List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds 1751–1849 explained

See main article: List of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds.

Up to 1799

Before 1770 (William de Grey), between 1775 and 1780 (Edward Meux Worsley to Sir William Lynch), and between 1782 and 1787 (John Buller to Sir George Duckett) the date given is that of the writ to replace the member who accepted the Stewardship.

Date	Member^[1]	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
		Wareham	<		-- party -->	To contest Dorchester
		Downton	<		-- party -->	To contest County Durham
		Lymington	<		-- party -->	To contest Hampshire
		Old Sarum	<		-- party -->
		Newport (Cornwall)	<		-- party -->
		Castle Rising	<		-- party -->	To sit for King's Lynn
		Okehampton	<		-- party -->
		Orford	<		-- party -->
		Dunwich	<		-- party -->
		Bishop's Castle	<		-- party -->
		Eye	<		-- party -->
		Bodmin	<		-- party -->
		Westmorland	<		-- party -->
		Richmond	<		-- party -->
		Gloucestershire	<		-- party -->
		Bath	<		-- party -->	Created Baron Ligonier
		Westmorland	<		-- party -->
		Selkirkshire	<		-- party -->	To sit for Roxburghshire
		Great Bedwyn	<		-- party -->	Appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands
		Chichester	<		-- party -->
		Leominster	<		-- party -->
		Petersfield	<		-- party -->
		Great Bedwyn	<		-- party -->
		Newcastle-under-Lyme	<		-- party -->
		Cockermouth	<		-- party -->
		Bossiney	<		-- party -->
		St Mawes	<		-- party -->
		Eye	<		-- party -->
		Newport (Cornwall)	<		-- party -->
		New Romney	<		-- party -->
		Midhurst	<		-- party -->
		Downton	<		-- party -->
		Rochester	<		-- party -->
		Arundel	<		-- party -->
		Lancaster	<		-- party -->
		Stockbridge	<		-- party -->
		Harwich	<		-- party -->
		Tain Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Appleby	<		-- party -->
		Perthshire	<		-- party -->
		Eye	<		-- party -->
		Great Bedwyn	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		West Looe	<		-- party -->
		Malmesbury	<		-- party -->
		St Germans	<		-- party -->
		Newtown	<		-- party -->
		Stockbridge	<		-- party -->
		Lostwithiel	<		-- party -->
		Aldborough	<		-- party -->
		Castle Rising	<		-- party -->
		Montgomery	<		-- party -->
		Dunwich	<		-- party -->
		Anstruther Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Aldborough	<		-- party -->
		Plymouth	<		-- party -->
		St Ives	<		-- party -->
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		St Ives	<		-- party -->
		Scarborough	<		-- party -->
		Plympton Erle	<		-- party -->
		Berwickshire	<		-- party -->
		Christchurch	<		-- party -->
		Weobley	<		-- party -->
		Saltash	<		-- party -->
		Northallerton	<		-- party -->
		Great Bedwyn	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		West Looe	<		-- party -->
		Thetford	<		-- party -->
		Northampton	<		-- party -->
		Abingdon	<		-- party -->
		Anstruther Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Launceston	<		-- party -->
		Pontefract	<		-- party -->
		Minehead	<		-- party -->
		East Grinstead	<		-- party -->
		Renfrewshire	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		New Romney	<		-- party -->
		St Mawes	<		-- party -->
		Camelford	<		-- party -->
		Malton	<		-- party -->
		Plympton Erle	<		-- party -->
		West Looe	<		-- party -->
		Hereford	<		-- party -->
		Steyning	<		-- party -->
		Wenlock	<		-- party -->
		Haverfordwest	<		-- party -->
		Richmond	<		-- party -->
		East Grinstead	<		-- party -->
		Weymouth and Melcombe Regis	<		-- party -->
		Newport (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Selkirkshire	<		-- party -->
		Haslemere	<		-- party -->
		Wareham	<		-- party -->
		Renfrewshire	<		-- party -->
		Cockermouth	<		-- party -->
		Weymouth and Melcombe Regis	<		-- party -->
		Milborne Port	<		-- party -->
		Bury St Edmunds	<		-- party -->	To provide a seat for Lord Charles FitzRoy
		Petersfield	<		-- party -->
		City of Durham	<		-- party -->	Retired in favour of his son
		Ilchester	<		-- party -->
		Gatton	<		-- party -->
		Ashburton	<		-- party -->	Retired in favour of his son
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Huntingdon	<		-- party -->	To provide a seat for John Willett Payne
		Argyllshire	<		-- party -->
		Sutherland	<		-- party -->	To contest Fife
		Brecon	<		-- party -->	To contest Breconshire
		Bletchingley	<		-- party -->
		Wilton	<		-- party -->	To provide a seat for Lord Herbert
		Monmouth	<		-- party -->	To provide a seat for Lord Worcester
		East Looe	<		-- party -->	To provide a seat for Lord Belgrave
		Denbigh Boroughs	<		-- party -->	Retired in favour of his son
		Kincardineshire	<		-- party -->
		Cambridge	<		-- party -->
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		Maidstone	<		-- party -->
		Devizes	<		-- party -->
		Banffshire	<		-- party -->
		East Grinstead	<		-- party -->
		Stirling Burghs	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		Buckingham	<		-- party -->
		Heytesbury	<		-- party -->
		Petersfield	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Dunwich	<		-- party -->
		Poole	<		-- party -->
		Petersfield	<		-- party -->
		Milborne Port	<		-- party -->
		Weymouth and Melcombe Regis	<		-- party -->
		Haslemere	<		-- party -->
		Malmesbury	<		-- party -->
		Clitheroe	<		-- party -->
		Anstruther Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Newtown	<		-- party -->
		Marlborough	<		-- party -->
		Wycombe	<		-- party -->
		Plympton Erle	<		-- party -->
		Milborne Port	<		-- party -->
		Wallingford	<		-- party -->
		Ross-shire	<		-- party -->
		Hastings	<		-- party -->
		Ayr Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Huntingdonshire	<		-- party -->
		Anstruther Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Malton	<		-- party -->
		Hindon	<		-- party -->
		Westbury	<		-- party -->
		Morpeth	<		-- party -->
		Midhurst	<		-- party -->
		Arundel	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		Eye	<		-- party -->
		Perth Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Weobley	<		-- party -->
		Derby	<		-- party -->
		Petersfield	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth	<		-- party -->
		Dunbartonshire	<		-- party -->
		Buckinghamshire	<		-- party -->
		Northamptonshire	<		-- party -->
		Orford	<		-- party -->
		Old Sarum	<		-- party -->
		Marlborough	<		-- party -->
		Newcastle-upon-Tyne	<		-- party -->
		Clackmannanshire	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		Malton	<		-- party -->
		Richmond	<		-- party -->
		Lichfield	<		-- party -->
		Old Sarum	<		-- party -->
		Helston	<		-- party -->
		Stockbridge	<		-- party -->
		Gatton	<		-- party -->
		Mitchell	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		Plympton Erle	<		-- party -->
		Argyllshire	<		-- party -->
		East Looe	<		-- party -->
		Flintshire	<		-- party -->

1800 to 1849

Date	Member	Constituency	Party		Reason for resignation
		City of Durham	<		-- party -->
		Aldeburgh	<		-- party -->
		Weobley	<		-- party -->
		Westbury	<		-- party -->
		Newport (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Haddingtonshire	<		-- party -->
		Linlithgowshire	<		-- party -->
		Christchurch	<		-- party -->
		St Albans	<		-- party -->
		Liskeard	<		-- party -->
		Old Sarum	<		-- party -->
		Corfe Castle	<		-- party -->	To provide a seat for his brother
		Devizes	<		-- party -->	To resign the Speakership when invited by the King to form a government
		Newtown	<		-- party -->
		Rye	<		-- party -->
		Oxford University	<		-- party -->
		Downton	<		-- party -->
		Poole	<		-- party -->
		Totnes	<		-- party -->
		Thirsk	<		-- party -->
		Haddington Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		Wootton Bassett	<		-- party -->
		Dumfries Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Callington	<		-- party -->
		Downton	<		-- party -->
		Wigtown	<		-- party -->
		Downton	<		-- party -->
		Bristol		Tory
		West Looe	<		-- party -->
		Carmarthen	<		-- party -->
		Inverness Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)		Tory
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Okehampton	<		-- party -->
		Ludgershall		Tory
		Milborne Port	<		-- party -->
		Buckingham	<		-- party -->
		Barnstaple	<		-- party -->
		West Looe	<		-- party -->
		Amersham		Tory
		Steyning	<		-- party -->
		Knaresborough		Whig
		Wigtownshire	<		-- party -->
		Malton		Whig
		Helston	<		-- party -->
		Newtown	<		-- party -->
		Tain Burghs	<		-- party -->
		New Ross	<		-- party -->
		Wigtown	<		-- party -->
		Tavistock	<		-- party -->
		Dunbartonshire	<		-- party -->
		Waterford City	<		-- party -->
		Portarlington	<		-- party -->
		Lyme Regis	<		-- party -->
		Rye		Tory
		Haddington Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Helston	<		-- party -->
		Kinsale	<		-- party -->
		Enniskillen	<		-- party -->
		Bodmin	<		-- party -->
		Eye	<		-- party -->
		Mitchell		Tory
		Bletchingley	<		-- party -->
		Heytesbury	<		-- party -->
		Worcester	<		-- party -->
		Derby	<		-- party -->
		Carrickfergus	<		-- party -->
		Helston	<		-- party -->
		Mitchell	<		-- party -->
		Winchelsea		Whig
		Castle Rising	<		-- party -->
		Mitchell	<		-- party -->
		Newtown		Whig
		Wootton Bassett		Tory
		Boroughbridge		Tory
		Wareham	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Sutherland		Tory
		Tain Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Rutland	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Great Yarmouth		Whig
		Cockermouth		Tory
		Richmond		Whig
		Rye	<		-- party -->
		Bletchingley	<		-- party -->
		Stamford	<		-- party -->
		Mitchell	<		-- party -->
		Huntingdon	<		-- party -->
		Eye	<		-- party -->
		Saltash	<		-- party -->
		Clyde Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Coleraine		Tory
		Buckingham	<		-- party -->
		Milborne Port	<		-- party -->
		Wexford Borough		Tory
		Windsor		Tory
		Westbury	<		-- party -->
		Callington	<		-- party -->
		St Germans		Tory
		Gloucestershire		Whig
		Elgin Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Ashburton	<		-- party -->
		Newport (Isle of Wight)		Tory
		Ludgershall		Tory
		Wootton Bassett		Tory
		Abingdon	<		-- party -->
		Wexford Borough		Tory
		Kincardineshire	<		-- party -->
		East Grinstead	<		-- party -->
		Perthshire	<		-- party -->
		Edinburgh	<		-- party -->
		Hastings	<		-- party -->
		Launceston	<		-- party -->	Lost the patronage of the Duke of Northumberland
		East Grinstead	<		-- party -->
		Bodmin	<		-- party -->
		Grampound	<		-- party -->
		Ludgershall		Tory
		Plympton Erle	<		-- party -->
		Appleby	<		-- party -->
		New Romney		Tory
		Mitchell	<		-- party -->
		Callington	<		-- party -->
		Wootton Bassett		Whig
		Wootton Bassett		Whig
		Downton	<		-- party -->
		Tralee		Whig
		Nairnshire	<		-- party -->
		City of Durham		Whig
		Carmarthen	<		-- party -->
		Dorchester	<		-- party -->
		Nottinghamshire		Whig
		Newton	<		-- party -->
		Rutland	<		-- party -->
		Coleraine		Tory
		Mitchell	<		-- party -->
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		Aldborough		Tory
		Aylesbury	<		-- party -->
		Westbury	<		-- party -->
		Bandon		Tory
		Thirsk		Whig
		East Grinstead	<		-- party -->
		Aldborough		Tory
		Ludgershall		Whig
		Newcastle-under-Lyme	<		-- party -->
		Staffordshire		Whig
		Seaford	<		-- party -->
		Calne	<		-- party -->
		Cockermouth		Tory
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Sutherland	<		-- party -->
		Lewes		Whig
		Lostwithiel	<		-- party -->
		Haddingtonshire	<		-- party -->
		Lyme Regis	<		-- party -->
		East Looe		Tory
		Newport (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Peterborough		Whig
		Dartmouth		Tory
		Buckingham		Whig
		Gatton	<		-- party -->
		Wootton Bassett	<		-- party -->
		Plympton Erle	<		-- party -->
		Wigtownshire	<		-- party -->
		Hertford		Whig
		Malmesbury		Whig
		Weymouth and Melcombe Regis		Tory
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)	<		-- party -->
		Castle Rising		Tory
		City of London		Whig
		Bossiney		Tory
		Chippenham		Whig
		Buckingham		Whig
		Ludgershall		Whig
		Tavistock		Whig
		Colchester		Tory
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)		Tory
		Dunwich		Tory
		Portarlington		Whig
		Bletchingley		Whig
		Cashel		Tory
		Clonmel		Tory
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)		Tory
		Yarmouth (Isle of Wight)		Tory
		Tavistock		Whig
		Boroughbridge		Whig
		Appleby		Tory
		Westbury		Tory
		Hythe	<		-- party -->	Ill health
		Tralee		Tory
		Tiverton	<		-- party -->
		Wiltshire	<		-- party -->
		Peterborough		Whig
		Cambridge		Tory
		Tavistock		Whig
		Scarborough		Whig
		Dartmouth	<		-- party -->
		Okehampton		Tory
		Malmesbury	<		-- party -->
		Old Sarum		Tory
		Heytesbury	<		-- party -->
		Warwickshire	<		-- party -->
		Westbury	<		-- party -->
		Newtown		Whig
		New Ross	<		-- party -->
		Plympton Erle		Tory
		Wigtown Burghs		Tory
		Orford		Tory
		Andover		Tory
		St Ives	<		-- party -->
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		Cockermouth	<		-- party -->
		Great Bedwyn		Tory
		Dungarvan		Whig
		Bletchingley		Whig
		Argyllshire	<		-- party -->
		Dartmouth	<		-- party -->
		Minehead		Tory
		Shaftesbury	<		-- party -->
		Stockbridge		Whig
		Clitheroe	<		-- party -->
		Harwich	<		-- party -->
		Harwich	<		-- party -->
		Peterborough		Whig
		Corfe Castle		Tory
		Winchester	<		-- party -->
		Bossiney	<		-- party -->
		Reigate	<		-- party -->
		Rye	<		-- party -->
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		Weobley	<		-- party -->
		New Ross		Tory
		Okehampton		Whig
		Clackmannanshire	<		-- party -->
		Newton	<		-- party -->
		Bramber		Tory
		Petersfield	<		-- party -->
		Wigan		Tory
		Corfe Castle		Tory
		Oxford University		Tory
		Devizes	<		-- party -->
		East Looe		Tory
		Hastings	<		-- party -->
		Wallingford		Whig
		Plympton Erle		Tory
		Horsham		Whig
		Cockermouth		Tory
		Bletchingley		Whig
		Harwich		Tory
		Aldeburgh		Tory
		Buckingham	<		-- party -->
		St Germans		Tory
		Lymington	<		-- party -->
		King's Lynn		Whig
		Corfe Castle		Tory
		Richmond (Yorks)		Whig
		Enniskillen		Tory
		St Ives		Tory
		Old Sarum		Tory
		Sudbury	<		-- party -->
		Ennis		Tory
		Weobley		Tory
		Bletchingley		Whig
		Carlisle		Whig
		Aldeburgh		Tory
		Oxford University		Tory
		Westbury		Tory
		Truro		Tory
		Corfe Castle		Tory
		Newark	<		-- party -->
		Marlborough		Whig
		Launceston		Tory
		Marlborough		Tory
		Sandwich	<		-- party -->
		Colchester		Tory	In protest against the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.^[2]
		Horsham		Whig
		East Looe		Tory
		Aldeburgh		Tory
		Wexford Borough		Tory
		Tralee		Tory
		Corfe Castle		Tory
		Wicklow		Whig
		West Looe		Whig
		Winchelsea		Whig
		Fowey		Tory
		Clonmel		Tory	To contest County Limerick
		Rye	<		-- party -->
		County Waterford		Tory
		Gatton	<		-- party -->
		Peterborough		Whig
		St Germans		Tory
		Lostwithiel		Tory
		Plympton Erle		Tory
		Dungannon		Tory
		Windsor		Whig
		Bossiney		Tory
		Bletchingley		Whig
		Newark	<		-- party -->
		Saltash	<		-- party -->
		Wigan		Tory
		Peeblesshire	<		-- party -->
		Milborne Port		Tory
		Eye		Tory
		New Romney		Tory
		Malton		Whig	Left the Whigs for the Tories in opposition to electoral reform
		Launceston		Tory
		Shaftesbury	<		-- party -->
		Okehampton		Tory
		Westbury		Whig
		Bletchingley		Whig
		Downton		Whig
		Bandon		Tory
		New Ross		Tory
		Armagh City		Tory	To contest Dublin City
		Malton		Whig
		Higham Ferrers		Whig
		Dorchester		Tory
		Tavistock		Whig
		Cambridgeshire	<		-- party -->
		Reigate		Tory
		Leominster	<		-- party -->
		Dunwich		Tory
		Flint		Whig
		Wycombe	<		-- party -->
		Malton		Whig	To contest Northamptonshire
		Marylebone		Whig
		Sunderland	<		-- party -->
		Westminster		Whig
		Stroud		Whig
		City of London		Whig
		Buteshire	<		-- party -->
		Totnes	<		-- party -->
		Devizes		Whig	Broke from the Whigs with the Derby Dilly over reform
		Thirsk		Whig
		Paisley	<		-- party -->
		Fermanagh		Tory
		West Riding of Yorkshire		Lib	Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
		Stroud		Lib
		Tiverton	<		-- party -->
		Ayrshire	<		-- party -->
		Devizes	<		-- party -->
		Cockermouth		Whig
		Glasgow	<		-- party -->
		South Leicestershire	<		-- party -->
		Paisley	<		-- party -->
		Kilkenny City		Lib
		Merioneth		Con
		Warwick		Con
		Stafford		Con	Resigned in May 1835 to contest Staffordshire; the House of Commons considered disenfranchising the borough for corruption and did not issue a new writ until 1837
		Anglesey		Whig
		Lewes		Lib
		Westminster		Lib	To contest the seat against a Radical candidate
		Bridgwater		Lib
		Hythe		Whig
		Glasgow	<		-- party -->
		Great Yarmouth		Whig
		Sudbury		Con
		Midhurst		Whig
		Bridgnorth	<		-- party -->
		Pembroke		Con
		West Kent		Con
		Stamford		Con
		Woodstock		Con
		Gloucester		Con
		Dungannon		Con
		Inverness-shire		Con
		Linlithgowshire	<		-- party -->
		Wigan		Whig
		Glasgow		Whig
		Ipswich		Con
		Totnes	<		-- party -->
		Perth	<		-- party -->
		Cambridge		Whig
		Beverley		Con
		Birmingham		Lib
		Rutland		Con
		Morpeth		Lib
		Inverness Burghs		Whig
		Helston		Con
		Sutherland		Con
		Elginshire and Nairnshire	<		-- party -->
		Sudbury		Con
		County Louth	<		-- party -->
		Cavan		Con
		County Waterford	<		-- party -->
		Helston		Con
		Walsall		Lib
		Monmouthshire	<		-- party -->
		Richmond (Yorks)		Whig
		King's County	<		-- party -->
		Derby		Whig
		Bridport		Radical
		Sunderland	<		-- party -->
		Hereford		Whig
		King's Lynn		Con
		Taunton		Whig
		Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire	<		-- party -->
		Montrose Burghs	<		-- party -->
		Brighton		Lib
		Londonderry		Con
		Nottingham		Whig
		South Hampshire		Con
		Tavistock		Whig
		Ripon		Con
		Salisbury		Whig
		Argyllshire	<		-- party -->
		Devizes		Con
		Hastings		Con
		Abingdon		Con
		Enniskillen		Con	ill health^[3]
		Limerick City		Lib
		Cirencester		Con
		Dudley	<		-- party -->
		North Lancashire		Con	In anticipation of a writ in acceleration to the House of Lords
		East Kent		Con
		Leominster	<		-- party -->
		Woodstock		Con
		Midlothian	<		-- party -->
		Belfast		Con
		Midhurst		Con
		East Sussex		Con
		Cashel		Lib
		Buckingham		Con	Disagreement with the Duke of Buckingham over the Corn Laws
		Rutland		Con
		Dorset		Con
		Dorset		Con
		East Suffolk		Con
		South Northamptonshire		Con
		East Gloucestershire		Con
		Mayo	<		-- party -->
		Bridport		Con
		Malton		Whig
		Falkirk Burghs		Con
		Taunton		Whig
		Salisbury		Con
		City of Chester		Whig	To contest Middlesex
		West Sussex		Con
		Lewes		Lib
		Weymouth and Melcombe Regis		Whig
		Newcastle-under-Lyme	<		-- party -->
		Tamworth		Con
		Sunderland	<		-- party -->
		Dublin University		Con
		Devizes	<		-- party -->
		Waterford City	<		-- party -->
		Wicklow		Con
		South Devon		Con
		North Hampshire		Con
		South Nottinghamshire		Con
		Sheffield		Lib
		South Warwickshire		Con
		City of London		Lib
		Boston		Whig	To contest a by-election for the City of London

References

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Notes and References

1. Book: Parliamentary papers . 62, Part 2 . House Of Commons . Great Britain. Parliament . 1878 .
2. Web site: Fisher . David R. . SMYTH, Sir George Henry, 6th bt. (1784–1852), of Berechurch Hall, nr. Colchester, Essex . The History of Parliament . 1 November 2018 . 2009.
3. Web site: COLE, Hon. Arthur Henry (1780-1844), of 15 Jermyn Street, Mdx.. History of Parliament Online . 16 June 2019.