Robert Henry Clive | Conservative | Shropshire South | |
| 20 October 1854 | Samuel Morton Peto | Liberal | Norwich | Resigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway. Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead. |
| 9 February 1855 | Lord Charles Wellesley | Conservative | Windsor | |
| 9 July 1855 | Edmond Wodehouse | Conservative | Norfolk East | |
| 7 January 1856 | Peter Rolt | Conservative | Greenwich | |
| 22 January 1856 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Liberal | Edinburgh | ill health |
| 28 February 1856 | Gilbert Henry Heathcote | Liberal | Boston | Resigned to contest Rutland |
| 3 July 1856 | Earl of Shelburne | Liberal | Calne | Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe. |
| 25 July 1856 | Edward Strutt | Liberal | Nottingham | Raised to the peerage. |
| 11 February 1857 | Thomas Bateson | Conservative | Londonderry | |
| 16 February 1857 | Lord John Manners | Conservative | Colchester | Resigned to contest North Leicestershire. |
| 10 June 1857 | James Duff | Liberal | Banffshire | Became Earl Fife on the death of his uncle. |
| 25 August 1857 | Lord Robert Grosvenor | Liberal | Middlesex | Raised to the peerage. |
| 1 December 1857 | Earl of Mulgrave | Liberal | Scarborough | Became Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father. |
| 28 April 1858 | Hugh Lyons-Montgomery | Conservative | Leitrim | |
| 27 July 1858 | Sir John Buller-Yarde-Buller | Conservative | Devonshire South | Raised to the peerage. |
| 8 February 1859 | James Whiteside | Conservative | Enniskillen | Resigned to contest Dublin University |
| 23 June 1859 | Edward Arthur Somerset | Conservative | Monmouthshire | |
| 11 August 1859 | James Wilson | Liberal | Devonport | Resigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India. |
| 13 December 1859 | William Overend | Conservative | Pontefract | |
| 16 May 1860 | Sir John Rivett-Carnac | Conservative | Lymington | |
| 27 July 1860 | John Ayshford Wise | Liberal | Stafford | |
| 4 February 1861 | Joseph Crook | Liberal | Bolton | |
| 15 April 1861 | Hugh Taylor | Conservative | Tynemouth and North Shields | |
| 3 July 1861 | Henry Rich | Liberal | Richmond | |
| 23 July 1861 | William Cubitt | Conservative | Andover | Resign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost. |
| 11 February 1862 | John Biggs | Liberal | Leicester | |
| 20 April 1862 | William Roupell | Liberal | Lambeth | see Roupell case. |
| 18 July 1862 | Robert Munro-Ferguson | Liberal | Kirkcaldy Burghs | |
| 24 July 1862 | William McClintock-Bunbury | Conservative | County Carlow | |
| 26 January 1863 | Andrew Steuart | Conservative | Cambridge | |
| 16 February 1863 | Humphrey William Freeland | Liberal | Chichester | |
| 28 May 1863 | Sir John Arnott | Liberal | Kinsale | |
| 9 October 1863 | Hon. Frederick Lygon | Conservative | Tewkesbury | Resigned to contest West Worcestershire. |
| 17 February 1864 | Henry Ker Seymer | Conservative | Dorset | |
| 1 February 1865 | Francis Lyons | Liberal | Cork City | |
| 15 June 1865 | Ralph Bernal Osborne | Liberal | Liskeard | Resigned to contest Nottingham. |