- Liberal Chief Whip
This is a list of people who served as
Chief Whip of the Liberal Party (previously known as the Whigs) in theParliament of the United Kingdom . The Liberal Party merged into theLiberal Democrats in 1988.House of Commons
*1830: Edward Ellice
*1832: Charles Wood
*1834:Francis Thornhill Baring
*1835: Edward John Stanley
*1841:Richard More O'Ferrall
*1846:Henry Tufnell
*1850: William Goodenough Hayter
*1858: "none"
*1859: Henry Bouverie William Brand
*1866: George Grenfell Glyn
*1873:Arthur Wellesley Peel
*1874:William Patrick Adam
*1880: Lord Richard Grosvenor
*1885:Arnold Morley
*1892: Edward Marjoribanks
*1894:T. E. Ellis
*1899: "none"
*1900:Herbert Gladstone
*1905: George Whiteley
*1908: Joseph Pease
*1910: The Master of Elibank
*1912:Percy Illingworth
*1915:John Gulland
*1919: "none" (James Hogge and George Thorne were joint whips)
*1923:Vivian Phillips
*1924: Sir Godfrey Collins
*1926: Sir Robert Hutchinson
*1930: Sir Archibald Sinclair
*1932: Walter Rea
*1935: Sir Percy Harris
*1945:Thomas Horabin
*1946:Frank Byers
*1950: Joseph Grimond
*1956: Donald Wade
*1962:Arthur Holt
*1963: Eric Lubbock
*1970:David Steel
*1976:Cyril Smith
*1977:Alan Beith
*1985: David Alton
*1987: James WallaceHouse of Lords
*1837: The Viscount Falkland
*1840: "none?" (Lord Falkland was absent serving asGovernor of Nova Scotia )
*1846: The Viscount Falkland
*May 1848: The Earl of Bessborough
*January 1880: The Lord Monson (createdViscount Oxenbridge in 1886)
*August 1892: The Lord Kensington
*October 1896: The Lord Ribblesdale
*May 1907: The Lord Denman
*1911: The Lord Colebrooke
*1922: "none" (The Lord Denman was Independent Liberal Chief Whip 1919-1924)
*1924: The Lord Stanmore
*1944: The Viscount Mersey
*1949: The Marquess of Willingdon
*1950: The Lord Moynihan
*1950: The Lord Rea
*1955: The Lord Amulree
*1977: The Lord Wigoder
*1984: The Lord TordoffChief Whips of the
National Liberal Party (Coalition Liberals), 1916-1923*1916: Neil Primrose
*1916:Frederick Guest
*1921:Charles McCurdy
*1922:Edward Hilton Young
=Chief Whips of the Liberal National Party (later National Liberal Party), 1931-1966=*1931: Alec Glassey
*1931: Geoffrey Shakespeare
*1932:James Blindell (knighted in 1936)
*1937: Charles Kerr
*1940:Herbert Holdsworth
*1945:Herbert Butcher (knighted in 1953; created a Baronet in 1960)ources
*Chris Cook and Brendan Keith, "British Historical Facts 1830-1900", Macmillan, 1975
*David Butler and Gareth Butler, "Twentieth-Century British Historical Facts 1900-2000", Macmillan, 2000ee also
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Conservative Chief Whip
*Labour Chief Whip
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