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List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds
This is a list of the names and constituencies of Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds , a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which is used to resign from the House of Commons .
January 17 , 1751 : John Pitt (Wareham)
(incomplete)
March 21 , 1919 : Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont (East Antrim)
October 22 , 1919 : John Wilkinson Taylor (Chester-le-Street)
October 29 , 1919 : Hon. Waldorf Astor (Plymouth, Sutton)
December 2 , 1919 : Henry William Forster (Bromley)
March 9 , 1920 : George James Wardle (Stockport)
March 25 , 1920 : James Avon Clyde (Edinburgh, North)
July 7 , 1920 : Robert Francis Peel (Woodbridge)
November 25 , 1920 : Rt. Hon. William Brace (Abertillery)
December 17 , 1920 : Viscount Duncannon (Dover)
February 8 , 1921 : Rt. Hon. William Crooks (Woolwich, East)
February 15 , 1921 : Sydney Arnold (Penistone)
March 18 , 1921 : Dennis Fortescue Boles (Taunton)
April 15 , 1921 : Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot (Chichester)
May 2 , 1921 : John Tyson Wigan (Abingdon)
May 24 , 1921 : Rt. Hon. Walter Hume Long (Westminster, St. George's)
January 9 , 1922 : Henry Newton Knights (Camberwell, North)
February 27 , 1922 : Thomas Brash Morison (Inverness)
May 26 , 1922 : Sir William Arthur Mount, Bt. (Newbury)
November 27 , 1922 : Sir Herbert Robin Cayzer, Bt. (Portsmouth, South)
February 13 , 1923 : Dr. Thomas Cato Worsfold (Mitcham)
February 15 , 1923 : Sir William Watson Rutherford (Liverpool, Edge Hill)
November 12 , 1923 : Hon. Alexander Shaw (Kilmarnock)
April 26 , 1924 : Sir Robert Paterson Houston, Bt. (Liverpool, West Toxteth)
July 19 , 1924 : Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, Bt. (Carmarthen)
May 25 , 1925 : Sir John Lawrence Baird, Bt. (Ayr Burghs)
February 15 , 1926 : Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (Combined English Universities)
April 30 , 1926 : Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (Hammersmith, North)
August 25 , 1926 : Hon. Donald Sterling Palmer (North Cumberland)
November 4 , 1926 : Hon. Joseph Montague Kenworthy (Kingston-upon-Hull, Central)
November 30 , 1926 : John Emanuel Davison (Smethwick)
March 10 , 1927 : Dr. Leslie Haden-Guest (Southwark, North)
June 10 , 1927 : Sir Davison Alexander Dalziel, Bt. (Lambeth, Brixton)
June 8 , 1928 : Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, Bt. (Carmarthen)
June 18 , 1928 : Sir George Rowland Blades, Bt. (Epsom)
June 26 , 1928 : Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes (Sheffield, Hallam)
July 12 , 1929 : Sir William Allen Jowitt (Preston)
April 10 , 1930 : Dr. George Ernest Spero (Fulham, West)
June 17 , 1930 : Noel Edward Buxton (North Norfolk)
February 3 , 1931 : Sir John Humphrey Davidson (Fareham)
February 16 , 1931 : Hugh Morrison (Salisbury)
April 20 , 1931 : Sidney Herbert (Scarborough and Whitby)
June 3 , 1931 : John Abraham Tinné (Liverpool, Wavertree)
April 4 , 1932 : Hon. Sir Newton James Moore (Richmond (Surrey))
June 7 , 1932 : Sir Robert Hutchison (Montrose Burghs)
February 6 , 1933 : George Herbert (Rotherham)
February 16 , 1934 : Viscount Lymington (Basingstoke)
June 1 , 1934 : Lord Erskine (Weston-super-Mare)
May 22 , 1935 : John Buchan (Combined Scottish Universities)
July 9 , 1935 : Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Hilton Young (Sevenoaks)
April 18 , 1936 : Viscount Borodale (Camberwell, Peckham)
June 11 , 1936 : Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas (Derby)
October 19 , 1936 : William MacColin Kirkpatrick (Preston)
January 14 , 1937 : Sir William Jocelyn Ian Fraser (St. Pancras, North)
March 16 , 1937 : Philip Russell Rendel Dunne (Stalybridge and Hyde)
May 25 , 1937 : Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne (Glasgow, Hillhead)
June 1 , 1937 : Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin (Bewdley)
June 3 , 1937 : Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman (St. Ives)
October 26 , 1937 : Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy (Hastings)
November 28 , 1938 : Duchess of Atholl (Kinross and West Perthshire)
March 27 , 1939 : Hon. Arthur Oswald James Hope (Birmingham, Aston)
July 1 , 1939 : John Arthur Herbert (Monmouth)
November 6 , 1939 : John Rumney Remer (Macclesfield)
January 24 , 1940 : Sir Charles Coupar Barrie (Southampton)
January 29 , 1940 : Sir Alan Garrett Anderson (City of London)
February 8 , 1940 : Sir John Dearman Birchall (Leeds, North East)
April 10 , 1940 : Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North)
June 18 , 1940 : Harry Louis Nathan (Wandsworth, Central)
July 12 , 1940 : Bernard Cruddas (Wansbeck)
September 18 , 1940 : Thomas Sinclair (Queen's University of Belfast)
November 11 , 1940 : Viscount Wolmer (Aldershot)
April 3 , 1941 : Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts (West Bromwich)
August 4 , 1941 : Sir Hugh Michael Seely, Bt. (Berwick-upon-Tweed)
November 10 , 1941 : Lord Erskine (Brighton)
February 25 , 1942 : Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, Bt. (Grantham)
April 9 , 1942 : Rt. Hon. John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon (Wallasey)
July 9 , 1942 : Gordon Macdonald (Ince)
January 14 , 1943 : David John Colville (Midlothian and Peebles, North)
September 20 , 1943 : Lord Burghley (Peterborough)
January 24 , 1944 : Rt. Hon. Thomas Kennedy (Kirkcaldy Burghs)
February 9 , 1944 : Cecil Henry Wilson (Sheffield, Attercliffe)
February 27 , 1946 : Rt. Hon. Edward John Williams (Ogmore)
May 24 , 1946 : Francis Campbell Ross Douglas (Battersea, North)
October 2 , 1946 : Clarice Marion McNab Shaw (Kilmarnock)
October 16 , 1946 : Sir John Boyd Orr (Combined Scottish Universities)
November 4 , 1946 : Sir James Douglas Wishart Thomson, Bt. (Aberdeen, South)
November 3 , 1947 : Sir Archibald Richard James Southby, Bt. (Epsom)
March 1 , 1948 : Thomas Williamson (Brigg)
July 2 , 1948 : Rt. Hon. George Buchanan (Glasgow, Gorbals)
December 19 , 1949 : Rt. Hon. Jack Lawson (Chester-le-Street)
October 25 , 1950 : Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps (Bristol, South East)
March 22 , 1951 : Sir Ronald Deane Ross, Bt. (Londonderry)
May 11 , 1951 : Rhys John Davies (Westhoughton)
October 8 , 1952 : Rt. Hon. Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, Bt. (North Antrim)
January 21 , 1953 : Sidney Schofield (Barnsley)
February 14 , 1953 : Hon. Edward Carson (Isle of Thanet)
June 3 , 1953 : Sir Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett (Birmingham, Edgbaston)
October 27 , 1953 : William James Field (Paddington, North)
January 15 , 1954 : Rt. Hon. Richard Kidston Law (Kingston-upon-Hull, Haltemprice)
February 12 , 1954 : William Nicolson Cuthbert (Arundel and Shoreham)
October 3 , 1954 : Sir Sidney Horatio Marshall (Sutton and Cheam)
December 2 , 1954 : Lord Malcolm Avendale Douglas-Hamilton (Inverness-shire)
May 7 , 1956 : Gerald Wellington Williams (Tonbridge)
November 26 , 1956 : Stanley Norman Evans (Wednesbury)
May 2 , 1957 : Sir William Young Darling (Edinburgh, South)
November 8 , 1957 : Sir Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes (Liverpool, Garston)
April 18 , 1958 : Angus Edmund Upton Maude (Ealing, South)
June 1 , 1961 : Rt. Hon. William David Ormsby-Gore (Oswestry)
November 30 , 1961 : Rt. Hon. Hilary Adair Marquand (Middlesbrough, East)
January 22 , 1962 : George Roland Chetwynd (Stockton-on-Tees)
June 6 , 1963 : Rt. Hon. John Profumo (Stratford-upon-Avon)
March 9 , 1964 : Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (Winchester)
June 24 , 1965 : Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe (Hove)
September 29 , 1967 : William Lloyd Roots (Kensington, South)
January 15 , 1968 : Charles Leslie Hale (Oldham, West)
February 6 , 1969 : Sir Luke William Burke Teeling (Brighton, Pavilion)
March 7 , 1969 : Francis Edward Noel-Baker (Swindon)
January 11 , 1971 : Rt. Hon. Horace Maybray King (Southampton, Itchen)
March 30 , 1972 : Rt. Hon. Raymond Jones Gunter (Southwark)
December 29 , 1972 : Rt. Hon. George Morgan Thomson (Dundee, East)
June 1 , 1973 : Hon. Anthony Lambton (Berwick-upon-Tweed)
August 27 , 1976 : John Stonehouse (Walsall, North)
November 12 , 1976 : David William Stennis Stuart Lane (Cambridge)
January 5 , 1977 : Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins (Birmingham, Stechford)
June 16 , 1977 : Brian Walden (Birmingham, Ladywood)
April 6 , 1978 : Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson (Epsom and Ewell)
October 24 , 1979 : Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth (South West Hertfordshire)
November 1 , 1982 : Rt. Hon. Robert Joseph Mellish (Bermondsey)
December 17 , 1985 : Rt. Hon. James Molyneaux (Lagan Valley)
December 17 , 1985 : Roy Beggs (East Antrim)
December 17 , 1985 : James Harold McCusker (Upper Bann)
December 17 , 1985 : William Ross (East Londonderry)
December 17 , 1985 : Rt. Hon. John David Taylor (Strangford)
December 17 , 1985 : James Kilfedder (North Down)
December 17 , 1985 : Jim Nicholson (Newry and Armagh)
December 17 , 1985 : Rev. William McCrea (Mid-Ulster)
June 24 , 1986 : John Golding (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
October 18 , 1988 : Rt. Hon. Bruce Millan (Glasgow, Govan)
May 18 , 1989 : Stuart Holland (Vauxhall)
January 20 , 1995 : Rt. Hon. Neil Kinnock (Islwyn)
June 28 , 1999 : Rt. Hon. Alastair Goodlad (Eddisbury)
October 23 , 2000 : Rt. Hon. Betty Boothroyd (West Bromwich, West)
June 22 , 2004 : Rt. Hon. Terry Davis (Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
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