Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom
Members of Parliament who have been murdered
Table:
Name known by while in Commons	Born	Murdered	MP 's Seat	Perpetrator ( s )

Philip de Lutley	c. 1300	1352	Staffordshire ( 1332 )

Hugh Snel	c. 1315	1380	Stafford ( 1337-38 , 1354 , 1360 , 1362-63 , 1365-66 , 1368-69 , 1371 , 1373 , 1376-77 )

Richard Lyons	1381	Essex ( 1380 )	Wat Tyler ′s rebels

John Ipstones	c. 1345	1394	Staffordshire ( 1388 , 1394-death )	Roger Swynnerton

William Soulby	1394	Appleby ( 1382 , 1385 , 1388 , 1391 )	Gang led by Sir Thomas Rokeby

Thomas Solas	1396	Southwark ( 1393 )	Unknown

Thomas Colville	1405	Yorkshire ( 1402 )

John Tregoose	1406	Helston ( 1379 ) , Truro ( 1383 , 1385-86 ) , Bodmin ( 1395 ) , Liskeard ( 1397 )	Armed gang led by Ralph Trenewith

Thomas Moyle	1413	Lostwithiel ( 1388 )	Some Lostwithiel men when at Bodmin

Robert Crackenthorpe	1438	Westmorland ( 1413 , 1416 , 1419 , 1427 ) , Appleby ( 1427 )	Rowland Thornburgh and supporters

William Tresham	1404	1450	Northamptonshire ( 1423-till death )	People involved in a property dispute

Nicholas Radford	1455	Lyme Regis ( 1421 ) , Devon ( 1435 )	Armed band led by Sir Thomas Courtenay

Thomas Thorpe	1461	Northamptonshire ( 1449-50 ) , Essex ( 1453-55 )	Lynched by a mob

William Chetwynd	c. 1450	1494	Staffordshire ( 1491-92 )

Robert Pakington	c. 1489	1536	City of London ( 1533-death )	Unknown ( shot )

William Trewynnard	By 1495	1549	Helston ( 1542 )	Catholic rebels

Thomas Ardern	By 1516	1551	Sandwich ( 1547 )	Thomas Morsby and 'Black Will of Calais '

Lewis ap Owen	by 1522	1555	Merioneth ( 1547-53 , 1554-death )	Red Bandits of Mawddwy

Francis Russell , Baron Russell	c. 1554	1585	Northumberland ( 1572-84 )	Unknown ( shot )

Edward Aglionby	1599	Carlisle ( 1584-85 , 1593 )	Several members of rival families

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Staffordshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 . It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1832 .
Stafford is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Theodora Clarke , a Conservative . [ n 2 ] The seat since its resurrection in 1983 has proven to be somewhat of a bellwether being held always by the incumbent government .
Sir Richard Lyons PC , MP ( 1310 - 1381 ) was a prosperous City of London merchant , financier , and property developer , who held a monopoly on the sale of sweet wine in London , during the 14th century . He was a Privy Counsellor , an Alderman of the City , a member of the Worshipful Company of Vintners and served as both as Sheriff of London and MP for Essex . Lyons was a lifelong friend of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer . Lyons was killed by Wat Tyler during the Peasants ' Revolt .
Essex was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1290 until 1832 . It elected two MPs , traditionally referred to as Knights of the Shire , to the House of Commons . It was divided into two single member constituencies ( Essex North and Essex South ) in the Great Reform Act .
Walter Wat Tyler ( died 15 June 1381 ) was a leader of the 1381 Peasants ' Revolt in England . He marched a group of rebels from Canterbury to the capital to oppose the institution of a poll tax and demand economic and social reforms . While the brief rebellion enjoyed early success , Tyler was killed by officers loyal to King Richard II during negotiations at Smithfield , London .
The Peasants ' Revolt , also named Wat Tyler 's Rebellion or the Great Rising , was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381 . The revolt had various causes , including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s , the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years ' War , and instability within the local leadership of London . The final trigger for the revolt was the intervention of a royal official , John Bampton , in Essex on 30 May 1381 . His attempts to collect unpaid poll taxes in Brentwood ended in a violent confrontation , which rapidly spread across the south-east of the country . A wide spectrum of rural society , including many local artisans and village officials , rose up in protest , burning court records and opening the local gaols . The rebels sought a reduction in taxation , an end to the system of unfree labour known as serfdom , and the removal of the King 's senior officials and law courts . Inspired by the sermons of the radical cleric John Ball and led by Wat Tyler , a contingent of Kentish rebels advanced on London . They were met at Blackheath by representatives of the royal government , who unsuccessfully attempted to persuade them to return home . King Richard II , then aged 14 , retreated to the safety of the Tower of London , but most of the royal forces were abroad or in northern England . On 13 June , the rebels entered London and , joined by many local townsfolk , attacked the gaols , destroyed the Savoy Palace , set fire to law books and buildings in the Temple , and killed anyone associated with the royal government . The following day , Richard met the rebels at Mile End and acceded to most of their demands , including the abolition of serfdom . Meanwhile , rebels entered the Tower of London , killing the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer , whom they found inside .
John Ipstones ( died 1394 ) was an English soldier , politician and landowner . He fought in the Hundred Years War and in John of Gaunt 's expedition to win the Crown of Castile . He represented Staffordshire twice in the House of Commons of England , including the Merciless Parliament of 1388 , in which he supported the measures of the Lords Appellant . A member of a notoriously quarrelsome and violent landed gentry family , he pursued numerous property and personal disputes , one of which led to his murder while in London , serving as a Member of Parliament .
Appleby was a parliamentary constituency in the former county of Westmorland in England . It existed for two separate periods : from 1295 to 1832 , and from 1885 to 1918 . Appleby was enfranchised as parliamentary borough in 1295 , and abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832 . It returned two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) using the bloc vote system . It was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707 , in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 , and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 . Its best-known MP was William Pitt the Younger who became Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 . For the 1885 general election the Redistribution of Seats Act created a county constituency of the same name , which returned a single MP elected by the first-past-the-post system . The county constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election .
Southwark ( /ˈsʌðərk/ ) was a constituency centred on the Southwark district of South London . It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament from 1295 to 1707 , to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 , and to the UK Parliament until its first abolition for the 1885 general election . A seat of the same name , covering a smaller area than the last form of the earlier seat in the west of the original and beyond its boundaries to the southwest , was created in 1950 and abolished in 1974 . In its last creation the seat 's broad electorate heavily supported the three successive Labour candidates , who won Southwark with a majority of greater than 36% of the votes cast at its eight elections - an extremely safe seat .
Yorkshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290 , then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 . It was represented by two Members of Parliament , traditionally known as Knights of the Shire , until 1826 , when the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members . The constituency was split into its three historic ridings , for Parliamentary purposes , under the Reform Act 1832 . Each riding returned two MPs . The county was then represented by the Yorkshire East Riding , Yorkshire North Riding and Yorkshire West Riding constituencies .
Helston , sometimes known as Helleston , was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall . Using the bloc vote system of election , it returned two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons of England until 1707 , then to House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800 , and to House of Commons of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election . The Reform Act 1832 reduced its representation to one member , elected by the first-past-the-post system . Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 , it was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election .
Truro was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of England and later of Great Britain from 1295 until 1800 , then in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918 and finally from 1950 to 1997 . Until 1885 it was a parliamentary borough , electing two members of parliament ( MPs ) by the plurality-at-large system of election ; the name was then transferred to the surrounding county constituency , which elected a single Member by the first past the post system . In 1997 , although there had been no changes to its boundaries , it was renamed as Truro and St Austell , reflecting the fact that St Austell by then had a larger population than Truro .
Bodmin was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall from 1295 until 1983 . Initially , it was a parliamentary borough , which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England and later the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1868 general election , when its representation was reduced to one member . The old borough was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election , but the name was transferred to a county constituency , which elected a single member until the constituency was abolished with effect from the 1983 general election , when the area it then covered was divided between the existing North Cornwall and the new Cornwall South East .
Liskeard was a parliamentary borough in Cornwall , which elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832 , and then one member from 1832 until 1885 . The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 .
Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832 , when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act .
Lostwithiel ( /lɒstˈwɪðiəl/ ; Cornish : Lostwydhyel ) is a civil parish and small town in Cornwall , England , United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey . According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739 , increasing to 2,899 at the 2011 census . The Lostwithiel electoral ward had a population of 4,639 at the 2011 census . The name Lostwithiel comes from the Cornish lostwydhyel which means tail of a wooded area .
Bodmin ( Cornish : Bosvena ) is a civil parish and historic town in Cornwall , England , United Kingdom . It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor . The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character . It is bordered to the east by Cardinham parish , to the southeast by Lanhydrock parish , to the southwest and west by Lanivet parish , and to the north by Helland parish . Bodmin had a population of 14,736 as of the 2011 Census . It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ) . Bodmin was in the administrative North Cornwall District until local government reorganisation in 2009 abolished the District ( see also Cornwall Council ) . The town is part of the North Cornwall parliamentary constituency , which is represented by Scott Mann MP . Bodmin Town Council is made up of sixteen councillors who are elected to serve a term of four years . Each year , the Council elects one of its number as Mayor to serve as the town 's civic leader and to chair council meetings .
Westmorland was a constituency covering the county of Westmorland in the North of England , which returned Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . The constituency had two separate periods of existence .
Sir William Tresham JP ( 1404 - 22 September 1450 ) was an English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons . Born in Northamptonshire , the son of Thomas Tresham of Sywell , he went on to become a major landowner in the region . He was elected as a Knight of the shire for the parliament of 1423 , and again in 1427 , 1429 , 1432 , 1433 , 1435 , 1439 , 1442 , 1445 , 1447 and February and November 1449 , serving in twelve successive parliaments overall . In 1424 he was also appointed a Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire ; a man born of common stock relied on advancement in his home county for advancement nationally . Having trained as a lawyer , Tresham spent intermittent periods in the service of the king , such as in 1415 , when he reviewed the accounts of the King 's officials in southern Wales . It is assumed he concentrated on his legal career in the 1420s , where there are few records of his activities , but in 1430 he was appointed as a councillor to Humphrey Stafford , 1st Duke of Buckingham , and continued to receive a salary until at least 1447 . In 1432 he was made one of the two Attorneys-general of Henry Beaufort , and spent much of the 1430s on various commissions of the crown , including one to Northamptonshire in 1434 to investigate the hiding of royal funds , and another in 1439 to look at the value of royal lands , again in Northamptonshire . He was employed by the royal household as an apprentice-at-law and thus secured a tie with them ; this is likely why he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons for the 1439 Parliament , when there were attempts to reform the King 's household . In 1438 he bought Rushton Hall in Northamptonshire as a family seat . He was again elected Speaker in 1442 and 1447 and continued his royal service , mainly for the Duchy of Lancaster , and worked as an Apprentice-at-law between 1444 and 1447 . He was made a feoffee of the duchy estates in 1446 and in 1448 was made a chancellor of those feoffees , followed by an appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 3 June 1442 . He was much-liked at court , and as a result was appointed to politically sensitive cases , such as the 1444 commission to investigate charges of treason against Thomas Carver , and a 1447 commission directed at members of the household of Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester .
The county constituency of Northamptonshire , in the East Midlands of England was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England , then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 and was represented in Parliament by two MPs , traditionally known as Knights of the Shire . After 1832 the county was split into two new constituencies , North Northamptonshire and South Northamptonshire .
Nicholas Radford ( c. 1385 - 23 October 1455 ) of Upcott in the parish of Cheriton Fitzpaine , and of Poughill , Devon , was a prominent lawyer in the Westcountry who served as Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis , Dorset ( May 1421 ) and Devon ( 1435 ) . During the anarchic times of the Wars of the Roses he was caught up in the dynastic Westcountry rivalry between Thomas de Courtenay , 5th Earl of Devon , of Tiverton Castle , for whom during his minority he had acted as steward , and William Bonville , 1st Baron Bonville , of Shute . His murder in 1455 by the Earl 's faction ranks among the most notorious crimes of the century , and was the precursor of the Battle of Clyst Heath ( 1455 ) fought shortly thereafter near Exeter by the private armies of the two magnates . He served as a Justice of the Peace for Devon ( 1424-1455 ) , as Escheator for Devon and Cornwall ( 1435-6 ) , Recorder of Exeter ( 1442-1455 ) and as Tax Collector for Devon in 1450 and as Apprentice-at-law for the Duchy of Lancaster ( 1439-1455 ) .
Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset , which elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832 , and then one member from 1832 until 1868 , when the borough was abolished .
Devon was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Devon in England . It was represented by two Knights of the Shire , in the House of Commons of England until 1707 , then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 . Elections were held using the bloc vote system of elections . Under the Reform Act 1832 , it was split into two divisions , North Devon and South Devon , for the 1832 general election .
Sir Thomas Thorpe ( died 1461 ) was Speaker of the House of Commons in England from 8 March 1453 until 16 February 1454 . He worked as a clerk in the royal Exchequer , reaching a position of Third Baron of the Exchequer in 1452 . His parliamentary career began in October 1449 when he was elected junior knight of the shire ( MP ) of Northamptonshire with Thomas Tresham . He was later knight of the shire for Essex and was elected Speaker for the first part of the 19th Parliament of King Henry VI in 1453 . In 1454 he was imprisoned in the Fleet Prison for falsely confiscating property of the Duke of York and was replaced as Speaker by Sir Thomas Charlton , the House of Commons having failed to secure his release . In 1455 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer but his enemy the Duke of York accused him of intercepting messages to the King which might have prevented the Battle of St Albans and Thorpe was stripped of all his public offices . On his return to favour in 1457 he was made keeper of the privy wardrobe in the Tower of London for life and in 1458 was appointed Second Baron of the Exchequer , serving until 1460 . At the parliament of 1459 he gained his revenge on the Duke of York by helping to draw up the bill of attainder declaring York and his leading followers to be traitors . In 1460 he was captured after the Battle of Northampton and brought back to London as a prisoner and once more stripped of his offices . He escaped from prison , but was recaptured and sent to the Tower . He escaped a second time but on 17 February 1461 was caught in Harringay by a London mob and summarily beheaded . He had married Joan and was succeeded by his son and heir Roger .
William Chetwynd ( c. 1691-1744 ) , of Beddington , Surrey , was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1727 . Chetwynd was the second son of John Chetwynd of Ludlow , Shropshire and brother of Walter Chetwynd . He was probably educated at Eton College between 1706 and 1707 and was admitted at Queens College , Cambridge on 5 March 1708 . He was also admitted at Middle Temple in 1707 and called to the bar in 1714 . At the 1722 general election Chetwynd was returned as Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett , as a government supporter . He did not stand again at the 1727 general election . Chetwynd married . Lady Elizabeth Carew , widow of Sir Nicholas Carew , 1st Baronet of Beddington , and daughter of Nicholas Hackett of North Crawley , Buckinghamshire on 30 May 1728 . He died without issue on 24 July 1744 .
Robert Pakington ( c. 1489 - 13 November 1536 ) was a London merchant and Member of Parliament . He was murdered with a handgun in London in 1536 , likely the first such killing in the city . His murder was later interpreted as martyrdom , and recounted in John Foxe 's Acts and Monuments . He was the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I 's favourite , Sir John Lusty Pakington .
The City of London was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency . It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950 .
William Trewynnard ( by 1495 - 1549 ) , of Trewinnard , Cornwall , was an English politician . He was a Member ( MP ) of the Parliament of England for Helston in 1542 . He was robbed and his estates despoiled during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549 , when he was mortally wounded by rebels when trying to shelter at St Michael 's Mount .
The Prayer Book Rebellion , Prayer Book Revolt , Prayer Book Rising , Western Rising or Western Rebellion ( Cornish : Rebellyans an Lyver Pejadow Kebmyn ) was a popular revolt in Devon and Cornwall in 1549 . In that year , the Book of Common Prayer , presenting the theology of the English Reformation , was introduced . The change was widely unpopular - particularly in areas of still firmly Catholic religious loyalty ( even after the Act of Supremacy in 1534 ) such as Lancashire . Along with poor economic conditions , the enforcement of the English language liturgy led to an explosion of anger in Devon and Cornwall , initiating an uprising . In response , Edward Seymour , 1st Duke of Somerset sent Lord John Russell to suppress the revolt .
Sandwich was a parliamentary constituency in Kent , which elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons from 1366 until 1885 , when it was disfranchised for corruption .
Lewis ab Owen ( by 1522-1555 ) , of Plas-yn-dre , Dolgellau , Merioneth , was a Welsh politician . He was born the eldest son of Owen ap Hywel ap Llywelyn . He is presumed to have had some legal education as he was appointed Chamberlain and 1st Baron of the Exchequer for North Wales . He served as a J.P. for Merioneth from 1543 until his death and was appointed Sheriff of Merioneth for 1545 and 1554 . He was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Merioneth 1547 , March 1553 , April 1554 , and November 1554 . He was custos rotulorum for Merioneth from 1553 to his death . After carrying out a vicious campaign to put down the Red Bandits of Mawddwy ( some 80 were executed ) during his shrievalty in 1555 he was ambushed and killed on a return journey from Montgomeryshire . He had married Margaret , the daughter of Robert Puleston ; they had eight sons and four daughters .
Merioneth , sometimes called Merionethshire , was a constituency in North Wales established in 1542 , which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the English Parliament , and later to the Parliament of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom . It was abolished for the 1983 general election , when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy .
The Red Bandits of Mawddwy ( Welsh : Gwylliaid Cochion Mawddwy ) were a band of red-haired robbers , highwaymen or footpads from the area of Mawddwy in Mid Wales in the 16th century , who became famous in folk literature .
Northumberland , was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 . It was represented by two Members of Parliament . The constituency was split into two two-member divisions , for Parliamentary purposes , by the Reform Act of 1832 . The county was then represented by the Northumberland North and Northumberland South constituencies .
Edward Aglionby ( died 25 December 1599 ) was an English politician who was murdered .
Carlisle is a constituency [ n 1 ] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Stevenson of the Conservative Party . [ n 2 ]