Youngest

Prior to the Acts of Union, the youngest known person to have sat in the House of Commons of England was Christopher Monck, elected MP for Devon in 1667, "probably without a contest", at the age of 13. He sat in the House for three years, before being elevated to the House of Lords upon his father's death. He is said to have been "moderately active during his short period of membership, sitting on seven committees".^[1]

Monck was one of many members returned underage in the late seventeenth century, with around ten underage members in each of the Parliaments of 1690 and 1695, many aristocrats. In response to this, the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 established 21 as the minimum age, although this was not reliably enforced.^[2] Until the Reform Act 1832, underage MPs were seldom unseated. For example, Charles James Fox became an MP aged 19 in 1768,^[3] and Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, became an MP aged 18 in 1806.^[4][5]

Before the general election of 2015, the youngest MP since the Reform Act of 1832^[6] was William Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, elected at Malton in the 1832 general election aged 20 and 11 months. His election, whilst theoretically illegal, was unchallenged; Malton was a pocket borough controlled by his family, and the matter was viewed as academic as he would be of full age by the time Parliament assembled.^[7]

After Wentworth-FitzWilliam, the youngest MP elected was James Dickson, who was elected as a Liberal at a by-election for the Borough of Dungannon on 25 June 1880. He was born on 19 April 1859, and so was aged 21 years 67 days. The youngest female MP was Bernadette Devlin, elected on 17 April 1969 from Mid Ulster, aged 21 years 359 days. Until 1970, the minimum age to sit in parliament was 21. In 1970, the minimum age was lowered to 18. Both records are now jointly held by Mhairi Black, who was aged 20 years and 237 days old at the time of her election to the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South in the 2015 general election.

Oldest

The oldest serving MP whose exact dates are known was Samuel Young (1822–1918), who was MP for East Cavan from 1892 (when aged 70), until his death at the age of 96 years 63 days.^[8]

Oldest debuts

Perhaps the oldest parliamentary debut of all time was that of Warren Lisle, believed born in 1695, who was elected on 7 September 1780 during that year's general election as MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis as locum tenens, aged reportedly 85. He stood down on 21 November to allow his kinsman, Gabriel Steward, to stand for the seat after completing his own term as mayor of the borough (when he had been the local returning officer). He died in July 1788 aged reportedly 93.^[9]

The oldest debut where a confirmed birth date is known was made by Sir Robert Pullar (born 18 February 1828) who was elected at an unopposed by-election for Perth on 12 February 1907 aged 78 years and 359 days. He retired at the January 1910 general election.

The oldest debut at a general election to the UK Parliament was possibly by Bernard Kelly (born 1808) who was elected MP for South Donegal in 1885 in the year of his 77th birthday. He died in office on 1 January 1887 aged 78.

The oldest woman at first entry to the Commons was Dr Ethel Bentham (born 5 January 1861) who was elected MP for Islington East at the 1929 general election aged 68 years and 145 days. She died in office, the first woman to do so, in 1931.

Mick Whitley was the oldest MP first elected at the last general election, the 2019 general election, at age 68.^[10]

David Hacking was the oldest hereditary peer elected to the House of Lords in a by-election, aged 83 in 2021. He had previously been in the House for 28 years before leaving in 1999.

List of oldest sitting MPs since 1945

Notes:

^F Also Father of the House (not necessarily contemporaneous with seniority)

¹ Died in office

² Retired

³ Defeated when seeking re-election

Longest-lived MP

Although his alleged birth year predates parish registers and civil birth registration, William Badger, who was member for Winchester in the 1597 parliament of England, is supported by a History of Parliament biographer to have been a centenarian, being established to have been born 'circa 1523' and to have been buried on 18 January 1629, aged at least 105 years.^[12]

Ronald Atkins (13 June 1916 – 30 December 2020),^[13] member for Preston North from 1966 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1979, was the longest-lived former MP whose birth date is registered. His daughter Charlotte Atkins also served as an MP from 1997 to 2010. On 30 August 2018, he surpassed the previous record set by Theodore Cooke Taylor (3 August 1850 – 19 October 1952), member for Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth from 1900 to 1918, who had lived to be 102 years and 77 days old. Atkins died aged 104 years and 200 days old.

Other ex-MPs who have reached their centenary are Nathaniel Micklem (1853–1954), Sir Harry Brittain (1873–1974), Sir George Ernest Schuster (1881–1982), Manny Shinwell (1884–1986), Edgar Granville (1898–1998), Jack Oldfield (1899–1999, who outlived his parliamentary service by 68 years), Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003), Bert Hazell (1907–2009), Michael Shaw (1920–2021) and Sir Patrick Duffy (born 1920, and the only centenarian former MP currently living).

Frank James, who was elected MP for Walsall at the 1892 general election, but unseated on petition in November that year, died at 102 years and 135 days old; James's record was surpassed by Atkins on 27 October 2018.^[14]

As of 2024^[update], Sir Patrick Duffy is the oldest living former MP (born 17 June 1920, age 103 years, 311 days).^[15]

Jill Knight (9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was the longest-lived female former MP, aged 98 years, 271 days.

As of 2024^[update] Elizabeth Shields is the oldest living female former MP (born 27 February 1928, age 96 years, 56 days).

Stratton Mills (born 1 July 1932, age 91 years, 297 days), who was elected MP for Belfast North at the 1959 general election, is the earliest elected former MP still living.^[16] Mills was sworn in on 22 October.^[17]

Shortest-lived MPs

One known contender for this record for whom both birth and death dates are known, in the Parliament of England, was James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley, who while still a minor was MP for Callington in 1621–1622, and for Winchester from early in 1624 until his death from illness on military service in the Netherlands on 1 November 1624 aged 19 years and 251 days.

Based only on evidence from his university entrance records,^[18] Peter Legh, MP for Newton from 1640, may have been aged 19 or younger when he died after a duel on 2 February 1642, but his precise birthdate is not known.

Geoffrey Palmer, MP for Ludgershall from March 1660, died in office on 31 October 1661 aged 19 years and at least 245 days, based on his baptism registration (28 February 1642).^[19]

After the setting of the youngest age of candidacy at 21, the youngest MP to die in office was George Charles Grey who was elected MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1941 and was killed in action on 30 July 1944 aged 25 years 240 days. Throughout this period he was the Baby of the House.

The shortest-lived female MP, Lady Cynthia Mosley, MP for Stoke 1929–1931, died in 1933 aged 34. The youngest female MP to die in office was Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen since 2015, who was murdered on 16 June 2016, 6 days before her 42nd birthday.

Longest

Sir Francis Knollys (also the oldest ever sitting MP) was first elected as MP for Oxford in 1575 at the age of around 25 and was MP for Reading at the time of his death in 1648, a period spanning 73 years,^[8] although there were eight periods, amounting to 27 entire years (1590–1592, 1594–1596, 1599–1600, 1602–1603, 1605–1613, 1615–1619, 1627 and 1630–1639) in which the Parliament of England did not meet, and his period of service totalled little more than 23 years.^[20]

The longest span of service of an MP since the start of the 20th century was Winston Churchill who was first elected on 1 October 1900 and left the House of Commons on 25 September 1964, a period of 63 years 360 days. His service was not continuous, as he was not an MP for a spell in 1908 and between 1922 and 1924.

Charles Pelham Villiers was the longest continuously serving MP. He was elected in 1835 and remained an MP continuously for over 62 years until his death on 16 January 1898, aged 96 years 13 days. Since the start of the 20th century, the longest continuous service by an MP has been 51 years 80 days by Edward Heath, who sat from 1950 to 2001.

The longest continuous service record for a female MP is held by Harriet Harman, first elected in October 1982. The longest total service record for a female MP is held by Dame Margaret Beckett, who served for 4 years and 7 months between 1974 and 1979 and was then re-elected in June 1983. Beckett also holds the record for the longest span of service for a woman.

Shortest

There are cases of MPs being elected posthumously; Edward Legge (1710–1747) was elected unopposed as MP for Portsmouth on 15 December 1747, four days before news arrived that he had died 87 days previously in the West Indies. In 1780 John Kirkman was elected as MP for the City of London despite dying before polls closed.^[8]

In more recent times, members have died after polling, but before the declaration of the results. In 1906, Thomas Higgins was declared elected for the seat of North Galway, even though he had died earlier that morning, after polling day. More recently, in 1945 Sir Edward Taswell Campbell at Bromley and Leslie Pym at Monmouth died after polling, but nine days before the declaration of the results. Both were declared elected posthumously, and both had been MPs for a number of years. Noel Skelton is another example in 1935.

The shortest non-posthumous service was that of Alfred Dobbs, who was declared elected MP for Smethwick on 26 July 1945 and was killed the following day in a car accident on the way to take his seat.^[21]

The shortest service for women MPs has been 92 days in the case of both Ruth Dalton, who was MP for Bishop Auckland from a by-election on 7 February 1929 to dissolution of Parliament on 10 May 1929 prior to that year's general election, and Margo MacDonald, who was MP for Glasgow Govan from a by-election on 8 November 1973 until the dissolution of Parliament on 8 February 1974 prior to the coming general election.

Members who never took their seats

• John Finucane^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2019–
• Órfhlaith Begley^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2018–
• Chris Hazzard^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2017–
• Elisha McCallion^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2017–2019
• Barry McElduff^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2017–2018
• Mickey Brady^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2015–
• Francie Molloy^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2013–
• Paul Maskey^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2011–
• Michelle Gildernew^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2001–2015, 2017–
• Pat Doherty^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2001–2017
• Conor Murphy^{[lower-alpha 1]} 2005–2015
• Martin McGuinness^{[lower-alpha 1]} 1997–2013
• Gerry Adams^{[lower-alpha 1]} 1983–1992, 1997–2011
• Owen Carron^{[lower-alpha 1]} 1981–1983
• Bobby Sands^{[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]} 1981
• Philip Clarke^{[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 4]} 1955
• Tom Mitchell^{[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 4]} 1955
• Alfred Dobbs^{[lower-alpha 3]} 1945
• Joseph Bell^{[lower-alpha 3]} 1922
• Harry Wrightson^{[lower-alpha 3]} 1918–1919
• 69 Sinn Féin Members elected at the 1918 general election (including 6 first elected in by-elections 1917–1918)^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• James Annand^{[lower-alpha 3]} 1906
• Thomas Higgins^{[lower-alpha 5]} 1906
• Henry Compton^{[lower-alpha 6]} 1905–1906 (shortest serving MP – 46 days – whose tenure was not ended by his death)
• Joseph Andrews^{[lower-alpha 6]} 1905–1906

Notes:

Longest delay before making a comeback

In absolute terms two 17th-century members of the English Parliament had 35-year intervals outside the House of Commons:

Edward Mainwaring, 35 years and 269 days from serving as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the parliament that closed on 12 August 1625, to returning for the same seat at start of the Cavalier Parliament on 8 May 1661,^[23]

Sir William Killigrew who was out of the Commons 35 years and 30 days from the close of the 1628 parliament on 10 March 1629 when he served as MP for Penryn, Cornwall, until returning as MP for Richmond, Yorkshire on 9 April 1664^[24]

Note that intervals of more than a decade between service in the Commons were more commonplace in the 17th than in later centuries due to factors such as:

-years when no parliaments were held, such as Charles I's rule without parliament covering 1630–39,

-Royalist MPs expelled during the English Civil Wars sitting again after the restoration of Charles II (1660),

-the Cavalier Parliament of 1661–79 which met without general elections in meantime.

-former Civil War and Commonwealth era Roundhead MPs returning to the Commons in the 1670s and 1680s under the Whig Party.

Since the establishment of regular parliamentary government at the end of the 17th century and the creation of the United Kingdom Parliament in 1801, possibly the longest gap between sitting was faced by Henry Drummond (1786–1860), of nearly 35 years between the dissolution of his first parliament on 29 September 1812 and returning to his next at the general election held in July–August 1847.

Others:

John Angerstein, 33 years (1802–1835)

Sir George Sondes, 32 years (1629–1661)

Richard Spencer, 32 years (1629–1661)

Sir William Ayscough, 32 years (1648–1681)

Walter Hungerford, 32 years (1701–1734)

Henry Bulwer, 31 years (1837–1868)

William Allen, 31 years (1900–1931)

Richard Winwood, 30 years (1648–1679)

Sir William Whitelock, 30 years (1659–1689)

Sir Thomas Hanmer, 29 years (1640–1669)

Sir John Gell, 29 years (1659–1689)

Richard Beke, 29 years (1659–1689)

Charles Boscawen, 29 years (1659–1689)

Sir Jonathan Jennings, 29 years (1659–1689)

John Manley, 29 years (1659–1689)

John Buller, 29 years (1796–1826)

Edward Herle, 28 years (second comeback) (1660–1689)

Thomas Lascelles, 28 years (1660–1689)

Sir Thomas Miller, 28 years (1778–1806)

Sir William Scott, 28 years (1830–1859)

William John Evelyn, 28 years (1857–1885)

Sir Alfred Hopkinson, 28 years (1898–1926)

Robert Hyde, 27 years (1586–1614)

Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, 27 years (1830–1858)

Sir Edward East, 26 years (1796–1833)

Love Parry-Jones, 26 years (1808-1835)

Lord Edward Thynne, 26 years (1832–1859)

Sir Sidney Montagu, 26 years (1614–1640)

Octavius Coope, 26 years (1848–1874)

James Patrick Mahon, 26 years (second comeback) (1852–1879)

Robert Ferguson, 24 years (1807–1831)

Richard Spooner, 24 years (1820–1844)

Charles Tottenham (1807–1886), 24 years (1831–1856)

Philip Pleydell-Bouverie, 24 years (1832–1857)

Sir William Morton, 23 years (1640–1663)

Vincent Denne, 23 years (1658–1681)

Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton, 23 years (1794–1817)

William Peachy, 23 years (1802–1826)

Henry Tufton, 23 years (1802–1826)

William Ormsby-Gore, 23 years (1807–1830)

Edward Southwell Ruthven, 23 years (1807–1830)

John Arthur Wynne, 23 years (1832–1856)

John Ashley Warre, 23 years (1834–1857)

Sir Abel Barker, 22 years (1656–1679)

Sir John Chetwode, 22 years (1818–1841)

James Wentworth Buller, 22 years (1834–1857)

Sir Charles Berkeley, 21 years (1640–1661)

Sir William Fleetwood, 21 years (1640–1661)

Sir Richard Lloyd, 21 years (1640–1661)

Sir Robert Long, 21 years (1640–1661)

Sir Philip Mainwaring, 21 years (1640–1661)

Sir James Thynne, 21 years (1643–1664)

Robert Carden, 21 years (1859–1880)

Lord Claud Hamilton, 21 years (1888–1910)

Thomas Gewen, 20 years (1626–1647)

Sir Francis Wyndham, 20 years (1640–1660)

Sir Nicholas Crispe, 20 years (1641–1661)

William Sandys, 20 years (1641–1661)

Edmund Wyndham, 20 years (1641–1661)

Samuel Ashe, 20 years (1659–1679)

Sir Cecil Bishopp, 20 years (1734–1755)

Francis Leigh, 20 years (1801–1821)

John Cressett-Pelham, 20 years (1802–1822)

Walter Boyd, 20 years (1802–1823)

Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie, 20 years (1807–1828)

Lord William Cholmondeley, 20 years (1832–1852)

Sir John Shelley, 20 years (1832–1852)

Mathew Wilson, 20 years (1853–1874)

Sackville Stopford-Sackville, 20 years (1880–1900)

Moss Turner-Samuels, 20 years (1924–1945)

Sir Francis Darcy, 19 years (1601–1621)

Sir Fulke Greville, 19 years (1601–1621)

Sir Henry Herbert, 19 years (1642–1661)

John Frederick Cheetham, 19 years (1885–1905)

Felix Cobbold, 19 years (1886–1906)

Ernest Bennett, 19 years (1910–1929)

Edward Herle, 18 years (first comeback) (1640–1659)

Sir John Stawell, 18 years (1642–1661)

Sir John Banks, 18 years (1659–1678)

Robert Beake, 18 years (1660–1679)

Sir Thomas Acland, 18 years (1868–1885)

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden, 18 years (1906–1924)

Fenner Brockway, 18 years (1931–1950)

Thomas Onley, 17 years (1554–1572)

Sir Thomas Littleton, 17 years (1644–1661)

Jonathan Rashleigh, 17 years (1644–1661)

Sir Ralph Assheton, 17 years (1662–1679)

Richard Watson, 17 years (1835–1852)

Sir James Fergusson, 17 years (1868–1885)

John Henry Maden, 17 years (1900–1917)

Paul Tyler, 17 years (1974–1992)

James Patrick Mahon, 16 years (first comeback) (1830–1847)

Hugh Lucas-Tooth, 16 years (1929–1945)

Ian Horobin, 16 years (1935–1951)

The longest interval between parliamentary service for women MPs was 13 years in the case of Jennie Lee, Leah Manning and Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton who lost their first seats at the general election of October 1931 then gained their second at that of July 1945.

Mother-daughter sets of MPs

These are rarer than father-son sets:

• Edith Summerskill, MP for Fulham West 1938–1955 and Warrington 1955–1961, was mother of Shirley Summerskill, MP for Halifax 1964–1983. Their consecutive service in the Commons totalled 43 years and spans 45 years.
• Winnie Ewing, MP for Hamilton 1967–1970 and Moray and Nairn 1974–1979 was mother of Annabelle Ewing, MP for Perth 2001–2005.

Sister sets

Sylvia Heal (née Sylvia Lloyd Fox), MP for Mid Staffordshire 1990–1992 and Halesowen and Rowley Regis 1997–2010 and Ann Keen (née Ann Lloyd Fox), MP for Brentford and Isleworth 1997–2010. Keen additionally served with her husband, Alan Keen.

There are two sets of sisters since the 2019 general election:

• Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey since 1992, and Maria Eagle, MP for Liverpool Garston 1997–2010 and Garston and Halewood since 2010.
• Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West since 2010, and Ellie Reeves, MP for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. Ellie Reeves additionally serves with her husband, John Cryer.

The first sister set to succeed each other, indirectly, to the same constituency have been Jo Cox and Kim Leadbeater who both represented Batley and Spen respectively in 2015-2016 and since by-election in 2021.

Constituency representation

Most women representing:

Halifax (in 1964–83 and since 1987) and Erewash (continuously since 1992) have both – since 2015 – been represented by a fourth woman to sit for their constituencies, as has Birmingham Edgbaston since 2017 and Batley and Spen since 2021.

Longest period represented by women MPs:

Birmingham Edgbaston has been represented by 4 women MPs in continuous succession since a by-election on 2 July 1953, a period of 69 years, apart from a vacancy interval of 63 days between the death of Dame Edith Pitt on 27 January 1966 and the election of her successor Dame Jill Knight at the general election that year.

Children elected before parents

This is not as commonplace as children following parents into the Commons.

• Thomas Davis Lamb, elected in 1802, and father Thomas Phillipps Lamb, elected in 1812.
• Robert Williams (1767–1847), elected in 1802, and father Robert Williams (1735–1814), elected in 1807.
• William Miles, elected in 1818, and father Philip John Miles, elected in 1820.
• Raymond Greene, elected in 1895, and father Sir Edward Greene, Bt, elected in 1900.
• Walter Runciman, elected in 1899, and father Sir Walter Runciman, Bt, elected in 1914.

Children serving alongside parents

It is rarer for parents and children to serve in the Commons simultaneously than consecutively (frequent cause of latter being death, retirement or promotion to House of Lords of the father). In most cases given below the children entered parliament in latter stages of the parent's service.

• Ann Cryer, MP 1997–2010, and son John Cryer, MP 1997–2005 and since 2010.
• Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, MP 1970–87, and son Phillip Oppenheim, MP 1983-97 - first mother and son set to serve concurrently.
• David Mitchell, MP between 1964 and 1997, and son Andrew Mitchell, MP 1987–97 and since 2001.
• Tony Benn, MP 1950–2001, and son Hilary Benn, MP since 1999.
• Thomas Galbraith, MP between 1940 and 65, and son Tam, MP 1948–82.
• Harold Macmillan, MP 1924–64, and son Maurice Macmillan, MP 1955–84.
• Arthur Greenwood, MP 1922–54, and son Tony Greenwood, MP 1946–70.
• Isaac Foot, MP 1922–35, and son Dingle, MP 1931–70.
• William Adamson, MP 1910–31, and son William Murdoch Adamson, MP 1922–45.
• Stanley Baldwin, MP 1908–37, and son Oliver, MP 1929–47.
• Sir Francis Acland, MP 1906–39, and son Richard, MP 1935–55.
• Ramsay MacDonald, MP 1906–37 and son Malcolm MacDonald, MP 1929–45.
• Arthur Henderson, MP 1903–35, and sons Arthur, junior, MP 1923–66 and William, MP 1923–31.
• Winston Churchill, MP 1900–64, and son Randolph, MP 1940–45.
• Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet, MP 1900–06, and son Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet, MP 1895–1923.
• John Fitazalan Hope, MP 1900–29, and son Arthur, MP 1924–39.
• Sir Walter Runciman, MP 1914–18, and son Walter, MP 1899–1937.
• Alexander Henderson, MP 1898–1916, and son Harold Henderson, MP 1910–16.
• Wentworth Beaumont, MP 1895–1907, and brother Hubert, MP 1906–10.
• Sir Frederick Cawley, MP 1895–1918, and son Harold Thomas Cawley, MP 1910–15.
• Alfred Hopkinson, MP 1895–98 and 1926–29, and son Austin Hopkinson, MP 1918–29 and 1931–45.
• John Benn, MP 1892–1910, and son William Wedgwood Benn, MP 1906–42. (Latter father of Tony Benn.)
• Thomas Curran, MP 1892–1900, and son Thomas Bartholomew Curran MP 1892–1900.
• David Lloyd George, MP 1890–1945, son Gwilym Lloyd George, MP 1922–57, and daughter Megan Lloyd George, MP 1929–51 and 1957–66. First concurrent father and son and daughter set of MPs when returned at 1929 general election.
• Sir Charles Swann, 1st Baronet, MP 1886–1918, and son Duncan Swann, MP 1906–10.
• Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet, MP 1885–1910, and son Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet, MP 1906–24.
• John Redmond, MP 1881–1918, and son William Redmond, MP 1910–22.
• Justin McCarthy (1830–1912), MP 1879–1900, and son Justin Huntly McCarthy, MP 1884–92.
• Joseph Chamberlain, MP 1876–1914, and son Austen, MP 1892–1937.
• William Vernon Harcourt, MP 1868–1904, and son Lewis, MP 1904–17 (the latter was elected in March 1904, before his father died serving in October same year).
• Samuel Morley, MP 1866–85, and son Arnold, MP 1880–95.
• Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1st Baronet, MP 1865–1903, and sons Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Baronet, MP 1885–1902, and Joseph Albert Pease, MP 1892–1916.
• George Goschen, MP 1863–1900, and his son George Goschen, jnr, MP 1895–1900.
• Sir Bernhard Samuelson, MP 1859–95, and son Henry, MP 1868–85.
• John Hubbard, MP 1859–87, and son Egerton, MP 1874–89.
• Sir Edward Watkin, MP 1857–95 and son Alfred Mellor Watkin, MP 1877–80.
• Abel Smith (1829–1898), MP 1854–98, and son Abel Henry Smith, MP 1892–1910.
• William Philip Price, MP 1852–73, and son William Edwin Price, MP 1868–80.
• Samuel Whitbread, MP 1852–95, and son Samuel Howard Whitbread, MP 1892–1910.
• Michael Thomas Bass, MP 1848–83, and sons Michael, MP 1865–86, and Hamar Alfred Bass, MP 1878–98.
• Lionel de Rothschild, MP 1847–74, and his son Nathan Rothschild, MP 1865–85.
• John Bright, MP 1843–89, and son William, MP 1885–90.
• Walter Long, MP 1835–65 and son Richard Penruddocke Long, MP 1859–68.
• Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, MP 1837–86, and sons Thomas, MP 1882–92, and Arthur, MP 1885–99.
• John Bagshaw, MP 1835–59, and son Robert John Bagshaw, MP 1857–59 (both represented same two-member seat of Harwich).
• William Ewart Gladstone, MP 1832–95, and sons William Henry, MP 1865–85, and Herbert, MP 1880–1910.
• Thomas Law Hodges, MP 1830–41 and 1847–52, and son Thomas Twisden Hodges, MP 1835–37 and 1847–52.
• Thomas Langlois Lefroy, MP 1830–41, and son Anthony, MP 1830–70.
• Daniel O'Connell, MP 1828–46, and sons John, MP 1832–57, Maurice, MP 1832–53, and Morgan, MP 1832–40. (Possibly greatest number of sons returned alongside their father in 1832 general election.)
• Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 5th Baronet, MP 1820–56, and son Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 6th Baronet, MP 1852–67.
• Philip John Miles, MP 1820–37, and son William Miles, MP 1818–65.
• Hussey Vivian, MP 1820–41, and son Charles Vivian, MP 1835–42.
• Ralph Bernal, MP 1818–52, and son Ralph Bernal Osborne, MP 1841–74.
• Luke White, MP 1818–24, and son Henry White, MP 1823–61.
• George Tennyson, MP 1818–19, and son Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, MP 1818–52.
• John Maberley, MP 1816–32, and son William Leader Maberley, MP 1819–34.
• Wilbraham Egerton, MP 1812–31, and son William Egerton, MP 1830–58.
• Henry Lowther, MP 1812–67, and son Henry, jnr, MP 1847–72.
• Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, MP 1812–55, and son George Cornewall Lewis, MP 1847–63.
• Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet, MP 1812–35, and son Sir George Philips, 2nd Baronet, MP 1818–52.
• Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, MP 1809–50, and son Frederick Peel, MP 1849–65.
• Richard Hart Davis, MP 1807–31, and his son Hart Davis, MP 1812–18.
• Alexander Baring, MP 1806–35, and sons Bingham Baring, MP 1826–48, and Francis Baring, MP 1830–57.
• William Ormsby-Gore, MP 1806–57, and son John, MP 1837–76.
• Sir John Shelley, MP 1806–31, and son John Villiers Shelley, MP 1830–67.
• Henry Grattan, MP 1803–20, and son James, MP 1817–29.
• Robert Haldane Bradshaw, MP 1802–32, and son James, MP 1825–32. (They represented the same, two-member seat, of Brackley.)
• Charles Chaplin the elder, MP 1802–16, and son Charles Chaplin the younger, MP 1809–31
• John Smith, MP 1802–35, and son John Abel Smith, MP 1830–59.
• Charles Grant, MP 1802–18, and son Charles, jnr, MP 1811–35.
• Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, MP 1802–07, and son Sir Robert Wigram, 2nd Baronet, MP 1806–30.
• Robert Williams (1735–1814), MP 1807–12, and his son Robert Williams (1767–1847), MP 1802–34.
• Henry Bankes, MP 1801–31, and sons William John Bankes, MP 1810–34, and George Bankes, MP 1816–56.
• John Blackburne (1754–1833), MP 1801–31, and son John Ireland Blackburne (1783–1874), MP 1807–47.
• John Calcraft, MP 1801–31, and son John Hales Calcraft, MP 1820–59.
• John Calvert (1726–1804), MP 1801–02, and son John Calvert (died 1844), MP 1801–31.
• Lord George Cavendish, MP 1801–31, and sons William Cavendish, MP 1804–12, George Henry Compton Cavendish, MP 1806–09, Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, MP 1812–34, and Charles Compton Cavendish, MP 1814–57. (Largest number of sons serving during their father's service in the Commons.)
• Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet, MP 1801–20, and son George Dashwood, MP 1814–18.
• Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–24, and son Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet, MP 1807–57.
• John Fownes Luttrell (1752–1816), MP 1801–16, and son John Fownes Luttrell (1787–1857), MP 1812–32. (Both sat together for same two-member seat, Minehead.)
• Andrew Foley, MP 1801–18, and son Thomas, MP 1805–22.
• Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet, MP 1801–41, and son Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 5th Baronet, MP 1820–56.
• Michael Hicks-Beach (1760–1830), MP 1801–18, and son William Hicks-Beach (1783–1856), MP 1812–17.
• Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–20, and sons Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, MP 1809–50, and William Yates Peel, MP 1817–47.
• Samuel Smith (1754–1834), MP 1801–32, and son Abel Smith (1788–1859), MP 1810–47. (On two occasions they sat together for the same two-member seat, Wendover, in 1812–18 and 1830–32.)
• Sir Matthew White Ridley, MP 1801–12, and son Nicholas Ridley-Colborne, MP 1805–37.
• Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake, MP 1801–10, and son Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake, MP 1805–32. (Both sat for same two-member seat, Amersham.)
• John Beresford, MP 1801–05, and son John Claudius Beresford, MP 1801–11.
• Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–18, and son Mark Wood, jnr., MP 1816–18. (They sat together for same two-member seat, Gatton.)

Largest set

Six brother sets:

• Francis Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp (later 2nd Marquess of Hertford) served 1766–1794; Lord George Seymour-Conway 1784–1790 and 1796–1801; Henry-Seymour-Conway (later Lord Henry Seymour) 1766–1784; Lord Robert Seymour 1771–1790 and 1794–1820; Lord William Seymour 1783–1784 and 1785–1796; and Lord Hugh Seymour 1784–1786 and 1788 to his death in 1801. All began serving in the pre-1801 Parliament of Great Britain and their service in the Commons totalled 126 years.
• Henry Paget, Lord Paget (later 1st Marquess of Anglesey) served 1790–1804 and 1806–1810; Arthur Paget 1794–1807; Berkeley Paget 1807–1826; Sir Charles Paget 1804–1826 and 1831–1833 and 1833–1834; Sir Edward Paget, 1796–1806 and 1810–1820; and William Paget 1790 to his death in 1794. Four of the brothers began serving under the pre-1801 Parliament of Great Britain and their service in the Commons totalled 79 years.

Longest span of service in the Commons by brothers

Probably the longest (though not continuous) all time span of service by brothers in the Commons, in the Parliament of England, was 85 years from 1562, when Sir Henry Knollys was elected MP for Reading, until the death in 1648 of his brother Sir Francis Knollys (above, aged reputedly 97) also representing Reading, although there were intervals of years when parliament did not meet. They were part of another set of six brothers who all sat at various times.

Since regular parliamentary government was established by the start of the UK Parliament, contenders for longest span of continuous service include the four brothers Sir Robert Peel (also twice prime minister), William Yates Peel, Jonathan Peel and Edmund Peel, with a span of 59 years from Robert's by-election return on 15 April 1809 as MP for Cashel, to the retirement of Jonathan at the 1868 general election as MP for Huntingdon. Their collective service totalled 115 years and all four were simultaneously in Parliament when Edmund was sitting in 1831–1832 and 1835–1837 for Newcastle-under-Lyme. Another 59-year service span was enjoyed by two brothers, William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (when Viscount Lowther before entering the House of Lords in 1841) and Henry Cecil Lowther, from the former's election as MP for Cockermouth in 1808 until the death of the latter as MP for Westmorland (which he had represented since 1812) and Father of the House on 4 December 1867.

Thomas Hyde Villiers and his brother Charles Pelham Villiers (above) had a span of nearly 72 years service from the former's first election as MP in 1826 to the latter's death as a serving MP and Father of the House in 1898, but this was broken by an interval when the former was out of parliament in 1831, and the gap between Thomas' death on 3 December 1832 and Charles' first election in 1835. Their consecutive service thus totalled 69 years.

Representation of same constituency by brothers

Where seats were in the patronage of territorial magnates, it was commonplace into the 19th century for brothers in (usually landowning) families to hold seats successively or (before the advent of single member seats) even concurrently, before the system of choosing candidates by local party associations became organised on a competitive selection basis. Two brothers successively represented North Derbyshire for a total span of nearly 48 years. Lord Cavendish of Keighley was MP from the 1832 general election until succeeding his father and going to the House of Lords as Earl of Burlington in 1834. He was succeeded by Lord George Henry Cavendish from 1834 until the latter's death on 23 September 1880.

The last set of brothers to represent the same constituency were Frederick and Henry Guest, who did so in connection with two successive constituencies:

• East Dorset. Frederick was first elected at the January 1910 general election but was unable to take his seat due to irregularity by an election agent, causing a by-election in June 1910 when he stepped aside in favour of Henry, who held the seat until the December 1910 general election when Henry in turn stepped aside in favour of Frederick who was elected, to hold the seat until the 1922 general election.
• Plymouth Drake, of which Frederick was MP from 1931 to his death in 1937 when Henry succeeded him at the by-election and held the seat until the 1945 general election.

Brother sets serving after the 2019 general election

Sets with one brother still serving following the election:

Boris Johnson, MP for Henley 2001–2008 and Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 2015-2023, and Jo Johnson, MP for Orpington 2010–2019.

David Miliband, MP for South Shields 2001–2013, and Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster North from 2005.

Brother-sister set serving after the 2019 general election

• Set with one sibling still serving – Keith Vaz, MP for Leicester East 1987–2019, and sister Valerie Vaz, MP for Walsall South from 2010.

Heaviest

The heaviest MP of all time is believed to be Sir Cyril Smith, MP for Rochdale between 1972 and 1992, who weighed 189.6 kg (nearly 30 stone) at his peak in 1976.

Tallest

The tallest MP of all time is believed to be Daniel Kawczynski at 6 feet 8+1⁄2 inches (2.045 m) in 2007,^[29] later stated to be 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) in 2014.^[30] Before Kawczynski's election for Shrewsbury and Atcham in 2005, the record was held by Louis Gluckstein, MP for Nottingham East between 1931 and 1945, who measured 2.02 metres (6 feet 8 inches).

Among pre-20th-century MPs, Sir John Cheyne (c. 1442–1499), known among contemporaries as the "Vigorous Knight" and MP for Wiltshire between 1471 and 1481, has been estimated to have been 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) tall, based on analysis of his femur (measuring 21 inches / 53 cm) found in his tomb.^[31]

The tallest female MP of all time is believed to be Antoinette Sandbach at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) in 2011, when she was a Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament (formerly National Assembly for Wales) member,^[32] later stated to be 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) in 2019.^[33] She served in the House of Commons as MP for Eddisbury in 2015–2019.

Shortest

Not counting MPs who served as minors, adult contenders for this record in modern times include Sarah Teather, MP for Brent East 2003–2010 and Brent Central 2010–2015, who in 2014 was held to be the shortest MP then sitting, at 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 m)^[30] and is now regarded as the shortest woman member in British parliamentary history.^[34][35]

Physically disabled MPs

The following were all known to be disabled when serving as MPs:

Sir Francis Bryan, MP for Buckinghamshire in 1529, 1539, 1542 and 1545, who lost an eye in a tournament in 1526.

William Page, MP for Bridport in 1559, Oxford 1562–1567, and Saltash 1571–1581, who had a hand cut off in lieu of execution for distributing a political pamphlet in 1579.

John Stubbs or Stubbe, MP for Great Yarmouth 1588–1589, who also had right hand cut off in lieu of execution as Page was for publication of the same pamphlet in 1579.

Sir Thomas Hutchinson, MP for Nottinghamshire 1626 and 1640–1643, who lost two or three fingers when attacked by his guardian in 1613.^[36]

Hugh Bethell, MP for East Riding of Yorkshire 1654–1656 and Hedon 1660–1679, who lost an eye at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

John Hewson, MP for Guildford 1656–1658, who lost an eye in action in Ireland in 1650.

Sir Frescheville Holles, MP for Grimsby 1667–1672, who lost an arm in a sea battle in 1666.

Thomas Erle, MP for Wareham 1679–1698 and 1701–1718, and Portsmouth 1698–1702 and 1708, who lost his right hand (by some reports) at the Battle of Almanza in 1707.

Sackville Tufton, MP for Appleby 1681–1689, who lost some use of his right hand after being wounded at the Battle of Schooneveld in 1673.

Sir James Lowther, MP for Carlisle 1694–1702, Appleby 1723–1727, and Cumberland 1708–1722 and 1727–1755, who had his right leg amputated due to gout in 1750.

John Richmond Webb, MP for Ludgershall 1695–1698, 1699–1705, 1706–1713 and 1715–1724, and for Newport, Isle of Wight 1713–1715, who was lame after being severely wounded at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709.

John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, MP for Chippenham 1701–1705 and 1705–1708, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

George Clarke, MP for Winchelsea 1702–1705, East Looe 1705–1708, Launceston 1711–1713, and Oxford University 1717–1736, who by 1734 lost his left eye and was losing sight in the other.

Sir John Jennings, MP for Queenborough 1705–1710, Portsmouth 1710–1711 and Rochester 1715–1734, who was becoming increasingly deaf in 1727.

Galfridus Walpole, MP for Lostwithiel 1715–1721, who lost his right arm by a sea battle in 1711.

William Windham, MP for Sudbury 1720–1727 and Aldeburgh 1727–1730, who lost a leg at the Battle of Blenheim.

Charles Stewart, MP for Malmesbury 1723–1727 and Portsmouth 1737–1741, who lost his right hand in a sea battle in 1697.

William Banks, MP for Grampound 1741–1747, who lost use of legs after an illness in 1745.

Frederick North, Lord North, MP for Banbury 1754–1790, and Prime Minister 1770–1782, who was increasingly blind from 1786.

Isaac Barré, MP for Wycombe 1761–1774 and Calne 1774–1790, who became blind in one eye at the Battle of Quebec in 1759 and totally blind in 1784.

Richard Burton Phillipson, MP for Eye 1762–1768 and 1770–1792, who became deaf by 1784.

John Sawbridge, MP for Hythe 1768–1774 and City of London 1774–1795, who was paralysed from about 1792.

Frederick Cornewall, MP for Montgomery Boroughs 1771–1774, who lost his right arm at the Battle of Toulon (1744).

James Murray, MP for Perthshire 1773–1794, who was permanently disabled in 1761 by a battle wound that left him unable to lie down.

Hugh Palliser, MP for Scarborough 1774–1779 and Huntingdon 1780–1784, whose left leg was left permanently lame by injury from an accidental shipboard explosion in 1748.

Pinckney Wilkinson, MP for Old Sarum 1774–1784, who was incapacitated by a stroke from 1782.

Sir William Middleton, MP for Northumberland 1774–1795, who was lame for life after severe wounding at Battle of Minden in 1759.^[37]

Brook Watson, MP for the City of London 1784–1793, who lost his right leg after a shark attack while swimming at Havana in 1749.

Francis Mackenzie, MP for Ross-shire 1784–1790 and 1794–1796, who became deaf and almost dumb from scarlet fever at about age of 12.

Sir John Call, MP for Callington 1784–1801, who became blind in about 1794.

Sir Lawrence Palk, MP for Ashburton 1787–1796 and Devon 1796–1812, who was severely crippled by gout by 1809.

Banastre Tarleton, MP for Liverpool 1790–1806 and 1807–1812, who sustained a crippled right hand, losing two fingers, in action during the American War of Independence in 1781.

John Theophilus Rawdon, MP for Appleby 1791–1796, and Launceston 1796–1802, who lost a leg at the Battle of Brandywine during the American War of Independence in 1777.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, MP for Beaumaris 1794–1796 and Denbighshire 1796–1840, who became deaf after contracting erysipelas in 1826, and had a large tongue which impeded speech.^[38]

Sir Alexander Hope, MP for Dumfries Burghs 1796–1800 and Linlithgowshire 1800–1834, who lost an arm and was left permanently lame after being wounded in the Flanders Campaign in 1795.

Sir Robert Abercromby, MP for Clackmannanshire 1798–1802, who became increasingly blind in office due to an eye disease contracted in India by 1797.

John Horne Tooke, MP for Old Sarum 1801–1802, who lost sight of right eye in a boyhood fight and was reportedly "lame" when he took his seat.

Robert Haldane Bradshaw, MP for Brackley 1802–1832, who lost use of his left limbs after a stroke in 1831.

Mervyn Archdall, MP for County Fermanagh 1802–1834, who lost his right arm in battle in Egypt in 1801.

James Paull, MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight) 1805–1806, who was left disabled in his right arm from a duel in 1795.

Sir William Maxwell, MP for Wigtownshire 1805–1812 and 1822–1830, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Corunna and was badly wounded in the knee in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809.

James Mingay, MP for Thetford 1806–1807, who lost his right hand in childhood accident at a mill.

Sir Samuel Hood, MP for Westminster 1806–1807 and Bridport 1807–1812, who lost an arm in action at sea in 1806.

Thomas Thompson, MP for Rochester 1807–1818, who lost a leg at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801).

Fulk Greville Howard, MP for Castle Rising 1808–1832, who lost the sight of one eye during the Helder Expedition in 1799.

Sir William Beresford, MP for County Waterford 1811–1814, who was blinded in one eye by an accident with a musket on military service in 1786.

Samuel Shepherd, MP for Dorchester 1814–1819, who was increasingly deaf since 1790.

Coningsby Waldo-Sibthorpe, MP for Lincoln 1814–1822, who was left paralysed in his lower back in carriage accident in 1821.

Lord Fitzroy Somerset, MP for Truro 1818–1820 and 1826–1829, who lost his right arm at the Battle of Waterloo.

Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, MP for Worcester 1818–1834 and 1837–1841, who became increasingly paralysed since a carriage accident while contesting the 1835 general election.

John Mytton, MP for Shrewsbury 1819–1820, who had incipient deafness which affected his only appearance in a debate.

Sir Henry Hardinge, MP for Durham 1820–1830, St Germans 1830–1831, Newport (Cornwall) 1831–1832, and Launceston 1832–1844, who lost his left hand at the Battle of Ligny in 1815.

Lord John Hay, MP for Haddingtonshire 1826–1831 and Windsor 1847–1850, who lost his left arm in a sea battle in 1807.

Lord William Lennox, MP for King's Lynn 1831–1834, who lost the sight of one eye in a horse riding accident in 1815.

William Ewart Gladstone, MP for Newark 1832–1845, Oxford University 1847–1865, South Lancashire 1865–1868, Greenwich 1868–1880, and Midlothian 1880–1895, four times prime minister between 1868 and 1894, who lost the forefinger of his left hand in a shotgun accident in 1842.

George Julius Poulett Scrope, MP for Stroud 1833–1867, who became increasingly blind later in office.

Admiral Sir Charles Napier, MP for Marylebone 1841–1847 and Southwark 1855–1860, who walked with a limp and stoop due to leg and neck wounds received in the Napoleonic Wars.

Henry Fawcett, MP for Brighton 1865–1874 and Hackney 1874–1884, who was blind since a field shooting accident when he was 25.

Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, MP for County Wexford 1866–1868 and County Carlow 1868–1880, who was born with no arms, and no legs. Or more precisely, no arms below the lower third of his upper arm, nor legs below mid thigh. And in consequence, no hands and no feet.^[39]

Joseph Chamberlain, MP for Birmingham 1876–1885 and Birmingham West 1885–1914, whose sight, speech and use of right hand were impaired by a stroke in 1906.

Walter Wren, MP for Wallingford in 1880, who was crippled by spinal disease since age of 18.

Arthur Elliot, MP for Roxburghshire 1880–1892 and City of Durham 1898–1906, who had a leg amputated at age four after a fall.

Michael Davitt, MP for Meath in 1882, North Meath in 1892, North East Cork in 1893, and South Mayo 1895–1899, who lost his right arm in an industrial accident at a textile mill in 1857 aged 11.

Sir William Tindal Robertson, MP for Brighton 1886–1889, who became blind from glaucoma in 1873.

William Archibald Macdonald, MP for Queen's County Ossory 1886–1892, who was totally blind from age of 13.

Sir William Hornby, MP for Blackburn 1886–1910, who became deaf in 1908.

George William Palmer, MP for Reading 1892–1895 and 1898–1904, who became increasingly deaf in office, causing his resignation.

Sir Winston Churchill, MP for Oldham 1900–1906, Manchester North West 1906–1908, Dundee 1908–1922, Epping 1924–1945 and Woodford 1945–1964, twice prime minister between 1940 and 1955, who became increasingly deaf from 1949 and a wheelchair user after a series of strokes towards the end of his service.

Joseph Nannetti, MP for Dublin College Green 1900–1915, who was paralysed by illness from 1913.

Daniel Desmond Sheehan, MP for Mid-Cork 1901–1918, who became deaf due to shellfire and ill-health while serving in World War I by 1917.

Philip Snowden, MP for Blackburn 1906–1918 and Colne Valley 1922–1931, who was paralysed by illness from waist down in 1891 and walked with aid of sticks.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, MP for Ripon 1910–1925, who was born with a withered left arm and without a left hand.

Duncan Frederick Campbell, MP for North Ayrshire 1911–1916, who lost his left arm at the First Battle of Ypres in 1914.

Aubrey Herbert, MP for South Somerset 1911–1918 and Yeovil 1918–1923, who was near blind from youth, becoming totally blind in his last year of life and service.

Cathal Brugha, MP for County Waterford 1918–1922, who was left with a permanent limp after being wounded in the Easter Rising 1916.

Dan Irving, MP for Burnley 1918–1924, who had lost a leg in an industrial accident as a railway worker.

Sir Oswald Mosley, MP for Harrow 1918–1924 and Smethwick 1926–1931, who was left with a permanent limp after fracturing his right leg in a plane crash during World War I.

Brunel Cohen, MP for Liverpool Fairfield 1918–1931, who lost both legs at the Third Battle of Ypres.

Frederick Martin, MP for Aberdeen and Kincardine East 1922–1924, who was blinded during military training in 1915.

Douglas Pielou, MP for Stourbridge 1922–1927, who was severely disabled by wounds at the Battle of Loos in 1915.

John Jacob Astor V, MP for Dover 1922–1945, who lost his right leg in battle in World War I in 1918.

Herbert Morrison, MP for Hackney South 1923–1924, 1929–1931 and 1935–1945, Lewisham East 1945–1950 and Lewisham South 1950–1959, who lost sight of his right eye due to babyhood infection.

Mabel Philipson, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1923–1929, lost sight in one eye after a car crash near Brooklands racing circuit in 1911 that killed her first husband Thomas Stanley Rhodes.^[40][41]

Ian Fraser, MP for St. Pancras North 1924–1929, 1931–1937 and for Lonsdale 1940–1958, who was blinded at the Battle of the Somme.

Robert Bourne, MP for Oxford 1924–1938, who lost sight of one eye in schooldays game of rounders and sustained a crippled hand at Suvla Bay during World War I.

Harold Macmillan, MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924–1929 and 1931–1945 and for Bromley 1945–1964, Prime Minister 1957–1963, who was left with a slight limp and weak right hand, affecting handwriting, by a series of wounds in World War I.

Charles Simmons, MP for Birmingham Erdington 1929–1931, Birmingham West 1945–1950 and Brierley Hill 1950–1959, who lost a lower leg at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917.

Richard Austen Butler, MP for Saffron Walden 1929–1965, who was left with a poorly functioning right hand after a childhood riding accident.

Reginald Essenhigh, MP for Newton 1931–1935, who lost a leg in action in World War I in 1917.

Joseph Leckie, MP for Walsall 1931–1938, who became increasingly deaf in office.

John Dugdale, MP for West Bromwich 1941–1963, who was partly deaf from childhood.

Violet Bathurst, Lady Apsley, MP for Bristol Central 1943–1945, had a hunting accident in 1930 which left her permanently disabled and unable to walk, needing a wheelchair.^[42]

Cecil Manning, MP for Camberwell North 1944–1950, who lost his right arm serving in World War I.

Michael Foot, MP for Plymouth Devonport 1945–1955, Ebbw Vale 1960–1983 and Blaenau Gwent 1983–1992, who walked with aid of a stick since car crash injuries in 1963 and was blinded in one eye by an attack of shingles in 1976.

Hervey Rhodes, MP for Ashton under Lyne 1945–1964, who walked with a limp after severe wounding in World War I.

Geoffrey Stevens, MP for Portsmouth Langstone 1950–1964, who became increasingly deaf from 1962.

Iain Macleod, MP for Enfield West 1950–1970, who permanently limped due to a World War II wound in 1940 and later ankylosing spondylitis.

Richard Frederick Wood, MP for Bridlington 1950–1979, who lost both legs in battle in the Middle East in World War II (son of Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, above).

William Rees-Davies, MP for Isle of Thanet 1953–1974 and Thanet West 1974–1983, who lost his right arm in action in World War II.

William Yates, MP for The Wrekin 1955–1966, who lost a leg at the knee in the First Battle of El Alamein.

Julian Critchley, MP for Rochester and Chatham 1959-1964 and Aldershot 1970-1997 who was severely impaired in mobility since before 1992 because of complications of polio suffered when a young man.

John Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, MP for Edinburgh North 1960–1973, who was left paralysed chest down after a fox hunting accident in 1971.

Jack Ashley, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South 1966–1992, who became profoundly deaf in 1967 after a routine operation.

Roland Boyes, MP for Houghton and Washington 1983–1997, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease from 1993.

Terry Dicks, MP for Hayes and Harlington 1983–1997, who had cerebral palsy.

Gordon Brown MP for Dunfermline East 1983–2005 and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath 2005–2015, Prime Minister 2007–2010. Blind in left eye since a rugby accident in 1967.

David Maclean, MP for Penrith and The Borders 1983–2010, who has had multiple sclerosis since 1996 (own account).^[43]

Paul Flynn, MP for Newport West 1987-2019, who was diagnosed with lifelong rheumatoid arthritis at age nine and suffered serious hearing loss while employed in a nail factory.^[44]

Emma Nicholson, MP for Devon West and Torridge 1987–1997, who has been deaf since age 16.

David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987–2010 and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 2010–2015, who has been blind since birth.

Anne Begg, MP for Aberdeen South 1997–2015, who has used a wheelchair since 1984 due to a degenerative disease.

Fiona Mactaggart, MP for Slough 1997–2017, who suffered from multiple sclerosis as early as 2006.

Nicola Blackwood, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon 2010–2017, who was diagnosed with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome in 2013.^[45]

Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow since 2010, who has cerebral palsy.

Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne 2010–2015 and 2017–2019, who is deaf in one ear and has partial hearing in another since measles aged six.

Paul Maynard, MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys since 2010, who has cerebral palsy and a congenital speech defect.

Alec Shelbrooke, MP for Elmet and Rothwell since 2010, who is partially deaf.

Marsha de Cordova, MP for Battersea since 2017, who is registered blind.

Jared O'Mara, MP for Sheffield Hallam 2017–2019, who has cerebral palsy.

Fiona Onasanya, MP for Peterborough 2017–2019, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018.^[46]

Jonathan Gullis, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North since 2019, who is deaf in one ear.

Tom Randall, MP for Gedling since 2019, who has had ankylosing spondylitis since age 16.

Pre-World Wars

First World War

Died after end of hostilities but listed as First World War casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission:^[53]

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (5th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment); born 1879: died 1919 of Spanish influenza at Paris while attending peace negotiations. MP (Conservative Party) for Kingston upon Hull Central (1911-death).

Inter-World Wars

Second World War

Died after end of hostilities but listed as Second World Casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission:^[55]

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, 1st Baronet, later 1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge (Royal Navy); born 1872; died 1945 of effects of smoke inhalation sustained in a Japanese aircraft attack when visiting USS Appalachian during a government goodwill tour over 1944–45. MP (Conservative Party) for Portsmouth North (1934–43).