List of United Kingdom MPs who only sat in the 32nd Parliament
General elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom were held in November 1922 and again in December 1923. There were 56 Members of the 1922–23 Parliament who were not members of any preceding or following Parliament. Their tenure as MPs lasted at most 361 days, making them among the shortest-serving MPs in history.
One of the 56 was disqualified; four died in office; the remaining 51 served the full term. 16 Members (11 Conservatives, three National Liberals, one Labour and one Liberal) did not offer themselves for re-election. 35 Members (18 Conservatives, six Liberals, four Labour, four National Liberals, one Communist, one Constitutionalist and one Independent Liberal) were candidates for re-election but were not returned.
Disqualified[edit]
One member first elected in 1922 had his election overturned on petition:
- Hilton Philipson (National Liberal, Berwick-upon-Tweed)
He stood unsuccessfully in subsequent elections.
Died[edit]
Four members first elected in 1922 died in office:
- Joseph Nicholas Bell (Labour, Newcastle East)
- Charles James Mathew (Labour, Whitechapel and St Georges)
- Herbert Sparkes (Conservative, Tiverton)
- Arthur Wellesley Willey (Conservative, Leeds Central)
Retired[edit]
Sixteen members first elected in 1922 retired in 1923:
- John Brown (Conservative, Middlesbrough East)
- Hugh Butler (Conservative, Leeds North)
- Howard Button (Conservative, The Wrekin)
- Sir Edgar Chatfeild-Clarke (Liberal, Isle of Wight)
- Lt Col Norman Coates (Conservative, Isle of Ely)
- Sir Robert John Collie (National Liberal, Glasgow Partick)
- Sir William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts, Bt. (National Liberal, Western Isles)
- John Cledwyn Davies (National Liberal, Denbigh)
- Maj Frederick Fawkes (Conservative, Pudsey and Otley)
- Harold Stannus Gray (Conservative, Cambridgeshire)
- Major David Halstead (Conservative, Rossendale)
- Francis Capel Harrison (Conservative, Kennington)
- Sir Ernest Hiley (Conservative, Birmingham Duddeston)
- Alfred Hill (Labour, Leicester West)
- Maj Leonard Molloy (Conservative, Blackpool)
- William Russell (Conservative, Bolton)
Defeated[edit]
Thirty five members first elected in 1922 were defeated in 1923:
- Lt-Col Maurice Alexander (National Liberal, Southwark South East)
- William Bowdler (Liberal, Holderness)
- John Brotherton (Labour, Gateshead)
- Robert Bruford (Conservative, Wells)
- Stanley Burgess (Labour, Rochdale)
- James Ramsay Montagu Butler (Independent Liberal, Cambridge University)
- Levi Collison (Liberal, Penrith and Cockermouth)
- Garnham Edmonds (Liberal, Bethnal Green North East)
- Richard Robert Fairbairn (Liberal, Worcester)
- Maj Thomas Fermor-Hesketh (Conservative, Enfield)
- George Furness (Conservative, Willesden West)
- Charles Samuel Garland (Conservative, Islington South)
- Capt John Primrose Hay (Labour, Glasgow Cathcart)
- Maj Thomas Hay (Liberal, South Norfolk)
- Sir Thomas Henderson (National Liberal, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire)
- Sir John Hewett (Conservative, Luton)
- George Jarrett (Constitutionalist, Dartford)
- Robert Thomas Jones (Labour, Caernarvonshire)
- Capt Nigel Kennedy (Conservative, Lonsdale)
- Col Herbert Mercer (Conservative, Sudbury)
- Harold Morris (National Liberal, Bristol East)
- Walton Newbold (Communist, Motherwell)
- Maj Guy Paget (Conservative, Bosworth)
- Owen Parker (Conservative, Kettering)
- Robert Pattinson (Liberal, Grantham)
- Ernest Griffith Price (National Liberal, Shoreditch)
- Frank Privett (Conservative, Portsmouth Central)
- William Reynolds (Conservative, Leicester South)
- Lt-Col John Phillips Rhodes (Conservative, Stalybridge and Hyde)
- Capt John Rogerson (Conservative, Barnard Castle)
- Denis Shipwright (Conservative, Penryn and Falmouth)
- William Simpson-Hinchliffe (Conservative, Sowerby)
- John Singleton (Conservative, Lancaster)
- Sir Edwin Stockton (Conservative, Manchester Exchange)
- Stanley Tubbs (Conservative, Stroud)
See also[edit]
- List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service
- List of MPs elected in the 1922 United Kingdom general election
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