Speaker of the House of Commons

Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
Peter de Montfort 	1258 	1258 	 	held title of Prolocutor.
Sir Peter de la Mare 	1376 	1376 	 	
Sir Thomas Hungerford 	1377 	1377 	 	first to be called "Speaker"
Sir Peter de la Mare 	1377 	1377 	 	
Sir James Pickering 	1378 	1378 	 	
Sir John Guildesborough 	1379 	1380 	 	
Sir Richard Waldegrave 	1381 	1382 	 	
Sir James Pickering 	1382 	1383 	 	
Sir John Bussy 	1393 	1398 	 	
Sir John Cheney 	1399 	1399 	 	
John Dorewood 	1399 	1399 	 	
Sir Arnold Savage 	1400 	1402 	 	
Sir Henry Redford 	1402 	1402 	 	
Sir Arnold Savage 	1403 	1404 	 	
Sir William Esturmy 	1404 	1404 	 	
Sir John Tiptoft 	1405 	1406 	 	
Thomas Chaucer 	1407 	1411 	 	
William Stourton 	1413 	1413 	 	
John Dorewood 	1413 	1413 	 	
Sir Walter Hungerford 	1414 	1414 	 	
Thomas Chaucer 	1414 	1415 	 	
Richard Redman 	1415 	1415 	 	
Sir Walter Beauchamp 	1415 	1416 	 	
Roger Flower 	1416 	1419 	 	
Roger Hunt 	1420 	1421 	 	
Thomas Chaucer 	1421 	1421 	 	
Richard Baynard 	1421 	1422 	 	
Sir John Russell 	1423 	1424 	 	
Sir Thomas Walton 	1425 	1425 	 	
Sir Richard Vernon 	1425 	1426 	 	
Sir John Tyrell 	1427 	1428 	 	
William Alington 	1429 	1430 	 	
Sir John Tyrell 	1430 	1431 	 	
Sir John Russell 	1432 	1432 	 	
Roger Hunt 	1433 	1433 	 	
John Bowes 	1435 	1435 	 	
Sir John Tyrell 	1436 	1436 	 	
William Burley 	1437 	1437 	 	
William Tresham 	1439 	1442 	 	
William Burley 	1444 	1445 	 	
William Tresham 	1446 	1447 	 	
Sir John Say 	1448 	1449 	 	
Sir John Popham 	1449 	1449 	 	
William Tresham 	1449 	1450 	 	
Sir William Oldhall 	1450 	1451 	 	
Thomas Thorpe 	1452 	1453 	 	
Sir Thomas Charlton 	1453 	1454 	 	
Sir John Wenlock 	1455 	1456 	 	
Sir Thomas Tresham 	1459 	1459 	 	
John Green 	1460 	1460 	 	
Sir James Strangeways 	1461 	1462 	 	
Sir John Say 	1463 	1468 	 	
William Alington 	1472 	1477 	 	
John Wood 	1482 	1483 	 	
William Catesby 	1483 	1484 	 	
Sir Thomas Lovell 	1485 	1486 	 	
Sir John Mordaunt 	1487 	1488 	 	
Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam 	1489 	1490 	 	
Sir Richard Empson 	1491 	1492 	 	
Sir Robert Drury 	1495 	1495 	 	
Sir Thomas Englefield 	19 January 1497 	1497 	 	
Edmond Dudley 	26 January 1504 	1504 	 	
Sir Thomas Englefield 	23 January 1510 	23 February 1510 	 	
Sir Robert Sheffield 	5 February 1512 	December 1513 	 	
Sir Thomas Nevill 	6 February 1515 	22 December 1515 	 	
Sir Thomas More 	16 April 1523 	13 August 1523 	 	
Sir Thomas Audley 	5 November 1529 	26 January 1533 	 	
Sir Humphrey Wingfield 	9 February 1533 	4 April 1536 	 	
Sir Richard Rich 	9 June 1536 	18 July 1536 	 	
Sir Nicholas Hare 	28 April 1539 	24 July 1540 	 	
Sir Thomas Moyle 	19 January 1542 	28 March 1544 	 	
Sir John Baker 	November 1545 	15 April 1552 	 	
Sir James Dyer 	2 March 1553 	31 March 1553 	 	
Sir John Pollard 	5 October 1553 	5 December 1553 	 	
Sir Robert Brooke 	2 April 1554 	5 May 1554 	 	
Sir Clement Heigham 	12 November 1554 	16 January 1555 	 	
Sir John Pollard 	21 October 1555 	9 December 1555 	 	
Sir William Cordell 	20 January 1558 	17 November 1558 	 	
Sir Thomas Gargrave 	25 January 1559 	8 May 1559 	 	
Thomas Williams 	12 January 1563 	10 April 1563 	 	
Richard Onslow 	1 October 1566 	2 January 1567 	 	
Sir Christopher Wray 	2 April 1571 	29 May 1571 	 	
Sir Robert Bell 	8 May 1572 	1576 	 	
Sir John Popham 	18 January 1581 	19 April 1583 	 	
Sir John Puckering 	23 November 1584 	14 September 1586	 	
Thomas Snagge 	4 February 1589 	29 March 1589 	 	
Sir Edward Coke 	19 February 1593 	10 April 1593 	 	
Sir Christopher Yelverton	24 October 1597 	9 February 1598 	 	
Sir John Croke 	27 October 1601 	19 December 1601 	 	
Sir Edward Phelips 	19 March  1604 	9 February 1611 	 	
Sir Randolph Crewe 	5 April 1614 	7 June 1614 	 	
Sir Thomas Richardson 	30 January 1621 	8 February 1622 	 	
Sir Thomas Crewe 	19 February 1624 	12 August 1625 	 	
Sir Heneage Finch 	6 February 1626 	15 June 1626 	 	
Sir John Finch 	17 March 1628 	10 March 1629 	 	
Sir John Glanville 	13 April 1640 	5 May 1640 	 	
William Lenthall 	3 November 1640 	26 July 1647 	 	
Henry Pelham 	30 July 1647 	5 August 1647 	 	
William Lenthall 	6 August 1647 	20 April 1653 	 	
Francis Rous 	5 July 1653 	12 December 1653 	 	
William Lenthall 	4 September 1654 	22 January 1655 	 	
Sir Thomas Widdrington 	17 September 1656	4 February 1658 	 	
Chaloner Chute 	27 January 1659 	9 March 1659 	 	
Sir Liselbone Long 	9 March 1659 	14 March 1659 	 	
Thomas Bampfylde 	16 March 1659 	22 April 1659 	 	
[[William Lenthall] 	7 May 1659 	13 January 1660 	 	
William Say 	13 January 1660 	21 January 1660 	 	
William Lenthall 	21 January 1660 	16 March 1660 	 	
Sir Harbottle Grimston 	25 April 1660 	29 December 1660 	 	
Sir Edward Turnour 	8 May 1661 	23 May 1671 	 	
Sir Job Charlton 	4 February 1673 	18 February 1673 	 	
Sir Edward Seymour 	18 February 1673 	11 April 1678 	 	
Sir Robert Sawyer 	11 April 1678 	6 May 1678 	 	
Sir Edward Seymour 	6 May 1678 	24 January 1679 	 	
Sir William Gregory 	15 March 1679 	12 July 1679 	 	
Sir William Williams 	21 October 1680 	28 March 1681 	 	
Sir John Trevor 	19 May 1685 	2 July 1687 	 	
Henry Powle 	22 January 1689 	6 February 1690 	Whig 	
Sir John Trevor 	20 March 1690 	14 March 1695 	Whig 	
Paul Foley 	14 March 695 	7 July 1698 	Tory 	
Sir Thomas Littleton 	6 December 1698 	19 December 1700 	Whig 	
Robert Harley 	10 February 1701 	5 April 1705 	Tory 	
John Smith 	25 October 1705 	13 April 1708 	Whig 	
Sir Richard Onslow 	16 November 1708 	21 September 1710	Whig 	
William Bromley 	25 November 1710 	8 August 1713 	Tory 	
Sir Thomas Hanmer 	16 February 1714 	15 January 1715 	Tory 	
Sir Spencer Compton 	17 March 1715 	5 August 1727 	Whig 	
Arthur Onslow 	23 January 1728 	20 March 1761 	Whig 	
Sir John Cust 	3 November 1761 	17 January 1770 	Tory 	
Sir Fletcher Norton 	22 January 1770 	1 September 1780 	Tory 	
Charles Cornwall 	31 October 1780 	2 January 1789 	Tory 	
William Grenville 	5 January 1789 	7 June 1789 	Tory 	
Henry Addington 	8 June 1789 	10 February 1801 	Tory 	
Sir John Mitford 	11 February 1801 	9 February 1802 	Tory 	
Charles Abbot 	10 February 1802 	2 June 1817 	Tory 	
Charles Manners-Sutton 	2 June 1817 	29 December 1834 	Tory 	
James Abercromby 	19 February 1835 	15 May 1839 	Whig 	
Charles Shaw-Lefevre 	27 May 1839 	21 March 1857 	Whig 	
John Evelyn Denison 	30 April 1857 	7 February 1872 	Liberal 	
Henry Brand 	9 February 1872 	25 February 1884 	Liberal 	
Arthur Peel 	26 February 1884 	9 April 1895 	Liberal 	
William Gully 	10 April 1895 	7 June 1905 	Liberal 	
James Lowther 	8 June 1905 	13 May 1921 	Conservative	
John Whitley 	1921 	1928 	Liberal 	
Edward Fitzroy 	1928 	1943 	Conservative	
Clifton Brown 	1943 	1951 	Conservative	
William Morrison 	1951 	1959 	Conservative	
Sir Harry Hylton-Foster 	1959 	1965 	Conservative	
Horace King 	1965 	1971 	Labour 	
Selwyn Lloyd 	1971 	1976 	Conservative	
George Thomas 	3 February 1976 	10 June 1983 	Labour 	
Bernard Weatherill 	11 June 1983 	9 April 1992 	Conservative	
Betty Boothroyd 	27 April 1992 	23 October 2000 	Labour 	
Michael Martin 	23 October 2000 	21 June 2009 	Labour 	
John Bercow 	22 June 2009 	current incumbent	Conservative