List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead
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The position of Steward of the Manor of Northstead is a procedural device to allow Members of Parliament to resign from the British House of Commons. 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] Currently, the positions of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used, and are specifically designated as qualifying for this purpose under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975; 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.
Most references say the position was first used in this way on 20 March 1844 to allow Sir George Henry Rose, Member for Christchurch, to resign his seat in Parliament, but the official book containing appointments to the Stewardship (lodged in The National Archives under catalogue reference E 197/1)[2] indicates that Patrick Chalmers, Member for Montrose Burghs, was appointed to this office on 6 April 1842 so that he could resign due to ill health. The writ ordering the election of a replacement MP was changed so that it appeared Chalmers had been appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds.
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). However, every new appointment to the Stewardship revokes the previous appointment so there is no difficulty in situations in which more than two resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs when several separate appointments were made on a single day.[1]
The current steward is Heidi Alexander, formerly the Labour MP for Lewisham East.
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1842 to 1899
1900 to 1949
1950 to 1999
Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Reason for resignation | |
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20 March 1950 | Harry Morris | Sheffield, Neepsend | Lab | Vacating his seat so that Solicitor-General Sir Frank Soskice could return to Parliament[126] | |
3 February 1951 | Sir Ronald Cross, Bt | Ormskirk | Con | Appointed Governor of Tasmania[127] | |
30 March 1951 | Norman Bower | Harrow, West | Con | Ill health[128] | |
8 October 1952 | Conolly Gage | Belfast, South | Con | Ill health[129] | |
12 January 1953 | John Baker White | Canterbury | Con | Ill health[130] | |
31 January 1953 | Walter Ayles | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | Ill health[131] | |
3 June 1953 | Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt | Abingdon | Con | Created a Baron (Coronation honours list); vacating his seat to allow an early election[132] | |
14 October 1953 | Malcolm Bullock | Crosby | Con | Ill health[133] | |
8 January 1954 | Viscount Cranborne | Bournemouth, West | Con | Ill health[134] | |
12 February 1954 | Christopher York | Harrogate | Con | Ill health[135] | |
5 November 1954 | Richard Harden | Armagh | Con | Giving up a political career in order to concentrate on farming the family estate[136] | |
22 March 1955 | Sir Richard Acland, Bt | Gravesend | Lab | Seeking re-election as a candidate opposed to British development of the Hydrogen bomb[137] | |
16 November 1956 | Anthony Nutting | Melton | Con | Opposed to Government policy on the Suez Crisis[138] | |
11 January 1957 | Sir Anthony Eden | Warwick and Leamington | Con | Ill health; had retired as Prime Minister[139] | |
29 October 1957 | Charles Waterhouse | Leicester, South East | Con | Concentrating on business life involving frequent visits to Africa[140] | |
1 April 1958 | Sir Hartley Shawcross | St. Helens | Lab | Unable to devote his full-time to Parliamentary activities[141] | |
24 November 1958 | Ian Harvey | Harrow, East | Con | Charged with gross indecency with a Coldstream guardsman in St James's Park[142] | |
8 June 1961 | James Carmichael | Glasgow, Bridgeton | Lab | Ill health[143] | |
13 December 1961 | Sir Geoffrey de Freitas | Lincoln | Lab | Appointed High Commissioner to Ghana[144] | |
7 March 1962 | Edward Wakefield | West Derbyshire | Con | Appointed High Commissioner to Malta[145] | |
1 August 1963 | Malcolm St Clair | Bristol, South East | Con | Resigned to allow Tony Benn, again eligible for election, to regain his seat | |
19 March 1965 | Aubrey Jones | Birmingham, Hall Green | Con | Appointed Chairman of the Prices and Incomes Board[146] | |
5 December 1966 | Frank Cousins | Nuneaton | Lab | Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union | |
25 October 1967 | Aidan Crawley | West Derbyshire | Con | Appointed Chairman of London Weekend Television[147] | |
25 July 1968 | Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre | New Forest | Con | Ill health[148] | |
2 April 1970 | Will Owen | Morpeth | Lab | Charged under the Official Secrets Act | |
3 February 1971 | Walter Alldritt | Liverpool, Scotland | Lab | Appointed Regional Secretary, National Union of General and Municipal Workers[149] | |
16 October 1972 | Dick Taverne | Lincoln | Lab | Seeking re-election on leaving the Labour Party[150] | |
16 February 1973 | Maurice Foley | West Bromwich | Lab | Appointed Deputy Director General for Development by the European Community[151] | |
11 February 1976 | Selwyn Lloyd | Wirral | Con | Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[152] | |
12 October 1976 | Edward Short | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central | Lab | Appointed Chairman of Cable & Wireless[153] | |
5 January 1977 | Christopher Tugendhat | City of London and Westminster South | Con | Appointed a member of the European Commission[154] | |
5 January 1977 | David Marquand | Ashfield | Lab | Appointed Chief Advisor to the President of the European Commission[155] | |
25 July 1977 | John Cordle | Bournemouth East | Con | Found in contempt of the House (Poulson scandal)[156] | |
6 November 1978 | John Davies | Knutsford | Con | Ill health[157] | |
5 May 1982 | Bruce Douglas-Mann | Mitcham and Morden | Lab | Seeking re-election on joining the Social Democratic Party[158] | |
19 January 1984 | Eric Varley | Chesterfield | Lab | Appointed Executive Deputy Chairman of Coalite plc[159] | |
17 December 1985 | Ian Paisley | North Antrim | DUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 December 1985 | Clifford Forsythe | South Antrim | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 December 1985 | Ken Maginnis | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 December 1985 | Peter Robinson | Belfast East | DUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 December 1985 | Martin Smyth | Belfast, South | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 December 1985 | Cecil Walker | Belfast, North | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 December 1985 | Enoch Powell | South Down | UUP | Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[160] | |
17 April 1986 | Matthew Parris | West Derbyshire | Con | Appointed as a presenter of Weekend World | |
1 October 1986 | Robert Kilroy-Silk | Knowsley North | Lab | Appointed as a presenter of Day To Day | |
31 December 1988 | Leon Brittan | Richmond | Con | Appointed as a member of the European Commission | |
16 May 1994 | Bryan Gould | Dagenham | Lab | Appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato[161] | |
27 October 1997 | Piers Merchant | Beckenham | Con | Revelations of an affair with a 17-year-old nightclub hostess[162] |
2000 to present
Date | Member | Constituency | Party | Reason for resignation | |
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10 January 2000 | Cynog Dafis | Ceredigion | PC | Elected a member of the National Assembly for Wales[163] | |
21 November 2000 | Dennis Canavan | Falkirk West | Lab | Elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament[164] | |
8 September 2004 | Peter Mandelson | Hartlepool | Lab | Appointed as a member of the European Commission[165] | |
4 June 2008 | Boris Johnson | Henley | Con | Elected Mayor of London[166] | |
30 June 2008 | David Marshall | Glasgow East | Lab | Ill health[167] | |
22 June 2009 | Michael Martin | Glasgow North East | Lab | Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[168] | |
26 January 2011 | Gerry Adams | Belfast West | SF | In order to stand in the 2011 Irish general election[169][170][171] | |
1 April 2011 | Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab | In order to stand for election as Mayor of Leicester[172][173] | |
29 August 2012 | Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | Moving to New York for family reasons[174] | |
22 October 2012[175] | Tony Lloyd | Manchester Central | Lab | In order to stand for election as Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester Police Force Area[176] | |
2 January 2013[177] | Martin McGuinness | Mid Ulster | SF | Resigning to end 'double-jobbing' as Member of Parliament and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly[178] | |
15 April 2013[179] | David Miliband | South Shields | Lab | In order to take up post as head of the International Rescue Committee in New York | |
29 August 2014[180] | Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | Seeking re-election on joining the UK Independence Party | |
23 March 2016[181] | Huw Irranca-Davies | Ogmore | Lab | In order to contest the Welsh Assembly election | |
12 September 2016[182] | David Cameron | Witney | Con | Due to concerns that remaining a Backbench MP following his resignation as Prime Minister on the 13th July 2016 would be "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government.[183] | |
4 November 2016[184] | Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con | “Significant policy differences” with the government regarding their approach to Britain leaving the European Union.[185] | |
23 January 2017[186] | Jamie Reed | Copeland | Lab | In order to take a new position as Head of Development and Community Relations for Sellafield Ltd. | |
9 May 2018[187] | Heidi Alexander | Lewisham East | Lab | In order to take a new role as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport.[188] |
See also
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