List of United Kingdom by-elections (1931 - 1950)
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This is a list of parliamentary by-election
s in the United Kingdom held between 1931 and 1950, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party
at the election, the result is highlighted: red for a Labour
gain, blue for a Conservative
gain, orange for a Liberal
gain, yellow for a SNP
gain and grey for any other gain.
Where the cause of by-election is given as "resignation" or "seeks re-election", this indicates that the incumbent was appointed on his or her own request to an "office of profit under the Crown", either the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Steward of the Manor of Northstead. These appointments are made as a constitutional device for leaving the House of Commons, whose Members are not permitted to resign.
38th Parliament
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!By-election !! Date !! Incumbent !! colspan=2 | Party !! Winner !! colspan=2 | Party !! Cause
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|Bradford South
|8 December 1949
|Meredith Titterington
|George Craddock
|Death
|-
|Leeds West
|21 July 1949
|Thomas Stamford
|Charles Pannell
|Death (suicide)
|-
|Sowerby
|16 March 1949
|John Belcher
|Douglas Houghton
|Resignation (scandal)
|-
|St Pancras North
|10 March 1949
|George House
|Kenneth Robinson
|Death
|-
|Hammersmith South
|24 February 1949
|William Thomas Adams
|Thomas Williams
|Death
|-
|Batley and Morley
|17 February 1949
|Hubert Beaumont
|Alfred Broughton
|Death
|-
|Glasgow Hillhead
|25 November 1948
|James Reid
|Thomas Galbraith
|Law Life Peerage on appointment as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
|-
|Edmonton
|13 November 1948
|Evan Durbin
|Austen Albu
|Death (drowned in swimming accident)
|-
|Stirling and Falkirk
|7 October 1948
|Joseph Westwood
|Malcolm Macpherson
|Death (road accident)
|-
|Glasgow Gorbals
|30 September 1948
|George Buchanan
|Alice Cullen
|Chairman of National Assistance Board
|-
|Southwark Central
|29 April 1948
|John Hanbury Martin
|Roy Jenkins
|Resignation
|-
|Brigg
|24 March 1948
|Thomas Williamson
|Lance Mallalieu
|Resignation
|-
|Croydon North
|11 March 1948
|Henry Willink
|Fred Harris
|Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
|-
|Armagh
|5 March 1948
|Sir William Allen
|James Harden
|Death (road accident)
|-
|Wigan
|4 March 1948
|William Foster
|Ronald Williams
|Death
|-
|Paisley
|18 February 1948
|Viscount Corvedale
|Douglas Johnston
|succession to the Peerage
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Glasgow Camlachie
|28 January 1948Campbell Stephen
was elected as an Independent Labour Party
MP in the 1945 general election
but moved to the Labour Party
in 1947, 4 days before his death. The seat was won by Labour in the 1950 general election
.
|Campbell Stephen
/Labour Party
|Charles Stuart McFarlane
|Death
|-
|Epsom
|4 December 1947
|Sir Archibald Southby
, Bt
|Malcolm McCorquodale
|Resignation
|-
|Howdenshire
|27 November 1947
|Clifford Glossop
|George Odey
|Resignation
|-
|Edinburgh East
|27 November 1947
|George Reid Thomson
|John Wheatley
|appointment as Lord Justice Clerk
|-
|Gravesend
|26 November 1947
|Garry Allighan
|Sir Richard Acland
|Expelled from the House (found to be in extreme contempt)
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|Islington West
|25 September 1947
|Frederick Montague
|Albert Evans
|Appointment to hereditary Peerage
|-
|Liverpool Edge Hill
|11 September 1947
|Richard Clitherow
|Arthur Irvine
|Death (overdose)
|-
|Jarrow
|7 May 1947
|Ellen Wilkinson
|Ernest Fernyhough
|Death (suicide)
|-
|Normanton
|11 February 1947
|Tom Smith
|George Sylvester
|Labour Director of North East Coal Board
|-
|Kilmarnock
|5 December 1946
|Clarice Shaw
|William Ross
|Resignation due to ill health
|-
|Aberdare
|5 December 1946
|George Hall
|David Thomas
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Combined Scottish Universities
|27 November 1946Constituency abolished in 1950.
|Sir John Boyd-Orr
|Walter Elliot
|Appointment as Chancellor
of the University of Glasgow
|-
|Aberdeen South
|26 November 1946
|Sir Douglas Thomson
|Lady Tweedsmuir
|Resignation
|-
|Paddington North
|20 November 1946
|Sir Noel Mason-Macfarlane
|William J. Field
|Resignation
|-
|Rotherhithe
|19 November 1946
|Sir Benjamin Smith
|Robert Mellish
|Chairman of West Midlands Coal Board
|-
|Glasgow Bridgeton
|29 August 1946
|James Maxton
|James Carmichael
|Death
|-
|Battersea North
|25 July 1946
|Francis Douglas
|Douglas Jay
|Governor of Malta
|-
|Pontypool
|23 July 1946
|Arthur Jenkins
|Daniel West
|Death
|-
|Bexley
|22 July 1946
|Janet Adamson
|Ashley Bramall
|Deputy Chairman of Assistance Board
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Down
|6 June 1946Down
was a two member constituency. Little was elected as an official Ulster Unionist
in the 1939 Down by-election. Prior to the 1945 general election
he resigned from the party in protest at being subject to a reselection due to the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh, the other official Unionist MP, and held his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist. Multi-member constituencies were abolished at the 1950 general election
, but the Ulster Unionists won both successor seats, North Down
and South Down
.
|James Little
Ulster Unionist
|C. H. Mullan
|Death
|-
|Ogmore
|4 June 1946
|Edward Williams
|John Evans
|Australian High Commissioner
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Combined English Universities
|18 March 1946
|Eleanor Rathbone
|Henry Strauss
|Death
|-
|Hemsworth
|22 February 1946The last uncontested by-election on the British mainland to date.
|George Griffiths
|Horace Holmes
|Death
|-
|Heywood and Radcliffe
|21 February 1946
|John Edmondson Whittaker
|Anthony Greenwood
|Death (suicide)
|-
|Glasgow Cathcart
|12 February 1946
|Francis Beattie
|John Henderson
|Death (road accident)
|-
|South Ayrshire
|7 February 1946
|Alexander Sloan
|Emrys Hughes
|Death
|-
|Preston
|31 January 1946
|John Sunderland
|Edward Shackleton
|Death
|-
|Tottenham North
|13 December 1945
|Robert Morrison
|William Irving
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
|-
|Kensington South
|20 November 1945
|Sir William Davison
|Richard Law
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
|-
|Bournemouth
|15 November 1945
|Sir Leonard Lyle
|Brendan Bracken
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
|-
|Bromley
|14 November 1945Both Pym and Campbell died after the close of polling, but before the declaration. They were returned at the head of the poll in their respective constituencies, and declared elected posthumously.
|Edward Campbell
|Harold Macmillan
|Death
|-
|City of London
|31 October 1945
|George Broadbridge
|Ralph Assheton
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
|-
|Monmouth
|31 October 1945
|Leslie Pym
|Peter Thorneycroft
|Death
|-
|Edinburgh East
|3 October 1945
|Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
|George Reid Thomson
|Elevated to hereditary Peerage
|-
|Ashton-under-Lyne
|2 October 1945
|Sir William Jowitt
|Hervey Rhodes
|Elevated to hereditary Peerage on Appointment as Lord Chancellor
|-
|Smethwick
|1 October 1945Dobbs was killed in a road accident the day after his election, making him the shortest-serving MP in British history.
|Alfred Dobbs
|Patrick Gordon Walker
|Death (road accident)
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37th Parliament
This Parliament's life was extended by annual Prolongation of Parliament Acts for the duration of the Second World War. By-elections continued to fill vacancies. An electoral truce was negotiated between the Conservative, Labour, Liberal, National Liberal and National Labour parties, and National independent
MPs that they would not contest by-elections which another party held (although there were a few occasions when a National party would step aside from a vacancy in favour of a National independent, usually a government minister). However many independents stood, including some party members who disagreed with the truce. The Common Wealth Party
was formed in part with a view to contesting wartime by-elections.
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!By-election !! Date !! Incumbent !! colspan=2 | Party !! Winner !! colspan=2 | Party !! Cause
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|Newport
|17 May 1945Gain not retained at the 1945 UK general election.
|Reginald Clarry
|Ronald Bell
|Death
|-
|Neath
|15 May 1945
|William Jenkins
|D. J. Williams
|Death
|-
|Middlesbrough West
|14 May 1945An uncontested election.
|Harcourt Johnstone
|Don Bennett
|Death
|-
|Caernarvon Boroughs
|26 April 1945Seaborne Davies
retained Caernarvon Boroughs for the Liberals in the by-election but lost the seat to the Conservatives in the 1945 general election.
|David Lloyd George
|Seaborne Davies
|Elevation to the Peerage
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Chelmsford
|26 April 1945In the 1945 general election Millington was the only successful Common Wealth candidate. He joined the Labour Party in April 1946.
|John Macnamara
|Ernest Millington
|Death (active service)
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Combined Scottish Universities
|13 April 1945The Combined Scottish Universities was a three-member constituency which experienced three by-elections in this Parliament, each won by a different party from both the others and the general election. In the 1935 general election
it elected two Conservative
and one National Liberal
MPs. One Conservative (Noel Skelton) died between polling and the declaration of the results and the resulting by-election was won by Ramsay MacDonald
for National Labour. He died within two years and the resultant by-election was won by Sir John Anderson
as a non-party supporter of the National Government. In 1945 the National Liberal member (George Alexander Morrison
) resigned and the resulting by-election was won by John Boyd-Orr as an Independent. Both Anderson and Boyd-Orr held their seats at the 1945 general election along with one Conservative.
|George Alexander Morrison
|John Boyd-Orr
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=FFFF66
|Motherwell
|12 April 1945
|James Walker
|Robert Douglas McIntyre
|Death (road accident)
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|Berwick-upon-Tweed
|17 October 1944
|George Charles Grey
|William Beveridge
|Death (active service)
|-
|Chelsea
|11 October 1944
|Samuel Hoare
|William Sidney
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Bilston
|20 September 1944
|Ian Hannah
|William Gibbons
|Death
|-
|Manchester Rusholme
|8 July 1944
|Edmund Radford
|Frederick Cundiff
|Death
|-
|Clay Cross
|14 April 1944
|George Ridley
|Harold Neal
|Death
|-
|Camberwell North
|30 March 1944
|Charles Ammon
|Cecil Manning
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Bury St Edmunds
|29 February 1944
|Frank Heilgers
|Edgar Keatinge
|Death (train crash)
|-
|Sheffield Attercliffe
|21 February 1944
|Cecil Henry Wilson
|John Burns Hynd
|Resignation (ill health)
|-
|Kirkcaldy Burghs
|17 February 1944
|Thomas Kennedy
|Thomas Hubbard
|Resignation (ill-health)
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|West Derbyshire
|17 February 1944Prior to the by-election White was the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate
for the constituency but resigned in order to contest the seat in defiance of the truce between the parties. In Parliament he took the Labour whip and retained the seat in the 1945 general election as an official Labour candidate.
|Henry Philip Hunloke
|Charles Frederick White
|Resignation
|-
|Brighton
|3 February 1944
|Sir Cooper Rawson
|William Teeling
|Resignation (ill-health)
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Skipton
|7 January 1944
|George William Rickards
|Hugh McDowall Lawson
|Death
|-
|Acton
|14 December 1943
|Hubert Duggan
|Henry Longhurst
|Death (active service)
|-
|Darwen
|12 December 1943
|Stuart Russell
|Stanley Prescott
|Death (active service)
|-
|Consett
|15 November 1943
|David Adams
|James Glanville
|Death
|-
|Woolwich West
|7 November 1943
|Kingsley Wood
|Francis Beech
|Death
|-
|Peterborough
|15 October 1943
|David Cecil
|John Hely-Hutchinson
|Appointment as Governor of Bermuda
|-
|St Albans
|5 October 1943
|Francis Edward Fremantle
|John Grimston
|Death
|-
|Chippenham
|24 August 1943
|Victor Cazalet
|David Eccles
|Death (active service)
|-
|Burton-on-Trent
|2 July 1943
|John Gretton
|John Frederic Gretton
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Birmingham Aston
|9 June 1943
|Edward Orlando Kellett
|Redvers Michael Prior
|Death (active service)
|-
|Newark
|8 June 1943
|William Cavendish-Bentinck
|Sidney Shephard
|Succession to the Peerage
|-
|The Hartlepools
|1 June 1943
|William George Howard Gritten
|Thomas George Greenwell
|Death
|-
|Daventry
|20 April 1943
|Edward Fitzroy
|Reginald Manningham-Buller
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Eddisbury
|7 April 1943Loverseed gained Eddisbury
for Common Wealth from the Conservatives in 1943, but subsequently sat as an independent Labour member then took the Labour Party whip. He defended the seat in the 1945 general election for Labour but lost to the National Liberals
.
|Richard John Russell
|John Eric Loverseed
|Death
|-
|Buckingham
|4 April 1943
|John Percival Whiteley
|Lionel Berry
|Death (active service)
|-
|Watford
|23 February 1943
|Dennis Herbert
|William Helmore
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Bristol Central
|18 February 1943
|Allen Apsley
|Violet Bathurst
|Death (active service)
|-
|Portsmouth North
|16 February 1943
|Sir Roger Keyes
|William Milbourne James
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|King's Lynn
|12 February 1943
|Somerset Maxwell
|Edmund Roche
|Death (active service)
|-
|Midlothian and Peeblesshire
|11 February 1943
|John Colville
|David King Murray
|Appointment as Governor of Bombay
|-
|Antrim
|11 February 1943
|Joseph McConnell
|John Dermot Campbell
|Death
|-
|Ashford
|10 February 1943
|Patrick Spens
|Edward Percy Smith
|Appointment as Chief Justice of India
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Belfast West
|9 February 1943Beattie won Belfast West
for the Northern Ireland Labour Party
but subsequently sat as an independent Labour member, under which label he held the seat in the 1945 general election.
|Alexander Crawford Browne
|Jack Beattie
|Death
|-
|University of Wales
|30 January 1943
|Ernest Evans
|William John Gruffydd
|Appointment as a County Court Judge
|-
|Hamilton
|29 January 1943
|Duncan Graham
|Thomas Fraser
|Death
|-
|Ince
|20 October 1942
|Gordon Macdonald
|Tom Brown
|Appointment as North-West Regional Fuel Controller
|-
|Manchester Clayton
|17 October 1942
|John Jagger
|Harry Thorneycroft
|Death (road accident)
|-
|Sheffield Park
|27 August 1942
|George Lathan
|Thomas William Burden
|Death
|-
|Poplar
|12 August 1942
|David Morgan Adams
|William Henry Guy
|Death
|-
|Whitechapel and St George's
|8 August 1942
|James Henry Hall
|Walter Edwards
|Death
|-
|Rothwell
|7 August 1942
|William Lunn
|T. J. Brooks
|Death
|-
|Spennymoor
|21 July 1942
|Joseph Batey
|James Dixon Murray
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Salisbury
|8 July 1942
|James Despencer-Robertson
|John Morrison
|Death
|-
|Windsor
|30 June 1942
|Annesley Somerville
|Charles Mott-Radclyffe
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Maldon
|25 June 1942In Parliament Driberg took the Labour whip and retained the seat in the 1945 general election as an official Labour candidate.
|Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise
|Tom Driberg
|Death
|-
|Llandaff and Barry
|10 June 19421
|Patrick Munro
|Cyril Lakin
|Death (active service)
|-
|Chichester
|25 May 1942
|John Courtauld
|Lancelot Joynson-Hicks
|Death
|-
|Putney
|8 May 1942
|Marcus Samuel
|Hugh Linstead
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Rugby
|29 April 1942Gain retained at the 1945 UK general election.
|David Margesson
|William John Brown
|Elevation to the peerage
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Wallasey
|29 April 1942
|John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon
|George Leonard Reakes
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Glasgow Cathcart
|29 April 1942
|John Train
|Francis Beattie
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Cardiff East
|13 April 1942Grigg was the newly appointed Secretary of State for War
and nominally took Cardiff East
from the Conservatives but lost it to Labour in the 1945 general election.
|Owen Temple-Morris
|Sir P. J. Grigg
|Appointment as a County Court Judge
|-
|Tavistock
|2 April 1942
|Mark Patrick
|Henry Studholme
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Grantham
|25 March 1942
|Victor Alexander Warrender
|William Denis Kendall
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Wigan
|11 March 1942
|John Parkinson
|William Foster
|Death
|-
|Newcastle-under-Lyme
|11 March 1942
|Josiah Wedgwood
|John Mack
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Manchester Gorton
|11 March 1942
|William Wedgwood Benn
|William Oldfield
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Nuneaton
|9 March 1942
|Reginald Fletcher
|Frank Bowles
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Keighley
|13 February 1942
|Hastings Lees-Smith
|Ivor Thomas
|Death
|-
|North East Derbyshire
|2 February 1942
|Frank Lee
|Henry White
|Death
|-
|Edinburgh Central
|11 December 1941
|James Guy
|Francis Watt
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Harrow
|2 December 1941
|Isidore Salmon
|Norman Bower
|Death
|-
|Hampstead
|27 November 1941
|George Balfour
|Charles Challen
|Death
|-
|Brighton
|15 November 1941
|Lord Erskine
|Anthony Marlowe
|Resignation
|-
|Lancaster
|15 October 1941
|Herwald Ramsbotham
|Fitzroy Maclean
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|The Wrekin
|26 September 1941
|James Baldwin-Webb
|William Colegate
|drowned when the liner City of Benares was torpedoed.
|-
|Scarborough and Whitby
|24 September 1941
|Paul Latham
|Alexander Spearman
|Resignation (scandal)
|-
|Berwick-upon-Tweed
|18 August 1941
|Hugh Seely
|George Charles Grey
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Pontefract
|24 July 1941
|Adam Hills
|Percy Gott Barstow
|Death
|-
|Dudley
|23 July 1941
|Dudley Joel
|Cyril Edward Lloyd
|Death (active service)
|-
|Edinburgh West
|12 July 1941
|Thomas Cooper
|Ian Clark Hutchison
|Appointed Lord Justice Clerk
|-
|Greenock
|10 July 1941
|Robert Gibson
|Hector McNeil
|Appointment as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
|-
|West Dorset
|21 June 1941
|Philip Colfox
|Simon Wingfield-Digby
|Resignation
|-
|Hornsey
|28 May 1941
|Euan Wallace
|David Gammans
|Death
|-
|King's Norton
|8 May 1941
|Ronald Cartland
|Arthur Peto
|Death (active service)
|-
|Mansfield
|22 April 1941
|Charles Brown
|Bernard Taylor
|Death
|-
|West Bromwich
|16 April 1941
|Frederick Owen Roberts
|John Dugdale
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Great Yarmouth
|8 April 1941
|Arthur Harbord
|Percy Jewson
|Death
|-
|Carmarthen
|26 March 1941
|Daniel Hopkin
|Ronw Hughes
|Appoitment as a Metropolitan Police Magistrate
|-
|Bodmin
|11 March 1941
|John Rathbone
|Beatrice Wright
|Death (active service)
|-
|Hitchin
|10 March 1941
|Arnold Wilson
|Seymour Berry
|Death (active service)
|-
|Dunbartonshire
|27 February 1941
|Thomas Cassells
|Adam McKinlay
|Appointment as Sheriff Substitute
|-
|Petersfield
|22 February 1941
|Reginald Dorman-Smith
|George Jeffreys
|Appointment as Governor of Burma
|-
|South Dorset
|22 February 1941
|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
|Victor Montagu
|Succession to the Peerage by writ of acceleration
|-
|Doncaster
|6 February 1941
|John Morgan
|Evelyn Walkden
|Death
|-
|Birmingham Edgbaston
|18 December 1940
|Neville Chamberlain
|Peter Bennett
|Death
|-
|Northampton
|6 December 1940
|Mervyn Manningham-Buller
|Gerard Summers
|Resignation
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Southampton
|27 November 1940Southampton
was a two-member constituency. In the 1935 general election
it elected one National Liberal
and one non-party supporter of the National Government. In February 1940 Sir John Reith
(the newly appointed Minister of Information) was elected unopposed to fill a National Liberal vacancy as a non-party supporter of the National Government. In November 1940 he was elevated to the peerage and in the resulting unopposed by-election his seat was regained by the National Liberals. In the 1945 general election both seats were won by the Labour Party
.
|Sir John Reith
|William Stanley Russell Thomas
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Aldershot
|26 November 1940
|Roundell Palmer
|Oliver Lyttelton
|Succession to the Peerage
|-
|Queen's University of Belfast
|2 November 1940
|Thomas Sinclair
|Douglas Lloyd Savory
|Resignation
|-
|Preston
|25 September 1940
|Adrian Moreing
|Randolph Churchill
|Death
|-
|Manchester Exchange
|21 September 1940
|Peter Eckersley
|Thomas Hewlett
|Death (active service)
|-
|Bolton
|13 September 1940
|John Haslam
|Edward Cadogan
|Death
|-
|Heywood and Radcliffe
|28 August 1940
|Richard Porritt
|James Wootton-Davies
|Death (active service)
|-
|Mitcham
|19 August 1940
|Richard Meller
|Malcolm Robertson
|Death
|-
|Middlesbrough West
|7 August 1940
|Frank Kingsley Griffith
|Harcourt Johnstone
|Appointment as a County Court Judge
|-
|Wansbeck
|29 July 1940
|Bernard Cruddas
|Robert Scott
|Resignation
|-
|Rochdale
|20 July 1940
|William Thomas Kelly
|Hyacinth Morgan
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Nottingham Central
|19 July 1940
|Terence O'Connor
|Frederick Sykes
|Death
|-
|Montrose Burghs
|5 July 1940
|Charles Kerr
|John Scott Maclay
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Newcastle West
|7 June 1940
|Joseph Leech
|William Nunn
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Bournemouth
|27 June 1940
|Henry Page Croft
|Leonard Lyle
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Wandsworth Central
|22 June 1940
|Harry Nathan
|Ernest Bevin
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Croydon North
|19 June 1940
|Glyn Mason
|Henry Willink
|Resignation
|-
|Bow and Bromley
|12 June 1940
|George Lansbury
|Charles Key
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Newcastle North
|7 June 1940Headlam was elected as the nominee of a breakaway Conservative Association who opposed the selection of the official candidate. In Parliament he took the Conservative whip and retained the seat as an official Conservative in the 1945 general election.
|Nicholas Grattan-Doyle
|Cuthbert Headlam
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Middleton and Prestwich
|1 June 1940
|Nairne Stewart Sandeman
|Ernest Gates
|Death
|-
|Spen Valley
|1 June 1940
|John Simon
|William Edward Woolley
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|East Renfrewshire
|9 May 1940
|Douglas Douglas-Hamilton
|Guy Lloyd
|Succession to the Peerage
|-
|Brighton
|9 May 1940
|George Tryon
|Lord Erskine
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Glasgow Pollok
|30 April 1940
|John Gilmour
|Thomas Galbraith
|Death
|-
|Battersea North
|17 April 1940
|William Sanders
|Francis Douglas
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Lonsdale
|12 April 1940
|David Lindsay
|Ian Fraser
|Succession to the Peerage
|-
|Argyll
|10 April 1940
|Frederick Macquisten
|Duncan McCallum
|Death
|-
|Leeds North East
|13 March 1940
|John Dearman Birchall
|John James Craik-Henderson
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|City of Chester
|7 March 1940
|Charles Cayzer
|Basil Nield
|Apparent Murder/Suicide
|-
|Kettering
|6 March 1940
|John Eastwood
|John Profumo
|Appointment as a Metropolitan Magistrate
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Cambridge University
|23 February 1940Cambridge University
was a two-member constituency. In the 1935 general election it elected two Conservative
MPs. Hill took one seat from the Conservatives as an Independent Conservative, but did not contest 1945 general election, in which the two seats were won by one Conservative and one Independent.
|John James Withers
|Archibald Vivian Hill
Conservative
|Death
|-
|Silvertown
|22 February 1940
|Jack Jones
|James Henry Hollins
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Southwark Central
|10 February 1940
|Harry Day
|John Hanbury Martin
|Death
|-
|Belfast East
|8 February 1940
|Herbert Dixon
|Henry Peirson Harland
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Swansea East
|5 February 1940
|David Williams
|David Mort
|Resignation (ill-health)
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|City of London
|5 February 1940The City of London
was a two member constituency. In the 1935 general election it elected two Conservative
MPs. In February 1940 Sir Andrew Duncan (the newly appointed President of the Board of Trade) was elected unopposed to fill one vacancy as a non-party supporter of the National Government. In the 1945 general election Duncan and a Conservative won the City's two seats.
|Alan Garrett Anderson
|Sir Andrew Duncan
|Resignation (pressure of work at the Wheat Commission)
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Southampton
|1 February 1940
|Sir C. C. Barrie
|Sir John Reith
|Resignation (to provide a seat for Sir John Reith)
|-
|Wells
|13 December 1939
|A. J. Muirhead
|D. C. Boles
|Death (suicide)
|-
|Stretford
|8 December 1939
|Anthony Crossley
|Ralph Etherton
|Death (air crash)
|-
|Streatham
|7 December 1939
|William Lane-Mitchell
|David Robertson
|Resignation (to make way for a younger candidate)
|-
|Macclesfield
|22 November 1939
|John Remer
|W. Garfield Weston
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Ashton-under-Lyne
|28 October 1939
|Fred Simpson
|William Jowitt
|Death
|-
|Ormskirk
|27 October 1939
|Samuel Rosbotham
|Stephen King-Hall
|Resignation (ill-health)
|-
|Clackmannanshire and East Stirlingshire
|13 October 1939
|Lauchlin MacNeill Weir
|Arthur Woodburn
|Death
|-
|High Peak
|7 October 1939
|Alfred Law
|High Molson
|Death
|-
|Fareham
|6 October 1939
|Sir Thomas Inskip
|Dymoke White
|Elevation to the peerage
|- bgcolor=pink
|Brecon and Radnor
|1 August 1939
|Ivor Grosvenor Guest
|William Jackson
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Colne Valley
|27 July 1939
|Ernest Marklew
|William Glenvil Hall
|Death
|-
|Monmouth
|25 July 1939
|John Arthur Herbert
|Leslie Pym
|Appointment as Governor of Bengal
|-
|Hythe
|20 July 1939
|Philip Sassoon
|Rupert Brabner
|Death
|-
|North Cornwall
|13 July 1939
|Francis Dyke Acland
|Tom Horabin
|Death
|-
|Portsmouth South
|12 July 1939
|Herbert Cayzer
|Jocelyn Lucas
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Caerphilly
|4 July 1939
|Morgan Jones
|Ness Edwards
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Kennington
|24 May 1939
|George Harvey
|John Charles Wilmot
|Death
|-
|Birmingham Aston
|17 May 1939
|Arthur Hope
|Edward Kellett
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Southwark North
|19 May 1939
|Edward Anthony Strauss
|George Alfred Isaacs
|Death
|-
|Westminster Abbey
|17 May 1939
|Sidney Herbert
|Harold Webbe
|Death
|-
|Sheffield Hallam
|10 May 1939
|Louis William Smith
|Roland Jennings
|Death
|-
|Down
|10 May 1939
|David Reid
|James Little
|Death
|-
|South Ayrshire
|20 April 1939
|James Brown
|Alexander Sloan
|Death
|-
|Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire
|30 March 1939
|Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
|Colin Thornton-Kemsley
|Resignation
|-
|Batley and Morley
|9 March 1939
|Willie Brooke
|Hubert Beaumont
|Death
|-
|Ripon
|23 February 1939
|John Waller Hills
|Christopher York
|Death
|-
|Holderness
|15 February 1939
|Samuel Savery
|Gurney Braithwaite
|Death
|-
|East Norfolk
|26 January 1939
|William Lygon
|Frank Medlicott
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Kinross and Western Perthshire
|21 December 1938The Duchess of Atholl
had resigned the National Government whip
over foreign policy and in November 1938 was deselected as a candidate by her local association. She decided to resign her seat and fight a by-election as an Independent in opposition to the policy of appeasement
. She lost the seat to the new Conservative candidate.
|The Duchess of Atholl
/Ind
Conservative
|William McNair Snadden
|Sought re-election in opposition to government foreign policy
|-
|Fylde
|30 November 1938
|Edward Stanley
|Claude Lancaster
|Death
|-
|Lewisham West
|24 November 1938
|Philip Dawson
|Henry Brooke
|Death
|-
|Doncaster
|17 November 1938
|Alfred Short
|John Morgan
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Bridgwater
|17 November 1938In 1942 Bartlett co-founded the Common Wealth Party
and served on its National Committee, but resigned two months later and reverted to being an Independent Progressive MP, retaining the seat in his original colours in the 1945 general election.
|Reginald Croom-Johnson
|Vernon Bartlett
Progressive
|Appointment as High Court
Judge
|-
|Walsall
|16 November 1938
|Joseph Leckie
|George Ernest Schuster
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Dartford
|7 November 1938The Dartford county constituency was divided in a mini redistribution in 1945 into two borough constituencies - Bexley
and Dartford
. Labour upheld its by-election gain in both constituencies with Adamson carrying the Bexley seat.
|Frank Edward Clarke
|Janet Laurel Adamson
|Death
|-
|Oxford
|27 October 1938
|Robert Croft Bourne
|Quintin Hogg
|Death
|-
|Willesden East
|28 July 1938
|Daniel Somerville
|Samuel Hammersley
|Death
|-
|Barnsley
|16 June 1938
|John Samuel Potts
|Frank Collindridge
|Death
|-
|Stafford
|9 June 1938
|William Ormsby-Gore
|Peter Thorneycroft
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|West Derbyshire
|2 June 1938
|Edward Cavendish
|Henry Hunloke
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Aylesbury
|19 May 1938
|Michael Wentworth Beaumont
|Stanley Reed
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Lichfield
|5 May 1938
|James Alexander Lovat-Fraser
|Cecil Charles Poole
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Fulham West
|6 April 1938
|Cyril Stephen Cobb
|Edith Summerskill
|Death
|-
|City of London
|6 April 1938
|Thomas Vansittart Bowater
|George Broadbridge
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Combined Scottish Universities
|25 February 1938
|Ramsay MacDonald
|Sir John Anderson
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Ipswich
|16 February 1938
|Francis Ganzoni
|Richard Stokes
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Pontypridd
|11 February 1938
|David Lewis Davies
|Arthur Pearson
|Death
|-
|Farnworth
|27 January 1938
|Guy Rowson
|George Tomlinson
|Death
|-
|Hastings
|24 November 1937
|Eustace Percy
|Maurice Hely-Hutchinson
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Islington North
|13 October 1937
|Albert William Goodman
|Leslie Haden Haden-Guest
|Death
|-
|Glasgow Springburn
|7 September 1937
|George Hardie
|Agnes Hardie
|Death
|-
|North Dorset
|13 July 1937
|Cecil Hanbury
|Angus Valdimar Hambro
|Death
|-
|Chertsey
|2 July 1937
|Archibald Boyd-Carpenter
|Arthur Marsden
|Death
|-
|Kingston-upon-Thames
|1 July 1937
|Frederick Penny
|Percy Royds
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|St Ives
|30 June 1937
|Walter Runciman
|Alec Beechman
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Ilford
|29 June 1937
|George Clements Hamilton
|George Hutchinson
|Resignation
|-
|Bewdley
|29 June 1937
|Stanley Baldwin
|Roger Conant
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Holland with Boston
|24 June 1937
|James Blindell
|Herbert Butcher
|Death
|-
|Hemel Hempstead
|22 June 1937
|John Davidson
|Frances Davidson
|Elevation to the peerage
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Cheltenham
|22 June 1937Lipson was elected as an Independent Conservative but in Parliament supported the National Government. He was re-elected in the 1945 general election as an independent supporter of Churchill's government.
|Walter Reuben Preston
|Daniel Leopold Lipson
Conservative
|Resignation
|-
|Plymouth Drake
|15 June 1937
|Frederick Guest
|Henry Guest
|Death
|-
|Buckingham
|11 June 1937
|George Bowyer
|John Percival Whiteley
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Glasgow Hillhead
|10 June 1937
|Robert Horne
|James Reid
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|York
|6 May 1937
|Lawrence Lumley
|Charles Wood
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Birmingham West
|29 April 1937
|Austen Chamberlain
|Walter Frank Higgs
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Wandsworth Central
|29 April 1937
|Henry Jackson
|Harry Louis Nathan
|Death
|-
|Stalybridge and Hyde
|28 April 1937
|Philip Russell Rendel Dunne
|Horace Trevor-Cox
|Resignation
|-
|Farnham
|23 March 1937
|Arthur Michael Samuel
|Godfrey Nicholson
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Tonbridge
|23 March 1937
|Herbert Henry Spender-Clay
|Adrian William Maxwell Baillie
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Combined English Universities
|22 March 1937The Combined English Universities
was a two-member constituency. In the 1935 general election it elected one Conservative
and one Independent
(Eleanor Rathbone
). Harvey took the seat from the Conservatives as an "Independent Progressive" but did not contest the 1945 general election which was won by two Independents (Rathbone and K.M. Lindsay).
|Reginald Henry Craddock
|Thomas Edmund Harvey
Progressive
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Oxford University
|27 February 1937
|Lord Hugh Cecil
|James Arthur Salter
|Appointment as Provost of Eton College
|-
|Richmond-upon-Thames
|25 February 1937
|William Ray
|George Steven Harvie-Watt
|Resignation
|-
|Manchester Gorton
|18 February 1937
|Joseph Compton
|William Wedgwood Benn
|Death
|-
|St Pancras North
|4 February 1937
|Ian Fraser
|Robert Grant-Ferris
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Greenock
|26 November 1936
|Godfrey Collins
|Robert Gibson
|Death
|-
|Preston
|25 November 1936
|William Kirkpatrick
|Edward Cobb
|Resignation
|-
|Clay Cross
|5 November 1936
|Alfred Holland
|George Ridley
|Death
|-
|Birmingham Erdington
|20 October 1936
|John Eales
|John Allan Cecil Wright
|Death
|-
|East Grinstead
|23 July 1936
|Henry Cautley
|Ralph Clarke
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Balham and Tooting
|23 July 1936
|Sir Alfred Butt, 1st Baronet
|George Frederick Doland
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Derby
|9 July 1936
|James Henry Thomas
|Philip Noel-Baker
|Resigned over budget leak
|-
|Lewes
|18 June 1936
|John de Vere Loder
|Tufton Beamish
|Elevation to the peerage
|- bgcolor=pink
|Peckham
|6 May 1936
|David Beatty
|Lewis Silkin
|Succession to peerage
|-
|Llanelli
|26 March 1936
|John Williams
|Jim Griffiths
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Dunbartonshire
|18 March 1936
|Archibald Douglas Cochrane
|Thomas Cassells
|Governor of Bermuda
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Ross and Cromarty
|10 February 1936
|Sir Ian Macpherson
|Malcolm MacDonald
|Peerage to provide seat for Dominions Secretary
Malcolm MacDonald
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Combined Scottish Universities
|31 January 1936
|Noel Skelton
|Ramsay MacDonald
|Death
|-
|colspan=9|
36th Parliament
|-
!By-election !! Date !! Incumbent !! colspan=2 | Party !! Winner !! colspan=2 | Party !! Cause
|-
|Dumfriesshire
|12 September 1935
|Joseph Hunter
/ National Liberal
|Henry Fildes
|Death
|-
|Sevenoaks
|20 July 1935
|Edward Young
|Charles Ponsonby
|Created Baron Kennet
|- bgcolor=pink
|Liverpool West Toxteth
|16 July 1935
|Clyde Tabor Wilson
|Joseph Gibbins
|Appointment as a Metropolitan Police Magistrate
|-
|Liverpool West Derby
|6 July 1935
|John Sandeman Allen
|David Maxwell Fyfe
|Death
|-
|City of London
|26 June 1935
|Edward Grenfell
|Alan Garrett Anderson
|Resigned, later created Baron St Just
|-
|Combined Scottish Universities
|17–22 June 1935
|John Buchan
|John Graham Kerr
|Appointed Governor General of Canada
|-
|Aberdeen South
|21 May 1935
|Sir Frederick Thomson
|Sir Douglas Thomson
|Death
|-
|Tamworth
|10 May 1935
|Sir Arthur Ramsay-Steel-Maitland
|John Serocold Paget Mellor
|Death
|-
|Edinburgh West
|2 May 1935
|Wilfrid Normand
|Thomas Mackay Cooper
|Appointed as Lord Justice General
|-
|Perth
|16 April 1935
|Lord Scone
|Francis Norie-Miller
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Eastbourne
|29 March 1935
|John Slater
|Charles Taylor
|Death
|-
|Lambeth Norwood
|14 March 1935
|Walter Greaves-Lord
|Duncan Sandys
|Resignation
|-
|Cambridge University
|23 February 1935
|Godfrey Wilson
|Kenneth Pickthorn
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Liverpool Wavertree
|6 February 1935
|Ronald Nall Nall-Cain
|Joseph Jackson Cleary
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Putney
|28 November 1934
|Samuel Samuel
|Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Swindon
|25 October 1934
|Reginald Mitchell Banks
|Christopher Addison
|Appointment as County Court Judge
|- bgcolor=pink
|Lambeth North
|23 October 1934
|Frank Briant
|George Russell Strauss
|Death
|-
|Rushcliffe
|26 July 1934
|Henry Betterton
|Ralph Assheton
|Resignation
|-
|Fermanagh and Tyrone
|27 June 1934
|Joseph Devlin
|Joseph Francis Stewart
|Death
|-
|Weston-super-Mare
|26 June 1934
|James Erskine
|Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing
|Resignation
|-
|Twickenham
|22 June 1934
|Hylton Murray-Philipson
|Alfred Critchley
|Death
|-
|Monmouth
|14 June 1934
|Leolin Forestier-Walker
|J. A. Herbert
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Merthyr
|5 June 1934
|Richard Wallhead
/ Labour
|Stephen Owen Davies
|Death
|-
|Hemsworth
|17 May 1934
|John Guest
|George Griffiths
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|West Ham Upton
|14 May 1934
|Alfred James Chotzner
|Benjamin Walter Gardiner
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Hammersmith North
|24 April 1934
|Mary Ada Pickford
|Fielding Reginald West
|Death
|-
|Basingstoke
|19 April 1934
|Gerard Wallop
|Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond Wolff
|Resignation
|-
|Combined Scottish Universities
|7–12 March 1934
|Dugald McCoig Cowan
|George Alexander Morrison
|Death
|-
|Portsmouth North
|19 February 1934
|Bertram Godfray
|Roger Keyes
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Lowestoft
|15 February 1934
|Gervais Rentoul
|Pierse Creagh Loftus
|Resignation
|-
|Cambridge
|8 February 1934
|George Newton
|Richard Tufnell
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Wentworth
|22 December 1933
|George Henry Hirst
|Wilfred Paling
|Death
|-
|Harborough
|28 November 1933
|Arthur Stuart
|Arthur Tree
|Resignation
|-
|Rutland and Stamford
|21 November 1933
|Neville Smith-Carington
|Gilbert Heathcote-
Drummond-Willoughby
|Death
|-
|Manchester Rusholme
|21 November 1933
|Frank Merriman
|Edmund Radford
|Appointment to High Court
|-
|Skipton
|7 November 1933
|Ernest Bird
|George Rickards
|Death
|-
|Kilmarnock
|2 November 1933
|Craigie Mason Aitchison
|Kenneth Martin Lindsay
|Appointment to Scottish bench
|- bgcolor=pink
|Fulham East
|25 October 1933
|Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan
|John Charles Wilmot
|Death
|-
|Clay Cross
|1 September 1933
|Charles Duncan
|Arthur Henderson
|Death
|-
|Altrincham
|14 June 1933
|Cyril Atkinson
|Edward Grigg
|Appointment to High Court
|-
|Hitchin
|8 June 1933
|Edward Lytton
|Arnold Wilson
|Death
|-
|Normanton
|8 May 1933
|Frederick Hall
|Tom Smith
|Death
|-
|Rhondda East
|28 March 1933
|David Watts-Morgan
|William Mainwaring
|Death
|-
|Ashford
|17 March 1933
|Michael Knatchbull
|Patrick Spens
|Succession to the peerage
|- bgcolor=pink
|Rotherham
|27 February 1933
|George Herbert
|William Dobbie
|Resignation
|-
|East Fife
|2 February 1933
|Sir James Millar
|James Henderson Stewart
|Death
|-
|Liverpool Exchange
|19 January 1933
|Sir James Reynolds
|John Joseph Shute
|Death
|-
|Cardiganshire
|22 September 1932
|Rhys Hopkin Morris
|David Owen Evans
|Appointment as a Metropolitan Police
magistrate
|-
|Twickenham
|16 September 1932
|John Ferguson
|Hylton Murray-Philipson
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Wednesbury
|26 July 1932
|William Humble Eric Ward
|John William Banfield
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|North Cornwall
|22 July 1932
|Donald Maclean
|Francis Dyke Acland
|Death
|-
|Westminster Abbey
|12 July 1932
|Otho Nicholson
|Sidney Herbert
|Resignation
|-
|Montrose
|28 June 1932
|Robert Hutchison
|Charles Kerr
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Dulwich
|8 June 1932
|Sir Frederick Hall
|Bracewell Smith
|Death
|-
|St Marylebone
|28 April 1932
|James Rennell Rodd
|Alec Cunningham-Reid
|Succession to the peerage
|-
|Eastbourne
|28 April 1932
|Edward Marjoribanks
|John Slater
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Wakefield
|21 April 1932
|George Brown Hillman
|Arthur Greenwood
|Death
|-
|Richmond-upon-Thames
|13 April 1932
|Newton James Moore
|William Ray
|Resignation
|-
|Dunbartonshire
|17 March 1932
|John Gibb Thom
|Archibald Cochrane
|Resignation
|-
|Henley
|25 February 1932
|Robert Henderson
|Sir Gifford Fox, Bt.
|Death
|-
|New Forest and Christchurch
|9 February 1932
|Walter Perkins
|Wilfrid Ashley
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Croydon South
|9 February 1932
|William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson
|Herbert Williams
|Resignation
|-
|colspan=9|
|}
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(1945–1950)
|-!By-election !! Date !! Incumbent !! colspan=2 | Party !! Winner !! colspan=2 | Party !! Cause
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|Bradford South
Bradford South by-election, 1949
A by-election for the constituency of Bradford South in the United Kingdom House of Commons was held on December 8, 1949. The by-election was caused by the death of sitting MP Meredith Titterington.-Result:-References:...
|8 December 1949
|Meredith Titterington
Meredith Titterington
Meredith Farrer Titterington was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Bradford South at the 1945 general election, but died in office in 1949, aged 63....
|George Craddock
George Craddock
George Craddock was a British Labour politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Bradford South at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the 1970 general election. He should not be confused with Sir George Beresford Craddock who served as a Conservative MP at around the...
|Death
|-
|Leeds West
|21 July 1949
|Thomas Stamford
Thomas William Stamford
Thomas William Stamford was a British politician. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds West from 1923 to 1931, and from 1945 to 1949.- External links :...
|Charles Pannell
Charles Pannell
Charles Pannell, Baron Pannell was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Leeds West at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the February 1974 general election....
|Death (suicide)
|-
|Sowerby
|16 March 1949
|John Belcher
John Belcher (politician)
John William Belcher was a British Labour Party politician, the first to resign in disgrace over a political scandal.-Political career:...
|Douglas Houghton
|Resignation (scandal)
|-
|St Pancras North
|10 March 1949
|George House
George House (British politician)
George House was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for St Pancras North, but died in office less than four years later, aged 56.- External links :...
|Kenneth Robinson
Kenneth Robinson
Sir Kenneth Robinson PC was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.-Early life:The son of Dr Clarence Robinson and a nurse, Ethel...
|Death
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|Hammersmith South
|24 February 1949
|William Thomas Adams
William Thomas Adams
William Thomas Adams was a British Labour Co-operative politician in London who served as a Member of Parliament for the last four years of his life....
|Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams (UK politician)
Sir Thomas Williams, QC was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Williams was educated at University College, Cardiff and St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He was President of the South Wales University Students' Union in 1939. He was a Baptist minister and a chaplain with the Royal Air Force...
|Death
|-
|Batley and Morley
|17 February 1949
|Hubert Beaumont
Hubert Beaumont (Labour politician)
Captain Hubert Beaumont was a Co-operative official and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament and served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.-Working life:...
|Alfred Broughton
Alfred Broughton
Sir Alfred Davies Devonsher Broughton was a British Labour Party politician.Broughton was educated at Rossall School, Downing College, Cambridge and the London Hospital and became a doctor, a member of a family who had been Batley doctors for 70 years. During World War II he worked in civil...
|Death
|-
|Glasgow Hillhead
|25 November 1948
|James Reid
James Reid, Baron Reid
James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, CH, KC FRSE was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century....
|Thomas Galbraith
Tam Galbraith
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|Law Life Peerage on appointment as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
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|Edmonton
|13 November 1948
|Evan Durbin
Evan Durbin
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|Austen Albu
Austen Albu
Austen Harry Albu was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Edmonton. He first won the seat at a by-election in 1948, and held it until his retirement at the February 1974 general election...
|Death (drowned in swimming accident)
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|Stirling and Falkirk
|7 October 1948
|Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Buckhaven Higher Grade School, he worked as a draper's apprentice, messenger boy and miner...
|Malcolm Macpherson
Malcolm MacPherson
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|Death (road accident)
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|Glasgow Gorbals
|30 September 1948
|George Buchanan
George Buchanan (politician)
George Buchanan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party .Buchanan was vice-chairman of Glasgow Trades Council and sat on the city council from 1919 to 1923...
|Alice Cullen
|Chairman of National Assistance Board
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|Southwark Central
|29 April 1948
|John Hanbury Martin
John Hanbury Martin
John Hanbury Martin was a British Labour politician.In 1934, he married Avice Blanaid Trench, daughter of Herbert Trench, but they were divorced in 1938....
|Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...
|Resignation
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|Brigg
Brigg by-election, 1948
The Brigg by-election, 1948 was a by-election held on 24th March 1948 for the British House of Commons constituency of Brigg in Lincolnshire.The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the constituency's Labour Party Member of Parliament Tom Williamson, a trade union leader who had held...
|24 March 1948
|Thomas Williamson
Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson
Thomas "Tom" Williamson, Baron Williamson CBE was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....
|Lance Mallalieu
Lance Mallalieu
Sir Edward Lancelot Mallalieu , known as Lance Mallalieu, was a British politician.Lancelot Mallalieu attended the Dragon School in Oxford....
|Resignation
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|Croydon North
Croydon North by-election, 1948
The Croydon North by-election, 1948 was a parliamentary by-election held in the British House of Commons constituency of Croydon North on 11 March 1948...
|11 March 1948
|Henry Willink
Henry Willink
Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet PC, MC, KC , was a British politician and public servant.He is best known for his service in the Conservative Party as Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government of the United Kingdom...
|Fred Harris
|Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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|Armagh
Armagh by-election, 1948
The Armagh by-election was held on 5 March 1948, following the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament William Allen.Allen had held the seat of Armagh since its recreation for the 1922 UK general election...
|5 March 1948
|Sir William Allen
|James Harden
James Harden (politician)
Major James Richard Edwards Harden DSO MC , known as Richard Harden, was a Northern Irish politician...
|Death (road accident)
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|Wigan
|4 March 1948
|William Foster
William Foster (UK politician)
William Foster was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Wigan in a by-election in 1942, following the death of sitting Labour MP John Parkinson....
|Ronald Williams
|Death
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|Paisley
Paisley by-election, 1948
The Paisley by-election, 1948 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 February 1948 for the British House of Commons constituency of Paisley in Scotland....
|18 February 1948
|Viscount Corvedale
Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley , known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British politician who had a quixotic career at political odds to his father, three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.Baldwin was educated at Eton College, and grew up in the shadow of his...
|Douglas Johnston
Douglas Johnston, Lord Johnston
Douglas Harold Johnston TD was a Scottish Advocate, politician and Judge. He served as a Minister in the government of Clement Attlee and ended his career as a Senator of the College of Justice...
|succession to the Peerage
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|Glasgow Camlachie
Glasgow Camlachie by-election, 1948
The Glasgow Camlachie by-election was held on 28 January 1948, following the death of Member of Parliament for Glasgow Camlachie Campbell Stephen....
|28 January 1948Campbell Stephen
Campbell Stephen
Rev Campbell Stephen MA BD BSc was a Scottish socialist politician.A native of Bower parish, Caithness, he was educated at Townhead Public School, Allan Glen's School and Glasgow University....
was elected as an Independent Labour Party
Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932, when it voted to leave...
MP in the 1945 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1945
The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...
but moved to the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
in 1947, 4 days before his death. The seat was won by Labour in the 1950 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1950
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...
.
|Campbell Stephen
Campbell Stephen
Rev Campbell Stephen MA BD BSc was a Scottish socialist politician.A native of Bower parish, Caithness, he was educated at Townhead Public School, Allan Glen's School and Glasgow University....
/Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
|Charles Stuart McFarlane
Charles Stuart McFarlane
Charles Stuart McFarlane was Unionist Party MP for Glasgow Camlachie .He won it at the Glasgow Camlachie by-election, 1948, but lost it at the subsequent general election in 1950...
|Death
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|Epsom
Epsom by-election, 1947
The Epsom by-election, 1947 was a by-election held on 4 December 1947 to fill the vacant British House of Commons seat of Epsom. The vacancy arose when the sitting Member of Parliament , Archibals Southby resigned from the House of Commons.-Results:...
|4 December 1947
|Sir Archibald Southby
Sir Archibald Southby, 1st Baronet
Commander Sir Archibald Richard James Southby, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative Party politician.He served in the Royal Navy and, in the period following the First World War, took part in the demilitarization of Heligoland...
, Bt
|Malcolm McCorquodale
Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale
Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
|Resignation
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|Howdenshire
|27 November 1947
|Clifford Glossop
Clifford Glossop
Clifford William Hudson Glossop , the son of William Glossop and his wife, Ida Muriel Hudson, was educated at Stanmore Park School and Harrow School....
|George Odey
George Odey
George William Odey CBE was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1947 to 1955.He was elected as MP for the Howdenshire constituency at a by-election in 1947...
|Resignation
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|Edinburgh East
|27 November 1947
|George Reid Thomson
George Reid Thomson
George Reid Thomson, Lord Thomson was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at the South African College, Cape Town, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was a Captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in World War I....
|John Wheatley
John Wheatley
John Wheatley was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era.Wheatley was born in Bonmahon, County Waterford, Ireland, to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley. In 1876 the family moved to Braehead, Lanarkshire in Scotland...
|appointment as Lord Justice Clerk
Lord Justice Clerk
The Lord Justice Clerk is the second most senior judge in Scotland, after the Lord President of the Court of Session.The holder has the title in both the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary and is in charge of the Second Division of Judges in the Court of Session...
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|Gravesend
Gravesend by-election, 1947
The Gravesend by-election, 1947 was a by-election held on 26 November 1947 to fill the vacant British House of Commons seat of Gravesend. The vacancy arose when the sitting Member of Parliament , Garry Allighan, was expelled from the House for making allegations of corruption.The seat was...
|26 November 1947
|Garry Allighan
Garry Allighan
Garry Allighan was a British journalist and Labour Party Member of Parliament . His birth name was Ernest Alligan...
|Sir Richard Acland
Richard Acland
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party. He had previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament and joined the Labour Party in 1945...
|Expelled from the House (found to be in extreme contempt)
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|Islington West
|25 September 1947
|Frederick Montague
|Albert Evans
Albert Evans
Albert Evans , was a British Labour Party politician.A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936...
|Appointment to hereditary Peerage
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|Liverpool Edge Hill
Liverpool Edge Hill by-election, 1947
The Liverpool Edge Hill by-election, 1947 was a parliamentary by-election held in England to elect a new Member of Parliament for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill on 11 September 1947...
|11 September 1947
|Richard Clitherow
Richard Clitherow
Richard Clitherow was a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Edge Hill at the 1945 general election, but died in office in 1947, aged 45. After his death, the by-election for his seat was won by Labour's Arthur Irvine.- External links :...
|Arthur Irvine
Arthur Irvine
Sir Arthur James Irvine, QC was a British politician.Irvine was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union in 1932. He became a barrister in 1935, when he was called by Middle Temple, and became secretary to the Lord Chief Justice 1935-40...
|Death (overdose)
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|Jarrow
|7 May 1947
|Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...
|Ernest Fernyhough
Ernest Fernyhough
Ernest Fernyhough was a British Labour Party politician.Fernyhough worked for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1936....
|Death (suicide)
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|Normanton
Normanton by-election, 1947
The Normanton by-election, 1947 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Normanton on 11 February 1947. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament Tom Smith had resigned, take up the post of Labour Director of the North-Eastern...
|11 February 1947
|Tom Smith
Tom Smith (Labour politician)
Tom Smith was a Labour Party politician in England.At the 1922 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the previously Liberal-held seat of Pontefract in West Yorkshire. He was re-elected at the 1923 election, but at the 1924 general election he lost his seat by 701 votes to...
|George Sylvester
George Sylvester
George Oscar Sylvester was a Labour Party politician in England.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Normanton in West Yorkshire at a by-election in 1947 following the resignation of the Labour MP Tom Smith.At the 1950 general election, he was returned for the neighbouring Pontefract...
|Labour Director of North East Coal Board
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|Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock by-election, 1946
The Kilmarnock by-election, 1946 was a by-election held on 5 December 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire.- Vacancy :...
|5 December 1946
|Clarice Shaw
Clarice Shaw
Clarice Marion McNab Shaw was a Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom....
|William Ross
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock
William 'Willie' Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock MBE was the longest serving Secretary of State for Scotland, holding office from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976, throughout the Prime Ministership of Harold Wilson....
|Resignation due to ill health
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|Aberdare
Aberdare by-election, 1946
The Aberdare by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 December 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Aberdare in Wales. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament George Hall had been created Viscount Hall on 28 October 1946. Hall had held...
|5 December 1946
|George Hall
|David Thomas
David Thomas (British politician)
David Emlyn Thomas was a British politician. He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1946 to 1954.-Early life:...
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Combined Scottish Universities
Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1946
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1946 was a by-election held from 22 November to 27 November 1946 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons....
|27 November 1946Constituency abolished in 1950.
|Sir John Boyd-Orr
|Walter Elliot
|Appointment as Chancellor
Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
The Chancellor is the titular head of the University of Glasgow and President of the General Council, by whom he is elected. The office is intended to be held for life. His principal duty is to confer degrees upon those presented to him by the Senate, although this role is usually carried out by...
of the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
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|Aberdeen South
|26 November 1946
|Sir Douglas Thomson
Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet
Sir Douglas Wishart Thomson, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish Unionist politician.Thomson was the son of Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet and was educated at Oxford University...
|Lady Tweedsmuir
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir and Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC was a Unionist and Conservative politician....
|Resignation
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|Paddington North
|20 November 1946
|Sir Noel Mason-Macfarlane
Noel Mason-Macfarlane
Lieutenant General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, KCB, DSO, MC was a British soldier, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during World War II.-Military career:...
|William J. Field
William J. Field
William James Field was a British politician who found his career ruined by a conviction for "importuning for immoral purposes" in the 1950s. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Paddington North from 1946 to 1953....
|Resignation
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|Rotherhithe
|19 November 1946
|Sir Benjamin Smith
Ben Smith (British Labour politician)
Sir Benjamin Smith, PC was a Labour Party politician in England. A driver of one of London's first taxicabs, he was Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe from 1923 until 1931 and from 1935 until 1946...
|Robert Mellish
|Chairman of West Midlands Coal Board
|-
|Glasgow Bridgeton
Glasgow Bridgeton by-election, 1946
The Glasgow Bridgeton by-election was held on 29 August 1946, following the death of Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton, James Maxton.The constituency had been held by Maxton since the 1922 UK general election...
|29 August 1946
|James Maxton
James Maxton
James Maxton was a Scottish socialist politician, and leader of the Independent Labour Party. A prominent proponent of Home Rule for Scotland, he is remembered as one of the leading figures of the Red Clydeside era.-Early years:...
|James Carmichael
|Death
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|Battersea North
Battersea North by-election, 1946
The Battersea North by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 July 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Battersea North in the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea....
|25 July 1946
|Francis Douglas
Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch
Francis Campbell Ross Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch KCMG , was a British journalist, solicitor and Labour Party politician....
|Douglas Jay
Douglas Jay, Baron Jay
Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, Jay became a Fellow of All Souls between 1930 and 1937...
|Governor of Malta
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|Pontypool
|23 July 1946
|Arthur Jenkins
Arthur Jenkins (politician)
Arthur Jenkins was a Welsh trade unionist and Labour Party politician.Jenkins was a coal miner's agent who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Ruskin College, Oxford, before becoming Vice-President of the South Wales Miners Federation...
|Daniel West
|Death
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|Bexley
|22 July 1946
|Janet Adamson
Janet Adamson
Janet Laurel Adamson was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Janet "Jennie" Adamson was originally elected as the Member of Parliament for Dartford in a by-election in 1938. In the 1945 general election, after boundary changes, Adamson was elected MP for Bexley...
|Ashley Bramall
Ashley Bramall
Sir Ashley Bramall was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Bexley from 1946 to 1950 and Leader of the Inner London Education Authority for 11 years.-Family and early career:...
|Deputy Chairman of Assistance Board
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|Down
Down by-election, 1946
The Down by-election was held on 6 June 1946, following the death of James Little, the independent Unionist Member of Parliament for Down.The Down constituency elected two members...
|6 June 1946Down
Down (UK Parliament constituency)
Down was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. It was a two member constituency and existed in two periods, 1801-1885 and 1922-1950.-Boundaries:1801-1885: The whole of County Down, excluding the Boroughs of Downpatrick and Newry....
was a two member constituency. Little was elected as an official Ulster Unionist
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
in the 1939 Down by-election. Prior to the 1945 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1945
The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...
he resigned from the party in protest at being subject to a reselection due to the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh, the other official Unionist MP, and held his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist. Multi-member constituencies were abolished at the 1950 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1950
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...
, but the Ulster Unionists won both successor seats, North Down
North Down (UK Parliament constituency)
North Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Sylvia Hermon, elected as an Independent in the 2010 General Election. -Boundaries:The county constituency was first created in 1885 from the northern part of Down...
and South Down
South Down (UK Parliament constituency)
South Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.-Boundaries:The county constituency was first created in 1885 from the southern part of Down...
.
|James Little
Ulster Unionist
|C. H. Mullan
|Death
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|Ogmore
Ogmore by-election, 1946
The Ogmore by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 4 June 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Ogmore in Wales.- Previous MP :...
|4 June 1946
|Edward Williams
Edward Williams (UK politician)
Edward John Williams, generally known as Ted Williams was a British Labour Party politician and diplomat.After elementary school he went into the mines aged 12. Keen to educate himself, he rose to become secretary to a colliery company and in 1913 entered the Labour College in London as a student...
|John Evans
John Evans (Welsh politician)
John Evans was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Ogmore at a by-election in 1946, but stood down at the 1950 general election.- References :...
|Australian High Commissioner
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Combined English Universities
Combined English Universities by-election, 1946
The Combined English Universities by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 March 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Combined English Universities....
|18 March 1946
|Eleanor Rathbone
Eleanor Rathbone
Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.-Life:...
|Henry Strauss
|Death
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|Hemsworth
Hemsworth by-election, 1946
The Hemsworth by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the British House of Commons constituency of Hemsworth on 22 February 1946. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament George Griffiths, who had held the seat since a 1934...
|22 February 1946The last uncontested by-election on the British mainland to date.
|George Griffiths
George Griffiths
George Arthur Griffiths was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth at a by-election in 1934 following the death of the sitting MP Gabriel Price. Griffiths held the seat at the next two general elections, and died in office in...
|Horace Holmes
Horace Holmes
Horace Edwin Holmes was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth at a by-election in 1946 following the death of the sitting MP George Griffiths. Holmes held the seat at the next three general elections, and stood down at the 1959 general...
|Death
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|Heywood and Radcliffe
|21 February 1946
|John Edmondson Whittaker
John Edmondson Whittaker
John Edmondson Whittaker was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.John Whittaker was born in Burnley in 1897. After working as a weaver in a cotton mill as a boy, Whittaker was educated at Burnley Municipal College and Sarisbury Court Church of England Teachers Training College,...
|Anthony Greenwood
|Death (suicide)
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|Glasgow Cathcart
|12 February 1946
|Francis Beattie
Francis Beattie
Francis Beattie was Unionist Party MP for Glasgow Cathcart . Beattie won it at a by-election in 1942, and was re-elected in 1945, but he was killed in a road accident later that year....
|John Henderson
John Henderson (Scottish politician)
Sir John Henderson DL JP was a Scottish Conservative party politician.The son of John Henderson and Ellen Shiels, Henderson was educated at the Martyrs' Public School, Glasgow....
|Death (road accident)
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|South Ayrshire
|7 February 1946
|Alexander Sloan
Alexander Sloan
Alexander Sloan was Labour MP for South Ayrshire, in Scotland, until his death.His successor was Emrys Hughes.His great-great-granddaughter, Katy Clark, is also a Labour MP.-References:...
|Emrys Hughes
Emrys Hughes
Emrys Hughes was a Welsh Labour politician, best known for being the biographer and son-in-law of Keir Hardie, the Scottish Labour politician.Hughes was born in Tonypandy, Wales, the son of the Reverend J. R. Hughes...
|Death
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|Preston
Preston by-election, 1946
The Preston by-election, 1946 was a parliamentary by-election held on 31 January 1946 for the British House of Commons constituency of Preston in Lancashire. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament John Sunderland had died on 24 November 1945...
|31 January 1946
|John Sunderland
John William Sunderland
John William Sunderland was an English Labour Party politician.After serving in the First World War, Sunderland became Secretary of the Todmorden Weavers Association, and a member of Lancashire County Council, serving as group leader.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Preston at the July...
|Edward Shackleton
|Death
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|Tottenham North
Tottenham North by-election, 1945
The Tottenham North by-election, 1945 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Tottenham North in London on 13 December 1945.- Vacancy :...
|13 December 1945
|Robert Morrison
Robert Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison
Robert Craigmyle Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Born in Aberdeen, he was the son of James Morrison. He originally worked as a schoolmaster in the Middlesex suburbs of North London...
|William Irving
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
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|Kensington South
|20 November 1945
|Sir William Davison
William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane
William Henry Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane KBE FSA JP DL was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament for Kensington South for twenty-four years....
|Richard Law
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine
Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC was a British Conservative politician. He was the youngest son of former Conservative Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law and his wife Annie. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St...
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
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|Bournemouth
|15 November 1945
|Sir Leonard Lyle
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.He was born in London, the only son of Charles Lyle and his wife, Mary, née Brown...
|Brendan Bracken
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
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|Bromley
|14 November 1945Both Pym and Campbell died after the close of polling, but before the declaration. They were returned at the head of the poll in their respective constituencies, and declared elected posthumously.
|Edward Campbell
Sir Edward Campbell, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Taswell Campbell, 1st Baronet, of Airds, JP, MP was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Ancestry:...
|Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....
|Death
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|City of London
|31 October 1945
|George Broadbridge
George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge
George Thomas Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge KCVO FRGS FCIS was a British Conservative Party politician, most prominently in the City of London....
|Ralph Assheton
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC was a British Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955.In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of...
|Elevation to hereditary Peerage
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|Monmouth
Monmouth by-election, 1945
The Monmouth by-election, 1945 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth in Wales on 30 October 1945...
|31 October 1945
|Leslie Pym
Leslie Pym
Leslie Ruthven Pym was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Monmouth in Wales at a by-election in 1939. He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until his death during the 1945 general election. Polling took place on 5...
|Peter Thorneycroft
Peter Thorneycroft
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft CH, PC , was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.-Biography:...
|Death
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|Edinburgh East
|3 October 1945
|Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
|George Reid Thomson
George Reid Thomson
George Reid Thomson, Lord Thomson was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at the South African College, Cape Town, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was a Captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in World War I....
|Elevated to hereditary Peerage
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|Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, 1945
The Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, 1945 was a by-election held on 2 October 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne....
|2 October 1945
|Sir William Jowitt
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...
|Hervey Rhodes
Hervey Rhodes
Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, KG, DFC, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Rhodes was educated at St Mary's School, Greenfield, then at Huddersfield Technical College...
|Elevated to hereditary Peerage on Appointment as Lord Chancellor
|-
|Smethwick
Smethwick by-election, 1945
The Smethwick by-election, 1945 was a by-election held on 1 October 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire ....
|1 October 1945Dobbs was killed in a road accident the day after his election, making him the shortest-serving MP in British history.
|Alfred Dobbs
Alfred Dobbs
Alfred James Dobbs was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He is most notable for being the Member of Parliament who served the shortest term, since the Second World War — just one day....
|Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker CH, PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet minister...
|Death (road accident)
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|colspan=9|
37th ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1935This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1935 general election, held on 14 November 1935...
(1935–1945)
This Parliament's life was extended by annual Prolongation of Parliament Acts for the duration of the Second World War. By-elections continued to fill vacancies. An electoral truce was negotiated between the Conservative, Labour, Liberal, National Liberal and National Labour parties, and National independentIndependent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
MPs that they would not contest by-elections which another party held (although there were a few occasions when a National party would step aside from a vacancy in favour of a National independent, usually a government minister). However many independents stood, including some party members who disagreed with the truce. The Common Wealth Party
Common Wealth Party
The Common Wealth Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Thereafter, it continued in being, essentially as a pressure group, until 1993.-The war years:...
was formed in part with a view to contesting wartime by-elections.
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|Newport
Newport by-election, 1945
The Newport by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 May 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Newport in Monmouthshire. It was the last by-election of the 1935-1945 Parliament....
|17 May 1945Gain not retained at the 1945 UK general election.
|Reginald Clarry
Reginald Clarry
Sir Reginald George Clarry, , was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, representing the Newport constituency in Monmouthshire from 1922 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1945....
|Ronald Bell
Ronald Bell (UK politician)
Sir Ronald McMillan Bell, , QC , Knight Bachelor , was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom representing South Buckinghamshire from 1950 to 1974 and Beaconsfield from 1974 to 1982.-Family and education:The younger son of John Bell, Ronald was educated at Cardiff High...
|Death
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|Neath
Neath by-election, 1945
The Neath by-election, 1945, was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in South Wales.Neath was considered a safe seat for the Labour Party and had been held by William Jenkins since the 1922 UK general election. No other candidate had stood in...
|15 May 1945
|William Jenkins
William Jenkins (British politician)
Sir William Jenkins was a British Labour politician and trade union leader.Jenkins was the son of a coal miner and attended Glyncorrwg National School before taking up work on the railways at the age of 11½...
|D. J. Williams
D. J. Williams (politician)
David James Williams was a British miner and checkweighman who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament .-Coal mining career:...
|Death
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|Middlesbrough West
Middlesbrough West by-election, 1945
The Middlesbrough West by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election held on 14 May 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough West.- Previous MP :...
|14 May 1945An uncontested election.
|Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt 'Crinks' Johnstone was a British Liberal Party politician.-Early Life & Education:Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American wife Antoinette Pinchot. His nickname 'Crinks' is alleged to have derived from the wrinkled...
|Don Bennett
Don Bennett
Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett CB CBE DSO RAF was an Australian aviation pioneer and bomber pilot who rose to be the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force. He led the "Pathfinder Force" from 1942 to the end of the Second World War in 1945...
|Death
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|Caernarvon Boroughs
Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1945
The Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 April 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Caernarvon Boroughs.- Previous MP :...
|26 April 1945Seaborne Davies
Seaborne Davies
Professor David Richard Seaborne Davies was a Welsh law teacher who served briefly as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament .- Early life :...
retained Caernarvon Boroughs for the Liberals in the by-election but lost the seat to the Conservatives in the 1945 general election.
|David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
|Seaborne Davies
Seaborne Davies
Professor David Richard Seaborne Davies was a Welsh law teacher who served briefly as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament .- Early life :...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Chelmsford
Chelmsford by-election, 1945
The Chelmsford by-election, 1945 was a by-election held on 26 April 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chelmsford in Essex. The seat was won by Ernest Millington for the short-lived Common Wealth Party....
|26 April 1945In the 1945 general election Millington was the only successful Common Wealth candidate. He joined the Labour Party in April 1946.
|John Macnamara
John Macnamara
Colonel John Robert Jermain Macnamara was a British Conservative Party politician and British Army officer who was killed in Italy during the Second World War....
|Ernest Millington
|Death (active service)
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|Combined Scottish Universities
Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1945
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1945 was a by-election held from 9 April to 13 April 1945 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :...
|13 April 1945The Combined Scottish Universities was a three-member constituency which experienced three by-elections in this Parliament, each won by a different party from both the others and the general election. In the 1935 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1935
The United Kingdom general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative, while the National Liberal vote held steady...
it elected two Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
and one National Liberal
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
MPs. One Conservative (Noel Skelton) died between polling and the declaration of the results and the resulting by-election was won by Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....
for National Labour. He died within two years and the resultant by-election was won by Sir John Anderson
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer...
as a non-party supporter of the National Government. In 1945 the National Liberal member (George Alexander Morrison
George Alexander Morrison
George Alexander Morrison was a Scottish Liberal Party and then National Liberal Party politician....
) resigned and the resulting by-election was won by John Boyd-Orr as an Independent. Both Anderson and Boyd-Orr held their seats at the 1945 general election along with one Conservative.
|George Alexander Morrison
George Alexander Morrison
George Alexander Morrison was a Scottish Liberal Party and then National Liberal Party politician....
|John Boyd-Orr
|Resignation
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|Motherwell
Motherwell by-election, 1945
The Motherwell by-election was held on 12 April 1945, following the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament for Motherwell James Walker.The by-election took place during the Second World War during unusual political conditions...
|12 April 1945
|James Walker
James Walker (UK politician)
James Walker, , was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, representing the Newport constituency in Monmouthshire from 1929 to 1931 and Motherwell from 1935 until his death in 1945, aged 61....
|Robert Douglas McIntyre
|Death (road accident)
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|Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1944
The Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1944 was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 October 1944 for the British House of Commons constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.- Previous MP :...
|17 October 1944
|George Charles Grey
George Charles Grey
George Charles Grey was Liberal Member of Parliament for the Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency in England from August 1941 until his death in action in July 1944....
|William Beveridge
William Beveridge
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...
|Death (active service)
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|Chelsea
Chelsea by-election, 1944
The Chelsea by-election, 1944 was a by-election held on 11 October 1944 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chelsea in London.The by-election was caused by the elevation of the constituency's Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Samuel Hoare to the peerage as Viscount Templewood...
|11 October 1944
|Samuel Hoare
|William Sidney
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Bilston
|20 September 1944
|Ian Hannah
Ian Hannah
Dr. Ian Campbell Hannah was a British academic, writer and Conservative Party politician.Born in Chichester, he was president of the University of King's College, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, from 1904-1906. In 1904 Campbell married American artist Edith Brand...
|William Gibbons
William Ernest Gibbons
William Ernest Gibbons was a British Conservative Party politician.-References:...
|Death
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|Manchester Rusholme
|8 July 1944
|Edmund Radford
|Frederick Cundiff
Frederick Cundiff
Frederick William Cundiff was a British soldier, politician and businessman.He was the son of Sir Wiliam Cundiff, a prominent businessman and politician in Manchester who held the office of Lord Mayor in 1922-23....
|Death
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|Clay Cross
|14 April 1944
|George Ridley
|Harold Neal
Harold Neal
Harold Neal was a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for Clay Cross from a 1944 by-election to 1950, and after boundary changes, for Bolsover from 1950 until his retirement 1970, preceding Dennis Skinner...
|Death
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|Camberwell North
Camberwell North by-election, 1944
The Camberwell North by-election, 1944 was a by-election held on 31 March 1944 for the British House of Commons constituency of Camberwell North....
|30 March 1944
|Charles Ammon
Charles Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon PC DL JP was a British Labour Party politician.-Background and education:The son of Charles George and Mary Ammon, he was educated at Public Elementary schools.-Career:...
|Cecil Manning
Cecil Manning
Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning was a British politician.Having fought in the First World War, Manning was wounded and lost his right arm....
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Bury St Edmunds
|29 February 1944
|Frank Heilgers
Frank Heilgers
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Frederick Alexander Heilgers was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament who was killed in a train crash during World War II....
|Edgar Keatinge
Edgar Keatinge
Major Sir Edgar Mayne Keatinge CBE was an English farmer, soldier and Conservative Party politician. He is best known for having served as the Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds from 1944 to 1945, after a high-profile by-election. He disliked the name Edgar and preferred to introduce...
|Death (train crash)
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|Sheffield Attercliffe
|21 February 1944
|Cecil Henry Wilson
Cecil Henry Wilson
Cecil Henry Wilson was a British pacifist Labour Party Member of Parliament .Born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the son of Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Holmfirth, Henry Wilson, Wilson attended Wesley College, Sheffield and the Victoria University of Manchester.In 1903 Wilson was elected...
|John Burns Hynd
John Burns Hynd
John Burns Hynd was a British Labour politician.Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925...
|Resignation (ill health)
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|Kirkcaldy Burghs
|17 February 1944
|Thomas Kennedy
|Thomas Hubbard
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|West Derbyshire
|17 February 1944Prior to the by-election White was the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate
Prospective parliamentary candidate
Prospective parliamentary candidate is a term used in British politics to refer to candidates selected by political parties to fight individual constituencies in advance of a general election. This terminology was motivated by the strict limits on the amount of expenses incurred by an actual...
for the constituency but resigned in order to contest the seat in defiance of the truce between the parties. In Parliament he took the Labour whip and retained the seat in the 1945 general election as an official Labour candidate.
|Henry Philip Hunloke
Henry Philip Hunloke
Henry Philip Hunloke TD was a British Conservative politician.Hunloke was born in Marylebone, the son of Philip Hunloke. On his mothers side, he was descended from William IV....
|Charles Frederick White
Charles Frederick White (Jr)
Charles Frederick White was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for the Western Division of Derbyshire firstly from 1944-1945 as an Independent Labour candidate and subsequently from 1945 to 1950 as the official Labour Party candidate...
|Resignation
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|Brighton
|3 February 1944
|Sir Cooper Rawson
|William Teeling
William Teeling
Sir Luke William Burke Teeling was an Irish author, traveller and a Member of Parliament . He was known for his enthusiasm for a Channel Tunnel.-Background:...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Skipton
|7 January 1944
|George William Rickards
George William Rickards
George William Rickards was a British politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Skipton from 1933 to 1943.- External links :...
|Hugh McDowall Lawson
Hugh McDowall Lawson
Hugh McDowall Lawson was a politician in the United Kingdom's short-lived Common Wealth Party, which was founded to contest parliamentary by-elections during World War II....
|Death
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|Acton
Acton by-election, 1943
The Acton by-election, 1943 was a by-election held on 12 December 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Acton in London.The seat had become vacant after the death in October of the Conservative Member of Parliament Hubert Duggan...
|14 December 1943
|Hubert Duggan
Hubert Duggan
Hubert John Duggan was a British Army officer and politician, who was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Acton from 1931 until his death...
|Henry Longhurst
Henry Longhurst
Henry Carpenter Longhurst was a renowned British golf writer and commentator. During World War II, Longhurst was also a Member of Parliament for Acton in west London, England.-Biography:...
|Death (active service)
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|Darwen
Darwen by-election, 1943
The Darwen by-election, 1943 was a by-election held on 12 December 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Darwen in Lancashire....
|12 December 1943
|Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell (politician)
Captain Stuart Hugh Minto Russell was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for the Darwen constituency in Lancashire at the 1935 general election, defeating the Liberal Party leader Herbert Samuel.Russell was Parliamentary Private Secretary...
|Stanley Prescott
Stanley Prescott
Stanley Prescott was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge....
|Death (active service)
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|Consett
Consett by-election, 1943
The Consett by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Consett on 15 November 1943....
|15 November 1943
|David Adams
David Adams (Labour politician)
David Adams was a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament David Adams (27 June 1871 – 16 August 1943) was a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament David Adams (27 June 1871 – 16 August 1943) was a British Labour politician who served as a...
|James Glanville
James Glanville
James Edward Glanville was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Consett in County Durham at a by-election in November 1943 following the death of the Labour MP David Adams...
|Death
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|Woolwich West
|7 November 1943
|Kingsley Wood
Kingsley Wood
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance...
|Francis Beech
|Death
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|Peterborough
|15 October 1943
|David Cecil
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter
David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician...
|John Hely-Hutchinson
John Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore
John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore , known until 1848 by his courtesy title Viscount Suirdale, was a British politician who later sat as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords....
|Appointment as Governor of Bermuda
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|St Albans
St Albans by-election, 1943
The St Albans by-election of 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in England in October 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of St Albans in Hertfordshire....
|5 October 1943
|Francis Edward Fremantle
Francis Edward Fremantle
Lieutenant-colonel Sir Francis Edward Fremantle, OBE, DL, FRCS, FRCP was a British physician and Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans from 1919 until his death....
|John Grimston
|Death
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|Chippenham
Chippenham by-election, 1943
The Chippenham by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 24 August 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chippenham in Wiltshire....
|24 August 1943
|Victor Cazalet
Victor Cazalet
Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet MC was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament .Cazalet was commissioned into the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry in 1915 and reached the rank of Captain, winning the Military Cross in 1917...
|David Eccles
David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
David McAdam Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles and 1st Viscount Eccles, CH, KCVO, MP, PC was an English Conservative politician....
|Death (active service)
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|Burton-on-Trent
|2 July 1943
|John Gretton
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton PC CBE , was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Gretton won two gold medals in the 1900 Olympic Games.-Biography:...
|John Frederic Gretton
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Birmingham Aston
|9 June 1943
|Edward Orlando Kellett
Edward Orlando Kellett
Colonel Edward Orlando Kellett DSO was a British Member of Parliament and British Army officer who was killed in action during fighting in Tunisia during World War II....
|Redvers Michael Prior
|Death (active service)
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|Newark
|8 June 1943
|William Cavendish-Bentinck
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland KG , known as Marquess of Titchfield until 1943, was a British Conservative Party politician....
|Sidney Shephard
Sidney Shephard
Sydney Shephard was a British Conservative Party politician.Sydney Shephard was born at Nottingham on the 29th March 1894, one of five children of Charles and Mary Shephard...
|Succession to the Peerage
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|The Hartlepools
|1 June 1943
|William George Howard Gritten
|Thomas George Greenwell
Thomas George Greenwell
Colonel Thomas George Greenwell was the National Conservative Member of Parliament for The Hartlepools and the managing director of the ship-repair yard, T.W.Greenwell and Co...
|Death
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|Daventry
|20 April 1943
|Edward Fitzroy
Edward FitzRoy
Captain Edward Algernon FitzRoy, DL was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death.FitzRoy was the second son of the 3rd Baron Southampton...
|Reginald Manningham-Buller
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Eddisbury
|7 April 1943Loverseed gained Eddisbury
Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Eddisbury is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- Boundaries :...
for Common Wealth from the Conservatives in 1943, but subsequently sat as an independent Labour member then took the Labour Party whip. He defended the seat in the 1945 general election for Labour but lost to the National Liberals
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
.
|Richard John Russell
Richard John Russell
Richard John Russell was a British dental surgeon and Liberal later Liberal National politician.-Family and education:...
|John Eric Loverseed
John Eric Loverseed
John Eric Loverseed AFC was a pilot who flew with the Royal Air Force in 1930s, with Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, and with the RAF again the Battle of Britain, before being elected as a wartime Member of Parliament MP for the Common Wealth Party...
|Death
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|Buckingham
Buckingham by-election, 1943
The Buckingham by-election of 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 4 August 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire....
|4 April 1943
|John Percival Whiteley
|Lionel Berry
Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley
Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley was a British Conservative politician, peer and newspaper editor.Berry was born in Hendon...
|Death (active service)
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|Watford
|23 February 1943
|Dennis Herbert
Dennis Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford
Dennis Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Hemingford KBE PC , was a British Conservative politician.Herbert was the eldest son of Reverend Henry Herbert, Rector of Hemingford Abbots in Huntingdonshire. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Watford at the 1918 general election, a...
|William Helmore
William Helmore
Air Commodore William Helmore Ph.D., M.S., F.C.S., F.R.Ae.S., CBE was an engineer who had a varied and distinguished career in scientific research with the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the Second World War, as a broadcaster, and for two years as Member of Parliament...
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Bristol Central
Bristol Central by-election, 1943
The Bristol Central by-election, 1943 was a by-election held on 18 February 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bristol Central in the city of Bristol. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament Lord Apsley had been killed on 17 December...
|18 February 1943
|Allen Apsley
|Violet Bathurst
|Death (active service)
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|Portsmouth North
|16 February 1943
|Sir Roger Keyes
Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Bt GCB KCVO CMG DSO RN was a noted British admiral, with an active service life that included 19th-century African anti-slavery patrols to the Allied landings in Leyte in World War II...
|William Milbourne James
William Milbourne James
Admiral Sir William Milbourne James GCB was a British Naval commander, politician and author, perhaps most notable for his activities in the Naval Intelligence Division in the First World War.-Family:...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|King's Lynn
King's Lynn by-election, 1943
The King's Lynn by-election, 1943 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of King's Lynn in Norfolk on 12 February 1943...
|12 February 1943
|Somerset Maxwell
Somerset Arthur Maxwell
Hon. Somerset Arthur Maxwell was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.- Family :Eldest son of Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham...
|Edmund Roche
|Death (active service)
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|Midlothian and Peeblesshire
|11 February 1943
|John Colville
John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir
David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir PC GCIE was a Scottish Unionist politician, and industrialist...
|David King Murray
David King Murray
Sir Thomas David King Murray, known as David King Murray, Kt KC LLD MA BSc LLB FRSE was a Scottish politician and judge....
|Appointment as Governor of Bombay
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|Antrim
|11 February 1943
|Joseph McConnell
Sir Joseph McConnell, 2nd Baronet
Sir Joseph McConnell, 2nd Baronet , was an Ulster Unionist politician. He was Member of Parliament for Antrim from 1929 to 1942.- Family :...
|John Dermot Campbell
John Dermot Campbell
John Dermot Campbell DL was a Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament in both United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Parliaments. He was killed during World War II in a plane crash....
|Death
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|Ashford
|10 February 1943
|Patrick Spens
Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens
William Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens KBE, PC, KC , was a British lawyer, judge and Conservative politician. He served as Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947....
|Edward Percy Smith
Edward Percy Smith
Edward Percy Smith was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Wandsworth, London, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Ashford at a by-election in 1943, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1950 general election. Under the name Edward Percy, he was also a...
|Appointment as Chief Justice of India
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|Belfast West
Belfast West by-election, 1943
The Belfast West by-election 1943, was a by-election held on 9 February 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Belfast West, in Northern Ireland...
|9 February 1943Beattie won Belfast West
Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast West is a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.-Boundaries:The seat was restored in 1922 when as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut...
for the Northern Ireland Labour Party
Northern Ireland Labour Party
The Northern Ireland Labour Party was an Irish political party which operated from 1924 until 1987.In 1913 the British Labour Party resolved to give the recently formed Irish Labour Party exclusive organising rights in Ireland...
but subsequently sat as an independent Labour member, under which label he held the seat in the 1945 general election.
|Alexander Crawford Browne
|Jack Beattie
Jack Beattie
Jack Beattie was a politician from Northern Ireland.He was a teacher by profession. He joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party . In 1925, he became a Member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for Belfast East. He represented Belfast Pottinger from 1929...
|Death
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|University of Wales
University of Wales by-election, 1943
The University of Wales by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom between 25 and 29 January 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of University of Wales.- Previous MP :...
|30 January 1943
|Ernest Evans
Ernest Evans (politician)
Ernest Evans was a Liberal Party politician from Wales.-Family and education:Ernest Evans was born at Aberystwyth, the son of Evan Evans, the Clerk to the Cardiganshire County Council and his wife Annie Davies...
|William John Gruffydd
William John Gruffydd
Professor William John Gruffydd was a Welsh academic, poet, writer, and politician.-Family and Education:...
|Appointment as a County Court Judge
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|Hamilton
|29 January 1943
|Duncan Graham
Duncan Macgregor Graham
Duncan Macgregor Graham was Labour MP for Hamilton from 1918 to his death.- External links :*...
|Thomas Fraser
Tom Fraser
Tom Fraser PC was a Labour Member of Parliament for the Hamilton constituency between 1943 and 1967.He was Minister of Transport from October 16, 1964 until December 23, 1965...
|Death
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|Ince
|20 October 1942
|Gordon Macdonald
Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor
Gordon Macdonald, PC, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada...
|Tom Brown
Thomas James Brown
Thomas James Brown was a British coal miner and Labour Party politician. During a 22-year career in Parliament he became known as the "miner's champion", fighting for compensation for those suffering from industrial diseases, and to improve state pensions.-Miner:Brown was born in Leigh, in the...
|Appointment as North-West Regional Fuel Controller
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|Manchester Clayton
|17 October 1942
|John Jagger
John Jagger
John Jagger was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. After a career in business and trade union leadership, he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1935, and held it until his death in a road accident.- Career :...
|Harry Thorneycroft
Harry Thorneycroft
Harry Thorneycroft was a British hairdresser and Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1942 to 1955.He was educated at an elementary school, and began work in a hairdresser's shop at the age of 9...
|Death (road accident)
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|Sheffield Park
|27 August 1942
|George Lathan
George Lathan
George Lathan was a British trade unionist and politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Park from 1929 to 1931 and from 1935 until his death....
|Thomas William Burden
|Death
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|Poplar
|12 August 1942
|David Morgan Adams
David Morgan Adams
David Morgan Adams was a British Labour Party politician. He was the son of David Morgan Adams of Ystradowen, near Cowbridge, Glamorgan in South Wales and Bessie Dent of Poplar in the East End of London. He received elementary education in the local school in Ystradowen before entering employment...
|William Henry Guy
William Henry Guy
William Henry Guy was a British Labour Party politician.The son of a blacksmith, he came from a family of 21 children. In 1934 he was elected as a member of London County Council, representing South Poplar. He remained a member of the LCC until its abolition in 1965.In August 1942 the sitting...
|Death
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|Whitechapel and St George's
Whitechapel and St George's by-election, 1942
The Whitechapel and St. George's by-election, 1942 was a by-election held on 8 August 1942 for the British House of Commons constituency of Whitechapel and St...
|8 August 1942
|James Henry Hall
James Henry Hall
James Henry Hall , known as J. H. Hall, was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Whitechapel and St Georges division of Stepney from 1930 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1942.- Career :Hall became interested in trade unionism in his youth,...
|Walter Edwards
Walter Edwards (UK politician)
Walter James Edwards , known as Stoker Edwards or Wally Edwards, was a British Labour Party politician....
|Death
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|Rothwell
Rothwell by-election, 1942
The Rothwell by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held on 7 August 1942 for the British House of Commons constituency of Rothwell in West Yorkshire....
|7 August 1942
|William Lunn
William Lunn
William Lunn was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for the newly-created Rothwell constituency in West Yorkshire, and held the seat until he died in office in 1942, aged 69.In 1924, Lunn served in Ramsay...
|T. J. Brooks
Thomas Brooks
Thomas Judson Brooks, MBE, JP was a British coal miner and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament. A spiritualist, his main achievement was to lead the successful campaign to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735.-Working life:Brooks was born on Eastfield Farm at Thurgoland near...
|Death
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|Spennymoor
Spennymoor by-election, 1942
The Spennymoor by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 July 1942 for the British House of Commons constituency of Spennymoor in County Durham....
|21 July 1942
|Joseph Batey
Joseph Batey
Joseph Batey was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1922 election as Member of Parliament for the Spennymoor constituency in County Durham, which he had contested unsuccessfully at the 1918 election...
|James Dixon Murray
James Dixon Murray
James "Jim" "Jimmy" "JD" Dixon Murray was a British coal miner and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Early life and education:...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Salisbury
Salisbury by-election, 1942
The Salisbury by-election, 1942 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Salisbury in Wiltshire on 8 July 1942. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Morrison, later Baron Margadale.- Vacancy :...
|8 July 1942
|James Despencer-Robertson
James Despencer-Robertson
Lieutenant-Colonel James Archibald St George Fitzwarenne-Despencer Robertson OBE , born James Archibald St George Robertson, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
|John Morrison
John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale
Major John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, TD, DL was a British Conservative Party politician.He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1938 and was Member of Parliament for Salisbury from 1942 until 1965....
|Death
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|Windsor
Windsor by-election, 1942
The Windsor by-election, 1942 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Windsor in Berkshire on 30 June 1942. The by-election was won by the Conservative candidate Charles Mott-Radclyffe.- Vacancy :...
|30 June 1942
|Annesley Somerville
Annesley Somerville
Sir Annesley Ashworth Somerville was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Somerville was born in County Cork, Ireland and was educated at Queen's College, Cork and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a Mathematical Scholar. He then became a school master, first at Wellington...
|Charles Mott-Radclyffe
Charles Mott-Radclyffe
Sir Charles Edward Mott-Radclyffe was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford and then joined the Diplomatic corps...
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Maldon
Maldon by-election, 1942
The Maldon by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 June 1942 for the British House of Commons constituency of Maldon in Essex...
|25 June 1942In Parliament Driberg took the Labour whip and retained the seat in the 1945 general election as an official Labour candidate.
|Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise
Edward Ruggles-Brise
Lt Col Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet, MC, DL was a British Conservative Party politician.Ruggles-Brise was a landowner and land agent, owner of Spains Hall in Finchingfield in Essex...
|Tom Driberg
|Death
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|Llandaff and Barry
|10 June 19421
|Patrick Munro
Patrick Munro
Patrick Munro , also known as Pat Munro, was a British Conservative politician and international rugby union player.-Biography:...
|Cyril Lakin
Cyril Lakin
Cyril Harry Alfred Lakin was a Welsh politician and farmer who was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Llandaff and Barry in South Wales...
|Death (active service)
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|Chichester
|25 May 1942
|John Courtauld
|Lancelot Joynson-Hicks
|Death
|-
|Putney
|8 May 1942
|Marcus Samuel
Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel
Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel was a British Conservative Party politician.At the 1929 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Southwark North, losing his deposit....
|Hugh Linstead
Hugh Linstead
Sir Hugh Nicholas Linstead OBE was a British pharmaceutical chemist and barrister who served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Putney for 22 years. Linstead had significant business interests in the pharmaceutical industry...
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Rugby
|29 April 1942Gain retained at the 1945 UK general election.
|David Margesson
David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson
Henry David Reginald Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson PC was a British Conservative politician most popularly remembered for his tenure as Government Chief Whip in the 1930s. His reputation was of a stern disciplinarian who was one of the harshest and most effective whips...
|William John Brown
|Elevation to the peerage
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Wallasey
|29 April 1942
|John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon
|George Leonard Reakes
George Leonard Reakes
George Leonard Reakes J. P. was a British politician. Born in Bath, Somerset, to humble circumstances. Reakes successed in becoming Mayor of Wallasey and later a Member of Parliament for Wallasey....
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Glasgow Cathcart
|29 April 1942
|John Train
John Train (politician)
John Train was Unionist Party MP for Glasgow Cathcart.He was first elected in 1929, and held the seat until his death.- External links :...
|Francis Beattie
Francis Beattie
Francis Beattie was Unionist Party MP for Glasgow Cathcart . Beattie won it at a by-election in 1942, and was re-elected in 1945, but he was killed in a road accident later that year....
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Cardiff East
Cardiff East by-election, 1942
The Cardiff East by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Cardiff East on 13 April 1942.-Vacancy:...
|13 April 1942Grigg was the newly appointed Secretary of State for War
Secretary of State for War
The position of Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, was a British cabinet-level position, first held by Henry Dundas . In 1801 the post became that of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The position was re-instated in 1854...
and nominally took Cardiff East
Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)
Cardiff East was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.- Members of Parliament :...
from the Conservatives but lost it to Labour in the 1945 general election.
|Owen Temple-Morris
Owen Temple-Morris
Sir Owen Temple-Morris, QC was a British barrister and Conservative politician.His son, Peter Temple-Morris, was also a Conservative Member of Parliament , but left the party and later joined Labour Party....
|Sir P. J. Grigg
P. J. Grigg
Sir Percy James Grigg PC , better known as Sir P. J. Grigg was a British civil servant who was surprisingly moved from being the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office to become Secretary of State for War, the political head of the same department during the Second World...
|Appointment as a County Court Judge
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|Tavistock
|2 April 1942
|Mark Patrick
|Henry Studholme
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Grantham
|25 March 1942
|Victor Alexander Warrender
|William Denis Kendall
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Wigan
|11 March 1942
|John Parkinson
John Parkinson (UK politician)
John Allen Parkinson was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Wigan at the 1918 general election, replacing the Conservative MP Reginald James Neville.Parkinson was re-elected at each subsequent general election until his death at...
|William Foster
William Foster (UK politician)
William Foster was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Wigan in a by-election in 1942, following the death of sitting Labour MP John Parkinson....
|Death
|-
|Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1942
The Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1942 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme on 11 March 1942. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament Josiah Wedgwood was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wedgwood...
|11 March 1942
|Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood
Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald...
|John Mack
John Mack (UK politician)
John David Mack, was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1942 to 1951....
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Manchester Gorton
|11 March 1942
|William Wedgwood Benn
|William Oldfield
William Oldfield (UK politician)
William Henry Oldfield was a British Labour Member of Parliament and a trade unionist.A cotton operative himself, Oldfield served as Secretary of the Cotton Trades and Labour Council and President of the Cotton Spinners' Association...
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Nuneaton
Nuneaton by-election, 1942
The Nuneaton by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Nuneaton on 9 March 1942. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament Reginald Fletcher was raised to the peerage as Baron Winster...
|9 March 1942
|Reginald Fletcher
Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster
Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster PC was a British Liberal then Labour politician. He was Minister of Supply under Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1946 and Governor of Cyprus between 1946 and 1949....
|Frank Bowles
Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles
Francis George Bowles, Baron Bowles was a British solicitor and politician. A long-serving Member of Parliament , Bowles served briefly as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, but is perhaps best known for agreeing to give up his safe seat to make way for Minister of Technology Frank...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Keighley
|13 February 1942
|Hastings Lees-Smith
Hastings Lees-Smith
Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC was a British Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President of the Board of Education in 1931...
|Ivor Thomas
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas CBE FSA, originally Ivor Thomas was a British journalist and author who served eight years as a Member of Parliament...
|Death
|-
|North East Derbyshire
North East Derbyshire by-election, 1942
The North East Derbyshire by-election, 1942 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of North East Derbyshire on 2 February 1942. The seat had become vacant on the death in December 1941 of the Labour Member of Parliament Frank Lee.The Labour candidate, Henry White, was...
|2 February 1942
|Frank Lee
|Henry White
Henry White (UK politician)
Henry White was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for the constituency of North East Derbyshire from 1942-1959....
|Death
|-
|Edinburgh Central
Edinburgh Central by-election, 1941
The Edinburgh by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election held on 11 December 1941 for the British House of Commons constituency of Edinburgh Central in Scotland....
|11 December 1941
|James Guy
|Francis Watt
Francis Watt
Francis Clifford Watt was a Unionist Party politician in Scotland.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central at a by-election in December 1941, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour Party candidate.-References:...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Harrow
|2 December 1941
|Isidore Salmon
Isidore Salmon
Sir Isidore Salmon CBE DL JP was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.He was the son of Barnett Salmon, cofounder of Salmon & Gluckstein tobacconists. The company later expanded into the catering business under the name of a third partner, Joseph Lyons...
|Norman Bower
Norman Bower
Norman Adolph Henry Bower was a British Conservative Party politician.In December 1941, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Harrow at a by-election following the death of Conservative MP Sir Isidore Salmon...
|Death
|-
|Hampstead
Hampstead by-election, 1941
The Hampstead by-election, 1941 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Hampstead in London on 27 November 1941....
|27 November 1941
|George Balfour
|Charles Challen
Charles Challen
Charles Challen was a British barrister and politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Hampstead from 1941 to 1950.- External links :...
|Death
|-
|Brighton
|15 November 1941
|Lord Erskine
John Erskine, Lord Erskine
John Francis Ashley Erskine, Lord Erskine GCSI, GCIE was a British soldier, Conservative Party politician and administrator who served as Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare and Brighton...
|Anthony Marlowe
Anthony Marlowe
Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe QC was a British Barrister and politician, who served as a Member of Parliament for 24 years.-Family:...
|Resignation
|-
|Lancaster
|15 October 1941
|Herwald Ramsbotham
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician. He was a government minister between 1931 and 1941 and served as Governor-General of Ceylon between 1949 and 1954....
|Fitzroy Maclean
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|The Wrekin
|26 September 1941
|James Baldwin-Webb
James Baldwin-Webb
Colonel James Baldwin-Webb was a British Conservative Party politician who served in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1941....
|William Colegate
|drowned when the liner City of Benares was torpedoed.
|-
|Scarborough and Whitby
|24 September 1941
|Paul Latham
|Alexander Spearman
Alexander Spearman
Sir Alexander Cadwallader Mainwaring Spearman was a British Conservative Member of Parliament .His father, who was a Commander in the Royal Navy and commanded a battalion of a Royal Naval Brigade in the First World War, was killed in action in the Dardanelles Campaign.Alexander was educated at...
|Resignation (scandal)
|-
|Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1941
The Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election held on 18 August 1941 for the British House of Commons constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.- Previous MP :...
|18 August 1941
|Hugh Seely
|George Charles Grey
George Charles Grey
George Charles Grey was Liberal Member of Parliament for the Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency in England from August 1941 until his death in action in July 1944....
|Elevation to the Peerage
|-
|Pontefract
Pontefract by-election, 1941
A by-election was held on 24 July 1941 for the British House of Commons parliamentary constituency of Pontefract in Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Adam Hills, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election.The Labour candidate, Percy...
|24 July 1941
|Adam Hills
|Percy Gott Barstow
Percy Gott Barstow
Percy Gott Barstow was a Labour Party politician in Great Britain.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Pontefract at the Pontefract by-election, 1941 following the death of Adam Hills He was elected unopposed and held the seat until the 1950 General Election.Percy Barstow entered the House...
|Death
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|Dudley
|23 July 1941
|Dudley Joel
Dudley Joel
Dudley Jack Barnato Joel was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.-Biography:Part of the wealthy and prominent Joel family, he was the son of businessman Solomon Barnato Joel and his wife Ellen Ridley and was married to Esme Oldham.Heavily involved in Thoroughbred horse racing,...
|Cyril Edward Lloyd
|Death (active service)
|-
|Edinburgh West
Edinburgh West by-election, 1941
The Edinburgh West by-election, 1941 was a by-election in the Edinburgh West which occurred on 12 July 1941.Sir George Ian Clark Hutchison stood for the Unionist Party. As he faced no opposition, he was declared elected. It remains the last uncontested by-election in Scotland to date....
|12 July 1941
|Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross PC, KC was a Scottish politician, judge and historian.-Background and education:...
|Ian Clark Hutchison
Ian Clark Hutchison
George Ian Clark Hutchison was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West from 1941 to 1959.- External links :...
|Appointed Lord Justice Clerk
Lord Justice Clerk
The Lord Justice Clerk is the second most senior judge in Scotland, after the Lord President of the Court of Session.The holder has the title in both the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary and is in charge of the Second Division of Judges in the Court of Session...
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|Greenock
Greenock by-election, 1941
The Greenock by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election held on 10 July 1941 for the British House of Commons constituency of Greenock in Renfrewshire....
|10 July 1941
|Robert Gibson
|Hector McNeil
Hector McNeil
Hector McNeil PC was a Scottish Labour politician.McNeil was educated at Woodside School and the University of Glasgow, trained as an engineer and worked as a journalist on a Scottish national newspaper. He was a member of Glasgow Town Council 1932-8...
|Appointment as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
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|West Dorset
|21 June 1941
|Philip Colfox
|Simon Wingfield-Digby
|Resignation
|-
|Hornsey
|28 May 1941
|Euan Wallace
Euan Wallace
Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II...
|David Gammans
|Death
|-
|King's Norton
|8 May 1941
|Ronald Cartland
Ronald Cartland
John Ronald Hamilton Cartland was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for King's Norton in Birmingham from 1935 until he was killed in action in 1940, aged 33.-Background:...
|Arthur Peto
|Death (active service)
|-
|Mansfield
Mansfield by-election, 1941
The Mansfield by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Mansfield on 9th April 1941. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament Charles Brown had died on 22 December 1940...
|22 April 1941
|Charles Brown
Charles Brown (Labour politician)
Charles Brown was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament for Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, and held the seat until his death in 1940, at the age of 56....
|Bernard Taylor
Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield
Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, CBE, JP was a British coalminer and politician who was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for 25 years.-Mining:...
|Death
|-
|West Bromwich
West Bromwich by-election, 1941
The West Bromwich by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of West Bromwich in Staffordshire on 16 April 1941...
|16 April 1941
|Frederick Owen Roberts
|John Dugdale
John Dugdale (Labour politician)
John Dugdale was a British newspaper journalist and politician. Well-connected with the Labour Party establishment, he worked as Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and was appointed a Minister in his post-war government....
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Great Yarmouth
|8 April 1941
|Arthur Harbord
Arthur Harbord
Sir Arthur Harbord CBE was a British Liberal, later Liberal National politician.Harbord was educated at the British School and at Winchester House School in Great Yarmouth...
|Percy Jewson
|Death
|-
|Carmarthen
Carmarthen by-election, 1941
A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Carmarthen on 26 March 1941. The seat had become vacant on the resignation of the Labour Member of Parliament Major Daniel Hopkin MC, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election....
|26 March 1941
|Daniel Hopkin
Daniel Hopkin
Major Daniel Hopkin MC was a British soldier, barrister and Labour Party politician.-Early life:Hopkin was born in Llantwit Major in South Wales, the son of a farm labourer who died in 1893 when Daniel was seven...
|Ronw Hughes
|Appoitment as a Metropolitan Police Magistrate
|-
|Bodmin
|11 March 1941
|John Rathbone
John Rathbone (Bodmin)
John Rankin Rathbone was a British Conservative Party politician. A fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force, he was killed shortly after the Battle of Britain....
|Beatrice Wright
Beatrice Wright
Beatrice Frederika Wright, Lady Wright, née Clough, later Rathbone was an American-born British politician....
|Death (active service)
|-
|Hitchin
|10 March 1941
|Arnold Wilson
Arnold Wilson
Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson KCIE CSI CMG DSO was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918-1920. Wilson became publicly known for his role as the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia during and after the First World War. His high-handedness arguably led to an Iraqi revolt in 1920. He was...
|Seymour Berry
Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose
John Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose was a British nobleman, politician, and newspaper proprietor.John Berry was born in Surrey on 12 July 1909, the eldest son of William Berry, later first Viscount Camrose and first Baronet Berry of Hackwood Park, and Mary Agnes Berry, née Corns...
|Death (active service)
|-
|Dunbartonshire
|27 February 1941
|Thomas Cassells
Thomas Cassells
Thomas Cassells was a Labour Party politician in Scotland who served as Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire from 1936 to 1941....
|Adam McKinlay
Adam McKinlay
Adam Storey McKinlay was a Scottish Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1929 to 1931, and from 1941 to 1950....
|Appointment as Sheriff Substitute
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|Petersfield
|22 February 1941
|Reginald Dorman-Smith
Reginald Dorman-Smith
Colonel Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith GBE was a British diplomat, soldier and politician.-In politics:Dorman-Smith started his career with a strong interest in agriculture, becoming President of the National Farmers Union at the age of 32, and then later Minister of Agriculture...
|George Jeffreys
|Appointment as Governor of Burma
|-
|South Dorset
|22 February 1941
|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...
|Victor Montagu
Victor Montagu
Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich , known as Viscount Hinchingbrooke from 1916 to 1962, as the Earl of Sandwich from 1962 to 1964 and as Victor Montagu from 1964 to 1995, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and right-wing politician.Montagu was the eldest...
|Succession to the Peerage by writ of acceleration
Writ of acceleration
A writ in acceleration, commonly called a writ of acceleration, was a type of writ of summons to the British House of Lords that enabled the eldest son and heir apparent of a peer with multiple peerage titles to attend the British House of Lords or Irish House of Lords, using one of his father's...
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|Doncaster
|6 February 1941
|John Morgan
John Morgan (politician)
John Morgan was a British Labour Party politician.Morgan stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in a series of Parliamentary elections in the 1930s, losing at Leicester West in 1935 by only 87 votes...
|Evelyn Walkden
Evelyn Walkden
Evelyn Walkden was a British politician and trades unionist.The son of a Lancashire miners' leader, he left school at 12 and fought in the First World War...
|Death
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|Birmingham Edgbaston
Birmingham Edgbaston by-election, 1940
The Birmingham Edgbaston by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston on 18 December 1940. The seat had become vacant when Neville Chamberlain, the constituency's Conservative Party Member of Parliament had died from...
|18 December 1940
|Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...
|Peter Bennett
Peter Bennett, 1st Baron Bennett of Edgbaston
Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett, 1st Baron Bennett of Edgbaston OBE, JP , known as Sir Peter Bennett between 1941 and 1953, was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:...
|Death
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|Northampton
|6 December 1940
|Mervyn Manningham-Buller
|Gerard Summers
|Resignation
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Southampton
|27 November 1940Southampton
Southampton (UK Parliament constituency)
Southampton was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the town of Southampton, it returned two Members of Parliament from 1295 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election....
was a two-member constituency. In the 1935 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1935
The United Kingdom general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative, while the National Liberal vote held steady...
it elected one National Liberal
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
and one non-party supporter of the National Government. In February 1940 Sir John Reith
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom...
(the newly appointed Minister of Information) was elected unopposed to fill a National Liberal vacancy as a non-party supporter of the National Government. In November 1940 he was elevated to the peerage and in the resulting unopposed by-election his seat was regained by the National Liberals. In the 1945 general election both seats were won by the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
.
|Sir John Reith
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom...
|William Stanley Russell Thomas
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Aldershot
|26 November 1940
|Roundell Palmer
Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne
Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, CH, PC was a British Conservative politician, known as Viscount Wolmer from 1895 to 1941....
|Oliver Lyttelton
|Succession to the Peerage
|-
|Queen's University of Belfast
|2 November 1940
|Thomas Sinclair
Thomas Sinclair (politician)
Thomas Sinclair PC was an Irish unionist politician.Sinclair studied at Queen's University, Belfast before working as a surgeon. He was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland on its creation in 1921....
|Douglas Lloyd Savory
Douglas Lloyd Savory
Sir Douglas Lloyd Savory was a professor of French and a member of the parliament of the United Kingdom.He was born at Palgrave in Suffolk and educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford...
|Resignation
|-
|Preston
Preston by-election, 1940
The Preston by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Preston in Lancashire on 29 September 1940...
|25 September 1940
|Adrian Moreing
Adrian Moreing
Adrian Charles Moreing was an English Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Preston at the 1931 general election, and held the seat until his death in 1940. In the resulting by-election, Randolph Churchill was returned unopposed.- External links :...
|Randolph Churchill
Randolph Churchill
Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill, MBE was the son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Preston from 1940 to 1945....
|Death
|-
|Manchester Exchange
|21 September 1940
|Peter Eckersley
Peter Eckersley (cricketer)
Peter Thorp Eckersley was the captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club who retired for a career as a Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for Manchester Exchange...
|Thomas Hewlett
Thomas Hewlett
Thomas Henry Hewlett was a British Conservative Party politician and industrialist.He unsuccessfully contested the 1935 general election in Manchester Clayton, but after the death in 1940 of Peter Eckersley, the Member of Parliament for Manchester Exchange, Hewlett was elected unopposed in the...
|Death (active service)
|-
|Bolton
|13 September 1940
|John Haslam
John Haslam
Sir John Haslam was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was Member of Parliament for Bolton from the 1931 general election until his death in 1940, aged 62.- External links :...
|Edward Cadogan
Edward Cadogan
Sir Edward Cecil George Cadogan, KBE, CB was a British, Conservative politician.Cadogan was a younger son of the 5th Earl Cadogan and his wife, Beatrix, a daughter of the 2nd Earl Craven...
|Death
|-
|Heywood and Radcliffe
|28 August 1940
|Richard Porritt
Richard Whitaker Porritt
Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt was the Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe and became the first British MP to be killed in World War II....
|James Wootton-Davies
|Death (active service)
|-
|Mitcham
|19 August 1940
|Richard Meller
|Malcolm Robertson
Malcolm Robertson
Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson, GCMG, KBE, PC, was the British Ambassador in Argentina from 1929 to 1932....
|Death
|-
|Middlesbrough West
Middlesbrough West by-election, 1940
The Middlesbrough West by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 7 August 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough West.- Previous MP :...
|7 August 1940
|Frank Kingsley Griffith
Frank Kingsley Griffith
Frank Kingsley Griffith was a British Liberal Party politician, barrister and County Court judge.-Early life:...
|Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt 'Crinks' Johnstone was a British Liberal Party politician.-Early Life & Education:Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American wife Antoinette Pinchot. His nickname 'Crinks' is alleged to have derived from the wrinkled...
|Appointment as a County Court Judge
|-
|Wansbeck
Wansbeck by-election, 1940
The Wansbeck by-election, 1940 was a by-election held in England on 22 July 1940 for the House of Commons constituency of Wansbeck in Northumberland.-Vacancy:...
|29 July 1940
|Bernard Cruddas
Bernard Cruddas
Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Cruddas DSO was a British Conservative politician.Educated at Winchester College, Cruddas was commissioned into a volunteer battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1899, but the following year transferred to the Regular Army and the Northumberland Fusiliers...
|Robert Scott
Robert Scott (Conservative politician)
Sir Robert Donald Scott was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Wansbeck in a by-election on 22 July 1940, but at the 1945 general election he lost his seat to Labour's Alf Robens, who won with a majority of over 13,000 votes.At the 1950...
|Resignation
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|Rochdale
Rochdale by-election, 1940
The Rochdale by-election, 1940 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Rochdale in Lancashire on 20 July 1940.- Vacancy :...
|20 July 1940
|William Thomas Kelly
William Thomas Kelly
William Thomas Kelly was a British Labour politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Rochdale in 1924, and again in 1935, resigning in 1940. -External links:...
|Hyacinth Morgan
Hyacinth Morgan
Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1929 to 1931, and 1940 to 1955....
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Nottingham Central
Nottingham Central by-election, 1940
The Nottingham Central by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Nottingham Central on 19 July 1940. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Terence O'Connor had died on 7 May 1940...
|19 July 1940
|Terence O'Connor
Terence O'Connor
Sir Terence James O'Connor was a Conservative Party politician in the United KingdomHe was elected to the House of Commons at the 1924 general election, as Member of Parliament for Luton, but lost his seat at the October 1929 general election to the Liberal candidate, Leslie Burgin.O'Connor...
|Frederick Sykes
Frederick Sykes
Air Vice-Marshal The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes GCSI, GCIE, GBE, KCB, CMG was a military officer, British statesman and politician....
|Death
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|Montrose Burghs
|5 July 1940
|Charles Kerr
Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...
|John Scott Maclay
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Newcastle West
|7 June 1940
|Joseph Leech
|William Nunn
William Nunn
William Nunn was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.At the 1931 general election, Nunn was elected as Member of Parliament for Whitehaven constituency in Cumberland...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Bournemouth
|27 June 1940
|Henry Page Croft
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft was a British Conservative Party politician.-Early life and family:He was born at Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Benyon Croft a naval officer and a major benefactor of the Richard Hale School, and Anne Elizabeth...
|Leonard Lyle
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.He was born in London, the only son of Charles Lyle and his wife, Mary, née Brown...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Wandsworth Central
|22 June 1940
|Harry Nathan
|Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin was a British trade union leader and Labour politician. He served as general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1945, as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government.-Early...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Croydon North
Croydon North by-election, 1940
The Croydon North by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held in the British House of Commons constituency of Croydon North on 19 June 1940. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Glyn Mason had resigned...
|19 June 1940
|Glyn Mason
Glyn Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford
Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford CBE, DSO was a British businessman, magistrate and Conservative politician.-Background:...
|Henry Willink
Henry Willink
Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet PC, MC, KC , was a British politician and public servant.He is best known for his service in the Conservative Party as Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government of the United Kingdom...
|Resignation
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|Bow and Bromley
Bow and Bromley by-election, 1940
The Bow and Bromley by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 12 June 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bow and Bromley in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in the East End of London....
|12 June 1940
|George Lansbury
George Lansbury
George Lansbury was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935....
|Charles Key
Charles Key
Charles William Key, PC was a British schoolmaster and politician. Coming from a very working-class background, the generosity of a family friend made it possible for him to get a start in life and train as a teacher; he entered politics through Poplar Borough Council, and was elected to...
|Death
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|Newcastle North
|7 June 1940Headlam was elected as the nominee of a breakaway Conservative Association who opposed the selection of the official candidate. In Parliament he took the Conservative whip and retained the seat as an official Conservative in the 1945 general election.
|Nicholas Grattan-Doyle
Nicholas Grattan-Doyle
Sir Nicholas Grattan Grattan-Doyle was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North at the 1918 general election, and held the seat until his resignation in 1940, aged 78.- External links :...
|Cuthbert Headlam
Cuthbert Headlam
Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet, DSO, OBE, TD, DL was a British Conservative politician.Born in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, Headlam was educated at King's School, Canterbury and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a Clerk in the House of Lords 1897-1924 and became a barrister, Inner...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Middleton and Prestwich
Middleton and Prestwich by-election, 1940
The Middleton and Prestwich by-election, 1940 was held for the Middleton and Prestwich constituency on 22 May 1940.The by-election was held during World War II, and the five largest political parties – Conservative, Labour, Liberal, National Labour and National Liberal – were all members of the...
|1 June 1940
|Nairne Stewart Sandeman
|Ernest Gates
Ernest Gates
Ernest Everard Gates was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for the Middleton and Prestwich constituency in Lancashire from 1940 until he stood down at the 1951 general election....
|Death
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|Spen Valley
Spen Valley by-election, 1940
The Spen Valley by-election, 1940 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Spen Valley on 1 June 1940. The seat had become vacant when the National Liberal Member of Parliament Sir John Simon, had been elevated to the peerage as Viscount Simon...
|1 June 1940
|John Simon
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second. He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
|William Edward Woolley
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|East Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire by-election, 1940
The East Renfrewshire by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 9 May 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of East Renfrewshire in Scotland.- Previous MP :...
|9 May 1940
|Douglas Douglas-Hamilton
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, KT, GCVO, AFC, PC, DL, FRCSE, FRGS, was a Scottish nobleman and pioneering aviator....
|Guy Lloyd
|Succession to the Peerage
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|Brighton
|9 May 1940
|George Tryon
George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon
Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years....
|Lord Erskine
John Erskine, Lord Erskine
John Francis Ashley Erskine, Lord Erskine GCSI, GCIE was a British soldier, Conservative Party politician and administrator who served as Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare and Brighton...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Glasgow Pollok
|30 April 1940
|John Gilmour
|Thomas Galbraith
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde PC was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.He studied at Glasgow Academy; Eastmans, Southsea; Royal Naval College Osborne and Royal Naval College Dartmouth...
|Death
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|Battersea North
Battersea North by-election, 1940
The Battersea North by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 April 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Battersea North in the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea....
|17 April 1940
|William Sanders
|Francis Douglas
Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch
Francis Campbell Ross Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch KCMG , was a British journalist, solicitor and Labour Party politician....
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Lonsdale
|12 April 1940
|David Lindsay
David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford
David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, KT, GBE , known as Lord Balniel from 1913 to 1940, was a British Unionist politician....
|Ian Fraser
Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale
William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale CH CBE, , known as Ian Fraser, was a British Conservative Party politician, a Governor of the BBC, a successful businessman and the first person to be awarded a life peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958.Fraser was blinded in World War I and...
|Succession to the Peerage
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|Argyll
|10 April 1940
|Frederick Macquisten
|Duncan McCallum
Duncan McCallum
Sir Duncan McCallum was a Scottish Conservative politician.He was elected Member of Parliament for Argyllshire) at a 1940 by-election. McCallum remained as MP for the seat until his death in 1958.McCallum was born on November 24, 1888 in Fulham, London...
|Death
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|Leeds North East
Leeds North East by-election, 1940
The Leeds North East by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 13 March 1940 to elect a new Member of Parliament for the House of Commons constituency of Leeds North East....
|13 March 1940
|John Dearman Birchall
John Dearman Birchall
Major Sir John Dearman Birchall TD was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East at the 1918 general election, and held his seat in the House of Commons for 22 years until he resigned on 8 February 1940 through appointment as...
|John James Craik-Henderson
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|City of Chester
|7 March 1940
|Charles Cayzer
Sir Charles William Cayzer, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles William Cayzer, 3rd Baronet was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament .He was the son of Sir Charles William Cayzer, 2nd Baronet, of Gartmore, whom he succeeded in 1917...
|Basil Nield
Basil Nield
Sir Basil Edward Nield was a British Conservative Party politician.After the death in 1940 of Sir Charles Cayzer, the Member of Parliament for the City of Chester, Nield was elected in a by-election to take his seat in the House of Commons...
|Apparent Murder/Suicide
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|Kettering
Kettering by-election, 1940
The Kettering by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 6 March 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Kettering in Northamptonshire.- Previous MP :...
|6 March 1940
|John Eastwood
John Eastwood (politician)
John Francis Eastwood OBE , was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Guildford, Surrey, he was elected at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament for Kettering in Northamptonshire, defeating the Labour MP Samuel Perry...
|John Profumo
John Profumo
Brigadier John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo CBE , informally known as Jack Profumo , was a British politician. His title, 5th Baron, which he did not use, was Italian. Although Profumo held an increasingly responsible series of political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his...
|Appointment as a Metropolitan Magistrate
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|Cambridge University
|23 February 1940Cambridge University
Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)
Cambridge University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.-Boundaries, Electorate and Election Systems:...
was a two-member constituency. In the 1935 general election it elected two Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
MPs. Hill took one seat from the Conservatives as an Independent Conservative, but did not contest 1945 general election, in which the two seats were won by one Conservative and one Independent.
|John James Withers
John James Withers
Sir John James Withers was a British politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1926 to 1939.- External links :...
|Archibald Vivian Hill
Conservative
|Death
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|Silvertown
|22 February 1940
|Jack Jones
|James Henry Hollins
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Southwark Central
|10 February 1940
|Harry Day
Harry Day (politician)
Harry Day was an English Labour Party politician. Day was elected as Member of Parliament for Southwark Central at the 1924 general election, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1923...
|John Hanbury Martin
John Hanbury Martin
John Hanbury Martin was a British Labour politician.In 1934, he married Avice Blanaid Trench, daughter of Herbert Trench, but they were divorced in 1938....
|Death
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|Belfast East
|8 February 1940
|Herbert Dixon
Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran
Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran OBE PC was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician.He was born in Belfast, the fourth son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, being commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, with which regiment he served in the Second...
|Henry Peirson Harland
Henry Peirson Harland
Henry Peirson Harland was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Uxbridge, Harland studied at Rugby School before being appointed as a director or Harland and Wolff, and of Short and Harland. He worked as an engineer worldwide before winning the Belfast East by-election, 1940 for the...
|Elevation to the Peerage
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|Swansea East
Swansea East by-election, 1940
The Swansea East by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Swansea East on 8 May 1933...
|5 February 1940
|David Williams
David Williams (Swansea politician)
David Williams was a Welsh Labour Party politician. The second son of David and Mary Williams, his father worked at the local Kilvey Copper Works. Williams received little education before entering service in 1877 as a pageboy for the Genfell family of Kilvey, Swansea, owners of the copper works...
|David Mort
David Mort
David Llewellyn Mort was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Briton Ferry, Glamorgan, he left school aged thirteen when his father died. After initially working in an outfitters shop, he subsequently entered the local steel works...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|City of London
City of London by-election, 1940
The City of London by-election, 1940 was a by-election held on 5 February 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district....
|5 February 1940The City of London
City of London (UK Parliament constituency)
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.-Boundaries and boundary...
was a two member constituency. In the 1935 general election it elected two Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
MPs. In February 1940 Sir Andrew Duncan (the newly appointed President of the Board of Trade) was elected unopposed to fill one vacancy as a non-party supporter of the National Government. In the 1945 general election Duncan and a Conservative won the City's two seats.
|Alan Garrett Anderson
Alan Garrett Anderson
Sir Alan Garrett Anderson GBE DL was a British civil servant and shipowner.- Early life and career:Anderson was born in 1877 to James George Skelton Anderson and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Anderson's father was a shipping magnate who merged the family shipping business, Anderson, Anderson & Co.,...
|Sir Andrew Duncan
|Resignation (pressure of work at the Wheat Commission)
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|Southampton
|1 February 1940
|Sir C. C. Barrie
Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay
Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay KBE DL JP was a businessman and Liberal Party and later Liberal National politician in the United Kingdom.-Background and education:...
|Sir John Reith
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom...
|Resignation (to provide a seat for Sir John Reith)
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|Wells
Wells by-election, 1939
The Wells by-election, 1939 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Wells in Somerset on 13 December 1939. The seat had become vacant when Anthony Muirhead, the constituency's Conservative Party Member of Parliament had died on 29 October, aged 48. He...
|13 December 1939
|A. J. Muirhead
|D. C. Boles
Dennis Coleridge Boles
Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Coleridge Boles was a soldier and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom...
|Death (suicide)
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|Stretford
|8 December 1939
|Anthony Crossley
Anthony Crossley
Anthony Crommelin Crossley was a British a writer, publisher and Conservative politician.Crossley was born on 13 August 1903, the only son of Sir Kenneth Irwin Crossley, 2nd Baronet. His father was chairman of Crossley Brothers Limited and Crossley Motors Limited.In 1916 Crossley enrolled at Eton...
|Ralph Etherton
Ralph Etherton
Ralph Humphrey Etherton was a British barrister and Conservative politician.He was the son of Captain Louis Etherton. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1926....
|Death (air crash)
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|Streatham
|7 December 1939
|William Lane-Mitchell
William Lane-Mitchell
Sir William Lane-Mitchell was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Streatham in 1918, and held the seat until his resignation in 1939 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He was knighted in 1921.- External links :...
|David Robertson
David Robertson (UK politician)
Sir David Robertson was a British accountant, company director and politician. From a Scottish family, he represented first a constituency in London and then the Scottish highlands constituency of Caithness and Sutherland...
|Resignation (to make way for a younger candidate)
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|Macclesfield
|22 November 1939
|John Remer
John Remer
John Rumney Remer was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Macclesfield at the 1918 general election, and was re-elected at six further general eelctions. He resigned from Parliament on 6 November 1939 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern...
|W. Garfield Weston
W. Garfield Weston
Willard Garfield Weston, OC, , Canadian businessman and philanthropist, led George Weston Limited and its various subsidiaries and associated companies, including Associated British Foods, for half a century and established one of the world's largest food processing and distribution concerns...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, 1939
The Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, 1939 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne on 28 October 1939. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Fred Simpson, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election.The...
|28 October 1939
|Fred Simpson
Fred Simpson (politician)
Frederick Brown Simpson was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Nottingham and in 1922 Simpson was elected to Leeds City Council as an alderman, and in 1931 was Lord Mayor of the city...
|William Jowitt
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...
|Death
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|Ormskirk
|27 October 1939
|Samuel Rosbotham
|Stephen King-Hall
Stephen King-Hall
Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall of Headley was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. -Life:...
|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Clackmannanshire and East Stirlingshire
|13 October 1939
|Lauchlin MacNeill Weir
Lauchlin MacNeill Weir
Lauchlin MacNeill Weir was a Scottish Labour politician.He first stood for parliament in Argyllshire in 1918, but was easily beaten by the Coalition Liberal....
|Arthur Woodburn
Arthur Woodburn
Arthur Woodburn was a Scottish Labour politician.Born in Edinburgh, he was educated at Heriot Watt College. Imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War I, Woodburn worked in engineering and ironfounding administration, and was a lecturer and national secretary of the Scottish Labour...
|Death
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|High Peak
|7 October 1939
|Alfred Law
Alfred Law
Sir Alfred Joseph Law was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in West Bromwich, he was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for the Rochdale constituency in Lancashire, but was defeated at the 1922 general election.He was returned to the House of...
|High Molson
Hugh Molson, Baron Molson
Hugh Molson, Baron Molson PC was a British Conservative politician.Born in Chelmsford, Essex, the only surviving son of Major John Elsdale Molson, Member of Parliament for Gainsborough from 1918–23, and Mary Leeson, he was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and Dartmouth, at Lancing,...
|Death
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|Fareham
Fareham by-election, 1939
The Fareham by-election, 1939 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Fareham in Hampshire on 6 October 1939. The seat had become vacant when Sir Thomas Inskip, the constituency's Conservative Party Member of Parliament had been ennobled as Viscount...
|6 October 1939
|Sir Thomas Inskip
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote CBE, PC, KC was a British politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940...
|Dymoke White
Dymoke White
Sir Dymoke White, 2nd Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in England who served as Member of Parliament for Fareham in Hampshire from 1939 to 1950....
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Brecon and Radnor
|1 August 1939
|Ivor Grosvenor Guest
|William Jackson
William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson
William Frederick Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson was a British fruit farmer from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire who was noted for his scientific cultivation of a range of fruits...
|Succession to the peerage
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|Colne Valley
|27 July 1939
|Ernest Marklew
Ernest Marklew
Ernest Marklew was a British Labour Party politician.At the 1935 general election, Marklew was elected as Member of Parliament for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire, defeating the sitting Liberal Party MP, Lance Mallalieu...
|William Glenvil Hall
|Death
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|Monmouth
Monmouth by-election, 1939
The Monmouth by-election, 1939 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth in Wales on 25 July 1939. The by-election was won by the Conservative candidate Leslie Pym.- Vacancy :...
|25 July 1939
|John Arthur Herbert
John Arthur Herbert
Sir John Arthur Herbert GCIE was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a colonial governor.He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the British Army in 1919. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Monmouth in Wales at a by-election in 1934. In that year, he was made an...
|Leslie Pym
Leslie Pym
Leslie Ruthven Pym was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Monmouth in Wales at a by-election in 1939. He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until his death during the 1945 general election. Polling took place on 5...
|Appointment as Governor of Bengal
Governor of Bengal
From 1690, a governor represented the British East India Company in Bengal, which had been granted the right to establish a trading post by the local rulers, the nawabs of Murshidabad, who were nominal vassals of the Mughal emperor in Delhi....
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|Hythe
|20 July 1939
|Philip Sassoon
Philip Sassoon
Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, GBE, CMG , was a British politician, art collector and social host, entertaining many celebrity guests at his homes, Port Lympne, Kent, and Trent Park, Hertfordshire, England.-Family:Sassoon was a member of the prominent Sassoon family and...
|Rupert Brabner
Rupert Brabner
Commander Rupert Arnold Brabner DSO, DSC, was a British Member of Parliament who served with the Royal Navy as a pilot in World War II and became an ace with 5.5 confirmed kills.-Politics:...
|Death
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|North Cornwall
North Cornwall by-election, 1939
The North Cornwall by-election, 1939 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 July 1939 for the British House of Commons constituency of North Cornwall.The by-election took place shortly before the start of the Second World War...
|13 July 1939
|Francis Dyke Acland
Francis Dyke Acland
Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet PC, DL, JP was a British Liberal politician. He notably served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under H. H. Asquith between 1911 and 1915.-Background and education:...
|Tom Horabin
Tom Horabin
Thomas Lewis Horabin was a British Liberal Party politician who defected to the Labour Party. He sat in the House of Commons from 1939 to 1950.- Early life :Horabin was born in Merthyr Tydfil...
|Death
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|Portsmouth South
|12 July 1939
|Herbert Cayzer
|Jocelyn Lucas
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Caerphilly
|4 July 1939
|Morgan Jones
Morgan Jones (Welsh politician)
Morgan Jones was a Welsh Labour Party politician.He was educated at Reading University, and became a teacher by profession. He first entered politics as a Glamorgan County Councillor...
|Ness Edwards
Ness Edwards
Onesimus Edwards was a Welsh Labour Party politician.A trade unionist, Ness Edwards was imprisoned in 1917 as a conscientious objector to the conscription of the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for Caerphilly at a by-election in 1939 following the death of Labour MP and...
|Death
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|Kennington
|24 May 1939
|George Harvey
George Harvey (UK politician)
Sir George Harvey was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 until his death....
|John Charles Wilmot
|Death
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|Birmingham Aston
|17 May 1939
|Arthur Hope
Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour
Arthur Oswald James Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour GCIE MC was a British politician, soldier and administrator. He was a Conservative and served as Member of Parliament for Nuneaton from 1924 to 1929 and for Birmingham Aston from 1931 to 1939, after which he was Governor of the Madras Presidency of...
|Edward Kellett
Edward Orlando Kellett
Colonel Edward Orlando Kellett DSO was a British Member of Parliament and British Army officer who was killed in action during fighting in Tunisia during World War II....
|Resignation
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|Southwark North
|19 May 1939
|Edward Anthony Strauss
Edward Anthony Strauss
Edward Anthony Strauss was an English corn, grain and hop merchant of German-Jewish background. He was a Liberal, later Liberal National Member of Parliament.-Family and education:...
|George Alfred Isaacs
|Death
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|Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey by-election, 1939
The Westminster Abbey by-election, 1939 was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 May 1939 for the British House of Commons constituency of Westminster Abbey in London. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Sidney Herbert, Bt. had died on 22 March 1939. Herbert...
|17 May 1939
|Sidney Herbert
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1922 to 1931 and 1932 to 1939....
|Harold Webbe
Harold Webbe
Sir William Harold Webbe, CBE, DL was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1939 to 1959....
|Death
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|Sheffield Hallam
|10 May 1939
|Louis William Smith
|Roland Jennings
Roland Jennings
Sir Roland Jennings was a British chartered accountant and politician.Born in Sunderland, he served with the Durham Light Infantry in the First World War. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Sedgefield in County Durham at the 1931 general election, defeating the Labour Party...
|Death
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|Down
|10 May 1939
|David Reid
Sir David Reid, 1st Baronet
Sir David Reid, 1st Baronet was the Unionist Member of Parliament for Down from 1922 until his death in 1939.He attended Queens College, Belfast and New College, Oxford, graduating with 1st Class honours in History. He then became a barrister...
|James Little
|Death
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|South Ayrshire
|20 April 1939
|James Brown
|Alexander Sloan
Alexander Sloan
Alexander Sloan was Labour MP for South Ayrshire, in Scotland, until his death.His successor was Emrys Hughes.His great-great-granddaughter, Katy Clark, is also a Labour MP.-References:...
|Death
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|Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire
|30 March 1939
|Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, KCMG was a British politician and Governor of South Australia from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944....
|Colin Thornton-Kemsley
Colin Thornton-Kemsley
Sir Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley OBE, TD was a Conservative and National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1939 to 1950, and for North Angus and Mearns from 1950 until his retirement at the 1964 general...
|Resignation
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|Batley and Morley
|9 March 1939
|Willie Brooke
Willie Brooke
Willie Brooke was a British Trade Union administrator and Labour Party politician.Brooke, the son of a woolsorter, was born in Bradford. He went to Carlton Street Secondary School; his first job was as an office boy for the Amalgamated Society of Dyers...
|Hubert Beaumont
Hubert Beaumont (Labour politician)
Captain Hubert Beaumont was a Co-operative official and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament and served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.-Working life:...
|Death
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|Ripon
|23 February 1939
|John Waller Hills
John Waller Hills
John Waller Hills PC DCL was a British Conservative politician.The second son of Herbert Augustus and Anna Hills of High Head Castle, Cumberland, Hills was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford....
|Christopher York
Christopher York
Major Christopher York was a British Conservative politician.York was the eldest son of Captain Edward York and his wife, Violet Helen née Milner, daughter of Sir Frederick Milner, 7th Baronet...
|Death
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|Holderness
|15 February 1939
|Samuel Savery
Samuel Savery
Sir Samuel Servington Savery was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was also founder and the first Headmaster of Bramcote School, Scarborough....
|Gurney Braithwaite
|Death
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|East Norfolk
East Norfolk by-election, 1939
The East Norfolk by-election, 1939 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 January 1939 for the British House of Commons constituency of East Norfolk.- Previous MP :...
|26 January 1939
|William Lygon
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp was a politician in the United Kingdom.He was the eldest son of the controversial William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, sometime leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords. Standing as a Liberal, he was elected as Member of Parliament for East Norfolk at the 1929...
|Frank Medlicott
Frank Medlicott
Brigadier Frank Medlicott was a National Liberal Party and later Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He first stood for parliament as a Liberal, contesting Acton in 1929....
|Succession to the peerage
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|Kinross and Western Perthshire
|21 December 1938The Duchess of Atholl
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE , born Katharine Marjory Ramsay and known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a British noblewoman and Unionist politician....
had resigned the National Government whip
Whip (politics)
A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...
over foreign policy and in November 1938 was deselected as a candidate by her local association. She decided to resign her seat and fight a by-election as an Independent in opposition to the policy of appeasement
Appeasement
The term appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power. Historian Paul Kennedy defines it as "the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and...
. She lost the seat to the new Conservative candidate.
|The Duchess of Atholl
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE , born Katharine Marjory Ramsay and known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a British noblewoman and Unionist politician....
/Ind
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
Conservative
|William McNair Snadden
William McNair Snadden
Sir William McNair Snadden, 1st Baronet JP was a Scottish Tory politician.The youngest son of Reverend James Snadden, he was educated at Dollar Academy...
|Sought re-election in opposition to government foreign policy
Appeasement
The term appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power. Historian Paul Kennedy defines it as "the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and...
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|Fylde
|30 November 1938
|Edward Stanley
|Claude Lancaster
Claude Lancaster
Claude Granville Lancaster was a British army officer, company director and Conservative Party politician....
|Death
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|Lewisham West
Lewisham West by-election, 1938
The Lewisham West by-election, 1938 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Lewisham West on 24 November 1938.-Campaign:...
|24 November 1938
|Philip Dawson
Philip Dawson
Sir Philip Dawson was a British electrical engineer and Conservative politician.Following education at Ghent and Liège Universities, Dawson became a member of the Institutes of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers. He became a partner in the firm of Kincaid, Waller, Manville and Dawson,...
|Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor CH, PC was a British Conservative Party politician.-Political career:...
|Death
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|Doncaster
|17 November 1938
|Alfred Short
Alfred Short
Alfred Short was a British trades unionist and Labour politician, Member of Parliament for Wednesbury from 1918 to 1931, and for Doncaster from 1935 until 1938....
|John Morgan
John Morgan (politician)
John Morgan was a British Labour Party politician.Morgan stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in a series of Parliamentary elections in the 1930s, losing at Leicester West in 1935 by only 87 votes...
|Death
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|Bridgwater
Bridgwater by-election, 1938
The Bridgwater by-election, 1938 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Bridgwater, Somerset held on 17 November 1938...
|17 November 1938In 1942 Bartlett co-founded the Common Wealth Party
Common Wealth Party
The Common Wealth Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Thereafter, it continued in being, essentially as a pressure group, until 1993.-The war years:...
and served on its National Committee, but resigned two months later and reverted to being an Independent Progressive MP, retaining the seat in his original colours in the 1945 general election.
|Reginald Croom-Johnson
Reginald Croom-Johnson
Sir Reginald Powell Croom-Johnson KC was a British politician and judge.Croom-Johnson began his career as a solicitor in 1901. In 1909 he married Ruby Ernestine Hobbs. They had two sons, one of whom was killed in 1940 while serving in the Second World War. In 1929, he was elected the Conservative...
|Vernon Bartlett
Vernon Bartlett
Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE was an English journalist, politician and author who served as a Member of Parliament from 1938 to 1950.-Life:...
Progressive
|Appointment as High Court
High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
Judge
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|Walsall
Walsall by-election, 1938
The Walsall by-election, 1938 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Walsall on 16 November 1938.-Vacancy:...
|16 November 1938
|Joseph Leckie
Joseph Leckie
Joseph Alexander Leckie was a British Liberal, later Liberal National politician and leather manufacturer.-Education and business life:...
|George Ernest Schuster
George Ernest Schuster
Sir George Ernest Schuster, KCSI, KCMG, CBE, MC was a British barrister, financier, colonial administrator and Liberal politician....
|Death
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|Dartford
|7 November 1938The Dartford county constituency was divided in a mini redistribution in 1945 into two borough constituencies - Bexley
Bexley (UK Parliament constituency)
Bexley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bexley district of south-east London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.-History:...
and Dartford
Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)
-Elections in the 2000s:-Elections in the 1990s:-Notes and references:...
. Labour upheld its by-election gain in both constituencies with Adamson carrying the Bexley seat.
|Frank Edward Clarke
Frank Edward Clarke
Frank Edward Clarke was a Conservative Party politician in England.He was elected at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament for Dartford, and held the seat until his death in 1938, aged 51.- References :...
|Janet Laurel Adamson
|Death
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|Oxford
Oxford by-election, 1938
The Oxford by-election, 1938 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Oxford, held on October 27, 1938. The by-election was triggered when Robert Croft Bourne, the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament died on August 7, 1938...
|27 October 1938
|Robert Croft Bourne
|Quintin Hogg
|Death
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|Willesden East
|28 July 1938
|Daniel Somerville
Daniel Somerville
Daniel Gerald Somerville was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness...
|Samuel Hammersley
Samuel Hammersley
Samuel Schofield Hammersley was a Conservative Party politician in England.He was elected at the 1924 general election as a Member of Parliament for Stockport, a two-seat constituency...
|Death
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|Barnsley
Barnsley by-election, 1938
The Barnsley by-election, 1938 was a by-election held on 16 June 1938 for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnsley in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire....
|16 June 1938
|John Samuel Potts
|Frank Collindridge
Frank Collindridge
Frank Collindridge was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Barnsley, Collindridge was elected as Member of Parliament for Barnsley at a by-election in 1938, and represented the constituency until he died during the campaign for the 1951 general election in Barnsley aged 60.In...
|Death
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|Stafford
|9 June 1938
|William Ormsby-Gore
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech KG, GCMG, PC , known as William Ormsby-Gore until 1938, was a British Conservative politician and banker.-Background:...
|Peter Thorneycroft
Peter Thorneycroft
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft CH, PC , was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.-Biography:...
|Succession to the peerage
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|West Derbyshire
|2 June 1938
|Edward Cavendish
Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MBE, TD , known as Marquess of Hartington , was the head of the Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family...
|Henry Hunloke
|Succession to the peerage
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|Aylesbury
|19 May 1938
|Michael Wentworth Beaumont
|Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed (UK politician)
Sir Stanley Reed, KBE was a British Conservative Party politician and an important figure in the media of India in the early 20th century....
|Resignation
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|Lichfield
|5 May 1938
|James Alexander Lovat-Fraser
|Cecil Charles Poole
Cecil Charles Poole
Cecil Charles Poole was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a Member of Parliament from 1938 to 1955....
|Death
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|Fulham West
|6 April 1938
|Cyril Stephen Cobb
|Edith Summerskill
Edith Summerskill
Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill CH PC was a British physician, feminist, misandrist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.-Early life:...
|Death
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|City of London
City of London by-election, 1938
The City of London by-election, 1938 was a by-election held on 6 April 1938 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district....
|6 April 1938
|Thomas Vansittart Bowater
Thomas Vansittart Bowater
Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 1st Baronet DL was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1913 to 1914 and as one of the City's Members of Parliament from 1924 to 1938.-Career:...
|George Broadbridge
George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge
George Thomas Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge KCVO FRGS FCIS was a British Conservative Party politician, most prominently in the City of London....
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Combined Scottish Universities
Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1938
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1938 was a by-election held from 21 February to 25 February 1938 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :...
|25 February 1938
|Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....
|Sir John Anderson
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer...
|Death
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|Ipswich
|16 February 1938
|Francis Ganzoni
|Richard Stokes
Richard Stokes
Major Sir Richard Rapier Stokes MC was a British Labour politician who served briefly as Lord Privy Seal in 1951....
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Pontypridd
|11 February 1938
|David Lewis Davies
David Lewis Davies
David Lewis Davies was a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Pontypridd from 1931 to 1937....
|Arthur Pearson
|Death
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|Farnworth
|27 January 1938
|Guy Rowson
|George Tomlinson
George Tomlinson
George Tomlinson was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Rishton, Lancashire, he was a conscientious objector in the First World War, and worked on the land....
|Death
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|Hastings
|24 November 1937
|Eustace Percy
Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle PC , styled Lord Eustace Percy between 1899 and 1953, was a British diplomat, Conservative politician and public servant...
|Maurice Hely-Hutchinson
Maurice Hely-Hutchinson
Maurice Robert Hely-Hutchinson was a Conservative Party politician in England.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Hastings in East Sussex at a by-election in 1937. He held the seat until the 1945 general election, when he stood down from Parliament...
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Islington North
Islington North by-election, 1937
The Islington North by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 October 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Islington North in Islington, North London....
|13 October 1937
|Albert William Goodman
|Leslie Haden Haden-Guest
Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest
Leslie Haden Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest MC was a British author, journalist, doctor and Labour Party politician.-Life and career:...
|Death
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|Glasgow Springburn
Glasgow Springburn by-election, 1937
The Glasgow Sprinburn by-election, 1937 occurred in Glasgow Springburn on September 7, 1937, which was a Tuesday.It was caused by the death of George Hardie. It was won by his widow Agnes Hardie.-Campaign:...
|7 September 1937
|George Hardie
George Hardie (Labour politician)
George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie was a Scottish Labour politician, and the younger brother of the party's founder Keir Hardie.After leaving school, he became an engineer and an activist in the Independent Labour Party....
|Agnes Hardie
Agnes Hardie
Agnes Agnew Hardie was a British Labour politician.Her association with the Labour movement began when she was a shop girl in Glasgow. She was a pioneer member of the Shop Assistants' Union, acting for some years as organizer...
|Death
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|North Dorset
|13 July 1937
|Cecil Hanbury
Cecil Hanbury
Sir Cecil Hanbury was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the 1924 general election as Member of Parliament for the Northern division of Dorset, having unsuccessfully contested the seat at both the 1922 and 1923 elections...
|Angus Valdimar Hambro
|Death
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|Chertsey
|2 July 1937
|Archibald Boyd-Carpenter
|Arthur Marsden
Arthur Marsden (politician)
Sir Arthur Marsden was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1935 and from 1937 to 1950....
|Death
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|Kingston-upon-Thames
|1 July 1937
|Frederick Penny
Frederick Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood
Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood KCVO, JP was a British Conservative Party politician.The second son of Frederick James Penny of Bitterne in Hampshire, Penny was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton.He was a senior partner Fraser & Co., Government brokers,...
|Percy Royds
Percy Royds
Admiral Sir Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds CB CMG ADC was a British admiral and politician.Royds was born in Rochdale, the son of Ernest Royds and the older brother of Charles Royds, also later an admiral. He was educated at Eastman's School in Southsea, a naval school, and joined HMS Britannia,...
|Elevation to the peerage
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|St Ives
|30 June 1937
|Walter Runciman
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford PC was a prominent Liberal, later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom from the 1900s until the 1930s.-Background:...
|Alec Beechman
Alec Beechman
Nevil Alexander Beechman was a National Liberal Party politician in England.He was elected to the House of Commons at his first attempt, when he won the June 1937 by-election in the St Ives constituency in Cornwall after the National Liberal MP Walter Runciman was elevated to the peerage as...
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Ilford
|29 June 1937
|George Clements Hamilton
|George Hutchinson
George Hutchinson
George Henry Hutchinson was a professional footballer who played for Huddersfield Town, Sheffield United, Tottenham Hotspur, Guildford City, Leeds United, Halifax Town & Skegness Town. He served in the RAF during National Service and was stationed at Ballykelly in Northern Ireland & RAF Cosford...
|Resignation
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|Bewdley
|29 June 1937
|Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...
|Roger Conant
Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet
Sir Roger John Edward Conant, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for more than 25 years between 1931 and 1959....
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Holland with Boston
Holland with Boston by-election, 1937
The Holland with Boston by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 24 June 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Holland with Boston.- Previous MP :...
|24 June 1937
|James Blindell
James Blindell
Sir James Blindell was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, who served as the Member of Parliament for Holland with Boston from 1929 until his death....
|Herbert Butcher
Herbert Butcher
Sir Herbert Walter Butcher, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative and National Liberalpolitician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1937 to 1966....
|Death
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|Hemel Hempstead
|22 June 1937
|John Davidson
|Frances Davidson
|Elevation to the peerage
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Cheltenham
Cheltenham by-election, 1937
The Cheltenham by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 June 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire....
|22 June 1937Lipson was elected as an Independent Conservative but in Parliament supported the National Government. He was re-elected in the 1945 general election as an independent supporter of Churchill's government.
|Walter Reuben Preston
|Daniel Leopold Lipson
Conservative
|Resignation
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|Plymouth Drake
|15 June 1937
|Frederick Guest
|Henry Guest
Henry Guest
Christian Henry Charles Guest , usually known as Henry Guest, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.- Family :...
|Death
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|Buckingham
Buckingham by-election, 1937
The Buckingham by-election of 1937 was a by-election held on 11 June 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire....
|11 June 1937
|George Bowyer
George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham
Captain George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham, MC, DL was a British Conservative Party politician.Bowyer was educated at Eton and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1910...
|John Percival Whiteley
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Glasgow Hillhead
|10 June 1937
|Robert Horne
Robert Stevenson Horne, 1st Viscount Horne
Robert Stevenson Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan GBE, PC, KC was a Scottish businessman, advocate and Unionist politician. He served under David Lloyd George as Minister of Labour between 1919 and 1920, as President of the Board of Trade between 1920 and 1921 and as Chancellor of the...
|James Reid
James Reid, Baron Reid
James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, CH, KC FRSE was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century....
|Elevation to the peerage
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|York
|6 May 1937
|Lawrence Lumley
Lawrence Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough
Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, DL TD was a British Conservative statesman....
|Charles Wood
Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax was a British politician and peer. He was styled Lord Irwin from 1934 until 1959.-Biography:...
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Birmingham West
|29 April 1937
|Austen Chamberlain
Austen Chamberlain
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG was a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.- Early life and career :...
|Walter Frank Higgs
|Death
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|Wandsworth Central
|29 April 1937
|Henry Jackson
Sir Henry Jackson, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Jackson, 1st Baronet , was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the 1924 general election as the Member of Parliament for Wandsworth Central, but was narrowly defeated at the 1929 general election by the Labour Party candidate, Archibald Church...
|Harry Louis Nathan
|Death
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|Stalybridge and Hyde
|28 April 1937
|Philip Russell Rendel Dunne
Philip Russell Rendel Dunne
Captain Philip Russell Rendel Dunne, MC was an English soldier and politician.Lord of the Manor of Leinthall Earls....
|Horace Trevor-Cox
Horace Trevor-Cox
Horace Brimson Trevor-Cox was a British farmer, landowner and politician who served from 1937 to 1945 as a Conservative Member of Parliament , but left the Conservatives in the 1960s and subsequently joined the Labour Party.Born in Birkenhead and brought up near Chester, his father was a...
|Resignation
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|Farnham
|23 March 1937
|Arthur Michael Samuel
|Godfrey Nicholson
Godfrey Nicholson
Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament .A member of the family which founded London-based gin distillers J&W Nicholson & Co, Nicholson was a younger son of Richard Francis Harrison and a grandson of politician, William Nicholson...
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Tonbridge
|23 March 1937
|Herbert Henry Spender-Clay
Herbert Henry Spender-Clay
Herbert Henry Spender Clay was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1937.- Career :...
|Adrian William Maxwell Baillie
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Combined English Universities
|22 March 1937The Combined English Universities
Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)
Combined English Universities was a university constituency represented in the United Kingdom Parliament . It was formed by enfranchising and combining all the English Universities, except for Cambridge, Oxford and London, which were already separately represented.-Boundaries:This University...
was a two-member constituency. In the 1935 general election it elected one Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
and one Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
(Eleanor Rathbone
Eleanor Rathbone
Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.-Life:...
). Harvey took the seat from the Conservatives as an "Independent Progressive" but did not contest the 1945 general election which was won by two Independents (Rathbone and K.M. Lindsay).
|Reginald Henry Craddock
|Thomas Edmund Harvey
Thomas Edmund Harvey
Thomas Edmund Harvey was an English museum curator, social reformer and politician. He sat in Parliament first as a Liberal and later as an Independent Progressive Member of Parliament...
Progressive
|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Oxford University
|27 February 1937
|Lord Hugh Cecil
|James Arthur Salter
James Arthur Salter
James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter GBE, KCB, PC was a British politician and academic.-Background and education:...
|Appointment as Provost of Eton College
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
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|Richmond-upon-Thames
|25 February 1937
|William Ray
|George Steven Harvie-Watt
|Resignation
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|Manchester Gorton
|18 February 1937
|Joseph Compton
Joseph Compton
Joseph Compton was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton...
|William Wedgwood Benn
|Death
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|St Pancras North
|4 February 1937
|Ian Fraser
Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale
William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale CH CBE, , known as Ian Fraser, was a British Conservative Party politician, a Governor of the BBC, a successful businessman and the first person to be awarded a life peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958.Fraser was blinded in World War I and...
|Robert Grant-Ferris
Robert Grant-Ferris
Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington was a British Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Douai School and served in the RAF during the War. He was Member of Parliament for St Pancras North from 1937 to 1945, and for Nantwich from 1955 until his retirement at the February 1974...
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Greenock
Greenock by-election, 1936
The Greenock by-election, 1936 was a by-election held on 26 November 1936 for the House of Commons constituency of Greenock in Renfrewshire, Scotland.- Vacancy :...
|26 November 1936
|Godfrey Collins
Godfrey Collins
Sir Godfrey Pattison Collins KBE, CMG, PC was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.He entered the Royal Navy in 1888 and was a Midshipman, East Indian Station from 1890-1893...
|Robert Gibson
|Death
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|Preston
Preston by-election, 1936
The Preston by-election, 1936 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Preston on 25 November 1936...
|25 November 1936
|William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick (Conservative politician)
William MacColin Kirkpatrick was an English Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Preston at the 1931 general election, and held the seat until his resignation in 1936 when he was appointed as the representative to China of the Export Credits Guarantee...
|Edward Cobb
Edward Cobb
Edward Charles Cobb was an English Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Preston at a by-election in 1936, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1945 general election....
|Resignation
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|Clay Cross
|5 November 1936
|Alfred Holland
Alfred Holland (politician)
Alfred Holland was a Labour Party politician in England.He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for Clay Cross, filling the seat held by Arthur Henderson until his death shortly before the election. Holland died only 9 months after his election to the House of Commons,...
|George Ridley
|Death
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|Birmingham Erdington
|20 October 1936
|John Eales
John Frederick Eales
John Frederick Eales was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1936.-Early life and legal career:...
|John Allan Cecil Wright
|Death
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|East Grinstead
|23 July 1936
|Henry Cautley
Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley
Henry Strother Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley KC , known as Sir Henry Cautley, Bt, from 1924 to 1936, was a British barrister, judge and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
|Ralph Clarke
|Elevation to the peerage
|-
|Balham and Tooting
|23 July 1936
|Sir Alfred Butt, 1st Baronet
Alfred Butt
Sir Alfred Butt, 1st Baronet was a British theatre entrepreneur, Conservative politician and racehorse owner and breeder...
|George Frederick Doland
George Doland
Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Doland OBE was a British businessman and Conservative politician.A native of the Wandsworth area, Doland was a merchant tailor, who established a chain of shops in south-west London. In 1912 he entered local politics, when he was elected as a Municipal Reform...
|Resignation
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|Derby
|9 July 1936
|James Henry Thomas
James Henry Thomas
James Henry "Jimmy" Thomas was a British trade unionist and Labour politician. He was involved in a political scandal involving budget leaks.-Early career and Trade Union activities:...
|Philip Noel-Baker
|Resigned over budget leak
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|Lewes
|18 June 1936
|John de Vere Loder
|Tufton Beamish
Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish
Rear Admiral Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish, RN, DL was an English naval officer and Conservative Party politician. He married Margaret Simon in 1914. The couple had two daughters and one surviving son....
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Peckham
|6 May 1936
|David Beatty
|Lewis Silkin
|Succession to peerage
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|Llanelli
|26 March 1936
|John Williams
John Henry Williams (Welsh politician)
Dr John Henry Williams was a Liverpool-born Welsh Labour Party politician.Williams was a medical practitioner in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire and was elected to Carmarthenshire County Council where he was the chairman of the health committee.At the 1922 general election, he was elected as Member of...
|Jim Griffiths
Jim Griffiths
James "Jim" Griffiths CH , was a Welsh Labour politician, trade union leader and the first ever Secretary of State for Wales.-Background and education:...
|Death
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|Dunbartonshire
|18 March 1936
|Archibald Douglas Cochrane
|Thomas Cassells
Thomas Cassells
Thomas Cassells was a Labour Party politician in Scotland who served as Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire from 1936 to 1941....
|Governor of Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
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|Ross and Cromarty
Ross and Cromarty by-election, 1936
The Ross and Cromarty by-election, 1936 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Ross and Cromarty held on 10 February 1936. The by-election was triggered when Sir Ian Macpherson, a Liberal National was given a peerage...
|10 February 1936
|Sir Ian Macpherson
|Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm John MacDonald OM, PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Background:MacDonald was the son of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald. Like his father he was born in Lossiemouth, Moray...
|Peerage to provide seat for Dominions Secretary
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
The position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British cabinet level position created in 1925 responsible for British relations with the Dominions — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and the Irish Free State, as well as the self-governing colony of...
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm John MacDonald OM, PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Background:MacDonald was the son of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald. Like his father he was born in Lossiemouth, Moray...
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|Combined Scottish Universities
Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1936
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1936 was a by-election held from 27 January to 31 January 1936 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :...
|31 January 1936
|Noel Skelton
|Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....
|Death
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|colspan=9|
36th ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1931This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1931 general election, held on 27 October 1931....
(1931–1935)
|-!By-election !! Date !! Incumbent !! colspan=2 | Party !! Winner !! colspan=2 | Party !! Cause
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|Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire by-election, 1935
The Dumfriesshire by-election, 1935 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Dumfriesshire in Scotland on 12 September 1935. The by-election was won by the National Liberal Party candidate Sir Henry Fildes....
|12 September 1935
|Joseph Hunter
Joseph Hunter (UK politician)
Dr Joseph Hunter was a politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament from 1929 until his death....
/ National Liberal
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
|Henry Fildes
Henry Fildes
Sir Henry Fildes was a Liberal Party, later National Liberal Party) and later still Liberal National Party politician in the United Kingdom...
|Death
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|Sevenoaks
|20 July 1935
|Edward Young
|Charles Ponsonby
|Created Baron Kennet
Baron Kennet
Baron Kennet, of the Dene in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the journalist and politician Sir Hilton Young. He was the youngest son of Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet, of Formosa Place. He was succeeded by his son, the second...
|- bgcolor=pink
|Liverpool West Toxteth
|16 July 1935
|Clyde Tabor Wilson
Clyde Tabor Wilson
Clyde Tabor Wilson was a British Conservative Party politician.At the 1931 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Toxteth, winning the seat with a large majority over the sitting Labour Party MP, Joseph Gibbins...
|Joseph Gibbins
Joseph Gibbins
Joseph Gibbins, JP was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.-Early life:Joseph Gibbins was born in the Toxteth Park district of Liverpool in early 1888. He was educated at evening classes at Liverpool University...
|Appointment as a Metropolitan Police Magistrate
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|Liverpool West Derby
|6 July 1935
|John Sandeman Allen
John Sandeman Allen (1865-1935)
Sir John Sandeman Allen was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby from 1924 until he died in office in 1935.- External links :...
|David Maxwell Fyfe
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir GCVO, PC, KC, , known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as The Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions...
|Death
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|City of London
|26 June 1935
|Edward Grenfell
|Alan Garrett Anderson
Alan Garrett Anderson
Sir Alan Garrett Anderson GBE DL was a British civil servant and shipowner.- Early life and career:Anderson was born in 1877 to James George Skelton Anderson and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Anderson's father was a shipping magnate who merged the family shipping business, Anderson, Anderson & Co.,...
|Resigned, later created Baron St Just
Baron St Just
Baron St Just, of St Just in Penwith, County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for the banker Edward Grenfell. He was the son of Henry Grenfell, the grandson of Charles Grenfell, the great-grandson of Pascoe Grenfell and the first cousin of...
|-
|Combined Scottish Universities
Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1935
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1935 was a by-election held from 17 June to 22 June 1935 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :...
|17–22 June 1935
|John Buchan
|John Graham Kerr
John Graham Kerr
Sir John Graham Kerr was a Scottish embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament . He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes.Born in Hertfordshire to Scottish parents, Kerr was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh, but...
|Appointed Governor General of Canada
Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...
|-
|Aberdeen South
|21 May 1935
|Sir Frederick Thomson
|Sir Douglas Thomson
Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet
Sir Douglas Wishart Thomson, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish Unionist politician.Thomson was the son of Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet and was educated at Oxford University...
|Death
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|Tamworth
|10 May 1935
|Sir Arthur Ramsay-Steel-Maitland
|John Serocold Paget Mellor
|Death
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|Edinburgh West
|2 May 1935
|Wilfrid Normand
Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand
Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand, KC, PC , was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford, Paris University and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1910. He served in the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1918...
|Thomas Mackay Cooper
Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross PC, KC was a Scottish politician, judge and historian.-Background and education:...
|Appointed as Lord Justice General
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|Perth
|16 April 1935
|Lord Scone
Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
Mungo David Malcolm Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield , styled Lord Scone from 1906 to 1935, was a Scottish Unionist Party politician....
|Francis Norie-Miller
Francis Norie-Miller
Sir Francis Norie-Miller, 1st Baronet was a British insurance company manager and Liberal later Liberal National politician. Although he was born in England, his chief associations were with Scotland and in particular the city of Perth...
|Succession to the peerage
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|Eastbourne
Eastbourne by-election, 1935
The Eastbourne by-election, 1935 was a by-election held on 29th March 1935 for the British House of Commons constituency of Eastbourne in East Sussex....
|29 March 1935
|John Slater
John Slater (UK politician)
John Slater was an English Conservative Party politician.In 1932, Slater was elected as Member of Parliament for Eastbourne in East Sussex, in an unopposed by-election on 29th March following the death of Conservative MP Edward Marjoribanks.Slater held the seat for less than three years, dying...
|Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor (UK politician)
Sir Charles Stuart Taylor was an English businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1935 to 1974....
|Death
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|Lambeth Norwood
|14 March 1935
|Walter Greaves-Lord
|Duncan Sandys
Duncan Sandys
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s...
|Resignation
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|Cambridge University
|23 February 1935
|Godfrey Wilson
Godfrey Wilson
Godfrey Wilson was a British anthropologist who studied social change in Africa.Wilson first joined Hertford College with an open scholarship in 1927, and received a Lit. Hum. degree in 1931. In 1932, he entered the London School of Economics and Political Science...
|Kenneth Pickthorn
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Liverpool Wavertree
Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 1935
The Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 1935 was a by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Wavertree on 6 February 1935. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Joseph Jackson Cleary.- Vacancy :...
|6 February 1935
|Ronald Nall Nall-Cain
Ronald Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket
Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
|Joseph Jackson Cleary
Joseph Jackson Cleary
Sir Joseph Jackson Cleary, JP was a British Labour Party politician.-Early life:Joseph Cleary was born in the West Derby district of Liverpool 26 October 1902 . He was educated at Holy Trinity School, Anfield and at Skerry's College, Liverpool.- Career :Cleary was appointed a Liverpool Justice of...
|Succession to the peerage
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|Putney
|28 November 1934
|Samuel Samuel
Samuel Samuel
Samuel Samuel was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1913 to 1934....
|Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel
Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel
Marcus Reginald Anthony Samuel was a British Conservative Party politician.At the 1929 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Southwark North, losing his deposit....
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Swindon
|25 October 1934
|Reginald Mitchell Banks
|Christopher Addison
Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
Sir Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG, PC was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under...
|Appointment as County Court Judge
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|Lambeth North
|23 October 1934
|Frank Briant
Frank Briant
Frank Briant was a British Liberal politician and Civil Servant. In religion he was a Congregationalist.He was a member of Lambeth Borough Council, the London County Council and the House of Commons. He was first elected to Lambeth Council and was elected Chairman of the Council in 1899, a...
|George Russell Strauss
|Death
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|Rushcliffe
|26 July 1934
|Henry Betterton
|Ralph Assheton
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC was a British Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955.In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of...
|Resignation
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|Fermanagh and Tyrone
|27 June 1934
|Joseph Devlin
Joseph Devlin
Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician...
|Joseph Francis Stewart
Joseph Francis Stewart
Joseph Francis Stewart, known as Joe Stewart , was an Irish nationalist politician.After growing up in Dungannon, where he studied at the Christian Brothers' School, Stewart worked as a wine merchant and became active in the Irish Parliamentry Party...
|Death
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|Weston-super-Mare
|26 June 1934
|James Erskine
John Erskine, Lord Erskine
John Francis Ashley Erskine, Lord Erskine GCSI, GCIE was a British soldier, Conservative Party politician and administrator who served as Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare and Brighton...
|Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing
|Resignation
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|Twickenham
Twickenham by-election, 1934
The Twickenham by-election, 1934 was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 June 1934 for the British House of Commons constituency of Twickenham in Middlesex....
|22 June 1934
|Hylton Murray-Philipson
Hylton Murray-Philipson
Hylton Ralph Murray-Philipson was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1932 to 1934....
|Alfred Critchley
Alfred Critchley
Brigadier-General Alfred Cecil Critchley, CMG, CBE, DSO was an entrepreneur and politician in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland . He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1934 to 1935....
|Death
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|Monmouth
Monmouth by-election, 1934
The Monmouth by-election, 1934 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth in Wales on 14 June 1934. It was won by the Conservative candidate John Arthur Herbert.- Vacancy :...
|14 June 1934
|Leolin Forestier-Walker
|J. A. Herbert
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Merthyr
Merthyr by-election, 1934
The Merthyr by-election, 1934 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 June 1934 for the British House of Commons constituency of Merthyr in Wales....
|5 June 1934
|Richard Wallhead
/ Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
|Stephen Owen Davies
|Death
|-
|Hemsworth
Hemsworth by-election, 1934
A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Hemsworth on 17 May 1934. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Gabriel Price, who had held the seat since the 1931 general election....
|17 May 1934
|John Guest
John Guest (politician)
John Guest was a British Labour Party politician.Guest was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth. He held the seat at the next four general elections, and died shortly before the 1931 general election.- External links :...
|George Griffiths
George Griffiths
George Arthur Griffiths was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth at a by-election in 1934 following the death of the sitting MP Gabriel Price. Griffiths held the seat at the next two general elections, and died in office in...
|Death
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|West Ham Upton
|14 May 1934
|Alfred James Chotzner
Alfred James Chotzner
Alfred James Chotzner was a British judge and Conservative politician.He was the son of Joseph Chotzner, a notable rabbi. Alfred was educated at Cambridge University, and afterwards entered the Indian Civil Service, rising to become a High Court judge...
|Benjamin Walter Gardiner
|Resignation
|- bgcolor=pink
|Hammersmith North
|24 April 1934
|Mary Ada Pickford
Mary Ada Pickford
The Hon. Mary Ada Pickford CBE was a British politician, industrialist and historian. After working to support the Conservative Party over several years, she was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1931, and specialised in Indian issues; she also used her knowledge of the factory system gained...
|Fielding Reginald West
Fielding Reginald West
Fielding Reginald West was a British Labour Party politician.-Early life:West was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Following elementary education at the age of 12, he initially worked in a coal mine before becoming a clerk in a Bradford textile factory. During the First World War he was a clerk in...
|Death
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|Basingstoke
|19 April 1934
|Gerard Wallop
|Henry Maxence Cavendish Drummond Wolff
|Resignation
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|Combined Scottish Universities
Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1934
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1934 was a by-election held from 7 March to 12 March 1934 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :...
|7–12 March 1934
|Dugald McCoig Cowan
|George Alexander Morrison
George Alexander Morrison
George Alexander Morrison was a Scottish Liberal Party and then National Liberal Party politician....
|Death
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|Portsmouth North
|19 February 1934
|Bertram Godfray
|Roger Keyes
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Lowestoft
Lowestoft by-election, 1934
The 1934 Lowestoft by-election was an election held for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom's constituency of Lowestoft, it was the first ever by election in the constituency. It was held on Thursday 15 February 1934, polling stations opened between the hours of 8 am and 10 pm...
|15 February 1934
|Gervais Rentoul
Gervais Rentoul
Sir Gervais Squire Chittick Rentoul K.C.,M.A. , commonly known as Gervais Rentoul, was a British Conservative politician....
|Pierse Creagh Loftus
|Resignation
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|Cambridge
|8 February 1934
|George Newton
George Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley
George Douglas Cochrane Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1909...
|Richard Tufnell
Richard Tufnell
Richard Lionel Tufnell was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Cambridge at a by-election in 1934, following the ennoblement of the Conservative MP Sir George Newton as Baron Eltisley.Tufnell retained the seat at the 1935 general...
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Wentworth
|22 December 1933
|George Henry Hirst
George Henry Hirst
George Henry Hirst was a British politician, elected Labour Member of Parliament for Wentworth when the constituency was created in 1918....
|Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling was a British Labour politician. He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered casual employment with local plumbing and building companies...
|Death
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|Harborough
|28 November 1933
|Arthur Stuart
|Arthur Tree
|Resignation
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|Rutland and Stamford
|21 November 1933
|Neville Smith-Carington
|Gilbert Heathcote-
Drummond-Willoughby
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster
Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster , styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1910 to 1951, was a British Conservative politician....
|Death
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|Manchester Rusholme
|21 November 1933
|Frank Merriman
Frank Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman
Frank Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman PC, KC, OBE, GCVO , often known as Boyd Merriman, was a Conservative Party politician and judge in the United Kingdom.-Education:...
|Edmund Radford
|Appointment to High Court
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|Skipton
|7 November 1933
|Ernest Bird
|George Rickards
|Death
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|Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock by-election, 1933
The Kilmarnock by-election, 1933 was a by-election held on 2 November 1933 for the British House of Commons constituency of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire.- Vacancy :...
|2 November 1933
|Craigie Mason Aitchison
|Kenneth Martin Lindsay
|Appointment to Scottish bench
|- bgcolor=pink
|Fulham East
Fulham East by-election, 1933
The Fulham East by-election, in Fulham, on 25 October 1933 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan died. In what had been a safe Conservative seat the election was surprisingly won by John Charles Wilmot of Labour....
|25 October 1933
|Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan
|John Charles Wilmot
|Death
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|Clay Cross
|1 September 1933
|Charles Duncan
Charles Duncan (politician)
Charles Duncan was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Middlesbrough, Duncan was the son of a ship's pilot. He was apprenticed to the engineering industry, and Elswick Ordnance Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne...
|Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and he served three short terms as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1908–1910, 1914–1917 and 1931-1932....
|Death
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|Altrincham
Altrincham by-election, 1933
The Altrincham by-election, 1933 was a parliamentary by-election held on 14 June 1933 for the British House of Commons constituency of Altrincham in Cheshire....
|14 June 1933
|Cyril Atkinson
Cyril Atkinson
Cyril Atkinson was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament for Altrincham in Cheshire from 1924 general election to 1933, when he was appointed as a High Court judge....
|Edward Grigg
|Appointment to High Court
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|Hitchin
|8 June 1933
|Edward Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune...
|Arnold Wilson
Arnold Wilson
Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson KCIE CSI CMG DSO was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918-1920. Wilson became publicly known for his role as the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia during and after the First World War. His high-handedness arguably led to an Iraqi revolt in 1920. He was...
|Death
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|Normanton
Normanton by-election, 1933
The Normanton by-election, 1933 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Normanton on 8 May 1933. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Frederick Hall, who had held the seat since a previous by-election in 1905.The...
|8 May 1933
|Frederick Hall
Frederick Hall (politician)
Frederick Hall was a Liberal Party then Labour Party politician in England.He was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1905 as a Liberal, following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament , William Parrott. In 1909 his trade union instructed him to take the Labour Party whip...
|Tom Smith
Tom Smith (Labour politician)
Tom Smith was a Labour Party politician in England.At the 1922 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the previously Liberal-held seat of Pontefract in West Yorkshire. He was re-elected at the 1923 election, but at the 1924 general election he lost his seat by 701 votes to...
|Death
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|Rhondda East
Rhondda East by-election, 1933
The Rhondda East by-election, 1933 was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 March 1933 for the British House of Commons constituency of Rhondda East in Wales.- Vacancy :...
|28 March 1933
|David Watts-Morgan
|William Mainwaring
William Mainwaring
William Henry Mainwaring was a British coal miner, lecturer and trade unionist, who became a long-serving Labour Party Member of Parliament. Both as a trade unionist and a politician he struggled, largely successfully to counter Communist influence...
|Death
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|Ashford
|17 March 1933
|Michael Knatchbull
|Patrick Spens
Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens
William Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens KBE, PC, KC , was a British lawyer, judge and Conservative politician. He served as Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947....
|Succession to the peerage
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|Rotherham
|27 February 1933
|George Herbert
George Herbert (politician)
George Herbert was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Rotherham at the 1931 general election, and resigned on 6 February 1933 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.- External links :...
|William Dobbie
|Resignation
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|East Fife
|2 February 1933
|Sir James Millar
James Duncan Millar
James Duncan Millar was a Scottish barrister and Liberal, later National Liberal politician.-Family and education:...
|James Henderson Stewart
Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet
Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet, was a British banker, Army officer and politician. He was a National Liberal Member of Parliament for East Fife from 1933 until his death, and was the sessional chairman of the Parliamentary Party in 1945...
|Death
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|Liverpool Exchange
Liverpool Exchange by-election, 1933
The Liverpool Exchange by-election, 1933 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Exchange in Liverpool on 19 January 1933. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Joseph Shute.- Vacancy :...
|19 January 1933
|Sir James Reynolds
Sir James Reynolds, 1st Baronet
Colonel Sir James Philip Reynolds, 1st Baronet DSO was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician....
|John Joseph Shute
John Joseph Shute
Colonel Sir John Joseph Shute, CMG, DSO, TD, JP, DL was a volunteer soldier, businessman and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
|Death
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|Cardiganshire
Cardiganshire by-election, 1932
The Cardiganshire by-election, 1932 was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 September 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Cardiganshire.-Previous Member of Parliament:...
|22 September 1932
|Rhys Hopkin Morris
Rhys Hopkin Morris
Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris was a Welsh Liberal politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1923–1932 and from 1945–1956....
|David Owen Evans
Owen Evans
David Owen Evans was a Liberal Party politician from Wales.Owen Evans was educated at Llandovery School and the Imperial College of Science. In 1896 he joined the civil service . Later he read for the Bar and was called to Gray's Inn. He practised law in London until 1916 when he joined the Mond...
|Appointment as a Metropolitan Police
Metropolitan police
Metropolitan Police is a generic title for the municipal police force for a major metropolitan area, and it may be part of the official title of the force...
magistrate
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|Twickenham
Twickenham by-election, 1932
The Twickenham by-election, 1932 was a parliamentary by-election held on 16 September 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Twickenham in Middlesex....
|16 September 1932
|John Ferguson
John Ferguson (UK politician)
Sir John Ferguson was a British Conservative Party politician.He was President of the Institute of Bankers from 1925 to 1927....
|Hylton Murray-Philipson
Hylton Murray-Philipson
Hylton Ralph Murray-Philipson was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1932 to 1934....
|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Wednesbury
Wednesbury by-election, 1932
The Wednesbury by-election, 1932 was a by-election held on 26 July 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Wednesbury in Staffordshire...
|26 July 1932
|William Humble Eric Ward
|John William Banfield
|Succession to the peerage
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|North Cornwall
North Cornwall by-election, 1932
The North Cornwall by-election, 1932 was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 July 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of North Cornwall.- Previous Member of Parliament :...
|22 July 1932
|Donald Maclean
|Francis Dyke Acland
Francis Dyke Acland
Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet PC, DL, JP was a British Liberal politician. He notably served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under H. H. Asquith between 1911 and 1915.-Background and education:...
|Death
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|Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey by-election, 1932
The Westminster Abbey by-election, 1932 was a parliamentary by-election held on 12 July 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Westminster Abbey in London. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Otho Nicholson resigned from the Commons by becoming the...
|12 July 1932
|Otho Nicholson
Otho Nicholson
Otho William Nicholson was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1924 to 1932....
|Sidney Herbert
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1922 to 1931 and 1932 to 1939....
|Resignation
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|Montrose
|28 June 1932
|Robert Hutchison
Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
Major-General Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose KCMG, CB, DSO, PC was a Scottish soldier and Liberal politician.-Background:Hutchison was the son of Alexander Hutchison, of Braehead, Kirkcaldy, Fife...
|Charles Kerr
Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...
|Succession to the peerage
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|Dulwich
Dulwich by-election, 1932
The Dulwich by-election, 1932 was a by-election held on 8 June 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Dulwich in South London.The by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament , Sir Frederick Hall.The Conservative and National candidate...
|8 June 1932
|Sir Frederick Hall
Sir Frederick Hall, 1st Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Hall was a British businessman and politician.He was educated privately and became a member of Lloyd's of London in 1896 and the Baltic Exchange in 1902. He was a member of the Committee of Lloyd's from 1921 to 1923...
|Bracewell Smith
Bracewell Smith
Sir Bracewell Smith, Bt was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.-Biography:Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he attended Wesley Place Primary School in the town. He started as a pupil teacher and attended Leeds University before entering business...
|Death
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|St Marylebone
|28 April 1932
|James Rennell Rodd
Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell
James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933, was a British diplomat, poet and politician...
|Alec Cunningham-Reid
Alec Cunningham-Reid
- Political career :At the 1922 general election, Cunningham-Reid stood as the conservative candidate in Warrington, a Conservative-held borough constituency in Lancashire where the sitting MP Sir Harold Smith was retiring. He won the seat with a comfortable majority in a two-way contest with...
|Succession to the peerage
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|Eastbourne
Eastbourne by-election, 1932
The Eastbourne by-election, 1932 was a by-election held on 28 April 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Eastbourne in East Sussex....
|28 April 1932
|Edward Marjoribanks
Edward Marjoribanks (Conservative politician)
Edward Marjoribanks was a barrister and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.At the 1929 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Eastbourne in East Sussex, and held the seat at the 1931 general election...
|John Slater
John Slater (UK politician)
John Slater was an English Conservative Party politician.In 1932, Slater was elected as Member of Parliament for Eastbourne in East Sussex, in an unopposed by-election on 29th March following the death of Conservative MP Edward Marjoribanks.Slater held the seat for less than three years, dying...
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|Wakefield
|21 April 1932
|George Brown Hillman
George Brown Hillman
George Brown Hillman was briefly the Conservative MP for Wakefield.Hillman was born in Halifax in 1867. He was elected MP for Wakefield in 1931, defeating the incumbent Labour MP, George Henry Sherwood, by 4,107 votes. Hillman was 64 years old when elected.Hillman did not serve long as an MP, and...
|Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood CH was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924...
|Death
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|Richmond-upon-Thames
|13 April 1932
|Newton James Moore
|William Ray
|Resignation
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|Dunbartonshire
|17 March 1932
|John Gibb Thom
John Gibb Thom
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gibb Thom DSO MC was a British soldier, judge and politician from Linlithgow.Thom served with the Gordon Highlanders, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917, and later that year received the Distinguished Service Order for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to...
|Archibald Cochrane
|Resignation
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|Henley
Henley by-election, 1932
The Henley by-election, 1932 was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 February 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Henley. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Robert Henderson had died on 16 January 1932. He had held the seat since the 1924...
|25 February 1932
|Robert Henderson
Robert Henderson (British politician)
Robert Ronald Henderson was a British politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1924 to 1932.Henderson was born in 1876, the son of John Henderson...
|Sir Gifford Fox, Bt.
Gifford Fox
Sir Gifford Wheaton Grey Fox, 2nd Baronet was a British politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1932 to 1950....
|Death
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|New Forest and Christchurch
|9 February 1932
|Walter Perkins
|Wilfrid Ashley
|Elevation to the peerage
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|Croydon South
Croydon South by-election, 1932
The Croydon South by-election, 1932 was a by-election held on 9 February 1932 for the British House of Commons constituency of Croydon South in Surrey.- Vacancy :...
|9 February 1932
|William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson
William Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon
William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon KBE PC , known as Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baronet, from 1918 to 1932, was a British politician....
|Herbert Williams
|Resignation
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