List of MPs elected in the 1935 United Kingdom general election

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1935–1945 Parliament of the United Kingdom
1931–1935 Parliament 1945–1950 Parliament
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Overview
Legislative body Parliament of the United Kingdom
Term14 November 1935 (1935-11-14) – 26 July 1945 (1945-07-26)
Election 1935 United Kingdom general election
Government Third National Government
Fourth National Government
Chamberlain war ministry
Churchill war ministry
Churchill caretaker ministry  
House of Commons
Members614
Speaker Edward FitzRoy
Douglas Clifton Brown  
Leader Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Stafford Cripps
Anthony Eden  
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill  
Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee
Hastings Lees-Smith [lower-alpha 1]
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence [lower-alpha 1]
Arthur Greenwood [lower-alpha 1]
Clement Attlee  
Third-party leader Archibald Sinclair  
House of Lords
Lord Chancellor Viscount Hailsham
Baron Maugham
Viscount Caldecote  

This is a list of members of Parliament elected at the 1935 general election, held on 14 November. Due to the onset of the Second World War, this was the last general election before 1945, making it the longest UK parliament in history and the longest parliament to sit in Westminster since the Cavalier Parliament of 1661–1679.

Contents

History

Composition

This diagram show the composition of the parties in the 1935 general election. 37th UK House of Commons (1935-1945).svg

Note: This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time. The Commons Chamber was hit by bombs and the roof of Westminster Hall was set on fire. The fire service said that it would be impossible to save both, so it was decided to concentrate on saving the Hall. The Commons Chamber was entirely destroyed by the fire which spread to the Members' Lobby and caused the ceiling to collapse. By the following morning, all that was left of the Chamber was a smoking shell. As the Commons Chamber was totally destroyed and the Lords Chamber was damaged, both Houses moved to the Church House annexe and sat there from 13 May. From late June 1941 until October 1950, the Commons met in the Lords Chamber, while the Lords met in the Robing Room (a fact which was kept secret during the war). [5]

A

ConstituencyMPParty
Aberavon William Cove Labour
Aberdare George Hall Labour
Aberdeen North George Garro-Jones Labour
Aberdeen South Sir Douglas Thomson, Bt Conservative
Aberdeenshire Central Sir Robert Smith Conservative
Aberdeenshire East Robert Boothby Conservative
Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine Malcolm Barclay-Harvey Conservative
Abertillery George Daggar Labour
Abingdon Sir Ralph Glyn, Bt Conservative
Accrington Henry Procter Conservative
Acton Hubert Duggan Conservative
Aldershot Roundell Palmer Conservative
Altrincham Sir Edward Grigg Conservative
Anglesey Megan Lloyd George Independent Liberal
Antrim
(two members)
Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill Ulster Unionist
Sir Joseph McConnell, Bt Ulster Unionist
Argyllshire Frederick Macquisten Conservative
Armagh Sir William Allen Ulster Unionist
Ashford Patrick Spens Conservative
Ashton-under-Lyne Fred Simpson Labour
Aylesbury Michael Beaumont Conservative
Ayr Burghs Thomas Moore Conservative
Ayrshire North and Bute Sir Charles MacAndrew Conservative
Ayrshire South The Rt Hon. James Brown Labour

B

Balham and Tooting Sir Alfred Butt, Bt Conservative
Banbury Sir Albert Edmondson Conservative
Banffshire Sir John Findlay, Bt Conservative
Barkston Ash Leonard Ropner Conservative
Barnard Castle Thomas Sexton Labour
Barnsley John Potts Labour
Barnstaple Richard Acland Liberal
Barrow-in-Furness Sir Jonah Walker-Smith Conservative
Basingstoke Patrick Donner Conservative
Bassetlaw Frederick Bellenger Labour
Bath Loel Guinness Conservative
Batley and Morley Willie Brooke Labour
Battersea North William Sanders Labour
Battersea South Harry Selley Conservative
Bedford Richard Wells Conservative
Bedfordshire Mid Alan Lennox-Boyd Conservative
Bedwellty Charles Edwards Labour
Belfast, East Herbert Dixon Ulster Unionist
Belfast, North Thomas Somerset Ulster Unionist
Belfast, South William Stewart Ulster Unionist
Belfast, West Alexander Browne Ulster Unionist
Belper Herbert Wragg Conservative
Bermondsey West Alfred Salter Labour
Berwick and Haddington John McEwen Conservative
Berwick-on-Tweed Sir Hugh Seely, Bt Liberal
Bethnal Green North-East Dan Chater Labour Co-op
Bethnal Green South-West Sir Percy Harris, Bt Liberal
Bewdley The Rt Hon. Stanley Baldwin Conservative
Birkenhead East Graham White Liberal
Birkenhead West John Sandeman Allen Conservative
Birmingham Aston Hon. Arthur Hope Conservative
Birmingham Deritend Smedley Crooke Conservative
Birmingham Duddeston Oliver Simmonds Conservative
Birmingham Edgbaston Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain Conservative
Birmingham Erdington John Eales Conservative
Birmingham Handsworth Oliver Locker-Lampson Conservative
Birmingham King's Norton Ronald Cartland Conservative
Birmingham Ladywood Geoffrey Lloyd Conservative
Birmingham Moseley Sir Patrick Hannon Conservative
Birmingham Sparkbrook Rt. Hon. Leo Amery Conservative
Birmingham West Rt. Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain Conservative
Birmingham Yardley Edward Salt Conservative
Bishop Auckland Hugh Dalton Labour
Blackburn
(two members)
W. D. Smiles Conservative
George Elliston Conservative
Blackpool Roland Robinson Conservative
Blaydon William Whiteley Labour
Bodmin John Rathbone Conservative
Bolton
(two members)
Cyril Entwistle Conservative
Sir John Haslam Conservative
Bootle Eric Errington Conservative
Bosworth William Edge Liberal National
Bothwell James C. Welsh Labour
Bournemouth Sir Henry Page Croft Conservative
Bow and Bromley The Rt Hon. George Lansbury Labour
Bradford Central William Leach Labour
Bradford East Joseph Hepworth Conservative
Bradford North Eugene Ramsden Conservative
Bradford South Herbert Holdsworth Liberal
Brecon and Radnor Hon. Ivor Guest National
Brentford and Chiswick Harold Mitchell Conservative
Bridgwater Reginald Croom-Johnson Conservative
Brigg David Quibell Labour
Brighton
(two members)
Cooper Rawson Conservative
The Rt Hon. Sir George Tryon Conservative
Bristol Central Lord Apsley Conservative
Bristol East Sir Stafford Cripps Labour
Bristol North Robert Bernays Liberal
Bristol South Alexander Walkden Labour
Bristol West Cyril Thomas Culverwell Conservative
Brixton Nigel Colman Conservative
Bromley Sir Edward Campbell Conservative
Broxtowe Seymour Cocks Labour
Buckingham Sir George Bowyer, Bt Conservative
Buckrose Albert Braithwaite Conservative
Burnley Wilfrid Burke Labour
Burslem Andrew McLaren Labour
Burton The Rt Hon. John Gretton Conservative
Bury Alan Chorlton Conservative
Bury St Edmunds Frank Heilgers Conservative

C

Caerphilly Morgan Jones Labour
Caithness and Sutherland The Rt Hon. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt Liberal
Camberwell North Charles Ammon Labour
Camberwell North West Hon. Oscar Guest Conservative
Camborne Peter Agnew Conservative
Cambridge Richard Tufnell Conservative
Cambridgeshire Richard Briscoe Conservative
Cambridge University
(two members)
Sir John Withers Conservative
Kenneth Pickthorn Conservative
Cannock William Adamson Labour
Canterbury Sir William Wayland Conservative
Cardiff Central Sir Ernest Bennett National Labour
Cardiff East Owen Temple-Morris Conservative
Cardiff South Arthur Evans Conservative
Cardiganshire Owen Evans Liberal
Carlisle Louis Spears Conservative
Carmarthen Daniel Hopkin Labour
Carnarvon Boroughs The Rt Hon. David Lloyd George Independent Liberal
Carnarvonshire Goronwy Owen Independent Liberal
Chatham Leonard Plugge Conservative
Chelmsford John Macnamara Conservative
Chelsea Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt Conservative
Cheltenham Sir Walter Preston Conservative
Chertsey Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter Conservative
City of Chester Sir Charles Cayzer, Bt Conservative
Chesterfield George Benson Labour
Chester-le-Street Jack Lawson Labour
Chichester John Courtauld Conservative
Chippenham Victor Cazalet Conservative
Chislehurst Sir Waldron Smithers Conservative
Chorley The Rt Hon. Sir Douglas Hacking Conservative
Cirencester and Tewkesbury William Morrison Conservative
City of London
(two members)
Sir Alan Anderson Conservative
Sir Vansittart Bowater, Bt Conservative
Clapham Sir John Leigh, Bt Conservative
Clay Cross Alfred Holland Labour
Cleveland Robert Bower Conservative
Clitheroe Sir William Brass Conservative
Coatbridge James Barr Labour
Colchester Oswald Lewis Conservative
Colne Valley Ernest Marklew Labour
Combined English Universities
(two members)
Eleanor Rathbone Independent
Sir Reginald Craddock Conservative
Combined Scottish Universities
(Three members)
John Graham Kerr Conservative
George Morrison Liberal National
Noel Skelton Conservative
Cornwall North Rt Hon. Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Bt Liberal
Consett David Adams Labour
Coventry William Strickland Conservative
Crewe Sir Donald Somervell Conservative
Croydon North Hon. Glyn Mason Conservative
Croydon South Herbert Williams Conservative
Cumberland North Wilfrid Roberts Liberal

D

Darlington Charles Peat Conservative
Dartford Frank Clarke Conservative
Darwen Stuart Russell Conservative
Daventry The Rt Hon. Edward FitzRoy Speaker (Conservative)
Denbigh Sir Henry Morris-Jones Liberal National
Deptford Walter Green Labour Co-op
Derby
(two members)
Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas National Labour
William Allan Reid Conservative
Derbyshire North East Frank Lee Labour
Derbyshire South Paul Emrys-Evans Conservative
Derbyshire West The Marquess of Hartington Conservative
Devizes Sir Percy Hurd Conservative
Dewsbury Benjamin Riley Labour
Doncaster Alfred Short Labour
Don Valley Tom Williams Labour
Dorset East Gordon Hall Caine Conservative
Dorset North Sir Cecil Hanbury Conservative
Dorset, South Viscount Cranborne Conservative
Dorset West Philip Colfox Conservative
Dover Hon. John Astor Conservative
Down
(two members)
Sir David Reid Ulster Unionist
Viscount Castlereagh Ulster Unionist
Dudley Dudley Joel Conservative
Dulwich Bracewell Smith Conservative
Dumbarton Burghs David Kirkwood Labour
Dumfriesshire Sir Henry Fildes Liberal National
Dunbartonshire Hon. Archibald Cochrane Conservative
Dundee
(two members)
Dingle Foot Liberal
Florence Horsbrugh Conservative
Dunfermline Burghs William McLean Watson Labour
Durham Joshua Ritson Labour

E

Ealing Sir Frank Sanderson, Bt Conservative
Eastbourne Charles Taylor Conservative
East Grinstead Sir Henry Cautley, Bt Conservative
East Ham North John Mayhew Conservative
East Ham South Alfred Barnes Labour Co-op
Ebbw Vale Aneurin Bevan Labour
Eccles Robert Cary Conservative
Eddisbury R. J. Russell Liberal National
Edinburgh Central James Guy Conservative
Edinburgh East Frederick Pethick-Lawrence Labour
Edinburgh North Alexander Erskine-Hill Conservative
Edinburgh South Sir Samuel Chapman Conservative
Edinburgh West Thomas Cooper Conservative
Edmonton Francis Broad Labour Co-op
Elland Thomas Levy Conservative
Enfield Bartle Bull Conservative
Epping The Rt Hon. Winston Churchill Conservative
Epsom Archibald Southby Conservative
Essex South East Victor Raikes Conservative
Evesham Rupert de la Bere Conservative
Exeter Arthur Reed Conservative
Eye Edgar Granville Liberal National

F

Fareham The Rt Hon. Sir Thomas Inskip Conservative
Farnham Sir Arthur Samuel, Bt Conservative
Farnworth Guy Rowson Labour
Faversham Adam Maitland Conservative
Fermanagh and Tyrone
(two members)
Patrick Cunningham Irish Nationalist (Abstent.)
Anthony Mulvey Irish Nationalist (Abstent.)
Fife East James Henderson-Stewart Liberal National
Fife West Willie Gallacher Communist
Finchley John Crowder Conservative
Finsbury George Woods Labour Co-op
Flintshire Gwilym Rowlands Conservative
Forest of Dean M. Philips Price Labour
Forfarshire William T. Shaw Conservative
Frome Mavis Tate Conservative
Fulham East Hon. William Astor Conservative
Fulham West Sir Cyril Cobb Conservative
Fylde The Rt Hon. Edward Stanley Conservative

G

Gainsborough Harry Crookshank Conservative
Galloway John Mackie Conservative
Gateshead Thomas Magnay Liberal National
Gillingham Sir Robert Gower Conservative
Glasgow Bridgeton James Maxton Independent Labour Party
Glasgow Camlachie Campbell Stephen Independent Labour Party
Glasgow Cathcart John Train Conservative
Glasgow Central Sir William Alexander Conservative
Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan Independent Labour Party
Glasgow Govan Neil Maclean Labour
Glasgow Hillhead The Rt Hon. Sir Robert Horne Conservative
Glasgow Kelvingrove The Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Conservative
Glasgow Maryhill John James Davidson Labour
Glasgow Partick Arthur Young Conservative
Glasgow Pollok Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, Bt Conservative
Glasgow St. Rollox William Leonard Labour Co-op
Glasgow Shettleston John McGovern Independent Labour Party
Glasgow Springburn George Hardie Labour
Glasgow Tradeston Tom Henderson Labour Co-op
Gloucester Leslie Boyce Conservative
Gower David Grenfell Labour
Grantham Sir Victor Warrender, Bt Conservative
Gravesend Sir Irving Albery Conservative
Great Yarmouth Arthur Harbord Liberal National
Greenock The Rt Hon. Sir Godfrey Collins Liberal National
Greenwich Sir George Hume Conservative
Grimsby Walter Womersley Conservative
Guildford Sir John Jarvis, Bt Conservative

H

Hackney Central Fred Watkins Labour
Hackney North Austin Hudson Conservative
Hackney South The Rt Hon. Herbert Morrison Labour
Halifax Gilbert Gledhill Conservative
Hamilton Duncan Graham Labour
Hammersmith North D. N. Pritt Labour
Hammersmith South Douglas Cooke Conservative
Hampstead George Balfour Conservative
Hanley Arthur Hollins Labour
Harborough Ronald Tree Conservative
Harrow Sir Isidore Salmon Conservative
The Hartlepools W. G. Howard Gritten Conservative
Harwich Stanley Holmes Liberal National
Hastings The Rt Hon. Eustace Percy Conservative
Hemel Hempstead Rt Hon. J. C. C. Davidson Conservative
Hemsworth George Griffiths Labour
Hendon Sir Reginald Blair Conservative
Henley Sir Gifford Fox, Bt Conservative
Hereford James Thomas Conservative
Hertford Sir Murray Sueter Conservative
Hexham Douglas Clifton Brown Conservative
Heywood and Radcliffe Richard Porritt Conservative
High Peak Sir Alfred Law Conservative
Hitchin Sir Arnold Wilson Conservative
Holborn Sir Robert Tasker Conservative
Holderness Sir Samuel Savery Conservative
Holland-with-Boston Sir James Blindell Liberal National
Honiton Cedric Drewe Conservative
Horncastle Henry Haslam Conservative
Hornsey Euan Wallace Conservative
Horsham and Worthing The Earl Winterton PC Conservative
Houghton-le-Spring William Stewart Labour
Howdenshire William Carver Conservative
Huddersfield William Mabane Liberal National
Huntingdonshire Sidney Peters Liberal National
Hythe The Rt Hon. Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt Conservative

I

Ilford Sir George Hamilton Conservative
Ilkeston George Oliver Labour
Ince Gordon Macdonald Labour
Inverness Sir Murdoch Macdonald Liberal National
Ipswich Sir John Ganzoni, Bt Conservative
Isle of Ely James de Rothschild Liberal
Isle of Thanet Harold Balfour Conservative
Isle of Wight Peter Macdonald Conservative
Islington East Thelma Cazalet-Keir Conservative
Islington North Albert Goodman Conservative
Islington South William Cluse Labour
Islington West Frederick Montague Labour

J

Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson Labour

K

Keighley The Rt Hon. Hastings Lees-Smith Labour
Kennington Sir George Harvey Conservative
Kensington North James Duncan Conservative
Kensington South Sir William Davison Conservative
Kettering John Eastwood Conservative
Kidderminster Sir John Wardlaw-Milne Conservative
Kilmarnock Kenneth Lindsay National Labour
King's Lynn Hon. Somerset Maxwell Conservative
Kingston upon Hull Central Walter Windsor Labour
Kingston upon Hull East George Muff Labour
Kingston upon Hull North West Sir Lambert Ward, Bt Conservative
Kingston upon Hull South West Richard Law Conservative
Kingston-upon-Thames Sir Frederick Penny, Bt Conservative
Kingswinford Arthur Henderson Labour
Kinross & West Perthshire The Duchess of Atholl Conservative
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs The Rt Hon. Tom Kennedy Labour
Knutsford Sir Ernest Makins Conservative

L

Lambeth North George Strauss Labour
Lanark Alec Douglas-Home Conservative
Lanarkshire North William Anstruther-Gray Conservative
Lancaster Herwald Ramsbotham Conservative
Leeds Central Richard Denman National Labour
Leeds North Osbert Peake Conservative
Leeds North East Sir John Birchall Conservative
Leeds South Henry Charleton Labour
Leeds South East James Milner Labour
Leeds West Vyvyan Adams Conservative
Leek William Bromfield Labour
Leicester East Abraham Lyons Conservative
Leicester South Charles Waterhouse Conservative
Leicester West Hon. Harold Nicolson National Labour
Leigh Joe Tinker Labour
Leith Rt Hon. Ernest Brown Liberal National
Leominster Ernest Shepperson Conservative
Lewes Hon. John Loder Conservative
Lewisham East Sir Assheton Pownall Conservative
Lewisham West Sir Philip Dawson Conservative
Leyton East Sir Frederick Mills, Bt Conservative
Leyton West Reginald Sorensen Labour
Lichfield James Lovat-Fraser National Labour
Lincoln Walter Liddall Conservative
Linlithgowshire George Mathers Labour
Liverpool East Toxteth Patrick Buchan-Hepburn Conservative
Liverpool Edge Hill Alexander Critchley Conservative
Liverpool Everton Bertie Kirby Labour
Liverpool Exchange Sir John Shute Conservative
Liverpool Fairfield Sir Edmund Brocklebank Conservative
Liverpool Kirkdale Robert Rankin Conservative
Liverpool Scotland David Logan Labour
Liverpool Walton Reginald Purbrick Conservative
Liverpool Wavertree Peter Stapleton Shaw Conservative
Liverpool West Derby David Maxwell Fyfe Conservative
Liverpool West Toxteth Joseph Gibbins Labour
Llandaff and Barry Patrick Munro Conservative
Llanelli John Henry Williams Labour
London University Sir Ernest Graham-Little National
Londonderry Sir Ronald Ross Ulster Unionist
Lonsdale David Lindsay Conservative
Loughborough Lawrence Kimball Conservative
Louth Arthur Heneage Conservative
Lowestoft Pierse Loftus Conservative
Ludlow George Windsor-Clive Conservative
Luton Leslie Burgin Liberal National

M

Macclesfield John Remer Conservative
Maidstone Alfred Bossom Conservative
Maldon Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, Bt Conservative
Manchester Ardwick Joseph Henderson Labour
Manchester Blackley John Lees-Jones Conservative
Manchester Clayton John Jagger Labour
Manchester Exchange Peter Eckersley Conservative
Manchester Gorton Joseph Compton Labour
Manchester Hulme Joseph Nall Conservative
Manchester Moss Side William Duckworth Conservative
Manchester Platting Rt Hon. J. R. Clynes Labour
Manchester Rusholme Edmund Radford Conservative
Manchester Withington Edward Fleming Conservative
Mansfield Charles Brown Labour
Melton Lindsay Everard Conservative
Merioneth Sir Henry Haydn Jones Liberal
Merthyr S. O. Davies Labour
Middlesbrough East Alfred Edwards Labour
Middlesbrough West Frank Kingsley Griffith Liberal
Middleton and Prestwich Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman, Bt Conservative
Midlothian North John Colville Conservative
Midlothian South and Peebles Archibald Maule Ramsay Conservative
Mitcham Sir Richard Meller Conservative
Monmouth John Herbert Conservative
Montgomeryshire Clement Davies Liberal National
Montrose Charles Kerr Liberal National
Moray & Nairn Hon. James Stuart Conservative
Morpeth Robert Taylor Labour
Mossley Austin Hopkinson National
Motherwell James Walker Labour

N

Neath Sir William Jenkins Labour
Nelson and Colne Sydney Silverman Labour
Newark The Marquess of Titchfield Conservative
Newbury Howard Clifton Brown Conservative
Newcastle-under-Lyme Rt Hon. Josiah Wedgwood Labour
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central Alfred Denville Conservative
Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Sir Robert Aske, Bt Liberal National
Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle Conservative
Newcastle-upon-Tyne West Sir Joseph Leech Conservative
New Forest and Christchurch John Mills Conservative
Newport Sir Reginald Clarry Conservative
Newton Sir Robert Young Labour
Norfolk East Viscount Elmley Liberal National
Norfolk North Sir Thomas Cook Conservative
Norfolk South James Christie Conservative
Norfolk South West Somerset de Chair Conservative
Normanton Tom Smith Labour
Northampton Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller, Bt Conservative
Northwich Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart Conservative
Norwich
(two members)
Geoffrey Shakespeare Liberal National
Henry Strauss Conservative
Norwood Duncan Sandys Conservative
Nottingham Central Sir Terence O'Connor Conservative
Nottingham East Louis Gluckstein Conservative
Nottingham South Frank Markham National Labour
Nottingham West Arthur Hayday Labour
Nuneaton Reginald Fletcher Labour

O

Ogmore Edward Williams Labour
Oldham
(two members)
John Dodd Liberal National
Hamilton Kerr Conservative
Orkney and Shetland Basil Neven-Spence Conservative
Ormskirk Samuel Rosbotham National Labour
Oswestry Bertie Leighton Conservative
Oxford Rt Hon. Robert Bourne Conservative
Oxford University
(two members)
A. P. Herbert Independent
Rt Hon. Lord Hugh Cecil Conservative

P

Paddington North Brendan Bracken Conservative
Paddington South Ernest Taylor Conservative
Paisley Hon. Joseph Maclay Liberal
Peckham Viscount Borodale Conservative
Pembrokeshire Gwilym Lloyd George Independent Liberal
Penistone Henry McGhee Labour
Penrith and Cockermouth Alan Gandar-Dower Conservative
Penryn and Falmouth Maurice Petherick Conservative
Perth Thomas Hunter Conservative
Peterborough Lord Burghley Conservative
Petersfield Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith Conservative
Plymouth Devonport Rt Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha Liberal National
Plymouth Drake Rt Hon. Frederick Guest Conservative
Plymouth Sutton Nancy Astor Conservative
Pontefract Adam Hills Labour
Pontypool Arthur Jenkins Labour
Pontypridd David Lewis Davies Labour
Poplar South David Morgan Adams Labour
Portsmouth Central Hon. Ralph Beaumont Conservative
Portsmouth North Sir Roger Keyes, Bt Conservative
Portsmouth South Sir Herbert Cayzer, Bt Conservative
Preston
(two members)
William Kirkpatrick Conservative
Adrian Moreing Conservative
Pudsey and Otley Sir Granville Gibson Conservative
Putney Marcus Samuel Conservative

Q

Queen's University of Belfast Thomas Sinclair Ulster Unionist

R

Reading Alfred Howitt Conservative
Reigate Gordon Touche Conservative
Renfrewshire, East Douglas Douglas-Hamilton Conservative
Renfrewshire, West Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn Conservative
Rhondda East William Mainwaring Labour
Rhondda West William John Labour
Richmond (Yorks) Thomas Dugdale Conservative
Richmond upon Thames William Ray Conservative
Ripon John Hills Conservative
Rochdale William Kelly Labour
Romford John Parker Labour
Ross and Cromarty The Rt Hon. Sir Ian Macpherson, Bt Liberal National
Rossendale Ronald Cross Conservative
Rotherham William Dobbie Labour
Rotherhithe Ben Smith Labour
Rother Valley Edward Dunn Labour
Rothwell William Lunn Labour
Roxburgh and Selkirk Lord William Montagu-Douglas-Scott Conservative
Royton Harold Sutcliffe Conservative
Rugby Rt Hon. David Margesson Conservative
Rushcliffe Ralph Assheton Conservative
Rutherglen Allan Chapman Conservative
Rutland and Stamford Lord Willoughby de Eresby Conservative
Rye Sir George Courthope, Bt Conservative

S

Saffron Walden Rab Butler Conservative
St Albans Sir Francis Fremantle Conservative
St Helens William Albert Robinson Labour
St Ives Rt Hon. Walter Runciman Liberal National
St Marylebone Alec Cunningham-Reid Conservative
St Pancras North Ian Fraser Conservative
St Pancras South East Sir Alfred Beit, Bt Conservative
St Pancras South West Sir George Mitcheson Conservative
Salford North John Patrick Morris Conservative
Salford South Hon. John Stourton Conservative
Salford West James Frederick Emery Conservative
Salisbury James Despencer-Robertson Conservative
Scarborough and Whitby Sir Paul Latham, Bt Conservative
Seaham Manny Shinwell Labour
Sedgefield John Leslie Labour
Sevenoaks Charles Ponsonby Conservative
Sheffield, Attercliffe Cecil Wilson Labour
Sheffield, Brightside Fred Marshall Labour
Sheffield, Central William Boulton Conservative
Sheffield, Ecclesall Sir Robert Ellis, Bt Conservative
Sheffield, Hallam Sir Louis Smith Conservative
Sheffield, Hillsborough Rt Hon. A. V. Alexander Labour Co-op
Sheffield, Park George Lathan Labour
Shipley Arthur Creech Jones Labour
Shoreditch Ernest Thurtle Labour
Shrewsbury Arthur Duckworth Conservative
Skipton George Rickards Conservative
Smethwick Roy Wise Conservative
Southampton
(two members)
William Craven-Ellis Conservative
Sir Charles Barrie Liberal National
Southend-on-Sea Henry Channon Conservative
South Molton Rt Hon. George Lambert Liberal National
Southport Robert Hudson Conservative
South Shields James Chuter Ede Labour
Southwark Central Harry Day Labour
Southwark North Edward Strauss Liberal National
Southwark South East Thomas Naylor Labour
Sowerby Malcolm McCorquodale Conservative
Spelthorne Sir Reginald Blaker, Bt Conservative
Spennymoor Joseph Batey Labour
Spen Valley Rt. Hon. Sir John Simon Liberal National
Stafford Rt Hon. William Ormsby-Gore Conservative
Stalybridge and Hyde Philip Dunne Conservative
Stepney Limehouse Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee Labour
Stepney Mile End Daniel Frankel Labour
Stirling and Falkirk Joseph Westwood Labour
Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan MacNeill Weir Labour
Stirlingshire West Rt Hon. Tom Johnston Labour
Stockport
(two members)
Sir Arnold Gridley Conservative
Norman Hulbert Conservative
Stockton on Tees Harold Macmillan Conservative
Stoke Newington Sir George Jones Conservative
Stoke-on-Trent Ellis Smith Labour
Stone Joseph Lamb Conservative
Stourbridge Robert Morgan Conservative
Streatham Sir William Lane-Mitchell Conservative
Stretford Anthony Crossley Conservative
Stroud Walter Perkins Conservative
Sudbury The Rt Hon. Henry Burton Conservative
Sunderland
(two members)
Stephen Furness Liberal National
Samuel Storey Conservative
Surrey East Charles Emmott Conservative
Swansea East David Williams Labour
Swansea West Lewis Jones Liberal National
Swindon Wavell Wakefield Conservative

T

Tamworth Sir John Mellor, Bt Conservative
Taunton Edward Wickham Conservative
Tavistock Colin Patrick Conservative
Thirsk and Malton Robin Turton Conservative
Thornbury Derrick Gunston Conservative
Tiverton Gilbert Acland-Troyte Conservative
Tonbridge Rt Hon. Herbert Spender-Clay Conservative
Torquay Charles Williams Conservative
Totnes Ralph Rayner Conservative
Tottenham North Robert Morrison Labour Co-op
Tottenham South Fred Messer Labour
Twickenham Edward Keeling Conservative
Tynemouth Sir Alexander Russell Conservative

U

University of Wales Ernest Evans Liberal
Uxbridge John Llewellin Conservative

W

Wakefield Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood Labour
Wallasey John Moore-Brabazon Conservative
Wallsend Irene Ward Conservative
Walsall Joseph Leckie Liberal National
Walthamstow East Sir Brograve Beauchamp, Bt Conservative
Walthamstow West Valentine McEntee Labour
Wandsworth Central Sir Henry Jackson, Bt Conservative
Wansbeck Bernard Cruddas Conservative
Warrington Noel Goldie Conservative
Warwick and Leamington Rt Hon. Anthony Eden Conservative
Waterloo Malcolm Bullock Conservative
Watford Rt Hon. Sir Dennis Herbert Conservative
Wednesbury John Banfield Labour
Wellingborough Archibald James Conservative
Wells Anthony Muirhead Conservative
Wentworth Wilfred Paling Labour
West Bromwich Rt Hon. Frederick Roberts Labour
Westbury Robert Grimston Conservative
Western Isles Malcolm Macmillan Labour
West Ham Plaistow Will Thorne Labour
West Ham Silvertown Jack Jones Labour
West Ham Stratford Thomas Groves Labour
West Ham Upton Benjamin Gardner Labour
Westhoughton Rhys Davies Labour
Westminster Abbey Sidney Herbert Conservative
Westminster St George's Duff Cooper Conservative
Westmorland Rt Hon. Oliver Stanley Conservative
Weston-super-Mare Ian Orr-Ewing Conservative
Whitechapel & St Georges J. H. Hall Labour
Whitehaven Frank Anderson Labour
Widnes Richard Pilkington Conservative
Wigan John Parkinson Labour
Willesden East Daniel Somerville Conservative
Willesden West Samuel Viant Labour
Wimbledon Sir John Power, Bt Conservative
Winchester Gerald Palmer Conservative
Windsor Annesley Somerville Conservative
Wirral Alan Graham Conservative
Wolverhampton Bilston Ian Hannah Conservative
Wolverhampton East Geoffrey Mander Liberal
Wolverhampton West Sir Robert Bird, Bt Conservative
Woodbridge Walter Ross-Taylor Conservative
Wood Green Beverley Baxter Conservative
Woolwich East George Hicks Labour
Woolwich West Rt Hon. Sir Kingsley Wood Conservative
Worcester Crawford Greene Conservative
Workington Tom Cape Labour
The Wrekin James Baldwin-Webb Conservative
Wrexham Robert Richards Labour
Wycombe Sir Alfred Knox Conservative

Y

Yeovil George Davies Conservative
York Roger Lumley Conservative

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 During World War II a succession of three Labour politicians acted as Leader of the Opposition for the purpose of allowing the House of Commons to function normally; however as in the mid World War I ministry, opposition did not run under a party-whipped system. As the Government 1940–45 was a coalition government in which Labour politicians functioned fully as members of the Government, neither Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee nor these three received the salary for the post of Leader of the Opposition. The largest party that opposed the war and was not part of the coalition – and therefore, in theory, the opposition – was the Independent Labour Party, led by James Maxton. With only three MPs, it tried to take over the opposition frontbench but was widely opposed in this venture.

Citations

  1. Hansard, 3 September 1939 record of Parliament
  2. "His Majesty's Government". Hansard 1803–2005. 13 May 1940. Archived from the original on 24 May 2023.
  3. "Motion of Confidence in His Majesty's Government". Hansard 1803–2005. 29 January 1942. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023.
  4. "Central Direction of the War". Hansard 1803–2005. 2 July 1942. Archived from the original on 10 November 2023.
  5. "Bomb damage". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023.

Whitaker's Almanacks for 1939 and 1944