List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds

This is a list of the names and constituencies of Members of Parliament (MPs) appointed as Bailiff and Steward of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.

The Chiltern Hundreds is a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which is used as a procedural device to enable MPs to resign from the British House of Commons.

Stuart Holland held the office for the longest period on record, for 5 years, 8 months and 2 days between 18 May 1989 and 20 January 1995.__NOTOC__{| class="wikitable"!Date!!Member!!Constituency
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Before 1885

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17 January 1751 || John Pitt || Wareham
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1842 || John Willis Fleming || South Hampshire
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1885-1900

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1886 || Richard de Aquila Grosvenor || Flintshire
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1890 || James Edward O'Doherty || North Donegal
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November 1892 || Jabez Balfour || Burnley
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9 May 1893 || Michael Davitt || North East Cork
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15 June 1893 || John Morrogh || South East Cork
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4 August 1893 || William Henry Grenfell || Hereford
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8 December 1893 || Sir William Thackeray Marriott || Brighton
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21 March 1894 || John Wynford Philipps || Mid Lanarkshire
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26 June 1894 || Hon. Bernard John Seymour Coleridge || Sheffield, Attercliffe
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17 August 1894 || James Allanson Picton || Leicester
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21 August 1894 || Patrick Alexander Chance || South Kilkenny
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3 April 1895 || Clement Higgins || Mid Norfolk
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15 June 1895 || William O'Brien || Cork City
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24 August 1895 || Alfred John Webb || West Waterford
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19 February 1896 || Thomas Sexton || North Kerry
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24 April 1896 || William Alexander Hunter || Aberdeen, North
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23 November 1896 || James Martin White || Forfarshire
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16 January 1897 || Alfred Money Wigram || Romford
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4 February 1897 || Charles Harvey Combe || Chertsey
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5 February 1898 || Alfred Hopkinson || Cricklade
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22 April 1898 || Francis Taylor || South Norfolk
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2 July 1898 || James Dampier Palmer || Gravesend
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22 July 1898 || George Doughty || Great Grimsby
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9 December 1898 || Edmund Francis Vesey Knox || Londonderry
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7 February 1899 || William Kenrick || Birmingham, North
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17 February 1899 || Thomas Wayman || Elland
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16 June 1899 || Sir John Austin, Bt. || Osgoldcross
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1 July 1899 || Robert Grant Webster || St Pancras East
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26 October 1899 || Hon. Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, Bt. || Exeter
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26 January 1900 || Lord Charles William de-la-Poer Beresford || York
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27 January 1900 || Bernard Collery || North Sligo
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14 March 1900 || Hon. Evelyn Hubbard || Lambeth, Brixton
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1900-1918

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11 December 1900 || Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt. || Blackpool
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9 January 1902 || Edward Brodie Hoare || Hampstead
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1 February 1902 || Michael McCartan || South Down
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7 February 1902 || James Daly || South Monaghan
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18 April 1902 || Edwin Hughes || Woolwich
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7 October 1902 || John Cathcart Wason || Orkney and Shetland
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27 October 1902 || Augustus Frederick Warr || Liverpool East Toxteth
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18 February 1903 || William Edward Hartpole Lecky || Dublin University
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5 March 1903 || Edward Mervyn Archdale || North Fermanagh
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12 January 1904 || William O'Brien || Cork City
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22 March 1904 || John Edward Bernard Seely || Isle of Wight
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8 June 1904 || John Lockie || Devonport
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16 June 1904 || John Arthur Fyler || Chertsey
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14 February 1905 || Sir John Archibald Willox || Liverpool, Everton
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29 June 1905 || Arthur Hill || West Down
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19 March 1906 || Henry Broadhurst || Leicester
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7 May 1906 || Dr. Frederick Rutherfoord Harris || Camberwell, Dulwich
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11 June 1906 || Hon. Heneage Legge || St. George's, Hanover Square
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10 December 1906 || Daniel Desmond Sheehan || Mid Cork
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12 February 1907 || Harold James Reckitt || Brigg
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1 May 1907 || Sir William Eden Evans-Gordon || Tower Hamlets, Stepney
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10 June 1907 || Denis Joseph Cogan || East Wicklow
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1 July 1907 || James O'Mara || South Kilkenny
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15 August 1907 || Hon. Edward Blake || South Longford
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22 January 1908 || William Alexander McArthur || St. Austell
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22 February 1908 || William Harvey Du Cros || Hastings
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25 April 1908 || Sir Henry Hartley Fowler || Wolverhampton, East
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28 April 1908 || Edmund Robertson || Dundee
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29 June 1908 || John Wynford Philipps || Pembrokeshire
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10 February 1909 || John Sinclair || Forfarshire
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29 March 1909 || William O'Brien || Cork City
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23 April 1909 || J. Batty Langley || Sheffield, Attercliffe
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22 February 1910 || Sir William Henry Holland, Bt. || Rotherham
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20 February 1911 || Thomas Fleming Wilson || North East Lanarkshire
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15 March 1911 || Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton || Brentford
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27 April 1911 || Viscount Morpeth || Birmingham South
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28 June 1911 || Thomas Gair Ashton || Luton
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4 July 1911 || Sir Alexander Fuller Acland-Hood, Bt. || Wellington
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5 July 1911 || John Muldoon || East Wicklow
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27 October 1911 || Alfred Emmott || Oldham
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8 March 1912 || John Hendley Morrison Kirkwood || South East Essex
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11 March 1912 || Sir James Rankin, Bt. || Leominster
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16 May 1912 || Horatio William Bottomley || Hackney, South
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30 July 1912 || Sir George Kemp || Manchester North West
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14 November 1912 || George Lansbury || Tower Hamlets, Bow and Bromley
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7 February 1913 || Lord Balniel || Chorley
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2 June 1913 || Sir Henry Kimber, Bt. || Wandsworth
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19 January 1914 || William O'Brien || Cork City
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26 May 1914 || Richard Hazleton || North Galway
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7 July 1914 || Joseph Austen Chamberlain || East Worcestershire
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16 February 1915 || Viscount Castlereagh || Maidstone
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3 December 1915 || William Hall Walker || Widnes
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6 January 1916 || Sir Alexander Henderson, Bt. || St George's, Hanover Square
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13 January 1916 || Hon. Harry Lawson Webster Lawson || Tower Hamlets, Mile End
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22 February 1916 || Robert Armstrong Yerburgh || Chester
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24 February 1916 || Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston || Hertford
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6 March 1916 || John William Logan || Harborough
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8 April 1916 || Henry Chaplin || Wimbledon
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7 August 1916 || Sir Reginald Pole-Carew || Bodmin
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10 October 1916 || Felix Cassel || St. Pancras, West
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27 November 1916 || Earl of Ronaldshay || Hornsey
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16 December 1916 || Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley || Sheffield, Hallam
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21 December 1916 || Sir John Alexander Dewar, Bt. || Inverness-shire
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10 February 1917 || Marquess of Tullibardine || West Perthshire
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22 March 1917 || Viscount Valentia || Oxford
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7 May 1917 || Hon. Charles Henry Lyell || Edinburgh, South
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19 June 1917 || Mark Lockwood || Epping
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12 January 1918 || Sir John Brownlee Lonsdale, Bt. || Mid Armagh
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14 March 1918 || William Archer Redmond || East Tyrone
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12 June 1918 || George Denison Faber || Battersea and Clapham, Clapham
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4 November 1918 || Timothy Michael Healy || North East Cork
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1918-1931

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21 March 1919 || Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont || East Antrim
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22 October 1919 || John Wilkinson Taylor || Chester-le-Street
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29 October 1919 || Hon. Waldorf Astor || Plymouth, Sutton
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2 December 1919 || Henry William Forster || Bromley
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9 March 1920 || George James Wardle || Stockport
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25 March 1920 || James Avon Clyde || Edinburgh, North
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7 July 1920 || Robert Francis Peel || Woodbridge
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25 November 1920 || Rt. Hon. William Brace || Abertillery
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17 December 1920 || Viscount Duncannon || Dover
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8 February 1921 || Rt. Hon. William Crooks || Woolwich, East
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15 February 1921 || Sydney Arnold || Penistone
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18 March 1921 || Dennis Fortescue Boles || Taunton
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15 April 1921 || Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot || Chichester
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2 May 1921 || John Tyson Wigan || Abingdon
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24 May 1921 || Rt. Hon. Walter Hume Long || Westminster, St. George's
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9 January 1922 || Henry Newton Knights || Camberwell, North
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27 February 1922 || Thomas Brash Morison || Inverness
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26 May 1922 || Sir William Arthur Mount, Bt. || Newbury
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27 November 1922 || Sir Herbert Robin Cayzer, Bt. || Portsmouth, South
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13 February 1923 || Dr. Thomas Cato Worsfold || Mitcham
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15 February 1923 || Sir William Watson Rutherford || Liverpool, Edge Hill
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12 November 1923 || Hon. Alexander Shaw || Kilmarnock
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26 April 1924 || Sir Robert Paterson Houston, Bt. || Liverpool West Toxteth
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19 July 1924 || Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, Bt. || Carmarthen
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25 May 1925 || Sir John Lawrence Baird, Bt. || Ayr Burghs
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15 February 1926 || Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher || Combined English Universities
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30 April 1926 || Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett || Hammersmith, North
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25 August 1926 || Hon. Donald Sterling Palmer || North Cumberland
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4 November 1926 || Hon. Joseph Montague Kenworthy || Kingston-upon-Hull, Central
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30 November 1926 || John Emanuel Davison || Smethwick
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10 March 1927 || Dr. Leslie Haden-Guest || Southwark, North
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10 June 1927 || Sir Davison Alexander Dalziel, Bt. || Lambeth, Brixton
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8 June 1928 || Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, Bt. || Carmarthen
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18 June 1928 || Sir George Rowland Blades, Bt. || Epsom
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26 June 1928 || Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes || Sheffield Hallam
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12 July 1929 || Sir William Allen Jowitt || Preston
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10 April 1930 || Dr. George Ernest Spero || Fulham, West
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17 June 1930 || Noel Edward Buxton || North Norfolk
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3 February 1931 || Sir John Humphrey Davidson || Fareham
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16 February 1931 || Hugh Morrison || Salisbury
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20 April 1931 || Sidney Herbert || Scarborough and Whitby
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3 June 1931 || John Abraham Tinné || Liverpool Wavertree
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1931-1950

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4 April 1932 || Hon. Sir Newton James Moore || Richmond
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7 June 1932 || Sir Robert Hutchison || Montrose Burghs
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6 February 1933 || George Herbert || Rotherham
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16 February 1934 || Viscount Lymington || Basingstoke
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1 June 1934 || Lord Erskine || Weston-super-Mare
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22 May 1935 || John Buchan || Combined Scottish Universities
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9 July 1935 || Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Hilton Young || Sevenoaks
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18 April 1936 || Viscount Borodale || Camberwell, Peckham
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11 June 1936 || Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas || Derby
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19 October 1936 || William MacColin Kirkpatrick || Preston
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14 January 1937 || Sir William Jocelyn Ian Fraser || St. Pancras, North
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16 March 1937 || Philip Russell Rendel Dunne || Stalybridge and Hyde
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25 May 1937 || Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne || Glasgow, Hillhead
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1 June 1937 || Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin || Bewdley
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3 June 1937 || Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman || St. Ives
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26 October 1937 || Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy || Hastings
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28 November 1938 || Duchess of Atholl || Kinross and West Perthshire
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27 March 1939 || Hon. Arthur Oswald James Hope || Birmingham, Aston
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1 July 1939 || John Arthur Herbert || Monmouth
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6 November 1939 || John Rumney Remer || Macclesfield
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24 January 1940 || Sir Charles Coupar Barrie || Southampton
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29 January 1940 || Sir Alan Garrett Anderson || City of London
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8 February 1940 || Sir John Dearman Birchall || Leeds, North East
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10 April 1940 || Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle || Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North
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18 June 1940 || Harry Louis Nathan || Wandsworth, Central
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12 July 1940 || Bernard Cruddas || Wansbeck
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18 September 1940 || Thomas Sinclair || Queen's University of Belfast
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11 November 1940 || Viscount Wolmer || Aldershot
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3 April 1941 || Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts || West Bromwich
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4 August 1941 || Sir Hugh Michael Seely, Bt. || Berwick-upon-Tweed
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10 November 1941 || Lord Erskine || Brighton
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25 February 1942 || Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, Bt. || Grantham
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9 April 1942 || Rt. Hon. John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon || Wallasey
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9 July 1942 || Gordon Macdonald || Ince
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14 January 1943 || David John Colville || Midlothian and Peebles, North
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20 September 1943 || Lord Burghley || Peterborough
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24 January 1944 || Rt. Hon. Thomas Kennedy || Kirkcaldy Burghs
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9 February 1944 || Cecil Henry Wilson || Sheffield, Attercliffe
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27 February 1946 || Rt. Hon. Edward John Williams || Ogmore
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24 May 1946 || Francis Campbell Ross Douglas || Battersea, North
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2 October 1946 || Clarice Marion McNab Shaw || Kilmarnock
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16 October 1946 || Sir John Boyd Orr || Combined Scottish Universities
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4 November 1946 || Sir James Douglas Wishart Thomson, Bt. || Aberdeen, South
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3 November 1947 || Sir Archibald Richard James Southby, Bt. || Epsom
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1 March 1948 || Tom Williamson || Brigg
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2 July 1948 || Rt. Hon. George Buchanan || Glasgow, Gorbals
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19 December 1949 || Rt. Hon. Jack Lawson || Chester-le-Street
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1950-1979

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25 October 1950 || Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps || Bristol, South East
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22 March 1951 || Sir Ronald Deane Ross, Bt. || Londonderry
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11 May 1951 || Rhys Davies || Westhoughton
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8 October 1952 || Rt. Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt. || North Antrim
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21 January 1953 || Sidney Schofield || Barnsley
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14 February 1953 || Hon. Edward Carson || Isle of Thanet
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3 June 1953 || Sir Peter Bennett || Birmingham, Edgbaston
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27 October 1953 || William J. Field || Paddington, North
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15 January 1954 || Rt. Hon. Richard Law || Kingston-upon-Hull, Haltemprice
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12 February 1954 || William Cuthbert || Arundel and Shoreham
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3 October 1954 || Sir Sidney Marshall || Sutton and Cheam
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2 December 1954 || Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton || Inverness-shire
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7 May 1956 || Gerald Williams || Tonbridge
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26 November 1956 || Stanley Evans || Wednesbury
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2 May 1957 || Sir William Darling || Edinburgh, South
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8 November 1957 || Sir Victor Raikes || Liverpool, Garston
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18 April 1958 || Angus Maude || Ealing, South
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1 June 1961 || Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore || Oswestry
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30 November 1961 || Rt. Hon. Hilary Marquand || Middlesbrough, East
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22 January 1962 || George Chetwynd || Stockton-on-Tees
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6 June 1963 || Rt. Hon. John Profumo || Stratford-upon-Avon
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9 March 1964 || Peter Smithers || Winchester
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24 June 1965 || Anthony Marlowe || Hove
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29 September 1967 || William Roots || Kensington, South
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15 January 1968 || Leslie Hale || Oldham, West
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6 February 1969 || Sir William Teeling || Brighton, Pavilion
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7 March 1969 || Francis Noel-Baker || Swindon
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11 January 1971 || Rt. Hon. Horace King || Southampton, Itchen
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30 March 1972 || Rt. Hon. Ray Gunter || Southwark
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29 December 1972 || Rt. Hon. George Thomson || Dundee, East
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1 June 1973 || Hon. Antony Lambton || Berwick-upon-Tweed
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27 August 1976 || John Stonehouse || Walsall, North
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12 November 1976 || David Lane || Cambridge
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5 January 1977 || Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins || Birmingham, Stechford
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16 June 1977 || Brian Walden || Birmingham, Ladywood
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6 April 1978 || Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Rawlinson || Epsom and Ewell
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1979-present

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24 October 1979 || Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth || South West Hertfordshire
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1 November 1982 || Rt. Hon. Robert Joseph Mellish || Bermondsey
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17 December 1985 || Rt. Hon. James Molyneaux || Lagan Valley
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17 December 1985 || Roy Beggs || East Antrim
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17 December 1985 || James Harold McCusker || Upper Bann
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17 December 1985 || William Ross || East Londonderry
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17 December 1985 || Rt. Hon. John David Taylor || Strangford
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17 December 1985 || James Kilfedder || North Down
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17 December 1985 || Jim Nicholson || Newry and Armagh
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17 December 1985 || Rev. William McCrea || Mid-Ulster
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17 December 1985 || "Vacant
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24 June 1986 || John Golding || Newcastle-under-Lyme
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18 October 1988 || Rt. Hon. Bruce Millan || Glasgow, Govan
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18 May 1989 || Stuart Holland || Vauxhall
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20 January 1995 || Rt. Hon. Neil Kinnock || Islwyn
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28 June 1999 || Rt. Hon. Alastair Goodlad || Eddisbury
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23 October 2000 || Rt. Hon. Betty Boothroyd [ [http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/newsroom_and_speeches/press/2000/press_117_00.cfm Press: 2000-117 ] ] || West Bromwich, West
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22 June 2004 || Rt. Hon. Terry Davis [ [http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/newsroom_and_speeches/press/2004/press_59_04.cfm Press 2004: 59 ] ] || Birmingham Hodge Hill
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27 June 2007 || Rt. Hon. Tony Blair [ Davis was also released from the post on the same day, as he was contesting the resulting by-election.] || Haltemprice and Howden
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18 June 2008 || "Vacant"
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References

ee also

*List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead