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

	Date	Member	Party	Constituency	Reason
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	21 February 1845	Charles Scott-Murray	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Buckinghamshire
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	10 February 1846	Lord Arthur Lennox	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Chichester	Resigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	29 January 1852	James Whitley Deans Dundas	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Greenwich	Appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	24 March 1852	Reginald James Blewitt	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Monmouth Boroughs
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	19 April 1852	Sir John S Trelawny	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Tavistock
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	29 April 1852	Sir Fitzroy Kelly	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Harwich	Resigned to contest East Suffolk
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	19 May 1852	Charles Pascoe Grenfell	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Preston
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	30 January 1854	Robert Henry Clive	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Shropshire South
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	20 October 1854	Samuel Morton Peto	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Norwich	Resigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway. Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	9 February 1855	Lord Charles Wellesley	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Windsor
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	9 July 1855	Edmond Wodehouse	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Norfolk East
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	7 January 1856	Peter Rolt	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Greenwich
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	22 January 1856	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Edinburgh	ill health
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	28 February 1856	Gilbert Henry Heathcote	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Boston	Resigned to contest Rutland
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	3 July 1856	Earl of Shelburne	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Calne	Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	25 July 1856	Edward Strutt	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Nottingham	Raised to the peerage.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	11 February 1857	Thomas Bateson	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Londonderry
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	16 February 1857	Lord John Manners	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Colchester	Resigned to contest North Leicestershire.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	10 June 1857	James Duff	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Banffshire	Became Earl Fife on the death of his uncle.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	25 August 1857	Lord Robert Grosvenor	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Middlesex	Raised to the peerage.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	December 1857	Earl of Mulgrave	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Scarborough	Became Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	28 April 1858	Hugh Lyons-Montgomery	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Leitrim
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	27 July 1858	Sir John Buller-Yarde-Buller	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Devonshire South	Raised to the peerage.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	8 February 1859	James Whiteside	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Enniskillen	Resigned to contest Dublin University
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	23 June 1859	Col Edward Arthur Somerset	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Monmouthshire
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	11 August 1859	James Wilson	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Devonport	Resigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	13 December 1859	William Overend	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Pontefract
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	16 May 1860	Sir John Rivett-Carnac	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Lymington
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	27 July 1860	John Ayshford Wise	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Stafford
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	4 February 1861	Joseph Crook	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Bolton
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	15 April 1861	Hugh Taylor	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Tynemouth and North Shields
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	3 July 1861	Henry Rich	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Richmond
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	23 July 1861	William Cubitt	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Andover	Resign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	11 February 1862	John Biggs	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Leicester
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	20 April 1862	William Roupell	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Lambeth	see Roupell case.
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	18 July 1862	Robert Munro-Ferguson	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Kirkcaldy Burghs
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	24 July 1862	William McClintock-Bunbury	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Carlow County
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	26 January 1863	Andrew Steuart	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Cambridge
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	16 February 1863	Humphrey William Freeland	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Chichester
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	28 May 1863	Sir John Arnott	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Kinsale
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	9 October 1863	Hon. Frederick Lygon	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Tewkesbury	Resigned to contest West Worcestershire.
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	17 February 1864	Henry Ker Seymer	[[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Dorset
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1 February 1865	Francis Lyons	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Cork City
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	15 June 1865	Ralph Bernal Osborne	[[Liberal Party (UK)|Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]	Liskeard	Resigned to contest Nottingham.

See also

• List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds
• List of Stewards of the Manor of East Hendred
• List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead
• List of Stewards of the Manor of Old Shoreham
• List of Stewards of the Manor of Poynings

References

• Department of Information Services (14 January 2010). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)