List of Stewards of the Manor of Hempholme

This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of Hempholme, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was used to resign from the House of Commons.[1] The last steward vacated the post in 1866 after being re-elected to the House of Commons.

Stewards
DateMemberPartyConstituencyReason
21 February 1845 Charles Scott-Murray Conservative Buckinghamshire
10 February 1846 Lord Arthur Lennox Conservative Chichester Resigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws.
29 January 1852 James Whitley Deans Dundas Liberal Greenwich Appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.
24 March 1852 Reginald James Blewitt Liberal Monmouth Boroughs
19 April 1852 Sir John S Trelawny Liberal Tavistock
29 April 1852 Sir Fitzroy Kelly Conservative Harwich Resigned to contest East Suffolk
19 May 1852 Charles Pascoe Grenfell Liberal Preston
30 January 1854 Robert Henry Clive Conservative Shropshire South
20 October 1854 Samuel Morton Peto Liberal Norwich Resigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway.

Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead.[2]

9 February 1855 Lord Charles Wellesley Conservative Windsor
9 July 1855 Edmond Wodehouse Conservative Norfolk East
7 January 1856 Peter Rolt Conservative Greenwich
22 January 1856 Thomas Babington Macaulay Liberal Edinburgh ill health
28 February 1856 Gilbert Henry Heathcote Liberal Boston Resigned to contest Rutland
3 July 1856 Earl of Shelburne Liberal Calne Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe.
25 July 1856 Edward Strutt Liberal Nottingham Raised to the peerage.
11 February 1857 Thomas Bateson Conservative Londonderry
16 February 1857 Lord John Manners Conservative Colchester Resigned to contest North Leicestershire.[3]
10 June 1857 James Duff Liberal Banffshire Became Earl Fife on the death of his uncle.
25 August 1857 Lord Robert Grosvenor Liberal Middlesex Raised to the peerage.
December 1857 Earl of Mulgrave Liberal Scarborough Became Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father.
28 April 1858 Hugh Lyons-Montgomery Conservative Leitrim
27 July 1858 Sir John Buller-Yarde-Buller Conservative Devonshire South Raised to the peerage.
8 February 1859 James Whiteside Conservative Enniskillen Resigned to contest Dublin University
23 June 1859 Col Edward Arthur Somerset Conservative Monmouthshire
11 August 1859 James Wilson Liberal Devonport Resigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India.
13 December 1859 William Overend Conservative Pontefract
16 May 1860 Sir John Rivett-Carnac Conservative Lymington
27 July 1860 John Ayshford Wise Liberal Stafford
4 February 1861 Joseph Crook Liberal Bolton
15 April 1861 Hugh Taylor Conservative Tynemouth and North Shields
3 July 1861 Henry Rich Liberal Richmond
23 July 1861 William Cubitt Conservative Andover Resign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost.
11 February 1862 John Biggs Liberal Leicester
20 April 1862 William Roupell Liberal Lambeth see Roupell case.
18 July 1862 Robert Munro-Ferguson Liberal Kirkcaldy Burghs
24 July 1862 William McClintock-Bunbury Conservative Carlow County
26 January 1863 Andrew Steuart Conservative Cambridge
16 February 1863 Humphrey William Freeland Liberal Chichester
28 May 1863 Sir John Arnott Liberal Kinsale
9 October 1863 Hon. Frederick Lygon Conservative Tewkesbury Resigned to contest West Worcestershire.[3]
17 February 1864 Henry Ker Seymer Conservative Dorset
1 February 1865 Francis Lyons Liberal Cork City
15 June 1865 Ralph Bernal Osborne Liberal Liskeard Resigned to contest Nottingham.[3]

See also

References
  • Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  1. Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  2. Faith, Nicholas The world the railways made The Bodley Head, London, 1990 ISBN 0-370-31299-6 p. 106
  3. Inferred from the dates.
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