List of Stewards of the Manor of East Hendred


This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of East Hendred, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was used to resign from the House of Commons. Appointment of an MP to the office was first made in 1763. The Manor of East Hendred was sold by the Crown in 1823, but through oversight, appointments to the post of Steward continued until 1840, after which it was discontinued for Parliamentary purposes in favour of other stewardships. The last steward died in 1851.

Stewards

Dates given are of the writ to replace the member who accepted the Stewardship.
DateMemberConstituencyPartyReason for resignation
21 November 1763BridgwaterTo contest Gloucestershire
16 January 1765MidhurstMade Ambassador to the Two Sicilies
30 May 1765PooleIll-health
23 December 1765WendoverTo allow Viscount Fermanagh to bring Edmund Burke into Parliament
15 May 1769BreconTo contest Breconshire
20 May 1769Richmond To express support for John Wilkes
16 January 1770Bishop's CastleTo return Wedderburn to Parliament
31 January 1770LichfieldTo bring George Adams into Parliament
18 April 1770HorshamPressure from his brothers over his support for William Pitt
25 May 1770Milborne PortTo bring the Earl of Catherlough into Parliament
30 January 1771WoodstockTo contest Oxford
15 May 1771SalisburyTo bring Viscount Folkestone into Parliament
31 January 1772BreconTo contest Monmouthshire
4 February 1772Lancashire
18 May 1772AldboroughTo bring the Earl of Lincoln into Parliament
7 December 1772WiltonTo contest Wiltshire
28 December 1772PenrynTo contest Cornwall
16 April 1773ClitheroeTo bring Thomas Lister into Parliament
31 May 1774DroitwichTo contest Worcestershire
31 December 1774MineheadTo allow the North Ministry to bring Thomas Pownall into Parliament
14 March 1775Wendover
20 April 1775RyeTo bring Thomas Onslow into Parliament
24 April 1775NewtownSold his electoral interest to Sir Richard Worsley
31 May 1775CarlisleSir James Lowther, on whose interest he was elected, went into opposition against the North Ministry
9 November 1776ExeterTo contest Devon
20 February 1777MorpethTo contest Roxburghshire
29 May 1777HaddingtonshireTo bring William Hamilton Nisbet into Parliament, by prearrangement
24 February 1778East RetfordTo bring Lord John Pelham-Clinton into Parliament
11 January 1779Aberdeen Burghs
20 March 1779WestburyTo attend to his business affairs in Jamaica
29 April 1779ElginshireTo bring Lord William Gordon into Parliament
12 June 1780CardiganTo contest Radnorshire
30 November 1780Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
7 December 1780Malton
14 February 1781Bere AlstonAppointed Governor of Madras
30 April 1781Cardigan
8 June 1781AldboroughLeft England after making homosexual advances at a Royal Academy exhibition
30 June 1781Helston
20 April 1782Clitheroe
15 July 1783Cirencester
23 November 1783Bletchingley
1 January 1784Yorkshire
6 January 1784Truro
20 January 1784AldboroughDisagreement with the Duke of Newcastle
31 August 1784Edinburgh
22 April 1785Weobley
3 February 1786Westbury
13 February 1786Fowey
1 April 1786Helston
16 August 1786Kirkcudbright Stewartry
29 January 1787New Romney
4 June 1787Reigate
23 December 1788Bere Alston
4 September 1789Glamorganshire
4 January 1791Yarmouth
6 May 1791Dorset
18 May 1791Appleby
26 August 1791Newtown
7 January 1793Grantham
13 February 1793Newport To bring his son Peniston Lamb into Parliament
6 March 1793City of London
3 February 1794Steyning
15 February 1794Queenborough
17 February 1794Winchelsea
9 June 1794Cricklade
12 July 1794Norwich
14 January 1795Lichfield
21 February 1795Saltash
10 November 1795St Mawes
22 November 1796West Looe
13 December 1796Winchelsea
14 June 1797Leominster
29 July 1797Arundel
1 March 1799Wareham
28 July 1799Bere Alston
30 October 1799Eye
29 April 1800Gatton
22 May 1800Dumfries Burghs
10 March 1801Banffshire
6 July 1801Plympton Erle
14 December 1802Brackley
12 January 1803Bossiney
24 January 1803Gatton
25 February 1803Yarmouth
18 July 1803Great Grimsby
22 August 1803Cambridgeshire
22 April 1805Gatton
22 July 1805CockermouthTory
24 February 1806Wilton
6 March 1806Plymouth
21 March 1806Queenborough
20 January 1806Yarmouth
24 February 1806Richmond
1 August 1806Buckingham
14 January 1807MineheadTory
30 July 1807MineheadWhig
30 January 1808TregonyWhig
8 February 1808Tralee
22 April 1808St MawesTory
27 July 1808Dundalk
4 February 1809Kilkenny CityWhig
30 January 1810MalmesburyWhig
13 July 1810Dunbartonshire
21 January 1812RichmondWhig
13 April 1812Elgin Burghs
30 June 1812ColchesterTory
22 December 1812LudgershallTory
13 February 1813Wexford Borough
23 March 1813Kildare
10 November 1813Woodstock
5 December 1814Mitchell
21 July 1815Winchelsea
1 March 1816Portarlington
11 March 1816West LooeTory
2 April 1816DroitwichWhig
10 May 1816Rye
29 November 1820Westbury
11 February 1823WindsorTory
24 February 1823ColeraineTory
11 March 1824Plympton Erle
6 April 1824Perthshire
16 February 1826Dorset
19 December 1826Saltash
6 April 1827West LooeWhig
20 April 1827SeafordTory
2 March 1829RiponTory
6 March 1829TruroTory
10 April 1830Dorchester
25 February 1831AshburtonTory
4 April 1831WinchelseaTory
15 July 1831CashelTory
6 October 1831Poole
25 February 1832TregonyTory
3 March 1834Ayr BurghsWhig
8 February 1837MorpethLib
24 January 1840DevonportLib