This is a list of sitting members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (MPs) who died by assassination or other culpable homicide.
Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a merchant who blamed the government for his debt. From 1882 to 1990, six MPs were assassinated by Irish nationalists. The murder of Jo Cox on 16 June 2016 was committed by a white supremacist; Cox was both the first female and the first Labour MP to be assassinated. The latest incident, the murder of Sir David Amess on 15 October 2021, was committed by an Islamic terrorist.
| Date | Victim | Party | Constituency | Assassin(s) | Assassin's cause | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 1812 | Spencer Perceval[1] | Tory | Northampton | John Bellingham | Legal redress Insanity | See main article: Assassination of Spencer Perceval. The only serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be assassinated, who was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons. | |
| 6 May 1882 | Lord Frederick Cavendish[2] | Liberal | Northern West Riding of Yorkshire | James Carey and others (members of the Irish National Invincibles) | Irish republicanism | See main article: Phoenix Park Murders. The new Chief Secretary for Ireland had arrived that day in Dublin and was walking in the Phoenix Park from the Chief Secretary's Lodge to the Vice-Regal Lodge with T. H. Burke, the Under-Secretary for Ireland, when both were stabbed to death. | |
| 22 June 1922 | Sir Henry Wilson[3] | Ulster Unionist | North Down | Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan (members of the Irish Republican Army) | Former distinguished British Army field marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War I and advisor to the government of Northern Ireland. Shot outside his home in Eaton Square, London. | ||
| 30 March 1979 | Airey Neave[4] | Conservative | Abingdon | Members of the Irish National Liberation Army | See main article: Assassination of Airey Neave. The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; killed in a car bombing outside the Palace of Westminster. | ||
| 14 November 1981 | Robert Bradford[5] | Ulster Unionist | Belfast South | Members of the Provisional IRA | Shot at a constituents' surgery in Finaghy, Belfast. | ||
| 12 October 1984 | Sir Anthony Berry[6] | Conservative | Enfield Southgate | Patrick Magee of the Provisional IRA | See main article: Brighton hotel bombing. Killed in the bombing of the Grand Brighton Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference. | ||
| 30 July 1990 | Ian Gow[7] | Eastbourne | Members of the Provisional IRA | Killed by a car bomb near his home in East Sussex. | |||
| 16 June 2016 | Jo Cox[8] | Labour | Batley and Spen | Thomas Mair | Neo-Nazi white supremacism[9] | See main article: Murder of Jo Cox. Shot and stabbed before a constituents' surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire. | |
| 15 October 2021 | Sir David Amess[10] [11] | Conservative | Southend West | Ali Harbi Ali | Jihadism (Islamist extremism) | See main article: Murder of David Amess. Stabbed multiple times after arrival at a constituency surgery meeting in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. |