List of MPs elected in the 1820 United Kingdom general election
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This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 1820 United Kingdom general election, arranged by constituency. The parliament was summoned 21 April 1820 and dissolved 2 June 1826. The Prime Minister throughout was the leader of the Tory Party, the Earl of Liverpool.
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Results overturned on petition
| Date | Constituency | Removed MP | Instated MP | ||
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| 4 June 1820 | Ipswich | Robert Alexander Crickitt | Thomas Barrett-Lennard | ||
| 7 June 1820 | Boroughbridge | Richard Spooner | Radical | Captain George Mundy, RN | Tory
|
| Marmaduke Lawson | Whig |
Henry Dawkins | Tory
| ||
| 12 June 1820 | Callington | Sir Christopher Robinson |
Tory |
William Thompson |
Whig
|
| Hon. Edward Pyndar Lygon | Tory |
Matthias Attwood | Whig
| ||
| 20 June 1820 | Bridport | Christopher Spurrier | Horace St Paul | ||
| 3 July 1820 | Limerick City | Hon. John Prendergast Vereker | Tory |
Thomas Spring Rice | Whig
|
| 16 Feb 1821 | Boston | Henry Ellis |
William Augustus Johnson | ||
By-elections
| Date | Constituency | Outgoing MP | Incoming MP | Cause | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 1820 | Tavistock | John Nicholas Fazakerly |
Whig |
Hugh Fortescue | Whig |
Fazakerly resigned by taking the Chiltern Hundreds
|
| 23 May 1820 | Appleby | George Tierney | Whig |
Thomas Creevey | Whig |
Tierney chose to sit for Knaresborough |
| 30 May 1820 | Scarborough | Viscount Normanby | Whig |
Edmund Phipps |
Tory |
Viscount Normanby vacated seat |
| 23 May 1820 | Orford | Horace Beauchamp Seymour |
Tory |
Edmund Alexander Macnaghten |
Tory |
Seymour chose to sit for Lisburn |
| 31 May 1820 | Carlisle | John Christian Curwen | Whig |
William James | Whig |
Curwen sat for Cumberland |
| 2 June 1820 | Athlone | John McClintock | Tory |
David Ker | Tory |
McClintock vacated seat |
| 14 June 1820 | Saltash | Michael George Prendergast |
John Fleming | Prendergast chose to sit for Galway Borough instead | ||
| 16 June 1820 | Okehampton | Albany Savile | Tory |
John Campbell | Whig |
Savile vacated his seat |
| 27 June 1820 | Malmesbury | Kirkman Finlay | Tory |
William Leake | Finlay resigned amid campaigns against his rectorship of the University of Glasgow | |
| 27 June 1820 | Petersfield | Beaumont Hotham | Philip Musgrave | Hotham chose to sit for Leominster instead | ||
| 28 June 1820 | York | Lawrence Dundas | Whig |
Robert Chaloner | Whig |
Dundas ennobled |
| 29 June 1820 | Dundalk | John Metge | Tory |
George Hartopp | Tory |
Metge resigned seat, (appointed Escheator of Munster )
|
| 29 June 1820 | Ennis | Sir Ross Mahon, Bt |
Tory |
Richard Wellesley | Tory |
Mahon resigned seat |
| 30 June 1820 | Dublin |
Rt Hon. Henry Grattan | Whig |
Thomas Ellis | Tory |
Grattan died 4 June 1820 |
| 13 July 1820 | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Sir David Milne | Henry Heneage St Paul |
Milne's election declared void | ||
| 14 July 1820 | Colchester | Daniel Whittle Harvey | Radical |
Henry Baring | Tory |
Harvey's election declared void |
| 17 July 1820 | Old Sarum | Arthur Johnston Crawford | Tory |
Josias du Pré Alexander | Tory |
Crawford vacated seat |
| 21 July 1820 | Grantham | James Hughes | Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bt | Hughes election declared void | ||
| 11 September 1820 | County Kilkenny | James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde | Charles Harwood Butler Clarke | Butler made Irish peer | ||
| 3 August 1820 | Heytesbury | Charles Ashe A'Court |
Henry Handley | A'Court resigned | ||
| 10 August 1820 | County Louth | Viscount Jocelyn | John Jocelyn | Robert Jocelyn made Irish peer | ||
| 17 October 1820 | Aberdeenshire | James Ferguson | Tory |
Hon. William Gordon | Tory |
James Ferguson died |
| 7 November 1820 | Warwickshire | Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt | Francis Lawley | Whig |
Mordaunt vacated his seat | |
| 29 November 1820 | Westbury | Jonathan Elford | Tory |
Manasseh Masseh Lopes |
Tory |
Elford and Barton both resigned under pressure from Lopes, who controlled the pocket borough |
| Nathaniel Barton | Tory |
Philip John Miles | Tory
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| 7 December 1820 | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Henry Heneage St Paul |
Sir Francis Blake | St Paul died | ||
| 9 January 1821 | St Albans | William Tierney Robarts | Whig |
Sir Henry Wright-Wilson | Tory |
Robarts died 9 December 1920 |
| 16 Jan 1821 | Roscommon | Arthur French I | Arthur French II | Arthur French I died 24 November 1820 | ||
| 17 January 1821 | Yarmouth | Theodore Henry Broadhead | Tory |
Theodore Broadhead | Tory |
Theodore Henry Broadhead died |
| 1 February 1821 | Wilton | James Harris | John Hungerford Penruddocke |
Tory |
Harris succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Malmesbury | |
| 9 February 1821 | Newtown | Dudley Long North | Whig |
Charles Compton Cavendish |
Whig |
North resigned |
| 9 February 1821 | Wicklow | William Parnell-Hayes | James Grattan | Liberal Party | Parnell-Hayes died 2 January 1821 | |
| 17 February 1821 | Plympton Erle | Alexander Boswell | Tory |
William Gill Paxton | Boswell resigned due to a personal financial crisis | |
| 19 February 1821 | Dunbartonshire | Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun |
John Buchanan | Campbell-Colquhoun died 8 December 1820 | ||
| 9 March 1821 | New Ross | John Carroll | Francis Leigh | Tory |
Carroll resigned seat | |
| 21 March 1821 | Wigtown Burghs | Hon. James Henry Keith Stewart | Tory |
Sir John Osborn, Bt | Tory |
Stewart vacated seat |
| 28 April 1821 | Orford | John Douglas | Tory |
Marquess of Londonderry | Tory |
Douglas vacated seat |
| 5 May 1821 | Ludgershall | Henry Luttrell | Tory |
George Pratt | Tory |
Luttrell died on 25 April 1821 |
| 9 May 1821 | Down | Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | Tory |
Mathew Forde | Tory |
Castlereagh made Irish peer |
| 11 May 1821 | Andover | Thomas Assheton Smith I |
Tory |
Thomas Assheton Smith II |
Tory |
Smith I resigned to become Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire |
| 26 May 1821 | St Ives | James Graham | Whig |
Christopher Hawkins | Tory |
Graham resigned after accusations of bribing the electorate |
| 24 May 1821 | Stirlingshire | Sir Charles Edmonstone, Bt | Henry Home-Drummond | Edmonstone died 1 April 1821 | ||
| 5 June 1821 | Lymington | George Finch |
William Manning | Finch resigned after the early death of his wife, Jane | ||
| 3 July 1821 | Kinsale | George Coussmaker |
Sir Josias Rowley, Bt | Tory |
Coussmaker died 23 May 1821 | |
| 30 July 1821 | King's County | John Clere Parsons | William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | John Clere Parsons made judge | ||
| 24 August 1821 | Oxford University | William Scott | Tory |
Richard Heber | Tory |
Scott was elevated to the peerage as Baron Stowell
|
| 27 August 1821 | Queen's County | Hon. William Wellesley-Pole | Tory |
Sir Charles Coote, Bt | Tory |
Wellesley-Pole called to Upper House |
| 12 September 1821 | Shaftesbury | Edward Harbord | Ralph Leycester | Harbord succeeded to the peerage as Baron Suffield | ||
| 27 September 1821 | County Louth | John Foster | Thomas Skeffington | Foster called to Upper House | ||
| 18 October 1821 | Shropshire | John Cotes | Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill | Cotes died 24 August 1821 | ||
| 9 January 1822 | King's Lynn | Sir Martin Browne ffolkes |
Marquess of Titchfield | ffolkes died 11 December 1821 | ||
| 12 January 1822 | County Antrim | Hugh Henry John Seymour | Tory |
Viscount Beauchamp | Seymour died 2 December 1821 | |
| 1 February 1822 | Castle Rising | Earl of Rocksavage | Tory |
Lord William Cholmondeley | Tory |
Rocksavage elevated to peerage |
| 11 February 1822 | Higham Ferrers | William Plumer |
Whig |
Viscount Normanby | Whig |
Plumer died 17 January 1822 |
| 14 February 1822 | Droitwich | Thomas Foley | Whig |
John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley |
Whig |
Foley died 11 January 1822 |
| 18 February 1822 | Bletchingley | Marquess of Titchfield | Whig |
Lord Francis Leveson-Gower | Tory |
Titchfield resigned seat |
| 18 February 1822 | Dungarvan | Augustus William James Clifford |
Whig |
Hon. George Lamb |
Whig |
Clifford resigned seat |
| 9 March 1822 | Drogheda | Henry Metcalfe | Tory |
William Meade Smyth | Tory |
Metcalfe died 11 February 1822 |
| 14 March 1822 | Argyllshire | Lord John Campbell | Whig |
Walter Frederick Campbell | Whig |
Campbell resigned seat |
| 23 March 1822 | Lincoln | Coningsby Waldo-Sibthorpe |
John Williams | Waldo-Sibthorpe died | ||
| 8 April 1822 | Dartmouth | Charles Milner Ricketts | James Hamilton Stanhope | Ricketts resigned seat | ||
| 12 April 1822 | Minehead | Henry Fownes Luttrell | Tory |
John Douglas | Tory |
Luttrell resigned to become a Commissioner of the Board of Audit |
| 30 April 1822 | Shaftesbury | Abraham Moore | Robert Grosvenor | Whig |
Moore resigned | |
| 22 May 1822 | Saltash | Matthew Russell | William Russell |
Whig |
Matthew Russell died | |
| 26 June 1822 | Camelford | Francis Seymour-Conway | Tory |
Sheldon Cradock | Whig |
Seymour-Conway succeeded to the peerage as Marquess of Hertford |
| 30 July 1822 | Stockbridge | Joseph Foster Barham | Whig |
Edward Stanley | Whig |
Barham resigned after selling control of the seat |
| 30 July 1822 | Wigtownshire | James Hunter-Blair | Sir William Maxwell, Bt | Tory |
Hunter-Blair died 24 June 1822 | |
| 14 August 1822 | Clitheroe | Hon. William Cust | Tory |
Henry Porcher | Tory |
Cust resigned seat |
| 1 October 1822 | Orford | Marquess of Londonderry | Tory |
Charles Ross |
Tory |
Marquess of Londonderry died 12 August 1822 |
| 25 November 1822 | Derbyshire | Edward Mundy | Tory |
Francis Mundy | Tory |
Edward Mundy died, 18 October 1822 |
| 27 November 1822 | Cambridge University | John Henry Smyth | Whig |
William John Bankes | Tory |
Smyth died October 1822 |
| 2 December 1822 | Shropshire | Sir John Kynaston Powell, Bt | John Cressett-Pelham | Kynaston Powell died 24 October 1822 | ||
| 4 December 1822 | County Sligo | Charles O'Hara | Tory |
Henry King | Tory |
O'Hara died 19 September 1822 |
| 20 December 1822 | Ross-shire | Thomas Mackenzie | Sir James Mackenzie, Bt | Tory |
Mackenzie died 19 October 20 | |
| 6 January 1823 | Wilton | Ralph Sheldon | Edward Baker |
Sheldon died | ||
| 10 February 1823 | Harwich | Nicholas Vansittart | George Canning | Tory |
Vansittart resigned seat | |
| Charles Bathurst | John Charles Herries | Bathurst resigned seat | ||||
| 11 February 1823 | Windsor | Herbert Taylor |
Tory |
Edward Cromwell Disbrowe | Taylor resigned to become colonel for life of the 85th Foot Regiment
| |
| 11 February 1823 | County Dublin | Hans Hamilton | Tory |
Henry White | Tory |
Hamilton died 22 December 1822 |
| 12 February 1823 | Peterborough | Sir James Scarlett | Whig |
Sir James Scarlett | Whig |
Scarlett re-elected after resigning |
| 15 February 1823 | Liverpool | George Canning | Tory |
William Huskisson | Tory |
Canning appointed to Crown office |
| 17 February 1823 | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Charles Bennet | Sir John Beresford, Bt | Charles Bennet ennobled | ||
| 18 February 1823 | Chichester | William Huskisson | Tory |
William Stephen Poyntz | Huskisson appointed to Crown office | |
| 18 February 1823 | Winchester | James Henry Leigh | Edward East | Leigh resigned | ||
| 20 February 1823 | Winchelsea | Lucius Concannon | Whig |
William Leader | Whig |
Concannon died 29 January 1823 |
| 21 February 1823 | Arundel | Robert Blake | Thomas Read Kemp | Robert Blake died | ||
| 22 February 1823 | Coleraine | Sir John Beresford, Bt | Tory |
Sir John William Head Brydges | Tory |
Beresford resigned seat |
| 26 February 1823 | Dorset | Edward Berkeley Portman |
Edward Portman | Whig |
Edward Berkeley Portman died | |
| 28 February 1823 | Reigate | James Somers Cocks | James Cocks | James Somers Cocks resigned seat | ||
| 4 March 1823 | Rye | John Dodson | Robert Knight | Dodson vacated seat | ||
| 8 March 1823 | Fermanagh | Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole |
Viscount Corry | Tory |
Cole appointed to Crown office | |
| 18 March 1823 | Corfe Castle | George Bankes | Tory |
John Bond | Tory |
Bankes resigned |
| 3 April 1823 | Lymington | Harry Burrard-Neale |
Walter Boyd | Burrard-Neale resigned to become Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet | ||
| 15 April 1823 | Haslemere | Robert Plumer Ward | Tory |
George Lowther Thompson | Tory |
Ward appointed to Crown office |
| 2 June 1823 | Bossiney | John Ward |
Tory |
John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie |
Tory |
Ward succeeded to the peerage as Viscount Dudley and Ward
|
| 27 June 1823 | Hertford | Viscount Cranborne | Tory |
Thomas Byron | Viscount Cranborne succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Salisbury | |
| 24 July 1823 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | William Shepherd Kinnersley | Evelyn Denison | Kinnersley died 8 July 1923 | ||
| 6 December 1823 | Lincolnshire | Charles Anderson-Pelham | William Amcotts-Ingilby | Anderson-Pelham called to Upper House | ||
| 10 February 1824 | Sandwich | Joseph Marryat | Henry Bonham | Marryat died 12 January 1824 | ||
| 16 January 1824 | Liskeard | William Eliot | Tory |
Lord Eliot | Tory |
William Eliot called to Upper House |
| 16 February 1824 | Weobley | Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck | Lord Henry Frederick Thynne | Tory |
Cavendish-Bentinck vacated seat | |
| 21 February 1824 | County Louth | Thomas Skeffington | John Leslie Foster | Skeffington became Irish peer | ||
| 24 February 1824 | County Cavan | John Maxwell-Barry | Tory |
Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham | Tory |
Barry succeeded to Irish peerage |
| 1 March 1824 | Portarlington | David Ricardo | Whig |
James Farquhar | Tory |
Ricardo died 11 September 1823 |
| 4 March 1824 | Wigtown Burghs | Sir John Osborn, Bt | Tory |
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal | Tory |
Osborn appointed to Crown office |
| 5 March 1824 | New Ross | Francis Leigh | Tory |
John Doherty | Tory |
Leigh resigned seat |
| 5 March 1824 | Westmeath | Gustavus Hume Rochfort | Tory |
Robert Smyth | Whig |
Rochfort died 30 January 1824 |
| 8 March 1824 | Barnstaple | Michael Nolan | Frederick Hodgson |
Nolan resigned to become Chief Justice of the Brecon Circuit | ||
| Oxfordshire | John Fane (b. 1751) | Tory |
John Fane (b. 1775) | Tory |
Fane (b. 1751) died on 8 February 1824 | |
| 11 March 1824 | Plympton Erle | Ranald George Macdonald | John Henry North | Tory |
Macdonald resigned to fight a succession action in the Court of Session | |
| 22 March 1824 | Queenborough | Hon. John Villiers | Tory |
Lord Frederick Bentinck | Whig |
Villiers called to Upper House |
| 5 April 1824 | Leitrim | Luke White |
Samuel White | Luke White died 25 February 1824 | ||
| 20 April 1824 | Lancaster | Gabriel Doveton | Whig |
Thomas Greene | Tory |
Doveton died 9 April 1824 |
| 5 May 1824 | Dundalk | George Hartopp | Tory |
Sir Robert Inglis, Bt | Tory |
Hartopp died 31 March 1824 |
| 10 May 1824 | Penryn | Henry Swann | Tory |
Robert Stanton | Tory |
Swann died on 24 April 1824 |
| 14 May 1824 | Huntingdon | Earl of Ancram | Tory |
James Stuart | Ancram called to Upper House | |
| 28 May 1824 | Northallerton | Henry Peirse (younger) | Whig |
Marcus Beresford | Whig |
Pierse died 14 May 1824 |
| 2 June 1824 | Okehampton | Henry Prittie | Whig |
William Henry Trant | Tory |
Prittie resigned seat |
| 30 June 1834 | Steyning | Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard | Whig |
Henry Howard | Whig |
Howard-Molyneux-Howard died 18 June 1824 |
| 13 July 1824 | Clackmannanshire | Robert Bruce | George Ralph Abercrombie | Bruce resigned seat | ||
| 27 January 1825 | Cornwall | William Lemon |
Whig |
Richard Vyvyan | Tory |
Lemon died on 11 December 1824 |
| 4 February 1825 | Cambridge | Charles Madryll Cheere | Tory |
Marquess of Graham | Tory |
Cheere died 10 January 1825. |
| 18 February 1825 | Newport (Isle of Wight) | Leonard Worsley-Holmes |
John Stuart | Worsley-Holmes died 10 January 1825 | ||
| 21 February 1825 | Donegal | Earl of Mount Charles | Tory |
Francis Conyngham | Henry Conyngham died 26 December 1824 | |
| 28 February 1825 | Brackley | Henry Wrottesley | Tory |
James Bradshaw | Tory |
Wrottesley died 17 February 1825 |
| 8 March 1825 | Bramber | William Wilberforce | Independent |
Arthur Gough-Calthorpe | Wilberforce resigned seat | |
| 25 March 1825 | Dartmouth | James Hamilton Stanhope | John Hutton Cooper | Stanhope committed suicide on 5 March 1825 | ||
| 30 March 1825 | Berkshire | Richard Griffin | Whig |
Robert Palmer | Tory |
Neville succeeded to the peerage as Baron Braybrooke and in 1825 changed name to Griffin. |
| 2 April 1825 | Carlisle | Sir James Graham, Bt | Tory |
Sir Philip Musgrave, Bt | Tory |
Graham died 21 March 1825 |
| 2 April 1825 | Petersfield | Philip Musgrave | James Law Lushington |
Musgrave resigned to contest the Carlisle by-election | ||
| 6 April 1825 | Wigan | James Lindsay, Lord Lindsay | Tory |
James Lindsay | Tory |
Lord Linsay vacated seat |
| 6 May 1825 | Bere Alston | Henry Percy | Percy Ashburnham | Percy died | ||
| 27 June 1825 | Tyrone | Sir John Stewart, Bt | Tory |
Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry | Tory |
Sir John Stewart died 1 June 1825 |
| 8 February 1826 | Newport (Cornwall) | William Northey | Tory |
Lord Charles Greatheed Bertie Percy | Tory |
Northey died 19 January 1926 |
| 9 February 1826 | Exeter | William Courtenay | Samuel Trehawke Kekewich | Courtenay resigned to become Clerk Assistant of the Parliaments | ||
| 10 February 1826 | Banbury | Heneage Legge | Arthur Legge | Heneage Legge appointed to Crown office | ||
| 11 February 1826 | Warwick | Charles Mills | John Tomes | Milles died 29 Jan 1826 | ||
| 18 February 1826 | Corfe Castle | Henry Bankes | Tory |
George Bankes | Tory |
Henry Bankes resigned seat |
| 21 February 1826 | Northumberland | Charles John Brandling | Matthew Bell |
Brandling died 1 February 1926 | ||
| 22 February 1826 | Oxford University | Richard Heber | Tory |
Thomas Grimston Estcourt | Tory |
Heber vacated seat |
| 1 March 1826 | Devizes | Thomas Grimston Estcourt | George Watson-Taylor | Estcourt resigned seat | ||
| 3 March 1826 | East Looe | George Watson-Taylor | Tory |
Henry Perceval | Tory |
Watson-Taylor resigned to stand in the Devizes by-election |
| 6 April 1826 | Mitchell | William Taylor Money | Henry Labouchere | Whig |
Money resigned to become Consul General at Venice | |
| 6 April 1826 | County Carlow | Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh |
Tory |
Thomas Kavanagh |
Tory |
Burgh succeeded to Irish peerage |
| 8 May 1826 | Roxburghshire | Sir Alexander Don, Bt | Henry Hepburne-Scott | Don died 11 April 1823 | ||
| 17 Mar 1826 | Horsham | Sir John Aubrey, Bt | Henry Edward Fox | Whig |
Aubrey died 14 March 1826 | |