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
Date | Member | Party | Constituency | Reason | |
Conservative Party | | Buckinghamshire | ||||
Conservative Party | | Chichester | Resigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws. | |||
Liberal Party | | Greenwich | Appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. | |||
Liberal Party | | Monmouth Boroughs | ||||
Liberal Party | | Tavistock | ||||
Conservative Party | | Harwich | Resigned to contest East Suffolk | |||
Liberal Party | | Preston | ||||
Conservative Party | | Shropshire South | ||||
Liberal Party | | Norwich | Resigned 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 | | Edinburgh | ill health | |||
Liberal Party | | Boston | Resigned to contest Rutland | |||
Liberal Party | | Calne | Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe. | |||
Liberal Party | | Nottingham | Raised to the peerage. | |||
Conservative Party | | Londonderry | ||||
Conservative Party | | Colchester | Resigned to contest North Leicestershire. | |||
Liberal Party | | Banffshire | Became Earl Fife on the death of his uncle. | |||
Liberal Party | | Middlesex | Raised to the peerage. | |||
December 1857 | Liberal Party | | Scarborough | Became Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father. | ||
Conservative Party | | Leitrim | ||||
Conservative Party | | Devonshire South | Raised to the peerage. | |||
Conservative Party | | Enniskillen | Resigned to contest Dublin University | |||
Conservative Party | | Monmouthshire | ||||
Liberal Party | | Devonport | Resigned 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 | | Andover | Resign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost. | |||
Liberal Party | | Leicester | ||||
Liberal Party | | Lambeth | see Roupell case. | |||
Liberal Party | | Kirkcaldy Burghs | ||||
Conservative Party | | Carlow County | ||||
Conservative Party | | Cambridge | ||||
Liberal Party | | Chichester | ||||
Liberal Party | | Kinsale | ||||
Conservative Party | | Tewkesbury | Resigned to contest West Worcestershire. | |||
Conservative Party | | Dorset | ||||
Liberal Party | | Cork City | ||||
Liberal Party | | Liskeard | Resigned to contest Nottingham. |