List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_1820

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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Date	Constituency	Removed MP		Instated MP
4 June 1820	Ipswich	Robert Alexander Crickitt		Thomas Barrett-Lennard
7 June 1820	Boroughbridge	Richard Spooner	Radical	Captain George Mundy, RN	Tory
7 June 1820	Boroughbridge	Marmaduke Lawson	Whig	Henry Dawkins	Tory
12 June 1820	Callington	Sir Christopher Robinson	Tory	William Thompson	Whig
12 June 1820	Callington	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

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
29 November 1820	Westbury	Nathaniel Barton	Tory	Philip John Miles	Tory
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
10 February 1823	Harwich	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
8 March 1824	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

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