List of Stewards of the Manor of Old Shoreham

This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Steward of the Manor of Old Shoreham, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was formerly used to resign from the House of Commons.[1] The last steward died in 1832.

DateMemberConstituencyPartyReason for resignation
December 1756Thomas RyderTiverton
4 July 1757James HayesDownton
March 1760George GrayWinchelsea
20 February 1762John HamiltonWigtownshire
13 March 1756Keith StewartWigtown Burghs
27 April 1762William FitzherbertBramber
10 February 1763Augustus John HerveyBury St EdmundsAppointment as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean
March 1763Browse TristTotnes
12 November 1763Thomas MorganBrecon boroughTo contest Monmouthshire
30 May 1765Philip StanhopeSt GermansSold his seat to the government
11 July 1799William GrantBanffshire[2]On appointment as Solicitor General for England and Wales

References
  1. Ian Crofton, John Ayto (2005). Brewer's Britain and Ireland. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. via Credo Reference. ISBN 0-304-35385-X. Retrieved 13 September 2012.  – via Questia (subscription required)
  2. "No. 15171". The London Gazette. 20 August 1799. p. 838.

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