# List of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

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. The practice of leaving the house when appointed as a minister of crown would result in a ministerial by-election until the early 20th century when this requirement was removed for most substantive offices.
The Chiltern Hundreds last needed a Crown Steward in the 18th century. When John Pitt wished to vacate his seat for Wareham in order to stand for Dorchester, the Crown Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds was available for this purpose. Pitt was appointed Crown Steward on 25 January 1751.
A number of other offices were subsequently used for resignation, but only the Chiltern Hundreds and the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead are still in use. Appointees to the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated with the Manor of Northstead, allowing two MPs to resign at once. When more than two MPs resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs, appointees are dismissed after a few hours to allow other resigning MPs to take their place. The Parliamentary Information Office has produced a list of those appointed to the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds since 1850.

## Key

| Party | Abbreviation |
| All-for-Ireland League | AFIL |
| Coalition Conservative | Co Con |
| Coalition Liberal | Co Lib |
| Conservative Party | Con |
| Democratic Unionist Party | DUP |
| Home Rule League | HRL |
| Independent | Ind |
| Irish National Federation | INF |
| Irish Parliamentary Party | IPP |
| Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party | Nat |
| Labour Party | Lab |
| Liberal Party (pre-1988) | Lib |
| Liberal Democrats | Lib Dem |
| Liberal Unionist Party | LU |
| National Labour | N Lab |
| National Liberal Party | N Lib |
| Ulster Democratic Unionist Party | UDUP |
| Ulster Unionist Party | UU |
| Unionist Party | UP |
| Whig | Whig |

## 1850 to 1899

| Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Party | Reason for resignation |
| 9 February 1850 | Sir George Smyth | Colchester | | Con | "Age and infirmity" (Had previously been appointed to the Stewardship in 1829) |
| 4 March 1850 | Lord Albert Conyngham | Canterbury | | Lib | Raised to the peerage as Baron Londesborough |
| 12 March 1850 | John Ffolliott | County Sligo | | Con | [?] |
| 30 April 1850 | Hon. George Keppel | Lymington | | Whig | Succeeded his brother as Earl of Albemarle |
| 22 July 1850 | Sir John Jervis | City of Chester | | Lib | To become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas |
| 3 August 1850 | Viscount Northland | Dungannon | | Con | Ill health |
| 7 August 1850 | Charles Pearson | Lambeth | | Lib | [?] |
| 24 December 1850 | Viscount Adare | Glamorganshire | | Con | Succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl |
| 3 February 1851 | Viscount Northland | Dungannon | | Con | [?] |
| 3 February 1851 | Sir John Hobhouse, Bt | Harwich | | Lib | Raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton |
| 1 March 1851 | Richard Lalor Sheil | Dungarvan | | Lib | Retired due to ill health and as he had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in November 1850. |
| 31 March 1851 | Hon. Henry Cole | Enniskillen | | Con | [?] |
| 14 April 1851 | William Trant Fagan | Cork City | RA | RA | To become Commissioner of Insolvency |
| 5 May 1851 | John Simeon | Isle of Wight | | 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." |
| 10 July 1851 | The Earl of Surrey | Arundel | | Lib | To protest the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 |
| 23 July 1851 | John O'Connell | Limerick City | RA | RA | To allow the Earl of Surrey to take his place |
| 1 August 1851 | Richard Ker | Downpatrick | | Con | [?] |
| 12 September 1851 | Hon. Arthur Duncombe | East Retford | | Con | To become Fourth Naval Lord |
| 25 October 1851 | Benjamin Hawes | Kinsale | | Lib | To become Deputy Secretary at War |
| 29 January 1852 | John Plumptre | East Kent | | Con | [?] |
| 16 March 1852 | John Boyd | Coleraine | | Con | [?] |
| 20 April 1852 | Francis Rufford | Worcester | | Con | [?] |
| 5 July 1853 | William Evans | North Derbyshire | | Whig | [?] |
| 3 August 1853 | Hon. George Anson | South Staffordshire | | Lib | Appointed to command a Division in Bengal |
| 13 August 1853 | John Maguire | Dungarvan | | Lib | Became Mayor of Cork |
| 28 January 1854 | Richard Prime | West Sussex | | Con | [?] |
| 5 May 1854 | Musgrave Brisco | Hastings | | Con | Ill health; died four days later |
| 5 August 1854 | Hon. William Gordon | Aberdeenshire | | Con | [?] |
| 11 August 1854 | Lord Dudley Stuart | Marylebone | | Lib | [?] |
| 30 March 1855 | Edmond Roche | County Cork | | Lib | [?] |
| 2 May 1855 | William Mure | Renfrewshire | | Con | [?] |
| 6 July 1855 | Charles Berkeley | Evesham | | Lib | [?] |
| 22 November 1855 | Hon. Francis Child Villiers | Rochester | | Con | [?] |
| 25 January 1856 | Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt | Rutland | | Whig | [?] |
| 3 March 1856 | Charles Gavan Duffy | New Ross | | Lib | [?] |
| 2 May 1856 | Charles Berkeley | Cheltenham | | Lib | [?] |
| 15 July 1856 | Henry Sturt | Dorchester | | Con | [?] |
| 7 January 1857 | William Biggs | Newport | | Whig | [?] |
| 17 February 1857 | Charles Frewen | East Sussex | | Con | [?] |
| 23 July 1857 | Lionel de Rothschild | City of London | | 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. |
| 30 November 1857 | Hon. Francis Baring | Thetford | | Con | [?] |
| 19 December 1857 | George Skene Duff | Elgin Burghs | | Lib | [?] |
| 4 November 1858 | Henry Tancred | Banbury | | Whig | [?] |
| 9 February 1859 | Sir John Ramsden, Bt | Hythe | | Whig | [?] |
| 9 March 1859 | John Bagshaw | Harwich | | Lib | [?] |
| 2 August 1859 | Henry Labouchere | Taunton | | Lib | Raised to the peerage as Baron Taunton |
| 12 August 1859 | Ralph Earle | Berwick-upon-Tweed | | Con | Accusations of improper financial deals with railway companies |
| 6 March 1860 | William Laslett | Worcester | | Lib | [?] |
| 4 June 1860 | Richard Davison | Belfast | | Con | [?] |
| 27 August 1860 | Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert | Ludlow | | Con | [?] |
| 4 February 1861 | Titus Salt | Bradford | | Lib | Retired due to ill health. |
| 22 April 1861 | Lachlan Gordon-Duff | Banffshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 18 July 1861 | Allen Eliott-Lockhart | Selkirkshire | | Con | [?] |
| January 1862 | George Heneage | Lincoln | | Lib | [?] |
| 26 March 1862 | R. A. Cross | Preston | | Con | [?] |
| 19 May 1862 | Alfred Rhodes Bristow | Kidderminster | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 January 1863 | Edward Ball | Cambridgeshire | | Con | [?] |
| 5 February 1863 | Michael Seymour | Plymouth Devonport | | Lib | [?] |
| 14 March 1863 | Maxwell Close | Armagh | | Con | [?] |
| 14 April 1863 | Ion Hamilton | County Dublin | | Con | [?] |
| 28 May 1863 | Charles Tottenham | New Ross | | Con | [?] |
| 4 February 1864 | Sir James Buller East, Bt | Winchester | | Con | [?] |
| 11 February 1865 | Daniel O'Donoghue | Tipperary | | Lib | [?] |
| 16 June 1865 | Arthur William Buller | Plymouth Devonport | | Lib | [?] |
| 1 March 1866 | William Edward Dowdeswell | Tewkesbury | | Con | [?] |
| 28 April 1866 | Lord Clarence Paget | Sandwich | | Whig | [?] |
| 7 May 1866 | William Leslie | Aberdeenshire | | Con | [?] |
| 8 August 1866 | Hon. Charles Cust | North Shropshire | | Con | [?] |
| 5 February 1867 | William Humphery | Andover | | Con | [?] |
| 5 February 1867 | Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt | East Suffolk | | Con | [?] |
| 10 May 1867 | David Dundas | Sutherland | | Lib | [?] |
| 26 July 1867 | David Stewart Ker | Downpatrick | | Con | [?] |
| 25 November 1867 | Hon. Alexander Baring | Thetford | | Con | [?] |
| 19 February 1868 | Alexander Struthers Finlay | Argyllshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 14 April 1868 | William Welby-Gregory | Grantham | | Con | [?] |
| 22 April 1868 | Laurence Oliphant | Stirling Burghs | | Lib | [?] |
| 17 February 1869 | Richard Green-Price | Radnor | | Lib | [?] |
| 28 July 1869 | Edward Hamilton | Salisbury | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 February 1870 | Austen Henry Layard | Southwark | | Lib | [?] |
| 9 February 1870 | Henry Whitmore | Bridgnorth | | Con | [?] |
| 16 February 1870 | William Lee | Maidstone | | Lib | [?] |
| 16 February 1870 | Charles Ichabod Wright | Nottingham | | Con | [?] |
| 30 March 1870 | Lord Courtenay | East Devon | | Con | [?] |
| 9 February 1871 | Lord John Hay | Ripon | | Lib | [?] |
| 9 February 1871 | Sir Thomas Burke, Bt | County Galway | | Lib | [?] |
| 22 February 1871 | Edward Clive | Hereford | | Lib | [?] |
| 24 February 1871 | Poulett Somerset | Monmouthshire | | Con | [?] |
| 6 February 1872 | John Tollemache | West Cheshire | | Con | [?] |
| 29 February 1872 | Robert Stayner Holford | East Gloucestershire | | Con | [?] |
| 17 April 1872 | Richard Joseph Devereux | Wexford Borough | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 February 1873 | Edward Wingfield Verner | Lisburn | | Con | [?] |
| 21 February 1873 | George Legh | Mid Cheshire | | Con | [?] |
| 29 April 1873 | William Philip Price | Gloucester | | Lib | [?] |
| 24 June 1873 | Edmond de la Poer | County Waterford | | Lib | [?] |
| 21 July 1873 | George Armitstead | Dundee | | Lib | [?] |
| 5 February 1875 | George Melly | Stoke-upon-Trent | | Lib | [?] |
| 6 February 1875 | Charles William White | Tipperary | Nat | Nat | [?] |
| 15 April 1875 | Francis Bassett | Bedfordshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 20 July 1875 | Thomas Richardson | Hartlepool | | Lib | [?] |
| 8 February 1876 | Richard Arkwright | Leominster | | Con | [?] |
| 24 April 1876 | William McCombie | West Aberdeenshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 21 June 1876 | George Dixon | Birmingham | | Lib | [?] |
| 28 June 1876 | William Edward Dowdeswell | West Worcestershire | | Con | [?] |
| 14 July 1876 | Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, Bt | East Kent | | Con | [?] |
| 31 July 1876 | Charles William Nevill | Carmarthen | | Con | [?] |
| 8 February 1877 | Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bt | Wilton | | Lib | [?] |
| 12 February 1877 | John Crossley | Halifax | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 August 1877 | Edward Corbett | South Shropshire | | Con | [?] |
| 16 January 1878 | James Grieve | Greenock | | Lib | [?] |
| 29 January 1878 | J. W. Henley | Oxfordshire | | Con | [?] |
| 8 March 1878 | Evan Pateshall | Hereford | | Con | [?] |
| 16 April 1878 | Robert William Hanbury | Tamworth | | Con | [?] |
| 6 May 1878 | Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, Bt | Carmarthen | | Lib | [?] |
| 3 August 1878 | The Marquess of Lorne | Argyllshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 15 August 1878 | Edmund Buckley | Newcastle-under-Lyme | | Con | [?] |
| 5 December 1878 | Kirkman Daniel Hodgson | Bristol | | Lib | [?] |
| 1 May 1879 | Lewis Majendie | Canterbury | | Con | [?] |
| 3 December 1879 | Samuel Danks Waddy | Barnstaple | | Lib | [?] |
| 1 May 1880 | John Brinton | Kidderminster | | Lib | [?] |
| 20 May 1880 | Samuel Plimsoll | Derby | | Lib | [?] |
| 23 July 1880 | Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt | Scarborough | | Lib | [?] |
| 18 January 1881 | Duncan McLaren | Edinburgh | | Lib | [?] |
| 5 April 1881 | Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, Bt | Sunderland | | Lib | [?] |
| 3 February 1882 | Alexander Martin Sullivan | Meath | HRL | HRL | [?] |
| 18 April 1882 | Vaughan Vaughan-Lee | West Somerset | | Con | [?] |
| 15 August 1882 | John Dyson Hutchinson | Halifax | | Lib | [?] |
| 19 October 1882 | James Cowan | Edinburgh | | Lib | [?] |
| 16 November 1882 | Henry Cecil Raikes | Preston | | Con | [?] |
| 16 February 1883 | Henry Joseph Gill | Westmeath | HRL | HRL | [?] |
| 6 March 1883 | John Dillon | Tipperary | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 6 June 1883 | Michael Thomas Bass | Derby | | Lib | [?] |
| 16 June 1883 | Timothy Healy | Wexford Borough | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 30 July 1883 | Robert Henry Metge | Meath | Nat | Nat |
| 21 August 1883 | Hon. Gerard Noel | Rutland | | Con | [?] |
| 24 January 1884 | William Holms | Paisley | | Lib | [?] |
| 12 February 1884 | Charles Bradlaugh | Northampton | | Con | [?] |
| 12 February 1884 | George Bentinck | West Norfolk | | Con | [?] |
| 20 February 1884 | William Thackeray Marriott | Brighton | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 May 1884 | Edmund Filmer | Mid Kent | | Con | [?] |
| 7 May 1884 | Sir Henry Peek, Bt | Mid Surrey | | Con | [?] |
| 5 August 1884 | John Carpenter Garnier | South Devon | | Con | [?] |
| 8 August 1884 | John Aloysius Blake | County Waterford | HRL | HRL | [?] |
| 24 October 1884 | John George Dodson | Scarborough | | Lib | [?] |
| 19 February 1885 | William Gore-Langton | Mid Somerset | | Con | [?] |
| 17 February 1886 | Lord Richard Grosvenor | Flintshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 8 June 1886 | William O'Shea | Galway Borough | Nat | Nat | [?] |
| 25 September 1886 | Edmund Leamy | North East Cork | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 30 April 1887 | William Copeland Borlase | St Austell | | Lib | [?] |
| 4 July 1887 | Sir James McGarel-Hogg, Bt | Hornsey | | Con | [?] |
| 5 July 1887 | George Sclater-Booth | North Hampshire | | Con | [?] |
| 15 July 1887 | Thomas Blake | Forest of Dean | | Lib | [?] |
| 8 September 1887 | John O'Connor | South Kerry | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 7 February 1888 | Charles Lacaita | Dundee | | Lib | [?] |
| 9 February 1888 | Walter Shirley Shirley | Doncaster | | Lib | [?] |
| 3 March 1888 | The Earl of March | Chichester | | Lib | [?] |
| 6 April 1888 | Henry Joseph Gill | Limerick City | | Lib | [?] |
| 15 May 1888 | John Edmund Commerell | Southampton | | Con | [?] |
| 8 November 1888 | John Simon | Dewsbury | | Lib | [?] |
| 22 February 1889 | John Slagg | Burnley | | Lib | [?] |
| 27 February 1889 | Robert Gent-Davis | Kennington | | Con | [?] |
| 6 April 1889 | Francis Hughes-Hallett | Rochester | | Con | [?] |
| 10 July 1889 | Lord Charles Beresford | Marylebone East | | Con | [?] |
| 4 March 1890 | William Leatham Bright | Stoke-upon-Trent | | Lib | [?] |
| 17 March 1890 | Richard Ker | East Down | | Con | [?] |
| 26 March 1890 | Robert Richardson-Gardner | Windsor | | Con | [?] |
| 12 June 1890 | James Edward O'Doherty | North Donegal | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 4 July 1891 | Charles William Selwyn | Wisbech | | Con | [?] |
| 12 December 1892 | Jabez Balfour | Burnley | | Lib | [?] |
| 9 May 1893 | Michael Davitt | North East Cork | INF | INF | [?] |
| 16 June 1893 | John Morrogh | South East Cork | INF | INF | [?] |
| 4 August 1893 | William Grenfell | Hereford | | Lib | [?] |
| 8 December 1893 | William Thackeray Marriott | Brighton | | Con | [?] |
| 21 March 1894 | John Philipps | Mid Lanarkshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 26 June 1894 | Hon. Bernard Coleridge | Sheffield Attercliffe | | Lib | [?] |
| 17 August 1894 | James Allanson Picton | Leicester | | Lib | [?] |
| 21 August 1894 | Patrick Chance | South Kilkenny | INF | INF | [?] |
| 2 April 1895 | Clement Higgins | Mid Norfolk | | Lib | [?] |
| 18 May 1895 | Hon. Sidney Herbert | Croydon | | Con | [?] |
| 15 June 1895 | William O'Brien | Cork City | INF | INF | [?] |
| 24 August 1895 | Alfred Webb | West Waterford | INF | INF | [?] |
| 19 February 1896 | Thomas Sexton | North Kerry | INF | INF | [?] |
| 24 April 1896 | William Hunter | Aberdeen North | | Lib | [?] |
| 20 November 1896 | Martin White | Forfar | | Lib | [?] |
| 16 January 1897 | Alfred Wigram | Romford | | Con | [?] |
| 2 February 1897 | Sir George Trevelyan, Bt | Glasgow Bridgeton | | Lib | [?] |
| 4 February 1897 | Charles Harvey Combe | Chertsey | | Con | [?] |
| 5 February 1898 | Alfred Hopkinson | Cricklade | LU | LU | [?] |
| 22 April 1898 | Francis Taylor | South Norfolk | LU | LU | [?] |
| 2 July 1898 | James Dampier Palmer | Gravesend | | Con | [?] |
| 21 July 1898 | George Doughty | Great Grimsby | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 February 1899 | William Kenrick | Birmingham North | LU | LU | [?] |
| 17 February 1899 | Thomas Wayman | Elland | | Lib | [?] |
| 16 June 1899 | Sir John Austin, Bt | Osgoldcross | | Lib | [?] |
| 1 July 1899 | Robert Grant Webster | St Pancras East | | Con | [?] |
| 26 October 1899 | Hon. Henry Northcote | Exeter | | Con | [?] |

## 1900 to 1949

| Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Party | Reason for resignation |
| 26 January 1900 | Lord Charles Beresford | City of York | | Con | Appointed second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. |
| 27 January 1900 | Bernard Collery | North Sligo | INF | INF | [?] |
| 14 March 1900 | Evelyn Hubbard | Brixton | | Con | On the advice of his doctors |
| 11 December 1900 | Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt | Blackpool | | Con | [?] |
| 9 January 1902 | Edward Brodie Hoare | Hampstead | | Con | Ill health |
| 1 February 1902 | Michael McCartan | South Down | IPP | IPP | Ill health |
| 7 February 1902 | James Daly | South Monaghan | IPP | 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 |
| 18 April 1902 | Edwin Hughes | Woolwich | | Con | [?] |
| 7 October 1902 | Cathcart Wason | Orkney and Shetland | LU | LU | To stand again as an Independent Liberal. |
| 27 October 1902 | Augustus Frederick Warr | Liverpool East Toxteth | | Con | Found the workload of Parliament to be incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness. |
| 17 February 1903 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky | Dublin University | LU | LU | Ill health |
| 5 March 1903 | Edward Archdale | North Fermanagh | | Con | [?] |
| 1 January 1904 | William O'Brien | Cork City | AFIL | AFIL | [?] |
| 22 March 1904 | J. E. B. Seely | Isle of Wight | | Con | To stand again as Independent Conservative |
| 8 June 1904 | John Lockie | Plymouth Devonport | | Con | Ill health |
| 16 June 1904 | John Arthur Fyler | Chertsey | | Con | Bankruptcy |
| 11 February 1905 | John Archibald Willox | Liverpool Everton | | Con | Ill health |
| 28 June 1905 | Arthur Hill | West Down | | Con | [?] |
| 19 March 1906 | Henry Broadhurst | Leicester | | Lib | [?] |
| 7 May 1906 | Frederick Rutherfoord Harris | Dulwich | | Con | [?] |
| 11 June 1906 | Heneage Legge | Westminster St George's | | Con | [?] |
| 10 December 1906 | Daniel Sheehan | Mid Cork | IPP | IPP | To stand again as Independent Nationalist |
| 12 February 1907 | Harold James Reckitt | Brigg | | Lib | [?] |
| 1 May 1907 | William Evans-Gordon | Stepney | | Con | [?] |
| 10 June 1907 | Denis Joseph Cogan | East Wicklow | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 1 July 1907 | James O'Mara | South Kilkenny | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 15 August 1907 | Edward Blake | South Longford | | Lib | Ill health following a stroke |
| 22 January 1908 | William Alexander McArthur | St Austell | | Lib | [?] |
| 22 February 1908 | Harvey du Cros | Hastings | | Con | Ill health |
| 23 April 1908 | Henry Fowler | Wolverhampton East | | Lib | Raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton |
| 28 April 1908 | Edmund Robertson | Dundee | | Lib | Raised to the peerage as Baron Lochee |
| 29 June 1908 | John Philipps | Pembrokeshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 10 February 1909 | John Sinclair | Forfar | | Lib | [?] |
| 27 March 1909 | William O'Brien | Cork City | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 23 April 1909 | J. Batty Langley | Sheffield Attercliffe | | Lib | [?] |
| 25 June 1909 | Herbert Samuel | Cleveland | | Lib | [?] |
| 22 February 1910 | Sir William Holland, Bt | Rotherham | | Lib | [?] |
| 20 February 1911 | Thomas Fleming Wilson | North East Lanarkshire | | Lib | [?] |
| 15 March 1911 | Lord Alwyne Compton | Brentford | | Con | [?] |
| 27 April 1911 | Viscount Morpeth | Birmingham South | LU | LU | [?] |
| 28 June 1911 | Thomas Ashton | Luton | | Lib | [?] |
| 4 July 1911 | Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt | Wellington | CU | CU | [?] |
| 5 July 1911 | John Muldoon | East Wicklow | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 27 October 1911 | Alfred Emmott | Oldham | | Lib | [?] |
| 8 March 1912 | John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood | South East Essex | | Con | [?] |
| 13 March 1912 | Sir James Rankin, Bt | Leominster | | Con | [?] |
| 16 May 1912 | Horatio Bottomley | Hackney South | | Lib | [?] |
| 30 July 1912 | George Kemp | Manchester North West | | Lib | [?] |
| 14 November 1912 | George Lansbury | Bow and Bromley | | Lab | [?] |
| 5 February 1913 | Lord Balniel | Chorley | | Con | [?] |
| 2 June 1913 | Sir Henry Kimber, Bt | Wandsworth | | Con | [?] |
| 19 January 1914 | William O'Brien | Cork City | AFIL | AFIL | [?] |
| 26 May 1914 | Richard Hazleton | North Galway | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 7 July 1914 | Austen Chamberlain | East Worcestershire | | Con | To contest Birmingham West |
| 16 February 1915 | Viscount Castlereagh | Maidstone | | Con | [?] |
| 3 December 1915 | William Walker | Widnes | | Con | [?] |
| 6 January 1916 | Sir Alexander Henderson, Bt | Westminster St George's | | Con | [?] |
| 13 January 1916 | Hon. Harry Levy-Lawson | Mile End | LU | LU | [?] |
| 22 February 1916 | Robert Yerburgh | City of Chester | | Con | [?] |
| 24 February 1916 | John Rolleston | Hertford | | Con | [?] |
| 6 March 1916 | John William Logan | Harborough | | Lib | [?] |
| 8 April 1916 | Henry Chaplin | Wimbledon | | Con | [?] |
| 7 August 1916 | Reginald Pole-Carew | Bodmin | LU | LU | [?] |
| 10 October 1916 | Felix Cassel | St Pancras West | | Con | [?] |
| 27 November 1916 | The Earl of Ronaldshay | Hornsey | | Con | [?] |
| 16 December 1916 | Charles Stuart-Wortley | Sheffield Hallam | | Con | [?] |
| 21 December 1916 | Sir John Dewar, Bt | Inverness-shire | | Lib | [?] |
| 10 February 1917 | The Marquess of Tullibardine | West Perthshire | | Con | [?] |
| 22 March 1917 | Arthur Annesley | Oxford | | Con | [?] |
| 7 May 1917 | Charles Henry Lyell | Edinburgh South | | Lib | [?] |
| 19 June 1917 | Amelius Lockwood | Epping | | Con | [?] |
| 12 January 1918 | Sir John Lonsdale, Bt | Mid Armagh | | Con | [?] |
| 14 March 1918 | William Redmond | East Tyrone | IPP | IPP | [?] |
| 12 June 1918 | Denison Faber | Clapham | | Con | [?] |
| 4 November 1918 | Timothy Michael Healy | North East Cork | AFIL | AFIL | [?] |
| 21 March 1919 | Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont | East Antrim | | Con | Appointed to command the Irish Guards |
| 22 October 1919 | John Wilkinson Taylor | Chester-le-Street | | Lab | [?] |
| 29 October 1919 | Hon. Waldorf Astor | Plymouth Sutton | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 2 December 1919 | Henry Forster | Sevenoaks | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 8 February 1920 | Will Crooks | Woolwich East | | Lab | [?] |
| 15 February 1920 | Sydney Arnold | Penistone | | Lab | [?] |
| 9 March 1920 | George Wardle | Stockport | Co Lab | Co Lab | [?] |
| 25 March 1920 | James Clyde | Edinburgh North | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 7 July 1920 | Robert Francis Peel | Woodbridge | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 25 November 1920 | William Brace | Abertillery | | Lab | [?] |
| 17 December 1920 | Viscount Duncannon | Dover | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 18 March 1921 | Dennis Boles | Taunton | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 15 April 1921 | Lord Edmund Talbot | Chichester | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 24 May 1921 | Walter Long | Westminster St George's | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 9 January 1922 | Henry Newton Knights | Camberwell North | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 27 February 1922 | Thomas Brash Morison | Inverness | Co Lib | Co Lib | [?] |
| 26 May 1922 | Sir William Mount, Bt | Newbury | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 27 November 1922 | Herbert Cayzer | Portsmouth South | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 13 February 1923 | Thomas Worsfold | Mitcham | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 15 February 1923 | William Rutherford | Liverpool Edge Hill | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 10 November 1923 | Hon. Alexander Shaw | Kilmarnock | | Lib | [?] |
| 26 April 1924 | Sir Robert Houston, Bt | Liverpool West Toxteth | Co Con | Co Con | [?] |
| 19 July 1924 | Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, Bt | Carmarthen | | Lib | [?] |
| 25 May 1925 | Sir John Baird, Bt | Ayr Burghs | | Con | [?] |
| 15 February 1926 | Herbert Fisher | Combined English Universities | | Lib | [?] |
| 30 April 1926 | Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett | Hammersmith North | | Con | [?] |
| 24 August 1926 | Hon. Donald Howard | North Cumberland | | Con | [?] |
| 4 November 1926 | Hon. Joseph Kenworthy | Kingston upon Hull Central | | Lib | [?] |
| 30 November 1926 | John Davison | Smethwick | | Lab | [?] |
| 9 March 1927 | Leslie Haden-Guest | Southwark North | | Lab | [?] |
| 9 June 1927 | Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt | Brixton | | Con | [?] |
| 7 June 1928 | Sir Alfred Mond, Bt | Carmarthen | | Con | [?] |
| 18 June 1928 | Sir Rowland Blades, Bt | Epsom | | Con | [?] |
| 12 July 1929 | William Jowitt | Preston | | Lib | [?] |
| 9 April 1930 | Ernest Spero | Fulham West | | Lab | [?] |
| 17 June 1930 | Noel Buxton | North Norfolk | | Lab | [?] |
| 3 February 1931 | John Humphrey Davidson | Fareham | | Con | [?] |
| 16 February 1931 | Hugh Morrison | Salisbury | | Con | [?] |
| 20 April 1931 | Sidney Herbert | Scarborough and Whitby | | Con | [?] |
| 3 June 1931 | John Tinné | Liverpool Wavertree | | Con | [?] |
| 4 April 1932 | Newton Moore | Richmond upon Thames | | Con | [?] |
| 7 June 1932 | Sir Robert Hutchinson | Montrose Burghs | N Lib | N Lib | [?] |
| 6 February 1933 | George Herbert | Rotherham | | Con | [?] |
| 16 February 1934 | Viscount Lymington | Basingstoke | | Con | [?] |
| 30 May 1934 | Lord Erskine | Weston-super-Mare | | Con | [?] |
| 22 May 1935 | John Buchan | Combined Scottish Universities | UP | UP | Following appointment as Governor General of Canada |
| 9 July 1935 | Hilton Young | Sevenoaks | | Con | [?] |
| 18 April 1936 | Viscount Borodale | Peckham | | Con | [?] |
| 11 June 1936 | James Henry Thomas | Derby | N Lab | N Lab | [?] |
| 19 October 1936 | William Kirkpatrick | Preston | | Con | [?] |
| 14 January 1937 | Ian Fraser | St Pancras North | | Con | [?] |
| 16 March 1937 | Philip Russell Rendel Dunne | Stalybridge and Hyde | | Con | [?] |
| 25 May 1937 | Robert Stevenon Horne | Glasgow Hillhead | UP | UP | [?] |
| 1 June 1937 | Stanley Baldwin | Bewdley | | Con | [?] |
| 3 June 1937 | Hon. Walter Runciman | St Ives | N Lib | N Lib | [?] |
| 26 October 1937 | Lord Eustace Percy | Hastings | | Con |
| 28 November 1938 | The Duchess of Atholl | Kinross and Western Perthshire | UP | UP | To protest the appeasement of Adolf Hitler. |
| 27 March 1939 | Hon. Arthur Hope | Birmingham Aston | | Con | [?] |
| 1 July 1939 | John Herbert | Monmouth | | Con | [?] |
| 6 November 1939 | John Remer | Macclesfield | | Con | [?] |
| 24 January 1940 | Sir Charles Barrie | Southampton | N Lib | N Lib | [?] |
| 29 January 1940 | Alan Garrett Anderson | City of London | | Con | [?] |
| 8 February 1940 | John Birchall | Leeds North East | | Con | [?] |
| 10 April 1940 | Nicholas Grattan-Doyle | Newcastle upon Tyne North | | Con | [?] |
| 18 June 1940 | Harry Nathan | Wandsworth Central | | Lab | To provide a seat for Ernest Bevin |
| 12 July 1940 | Bernard Cruddas | Wansbeck | | Con | [?] |
| 18 September 1940 | Thomas Sinclair | Queen's University of Belfast | UU | UU | [?] |
| 11 November 1940 | Viscount Wolmer | Aldershot | | Con | Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Selborne by writ of acceleration |
| 3 April 1941 | Frederick Roberts | West Bromwich | | Lab | [?] |
| 11 July 1941 | Sir Hugh Seely, Bt | Berwick-upon-Tweed | | Lib | Raised to the peerage as Baron Sherwood |
| 10 November 1941 | Lord Erskine | Brighton | | Con | [?] |
| 25 February 1942 | Sir Victor Warrender, Bt | Grantham | | Con | Raised to the peerage as Baron Bruntisfield |
| 9 April 1942 | John Moore-Brabazon | Wallasey | | 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. |
| 9 July 1942 | Gordon Macdonald | Ince | | Lab | Appointed Regional Controller for the Ministry of Fuel and Power for the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Region |
| 14 January 1943 | John Colville | Midlothian and Peebles Northern | | Con | Appointed Governor of Bombay |
| 20 September 1943 | Lord Burghley | Peterborough | | Con | Appointed Governor of Bermuda |
| 24 January 1944 | Tom Kennedy | Kirkcaldy Burghs | | Lab | [?] |
| 7 February 1944 | Cecil Wilson | Sheffield Attercliffe | | Lab | Ill health |
| 26 February 1946 | Ted Williams | Ogmore | | Lab | Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia |
| 24 May 1946 | Francis Douglas | Battersea North | | Lab | Appointed Governor of Malta |
| 2 October 1946 | Clarice Shaw | Kilmarnock | | Lab | Ill health |
| 16 October 1946 | John Boyd Orr | Combined Scottish Universities | | Ind | Concentrating on work as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization |
| 4 November 1946 | Sir Douglas Thomson, Bt | Aberdeen South | | Con | Pressure of business |
| 3 November 1947 | Sir Archibald Southby, Bt | Epsom | | Con | Ill health |
| 1 March 1948 | Tom Williamson | Brigg | | Lab | Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the GMWU |
| 2 July 1948 | George Buchanan | Glasgow Gorbals | | Lab | Appointed Chairman of the National Assistance Board |
| 19 December 1949 | Jack Lawson | Chester-le-Street | | Lab | Appointed vice-chairman of the National Parks Commission |

## 1950 to 1999

| 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 | Retirement |
| 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 | Raised to the peerage as Baron Bennett of Edgbaston |
| 27 October 1953 | William J. Field | Paddington North | Lab | Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes |
| 15 January 1954 | Richard Law | Haltemprice | Con | Raised to the peerage as 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; 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 | To take up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia |
| 18 April 1958 | Angus Maude | Ealing South | Con | 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 misleading 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 | Speaker | Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons |
| 30 March 1972 | Ray Gunter | Southwark | Ind | Had left the 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 | Eng Nat | 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; 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 |

## Since 2000

| Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Reason for resignation |
| 23 October 2000 | Betty Boothroyd | West Bromwich West | Speaker | Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons. |
| 22 June 2004 | Terry Davis | Birmingham Hodge Hill | Lab | Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe. |
| 27 June 2007 | Tony Blair | Sedgefield | Lab | Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East. |
| 18 June 2008 | David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008. |
| 8 June 2009 | Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab | Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel. |
| 13 January 2010 | Iris Robinson | Strangford | DUP | Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life. |
| 8 February 2011 | Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab | Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses. |
| 2 March 2012 | Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab | Ill health. |
| 22 October 2012 | Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | To contest the Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area. |
| 5 November 2012 | Denis MacShane | Rotherham | 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. |
| 5 February 2013 | Chris Huhne | Eastleigh | Lib Dem | Pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. |
| 30 April 2014 | Patrick Mercer | Newark | 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. |
| 30 September 2014 | Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con | To seek re-election as a UKIP candidate. |
| 9 May 2016 | Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab | Elected as Mayor of London. |
| 26 October 2016 | Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con | Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport. |
| 23 January 2017 | Hon. Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | To direct the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| 16 January 2018 | Barry McElduff | West Tyrone | SF | Became embroiled in a controversy over the Kingsmill massacre on social media. |
| 28 October 2019 | John Mann | Bassetlaw | 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. |
| 16 March 2021 | Mike Hill | Hartlepool | Lab | Pending sexual harassment tribunal. |
| 10 May 2021 | Tracy Brabin | Batley and Spen | Lab Co-op | Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire. |
| 3 May 2022 | Imran Ahmad Khan | Wakefield | 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. |
| 21 October 2022 | Christian Matheson | City of Chester | Lab | Independent Expert Panel parliamentary watchdog recommended he be suspended for "serious sexual misconduct". |
| 30 November 2022 | Rosie Cooper | West Lancashire | Lab | To take up the role of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. |
| 12 June 2023 | Boris Johnson | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con | Resignation after being handed draft results of investigation into allegations he misled Parliament over Partygate. |
| 29 August 2023 | Nadine Dorries | Mid Bedfordshire | 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". |
| 8 January 2024 | Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con | Resigned over disagreements with the Government's policy on net zero. |
| 17 March 2025 | Mike Amesbury | Runcorn and Helsby | Lab | Resigned after receiving a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a constituent. |