Date |
Member |
Constituency |
Party |
Reason for resignation
|
26 January 1900[51] |
Sir John Maden |
Rossendale |
|
Lib |
"... circumstances have arisen that render it impossible for me any longer to retain the trust which you have generously reposed in me ..."[52][full citation needed]
|
10 February 1900[53] |
Sir Edward Clarke |
Plymouth |
|
Con |
Requested to resign by his constituents in a disagreement over his views expressed[54][full citation needed]
|
23 April 1900 |
Walter Clough |
Portsmouth |
|
Lib |
Following a judgement against him in the Law Courts[55][full citation needed]
|
3 July 1901 |
Oliver Young |
Wokingham |
|
Con |
|
13 January 1902[56] |
Mark Oldroyd |
Dewsbury |
|
Lib |
To concentrate on business interests[57]
|
4 February 1902 |
Patrick McDermott |
North Kilkenny |
|
IPP |
|
10 April 1902[58] |
James Boyle |
West Donegal |
|
IPP |
|
29 April 1902[59] |
James Kenyon |
Bury |
|
Con |
Ill-health[60][full citation needed]
|
21 October 1902[61] |
Alfred Pease |
Cleveland |
|
Lib |
Ill-health[62]
|
12 February 1903 |
Sir John Kinloch, Bt |
East Perthshire |
|
Lib |
|
26 February 1903 |
Lord Charles Beresford |
Woolwich |
|
Con |
Appointed Commander of the Channel Fleet[63]
|
12 May 1903 |
Matthew Minch |
South Kildare |
|
IPP |
|
8 March 1904 |
Sir William Mather |
Rossendale |
|
Lib |
|
1 June 1904 |
John William Logan |
Harborough |
|
Lib |
|
15 June 1904 |
John William Mellor |
Sowerby |
|
Lib |
|
28 July 1904 |
George William Palmer |
Reading |
|
Lib |
|
11 February 1905 |
Richard Rigg |
Appleby |
|
Lib |
Change of his political opinions different from the leadership of the Liberal Party[64][full citation needed]
|
14 February 1906 |
Hon. Alban Gibbs |
City of London |
|
Con |
|
19 March 1906 |
Francis Seymour Stevenson |
Eye |
|
Lib |
|
7 June 1906 |
Sir Edward Clarke |
City of London |
|
Con |
|
13 October 1906 |
Charles Ramsay Devlin |
Galway City |
|
IPP |
In order to travel to Canada[65]
|
12 February 1907 |
James Bryce |
Aberdeen South |
|
Lib |
Appointed Ambassador to the United States[66]
|
27 April 1907 |
Charles Eric Hambro |
Wimbledon |
|
Con |
To concentrate on business interests[67][full citation needed]
|
28 May 1907 |
Charles Barrington Balfour |
Hornsey |
|
Con |
|
10 June 1907 |
Patrick O'Hare |
North Monaghan |
|
IPP |
|
4 July 1907 |
Sir James Kitson, Bt |
Colne Valley |
|
Lib |
|
21 August 1907 |
Harry Liddell |
West Down |
|
IUA |
|
30 January 1908 |
Charles Dolan |
North Leitrim |
|
IPP |
|
28 February 1908 |
Lord Arthur Hill |
West Down |
|
IUA |
|
27 April 1908 |
John Morley |
Montrose Burghs |
|
Lib |
|
1 June 1908 |
George Whiteley |
Pudsey |
|
Lib |
|
17 November 1908 |
Sir Carne Rasch, Bt |
South East Essex |
|
Con |
Ill-health[68][full citation needed]
|
11 February 1909 |
Sir Edward Boyle, Bt |
Taunton |
|
Con |
Ill health.[69][full citation needed]
|
8 April 1909 |
Thomas Kincaid-Smith |
Stratford-on-Avon |
|
Lib |
To seek the decision of his constituents on the question of the adoption of military training.[70][full citation needed]
|
12 May 1909 |
Sir Lewis McIver, Bt |
Edinburgh West |
|
LU |
|
21 February 1910 |
Sir Balthazar Foster |
Ilkeston |
|
Lib |
In order to allow J. E. B. Seely to return to Parliament[71]
|
3 February 1911 |
Sir John Fuller, Bt |
Westbury |
|
Lib |
Appointed Governor of Victoria[72]
|
13 March 1911 |
Thomas Sandys |
Bootle |
|
Con |
|
15 April 1911 |
Ernest Soares |
Barnstaple |
|
Lib |
|
26 June 1911 |
Archibald Corbett |
Glasgow Tradeston |
|
Lib |
On being created 1st Baron Rowallan[73][full citation needed]
|
28 June 1911 |
Aretas Akers-Douglas |
St Augustine's |
|
Con |
On being created Viscount Chilston[73]
|
5 July 1911 |
Moreton Frewen |
North East Cork |
|
AFIL |
Objection to the Parliament Bill[74][full citation needed]
|
20 July 1911 |
Edward Pickersgill |
Bethnal Green South West |
|
Lib |
On appointment as a stipendiary magistrate[75][full citation needed]
|
1 March 1912 |
John Stanhope Arkwright |
Hereford |
|
Con |
|
8 March 1912 |
William Keswick |
Epsom |
|
Con |
|
10 April 1912 |
James Morrison |
Nottingham East |
|
Con |
|
4 June 1912 |
Henry Wilson |
Holmfirth |
|
Lib |
Ill health.[76][full citation needed]
|
4 November 1912 |
Hon. William Peel |
Taunton |
|
Con |
On becoming the 2nd Viscount Peel on the death of his father[77][full citation needed]
|
20 January 1913 |
The Marquess of Hamilton |
Londonderry City |
|
IUA |
On becoming the 3rd Duke of Abercorn on the death of his father[78][full citation needed]
|
1 May 1913 |
John Kebty-Fletcher |
Altrincham |
|
Con |
Ill health.[79][full citation needed]
|
17 June 1913 |
Eliot Crawshay-Williams |
Leicester |
|
Lib |
On being divorced[80][full citation needed]
|
11 February 1914 |
Ronald Munro-Ferguson |
Leith Burghs |
|
Lib |
Appointed Governor-General of Australia[81]
|
23 June 1914 |
John Gordon |
Brighton |
|
Con |
Ill-health[82][full citation needed]
|
11 February 1915[83] |
Gerald Kyffin-Taylor |
Liverpool Kirkdale |
|
Con |
Military commitments in the 1st West Lancs. Brigade Royal Field Artillery[84]
|
13 October 1915 |
Sir Lancelot Sanderson |
Appleby |
|
Con |
On appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta.[85][full citation needed]
|
3 January 1916 |
Cecil Norton |
Newington West |
|
Lib |
On becoming the 1st Baron Rathcreedan.[86][full citation needed]
|
8 January 1916 |
Lord Charles Beresford |
Portsmouth |
|
Con |
On becoming the 1st Baron Beresford.[87][full citation needed]
|
18 February 1916 |
Hon. John Lyttelton |
Droitwich |
|
LU |
|
23 February 1916 |
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt |
Cockermouth |
|
Lib |
|
24 February 1916 |
Thomas Taylor |
Bolton |
|
Lib |
|
13 March 1916 |
Francis Neilson |
Hyde |
|
Lib |
|
7 July 1916 |
Sir Edward Grey, Bt |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
|
Lib |
|
21 August 1916 |
Hon. Harold Henderson |
Abingdon |
|
Con |
Appointed military secretary to the Duke of Devonshire, who was to become Governor General of Canada in November 1916[88]
|
16 October 1916 |
Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh |
North Fermanagh |
|
IUA |
Ill-health[89][full citation needed]
|
16 December 1916 |
Sir Max Aitken, Bt |
Ashton-under-Lyne |
|
LU |
|
21 December 1916 |
Sir Thomas Roe |
Derby |
|
Lib |
On becoming the 1st Baron Roe.[90][full citation needed]
|
21 December 1916 |
Sir Stuart Samuel, Bt |
Whitechapel |
|
Lib |
|
14 February 1917 |
Francis Newdegate |
Tamworth |
|
Con |
Appointed Governor of Tasmania[91]
|
24 March 1917 |
George Birnie Esslemont |
Aberdeen South |
|
Lib |
Ill health[92][full citation needed]
|
18 June 1917 |
Richard Chaloner |
Liverpool Abercromby |
|
Con |
On becoming Baron Gisborough.[93][full citation needed]
|
19 July 1917 |
Almeric Paget |
Cambridge |
|
Con |
|
15 January 1918 |
Sir Frederick Cawley, Bt |
Prestwich |
|
Lib |
On becoming Baron Cawley[94][full citation needed]
|
27 May 1918 |
Sir Gilbert Parker, Bt |
Gravesend |
|
Con |
Ill-health[94]
|
15 October 1918 |
Cecil Cochrane |
|
|
Lib |
|
13 February 1919 |
Hugh Anderson |
North Londonderry |
|
IUA |
|
18 August 1919 |
William Walker |
Widnes |
|
Co Con |
|
28 October 1919 |
Sir Ian Malcolm |
Croydon South |
|
Co Con |
|
20 November 1919 |
Sir Hildred Carlile, Bt |
St Albans |
|
Co Con |
Ill-health[95]
|
2 February 1920 |
Archibald Weigall |
Horncastle |
|
Co Con |
On appointment as Governor of South Australia[96][full citation needed]
|
11 February 1920 |
Sir Hallewell Rogers |
Birmingham Moseley |
|
Co Con |
|
16 February 1920 |
Sir Henry Dalziel, Bt |
Kirkcaldy |
|
Co Lib |
|
15 March 1920 |
Sir Auckland Geddes |
Basingstoke |
|
Co Con |
Appointed Ambassador to the United States[97]
|
2 June 1920 |
Albert Smith |
Nelson and Colne |
|
Lab |
|
14 July 1920 |
Thomas Richards |
Ebbw Vale |
|
Lab |
|
30 November 1920 |
William Abraham |
Rhondda, West |
|
Lab |
|
22 December 1920 |
Charles Thornton Pulley |
Hereford |
|
Co Con |
"owing to the pressing demands of his own business on the Stock Exchange"[98]
|
13 April 1921 |
Laurance Lyon |
Hastings |
|
Co Con |
|
27 April 1921 |
Hon. James Lowther |
Penrith and Cockermouth |
|
Co Con |
|
24 May 1921 |
Albert Illingworth |
Heywood and Radcliffe |
|
Co Lib |
|
27 May 1921 |
Noel Pemberton Billing |
Hertford |
|
Ind |
|
23 February 1922 |
Sir Eric Campbell Geddes |
Cambridge |
|
Co Con |
|
2 May 1922 |
Sir Arthur du Cros, Bt |
Wandsworth, Clapham |
|
Co Con |
|
12 June 1922 |
Sir Archibald Williamson, Bt |
Moray and Nairn |
|
Co Lib |
|
12 February 1923 |
Herbert Pease |
Darlington |
|
Con |
|
14 February 1923 |
Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley, Bt |
Willesden, East |
|
Con |
|
26 July 1923 |
Leslie Orme Wilson |
Portsmouth, South |
|
Con |
Appointed Governor of Bombay[99]
|
18 January 1924 |
Sir Frederick Banbury, Bt |
City of London |
|
Con |
|
18 June 1924 |
William Campion |
Lewes |
|
Con |
Appointed Governor of Western Australia[100]
|
25 May 1925 |
Sir George Ambrose Lloyd |
Eastbourne |
|
Con |
|
11 November 1925 |
Hon. E. F. L. Wood |
Ripon |
|
Con |
|
14 April 1926 |
Sir Guy Gaunt |
Buckrose |
|
Con |
Cited as co-respondent in the divorce case between Sir Richard Cruise and his wife[101]
|
29 June 1926 |
Sir Patrick Hastings |
Wallsend |
|
Lab |
|
3 November 1926 |
Hon. Stanley Jackson |
Howdenshire |
|
Con |
|
4 November 1926 |
Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett |
Chelmsford |
|
Con |
Sued for divorce by his wife[102]
|
15 February 1927 |
William Wedgwood Benn |
Edinburgh Leith |
|
Lib |
Leaving the Liberal Party
|
9 May 1927 |
Robert Gee |
Bosworth |
|
Con |
|
4 November 1927 |
Ronald McNeill |
Canterbury |
|
Con |
|
8 June 1928 |
Sir James Remnant, Bt |
Holborn |
|
Co Con |
|
20 June 1928 |
John Henry Whitley |
Halifax |
|
Lib |
|
11 November 1929 |
Sir Edward Iliffe |
Tamworth |
|
Con |
|
7 May 1930 |
Sir Albert Bennett |
Nottingham, Central |
|
Con |
|
16 January 1931 |
Hon. Henry Mond |
Liverpool, East Toxteth |
|
Con |
|
4 February 1931 |
Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones |
Pontypridd |
|
Lab |
Found to have allowed his wife and daughter to use House of Commons rail travel vouchers[103]
|
19 March 1931 |
Henry Snell |
Woolwich, East |
|
Lab |
|
1 May 1931 |
Sir Frank Nelson |
Stroud |
|
Con |
To focus on business interests[104]
|
25 February 1932 |
John Gibb Thom |
Dunbartonshire |
|
UP |
On appointment as Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature of Allahabad[105][full citation needed]
|
11 April 1932 |
Sir Rennell Rodd |
St. Marylebone |
|
Con |
Decided to "retire from the strenuous life of Parliament"; he was aged in his early 70s[106][full citation needed]
|
4 July 1932 |
Otho Nicholson |
Westminster, Abbey |
|
Con |
|
9 August 1933 |
The Earl Castle Stewart |
Harborough |
|
Con |
Ill health.[107][full citation needed]
|
23 April 1934 |
Alfred Chotzner |
Upton |
|
Con |
Ill health.[108][full citation needed]
|
28 January 1935 |
Godfrey Wilson |
Cambridge University |
|
Con |
|
17 June 1935 |
Edward Grenfell |
City of London |
|
Con |
|
18 February 1936 |
Hon. Archibald Cochrane |
Dunbartonshire |
|
UP |
|
11 June 1936 |
Sir Alfred Butt, Bt |
Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting |
|
Con |
|
1 July 1936 |
Sir Henry Cautley, Bt |
East Grinstead |
|
Con |
|
13 January 1937 |
William Ray |
Richmond |
|
Con |
|
29 January 1937 |
Lord Hugh Cecil |
Oxford University |
|
Con |
|
14 April 1937 |
Roger Lumley |
York |
|
Con |
On appointment as Governor of Bombay[109][full citation needed]
|
27 May 1937 |
Sir Walter Preston |
Cheltenham |
|
Con |
Ill-health[110][full citation needed]
|
1 June 1937 |
Sir J. C. C. Davidson |
Hemel Hempstead |
|
Con |
Retired following the resignation of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin[111][full citation needed]
|
7 June 1937 |
George Hamilton |
Ilford |
|
Con |
Ill health.[112][full citation needed]
|
2 May 1938 |
Michael Beaumont |
Aylesbury |
|
Con |
|
8 March 1939 |
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey |
Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire |
|
UP |
On appointment as Governor of South Australia[113][full citation needed]
|
29 June 1939 |
Sir Herbert Cayzer, Bt |
Portsmouth, South |
|
Con |
On being created Baron Rotherwick[114][full citation needed]
|
11 October 1939 |
Sir Sam Tom Rosbotham |
Ormskirk |
|
N Lab |
On reaching the age of 75[115][full citation needed]
|
28 November 1939 |
Sir William Lane-Mitchell |
Wandsworth, Streatham |
|
Con |
On reaching the age of 79[116][full citation needed]
|
26 January 1940 |
David Williams |
Swansea East |
|
Lab |
|
7 February 1940 |
John Joseph Jones |
West Ham, Silvertown |
|
Lab |
Ill health and failing eyesight.[117][full citation needed]
|
2 April 1940 |
William Sanders |
Battersea, North |
|
Lab |
Ill health.[118][full citation needed]
|
1 June 1940 |
Hon. Glyn Mason |
Croydon, North |
|
Con |
|
24 June 1940 |
Charles Kerr |
Montrose Burghs |
|
L Nat |
|
12 July 1940 |
William Kelly |
Rochdale |
|
Lab |
Ill health.[119][full citation needed]
|
11 November 1940 |
Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller, Bt |
Northampton |
|
Con |
|
10 February 1941 |
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith |
Petersfield |
|
Con |
On appointment as Governor of Burma.[120][full citation needed]
|
9 June 1941 |
Sir Philip Colfox, Bt |
Dorset, Western |
|
Con |
|
18 August 1941 |
Sir Paul Latham, Bt |
Scarborough and Whitby |
|
Con |
On being arrested and sent for court-martial[121][full citation needed]
|
24 November 1941 |
James Guy |
Edinburgh Central |
|
Con |
|
9 April 1942 |
David Margesson |
Rugby |
|
Con |
On being created Viscount Margesson[122]
|
6 July 1942 |
Joseph Batey |
Spennymoor |
|
Lab |
Ill-health[123]
|
14 January 1943 |
Sir Patrick Spens |
Ashford |
|
Con |
On appointment as Chief Justice of India[124]
|
3 June 1943 |
John Gretton |
Burton |
|
Con |
On being created Baron Gretton[125]
|
17 January 1944 |
Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson |
Brighton |
|
Con |
Ill-health[126]
|
24 January 1944 |
Henry Hunloke |
West Derbyshire |
|
Con |
"Too busy" serving with his Regiment to attend properly to parliamentary duties[127]
|
6 March 1945 |
George Morrison |
Combined Scottish Universities |
|
L Nat |
|
10 May 1946 |
Jennie Adamson |
Bexley |
|
Lab |
Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board[128]
|
12 September 1946 |
Sir Benjamin Smith |
Rotherhithe |
|
Lab |
Appointed Chairman of the West Midlands Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board[129]
|
11 October 1946 |
Tom Smith |
Normanton |
|
Lab |
Appointed Labour director of the North-Eastern Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board[130]
|
22 October 1946 |
Noel Mason-Macfarlane |
Paddington, North |
|
Lab |
Ill health[131]
|
20 October 1947 |
Clifford Glossop |
Howdenshire |
|
Con |
Ill health[132]
|
29 January 1948 |
Henry Willink |
Croydon, North |
|
Con |
Appointed Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge[133]
|
6 April 1948 |
John Hanbury Martin |
Southwark Central |
|
Lab |
Ill-health[134]
|
8 February 1949 |
John Belcher |
Sowerby |
|
Lab |
Found to have accepted gifts from a "fixer" to influence his conduct as a minister[135]
|