List of stewards of the Manor of Hempholme explained

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.^[1] The last steward vacated the post in 1866 after being re-elected to the House of Commons.

Stewards

<	-- Do NOT use colspan. It breaks sorting -->	Date	Member	Party	Constituency	Reason
				Buckinghamshire
				Chichester	Resigned after supporting repeal of the Corn Laws.
				Greenwich	Appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.
				Monmouth Boroughs
				Tavistock
				Harwich	Resigned to contest East Suffolk
				Preston
				Shropshire South
				Norwich	Resigned to go to Crimean War and construct Grand Crimean Central Railway. Resigned again in 1868 from Bristol using Northstead.^[2]
				Windsor
				Norfolk East
				Greenwich
				Edinburgh	ill health
				Boston	Resigned to contest Rutland
				Calne	Called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe.
				Nottingham	Raised to the peerage.
				Londonderry
				Colchester	Resigned to contest North Leicestershire.^[3]
				Banffshire	Became Earl Fife on the death of his uncle.
				Middlesex	Raised to the peerage.
				Scarborough	Became Marquess of Normanby on the death of his father.
				Leitrim
				Devonshire South	Raised to the peerage.
				Enniskillen	Resigned to contest Dublin University
				Monmouthshire
				Devonport	Resigned to sit as financial member of the Council of India.
				Pontefract
				Lymington
				Stafford
				Bolton
				Tynemouth and North Shields
				Richmond
				Andover	Resign to contest a by-election for the City of London, which he lost.
				Leicester
				Lambeth	see Roupell case.
				Kirkcaldy Burghs
				County Carlow
				Cambridge
				Chichester
				Kinsale
				Tewkesbury	Resigned to contest West Worcestershire.
				Dorset
				Cork City
				Liskeard	Resigned to contest Nottingham.

Web site: Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 . Department of Information Services . . 14 January 2010 . 14 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110206041753/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf . 6 February 2011 .

Web site: Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 . Department of Information Services . . 14 January 2010 . 14 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110206041753/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf . 6 February 2011 .
Faith, Nicholas The world the railways made The Bodley Head, London, 1990 p. 106
Inferred from the dates.