List of United Kingdom by-elections (1950 - 1979)

This is a list of parliamentary by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

s in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

at the election, the result is highlighted: red for a 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...

gain, blue for a 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...

gain, orange for a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

gain, yellow for a SNP

Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

gain, green for a Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru

' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...

gain and grey for any other gain.

Resignations

See Resignation from the British House of Commons

Resignation from the British House of Commons

Members of Parliament sitting in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to resign. To circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used...

for more details.

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.

47th Parliament (October 1974–1979)

Liverpool Edge Hill by-election, 1979

The Liverpool Edge Hill by-election of 1979 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 29 March 1979 to elect a new Member of Parliament for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill....

|29 March 1979,
|Sir 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...

|David Alton

|Death
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|Knutsford

Knutsford by-election, 1979

The Knutsford by-election, 1979 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Knutsford in Cheshire on 1 March 1979. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Jock Bruce-Gardyne.- Vacancy :...

|1 March 1979
|John Davies

John Davies (businessman)

John Emerson Harding Harding-Davies, MBE, PC was a successful British businessman who served as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry during the 1960s...

|Jock Bruce-Gardyne

Jock Bruce-Gardyne

John Bruce-Gardyne, Baron Bruce-Gardyne was a British Conservative Party politician.Son of Captain Evan Bruce-Gardyne, DSO, RN 13th Laird of Middleton, and a member of a Scottish landholding family who have been based in the county of Angus since at least 1008 AD. He was born in Chertsey, Surrey...

|Resignation on medical advice
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|Clitheroe

Clitheroe by-election, 1979

The Clitheroe by-election, 1979 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Clitheroe in Lancashire on 1 March 1979. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate David Waddington.- Vacancy :...

|1 March 1979
|David Walder

David Walder

Alan David Walder was a British Conservative Party politician.Born in St Pancras, London, Walder was educated at Latymer School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1948. In 1953 he transferred to the 4th Hussars and was promoted Lieutenant. He was promoted...

|David Waddington

David Waddington, Baron Waddington

David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, GCVO, DL, QC, PC , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1968 to 1990, and was then made a life peer...

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|Pontefract and Castleford

Pontefract and Castleford by-election, 1978

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons parliamentary constituency of Pontefract and Castleford on 26 October 1978 following the death of Labour Member of Parliament Joseph Harper on 24 June. It was one of two UK parliamentary by-elections held on that day.The result was a Labour...

|26 October 1978
|Joe Harper

Joseph Harper (English politician)

Joseph Harper was a Labour Party politician in Great Britain.He was elected as the Member of Parliament MP for Pontefract at a by-election in 1962. He was MP for the constituency and then Pontefract and Castleford until he died in office aged 64...

|Geoffrey Lofthouse

|Death
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|Berwick and East Lothian

Berwick and East Lothian by-election, 1978

The Berwick and East Lothian by-election, 1978 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Berwick and East Lothian in Scotland on 26 October 1978...

|26 October 1978
|John Mackintosh

John Mackintosh

John Pitcairn Mackintosh was a British Labour Party politician known for his defence of devolution and the concept of dual nationality; that Scots could be both Scottish and British....

|John Home Robertson

|Death
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|Penistone

Penistone by-election, 1978

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Penistone on 13 July 1978. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament John Mendelson, who had held the seat since a by-election in 1959....

|13 July 1978
|John Mendelson

John Mendelson

John Jakob Mendelson was a British Labour Party politician.Mendelson was educated at the University of London and became a university lecturer in political science...

|Allen McKay

Allen McKay

Allen McKay is a retired British Labour Party politician.Born in Barnsley, McKay was elected Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Penistone in a 1978 by-election followig the death of the Labour MP John Mendelson, serving there until the seat was abolished for the 1983...

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|Manchester Moss Side

Manchester Moss Side by-election, 1978

The Manchester Moss Side by-election of 13 July 1978 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Frank Hatton. Labour held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:...

|13 July 1978
|Frank Hatton

Frank Hatton (UK politician)

Frank Hatton was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Manchester Exchange at the 1973 by-election. When the seat was abolished in boundary changes for the February 1974 general election, Hatton was returned to the House of Commons as MP for...

|George Morton

George Morton

George Martin Morton is a retired Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Morton was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Glasgow University...

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|Hamilton

Hamilton by-election, 1978

There was a by-election for the United Kingdom House of Commons in Hamilton on Wednesday 31 May 1978. It was caused by the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament Alexander Wilson.The by-election was the last in the UK to date not held on a Thursday...

|31 May 1978
|Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson (Scottish politician)

Alexander Wilson was a British Labour Party politician.Wilson's first parliamentary contest was the Hamilton by-election of 1967, in which he lost to the Scottish National Party candidate Winifred Ewing. However, Wilson was able to gain the seat from her at the 1970 general election.Wilson held...

|George Robertson

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, is a British Labour Party politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position...

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|Wycombe

Wycombe by-election, 1978

The Wycombe by-election of 27 April 1978 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament John Hall. The Conservatives held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:...

Lambeth Central by-election, 1978

The Lambeth Central by-election was held on 20 April 1978, following the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament for Lambeth Central Marcus Lipton....

|20 April 1978
|Marcus Lipton

Marcus Lipton

Marcus Lipton OBE was a British Labour Party politician.Lipton was educated at Bede Grammar School, Sunderland, and Merton College, Oxford with a scholarship. He studied law and was called to the Bar in 1926...

|John Tilley

John Tilley

John Vincent Tilley was a British Labour Party politician.Tilley was born and raised in Derby. He was educated at a grammar school and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read history...

|Death
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|Glasgow Garscadden

Glasgow Garscadden by-election, 1978

The Glasgow Garscadden by-election, 1978 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 April 1978 for the British House of Commons constituency of Glasgow Garscadden, in the north west periphery of the City of Glasgow....

|13 April 1978
|William Small

William Small (Scottish politician)

William Watson Small was a Scottish Labour Party politician.Small was an engineer. He was an Ayrshire County Councillor from 1945 to 1951 and an active member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, serving on its national committee from 1955 to 1957 and as president of the union's West Ayrshire...

|Donald Dewar

Donald Dewar

Donald Campbell Dewar was a British politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000. He served in Tony Blair's cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1997-1999 and was instrumental in the creation...

|Death
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|Ilford North

Ilford North by-election, 1978

The Ilford North by-election of 2 March 1978 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Millie Miller on 29 October 1977. The seat was gained by the Conservatives in a defeat for James Callaghan's government.-Results:...

|2 March 1978
|Millie Miller

Millie Miller

Millie Miller was a British Labour Party politician.Miller was a councillor in the London Borough of Camden and was the first woman to lead a London Borough council when she was leader 1971-73...

|Vivian Bendall

Vivian Bendall

Vivian Walter Hough Bendall is a British estate agent and politician. After gaining the seat in a by-election he served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Ilford North from 1978 until his defeat in 1997. Bendall is on the right-wing of the party.-Business life:Born in Croydon, Bendall's...

|Death
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|Bournemouth East

Bournemouth East by-election, 1977

The Bournemouth East by election was a by election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom held on 24 November 1977 after the resignation of John Cordle following his criticism by a Select Committee for business links to corrupt architect John Poulson....

|24 November 1977
|John Cordle

John Cordle

John Howard Cordle was a British Conservative Party politician.Cordle, the son of Ernest William Cordle, was educated at the City of London School and became managing director of E. W. Cordle and Son Ltd. in 1946. He was also a member of Lloyd's of London...

|David Atkinson

David Atkinson

David Anthony Atkinson was Conservative British Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East from a 1977 by-election until he stepped down at the 2005 general election.-Early life:...

|Resignation: found in contempt of the House
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|Birmingham Ladywood

Birmingham Ladywood by-election, 1977

The Birmingham Ladywood by-election of 18 August 1977 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Brian Walden resigned in order to concentrate on his career as a journalist and broadcaster. A safe Labour seat, it was retained by the party....

|18 August 1977
|Brian Walden

Brian Walden

Alastair Brian Walden is a British journalist and broadcaster who was a Labour Member of Parliament for a decade. He is the father of actor Ben Walden....

|John Sever

John Sever

Eric John Sever is a former Labour Party politician in England.Sever was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood in a by-election in 1977. He served until 1983, when he was deselected as Labour candidate and replaced by Clare Short. Sever stood in Meriden, but lost by 15,018...

|Appointment as presenter of LWT

London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...

programme Weekend World
Weekend World
Weekend World is a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988.Created by John Birt not long after he moved to LWT, the series was broadcast on the ITV network at lunchtimes on Sundays...

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|Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden by-election, 1977

The Saffron Walden by-election of July 1977 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Peter Kirk on 16 April that year. The Conservatives held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:-External links:**...

|7 July 1977
|Sir Peter Kirk

Peter Michael Kirk

Sir Peter Michael Kirk, was a British Conservative politician and a junior minister in the governments of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath....

|Alan Haselhurst

Alan Haselhurst

Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst is a British Conservative politician who is the Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden and was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010.-Early life, education and career:...

Anthony Crosland

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland , otherwise Tony Crosland or C.A.R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby...

|Austin Mitchell

Austin Mitchell

Austin Vernon Mitchell is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby since a 1977 by-election.-Education and early life:...

|Death
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|Ashfield

Ashfield by-election, 1977

The Ashfield by-election was held on 28 April 1977 in the Ashfield constituency in the coal mining area of Nottinghamshire, following the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament David Marquand...

Gain not retained at the 1979 UK general election.
|28 April 1977
|David Marquand

David Marquand

David Ian Marquand FBA, FRHistS, FRSA is a British academic and former Labour Party Member of Parliament .Born in Cardiff, Marquand was educated at Emanuel School, Magdalen College, Oxford, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and at the University of California, Berkeley...

|Tim Smith

Tim Smith (UK politician)

Timothy John Smith, known as Tim Smith, is a former British Conservative politician.-Politics:...

|New career as Chief of Staff to Roy Jenkins
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|Birmingham Stechford

Birmingham Stechford by-election, 1977

The Birmingham Stechford by-election, in Birmingham, on 31 March 1977 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Roy Jenkins resigned his seat following his appointment as President of the European Commission. A seat that had been solidly Labour since its formation in 1950, it was won by Andrew...

|31 March 1977
|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...

|Andrew MacKay

|President of the European Commission

President of the European Commission

The President of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission ― the executive branch of the :European Union ― the most powerful officeholder in the EU. The President is responsible for allocating portfolios to members of the Commission and can reshuffle or dismiss them if needed...

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|City of London and Westminster South

City of London and Westminster South by-election, 1977

The City of London and Westminster South by-election on 24 February 1977 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Christopher Tugendhat resigned the seat upon his appointment to the European Commission...

|24 February 1977
|Christopher Tugendhat

|Peter Brooke

Peter Brooke

Peter Leonard Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, CH, PC , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and was a Member of Parliament representing the Cities of London and Westminster from...

|European Commissioner

European Commissioner

A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...

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|Cambridge

Cambridge by-election, 1976

The Cambridge by-election of 2 December 1976 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament David Lane resigned his seat to take up the position of Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality.: The seat was retained by the Tories in a result that cut the government majority to one...

|2 December 1976
|David Lane

David Lane (politician)

David William Stennis Stuart Lane was a British Conservative Party politician.Lane was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge and Yale University. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1955. From 1956 to 1959 he was secretary of the British Iron and Steel...

|Robert Rhodes James

Robert Rhodes James

Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James was a British historian and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in India and began his education in private schools there, returning to England to attend Sedbergh School and then Worcester College, Oxford.He wrote his first book, a much-acclaimed biography...

|New career as Chairman for the Commission for Racial Equality

Commission for Racial Equality

The Commission for Racial Equality was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom which aimed to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality. Its work has been merged into the new Equality and Human Rights Commission.-History:...

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|Workington

Workington by-election, 1976

The Workington by-election, 1976 was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Workington in Cumbria on 4 November 1976...

|4 November 1976
|Fred Peart

Fred Peart, Baron Peart

Thomas Frederick "Fred" Peart, Baron Peart, PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party....

|Richard Page

Richard Page

Richard Lewis Page is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from December 1979 to 2005.-Early life:He is the son of Victor Charles Page...

|Life Peerage on appointment as Leader of the House of Lords

Leader of the House of Lords

The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

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|Walsall North

Walsall North by-election, 1976

The Walsall North by-election on 4 November 1976 was held after the resignation of sitting Member of Parliament John Stonehouse. Elected as a Labour candidate, Stonehouse was a member of the English National Party when he resigned, after an interlude in which he faked his own death...

|4 November 1976
|John Stonehouse

John Stonehouse

John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

/English National

English National Party

English National Party has been the name of various political parties of England.-The original ENP:The English National Party was founded as the John Hampden New Freedom Party in the 1960s by Frank Hansford-Miller. In 1974, it renamed itself the "English Nationalist Party"...

|Robin Hodgson

|Resignation (convicted of insurance fraud)
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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central by-election, 1976

The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central by-election of 4 November 1976 was held after the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament Edward Short who left to take up the position of Chairman of Cable & Wireless. Labour held on to the seat in the by-election....

|4 November 1976
|Edward Short

|Harry Cowans

Harry Cowans

Harry Lowes Cowans was a British Labour Party politician.Cowans was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central at a 1976 by-election. After boundary changes, he was elected for Tyne Bridge in 1983. He died in office aged 52 in 1985.- External links :...

|New career as Chairman of Cable & Wireless

Cable & Wireless

Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. Cable & Wireless specialises in providing communication networks and services to large corporates, governments, carrier customers and resellers...

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|Thurrock

Thurrock by-election, 1976

The Thurrock by-election of 15 July 1976 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Hugh Delargy. Labour held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:...

|15 July 1976
|Hugh Delargy

Hugh Delargy

Hugh James Delargy was an Irish British Labour Party politician and MP.He was born in County Antrim.Delargy was educated in England, Paris and Rome and worked as a teacher, journalist, labourer and insurance official...

|Oonagh McDonald

Oonagh McDonald

Oonagh Anne McDonald CBE is a British academic and businesswoman, and a former Labour Party politician.-Early life:McDonald was born in Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, the daughter of Dr HD McDonald, an Irish protestant minister...

|Death
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|Rotherham

Rotherham by-election, 1976

The Rotherham by-election of 24 June 1976 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Brian O'Malley. Labour held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:...

|24 June 1976
|Brian O'Malley

Brian O'Malley

Brian Kevin O'Malley was a British Labour Party politician.O'Malley was educated at Mexborough Grammar School and Manchester University. He was a teacher and lecturer and a trade union branch official....

|Stanley Crowther

Stanley Crowther

Joseph Stanley Crowther, known as Stan Crowther, was British Labour Member of Parliament for Rotherham from the 1976 by-election until his retirement in 1992. His successor was Jimmy Boyce.-References:...

|Death
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|Wirral

Wirral by-election, 1976

The Wirral by-election of 11 March 1976 was held after Selwyn Lloyd, who had been elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament but who was serving as Speaker of the British House of Commons, retired. The Conservatives held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:...

|11 March 1976
|Selwyn Lloyd

Selwyn Lloyd

John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...

|David Hunt

|Life Peerage
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|Carshalton

Carshalton by-election, 1976

The Carshalton by-election of 11 March 1976 was held after the Conservative Member of Parliament Robert Carr was elevated to the House of Lords. The Conservatives held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:-External links:*...

|11 March 1976
|Robert Carr

Robert Carr

Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC is a British Conservative politician.Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1938....

|Nigel Forman

Nigel Forman

Francis Nigel Forman, known as Nigel Forman, is a British Conservative politician. After working in the Conservative Research Department from 1968 to 1976 he was elected as an MP. He became a prominent backbench MP and was appointed to the position of Minister of Higher Education in April 1992....

|Life Peerage
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|Coventry North West

Coventry North West by-election, 1976

The Coventry North West by-election, in Coventry, on 4 March 1976 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Maurice Edelman. A safe Labour seat, it was won by Geoffrey Robinson, who would go on to retain the seat in 1979.-Party performance:...

|4 March 1976
|Maurice Edelman

Maurice Edelman

Maurice Edelman was a British Labour Party politician and novelist who represented Coventry constituencies in the House of Commons for over 30 years.- Early life :...

|Geoffrey Robinson

Geoffrey Robinson

Geoffrey Robinson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Coventry North West since 1976. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to January 1999, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house...

|Death
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|Woolwich West

Woolwich West by-election, 1975

The Woolwich West by-election, 1975 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 June 1975 for the British House of Commons constituency of Woolwich West in South East London....

|26 June 1975
|William Hamling

William Hamling

William "Bill" Hamling was a British Labour Party politician.Hamling was educated at Liverpool University and was a signals officer in the Royal Marines during World War II....

|Peter Bottomley

Peter Bottomley

Sir Peter James Bottomley is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Worthing West...

|Death
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46th Parliament (February 1974–October 1974)

Newham South by-election, 1974

The Newham South by-election was a by-election held on 23 May 1974 for the British House of Commons constituency of Newham South. It was triggered when Elwyn Jones, the constituency's Labour Party Member of Parliament , was appointed as Lord Chancellor and subsequently awarded a life peerage.The...

|23 May 1974
|Elwyn Jones

|Nigel Spearing

Nigel Spearing

Nigel John Spearing is a British Labour Party politician.Nigel Spearing was born in London, and educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1956, he worked as a tutor and teacher, firstly at Wandsworth School and then at Elliot School,...

|Life Peerage on appointment as Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...

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45th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1970
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June 1970.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott, Norman Tebbit, Ian Paisley, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer, Alan...

(1970–February 1974)

Hove by-election, 1973

The Hove by-election was held on 8 November 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Hove in East Sussex.The by-election was caused by the death of Conservative Party Member of Parliament Martin Maddan....

|8 November 1973
|Martin Maddan

Martin Maddan

Martin Maddan was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Hitchin in the 1955 general election but was defeated in 1964. He returned for Hove at a 1965 by-election, and served until his death at the age of 52 in 1973.- External links :...

|Timothy Sainsbury

|Death
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|Glasgow Govan

Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973

The Glasgow Govan by-election was held on 8 November 1973, following the death of John Rankin, Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Glasgow Govan constituency. Rankin had died one month earlier, on 8 October 1973. Rankin had held the seat since 1955. With the exception of a narrow Conservative...

|8 November 1973
|John Rankin

|Margo MacDonald

Margo MacDonald

Margo MacDonald MSP is a Scottish politician and former Scottish National Party MP and Deputy Leader...

|Death
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|Edinburgh North

Edinburgh North by-election, 1973

A by-election for the UK Parliament took place in Edinburgh North on 8 November 1973. Alexander Fletcher held the seat for the Conservatives, after his predecessor became Duke of Buccleuch....

|8 November 1973
|Earl of Dalkeith

John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch

Portrait taken by [[Allan Warren]]|thumb|right|250pxWalter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry, KT, VRD, JP, DL was a Scottish Peer, politician and landowner...

|Alexander Fletcher

Alexander MacPherson Fletcher

Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher was a British Conservative Party politician.Fletcher was elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North at a by-election in 1973, serving there until 1983, when after boundary changes he became MP for Edinburgh Central...

|Succession to the Peerage
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|Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1973

The Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held on 8 November 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. It was one of four UK by-elections held on the same day....

|8 November 1973
|Antony Lambton

|Alan Beith

Alan Beith

Sir Alan James Beith is a British Liberal Democrat politician and Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed.-Early life:Alan Beith was born in 1943 in Poynton, in Cheshire...

|Resignation (scandal)
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|Ripon

Ripon by-election, 1973

The Ripon by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 July 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Ripon.The by-election took place during the 1970s Liberal revival. This seat and Isle of Ely were gained on the same day, the third and fourth Liberal gains during the...

|26 July 1973
|Malcolm Stoddart-Scott

Malcolm Stoddart-Scott

Colonel Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott OBE MC TD was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He attended Elmfield College and was then a master there...

|David Austick

David Austick

David Austick was a British Liberal Party politician and bookshop owner.At a by-election in July 1973 caused by the death of the sitting Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, Austick was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in North Yorkshire, gaining the seat from the Conservatives by a...

|Death
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|Isle of Ely

Isle of Ely by-election, 1973

The Isle of Ely by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 July 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Isle of Ely....

|26 July 1973
|Harry Legge-Bourke

Harry Legge-Bourke

Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke KBE was a British politician.He served alongside Jock Colville as a Page of Honour from 1926. Educated at Eton College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Legge-Bourke was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards in 1934. He served there throughout...

|Clement Freud

Clement Freud

Sir Clement Raphael Freud was an English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.-Early life:Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud and Lucie née Brasch. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian Freud...

|Death
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|Manchester Exchange

Manchester Exchange by-election, 1973

The Manchester Exchange by-election of 13 June 1973 was held after the death of William Griffiths on 14 April of the same year. The Labour Party won the by-election in what had traditionally been a safe seat....

|27 June 1973
|William Griffiths

William Griffiths (politician)

William Griffiths was a British Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Moss Side from 1945 until 1950 and for Manchester Exchange from 1950 until his death in 1973....

|Frank Hatton

Frank Hatton (UK politician)

|Death
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|Westhoughton

Westhoughton by-election, 1973

The Westhoughton by election took place for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in Westhoughton on 24 May 1973.It was won by Roger Stott who held the seat for Labour after the death on 1 February of the previous MP, Tom Price.-External links:*...

|24 May 1973
|Tom Price

Tom Price (UK politician)

Joseph Thomas "Tom" Price was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.He was born in Pendlebury, Lancashire, the son of William Price, a coalminer, and his wife Elizabeth...

|Roger Stott

Roger Stott

Roger Stott, CBE was a British Labour Party politician.-Biography:Stott was born in Rochdale, the first child of Richard and Edith Stott. He went to school in Rochdale and when he was 15 he joined the Merchant Navy...

|Death
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|West Bromwich

West Bromwich by-election, 1973

The West Bromwich by-election of 24 May 1973 was held after the appointment of Labour Member of Parliament Maurice Foley to the European Commission...

|24 May 1973
|Maurice Foley

Maurice Foley (politician)

Maurice Anthony Foley was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich at a by-election in 1963, and represented the constituency until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1973...

|Betty Boothroyd

Betty Boothroyd

Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, OM, PC is a British politician, who served as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000, initially for the Labour Party and, from 1992 to 2000, as Speaker of the House of Commons...

|Appointment to the European Commission staff
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|Lincoln

Lincoln by-election, 1973

The Lincoln by-election of 1 March 1973 saw the re-election of Dick Taverne as Member of Parliament for Lincoln as a Democratic Labour representative, after Taverne's pro-Common Market views saw him repudiated by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party...

Dundee East by-election, 1973

There was a by-election for Dundee East, in Scotland, on March 1st, 1973. It was one of three UK parliamentary by-elections held on that day.It was caused by the appointment of George Thomson as a European commissioner....

|1 March 1973George Machin

George Machin

George Machin was a British Labour Party politician, engineering inspector and shop steward.Machin was a native of Sheffield and attended Marlcliffe School there. During the second World War he served in the Royal Air Force; when it ended he became an engineering inspector and active in the trade...

retained the seat for Labour in the by-election but lost it to the SNP in the February 1974 UK general election.
|George Thomson

George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...

|George Machin

George Machin

|Appointment as European Commissioner
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|Chester-le-Street

Chester-le-Street by-election, 1973

The Chester-le-Street by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Chester-le-Street on 1 March 1973.-Vacancy:...

|1 March 1973
|Norman Pentland

Norman Pentland

Norman Pentland was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street. He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972....

|Giles Radice

|Death
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|Uxbridge

Uxbridge by-election, 1972

The Uxbridge by-election was held on 7 December 1972 after Conservative Member of Parliament Charles Curran had died on 16 September of the same year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives by Michael Shersby. Shersby would hold the seat until his sudden death just days after the 1997 general...

|7 December 1972
|Charles Curran

Charles Curran (politician)

Charles Curran was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Uxbridge from 1959 to 1966, when he lost to Labour. Curran regained the seat in 1970, holding it until his death in 1972. Michael Shersby was elected to succeed him in the subsequent by-election.-...

|Michael Shersby

Michael Shersby

Sir Michael Shersby was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Uxbridge.-Early life:...

|Death
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|Sutton and Cheam

Sutton and Cheam by-election, 1972

The Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda. In a defeat for Edward Heath's government the seat was taken by the Liberals. This was the second Liberal gain during the 1970-1974 Parliament,...

|7 December 1972
|Richard Sharples

Richard Sharples

Major Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC , St. George, Bermuda) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda from late 1972 to 10 March 1973 when he was shot dead by assassins linked to the militant Black Beret Cadre, a small Bermudian Black Power group.-Career:Sharples passed out...

|Graham Tope

|Governor of Bermuda

Governor of Bermuda

The Governor of Bermuda is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government...

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|Rochdale

Rochdale by-election, 1972

The Rochdale by-election, 1972 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 October 1972 for the British House of Commons constituency of Rochdale....

|26 October 1972
|Jack McCann

Jack McCann

John "Jack" McCann was a British politician, who served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Rochdale....

|Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

Sir Cyril Smith, MBE, was a British politician who served as Liberal and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the constituency of Rochdale from 1972 until his retirement in 1992.-Early life:...

|Death
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|Southwark

Southwark by-election, 1972

The Southwark by-election, 1972 was a by-election held on 4 May 1972 for the British House of Commons constituency of Southwark.The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the serving Labour Party Member of Parliament , Ray Gunter.-Candidates:...

|4 May 1972
|Ray Gunter

Ray Gunter

Raymond Jones Gunter , British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association .After seeing active service in the Second World War, enlisting in the...

/Independent Labour
|Harry Lamborn

Harry Lamborn

Harry George Lamborn , British Labour Party politician, was born in London and had a background in the British Trade Union movement — specifically his union USDAW, local government and the London Co-operative movement....

|Resignation (dispute with party)
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|Kingston-upon-Thames

Kingston-upon-Thames by-election, 1972

The Kingston-upon-Thames by-election of 4 May 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament John Boyd-Carpenter was appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1972

The Merthyr Tydfil by-election of 13 April 1972 was held after the death of S. O. Davies on 25 February the same year. The Labour Party won the by-election in what had traditionally been a safe seat, although Davies had been elected in the 1970 general election as an Independent after he had been...

|13 April 1972
|S. O. Davies

S. O. Davies

Stephen Owen Davies was a Welsh politician, and a member of the House of Commons from 1934 to his death....

|Edward Rowlands

|Death
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|Macclesfield

Macclesfield by-election, 1971

The Macclesfield by-election, 1971 was a parliamentary by-election held on 30 September 1971 for the constituency of Macclesfield in Cheshire. It was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting MP, the Conservative Arthur Vere Harvey....

|30 September 1971
|Sir Arthur Vere Harvey

|Nicholas Winterton

Nicholas Winterton

Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton is a retired British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Macclesfield from 1971 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election....

|Life Peerage
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|Widnes

Widnes by-election, 1971

The Widnes by-election of 1971 took place on 23rd September and produced a victory for the incumbent Labour Party.It remains the most recent by-election in England, Wales or Scotland to be contested by only two candidates.-Results:...

|23 September 1971
|James Eugene McColl

|Gordon Oakes

Gordon Oakes

Gordon James Oakes was a British Labour Party politician.Oakes was educated at Wade Deacon grammar school, Widnes and at Liverpool University...

|Death
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|Stirling and Falkirk

Stirling and Falkirk by-election, 1971

The Stirling and Falkirk by-election of 16 September 1971 was held following the death of Labour Member of Parliament Malcolm MacPherson. The seat was retained by Labour.-Results:-References:...

|16 September 1971
|Malcolm Macpherson

Malcolm MacPherson

Malcolm MacPherson was a Scottish Labour politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Stirling and Falkirk at a 1948 by-election, and served until his death in 1971.- External links :...

|Harry Ewing

Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford

Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford DL was a Labour politician in Scotland. He served as a Member of Parliament for 21 years, from a by-election in 1971 until the 1992 general election, when he became a life peer...

|Death
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|Greenwich

Greenwich by-election, 1971

The Greenwich by-election of 8 July 1971 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Richard Marsh resigned from the House of Commons to take up the post of Chairman of British Rail. The seat was retained by Labour.-Results:...

|8 July 1971
|Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh

Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...

|Guy Barnett

Guy Barnett (UK politician)

Nicolas Guy Barnett was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament.-Education and teaching and development work:...

|Chairman of British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

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|Hayes and Harlington

Hayes and Harlington by-election, 1971

The Hayes and Harlington by-election of 17 June 1971 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Arthur Skeffington. The seat was retained by Labour.-Results:...

|17 June 1971
|Arthur Skeffington

Arthur Skeffington

Arthur Massey Skeffington was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years between 1945 and 1971....

|Neville Sandelson

Neville Sandelson

Neville Devonshire Sandelson was a British politician.Sandelson was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1946, and director of a publishing company...

|Death
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|Goole

Goole by-election, 1971

The Goole by-election of 27 May 1971 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament George Jeger. The seat was retained by Labour.-Results:...

|27 May 1971
|George Jeger

George Jeger

George Jeger was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1945 to 1950, and for Goole from 1950 until his death in 1971.-References:...

|Edmund Marshall

Edmund Marshall

Dr Edmund Ian Marshall is a British politician and Churchman.-Early life:Marshall was educated at Humberstone Foundation School on Clee Road in Old Clee, Cleethorpes and Magdalen College, Oxford,where he took double first class...

|Death
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|Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove by-election, 1971

The Bromsgrove by-election of 27 May 1971 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament James Dance. The seat was won by the opposition Labour Party in a by-election that saw only the two major parties participating.-Results:...

|27 May 1971
|James Dance

James Dance (politician)

James Cyril Aubrey George Dance was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove at the 1955 general election, and held the seat until he died in office in 1971. The resulting by-election was won by the Labour Party's Terry Davis.- External links :...

|Terry Davis

|Death
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|Southampton Itchen

Southampton Itchen by-election, 1971

The Southampton Itchen by-election of 27 May 1971 was held after the Speaker of the British House of Commons and Member of Parliament Horace King retired. The seat was gained by the Labour Party...

Henry Kerby

Henry Briton Kerby was a British Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and Shoreham. He won the seat in a 1954 by-election, and served until his death at the age of 56 in Chichester in 1971. For a time he was associated with the National Fellowship group.Before joining the Conservative...

|Richard Luce

|Death
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|Liverpool Scotland

Liverpool Scotland by-election, 1971

The Liverpool Scotland by-election of 1 April 1971 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Walter Alldritt resigned from the House of Commons. The seat was retained by Labour.-Results:...

|1 April 1971
|Walter Alldritt

Walter Alldritt

Walter Harold Alldritt was a British Labour politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland at a by-election in 1964, and held the seat until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1971....

|Frank Marsden

Frank Marsden

Frank Marsden was a British Labour Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland from 1971 to 1974....

|Resignation
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|Enfield West

Enfield West by-election, 1970

The Enfield West by-election of 19 November 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Iain Macleod died on 20 July of the same year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|19 November 1970
|Iain Macleod

Iain Macleod

Iain Norman Macleod was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.-Early life:...

|Cecil Parkinson

Cecil Parkinson

Cecil Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC , is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister.-Early life:...

|Death
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|St Marylebone

St Marylebone by-election, 1970

The St Marylebone by-election of 22 October 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Quintin Hogg became a life peer. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|22 October 1970
|Quintin Hogg

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

For the businessman and philanthropist, see Quintin Hogg Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS , formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham , was a British politician who was known for the longevity of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative...

|Kenneth Baker

|Life Peerage on appointment as Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

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44th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1966
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1966 general election, held on 31 March 1966.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included David Owen, John Nott, Michael Heseltine, Jack Ashley, Donald Dewar, Gwyneth Dunwoody, John Pardoe and...

(1966–1970)

South Ayrshire by-election, 1970

The South Ayrshire by-election of 19 March 1970 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Emrys Hughes on 18 October 1969. The seat was retained by the Labour Party....

|19 March 1970
|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...

|James Sillars

|Death
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|Bridgwater

Bridgwater by-election, 1970

The Bridgwater by-election of March 12, 1970 was the first election in the United Kingdom to be held after the voting age had been reduced from 21 to 18. The seat was held by the Conservatives on a turnout of 70.3%.-Results:...

|12 March 1970
|Gerald Wills

Gerald Wills

Sir Gerald Wills, MBE was a British Barrister and politician who was Member of Parliament for Bridgwater from 1950 until his death....

|Tom King

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater

Thomas Jeremy King, Baron King of Bridgwater, CH, PC , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1983–92, and was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bridgwater in Somerset from 1970-2001...

|Death
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|Wellingborough

Wellingborough by-election, 1969

The Wellingborough by-election of 4 December 1969 was held following the death of Labour Member of Parliament Harry Howarth earlier that year. The seat was won by the Conservative Party.-Results:...

|4 December 1969
|Harry Howarth

Harry Howarth

Harry Howarth JP was a British railway clerk and politician.Howarth was a native of Crompton in Lancashire, England, and was educated at Crompton House School in the locality...

|Peter Fry

Peter Fry

Sir Peter Derek Fry is a British Conservative Party politician.Born in High Wycombe, Fry was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Worcester College, Oxford. He became an insurance broker and a director of the family retail clothing business...

|Death
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|Louth

Louth by-election, 1969

The Louth by-election, 1969 was a by-election held on 4 December 1969 for the British House of Commons constituency of Louth in Lincolnshire....

|4 December 1969
|Sir Cyril Osborne

Cyril Osborne

Sir Cyril Osborne was a Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire, and a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Louth constituency in Lincolnshire from 1945 until his death....

|Jeffrey Archer

|Death
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|Swindon

Swindon by-election, 1969

The Swindon by-election of 3 October 1969 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Francis Noel-Baker resigned from the House of Commons. The seat was won by the Conservative Party in a defeat for Harold Wilson's government.-Results:...

|30 October 1969
|Francis Noel-Baker

Francis Noel-Baker

Francis Edward Noel-Baker was a British Labour Party politician. His father was Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Philip Noel-Baker....

|Christopher Ward

Christopher Ward (UK politician)

Christopher John Ferguson Ward is a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician, who served as a Member of Parliament for only seven months after winning a byelection...

|Resignation
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|Paddington North

Paddington North by-election, 1969

The Paddington North by-election, 1969 was a by-election to the British House of Commons for the constituency of Paddington North. It was necessitated by the death of sitting MP Ben Parkin...

|30 October 1969
|Ben Parkin

Ben Parkin

Benjamin Theaker Parkin was a British teacher and politician who served as Member of Parliament for Stroud and for Paddington North...

|Arthur Latham

Arthur Latham

Arthur Charles Latham is a British Labour Party politician.Latham was elected Member of Parliament for Paddington North in a 1969 by-election, which he served until 1974 when the seat was abolished in boundary changes...

|Death
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|Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1969

The Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election of October 30, 1969 was caused by the death of Labour MP Stephen Swingler. It was held on the same day as four other by-elections and the seat was retained by Labour.-Results:...

|30 October 1969
|Stephen Swingler

Stephen Swingler

Stephen Thomas Swingler, PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969....

|John Golding

John Golding (British politician)

John Golding was a Labour Party politician and Trade Union leader in the United Kingdom.He was educated at Chester Grammar School, Keele University and the London School of Economics...

|Death
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|Islington North

Islington North by-election, 1969

The Islington North by-election, 1969 was a parliamentary by-election held on 30 October 1969 for the British House of Commons constituency of Islington North in Islington, North London....

|30 October 1969
|Gerald Reynolds

Gerry Reynolds (UK politician)

Gerald William Reynolds , known as Gerry Reynolds was a British Labour Party politician.Reynolds was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington North in a 1958 by-election following the death of the sitting MP Wilfred Fienburgh...

|Michael O'Halloran

Michael O'Halloran (UK politician)

Michael Joseph O'Halloran was a British politician. He was brought up in County Clare, and, finding no employment, he "drifted to London" in 1948, aged 15, and worked as a railwayman until he entered politics....

|Death
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|Glasgow Gorbals

Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1969

The Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1969 was a parliamentary by-election held on 30 October 1969 for the British House of Commons constituency of Glasgow Gorbals in the Gorbals, Glasgow...

|30 October 1969
|Alice Cullen

|Frank McElhone

Frank McElhone

Francis Patrick "Frank" McElhone was a Scottish Labour Party politician.McElhone was elected Member of Parliament for Glasgow Gorbals at a 1969 by-election, serving until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1974 general election.He was then elected as MP for Glasgow Queen's...

|Death
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|Birmingham Ladywood

Birmingham Ladywood by-election, 1969

The Birmingham Ladywood by-election, in Birmingham, on 26 June 1969 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Victor Yates died on 19 January the same year. Although the seat had been Labour-held since 1945 it was captured by the Liberals in a defeat for Harold Wilson's government.-Campaign:In...

|26 June 1969
|Victor Yates

Victor Yates

Victor Francis Yates was a British pacifist Labour politician.He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Ladywood from 1945 until his death in 1969. In the subsequent by-election the seat was gained by the Liberal candidate Wallace Lawler.-External links:...

|Wallace Lawler

Wallace Lawler

Wallace Leslie Lawler was a British Liberal politician. He was elected a Member of Parliament by gaining Birmingham, Ladywood from Labour at a by-election on 26 June 1969. However, Lawler only served for one year, as Labour's Doris Fisher regained the seat from him at the 1970 general election...

|Death
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|Chichester

Chichester by-election, 1969

The Chichester by-election of 22 May 1969 was held following the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Walter Loveys. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|22 May 1969
|Walter Loveys

Walter Loveys

Walter Harris Loveys, sometimes known as Bill Loveys was a British farmer and Conservative Party politician....

|Christopher Chataway

Christopher Chataway

Sir Christopher John Chataway is a British former middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and a Conservative politician...

|Death
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|Mid Ulster

Mid Ulster by-election, 1969

The Mid Ulster by-election was held on 17 April 1969, following the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest. The two-way contest was unusual in featuring two women candidates....

|17 April 1969
|George Forrest

George Forrest (politician)

George Forrest was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland who served as MP for Mid Ulster from 1956 until his death...

|Bernadette Devlin

|Death
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|Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare by-election, 1969

The Weston-super-Mare by-election of 27 March 1969 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament David Webster. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|27 March 1969
|David Webster

David Webster (politician)

David William Ernest Webster was a British Conservative Party politician.Born in Arbroath, Scotland, Webster was a stockbroker before entering Parliament. He contested Bristol North East in 1955...

|Jerry Wiggin

Jerry Wiggin

Sir Alfred William Wiggin, known as Jerry Wiggin, is a British Conservative Party politician.-Education:Born in Worcestershire, in the West of England, Jerry Wiggin was educated at Eton College, an independent school for boys in the town of Eton in Berkshire, in Southern England, followed by...

|Death
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|Walthamstow East

Walthamstow East by-election, 1969

The Walthamstow East by-election of 27 March 1969 was held following the death of Labour Member of Parliament William Robinson. The seat was won by the opposition Conservative Party.-Results:...

|27 March 1969
|William Robinson

William Robinson (UK politician)

William Oscar James Robinson was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1966 general election as Member of Parliament for Walthamstow East, winning the seat with a majority of 1,807 over the sitting Conservative Party MP John Harvey...

|Michael McNair-Wilson

Michael McNair-Wilson

Sir Robert Michael Conal McNair-Wilson was a Conservative politician and a Member of Parliament .In 1969 he stood as the Conservative candidate in the Walthamstow East by-election, defeating the Labour Party...

|Death
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|Brighton Pavilion

Brighton Pavilion by-election, 1969

The Brighton Pavilion by-election of 27 March 1969 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament William Teeling resigned from the House of Commons due to health problems. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|27 March 1969
|Sir 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:...

|Julian Amery

|Resignation
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|New Forest

New Forest by-election, 1968

The New Forest by-election of 7 November 1968 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre resigned from the House of Commons due to ill health. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|7 November 1968
|Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre was a British Conservative Party politician. At the 1945 general election was elected as Member of Parliament for the New Forest and Christchurch constituency, and was re-elected in 1950 for the new New Forest constituency...

|Patrick McNair-Wilson

Patrick McNair-Wilson

Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson is a British Conservative politician.McNair-Wilson was educated at Eton College and was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards 1947-52, serving in Palestine and North Africa...

|Resignation
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|Bassetlaw

Bassetlaw by-election, 1968

The Bassetlaw by-election, 1968 was a parliamentary by-election for the constituency of Bassetlaw held on 31 October 1968. It was caused by the death of the former Labour Member of Parliament, Fred Bellenger....

|31 October 1968
|Frederick Bellenger

Frederick Bellenger

Captain Frederick John Bellenger was a British surveyor, journalist, soldier and Labour Party politician.-Soldier:...

|Joseph Ashton

Joseph Ashton (politician)

Joseph William Ashton OBE , usually known as Joe Ashton, is a British Labour Party politician who was known for his defence of the rights of Labour Members of Parliament against the demands of the left-wing of the party to subject them to mandatory reselection.-Early career:Ashton was born and...

|Death
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|Caerphilly

Caerphilly by-election, 1968

The Caerphilly by-election of 15 June 1968 was held after the death of Labour MP Ness Edwards:The seat was very safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by over 21,000 votes-Candidates:...

|18 July 1968
|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...

|Alfred Evans

|Death
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Nelson and Colne

Nelson and Colne by-election, 1968

The Nelson and Colne by-election of 27 June 1968 was held after the death of Labour MP Sydney Silverman:The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by over 4,500 votes-Candidates:...

|27 June 1968
|Sydney Silverman

Sydney Silverman

Samuel Sydney Silverman was a British Labour politician and vocal opponent of capital punishment.-Early life:...

|David Waddington

David Waddington, Baron Waddington

|Death
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|Sheffield Brightside

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1968

The Sheffield Brightside by-election of 15 June 1968 was held after the death of Labour MP Richard Winterbottom:The seat was very safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by over 19,000 votes-Candidates:...

|13 June 1968
|Richard Winterbottom

Richard Winterbottom

Richard Emanuel Winterbottom was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Winterbottom served in the Royal Navy during World War I. He became an area organiser for a predecessor of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1931, then the national organiser in 1944...

|Edward Griffiths

Edward Griffiths

Edward Griffiths was a British Labour politician and director of the British Steel Association.Griffiths was elected Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside in a 1968 by-election...

|Death
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Oldham West

Oldham West by-election, 1968

The Oldham West by-election for the British House of Commons took place on 13 June 1968, at a time when the Labour government of Harold Wilson was deeply unpopular. The election was caused by the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament Charles Leslie Hale for reasons of ill health...

Warwick and Leamington by-election, 1968

The by-election in Warwick and Leamington, in Warwickshire, England, occurred in 1968, and resulted in a hold for the Conservatives.-Results:...

|28 March 1968
|John Hobson

John Hobson (politician)

Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson PC was a British Conservative Party politician.-Career:He was first elected to the House of Commons at a 1957 by-election in the Warwick and Leamington constituency, caused by the resignation due to ill-health of the Conservative MP and former Prime Minister,...

|Dudley Gordon Smith

|Death
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Meriden

Meriden by-election, 1968

The Meriden by-election, 1968 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Meriden in Warwickshire on 28 March 1968. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Keith Speed.- Vacancy :...

|28 March 1968
|Christopher Rowland

Christopher Rowland

Christopher John Salter Rowland was a British politician. He was rated one of the more effective of the Labour Party's 1964 intake to Parliament, but died at the age of 38.-Student life:...

|Keith Speed

Keith Speed

Sir Herbert "Keith" Speed, RD, DL is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and former Member of Parliament. He is a descendant of cartographer and historian John Speed....

|Death
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|Dudley

Dudley by-election, 1968

The Dudley by-election, 1968 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Dudley in Worcestershire on 28 March 1968...

|28 March 1968
|George Wigg

George Wigg

George Edward Cecil Wigg, Baron Wigg PC was a British politician who only served in relatively junior offices but had a great deal of influence behind the scenes, especially with Harold Wilson. Wigg served in the British Army for almost all his career up to his election as Member of Parliament...

|Donald Williams

Donald Williams (politician)

Donald Williams was a British chartered accountant and Conservative Party politician.Williams went to the Royal Grammar School in Worcester. Before he could go out to work, the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the Worcester Regiment...

|Life Peerage on appointment as Chairman of Horserace Betting Levy Board
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|Acton

Acton by-election, 1968

The Acton by-election of 28 March 1968 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Bernard Floud on 10 October 1967. The seat was gained by the Conservatives in a defeat for Harold Wilson's government. It was one of the three Conservative gains from Labour on the same day, the others...

|28 March 1968
|Bernard Floud

Bernard Floud

Bernard Francis Castle Floud was a British farmer, television company executive and politician.-Before Parliament:...

|Kenneth Baker

|Death (suicide)
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|Kensington South

Kensington South by-election, 1968

The Kensington South by-election, 1968 by-election was held in the Kensington South constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 14 March 1968...

|14 March 1968
|William Roots

William Roots

William Lloyd Roots was a British Conservative politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Kensington South at the 1959 general election, and served until his resignation in 1968.- External links :...

|Sir Brandon Rhys Williams

|Resignation (ill-health?)
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|Derbyshire West

West Derbyshire by-election, 1967

The West Derbyshire by-election for the British House of Commons took place on 23 November 1967. It was caused by the resignation of Conservative Member of Parliament Aidan Crawley to become Chairman of London Weekend Television where he remained until 1973...

|23 November 1967
|Aidan Crawley

Aidan Crawley

Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician...

|James Scott-Hopkins

James Scott-Hopkins

Sir James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins was a British Conservative Party politician.Born in Croydon, Scott-Hopkins was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. He joined the British Army in 1939...

|Appointment as Chairman of London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television

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|Manchester Gorton

Manchester Gorton by-election, 1967

The Manchester Gorton by-election of 2 November 1967 was held after the death of Labour MP Konni Zilliacus:The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by over 8,000 votes/.-Candidates:...

|2 November 1967
|Konni Zilliacus

Konni Zilliacus

Konni Zilliacus was a left-wing Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Life:Zilliacus was born on 13 September 1894 in Japan, where his parents, Finland-Swedish Konrad Viktor Zilliacus , a prominent activist for the independence of Finland from the Russian Empire, and American-born Lilian...

|Kenneth Marks

Kenneth Marks

Kenneth Marks was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Marks was Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton from a 1967 by-election to 1983. From 1975 to 1979, he was a junior Environment minister....

|Death
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|Leicester South West

Leicester South West by-election, 1967

The Leicester South West by-election of 2 November 1967 was held after the resignation of Labour MP Herbert Bowden:The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by over 5,500 votes-Candidates:...

|2 November 1967
|Herbert Bowden

Herbert Bowden

Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone, CH CBE PC was a British Labour politician.Born in Cardiff, Wales, Bowden was a councillor on Leicester City Council 1938–45 and president of Leicester Labour Party in 1938. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II...

|Thomas Boardman

Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gray Boardman, Baron Boardman MC, TD, DL, PC was an English Conservative politician and businessman....

|Appointment as Chairman of Independent Television Authority
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|Hamilton

Hamilton by-election, 1967

The Hamilton by-election, in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which took place on the 2nd of November 1967, was a milestone in the politics of Scotland...

|2 November 1967
|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...

|Winifred Ewing

|Appointment to North Scotland Hydro-Electricity Board
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Walthamstow West

Walthamstow West by-election, 1967

The Walthamstow West by-election of 21 September 1967 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Ted Redhead on 15 April of that year. The seat was gained by the Conservative Party by just 62 votes.-Results:...

|21 September 1967
|Edward Redhead

Edward Redhead

Edward Charles Redhead JP was a British civil servant and politician who became the successor to Clement Attlee as Member of Parliament for Walthamstow West.-Civil servant:...

|Frederick Silvester

Frederick Silvester

Frederick John Silvester is a retired British Conservative Party politician.Silvester was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1957, and was an advertising executive...

|Death
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|Cambridge

Cambridge by-election, 1967

The Cambridge by-election of 21 September 1967 was held after the premature death of Cambridge's Labour MP Robert Davies in June 1967.:The seat was highly marginal, having only been won by Labour during the previous year's Labour landslide by 439 votes, and it had only been the second time Labour...

|21 September 1967
|Robert Davies

|David Lane

David Lane (politician)

|Death
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|Brierley Hill

Brierley Hill by-election, 1967

The Brierley Hill by-election of 29 April 1967 was held after the death of Conservative MP John Ellis Talbot:The seat was marginal, having been won by Labour during United Kingdom general election, 1950 by 4,637 votes, and the Conservatives in the preceding United Kingdom general election, 1966 by...

|27 April 1967
|John Talbot

John Ellis Talbot

John Ellis Talbot was a British Building society manager, solicitor and Conservative Party politician.Talbot was educated at Stubbington House School in Fareham and Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire. He worked first as a solicitor; from 1938 he was Joint Manager of the Kidderminster...

|Fergus Montgomery

Fergus Montgomery

Sir William Fergus Montgomery is a former Conservative member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.Born in South Shields, Montgomery was educated at Jarrow Grammar School and the University of Durham, and became a teacher in 1950. From 1950 until 1958 he was a councillor serving on Hebburn urban...

|Death
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|Honiton

Honiton by-election, 1967

The Honiton by-election, 1967 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Honiton in Devon on 16 March 1967. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Peter Emery.- Vacancy :...

|16 March 1967
|Robert Mathew

Robert Mathew

Robert Mathew TD was a British Barrister and politician.From a military family , Mathew went to Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He read for the Bar and was called in 1937...

|Peter Emery

Peter Emery

Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Emery was born in London, but was evacuated to the United States during World War II. He was educated at Scotch Plains High School, New Jersey before serving with the Royal Air Force. He attended Oriel...

|Death
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|Rhondda West

Rhondda West by-election, 1967

The Rhondda West by-election, 1967 was a parliamentary by-election held in 1967 for the British House of Commons constituency of Rhondda West in Wales....

|9 March 1967
|Iorwerth Thomas

Iorwerth Thomas

Iorwerth Rhys Thomas was a Welsh Labour Party politician.Thomas was born on 22 January 1895, the son of David William Thomas, Cwmparc, Rhondda. He was educated at a local elementary school, and in 1908, at 13 years of age, he began working at the Dare colliery, Cwmdare, Aberdare...

|Alec Jones

Alec Jones

Alec Jones was a British Labour Party politician.Jones was Member of Parliament for Rhondda West from the Rhondda West by-election, 1967 until the constituency was abolished in 1974, and for Rhondda from 1974 until he died in office shortly before the 1983 general election at the age of 58...

|Death
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|Nuneaton

Nuneaton by-election, 1967

The Nuneaton by-election of 16 December 1966 was held after the resignation of Labour MP Frank Cousins:The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by over 11,000 votes-Candidates:...

|9 March 1967
|Frank Cousins

Frank Cousins

Frank Cousins PC was a British trade union leader and Labour politician.He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, and became a full-time official in the road transport section of the Transport and General Workers' Union in July 1938...

|Leslie Huckfield

|Resignation
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Glasgow Pollok

Glasgow Pollok by-election, 1967

The Glasgow Pollok by-election of 16 December 1966 was held after the death of Labour MP Alex Carrow:The seat was marginal, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1966 by under 2,000 votes-Candidates:...

|9 March 1967
|Alexander Garrow

|Esmond Wright

Esmond Wright

Esmond Wright was an English historian of the United States, Director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London from 1971 to 1983, a television personality, and a Conservative politician.Wright had a grammar school education in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before winning an open...

|Death
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|Carmarthen

Carmarthen by-election, 1966

The Carmarthen by-election, was held in Carmarthen, Wales on 14 July 1966. The contest was significant in that it resulted in the election of Gwynfor Evans, the first ever Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament...

|14 July 1966
|Megan Lloyd George

Megan Lloyd George

Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George CH was a British politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh constituency, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. She later became a Labour MP....

|Gwynfor Evans

Gwynfor Evans

Dr Richard Gwynfor Evans , was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. President of Plaid Cymru for thirty six years, he was the first Member of Parliament to represent Plaid Cymru at Westminster ....

|Death
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43rd Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1964
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1964 general election, held on 15 October 1964, for the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom....

(1964–1966)

Hull North by-election, 1966

The Hull North by-election of 27 January 1966 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Henry Solomons on 7 November 1965. The seat was retained by the Labour Party. This has been attributed to the announcement of the construction of the Humber Bridge by the government during the...

|27 January 1966
|Henry Solomons

Henry Solomons

Henry Solomons was a British businessman, trade unionist and Labour Party politician who briefly enjoyed a Parliamentary career.-Early career:...

|Kevin McNamara

Kevin McNamara (politician)

Dr. Joseph Kevin McNamara, KSG is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for almost 40 years.-Early life:...

Norman Dodds

Norman Noel Dodds was a British Labour Co-operative politician.He was Member of Parliament for Dartford from 1945 to 1955, and then for Erith and Crayford from 1955 until his death in 1965, aged 61....

|James Wellbeloved

James Wellbeloved

Alfred James Wellbeloved is a former British politician.Wellbeloved was educated at South London Technical College and was a commercial and industrial correspondent...

|Death
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|Cities of London and Westminster

Cities of London and Westminster by-election, 1965

The Cities of London and Westminster by-election of 4 November 1965 was held after the death of Conservative MP and Speaker of the House of Commons Harry Hylton-Foster:...

|4 November 1965
|Sir Harry Hylton-Foster

Harry Hylton-Foster

Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster , was a British Conservative Party politician who served as an Member of Parliament from 1950 until his death...

Anthony Marlowe

Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe QC was a British Barrister and politician, who served as a Member of Parliament for 24 years.-Family:...

|Martin Maddan

Martin Maddan

Aubrey Jones

Aubrey Jones was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.At the 1950 general election, he was elected as the first Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Birmingham Hall Green. He was Minister of Fuel and Power from 1955 to 1957, and the last Minister of Supply from 1957...

|Reginald Eyre

Reginald Eyre

Sir Reginald Edwin Eyre is a British Conservative Party politician.Eyre was educated at King Edward's Camp Hill School, Birmingham and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He contested Birmingham Northfield in 1959....

|Appointment as Chairman of National Board for Prices and Incomes
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|Abertillery

Abertillery by-election, 1965

The Abertillery by-election of 1 April 1965 was held after the death of Labour MP Llywelyn Williams :The seat was very safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1964 by over 20,000 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|1 April 1965
|Llywelyn Williams

Llywelyn Williams

Llywelyn Williams was a Welsh Labour Party politician.In November 1950 he was elected as Member of Parliament for the safe Labour seat of Abertillery in a by-election after the death of sitting MP George Daggar...

|Clifford Williams

Albert Clifford Williams

Albert Clifford Williams, better known by the name Clifford Williams, BEM was a Welsh Labour Party politician and miner. He went to a primary school in Blaina, Monmouthshire but started work in the mines at the age of 14. Williams became a National Union of Mineworkers official in 1934...

|Death
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|Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles

Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles by-election, 1965

The Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles by-election was significant in that it led to the election of David Steel, who went on to lead the Liberal Party, to the British House of Commons for the first time...

|24 March 1965
|Charles Donaldson

Charles Donaldson

Charles Edward McArthur Donaldson was a Scottish Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the 1951 general election as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Selkirk...

|David Steel

David Steel

David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 until its merger with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats...

Peter Michael Kirk

Sir Peter Michael Kirk, was a British Conservative politician and a junior minister in the governments of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath....

|Life Peerage
|-
|Salisbury

Salisbury by-election, 1965

The Salisbury by-election, 1965 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Salisbury in Wiltshire on 4 February 1965. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Michael Hamilton.- Vacancy :...

|4 February 1965
|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....

|Michael Hamilton

|Hereditary Peerage
|-
|East Grinstead

East Grinstead by-election, 1965

The East Grinstead by-election 1965 was a parliamentary by-election for the East Grinstead British House of Commons held on the 4th February, 1965.The by-election was held following confirment of a life peerage for Evelyn Emmet.It was a Conservative hold....

|4 February 1965
|Evelyn Emmet

Evelyn Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley

Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley was a British Conservative Party politician....

|Geoffrey Johnson Smith

Geoffrey Johnson Smith

Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, PC, DL was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001, with only a brief interruption in the 1960s....

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...

|Frank Cousins

Frank Cousins

|Life Peerage to provide seat for Minister of Technology

Minister of Technology

The Minister of Technology was a position in the government of the United Kingdom, sometimes abbreviated as "MinTech". The Ministry of Technology was established by the incoming government of Harold Wilson in October 1964 as part of Wilson's ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to...

Frank Cousins

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|Leyton

Leyton by-election, 1965

The Leyton by-election, 1965 was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 January 1965 for the British House of Commons constituency of Leyton in east London....

|21 January 1965
|Reg Sorensen

Reginald Sorensen, Baron Sorensen

Reginald William Sorensen, Baron Sorensen was a Unitarian minister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for over thirty years between 1929 and 1964....

|Ronald Buxton

Ronald Buxton (UK politician)

Ronald Carlile Buxton is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for a little over a year, after winning an unexpected victory in by-election in 1965....

|Life Peerage to provide seat for Foreign Secretary 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...

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42nd Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1959
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1959 general election, held on 8 October 1959.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Jim Prior, Peter Tapsell, John Morris and Jeremy Thorpe...

(1959–1964)

Liverpool Scotland by-election, 1964

The Liverpool Scotland by-election, 1964 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 11 June 1964 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Scotland....

|11 June 1964
|David Logan

David Logan (Politician)

David Gilbert Logan , known as Davie Logan, was a British Labour Party politician of Scots-Irish descent. He succeeded T.P...

|Walter Alldritt

Walter Alldritt

Percy Wells

Percy Lawrence Wells, JP was a British trade union official and Member of Parliament.Wells was born in Kent and went to Stone Church of England school in Greenhithe...

|Terence Boston

Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham

Terence George Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham QC was a British Labour Party politician. He was educated at King's College London where he took an LLB in law in 1954, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1960....

Peter Smithers

Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Winchester for 14 years, and a junior Minister in the early 1960s...

|Morgan Morgan-Giles

Morgan Morgan-Giles

Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles, DSO, OBE, GM was a British Admiral and Conservative Party politician.Morgan-Giles was educated at Clifton College and joined the Royal Navy. He commanded HMS Vigilant, Vernon 1959-60 and HMS Belfast 1961-62. He was President of the Royal Naval College,...

|Appointment as Secretary-General of Council of Europe
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|Rutherglen

Rutherglen by-election, 1964

There was a by-election for the constituency of Rutherglen in the United Kingdom House of Commons in May 1964, not long before the 1964 general election....

|14 May 1964
|Richard Brooman-White

Richard Brooman-White

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Charles Brooman-White was a British journalist, intelligence agent and politician for the Conservative Party.-Education:...

|Gregor Mackenzie

Gregor Mackenzie

James Gregor Mackenzie was a British Labour Party politician.Mackenzie was educated at the Royal Technical College and Glasgow University...

Percivall Pott (politician)

Henry Percivall Pott, usually known as H. Percivall Pott was a British farmer, company director and politician...

|Charles Morrison

Charles Morrison

Sir Charles Andrew Morrison was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, MP for Devizes constituency from 1964 until 1992.-Background:...

Eldon Griffiths

Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths is a former British Conservative politician and journalist.Griffiths was educated at Ashton Grammar School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Yale University. He worked in the Conservative Research Department and became a journalist and farmer...

David Colville Anderson

David Colville Anderson, VRD, QC was a Scottish law lecturer, advocate, Unionist MP, Solicitor General for Scotland, and judge, whose career ended in scandal....

Keith Stainton

Keith Monin Stainton was a British Conservative politician and World War II hero in France.Keith Stainton was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of a Kendal butcher and a Belgian refugee he had met during the First World War. He left Kendal School at 14 and worked as an insurance clerk from...

Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal

William Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal , known as Sir Wavell Wakefield between 1944 and 1963, was an English rugby union player for Harlequins and England, President of the Rugby Football Union and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Wakefield was born in Beckenham,...

|Quintin Hogg

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

William Richard Williams

William Richard Williams was a British civil servant and politician who made a particular specialism of the Post Office.-Post Office career:...

|Charles Morris

Charles Morris (politician)

Charles Richard Morris is a retired British Labour politician.Morris was educated at Brookdale Park School, Manchester. He was a postal and telegraph officer and a national executive member of the Union of Post Office Workers 1959–63...

Peter Doig (politician)

Peter Muir Doig was a British Labour Party politician.Doig was educated at Blackness School, Dundee and became a sales supervisor. He was elected a Dundee town councillor for ten years, serving as honorary town treasurer.Doig contested Aberdeen South in 1959...

Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton

Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton PC was a British administrator, doctor and television executive.Charles Hill was born in Islington, London and was educated at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark, London. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained a first class degree...

|Will Howie

William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon

William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon , known as Will Howie, is a retired British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament ....

|Life Peerage on appointment as Chairman of Independent Television Authority
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|Kinross and West Perthshire

Kinross and West Perthshire by-election, 1963

The Kinross and West Perthshire by-election of 7 November 1963 was a by-election to the House of Commons. It was unique among by-elections since 1918 in that one of the candidates was the sitting Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home; he had been nominated for the constituency after disclaiming a...

|7 November 1963
|Gilmour Leburn

Gilmour Leburn

Gilmour Leburn was a British company director and politician. He served in the government of Harold Macmillan as a Minister in the Scottish Office; his sudden death opened the way for Macmillan's successor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home to return to the House of Commons.-Early life:Leburn went to...

|Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...

|Death
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|Belfast South

Belfast South by-election, 1963

The Belfast South by-election of 22 October 1963 was held after the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament Sir David Campbell on 12 June the same year. The seat was retained by the Ulster Unionists.-Results:-References:***...

|22 October 1963
|Sir David Campbell

|Rafton Pounder

Rafton Pounder

Rafton John Pounder was a Pro-Assembly Unionist and Conservative Party politician and in Northern Ireland.Born at Ballynahatty, Belfast, the son of Cuthbert Pounder, Rafton Pounder was educated at Charterhouse and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Conservative...

|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Bristol South East

Bristol South East by-election, 1963

The Bristol South East by-election, 1963 was a by-election held on 20 August 1963 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bristol South East in the city of Bristol....

|20 August 1963
|Malcolm St Clair

Malcolm St. Clair (UK politician)

Malcolm Archibald James St. Clair was a British Conservative Party politician.He was the son of Major-General G.P. St Clair CB CBE DSO, and was educated at Eton College....

|Tony Benn

Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, PC is a British Labour Party politician and a former MP and Cabinet Minister.His successful campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963...

|Resignation
|-
|Stratford

Stratford by-election, 1963

The Stratford by-election, 1963 was a by-election held on 15 August 1963 for the British House of Commons constituency of Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire....

|15 August 1963
|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...

|Angus Maude

Angus Maude

Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon PC , was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981. He was the father of Conservative MP Francis Maude....

|Resignation (lying to the House of Commons)
|-
|West Bromwich

West Bromwich by-election, 1963

The West Bromwich by-election, 1963 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of West Bromwich in Staffordshire on 16 May 1963. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Maurice Foley.- Vacancy :...

|4 July 1963
|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....

|Maurice Foley

Maurice Foley (politician)

Leslie Plummer

Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer, known to friends as Dick was a British farmer, newspaper executive and politician...

|John Silkin

John Silkin

John Ernest Silkin, PC was an English Labour politician and solicitor.He was the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich. He was educated at Dulwich College, the University of Wales, and Trinity Hall at the University of...

Hugh Gaitskell

Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE was a British Labour politician, who held Cabinet office in Clement Attlee's governments, and was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955, until his death in 1963.-Early life:He was born in Kensington, London, the third and youngest...

|Merlyn Rees

|Death
|-
|Swansea East

Swansea East by-election, 1963

The Swansea East by-election, 1963 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Swansea East on 28 March 1963....

|28 March 1963
|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...

|Neil McBride

Neil McBride

Neil McBride was a British Labour Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Swansea East from a by-election in 1963 until his death shortly before the October 1974 general election...

Brian O'Malley

Patrick Duffy (UK politician)

Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy , Economist, Member of Parliament for Colne Valley 1963-1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-1992, Minister of the Navy in the 1970s, and President of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s....

Arthur Jones (politician)

Arthur Jones was a British Conservative Party politician.Bedford-born, Jones was educated at Bedford Modern School and became an estate agent, company director and farmer in north Bedfordshire. He became a councillor on Bedford Borough Council in 1949 and on Bedfordshire County Council in 1956,...

|Hereditary Peerage on appointment as Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

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|Norfolk Central
|22 November 1962
|Richard Collard

Richard Collard

Group Captain Richard Charles Marler Collard, DSO, DFC was a British Royal Air Force officer and politician. His sudden death at the age of 50 occurred less than three years after he was first elected to the House of Commons.-Joining the RAF:Collard was the son of a stockbroker, and was educated...

William Grant (politician)

William Grant was a Scottish Tory politician and judge.Educated at Fettes College, Oriel College, Oxford and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1935...

|Neil Carmichael

|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...

Guy Barnett (UK politician)

Nicolas Guy Barnett was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament.-Education and teaching and development work:...

|Succession to Peerage
|-
|Chippenham

Chippenham by-election, 1962

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, on 22 November 1962.It was won by the Conservative Party candidate, Daniel Awdry.-External links:*-See also:* Chippenham by-election, 1943...

|22 November 1962
|David Eccles

|Daniel Awdry

Daniel Awdry

Daniel Edmund Awdry, TD, DL was a British Conservative Party politician.Awdry was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served with the 10th Hussars in Italy 1944–45 and with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry 1947–62. He became a solicitor and a Chippenham...

Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

Arwyn Lynn Ungoed-Thomas , known as Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, was a Welsh Labour Party politician and British judge.-Biography:...

|Tom Bradley

Tom Bradley (UK politician)

Thomas George Bradley was a British politician.Kettering-born, Bradley was educated at Kettering Central School and worked in the mines during World War II...

|Appointment as High Court Judge
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|West Lothian

West Lothian by-election, 1962

The West Lothian by-election, 1962 was a British parliamentary by-election held in the West Lothian constituency in Scotland on 14 June 1962, caused by the death of John Taylor...

|14 June 1962
|John Taylor

John Taylor (West Lothian)

John Taylor was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for West Lothian.He was first elected at the 1951 general election, and his death in 1962 at the age of 60 caused a hotly-contested by-election, in which William Wolfe of the Scottish National Party was beaten by...

|Tam Dalyell

Tam Dalyell

Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet , known as Tam Dalyell, is a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005, first for West Lothian and then for Linlithgow.-Early life:...

Edward Wakefield

Sir Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, 1st Baronet CIE was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician....

|Aidan Crawley

Aidan Crawley

Aidan Merivale Crawley, MBE was a British journalist, television executive and editor, and politician...

Jeremy Bray

Jeremy William Bray was a British Labour politician and a Member of Parliament for 31 years.Bray was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Jesus College, Cambridge and was a Choate Fellow at Harvard University...

|Appointment as President of Probate Division of the High Court
|-
|Montgomeryshire

Montgomeryshire by-election, 1962

The Montgomeryshire by-election, 1962 was a parliamentary by-election held on 15 May 1962 for the British House of Commons constituency of Montgomeryshire.- Previous MP :The seat had become vacant when, the constituency's Member of Parliament , the Rt Hon...

|15 May 1962
|Clement Davies

Clement Davies

Clement Edward Davies KC, MP was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.-Life:...

Clifford Wilcock

Group Captain Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock, OBE, AFC, FRAeS was a British engineer, company director and politician who is noted for his contributions to civil and military aviation.-Great War service:...

|Niall MacDermot

Niall MacDermot

Niall MacDermot was a British Labour Party politician.He was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Lewisham North, at a by-election in 1957 following the death of Conservative MP Sir Austin Hudson.MacDermot lost his seat two years later at the 1959 general election,...

|Death
|-
|Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees by-election, 1962

The Stockton-on-Tees by-election, 1962 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham on 5 April 1962. It was the by-election at which Bill Rodgers, a future Cabinet minister and member of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour...

|5 April 1962
|George Chetwynd

George Chetwynd

Sir George Roland Chetwynd, CBE was a British lecturer, politician and public servant. He defeated Harold Macmillan in order to get elected as a Member of Parliament, but later left Parliament to become Director of the North East Development Council for five years in the 1960s.-Education:Chetwynd...

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...

|Joseph Harper

Joseph Harper (English politician)

|Death
|- bgcolor=ffcc66
|Orpington

Orpington by-election, 1962

The Orpington by-election of 1962 is often described as the start of the Liberal Party revival in the United Kingdom.The election was caused by the appointment of Donald Sumner, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Orpington as a County Court Judge...

|14 March 1962
|Donald Sumner

Donald Sumner

William Donald Massey Sumner , known as Donald Sumner, was a British Conservative Party politician who later became a judge...

|Eric Lubbock

|Appointment as County Court Judge
|-
|Middlesbrough East

Middlesbrough East by-election, 1962

A by-election to the British House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough East was held on 14 March 1962.The seat was a hold for the Labour Party.-See also:*List of United Kingdom by-elections*Middlesbrough...

|14 March 1962
|Hilary Marquand

Hilary Marquand

Hilary Adair Marquand was a British Labour Party politician.He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff where he studied history and economics...

|Arthur Bottomley

Arthur Bottomley

Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, OBE, PC was a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament and minister....

|Appointment as Director of International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva
|-
|Blackpool North

Blackpool North by-election, 1962

In 1962, Blackpool North held a by-election that was newsworthy. The by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Blackpool North, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, was held on 13 March 1962....

|13 March 1962
|Toby Low

Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington

Toby Austin Richard William Low, 1st Baron Aldington, KCMG, CBE, DSO, TD, DL, PC , was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman.-Life:...

|Norman Miscampbell

Norman Miscampbell

Norman Alexander Miscampbell, QC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for Blackpool North for 30 years, from 1962 to 1992, making him Blackpool's longest serving MP....

|Hereditary Peerage
|-
|Lincoln

Lincoln by-election, 1962

There was a by-election in the UK parliamentary constituency of Lincoln on March 8, 1962 following the resignation of the sitting member, Geoffrey de Freitas....

|8 March 1962
|Geoffrey de Freitas

Geoffrey de Freitas

Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas was a British politician and diplomat. For many years a Labour Member of Parliament, he also served as British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later as President of the Council of Europe....

James Bennett (UK politician)

James Bennett was a Scottish Labour Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons in 1961 at a by-election in 1961 in the Glasgow Bridgeton constituency, following the resignation of the sitting Labour MP James Carmichael.Bennett held the seat until its abolition at the February 1974...

John Biffen

William John Biffen, Baron Biffen, PC, DL , was a Conservative member of the House of Lords, who previously spent 36 years in the House of Commons.-Early life:...

|Appointment as Ambassador to Washington
|-
|East Fife

East Fife by-election, 1961

The East Fife by-election, 1961 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of East Fife in Scotland on 9 November 1961. It was won by the Conservative and National Liberal candidate Sir John E...

|9 November 1961
|Sir James Henderson-Stewart, Bt.

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...

|Sir John E. Gilmour

|Death
|-
|Manchester Moss Side

Manchester Moss Side by-election, 1961

The Manchester Moss Side by-election of 8 November 1961 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament James Watt 7 July that same year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:-External links:*...

|8 November 1961
|James Watts

James Watts (UK politician)

James Watts was a Conservative party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1959 general election as Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side, but died in office two years later, aged 57...

|Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor (UK politician)

Frank Henry Taylor was a British politician and Conservative Party member of parliament for Manchester Moss Side from 1961–1974, when he lost to Labour's Frank Hatton....

|Death
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Bristol South East

Bristol South East by-election, 1961

The Bristol South East by-election, 1961 was a by-election held on 4 May 1961 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bristol South East in the city of Bristol....

|4 May 1961
|Tony Benn

Tony Benn

|Malcolm St Clair

Malcolm St. Clair (UK politician)

Malcolm Archibald James St. Clair was a British Conservative Party politician.He was the son of Major-General G.P. St Clair CB CBE DSO, and was educated at Eton College....

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:...

|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...

|Life Peerage
|-
|Paisley

Paisley by-election, 1961

The Paisley by-election, 1961 was a parliamentary by-election held on 20 April 1961 for the British House of Commons constituency of Paisley in Scotland....

|20 April 1961
|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...

|John Robertson

John Robertson (Scottish Labour Party founder)

John Robertson was a British politician, who sat as a Labour Member of Parliament before co-founding the Scottish Labour Party in 1976....

William Wheeldon

William Edwin Wheeldon was a British co-operator and municipal politician from Birmingham who later became a Member of Parliament....

|Denis Howell

Denis Howell

Denis Herbert Howell, Baron Howell was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Birmingham, Howell was educated at Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham and became a clerk and chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union standing orders committee. He was a Football League referee and...

George Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley

George Reginald Ward, 1st Viscount Ward of Witley, PC , styled The Honourable George Ward until 1960, was a British Conservative politician...

|Peter Walker

Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester

Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE, PC , was British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet as the Environment Secretary , Trade and Industry Secretary , Agriculture Minister , Energy Secretary and Welsh Secretary...

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,...

|David Walder

David Walder

Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport

Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport was a Conservative Party politician, Cabinet Minister, and life peer.- Early life :...

Gerald Howard

Sir Stephen Gerald Howard, KC was a British farmer, barrister and judge who was an active National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician...

|Francis Pym

Francis Pym

-Bibliography:****- External links :...

Eddie Milne

Edward James "Eddie" Milne was a British Labour politician, who was elected as independent candidate after deselection by his party....

|Appointment as Chairman of National Coal Board
|-
|Ebbw Vale

Ebbw Vale by-election, 1960

The Ebbw Vale by-election of 17 November 1960 was a by-election for a single seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Caused by the death of Labour Party Deputy Leader Aneurin Bevan, the constituency was very safely held by the party and never in danger of changing hands...

|17 November 1960
|Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a British Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people...

|Michael Foot

Michael Foot

Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992...

Derick Heathcoat Amory

Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1958 to 1960 and as Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 1972 to 1981.-Background and education:...

|Robin Maxwell-Hyslop

Robin Maxwell-Hyslop

Sir Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop was a British Conservative Party politician.Maxwell-Hyslop was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford. He worked for the aero engine division of Rolls-Royce from 1954 to 1960....

Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton

Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton , was a British Conservative politician who held junior ministerial positions during the 1950s and 1960s....

|Joan Quennell

Joan Quennell

Joan Mary Quennell was Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield.Quennell was educated at Bedales School, Petersfield and served with the Women's Land Army during World War II. She was the manager of a mixed dairy and arable farm and served as a West Sussex County Councillor 1951-61...

Christopher Holland-Martin

Christopher John Holland-Martin was a British banker and Conservative Party politician.-Early career:The son of the Chairman of Martins Bank, Holland-Martin was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He followed his father's profession but in 1939 was commissioned in the Royal Fusiliers...

|Jasper More

Jasper More

Sir Jasper More was a British Conservative Party politician, the son of Sir Thomas Jasper Mytten More , a Shropshire landowner, and Lady Norah Browne, daughter of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo....

Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head

Antony Henry Head, 1st Viscount Head GCMG, CBE, MC, PC was a British soldier, Conservative politician and diplomat.-Background and education:...

|Walter Elliot

|Hereditary Peerage on appointment as High Commissioner to Nigeria
|-
|Bolton East

Bolton East by-election, 1960

The Bolton East by-election, 1960 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Bolton East in Lancashire on 16 November 1960. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Edwin Taylor.- Vacancy :...

|16 November 1960
|Philip Bell

Philip Bell

Philip Ingress Bell, TD, QC was a British barrister and judge, who also had a political career.-Early life:...

|Edwin Taylor

Edwin Taylor

Edwin Taylor, JP was a British master baker and politician from Bolton.-Bakery:Taylor was educated at St John's School, Wingates, and Bolton Technical College...

Stephen Hastings

Sir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings, Kt, MC, MFH, was a war hero, former MI6 operative, Master of Foxhounds, author, painter, sculptor, and British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire in a 1960 by-election caused by the elevation to the...

William Rankine Milligan

William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan PC, KC was a Scottish Tory politician and judge.-Early life:Educated at Sherborne School, University College, Oxford, and the University of Glasgow...

|John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith

John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch

|Appointment to Court of Session

Court of Session

The Court of Session is the supreme civil court of Scotland, and constitutes part of the College of Justice. It sits in Parliament House in Edinburgh and is both a court of first instance and a court of appeal....

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|Harrow West
|17 March 1960
|Sir Albert Braithwaite

Albert Braithwaite

Sir Albert Newby Braithwaite DSO was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Albert Braithwaite, one time Lord Mayor of Leeds and Patti Braithwaite....

|John Page

John Page (UK politician)

Sir Arthur John Page , known as Sir John Page, was a British Conservative politician.Page was educated at Harrow and Magdalene College, Cambridge...

|Death (suicide)
|- bgcolor=lightblue
|Brighouse and Spenborough

Brighouse and Spenborough by-election, 1960

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough on 17th March 1960. The seat became vacant following the death on 23 November 1959 of the Labour Party Member of Parliament Lewis John Edwards, who had held the seat since a by-election in 1950, but...

|17 March 1960
|Lewis John Edwards

|Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead

Michael Norman Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1960 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1992....

|Death
|-
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41st Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1955
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1955 general election, held on 26 May 1955. A total of 630 MPs were elected.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included William Whitelaw and Geoffrey Rippon....

(1955–1959)

Whitehaven by-election, 1959

The Whitehaven by-election of 18 June 1959 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Frank Anderson on 25 April the same year. The seat was retained by Labour.-Results:-External links:*...

|18 June 1959
|Frank Anderson

|Joseph Symonds

Joseph Symonds

Joseph Bede Symonds was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for the Whitehaven constituency in Cumberland from 1959 until he stood down at the 1970 general election...

|Death
|-
|Penistone

Penistone by-election, 1959

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Penistone in South Yorkshire on 11 June 1959. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Henry McGhee, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election.The result was a hold for the Labour...

|11 June 1959
|Henry McGhee

Henry McGhee

Henry George McGhee was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for Penistone in West Yorkshire and held the seat until his death in 1959....

|John Mendelson

John Mendelson

John Jakob Mendelson was a British Labour Party politician.Mendelson was educated at the University of London and became a university lecturer in political science...

|Death
|-
|Galloway

Galloway by-election, 1959

The Galloway by-election of 9 April 1959 was held after the death of Conservative MP John Mackie:The seat was safe, having been won by the Conservatives at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by 8,014 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|9 April 1959
|John Mackie

|John Brewis

John Brewis

John Beverley Brewis was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and barrister.He was Member of Parliament for Galloway from a 1959 by-election until he stood down at the October 1974 general election, and also a Member of the European Parliament from 1972 to 1974.- References :*Times Guide to the...

|Death
|-
|South West Norfolk

South West Norfolk by-election, 1959

The South West Norfolk by-election of 25 March 1959 was held after Labour Member of Parliament Sidney Dye died on 9 December 1958. The seat was retained by Labour.-Candidates:Labour chose Albert Hilton as their candidate for the by-election...

|25 March 1959
|Sidney Dye

Sidney Dye

Sidney Dye, JP was a British Labour Party politician.Born at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, Sidney Dye was educated at Wells Elementary School and Ruskin College, Oxford....

|Albert Hilton

Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton

Albert Victor Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton, JP was a British farm labourer and trade union official who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament and later life peer.-Farming career:...

Ian Harvey (politician)

Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Douglas Harvey RA was an English businessman and politician, serving as a Conservative Member of Parliament and junior Minister until his resignation in 1958.-Early career:...

|Anthony Courtney

Anthony Courtney

Commander Anthony Tosswill Courtney, OBE, RN was a British Royal Navy officer and politician. While a Member of Parliament, he was a victim of a plot apparently instituted by the KGB to discredit him, which appeared to contribute to the loss of his seat...

|Resignation (scandal)
|-
|Belfast East

Belfast East by-election, 1959

The Belfast East by-election of 19 March 1959 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of Ulster Unionist Party MP Alan McKibbin:The seat was safe, having been won by Unionists at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by nearly 14,000 votes...

|19 March 1959
|Alan McKibbin

Alan McKibbin

Colonel Alan John McKibbin, OBE, JP, DL was a Northern Irish company director and politician. After serving in the First World War, he later took charge of the Army Cadet Force in Northern Ireland, and also ran the family estate agency firm...

|Stanley McMaster

Stanley McMaster

Stanley Raymond McMaster was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland and a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London....

|Death
|-
|Southend West

Southend West by-election, 1959

The Southend West by-election of 29 January 1959 was held after the death of Conservative Party MP and renowned diarist Henry Channon:The seat was very safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by almost 18,500 votes...

|29 January 1959
|Sir Henry Channon

Henry Channon

Sir Henry "Chips" Channon was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation. He wrote extensively...

|Paul Channon

Paul Channon

Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Baron Kelvedon, PC , was Conservative MP for Southend West for 38 years, from 1959 until 1997...

Victor Collins, Baron Stonham

Victor John Collins, Baron Stonham PC was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Whitechapel, London, he was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Taunton, in Somerset. He lost his seat at the 1950, to the Conservative Henry Hopkinson...

|Michael Cliffe

Michael Cliffe

Michael Cliffe was a British clothing industry worker and politician, who was a Member of Parliament in inner London for six years...

Robert Boothby

Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, KBE was a controversial British Conservative politician.-Early life:...

|Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, also spelt Wolridge-Gordon was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician.-Biography:...

Leo Abse

Leopold Abse was a Welsh lawyer, politician and gay rights campaigner. He was a Welsh Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and was noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws...

Walter Loveys

Walter Harris Loveys, sometimes known as Bill Loveys was a British farmer and Conservative Party politician....

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...

|Basil de Ferranti

Basil de Ferranti

Basil Reginald Vincent Ziani de Ferranti was a British businessman and a Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian de Ferranti.He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1955 general...

|Elevation to a life peerage
|-
|Argyll

Argyll by-election, 1958

The Argyll by-election of 12 June 1958 was held after the death of Conservative Party MP Duncan McCallum:The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by over 10,000 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|12 June 1958
|Sir 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...

|Michael Noble

Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas

Michael Antony Cristobal Noble, Baron Glenkinglas PC was a Scottish Tory politician.Noble was the youngest son of Sir John Noble, 1st Baronet, and the grandson of Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford...

David Webster (politician)

David William Ernest Webster was a British Conservative Party politician.Born in Arbroath, Scotland, Webster was a stockbroker before entering Parliament. He contested Bristol North East in 1955...

|Death
|-
|Wigan

Wigan by-election, 1958

The Wigan by-election of 12 June 1958 was held after the death of Labour MP Ronald Williams:The seat was very safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by nearly 15,000 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|12 June 1958
|Ronald Williams

|Alan Fitch

Alan Fitch

Alan Fitch was a British Labour Party politician.Fitch was educated at Kingswood School, Bath , and was a mineworker...

Leslie Spriggs

Leslie Spriggs was a British Labour politician and trade unionist, MP for St Helens from 1958 until 1983.Born in Bolton, Spriggs served in the Navy and then worked on the railways. It was whilst he was working for the railways that he became involved in socialism and the trade union movement...

|Resignation
|-
|Ealing South

Ealing South by-election, 1958

The Ealing South by-election of 12 June 1958 was held after the resingnation of Conservative Party MP Angus Maude:The seat was safe for the Conservatives, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by over 12,000 votes...

|12 June 1958
|Angus Maude

Angus Maude

|Brian Batsford

Brian Batsford

Sir Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford was a British painter, designer, publisher and Conservative Party politician. Born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire as Brian Caldwell Cook, he adopted his mother's maiden name in 1946.In 1928 he began working for the production department of the publishing firm...

|Resignation
|-
|Islington North

Islington North by-election, 1958

The Islington North by-election, 1958 was a parliamentary by-election held on 15 May 1958 for the British House of Commons constituency of Islington North in Islington, North London....

|15 May 1958
|Wilfred Fienburgh

Wilfred Fienburgh

Wilfred Fienburgh MBE was a British Labour Party politician.-Early life:...

|Gerald Reynolds

Gerry Reynolds (UK politician)

|Death (road accident)
|- bgcolor=ffcc66
|Torrington

Torrington by-election, 1958

The Torrington by-election of 1958, in Devon, England, was the first gain by the British Liberal Party at a by-election since Holland with Boston in 1929....

|27 March 1958
|George Lambert

George Lambert, 2nd Viscount Lambert

George Lambert, 2nd Viscount Lambert, TD was a British politician.Lambert was the eldest son of long-serving Devon Member of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. George Lambert. He was educated at Harrow School and New College, Oxford. During World War II he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, but...

and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

|Mark Bonham-Carter

|Succession to Peerage
|- bgcolor=pink
|Glasgow Kelvingrove

Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election, 1958

The Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election of 13 March 1958 was held after the death of Conservative MP Walter Elliot:The seat was marginal, having been won by the Conservatives at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by just short of 3,000 votes...

|13 March 1958
|Walter Elliot

|Mary McAlister

Mary McAlister

Mary Agnes McMackin McAlister CBE was an Irish-born Scottish nurse who also went into politics and was a Member of Parliament.-Family:...

|Death
|- bgcolor=pink
|Rochdale

Rochdale by-election, 1958

The Rochdale by-election of 13 February 1958 was a by-election for the constituency of Rochdale, in Lancashire, England, in the House of Commons...

|12 February 1958
|Wentworth Schofield

Wentworth Schofield

Wentworth Schofield was a British politician, who served as the last Conservative Member of Parliament for Rochdale.Schofield hailed from Oldham, Lancashire and was active in the cotton-spinning industry...

|Jack McCann

Jack McCann

John "Jack" McCann was a British politician, who served as the Labour Member of Parliament for Rochdale....

|Death
|-
|Liverpool Garston

Liverpool Garston by-election, 1957

The Liverpool Garston by-election of 5 December 1957 was held after the death of Conservative Party MP SirVictor Raikes:The seat was safe for the Conservatives, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by nearly 12,000 votes...

|5 December 1957
|Sir Victor Raikes

Victor Raikes

Sir Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes KBE was a British Conservative politician.Raikes was the son of Henry St. John Digby Raikes, eldest son of Henry Cecil Raikes. His mother was Annie Lucinda...

/ Independent Conservative
|Richard Martin Bingham

Richard Martin Bingham

Richard Martin Bingham, TD, QC was a British barrister and politician who later served as a judge.-Education and Army career:...

Charles Waterhouse (English politician)

Captain Charles Waterhouse PC MC was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:Born in Salford, the second surviving son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of Lomberdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, he was educated at Cheltenham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an MA degree in...

|John Peel

John Peel (politician)

William John Peel , known after he was knighted in 1973 as Sir John Peel, was a British Conservative Party politician, and Member of Parliament for Leicester South East from 1957 to 1974....

|Resignation
|-
|Ipswich

Ipswich by-election, 1957

The member of Parliament for Ipswich in Suffolk, Richard Stokes, of the Labour Party died on August 3, 1957.The by-election to fill his seat was held on October 24.-External links:*...

|24 October 1957
|Richard Stokes

Richard Stokes

Major Sir Richard Rapier Stokes MC was a British Labour politician who served briefly as Lord Privy Seal in 1951....

|Dingle Foot

Dingle Foot

Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Q.C. was a British lawyer and politician, born in Plymouth, Devon.-Education and career:...

Moss Turner-Samuels

Moss Turner-Samuels was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament for the Barnard Castle constituency, but lost his seat the following year in the 1924 election to the Conservative candidate, Cuthbert...

|Jack Diamond

John Diamond, Baron Diamond

John Diamond, Baron Diamond, PC , also known as Jack Diamond, was a British Labour Party politician....

Robert Crouch

Robert Fisher Crouch was a British farmer and politician. In Parliament as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for North Dorset he specialised in agricultural issues and he was known as an independent-minded politician...

|Richard Glyn

Sir Richard Glyn, 9th Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Hamilton Glyn, 9th Baronet OBE, TD, DL was a British army officer, Conservative politician and authority on breeding pedigree dogs...

|Death
|-
|Hornsey

Hornsey by-election, 1957

The Hornsey by-election of 30 May 1957 was held after the death of Conservative Party MP David Gammans:The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by over 12,500 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|30 May 1957
|Sir David Gammans

|Lady Muriel Gammans

Muriel Gammans

Lady Muriel Gammans was a British Conservative politician. She was elected Member of Parliament for Hornsey at a 1957 by-election following the death of her husband Sir David Gammans, and served until her retirement at the 1966 general election.- External links :...

|Death
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|East Ham North

East Ham North by-election, 1957

The East Ham North by-election of 30 May 1957 was held after the death of Labour Party MP Percy Daines:The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by over 5,500 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|30 May 1957
|Percy Daines

Percy Daines

Percy Daines was a British insurance agent and politician. He served as a Labour and Co-operative Party Member of Parliament for East Ham North from the 1945 general election until his death, and was on the national committee of the Co-operative Party...

|Reginald Prentice

Reginald Prentice

Reginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice, PC was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments...

|Death
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|Edinburgh South

Edinburgh South by-election, 1957

The Edinburgh South by-election of 29 March 1957 was held after the resignation of Conservative Party MP William Darling:The seat was safe, having been won by Lloyd George at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by over 13,000 votes...

|29 May 1957
|Sir William Darling

William Darling

Sir William Young Darling, CBE, MC was the Unionist Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons for the Edinburgh South constituency from 1945 to 1957. He was a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1942-57....

|Michael Clark Hutchison

Michael Clark Hutchison

Alan Michael Clark Hutchison was a Scottish Unionist politician.Hutchison was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a barrister, called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1937...

|Resignation
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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne North

Newcastle-upon-Tyne North by-election, 1957

The Newcastle-upon-Tyne North by-election of 21 March 1957 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of National Liberal and Conservative MP Gwilym Lloyd George:...

|21 March 1957
|Gwilym Lloyd George

Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby

Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

|William Elliott

William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth

Robert William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth , known as William Elliott, was a British Conservative Party politician.His father Richard Elliott, known as 'Dick', was a former councillor and mayor of Morpeth....

Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes

Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes, GBE, CH , was a British Conservative politician and the only Governor-General of the short-lived West Indies Federation, from 3 January 1958, to 31 May 1962, when the country was disbanded.-Background and education:Buchan-Hepburn was the...

|Philip Goodhart

Philip Goodhart

Sir Philip Carter Goodhart is a British Conservative politician, the son of Arthur Lehman Goodhart.Goodhart contested Consett in 1950 whilst still a student at Trinity College, Cambridge....

Anthony Eden

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957...

|John Hobson

John Hobson (politician)

|Resignation due to ill health
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|Bristol West

Bristol West by-election, 1957

The Bristol West byelection of 7 March 1957 was a by-election to the House of Commons which saw the constituency of Bristol West elect a new Conservative Party Member of Parliament to replace Sir Walter Monckton. Sir Walter had first been elected at a previous byelection in 1951.-Candidates:The...

|7 March 1957
|Walter Monckton

Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC was a British politician.-Early years:...

|Robert Cooke

Robert Cooke (politician)

Robert Gordon Cooke was a British Conservative Party politician.Cooke was educated at The Downs School, Wraxall, Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford...

|Elevation to a hereditary peerage
|- bgcolor=pink
|Carmarthen

Carmarthen by-election, 1957

The Carmarthen by-election of 1957 in Carmarthenshire, Wales, was notable for resulting in the nadir of the British Liberal Party and for being the first election in the United Kingdom in which two women competed for the same seat....

|28 February 1957
|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....

|Megan Lloyd George

Megan Lloyd George

Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George CH was a British politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh constituency, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. She later became a Labour MP....

Stanley Evans

Stanley Norman Evans was a British industrialist and Labour Party politician. He served very briefly as an Agriculture Minister in the post-war Attlee government but was forced to resign when he claimed that farmers were being "featherbedded"...

|John Stonehouse

John Stonehouse

John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...

|Resignation (disagreement with party over Suez

Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,...

)
|- bgcolor=pink
|Lewisham North

Lewisham North by-election, 1957

The Lewisham North by-election of 14 February 1957 was held following the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet the previous year...

|14 February 1957
|Sir Austin Hudson

Sir Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet

Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....

, Bt.

|Niall MacDermot

Niall MacDermot

Anthony Nutting

Sir Harold Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet was a British diplomat and Conservative Party politician.-Early and private life:...

|Mervyn Pike

Mervyn Pike

Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, commonly known as Mervyn Pike, DBE was a British Conservative politician....

|Resignation (disagreement with party over Suez

Suez Crisis

)
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|City of Chester

City of Chester by-election, 1956

The City of Chester by-election of 15 November 1956 was held after the appointment of Conservative Member of Parliament Basil Nield as Recorder of Manchester....

|15 November 1956
|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...

|John Temple

John Meredith Temple

John Meredith Temple was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1956 as Member of Parliament for the City of Chester, and held the seat until his retirement at the February 1974 general election.- External links :...

|Recorder of Manchester
|-
|Chester-le-Street

Chester-le-Street by-election, 1956

The Chester-le-Street by-election, 1956 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Chester-le-Street on 27 September 1956.-Vacancy:...

|27 September 1956
|Patrick Bartley

Patrick Bartley

Patrick Bartley was a British coal miner, civil servant and politician. He served as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street from 1950 until his early death.-Mining career:...

|Norman Pentland

Norman Pentland

Norman Pentland was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street. He won the constituency in a by-election in 1956, and served until his death at the age of 60 in 1972....

|Death
|-
|Newport

Newport by-election, 1956

The Newport by-election, 1956 was a parliamentary by-election held on 6 July 1956 for the British House of Commons constituency of Newport in Monmouthshire....

|6 July 1956
|Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman (politician)

Peter Freeman was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Biography:He was elected as Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 1929 general election, defeating the Conservative MP Walter D'Arcy Hall by only 187 votes...

|Sir Frank Soskice

Frank Soskice

Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill PC was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.-Background and education:...

Richard Hornby

Richard Phipps Hornby was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. He was Member of Parliament for Tonbridge for over 17½ years, from June 1956 to February 1974, holding a junior ministerial position for a year in the mid-1960s. He worked for the J...

|Resignation
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Mid Ulster

Mid Ulster by-election, 1956

The by-election held in Mid Ulster on 8 May 1956 was called because both candidates in the Mid Ulster by-election, 1955 were disqualified. Tom Mitchell was disqualified from assuming office because he was a convicted felon. Charles Beattie was awarded the seat but he was also disqualified because...

|8 May 1956
|Charles Beattie

Charles Beattie

Charles Beattie was a Northern Irish farmer and auctioneer. Active in the Ulster Farmers' Union and in Unionist associations, he achieved senior office in the Orange Order and the Royal Black Institution and served on Omagh Rural District Council from 1952 until his death...

|George Forrest

George Forrest (politician)

George Forrest was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland who served as MP for Mid Ulster from 1956 until his death...

|Disqualification
|-
|Walthamstow West

Walthamstow West by-election, 1956

The Walthamstow West by-election of 1 March 1956 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of former Prime Minister, Labour MP Clement Attlee:The seat was safe, having been won by Attlee at the 1955 General Election by over 9,000 votes-Candidates:...

|1 March 1956
|Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...

|Edward Redhead

Edward Redhead

Edward Charles Redhead JP was a British civil servant and politician who became the successor to Clement Attlee as Member of Parliament for Walthamstow West.-Civil servant:...

Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton

Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton PC , was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.Colyton was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and then joined the Diplomatic Service...

|Edward du Cann

Edward du Cann

Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann is a retired politician from the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1956–87, and served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1965–67, and Chairman of party's 1922 Committee from 1972-84.Du Cann was educated at Colet Court, Woodbridge School and...

Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank

Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank CH, PC , was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1952....

|Marcus Kimball

|Elevation to a hereditary peerage
|-
|Hereford

Hereford by-election, 1956

The Hereford by-election of 14 February 1956 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Jim Thomas:The seat was safe, having been won by Thomas at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 albeit with a reduced majority of over 9,000 votes-Candidates:*David Gibson-Watt was the...

|14 February 1956
|James Thomas

James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin

James Purdon Lewes "Jim" Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin was a British Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1951 and 1956.-Background and education:...

|David Gibson-Watt

David Gibson-Watt

David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt MC & Two Bars was a British Conservative politician.Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, Gibson-Watt served in the Welsh Guards from 1939 to 1946, seeing action in the North African campaign and the Italian campaign. He was awarded the...

|Elevation to a hereditary peerage
|-
|Leeds North East

Leeds North East by-election, 1956

The Leeds North East byelection of 9 February 1956 was a by-election to the House of Commons. It was caused when the sitting Member, Osbert Peake, was awarded a Viscountcy in the New Year's Honours list...

|9 February 1956
|Osbert Peake

Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby

Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955....

|Sir Keith Joseph

Keith Joseph

Keith St John Joseph, Baron Joseph, Bt, CH, PC , was a British barrister and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet under three Prime Ministers , and is widely regarded to have been the "power behind the throne" in the creation of what came to be known as...

, Bt.

|Elevation to a hereditary peerage
|-
|Blaydon

Blaydon by-election, 1956

The Blaydon byelection of 2 February 1956 was a by-election held in the British House of Commons constituency of Blaydon in the North East of England....

|2 February 1956
|William Whiteley

William Whiteley (politician)

William Whiteley, CH, PC, DL was the Labour Member of Parliament for Blaydon in County Durham.William Whiteley, not to be confused with the founder of the Department Store of the same name, was a Durham miner by background and lodge official also...

|Robert Woof

|Death
|-
|Torquay

Torquay by-election, 1955

The Torquay by-election of 15 December 1955 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Charles Williams:-Result of the previous general election:...

|15 December 1955
|Charles Williams

Charles Williams (UK politician)

Charles Williams PC was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was Member of Parliament for constituencies in Devon from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1955....

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...

|Dickson Mabon

Dickson Mabon

Dr. Jesse Dickson "Dick" Mabon PC FRSA was a Scottish politician, physician and company director. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until...

|Death
|-
|Gateshead West

Gateshead West by-election, 1955

The Gateshead West by-election of 7 December 1955 was held after the death of Labour MP John Hall:The seat was safe, having been won by Labour at the United Kingdom general election, 1955 by over 10,000 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|7 December 1955
|John Hall

John Hall (British Labour politician)

John Thomas Hall was a British Labour Party politician.Hall began working in a colliery in 1910, then served in the 1st Life Guards during World War I. After the war, he worked on the railways...

|Harry Randall

Harry Randall

Harry Enos Randall OBE was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Clitheroe from 1945 to 1950 and Gateshead West from 1955 until his retirement in 1970...

|Death
|- bgcolor="#c0c0c0"
|Mid Ulster

Mid Ulster by-election, 1955

The by-election held in Mid Ulster on 11 August 1955 was called as a result of a vote in the British parliament on 18 July 1955 which voted 197 votes to 63 to nullify the result of the previous 1955 UK General Election in the constituency...

|11 August 1955
|Tom Mitchell

|Charles Beattie

Charles Beattie

|Disqualification
|-
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40th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1951
This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1951 general election on 25 October 1951.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Anthony Barber, Lord Lambton and Ted Short....

(1951–1955)

Wrexham by-election, 1955

The Wrexham by-election, 1955 was a by-election held on 17th March 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales....

|17 March 1955
|Robert Richards

Robert Richards (Welsh politician)

Robert Richards was a British Labour Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Wrexham in North Wales for three periods between 1929 and 1954....

|Idwal Jones

James Idwal Jones

James Idwal Jones was a British Labour Party politician.He was born in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham, and educated at Ruabon Grammar School and Normal College, Bangor. He became a teacher in 1922 in Holt, but then moved to positions in Glyn Ceiriog and Penycae...

Arnold Gridley, 1st Baron Gridley

Arnold Babb Gridley, 1st Baron Gridley KBE , was a British Conservative Member of Parliament .Gridley was the son of Edward Gridley of Abbey Dore in Herefordshire. He worked as a consulting engineer but later turned to politics...

|Harold Macdonald Steward

Harold Macdonald Steward

Sir Harold Macdonald Steward was a British consulting engineer and Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Stockport South for nine years, and later became Leader of Liverpool City Council....

William Rankine Milligan

William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan PC, KC was a Scottish Tory politician and judge.-Early life:Educated at Sherborne School, University College, Oxford, and the University of Glasgow...

|Lord President, Court of Session

Court of Session

|-
|Twickenham

Twickenham by-election, 1955

The Twickenham by-election, 1955 was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 January 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Twickenham in Middlesex....

|25 January 1955
|Edward Keeling

Edward Keeling

Sir Edward Herbert Keeling was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1935 to 1954....

|Roger Gresham Cooke

|Death
|-
|Orpington

Orpington by-election, 1955

The Orpington by-election, 1955 was a parliamentary by-election held on 20 January 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Orpington in Kent, England. It followed the death of the incumbent Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Waldron Smithers...

|20 January 1955
|Waldron Smithers

Waldron Smithers

Sir Waldron Smithers was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Smithers was educated at Charterhouse and in France and became a member of the London Stock Exchange...

|Donald Sumner

Donald Sumner

William Donald Massey Sumner , known as Donald Sumner, was a British Conservative Party politician who later became a judge...

|Death
|-
|South Norfolk

South Norfolk by-election, 1955

The South Norfolk by-election, 1955 was a by-election held on 13th January 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of South Norfolk....

|13 January 1955
|Peter Baker

Peter Baker (UK politician)

Peter Arthur David Baker MC was a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament . He was the last MP to be expelled from the House of Commons....

|John Hill

John Hill (UK politician)

John Edward Bernard Hill was a barrister, farmer, and British Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for South Norfolk for 19 years, from 1955 to 1974. He was also one of the UK's first MEPs, serving from 1973-74.Hill was the only son of Captain Robert Hill, an officer...

|Expelled from the House (convicted of fraud)
|-
|Inverness

Inverness by-election, 1954

The Inverness by-election, 1954 was a by-election held on 21 December 1954 for the British House of Commons constituency of Inverness.The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Unionist Member of Parliament Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, by his application for the Chiltern Hundreds...

|21 December 1954
|Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton

|Neil McLean

Neil McLean (politician)

Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Loudon Desmond McLean DSO, known as Billy McLean , was a British Army intelligence officer and politician who led a celebrated Special Operations Executive operation in Albania during the Second World War, and later attempted to overthrow Communism in the country...

|Resignation
|-
|Armagh

Armagh by-election, 1954

The Armagh by-election was held on 20 November 1954, following the resignation of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament James Harden.Harden had held the seat of Armagh since a by-election in 1948, and had not faced a contest since then...

|20 November 1954
|James Harden

James Harden (politician)

Major James Richard Edwards Harden DSO MC , known as Richard Harden, was a Northern Irish politician...

|Christopher Armstrong

C. W. Armstrong

Colonel Christopher Wyborne Armstrong was a politician from Northern Ireland. He was Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Armagh from a by-election in 1954 until he stood down at the 1959 general election....

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...

|John Woollam

John Woollam

John Victor Woollam was a British Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby at a 1954 by-election. He served until 1964, when the seat was gained by Labour candidate Eric Ogden...

Robert Taylor (Labour politician)

Robert John Taylor, PC was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for the Morpeth constituency in Northumberland, and held the seat until his death in 1954, aged 73.In Clement Attlee's post-war Labour Government, he was a Lord of the...

|Will Owen

Will Owen

William James Owen was a British miner and politician, whose career as a Member of Parliament was ended by his trial under the Official Secrets Act 1911 for giving secrets to Czechoslovak intelligence...

Richard Sharples

|Resignation
|-
|Aberdare

Aberdare by-election, 1954

The Aberdare by-election, 1954 was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 October 1954 for the British House of Commons constituency of Aberdare in Wales. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament David Thomas had died on 20 June 1954. Thomas had held the seat since a 1946...

|28 October 1954
|David Thomas

|Arthur Probert

Arthur Probert

Arthur Reginald Probert was a British politician. He served as a Labour Member of Parliament from 1954 to 1974....

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...

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...

|Arthur Creech Jones

Arthur Creech Jones

Arthur Creech Jones was a British trade union official and politician. Originally a civil servant, his imprisonment as a conscientious objector during the First World War forced him to change careers. A protégé of Ernest Bevin, he was elected to Parliament in 1935 and served in the Colonial Office...

Ernest Thurtle

Ernest Thurtle was a British Labour politician.Thurtle worked as am accountant and salesman...

|Victor Collins

Victor Collins, Baron Stonham

John Hughes-Hallett

Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett was a British naval commander and politician. He was the Naval Commander during the Dieppe Raid of 1942.-Biography:...

Alexander Anderson (Scottish politician)

Alexander Anderson was a Labour Party politician in Scotland, who represented the for Motherwell constituency in the House of Commons for nine years....

|George Lawson

George Lawson (UK politician)

George McArthur Lawson was a British Labour politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Motherwell from a by-election in 1954 until his retirement at the October 1974 general election.- External links :...

John Wheatley, Baron Wheatley of Shettleston

John Thomas Wheatley, Baron Wheatley PC, KC was a Scottish Labour politician and judge.Educated at St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, Mount St. Mary's College, Sheffield, and the University of Glasgow he was admitted as an advocate in 1932. He served in the Royal Artillery and the Judge Advocate...

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...

William Cuthbert

William Nicolson Cuthbert was a Conservative Party politician in England.He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Rye, and when that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, he was returned to the House of Commons for the new Arundel & Shoreham...

|Henry Kerby

Henry Kerby

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Edward Peter Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury , styled Viscount Cranborne from 1947 to 1972, was a British landowner and Conservative politician....

|John Eden

John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton

John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, Bt, PC is a British Conservative politician.-Background:Eden was educated at Eton College and St Paul's School, United States. He served as a Lieutenant with the Rifle Brigade, 2nd Gurkha Rifles and the Gilgit Scouts during the Second World War...

Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt

Joseph Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt was a British chartered accountant, businessman and National Liberal Party politician.-Background and education:...

and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

|Julian Ridsdale

Julian Ridsdale

Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale, CBE was a British National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician and long-serving Member of Parliament for the constituency of Harwich in Essex...

and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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...

|Patrick Wall

Patrick Wall

Major Sir Patrick Henry Bligh Wall KBE , MC, VRD was a British senior commando in the Royal Marines during World War II and later a Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Haltemprice, East Yorkshire and subsequently for Beverley...

Thomas Iremonger

Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger was a British Conservative Party politician.Iremonger was educated at King's College, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford, where he gained a sailing blue, then worked as a district officer in the Colonial Administrative Service in the Western Pacific...

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....

|Ben Parkin

Ben Parkin

Benjamin Theaker Parkin was a British teacher and politician who served as Member of Parliament for Stroud and for Paddington North...

Santo Jeger

Santo Wayburn Jeger was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1945 until his death....

|Lena Jeger

|Death
|-
|Ormskirk

Ormskirk by-election, 1953

The Ormskirk by-election of 12 November 1953 was held after the elevation to the Peerage of Conservative MP Atrhur Salter as Governor of Tasmania:The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1951 by almost 14,000 votes...

|12 November 1953
|Arthur Salter

|Douglas Glover

Douglas Glover (UK politician)

Colonel Sir Douglas Glover T.D., M.P. British Conservative politician. Member of Parliament for Ormskirk and Army Colonel during World War II...

Graham Page

For the American automobile company, see Graham-Paige.Sir Graham Page was a British Conservative Party politician....

Seymour Cocks

Frederick Seymour Cocks, known as Seymour Cocks , was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament ....

|William Warbey

William Warbey

William Noble Warbey was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.William Noble was born in the then newly created Metropolitan Borough of Hackney in London. He first entered the House of Commons in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, as Member of Parliament for Luton in...

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:...

|Edith Pitt

Edith Pitt

Dame Edith Maud Pitt, DBE was a British Conservative politician.She was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston at a by-election in 1953, and served until her death shortly before the 1966 general election, in which Jill Knight was elected as her successor.Pitt had been...

Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn

Major Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn MC DL , known as Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt, from 1934 to 1953, was a soldier and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1953.-Background and education:Glyn was the son of the...

|Airey Neave

Airey Neave

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave DSO, OBE, MC was a British soldier, barrister and politician.During World War II, Neave was one of the few servicemen to escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle...

Richard Ewart

Richard Ewart was a Labour Party politician in England. He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Sunderland. When that 2-seat constituency was divided for the 1950 general election, he was returned for the new Sunderland South constituency, which re-elected him in...

|Paul Williams

Paul Williams (politician)

Paul Glyn Williams was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1953 to 1964. He was also a prominent businessman...

Patricia Ford

Patricia Ford is an American model of multi-ethnic ancestry .-Career:...

|Death (drowned in ferry disaster

MV Princess Victoria

MV Princess Victoria was one of the earliest roll-on/roll-off ferries. Built in 1947, she operated from Stranraer to Larne. During a severe European windstorm on 31 January 1953, she sank in the North Channel with the loss of 133 lives, the deadliest maritime disaster in United Kingdom waters...

)
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|Hayes and Harlington
|1 April 1953
|Walter Ayles

Walter Ayles

Walter Henry Ayles was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 11 years between 1923 and 1953....

|Arthur Skeffington

Arthur Skeffington

Arthur Massey Skeffington was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years between 1945 and 1971....

Albert Davies (politician)

Albert Edward Davies was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for the Burslem division of Stoke-on-Trent....

|Harriet Slater

Harriet Slater

Harriet Slater CBE, née Evans, was a British Labour and Co-operative politician.Educated at Hanley High School and Dudley Teachers’ Training College, Slater was National Organiser for the Cooperative Party from 1942 to 1953, and a local councillor in Stoke-on-Trent from 1933 to 1965.She was...

|Death
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|Barnsley

Barnsley by-election, 1953

The Barnsley by-election, 1953 was a by-election held on 31st March 1953 for the British House of Commons constituency of Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire....

|31 March 1953
|Sidney Schofield

Sidney Schofield

Sidney Schofield was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament for little over a year.Born in Pontefract, Schofield was elected MP for Barnsley at the 1951 general election...

|Roy Mason

Roy Mason

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

Edward Carson (English politician)

Edward "Ned" Carson was a British Conservative politician.-Personal life:The Hon. Edward Carson was the youngest child of five children , and he was the only child to his fathers second wife Ruby Frewen, who his father had married following the death of the first Lady Carson.Edward Carson was...

|William Rees-Davies

William Rees-Davies

William Rupert Rees-Davies was a British Conservative politician.Rees-Davies was the son of Sir William Rees-Davies, Chief Justice of Hong Kong. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a cricket blue. He was a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in...

John Baker White

John Baker White started his career as a political activist becoming a director of a private organisation dedicated to fighting left-wing subversion. He became an amateur spy in Nazi Germany before becoming a propaganda agent during World War II. In 1945, he was elected a Conservative politician...

|Leslie Thomas

Leslie Thomas (politician)

Sir Leslie Montagu Thomas was a British Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury in a 1953 by-election, and served until he stood down in 1966....

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....

|Ernest Thornton

Ernest Thornton

Ernest Thornton was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Farnworth in a 1952 by-election, and served until his retirement at the 1970 general election.- External links :...

Fred Longden

Fred Longden was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Brought up in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, he joined the Independent Labour Party and was elected to its National Council. In the First World War he became active in the Union of Democratic Control, and was arrested for making a speech...

|William Wheeldon

William Wheeldon

William Edwin Wheeldon was a British co-operator and municipal politician from Birmingham who later became a Member of Parliament....

|Death
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|Belfast South

Belfast South by-election, 1952

The Belfast South by-election, 1952 was held following the resignation of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament, Hugh Gage.-History:...

|4 November 1952
|Connolly Gage

|David Campbell

David Campbell (South Belfast MP)

Sir David Callender Campbell was an Ulster Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He was elected Member of Parliament for Belfast South in a 1952 by-election, and served until his death in 1963...

William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor

William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician and a member of the prominent Astor family.-Biography:...

Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan

Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC , known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland....

|Phelim O'Neill

Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan

Phelim Robert Hugh O’Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan PC , was a politician in Northern Ireland and a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords....

George Willey

George Willey was a Labour Party politician in England. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 until his death....

|Arthur Palmer

Arthur Palmer (politician)

Arthur Montague Frank Palmer was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Palmer was born in Northam, Devon and educated at Ashford County Grammar School and Acton Technical College...

Thomas Cook (Scottish politician)

Thomas Fotheringham Cook was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for constituencies in Dundee from 1945 until his death in 1952.- External links :...

|George Thomson

George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

James Milner, 1st Baron Milner of Leeds

Major James Milner, 1st Baron Milner of Leeds, MC, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Milner was educated at the University of Leeds and became a solicitor. He was a major in World War I and was wounded, awarded the Military Cross and bar for his service...

|Denis Healey

Denis Healey

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC is a British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.-Early life:...

Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson

Robert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson CH PC was a British Conservative Party politician who held a number of ministerial posts during the Second World War....

|Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh

Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh

Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Fleetwood Fleetwood-Hesketh, TD, DL, OBE , born Roger Bibby-Hesketh, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Southport from 1952 to 1959.He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and called to bar in 1928 at...

|Elevation to a hereditary peerage
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|Bournemouth East and Christchurch

Bournemouth East and Christchurch by-election, 1952

The Bournemouth East and Christchurch by-election of 6 February 1952 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament Brendan Bracken was elevated to the House of Lords. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.-Results:...

|6 February 1952
|Brendan Bracken

Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken

Brendan Randell Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken PC was an Irish businessman and a minister in the British Conservative cabinet. Primarily, the 1st Viscount Bracken is remembered for opposing the Bank of England's co-operation with Adolf Hitler, and for subsequently supporting Winston Churchill's...

|Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson OBE was a British writer, publisher and politician.-Biography:Nicolson was the son of the writers Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; he had a brother Ben, later an art historian...

|Elevation to a hereditary peerage
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39th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1950
This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1950 general election, held on 23 February 1950....

(1950–1951)

Westhoughton by-election, 1951

The Westhoughton by-election took place on 21 June 1951. The contest followed the resignation of the sitting Labour Party member of parliament, Rhys Davies....

|21 June 1951
|Rhys Davies

Rhys Davies (politician)

Rhys John Davies was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.Davies was born in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Rhys and Ann Davies. After an elementary education he initially worked as a farm labourer. He subsequently moved to the Rhondda Valley, where he worked as a...

|Thomas Price

Thomas Price

Thomas Price was a stonecutter, teacher, lay preacher, businessman, stonemason, clerk-of-works, union secretary, union president and politician...

|Illness
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|Woolwich East

Woolwich East by-election, 1951

The Woolwich East by-election of 14 June 1951 was held after the death of Labour MP Ernest Bevin:The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1950 by over 12,000 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|14 June 1951
|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...

|Christopher Mayhew

Christopher Mayhew

Christopher Paget Mayhew, Baron Mayhew was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1974, when he left the Labour Party to become a Liberal...

William Wellwood

Captain William Wellwood MC was the Ulster Unionist Party MP for Londonderry in the Westminster Parliament from 1951 to 1955.Following the retirement of Ronald Ross, Wellwood was elected unopposed in a by-election on 19 May 1951....

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...

|Albert Braithwaite

Albert Braithwaite

Sir Albert Newby Braithwaite DSO was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Albert Braithwaite, one time Lord Mayor of Leeds and Patti Braithwaite....

|Resignation
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|Ormskirk

Ormskirk by-election, 1951

The Ormskirk by-election of 5 April 1951 was held after the appointment of Conservative MP Ronald Cross as Governor of Tasmania:The seat was safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1950 by over 14,000 votes...

Oliver Stanley

Oliver Frederick George Stanley MC, PC was a prominent British Conservative politician who held many ministerial posts before his early death when it was expected he would soon assume higher office....

|Walter Monckton

|Death
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|Abertillery

Abertillery by-election, 1950

The Abertillery by-election of 30 November 1950 was held after the death of Labour MP George Daggar.The seat was very safe, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1950 by over 25,000 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

|30 November 1950
|George Daggar

George Daggar

George Daggar was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament for the safe Labour seat of Abertillery in Monmouthshire, Wales...

|Llywelyn Williams

Llywelyn Williams

|Death
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|Bristol South East

Bristol South East by-election, 1950

The Bristol South East by-election, 1950 was a by-election held on 30th November 1950 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bristol South East in the city of Bristol...

|30 November 1950
|Stafford Cripps

Stafford Cripps

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...

|Tony Benn

Tony Benn

|Resignation (ill-health)
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|Belfast West

Belfast West by-election, 1950

There was a by-election for Belfast West constituency on 29 November 1950.It occurred after the winner at the 1950 UK general election, James Godfrey MacManaway, was disqualified as he was a priest....

|29 November 1950
|James MacManaway

James MacManaway

The Rt Rev James MacManaway , DD, MA was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1888. He was Curate of Clanabogan then Rector of Termonmaguirk; and after that the incumbent at Fivemiletown. He became a Canon of St...

Harold Roberts (politician)

Harold Roberts was a British solicitor and Unionist politician. After a long career in local government in Birmingham, he represented the city in the House of Commons for the last five years of his life....

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

|Lawrence Turner

Lawrence Turner

Henry Frederic Lawrence Turner was a British politician. As an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War he survived three years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese; he passed his captivity by lecturing on politics. After the war ended he moved into politics and was elected as...

|Succession to the Peerage
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|Glasgow Scotstoun

Glasgow Scotstoun by-election, 1950

The Glasgow Scotstoun by-election of 25 October 1950 was held after the death of Conservative MP Arthur Young:The seat was very marginal, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1950 by 239 votes-Result of the previous general election:...

Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan

Terence Norbert Donovan, Baron Donovan PC was a British Labour Party politician, and later a judge.Born in West Ham, London, Donovan came to office in the Labour landslide in the 1945 general election. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Leicester East...

|Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

Lynn Ungoed-Thomas

Arwyn Lynn Ungoed-Thomas , known as Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, was a Welsh Labour Party politician and British judge.-Biography:...

|Appointment as High Court Judge
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|Brighouse and Spenborough

Brighouse and Spenborough by-election, 1950

A by-election was held for the British House of Commons in the marginal constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough on 4 May 1950. The seat became vacant following the death of Member of Parliament Frederick Arthur Cobb....

|4 May 1950
|Frederick Arthur Cobb

Frederick Arthur Cobb

Frederick Arthur Cobb was a radio engineer and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was the son of a farmer and joined the merchant navy as a radio operator while still a youth, during the First World War. He later became a maintenance engineer in the 2LO station which later became the...

|Lewis John Edwards

|Death
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|Dunbartonshire West

Dunbartonshire West by-election, 1950

The Dunbartonshire West by-election of 25 April 1950 was held after the death of Labour MP Adam McKinlay on 17 March 1950:The seat was marginal, having been won at the United Kingdom general election, 1950 by only 613 votes...

|25 April 1950
|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....

|Tom Steele

Tom Steele

Tom Steele was a Scottish Labour politician.Steele worked as a station master and served on the board of the Lanark Co-operative Society....

|Death
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|Sheffield Neepsend

Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950

The Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 April 1950 for the British House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Neepsend in Neepsend, an industrial suburb of the city of Sheffield....

|5 April 1950
|Harry Morris

Harry Morris, 1st Baron Morris of Kenwood

Harry Morris, Baron Morris was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, defeating the Conservative incumbent William Boulton...

|Frank Soskice

Frank Soskice

Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill PC was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.-Background and education:...

|Resignation to provide a seat for Solicitor General

Solicitor General for England and Wales

Her Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, often known as the Solicitor General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law...

Frank Soskice

Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill PC was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.-Background and education:...

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43rd ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1964This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1964 general election, held on 15 October 1964, for the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom.... (1964–1966)

39th ParliamentMPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1950This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1950 general election, held on 23 February 1950.... (1950–1951)

43rd Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1964
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1964 general election, held on 15 October 1964, for the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom....

(1964–1966)

39th Parliament
MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1950
This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1950 general election, held on 23 February 1950....

(1950–1951)