List of stewards of the Manor of Northstead explained

Post:Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead
Incumbent:Scott Benton
Incumbentsince:25 March 2024
Appointer:Chancellor of the Exchequer

The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead functions as a procedural device to allow a member of Parliament (MP) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. As members of the House of Commons are forbidden from formally resigning, a legal fiction is used to circumvent this prohibition: appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as an MP. As such, several such positions are maintained to allow MPs to resign.[1] Currently, the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used, and are specifically designated for this purpose under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975; several other offices have also been used historically. The appointment is traditionally made by the chancellor of the Exchequer. The position was reworked in 1861 by William Ewart Gladstone, who was worried about the honour conferred by appointment to people such as Edwin James, who had fled to the United States over £100,000 in debt. As such, the letter by the chancellor was rewritten to omit any references to honour.

The office was first used in this way on 20 March 1844 to allow Sir George Henry Rose, MP for, to resign his seat. Appointees to the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are alternated so that two MPs can resign at once (as happened on 23 January 2017 when Tristram Hunt and Jamie Reed resigned). However, every new appointment revokes the previous one, so there is no difficulty in situations in which more than two resign, such as the 1985 walkout of Ulster Unionist MPs when several separate appointments were made on a single day. If a resigning MP wishes to contest the following by-election, as Douglas Carswell did in 2014, they need to resign the stewardship to avoid further disqualification.[2]

The incumbent steward of the Manor of Northstead is Scott Benton, formerly the Independent (elected Conservative) MP for Blackpool South.[3]

Key to party abbreviations

PartyAbbreviation
All-for-Ireland LeagueAFIL
Coalition ConservativeCo Con
Coalition LiberalCo Lib
Conservative PartyCon
Home Rule LeagueHRL
IndependentInd
Irish National FederationINF
PartyAbbreviation
Irish Parliamentary PartyIPP
Unspecified Irish Nationalist (pre-1922) partyNat
Irish Unionist AllianceIUA
Labour Party (UK)Lab
Liberal Party (pre-1988)Lib
Liberal NationalsL Nat
Liberal Unionist PartyLU
PartyAbbreviation
National LabourN Lab
Plaid CymruPC
Scottish National PartySNP
Sinn FéinSF
Democratic Unionist PartyDUP
Ulster Unionist PartyUUP
Unionist PartyUP
WhigWhig

Up to 1899

DateMemberConstituencyPartyReason for resignation
In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Hartismere[4]
Appointed secretary to the Board of Trade[5]
Ill-health[6]
Ill-health[7]
Ill-health[8]
Found to have been using his position as secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for insider trading[9]
Resigned to accept a contract for supplying huts to the army in the Crimea[10]
Appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty[11]
Ill-health[12]
To allow him to stand for the vacant parliamentary seat[13]
Ill-health[14]
In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Chesham
Appointed Assistant Secretary to the Treasury[15]
Bankruptcy[16]
[17]
Appointed a Master in Lunacy under the Lunacy Act 1845[18]
Resigned and fled to the United States with massive debts[19]
In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Earl Russell[20]
Following an interview with his leading supporters[21]
Ill-health[22]
In anticipation of being raised to the peerage as Baron Houghton[23]
Ill-health
Ill-health[24]
Retired following a hunting accident[25]
Due to prolonged service in Canada in the British Army[26]
Resigned to contest [27]
Ill-health [28]
Appointed Commander-in-Chief of HMNB Portsmouth[29]
Resigned to contest, which was vacated via the Chiltern Hundreds the previous day, in anticipation of his election being declared void on petition (as happened in August 1880)[30]
Ill-health[31]
Ill-health[32]
To concentrate on business activities[33]
Ill-health[34]
Retirement from politics[35]
Resigned in protest of a scheme that gave compensation to public licence holders[36]
Pressure of business interests; he died a few months later in July 1893[37]
Resigned so that John Morley could be elected[38]
Could no longer attend Parliament regularly due to other commitments[39]
Ill-health; he died on 9 July 1896 aged 80[40]
Disagreement with party policy[41]
Ill-health[42]
Ill-health[43]

1900 to 1949

DateMemberConstituencyPartyReason for resignation
"... circumstances have arisen that render it impossible for me any longer to retain the trust which you have generously reposed in me ..."[44]
Requested to resign by his constituents in a disagreement over his views expressed[45]
Following a judgement against him in the Law Courts[46]
To concentrate on business interests[47]
Ill-health[48]
Ill-health[49]
Appointed Commander of the Channel Fleet[50]
Change of his political opinions different from the leadership of the Liberal Party[51]
In order to travel to Canada[52]
Appointed Ambassador to the United States[53]
To concentrate on business interests[54]
Ill-health[55]
Ill health.[56]
To seek the decision of his constituents on the question of the adoption of military training.[57]
In order to allow J. E. B. Seely to return to Parliament[58]
Appointed Governor of Victoria[59]
On being created 1st Baron Rowallan[60]
On being created Viscount Chilston
Objection to the Parliament Bill[61]
On appointment as a stipendiary magistrate[62]
Ill health.[63]
On becoming the 2nd Viscount Peel on the death of his father[64]
On becoming the 3rd Duke of Abercorn on the death of his father[65]
Ill health.[66]
On being divorced[67]
Appointed Governor-General of Australia[68]
Ill-health[69]
Military commitments in the 1st West Lancs. Brigade Royal Field Artillery[70]
On appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta.[71]
On becoming the 1st Baron Rathcreedan.[72]
On becoming the 1st Baron Beresford.[73]
Appointed military secretary to the Duke of Devonshire, who was to become Governor General of Canada in November 1916[74]
Ill-health[75]
On becoming the 1st Baron Roe.[76]
Appointed Governor of Tasmania[77]
Ill health[78]
On becoming Baron Gisborough.[79]
On becoming Baron Cawley[80]
Ill-health
Ill-health[81]
On appointment as Governor of South Australia[82]
Appointed Ambassador to the United States[83]
"owing to the pressing demands of his own business on the Stock Exchange"[84] -
Appointed Governor of Bombay[85]
Appointed Governor of Western Australia[86]
Cited as co-respondent in the divorce case between Sir Richard Cruise and his wife[87]
Sued for divorce by his wife[88]
Leaving the Liberal Party
Found to have allowed his wife and daughter to use House of Commons rail travel vouchers[89]
To focus on business interests[90]
On appointment as Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature of Allahabad[91]
Decided to "retire from the strenuous life of Parliament"; he was aged in his early 70s[92]
Ill health.[93]
Ill health.[94]
On appointment as Governor of Bombay[95]
Ill-health[96]
Retired following the resignation of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin[97]
Ill health.[98]
On appointment as Governor of South Australia[99]
On being created Baron Rotherwick[100]
On reaching the age of 75[101]
On reaching the age of 79[102]
Ill health and failing eyesight.[103]
Ill health.[104]
Ill health.[105]
On appointment as Governor of Burma.[106]
On being arrested and sent for court-martial[107]
On being created Viscount Margesson[108]
Ill-health[109]
On appointment as Chief Justice of India[110]
On being created Baron Gretton[111]
Ill-health[112]
"Too busy" serving with his Regiment to attend properly to parliamentary duties[113]
Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board[114]
Appointed Chairman of the West Midlands Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board[115]
Appointed Labour director of the North-Eastern Divisional Coal Board, under the National Coal Board[116]
Ill health[117]
Ill health[118]
Appointed Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge[119]
Ill-health[120]
Found to have accepted gifts from a "fixer" to influence his conduct as a minister[121]

1950 to 1999

DateMemberConstituencyPartyReason for resignation
Vacating his seat so that Solicitor-General Sir Frank Soskice could return to Parliament[122]
Appointed Governor of Tasmania[123]
Ill-health[124]
Ill-health[125]
Ill-health[126]
Ill-health[127]
Created a Baron (coronation honours list); vacating his seat to allow an early election[128]
Ill-health[129]
Ill-health[130]
Ill-health[131]
Giving up a political career in order to concentrate on farming the family estate[132]
Seeking re-election as a candidate opposed to British development of the hydrogen bomb[133]
Opposed to Government policy on the Suez Crisis[134]
Ill-health; had retired as Prime Minister[135]
Concentrating on business life involving frequent visits to Africa[136]
Unable to devote his full time to Parliamentary activities[137]
Charged with gross indecency with a Coldstream guardsman in St James's Park[138]
Ill-health[139]
Appointed High Commissioner to Ghana[140]
Appointed High Commissioner to Malta[141]
To allow Tony Benn, who won the previous election but was disqualified due to inheriting an unwanted peerage, to regain his seat after being allowed to disclaim the peerage
Appointed Chairman of the Prices and Incomes Board[142]
Concentrating on work as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
Appointed Chairman of London Weekend Television[143]
Ill-health[144]
Charged under the Official Secrets Act
Appointed Regional Secretary, National Union of General and Municipal Workers[145]
Seeking re-election on leaving the Labour Party[146]
Appointed Deputy Director General for Development by the European Community[147]
!style="background:"Retiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[148]
Appointed Chairman of Cable & Wireless[149]
Appointed a European Commissioner[150]
Appointed Chief Advisor to the President of the European Commission[151]
Found in contempt of the House (Poulson scandal)[152]
Ill-health[153]
Seeking re-election on joining the Social Democratic Party[154]
Appointed Executive Deputy Chairman of Coalite plc[155]
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement[156]
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Seeking re-election in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Appointed as a presenter of Weekend World
Appointed as a presenter of Day To Day
Appointed a European Commissioner
Appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato[157]
Revelations of an affair with a 17-year-old nightclub hostess[158]

Since 2000

DateMemberConstituencyPartyReason for resignation
PCElected a member of the National Assembly for Wales[159]
LabElected a Member of the Scottish Parliament[160]
LabAppointed a European Commissioner
ConElected Mayor of London[161]
LabIll health[162]
SpeakerRetiring as Speaker of the House of Commons[163]
SFTo stand in the 2011 Irish general election[164] [165] [166]
LabTo stand for election as Mayor of Leicester[167] [168]
ConTo join her family in New York[169] [170]
LabTo stand for election as Police and crime commissioner for the Greater Manchester Police Force Area[171]
[172] SFTo end double-jobbing as Member of Parliament and Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly[173]
[174] LabTo become head of the International Rescue Committee in New York
ConSeeking re-election, having joined the UK Independence Party
LabTo contest the 2016 Welsh Assembly election
12 September 2016[175] David CameronConDue to concerns that remaining a backbench MP following his resignation as Prime Minister on 13 July 2016 would be "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government[176]
4 November 2016[177] Stephen PhillipsCon"Significant policy differences" with the government regarding their approach to the UK leaving the European Union[178]
23 January 2017[179] Jamie ReedLabTo become Head of Development and Community Relations for Sellafield Ltd
9 May 2018[180] Heidi AlexanderLabTo become Deputy Mayor of London for Transport[181]
4 November 2019[182] John BercowSpeakerRetiring as Speaker of the House of Commons
24 March 2021[183] Neil GraySNPTo seek election at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
5 November 2021[184] Owen PatersonConBreaching the rules against paid advocacy
4 May 2022[185] [186] Neil ParishConViewed pornography in the Palace of Westminster
10 November 2022[187] Kate GreenLabTo become Greater Manchester deputy mayor[188]
12 June 2023[189] Nigel AdamsConResignation in solidarity with Boris Johnson
19 June 2023David WarburtonConAllegations of sexual harassment and drug abuse
7 September 2023[190] Chris PincherCon
25 March 2024Scott BentonBlackpool SouthConFilmed appearing to offer lobbying favours for payment[191]

Dual appointments

Some former MPs have held both offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and of the Chiltern Hundreds. These include:

See also

Office still in use

Offices not in use

References

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Specific

Notes and References

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