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

DateMemberPartyConstituencyReason
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Buckinghamshire
[Conservative Party (UK)|]ChichesterResigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]GreenwichAppointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Monmouth Boroughs
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Tavistock
[Conservative Party (UK)|]HarwichResigned to contest East Suffolk
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Preston
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Shropshire South
[Liberal Party (UK)|]NorwichResigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway.

Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead.
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Windsor
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Norfolk East
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Greenwich
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Edinburghill health
[Liberal Party (UK)|]BostonResigned to contest Rutland
[Liberal Party (UK)|]CalneCalled up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]NottinghamRaised to the peerage.
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Londonderry
[Conservative Party (UK)|]ColchesterResigned to contest North Leicestershire.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]BanffshireBecame Earl Fife on the death of his uncle.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]MiddlesexRaised to the peerage.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]ScarboroughBecame Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father.
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Leitrim
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Devonshire SouthRaised to the peerage.
[Conservative Party (UK)|]EnniskillenResigned to contest Dublin University
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Monmouthshire
[Liberal Party (UK)|]DevonportResigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India.
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Pontefract
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Lymington
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Stafford
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Bolton
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Tynemouth and North Shields
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Richmond
[Conservative Party (UK)|]AndoverResign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Leicester
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Lambethsee Roupell case.
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Kirkcaldy Burghs
[Conservative Party (UK)|]County Carlow
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Cambridge
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Chichester
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Kinsale
[Conservative Party (UK)|]TewkesburyResigned to contest West Worcestershire.
[Conservative Party (UK)|]Dorset
[Liberal Party (UK)|]Cork City
[Liberal Party (UK)|]LiskeardResigned to contest Nottingham.