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

## 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

| Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Reason for resignation |
| 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 |
| 22 November 1852 | James Emerson Tennent | Lisburn | Con | Appointed secretary to the Board of Trade |
| 27 December 1852 | Edward Howard | Morpeth | Whig | |
| 15 August 1853 | John Charles Herries | Stamford | Con | Ill-health |
| 27 January 1854 | Robert Inglis | Oxford University | Con | Ill-health |
| 13 February 1854 | William Edward Powell | Ceredigion | Con | |
| 5 May 1854 | Henry Tufnell | Plymouth Devonport | Whig | Ill-health |
| 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 |
| 26 March 1855 | William Philip Price | Gloucester | Whig | Resigned to accept a contract for supplying huts to the army in the Crimea |
| 25 May 1855 | Thomas Phinn | Bath | Whig | Appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty |
| 22 January 1856 | John Blackett | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Whig | Ill-health |
| 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 |
| 1 December 1857 | Edward Dering | East Kent | Whig | Ill-health |
| 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 |
| 8 February 1859 | John Townsend | Greenwich | Whig | Bankruptcy |
| 16 February 1859 | Viscount Ebrington | Marylebone | Whig | |
| 25 February 1859 | Samuel Warren | Midhurst | Con | Appointed a Master in Lunacy under the Lunacy Act 1845 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 27 January 1862 | Henry Butler-Johnstone | Canterbury | Con | Following an interview with his leading supporters |
| 25 April 1862 | William Johnson Fox | Oldham | Lib | Ill-health |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 21 February 1866 | Charles Wood | Ripon | Lib | Retired following a hunting accident |
| 20 March 1866 | James Lindsay | Wigan | Con | Due to prolonged service in Canada in the British Army |
| 2 May 1866 | Stafford Northcote | Stamford | Con | Resigned to contest North Devon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11 February 1884 | John Daly | Cork City | Nat | To concentrate on business activities |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 22 March 1896 | J. E. Kenny | Dublin, College Green | IPP | Could no longer attend Parliament regularly due to other commitments |
| 16 May 1896 | John Pender | Wick Burghs | LU | Ill-health; he died on 9 July 1896 aged 80 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 ..." |
| 10 February 1900 | Sir Edward Clarke | Plymouth | Con | Requested to resign by his constituents in a disagreement over his views expressed |
| 23 April 1900 | Walter Clough | Portsmouth | Lib | Following a judgement against him in the Law Courts |
| 3 July 1901 | Oliver Young | Wokingham | Con | |
| 13 January 1902 | Mark Oldroyd | Dewsbury | Lib | To concentrate on business interests |
| 4 February 1902 | Patrick McDermott | North Kilkenny | IPP | |
| 10 April 1902 | James Boyle | West Donegal | IPP | |
| 29 April 1902 | James Kenyon | Bury | Con | Ill-health |
| 21 October 1902 | Alfred Pease | Cleveland | Lib | Ill-health |
| 12 February 1903 | Sir John Kinloch, Bt | East Perthshire | Lib | |
| 26 February 1903 | Lord Charles Beresford | Woolwich | Con | Appointed Commander of the Channel Fleet |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12 February 1907 | James Bryce | Aberdeen South | Lib | Appointed Ambassador to the United States |
| 27 April 1907 | Charles Eric Hambro | Wimbledon | Con | To concentrate on business interests |
| 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 |
| 11 February 1909 | Sir Edward Boyle, Bt | Taunton | Con | Ill health. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 3 February 1911 | Sir John Fuller, Bt | Westbury | Lib | Appointed Governor of Victoria |
| 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 |
| 28 June 1911 | Aretas Akers-Douglas | St Augustine's | Con | On being created Viscount Chilston |
| 5 July 1911 | Moreton Frewen | North East Cork | AFIL | Objection to the Parliament Bill |
| 20 July 1911 | Edward Pickersgill | Bethnal Green South West | Lib | On appointment as a stipendiary magistrate |
| 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. |
| 4 November 1912 | Hon. William Peel | Taunton | Con | On becoming the 2nd Viscount Peel on the death of his father |
| 20 January 1913 | The Marquess of Hamilton | Londonderry City | IUA | On becoming the 3rd Duke of Abercorn on the death of his father |
| 1 May 1913 | John Kebty-Fletcher | Altrincham | Con | Ill health. |
| 17 June 1913 | Eliot Crawshay-Williams | Leicester | Lib | On being divorced |
| 11 February 1914 | Ronald Munro-Ferguson | Leith Burghs | Lib | Appointed Governor-General of Australia |
| 23 June 1914 | John Gordon | Brighton | Con | Ill-health |
| 11 February 1915 | Gerald Kyffin-Taylor | Liverpool Kirkdale | Con | Military commitments in the 1st West Lancs. Brigade Royal Field Artillery |
| 13 October 1915 | Sir Lancelot Sanderson | Appleby | Con | On appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta. |
| 3 January 1916 | Cecil Norton | Newington West | Lib | On becoming the 1st Baron Rathcreedan. |
| 8 January 1916 | Lord Charles Beresford | Portsmouth | Con | On becoming the 1st Baron Beresford. |
| 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 |
| 16 October 1916 | Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh | North Fermanagh | IUA | Ill-health |
| 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. |
| 21 December 1916 | Sir Stuart Samuel, Bt | Whitechapel | Lib | |
| 14 February 1917 | Francis Newdegate | Tamworth | Con | Appointed Governor of Tasmania |
| 24 March 1917 | George Esslemont | Aberdeen South | Lib | Ill health |
| 18 June 1917 | Richard Chaloner | Liverpool Abercromby | Con | On becoming Baron Gisborough. |
| 19 July 1917 | Almeric Paget | Cambridge | Con | |
| 15 January 1918 | Sir Frederick Cawley, Bt | Prestwich | Lib | On becoming Baron Cawley |
| 27 May 1918 | Sir Gilbert Parker, Bt | Gravesend | Con | Ill-health |
| 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 |
| 2 February 1920 | Archibald Weigall | Horncastle | Co Con | On appointment as Governor of South Australia |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 18 January 1924 | Sir Frederick Banbury, Bt | City of London | Con | |
| 18 June 1924 | William Campion | Lewes | Con | Appointed Governor of Western Australia |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19 March 1931 | Henry Snell | Woolwich, East | Lab | |
| 1 May 1931 | Sir Frank Nelson | Stroud | Con | To focus on business interests |
| 25 February 1932 | John Thom | Dunbartonshire | UP | On appointment as Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature of Allahabad |
| 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 |
| 4 July 1932 | Otho Nicholson | Westminster, Abbey | Con | |
| 9 August 1933 | The Earl Castle Stewart | Harborough | Con | Ill health. |
| 23 April 1934 | Alfred Chotzner | Upton | Con | Ill health. |
| 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 |
| 27 May 1937 | Sir Walter Preston | Cheltenham | Con | Ill-health |
| 1 June 1937 | Sir J. C. C. Davidson | Hemel Hempstead | Con | Retired following the resignation of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin |
| 7 June 1937 | George Hamilton | Ilford | Con | Ill health. |
| 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 |
| 29 June 1939 | Sir Herbert Cayzer, Bt | Portsmouth, South | Con | On being created Baron Rotherwick |
| 11 October 1939 | Sir Sam Tom Rosbotham | Ormskirk | N Lab | On reaching the age of 75 |
| 28 November 1939 | Sir William Lane-Mitchell | Wandsworth, Streatham | Con | On reaching the age of 79 |
| 26 January 1940 | David Williams | Swansea East | Lab | |
| 7 February 1940 | John Joseph Jones | West Ham, Silvertown | Lab | Ill health and failing eyesight. |
| 2 April 1940 | William Sanders | Battersea, North | Lab | Ill health. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 24 November 1941 | James Guy | Edinburgh Central | Con | |
| 9 April 1942 | David Margesson | Rugby | Con | On being created Viscount Margesson |
| 6 July 1942 | Joseph Batey | Spennymoor | Lab | Ill-health |
| 14 January 1943 | Sir Patrick Spens | Ashford | Con | On appointment as Chief Justice of India |
| 3 June 1943 | John Gretton | Burton | Con | On being created Baron Gretton |
| 17 January 1944 | Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson | Brighton | Con | Ill-health |
| 24 January 1944 | Henry Hunloke | West Derbyshire | Con | "Too busy" serving with his Regiment to attend properly to parliamentary duties |
| 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 |
| 12 September 1946 | Sir Benjamin Smith | Rotherhithe | Lab | Appointed Chairman of the West Midlands Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board |
| 11 October 1946 | Tom Smith | Normanton | Lab | Appointed Labour director of the North-Eastern Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board |
| 22 October 1946 | Noel Mason-MacFarlane | Paddington, North | Lab | Ill health |
| 20 October 1947 | Clifford Glossop | Howdenshire | Con | Ill health |
| 29 January 1948 | Henry Willink | Croydon, North | Con | Appointed Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 6 April 1948 | John Hanbury Martin | Southwark Central | Lab | Ill-health |
| 8 February 1949 | John Belcher | Sowerby | Lab | Found to have accepted gifts from a "fixer" to influence his conduct as a minister |

## 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 |
| 3 February 1951 | Sir Ronald Cross, Bt | Ormskirk | Con | Appointed Governor of Tasmania |
| 30 March 1951 | Norman Bower | Harrow, West | Con | Ill-health |
| 8 October 1952 | Conolly Gage | Belfast South | UUP | Ill-health |
| 12 January 1953 | John Baker White | Canterbury | Con | Ill-health |
| 31 January 1953 | Walter Ayles | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | Ill-health |
| 3 June 1953 | Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt | Abingdon | Con | Created a Baron (coronation honours list); vacating his seat to allow an early election |
| 14 October 1953 | Malcolm Bullock | Crosby | Con | Ill-health |
| 8 January 1954 | Viscount Cranborne | Bournemouth, West | Con | Ill-health |
| 12 February 1954 | Christopher York | Harrogate | Con | Ill-health |
| 5 November 1954 | Richard Harden | Armagh | UUP | Giving up a political career in order to concentrate on farming the family estate |
| 22 March 1955 | Sir Richard Acland, Bt | Gravesend | Lab | Seeking re-election as a candidate opposed to British development of the hydrogen bomb |
| 16 November 1956 | Anthony Nutting | Melton | Con | Opposed to Government policy on the Suez Crisis |
| 11 January 1957 | Sir Anthony Eden | Warwick and Leamington | Con | Ill-health; had retired as Prime Minister |
| 29 October 1957 | Charles Waterhouse | Leicester, South East | Con | Concentrating on business life involving frequent visits to Africa |
| 1 April 1958 | Sir Hartley Shawcross | St. Helens | Lab | Unable to devote his full time to Parliamentary activities |
| 24 November 1958 | Ian Harvey | Harrow, East | Con | Charged with gross indecency with a Coldstream guardsman in St James's Park |
| 8 June 1961 | James Carmichael | Glasgow, Bridgeton | Lab | Ill-health |
| 13 December 1961 | Sir Geoffrey de Freitas | Lincoln | Lab | Appointed High Commissioner to Ghana |
| 7 March 1962 | Edward Wakefield | West Derbyshire | Con | Appointed High Commissioner to Malta |
| 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 |
| 19 March 1965 | Aubrey Jones | Birmingham, Hall Green | Con | Appointed Chairman of the Prices and Incomes Board |
| 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 |
| 25 July 1968 | Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre | New Forest | Con | Ill-health |
| 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 |
| 16 October 1972 | Dick Taverne | Lincoln | Lab | Seeking re-election on leaving the Labour Party |
| 16 February 1973 | Maurice Foley | West Bromwich | Lab | Appointed Deputy Director General for Development by the European Community |
| 11 February 1976 | Selwyn Lloyd | Wirral | Speaker | Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons |
| 12 October 1976 | Edward Short | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central | Lab | Appointed Chairman of Cable & Wireless |
| 5 January 1977 | Christopher Tugendhat | City of London and Westminster South | Con | Appointed a European Commissioner |
| 5 April 1977 | David Marquand | Ashfield | Lab | Appointed Chief Advisor to the President of the European Commission |
| 25 July 1977 | John Cordle | Bournemouth East | Con | Found in contempt of the House (Poulson scandal) |
| 6 November 1978 | John Davies | Knutsford | Con | Ill-health |
| 5 May 1982 | Bruce Douglas-Mann | Mitcham and Morden | Lab | Seeking re-election on joining the Social Democratic Party |
| 19 January 1984 | Eric Varley | Chesterfield | Lab | Appointed Executive Deputy Chairman of Coalite plc |
| 17 December 1985 | Ian Paisley | North Antrim | DUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 17 December 1985 | Clifford Forsythe | South Antrim | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 17 December 1985 | Ken Maginnis | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 17 December 1985 | Peter Robinson | Belfast East | DUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 17 December 1985 | Martin Smyth | Belfast South | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 17 December 1985 | Cecil Walker | Belfast North | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 17 December 1985 | Enoch Powell | South Down | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement |
| 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 |
| 27 October 1997 | Piers Merchant | Beckenham | Con | Revelations of an affair with a 17-year-old nightclub hostess |

## 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 |
| 21 November 2000 | Dennis Canavan | Falkirk West | Lab | Elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament |
| 8 September 2004 | Peter Mandelson | Hartlepool | Lab | Appointed a European commissioner |
| 4 June 2008 | Boris Johnson | Henley | Con | Elected Mayor of London |
| 30 June 2008 | David Marshall | Glasgow East | Lab | Ill health |
| 22 June 2009 | Michael Martin | Glasgow North East | Speaker | Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons |
| 26 January 2011 | Gerry Adams | Belfast West | SF | To stand in the 2011 Irish general election |
| 1 April 2011 | Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab | To stand for election as Mayor of Leicester |
| 29 August 2012 | Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | To join her family in New York |
| 22 October 2012 | Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab | To stand for election as Police and crime commissioner for the Greater Manchester Police Force Area |
| 2 January 2013 | Martin McGuinness | Mid Ulster | SF | To end double-jobbing as Member of Parliament and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly |
| 15 April 2013 | David Miliband | South Shields | Lab | To become head of the International Rescue Committee in New York |
| 29 August 2014 | Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | Seeking re-election, having joined the UK Independence Party |
| 23 March 2016 | Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab | To contest the 2016 Welsh Assembly election |
| 12 September 2016 | 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 |
| 4 November 2016 | Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con | "Significant policy differences" with the government regarding their approach to the UK leaving the European Union |
| 23 January 2017 | Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab | To become Head of Development and Community Relations for Sellafield Ltd |
| 9 May 2018 | Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab | To become Deputy Mayor of London for Transport |
| 4 November 2019 | John Bercow | Buckingham | Speaker | Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons |
| 24 March 2021 | Neil Gray | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP | To seek election at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election |
| 5 November 2021 | Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con | Breaching the rules against paid advocacy |
| 4 May 2022 | Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con | Viewed pornography in the Palace of Westminster |
| 10 November 2022 | Kate Green | Stretford and Urmston | Lab | To become Greater Manchester deputy mayor |
| 12 June 2023 | Nigel Adams | Selby and Ainsty | Con | Resignation in solidarity with Boris Johnson |
| 19 June 2023 | David Warburton | Somerton and Frome | Con | Allegations of sexual harassment and drug abuse |
| 7 September 2023 | Chris Pincher | Tamworth | Con | Allegations of sexual misconduct |
| 25 March 2024 | Scott Benton | Blackpool South | Con | Filmed appearing to offer lobbying favours for payment |

## 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