Member of Parliament

Several holders at a time · 304 terms · 1781–present

Current holders 14

Previous holders 290

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Addington Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore Banastre Tarleton Alexander Cochrane Sidney Smith Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Boris Johnson 2015–2023 Keir Starmer 2015–2026 Amber Rudd 2010–2019 Kwasi Kwarteng 2010–2024 Sajid Javid 2010–2024 Liz Truss 2010–2024 Nadhim Zahawi 2010–2024 Grant Shapps 2005–2024 George Osborne 2001–2017 David Cameron 2001–2016 Ian Liddell-Grainger 2001–2024 Boris Johnson 2001–2008 Andy Burnham 2001–2017 Alan Johnson 1997–2017 Charles Clarke 1997–2010 Theresa May 1997–2024 Philip Hammond 1997–2019 Jacqui Smith 1997–2010 Gerry Adams 1997–2011 William Hague 1989–2015 David Blunkett 1987–2015 John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan 1987–2010 Alistair Darling 1987–2015 Tony Blair 1983–2007 Michael Howard 1983–2010 Gerry Adams 1983–1992 Gordon Brown 1983–2015 Margaret Beckett 1983–2024 Harriet Harman 1982–2024 Roy Jenkins 1982–1987 John Major 1979–2001 Jack Straw 1979–2015 David Waddington 1979–1990 George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen 1978–1999 Margaret Beckett 1974–1979 Douglas Hurd 1974–1997 Leon Brittan 1974–1988 Nigel Lawson 1974–1992 Norman Lamont 1972–1997 Kenneth Clarke 1970–2019 Geoffrey Howe 1970–1992 John Smith 1970–1994 Neil Kinnock 1970–1995 David Waddington 1968–1974 Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking 1968–1997 David Steel 1965–1997 Geoffrey Howe 1964–1966 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone 1963–1970 Alec Douglas-Home 1963–1974 Merlyn Rees 1963–1992 Michael Foot 1960–1992 Margaret Thatcher 1959–1992 Jeremy Thorpe 1959–1979 Frank Soskice 1956–1966 Denis Healey 1952–1992 Anthony Barber 1951–1974 Gwilym Lloyd George 1951–1957 Reginald Maudling 1950–1979 Christopher Soames 1950–1966 Jo Grimond 1950–1983 Robert Carr 1950–1976 Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor 1950–1966 Iain Macleod 1950–1970 Duncan Sandys 1950–1974 Clement Attlee 1950–1955 Edward Heath 1950–2001 Alec Douglas-Home 1950–1951 Roy Jenkins 1948–1977 Hugh Gaitskell 1945–1963 Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory 1945–1960 Harold Wilson 1945–1983 James Callaghan 1945–1987 Frank Soskice 1945–1955 George Brown 1945–1970 Michael Foot 1945–1955 William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle 1944–1945 Ernest Bevin 1940–1951 Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor 1938–1945 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone 1938–1950 Peter Thorneycroft 1938–1966 John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley 1938–1950 William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate 1937–1942 Jim Griffiths 1936–1970 Ramsay MacDonald 1936–1937 J. R. Clynes 1935–1945 Manny Shinwell 1935–1970 A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough 1935–1950 Herbert Morrison 1935–1959 James Chuter Ede 1935–1964 David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir 1935–1954 Duncan Sandys 1935–1945 Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes 1934–1943 Arthur Henderson 1933–1935 Harold Macmillan 1931–1964 James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin 1931–1956 Alec Douglas-Home 1931–1945 Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow 1931–1945 Duff Cooper 1931–1945 Stafford Cripps 1931–1950 Brendan Bracken 1929–1952 James Chuter Ede 1929–1931 Gwilym Lloyd George 1929–1950 Neville Chamberlain 1929–1940 Herbert Morrison 1929–1931 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1929–1935 William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil 1929–1959 Rab Butler 1929–1965 Clement Davies 1929–1962 William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate 1928–1931 Manny Shinwell 1928–1931 Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland 1924–1928 Duff Cooper 1924–1929 Winston Churchill 1924–1964 Harold Macmillan 1924–1929 J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone 1923–1924 Herbert Morrison 1923–1924 Leslie Hore-Belisha 1923–1945 Anthony Eden 1923–1957 James Chuter Ede 1923 Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden 1922–1931 Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield 1922–1929 George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall 1922–1946 Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham 1922–1928 Manny Shinwell 1922–1924 George Lansbury 1922–1940 Ramsay MacDonald 1922–1935 John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon 1922–1940 Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso 1922–1945 Clement Attlee 1922–1950 A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough 1922–1931 Gwilym Lloyd George 1922–1924 Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet 1922 Charles Townshend 1920–1922 H. H. Asquith 1920–1924 Neville Chamberlain 1918–1929 John J. O'Kelly 1918–1922 Kingsley Wood 1918–1943 Brian O'Higgins 1918–1922 Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan 1918–1937 Seán T. O'Kelly 1918–1922 Arthur Griffith 1918–1922 W. T. Cosgrave 1917–1922 Eric Geddes 1917–1922 Éamon de Valera 1917–1922 Aylmer Hunter-Weston 1916–1935 George Reid 1916–1918 Leo Amery 1911–1945 Andrew Bonar Law 1911–1923 William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford 1911–1929 William Adamson 1910–1931 George Lansbury 1910–1912 Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax 1910–1925 Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood 1910–1944 Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet 1910–1940 Edward Shortt 1910–1922 John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven 1910–1925 Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe 1910–1918 Laming Worthington-Evans 1910–1931 William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford 1908–1910 Stanley Baldwin 1908–1937 Andrew Bonar Law 1906–1910 J. R. Clynes 1906–1931 William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman 1906–1929 William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate 1906–1927 John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon 1906–1918 George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave 1906–1918 George Barnes 1906–1922 Ramsay MacDonald 1906–1918 Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden 1906–1918 Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading 1904–1913 Arthur Henderson 1903–1931 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1902–1918 Andrew Bonar Law 1900–1906 Winston Churchill 1900–1922 Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon 1900–1910 Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham 1900–1918 Keir Hardie 1900–1915 J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone 1900–1922 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild 1899–1910 Reginald McKenna 1895–1918 John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll 1895–1900 Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee 1895–1905 Keir Hardie 1892–1895 Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster 1892–1919 Edward Carson 1892–1921 Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby 1892–1906 John Sweetman 1892–1895 Austen Chamberlain 1892–1937 David Lloyd George 1890–1945 George Curzon 1886–1898 H. H. Asquith 1886–1918 Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff 1886–1895 William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne 1885–1895 Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane 1885–1911 Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar 1884–1914 Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth 1880–1894 Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote 1880–1899 Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long 1880–1921 Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston 1880–1911 Joseph Chamberlain 1876–1914 Arthur Balfour 1874–1922 Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee 1874–1892 Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife 1874–1879 Lord George Hamilton 1868–1906 Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1868–1908 Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff 1868–1874 William Harcourt 1868–1904 Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley 1868–1900 R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross 1868–1886 John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll 1868–1878 Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby 1865–1886 Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn 1864–1906 George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen 1863–1900 Hugh Childers 1860–1892 Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1858–1885 George Ward Hunt 1857–1877 R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross 1857–1862 Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook 1857–1866 Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars 1856–1859 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook 1856–1878 Charles Napier 1855–1860 Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1855–1857 George Cornewall Lewis 1855–1863 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1853–1868 Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare 1852–1873 Robert Lowe 1852–1880 George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1852–1859 George Cornewall Lewis 1847–1852 William Ewart Gladstone 1847–1895 Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo 1847–1868 John Charles Herries 1847–1853 Spencer Horatio Walpole 1846–1882 Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet 1841–1847 Charles Napier 1841–1847 James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin 1841–1842 Benjamin Disraeli 1837–1876 T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt 1835–1865 William Ewart Gladstone 1832–1845 Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet 1832–1874 T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt 1829–1832 Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet 1826–1861 FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan 1826–1829 Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook 1826–1865 Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax 1826–1866 Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton 1826–1859 Henry Lowry-Corry 1825–1873 John Charles Herries 1823–1841 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1822–1844 Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby 1822–1830 Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon 1820–1839 Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby 1818–1820 Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet 1818–1821 Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet 1818–1832 FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan 1818–1820 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1818–1861 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 1816–1828 William Sturges Bourne 1815–1831 Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington 1814–1827 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1813–1817 John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough 1810–1834 Robert Peel 1809–1850 Henry Goulburn 1808–1856 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1807–1865 F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich 1806–1827 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 1806–1812 John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough 1805–1806 John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer 1804–1834 Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington 1802–1812 William Sturges Bourne 1801–1812 Charles Philip Yorke 1801–1818 George Canning 1801–1827 Richard Ryder 1801–1830 Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville 1801–1802 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1801–1821 William Wilberforce 1801–1825 Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley 1801–1823 Spencer Perceval 1796–1812 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey 1786–1807 William Pitt the Younger 1781–1806

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