Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom
Members of Parliament who have disappeared
Table:
Title/Rank

Name known by while in Commons

Born

Disappeared

Political Party

MP's Seat

Offices Held

Honours

George Robinson
before 1727
1732[65]

Great Marlow (1731–32)

Sir
Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
1678
1738 (about 5 months[66]) – died 1746
Whig
Dunwich (1734–38)
Commissioner of the Board of Trade, Governor of Barbados (1737–38)

Henry Vansittart
1732
1769[67]

Reading (1768-death)
Governor of Bengal (1759–64)

Sir
Montagu Chapman, 3rd Baronet
1808
1852
Whig Party
Westmeath (1832–41)
High Sheriff of Westmeath 1844

Walter Powell
1842
1881
Conservative Party
Malmesbury (1868–death)

Victor Grayson
1881
1920
Independent Labour
Colne Valley (1907–1910)

Henry Newton Knights
1872
1921 (some 2 weeks[68]) – died 1959
Conservative Party
Camberwell North (1918–21)
Mayor of Camberwell 1913, Sheriff of the City of London 1920
MBE

John Stonehouse
1925
1974 (34 days) – died 1988
Labour Party
Walsall North (1974–1976)
Postmaster-General (1968–1969)

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George Robinson was an English stockbroker and swindler in the 1720s and early 1730s . A banker in Lombard Street , he was appointed the circulating cashier of the Charitable Corporation . In 1727 he was one of the Corporation 's 'Partnership of Five ' ( with Sir Alexander Grant , William Burroughs , William Squire and John Thomson ) who began buying up shares . He and several officers of the Corporation obtained money from it by pawning false pledges , and proceeded to engage in a large scale speculation in the shares of that company and York Buildings Company , also borrowing against the shares purchased so that his partners failed to get what they bought . Robinson obtained a seat in the House of Commons when he was elected MP for Great Marlow in 1731 , but was unable to sit before the affair began to come to light . He fled to France with Thomson , the warehouse-keeper , in October . They were both declared bankrupt . Robinson was back by 25 November and appeared before the General Court of the Company . By 18 December , he was in hiding again because the Company would not supersede the Commission of bankruptcy against him . He had seen fit to absent himself from the kingdom , according to William Goostry , his attorney . Robinson was expelled from the House in absentia on 3 April 1732 for indirect and fraudulent Practices in the Affairs of the Charitable Corporation , and for having never attended the Service of the House , although required to do so . His estate at Moor Place , Great Marlow ( with a farmhouse , 300 acres ( 1.2 km2 ) of land and 230 acres ( 0.93 km2 ) of woods ) was advertised for sale in January 1734 .
Great Marlow , sometimes simply called Marlow , was a parliamentary borough in Buckinghamshire . It elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons between 1301 and 1307 , and again from 1624 until 1868 , and then one member from 1868 until 1885 , when the borough was abolished .
Sir Orlando Bridgeman , 2nd Baronet ( 27 April 1678 - 5 December 1746 ) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1738 . He faked his own death in 1738 and spent the rest of his life in prison .
Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk , one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs . It elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons from 1298 until 1832 , when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act .
The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry , currently within the Department for International Trade . Its full title is The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations , but is commonly known as the Board of Trade , and formerly known as the Lords of Trade and Plantations or Lords of Trade , and it has been a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom . The Board has gone through several evolutions , beginning with extensive involvement in colonial matters in the 17th Century , to powerful regulatory functions in the Victorian Era , to virtually being dormant in the last third of 20th century . In 2017 , it was revitalized as an advisory board headed by the International Trade Secretary who has nominally held the title of President of the Board of Trade , and who at present is the only privy counsellor of the Board , the other members of the present Board filling roles as advisers . The board was first established as a temporary committee of England 's Privy Council to advise on colonial ( plantation ) questions in the early 17th century , when these settlements were initially forming . The Board would evolve gradually into a government department with considerable power and a diverse range of functions , including regulation of domestic and foreign commerce , the development , implementation and interpretation of the Acts of Trade and Navigation , and the review and acceptance of legislation passed in the colonies . Between 1696 and 1782 the Board of Trade , in partnership with the various secretaries of state over that time , held responsibility for colonial affairs , particularly in British America . The newly created office of Home Secretary then held colonial responsibility until 1801 , when the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was established . Between 1768 and 1782 while with the Secretary of State for the Colonies , whose secretaryship was held jointly with the presidency of the Board of Trade , the latter position remained largely vacant ; this led to a diminished status of the board and it became an adjunct to the new Department and Ministry concerns . Following the loss of the American War of Independence , both the board and the short-lived secretaryship were dismissed by the king on 2 May 1782 and the board was abolished later by the Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782 ( 22 Geo . III , c 82 ) . Following the Treaty of Paris 1783 , with the continuing need to regulate trade between its remaining colonies , the independent United States and all other countries , a new Committee of Council on Trade and Plantations ( later known as 'the First Committee ' ) was established by William Pitt the Younger .
This page contains a list of viceroys in Barbados from its initial colonisation in 1627 by England until it achieved independence in 1966 . From 1833 to 1885 , Barbados was part of the colony of the Windward Islands , and the Governor of Barbados represented the monarch in all the Windward Islands . In 1885 Barbados became an independent colony again .
Henry Vansittart ( 3 June 1732 - 1770 ) was the English Governor of Bengal from 1759 to 1764 .
Reading was a parliamentary borough , and later a borough constituency , represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It comprised the town of Reading in the county of Berkshire . From 1295 , as a parliamentary borough , Reading elected two members of parliament ( MPs ) . Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 , this representation was reduced to a single MP . The constituency was abolished in 1950 , re-created in 1955 , and finally abolished in 1974 .
From 1760 , a governor represented the British East India Company in which had been granted the right to establish a trading post by the Nawabs of Bengal . Robert Clive ( 1765-1767 ) was the second governor of Bengal , and established dual government in Bengal from 1765 to 1772 . Below is a list of the governors of Bengal during the British Raj :
Sir Montagu Lowther Chapman ( 19 December 1808 - 17 May 1852 ) was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament ( MP ) . He was born at Killua Castle , Westmeath , the son of Sir Thomas Chapman , 2nd Baronet and graduated from Trinity College , Dublin . He succeeded his father to the baronetcy and the Killua estate in 1837 . He was elected Member of Parliament for Westmeath in the UK Parliament in 1830 , holding the seat until 1841 , after which it passed to his brother . In that same year he visited Australia and on 14 June 1842 was granted title to a large estate near Adelaide , which he leased out as smaller farms . Many of the farms were leased to tenants from his own Irish estate , from where 120 people emigrated to Australia . Originally named Montagu 's Farm , the area is now known as Gepp 's Cross . He was appointed High Sheriff of Westmeath for 1844 . He died in 1852 on a sea voyage from Melbourne to Sydney , when the vessel in which he was sailing disappeared without trace . He had never married and his Irish and Australian estates were inherited by his younger brother Benjamin .
Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland , returning two Members of Parliament 1801-1885 and one in 1918-1922 .
The High Sheriff of Westmeath was the British Crown 's judicial representative in County Westmeath , Ireland from its creation under The Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543 until 1922 , when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Westmeath County Sheriff . The sheriff had judicial , electoral , ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs . In 1908 , an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign 's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff 's precedence . However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county . The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year . Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs . Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year . The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment . The following is an incomplete list : all addresses are in County Westmeath unless stated otherwise .
Walter Powell ( 17 April 1842 - 10 December 1881 ) was a Welsh colliery owner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1881 . Powell was carried out over the English Channel in a balloon and never seen again .
Malmesbury was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire , which elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons from 1275 until 1832 , and then one member from 1832 until 1885 , when the borough was abolished .
Albert Victor Grayson ( born 5 September 1881 , disappeared 28 September 1920 ) was an English socialist politician of the early 20th century . A Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1907 to 1910 , he is most notable for his sensational by-election victory at Colne Valley in 1907 , and for his unexplained disappearance in 1920 .
Colne Valley is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Jason McCartney of the Conservative Party . [ n 2 ] The seat has been won by three different parties ' candidates by a marginal majority since the 1992 general election , the last occasion when the winning majority exceeded 10% of the votes cast . Colne Valley is one of 17 seats won ( held or gained ) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 22 covering its county , with Thelma Walker 's 2017 win being one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party . However , former MP Jason McCartney took the seat back for the Conservatives in 2019 .
Henry Newton Knights MBE ( 1872 - 31 October 1959 ) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician .
Camberwell North was a borough constituency located in the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell , in South London . It returned one Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . The constituency was created for the 1885 general election , and abolished for the 1950 general election .
Camberwell ( /ˈkæmbərˌwɛl/ ) is a district of South London , England , within the London Borough of Southwark . It is located 2.7 miles ( 4.3 km ) southeast of Charing Cross . Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant . This early parish included the neighbouring hamlets of Peckham , Dulwich , Nunhead , and part of Herne Hill ( the rest of Herne Hill was in the parish of Lambeth ) . Until 1889 , it was part of the county of Surrey . In 1900 the original parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell . In 1965 , most of the Borough of Camberwell was merged into the London Borough of Southwark . To the west , part of both West Dulwich and Herne Hill come under the London Borough of Lambeth . The place now known known as Camberwell covers a much smaller area than the ancient parish , and it is bound on the north by Walworth ; on the south by East Dulwich and Herne Hill ; to the west by Kennington ; and on the east by Peckham .
Two sheriffs are elected annually for the City of London by the Liverymen of the City Livery Companies . Today 's sheriffs have only nominal duties , but the historical officeholders had important judicial responsibilities . They have attended the Justices at the Central Criminal Court , Old Bailey , since its original role as the Court for the City and Middlesex . The sheriffs live in the Central Criminal Court , Old Bailey , during their year of service , so that one of them can always be attendant on the judges . In Court No 1 the principal chairs on the bench are reserved for their and the Lord Mayor 's use , with the Sword of the City hanging behind the bench . It is an invariable custom that the Lord Mayor of London must previously have served as a sheriff . By a custom of immemorial usage in the City , the two sheriffs are elected at the Midsummer Common Hall by the Liverymen by acclamation , unless a ballot is demanded from the floor , which takes place within fourteen days . The returning officers at the Common Hall are the Recorder of London ( senior Judge of the Old Bailey ) and the outgoing Sheriffs . As of September 2019 [ update ] , the current sheriffs are Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli and Mr Christopher Hayward CC . As elected officers from the 7th century ( excepting 1067 to 1132 ) , the sheriffs ' jurisdiction covers the square mile of the City of London . The more recent creation of High Sheriff of Greater London covers areas of London outside the City , which today incorporates parts of several old counties , most notably Middlesex .
John Thomson Stonehouse ( 28 July 1925 - 14 April 1988 ) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson . Stonehouse is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974 . More than twenty years after his death , it was publicly revealed that he had been an agent for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic military intelligence . In 1979 , the Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , and top cabinet members learned from a Czech defector that Stonehouse had been a paid Czech spy since 1962 . He had provided secrets about government plans as well as technical information about aircraft , and received about £5,000 . He was already in prison for fraud and the government decided there was insufficient evidence to bring to trial , so no announcement or prosecution was made .
Walsall North is a constituency [ n 1 ] created in 1955 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Eddie Hughes , a member of the Conservative Party . [ n 2 ] The local electorate returned a Labour MP in the seat 's first seventeen general elections ; in the following election Eddie Hughes became its second Conservative MP following an earlier by-election win by his party in 1976 . The seat consists of green-buffered urban areas with golf courses , parks and sports fields between the half of the former metalworking and manufacturing-centred town and main other settlement , Bloxwich within its boundaries .
The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government . Aside from maintaining the postal system , the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General 's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs . This would subsequently extend to telecommunications and broadcasting . The office was abolished in 1969 by the Post Office Act 1969 . A replacement public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the Post Office ( that part subsumed by Royal Mail ) . The position of Postmaster General was , with reduced powers , replaced with Minister of Posts and Telecommunications ; since when most such regulation instead has been delegated to the Secretary of State for Culture , Media and Sport . However the present-day Royal Mail Group was overseen by the Secretary of State for Business , Innovation and Skills prior to flotation .