List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds
William Ewart Gladstone, who reformed the process to omit references to the position being one of honour
Appointment to the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds is a procedural device to allow Members of Parliament to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Members of the House of Commons are technically forbidden from resigning. To circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used. An appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP). As such, several such positions are maintained to allow MPs to resign.[1] The positions of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used; historically several other offices have also been used.[1] The position was reworked in 1861 by William Ewart Gladstone, who was worried about the honour conferred by appointment to people such as Edwin James, who had fled to the United States over £10,000 in debt. As such, the letter was rewritten to omit any references to honour.
The Parliamentary Information Office has produced a list of those appointed to the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds since 1850.[2] Barry McElduff, formerly the Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone, was appointed to the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 16 January 2018 by Chancellor Philip Hammond.
Appointees to the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated so that two MPs can resign at once (as happened on 23 January 2017 when Tristram Hunt and Jamie Reed resigned). In situations in which more than two resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs, appointees are dismissed after a few hours to allow other resigning MPs to take their place.[1]
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1751 to 1799
Before 1770 (William de Grey), between 1775 and 1780 (Edward Meux Worsley to Sir William Lynch), and between 1782 and 1787 (John Buller to Sir George Duckett) the date given is that of the writ to replace the member who accepted the Stewardship.
1800 to 1849
Dates given in this section are of the writ to replace the member who accepted the Stewardship.
1850 to 1899
1900 to 1949
1950 to 1999
| Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Reason for resignation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 October 1950 | Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps | Bristol South East | Lab | Medical advice[37] | |
| 22 March 1951 | Sir Ronald Ross, Bt | Londonderry | Con | Appointed Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in London | |
| 11 May 1951 | Rhys Davies | Westhoughton | Lab | Ill health[38] | |
| 8 October 1952 | Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill | North Antrim | Con | Retiring[39] | |
| 21 January 1953 | Sidney Schofield | Barnsley | Lab | Personal and domestic reasons[40] | |
| 14 February 1953 | Hon. Edward Carson | Isle of Thanet | Con | Ill health[41] | |
| 3 June 1953 | Peter Bennett | Birmingham Edgbaston | Con | Created a peer[42] | |
| 27 October 1953 | William J. Field | Paddington North | Lab | Convicted of importuning for immoral purposes[43] | |
| 15 January 1954 | Richard Law | Haltemprice | Con | Resigned to become Baron Coleraine.[44] | |
| 12 February 1954 | William Cuthbert | Arundel and Shoreham | Con | Ill health[45] | |
| 3 October 1954 | Sidney Marshall | Sutton and Cheam | Con | Ill health[46] | |
| 28 November 1954 | Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton | Inverness | Con | Ill health; resigned to help economic development of the Highlands through private enterprise[47] | |
| 7 May 1956 | Gerald Wellington Williams | Tonbridge | Con | Ill health[48] | |
| 26 November 1956 | Stanley Evans | Wednesbury | Lab | Requested to resign by his Constituency Labour Party after supporting the Government over the Suez Crisis | |
| 2 May 1957 | William Darling | Edinburgh South | Con | Ill health[49] | |
| 8 November 1957 | Victor Raikes | Liverpool Garston | Con | Took up a business appointment in Southern Rhodesia[50] | |
| 18 April 1958 | Angus Maude | Ealing South | Con | Resigned to become Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.[51] | |
| 1 June 1961 | Hon. David Ormsby-Gore | Oswestry | Con | Appointed British Ambassador to the United States.[52] | |
| 29 November 1961 | Hilary Marquand | Middlesbrough East | Lab | Appointed Director of the Institute of Labour Studies at the International Labour Office.[53] | |
| 22 January 1962 | George Chetwynd | Stockton-on-Tees | Lab | Appointed Director of the North East Development Council[54] | |
| 6 June 1963 | John Profumo | Stratford-on-Avon | Con | Confessed to lying to the House (the Profumo Affair)[55] | |
| 9 March 1964 | Peter Smithers | Winchester | Con | Appointed Secretary General of the Council of Europe[56] | |
| 24 June 1965 | Anthony Marlowe | Hove | Con | Medical advice | |
| 29 September 1967 | William Roots | Kensington South | Con | Ill health[57] | |
| 15 January 1968 | Leslie Hale | Oldham West | Lab | Ill health[58] | |
| 6 February 1969 | William Teeling | Brighton Pavilion | Con | Ill health | |
| 7 March 1969 | Francis Noel-Baker | Swindon | Lab | Ill health[59] | |
| 11 January 1971 | Horace King | Southampton Itchen | Lab | Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons | |
| 30 March 1972 | Ray Gunter | Southwark | Ind | Had left Labour Party; decided it would be improper to remain as an Independent having been elected as Labour[60] | |
| 29 December 1972 | George Thomson | Dundee East | Lab | Appointed a European Commissioner | |
| 1 June 1973 | Antony Lambton | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Con | Prostitution scandal | |
| 27 August 1976 | John Stonehouse | Walsall North | Lab Co-op | Convicted on 18 counts of theft and fraud, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment | |
| 12 November 1976 | David Lane | Cambridge | Con | Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality[61] | |
| 5 January 1977 | Roy Jenkins | Birmingham Stechford | Lab | Appointed President of the European Commission | |
| 16 June 1977 | Brian Walden | Birmingham Ladywood | Lab | In order to become a broadcast journalist on Weekend World | |
| 6 April 1978 | Peter Rawlinson | Epsom and Ewell | Con | Retiring from the Commons; was made a life peer[62] | |
| 24 October 1979 | Geoffrey Dodsworth | South West Hertfordshire | Con | Medical advice | |
| 1 November 1982 | Robert Mellish | Bermondsey | Ind | Left the Labour Party in opposition to the selection of his successor; resigned to become Vice-Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation[63] | |
| 17 December 1985 | James Molyneaux | Lagan Valley | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | Roy Beggs | East Antrim | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | Harold McCusker | Armagh | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | William Ross | Londonderry | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | John Taylor | Strangford | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | James Kilfedder | North Down | UPUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | Jim Nicholson | Newry and Armagh | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 17 December 1985 | William McCrea | Mid Ulster | DUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[64] | |
| 24 June 1986 | John Golding | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab | Elected General Secretary of the National Communications Union[65] | |
| 18 October 1988 | Bruce Millan | Glasgow Govan | Lab | Appointed a European Commissioner[66] | |
| 18 May 1989 | Stuart Holland | Vauxhall | Lab | In order to take up a lectureship at the European University Institute | |
| 20 January 1995 | Neil Kinnock | Islwyn | Lab | Appointed a European Commissioner[67] | |
| 28 June 1999 | Alastair Goodlad | Eddisbury | Con | Appointed British High Commissioner to Australia[68] | |
2000 to present
| Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Reason for resignation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 October 2000 | Betty Boothroyd | West Bromwich West | SPE | Retiring Speaker of the House of Commons[69] | |
| 22 June 2004 | Terry Davis | Birmingham Hodge Hill | Lab | Appointed Secretary-General of the Council of Europe | |
| 27 June 2007 | Tony Blair | Sedgefield | Lab | Appointed Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East[70] | |
| 18 June 2008 | David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | Seeking re-election in protest to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008.[71] | |
| 8 June 2009[72] | Ian Gibson | Norwich North | Lab | Alleged misuse of allowances led to his being ruled ineligible for selection as a Labour candidate by an NEC panel;[73] | |
| 13 January 2010[74] | Iris Robinson | Strangford | DUP | Ill health; followed allegations about her personal life[75] | |
| 8 February 2011 | Eric Illsley | Barnsley Central | Lab | Pleaded guilty to false accounting in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses[76] | |
| 2 March 2012[77] | Marsha Singh | Bradford West | Lab | Ill health[78] | |
| 22 October 2012[79] | Alun Michael | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab | Resigned to contest Police and Crime Commissioner election for South Wales Police Force Area[80] | |
| 5 November 2012[81] | Denis MacShane | Rotherham | Lab | Resigned after the Standards and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons recommended that he be suspended from the service of the House for six months, for knowingly submitting false invoices. | |
| 5 February 2013[82] | Chris Huhne | Eastleigh | Lib Dem | Resigned after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice | |
| 30 April 2014[83] | Patrick Mercer | Newark | Ind | Elected as Conservative, but had resigned the whip at the commencement of investigations on 31 May 2013.[84] Resigned after the Standards Committee of the House of Commons agreed a report recommending he be suspended from the service of the House for six months for breaking the rule against paid advocacy. | |
| 30 September 2014[85] | Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con | Resigned in order to seek re-election as a UKIP candidate. | |
| 9 May 2016[86] | Sadiq Khan | Tooting | Lab | Resigned after being elected as Mayor of London. | |
| 26 October 2016[87][88] | Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con | Seeking re-election having pledged to do so should the Government endorse a third runway at Heathrow Airport. | |
| 23 January 2017[89] | Tristram Hunt | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | Appointed director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. | |
| 16 January 2018[90] | Barry McElduff | West Tyrone | SF | Resigned after becoming embroiled in a social media controversy. | |
See also
References
General
- Department of Information Services (24 March 2016). "MPs appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds or Manor of Northstead stewardships since the 1945 Parliament" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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