Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead
Incumbent
Scott Benton
since 25 March 2024
AppointerChancellor of the Exchequer

The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead functions as a procedural device to allow a member of Parliament (MP) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. As members of the House of Commons are forbidden from formally resigning, a legal fiction is used to circumvent this prohibition: appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as an MP. As such, several such positions are maintained to allow MPs to resign.[1] Currently, the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used, and are specifically designated for this purpose under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975; several other offices have also been used historically.[1] The appointment is traditionally made by the chancellor of the Exchequer. The position was reworked in 1861 by William Ewart Gladstone, who was worried about the honour conferred by appointment to people such as Edwin James, who had fled to the United States over £100,000 in debt. As such, the letter by the chancellor was rewritten to omit any references to honour.

The office was first used in this way on 20 March 1844 to allow Sir George Henry Rose, MP for Christchurch, to resign his seat. Appointees to the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated so that two MPs can resign at once (as happened on 23 January 2017 when Tristram Hunt and Jamie Reed resigned). However, every new appointment revokes the previous one, so there is no difficulty in situations in which more than two resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs when several separate appointments were made on a single day.[1] If a resigning MP wishes to contest the following by-election, as Douglas Carswell did in 2014, they need to resign the stewardship to avoid further disqualification.[2]

The incumbent steward of the Manor of Northstead is Scott Benton, formerly the Independent (elected Conservative) MP for Blackpool South.[3]

Key to party abbreviations

Party Abbreviation
All-for-Ireland League AFIL
Coalition Conservative Co Con
Coalition Liberal Co Lib
Conservative Party Con
Home Rule League HRL
Independent Ind
Irish National Federation INF
Party Abbreviation
Irish Parliamentary Party IPP
Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) party Nat
Irish Unionist Alliance IUA
Labour Party (UK) Lab
Liberal Party (pre-1988) Lib
Liberal Nationals L Nat
Liberal Unionist Party LU
Party Abbreviation
National Labour N Lab
Plaid Cymru PC
Scottish National Party SNP
Sinn Féin SF
Democratic Unionist Party DUP
Ulster Unionist Party UUP
Unionist Party UP
Whig Whig

Up to 1899

William Ewart Gladstone, who reformed the process to omit references to the position being one of honour in 1861.
Date Member Constituency Party Reason for resignation Ref
20 March 1844 George Henry Rose Christchurch Con
21 January 1846 Francis Murphy Cork City Whig
5 February 1846 The Lord Henniker East Suffolk Con In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Hartismere [4]
22 November 1852 James Emerson Tennent Lisburn Con Appointed secretary to the Board of Trade [5]
27 December 1852 Edward Howard Morpeth Whig
15 August 1853 John Charles Herries Stamford Con Ill-health [6]
27 January 1854 Robert Inglis Oxford University Con Ill-health [7]
13 February 1854 William Powell Ceredigion Con
5 May 1854 Henry Tufnell Plymouth Devonport Whig Ill-health [8]
July 1854 Francis Charles Lawley Beverley Whig Found to have been using his position as secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for insider trading [9]
26 March 1855 William Philip Price Gloucester Whig Resigned to accept a contract for supplying huts to the army in the Crimea [10]
25 May 1855 Thomas Phinn Bath Whig Appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty [11]
22 January 1856 John Blackett Newcastle-upon-Tyne Whig Ill-health [12]
23 January 1856 Viscount Dalrymple Wigtownshire Whig
23 May 1856 The Lord Waterpark Lichfield Whig
5 January 1857 Robert Price Hereford Whig
23 February 1857 John MacGregor Glasgow Whig
27 July 1857 William Egerton North Cheshire Con
26 August 1857 George Byng Tavistock Whig To allow him to stand for the vacant Middlesex parliamentary seat [13]
1 December 1857 Edward Dering East Kent Whig Ill-health [14]
December 1857 Charles Compton Cavendish Buckinghamshire Whig In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Chesham
2 February 1859 George Alexander Hamilton Dublin University Con Appointed Assistant Secretary to the Treasury [15]
8 February 1859 John Townsend Greenwich Whig Bankruptcy [16]
16 February 1859 Viscount Ebrington Marylebone Whig [17]
25 February 1859 Samuel Warren Midhurst Con Appointed a Master in Lunacy under the Lunacy Act 1845 [18]
6 August 1859 William Michell Bodmin Lib
12 August 1859 Ralph Grey Liskeard Lib
25 July 1860 John Wynne Sligo Borough Con
10 April 1861 Edwin James Marylebone Lib Resigned and fled to the United States with massive debts [19]
18 June 1861 Henry White Longford Lib
24 July 1861 Lord John Russell City of London Lib In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Earl Russell [20]
27 January 1862 Henry Butler-Johnstone Canterbury Con Following an interview with his leading supporters [21]
25 April 1862 William Johnson Fox Oldham Lib Ill-health [22]
23 January 1863 Charles Moody West Somerset Con
11 February 1863 Jonathan Richardson Lisburn Con
8 May 1863 Daniel O'Connell Tralee Lib
28 July 1863 Richard Monckton Milnes Pontefract Lib In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Houghton [23]
6 February 1864 William Coningham Brighton Lib Ill-health
6 April 1864 William Garnett Lancaster Con
6 March 1865 T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt North Wiltshire Con Ill-health [24]
21 February 1866 Charles Wood Ripon Lib Retired following a hunting accident [25]
20 March 1866 James Lindsay Wigan Con Due to prolonged service in Canada in the British Army [26]
2 May 1866 Stafford Northcote Stamford Con Resigned to contest North Devon [27]
19 July 1866 Edward Kerrison Eye Con To allow him to stand for election to one of the East Suffolk parliamentary seats; he resigned again in 1867 becoming a Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds [31]
5 February 1867 Taverner Miller Colchester Con
8 March 1867 Meaburn Staniland Boston Lib
6 June 1867 Henry Gridley Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Lib Ill-health [32]
12 August 1867 George Julius Poulett Scrope Stroud Lib
12 February 1868 Alexander Beresford Hope Stoke-on-Trent Con
3 April 1868 Alexander Henry Campbell Launceston Con
14 April 1868 Arthur Walsh Leominster Con
22 April 1868 Samuel Peto Bristol Lib Gave up his seat after being declared bankrupt; had previously resigned from Norwich in 1854 by becoming Steward of Hempholme [35]
9 August 1869 George Traill Caithness Lib
7 February 1870 Anthony Lefroy Dublin University Con
15 February 1870 William Scott Roxburghshire Lib
9 February 1871 Joshua Westhead City of York Lib
6 February 1872 George Loch Wick Burghs Lib
5 February 1875 George Elliot Chatham Con Appointed Commander-in-Chief of HMNB Portsmouth [36]
8 February 1876 Richard Fellowes Benyon Berkshire Con
9 February 1876 John Burgess Karslake Huntingdon Con
4 August 1876 Robert Meek Carter Leeds Lib
23 February 1877 James Henry Deakin Launceston Con
17 January 1878 Donald Macgregor Leith Burghs Lib
25 February 1878 Henry Munro-Butler-Johnstone Canterbury Con
8 March 1878 Ralph Neville-Grenville Mid Somerset Con
4 May 1878 John Gilbert Talbot West Kent Con
20 July 1878 Henry Ferguson Davie Haddington Burghs Lib
3 August 1878 John Malcolm Boston Con
5 December 1878 George Sandford Maldon Con
10 March 1879 Ralph Shuttleworth Allen East Somerset Con
18 February 1880 Benjamin Whitworth Kilkenny City HRL
4 May 1880 Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen Sandwich Lib
18 May 1880 Alexander Martin Sullivan County Louth HRL
20 May 1880 Percy Bernard Bandon Con
24 July 1880 John George Dodson City of Chester Lib Resigned to contest Scarborough, which was vacated via the Chiltern Hundreds the previous day, in anticipation of his election being declared void on petition (as happened in August 1880) [37]
22 January 1881 Joseph Foley New Ross HRL
24 August 1881 Benjamin Rodwell Cambridgeshire Con
6 February 1882 Charles Russell Westminster Con
11 August 1882 David Wedderburn Haddington Burghs Lib
15 September 1882 James Lysaght Finegan Ennis HRL
16 February 1883 Ashton Wentworth Dilke Newcastle-upon-Tyne Lib Ill-health [38]
1 March 1883 William Carington Chipping Wycombe Lib
13 June 1883 Hampden Whalley Peterborough Lib
20 June 1883 Charles James Murray Hastings Con
14 August 1883 Samuel Ruggles-Brise East Essex Con
16 November 1883 Mordaunt Bisset West Somerset Con Ill-health [39]
11 February 1884 John Daly Cork City Nat To concentrate on business activities [40]
20 February 1884 William Welby-Gregory South Lincolnshire Con
5 June 1884 Lord Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu South Hampshire Con
20 June 1884 Peter Alfred Taylor Leicester Lib Ill-health [41]
6 August 1884 Alexander Matheson Ross and Cromarty Lib
23 October 1884 Samuel Williams New Radnor Lib
14 November 1884 James Stewart Greenock Lib
6 March 1885 George Anderson Glasgow Lib
24 February 1886 Octavius Vaughan Morgan Battersea Lib
7 August 1886 Michael Bass Burton Lib
31 January 1887 Lord Algernon Percy St. George's, Hanover Square Con
4 July 1887 Henry Eaton Coventry Con
12 July 1887 Ernest Baggallay Brixton Con
24 July 1887 Edward Russell Glasgow Bridgeton Lib
7 February 1888 Arthur Cohen Southwark West Lib
9 February 1888 Thomas Buchanan Edinburgh West Lib
18 February 1888 William Evelyn Deptford Con
7 March 1888 Charles James Merthyr Tydvil Lib
16 April 1888 Stephen Mason Mid Lanarkshire Lib
14 June 1888 Edward Joseph Kennedy South Sligo Nat
4 August 1888 Lord Claud Hamilton Liverpool West Derby Con
14 December 1888 Joseph Dodds (British politician) Stockton Lib
25 February 1889 Courtney Stanhope Kenny Barnsley Lib
11 March 1889 John Hooper South East Cork IPP Retirement from politics [42]
21 June 1889 Robert Preston Bruce West Fife Lib
17 February 1890 Thomas Mayne Mid Tipperary IPP
12 March 1890 John Sinclair Ayr Burghs Lib
19 May 1890 Patrick O'Hea West Donegal IPP
24 June 1890 William Sproston Caine Barrow-in-Furness Lib Resigned in protest of a scheme that gave compensation to public licence holders [43]
22 October 1891 John Redmond North Wexford IPP
27 February 1893 Henri Josse Great Grimsby Lib Pressure of business interests; he died a few months later in July 1893 [44]
2 June 1893 Peter McLagan Linlithgowshire Lib
17 July 1893 John Deasy West Mayo INF
30 October 1893 John Barry South Wexford INF
15 March 1894 Stuart Rendel Montgomeryshire Lib
26 April 1894 Charles Russell Hackney South Lib
10 August 1894 Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox Chichester Con
17 August 1894 James Whitehead Leicester Lib
2 February 1895 Herbert Naylor-Leyland Colchester Con
8 April 1895 John Sweetman East Wicklow IPP
22 May 1895 Donald MacGregor Inverness-shire Lib
22 June 1895 J. F. X. O'Brien South Mayo INF
5 February 1896 John Shiress Will Montrose Burghs Lib Resigned so that John Morley could be elected [45]
22 March 1896 J. E. Kenny Dublin, College Green IPP Could no longer attend Parliament regularly due to other commitments [46]
16 May 1896 John Pender Wick Burghs LU Ill-health; he died on 9 July 1896 aged 80 [47]
16 January 1897 Edward Hulse Salisbury Con
20 February 1897 William Rawson Shaw Halifax Lib
15 March 1898 Frederick Seager Hunt Maidstone Con
30 April 1898 Harold Finch-Hatton Newark Con Disagreement with party policy [48]
9 July 1898 Lord Arthur Hill West Down IUA
10 August 1898 George Curzon Southport Con
9 December 1898 Edmund Vesey Knox Londonderry City IPP
1 February 1899 Arthur Dyke Acland Rotherham Lib Ill-health [49]
11 February 1899 Hugh McCalmont North Antrim IUA
16 June 1899 James Bevan Edwards Hythe Con
26 June 1899 James Francis Oswald Oldham Con
16 October 1899 Lionel Holland Bow and Bromley Con Ill-health [50]
26 October 1899 Michael Davitt South Mayo INF Resigned as he opposed the government's South Africa policy

1900 to 1949

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]

1950 to 1999

Date Member Constituency Party Reason for resignation
20 March 1950 Harry Morris Sheffield, Neepsend Lab Vacating his seat so that Solicitor-General Sir Frank Soskice could return to Parliament[136]
3 February 1951 Sir Ronald Cross, Bt Ormskirk Con Appointed Governor of Tasmania[137]
30 March 1951 Norman Bower Harrow, West Con Ill-health[138]
8 October 1952 Conolly Gage Belfast South UUP Ill-health[139]
12 January 1953 John Baker White Canterbury Con Ill-health[140]
31 January 1953 Walter Ayles Hayes and Harlington Lab Ill-health[141]
3 June 1953 Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt Abingdon Con Created a Baron (coronation honours list); vacating his seat to allow an early election[142]
14 October 1953 Malcolm Bullock Crosby Con Ill-health[143]
8 January 1954 Viscount Cranborne Bournemouth, West Con Ill-health[144]
12 February 1954 Christopher York Harrogate Con Ill-health[145]
5 November 1954 Richard Harden Armagh UUP Giving up a political career in order to concentrate on farming the family estate[146]
22 March 1955 Sir Richard Acland, Bt Gravesend Lab Seeking re-election as a candidate opposed to British development of the hydrogen bomb[147]
16 November 1956 Anthony Nutting Melton Con Opposed to Government policy on the Suez Crisis[148]
11 January 1957 Sir Anthony Eden Warwick and Leamington Con Ill-health; had retired as Prime Minister[149]
29 October 1957 Charles Waterhouse Leicester, South East Con Concentrating on business life involving frequent visits to Africa[150]
1 April 1958 Sir Hartley Shawcross St. Helens Lab Unable to devote his full time to Parliamentary activities[151]
24 November 1958 Ian Harvey Harrow, East Con Charged with gross indecency with a Coldstream guardsman in St James's Park[152]
8 June 1961 James Carmichael Glasgow, Bridgeton Lab Ill-health[153]
13 December 1961 Sir Geoffrey de Freitas Lincoln Lab Appointed High Commissioner to Ghana[154]
7 March 1962 Edward Wakefield West Derbyshire Con Appointed High Commissioner to Malta[155]
30 July 1963 Malcolm St Clair Bristol, South East Con To allow Tony Benn, who won the previous election but was disqualified due to inheriting an unwanted peerage, to regain his seat after being allowed to disclaim the peerage[156]
19 March 1965 Aubrey Jones Birmingham, Hall Green Con Appointed Chairman of the Prices and Incomes Board[157]
5 December 1966 Frank Cousins Nuneaton Lab Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
25 October 1967 Aidan Crawley West Derbyshire Con Appointed Chairman of London Weekend Television[158]
25 July 1968 Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre New Forest Con Ill-health[159]
2 April 1970 Will Owen Morpeth Lab Charged under the Official Secrets Act
3 February 1971 Walter Alldritt Liverpool, Scotland Lab Appointed Regional Secretary, National Union of General and Municipal Workers[160]
16 October 1972 Dick Taverne Lincoln Lab Seeking re-election on leaving the Labour Party[161]
16 February 1973 Maurice Foley West Bromwich Lab Appointed Deputy Director General for Development by the European Community[162]
11 February 1976 Selwyn Lloyd Wirral Speaker Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[163]
12 October 1976 Edward Short Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central Lab Appointed Chairman of Cable & Wireless[164]
5 January 1977 Christopher Tugendhat City of London and Westminster South Con Appointed a European Commissioner[165]
5 April 1977 David Marquand Ashfield Lab Appointed Chief Advisor to the President of the European Commission[166]
25 July 1977 John Cordle Bournemouth East Con Found in contempt of the House (Poulson scandal)[167]
6 November 1978 John Davies Knutsford Con Ill-health[168]
5 May 1982 Bruce Douglas-Mann Mitcham and Morden Lab Seeking re-election on joining the Social Democratic Party[169]
19 January 1984 Eric Varley Chesterfield Lab Appointed Executive Deputy Chairman of Coalite plc[170]
17 December 1985 Ian Paisley North Antrim DUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985 Clifford Forsythe South Antrim UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985 Ken Maginnis Fermanagh and South Tyrone UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985 Peter Robinson Belfast East DUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985 Martin Smyth Belfast South UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985 Cecil Walker Belfast North UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 December 1985 Enoch Powell South Down UUP Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[171]
17 April 1986 Matthew Parris West Derbyshire Con Appointed as a presenter of Weekend World
1 October 1986 Robert Kilroy-Silk Knowsley North Lab Appointed as a presenter of Day To Day
31 December 1988 Leon Brittan Richmond Con Appointed a European Commissioner
16 May 1994 Bryan Gould Dagenham Lab Appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato[172]
27 October 1997 Piers Merchant Beckenham Con Revelations of an affair with a 17-year-old nightclub hostess[173]

Since 2000

Date Member Constituency Party Reason for resignation
10 January 2000 Cynog Dafis Ceredigion PC Elected a member of the National Assembly for Wales[174]
21 November 2000 Dennis Canavan Falkirk West Lab Elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament[175]
8 September 2004 Peter Mandelson Hartlepool Lab Appointed a European Commissioner[176]
4 June 2008 Boris Johnson Henley Con Elected Mayor of London[177]
30 June 2008 David Marshall Glasgow East Lab Ill health[178]
22 June 2009 Michael Martin Glasgow North East Speaker Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[179]
26 January 2011 Gerry Adams Belfast West SF To stand in the 2011 Irish general election[180][181][182]
1 April 2011 Peter Soulsby Leicester South Lab To stand for election as Mayor of Leicester[183][184]
29 August 2012 Louise Mensch Corby Con To join her family in New York[185][186]
22 October 2012[187] Tony Lloyd Manchester Central Lab To stand for election as Police and crime commissioner for the Greater Manchester Police Force Area[188]
2 January 2013[189] Martin McGuinness Mid Ulster SF To end double-jobbing as Member of Parliament and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly[190]
15 April 2013[191] David Miliband South Shields Lab To become head of the International Rescue Committee in New York
29 August 2014[192] Douglas Carswell Clacton Con Seeking re-election, having joined the UK Independence Party
23 March 2016[193] Huw Irranca-Davies Ogmore Lab To contest the 2016 Welsh Assembly election
12 September 2016[194] David Cameron Witney Con Due to concerns that remaining a backbench MP following his resignation as Prime Minister on 13 July 2016 would be "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government[195]
4 November 2016[196] Stephen Phillips Sleaford and North Hykeham Con "Significant policy differences" with the government regarding their approach to the UK leaving the European Union[197]
23 January 2017[198] Jamie Reed Copeland Lab To become Head of Development and Community Relations for Sellafield Ltd
9 May 2018[199] Heidi Alexander Lewisham East Lab To become Deputy Mayor of London for Transport[200]
4 November 2019[201] John Bercow Buckingham Speaker Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons
24 March 2021[202] Neil Gray Airdrie and Shotts SNP To seek election at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
5 November 2021[203] Owen Paterson North Shropshire Con Breaching the rules against paid advocacy
4 May 2022[204][205] Neil Parish Tiverton and Honiton Con Viewed pornography in the Palace of Westminster
10 November 2022[206] Kate Green Stretford and Urmston Lab To become Greater Manchester deputy mayor[207]
12 June 2023[208] Nigel Adams Selby and Ainsty Con Resignation in solidarity with Boris Johnson
19 June 2023[209] David Warburton Somerton and Frome Con Allegations of sexual harassment and drug abuse
7 September 2023[210] Chris Pincher Tamworth Con Allegations of sexual misconduct
25 March 2024[211] Scott Benton Blackpool South Con Filmed appearing to offer lobbying favours for payment[212]

Dual appointments

Some former MPs have held both offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and of the Chiltern Hundreds. These include:

See also

Office still in use

Offices not in use

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