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. The last steward vacated the post in 1866 after being re-elected to the House of Commons.

Stewards

DateMemberPartyConstituencyReason
Conservative Party |Buckinghamshire
Conservative Party |ChichesterResigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws.
Liberal Party |GreenwichAppointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.
Liberal Party |Monmouth Boroughs
Liberal Party |Tavistock
Conservative Party |HarwichResigned to contest East Suffolk
Liberal Party |Preston
Conservative Party |Shropshire South
Liberal Party |NorwichResigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway.

Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead.
Conservative Party |Windsor
Conservative Party |Norfolk East
Conservative Party |Greenwich
Liberal Party |Edinburghill health
Liberal Party |BostonResigned to contest Rutland
Liberal Party |CalneCalled up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe.
Liberal Party |NottinghamRaised to the peerage.
Conservative Party |Londonderry
Conservative Party |ColchesterResigned to contest North Leicestershire.
Liberal Party |BanffshireBecame Earl Fife on the death of his uncle.
Liberal Party |MiddlesexRaised to the peerage.
December 1857Liberal Party |ScarboroughBecame Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father.
Conservative Party |Leitrim
Conservative Party |Devonshire SouthRaised to the peerage.
Conservative Party |EnniskillenResigned to contest Dublin University
Conservative Party |Monmouthshire
Liberal Party |DevonportResigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India.
Conservative Party |Pontefract
Conservative Party |Lymington
Liberal Party |Stafford
Liberal Party |Bolton
Conservative Party |Tynemouth and North Shields
Liberal Party |Richmond
Conservative Party |AndoverResign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost.
Liberal Party |Leicester
Liberal Party |Lambethsee Roupell case.
Liberal Party |Kirkcaldy Burghs
Conservative Party |Carlow County
Conservative Party |Cambridge
Liberal Party |Chichester
Liberal Party |Kinsale
Conservative Party |TewkesburyResigned to contest West Worcestershire.
Conservative Party |Dorset
Liberal Party |Cork City
Liberal Party |LiskeardResigned to contest Nottingham.